When Superior summoned me the next day before I left again, I thought it was because he had seen through my fib about Roxas. I approached him at the Alter of Naught and I bowed a little. "You summoned me Superior," I stated, using my monotone voice.
"I have an added task that only you can do Zephyra."
"Tell me what I must do Superior, I am yours to command."
"I want you to kill a man in Hollow Bastion called Everly. He has a powerful heart. I want it. Make him surrender to the darkness in his heart. Make him a Nobody."
"Of course Superior. Tell me, should this be done before or after my current mission?"
"Now." I nodded. I had never been asked to kill someone. But I didn't particularly care about this man Everly. So what if I was to end his life? He'll come back as a Heartless and Nobody anyway. No big deal. I bowed to Xemnas and turned on my heel. I had almost left when he whispered my name. I looked over my shoulder at him. "Fail this Zephyra, and you shall be turned into a Dusk before you have time to explain yourself."
"I will not fail Superior."
I awoke alone in my room. A note was left on the beside table with Zephyra's familiar writing. It said 'Superior called for me. I will return when my mission is complete. Talk to Demyx when you get the chance...He is now in control of the Olympus Coliseum. Ask him to ask for Roxas. Or go yourself. The little minions know.
Zephyra.'
I hopped out of bed before I had finished the last line. I yanked my cloak on and I created a portal to Demyx's room. He was asleep, lying spread-eagle on the bed. I took a deep breath and shouted "DEMYX!"
"HOLY NOBODIES!" He shouted as he awoke suddenly and fell off his bed. "Axel, you should know better than to wake a fellow Nobody who needs his sllleeeeeppp," Demyx whined.
"I heard you were put in charge of the Olympus Coliseum. I want to go there...NOW."
"Then go, I'm not stopping you."
"You forget that you're the one in charge of there now. You have to A. tell me I can go and B. Track what I do there. Never know if I may betray you like Roxas did."
"This is YOU Axel...you're not about to leave the Organization, you're too smart for that."
"Are you saying Roxas wasn't?!" I was angry he was even suggesting it. I WARNED Roxas not to go, but he didn't listen to me. He knew the consequences... he just wasn't afraid of them. I was, because I knew what they were capable of.
"Whatever Axel. Just go and let me sleep," he said as he pulled the covers over himself and rolled over. I stood there venting for a few minutes, and then I turned on my heel and left through a dark portal.
I had entered Everly's home in Hollow Bastion using a dark portal created for me by Superior. I walked as quietly as possible summoning my daggers as I did so. I looked into the bedroom and there was the man I assumed as Everly. He was old, rocking in a rocking chair by the bed. His bright blue eyes shone like sapphires in the snow in his pale wrinkly face. I entered the room, making as little noise as possible. I was almost behind him when he turned his old head and looked at me. He stared at me, and then a small whisper of a voice came out of his mouth, "Is it really you my dear?" I paused, not daring to answer, not daring to kill him just yet. "Have you returned to me from the realm of the dead? Or am I dead myself and seeing my little girl again?" I froze. Was this man senile or did he know? "Maybe I'm an old fool. My daughter would have shouted at me by now. Telling me that all those years ago I should have been a father. I should have been there when Amelia died. But I was too much of a coward wasn't I?" This guy was crazy. He had to be. I walked up to him with my dagger raised, pointing at his throat. His sapphire eyes filled with tears. "So it comes to this. No less than what I, a spineless, unfeeling father deserves." This man was thinking about his past. He had an image in his mind that was his daughter, and he only happened to be looking at me. No sane man would ramble on like this. My dagger swung down and his last words were 'I am so sorry Saph-" before I cut his throat. His heart left him and a Dusk took the place of Everly. I was trembling. Who was this man and who was he talking to? He couldn't have seen me. But did I just kill the one man who may have known my past? I shook of the feeling and I spoke to the Dusk. "Follow me." I entered the dark portal, the Dusk wobbling behind me.
I had Hades' minions backed up against a wall. "TELL ME ABOUT THE BOY WITH THE KEYBLADE!" I shouted at them. They cowered in fright. I controlled myself and put on one of my signature smirks. "Now now, don't tell me you won't tell me your little secret. That would be MOST unwise." The little minions looked at each other in fright, when the blue one spoke up in quavering tones of voice.
"There was a boy here. W- We we we we heard him sh-sh-shouting at Hades about a b-b-boy named S-so-s- Sora."
"yeah," the fat red one agreed. "And Hades tried chasing him out with a fireball, but the fire hit him and he didn't even wince. The boy said 'Hitting me is futile. TELL me what I wanna know!' Hades then said 'Over my dead body hey hey!'"
"the boy looked m-m-murderous. then he bowed his head and left, b-b-b-but not before he said 'You'll regret this day.'"
HMPH!" was all I said. So, these two minions WERE of no help to me. Why did I even bother? Roxas, I thought, where are you and when will you come home?