Xaldin and Nuxula walked in silence back to the spot in the forest where they had arrived. During the walk they encountered no foes, boring. When they reached the spot Nuxula noticed that there was a blue circle on the ground, it showed images of the Organization castle. Xaldin stepped in and was followed closely by Nuxula.
When they reappeared they were in the main audience chamber. In his seat, again, sat Xemnas. He looked at the pair. "Well done, this one was close, she was close to being one of us." He remarked. "I was observing, well done Nuxula. Ma y I ask, what was that you did with the trees, you did not tell me of that."
Yes, Xaldin had too been curious of that, was it her element?
Nuxula blushed slightly, "I do not know… I just felt a weird connection to the plants, then… they just did what I wanted them to do."
"Well it was interesting." Xemnas said. "Dismissed, Nuxula. Xaldin, stay, I want a word." Nuxula bowed and exited.
As soon as she opened the door she bumped into the man she had seen as she was walking out of the castle earlier, Luxord. "Watch it girl." He scolded as he walked into the audience chamber.
Nuxula decided she would go find Roxas and complete the tour. She wandered upstairs to where Xemnas had said the rooms were. At the top of the stairs there was a long hall way with seven doors on each side of the hall.
Each door had a number on it and she assumed that hers was number 14. Instead of going in she decided to knock on Roxas's door, she knew he was 13. After the first knock the door swung open, but it was not Roxas at the door, it was Axel. His red eyes bore into her.
"Oh, you." He said, his voice was cold. "Roxas isn't here; he said to tell you that he would be in the training room, if you wanted him." Before she could ask where that was he said, "Down the stairs, past the living room, third door on the left." He slammed the door without another word.
She followed Axel's direction and opened the door to the training gym. When she stepped in she saw Roxas using his odd, key like, weapon to fight off a man a large tomahawk. The room itself was huge. There was an area full of exercise machines, there were a bunch of training dummies set up, and at the far end of the room was pool. There was also a roped off area where the two were now fighting.
Roxas turned to acknowledge Nuxula when she entered, but the other man did not. Noticing Roxas's delay he reared up his weapon and smashed it hard in Roxas's ribs. The attack sent Roxas flying out of the ring and he fell, with a large splash, into the pool. The other man, Lexaeus, laughed at the spectacle, but Nuxula looked on in terror. She threw off her robe and leapt, head first into the pool. When she resurfaced she was looking into the eyes of Roxas, who seemed fine. There was a long pause where they stared at each other but it was suddenly stolen by Lexaeus cannonballing into the pool.
Nuxula sighed and pulled herself out of the pool, followed by Roxas. Roxas retrieved his robe that he set beside the ring and Nuxula got hers that she had thrown off. They left the room with Lexaeus still doing laps in the pool.
After they left the gym they went into the living room, which was now empty, and Roxas told her to sit. They both plopped onto the couch.
"So, "Roxas said "How was your first mission?"
"Interesting… Roxas?" Nuxula asked hesitantly
"Yeah?" He replied.
"When Xaldin killed the Queen, he took his heart… she changed, it was… some sort of monster. Then he said that her "Nobody" was back here. Then finally Xemnas said "it was close to becoming one of us." What did he mean?"
Roxas sighed. Well, you know that we are Nobodies?" Nuxula nodded.
"But what does that mean?" She asked.
"It means we have no hearts. When a strong willed person, like the people we used to be, is turned to heartless, a Nobody is created. When the person is especially strong they become a conscious being, all of the members of the organization, is not, they become a monster. What you saw was the Queen's heartless. Make sense?" Roxas explained.
"Mostly, thanks." Nuxula said uncertainly.
Then the door to the room burst open and Demyx rushed in, he dove onto the couch from behind and landed in Nuxula's lap. He looked up to her and smiled. "Hi." Nuxula pushed him off of her and onto the floor.
"What is wrong with you?!" Roxas bellowed.
"That." Demyx poked his head up and looked over the couch just as the door opened and a flaming chakram came spinning his way. Demyx fired a jet of water from his hand and extinguished the fire and sent the weapon to the ground.
"Give it back!" Axel roared and summoned the chakram back to his hand and fired both of them at once.
Demyx squealed. He threw his sitar up to defend and fired some more water at them. Roxas stayed seated with his head turned, watching intently. Nuxula was, however terrified of the spectacle, this could get bad.
Axel threw his weapons aside and leapt onto Demyx, punching wildly. Demyx was tried to defend but Axel snatched his sitar away and continued to beat him. "Give it back, give it back!" They were now wrestling in front of the couch, with Roxas grinning and Nuxula wincing.
"Stop." That was all Roxas had to say. Axel stopped his attack and looked up. Demyx's nose was beaten in and his face was coated in blood. "Axel, what are you beating Demyx for.?"
Axel plunged his hand into one of the pockets in Demyx's robe and pulled out a pale blue bottle. "This." He held the bottle up. "He had the audacity to steal my hair gel." Axel pocketed the bottle and left the room without another word.
Roxas and Nuxula both helped Demyx to his feet and he summoned some water to wash his face. Roxas wished Nuxula a good night and helped Demyx into his room.
Good night? Nuxula had no idea what time it was. She finally found a clock in the kitchen; it was about ten at night, not that late. At the kitchen table sat a man of average height with pale pink hair. "He looked up from his sandwich and said, "Hey, Nuxula right? I'm Marluxia. Sit."
Nuxula nodded at sat down at the table across from him. "Hi." She said politely.
"Want some?" He held out his hamburger to her.
"No, I don't eat meat." She said curtly.
"Neither do I, this is a veggie burger." She still shook her head. "Whatever. By the way I spoke to Xaldin earlier, he told me about you and the plants back there. I can do something like that to." He held up his hand and twirled his fingers; out of his hands popped some bright red and pink roses that were twisted into a knot. He handed it to her.
"Beautiful." She murmured as she took hold of it, rubbing her fingers over the pedals. "Thank you."
Led and stood up. "Good evening" he said as he picked up the burger and headed towards the stairs. She sighed and stood up as well, heading to the stairs. When she got up the stairs Marluxia was gone, all that was there was an empty hall way.