Usagi: Hi everyone! Time for another chapter filled with action and excitement…okay so there's close to no action but hopefully some excitement… And we've finally started to explain some of the loose ends left in LiD

Zakura: like how can I be this cute?

Usagi: … Suuuure. No that was not it.

I don't have anything other fun to say so here's the chapter.

Chapter 4

Surprise visits

After travelling with her mother and King Mickey for two hours, Kairi already felt the need for a little time alone, and the moment she got to Radiant Garden she told her mother she wanted to go see some friends and made her way towards the HQ of Radiant Garden Restoration Committee.

"Does she ever stop talking?" Kairi asked.

"Nope. Now I'm almost glad I'm a cat, perhaps I should try catching some mice to so she'd start avoiding me" Zexion said.

"You sure you want to stick your teeth into these "dirty little rodents" as you call them?" Kairi asked.

"There are other ways to catch a mouse sis" Zexion said. "I am a nobody after all, and just like Axel and Demyx I have some tricks up my sleeve."

"What sleeve? You don't wear clothes" a new voice said.

A black haired girl had just showed up, seemingly out of nowhere.

"Hi Yuffie, what's up?" Kairi asked.

"Not much, yet" Yuffie said.

"What do you mean yet?" Kairi asked.

"Well… you see, just a few minutes before you arrived we got a message on the PC, and it was labelled for the keybladers" Yuffie explained.

"Really? Is someone sending fan-mail to Sora and Riku perhaps?" Kairi said.

"I don't think its fan-mail exactly…we haven't opened it yet because we wanted to wait for you, you better come see this" said the young ninja.

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Yuffie, Kairi and Zexion came into Merlin's house to find Cid and Leon looking at the PC.

"So what is it you wanted to show me?" Kairi asked.

"Have a look at this princess" Cid said and moved out of the way so Kairi could see the screen.

She looked at the message and gasped.

"What? Is it a spam message with questionable content?" Zexion asked as he struggled to climb up on the PC.

"Actually I was more surprised at who sent it" Kairi said and picked him up.

Zexion looked at the screen and blinked.

"Larxene?" he said.

"Seems your old friend in the Organization wants your help. Should we invite her over?" Cid asked.

"She's not my friend. Larxene isn't anyone's friend, except maybe Marluxia surprisingly enough" Zexion said. "I don't trust her, it could be a trap".

"Open it" Kairi said.

"I can't" Cid replied.

"Why not?"

"You're standing in front of the keyboard".

"Oh…"

Kairi clicked the email.

"Wow, Zex, you should come see this" she said.

"If you promise never to call me that agai…what the?" Zexion said. "She says they've found out how nobodies can get their heart back."

"Really? How?" Leon asked.

"She doesn't say. She wants to talk to Sora, Riku and Kairi in person as she states she needs their help" Zexion said.

"Sounds fishy to me" Cid said. "Why would we need to help the nobodies anyway?"

Zexion gazed at him.

"Forget I said anything" Cid muttered. "Should we reply or what?"

"Maybe we should ask Sora and Riku" Kairi suggested.

"Good idea, I'll send them an email" Cid said. "In times like this I'm glad Sora's mother decided to buy him a laptop for Christmas. Even if I have to fix it every other week."

Ten minutes later the door slammed open and Sora, Riku, Axel and Demyx ran in.

"We came as fast as we could" Sora said.

"Well that was certainly fast…did you follow us or something?" Kairi asked.

"Er…sure. Yeah. What you said" Sora said.

"So, if everyone's here should I send a reply to this Larxene? Or do we want the rest of the gang here too first?" Cid asked.

"Oh I'm sure we can handle one Organization-member" Merlin said as he walked in the door. "I'll just put a spell over this house so she can't use her powers…er... what's her element again?"

"Electricity" Axel said.

"Ugh, don't remind me" Demyx said. "Water and electricity doesn't work well together."

"Neither does water and fire yet you don't hear me complaining, got it memorized?" Axel reminded him.

"Really? Cause I've heard you complain at the humidity at Destiny Island several times" Riku said.

"Humid air and clear water are not exactly the same, it messes up my hair" Axel said.

"Too late. It's already caught fire" Riku said.

"Have anyone ever told you that with that hairdo you look like a girl?" Axel asked.

Riku glared at him.

"I win" Axel said.

Everyone else just stared at the two.

"Do they do that often?" Cid asked Kairi.

"Every single day" Kairi replied. "Riku always tries to get Axel mad…despite the fact that he's a nobody that has no feelings…"

"They still have memories of emotion, and I'll get him some day. I managed to piss of Roxas and I'll get him to flip too just wait" Riku said.

"Well in a few minutes you could try with Larxene" Axel suggested.

"Please, I don't have a death wish" Riku replied.

"That's good because here she comes now" Leon said from where he was standing, right next to the window.

A woman wearing a black cloak carefully made her way towards the small house. She had her hood up, but since it was only one female in the Organization XIII there really wasn't much doubt who it was.

"Why is she walking?" Axel asked. "Why can't she just teleport into a room like any normal being".

"Because any normal being doesn't do that and it's really annoying?" Riku suggested.

"You're just jealous because you can't" Axel said.

"Stop arguing for fifteen minutes please" Kairi sighed.

"You might as well lock them into separate rooms at once since you know that will never happen" Sora said. "Riku can't go five minutes without insulting anyone."

"Wanna bet?" Riku asked. "If you win, you get an ice cream, if I win…you still get an ice cream, sea salt, and you have to eat it".

"Deal, I want strawberry" Sora said.

"Sometimes I wonder why Xemnas worries about you guys" a new voice said.

Sora and Riku turned around and saw that Larxene had come in; she'd taken her hood of and was now gazing at the two boys plus one ottsel.

"Larxy, looking like a ray of sunshine as always" Axel said. "But where did you leave your feathers?"

"Shut it fuzz ball, I didn't come here because I wanted to" Larxene said. "I came because Vexen wanted your help for something and apparently he was too "busy" to come himself. I tried making him but that fox of his is really annoying."

"Jikes, he still has that thing?" Demyx said, as he remembered Buxyuki, the demon fox nobody Vexen had picked up in the Netherworld two years ago.

"And why would we want to help you guys out? I haven't really gotten any "good" experiences out of his little toys. Do we gain anything from this?" Riku said.

"Actually you do" Larxene said. "Well at least you three do" she added looking at the nobody-animals at the floor. "And I'm sure you would like to get some answers about what happened two years ago am I right?"

"You mean you've figured it out?" Sora asked.

"Well the old fox did" Larxene said. "And the rest of you better listen as well, since what I'm about to tell you might affect your chances at ever bringing down the Organization XIII".

"We're not helping them get their hearts just to get them off our backs if that's what you think" Riku said. "I'd rather just kill the whole lot."

"You already did that, and I guess I'm a live example that it didn't work" Larxene said. "Vexen has a theory however as to why that is… According to him, heartless and nobodies are actually immortal."

That got everyone's attention and all who were in the room stared at the savage nymph with varying expressions from shock to disbelief. Zexion was among the latter.

"If we're immortal then how did we end up getting killed in the first place?" he asked.

"You're still here aren't you?" Larxene commented.

"More or less" Zexion muttered, glaring at his tail like it was his worst enemy.

"Exactly, Vexen's theory was that as long as your heartless is still running loose out there you'll just keep being reborn, possibly changing a bit me each time" Larxene said.

"A bit? I'm a freaking cat!" Zexion said.

"I always thought that was because the author has a fur-fetish" Riku said.

"Will you stop breaking the fourth wall so I can finish?" Larxene said sounding very annoyed. If it hadn't been for Merlin's magic sparks would definitely have been flying into various directions right now.

"Please, I'm actually more worried about what Usagi might do to me than you" Riku said as Larxene pulled out one of her knives. "On the other hand, if what you're saying is true then… how are we supposed to kill the organization?"

"I was getting to that before I got so rudely interrupted… ("You owe me a strawberry ice cream" Sora said to Riku)…shut both of you. According to Vexen's theory, the only way to completely eradicate a nobody would be to kill both the heartless and the nobody at the same time, but he also discovered another thing, it was actually you guys who gave him the idea" Larxene said. "The secret to fusing a heartless and a nobody".

"Come on, tell us already" Axel said, bouncing up and down at Merlin's books eagerly.

"That substance you found in Spargus, what was it called again? Light eco? Apparently that is what allowed Roxas and Sora to fuse together as one again" Larxene said.

"Took long enough" Sora said.

"Well the first rule still applied, you didn't honestly believe you could survive falling of the platform in the Hall of Empty Melodies naturally did you?" Larxene said.

"But wait…you weren't in Spargus, neither of you were, so how did you know about the eco?" Kairi said.

"Let's just say you've been "ratted out" Larxene said.

"Of course…if we couldn't kill him the first time Trixi couldn't possibly have pulled it of the second" Riku said.

"Luxord lives? Where is he now?" Demyx asked.

"Hiding under Vexen's desk, looking even more scared than you normally are" Larxene said. "Apparently that cat of yours isn't the only one with a taste for rodents, Bux likes them too. But now then, I've said what I had to say, and have an offer for you".

"We're not helping you and your friends get your hearts back if that's what you're thinking" Riku said.

"That's not what I wanted" Larxene said. "I wanted you to help seek out the heartless of the Organization members".

"And why should we want to do that?" Sora asked.

"Were you even listening key-boy? If you don't find the heartless you'll never be able to defeat Xemnas, ever" Larxene reminded him. "You may kill him again but he'll keep coming back, same goes for the rest of them."

"She does have a point there" a new voice said.

The door had opened again and three animals came in, Donald, Goofy, and the one talking was King Mickey.

"If we can find the heartless, we could finally finish the Organization of for good" the mouse king said. "One way or another."

"Where did you come from?" Larxene asked.

"Leon sent me a message asking me to come after they had gotten your email" Mickey explained. "I was on my way home already so it took some time to return, sorry."
"That's okay. But how exactly are we going to find these heartless? We don't even know what they look like!" Sora said. "Well except for Xehanort.."

"But even so we haven't seen him at all since Ansem blew up Kingdom Hearts two years ago" Riku added.

Everyone's eyes now turned to Larxene again.

"Don't look at me, I haven't got a clue" Larxene said. "I only came to deliver the message, but if you want to keep fighting Organization XIII forever be my guest". With that, she disappeared into a dark portal.

"Well she certainly was no help at all" Axel said.

"Did you honestly expect her to be?" Zexion said. "Though she could have told us why she isn't a bird anymore…I want to get out of this fur coat almost as much as I want my heart back."

"Well we know one thing for sure then" Kairi said, sounding optimistic.

"Which is?" Zexion said.

"If what she said is true then that means your heartless is still alive to, you guys could all get your hearts back!" Kairi said.

"Hey yeah you're right!" Axel said. "When I get my heart back I'm gonna pull the biggest prank on Riku ever."

"In other words, nothing new" Riku said. "Are you sure you're a nobody?"

"You know… I've kind of gotten used to this form, no need to tire yourselves out on my account" Demyx said.

"Weren't you listening beaver boy? We can actually get our HEARTS back, isn't that what we've been trying for ever since we became nobodies?" Axel asked.

"Yeah… but after so long its not that bad being a nobody is it?" Demyx asked.

Everyone else, particularly Sora, Axel and Zexion, stared at him in surprise.

"Should I send an email to a doctor? Or a vet?" a voice from the computer said.

"Maybe you should Tron" Zexion said.

"Guys, that really isn't necessary…" Demyx said, but before he got time to come with an explanation he was interrupted by a rumbling sound. "What is that?"

"Sounds like it's coming from the outside" Leon said and opened the door.

Everyone went outside as they saw a small dot on the sky, which got increasingly bigger and bigger.

"It looks like some kind of space-ship" Cid said.

And it was "some kind of space-ship", big, yellow and almost round, it carefully made its way down between the building, proving the driver was obviously better than Riku ("Hey!" said Riku) before finally landing on the ground just outside Merlin's house.

"Aliens?" Kairi asked.

But as a hatch opened on the top of the space-ship, it wasn't an alien that came out of it, it was a human, a man to be precise.

"Fear not civilians! Captain Gordon is here to save you!" the man said.

But his heroic speech didn't result in the thundering applause he apparently expected, as the keybladers and their friends just gazed at him.

"Who called for an idiot?" Riku asked.

"We aren't here to save anyone you idiot!" a new voice said, a girl this time, said girl came out of the hatch, hit Gordon on the head, and then jumped down to the ground, accompanied by another girl and two penguins.

At first sight the two girls looked humans, until you saw the red bat-wings and the tails. The penguins too had bat-wings, in addition to normal penguin "wings" (flippers?).

"Etna! Flonne! What are you doing here?" Kairi asked.

"Hi everyone!" Flonne said happily.

"Greetings can wait" Etna said. "I'm afraid we've got a very big problem, and we need your help".

Usagi: 5 PAGES IN YOUR FACE!

Zakura: don't throw the pages; you'll give the readers paper cuts.

Usagi: well alright then… Didn't I promise you me demons in the last fanfic? Well if I didn't, there will be more demons in this fic. Next chapter marks the beginning of the Netherworld saga part 2. Because I really liked the came Disgaea…or like…or hate the final boss…

Sora: you haven't finished that game yet?

Usagi: no. The final boss is more annoying than Xemnas, but at least I won't have to fight him five times… hopefully…

Sora: that IS annoying…

Usagi: and where is Laharl in all this you ask? Oh wouldn't you like to know (evil laugh)

We'll be revealing that in the next chapter, I could ask Etna now… but that would count as a preview and Etna can never tell what actually happens next in a preview.

Etna: he was eaten by a bear.

Usagi: see? There's no way Laharl would get eaten by a bear. And that was a very lousy preview Etna.

Etna: well sorry, I didn't have time to prepare myself.

Usagi: Please review, or I'll send Captain Gordon; Defender of Earth to your house and you don't want that.

Gordon: Why not? The people of earth love me! I've got my own cartoon!

Usagi: that explains it…cartoon characters tend to be complete morons.

Gordon: hey!

Usagi: Flames will be used to roast my hot dogs. See you later!