Thanks for the reviews! Again, I know this is a shorter chapter, but its what I could write for now. And I did make up names for three of the dusks, which was kind of fun (though they're a bit weird to me. Heh, guess that could be why Xemnas wouldn't want them. Their names don't make any sense. Although, without the x's, the names do unscramble to real names).
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Kingdom Hearts (2). I do own the three dusks' names-I made them up awhile ago.
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Saix patrolled the halls, after having had a meeting with Xemnas. He was supposed to check and make sure that the remaining members in the castle were doing what they were supposed to do. Saix paused for a moment to watch Vexen sneak along the hall, followed by three dusks. Every once and awhile Vexen would pause and glance around nervously.
Saix watched this for a few minutes, until Vexen and the dusks disappeared around a corner. Saix blinked in confusion, then decided to follow and see what Vexen was up to. Wasn't he supposed to be at Castle Oblivion?
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Xemnas walked briskly down a hall, and entered the room where he had left Vexen and the eight dusks. He opened the door and entered it. "Vexen, you're needed back...at the..." Xemnas broke off, staring around the empty room. No Vexen. No dusks. Xemnas frowned. This was the right room... Xemnas stormed out of the room, and began to check all the hallways and rooms. How dare Vexen go against his orders!
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Vexen and the three dusks were hiding in a broom closet after hearing a voice. Vexen, not wanting to be seen, had hidden inside the closest. He and the dusks waited to see who was going to pass by the door. Soon, the voice became clearer.
"Hey! Want to go to the kitchen?" Came Demyx's voice. "There's some ice cream...I think...unless Roxas ate it all..."
Demyx rounded the corner with the three dusks that had been bothering him earlier. After realizing that they just wanted to play, Demyx immediatly befriended them.
Unfortunatly, Saix was headed in their direction, and Saix, annoyed that he had lost track of Vexen and the three dusks, decided to release some pent up anger.
Demyx let out a frightened yelp as Saix raced toward them with his claymore. Demyx flinched as Saix dispatched the three dusks quickly.
Saix shouldered his claymore and walked off. "Don't be a wimp Demyx. Go and find something useful to do."
Demyx pouted as Saix got closer away, but then stuck out his tongue at the breserker's back, before running off. Maybe he should find Roxas and bother him after all.
Once the hall was quiet again, Vexen led the dusks out of the broom closet, and towards an unused lab. Along the way, they passed the room with Roxas and Luxord, who were currently losing to the two dusks at poker.
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Inside the quiet of the laboratory, Vexen analyzed each of the three dusks, attempting to differentiate them. After over ten minutes of pondering, Vexen managed to figure out which were male and which were female.
The smaller dusk was the female one of the group, though Vexen noted that when the three had had an argument in the closet, she got the other two to shut up.
After another minute of thinking, Vexen managed to come up with some names. "Arizma?" He asked the female dusk. It must have been the right name from the reaction he received, jumping up and down. Vexen turned his attention to the two other dusks. "Nabrix and...Xidkr?" Those seemed to be right as well.
Vexen was silent again as he thought for a moment. Noticing that the dusks had begun to play again, Vexen went over to a bookshelf and found a large spiral folder with a lot of notes and research inside. He opened it up and looked through each page. He knew there was some way of turning someone back from a dusk...he just had to find it.
Five hours later...
Vexen had found a way to change the dusks back, but while Arizma, Nabrix and Xidkr wanted to change back, none would leave without the other dusks. So, Vexen had agreed to find the other dusks. Which brought him back to sneaking along the hall, hoping he didn't run into Xemnas or...
"Vexen. What are you doing?"
Vexne halted, before turning and seeing Saix standing a few feet away. "What do you mean?" Vexen asked. 'Hmpf, acting like he's all high and mighty...'
"Aren't you supposed to be at Castle Oblivion?" Saix asked suspiciously.
Before Vexen could answer, Xemnas appraoched him from the opposite direction. "Vexen! Why didn't you follow orders?"
Vexen glanced between the two, quickly trying to figure out what to do.
Luckily for Vexen, Demyx decided to appear suddenly, falling through a portal and tumbling right ontop of Saix. Both fell to the ground, and Vexen managed to sneak away while Xemnas berated Demyx.
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Yeah...review if you like, and maybe let me know what you thought of this chapter. There'll only be one more chapter, and it'll just wrap things up. Until then, thanks for reading and/or reviewing!