What it when he returned Medusa had already taken control of Larxene? How could he deal with that?
He replayed the conversation from last month. She didn't sound like herself. She didn't have her spunk, and as the month dragged on, it grew worse. He was truly scared.
He tried to tell Saïx, but he didn't believe him. Even if he did, he would talk to Larxene, and she would deny all accusations.
Why wouldn't she? Medusa was at her throat, literally. Only Kingdom Hearts knows what Medusa threatened her with.
He was at Beast's Castle right now and had to help Xion take out a giant heartless. They were wandering right now, with no luck, and all he wanted was to RTC and go to Larxene.
"Hey, Xion," Axel said.
"Yeah Axel?" Xion said.
"What if the Beast took out the heartless already?" he asked.
"I don't know. This heartless appeared yesterday," Xion said.
"A day is plenty of time," Axel muttered quietly and hung his head low.
They walked around a little more with no success. The heartless seemed to disappear from the castle, "C'mon let's RTC and just report this thing can't be found,"
"I don't know Axel," Xion said distantly.
"Come on, let's just go," Axel said, and once Xion was still frozen in place, he added, "We looked everywhere,"
"Yeah, I guess," she said and followed Axel to the dark corridor.
They walked back to the corridor, and still couldn't find the heartless on the way back, "This is just ridiculous," Axel said once they made it to the corridor.
Right when Xion was about to walk through the corridor Axel heard a smash, "What's that?" Xion yelled.
"The heartless!" Axel yelled and they both ran towards the sound.
Once they turned the corner, they didn't see a heartless, they saw Larxene, laying on the floor of the castle, "Hey! Larxene!" Axel yelled and ran to her still body.
He shook her body and yelled her name, and even smacked her a little, but she remained unconscious, "Larxene!"
Xion gasped, "I'll go get help!" she said before running away.
Axel shook her body, but she still remained asleep. That's when he started to get nervous. He instantly picked up her body and lugged her to the corridor.
Once he got there, he set her on the ground and opened the corridor. He turned around and saw Larxene starting to stand up.
"Larxene!" he called out in relief and kneeled down to her side.
"What? Where am I?" she groaned and rubbed her head as she started to stand up on her feet.
"Larxene?" he mumbled and pushed a strand of hair out of her face.
"What?" she said groggily and rubbed her eyes that she had sealed closed.
"Come on, let's get you home," he picked her up and took her home.
Maka woke up and yawned obnoxiously, "There you are Maka," Blair said and smiled.
"Why are you on my bed?" she demanded and sat up quickly.
"Soul said he wanted me to talk to you," she answered.
"Why?" she asked and stretched out.
"He wanted me to say he knows that he made you mad and he wanted to apologize, but he had to go talk to your father,"
"Wait what? What does my dad want with Soul?" Maka said and jumped out of bed.
"I don't know. It beats me, I never figured it out," Blair shrugged, but Maka was already in the bathroom getting ready.
As soon as she got out she asked Blair where Soul and her dad were meeting, "At the coffee shop downtown,"
So Maka immediately ran to the coffee shop and hoped to make it to see why Soul was talking to her father. He knew how much she hated her dad, why was he talking to him?
After awhile, she made it to the shop and walked inside inconspicuously and looked around the lobby for her partner.
After a full scan, she realized they weren't in the lobby, so they were probably in the next room over, "Excuse me ma'am," she said to the worker.
"How can I help you?" she answered.
"I need thou to tell me where my friends are. One is a grown man in a suit with red hair and the other is a teenager with white hair,"
"Ah, those two," she said with a drag in her voice that Maka didn't miss.
"Can you tell me where they are?" she asked politely.
"They were thrown out a minute ago," she answered.
"Why? What happened?" Maka said, although she wasn't surprised.
"The older man sexually harassed with one of our unwilling workers," she said.
"Oh,"
"Now miss, I need to get back to work," she said before going behind a curtain that seperated the lobby from the microwaves etc.
Her grip was loosening. Medusa could feel it. She almost had her new body completely to herself.
"Oh Larxene!" she sang with a too much sweetness in her voice.
She groaned in response, considering that's the most she could do at this point of the possession. 'Ha, she is weak!' she thought to herself.
"Open your eyes. Show your new eyes to your friends!" she laughed.
"Noooo," she groaned weakly.
"Larxene?" a voice said. Considering her eyes were closed, neither of them could see who was in front of them.
"Open your eyes," she hissed only to get no response at all.
"Hey, I know you can hear me," Axel shook their body.
"OPEN THEM!" she hissed again. Larxene was very very stubborn girl, and she refused her. She always had been, even before Medusa knew of her existence.
Medusa worked her entity around the body and tried to tug the eyes open, but Larxene resisted, so she settled on the voice, "Axel?"
"Yeah, Larxie. I'm here," he said and called for Xemnas, "Hey, can you open your eyes?"
"No, I can't," she said groggily.
"Is that witch preventing you from doing anything?" Axel asked.
"You're an idiot, Axel. I'm not possessed," she said before trying to open their eyes again, but Larxene still fought hard.
Medusa stretched and yawned, "Is Xemnas coming?" she asked, still struggling with the eyes.
"Yeah, he should be here already," Axel answered said as if he was distracted.
"Did you tell him I'm possessed of something?" she said and moved around on the bed and saw she had complete dominance over everything except the eyes.
"Yeah, I did," Axel said.
"You are a fool," she answered and stood up, eyes still squeezed shut. Curse this girl!
"No way! Have you seen yourself lately?" Axel laughed hard and touched her face.
"Don't touch me!" she slapped his hand away and finally opened her eyes.
"Holy-" he said and backed up with his hands in front of him as if it was the only thing that could keep him alive.
"What? What is it?" Medusa said with worry in Larxene's voice, and looked around for a mirror.
Axel pointed her to the bathroom and she ran inside and took a deep breath before turning on the bathroom light.
As soon as the light flicked on, Medusa gasped. There was no more Larxene. It was her in the mirror. She took off the cloak she had on to reveal her normal outfit.
She ran her hand up along her tattoos, "What the hell," Axel muttered.
Medusa laughed softly at first, but them her laughs grew in volume and insanity.
"Larxene?"
"Hm? I don't know who are talking about. You must have me mistaken for someone else," Medusa said in her normal voice that she had been holding in a for awhile.
"I knew that this was going to happen," Axel said with rage in his voice.
"Then you should've done more to save her," she smiled sweetly while laughing insanely as she saw Axel grit his teeth in anger.
"I know as well as you do that I couldn't get you out of her once you are in!" he hissed.
"Oh, I see you've done some research in your enemy," she smiled, "Not that will do you any good, now that I'm inside I don't think I'll leave. Your Larxene is very comfortable,"
Axel summoned his chakrams and charged Medusa. Axel yelled and prepared to launch his weapon into her body.
She smiled and yelled, "Vector Plate!" Axel looked at her with confusion plainly on his face.
Before he could say anything, he saw a flash of light on the floor. He looked down and saw a black arrow pointing opposite from her form on the floor.
Axel yelled in protest as he felt his body drift the way the arrow pointed, which meant he got thrown into the wall and choked out blood.
She laughed in glee and walked over to him, "Aww, looks like you went the wrong way! Did someone give you had direction?"
"There is a little bit of Larxene still there!" he yelled and started to stand up again.
"Oh no. Larxene has no more dominance in this body anymore. This is just me completely. You can't see any resemblance to Larxene anymore. That means that's it, she's gone,"
"Ugh I hate you!" Axel screamed and tried to hit Medusa again, only to get launched into the wall again.
"Strong words for a Nobody," she smiled sinisterly and laughed so hard, Axel wondered why she didn't topple over.
"You are such a bitch," he coughed up more blood and struggled to keep his eyes open.
"Oh well, I'll just have to kill you right now. Vector Arrow!" Axel looked up just in time to see a black arrow cut his face and knocked him unconscious.
"Lord Death!" Death Scythe yelled as he ran into the Death Room with Dr. Stein right behind him.
"What is it Spirit?" Lord Death asked him, concerned for Spirit's sanity at that point.
"Stein detected something, and he felt as if you should know about it," Spirit panted and gestured for Stein to tell Lord Death his great discovery.
"I was in my laboratory, and I sensed a familiar wavelength," he said, not as gaspy as Spirit.
"Ohhhh? And what wavelength would that be?" Death asked, with a more serious tone than he usually used.
"Medusa's,"
There was silence for a long time in the Death Room. No one knew how to deal with that information.
"Are you sure?" he asked after a long and awkward period of silence.
"It couldn't be anyone else. I am completely positive about this," Stein answered.
"The only thing I wonder about is how he was able to detect her wavelength from a distance so great that not even I can find it," Death mused aloud.
"I think it has to do with the fact of how resonated their souls were. They had so much in common, and they had a romantic connection at one point in their time together," Spirit reasoned.
"We did not have any romance," Stein said with a hiss in his voice.
"Whatever,"
"Settle down you two. Whatever the reason, he senses her and now we have to capture her and bring her into custody," Lord Death declared.
The two were then dismissed from the Death Room. Stein then confronted Spirit, "How dare you say anything like that!"
But Spirit was already gone. Oh well, he could get him later. Until then, he had to keep his sanity before he could find Medusa.
That was the only thing that could stop from even more chaos from erupting. Not that it seemed like any more could stir up.
Crona didn't know how to deal with this. Just the faint possility of Medusa still being alive made him too nervous.
Being under Medusa's thumb was the last thing he wanted. That would mean he couldn't see Maka anymore, and she was really nice to him and she was taking care of him.
Medusa used to be the only thing in his life, the only person who would even try to put up with him. After all, she was his mother.
Crona shook himself, trying to rid himself of that thought. All it did was make him think what Maka had said last week, "She's my mother I love her of course,"
Was he supposed to love his mother? Did he love her was the real question. After everything, the possibility seemed crazy. Although, from a distance, it made sense.
Crona didn't know how to deal with all of these emotions! It used to be simple before he became Maka's friend. Not that it was her fault.
Maka was actually the only thing that was keeping him alive at this point in his life.
On the other hand, Medusa also kept him alive in her own way. She kept him strong, and continued to make him stronger.
Not that she was doing that for his benefit. Or, maybe she was. Maybe, just maybe, she was covering it up, and still got advantage on her side.
Now that he thought about it without shying away, he truly knew nothing about his own mother. Medusa was a very complicated creature indeed.