ckc: Wazzup?!! Hey guys! I'm updating again! Weeeee….. Yes indeed. More randomness and stuff. I guess this one is a bit more serious than the others. Who knows?
Anyways, hope ya'll had a good spring break and stuff and ate plenty of good stuff that is good…. Sorry, my brain blew a socket a few days ago after a particularly hard math test. –shudder- It's all good though. Life is great.
You know, I just noticed that a whole bunch of the chappies kind of focused a bit on Demyx. I'm sorry but he's my favorite character in the Organization. I can't help but write about him. I promise the next chappie will focus on somebody else. Probably Xaldin or Nobody else.Yep.
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This takes place after CoM and during KH2.
Let's begin then, shall we?
Brownie Incident
Qualm
It wasn't very often that he fell asleep during a meeting. There had been times where he would daydream or completely tune out the voices of the other members of the Organization. Of course he would bring himself back into the meeting if he was asked a question. He wasn't stupid enough to not answer a superior.
But today was one of those days where he just could not keep his eyes open.
And Demyx was about to pay for it dearly.
"Number IX."
Everything was so dark around him. Demyx could feel his element on all sides, crushing him further down. He struggled to swim upwards towards the air that he needed, but he just couldn't fight the water. His lungs screamed for oxygen. He was drowning, he-
"IX!!"
"Help!" Demyx jerked up in his seat as a voice shouted at him. It wasn't until he saw the annoyed expression of the Superior that he realized he had been asleep.
"Demyx, please explain yourself."
Oh man. Xemnas used his name. Now he was really in trouble.
"I was… I was sleeping," the Nocturne said quietly. Some two Nobodies snickered around him.
Xemnas scowled at the young Nobody. "And what reason do you have for falling asleep in the middle of highly important meeting?"
Demyx squirmed in his seat. "I couldn't get to sleep last night."
It was true. For the past few nights he had been dreaming of the same thing. The endless sea of water, the feeling of drowning because of his own power… The Melodious Nocturne just couldn't stay asleep for five minutes because of the dream.
"And why is that, Number IX?"
Might as well explain. "There's this one dream, well, nightmare, where-"
"We can't have nightmares Demyx," Vexen interjected. "To have a nightmare one must be afraid of the things or dealings inside a dream. To experience fear one must have a heart. Nobodies have no hearts therefore cannot be afraid and, therefore, cannot have nightmares."
The Nocturne blinked slowly as the Chilly Academic settled back in his seat smugly. That made sense. Sort of. Not really.
"But I still had a nightmare-" Demyx protested but the Superior glared him into silence.
"Enough IX. We will continue this meeting tomorrow. You are dismissed." Xemnas faded into a portal, leaving the other twelve Nobodies in the room.
"Nice one Demyx!" Axel said grinning. "The Superior's lectures are pretty boring but I never thought you'd fall asleep in the middle of one."
Demyx slouched in his chair, not bothering to respond. The Nocturne waited until everyone was gone before he created his own portal. He teleported into his room promptly flopping on his bed. It was late so he might as well try to go to sleep. Again.
The water was crushing him into oblivion. Dark and cold. Not fighting hard enough. Not strong enough to escape. The ghostly faces of those already dead surrounded him. So pale and frightening. They beckoned for him to come join him. They dragged him down. Oblivion was there. It was coming… coming…
Bang!
Demyx sat up with a gasp, breathing harshly. He looked around wildly as if expecting water to suddenly come pouring out of the walls. He could still hear it: the rushing, falling noise-
"Ah!" The Nocturne fell out of bed with a cry as thunder rang around him. It took him a full minute to realize that it was only a raging storm outside and the water that he had heard earlier was only the rain.
"Kid, you okay?"
Demyx jumped, cowering away from whatever person had just spoken. He threw the sheets fallen from his bed over his head to shield himself from the intruder.
"Calm down kid!" The intruder knelt next to him, ripping the bedding away. Lightning lit up the man's scarred features, exaggerating the deep gash in his face and wild, uncombed hair. Demyx only shrank further away from Xigbar, shivering.
"What's got you so afraid?"
The Nocturne didn't think as he threw his arms around the man, burying his face in his shoulder. Xigbar hesitated at the awkward position. Not knowing what else to do he began to rub Demyx's back soothingly, hoping to quell the younger Nobodie's fear.
After a minute the Freeshooter pushed Demyx up gently, holding the man's trembling shoulders. He could see that the Nocturne's face was covered in sweat.
"Kid, what's gotten in to you?"
"I-" Demyx hitched as the thunder sounded again. "N-nightmare. I was d-drowning and-" Xigbar frowned as the younger Nobody continued with his story. He held up a hand to silence the shivering man.
"Breathe Demyx. You're gonna give yourself a heartless attack," Xigbar said jokingly. The Nocturne calmed slightly, a smile teasing on the corner of his lips. "Now, why're you having all these dreams?"
The water elemental gulped. "I'm afraid."
"Of?"
Demyx was hesitant to answer. He opened his mouth a few times finding himself unable to form words before something out.
"My power!"
The Freeshooter was taken back by the man's answer. "Your power? Why is that?"
"You need a heart to control yourself. And I've always been told that power comes from the heart," Demyx explained. "And everybody tells me that we don't have hearts so then I think that I can't control my element and I'm afraid that I'll lose it one day and everybody will die and-"
"Demyx!" Xigbar shook Number IX to silence him. As he had been talking his voice had become hysteric, his sea-green eyes distant. "Stop! Don't think like that! Who gives a darn about what they say?"
Tears in his eyes, Demyx looked at Xigbar. He couldn't stop himself from crying anymore.
"I don't want to die."
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