A/N: Hello once again! Argh, I had major writers block this chapter. Curse you writers block! Curse you.. Anyways. Here's chapter 5, so enjoy:D
Reviews:
Joker.Rebellion: Yeah, I know Xemnas is a little Ooc, im trying to work on fixing that. XD And I do plan on making them have another snowball fight soon involving all of the members, so that should be interesting.
XxXxTwilight RisingxXxX: Zexion is pretty cool, I have alot of fun writing about him. And Larxene is going to be in the story again soon.. probably. So she will be getting mad alot, I think. XD Oh, and I agree. Marluxia is definitely a girl.
childatheart07bob: Yes, Christmas lights are definitely evil. Especially our Christmas lights. x.o
Disclaimer: Still don't own Kingdom Hearts...
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Roxas and Axel stealthily sneaked down the hall towards Xemnas's room. Truth be told, they didn't want to actually go look and see if the droppings were in fact what he was yelling about, but their curiosity ended up getting the best of them. They eventually arrived at Xemnas's room and peaked their heads through the door and looked around the room. Xemnas was nowhere to be found, much to their relief.
"He's not here. Weird." Axel said and shrugged, turning and heading back towards his room.
"Wait, wait, wait! Don't you think we should check and see if the droppings are still there, and if they are, clean them up?" This made Axel stop, turn around, and head back towards the room, and he and Roxas cautiously entered.
"We need something to clean them up with."
"Well duh." They began looking around the room, and found a box of tissues on Xemnas's nightstand.Roxas ran over and got a couple, and scooped the rabbit poo up in them. "Ewww! Quick, where do I put it?"
"The window! Throw it out the window!" Axel ran over and opened the large window and Roxas chucked the tissue outside, thinking it wouldn't hit anyone. He was wrong. They heard a crash outside as soon as he threw it out the window, and they looked outside to see none other than Saix laying flat on the ground. He fell off the ladder again, because the rabbit poo and tissue flew and hit him right in the face. Axel and Roxas began laughing, but stopped as soon as they realized they were still in Xemnas's room, they quickly exited and headed back towards Axel's room.
"So, what should we do now?"
"Dunno. We could always pick on some of the other members." Axel grinned and Roxas quickly disagreed.
"Bad idea. Last time we did that, Saix went berserk and almost tore the whole castle down." As they were trying to decide what to do, someone started speaking on the castle intercom.
"Attention all Organization members! Please get to your seats in the meeting room immediately! This is extremely important!"
"That sound like Xemnas."
"That's because it was Xemnas." Roxas sighed as he and Axel opened up a dark portal and both stepped through them, teleporting into their large seats.
The room was circular, and there were thirteen large white seats inside. Some seats were higher than others, Xemnas's seat being the highest of them all. Xemnas was already sitting in his seat, and he looked pretty angry. Xigbar and Vexen were also already in their seats, and the rest of the members were just portaling into theirs. When everyone was present, except for Saix, Xemnas began speaking.
"Im going to make this short and get right to the point. Something important of mine has gone missing." At this, a few members began looking at each other, some looked around the room awkwardly, and others whispering to the person next to them. "It is a very.. special present, and I need all of you to search the castle high and low for it. If I figure out who took it, well, lets just say I will become your worst nightmare." His harsh tone made a few of the members gulp, and Demyx cower in his seat. "It is a fairly small little gift, and I want it returned immediately if you have it."
When Xemnas was finished, he dismissed everyone, and they immediately started the search for the 'present'. Some people searched in groups, and others solo. Axel and Roxas decided to pair up and search together as usual, as did Zexion and Demyx. Marluxia and Larxene were also a team. The rest of the members decided to search on their own, as they figured they could find it faster that way.
"Alright, where should we search first, Axel?"
"My room!"
"Why would the present be in your room?"
"I don't know. We have to search every room in the whole castle anyways, so it doesn't really matter." Roxas sighed, knowing he was right, and they set off once again for Axel's room to search for the lost gift.
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Demyx and Zexion decided that searching in the basement first would be the best idea. Demyx wasn't too fond of going back into the basement, seeing as he was somewhat afraid of the dark, but Zexion drug him along anyways.
"Alright. Demyx, you search that corner over there, and i'll search this corner." Demyx nodded, and they both began searching on separate sides of the basement. Random objects were flying everywhere as they moved, and threw things out of the way and in random directions to see if the present could possibly be hidden underneath them.
"Hey, hey Zexion! I think I found som- EEP!" A sound of something scraping against the floor was heard, and Zexion quickly turned to see Demyx nowhere in sight.
"Demyx? Where did you go?" He inched over to where Demyx was previously standing, but found no trace of him anywhere. He began moving his hand across the wall and floor, looking for a secret switch of some sort that Demyx might have accidently pushed. He spotted a small statue of a a horse head on a small pedestal to his right, and seeing as how he saw someone push back a statue head and reveal a secret passageway in a movie he once saw, he decided to try it himself.
He pushed back the horse head, and sure enough, the wall and floor began turning, taking Zexion with it. When it finally stopped turning, he looked around the new room he was in. It was filled with gadgets and gizmos of all sorts, and tanks with some weird chemicals inside of them. He stopped and thought about where he was for a moment, before remembering that Demyx was somewhere around here.
"Demyx?" He called out, but received no answer. He decided to start walking and investigate the room further before beginning his search for the sitarist. He walked forward, and began looking at the chemicals inside the large glass tanks. They were green, and bubbling, they obviously contained some sort of experiment at some point in time. He was so absorbed into studying the tank that he didn't feel someone poke him in the side.
"Zex.. hey, Zex.." When he heard his name, he turned and saw Demyx still poking him in the side.
"Ah! Demyx, there you are, I was wondering where you went."
"I touched that weird statue, and then the wall started moving, and th-"
"Then you ended up back here in a strange room." Zexion finished his sentence for him, and Demyx nodded. "Have you explored any at all back here yet?"
"No, I didn't think it was such a good idea, I mean look at this place! It's huge!" Demyx was right, the room was indeed big, and it had many halls that lead to who knows where.
"Yeah, you have a point there. Well, since this place looks suspicious, how about we check it out a bit?" Demyx nodded again and they set off down a long hallway. The place was surprisingly different from the other parts of the castle, all of the rooms and halls were blue. Blue walls, blue tiled floors, blue ceilings. All of it. They reached another room, and this time, it contained a massive amount of books. One could say it was exactly like a library, and at the sight of this, Zexion's jaw almost dropped to the ground, before he rushed off to look at the books.
"Zexion we really shouldn't be reading right now! Xemnas needs us to find his present, remember?"
"This is searching, im searching inside the books too. The present could be small, you know?" Demyx thought this was actually a pretty good idea, and also began going through all of the books. Zexion just gave a triumphant smirk and continued to read his newly found book.
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"Well, Axel, we searched through your whole room. And found things that.. I never even knew you had."
"Yeah I know, some of those things I forgot I even had." Roxas sighed.
"How about we search the attic next? I'm sure no one has searched there yet."
"Oh no, that's a baaad idea! The attic is supposedly haunted, or so Xigbar, Luxord, and Vexen say. They said that when they went up there once things started moving on their own!" Roxas raised an eyebrow, and grinned. He wanted to go up there even more now. "I don't like that grin your giving me right now.. Roxas, don't tell me you actually WANT to go up there?"
"Heck yeah I do. Now that you've said it's supposedly haunted, I definitely want to see it for myself. Besides, the present might in fact be up there. Xemnas did say search EVERY part of the castle, didn't he?" Axel groaned, he knew Roxas was right, but he did not, of all things, want to go in the attic. He wasn't too fond of ghosts.
"Fine. You win. But if the ghosts get angry at us and eat us alive, I blame you." They both set off for the attic, Axel grumbling to himself the whole way.
After climbing many, many stairs and going up about a dozen or more floors, they arrived at the attic. Old stone stairs led up to the so called 'haunted' attic, and Roxas thought it looked like something out of a classic horror movie. After they stopped to catch their breath, and declaring that climbing fifty sets of stairs is an awesome workout, they ascended the stairs into the dark attic.
"Wow. This place is cool." The attic was almost completely pitch black, except for a small window in the very back of the room, and there were large white sheets and dust covering most of the objects inside. The attic, despite the rest of the castle, was made out of all wood, and the floors were extremely creaky.
"Cool? More like horror movie material." Axel shuddered as they stepped into the attic, and he kept glancing at the door behind them, fearing it would slam shut and they would be trapped inside.
"So, stuff apparently moves on its own inside here, right?" Axel nodded.
"That's what I heard. Im getting a pretty bad vibe from this place, so can we hurry up and search the place and leave?" Roxas rolled his eyes at how wimpy Axel was being, and nodded, much to the red head's relief.
"Alright, i'll take the side over by the window, you take the corner over on the other end." Roxas suggested, but Axel just whined.
"Why do you get the side that is nice and lit? Im not going over there in that corner! It's freaking dark, man! I'll search right here in the middle of the room, you can take the corners." It was pretty much decided right then and there, seeing as Axel had already started searching through the middle of the room before Roxas could say anything. They searched through boxes, underneath blankets, and sneezed quite often due to all the dust in the room. Axel thought he literally saw a dust bunny hop across the room, but shook it off as just his imagination.
"Man, all this dust is getting to my head I think. I thought I just saw a dust bunny hop across the room." Axel chuckled to himself, and Roxas sneezed in response.
"Yeah, hard to believe how dusty it is in here." As soon as Roxas said that, Axel thought he felt someone tap on his shoulder.
"Oh ha ha, very funny Roxas."
"Huh? What are you talking about?" Roxas stopped his search and turned to look at Axel.
"Trying to scare me by tapping me on my shoulder. Well it wont work!"
"Erm, Axel, im over here. I wasn't anywhere near you since we started searching." This made Axel stop going through one of the boxes and look at Roxas, who was in fact on the other side of the room.
"Then, who just-" Then realization hit him. "GHOST!!" He started panicking and turned toward the door, that was for some reason now shut. He tried to open it, but it was shut tight and wouldn't move. "The door wont open!"
"What? Oh good grief." Roxas walked over to the door and tried to open it. After tugging on the doorknob for five minutes, he decided that it wouldn't open. "Yep, latched tight. Dude, this is so cool! Classic horror movie, man!" He laughed and Axel felt like hitting him as hard as he could across the head, but was too worried about the ghosts to even move. They both turned to face the corner of the room as they heard shuffling, and what sounded like things being moved across the floor.
"That's it. IM BREAKING THE DOOR DOWN!" Axel shouted the end of his sentence as he summoned his chakrams, and started beating on the door with them. He didn't want to use his fire, seeing as the whole room was made of wood and that doing so would cause the whole place to catch on fire. Then they really would be trapped.
"Come on, swing harder! You can do it!" Roxas coached from behind Axel who was still trying to beat the door into oblivion hoping it would open. Roxas stopped when he glanced over at the window. "Hey, that's weird."
"What is?" Axel also stopped to look over at Roxas who was moving towards the window.
"I cant see out the window anymore, it's completely white."
"Weird." Axel said, then went back to clobbering the door, which was now had chunks missing from it. "Would you mind helping me here?"
"Nah, your doing good, keep at it!" Axel glared at him, but nearly screamed when he saw a box lift up off the ground by itself and move towards Roxas who wasn't paying any attention to it at all. Axel threw one of his chakrams at it, and it dropped to the floor with a loud thud. This made Roxas turn to see what was going on.
"What did you do?" He asked as he looked at the box on the floor that was now impaled with a chakram.
"That thing almost hit you! The box just lifted itself off the ground and was moving towards you, so I threw my weapon at it!" Axel explained before running over to get his chakram out of the box, and then went back to attacking the door.
"Weird. Im starting to get the feeling that this thing is toying with us." When he said this, a small shoebox flew across the room and smacked Roxas right on the head, causing him to fall down. Axel immediately ran over to help his friend stand back up, and glared daggers at the shoebox, swearing he would burn it when he got the chance.
"Im starting to get the feeling your right. But look! I almost have the door broken down now!" Axel did in fact almost have the door broken down, alot of chunks were lying on the ground in front of the door, and there was a small hole right in the middle of it that you could almost fit your head through.
"Good, keep going." Roxas was still rubbing the back of his head where the shoebox attacked him. "Wait. I have an idea, stand aside Axel." Axel did as he was told and moved away from the door, but kept watching all sides of the room, making sure that no furniture or objects decided they wanted to attack them again. Roxas stepped back a few feet, and ran at the door full speed, the did a hi jump kick, but missed the solid part of the door, and his leg went right through the hole that Axel had made instead. This made Axel break out in a fit of laughter before walking over and helping Roxas get his leg out of the door.
"Nice one."
"Shutup. At least I tried." Roxas glared at him, and turned when he saw a sheet lift itself off one of the furniture pieces and float over towards them. "A-Axel?"
"What?"
"Ghost. Sheet. Advancing. Towards. Us." Roxas was now freaked out, and started to run away from the sheet, who began chasing him around the attic. Axel actually did scream this time, and began hitting the door with his weapons as fast as he possibly could. He eventually got the door broken enough that he could wiggle through the hole and make it out of the room.
"Roxas! Climb through the hole in the door!" He poked his head through the door and saw Roxas still being chased by the ghost sheet. He aimed carefully and threw his chakram at the sheet and pinned it against the wall, Roxas took the chance to run over to the door and go through the hole. Unfortunately, he tripped, causing him to trip and fall on Axel, sending them both tumbling down the stairs and landing on the hard floor below.
"Ouch.." Axel shoved Roxas off of him and stood up, helping his friend up as well.
"Whoo! That was pretty fun."
"Fun? Almost getting killed by ghosts is fun?" Axel looked at him like he was crazy. Roxas just shrugged.
"To me it is. And they didn't almost kill us. Just threw things at us."
"Right. Wait a minute. Why is it so dark in here?" They both looked around, the whole castle was dark, and the only light in it was coming through the windows.
"I don't know." Roxas walked over to one of the windows and tried to pry it open, but had no luck in doing so.
"Oh this is just great! The ghosts migrated to the rest of the castle! They must want revenge.."
"Revenge for what?"
"Because they couldn't get rid of us while we were in the attic! Now they have come into the rest of the castle, and want to attack the rest of the members, including us!" Roxas rolled his eyes.
"Right. And the reason I can't open this window is because we are in the middle of a very fierce blizzard that cut the electric, leading you to think that we have ghosts in the rest of the castle besides the attic." They stopped and looked at each other for a minute before rushing off to the first floor of the castle, tripping down stairs and random objects all along the way. When they got there, they headed for the front door, and flung it open.
"Wow, are you psychic or something Roxas?" Roxas was actually right. There was a blizzard going on outside right now, and that is the reason for the power being cut. They quickly shut the door, seeing as it was extremely cold.
"Lucky guess, I guess?"
"Sure hope Saix made it inside before the storm hit." Roxas nodded.
"Well, this is going to be fun. Now it's dark inside the whole castle, and we have to find the missing present still."
"Not to worry!" Axel reached into his pocket and pulled out a candle, then lit it with his fire powers, "I have candles." Roxas just looked at him weirdly.
"Are your pockets that big?" Axel blinked, and Roxas shrugged it off. "Whatever. Let's just go keep looking. I would like to make sure the other members are alright, too." They agreed and set off to search for the present, and the other members. Their only light being that of a small candle, and the occasional windows.
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A/N: There you have it! This chapter was fun to write. Lol. It's also my longest chapter yet, huzzah! Im trying to slowly bring the other characters into the story somehow, like Marluxia and Larxene might be appearing in the next chapter. I don't know yet. XD Oh! Christmas is next week! Im really excited. I'll try to get a couple more chapters up by next week, depending on how busy I am this week. And yes, Axel can pull out candles and matches and other random objects out of his extremely small pockets somehow.
Next Chapter: Will Zexion and Demyx ever figure out where they are? And do Axel and Roxas find any of the other members, along with the present?
