A/N:Holy flying fudge monkeys! 817 hits, 5 favs, and 8 alerts! That makes me happy. :D Anyways, sorry this chappie took so long. I was hoping to get it up by Christmas, but it doesn't look like that happened. D: Ah well, day after Christmas is just as good.. right? Right.

AngelJeanne:Glad you like it so far!

Yukimori:You'll find out whats inside the present soon, and yeah Fido chasing Demyx and Zexion was fun to write. XD

Joker.Rebellion: The dusks? Huh. Never though about them, lol. I have a plan to make alot of them go outside to search for them, or a few of them at least, not sure if Vexen will be going since he's taking care of Fido now. XD Oh, and Larxene just.. err.. I dunno.

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Disclaimer: I... oh dangit, just read the other chapters for the disclaimer.

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"Where is Xemnas, anyways?" Roxas asked, they were all walking down one of the long darkened hallways searching for their superior, who seemed to have disappeared. They occasionally tripped over something in the hallway, shouting random jibberish as they tried to regain balance and not fall flat on their face, or into someone else.

"No clue. Maybe he's in his room?" Axel suggested.

"Doubt it. He's probably in his study room taking care of some more paperwork and such." Zexion also suggested.

"That's what I meant by him being in his room."

"Sure you did. Sure you did." Zexion sighed, and they continued walking down the hallway, heading for Xemnas's study room which was at the very end of the hallway.

"Why Xemnas needs all of his rooms to be at the very end of all the hallways, i'll never know." Marluxia said, and the others agreed with him by nodding their heads. Not that anyone could actually see them agreeing with him, it being so dark in the hall.

"OH CRAP!" Demyx yelled, and everyone heard a loud THUD from behind them. They turned to look, but only saw darkness.

"Demyx? You alright?" Larxene asked, he only grunted in response.

"Just tripped. Im fine." He said as he hoisted himself up off the floor and brushed himself off.

"You always manage to trip over something, don't you?" Larxene chuckled, Demyx just grinned. Eventually they made it to Xemnas's study room, and they proceeded to enter. Sitting at a rather large desk sat Xemnas, working on papers just like Zexion said. He had a small candle sitting on the table to provide some light so he could see to write.

"Ah, there you all are. Did you manage to find the present?" Xemnas spoke, not looking up from his paperwork.

"Yup! Right here!" Axel sat the present down on the table and pushed it over to Xemnas, whom only smiled and took it. He inspected it to make sure it wasn't damaged, and with a slight smile of approval, he put it in one of the drawers of the desk. "So, what's in that thing anyways?"

"If I told you that, I would have to kill you." This made everyone's eyes widen and they all slowly backed away from Xemnas.

"Right. Uh, well, we gotta get going now." Axel said with a nervous laugh as he too slowly backed away, but Xemnas stopped them with a wave of his hand.

"Hold on. There's still something I need to ask of all of you." This made everyone groan in annoyance. "Saix has not come back inside yet from stringing the lights. Im beginning to think that he got caught in the blizzard and was unable to make it back. Would you all please head outside and look for him?"

"Fine. We'll go look for him, and hopefully be back in before it gets dark." This made everyone except Xemnas laugh. "Before it gets dark outside, I mean." Roxas growled.

"Oh, I thought you just made a horrible pun. Too bad." Marluxia grinned. Xemnas dismissed them with another wave of his hand, and they all exited the room. "So I suppose we head outside now, correct?" Everyone nodded.

"Wonderful. It's freezing cold outside, what, with all the fresh snowfall and all. I didn't even get a chance to get my scarf." Zexion grumbled.

"Oh it's not that bad! I don't think it's cold outside at all."

"That's because your element is fire, Axel." Roxas sighed and Axel just grinned. They made their way to the front door, and slowly began to open it. Apparently, the door was almost frozen shut, and their was a blockade of snow right in front of it. "Great. There's a huge mound of snow right in front of the door. It's bad enough we actually have to go outside in this, but now we have to use a shovel just to get out the front door?" Roxas complained. Axel rolled his eyes and grabbed a shovel that was conveniantly placed right beside the doorway. He began using the shovel to dig a tunnel through the snow.

"This could take a while, isn't there any faster way?" Larxene yawned and sat down on the floor. Zexion did the same, while Axel continued to shovel on his own.

"Yo dudes!" Everyone turned at the sound of the voice and saw Xigbar making his way towards them. "Looks like we're stuck inside, aren't we?" Everyone nodded. "Well, that's a problem."

"This would... go faster.. if you guys.. helped you know.." Axel said in between shovels of snow.

"Nah, I think your doing fine on your own, keep going!" Marluxia clapped, earning a glare from Axel who put a bunch of snow on his shovel and threw it at Marluxia. It all landed in a heap on top of his head and he started shivering and trying to brush it all off. "That was uncalled for." Axel just shrugged and laughed at him.

"Uncalled for, yes. But you deserved it." This earned a small laugh from everyone in the room, except for Marluxia, whom only grumbled to himself.

"Oh hey guys, I just had an idea." Everyone turned to Axel. "What if I use some of my fire powers to melt the snow?"

"Hey, that's a pretty good idea. It might make things go faster, if anything." Roxas agreed, and Axel got to work. He shot some fireballs at the mound of snow, and it was slowly melting. Eventually, it was melted enough to the point where they could squeeze out the doorway. Except, when they were out, they all sunk down waist deep in snow. Some sunk lower than others, depending on their height. It was still snowing a bit, blurring their vision slightly, but they could all see for the most part. Xigbar decided it was a good idea to take a rope outside with them, just in case.

"Alright, now, we're supposed to be looking for Saix, right? He's probably on the roof, or somewhere around here I bet."

"I agree with Zexy! He's probably on the roof!" Demyx added. Seeing as Zexion was right about Xemnas being in his office earlier, they decided it was best to check the roof first. They all split up and each took different sides of the castle, looking up at the roof as they moved to their side. Axel and Roxas took the back of the castle, Zexion and Demyx took the left side, Marluxia and Larxene took the right side, and Xigbar checked the front.

"Hey Axel, you don't suppose Saix is still on the ground somewhere buried in snow since we kinda knocked him off his ladder earlier, do you?"

"Nah. Im sure he climbed up to the top of the roof somewhere, or something when the blizzard hit. I mean, I doubt he would just stand out in the middle of it, right?"

"Yeah, guess your right. But-" Roxas was cut off when he noticed a broken window a few floors up, and pointed to it. "Hey, was that broken before?" Axel also turned to look.

"I don't think so, maybe Saix is up there!" He started to head over to climb the wall, but tripped on something in the snow and fell down face first. He quickly got back up and started to brush away the snow to figure out what he just tripped over. When he had most of it brushed away, he figured out that it was Saix's ladder that he had tripped on, and grinned. "Yeah, Saix is definitely up there alright. But if that's the case, then wouldn't he already be inside?"

"You have a point there, maybe we should-"

"Up here!" Roxas was interrupted when they heard a voice from above them. They looked around but didn't find an owner of the voice.

"Oh my gosh! The clouds are talking! HI CLOUDS!" Axel waved to the sky and they heard a grunt from above them again.

"No you idiot! Over here! Look at the broken window!" This time they turned to look at the window, and saw Saix leaning out of it waving at them.

"Drat. I actually thought the clouds decided to talk." Axel said with a sigh. "Anyways, lets get Saix down from there." Roxas nodded and they hoisted the ladder up to get Saix down. Axel went up the ladder first, followed by Roxas and they eventually made it to where Saix was and went in through the window.

"There you two are. Can we get down from here now? I've been stuck in this musty old room for a few hours now." That's when Axel and Roxas got a better look at the room. It was completely empty, save for a few bookshelves and chairs and from the looks of it, the door was missing a doorknob preventing any means of leaving or entering the room.

"Yeah, lets go we have the ladder up outside so we can just.. climb.. down.." Roxas looked out the window, but their ladder was gone and he began to panic. "Ah! The ladder's gone! WE'RE TRAPPED!!" Saix facepalmed, and Axel also began panicking.

"Calm yourselves, how in the world can the ladder be gone when you only used it two minutes ago?" This made the two stop panicking and running around like headless chickens for a moment.

"Now that you think about it.. maybe one of the others took it?"

"That couldn't be possible, we were the only ones on this side of the castle." Roxas stated, and Axel knew he was right. "Why don't we try calling out the window and see if some of the others come to help us?"

"Good idea. Saix, you wanna help us call to them?"

"I would rather not. You two can do it." He walked over and sat down in one of the old chairs, but as soon as he sat in it the legs gave out and the chair fell to the ground with a crash, taking Saix down with it making Axel and Roxas laugh.

"You're pretty klutzy you know that?" Saix glared at Axel who only grinned and shrugged. Roxas drug Axel over to the window and they started to yell for their friends to help them.

"HEEEY! ANYONE OUT THERE?" Roxas started.

"HELP!" Axel finished.

"Oh my gosh! The clouds are talking!" They saw Demyx and Zexion walking towards their side of the castle, Demyx apparently annoying Zexion with ideas of the clouds talking to him.

"Told you the clouds can talk." Roxas facepalmed.

"Hey! Zexion, Demyx! Up here!" They both looked up.

"Axel? Roxas? How in the world did you manage to get up there?"

"We'll tell you that later Zexion, but right now can you find some way to get us down?" Zexion and Demyx talked for a moment, before Demyx ran to another side of the castle and eventually returned with a rope that Xigbar had gave him. He began digging around in the snow and pulled out a fairly large rock, tying it around the end of the rope.

"Better duck! Im gonna throw this up to you guys, so catch it when I do, secure it, and climb down!" Demyx shouted, and they nodded. He began swinging the end with the rock around in a circle above his head, and threw it. The first try, it landed just outside the window, but rolled back down. The second time, it actually did make it through the window, Axel and Roxas had to duck pretty fast to avoid the rock. However, Saix didn't see the rock coming and it nailed him right in the arm, making his eye twitch and Axel and Roxas gulped.

"Oh noes.."

"We're doomed.." Axel quickly took the rock and place it just under the window, and hastily climbed down the rope, Roxas eventually followed.

"Hey guys, what's wrong? Where's Saix?" Demyx asked.

"No questions now! Just run!" Axel shouted before he and Roxas ran as fast as they could to another side of the castle.

"Wonder what their problem is."

"Demyx.. look up." He looked up and saw Saix glaring through the window, he had his claymore out and looked like he was about to kill someone.

"Oh.."

"Crap.."

"BESERK SAIX!" They both said at the same time, and followed Axel and Roxas, as Saix climbed down the rope, swinging his claymore viciously and chasing them. They eventually caught up to Axel and Roxas and passed them, running right into the castle and slamming the door, not letting the two in.

"HEY! Let us in! Zexion! Demyx!" Roxas shouted as he banged on the door, before slowly turning and seeing Saix slowly walking towards them with an evil smirk on his face. "AHHH!!" They both shouted at the same time, before once again taking off as fast as they could, spotting a nearby tree and climbing up into it, to hopefully stay away from the berserking Saix. Saix made his way over to the tree and began using his claymore like an axe trying to cut the tree down.

"We're going to die! We're going to die!"

"Yes we are! And since we are, I just want you to know Roxas that I was the one who put purple hair dye in your shampoo last year!" This made Roxas gasp and glare at Axel.

"I KNEW IT!" The tree began swaying back and forth, acting like it was going to fall, Saix still pounding on it from below. Then the tree finally gave in, and it toppled over. Axel and Roxas swore they heard someone shout 'TIMBERR!' but they were too frightened to really notice anything like that at the moment.

"Ow.." Axel mumbled as he pulled branches out of his hair, and then noticed Saix standing dangerously close to him. "Oh fudge. Uh, hiya Saix! Don't suppose we could just talk this out could we?" He said with a slight laugh as he backed away from him, he only got a glare in response, and Saix rose his claymore. "Guess not." He quickly ducked a swing aimed for his head, and took off running in the other direction away from Saix who gave chase.

Roxas groaned as he climbed out of the tree branches that he was tangled up in, and saw Saix chasing Axel around in circles. "Woah, I just got a serious sense of deja vu.." He mumbled before rushing over to help his friend, but realized he didn't have any plan at all on how to stop a berserking Saix. He pulled out his keyblades and blocked an attack that was aimed towards him.

"GAH! What are you doing? Don't fight him! That will just make him angrier!" Axel shouted. Roxas just ignored him and continued to block Saix's attacks. "Hey are you listening to me?" Silence. "Oh well fine! Don't say I didn't warn you!"

"Y'know im trying to concentrate over here!" The second Roxas turned his head to talk to Axel, he received a boot to the stomach, sending him toppling backwards and crashing into Axel. "Ow.." Axel shoved Roxas off of him and got back up, but gulped when he saw Saix once again advancing towards them.

"Uh.." Roxas stood back up, ready to fight Saix again, but was drug away by Axel who had grabbed his arm and was running for his life. "No fighting! Time to run!"

"Fine." Roxas yanked his arm out of Axel's grasp and ran along beside him. "But any idea how to stop him?"

"Oh! I have an idea!" Axel stopped and turned to face Saix who was charging after them. He grinned and slammed his fist against the side of the castle, and a small rumble was heard. A large amount of snow then fell off the top of the castle, avalanching right onto Saix, who was now completely covered under a mound of it. He highfived Roxas, but they panicked again when Saix growled and climbed out of the snow pile, now even angrier than before.

"Not again!" Saix rushed over to them and raised his claymore, and the two ducked and jumped to avoid his attacks the best they could, but Saix suddenly stopped, yawned, then toppled to the ground asleep, making the two look at him in utter confusion before glancing over and seeing Xigbar standing a ways away with a tranquilizer gun in hand. He gave the two a thumbs up before coming over to them, and dragging Saix away back into the castle.

"What just happened?"

"Xigbar shot Saix with a tranquilizer gun making him fall asleep I think." Roxas said as they looked at each other then blinked. "Er, now that that's done, shall we head back in?"

"Yeah I guess. It's pretty cold out here anyways. That and it's starting to get dark."

"Right. Hopefully the lights are back on." That's something they both agreed on, as they heading back for the indoors.

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A/N:Alrighty! There's chapter 7. :D Sorry I didn't get it up sooner. Anyways, er, i'll get chapter 8 up sometime before next week hopefully. Maybe this weekend sometime, depending on when I feel like working on it. xD So.. yeah.

Next Chapter: The lights are finally back on, and the organization decides to watch a movie to relax for the night. But the choice of movie is not exactly what one would call 'relaxing'..