Five: Bury the Castle

In the top floor of Castle Oblivion sat Marluxia. No, he wasn't Marluxia, but he looked like him. Thought like him and acted like him too for that matter, but he wasn't really Marluxia.

So the not-Marluxia sat in his throne pondering who he was.

"If you think too hard there's gonna be smoke," chuckled another member of Organization 13.

No, they weren't Organization 13, not-Marluxia chided himself, and the person making fun of him was not the real Larxene.

"What do you want…" he stumbled for what to call her.

"It's okay to call me Larxene, once we're through here I will be her after all," not-yet-Larxene smiled.

"You didn't answer my question," he repeated. "What are you doing here?"

Not-yet-Larxene rolled her eyes as the real Larxene would have, "The Superior wants to know if you've got all the players in the castle."

Not-Marluxia nodded. He remembered the plan well. Vexen was in the basement creating copies of the Chamber of Wakening.

"Go and make sure that our other guests are feeling comfortable," he ordered, waving off his subordinate.

***

Down in the basements of Castle Oblivion Sora was just waking up. When he saw the darkness all around him he almost thought that he had been swept back into the Realm of Darkness. If he was all he had to do was stay calm and the light inside of him would, maybe, help him find his way out.

He closed his eyes and focused.

"Sora what are you doing?" Roxas asked.

"I'm trying to get out of the Realm of Darkness!" he hissed.

"Sora, we're not in the Realm of Darkness," Roxas assured his other half.

"How would you know, have you been?" Sora retorted.

"No, but Riku has and he says we're just in a dungeon," Roxas sighed.

Sora opened his eyes, but fortunately still couldn't see anything.

"On three we all summon our keyblades!" Riku commanded.

The three keyblade wielders who actually had to summon their weapon focused on the feeling that caused it to appear. For Sora it was just joy, boundless joy that came when he saw his friends' smiles or Kairi's for that matter.

For Roxas it was completion. Completion was an emotion that allowed him to summon the blades most familiar to him, Oblivion and Oathkeeper; because they came to him once he realized that he was himself in addition to Sora.

Riku's feeling was safety. Sometimes it was feeling safe in himself that summoned Road to Dawn, but more often than not it was concentrating on keeping those he cared about safe made the once evil sword his keyblade.

"Um, guys nothing is happening," Kairi commented.

"This must be a part of who ever kidnapped us' plan!" Sora exclaimed. "We can't use our keyblades!"

Even in the dark everyone, minus Sora, could tell that Kairi had rolled her eyes. Kairi had her keyblade strapped to her waist, it didn't generate light as the others' did, but if she focused she could bring light some other way.

"Fire," she whispered to the blade as she kissed the tip. Immediately the darkness became light and the group could see their surroundings. They were in a cage in a very white dungeon.

"Oh no," Naminé cringed. "We're in castle oblivion!"

"That's right missy," chortled a familiar voice, Larxene. "And this time, you're never getting away."

Yeah, I took a break from the main characters, but what do you think of new-Marluxia?

have any of you guessed how all the Organization 13 members are coming back?

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