-Xigbar Wants To Go To The Beach-

After Xarvis called one of his sons- Alexander- to help, and he arrived, they left for the beach near Twilight Town. Unlike the rest of that world, the sky was blue. They all huddled under the umbrella, which underneath there was a few towels spread out. They each waited for their turn to have sunscreen rubbed on them, though some could still do that on their own. Those were the ones who were most eager to leave, so far.

"Can we make sand castles?!" Lexaeus asked.

"Sure, I brought a few tools that you you can use," Xarvis replied, rubbing sunscreen on Demyx, telling him, "Hold still! If you don't, I'll never be able to get this sunscreen on you!" Demyx obediently tried his best to hold still, as excited as he was to play in the water.

"I want to get in the water!" Xigbar whined.

"Patience, Xigbar," Xarvis said. Alexander looked over to see one more child that needed sunscreen.

"Come here," he called, beckoning to him. The boy reluctantly walked over to him, trying to hide behind his pink hair.

"Hey, there," he said to the shy little boy, "I'm gonna put some sunscreen on you, so you can go play with your little friends, alright?" He nodded, showing that he understood.

"My name is Alexander, but you can call me Alex. What's your name?"

"Marluxia."

Alex helped him rub on the sunscreen, until only Marluxia's face was left.

"Alright, Marluxia, you can't hide behind your hair forever," he laughed, "Come on! Let me see your face!" Slowly, the boy removed his layered, pink hair from in front of his face. Alex's jaw dropped, and his eyes widened.

"Rauliam?" he whispered. Marluxia stared at his feet and nodded.

"But please- please- don't say anything!" he pleaded, his hands together.

"You're my brother, Raul. Dad's been worried sick about you!" Alex replied.

"He... has?" Marluxia asked blankly.

"Yeah," Alex said, biting his lower lip.

--

"Whoa! Yeah!" Xigbar cried, riding the smaller waves on a little board. Axel was running away from the waves with Roxas, Lexaeus was making sand castles with Zexion, Vexen was examining some sea life- namely, a starfish- that had washed on shore, with others playing, too.

"Hey, Demy, could ya make the waves bigger for me?" Xigbar called to Demyx, who was playing in the more shallow water.

"O.K.!" he called back. He raised his arms, and the wave lifted higher, as well. It became bigger and bigger, until it finally came crashing down. To their annoyance, Lexaeus and Zexion's sand castle was washed away, as well as the starfish that Vexen was studying. Larxene appeared as if she wanted to shock Demyx the next time he came anywhere near her.

"Xigbar!" Alex and Xarvis exclaimed simultaneously. Alex dashed down to where he was laying face down, and lifted him up into his arms.

"Xigbar?! Are you alright?!" he asked, terrified, though the boy's eye was open, and he was smiling.

"Hey, Demyx?" Xigbar called, "I didn't mean that big."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Demyx apologized, almost crying.

"Aw, it's alright! I'm fine, and that was kinda fun, anyway," he replied. Xarvis and Alex sighed with relief. Suddenly, Xarvis felt someone tugging on his sleeve. He turned around to see Axel and Roxas staring at him with pleading eyes.

"Um... Could we get some ice cream?" Axel asked.

"Please?" Roxas added. Xarvis smiled gently down at them.

"I suppose so," he sighed.

"Yay!" they exclaimed, turning toward one another.

--

Soon, they were all contently eating ice cream on the beach.

"Hey, Roxas?" Axel said.

"Yeah?" Roxas replied.

"Why do you think it's always twilight in Twilight Town?" he asked.

"Because... the town's named Twilight Town?" his friend guessed.

"Well, I mean, how come there's no morning, or night, or anything like that, it's just twilight. All the time," Axel tried to explain.

"I dunno," Roxas simply replied, licking his ice cream, then said, "Aw... my ice cream's melting..."

"Yeah, mine too," the red head replied, then pointed to Vexen, saying, "Ya know, that's just not fair. Vexen can always keep his ice cream cold. I couldn't keep mine cold if I really wanted too. Which I do." They both started to laugh.

"Man, I want to go back out on the water..." Xigbar complained to Demyx, "Think you could make some more big waves?"

"I don't think that's a good idea," Demyx told him, "I don't want to get into trouble." He then groaned, bent over, and clutched his stomach.

"What's wrong, Demyx?" Xarvis asked, worried about him.

"I don't feel too good," he replied.

"What hurts?" Xarvis asked him.

"It hurts, here- really badly," the little blond said, pointing to his stomach.

"Uh-oh... This isn't good," Alex said.

"Round up the others, and help me bring them back home" Xarvis ordered. Alex nodded, and went to gather the others. Soon, they were back at The World That Never Was. When they had all thirteen kids ready for bed, Xarvis stayed with Demyx, next to his bed.

This was going to be a long night.