The Air Soldier tailing Lea and the Nobody couple, who's name happened to be Black Viper, named for his great skill in ambushing, was busy reliving his glory days back at Memory's Skyscraper when he heard a steel door open and shut. He looked over and saw his marks running into an alleyway on the other side of the building. He reacted quickly, activating Stealth and flying over to observe the progress of the group. "Shame I can't kill them myself."Black Viper thought, disappointed "They don't look like too much of a challenge. Hell, they look like Beings of Light, so they must be really weak. But a mission is a mission…" he flew down into the alley to hear what they were saying.

"Alright, keep your heads down, and be as quiet as possible."Lea advised as the treaded through the alleyway. They stealthy moved down the alley to where it turned into the street. He looked up at what could be called the sun, if the sun was a bluish-purple color. "It's about 10:00 now. That's good, we have some time before Noon. The guard changes then, and generally the units here do a few thorough sweeps beforehand. So, we have some time before things really get congested here, but still, stay close and stay quiet." He poked his head out and examined the street and the air above the street. He motioned for them to follow, then sprinted across the street. They hid in another alleyway as 2 Shadows formed out of the middle of the street. One cupped it's hands over where it's mouth would be, and shouted "We have company!" it's voice was winey and raspy . "Whoa, Heartless can talk?" Roxas exclaimed, startled. "Shhh!" Lea shushed. He then whispered "They can, but don't like too. They generally use some sort of telepathy to communicate with, but they have be within visual range to mentally communicate."

At the Shadows call, 10 more Shadows apparated out of the air. The biggest Shadow approached the one who called, and it appeared to be explaining what it saw. "What the hell are we sitting her for? We've gotta get out of here!" Namine whispered to Lea. "No, they might notice or hear us running. Just wait for them to start searching for us…" As Lea said that, the group of Shadows spread out, and luckily none of them decided to search the alley they were in. Lea, when the Shadows where sufficiently far away enough, sprinted down the alley, with the two Nobodies following close behind.

"hmmm…" Black Viper faces a bit of a dilemma now. "Should I warn my brothers where they are going? Or keep my presence a secret?" He recalled Lord Aku not only saying the he was not to engage them until His Mightiness so specified. But Lord Aku also stated that he should find out the abilities of the two blonde haired ones. And what better way to test their abilities then to sic some Shadows on them? He focused his eyes on the bigger Shadow, and projected his thoughts to her. "They went down this alleyway, where my voice is coming from." The bigger Shadow looked around confused "Who speaks? Identify yourself!" Viper growled back "I am Black Viper, and I outrank you, vermin!" (The ranking system of Aku's forces ranges from Green, the lowest, to Silver, the highest. Black is the rank below Silver.) "And your superior officer is telling you that the intruders are in that alley, and to go and get them."

"Black? And how in hell am I supposed to know you're not some Nobody?" Viper, growing very annoyed, deactivated the Stealth spell and swooped down to face the suspicious Giga Shadow. He grabbed the pendant he had around his neck and shoved it in the Giga Shadows face. The other Shadows, greatly surprised by the Air Soldier appearing out of thin air, rushed back to their commander and surrounded the Soldier and the Shadow. "You see this?" Viper asked, shaking the metal plate in his hand. It was painted black, and the silver Character for evil contrasted with the background. Viper picked up a low threatening tone "This means I can have you executed for insubordination. Now are you going to comply, or does Execution Square need another noose?" the Giga Shadow drew herself to full height (which was still much shorter than Viper), and commanded her Shadows to follow the trespassers down the alley and to kill them. She grabbed Viper by one of his loose helmet straps and pulled him close. "Don't you dare humiliate me in front of my Shadows again. You may outrank me, but this is my territory. I am queen here. And people who cross the queen here disappear." She let the strap go, and went on after her men. In reply, Viper sent her a mental image of her strung up in Execution Square. She looked back at him and replied "Fuck you." She then disappeared down the alley. If Heartless could form facial expressions, he would have been scowling then. "I really hope those humans are good fighters now." He muttered as he reactivated his cloak, and resumed his assignment.

"SHIT!" shouted Lea as he noticed the Heartless chasing them. "HUSTLE GUYS, HUSTLE!" Roxas looked behind him to see 5 Heartless chasing after them. Suddenly, Namine tripped over a broken piece of concrete sticking out of the ground. She managed to catch herself, and Roxas went back and hoisted her up quickly. Lea looked ahead, and saw that they where nearly out of the alley. Then, to his great dismay, he saw 5 more Shadows appear out of the ground. "Fucking A" he thought to himself as he stopped abruptly. As a consequence, Namine and then Roxas ran into him, nearly knocking all three of them to the ground. He glared at the two of them, and then stuck his hand out. His Red orb topped staff appeared in a flash of light. "So ya think you're clever, huh?" he said as he took a fighting stance as a Giga Shadow rose from the ground "Well. It's gonna take a lot more than being clever to take medown! Gimme your best shot, you fuckheads!"

Respnding to his taunt, all 6 Shadows jumped him. Just in time, he curled into a ball, forming a dome of flame around him. He leaped to feet, and the dome responded by exploding out and knocking the Shadows several feet back. Roxas and Namine drew their weapons "Go help him, I got these ones" Roxas ordered Namine. She nodded, and shouted "Force!" throwing 4 of the Shadows into a wall. Roxas charged the four Shadows behind them, using a Sliding Dash. His dash destroyed one in a burst of shadow and munny, and knocked another one to the ground. Roxas wasted no time in hitting a Shadow off to the side up in the air. "one, two, THREE!" he thought as he did a uppercut slash, another one, and knocking the Heartless to the ground. The shadow hit the ground and burst into shadow and a Hi-Potion. He landed, and got tackled to the ground by the other two shadows. He responed by hitting one in the back with his Keyblade, causing it to explode into more munny and Health globes. The other Shadow slashed at him viciously, then grabbed his head and started bashing it against the ground. The Shadow bashed his head four times, until it suddenly was blasted off him in a burst of ice. A blast of fire right after finished off the Heartless, and left behind a Ether. "You owe us, dude." Lea said with a smirk. Namine hurried over and helped Roxas to his feet. He stumbled back a bit, still not seeing straight. "Gather" Lea muttered, and all the various things the Heartless had dropped came to him. He mushed the Health Globes into one Globes, and squished it in front of Roxas' face, releasing the magic Cure magic stored inside. Roxas suddenly perked up, feeling many times better. "You're welcome." Lea said with a smirk. He then said "Gather" again, and all the munny orbs came to his palm. He formed it into a single coin that had the number "167" on it. "Whoa, how did you do that?" Namine exclaimed, totally caught off guard. Lea looked at her like she was retarded, and said "You can't be serious…" Roxas looked a little puzzled too. "We are serious, though I do recognize that spell…I might have used it before…"

Lea sighed loudly "OF COURSE YOU USED IT! The Gathering spell is, like, the most BASIC magic out there! Most of the time, you don't even have to put your hand out, you just think of using the spell, and it happens. Uses so little Mana that your body naturally replenishes the energy used! God, you don't even remember THAT! It's is a very good thing I found you, cuz' otherwise your be stuck here filling your pockets with munny and popping Health Globes individually." He shook his head, and continued "We'd better go before-"

Suddenly, a horn blared in the distance "BUURRRRRRRRRRRRR…BBUURRRRRRRRRRR…BBUUURRRRRRRRR"
Lea's face turned white, and his pupils shrunk to black dots in his Hazel eyes. "Oooohh shit…RUUUN!" He took off, followed by Roxas and Namine, wondering what the hell they had got themselves into. Suddenly, no less than 15 Air Soldiers apparated just behind them, and about 17 Soldiers appeared below the Air Soldiers. They ran into the street, only to be met with 8 or 9 Large Bodies on one side of them, and a horde of Shadows, lead by Invisibles, on the other side. The group of fugitives fled across the street and down an alley way as fast as they could. While he was running, Lea was forming those fire marbles he used the previous day. And a combonation of Invisibles, Soldiers, Air Soldiers, and Shadows flooded into the alley. When they ran out of the alley, huffing and puffing away, Lea snapped his fingers. The alleyway exploded into scene from the Dante's Inferno. Cries of torment echoed from the burning Heartless, and they ran or flew every which way, still burning. Lea stopped, out of breath. "Those damn (pant) Fire Marbles take a lot out of me…" he said between heavy breaths. Roxas and Namine paid him no mind. They were busy "enjoying" the sight of Heartless dramatically burring alive, shrieking inhumanly, running around aimlessly, and eventually collapsing into a burst of shadow. Then, a howl of pain sounded from the inferno within, answered by more howls farther back. "Arrggg…MOTHER FUCKER!" Namine asked what the hell it was. In response to her inquiry, a Large Body crashed through one of the buildings and howled. "Large Body rampage." Lea responded "One gets mad-" 3 more Large Bodies came charging though the buildings on the left side, beating the ground and howling "-they all get mad."

"What, we can take them on, right?" Roxas asked Lea tentatively. In response, a Large Body came barreling down the still burning alley, ripping through the side walls that restricted, and it not bothered at all by the super hot fire. Instead, it only got angrier, and beat its chest in defiance of the fire. "I don't know, can we Roxas?" Lea asked sarcastically. Roxas, greatly shocked, took off, quickly followed by Namine and Lea. The Large Bodies chased them across the street, and into another Alley. "Crucifixion Square is just up ahead!" Lea shouted. The alley that our trio ran into was much too small to fit one Large Body, much less the 8 chasing after them. But, the Large Bodies didn't care that it was too small, they just smashed through the two buildings in their way. Unfortunately, (for the giant Heartless, that is) the two buildings where were already unsteady from standing in a war zone. And these two buildings couldn't take the onslaught of the Large Bodies. They started to collapse into each other, burying everyone inside and between them in an avalanche of rubble. However, this included our Trio.

Reacting quickly, Lea grabbed Roxas and Namine, one under each arm, and leaped into the air. At the top of his jump, and as the two buildings started to fall on top of them, fire shot out of his boots, giving him the last 8 feet he needed to clear the collapsing buildings. However, his jump took him right up into the falling debris, and he hit his head on a brick. Sailing through the air, the three of them hit the grass hard. Roxas broke his fall with his arms, breaking both of them. Namine managed to come in at a low angle and rolled a few feet. A very unconscious Lea landed face first, breaking his nose horrifically. Namine got up tentatively. She was very dazed, and everything hurt. She snapped out of it when she heard Roxas crying out in pain. "Roxas!" she ran over to him, and healed his broken arms. Roxas winced at the stinging sensation the Cura spell made as it mended his arms. Moving his arms to get feeling back into them, he said "Thanks, Nami." He sat up, and noticed Lea lying unconscious on the ground. "Lea!" he shouted, and he ran over to him, followed by Namine. Roxas turned him over, and gasped at his flattened and broken nose. "Heal" Namine said. The Cura spell reformed his nose and healed the bruise on his head. The sting of this healing woke him up. "Ohhhh…please tell me the Heartless aren't behind us…" Roxas looked up, only to see a platoon of Soldiers charging straight for them. He leaped to his feet, drawing the Keyblade, and shouted "We have company!" Namine and Lea were just about to jump to their feet, when suddenly, some Berserker Nobodies charged at the platoon out of nowhere, tossing the Heartless aside like an elephant tossing Roman Legionaries.

"Well, well, look what the cat dragged in." a woman's voice said out of nowhere. All of them looked up to see a pretty blonde woman with sea green eyes and her hair combed back into a pony tail. She resembled a Rouge, in skin tight pants, knee high boots, a looser dark blue shirt that showed off a generous amount of cleavage, only accentuated by the fact that she was wearing a black corset outside her shirt. She was fiddling with a knife in one hand, and the other cross across her body (though in no way hiding her luscious breasts). All in all, she resembled a tigress, outgoing, beautiful and very dangerous. Lea smirked when he saw her, and replied "Nice of you to help us after the fact, Elenar" He commented sarcastically "You could have stepped in a block back, and it would have made things a lot easier for us." "And ruin a good show? Not likely. Besides, you fared well enough on your own." Elenar replied in a bubbly voice. "And nice to see you too, Lea. Or should I say, Axle." Roxas looked confused, and Elenar continued. She turned to the two Nobodies. "Roxas! It's been so long, you little twerp." She ruffuled his hair, and he smiled back nervously. She then turned her gaze to Namine, and she grinned mischievously "Ahhh…Namine, you freak show of a Nobody..." Namine glared venomously back at her "Hello to you too, Larxene." She smiled at this, and said "Ah, Larxene, Elenar, in the end they are two names for the same person. But on to business; Lea, you would have only come to the League if you needed something from us. So spill it; what is it that you want.?" Lea smiled, and replied "I'm hurt, Elee. I could have just came to reminisce about the old days…"

She rolled her eyes. "I'm sure you could have, but I just have a feeling that this isn't one of those times, Flamilocks. Call it a woman's intuition." And at that, she turned a threw her knife into a tree a little ways away from them. The knife gathered into a disk of electric energy, and cut the tree down. It fell with a thud. "Perfect shot." Elenar stated as the knife arced around and returned to her hand. "Ok, you got me there, Elee. I do need something from the League or Four, and it concerns these two." Motioning to Roxas and Namine. She looked quizzically at the both of them. "Say how do they-Oh, never mind, you can tell me at the Undercastle. It had just better be a damn good reason. Marian and Braig didn't take kindly to you refusing our offer, so they won't be inclined to help you." Lea got up on his feet as a carriage pulled by a team of various Heartless, overseen by a Dragoon with a long cattle prod pulled up to them "Oh trust me, Elee. I think Marlian and Braig will be very interested. I'll fill you in on the way there, just in case your comrades in the League aren't in a forgiving mood."

The Dragoon bowed to Elenar, and opened the door as she climbed in. Lea climbed in after her. Roxas and Namine reluctantly approached the carriage. "What the fuck are you two waiting for? Get your dumb asses in here!" Elenar barked. They looked to each other. Roxas shrugged, and got in. Namine bit her lip, and got in. Elenar commanded the carriage to move. The Dragoon prodded the lead Heartless, a Soldier slightly bigger than the rest. The Heartless turned around, the chains attached to its neck and body clanking loudly. "MOVE, YOU SCUM!" the Dragoon shouted at the Heartless. The Heartless locked eyes with the Dragoon and replied "Go screw yourself." Elenar, very annoyed that her order was ignored, got out of the carriage and shouted "Are you deaf, driver, or just feeling rebellious?" she asked, two daggers forming in her hands. The Dragoon pointed at the lead Soldier. "He is the rebellious one, Mistress." The Soldier glared at Elenar, and scoffed telepathically, "What can a woman possibly do to harm me? Go back to your kitchen, bitch" Now if there were two (of many) things that got under Elenar's skin, it was Sexism, and any Heartless or non-humanoid Nobody acting superior to her. And this little bastard fit both descriptions. Lea saw this, and said to the two teenagers opposite him "You might not want to look at this. It's not going to be pretty."

Elenar grabbed the Heartless by his head. The next minute sounded something like this to the trio in the carriage; Wump, wump, crack kark kish kish kish skish skish quish quish quash. "ANY OF YOU PUNKS FEEL LIKE ENDING UP LIKE THIS ASSWIPE, go ahead and defy my orders!" Elenar barked to the Heartless. She left the broken body of rebellious Soldier at the front of the train, to serve as a constant reminder of the benefits of obedience. She stormed back into the carriage, and slammed the door. "Oh god, I'll never get these stains out." She wined, considering her shirt and pants where covered in ink black blood. Roxas and Namine stared at her, shocked at her sudden change in demeanor. Lea only snickered. "Oh, you haven't changed a bit, Larxene. A bit more moody, but that's about it." She undid her ponytail, letting a mane of golden blonde hair flow down to just below her shoulders. She winked at Lea in response. "Just like you haven't, Axle. Maybe you're a bit nicer then you where before, but that's about it. But on to the question of the day: How do these two drips exist? I'm not certain about the details, but I thought they had reunited with their hearts, like we did." Lea leaned back, kicked his feet up right next to Namine, and started his tale.

He told Elenar (and consequently, Roxas and Namine) everything, from why he was helping them to his deductions about Aku. "…and as far as I can tell, Aku has some grand plan, and it involves the hearts of these two." Roxas looked at him. "So you were…Axle? And I'm a Nobody? We are Nobodies?" Namine was equally incredulous "And we reformed with our true selves, only now, for some reason, Aku tore out our Hearts and our memories?" The realization dawned on the both of them. "So we don't really…have feelings? I mean, we can't…can we?" Roxas asked tentatively. Lea shrugged. "Technically, no. But you where never a normal Nobody, Roxas. Hell, when I first saw you, you didn't even know how to speak, much less have memories to base your fake emotions off of, like I did." Elenar nodded, and commented "Yea, I was there when the Organization first discovered you, Namine. Vexen had a field day teaching you how to speak, and even Marluxia got in on the dotting. It was kinda pathetic. Thank god it was just a phase for them; otherwise I would have eliminated them, rather than you two." She said, motioning to Roxas and Lea. "Well, technically it was Sora who eliminated Marluxia. Roxas existed at that time, I can attest to that." Lea corrected. Elenar sighed loudly, and replied "What the fuck ever, Lea. He's Sora's Nobody, they're the same damn person!"

"But he doesn't have any memories of being Sora, nor do I have any memories of being Kairi. I can't really be someone I have no memory of." Namine said. Lea rubbed his chin thoughtfully "That is a good point…I mean, the only reason I consider me and Axle the same person is because I remember back when I was Axle." "ANYWAY, we're off topic." Elenar interjected "Lea, I can't officially tell you anything until the Chairman and the Minister of Interior, Braig and Rudolf, say I can. But as Minister of Intelligence, I know certain things, and I can say that you are not wrong. And we might not have all the answers, but I think we can paint a pretty clear picture of what the dark lord doing…"

Roxas raised his hand. "What Roxas? And why the fuck are you raising your hand?" Elenar asked harshly. "Hey, you seemed in the middle of something, and I didn't want to be rude. But now; who the hell is Rudolf? I get the anagram for Marluxia/Marlian and Xigbar/Braig, but no Organization member I knew had an F in their name." Elenar sighed. "He was Luxord, remember him? Xemnas came up with the name, and he gave Luxord the choice of just dropping the F, or working in the F somehow. He liked the name a lot, so he chose to drop it. Any more stupid questions you'd like to ask me?" Roxas shook his head, kinda regretting he asked. "She just cuts you down no matter what you do." Roxas thought "(sigh) what a piece of work."

Though Namine did have one more question, and she didn't care how bitchy it made her sound; Larxene had took great delight in tormenting her, so she wasn't going to hold back now. "Yea, I do, Elenar; why do you look like such a slut?" Namine smiled that super-fake sarcastic smile that really means "Fuck you" at Elenar. Lea and Roxas where speechless, mostly cuz they knew they had a cat fight on their hands. "I don't know, Namine, why are you such a nosey little bitch?" Elenar replied in a super-bubbly and super-fake voice. When Namine's face fell into a scowl, she continued "Ohhh, is somebody a bit insecure? Aw, you know how unattractive insecurity is, Namine. Men like confident women…aggressive women…" she started rubbing Roxas' leg. Namine smacked her hand off his leg. Namine adopted a low, threatening tone "Keep your dirty hands off him, you whore. I just know a girl like you has "special" friends you can call to sate your lusts…" Elenar returned the low growl "Then you don't know jack shit about my friends, you mangy little twat. Really, Roxas could have done much better going with Xion, rather than settle for a bitchy little c-"

"Oh my god, we're here already!" Lea suddenly exclaimed, just in time as well. Elenar dropping the C-bomb could have started Ragnarok right there, Roxas thought. He looked over at Lea and mouthed "Thank you". Namine and Elenar glared at each other for a moment, then Elenar broke the silence with "Well, I guess we'd better get going then." The carriage stopped moving just as Elenar said this. The Dragoon opened the door to the carriage, revealing an odd structure. It resembled a bunker, only one story tall, though it's four corners where capped by towers, all manned by Sniper Nobodies. "Welcome to the Undercastle, boys and bitch." Elenar said, smirking at Namine "The stronghold of the League of Four. It's the mightiest fortress since The Castle That Never Was. After all, there are only four entrances, and all of them are under guard constantly. Even if you had the means of capturing this entrance hall, there are only two stairwells leading down to the structure of the Undercastle, and they can be collapsed on command. The only thing that'll get you into the Undercastle without the League's permission is with a large and powerful drill. Even then, you'll have dodge mines buried around the castle AND-"

"We get it, Elee; the Undercastle is invincible, you'd need an army to break in; Blah, Blah, blah, blah, blah." Lea said, imitating Elenar's voice. "I've heard the spiel before, just show us in." Elenar shook her head "Your hopeless, Lea. I'd be very nice to me if I was in your shoes. I am going to be your only advocate in the League. Heck, I am more moody now, I could just leave you out here to fend for yourselves." Lea looked dismayed, and replied "Ok, sorry I interrupted you, Elee." "And?" Elenar asked. "What do you mean, And?" Lea asked, growing steadily more annoyed with her. "Well, how do you address a woman who is superior to you?" the realization dawned on Lea, and he waved his hands "No way in hell am I doing that." Elenar called up to Snipers up on the towers "Guards? We have intruders here!" several red dots appeared on Lea's body. "Whoa, whoa, whoa…no need to get violent here…grr…mistress." Elenar smiled brightly "That's much better, Lea. What do you say?" Elenar asked Namine and Roxas. "Humf, fuck you." Namine said defiantly. "Ohh, Snipers!" Elenarx called. Roxas intervened quickly "What she means is that she's happy to honor her superior, right Nami?" Namine had a grumpy look on her face as she replied "Fine."

"Fine what, Namine?" Elenar asked, a wide smile across her face. Namine scowled. "Fine, I am happy to honor you, mistress." The smile on Elenar's face just got wider. "Wonderful! Now, follow me. The sooner we talk with the rest of the League, the sooner I can ditch you dipshits." She said, ending the conversation. And down she led them, into the lair of the League of Four.