Chapter 8

The Whirlwind Lancer

Nine, Saturday night…

The entire organizations, and yes, that means everyone, even the now black haired Marluxia, white cloaked Larxene, and newt formed Vexen, was sitting in front of the 2,000 inch TV. Somehow, Axel had convinced the superior to let him rent a movie that night. Whether it was the constant complaining of Axel, the surprisingly convincing Roxas, or just the stress of the last week or so, Xemnas had caved. Thus, everyone was watching a movie, a movie so frightening, that it would scare one of the members so much; he wouldn't be able to leave his room.

A few hours earlier…

"Alright, I have heard, from a very reliable source, that Xaldin is a pediophobe," Axel said triumphantly.

"He's a WHAT?!?!?!" Roxas barked.

"He's a pediophobe," Axel repeated, confused.

"Which means…?" Roxas asked, just as confused, and somewhat frightenedly.

"He's got an unnatural fear of porcelain dolls!" Axel beamed. Without really realizing why exactly Roxas sounded so scared, his face turned to one of bewilderment. "What did you think it meant?"

Roxas's faced flushed as he turned away and gave a nervous cough, "Nothing, nothing at all."

Axel stared at his blushing friend, a frown on his face. He stood like this for a little while longer, then shook his head and walked out.

As Roxas ran to catch up with his quickly retreating friend, a burning question popped into his head, "Hey Axel, how does Xaldin being a…umm…a…hehe…pediophobe, have anything to do with you renting a movie?"

Axel gave his slow friend a duh look, "I rented Chucky!" Roxas's jaw dropped.

"That's just plain mean! I mean, no one likes Xaldin, but c'mon!"

"Well…if you're going to object…" Axel stopped in the middle of the hallway to turn

and look at his frightened friend.

"Axel…?"

"I'll just have to…eliminate the problem," he grinned evilly, slowly walking closer and closer to his petrified friend.

"What?!?! Axel, no! I don't want to---"

Axel's face was cleared of emotion as he coldly said, "Goodbye," and snapped his fingers.

"Axel!! NOOOOOOooooo---wait, nothing happened!" Roxas turned to look at the now smirking red head, "You jerk! Don't EVER do that again!"

"Aww, why not? I thought it was funny," Roxas just glared at his friend.

They continued down the hallway with Axel still laughing and Roxas waiting for his glare to be noticed. When they finally reached the motion picture sighting domain (movie watching place, but Xemnasjust had to use his rambling skizzles, as Xigbar would put it) Xaldin spoke up, "What took you punks so long?" While looking at one another the two 'punks' said simultaneously,

"Uhh…"

"Umm…"

"Oh! We were…"

"Trying to…"

Xaldin held up a hand and both were silenced. "You know what; I really didn't want to know."

Xemnas's voice boomed throughout the room, "Just put the movie in!"

Axel and Roxas hurried to get the movie into the DVD player, not wanting to get the superior mad. But as technically challenged as they were, it still took them several minutes to get everything set up.

Two hours later…

The dastardly duo crouched outside of Number III's room, listening to the quiet whimpers coming from inside. The two boys grinned evilly at each other as they quietly crept away.

Xaldin's POV

That stupid, stupid movie! I knew I should have asked what the movie was before watching it!!! But no, I didn't want to ask because that would require hearing either Axel or Roxas actually talk. Now I was paying the price.

Those stupid porcelain dolls and their eyes that follow you! And the worst part was, they were everywhere, on the shelves, the floor, everywhere!

Whoever had done this was going to pay, and they were going to pay big.