Hey everybody. Sorry for the late update. Enjoy chapter 11!

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"Come on! Summer vacation has started and you won't even leave the schoolyard!" She yelled over to her friend. He stood in the schoolyard stiff as a board.

"Did you hear me? You promised we would go to the creek!" She yelled again. Her fiery red hair blew in the summer wind. It whipped around her face shading her deep colored eyes.

"I'm coming!" He yelled suddenly hearing his friend. He walked over to her on the single paved street in their whole city. "But do we have to go to the creek?" He asked nervously.

"Aww, are you scared or something?" She teased pinching his cheek.

"NO! I just would rather go somewhere else," he spoke folding his hands behind his back.

"Oh!" She spoke realizing what she had done. She'd known him since they were born, twelve years, but she still forgets his greatest fear. "Oh, I am so sorry, I…I," but she didn't get to finish.

"Hey, no problem. I need to get over my fear of the water, anyhow. I mean it was like eight years ago right? I mean, they wouldn't want me to be afraid of the water just because of what happened to them." His voice lowered and he started to walk along the paved road to the creek.

"Hey, we don't have to go if you don't want to. We could go back to my house and hang out. If you wanna try the creek, we could try later. I mean, we have all summer to go, right?" She said running to catch up with him. She pulled the books in her arms closed to her chest and mustered up a sad puppy dog face.

He looked at her and smiled. "Ok! Let's go to your place! I'll race you there!" He said taking off at top speed.

She just laughed and continued to walk down the road at a normal pace. He stopped and walked back to her side. "Tomorrow we can hang out at my place. My grandma or grandpop can take us out for ice cream and maybe we could go and see a movie too!"

"Sounds great!" she said smiling.

He looked at her and saw happiness spreading across her beautiful features. "Come, my lady. I shall carry your books and be your escort." He spoke grabbing the books out of her hands and placing them with his. He took all the books in one arm and wrapped the other around her shoulder.

Axel mused from his daydreaming as he walked through the white halls of the castle. I just wish I could remember her name. He thought as he made his way up, yet another staircase. Why do I always choose to walk instead of teleport? He asked himself. He answered his own question with the simple sentence, Because you're skinnier than a twig and need to add some muscle to these bones.

He thought of what had happened over the past week and began to regret what he had done. He had left Raene alone with the rest of the Organization without even saying good-bye.

He knew what he had to do now. He had to get the facts straight. If what he had seen yesterday was true, then he had to confront Xemnas. The vision of some of the Organization members walking through the private part of the castle. He had seen the inside of that place before. He had followed Luxord in once without the gambler knowing and had seen a small part of Xemnas' quarters before leaving. He knew only about a few rooms.

He had to get to the one room that would let him find who he was looking for. He had gone through a portal there and had no idea where it was actually. He had to go through the doors on the tower and make his way to that room.

If what the members had said in his vision were real and not just crazy daydreams from lack of rest, he would have to stop it from happening, no matter what.

He finally made his way to the Meeting Chamber and walked in. No one was there. He stepped out and then finally decided to teleport. He appeared at the top of the staircase leading down the tower to Xemnas' part of the castle.

He saw Xigbar talking to the Sniper Nobodies who were guarding the door. Axel ran quickly down the stairs. Xigbar was just quick enough to pull out one of his guns and shoot Axel straight in the chest. Axel flew backwards but immediately jumped back up again.

"Well Axel I can see that you're in a hurry. Is there anything I can do that would please you?" He asked mockingly.

"Yeah! You could get out of the way! I need to see Xemnas!" Axel yelled back.

"What is it with you two redheads wanting to always see Xemnas? Aren't we other members good enough for you?" Xigbar said acting hurt.

"Where is he!" Axel said busting through the group of Nobodies and swiping their heads clear off with his weapon. Xigbar was taken back, but he didn't get to mourn much over his servants because Axel was now running inside the doors.

"Look, Axel. I know you're old enough, being eighteen and all, to come into Xemnas' private quarters but I can't let you in here; it's orders." He said jogging up to Axel not really trying that hard to stop him.

"Look, Xigbar! I know something bad is gonna happen to her, so I have to talk to him right now! Nothing, not even you, is gonna stop me!" Axel yelled running through the halls.

Xigbar followed, still not trying to stop him. Axel finally made his way into a room. There were several grave-like monuments all around the room. Some were red and some were glowing blue. The ones that were blue had a sort of open door on the top of them.

From the way that Xigbar and Axel came in the room, it looked as though they were on the top of a pyramid of graves. The graves were on steps heading to the door that they just entered through.

Xigbar walked to the other side of the room at the entrance to another room. He was standing at the widest part of the graves. Axel stayed and looked at the graves. He read the first one. The Freeshooter. It was blue and had a portal on the top. On the base of the grave was an engraving of two guns, Xigbar's guns.

The grave across the isle in the middle of the room was also blue. It had an engraving of six sharp lances. It said The Whirlwind Lancer on it.

On the step below these were four more graves, two on each side of the isle. On one side were two that were both red and had no portal. On them read The Chilly Academic and The Silent Hero. On the graves were the weapons of two members who were no longer alive, Vexen and Lexaeus. Across the isle was another red grave belonging to Zexion and another blue one belonging to Saïx.

"Xigbar, what is this place exactly?" Axel asked after observing those six very carefully.

"You're in Proof of Existence. It's a place that literally proves that we exist or existed." Xigbar walked up to him standing over Vexen's grave. "It's a shame what happened to them," he said reminding Axel of what had happened at Castle Oblivion.

"Yeah. So how come Superior's grave isn't here?" Axel said ignoring his memories of what had happened.

"Xemnas doesn't need one."

"What about Raene?"

"She's not a true member even though she has finally become a real Nobody." Axel nodded and continued walking around the other graves. "Xemnas has the element of Nothingness but that can also mean Everything in our book."

"What do you mean?" Axel asked.

"Xemnas can control all of our elements if he chose. Nothingness, Space, Wind, Ice, Earth, Darkness, Moon, Fire, Water, Time, Nature, Thunder, Light."

"Our elements. What about Raene's?"

"Raene is Destiny and Fate."

"Roxas is the Key of Destiny though. How is it that those are her elements? Wait, they aren't even real elements."

"Hey, I don't give them their elements. Don't question me!" Xigbar said raising his arms in his air.

"What's the difference between fate and destiny? They're the same thing aren't they?" Axel said turning around from Larxene's grave.

"Destiny is what should happen. Fate is what's going to happen. An example is that we Nobodies are destined to gather hearts to become whole again. But we are fated to fade back into Darkness."

"Oh. If that is our fate, why do you guys continue to gather hearts?"

"Xemnas doesn't believe that that prophecy will happen. He thinks that he can do against the prophecy and become whole. We just go with him trying our hardest."

"Oh. So—what do these doors on the graves do?" Axel asked changing the subject.

"I think you know. They simply take us where the members are, no matter what." Axel smiled to himself.

"So that means if I were to let's say jump into my portal over here—" Axel said walking over to his grave below Vexen's and Lexaeus', "I could just reappear back in this room, right?"

Xigbar nodded. Axel tested it and jumped in the door above his shiny blue grave. A few seconds later he appeared in the middle of the room.

"Neat-o!" He said childishly. "So, where exactly is Raene?" Axel said once again changing the subject.

"Xarene? Hmmm…where is she again? Oh yeah, she's on a mission," Xigbar answered.

"Oh. So what kind of mission is it?" Axel asked.

"She's supposed to be tracking Sora down. She's just following him and making sure he is destroying as much Heartless as possible."

"She's following Sora, eh?" Axel said slowly sliding over to the opposite side of the room from his grave. Roxas' grave sat still next to two red graves belonging to Marluxia and Larxene, the traitors. "So if I were to, let's say, jump into Roxas' portal here, I would appear wherever they are?" Before Xigbar could do anything, Axel had jumped into the blue door above the two crisscrossing Keyblades on Roxas' grave.

Xigbar laughed to himself as Axel popped back in the room. "What was that? I just appeared inside a big white egg, bubble, thing! What was that!" Axel said.

"Roxas may be a part of Sora, but Xemnas decided to rearrange his portal. It's sends whoever jumps into it, to the last place Roxas was real. He did this in case the enemy got here and were trying to find Sora."

"Damn!" Axel yelled. Axel jumped into Demyx's portal and appeared in a dark cave. He was surrounded by mist and fog. Axel teleported back to the Proof of Existence and jumped into all the other members' portals finding that they all are on missions. He tried Saïx's and luckily appeared somewhere within the castle.

"Saïx!" Axel yelled across the large empty room. Saïx was kneeling with his head bowed to the moon outside a large window.

Saïx sighed and turned to greet whoever who had interrupted him from his peace.

"What do you—Axel!" What are you doing here?" Saïx said noticing that Axel was in Xemnas' private quarters.

"Never mind that! I have to ask you a question." Axel said running up to Saïx as the Lunar Diviner stood up and sighed.

"Remind me to interrogate you on why you are here later. What's your question?" Saïx said smiling.

"Where's Xemnas?" Axel asked simply.

"Why do ask?" Saïx questioned.

"Look, I think Raene is in danger and I need to know where she is and Xemnas is the only one who can tell me where she is!" Axel said in one quick breath.

"Hahaha," he laughed. "I'll answer your question if you answer mine."

"Shoot."

"How come you can have so many feelings?" Saïx asked turning back to the large window.

"Excuse me?" Axel said.

"We Nobodies can have some feelings like being angry, happy, or sad. But you have more feelings. You, Roxas, Naminé, and Xarene all have more feelings."

"I don't know. And what do you mean we have more feelings?" Axel asked.

"You all have more complex feelings like being nervous, having regret, or— love," Saïx said smiling as he turned around to Axel again.

"Love?" Axel said raising an eyebrow.

"Love. You love—" but Saïx didn't get to finish.

"Don't say it!" Axel threatened.

"You don't even let me finish. I was going to say that you love your friends more than anything, right?" Axel nodded. "You would do anything to save them, right?" Axel nodded again. "You would even let yourself die for them?"

"If I cared so much for someone, they probably do for me too. And if so, they wouldn't want me to be gone if they were to live," Axel said protesting.

"Neither would you want to live if they died?" Saïx questioned. Axel nodded. "Why do you care so much for them? And not for Demyx and Larxene?"

"What do you mean?" Axel asked confused.

"Those two are closer to your age than those other three. They are only a year younger and not THREE."

"I just—Roxas makes me feel like I have a heart."

"What?" Saïx asked now being the confused one.

"Sora is so pure and that is why he can wield the Keyblade. Roxas is just as pure, being around him makes me happy."

Saïx snorted a laugh. "Shut up!" Axel said.

"Continue." Saïx said stopping his laughing.

"Naminé is like a motherly figure to us all. She always was there for us."

"What about Xarene?" Saïx asked.

"Raene! Her name is RAENE! And I just really care for her," Axel said not saying that she was just as important as any of his friends.

"What is about her that makes you want to do drastic things for her?" Saïx asked.

"The second she got here I saw the sadness in her eyes. They just said that she needed to be held. I mean she just was taken away, thanks to you, and she needed someone to be there for her." Axel spoke and smiled.

"You never really answered my question."

"What was your question?"

"Why do you younger members have more feelings? I mean you don't remember your past lives. How is it that you, Roxas, Naminé, Demyx, and Larxene, not Raene because she is different, have those feelings if you don't remember them?" Saïx asked annoyed.

"I—guess we just were born not having to remember them—we just expected them and we grew used to what they are like," Axel answered truthfully.

"How is it that Marluxia loved?" Saïx asked changing the subject.

"What?" Axel said confused.

"Don't tell me you didn't see it. Marluxia loved Larxene. Everyone could see it but her."

"I don't know. He just did," Axel said not really caring for it.

"I mean, they we're four years apart," Saïx said.

"So?" Axel said.

"I think it's weird that Marluxia was twenty for like fourteen years. He'd known Larxene since she was two. He practically raised her. Finally she turned sixteen and he started growing again. If they were still alive, she would be seventeen and he would twenty one."

"So what if he loved someone of a four year age difference? It doesn't matter!" Axel said getting annoyed.

"Fine, let's get off this conversation," Saïx said seeing Axel's anger level rising quickly. Axel nodded trying to be patient so he could find out where Xemnas was. "How are you doing with remembering?"

Axel answered truthfully. "I'm seeing visions of ones when I was younger. Like twelve years old."

"Do you remember anything like names?" Saïx asked.

"No. I still don't know my name or hers," Axel answered.

"It's a shame when you can't remember someone that is so important to you, eh?" Saïx said.

"Why is that? She was in like every memory of mine. I just feel awful about not remembering her." Axel lowered his head.

"Do you know who she is? Not name, but who?" Saïx asked leaning against a wall.

Axel walked over to the wall opposite of him and sat down on the floor with his back resting against it. "She's like my best friend. I'd known her my whole life," Axel said just loud enough for Saïx to hear across the room.

"Do you remember any memories from when you were older?" Saïx asked.

"I've seen some, but I can't remember any at the moment."

"What a shame. So you wanted to know where Xemnas is?" Saïx asked.

"Yeah!" Axel said remembering why he was here.

"Ok, go back to Proof of Existence and go out the door at the wide part of the room. Follow through and just keep going through doors until you get to a really large elevator. Take it down. Count to ten seconds then jump off as it keeps going down. I can tell by the look on your face that you think I'm crazy. But trust me, there's a secret platform that you'll land on. He's there."

Axel quickly teleported back to Proof of Existence. Xigbar was kneeling in front of Lexaeus' grave and was—crying! Axel tiptoed over to the door not to disturb him while he mourned for his friend. While he did so he remembered that the first six members all knew each other before the Organization was founded.

Axel ran through the door and made his way to where Saïx said Xemnas was. Sure enough, there was the Superior standing on the platform. It was bare except for him. It was just a floating, white, 10 by 10 floor.

Axel landed on the platform and Xemnas turned to him. His eyes widened to see the fiery boy in his private quarters.

"Before you question me, Xemnas, I am sorry for intruding on this part of the castle. But I must ask you a question." Axel spoke not even giving Xemnas a chance to say a word.

"Oookayy. What do you want to know?" Xemnas said raising his eyebrows.

"I saw something, sir. It was like a vision. And in it I saw you and the other members, I don't think Demyx was there, but the other members were. You all were talking and you all said something about Raene. You said that she was going to disappear soon because she was a Nobody now. Something about her loosing the light left in her heart and it being replaced by darkness from another. What does that mean?" Axel said quickly.

"Calm down, Axel! I think you haven't been getting enough sleep lately."

"I don't sleep. We can, but we don't need to," Axel protested.

"Maybe it would do you some good to try and sleep," Xemnas answered.

"No! I need you to answer me about the vision I had!" Axel yelled annoyed.

"You're just seeing things, Axel. Nothing is going to happen to Raene. She's fine. She's on a mission and should be back to update us on Sora's progress later tomorrow. You should go and sleep," Xemnas said summoning a portal and walking Axel over to it with his hand on Axel's back.

"Are you telling me the truth, Xemnas? It was just a dream, it wasn't real? She's not going to disappear?" Axel said stopping himself from moving to the portal.

"Have I ever lied to you, Axel?" Xemnas asked smiling.

"Yes," Axel answered matter-of-factly.

"Hmph. Well, I'm not lying to you now. She's safe and there is nothing that is going to cause her to loose her light. You really look like you need some sleep, Axel. Why don't you go and get some sleep and then wait for Raene to return tomorrow, ok?" Xemnas said smiling and motioning over to the still open portal.

"Um…ok." Axel started to walk over to the portal. Just as he was about to step through it, he turned around on his heel and quickly spun around. "If I find out that you're lying, Xemnas, you'll be sorry you were ever created!" Axel said before stepping backwards and into his large white room. He jumped into his bed and fell fast asleep hoping for dreams of the girl from his memories to flood his mind.

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Thanks for reading guys! Hope you liked it! Chapter 12 should be out in the next week unless I'm too busy. R&R please.