Chapter 16: Reconnected
Saix walked through a corridor, nearly running into the white haired man before him. He nearly cried out but quickly held his composure.
"Superior," he said bowing.
"Saix, I was just about to seek you out. I am going to attempt to contact VI and VIII." Xemnas said, turning and leading the way back to his office.
Saix followed silently, wondering what type of progress the boys had made if any.
"Why can't we just tell them who we are when we see them later?" Axel asked.
"Have some patience," Zexion responded. "You say this nearly every ten minutes."
Axel went to complain some more when a high-pitched beeping started at his wrist. Zexion's wristband did the same thing.
"Hey, I forgot about these!" Axel said, quickly pressing a side button. A small holographic screen appeared showing their Superior and Second In Command.
"Xemmy, my man! What's up?" Axel said cheerfully, Zexion simply face palmed beside him.
"VIII, just as ill-mannered as ever. I was hoping for VI to answer. At any rate, I have contacted to make sure you aren't destroying Earth," the Superior said.
"I would not allow that, sir." Zexion said.
"How have things been going with your search?" Saix spoke up.
"I think we found them, Isa!" Axel shouted. Saix nearly growled at the use of his Somebody name.
"There is no thinking to it. We found them. Tyler and Ariel." Zexion said, hardly able to hide his smile.
"So where are they now? Why are you not heading back with them?" Xemnas inquired.
"Because, we can't just take them from here. They have to understand first." Axel said. "They don't remember."
Xemnas and Saix fell silent.
"Very well then. Just, hurry. We do not know how you two will react on Earth for long." Xemnas said.
"Aye, aye, cap'n!" Axel said, saluting.
After a little bit of scolding about Axel's respect level, they ended the connection. Zexion seemed to be thinking about something and inspecting his communicator. Axel raised an eyebrow.
"What are you doing now?" he asked, seeing the other boy's expression.
"I wonder…" Zexion said, mostly to himself. He stood up and left the room suddenly. Axel watched him leave, confused.
"O-kay," he said, sitting back and turning on the TV.
Riku had felt lost for quite some time.
He knew he was Riku, that the sun gave him migraines, and that he was out for revenge; or so said the voice in his head.
He knew who he needed to find, he just didn't know where they were and recently, the voice told him that he was close. Now, finding one would mean finding them all.
The voice had kept him alive for all this time. It was never wrong.
Go through a portal. Go however far you think you should go. They're near, Riku.
Riku smiled to himself. So this was it.
He opened a portal and walked through it, almost feeling the thrill of where this would lead.
Demyx looked around dark, concrete room.
'Where am I?' he thought to himself. He wandered around until he found a large open area with an exit sign near it. He continued to walk, only to meet with a shiny, black thing on wheels.
A horn honked at him as he squealed a fled the area.
"Watch it, dumbass!" a person yelled from the vehicle.
"Well…" Demyx said, offended.
He walked on, realizing that there were a lot of people around. All in which were giving him odd looks.
He decided to start smiling and waving at people. Some smiled and waved back, others continued to stare at him as if he were the weirdest thing they'd ever seen.
Demyx started to get nervous and decided he didn't like this world. He turned to discreetly open a portal, but nothing happened. He tried again with the same luck.
No portal meant no escape.
"When in doubt, run." Demyx said, taking off in a random direction. He still had no clue where he was going but he didn't let that stop him.
Seeing a small building with an open door, he quickly ran inside. He stopped to catch his breath before turning around.
"Hello there, boy. Where did you come from?" an old lady asked.
"From The World That Never Was." He responded. The old lady laughed.
"You look like you could use some cookies." she said with a smile, disappearing into another room.
"Cookies?" Demyx echoed, a smile now on his face.
The woman returned with a tray off cookies along with a glass of milk.
"They just came out of the oven so be careful." she said, as Demyx practically drooled over the plate of goods.
Demyx dug in, singing to himself about how delicious the chocolate chip cookies were. The woman watched him before noticing his clothes.
"It's too hot out for all that you're wearing! This just won't do! Stay put, I'll be right back."
Demyx shrugged, gulping down milk while the woman left the room.
She came back with t-shirts and jeans and sat them next to Demyx.
"You can wear these, I don't know why your parents would let you run around in such hot clothes." she commented.
"Parents? Um.. my parents… are… not around?" Demyx said, not sure how to explain himself. The woman's face showed great concerned.
"You live by yourself? Where is your house?" she asked.
"House?"
She was silent for a moment and Demyx was confused. He just wanted more cookies.
"What school do you go to, boy? Do you go to school."
"School?" Demyx asked. "No… and my name is Demyx."
The woman suddenly hugged Demyx.
"You poor child. You will stay here with me from now on, okay? You must be so lost." She said.
"I am lost…" Demyx said, agreeing. Still completely confused.
"We can go buy you clothes and school supplies and I'll get you into school by Monday morning." the woman beamed. "Here, I'll show you to your new room."
"Can I have cookies afterwards?" Demyx asked, following her.
Axel finally went to check on Zexion who had disappeared for quite a while.
Just as he was about to open the door to their room, Zexion opened the door, causing the red head to fall through.
"Axel, get off the floor. I've discovered something." Zexion said. "Give me the girls' numbers."
Axel got up and handed him the piece of paper that Ariel had given him. Zexion took it and sat on the bed, fiddling with the communicator.
The hologram screen popped up, displaying that it was connecting. Tyler's face appeared on the hologram.
"Zexion?" Tyler said. "Hey."
"Hello Tyler. Seems we have figured out how to contact you." Zexion responded. Axel appeared behind him.
"Hi Tyler! Where's Ariel?" he asked. Tyler laughed a little before informing him that she was at her own house. Axel deflated and plopped down on the bed.
"You don't have cells, yet you're calling me through a video chat?" Tyler said quizzically.
"It is.. complicated. At any rate, where would you like us to meet you two?" Zexion asked.
"Hmm… that mall I saw you at before. Around, 6?" she suggested with a smile. Zexion nearly stopped breathing.
"Sure… 6…" he said breathily.
"Okay! See you soon, then!" Tyler said.
"Yeah, soon." Zexion replied, ending the connection. Axel laughed.
"Oh my Kingdom Hearts, she said 6! Squueeee!" Axel said in a mocking tone, laughing harder. Zexion glared and smacked him with a pillow.
"Now I'm not showing you how to contact Ariel." Zexion said, storming off. Axel choked on his laugh, scrambling to chase after the boy.
"Hey! No! Zexy! I was kidding!"