Author's Note: conversation between me and rarmaster earlier: Me: Oh! We don't have a chapter to post for this! Her: Uh, that's your arena. Me: Oh yeah! I wanted to write about what Vexen thought about when Sora showed up at Castle Oblivion.
So... this is what spewed out of my brain. Vexen's brain is weird. And amusing.
We have now caught up with Dead Inside! This covers roughly chapters 3 and 4 actually. Here and there... bits and pieces. And, according to my rough estimate, this lines up mostly with what I've been posting in AtP. Port Royal-ish I'm guessing. Sort of... timey whimey... stuff.
Anywho! Enjoy!
Things have gotten quiet around Castle Oblivion. It is as if Saix is taking a break from the failed barrages on us. Everything with him is always the same: send a handful of replicas to capture the Main Computer, create a distraction while 37 goes after Said Computer, then 37 has a spat with either me, Alpha, Riku or 29. But 29 really only stops him when Joseph gets involved.
It has been a glorious four and a half days since we have seen anyone from Saix's side. However, we did have to throw out a Vexen Replica gone rogue two days ago. Apparently, he was beginning to see sense in what 37 had been saying and Riku (who else) made the executive decision to throw him out. However, Joseph did the actual kicking. (Literally, the poor Vexen's shins.) Vexen Replica Number 9, I hope you see sense before someone kills you.
Riku has since been directing all of his strength and attention to finding Sora. I do not know much about the Sora in this universe, mostly because no one around here actually knows the boy—save for Riku, who… doesn't talk to me.
20 gave Riku a tracking device to find Sora. However, it appears to be broken, since it hasn't yielded any results. Either that, or Sora is, in fact, dead.
Though, none of us will say that out loud for fear of our lives because Riku refuses to believe that.
I don't remember programming him to be this blindly stubborn.
Unless the real Riku… no, never mind. All of that would have been cancelled out when Larxene had that idea to rewrite his heart and I went along with it.
Curse my affinity for research and my (at the time) desires to know what the girl Namine could do.
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It has been five days and three hours since the last attack. We are all getting a little on edge due to the quietness. Riku is going to ask Axel the next time he drops by to see if he can figure out why the attacks have stopped. Though, that would require Axel to actually drop by. It's been awhile. Though, he has appearances to keep, since he hasn't openly chosen his side yet.
And I shall voice this nowhere else but here, but I can't help but be suspicious of the man. He does have a history of double-crossing people—in my home universe at least.
The search for Sora hasn't yielded much still, though it is all Riku appears to think about right now. One track mind… I can hold myself responsible for that.
Though, the device has simply taken to saying that Sora merely doesn't exist. 20 believes that assessment. Riku refuses to. Things are tense. Both from the lack of sieging and the lack of a certain Keyblade wielder.
Personally, I hope the Sora of this universe is found. I would like to study him and learn the differences between him and the Sora back from where I came from.
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Goodness! I'm scrambling to write! So much has happened recently…
Five days, four hours and thirty-two minutes since the last attack, and still no sign of another. For now, we will be grateful, this day is eventful enough as it is. An attack might just set Riku off. Though, he probably would succeed in killing everyone in the attacking party.
Axel dropped by. He spoke to no one (save for Joseph) until Riku showed up after going to fetch Sora.
Which, by the way, Sora was spat back up out of the darkness, more on him in a bit.
Upon Riku's arrival, Axel warned Riku that the Organization would want to turn Sora into a Heartless to get his Nobody—obviously for the purpose of Heart Collection, since Saix destroyed the Replicas who were doing that job. Riku didn't particularly seem to care. Though, at the time, he was carrying Sora's screaming body.
Axel then left. No one asked him if Saix was planning another attack. Oh well, we will find out about that soon enough.
As for Sora, he's asleep. Joseph has been assigned the task of notifying Riku when Sora awakens. Meanwhile, Riku is currently speaking with Alpha about something. About what, I am not privy to. I do wish that he (Riku) would get some rest though. I am nearly positive he hasn't slept more than two hours since the last attack, which was five days, four hours, and thirty-six minutes ago now.
Well then. Joseph just ran head-on into 29.
Either Sora has awoken, or something much worse has just happened.
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I am with Alpha on this, Sora's sudden lack of memory is oddly disturbing, yet intriguing. It is obvious that the boy is struggling with his darkness. Axel was correct in stating that the Organization may have no problem turning him into a Heartless for the purpose of acquiring his Nobody.
I wonder if his darkness has something to do with the lapse of memory. Perhaps the darkness wishes to keep him (excuse my lack of better wording) in the dark.
Or, because of all the dark deeds he has undoubtedly committed, his brain hit the reset button and refuses to remember because of the horridness of his actions.
I can't be too sure in my assessments, however. Not without knowing what all Sora has done. But Riku is the only person who knows Sora's darkest deeds and I am beginning to wonder if Riku himself wishes he didn't remember.