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Chapter 4

Vexen wandered the halls of the castle, waiting. He had been anticipating this day for a while now, ever since the newest member of the Organization had turned up out of the blue. Now he had an entire day to assess his abilities and examine him. After a few minutes Vexen saw Dalynx coming down the hallway.
"Number fifteen." Vexen said, and Dalynx looked up, his eyes piercing Vexen, seeming to be examining him as much as Vexen hoped to examine him. "My name is Vexen, you are to come with me today for a full evaluation."
"As you wish." Dalynx said, calmly, and he started to follow Vexen back to his lab.

Vexen swung open the doors to his lab, and pointed to an examination table. "Sit down there." Dalynx did so, waiting. Vexen reached over and wheeled a machine over to the table. He pushed a few buttons, and the machine whirred into life. A beam of green light encompassed Dalynx's body, and massive amounts of data started to appear on a screen on the machine. Vexen looked through it as it appeared, searching for something. "Well…physiologically you're normal for a Nobody, so it's not this…." Vexen pushed the machine away and grabbed a syringe of blue liquid.
"What's that for?" Dalynx asked.

"Simple, it'll up your body's adrenaline production for a while, so that I can examine you as if you were in battle." Vexen injected the liquid into Dalynx's arm, then pulled out the syringe. Dalynx felt a rush, and his eyes widened. Vexen started poking and prodding with various tools. "No, no, no….what else is there?" Vexen opened a case, and found a long metal tube. "Ah ha!" Vexen held the tube to Dalynx's chest, and pushed. It slowly went in, a white light emitting from the end of it. "Let's take a look inside, shall we?" He pushed the tube deeper, and plugged it into a screen. Data started to appear the further he pushed it in. "So…this is what makes you so strong, show me more, I need data-ack!" Mid-sentence, Vexen was cut off by a shadow hand around his throat. It held him up against the wall. Dalynx's head and neck had gone limp, and his arm was pointed at Vexen.

"Wh-what the? How did you?" Vexen was struggling against the hand at his throat. Meanwhile, another hand removed the tube from Dalynx's chest and snapped it, whilst a third delicately unplugged the tube from the screen, and wiped all of the data from it. Vexen looked on in fear from the wall. "P-please, don't kill me!" Vexen struggled some more, then felt the hand tighten around him. It pulled him from the wall, and threw him out of the lab, sending him down a hallway. The hands then all faded away, and Dalynx's entire body went limp, passing out.

When Dalynx awoke, he was in his bed. Sitting on a chair in the room was Vexen.
"What happened? I remember you putting that metal rod into my chest, and then I blacked out." Dalynx sat up in the bed, confused.

"Well, it seems that my probing you for magical elements must have triggered something, as you destroyed my tools, my data, and very nearly me." Vexen replied from the chair.

"Oh, well that can't have been pleasant."
"It wasn't. You seemed to use some type of shadow magic to have a group of hands do all the work for you while your body was out. It might be some sort of limit break."
"No, I know my limit break and final limit, I'm conscious for all of them. I've even hit my final form once before. Whatever that was, it's none of those."
Vexen scratched his head. "Hm…I'll have to get back to you if I ever figure out what that was...I can tell you now however, that sort of thing is not normal, even for a Nobody." Vexen then stood up and walked out.

Dalynx eventually got out of the bed and checked the time. It was nearing the end of the day for all of the other members.

"Well then, time to head off to the clock tower. I think it's my turn today to get the ice cream." Dalynx said, as he grabbed some munny and opened a corridor to Twilight Town. He walked over to the ice cream stand, and approached the owner.

"What can I do for you?" The owner asked pleasantly.

"Can I have four sea salt ice creams please?" Dalynx asked. As the owner was getting the ice creams from the freezer, he spoke.

"So, are you a new guy in that club then? The one that the red head, blondie and the little girl are all in. They're some of my most regular customers." Dalynx chuckled as he replied.

"I guess you could say that. Yeah, I'm new with them." The owner handed over the ice creams as Dalynx gave him the munny. "Keep the change, I don't need it."
"Thank you, I look forward to having your business in the future." The owner said as Dalynx walked away. He strolled over to the clock tower, and swung open the doors. Dalynx walked up the stairs, ice creams in hand, a smile upon his face. He always looked forward to this time. It was almost like being human again, something he did not expect to be missing as much as he did. As he arrived on the roof, he heard a familiar voice.
"There he is! I hope you remembered it was your turn to bring the goods Dalynx, because we're all in need of some salty goodness!" Axel shouted over. Dalynx laughed, and threw three ice creams to his friends. They all caught them, and Dalynx sat down on the roof.

"So…give me details! What did Vexen do to you?" Axel asked, excited.

"I heard he likes to perform surgery on people while they're still awake." Roxas said.

"Yeah! I heard that he tries to make things, Frankenstein's monster style." Xion said. Axel then put on an exaggerated scientist voice.
"It's alive! Alive!" He shouted at the top of his voice. Dalynx laughed.

"No...none of that happened. He did some tests on me, but he did end up knocking me out, and making me almost kill him."
"Woah, woah, woah. Slow down. You almost killed Vexen?" Roxas said, disbelieving.

"He used some weird metal rod on me, pushing it into my chest, then I blacked out. Apparently whilst I was out, I smashed up his tools, wiped his computer and threw him down a hallway with some shadow hands." Dalynx sounded just as confused by this as everyone else was.

"So...Vexen poked around where he shouldn't have, and he got whipped for it." Axel sounded serious as he spoke. "It's nothing new, he knows his research comes at a cost. If he pushes too far, he's bound to get hurt."

"Hey, lighten up Axel, this is meant to be our time for fun isn't it?" Xion asked, looking at Axel.

"Yeah...don't let me get you down, anyway, let's eat!" Axel bit into his ice cream, as did everyone else. They all ate their ice creams and chatted the evening away again.

In the library, Zexion sat, poring through magical tomes. He was searching, Vexen had told him about what Dalynx had done, and as Vexen couldn't figure it out with his science, perhaps Zexion and his magic would be able to. Zexion went through entire spell books at a time.

"Where are you…" Nothing in necromancy resembling Vexen's description. Zexion threw a large pile of books off to the side, and Dusks all placed them carefully back on the shelves. "Demon magic perhaps?" Zexion pulled down a collection of books with red covers and started to look through them. Whilst reading through the books, Zexion lifted his head. He had picked up an all too familiar scent. "Hello, Saix." The schemer said as he was interrupted by the seventh member of the Organization.

"Zexion, have you found any possible source on the boys power?" Saix asked, coldly.

"Not yet, I can tell you what it isn't however. Most of the families of magic require the caster to at least be aware, and if Vexen is to be believed, Dalynx was not during his outburst. I did request to have a day with him to see just how good of a mage he is, but it may very well turn into me scrutinising him just like Vexen did." Zexion was still looking through the books as he spoke with Saix.

"Just find out how he did what he did to Vexen. Even if he can't control it, if we can trigger it, it could be very useful." Saix turned and started to leave, as Zexion spoke.

"You know, something's coming. There's a new presence, a new world back from the realm of darkness maybe, but whatever it is, it's big, very big." Zexion went back to his reading as Saix left.

When Axel, Dalynx, Roxas and Xion all returned this time, Dalynx found himself meeting with Demyx in the grey area.

"Hey! Dalynx! Wait up!" Demyx had shouted as Dalynx was headed off to his room. He turned, and saw Demyx standing behind him.

"You would be? I'm not too familiar with everyone yet." Dalynx tilted his head as he looked at Demyx.

"I'm Demyx, nice to meet you. Anyway, Did you really do all of that stuff to Vexen? With the smashing up all his stuff and chucking him down the hall?"
"Yes...although I can't really remember too much of it."
"Oh, well I just thought I'd let you know, Saix is getting all worked up about it, so tomorrow he's sending you off to Zexion to see if it was some sort of magic you did."
"Zexion?" Dalynx scratched his head.

"Little guy, with the emo haircut, has a thing for books and sniffing people out." Demyx stated, and Dalynx ran through all of the members he had seen around the castle, and figured out which one Zexion was.
"Alright. So where do I go then?"
"The library probably, Zexion never leaves that place, it's like his second bedroom."
"Ok, thanks for the heads up."
"Don't worry about it." Demyx sat down on one of the sofas in the grey area and started playing his sitar as Dalynx went off to his bedroom.