Chapter 12

Roxas and Calixa were still really angry with Neox and Xion, but if they wanted to pretend that the two of them were invisible, then four could play at that game. So that's basically what happened between the two groups. They pretended the other didn't exist, except for the few times they started to physically fight with each other. This made some missions hard and awkward. Eventually Saïx stopped assigning missions with people who hated each other.

Everyone was pretty shocked, no one expected the four closest members to turn against each other. It wasn't just the four of them that was affected by this. Neox and Roxas got into a massive fight with there keyblades which resulted in the main television getting destroyed. And both Neox and, Xion were taking weekly visits to Vexen, so that there hearing could be fixed. Calixa's element was sound. Most of the organization just hoped they would make up soon, though by the looks of it, it seemed like they would never be friends again.

At the moment, Neox was in Xion's room watching television. Xion was in the shower right now, so the boy was pretty bored. This reminded him of all the times he waited inside Calixa's room while she in the shower. Xion didn't take as long as Calixa, but boy there must be some secret code that says all girls must spend forever in the bathroom.

Finally getting fed up with boredom, the kid stood up and walked out wanting to find something to do. He went down a hallway and saw Roxas speaking to a crowd about his mission. Calixa was standing next to him, and to his surprise she was covered in dirt. More then just curious now, he snuck over and listened. "Then whenever it fell into the mud pool, I was trapped in the tree trunk so Calixa had to jump in to get it, or we would have failed the mission."

Neox rolled his eyes, as the two got much appreciation. Then he got an idea and smirked. Sneaking behind Roxas, he quickly gave a mighty tug on the boy's pants. Roxas didn't even notice the silver haired kid until he pants were at his ankles. Blushing madly, he quickly brought them back up while everyone around him laughed. Calixa was even laughing, at which Roxas glared at her. She stopped laughing before the rest, and then both looked down the hall to see that Neox had gone back to the invisible game by pretending he saw nothing.

"I need to go shower," Calixa announced.

Roxas nodded. "I'm gonna go hunt a pipsqueak."

Meanwhile Neox reappeared back in Xion's room, laughing. The raven haired girl wasn't there yet, so he lay on her bed still grinning like a Cheshire cat. Xion came out a few minutes later, "Hey Neox," she greeted. "What's with you, you look like a cat that got a canary and all the cream to go with it?"

Neox sat up and told her what happened, and she laughed at the story, "He deserved it."

Several hours later Calixa exited the bathroom with wet hair and smelling thickly of fragrant shampoos. Roxas was on her bed reading, and coughed as soon as the bathroom door opened, "Wow, Cali did you put on enough perfume?"

Cali thought for a second, "You really think I should put more on?"

"No! No! You put on enough."

"No I think I should, you're probably right," the red head went back into the bathroom and grabbed the most girlish smelling body spray she had. Roxas facepalmed, and went back to reading.

Calixa came back out with a pink bottle with the label "Sweet Pea" on it. Though she didn't start spraying it on herself, she started walking toward Roxas. "C-Cali what are you doing?"

The orange haired girl then started spraying in all over Roxas, "No! No! No! Now I'm going to smell like girl!" he cried, freaking out.

"Better than how you smell now," Calixa giggled.

Roxas ran from the room, making Calixa laugh histarically. Once she composed herself, she went back into the bathroom to start styling her hair. Roxas was walking in the hall, mindlessly running his hands over himself as if he thought he could brush off the smell. He passed Xion's door and stopped, grin forming on his face as an invisible light bulb above his head lighted up. He summoned his keyblade and knocked.

Inside, Neox and Xion were talking while watching a Soap Opera, and they fell silent when a knock on the door came. Xion stood and opened the door, "Yes?" But as soon as she said that, Roxas's keyblade flew past her, crashing into her TV, then Roxas ran for it.

Both stared in shock by this action. "He killed the TV! Now we wont find out if she's really cheating on Danny," Neox complained.

Xion sighed; they would have to borrow someone else's TV. "Go watch TV in Demyx's room. If you need me, I'll be in Larxene's room."

The two left, Xion headed to the Savage Nymphs room, and entered just as Larxene was leaving. "What do you want?" Larxene asked her.

"My TV broke... Can I watch yours, please?"

"Fine just don't touch any of my stuff," Larxene had decided to be nicer to them all in hopes that maybe it would help them make up, though she was getting tired of sharing her television.

Xion nodded, and saw none other then Calixa sitting on the couch watching the TV. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I hear something but see nobody," Calixa replied as Xion sat on the opposite end of the couch.

"Good since no one else is here then I can watch whatever I want," Xion replied.

Ironically, they wanted to watch the same thing. Calixa saw an opportunity to irritate Xion and smirked, talking out a bottle of her travel size body spray. She then started spraying it on herself, and all over the place. "Oh gosh, I didn't put on enough body spray. I hope this is enough."

Xion coughed violently, but continued pretending that she was alone. Calixa finally stopped feeling a bit disappointed she didn't get more of a reaction out of the older girl, and the two were quiet again. Though Xion was bothered by it, she just didn't voice it, and was now trying to think of a way to get the red head back. She suddenly had an idea. What better way to get back at a hygiene freak? "Man my feet feel really sore," she said, and grinned at Calixa's horrified face.

Xion kicked her boots off, letting the fowl foot odor flow through the room, and lay horizontally on the couch, her feet passing Calixa's face. The red head slapped a hand over her nose trying not to gag.

This only encouraged the older girl, who smirked and finished the job by placing one food against Calixa's face. The younger nobody jumped off the couch and ran from the room, screaming. She ran into her room where Roxas was reading a book, "I need to shower!" she shouted running to the bathroom and slamming the door shut.

"What you just took one a half hour ago!" Roxas called back.

She couldn't hear him. The blonde rolled his eyes, and went back to his book. When she came out some hours, her skin had a red tint. Roxas stared at her, "Did you just have the water on hot, or did you scrub your skin raw?"

Calixa didn't reply, just collapsed on the bed, "S- S- Sooo GROSSS!"

"What is?"

She began to retell what happened, and ended with, "Can't you teach your girlfriend about personal hygiene?"

Roxas actually almost laughed, but held it back because he didn't want to lose Calixa also, he was missing Xion enough.

Axel sighed, looking at Zexion. They were both discussing the recent events of there charges. "They haven't exactly done anything wrong, so we can't punish them," Axel was saying.

"I know," the Schemer replied.

"Well... do you think we could somehow bring them to solve it themselves?"

"I tend to think that, they should just work it out for themselves."

"Well, that might take too long, and Calixa and Xion's smell battle is going to piss of Xemnas. You know how much he hates smells that aren't normal."

Zexion sighed, "I guess your right; any suggestions?"

"Well, I got one."

"I'm all ears..."

The flurry smirked and whispered his plan into Zexion's ear. Zexion's eyebrows rose with interest. Then, for a rare time, Zexion smirked.

Meanwhile, Calixa and Roxas were at the dinner table. They were discussing their next move. Calixa was absent of her coat at the moment, and when Xemnas came in he said, "Sixteen you are out of uniform."

"There's a reason for it sir," she said, casting a glare to Xion.

"Do I even want to know that reason?"

"A certain nasty, disgusting member of this organization put her filthy nasty socks in my remaining jackets. I refuse to wear them."

Xemnas pinched the bridge of his nose, he was getting another headache. He didn't even notice Axel's suspicious absence. Roxas did though. He kept asking Calixa were he was, much to the girls annoyance. "Like I said for the millionth time; I don't know where he is."

"Well it worries me that he's not here!"

"Why? He's a big boy I'm sure he can take care of himself."

"What if he's doing something?"

"Like what?"

"I don't know. That's what worries me…"

Calixa scoffed, clearly unworried. Elsewhere, Axel was writing two letters, with Zexion reading them over his shoulder. One was directed to Neox and Xion, though it was labeled as being from Calixa and Roxas. The other was the exact opposite. "Ok how does that look?" he asked Zexion.

"Exactly like them... where did you learn to do that?"

"I have my ways," the red head replied vaguely, and handed Zexion one letter. With a nod, both men exiting through two separate portals.

Neox opened his door and blinked. There was an envelope was on the ground. He picked it up, but when he saw who it was from, and a scowl formed on his face. He decided to read it with Xion, so he went off toward her room. The boy knocked on her door, and Xion opened it, immediately scooping him up into her arms. "Hey cutie!" she squealed crushing his ribs. "What brings you here?"

After catching his breath, Neox showed her the letter. After a brief discussing on weather they should read it or not, they sat down and read it together. At the same time, Roxas and Calixa had the same situation, without the hugging part. "Dear Neox and Xion," Xion started reading.

"You know that this can't go on forever," Roxas read, the exact same thing being on his paper.

"So we thought of maybe having a truce," Xion continued.

"Meet us in the hall of empty melodies to negotiate," Calixa read.

"Signed, Roxas and Calixa…"

Neox blinked and sighed. "Should we go?"

"I think we should. I can't deny it, I miss Roxas, and I know that you miss Cali also."

"Yea... Let's go," Neox opened a portal and they both walked through.

Calixa though was much more stubborn. "Come on Cali, it's a chance to bring things back to normal," Roxas urged.

"Not until they apologize to us," Calixa argued stubbornly.

"Maybe they're going to."

"The note said, 'negotiate' that doesn't sound like there going to say 'sorry I was wrong'"

"You never know."

Calixa crossed her arms over her chest, "I refuse!" Roxas sighed and lifted her up, putting her over his shoulder and opening a portal "Let me go!" she shouted.

He walked in and dropped her when he got to the other side, the red head glared at him, "Jerk..."

Neox and Xion watched them, and there was a long tense silence. Calixa stood up. "Well? We're waiting!"

"What are you talking about, shouldn't you be the one to start?" Neox asked with a glare.

"You better start by apologizing to us!"

"Us apologize!" Xion joined in, "You're the one that started it!"

"Like hell we were!" Roxas scoffed

Neox summoned his keyblade, while Calixa summoned her pen. Roxas and Xion backed away, neither really wanting to fight. With a furious glare, the silver haired boy charged at the girl. Calixa was ready though, took her pen and drew a large rectangle in the air, this created a concrete wall. Neox was expecting her to do something like that, so instead of letting it stop him, he jumped up and slashed it with his keyblade.

This made the wall break into two, and disappear. Calixa, who had backed up some, was currently drawing a large spear in the air, which formed into a solid weapon. She grabbed it, and held the weapon in front of her as Neox slashed his keyblade. The two weapons met with a loud clang. Suddenly an ear piercing screech went through the air. Everyone in the room was affected by it, except for Calixa. Roxas and Xion held there ears winching in pain. Neox jumped back his clasped his hands over his ears, giving the red haired girl time to land a hit on him with the spear.

He let out a loud cry, his left side being cut by it as he fell to his knees. The boy was injured, but not fatally. Winching slightly, he jumped up and slashed his keyblade at her. She jumped back just in time, but wasn't expecting to be hit by the keyblade after Neox threw it at her. It slashed right through her shoulder. Calixa cried out in pain, falling over.

When Calixa became severely while in danger, her defense mechanism was to bring up the volume so high her enemy would be disabled. A loud ringing came, and got louder and louder. Neox fell to his knees, hands clamped tightly over his years, gritting his teeth in pain. The noise got so loud his ears started to bleed. "AHHHH!" The boy wailed out. His eyes were leaking water as he started to feel like he was being strangled.

Calixa's wound was fatal, and it wasn't long before she passed out from blood loss. When that happened, the noise suddenly ceased. Neox, by this time, was completely unconscious.

Roxas and Xion had left the room, when Calixa started making ear bleeding noises. When they heard it stop, they returned and was shocked at the site they saw. Calixa was bleeding heavily from her shoulder, and Neox was unconscious with a miner wound in his side, but blood was flowing slowly form his ears. Xion picked up Neox, and Roxas lifted Calixa by the shoulder. They opened a portal and ran in with both kids.

Hours later the two youngest members of the organization were in intensive care. Neox was still asleep, and Calixa was still unconscious, with an IV in her arm. She had gotten sick, likely from using her power too much. It happened to some of the members, as Vexen said. Roxas and Xion were both extremely worried, they had completely forgotten that they were angry at each other. Xion was crying, since Neox was hurt.

Vexen had ordered her not to get within five feet of the boy, or she'd injure him. Roxas, of course, had to help with this. Neox stirred, and sat up slowly, "How are you feeling?" Xion asked.

As soon as he sat up, he fell right backwards making the girl gasp, and try to jump at him, as if she could save him. Roxas held her back. The boy sat up again, and Vexen walked over to examine him. He looked in Neox's ears, then gently pushed him back down. "What's wrong with him?" Xion asked worriedly.

Vexen looked at her. "He's having trouble focusing on anything, shouldn't last long."

"He won't last long!" Xion screeched and fainted on the spot. Roxas caught her just before she hit the floor.

Vexen blinked and stared. "I meant the effect number fourteen." he said, staring at the unconscious girl.

There was a soft groan that came from Calixa's bed. She started to stir. Roxas and Vexen looked over, Roxas fanning Xion's face to try to wake her up. Calixa opened her eyes with another groan, and looked around. It was must have an interesting scene. Roxas was kneeling on the ground with an unconscious Xion in his arms, with Vexen standing off to the side.

The red head slowly, carefully, and painfully sat up. She looked around the room, seeing Neox in the other bed. Temporally forgetting about all the hard feelings she had for him, and gasped. "Neox... Kingdom Hearts is he ok?" she asked worriedly.

He didn't seem to hear her, eyes glazed over. He was just staring up at the ceiling Vexen then came over to examine Calixa. He looked at her shoulder. Once he decided that the bandages were ok, he took her temperature to make sure that her body wasn't rejecting the blood that was transferred to her. She had to get donated blood, because she lost too much. "You need to stay here another night, then you can be transferred to your room, sixteen," Vexen told her once he finished checking vitals.

Neox suddenly sat up straight in his bed. "N-no! Get away from me!" He shouted, covered in cold sweat. Apparently he had been sleeping with his eyes open in his bed. They all turn and looked at him, "You sure he's ok?" Roxas asked Vexen.

Vexen walked over to him, this time Neox seemed to notice him. The scientist examined him, looking in his mouth and his ears. Then he took out a flashlight, shining it in Neox's eyes. The boy squinted his eyes in annoyance. "Knock it off!"

"Do you know who you are?" Vexen asked him.

"Neox number 15 of the organization, and currently being pissed off by a laser pointer being aimed at my face!"

The Chilly Academic placed a hand over the boys forehead, checking for a fever. "How are you feeling?"

"In pain..."

"A potion can help with that," Vexen said, going to his cupboard and bring out a bottle.

Neox's eyes immediately widened in happiness as he reached out for it like it were gold. Everyone in the room, including Calixa rolled there eyes as he drank it down like it was his favorite drink. Actually it was his favorite drink. "I think I need another one," Neox said after he finished.

Vexen blinked, "You do? You're in that much pain?"

"Don't give it to him," Roxas, Calixa, and Xion all said.

Neox huffed and crossed his arms, "How are you feeling now fifteen?" Vexen asked.

"Much better, thank you." he suddenly growled and glared coldly at the person in the other bed.

Calixa only looked back weakly, feeling very ill and exhausted. "I want to keep you here another hour, then you may leave," Vexen told him.

Neox nodded and felt his side, where Calixa's spear had slashed him. It wasn't a very large wound so the potion took care of it. He smiled a bit, then looked to see if he was on IV. Luckily, he wasn't. Neox hated those things with a passion for some reason, as Roxas often noted.

After an hour he was released from the medical center, and Calixa had fallen asleep so Roxas and Xion went with him. On their way leaving, they passed none other than Larxene, who was looking pissed off. Of course she almost always looked pissed off, but it was more today. Neox looked back, his eyes widening when he saw exactly where she went. The older woman had gone into the medical center door, and Vexen wasn't in there now, so Calixa was all alone.

Neox ran, full speed, back to the room. Roxas and Xion followed, but had a hard time keeping up, Neox's speed matched Larxene. That was very fast, because Larxene was the fastest member in the organization. Neox ran into the room, and found Larxene holding Calixa by her neck. She was choking and tears were rolling down the side of her face as Larxene repeatedly punched her. A sudden rage rolled over Neox. He summoned his keyblade and threw it at Larxene, the hilt crowning her right in the back of the head.

She turned toward him, and yelled with rage. Her knives were summoned to her fingers. Neox, wanting to keep Calixa safe, ran into the hallway. He looked and ran past Roxas and Xion, running to a more wide area of the hall. Calixa was in a delirious fever, so she had ran from the room in hopes to get away from Larxene, and didn't even realize that she was running toward them. Larxene took several lightning fast strikes at Neox hitting him every time. Neox flew backwards, but regained his balance and casted a water element attack, hitting Larxene dead on.

The blonde winched slightly not too much affected by it, and sent out lighting. Neox successfully dodged it, but didn't see Larxene until she was directly in front of him. His eyes widened when he did, noticing that she was less than a foot from him. She landed a deadly slash to his side, which he somehow countered. "Mĩnŷavo!" Calixa suddenly yelled deliriously in a foreign language. No one really noticed that fact though.

Everyone turned to face her, then their eyes widened when a kunai, thrown by Larxene, embedded itself in her belly. The orange haired member fell over gasping, as blood filled her lungs. Neox's eyes widened as he slowly stood up. Roxas and Xion, being closest, were trying hard to heal Calixa.

Pure rage filled his being. So much, he completely lost control of himself. He no longer knew limits... He roared in rage, a red circle forming beneath his feet and covering a fairly wide radius. Larxene stared in shock, not one else was paying much attention. Calixa was almost unconscious, and Roxas and Xion were too busy trying to pour a potion down the girl's throat.

Neox raised his hand up in the air, and the shards began to swirl at a high speed, looking like a vortex. Larxene got ready to attack, but Neox floated in the air, the vortex of shards in front of him. "Darkness devours!" he cried out in rage.

He held his hand to the thinner end of the vortex. It almost looked like he was holding a tornado in the palm of his hand. Larxene's eyes widened as Neox closed his eyes. "Glorious Hell!" he called, a dark purple beam of energy shooting out of the portal and right at Larxene

She screamed in pain, falling over. The beam left a pretty big hole in the floor, which Larxene was laying in. She didn't look too injured, she was at least well enough to flee. Roxas and Xion stared in shock; Neox slowly lowered to his knees, as he went down from his high looking exhausted. The black haired girl ran over and caught him as he fell over. He didn't seem injured, just out of energy. Roxas stayed back with Calixa.

Neox just needed a few hours of sleep then he was back on his feet. Calixa's recovery was delayed some by Larxene's attack. Vexen told her she'd have to say an extra couple of day in the medical center before being transferred to spend the rest of her recovery in her room. When Calixa was finally well enough to be transferred to her room, all four of them were in there talking.

Neox sat in the chair beside the bed, "So how are you feeling Cali?" he asked the girl.

"Better..."

She didn't exactly sound much better. He felt really crappy about the way he treated her and Roxas the past few weeks. He looked over at Xion, it was pretty sure she felt the same way he did by the look on her face. He looked back at Calixa and Roxas, "I'm sorry..."

"Me too" Xion said slowly. Her eyes were a bit misty with tears.

Roxas and Calixa looked at them with confusion, then suddenly remember that what they were apologizing for, "We're sorry too, we should have never let something so silly come between our friendship," Roxas said, and Calixa nodded.

"Yeah so am I..." she replied weakly, and they all hugged each other.

Chapter 12 ^^