Chapter 35
Halloween Special

It was raining once again in the World that Never Was. Calixa was sitting on the couch in the Gray Area staring out the window, "I hate it when it rains," she pouted.

Neox who was sitting in a nearby chair, doing his homework, looked at her. "Why? It almost always rain's here," he pointed out.

"Because then I can't go outside, and its boring in here," Calixa replied.

Neox went back to doing his homework, and said with a sigh, "Well find something to do."

The red haired girl stared at her friend, then smirked evilly. Neox wasn't paying attention, so he didn't notice the smirk. He did look up though, when Calixa suddenly jumped up and ran from the room. The boy stared at her retreating back, and then looked back at his homework. Being suspicious of Calixa's 'infamous boredom' he followed her with a sigh.

Calixa didn't notice that he was following her, so she runs into her room. She had a new sign on the door that said "BEWARE! Calixa's room, enter at own risk." After staring at the sign for a few moments, she just shrugged and walked in. Inside, Calixa was rummaging through her closet. The sound of medal clicking together could be heard. What that crazy girl kept in that closet, was probably something he didn't want to know. But he peaked over her shoulder anyway.

The red head pulled out a cardboard box, and suddenly noticed him standing there. "What are you doing here?" The only reply she received was a smirk. She only smirked back, and said smugly. "Well you not welcome in what I'm doing now."

With that she teleported away holding the box and Neox crossed his arms over his chest and pouted. Then he dug through her underwear drawer, and stole her "secret' box of sweets before leaving. Later on that day, Neox was back in the Gray Area. He was lying on the couch eating twirlers with Demyx, and playing blackjack. He was just about to lay down his hand, when the power suddenly went out. "Demyx did you forget to dry the lab when you were in there?" Neox asked the blonde.

"No I remembered," Demyx replied sounding hurt.

Neox walked over to a cabinet, took out a flashlight, and turned it on, "Let's go Demyx."

"Where are we going?" Demyx asked fearfully.

"This has Calixa written all over it, so we're going to find her," Neox replied walking out of the room. Demyx refused to follow, to frightened.

Neox didn't have the patients to convince the blonde to follow, so he left alone. Eventually, he came upon Roxas. The younger blonde had a ball of light in his hand, lighting the way. "Hey, have you guys seen Cali?" he asked.

"No, I'm looking for her now?" Neox replied.

Roxas shook his head, "She's MIA. No one has been able to find her for hours."

"How much of a percent is it that this is her fault."

"I say about 99.9%."

"Maybe she's in Vexen's lab?"

Roxas shook his head. "I checked there, we've checked everywhere we can think of."

Neox was silent for a few moment thinking. "Where's one place she WOULDN'T expect us to look?"

Roxas just shrugged, "Her room?"

"Good enough for me," Neox agreed and opened a portal to there room. But before they walked though there was a loud shriek.

"Help! Help! Murder! Murder!" Xion came running down the hallway screaming at the top of her lungs.

"Xion?" Neox asked, "Xion what's wrong?"

"Murder!" the black haired girl shrieked, "Marluxia's been murdered!"

"What!" Neox was shocked, "Where? Lead us there Xion!"

Xion ran down the hall and into an empty room where Marluxa's body lay on the ground with a dagger plunged into his chest. He was obviously dead. "What the hell…?" Neox asked in complete shock.

"Why hasn't his body faded away?" Xion asked.

This question was followed by silence, no one had a good answer. Roxas finally broke the silence, "Calixa wouldn't kill anyone, I starting to think that this isn't her doing. But where is she?" he asked to no one in particular.

Neox's eyes widen and he started running, "CALI! CALI WHERE ARE YOU!" he screamed, but no one answered.

"Neox come back!" Roxas called after him. "We have to make sure that everyone is present and accounted for."

The silver haired boy came walking back slowly with a sigh, "Yeah ok, I left Demyx in the gray area. Let's go check on him."

"What without me?" a voice asked behind them.

They all turned to look and saw Axel standing there holding a ball of fire for light. "Yo Axel," Neox greeted.

"What's going on around here?" the fire wielder asked.

"No clue. But we have to get all the members into one place."

"Who turned out the lights?"

"We're not sure," Roxas chimed in.

"You mean your first guess isn't Calixa?" Axel asked, for she was his first guess. That crazy girl was always being the strange happening's in the castle.

Neox shook his head, "No, its not. She would' go so far as blatant manslaughter."

"Someone's dead?" Axel asked confused.

Neox pointed at Marluxia, and the red head looked at it. "Dang…" was all she said, not looking the least bit upset.

"Right, so we got to split into teams and get everyone too one location," Neox announced.

Xion snuggled into Roxas's safe embrace. "I don't want to go…" she said sounding terrified.

"How about you and Axel round up the troops, and I'll take Xion back to her room," Roxas suggested. "She probably won't be much help in this state."

"Ok," Neox agreed and he and Axel headed back toward the gray area.

Demyx was currently huddled in a chair, sobbing like a baby. "Demyx, calm down," Neox said in a more scolding voice, then gentle.

"I- I heard s-s-someone y-yell-ing murder," the musician sobbed.

"Don't worry its only Marluxia," Axel replied offhandedly.

"Come on we need to gather all the members together," Neox continued, grabbing Demyx's arm and pulling him up.

There was suddenly a loud scream that sounded throughout the castle. There being so few girls in the Organization it was easy to figure out which girl had which scream. "Xion!" Neox and Axel said at the same time, and they went running toward her room dragging Demyx alone for the ride.

When they arrived at the girl's room, Roxas was kneeling down by Xion who was currently lying on the ground with a large gash through her stomach. She was bleeding heavily, and gasping for breath. "What happened?" Axel demanded.

Xion opened her mouth to speak, but blood started garbling out of it. "She needs an elixir!" Roxas shouted freaking out.

But Axel was already in the process of giving her one. Xion starts to recover, but passes out. Axel knelt down and gently lifted her up, "I'm taking her back to my room, she should be safe there. Demyx come and help me," the red head announced, and the two older nobodies left the room.

"Gotcha," Neox replied watching them leave. Once they were gone he looked at Roxas suspiciously, "Who or what could have done this?"

"I... I don't know," the blonde replied looking in utter shock.

Neox put Roxas at the top of his list of suspects, why he would do something like this was beyond him. But he was supposed to be looking after Xion, "I thought you were staying with Xion, where were you when this happened?"

"She left her comfort blanket in my room, so I was going to get it for her," Roxas explained distantly, sounding as if he were about to cry. "When I came back… she- she was on the ground with a hole in her chest…"

Neox wasn't buying it, sure he was pretty convincing emotionally. But his story sounded pretty lame. "Hey what's that?" the silver haired boy asked, pointing behind Roxas. The older keyblade wielder, turned around to look and Neox hit the back of his head with the hilt of his keyblade. Roxas fell over, passed out instantly. "Sorry man, couldn't risk you killing someone else."

Axel suddenly teleported back into the room, "Ok Xion's good- what happened to Roxas?"

"Um… he tripped and hit his head on the doorframe," Neox said the first thing that came to mind.

"Oh…" Axel replied, not sounding convinced but he accepted the story. Well he's very venerable passed out, I'll put him with Xion-"

"No!"

"Why not?"

Neox quickly though of an excuse, "What if...what if the killer strikes again! Then he'll get two people in on place!" yeah it sounded lame but he couldn't think of anything else.

Axel stared at him with raised eyebrows. It sounded like a lame excuse, but too much was happening right now to worry about it. "Then what do you suggest we do with him?"

"Lock him up…" Neox mumbled under his breath.

"What was that?"

"Lock him in a sealed off area so he's inaccessible to be hurt."

"How about we just put him with Xion and get someone to watch them?" Axel suggested wisely.

Neox threw Roxas's limp body a suspicious look, but nodded his head. "Ok, just make sure you don't leave him- them alone."

Axel picked up the blonde boy and opened a portal, "Go start rounding everyone up and meet in the kitchen," he ordered before walking though it.

"Ok," Neox nods his head, and goes to in the direction of Calixa's room using cure to light his path. When he arrives, the boy finds the room just as messy and smelly as every but still empty of Calixa. "Cali, where are you?" As if on cue, a distant scream was heard that sounded like Calixa's. "Cali…" Neox whispered and raced off at top speed. He was sure that the scream came from the Hall of Empty Melodies, she was sure to be there.

But by the time he got to the large room, the scream was long gone. Neox cast a thunder spell to illuminate the room, which turned out to be empty. Calixa was nowhere in site. The silver haired boy walked around a bit, then dropped to his knees, tears leaking from his eyes. "Neox what are you doing here all alone?" someone asked from behind him.

The boy turned around to see Zexion standing there with a flashlight in his hands. "I'm looking for Calixa…" he replied with a sniffle.

"I'm sure she's ok," Zexion assured not sounding too worried. "Now what's going on here?"

"The powers out, Marluxia's dead, Roxas and Xion are unconscious, Calixa's mission, and Axel is rounding everyone up."

Zexion was silent for a very long time, finally he said. "Marluxia's dead?"

"Yeah I know it's very sad," Neox didn't sound upset at all. "Axel said for everyone to meet in the kitchen."

"Ok you go wait there, and I'll round everyone else up."

Later on everyone was in the kitchen, awaiting orders. Roxas and Xion were still passed out, and put under Bàli's charge. Neox had to be put under Larxene's charge, in order to keep him from running off to find Calixa, who was still missing. Larxene looked pissed, "Why do I have to babysit him," she grumbled.

"Would you prefer he rampage the rooms, including yours, in search of number sixteen?" Zexion asked her.

The blonde woman responded with more grumbling. A soft groan came from Roxas's room as he started to wake up. He opened his eyes with a wince, and asked weakly. "What happened?"

"According to number fifteen, you hit your head on a doorframe," Zexion replied.

"... I did ... I don't remember that…" the blonde looked very confused.

Axel looked at the boys unfocused blue eyes, "I think he has a concussion Zex," he announced. "Don't fall asleep Roxas."

"Why?" Roxas asked dazed.

"Because when one has a concussion, if they fall asleep then they may not wake," Zexion explained, taking out a small pen light and shining it into Roxas's eyes. "I believe your right number eight, stay with him and make sure he doesn't fall asleep."

Axel nodded his understanding, while Roxas looked around the room suddenly realizing that the entire Organization was in the kitchen. "What are we all doing in here?" he asked.

Before anyone could answer, Neox suddenly stood up "Cali..." he said vaguely, almost to himself then ran out of the room.

"Someone stop him," Zexion called. When no one moved he sighed, "Nine go and find him."

"ARE YOU NUTS?" the Melodious Nocturne squeaked pathetically.

Zexion gave him the evil eye, which made Demyx gulp and run out of the room after the silver haired boy. Neox was running around blindly looking for his best friend, not really looking where he was going. So it didn't take long for Demyx to find him, in fact Neox kindly ran into the blonde. The boy was too focused to really care, and ignored Demyx's stuttered pleas to come back to the kitchen, and ran into the library. "Hey Neox come back its dangerous out here," Demyx called.

A red glow was coming from the back f the library, "Cali!" Neox called and ran over to it with Demyx close behind. The red glow was coming from an open book, "What is it?" Neox asked more himself then Demyx.

"I don't know, but its scary, lets go back please," the blonde was shaking fearfully.

The boy cautiously approached the book. Once he was close enough, Neox looked down and started reading the page out loud. "The beast from the deep, nasty and brash; three heads I possess, never shall it be thrashed, the horror of horrors, nightmare of all, the beast from the deep devours its victim's blood, and shall drain thee of thy fluid, the ancient spell shall release it from its slumber, though thy are advised to do otherwise, as the beast from the deep...cannot die..."

"W-What does it mean?" Demyx squeaked.

"If I am correct the beast from he deep is what's attacking us all."

Demyx flipped, "BEAST!"

"Shhhh!" Neox shushed him, and looked beside the book suddenly noticing something he didn't before. "Oh Kingdom Hearts…"

"What?"

Neox points to a dismembered arm. Demyx paled, and then leaned over to vomit on the ground. The younger nobody gulped, looking like he was trying not to do the same, "This must be… what is left… of whoever summoned this…" Neox opened a portal, "We have to tell the other's," he ran though it not even waiting to see if Demyx was following.

Demyx stood there in the red light on the book. He suddenly heard a low breathing, and turned around to see something behind him… with glowing red eyes.

Neox came out of a portal right outside the kitchen and ran inside. "Guys you'll never guess what we found out!" he announced and every eye in the room looked at him.

There was a short pause, "We're not going to guess so you might as well tell us," Larxene said coldly.

"There's a creature of the deep killing everyone, and whoever conjured, the only thing that's left of them is an arm!" Neox was so freaked out that he didn't even comment on Larxene's cold remark.

"How did you find this out?" Zexion asked, though he actually looked alarmed.

"We found a glowing book, which told us all about it. And there was an arm right next to it!"

"It was probably Calixa's," Xaldin commented to Xigbar who was standing next to him. Unfortunately Neox heard the comment and paled, could that really have been Calixa's arm.

"Neox, by we who else are you referring to?" Axel asked still trying to keep Roxas from falling asleep.

"Well Demyx-" the boy broke off looking around, "Thats weird..."

"What's weird?" Axel asked.

"He was right behind me."

"Number six, go check the hallway," Xemnas ordered Zexion.

"Number ten go check the hallway," Zexion ordered Luxord.

"Roxas go check the hallway," Luxord ordered.

Roxas said something with garbled speech, eyes half closed. "I don't think he's up to it," Axel said giving the boys tender head a poke.

Luxord growled and looked at Larxene, who was looking around. He wondered weather it was worth it, to tell her to go and check. "Someone just go check!" Xemnas yelled losing his patients.

Larxene suddenly spoke, "Were missing someone."

"We know that, Number Nine," Zexion pointed out.

"No booknerd," she hissed. "We should have everyone minus Demyx and the she- brat. One more is missing."

"Who then prey tell?"

Larxene pointed to the doorway where Neox is standing. Or was standing "Neox!" Zexion yelled in frustration. "Were you not ordered to stay put?"

"Um he actually wasn't," Axel said.

"Shut up," Zexion hissed and ran out of the room after the boy.

"Number six come back!" Xemnas yelled.

"This must be don't listen to the superior day," Axel joked.

"Shut up Axel" Xemnas told him, knowing how right he was.

Xion suddenly woke up, and looked around confused, "Welcome back to the land of the living, you've missed a lot," Axel told her.

"What happened?" she asked.

Axel sighed, this might take awhile to explain. Meanwhile Neox was running through the hallways trying to find Calixa. Zexion would kill him but he didn't care, "Cali! Cali where are you!" he shouted.

A low grunt caught his attention which made him slow down and look around for the source of the noise. He saw a pair of boots, being dragged around the corner. In the heat of the moment and not really thinking clearly, he dived for the boots to try and stop whoever it was from being dragged away. At the moment he left, Zexion Lexaeus and Axel came into the hall. Xion had been given the job of keeping Roxas awake. "What are you two doing here?" Zexion asked noticing them both for the first time.

"Trying to stop you from getting killed," Axel replied.

"What do you mean?"

"Who knows what could be out here," Lexaeus replied.

"Oh come on. What could be in this castle that's so bad?" Zexion asked. Then the three of them looked behind there backs, and a dark shrouded figure slinked passed them when they were all looking behind. None of them saw this.

"Come on, we have to find, Neox, Calixa and Number nine," Zexion announced treading forward.

Back in the room with the rest of the organization, Roxas was finally starting to feel himself again and was getting antsy to help. "Roxas lie down!" Xion ordered gently.

"We can't just sit around, while Cali and Neox are still missing."

"Ye realla canna do much in yer condition," Bàli told him.

"I'm feeling better now," Roxas insisted.

"Not well enough to go after whatever attacked Xion," Xero added.

"Yes I am, and I don't care what any of you say," Roxas then ran out of the room before anyone could stop him.

Xion darted after him, and Xemnas didn't even try to stop this knowing that he had lost all leadership hours ago. "Should we go after them?" Xero asked his girl friend.

"Nae… I think we shoulds stay 'ere," Bàli replied, her cowardliness surfacing.

Elsewhere, Zexion and company were outside Vexen's lab. "If only Roxas were here. His element is light and he'd be able to light the way," Axel commented the group had been stumbling around the dark since meeting up.

"Can't you do that too Axel? Fire and all?" Zexion asked.

"Oh..." Axel replied stupidly, "Right," he summoned a ball of flames into his hand.

The two saw that Zexion was reading something that was written on a wall. "Zexion what are you doing?" axel asked.

The Cloaked Schemer didn't answer. He was either hypnotized or whatever it said was really interesting. Lexaeus and Axel walked over to read it, and the first thing that they noticed was that it was written in blood. The second was that they couldn't understand the text. It was in some type of hieroglyphics. Finally Zexion backed away and looked at them. His face grave, "What did it say?" Axel asked.

"I'm not sure..."

"Recite it word for word?" Lexaeus suggested.

"No Lexaeus, I don't understand any of it."

"You don't understand something?" Axel was shocked.

Zexion glared at him, "Shut up. I understand any and all human hieroglyphics."

"Then why cant you tell us what it said?" Axel challenged.

"... I said human..."

"What it's not human?"

Zexion nodded, "That is exactly right," a strange sounding voice said behind them.

They would have looked but Axel shoved them into Vexen's lab. They all fell on top of each other, "Get off me you idiots!" Zexion roared.

They all jumped up, "Axel why did you do that?" Lexaeus growled.

"I was scared..." the pyro smiled sheepishly.

Zexion shook his head and looked out into the hallway. He saw what looked like someone from the organization, lying on the ground unconscious looking broken and bloody. He ran over to look at it. It was pretty dark, but Axel's fire was bright enough to tell that it was Demyx. Despite himself, Zexion shouted, "Eight and Five, get over here, I've found Number Nine!"

"Oh my gosh what happened to him," Axel asked

"Number nine, number nine wake up!" Zexion shouted giving his shoulder a shake. He got no response, "We better get him back to the kitchen."

Axel and Zexion and Lexaeus made it back to the kitchen with Demyx, "What happened?" Xemnas asked when he saw the state of the blonde musician.

"We're not sure," Zexion answered.

Demyx groaned, as he started to wake up. "Demyx your alive!" Axel said

"Did you see who attacked you," Xaldin asked.

He looked like he was about to answer, "C- cal- ix- a," Demyx replied after a few try's

There was a long silence, "Yea right!" Larxene laughed as Xaldin and Luxord did the same.

Demyx was too out of it to really argue; he still managed to squeak out, "I- its true!"

Axel then noticed that there two light wielders were missing, "Where's Roxas and Xion?" he asked.

Neox stumbled into the study, "Cali are you in here," he whispered loudly. There was no response, and he sighed regretfully. He left the study and walked though the endless hallways. She wasn't anywhere in this huge castle. He walked toward where he assumed the kitchen was, and suddenly heard a low growling sound coming from behind him. Neox quickly turned around only to see the empty hallways.

Feeling shaken, the boy continued on toward the kitchen. He made it, in one piece thankfully, and casually walked not wanting to show how afraid he was. "Neox!" Zexion ran over, inspecting him for injury.

"I'm fine Zexion stop fussing," the younger nobody insisted.

Zexion nodded. "Good..." he sighed in relief, and then smacked the boy upside the head.

"Ow what was that for?" Neox rubbed the back of his head.

"For running off without permission!" Zexion scolded.

Neox sniffed, "I want Calixa..."

Zexion sighed again, picking him up, and Neox snuggled against his shoulder. Zexion sat at the table while Xemnas started musing to himself. He suddenly stood up and looked around, then nodded. "Okay, we are forming search and destroy/rescue parties!" the Superior announced to his organization.

Everyone looked at him. Some wondered why he waited so long to do this. It would have made more sense to do this at the beginning. Xemnas quickly divided them up into groups of three or four and told them to go search the castle. Neox, got stuck with Zexion, Bàli and Axel. They all left the kitchen. Neox was restraining from calling out Calixa's name, as he walked with his group, using Axel's fire to illuminate their way. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up as he heard that growl again.

The boy look at the members of his group, "Did you guys hear that?" he asked, nervously.

"I did," Axel said seriously.

"M-me too…" Bàli said, getting closer to Axel.

Something very warm and slimy suddenly dripped into Neox's shoulder, and he instantly looked up. Hanging from the roof was the most hideous looking creature he'd ever seen. If this wasn't the creature of the deep then he didn't know what was. "AHH!" he screamed, and then ran to Zexion.

All four of them looked up at it and gasped. Bàli started shaking uncontrollably. Neox stared at it, and then noticed blood dripping from its mouth. "Herocoar cealio giwaks!" a strange tongue suddenly spoke from behind them.

They all turned around and to their great surprise Calixa was stranding there. "Cali!" Neox cried out in joy, starting to run to her.

But Zexion grabbed his arm, knowing that something was terrible wrong. Calixa spoke again, "Hetrar!" she shouted and the monster landed on the ground in front of them with a crash.

Neox stared. "She's... she's controlling it!" he told them.

Before anyone had time to question or comment the monster charged at them. Neox and Axel jumped right over it. Bàli was plowed by it though. She barely had time to scream before the monster opened its humongous mouth and swallowed her whole. "BÀLI!" the three males yelled out.

But she was gone, Calixa muttered a few more words to the monster. Neox took out his keyblade, and the monster turned toward him. At Calixa's next order the monster pounced at him. Neox fell back with the monsters paws on him, teeth bared ready to kill him. "Cali please why are you doing this!" Neox called.

The girl walked over to him, then smirked darkly. She was obvious possessed, "Cali please!" Neox begged.

She said more words to the monster, which lifted up its hug claw~ "Ahh!" Neox shot up in his bed, an icy sweat drenched his body. Outside a huge thunderstorm was happening. "A dream... more like a nightmare..." he said to himself. After a few moments he calmed himself down, but knew that he'd never get back to sleep.

The boy then got out of bed, and peeked out into the hallway. All was quiet, at least in the castle. Outside the storm was deafening. He left his room, walking to the kitchen. When he reached the kitchen, Neox saw that most of the members were up as well. "What's everyone doing up?" He asked.

"Couldn't sleep with all the thunder." Xaldin said, sipping his coffee. The rest nodded in agreement.

"Oh, okay," Neox said, getting a bowl of cereal. He froze when he saw Calixa sitting at the table reading a disturbingly familiar book. "AHH NOOO!" he screamed and quickly snatched the book out of her hands, and threw it into a portal.

You could feel the heat coming from inside the portal. "Wait! What did you do that for!" she asked him glaring.

"Some things... are better left unread..." he told her, sighing in relief.

Azariosiza when we said that there wasn't any plans on another chapter like chapter 33 we forgot about this one :P At least this one wasn't as crazy and random as chapter 33

Unfortunetly we have some bad news as well. This is the last already finished chapter we have, which means updates are random again. We will post when we finsih a chapter, and try not to go too long between updates, but we are both in school.

Happy Halloween Everyone :D