Chapter 39

Neox sat on his bed reading a book, while Calixa was writing in her dairy on the other end of the bed. Neox suddenly looked up, "Hey Cali, I just thought of something."

"What is it?" she blinked. He very rarely spoke up from his reading.

"You must have been a cat in a past life," he showed her the book he was reading which was called, 'The mystery of your former selves.'

She stared and then walked over, looking at it. "Just what makes you say that?"

"Well is makes sense, it says here that you take some of your habits you had in you past life into your next life. Cats are clean freaks that always want to keep clean and as soon as there dirty they must clean themselves. That's totally you."

"I'm not sure whether I should be offended or honored," she said dryly then looked up the clock on her wall, "Its time for lunch soon."

"Oh good, I'm hungry!"

Calixa sighed though. "I think I need to wait until later before eating. Vexen looked about ready to kill me at lunch, why can't he just stop being a big stick in the mud and forget about this diet."

"Not like you don't need it," Neox said with a smirk.

"You food habits aren't any better then mine was!" she glared.

"Yeah but I'm not fa-"

"I AM NOT FAT!" Calixa screeched.

Neox blinked. "Ok, ok... just calm down... I'm not a twinkie!" Neox laughed, running out.

Calixa ran after him, "If I catch you then you'll never walk easily again!"

At everyone, everyone was eating. Calixa had decided to come to lunch, and was swiping food from people's plates when she knew that Vexen wasn't looking. Xion was currently trying to convince her of something. "Come on Cali please," the raven haired girl begged. "I don't want to have to go all alone with her."

Calixa took a bit of Xion's loaded baked potato, and hate it while in thought. "Yeah… but I don't want to be around her either," she scowled looking over at Bàli.

"But at least you wont be alone with her, which is what will happen to me if you don't do this," Xion pressed as Calixa then snatched a piece of fried chicken from her plate and took a bit. Normally Xion tried stopping her when she did this, but she had to get on the girls good side right now.

"Hmmm," the carrot head still seemed hesitant.

"I promise to wash my feet."

Calixa looked up at this, Xion knew she hit the jack pot with that. But Calixa knew how to play dirty as well. "You wash them with soap and water every day for the next month."

Xion scowled, that would take a lot of extra time in her shower but it was worth it. "Ok fine."

The two girls shook hands and Xemnas suddenly spoke up, "Where is number nine?"

Everyone looked around and saw that he wasn't there. Thought the mystery of where he was didn't last long, "AXEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL!" Demyx cried hyperactively, running into the room skidding to a stop near the Axel.

"Demyx calm down!" Axel said. "You going to give yourself a heart attack."

"And people say I'm the dumb one," Demyx chuckled, then showed Axel a paper. "Look! That zoo adoption thing that we signed up for! We're now the proud parents of this 2 year old chimpanzee!"

"I always knew fire and water mixed to make something," Larxene snickered, making almost the whole table laugh.

Axel glared at her, "Can we go see it Axel?" Demyx begged.

"If I say yes will you leave me alone?" Axel asked, and Demyx nodded happily. "Then yes I'll go with you, now let me eat in peace!"

Demyx cheered loudly in Axel's ear, and then went to eat his dinner. After everyone was finished eating, Demyx dragged Axel off through a portal and Calixa left with Xion and Bàli. Xion and Bàli were on a collecting hearts mission in twilight town, and Xion had convinced Calixa to come with them.

It actually wasn't as bad as one would think, at first that is. Xion ended up breaking apart from them, much to Calixa's irritation since it was Xion's that convinced her to come. Xion went into the train tunnels to find more heartless while Calixa and Bàli finished off the heartless at the front of the stations tower. Once the last heartless had faded away, Calixa bent down to pick up her pen that she dropped and heard an ominous rip. "Shit!"

Meanwhile Demyx and Axel had arrived at the zoo to see there adopted monkey. "There it is!" Demyx yelled happily, then ran to the monkey cage. "Which one do you think is ours?"

"I don't know, why don't we ask someone," he looked around for an employee.

Demyx looked at the monkeys, then shrugged. "Oh bubbles!" he called. One monkey climbed down from a tier swing and looked at him. "I found him Axel!"

"How do you know that ones yours?" Axel asked.

"Cuz he came when I called him," Demyx said, hugging the monkey through the bars, who hugged back.

Axel rolled his eyes. Demyx then reached into a bag he brought, putting a baseball cap on the monkey's head. "Here ya go!"

"Demyx are you sure you should be doing that. He's still an animal you know."

"Awww, so cute." Demyx cooed as the monkey looked awkwardly at the hat. "And here's a baseball bat!" Demyx said handing him the item.

"Demyx I don't think that's a good idea, no-" it was too late the monkey bashed another monkey over the head.

The other monkey fell to the ground. It was completely unconscious. "What going on over there?" a guy asked walking over to them. He stopped dead in his tracks a couple feet from where they were standing. "OH NO! Call for help, monkey with a bat!"

Several men came running over and Demyx blinked, "He's our monkey. We adopted him."

"How did he get the bat!" one of the guys asked.

Axel pointed to demyx wordlessly making the melodious nocturne glare at him. Demyx ended up just getting scolded. However, the zoo decide that the monkey should be taken to a different zoo. Demyx was very distressed, but went back home with Axel regardless. "Cheer up would you," Axel said. "We did what you wanted."

"But he... Bubbles is being taken away Axe!" Demyx whimpered.

"Because you gave him a bat and he knocked out another monkey!"

Demyx sniffled and walked away, "It's not fair..."

Bàli had never laughed so hard in her life, she didn't even care that Calixa looked about to kill her. The red haired girl tried to hide the gaping rip in the side of her pants, that revealed her puppy dog panties, but Bàli was a fast catch. "I said shut up!" Calixa screeched at the Scott as she used her organization coat to cover herself.

"O-Okay, ok I'm sorra, tis jist-" broke down into giggles again now rolling around on the ground.

Calixa stomped over to where Bàli was laying and not very carefully placed her foot onto the older girls stomach. The blonde stopped laughing as she gasped for breath, "Listen you!" Calixa growled, "You are not to tell Xion, or anyone about this. Especially not Neox, understand?"

"A-Aye," Bàli gasped.

"Good," the carrot head nodded curtly then grabbed Bàli's arm and yanked her up. "Now lets go to the store and get me more pants before Xion finds us."

Axel and Demyx had come back from the zoo, and Axel was cleaning the kitchen with Saïx helping. "I detest this job..." the blue haired nobody grumbled.

"You always did," Axel laughed.

"Yet, I constantly had to because you left me with the bill whenever we went to eat anywhere."

"Axel!" Demyx cried, running in, tracking mud as he did so. "I need you to come with me."

"What do you want!" Axel asked glaring at him for getting mud on the floor he just cleaned.

"I need you to com with me" Demyx repeated, tugging Axel's sleeve.

"Why?" the flurry asked.

"Because! It...its just important ok?"

"No go away," Axel told him and went back to cleaning.

"But Axel!"

"No."

Demyx groaned and left the room, grabbing some banana's as he went. Axel barely took notice, just kept cleaning. Saïx looked at him, "Get me a step ladder so I can clean the ceiling"

"You can't order me around!" asked said annoyed.

"Yes I can, I'm higher ranked, just get the ladder! The sooner you do the sooner we finish!"

Axel left the room grumbling. Demyx's eyes widened when he saw Axel come into the basement. There was a monkey sitting beside him just watching as the Pyro passed them. Axel grabbed the step ladder he came to get, and left the room not even taking notice of Demyx.

Saïx held his hand out for the step ladder, "Good. No monkeying about."

"Nope-" Axel said but suddenly broke off, and then he stormed down to the basement, looking at the monkey. "MONKEY!" he yelled. "There's a monkey in here!"

"I-I know! I was trying to tell you!" Demyx said. "It's Bubbles! I took him!"

"You took the monkey?" Axel asked, not sure if he heard him right.

"Yeah, they were going to take him away from us!" Demyx defended.

"You TOOK the MONKEY!" Axel repeated in disbelief.

"He's our monkey! We adopted him!" Demyx whined.

"Demyx, the adoption program is just a way for the zoo to raise mone-" Axel was cut off when a banana hit him in the face.

Demyx laughed, as well as the monkey. "That had better have been the monkey." Axel said in a deathly low voice.

Demyx squeaked in fear, "Yes it was the monkey."

"Good... now, let's get it up to your room. We need to get it back to the zoo."

"NO!" Demyx hugged the monkey. "We can't do that, we adopted it."

"Demyx, do you want to be arrested for chimp-napping?"

"Chimp-napping, what's that?" Demyx asked.

"The same thing that would happen if someone kidnapped you! Now come on!" Axe said, shoving him and the monkey through a portal.

"Axel..." Demyx whined.

"IN THE PORTAL!"

Demyx picked the monkey up and stepped into the portal. Axel followed them, then picked up Demyx's phone, calling the zoo's number. "But Axel we adopted him, why do we have to give him back?" Demyx asked. "Look at him, Bubbles looks so happy."

"... Demyx, where is bubbles?" Axel asked, looking at Demyx.

The blonde looked around, noticing that the monkey wasn't there. "Um..."

"... Demyx, I'll ask again. Where is Bubbles!"

"He was here just a minute ago, maybe he's playing hide and seek?"

"... Well go seek him out before my foot seeks right up your-"

"Ok, ok, I got it," Demyx said quickly. "Bubbles! Here Bubbles, come out, come out wherever you are?"

Calixa stood in front of her mirror, staring as herself in her new pants. They were one size bigger then her normal size. "The pant sizes must have gone up or something," she said to herself.

"Get real," a voice said from the doorway. Bàli was standing there, staring at her with a smirk on her face.

"Go away pipe blower," the carrot head snapped.

Bàli's smirk slipped from her face, and now she looked more serious. The blonde walked in without invitation, and closed the door. "Why da ye think yer pants ripped in de firs place?" she asked.

"Um… probably because the pants were old, and thin."

Bàli shook her head, "Vexen put ye on 'at diet fur a reason, it wasin tae make ye miserable. It was fur yer own health. Keep goin like dis, an tis goin to lead tae heath problems." The older girl pointed at Calixa's waist, "Tis alreada started." With that Bàli left the room, leaving Calixa to her own thoughts.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Neox was making a sandwich. "This is going be great!" he said, putting potato chips on it and then some lettuce. Then he went to the kitchen to get some meat for it. When he came back the sandwich was gone. "Huh?" he asked, looking everywhere. Even under the plate. It was gone- vanished. Maybe Calixa had gone back to that stupid magic thing and was better now?

The boy groaned and went to make another one. Up above, unnoticed by Neox, the monkey was hanging from the ceiling sandwich in hand. The chimp then swung out, headed to the gray area. Neox finished making his second sandwich, and then headed right for the gray area, not taking his eyes off of it.

When he got to the gray area though, he found his other sandwich sitting on the couch. "... What the hell?" he checked it, and sure enough, it was the first sandwich he had made. Now he was really starting to think that Calixa was back on her magic thing.

Back in the kitchen, bubbles was looking at the expensive dishes in the dish rack with wonder. The monkey picked one up and dropped it, laughing at the sound it made when it shattered. He then picked up another, and banged it against the sink, smiling broadly, and then picked up a glass throwing it across the room. Bubbles began laughing loudly, throwing dishes and plates around the room. The chimp quickly hid when he heard foot steps coming. "Demyx, where the hell is the monkey!" Axel growled

"I'm looking for him," the blonde replied.

"Well you're not looking hard enoug- WHAT THE (BEEP)?" Axel screamed upon seeing the kitchen.

All of there very expensive, actually most expensive dishes were broken and shattered. "Oh no! What happened?" Demyx asked.

"The monkey! The monkey happened!" Axel snarled. "Dammit!"

"We have to find Bubbles before he gets hurt," Demyx said worriedly.

"The monkey! What about he dishes?"

"He could cut his foot on the glass," Demyx reasoned.

"Demyx, help me clean this up before-"

"What the hell?"

"Damn!"

"What in the name of hearts?"

multiple voices resounded from behind them. Saïx, Xemnas, Xaldin, and Zexion had come into the room. "Oh, um... hey guys!" Axel greeted nervously.

"What did you two do!" Zexion asked.

"Um... well... we got bored so we smashed the dishes! They make really cool noises!" Demyx said, picking up a plate that wasn't broken and throwing it on the floor.

Axel face palmed, and Xemnas looked ready to kill. Demyx blinked and then chuckled nervously, a loud monkey screech sounded from the top of the fridge. Everyone looked up, noticing the monkey. "Bubbles!" Demyx cried out happily

"Where did a monkey come from?" Xaldin asked.

The monkey then smiled, as they all noticed that the garden hose was in its hand, from the window. Each and every one of them gulped, and then the monkey pressed the button, spraying water at them all.

Later on at dinner time, Calixa walked into the kitchen and sat at the table in-between Roxas and Neox. Roxas out of habit piled more food onto his plate then needed, and placed it between him and Calixa knowing that she was going to snitch from him like normal. "You don't need to do that, I'm eating my own dinner," Calixa said pushing his plate away and grabbing her own.

She piled her plate with a little chicken breast, wild rice and steamed broccoli. Everyone had stopped eating to stare at her. "Does this mean you're off your strike?" Neox asked.

The carrot head didn't answer for a moment, then nodded her head. "Yes," Vexen actually nodded is approval at her, and Bàli smiled knowingly.

The door to the kitchen opened, Axel and Demyx came in looking exhausted and worse for wear. "Owwwww..." Axel groaned, collapsing in a chair.

Demyx was groaning as well, "I hate punishment missions…"

"It's your fault! Axel snapped.

"Look on the bright side... only two more weeks of this!" Demyx said happily.

Axel glared at him, "I'm never helping you with anything again!"

First Bàli goes off her diet, now Calixa goes back onto her's :)