Chapter 15

Xemnas looked down at his Organization, which looked back at him. There was a long silence, where everyone waited for him to continue. Roxas looked around and noted that quite a few people were gone. Saïx, Luxord, Vexen Neox, and Calixa weren't there. It was fairly normal for Neox and Calixa to be missing at the same time. But everyone else was a strange mix. It honestly worried the blond keyblade wielder.

Xemnas seemed to be really taking his time. It has been almost a minute of silence, and he still hadn't said what this was all about. Maybe he was still waiting on someone. "Organization..." he began slowly.

Everyone seemed to be on the edge of there seats. There was a grave feeling in the air, and unusually everyone was listening. "We're in a crises situation..."

"What's happening Superior?" Xaldin asked.

"Something has happened, so several of our members," Xemnas replied. Roxas was getting a bit worried. Were they were dead... or close to it... "They have fallen into some sort of sickness... as of now, the cause is unknown. The infected members are members, ten, fifteen, and sixteen."

"Are we going to get sick also?" Xion asked worriedly

"That, we don't know. They have been quarantined," Xemnas announced reassuringly.

"So what do we do now?" Roxas asked.

"We will be searching all worlds for a cure, bringing any herbs that we can find."

"What are we going back to the stone age?" Demyx asked, "Whatever happened to medication?"

Axel stared at him. "Demyx, can I see your sitar?" he asked.

"No," the older blonde replied. He knew Axel well enough.

"Okay then," Axel replied, then gave Demyx and almighty slap to the back of his head with his hand. "You idiot! Medicine is made from herbs!"

"Ouch!" Demyx rubbed the back of his head. "You didn't have to hit me..."

"I hoped that it would knock some sense into you," the pyro replied.

Xemans cleared his throat, to get there attention again. They all looked at him, "Everyone go to the gray area. There you will be given the world to go to and look for herbs. We will do this until we find a cure. Until then, all missions are postponed"

There were a few whistles of shock. This must have been pretty big. Xemnas ALMOST sounded worried. Roxas teleported to the ground and walked with Xion, "I wonder if this has something to do with, all those Xemnas clones?" Xion wondered.

"I wonder..." Roxas replied looking down in thought. "I hope its not too serious... I want to go see Neox and Calixa."

"We cant, there in quarantine." Xion replied with a grave sigh.

"Not unless we sneak in," he replied, smirking.

Xion looked behind her to see if anyone was nearby, then nodded her head. "Ok let's do it."

Roxas created a portal, and both stepped in and reappeared outside Vexen's medical center. Roxas looked around quickly, then ducked into the room with Xion close behind. Inside the lab, they saw no one in the usual beds sick or injured members laid in when admitted. "Where are they?" Roxas asked.

Xion shrugged, "Well if there quarantined, they wouldn't just be lying around anywhere." She walked over to another door and looked inside. She spotted Luxord lying on a bed, quivering. He looked almost like a skeleton with skin. "I think I found them," she whispered to Roxas, and they both snuck into the room.

The three beds were all side by side. Right besides Luxord's bed was Calixa's, but the bed on the end, was empty. He wasn't there. Xion gasped, "Dont flip out yet," Roxas quickly reassured her. "This isn't necessary his bed."

"Yes it is... why are you here?" a child's voice came from behind them.

Both quickly turned around and saw Neox standing there behind them. He didn't seem to healthy either, but was nowhere near as bad as Luxord. He was the only one awake. "Neox!" Xion cried out, and ran over to give the boy a hug.

Roxas grabbed the back of her coat and pulled her back. "Xion, no!"

"Why not!" she cried out, wanting so desperately to comfort the poor boy.

"He's sick! You heard the Superior!"

"What it's now a crime to comfort a sick person?"

"It's a bad thing to do, yes!"

"Why!" tears were starting to fall from her eyes.

"You don't want to get sick to, Xion," Neox said, walking past them.

The black haired girl finally stopped struggling, but inwardly collapsed. She burst into tears, "Oh Neox, we have to find the cure!"

"I know. That's why I didn't take the antiseptic like they did." he pointing at Calixa and Luxord who both looked like death warmed over. "But I can't leave. I need you two to do me a favor."

"What's that?" Roxas asked.

"Go to my room, and find the book of spells that I have. It's titled 'Trials of the Necromancer.' Bring it here"

"Why? How would that help?' Roxas asked, and at the same time Xion asked. "Where is it in your room?"

"It has a spell that can dispel sicknesses. Until now I thought it was useless, and I'm not sure. You'll have to look around," the boy explained, laying back down on the bed tiredly.

The two light wielders nodded, and ran off. As they headed toward Neox's room, Zexion stopped them. "There you two are, we've been looking all over for you."

"Um, we're sort of in a hurry," Xion said, bouncing on her heels.

"That's good; you should be in a hurry. Saïx is waiting for you two, Roxas your going to Land of Dragons, and Xion your going to Deep Jungle."

"But Zexion-" Roxas began.

"No buts, now get moving!"

"Fine!" Xion huffed, walking to toward the gray area. Roxas followed, both silently intended to sneak off toward Neox's room as soon as Zexion was out of sight. But unfortunately the Cloaked Schemer decided to follow them.

"Zexion look! It's a heartless!" Roxas shouted, pointing behind him.

The Cloaked schemer turned around to look, and Roxas shoved Xion through a portal, since she believed him as well, and ran through it. They reappeared in Neox's room. "Hurry, we don't have much time before the entire organization comes looking for us."

"Right!" with that, they started too ransack Neox's room. "We don't even know what it looks like," Roxas complained looking at the different books on the shelf.

Xion looked in his closet. They were finding nothing, and Roxas was starting to become anxious, that someone was going to find them before they found it. Suddenly, Xion squealed in joy, "FOUND IT!"

The blonde inwardly sighed with relief. But as if on queue someone called out, "Roxas! Xion! Where are you!"

Roxas immediately opened a portal and ran through it, and Xion followed quickly behind him. Both reappeared in the room where Neox was waiting for them. He was lying on his bed, he weakly sat up when they entered. "Here's the book," Roxas handed it to him.

Neox took it and sat down, reading through it. Roxas and Xion stood there watching him. After a few moments Neox looked at them, "This could take some time. Go."

Roxas and Xion teleported into the gray area, and Zexion forced to go on there missions. It was late at night, when Neox finally found the spell in the enormous book. "Yes, I found it!" He cried out to himself, but then quieted down and read the spell aloud. Once the spell was finished he waited, and suddenly, he felt his strength returning to him On the bed next to him, Calixa started to stir.

"Uhh... what happened?" she asked with a groan.

"We got sick," Neox said plainly.

"Yeah, I remember feeling bad suddenly. But then it's all a blank..." Calixa said dazed.

Neox nodded. "Yeah..."

Later on, Neox was sitting in a meeting with Xemnas, Luxord and Calixa. "How are you feeling?" Xemnas asked. It sounded really weird having him ask such a question.

"I'm fine..." Neox said, just a bit creeped out.

Calixa was so creeped out, she couldn't even find the words to answer the question. She just nodded in agreement. Luxord nodded as well, guzzling down a beer that he had in his hand. He didn't really notice the tone, just heard the question.

"Very well," Xemnas replied. "You may all leave."

"Understood..." Neox slowly backed out of the room.

Once they were all out of the office, Neox and Calixa broke into a run. Luxord watched them and shrugged, returning to his quarters. The two kids ran straight to Roxas and Xion's room. Xion's room first because it was closer. They found it empty, so headed toward Roxas's room. The burst open the door and found Roxas and Xion reading something. "Neox!" Xion cried out, jumping up and bear hugging the kid.

Neox, for the first time since he's been in the Organization hugged back. But when Neox was finished hugging her, she didn't let him go. "Um, Xion... you can let go now," he told her.

"No! I don't ever want to lose you again!" Xion replied clinging tighter.

Neox started gasping for breath when she hugged him tighter. "Xion let him breath," Roxas said pulling her away from him. Calixa pulled on Neox and they managed to pull the two apart. "Glad to see you two feeling better," Roxas added.

"Yeah, The spell worked," Neox responded.

"Thats great!" Xion said resisting the urge to hug Neox again.

Calixa smiled and leaned on the wall, "But now we need to find out what caused it."

"It was your clones, probably," Roxas suggested.

"I dunno... The spell didn't say anything about that happening."

"So what should we do?" Calixa asked.

"Tell Xemnas?" the silver haired boy replied.

"Tell me what?" a voice said behind them.

They all looked up and saw that Xemnas was standing right over Neox. "Ha, ha, Hi Superior..." Calixa laughed nervously.

"What do you need to tell me, number fifteen and sixteen?" he asked. The two looked at each other, no one said anything. "I'm waiting"

"Um... well you see Superior..." Neox started but trailed off looking at Calixa for aid.

The orange haired girl was currently crawling through a portal she had made at the moment. "No you don't!" Neox grabbed the end of her organization jacket.

"Um... well Neox sort of found a spell in Zexion's book," she started and Neox gave her a look of death. That made it seem like it was all his fault.

"Oh really now?" Xemnas's eyes narrowed

"Well I was trying help Calixa and Luxord!" Neox defended himself.

"I see... Is that why you are no longer sick?"

"Um... yeah..."

"I see. Excellent job number fifteen."

"Look I sorry but- what was that?" Neox was about to start defending himself, until he realized what Xemnas said. Perhaps he misunderstood.

"I said good job."

The boy beamed and Calixa's mouth dropped in shock. "And by yourself too, I think this warrants a reward."

"Really?" both Neox and Calixa asked.

"Yes, you are dismissed of all your missions for the rest of the week."

Neox started hooting, and at the same time Calixa yelled "What!"

Roxas and Xion were laughing. Calixa's selfishness had finally come back to bite her in the butt. "So moving on, number sixteen, thirteen and fourteen there has been a presence detected in the castle that must be found," Xemnas continued.

"What kind of presence, sir?" Roxas asked

"An unknown presence."

"Like a heartless?" Xion asked.

"Possibly."

"So you want us to find it?" Roxas asked.

"Yes, I'm having the entire organization scout the castle to find the presence," Xemnas explained.

"Understood," Xion saluted, and Xemnas stared at her, unsure of what she was doing.

Roxas just rolled his eyes, "We're on it Superior," he said and dragged Calixa and Xion away.

Neox smiled and opened a portal to his room. Later on the boy was sitting at his window sill, looking outside. There wasn't much to look at though; just night time, Kingdom Hearts, and a shadowy figure standing on a roof... wait what? Neox pressed his face closer to the glass, trying to get a better look at it. It looked like a person, but it was too dark to tell. Even though he supposedly had the rest of the week off, curiosity got the best of him, and he went to go check it out.

Neox opened a portal to the area, and stepped through. He reappeared on a part of the roof where you could stand. The figure was definitely a heartless. It turned and looked at him. Its yellow eyes gleamed, and the silver haired boy summoned his keyblade. The heartless stared for a minute, then, to his surprise, it spoke.

Neox listened to his strange sounding words. This was very odd he had never heard a heartless speak before. He then made a big mistake by lowering his guard. The heartless rushed him, and deliverer a punch to his jaw, knocking him back. "Ouch!" the boy cried out falling back onto the roof.

He rolled backwards to his feet, but had to let his keyblade go to do so, and the heartless came at him again, punches flying. Neox backed away from the heartless and ran toward where his keyblade lied. The heartless jumped in front of him and threw another punch, but Neox caught it this time. He jumped up and roundhouse kicked the heartless in its face. The heartless fell backward and was disoriented enough for the boy to grab his keyblade. After a few moments the heartless regained his composure enough to look back at Neox. Then it held its hand out, and produced a sword made from darkness. The boy stared at it, taking a few steps backward. Then readied himself for a fight.

The fight was extremely long. An hour probably, Neox thought. He had never fought anyone for this long, and was completely exhausted. Unfortunately the heartless didn't look tired at all, where Neox was about to collapsed. It charged at him, and landed two punches to the boys face and then kicked him in the chest, knocking him away

Neox laid on the roof, too exhausted to fight anymore. He stared at the heartess as it approached him. Maybe this was the end... The heartless walked slowly to him then looked down at his face. It was just about to strike when another keyblade suddenly embedded itself into its chest. The heartless looked startled, and Neox took the chance, using the remainder of his strength to jump up and decapitate the heartless. Its body faded away. Neox was about to turn around and see who saved him, but exhaustion finally got to him and all went black.

He woke up in a room that he recognized as Calixa's.

"Hey sleepy head," someone greeted above his head.

He looked up. Calixa was grinning at him, "Guess what!" she said excitedly.

"What...?" he asked, sitting up slowly and rubbing his head.

"Xemnas is pissed at you," the red head was grinning like a Cheshire cat.

"Wh-what? What I do!"

"You went out on the roof without permission."

"But it was for a good reason!"

"To the Superior, I guess it doesn't matter."

"Dammit..."

"Hey it could be worse. You just don't have the rest of the week off any more."

"That is worse! I don't feel like I can use my arms!"

Calixa just laughed at him. He sighed and laid back. "Wake me up for my next mission... I need rest…" he said, falling back asleep.

Here's chapter 15, sorry for hte wait. Next one should be up faster then this one