Warning, implied spanking in this chapter
Chapter 43
Roxas sighed. "I understand Axel. Just go!"
"Are you sure you can handle this?" Axel asked looking concerned, "He's very sensitive."
"Yes Axel! It's a bird! All I need to do is feed it."
"He's not an 'it' Roxas," Axel looked offended. "And it's not just feeding him; you have to do many other things just like I told you."
"I will I will. I'll sing to him, I'll take him for a walk, I'll make sure it gets three meals a day, and everything else you said to do."
The red head still looked worried, "Ok, just take care of him."
"Axel. Just go!" the blonde said sighing with exasperation.
Axel opened a portal and walked though. "YAY!" Xion cheered once the portal closed. "Axel's gone for today and tomorrow!"
"Yeah, now we can eat all the ice cream we want without him catching us."
"Yeah!" Xion cheered, and they both left the raid the freezer.
Neox sat in Vexen's laboratory. In the room with him, was Calixa and Vexen of course. Calixa was sitting on the exam table, wiping off the last of dirt that clung to her face with the wet towel she was holding. Vexen was currently examining the inside of her left ear. "There is no damage to your ear drums, number sixteen," Vexen said shaking his head.
"What!" Calixa shouted loudly looking confused.
Vexen grabbed a slip of paper and wrote on it, 'There's nothing wrong with your ears.'
"Then why can't I hear!" she yelled.
Before Vexen could answer her, a loud screeching sound pierced the air. Both Neox and Vexen's hands flew to there eyes, Neox cringed at the volume. "Cali turn it down!" he screamed at her which was barely heard over the noise.
Calixa didn't hear what he said but their body language said enough to say that she was probably making a really loud noise. She didn't even realize that she was making any noises, though it looked like not be able to hear anything was throwing off her powers. She did what she normally did to turn off her artificial noises, which seemed to work since the other two let go of their ears looking relieved.
Vexen turned to Neox, "You'll have to keep an eye on her until I figure out what happened to her hearing."
Roxas and Xion were back in Roxas's room. Xion was sitting the bed, her jacket off and her pants unbuttoned and unzipped, to make it easier to support all the ice cream she had eaten. Roxas sighed in satisfaction. He couldn't remember ever eating so much ice-scream. "That... was so... yummy..." Xion said dreamily. "Roxas... what time is it?"
The blonde looked at his watch, "It's almost eight."
"Okay. Let's go feed the bird," she said, standing.
They teleported to Axel's room, but when they arrived the bird was on the floor of it's cage lying on his side. "Aww! How cute!" Xion giggled. "It's napping!"
Roxas looked kinda worried though, "I've never seen a bird sleep like that before. Don't they usually sleep with there head under there wing, but lying down..."
"... If it's not asleep, what's it doing?" Xion asked now looking concerned.
Roxas gulped, getting a really bad feeling. "F-Feathers?" he called out the birds name, opening the cage, and poking the bird gently. "Feathers? Feathers! Oh Feathers!" he cried out, picking the bird up, and shaking it softly. It was dead. "NO!" Roxas wailed, then dropped the now dead bird back into the cage, opened a portal, and ran through it.
Xion took a few more minutes just to make sure that the bird was really dead. Then she went to find Roxas and found him in his room packing a bag. 'Roxas what are you doing?" she asked.
"Packing! I'm leaving!"
"Running away isn't going to help," she pointed out wisely.
"I have to try! Axel's going to kill me!" Roxas cried out.
"Calm Down" Xion told him. "We have to think rationally. We need to find someone who can help us with planning."
"But WHO!"
Xion smiled.
"Cali please turn the volume down!" Neox yelled ears covered. "There going to start bleeding again!"
Calixa didn't hear him, but apparently knew from his face that she was using her powers again and stopped. "That's better." Neox said, and then opened his door. "Hi Roxas, Xion. What's up?"
"We got a big problem," Xion replied. Roxas was still freaking out and didn't trust himself to speak softly without going into hysterics.
"Come in," Neox said, walking inside and sitting cross legged on his chair. "So, what is it?" he asked, then looked at Calixa, who was now writing in her diary. He smiled, and then looked back to Roxas and Xion.
Xion looked at Calixa curiously then started explaining, "Well you see-" it suddenly sounded like a stampede was running though the hallways outside the door. Both Roxas and Xion stood up in alarm.
Neox picked up his book and threw it at Calixa's head. The noise stopped after she said sorry to him. "Calixa are you trying to scare the living daylight out of us?" Xion asked, glaring at the girl.
Neox held his hand up, "It's not her fault. Something happened to hear ears today on her mission, so she kinda deaf right now. Due to that, her powers go out of control without her knowing, since she can't hear them or know she's using them," he explained.
There was suddenly the sound of an elephant coming form Neox's closet. The boy growled and gave Calixa a wet willie. This actually made things worse, since she wasn't expecting the sudden touch, she jumped and a sound like nails against a chalkboard magnified ten times was suddenly heard. Roxas, Xion, and Neox all clamped there hands over there ears cringing against the sound.
Neox grit his teeth, and tossed a blanket over her. The noise stopped but Xion didn't really know how that was going to help, but continued anyway. "Well we were supposed to be taking care of Axel's bird while he's gone."
"And?" Neox asked.
"Well the bird kinda... died…"
"Ah... Now I get why Roxas looks like he just saw Ghost Face," Neox said with a nod. "Ok, well this isn't too hard to solve. Just buy another bird."
"Another bird..." Xion said as if she never even thought of that.
"Yeah, just make sure that it's the same bird. Axel will never know the difference."
"That's a great idea!" Roxas said speaking for the firs time.
"Good, now, if you need anything else, just come back." Neox told them, and then went back to reading.
Roxas and Xion opened a portal, running through. They went to the Twilight Town pet shop, and started looking around. Xion saw a snake curled up around a branch nearby, "Ooooh! A snake!" Xion cried out excitedly, running to it.
"Xion we're not here to buy stuff for ourselves, we're here to save our skins," Roxas told her.
Xion ignored him, and continued playing with the snake. Roxas sighed, walking to a woman who was behind the check out counter. "Hello may I help you?" the woman asked cheerfully.
"Yes. Um... I'd like a cockatoo please. Do you have any?" Roxas asked.
"Oh yes, we have those right over there," she pointed over to an area that had glass cases full of birds.
Roxas nodded, and walked over to look at the different birds. It didn't take very long before he called, "Xion! I found it!" He turned to look back at the girl. However... he wasn't really happy with what he saw.
"Help!" Xion cried, the snake coiling itself around her neck, "It's going to choke me!"
One of the workers came over then, and took the snake gently off her. She sighed with relief and ran over to Roxas.
Roxas pointed to one of the birds, "It looks just like Mr. Feathers!"
"It does!" Xion agreed delighted but her face fell when she looked at the price.
"50,000 munny?" Roxas exclaimed. "I don't even have half of that!"
"I don't even have a quarter of that, we wouldn't be able to get it even if we put our money together," Xion added.
"... I have an idea! Let's get someone to loan us the munny!"
"Who do we know what will have that much munny?"
Roxas grinned at her.
"There. 35,000 munny," Neox said handing Roxas an large jar full of munny.
"Thanks a bunch Neox!" Roxas thanked gratefully accepting the jar.
Neox shrugged, "No problem so long as you pay me back."
"Um..." Roxas trailed off. "Yeah, sure of course we'll pay you back. Just give us like... a few years."
"So long as you pay me back. Meaning you loan me munny whenever I ask until I ask for up to 35,000," Neox smiled.
"Oh a yeah sure."
Roxas and Xion then went back to the pet store, and bought the bird. Then they went back to the castle, going into Axel's room. "Ok now all we need to do is put the new bird in Mr. Feather's old cage and we're done!" Roxas said happily.
Xion went over, picking up the cage and trying to open it. "Oh man! It's stuck! The metal is twisted," she whined.
Roxas handed her the cage with the new bird and got a pair of pliers from the desk. "It's ok. I'll fix it," he offered.
"Won't it be obvious that we bent the wires?" Xion asked.
"We'll say that the bird did it," Roxas said, working with the pliers. Xion shrugged and smiled, sitting on the bed with the bird cage in front of her. "Awww! Such a cute bird! Pretty birdie!" she cooed, opening the cage and putting her hand in. The bird gently climbed onto her finger. She carefully pulled it out. "Who's a cute birdie-" Xion was cut short when the bird jumped onto the window sill.
Xion gasped, "No come back!" she ran over to the window sill to try and snatch the bird back. The bird saw her coming and flew off as soon as she got close. "Oh no..." she whispered.
"Xion I hope you're not aggravating that bird," Roxas said, not looking up. Xion's eyes widened and she began looking around frantically for a place to hide.
She picked the closet, and ran over and grabbed the door knob but it ended up coming off. She stared at the broken knob for a moment then opening a drawer of the dresser and tossing it inside.
"Ok Xion I'm done, where's the bird?" Roxas announced.
The raven haired girl stood up silently, then put one hand over her eyes and began to cry. Roxas blinked and stared at her. Without even looking at the bird cage, he pieced together what had happened and slowly turned to face the cage. Then walked over to the window and looked out. "Bird come back!" he called, hoping against hope that it would listen.
Of course, this didn't work at all. Roxas turned back to Xion, "I'm dead..."
"Now, now... maybe we can do something else..."
"No! There's nothing we can do! I have to go make my will, Xion I'm giving you my game cube, I'll give Neox my books, and Calixa I can give-"
"OH OH! AN IDEA! I GOT ONE!" Xion cheered.
"What?" Roxas asked not sounding too hopeful.
"Birds! We just need birdfeed for it to come back!"
"Do you think that would work?" Roxas asked hope in his voice.
"It should! It's a bird after all!" Xion said, giggling happily.
"Ok let's do it!"
Just then, the door opened and Lexaeus walked in making both light wielders freeze. "Number thirteen," he said, in his usual gentle-giant tone. "Number nine requires assistants setting up the sound system in the gray room for the movie night the superior approved. Go assist him."
"Um... ok sure..." Roxas replied sounding hesitant.
"Don't worry Roxas. I'll handle things here" Xion assured him.
"Ok, thanks," Roxas said and ran out of the room hoping that this wouldn't take long. Finally, after about 10 minutes, he finished and went back to the room. To his horror he heard Axel's voice in the room.
"Calixa, knock that off! You scared me half to death!" Neox said from his room. The voice suddenly stopped.
Roxas sighed with relief. He hoped that her hearing would get better soon; otherwise he was going to be scared to death. Then, he opened the door to Axel's room and his jaw dropped opened. There were dozens upon dozens of birds in the room. "Xion?" he called.
Xion peeked from inside of the closet, then immediately shut it back upon seeing Roxas. "Xion what did you do!" he asked angrily. "Where's the bird?"
"H-hi Roxas... did you know that all kinds of birds seem to enjoy birdfeed?" Xion chuckled nervously.
"No kidding," the boy growled. "Did the bird we bought at least come back?"
"Um... No…"
"WHAT THE HELL!"
Roxas froze, that was Axel's voice. Please let it have been Calixa again. He slowly turned around and saw a fuming Axel standing behind him. "A-Axel... your already back?"
"My trip was cut short... What in HELL is this?"
"Um well Roxas I can see you got some explaining to do, so I'll catch you later," Xion said quickly leaving the room.
Axel grabbed her by her hood, lifting her off the ground. "Hehe, IT WASNT MY FAULT!" she cried out desperately.
Axel then looked at the shoebox on his dresser and picked it up. Roxas paled as Axel opened it, and saw a dead bird inside. His bird... Feathers.
"... !"
"Whatever Vexen put in my ears seems to have worked, its great to have my hearing back," Calixa commented.
"I'm sure it is, otherwise you'd be missing out on this," Neox agreed, his ear pressed against the door to Axel's room.
Xion was crying loudly, and loud slaps could be barely heard. "Who do you think got it harder? Her or Roxas?" Calixa asked.
Neox shrugged, "Not sure. I could hear how loud the spanks are for Roxas, but he wasn't screaming this loud. For Xion, it's the opposite."
Calixa laughed, "Its interesting hearing this and not getting it ourselves."
"Very!" Neox said, nodding in agreement.
"I knew that this would happen."
"You did?" Calixa asked in surprise. "Then why did you help them?"
Neox grinned, "Because now Roxas owes me something."
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