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Nechax followed Jaxine's lead, leaving the other two Nobodies behind. He was surprised that Zexion hadn't thought of doing this. The place was huge.

Xemnas sighed. Perhaps he should have gave his choices a second thought. Vexen already made his apprentice a guinea pig. That pair would no longer do.
Rising from his desk, Xemnas opened a portal and went to the lab. It was as Zexion had said.
“I'm Vexen, your teacher.” He said crisply while still cleaning. When Xemnas entered, Vexen's demeanor changed entirely to nervous despair. “Superior! It is not how Zexion explained it. Lars can move things telekinetically, and so I thought it would be best, as a scientist, to examine his abilities more closely.”
Looking around the lab again, Xemnas frowned. “That is still against the rules I have stated for the apprenticeship. In fact, I had made that rule especially for you, knowing that you would go ahead and do something such as this.”
He looked over at Lars, assuming the apprentice had something to say.

“Absolutely nothing.” Axel said from the corner of his mouth, and it came out garbled and hard to really understand. He carried Myrthe off into the grass. Eventually she'd get annoyed. It would be funny to him.

Xathere ran, although not necessarily for some cover. She stopped for a moment to look at the jewel in the Heartless' chest. On instinct, Xathere threw both fans at the piece. Then an energy ball landed near her feet, knocking her over with the explosion.

Shaxirma had no destination in mind. Though perhaps finding the library would be useful. She noticed another girl coming her way. An apprentice. Shaxirma hadn't spoken much to the other apprentices. She had been with Marluxia until now.

“So we'll get lost often.” Nechax guessed. He couldn't be the only one with a lack of internal sense of direction!

Xemnas resolved this quickly. “Zexion, take Lars to Lexaeus. He doesn't have enough to do to keep from causing problems.” Not quite, but it'd keep everyone even more separated than they already were. “Vexen and I will have a talk in the meantime.”
Vexen did not look forward to that.

“Because.” Axel started swinging her around a bit more. This was fun! Now for a pool of water. After all, cats don't like water.

The fans nearly smacked into Xathere's face when they returned. She grabbed them, standing up from the blast. The Heartless was still going. Xathere threw her fans at the jewel again. It had to work this time!

Shaxirma also halted in her steps. She nodded as she replied back. “Hi.”
It wouldn't be bad to make an accomplice out of this girl. She seemed to be alright. Perhaps useful later.

Nechax looked around as they walked. Everything looked the same. It was a reoccurring theme.
“How's training with Xemnas?” He asked. They had to have conversation of some sort.

Lexaeus was in the library, but for reasons no one was sure of. He was reorganizing the bookshelves, since some members did not know the order of things. Or they didn’t care and expected Zexion to take care of the mess. Other members were seldom seen in the library, after all. It was always quiet, which Lexaeus preferred that.
He turned to look when a portal appeared. Zexion and a battered apprentice came through.

“Ah relax!” Axel finally found what he was looking for. Swinging Myrthe around a few more times, he threw her through the grass and into the clear water. He laughed.

Xathere examined her fans once the Heartless was gone. This wasn't her first time seeing them, but she finally took a close look at them. She made them disappear after a moment.
“What do we do now?” She asked innocently. The Heartless was gone. Was that it, or did they do a little more on missions?

“Marluxia.” Shaxirma answered. “Who's yours?”
Both of them seemed to have the same sort of personality. They weren't usually bothered with people, unless the people were important to them. Shaxirma wondered how useful this one was.

“Fine.” Nechax shrugged. “Who's Ienzo?”
He hadn't seen him around the castle before. Then again, Nechax wasn't good connecting names and faces.

Zexion didn't need to say the rest of that. Lexaeus remembered Lars from the night before in the hallway. He had heard some things that he didn't need to know. Although he would rather not deal with it, it seemed that this was Superior's orders. They couldn't be argued.
“Alright.” Lexaeus sighed. He did not look forward to this.

“Yeah. Don't think so.” Axel settled down near the edge. He was fire! Water was out of the question. Now speaking of those cat naps lions take....

Xathere went through the portal without further hesitation. Now she could get away from Larxene and find Lars! That was what she hoped anyway.
Xigbar and Hataxn were waiting in the Grey Area for something. Xathere nodded to both of them.

“Which one is he?” Shaxirma hadn't been introduced to everyone. Marluxia seemed to prefer to keep himself and his apprentice away from them. At least for awhile.

“Oh.” Nechax couldn't believe his teacher had a life before this. Well, he must have. It just wasn't something he thought about. “So you've known them for a long time?”
Longer than any other apprentice.

So that's what happened in Vexen's experiment. Lars' memory was a blank slate.
“Lexaeus.” He stopped sorting books to get closer to Lars. He took a seat in a nearby armchair. Whether he liked it or not, Lexaeus was going to have to be a mentor. No one else had explained the past two days to Lars, either. “Your previous teacher, Vexen, decided to experiment on you.”
They all saw it coming.

Axel opened his eyes as water was splashed into his face. He playfully glared at Myrthe.
“Aren't you gonna give up yet?” He teased. He could go at this all day!

The siblings just gave Larxene blank looks. This was going to pass slowly....
Though they did stick close to one another. Xathere realized she still had a cut on her arm. It needed to get cleaned out and covered. But she didn't say anything. Larxene probably would do worse.
Hataxn noticed it, raising his eyebrows. Xathere just shook her head up at him. It was no big deal to her.

Shaxirma nodded. That one. He was one of the more serious members. Possibly hard to train with. Marluxia seemed easy enough.
“He looks strict.” Shaxirma commented.

“Oh.” Nechax said. The Organization had started out with eight people in it. So then five others joined to make thirteen. But there were only twelve members he could count.

“Everyone is gone.” Lexaeus stated coldly. Lars would have to go through this all over again, and he was stuck watching him while it happened. Great. “Your home is gone as well. You're in the Castle That Never was. I'm guessing you don't realize that you're a Nobody, too.”
Now Lars did. At least he had his Somebody memories.

“Xigbar's probably reaping in the rewards.” Axel rolled over to his other side, to get some sun rays there. Myrthe would want some of that.

Plans were being made, that neither sibling anticipated. Xathere noticed she was being referred to as 'it' by Larxene. Even more degradation. Xigbar looked rough, like the pirates she had just gotten away from.
Hataxn hoped that the idea would just be dropped. They already had done their missions. Surely their teachers wanted to get away from them as much as they wanted to leave.

“Not when you know the basics.” Shaxirma stated. She wondered if things would be the same, had she known nothing.

“Okay.” Nechax said. He wondered what the past was, that they had to leave it behind. “Can you tell me how the Organization got together?”
It had to start somewhere.

“Nobodies do not have Hearts, therefore we cannot feel emotions.” Lars was trying to comprehend this. It was written on his face. So far he was taking it well. Better than Demyx, who spent awhile convinced that they did too have emotions of some sort. Actually, he had yet to stop believing that.
“When it first happened, eight of us created Organization XIII. There are twelve members. You are one of the eight apprentices.” Lexaeus explained before Lars could ask that question. It would come up eventually.

“Good luck with that!” Axel snorted. Again he tried the nap thing. Hey, he had a better chance of winning if he was sleeping!

Xathere was shoved closer to Xigbar. This was going to be bad.... She should have ran off to find Lars once they got back. But then she really would have been a coward.
The plan was inevitable. Larxene couldn't be that bad.... At least nothing Hataxn couldn't handle.

Shaxirma nodded. “Where are you going?”
She had no place to be, and maybe some company wouldn't be so bad.

Nechax pondered that. So they took in all Nobodies, not a select few. It was like a support group.
“We're all going to get hearts again, right?” He knew their missions were part of that goal.

“To complete Kingdom Hearts.” Lexaeus said. Lars was picking up on this quickly. Good. “With that, we will have Hearts again.”
They needed a Keyblade for that, which he heard only one apprentice had one.

“Ha! I can wait longer!” Axel stretched out his limbs. Nothing like being lazy. He was pretty sure Myrthe was lying. She couldn't sit still for a week!

Larxene was stronger than Hataxn expected. She already had an idea of what she was going to do.

Xathere shrunk back under Xigbar's gaze. Midnight was a long time from then. Xigbar would probably destroy her by then.

“That's a good idea.” Shaxirma pondered. She didn't know her way around here, except to her room, the kitchen, Marluxia's garden, and the Grey Area. Not to mention the Round Room, but the only access point to there was through a portal.