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“We have training.” Shaxirma stated, reminding herself. Exploring could be later. Her goals would take a long time to achieve – longer than she wanted. She would just have to work around others' schedules until then.

“Nothing too strenuous.” Vexen answered absentmindedly. He looked over at his desk, spying a picture of a heart with notes of research about it. Perfect!
Taking the picture over to Jaxine and her pet, Vexen waited to see how the Heartless would react. Hopefully normal and try to go after it.

“Well we ain't got a boy with a giant key. Where is their captive, anyway?” Gibbs seemed doubtful of Jack's reasoning, but went along with it. Somehow it would work out. It always did for Captain Jack Sparrow!
“But what if Xemnas know she's there?” Axel questioned. Xigbar was screwed then. Xemnas could go wherever he wanted. Not to mention he could obliterate Xigbar.

“It doesn't involve clothes.” Luxord held onto Myrthe while she was still close. He would love to see her reaction to that. She was always funny.

“I never learned much of this where I come from.” Nechax realized. He had even trained some in his home world. It was entry level work. Mostly just weapon maintenance and small stuff no one else wanted to do.

Saix waited for the impact with his claymore. As soon as Allayx was close enough, he would hit her away. Like a baseball hitting a bat. She had to die soon!

((Meh. Luxord will be a pervert! XD And Saix is really letting loose!))

Shaxirma didn't hesitate, not even considering how much she could trust Larxene. The woman seemed alright. Too preppy for Shaxirma's tastes. Allayx was a better companion.

“Huh. Any other Heartless would've eaten the paper.” Vexen mused, tossing the picture onto a random table that he did not remember. Anything else he had in the lab would probably scare it, too. “Come this way.”
Vexen led over to where he had other Heartless locked up. These were waiting to be tested on. He watched Jaxine's pet to see what it would do.

Gibbs sighed. Of course. They would have to wait awhile before taking back the ship.
“Do you? Well I had nothing to do with it.” Axel grinned anyway. Heck, he'd probably be the one to tell Xemnas what Xigbar did! Not that Axel minded being a rat. He could care less about Xigbar sometimes.

“Of course, Ducky.” Luxord accepted charmingly. He let go and drifted away from her some. “Well then, do you have any ideas?”

Nechax nodded. Although he could hardly believe that Zexion knew much about combat either. All he did was cast magic spells and keep away from the Heartless. That wasn't a whole lot.

Saix was hit and knocked down. He grasped the claymore differently as he tried to throw it at Allayx while he was down. He would have to retrieve it and hope that it left its mark on her.

((Saix and Allayx are a murderous couple. XD And Typical Luxord!))

The Heartless was much larger than Shaxirma. She summoned her katana, analyzing for a good part it hit. The body had a large portion missing. The head was too high for Shaxirma to reach. She dove for the thin legs.

The Heartless made all sorts of sounds of communication towards one other. Vexen found Jaxine's Heartless' reaction even stranger. He could understand the paper; maybe it was a little smarter than he gave credit for. But pity was something entirely different.
"Interesting... Bring it over here." Vexen led the way to a table, moving some distance away to get a cart and his tools prepared.

As pirates moved to get the smaller boats into water to survey the island, no one knew what Jack and Gibbs were up to. The first mate followed his captain as he went forward on the deck.
"It doesn't look like anything special." Gibbs commented.
"What? You'll shoot me?" Axel laughed at Xigbar's face. He couldn't take this guy seriously. He saw Xigbar drunk too many times to do that. "Na... You're good at this sneaky stuff. You'll probably make it look like she did it all by herself."

"I sure can." Luxord watched as Myrthe cannonballed into the pool. Now was his chance to shine physically. He waited for her to come to the surface before climbing out of the pool to attempt a swan dive.

Nechax simply nodded at the instruction, getting up and leaving the library. The place would never hold interest for him. So Nechax had to find something that would interest him. Perhaps, although it went against his character, he could go find others to learn about them.

Retrieving the claymore, Saix stood up and moved closer to Allayx. He lifted the large weapon over his head, not at all in control.

((Mwhahahahaha!!!!))

Shaxirma swiped at the legs, causing the Heartless to kneel down. It held its hand down to keep balance. She tried to dismember it.

"It's replacable, if that happens." Vexen never cared before to be tedious and gentle on Heartless. Either he found what he was looking for, or disposed of it. Heartless did not leave much of a mess to clean up after an experiment gone wrong.
He made to the Heartless with a scalpel. Vexen was sure it would not feel much pain. Much.

"Whatever you say, Jack." Gibbs continued to squint at the island. Nothing great about it. He turned away from it to get more rum. This was going to be a long time.
"Not my problem." Axel shrugged, taking the hat off of his head to play with it. He loved this thing!

Luxord prepped himself to do the dive, but as soon as he jumped, his footing had been off. He ended up doing a belly flop into the water. He landed harshly with a smack on the surface. Groaning into the water, Luxord turned his face above the surface, floating on his back. That did not feel good...

Another moment passed as Saix stood, ready to deliver the final blow. The claymore then came down. Yet it missed Allayx by a few centimeters. It stuck out of the concrete ground. Saix still gripped the handle, breathing deeply as he came back to himself.

After doing just about everything to prove that she was well, Xathere followed Hataxn and Lexaeus towards the prison. Her afternoon with Marluxia was completely forgotten. Lars needed rest then. And Larxene was out of sight. That's all they could ask for at the moment.

Backing away, Shaxirma looked for another vantage point once the arm was back in the air. It came back down to form a dark portal on the floor in which Shadows sprouted. They raced to Shaxirma, who swatted at them with her katana. They would be gone in no time.

Vexen gapped at the mouth, looking for a single argument to hold. “How dare you! This Heartless may be different from the rest, but it is still all the same to the Organization! And you, as an Apprentice, have no say what goes on around here!”
He was wired enough now to go on a full rant about disrespect. Something he thought Lars would cause before being taken away. So now Jaxine would have to hear it.

Ragetti and Pintel looked at each other in astonishment, then back to Jack. They pointed to themselves as they spoke in unison, “Us?”
They were never left in charge of a whole ship before! Pintel always thought Jack was a bit strange... Now he wasn't even captain!
The other pirates were coming, just to get away from Xigbar and Axel. Little did they know that those two were already going to the island. Gibbs joined Jack in his boat.
Axel went through the portal. He didn't have very good sea legs. They only thing that saved him from embarrassment was the rum he had been drinking. The cure for hangovers was more drinking, as the pirates say!

Luxord had an idea at that moment. He kept his eyes closed and laid there very still. He waited for Myrthe's reaction to that.

They claymore disappeared. Saix assessed the damage done to both of them. He had a few scrapes and bruises; nothing to worry about. Allayx was worse off. Saix did have responsibility over her. He slowly bent down and lifted her in his arms painfully. Normally, he would have forced her to crawl through a portal on her own, then have someone take care of her. That was if they couldn't find out what happened. Someone would know.
Opening a portal, Saix took them both back to the Castle. More importantly, Allayx's room.

Usually Naxsatha would have been joyous at seeing someone down there with her. She heard the voice before she saw the face, but immediately scowled underneath the cloth on her face. There was hardly anything good in this whole entire castle!
Swearing under her breath, Naxsatha smirked as she replied, “Oh yeah. Nothing but me and a couple of Dusks. It's a party.”
She looked through the bars at him, wondering what he could possibly want. The only others she had seen that weren't family was Luxord (who may or may not have been drunk at the time).

The Shadows gone, Shaxirma focused on the emerging Neoshadows. She targeted them. The main objective would be the Darkside, but the lesser Heartless would serve as annoyances until they were taken care of. Even though the Darkside was preparing for another attack behind Shaxirma's back.

“Fine!” Vexen threw his hands up in the air. “I have far more important things than to dissect some Heartless. I've done that ages ago!”
And so he put the scalpel back on the tray at his side. It looked like Vexen would get no farther with this project. Time to move onto the next one. But first, he had to usher Jaxine out of his lab.

Gibbs blinked at it a few times, before getting confirmation from Jack that he wasn't seeing things. “Is that why they didn't take a boat?”
Ragetti and Pintel looked at each other again before bursting into laughter. The ship to themselves?! They were finally in control of something! Not that they hated to follow Jack's orders. But this was a rare occurrence!
Axel waved at the approaching pirates, laughing. Some awkwardly waved back.
“Now I know why Xemnas can get so bossy sometimes.” He commented. The power was awesome.

Waiting for Myrthe to come close enough, Luxord spat out a mouthful of water towards her face. He got upright and laughed. He moved away, knowing that she would try to get payback. Try...

Putting Allayx on her bed, Saix left her alone. She would need time, mostly, to heal up from that. He had yet to see what damage was done to himself. And to have a talk with Xemnas. The Superior would want to know why the two were bruised. It was clearly evident; no need to try to hide it.

Being of short-temper, Naxsatha tried to reach through the bars to scratch at Marluxia's smirking face. She growled when her attempt was futile. She would have to listen to him go on.
“Well what do you want?” Naxsatha snapped irritably.

((Hm.... No idea....))

It worked. At hearing Larxene's remark, Shaxirma pushed herself to go even faster. The Neoshadows held her up. Shaxirma was struck down by the energy spheres that fell from the sky, summoned by the Darkside. She was blinded, swinging wildly at where she believed enemies stood.

“Bah! What do you know?” Vexen waved Jaxine off. She wasn't anywhere near as smart as he was when it came to science. None of these hooligans were!
He did not realize that the Heartless had gone missing in his lab. Instead he had his tools to put away now. Vexen hoped Xemnas knew what he was doing with inducting children into their Organization....

“Guess I have no other choice now.” Gibbs admitted. “You think their hostage will be any help to us?”
Probably not...
“I guess that means I have to hold down the fort. No need to ask. No thanks necessary.” Axel said sarcastically to joke with Xigbar. He knew that if he turned tail now Xigbar would chase him down and shoot a couple of arrows in Axel's butt. Xigbar was not one to turn your back on.

Luxord blocked his face with his hands. He laughed at her splashing. “What? Were you that concerned? Afraid I was dead?”
They died a little differently than Somebodies....

Seeing that she would have to play along, Naxsatha smirked as she leaned against the door. “Oh I get it. You want to have a little traitor talk, huh? And Larxene isn't around to do it.”
The spying was a thing of the past for Naxsatha. Nowadays she would be loyal to the Organization before DiZ, seeing as the man gave no aid and would rather pay more attention to his precious Keyblade Warriors instead of a trapped spy. He didn't even help to protect Hataxn and Xathere from becoming Nobodies. So now they all had even more problems!
“You want a tip? Don't be afraid to betray them all.” Naxsatha warned. Although she had been when the truth about her came out, but she was at a disadvantage then.

She stopped herself for a moment. Randomly swatting would do no good, not since she stopped feeling the blade impact against Heartless. She blinked a lot, waiting for her vision to come back to her. Meanwhile she side-stepped away from Heartless as she felt attacks land on her.

“Wish we could move as fast as they do.” Gibbs muttered. That would help a lot with their predicament.
Axel wasn't alone for five minutes before another portal opened. He watched for someone to come through. He could hardly believe Xigbar had already found the girl. Of all the places to look through...

“We die a little differently than Somebodies. You would have known if I was dying before I stopped breathing.” Luxord joked. Of course life itself was a game to him, including death. Well, death was more of a gamble. You either lived or faded away to Nothingness.

“Saix,” Xemnas announced as the Diviner entered his office. Before he had seen the other Nobody, the Superior knew who he was. He stood from his desk. “Can I help you?”
“Allayx lost control of her Darkness on the mission.” Saix stated blankly, “She should have better control without her emotions.”
The truth would have to be told. Xemnas sighed. Saix was going to find out eventually. Better him than another member of the Organization. Saix would better understand Xemnas' reasoning. “Because she still has her emotions.”
“But in order to possess those, she must have a Heart.” Saix countered. Xemnas just gave him an obvious look. Saix caught on. “I see. Then why has she joined?”
“She is powerful. I also have a deal with that girl.” Xemnas informed. “Speaking of which, you should see what state you have left her in.”
Leaving the same way as he had entered, Saix left the Superior alone. He wasn't sure what to think about Allayx now. Xemnas had more trust in Saix than the others, to give him this apprentice.

“You're full of crap, as always.” Naxsatha hissed. “No one has changed since the last time.”
Like nothing ever happened to begin with. No one learned from the past. They were highly likely to repeat it.