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Part three because Gaia is a mofo

Darkness let his eyes take in the room slowly while the group talked. He felt dizzy and sick, but Rathe's control on him eased up enough that he could control himself, but wouldn't be able to destroy Entity and Swan. "Time...jump?" His voice was soft as he asked his question.

"Your family and the others left this world leaving you behind. They saw how terrifying you were against Sephiroth...and easily decided it wasn't worth keeping you."

Darkness shook his head, "They...they just...needed to be safe." He moved his attention to Anzio and Veziell, seeing how they were fairing amongst the group. His hand went to his head, "I hurt..."

"Because you've absorbed all of Sephiroth's powers. You're indestructable with how much you've gained." His eyes rested onto Emerot who was melting into his mother's arm, though it only made him smile. "Let us return. These children will want to rest, I imagine." He rested an arm onto Darkness's shoulders, "Since this world has been rid of everyone, you'll have plenty of time to focus on your training instead of being with them."

"Ohhh...Ansem..." Entity came forth and pointed out the window at the dead body, "What about Sephiroth's body? We should at least....bury him..."

"If you want to waste your time doing that then so be it."

Emerot brought his head up from his mother as they kept talking about his father. He motioned to Swan 'father?' He said he'd be back...but how long would that take?


Saix held onto Death. He wanted to support her, but he felt like he was crashing himself. Darkness. Poor..Darkness. He...he was left because of Angeal. Because of Ansem! No...because of Xemnas and Marluxia...

Because of him...

He pulled his wife into him but couldn't say anything to her to make it easier, or to say that things would be easier. There just wasn't anything to say. They had lost him.

His eyes finally went about the room to find the others kids, but unfortunately they weren't there. Where...had they gone? He registered that they were in Castle Oblivion and he pulled his weeping wife up with him, "Let's go. We're getting the kids. They need us right now. WE need them right now." To at least see their faces and be around them in the absence of Darkness would help ease their pain.

Roxas was in the room with them but he didn't say anything as Saix started to move along. Going to the top would be the best idea... He went over to Demyx and gave his arm a soft punch, "Come on...we should go with."


Don looked at Castle Oblivion curiously and laughed, "Duuude, this place is huge. Come on, let's go up. Hey Adonia, I'll race you to the top!"

She gently got down from Zexion's grasp and started to run past her, "You can't beat me!"

And as the groups went to the top, they all found each other looking just as lost and confused as the rest. Don started to do a head count, but found she was short. "Hey...are we missing someone or am I just bad at counting?"

Xemnas went through as well, but by family. "No, we're...missing a few. Maybe they're all the way in the basement?"

"Emerot, Anzio, and Veziell," Axel commented as he had noticed it as well. "They did make it through...right?"

Adonia finally spoke up, "Oh...Vezi took Eme to the bathroom and said 'I'll be back in jus' a second.'"

Don's eyes widened, "Oh my GOD we left them behind! Wait. What about Anzio then?"

"He probably noticed they were gone and went to get them." Vilt looked at the adults, "So...they were left behind, just like.. Darkness."

Xigbar shrugged, "Well, let's give it a little bit and Lux and I will go back and get them."

Marluxia was standing off to the side, "We have a problem." He held his hands out, "We don't have powers." The others tried to do it as well and found the same thing that Zexion had experienced. "We're stuck here."

Don turned and saw Davien and Eseril...except they were now...kids. "Um. Guys. Our problems are worse than that. What happened to those two?" She didn't remember Castle Oblivion doing weird things like this...

Asi looked over at them and his eyes widened. Davien was a kid...

Davien stared at everyone. Oh god. He'd have to go through puberty and everything. And he still remembered everything that had previously happened! This sucked. "I feel stupid."

Angeal snorted slightly at the higher pitched voice Davien had. "You wanted a childhood...I guess you got your wish."

Marluxia saw Eseril and backed up slightly. Oh god. "This can't be happening."

Xemnas stared at his young kids and suddenly felt...young! But his glare turned to Marluxia like he was a perverted cheat. "It has happened. And the worst thing is you've been warned over and over about Eseril's age...but you never listened." He looked away, "You knew they weren't their actual ages but you toyed with her anyway."

"What were we to expect anyway? Marluxia never thinks about other's benefits, just his own."

Don saw the hostility and wished it would stop, or at least someone would make it stop. At least they didn't have powers...

But now Larxene spoke up, "Marluxia! You were after Eseril again? How...COULD you. That's just disgusting."

Marluxia felt backed in a corner, "I didn't mean to...I just...it wasn't..." he didn't know what to say. "You can't blame me for this."

"It's a little late for that," Asi snarled.

But Saix finally broke in, "Would you all shut up about it? Some of us have more important things to worry about. We left KIDS back there. You rushed us through without Darkness and you left your own children as well. Now we don't have powers to get them, what do we propose we do?"

Don spoke up, "Consider our options but don't get bent out of shape over it." She got a glare from him. "I'm serious. If we can't get them right now we'll just have to cool down and not worry so much. We're living here, we need to work as a team to divide up any chores to keep our group in shape and healthy. Maybe we'll find something here to help regain your powers? And aside from that, we know that Ansem cannot time travel, therefore we're safe for now."

"You're suggesting we sit around and enjoy life while we abandon those that matter the most to us?"

Don snapped back at him, "That's NOT what I said. But if you want it in those terms, yes. It's not like you can do anything about it! We had to get away from there! Darkness KNOWS he has terrible powers, he's probably thankful you're here and are able to--" She couldn't finish her sentence when Saix hit her.

"You don't know anything that you're talking about!"

Marluxia stepped in and pushed Saix back, "Would you leave her alone? She's at least making sense unlike you."

Xemnas stepped forward, "And since when did you ever make sense about your decisions?"

Angeal pushed them all apart, "Please, you're acting up in front of the kids. This arguing won't solve anything."

Don rubbed her jaw and glared at Saix while she was behind Angeal, "Like he cares about anyone but Darkness anymore."

Saix was going to move forward to get to her but Xemnas kept a hand on his shoulder. "I think we all should split up and take our separate floors."

Axel rolled his eyes. This guy was nuuuuts.

Evante was holding onto the younger Death's leg wondering what was even going on anymore. He looked up at her and frowned, "Why is everyone fighting?"

"I know." Darkness remarked. Though he was heavily under Ansem's influence, it didn't mean he trusted him completely. The group was relatively silent upon returning, and Darkness was put back into his usual room. The kids were allowed to be around him for awhile, but he wasn't even sure what to say to Veziell or Anzio. He never really talked to them that much. "I hope...they're okay."

Rathe sat there watching Darkness carefully. He wasn't a part of the group, but he was the only one who could calm Darkness's powers. Then again, being in here allowed him to be away from Entity.

Darkness let his eyes fall back to his shoes, "I wonder...how long we'll be here?"

Rathe wondered that as well. He was supposed to be five...but that clearly wasn't so anymore. Would Entity ever turn him back to the way he was supposed to be?

Meanwhile, Emerot was crying. Though he had missed Swan, he also missed his father. Why did he have to go away now? He just got to see him a few minutes ago...

Ansem looked over at the room concealing the boys. Soon enough they'd all be under his power. They'd all worship the darkness within themselves, and allow themselves to be taken under his wing. "The two of you should keep a close watch on them...I have things to prepare for..." He walked off.

Entity looked in and saw Anzio and his flesh began to crawl. It...reminded him of Zexion. Oho, how he wanted that boy now. "Why not...I keep an eye on...Anzzziiooo....and you do whatever?" He suggested to Swan.


Don watched Death and Saix. Wow. Two creepy, untamed beasts wanting their one child when they should be caring for the others. How typical. Her eyes turned to Zexion as he pulled her away from getting in a fight, which she probably would have done, and she pulled him into a hug. "Veziell will be all right, Zexion. He seemed pretty independent, at least that's the impression I got from him. And Anzio wouldn't abandon him. They'll be fine."

"We're still going to help. Perhaps not by the way we thought, but we still must use our knowledge to help them harness their strengths and get to know their weaknesses. If you think about it, Xigbar's kids and Luxord's kids have their parents abilities, we may very well still be able to leap through time."

Xigbar perked up and looked at his kids and his lovely terrestrial wife--

Wait a minute. "JENOVA!! You're...you're the you that you were a long time ago!" What happened to his LADY?

Don stared over at Jenova who had been off to the side and noticed her...oddly glowingness and disembodied figure. Creepy.

Jenova didn't respond, but Dytku did, "What happened?"

"Clearly Entity and Swan's powers cannot travel with us over to this new time, so whatever they had once done to us has stopped working. Hence why I'm this age and she's her...um...squidly self." High. Voice. Squeaking.

Marluxia glared at Eseril, "I don't care what you do, Eseril, you're not my problem anymore."

Of course, Xemnas stepped in, "You're right, I'm your problem now." He decked Marluxia. Yes. Decked him. If he couldn't use powers he'd just use the muscles he had. He could outchest and outbeat Marluxia.

Of course, Xigbar stopped worrying about his wife being an alien and rushed over to stop the huge fight that was now going to break out. "Jesus! Is this really the time to be doing this?"

Marluxia's lip was bleeding from the hit, but he had to fight back as well. "Since when did you ever care about your daughter? You made Saix slave away his life in protecting her because you were too worthless to do so yourself. And you're surprised she wound up being a slut?"

Larxene heard that comment and went right over. She still had her agility about her, but though she tried to strike him Marluxia moved out of the way. He had grabbed her foot when she went in to kick him, and was sent flying right into Xemnas.

Angeal moved over to help stop the fight, "You won't be getting anywhere if you keep acting like this."

But Saix got the rush as well. ANGEAL was their problem. He was looked at as a leader, but he just got them into worse trouble than before. He went right over and socked him a good one, but wasn't expecting Angeal to strike him right back. He slammed into Roxas who did his best in bracing him. "If you hadn't forced us to this world we wouldn't be in this situation! That world was perfectly fine the way it was!

"No it wasn't! Are you even listening to yourself anymore? That place could not provide for all of us! We were far too different to exist! That place was made for normal human beings, not us!"

Saix laughed, "Right. And look at us now. In a world where magic is supposed to fill everyone's blood, yet we're all powerless. Great idea, Angeal. I'm glad you've cursed us to this existence!"

Don had to break in, "Please stop fighting, this is just insane! Turning against each other won't solve anything!"

His eyes turned to her, if they could glow now they would be. "Just shut up! You're not even supposed to exist in our group! You and that other girl shouldn't even be here!"

Don glared, "You selfishly took us from our homes, you'll just have to DEAL WITH IT. Just like how you'll have to deal with this situation right now!"

Xemnas turned toward them, "You don't have any room to speak, you haven't lost nearly as much as we have. You think you understand, but you don't. Just keep to yourself and we'll get you back home when we have the time."

Don gapped, "Are you kidding me?" She snapped, "You tore me from my family, killed them, set my entire house on fire, and now you expect me to just butt out as if I haven't lost anything? I think I DO understand and you're just in denial. And you want to know why? Because after you STABBED me you probably didn't feel any remorse for that! You didn't even want to make it up to me because you were too busy trying to get with Death. You're just thinking about your own personal gain! All of you are! And all of you talked about how much you hated the Don and Death you knew and how we should be different, yet here you are putting us in situations where we'd HAVE to act like them. No wonder she's a ******** crazy monster," she waved her hand at the older Death, "Because she tried to talk sense into some of you and you just beat the ******** out of her until she started thinking like the rest of you."

Saix snarled and tried to move forward to strangle her, but Asi and Vilt both blocked him off. "How DARE you say that about her."

Axel rolled his eyes, "Well she's RIGHT. If Marluxia and you hadn't ever talked to her she would be normal and wouldn't have a billion ******** kids. She wouldn't be having breakdowns every five minutes whenever her kids aren't around her. You basically turned her into a mess."

Roxas stood up on the column that was once holding a plant. "You GUYS. I have a solution to all of this. Enough talking or I'll keyblade all your asses."

Don glared, "You don't have a keyblade."

"I don't CARE. You all are scaring the kids and sound absolutely INSANE. Seriously. Step back a little and give each other some breathing space. I think while we're here we should solve our differences with each other or it's going to be a looooong life ahead of us. And besides, we know Ansem can't come here....but no one ever said anything about Darkness not knowing how."

There was a silent moment over the group as they hadn't thought of it. Darkness had phenomonal powers...he absorbed everyone's energy. He could... "Roxas is right, if we're pissy at each other and they appear we'll be ********. Especially if Rathe is still in control of Darkness. We need to talk things out and group together accordingly so in case anything does happen...we can deal with it."

Oh god, Don never thought that Axel and Roxas would be the ones with brains. Who would have ever thought?

Darkness listened to Anzio's encouragement. In due time..he probaly would be able to. He could jump with all of them and they could find the others. It would take more training, more practice...

"You're right." He sounded emotionless when he said it, but there was a faint sight of hope on his face. "We...can live through this."

Entity sighed, "Fiiine...if you want him back to the right age so badly..." He waved his hand, but couldn't even remember what age the boy originally was. Three was good enough, right? Right.

Rathe sat there as they talked about hope and freedoms, their pitiful bullshit they had to tell themselves to get through the day. Then he felt it. His body tightened up and he screamed, and soon he fell to the ground. What was going on? Was he...

And before he knew it he was 3. He was too young to really comprehend his powers or what had just happened aside from that he was really hurt.

But as that happened Darkness's powers increased rapidly. The energy consumed the entire room, and he started to panic thinking he'd kill Veziell or Anzio with his powers. He closed his eyes and wished he was out of that very room...

And soon he appeared before Ansem.

Ansem felt the energy spike and had turned to go find out what happened when Darkness shot himself before him. He noticed how disoriented the boy was so he grabbed onto his shoulder, "You're fine. What happened?"

"Rathe...he...turned young all of a sudden...and he couldn't stop me...I...I panicked."

"Stay here. Don't move," Ansem ordered and went down to find the issue. As he arrived in the room he saw Rathe bawling and throwing a fit. He picked him up carefully and left, not bothering with Veziell or Anzio. Instead he found Swan and Entity. "Which one of you did this?"

"Well...I did, but it's because she asked for him to be...oh...however old he normally was."

"I am the one you listen to, not that pathetic woman. If you want to live past today I suggest you return him back to what age he was. He cannot control Darkness otherwise, and if that boy isn't contained then I will throw BOTH of you into that room and let his powers destroy and consume you!"

Entity glanced to Swan as if it was her fault and he flicked his finger, Rathe turned back to the age he just was. "There."

Ansem pointed for Rathe to return to the prisonous room. "Now, if either of you act out again without my permission...I will personally kill you and that little heathen child you're carrying."

Emerot buried his head away from Ansem as he kept crying.

"It...won't happen...again...."


As the group tried to calm itself Marluxia had to have his own outburst, "God, she's right. We completely destroyed her. I regret everything. It went way beyond trying, it was like a challenge. And all we did was hurt her." He sighed, "I regret that, I regret forcing her to have a child with me, I regret making Evante suffer through such terrible parenting, I regret that I ruined Asi and couldn't even be truthful to Eseril. I regret being HERE in this place where I was killed because I betrayed everyone!" He covered his face with one hand for a moment, letting himself calm down from the outburst. His eyes turned to Death. "I'm sorry." But then his eyes went to Saix. "You should be, too."

Saix glared. "I haven't done anything wrong. It was you and Ansem."

Marluxia rolled his eyes, "Right, wouldn't want any of the blame to fall on yourself. That might ruin your 'perfect' image. What kind of a lie was that? We all know that you hardly regarded the Organization as anything but pawns to fill Kingdom Hearts. That's why you did none of the work, you half-assed your way to the top by killing off innocent people like Zexion through Axel! Same exact thing happened to Vexen and Lexaeus. You didn't want anyone in your way. And Xemnas is too stupid to realize how much of a traitor you are. He thinks you're loyal to him, but you'd probably switch sides in a heartbeat if you had known a faster way to get Kingdom Hearts."

Saix was trying to keep down his hatred, but it was really hard to listen to Marluxia say all of that and not murder him.

"You did the exact same thing to your family, too. You act loyal after you ruin their lives and hurt their mother numerous times. You even tried to kill her and BLAME it on me. Because you couldn't handle being the 'bad' one, could you?"

Saix finally snapped, "I've done NOTHING wrong. In comparison to everything you've done, I'm not the traitor." He grabbed Death, "We're not sticking around for this. We're grabbing the kids and going to a different floor." As he got out he pulled Siot right from the younger Death and snatched Lina's hand before she could say anything. His tone was shaking, but it wasn't filled with as much anger as he had shown toward Marluxia. "Come on, your mother and I are taking all of you to a better room away from all the arguing."

Evante shyly got up, knowing he was expected to follow. He didn't want to leave the younger Death, but it didn't seem he had much choice. "M-Momma?" His eyes went up to the older Death, "A-Are...we....g-gonna...see Darkness soon?"

Don watched Saix storm out angrily with wife in tote and she felt as if the room's tense vibrations had gone down a little bit. "Okay, that was...pretty violent."

Xemnas couldn't believe Marluxia had called him stupid. He had known all along what Saix was doing, and he really hadn't cared what he did. As long as they filled Kingdom Hearts with the use of the keyblades he clearly didn't mind if all the members sabatoged themselves.

Lerena decided to speak up and put her two cents in. "You know...I think everyone should do what Marluxia did."

"Make Saix really pissy?"

"No...just...admit you all were wrong, you did bad things, but you have to move on from it."

"You want us to start...apologizing for our terrible motives?"

"Yes. I think we all need to do it. Everyone has something on their chest..."

"Well yeah but..." Xigbar hesitated. "Wait. Does that mean a biiiig group hug afterward?"

Larxene glared, "How's about no."

Don smiled, "Larxene wants to be in the middle."

When Ansem returned to the room he waved for Darkness to return to his spot, then he went back to his planning...

As Darkness reappeared into the room he noticed that Rathe was back in there. He wondered what even happened.

"I'm....fine..." he muttered, sitting back in his spot, "Entity was reverting me back to my normal age but went to far...I guess...he's bored of me. And...if he's bored of me..." His eyes went to the others, "He must want one of you."

Darkness glanced over at Veziell and Anzio, worried about what that could mean for them. "Ansem wouldn't...allow that to happen..."

"It's Entity...he'd find a way to do it and keep all of us silent..."

And as if on cue there was Entity, smirking at all of them, "Oh...talking about me? How...interesting..." He grabbed Rathe's face and dragged fingers through his hair, but then turned to stare at the fresh meat before him. "I wonder...which of you...would like to be tested first?"

Darkness stayed silent, unsure of what Entity had in mind. He knew it wouldn't be good, but how far could he really go..?

Entity's eyes were resting right on Anzio though, "Hmm...Why don't we go in alphabetical order? That means you first..." He strode over, "I'll make it fun...if you so desire it, I can even shapeshift for you."

Emerot held onto his mother and looked up at her as she suggested food. He wasn't really hungry, just depressed, but maybe eating would help? He gave a small nod of his head.


When they reached a floor that Saix found more suitable to his liking he set Siot down to let him explore and looked at Death and the others. He was looking far more comfortable and nicer than he had looked ten seconds ago. "We'll stay on this floor. Are you kids hungry or do you need anything?"

Evante wasn't sure what to do. Was...Saix a good guy or a bad guy? He seemed far more passive now then he had been at the top floor. He held his arms out to him and was picked up. "Where are...all the beds?"

"They're hidden. Did you want to sleep?"

"Yes..please."

Saix moved over to one of the ridiculous stone plant ornaments and pushed the vase. It leaned, but didn't move from its attached place on the column. A door swung open that couldn't be seen before, and he moved over to it. "See? Just like magic."

Evante looked around at the place and saw how unfurnished it was. "Where's all the stuff?"

"We can get 'stuff' later. You can pick whatever you want." He set the boy down and watched him run over to the one bed in there and clamber on top of it. "Now get some sleep."

"Good night..." Evante curled up in the blankets and hid himself on the pillow, a soft fragrant of flowers could hardly be picked up by his nose.


Don smirked at Zexion, "Aw, you should be part of the group stuff, too. It'll at least get a few things off your chest--"

Asi grabbed her arm, "Hey, if he really doesn't feel up to it he shouldn't have to."

Don looked into his eyes and shrugged, "Yeah, I suppose you're right." She looked over at Zexion, "If you're tired go to bed. I can watch over Adonia for now."

"Let me help," Asi commented and swung his arm around her shoulders, "I'll do it for free because I'm a nice guy."

Don chuckled, "Yeah, okay." Was he trying to flirt with her or just irritate Zexion? She couldn't really tell.

"I'll personally admit that I clearly had my own secret motives and wasn't going to help out anyone."

Xigbar glared, "Noted, dude. Well, I'll admit I should have been somewhat more attentive to our younger members."

"I didn't do anything wrong besides be painfully truthful," Larxene remarked. She got a few ugly glares and she sighed, "Well, that and betrayed the Organization to follow in Marluxia's footsteps."

"I wish I had stopped making fangirls listen to my painfully terrible vocals screaming out catchy song phrases." Roxas hesitated. "I mean. I don't remember what I did wrong because my memory is fuzzy."

"You left us," Axel remarked.

"Oh yeah! Oh....yeah..." Roxas fidgeted, "Yeah I regret that, too."

Xemnas wasn't sure if he really regretted anything. "I regret things didn't go out as well as they should have."

"You know that's not much of a personal problem as it was a group problem."

"I suppose, but I was never there for the group."

"So...does anyone feel warm and fuzzy yet?"

"Hmm...nope, guess that was bogus."

Entity laughed at their words, his eyes turning toward Rathe. "Oh...Rathe...I think you should hold back Darkness's powers...." His voice dropped to a lower level, his look turning from its giddy, high expression to that of a serious, angered one, "Especially if you know what's best for you."

Rathe looked down at that, "I...don't..think you should do anything to them..." Was he really willing to give in to Entity to try and save them?

But Entity shapeshifted into Sephiroth, and as he walked over to the boy he could see the fear flowing right back into him. "Need I remind you what happens when you disobey?"

Rathe shook his head, and put full force into shutting off Darkness's powers.

Darkness felt himself stiffen up and he tried to speak but couldn't. Rathe's powers were suffocating him!

Entity walked over to Anzio, still in the form of Sephiroth, and grabbed him tightly around the throat, picking him up with ease, "You'll join me in my bed whether you want to or not."

Darkness watched him disappear and the binding hold on him broke. He got up to stop them but it was too late. "Anzio..." He sighed and let a glare fall over to Rathe, "How could you do such a thing?"

Rathe shook his head, "I...I just...didn't want to be hurt again..."

"He wouldn't hurt any of us if you used my powers against him..." He sat back down, "I guess...it's too late for that."


While the kids rested Saix turned to stare at Death, watching her actions. She seemed worn out, lost. He gently grabbed onto her to show his support, so show that he loved her. It was his wife, and she needed him, no one else. "We'll figure things out...If the kids can learn how to work their powers quickly....we'll get Darkness back."

Don sighed at Zexion's words. She wasn't particularly tired at the moment. "What floor are we staying on? SIX? Yeah, good number. The best number, actually."

Axel walked by her and snorted, "Don't let your sucking up to Zexion hit you right back in the face. Night, kittens."

Don glared, what a jerk.

Adonia played with one of the longer pieces of Zexion's hair when he had picked her up, and she listened to their small bickering go on before she yawned, "I wish...Vezi was here...I want another sleepover in the tent..."

Don turned her attention back to the girl. Poor thing just wanted her brother, and she could imagine Zexion wanted his boy...Or. Did he? He didn't seem very active in Veziell's life from what she saw. Though, the boy was always off somewhere else...

"Hmm."

Asi smirked as Zexion had glared at him. Oho, now he was playing the tough guy. Well, whatever, didn't mean he couldn't continue to bother Don... "Well, Don, if you're not tired I'll stay up with you." Flirt.

Don looked at him and smiled, "You'd do that? Oh I get it, you want to know more about me, right? I haven't really talked to you before."

"Of course, just friendly talking," Asi commented, "Wouldn't want to steal Zexion's girl from him or anything."

Don giggled slightly, "Aha..I didn't know I was his girl." Ooooh, she liked the thought of being his girl!

"What? You two aren't dating yet? Hmm. I wonder if he'll move as slow as he did with the last one."

Don almost snapped 'what last one?' but remembered it was her other self. Right. Wait. What if he did move really slow? Would she be a spinster forever? Aww...

Xemnas glared over at them, "Stop your foolish bickering and go to bed. You can walk Don tomorrow." As if she were a dog. He had left with a large chunk of the group that were out to find a good floor to stay on.

Roxas sighed, "It's so bright here.." His eyes went over to Axel, "We should go to the basement instead."

Davien went past his sister like she was stupid, "No one wants to sleep with you," he commented. He didn't even think Xemnas was going to bother with them again. Just because he was angry at Marluxia didn't mean he'd suddenly start talking to them any more than he had before.

Don awoke slowly, eyes trying to open but sent her into the usual painful process of hissing and cursing the morning. She began to turn to her other side thinking only Adonia was there but BAM Zexion. She almost had a heart attack at the sight of him and her hand clasped her chest. "Oh god. You scared me." She reached over Adonia, grabbing onto him, yet passed no words to him.

Adonia woke up at her voice, "Momma," she muttered and grabbed Don's shirt front, "Moooomm..." she hesitated and stared up at her. It wasn't her mother. "I mean...lady. Good..morning lady." She turned from her and saw Zexion. "Good morning Zexi."

Cool. Didn't get a name. "Good to see you, Adonia." Though it was odd to be called mom by a child that clearly wasn't her, she didn't quite mind it too much.

"I...I wanna see Evante..." She scooted from the confines of the bed and plopped onto the floor. She brushed down her clothes, "Is he up or down?"

Don thought it over. "Up."

"Okay, don't do anything silly while I'm gone," she ordered at them and soon left without any other word from them.

Don sighed and let her head hit the pillow again. "Castle Oblivion gives me nightmares. All I dreamt of last night were...cards...so many damn cards..."

As Adonia made her trek up the stairs and reached the correct floor, she went inside and found Death and Saix in bed. She went over to them, not realizing that Saix was still asleep. "Is Evante up? Where is he? Can I play with him?"

Of course Saix's eyes popped open at the voice of the child. He looked at Death thinking she was having vocal problems when he saw Adonia on the foot of the bed. What.... He tried to say something but grumbles came out.

But she didn't flinch at the grumbling. It was a familiar thing to her since she always woke up her parents in the morning.

Saix cleared his throat and waved his hand at her, "He'll be in the kitchen in a minute...go wait for him there." How dare she wake him up for something like that.

"Okay, uncle Saix. Bye auntie Death." She dove from the floor and went to find the kitchen.

Saix watched her leave before he turned to his wife, giving her a kiss on the cheek, "Please tell me it's the afternoon and not actually morning."


Asi was watching the goofs play Truth or Dare, though it was clearly failing. Morning time was probably the worst time to do it. "I bet Don would make it interesting."

Roxas finally snapped, "We get it, you want to touch her inappropriately and make Marluxia pissed and have Zexion throw himself down a hole. Why you'd do that I'm not sure, but you've never had a single piece of logic in your brain before, so why would I expect any now?!!?" He breathed. "Sorry. Axel snored last night and kept me up."

Xigbar was sitting there looking very tired, "Dude. Jenova made squidly noises all last night. I'm not sure what was even going on anymore. I wish my wife was back."

"I thought you liked her squidly and nonsquidly?" Axel questioned since Xigbar was known for having weird taste in women.

"I wasn't expecting sleeping next to a glowing body to be that hard though."

Roxas smiled, "She glows? That's cool!"

Vilt thought it over and shrugged, "Bet it makes having sex fun."

Roxas's face fell, "Well, there went the coolness."

Axel punched Roxas's arm, "Oh stop whining you big baby. I wasn't that loud. Besides, we are playing a game. Vexen said truth, we need to think of truths..."

Roxas growled, "Fine. Is it true, Vexen, that you touched Even inappropriately?!?!"

Asi snorted, "That's such a weird question..."

"Yet typical," Xehanort announced from the entrance of the kitchen. The group turned to stare at him. "Yes. I'm alive and well, thank you for asking."

"Where have you been? I didn't see you last night at our big bitchfit."

"Well, I warped outside with BAI and her boytoy, that's what happened." He smoothed his hair gently. "Need I explain anything else?"

"BAI?" Asi thought it over. "Oh yeah. I must have not seen her when we jumped."

"I saw her. She was in the corner toying with that guy's hair like a sex kitten." Xigbar rubbed his chin, "She was dressed weirdly, couldn't exactly tell it was her at the time being."

Roxas prodded his fork against the table, "What's she dressed like?"

"Something along the lines of dominatrix and a doll."

"The creepy dolls that stare at you at night?"

"Yes."

"Wow...sounds like her life went down the shitter if she's wearing clothes like that." He got up and stretched, "But...it makes me want to see her."

That was when Adonia came rushing in and bumped into Xehanort's legs. "Oh no, the doctor!"

"What? Oh. Don't worry, Adonia, no shots today." He loved it how his job made children cry.

Her frown turned into a smile, "Well that's good! I'm waiting for Evante to get up!"

"We're waiting to see a whore." He was punched by Vilt. "Ow. What? She deserves to know the truth."

"Yeah, but if Zexion finds out you're talking like that around her he'll rip off your manhood."

"Pssh, I've killed him before, I think I can do it again."


BAI stood at the entrance of Castle Oblivion staring at the place around her curiously. She could still read everyone's emotions within the castle. Her ability had grown rather nicely since in the last world she had plenty of time to practice and hone her skill without all the drama going on with the others. Her eyes went to her boyfriend and she gave a subtle smile, "Looks like a hell hole if you ask me."

Don thought it over and nodded, "Yeah...that was the worst way to die ever. Stupid Axel..." She sat up, "You know...maybe we should pay him back? He took stuff from the both of us, he obviously deserves some karma to bite him in the a**." But her eyes fell onto him as his back was to her. She pulled herself closer, pulling his back into her chest and rested her hand against his chest. "Or...we could do something sexy right here and now since we're alone."


Saix grumbled at the thought of it being morning. She'd probably come back in if Evante didn't go down. He wondered if he should move, and finally he decided it would just be best if he did it, got back in bed, and slept again with his wife. "I'll wake him up...I'll be back." Saix rose from the warmth of the bed and her tender grasp to walk over to the room holding Lina and Evante. As the light poured into their room he noticed that Lina was lying there looking like she had a bad night while Evante was passed out like a rock. He gently nudged Evante awake, "Hey, Evante, wake up."

Evante came out of his drugged stupor, the scent of flowers from the pillow coming into his nose. "Dad...dy?" he muttered, and then saw Saix standing there. He blinked a few times and stared at the odd room around him, "Hunnh?"

"Hey...good morning. Adonia wanted you to eat breakfast with her."

Evante took a minute to register before nodding, "I'd like to see her, too."

"She's in the kitchen waiting for you." He watched the boy crawl out of bed and scramble out to go find her. Then his eyes turned to Lina. He gently placed the blanket back on her, "You can sleep some more of you want." Though he wasn't sure if he should leave it at that. Did she want to talk to him? He was getting this air that..maybe his own daughter didn't like him?

That...would kill him if it was true.

Siot awoke in his spot in Saix's and Death's room and pulled himself up, glancing at his mother carefully. "Momma." His first word was to call out for her. He was rather hungry by now.


Xehanort stared at Vexen wondering why he was bothering playing such silly games. And now there were kids in there as well. "So many children..."

Ixas opened her eyes upon hearing his comment and she glared, "Watch who you're calling a kid."

Asi almost smirked at her comment, finding those words to be something that HE used to say when he was younger. Maybe...she was a lot more like him than he thought?

He kept his eyes on the table, though, not bothering to look over at her or any of the other girls that were now overpopulating the entire area.

Adonia swung her legs happily under the table and hummed to herself, a song that her mom used to always sing to her in the morning.


Davien woke up slowly after Eseril had jabbed him to death and tried to comprehend why her voice was so high. He glared at her and noticed her size. He then stared at himself and gave a pitiful squeal. He got up and rushed out of the room toward a bathroom. Oh no!! He couldn't reach the sink! He crawled upward and stared at himself in the mirror, "I'm tiny!" He poked his cheek and watched its chubbiness dent inward. He didn't get it...he didn't get anything anymore. The whole world was confusing.

He got down and moved out of the bathroom toward the kitchen in hopes of finding his father, but instead he found thousands of girls! He didn't remember them all being this size before! He felt like such a weakling, so defenseless amongst all of their womanly ways!

He grabbed onto the first leg near him, "I keep shrinking!"

Of course, the girls all turned and stared at him with their vulture like eyes, and Adonia was the first to giggle at him, "He's cute."

Liel played with her golden locks and tried to figure out who it was. "Is that Davien?"

Ixas let her father go and got to the ground, walking her way over to dominate over him, "He's tiny."

Davien glared, "And you're fat." Probably not the greatest thing to say to her right there, let alone in her father's presence.

But she disregarded his words since she picked him up, "He's really light, too."

"Lemme go or I'll clobber ya!" His threats sounded soooo unthreatening in this high squeaky voice.

"What happened to him?"

"Age reversal it seems. Entity's magic doesn't work here anymore. I guess he's finally back to age 4 and can start growing up the natural way."

Davien sighed, "Just my luck."

Xemnas finally came into the room and saw the child in Ixas's arms. He hardly recognized his own kid, but when the eyes struck his he could tell. "Davien? Heavens...you're...four."

Davien pouted, "This sucks."

Adonia smiled, "That's okay, at least you're cute."

Evante came into the room and sat next to Adonia, not even speaking up about how his night went or saying a thing about Davien.

"Jesus, I don't remember this many kids happening before." It was like a swarm of them just came in. He was thinking someone was reproducing like a rabbit. "And we don't even have all of them here."

Xigbar petted down Vierory's hair, "That's okay, sweetie...although she's hard to understand, you just have to know that she loves ya. We can get this all fixed at some point."

Dytku came in as well, "The words that she's using are so complex...it doesn't make sense to a human." As if he was blaming their father for their issue.

"I'll figure something out. Just get yourself some breakfast and enjoy the day."

Of course, as BAI went through the castle the first person she bumped into was Angeal. She gave him a charming smile, "Hello, Angeal."

He stared at her before nodding, "BAI. It's good to see you're all right."

She shrugged, "Not that anyone cared before. This is Nevou. Where is everyone? Xehanort entered earlier and we decided we might as well follow him."

Angeal thought it over, "Well, they're probably in the kitchen eating breakfast. You're welcome to join, of course, since we're all living together now."

She nodded, that malicious grin coming to her face, "Oh, we'd love to." She wrapped her arm around Nevou's and started to move, following the wave of emotions. As she saw the kitchen filled with children she was hardly impressed. Seemed everyone was trying to create a legacy, weren't they?

Roxas was the first to lay eyes on her and he gapped slightly. She looked amazing. He nudged Axel who caught sight of her as well. "Hi, BAI. How's...it going?"

Ixas looked over at her and slowly put Davien down. She didn't remember BAI very well, if at all. But looking at her, she started to get those GIRL thoughts. Where she was comparing herself to this person. And then she started to think about all the other girls that were her age as well....

Was she big enough? Nice enough hair? Curvy enough? Athetlic enough? Tan enough?

She had never been bothered by those thoughts before...Darkness had always said she was beautiful...

Darkness...

BAI stared at Roxas before giving a small shrug, "Hmm...I was doing fine in the other world, but I suppose people have to move on."

Don watched him switch the attention over to his son. Should could totally understand, besides...she was just joking around. Gently Don rested her temple against his, staring into his eyes. "It's acceptable to be worried. I am, too. But knowing Veziell, he should be taking this in stride. There may be moments...that he might falter, but I have faith that he will stick with Emerot and Anzio, and perhaps...he will be the one that helps Darkness free himself of the problem he's in?"

She then rested her head beside his, one hand gently playing with his hair, but more in comfort than to mess around. "I just...wonder...how long does it take for someone to hone their powers...at least enough to time jump?"


Saix was surprised at Siot's actions, almost warming up to the words of him saying 'momma' over and over again. But when Lina asked them to leave he still had that lingering feeling that she didn't want them. As if...they had done something wrong...

No, it was mostly him that messed up.

"Right. We'll leave you alone." He rose and grabbed Death, pulling her from the room and closing the door gently behind him. His smile slowly came back to his face, though, as his eyes turned to Siot. "We should celebrate. Baby's first words...deserves something, right?"

Siot smiled gently, almost as if charming the idea of getting an award. "Momma."

Saix smirked, "What's that? You want to take your mother out on a nice date?" He watched the boy smile even though 'date' wasn't really comprehensible to him. "I don't know, she's hard to please," he joked. The boy only grabbed onto his mom and put his head against her chest. "Well, you've got it down to a science I see."

"Momma momma momma," he said happily, then noticed a scar that was showing slightly upon her shoulder. He curiously, yet hesitantly, touched it, wondering what it was, but made no attempt to call their attention to it.


Xemnas stared at Death and the two kids that were...his...but now tiny. He followed her to a more private area and couldn't wait to hear the explanation on this one. "You're younger than you were yesterday, Entity's powers must have worn off completely."

Davien nodded, "Yeah..." He hesitated before his orange and blue eyes went up to him, "Wait. Does...this mean you'll be more fatherly to us now? I mean, we're back to the age that we're kind of supposed to be. And you can take care of us now! You could make up for lost time!"

Oh god no. He liked Davien far more when he was already grown, and he wasn't even sure what to think about Eseril. It seemed she still had that weird air about her, like she was a young skank instead of an older one.

Sad that he thought that of his own daughter...

"Oh." He thought it over before bending down to be more at their level. "Well, now that I think about it...wouldn't it be better if you were with your mother? Not that I don't want you, but if you look at it...you'd have your real mother and a father to take care of you, a nice sibling to look up to and to play with, and you'd grow up the way you've always wanted to. In all actuality, she could provide quite a lot with the family she has now."

Davien hadn't thought about it. "Oh...you're right. We never really...did hang around mom that much."

"See? This is a good opportunity to bring her back into your lives as well. I know she wanted to try before, but what with missing for the first four years of your childhood, she never had the chance."

He wasn't sure if he really wanted an older sister like Ixas. She seemed...well...tomboyish to the point she'd probably break his brains open. But when he thought about it, Ixas was like Asi, and he was friends with Asi at one point. It couldn't be TOO different. "We should go talk to mom," Davien said excitedly to Eseril, finally giving in to her jittery happiness. "I think it'd be worth giving her a chance for once!"

Ha. Mission accomplished.


Liel's dreamy eyes were right on Nevou, taking in his soft features, yet well-muscled physique. She gave a small sigh and nodded at Lied thinking she was talking about him. "Oh yeah....I'd love to marry him." She gave a small wave to him as if he was paying attention to her.

"Sooooo," Axel got up and pointed at his seat for BAI to sit. She took it neatly and he hung on the back of her chair, "What have you been up to, my lovely lady?"

"The lady is upstairs sleeping," Adonia said happily, thinking about Don. She looked back to see where Davien had gone.

Evante noticed this redirected attention and he grabbed onto her hand to get her attention, "Adonia." When her eyes finally adjusted onto him, he frowned, "You wanted me to eat breakfast with you, right?"

"Of course, silly, who else?" She leaned against him and gave him a hug, watching the boy smile at the attention. "We can play fun things after breakfast!"

BAI was surveying the two before answering Axel's question, "Oh you know...becoming famous...getting rich...the usual." She took off her gloves and held them up, knowing Nevou would take them from her.

"Oh...were you a model, too?" Asi questioned, never remembering seeing her before. Then again, he was in mostly male-dominant magazines.

"Pyschic readings, actually."

"Oh yeah, I remember your powers now. You said you wished they'd go away since they were hurting your head. So...being here must be nice."

"On the contrary, Roxas, I still have my powers unlike the rest of the adults here. Don't ask why, I wouldn't know. And yes, I did just read your mind to figure all of that out. And no, Axel, I won't go out on a date with you."

Axel sighed. Damn. "Well..." he was going to ask why her powers were working and realized she already answered it. Dammit. "Hmm." Now he was stumped.

"Perhaps it has to do with her connection to Don..."

Vilt shook his head, "Um....no that wouldn't make sense. Thetic lost her powers and she is just like BAI in the sense of their connection to Death and Don."

"Could be because the other Don um..." He looked at Adonia who was flirting with Veziell. "Well...you know..."

"That...seems like a stretch."


Entity watched the tears come forth and he let the branding iron rest to the side. He came forth and licked up his tears, tasting the salt and warmth of them in his mouth. "Oooohh....Anzio....if only you had given in much sooner you wouldn't have...." he placed his hand on the burnt thigh, "suuuuuffffeeerrrreeed such....consequences...." He played with the boy's hair now, cynical smile across his face. "But now you'll participate, yes? Of course....if its my appearance that forces you away you but only need to...to specify someone you want..." He changed into Swan, "Who is it, darling, that you're craving for?" He changed again, this time to Death, "There's a variety to pick from," Then to Don, "Unless you're more interested in the males..." He turned to Darkness, bringing himself closer to the boy and gently kissed his bottom lip, "Hmm?"


Rathe didn't want to speak about it. The fear of seeing Sephiroth ever again...it was just too much. He was dead...but it didn't mean he couldn't rise from the dead. Too many times he had heard about Sephiroth resurfacing. He was like a cockroach, you couldn't get rid of him...

"I'm...sorry...." he whispered softly. "I...panicked..."

"Let's not argue," Darkness remarked to keep them both calm. "Rathe has suffered severely from Entity's treatment. I think...if Entity didn't get his satisfaction right now he would have found a way to talk to Ansem...and I think Ansem would have thrown Anzio right at him if it meant shutting Entity up. At least this way Ansem won't be involved..."

It was the first time anyone ever stood up for him. All that pain he had gone through.... Entity said it was love, but it felt far from that. It was just neverending pain and loathing of his own body...