Xolo walked through the halls of The World That Never Was, whistling some random tune she had stuck in her head thanks to Demyx. Curse that mullet boy and his show tunes; it didn’t help now that he had that new stereo box Xigbar gave Demyx as a “gift” to plug into his Sitar to play his tunes even LOUDER that before but Xolo knew, Xigbar was still mad about her drawing an eyeball on his eye patch, again, this was his sick revenge. Not a single good night’s sleep for about 5 nights.

Today was a slow day however but things were looking a bit up since Marluxia told her Xeria was looking for Xolo. Apparently Xeria gotten back early from her mission with Xaldin in going to Wonderland, Xolo was sure Xeria had some sort of story to tell, after all the Mad Hatter and March Hare lived there.

She turned around the corner almost running into a certain blue haired nobody sucked into his book. Zexion glanced up at XIV in disgust. “Xolo,” he stated in his smooth voice. “What are you doing wandering around the castle? Causing trouble I assume.”

Xolo shook her head. “Not yet.” Zexion’s face twisted into an expression of suspicion, which made Xolo smirk on the inside, oh if only Zexy knew. “Hey have you seen Xeria? She was looking for me.” Xolo asked the Schemer. Zexion blinked and glanced behind his shoulder, as if he was looking for someone coming down the hallway. “Indeed I have, she was in the den area playing some sort of game.”

“Game?” Xolo echoed furrowing her brow in confusion. Zexion rolled his sharp icy blues eyes towards the ceiling, flipping a page in his book. “Why don’t you just go see for yourself? I have important things to do today.”

As Zexion tried to walk past Xolo he felt something tug at his Organization jacket. He turned his head around to glare at the shorter nobody hanging onto his jacket. Xolo grinned up at him. “Can you summon a portal for me?”

The Schemer just stared down at her. Xolo whimpered in the back of her throat. “Please?”

Zexion sighed through his nose, stupid young new recruits. He held onto his book with the other hand while his other flicked at the wrist summoning up a dark oval portal next to Xolo. The young prankster grinned at the Schemer, slightly surprised the older nobody listened to her. “Thanks Zexy!”

Xolo let go of Zexion’s cloak and bolted for the portal. “My name is Zex-“ Xolo didn’t hear the rest of what the Schemer had to say for she was already through the portal and at the other end of the castle. Her pointed ear caught some sort of music playing; she turned and glanced at the flat screen on the opposite side of the room.

“Hey Xolo!” Xeria popped out from the white C shaped couch, almost giving her friend a miniature imaginary heart attack. The white haired nobody scoffed at Xolo and leaned over the side of the couch. “What took you so long? Did you have to walk?”

“No I actually got Zexion to summon up a- What’s that?” Xolo pointed towards the T.V. screen, the source of the faint background music from before. Xeria glanced at the T.V. then back at her friend. “Oh yeah that, do you remember that Resident Evil 5 game I was telling you about?”

Xolo nodded, how could she forget? On missions Xeria would talk about that game, thanks to Marluxia sneaking in that new PS3 two months ago. Even when they would be battling heartless Xeria would have to mention something about the game, especially this one sunglasses wearing guy, what was his name again?

“Well,” Xeria turned around facing the T.V., PS3 controller at hand. “I just got done beating this game but couldn’t help and think you might want to try this game out.” Handing her friend behind her the second controller Xolo could only stare at the back of Xeria’s head.

Play? This game? If there was one thing Xolo COULD remember is how scary the game sounded. With zombies, guy that could catch your missiles and dodge your bullets, some sort of virus, creatures with long tongues called lickers, blood, and some steroid arm guy, scary. It was hard not to shiver on the spot.

“You gonna play?” Xeria asked catching her friend right before she was going to shiver for the second time. Xolo leapt over the back of the couch clutching the controller. “Of course I am!”

Am I actually going to do this? Xolo quietly thought, Xeria knew exactly how scared Xolo got. For Kingdom Heart’s sake she almost pissed herself at Port Royal with her when the pirates showed what happened to them when they stepped into the moonlight, Xolo shivered, creepy.

“Alright here are the buttons,” Xeria quickly explained pointing to each button on Xolo’s controller, giving a brief description of what each of them did in the game.
Xolo had to silently admit she was nervous, what if she got bad dreams from this? Well Xeria would probably have to suffer more since she was right next door to Xolo and would be the first to hear the nobody screaming from the dreams. Her sleep loss, as if it wasn’t already victim to Demyx’s sitar.

“Hey Xeria I am not sure-“

“Shhh!” Xeria placed her index finger to her lips. “You are going to miss the first cutscene!”

Xolo snorted and frowned at the T.V. screen. There was indeed a scene playing, a rugged old white jeep was driving across a savannah like scene that reminded Xolo of the Pride Lands. Inside the jeep was this huge man with slicked back black hair, and Xolo took note that he probably was on steroids, was hunched over driving the vehicle.

“I hope I don’t have to play as him….” Xolo thought looking at the man stepping out of the car, looking even more massive than he was before. “He so fat!” Xolo giggled out loud, earning a laugh from Xeria beside her.

A lady approached the man and she was much thinner than him by far. If the man sat on her she probably would be dead. “Okay you get to play as Chris got it?” Xeria announced turning towards her friend as the cutscene was drawing to a close.

“The steroid arm guy?” Xolo asked, almost whining. Xeria only smirked with a bit of tooth showing and nodded her head. Xolo whimpered and leaned backwards. “But whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?”

Xeria shrugged. “Because I definitely don’t want to be him and I don’t want to be chased by Wesker when it comes to the boss fight.” Xolo stared at Xeria, furrowing her brows. “Who?”

The evil grin from ear to ear that came across Xeria’s face made a pit of concern carve out into Xolo’s stomach. Ho shizz…. “Oh you will see Xolo. You will see.” Was Xeria’s only reply before the two friends turned and began to play.

-In a kitchen not to far away-

The British nobody Luxord sat at the dining room table, a seat ahead of him Xigbar was reading the newspaper, with Xaldin sitting beside him flipping through a cookbook deciding what lunch was going to be. Luxord reached into his pocket, pulling a small metal bottle and pouring a brown liquid in his tea.

Xigbar sniffed the air and glared at Luxord over the newspaper. “Rum, Luxord? Really?

“Yes really.” Luxord replied bringing his lips to the white tea cup about to take a nice long-

“ZOMBIES!

Luxord yelped and accidentally threw his tea in the air, which resulted in his lap. The British nobody yelled as the warm brown liquid started to burn his lap in an extreme uncomfortable way even through his leather Organization XIII jacket.

“Bloody hell!” Luxord exclaimed standing up and reaching for a towel and whipping the mess on his lap, cursing all the curses under the sun under his breath and some British ones too. Xaldin looked up from his cookbook and thought out loud. “What was that anyways? Or who was that?”

“XOLO DON’T DO THAT YOU IDIOT!”

“Xolo and Xeria is my best guess,” Xigbar commented getting bored reading one page in the newspaper, turning the page looking for the comics’ part of the paper. Luxord finished up cleaning his mess, and then glared down at hallway, where the voices were coming from. “What on earth are they doing anyways?”

“Dunno,” Xaldin bluntly stated the obvious, reading a recipe for Chicken Chowmen Noodles, Luxord still glared down the hallway and threw the towel he cleaned his tea up with on the table in front of him.

“Well those girls ruined my last cup of tea imported from Port Royal! I hope they know what’s coming!” Luxord growled starting to march towards the hallway exiting the kitchen. Xigbar snorted from behind the newspaper. “Hope you don’t bring the mad tea party of doom on those two! Spare them oh pwease!”

Xaldin snorted, covering his mouth up with his hand, trying to hold back a laugh. Luxord glared at number II and III, scowling, before swearing at the two under his breath then walking out of the kitchen. The minute number XI walked out Xaldin and Xigbar burst out in hysterical laughter.

-Back in the den-

“XERIAAAA! THEY ARE GOING TO KILL ME!”

Xolo screamed some more as very slow zombie like creatures started moving towards her way. She frantically hit the button to fire her machine gun, which missed all the zombies by feet. Xolo yelled again as one of the zombies was only inches away from Chris on the screen.

“GOD XOLO!” Xeria yelled back and then with one shot of her rocket launcher and the group of zombies were all gone with the blast. Xolo breathed a sigh of relief and followed Sheva in the game as Chris. That was about the 5th or 6th time Xeria bailed Xolo out, again, and they weren’t even past the first level. Funny how games were sometimes just like real life.

A dark portal shot up from the ground feet behind the C shaped couch Xolo and Xeria were sitting on. A pissed off Luxord stepped from the portal glaring at the back of their heads. “Alright ladies!”

Xeria paused the Resident Evil 5 game and turned around to look at the British nobody marching right in front of them. Luxord glared at the both of them. “Who is the one who shouted out “ZOMBIES”?”

Instantly and almost by habit Xeria pointed her finger towards Xolo. Xolo frowned at her best friend and rolled her eyes. “Gee thanks-“ “LISTEN to me missy,” Luxord hissed catching the nobody off in mid sentence.

Xolo saw the anger held in Luxord’s icy pools of bright blue, quite frankly it scared her senseless, more than the zombies in Resident Evil 5. “You ruined my last cup of tea imported from Port Royal,” Luxord explained in a tense tone. “Do you have any idea how much it cost?”

Luxord watched Xolo pause to think about it. Xolo honestly didn’t know, was she supposed to pay attention to tea prices while she was supposed to be killing heartless in Port Royal now? “It cost more munny than you could ever imagine saving up for your non-existent life!” Luxord yelled, making Xolo flinch and sink lower into the white couch.

“Sorry Luxord…” Xolo quietly whispered, fear engulfing the edges of her voice. Luxord sighed and rubbed his forehead.  The Prankster did feel bad for Luxord; it was one of the many things he cared deeply about.

There were four things in the world Luxord took very seriously, one: strip poker, two: gambling, three: his tea and four: strip poker. Wait she already thought that didn’t she? Well it was that important to Luxord anyways, she had to mention it twice.

“No…” Luxord began to protest quietly. “I am sorry love; I didn’t mean to yell at you like that. I guess after all it is just tea but…” The British nobody sighed and shook his head. “It’s nothing don’t worry about it.”

Xolo remembered the small bag of munny back in her room. It wasn’t that much, maybe 750 money, but maybe she could save it up to make it up with Luxord. “Oh?” Luxord had his back turned against Xeria and Xolo, his eyes grazing over Resident Evil 5 pause screen. “Resident Evil 5?”

“Yeah.” Xeria replied leaning forward. “How’d you know?”

Luxord turned around flashed a toothily grin. “Cause I have played this game before.”

“Really?” Xeria’s red eyes sparked with amusement and life. “What’s your opinion on Excella?” Luxord wrinkled his nose, as if he just smelled Marluxia’s cooking for a second time. “Hate the little lass, she can go crawl in a hole and die for all I care. I wanted to cheer when she died.”

Xeria gasped dramatically. “Me too!”

Xolo rested her chin in her hand, listening to how one simple question sparked into a whole conversation between Luxord and Xeria. Xolo opened her mouth to speak but was quickly interrupted by either of the two. She leaned her head back and rested it on the edge of the couch. This could be a while.

-In a superior’s office upstairs-

Saix blinked and held back the huge urge to yawn. Unlike the red head Axel beside him he yawned and rested his chin in his hand wearing a bored expression. While on the other side Marluxia was fussing with his pink hair looking at his reflection in a small hand mirror.

The three nobodies have almost been here for an hour now, listening to Xemnas talk, talk, talk, and then talk some more. Saix almost lost track of why they were here in the first place, some special mission in Hallow Bastion, right? It seemed out of the three Saix was the only one paying half attention, no surprise.

“…And that is why I have selected you three to carry out these plans in Hallow Bastion. Understand?” Xemnas concluded opening his eyes from a thoughtful expression, to peer at the three nobodies sitting across his desk. His amber eyes glaring at a certain red head that fell asleep, snoring lightly.

Xemnas growled quietly and leaned over his desk, whipping out his hand and hitting Axel’s elbow resting on the corner and holding up his head. Axel snorted and ended up landing face first on the hard white desk, cursing lightly rubbing his nose while sitting up.

“Your mission will take about 3 days, you three have my permission to leave the castle and stay over there in Hallow Bastion until your mission is completed.” Xemnas explained in his emotionless tone glancing over the three nobodies.

Saix gulped, tomorrow was the day Xeria and he planned to go to Twilight Town to Sunset Hill to spend the evening together. He had to admit he was looking forward to tomorrow so much, anything to be alone with his Xeria. They had been planning this for almost a whole month and now-

“Saix?” Xemnas asked watching the nobody stare into space. “Is there something wrong?”

Saix blinked and came back into reality. Staring into his Superior’s amber emotionless pools he knew he couldn’t go back on orders, he couldn’t say no. Sorry Xeria… Saix shook his head and casted his eyes to the ground. “There is nothing wrong Superior.”

Xemnas nodded his head curtly. “Good, then VII, VIII, XI you are all dismissed.” Without another word the three addressed nobodies stood and headed out the door. Axel closed the door behind them while Marluxia cheered. “Thank goodness we got out of there! Now I can do my hair.”

The pink haired nobody left in a hurry leaving Saix and Axel standing outside of their Superior’s door. Saix snorted under his breath and glanced at Axel standing by him, getting surprised at his expression. It was blank, hollow, almost a little bit sad, Saix blinked at Axel, was this the same cocky goofy red head he hated?

“What’s wrong with you?” Saix questioned out loud. Axel glanced up from the ground to the werewolf looking nobody, rubbing his arm sheepishly. “Like you would care…”

“No I probably wouldn’t.” Saix bluntly stated walking past the red head, regretting he said anything out loud anyways. He heard a pair of footsteps following his and saw the red head walking beside him. He really regretted saying anything now.

“And what’s up your butt huh Saix? You seem edger today than usual.” Axel asked in his cocky like manor, his usual self starting to show now that he was teasing Saix. Saix huffed and started to walk faster, in hopes of losing the red head. “Like you would care either about my problems.” Saix growled.

To Saix’s half relief Axel stopped in his tracks, he marched forward, hoping to completely lose the Pyro. “Wait!” Saix heard the plea and almost didn’t obey, but he paused and waited. A long drawn out sigh was heard behind him.

“To tell you the truth I am sad about leaving Xolo behind again….It seems we never have time to be together like we want to.” Axel simply stated, watching Saix crane his head around to listen. A long moment of silence went between the two before Saix replied. “Same here.”

Axel stared at Saix. No matter how much the two hated each other’s guts and wish they both could just vanish off into another forgotten dimension they were both the same in one way. When it came to their loves Xeria and Xolo, the two were the almost the same. Saix blinked at Axel, he hated to admit it, even to himself. Axel was almost like him.

Saix turned his head forward and marched forward leaving Axel behind.

-Back in the den area-

“Seven minutes, seven minutes is all I have to play with you.” A cocky sunglass wearing  blonde Wesker spoke on the T.V. screen checking his fancy looking watch on his wrist. Xolo laughed and rolled her eyes towards Xeria. “Sounds so sexual.”

“Xolo! Look out!” Xeria yelled at her friend watching Wesker fly towards Chris on the screen. Xolo blinked and watched in horror as Wesker suddenly was there for minute and then right in front of Chris. “HOLY CRAP!” Xolo screamed hitting random buttons while Wesker threw Chris effortless to the ground.

“WESKER IS GONNA KILL ME!”Xolo yelled hysterically making the fat muscled Chris in the game run as fast as he can, which wasn’t that fast in the first place. Xeria laughed as Wesker got closer and closer to Chris and while she was just standing there in the game watching.

A dark portal came up from the ground behind the couch a familiar red head grinning down at the two female nobodies. “Hey! Finally found you two! What are you doing?” Axel glanced up at the T.V. screen, two screens split in half while the bottom half had this huge man and the top had some skinny chick firing a gun at a man wearing sunglasses.

“Ah found you!” The sunglass wearing guy stated and punched the one huge man standing there. Xolo screamed and flung the controller up in the air, without warning she turned to the red head standing behind the couch and leapt towards him. Axel barely even had time to voice his reaction and tumbled backwards with a scared shaking Xolo on top of him.

Xeria glanced away and looked back at the T.V. screen. With the words written in bloody letters “You are dead” with a dead looking Chris in the background. The white haired nobody glanced over the side of the couch where her scared friend and Axel still laid. “Well congrats Xolo you died.”

Xolo glanced up at her friend and then down at Axel lightly moaning in pain. “Heh...Sorry Axel.”  Axel slowly sat up while Xolo got off and sat down beside him on the ground. “Babe you really got scaring the crap out of yourself and then landing on me.” Axel laughed turning towards Xolo.

“She started it.” Xolo pointed towards Xeria grinning evilly to herself.

Xeria sighed through her nose. “If only I had 10 munny for every time I heard that coming out of your mouth Xolo and blaming it on me, I would be rich.” Xolo climbed over the side of the couch with Axel at her side and sat down. “Come on I have to beat this Wesker dude!” Xolo exclaimed picking up her thrown controller off the ground.

“Alright but don’t blame me if you die again.” Xeria grinned hitting a few buttons and getting the game set up again for the Wesker fight. Axel wrapped an arm around Xolo’s shoulders smiling. “But she’s got me here! No way are you going to lose now.”

Xolo grinned and snuggled up closer to the red head. “My lucky Pyro charm.” Xeria groaned in disgust watching the couple beside her exchange a quick kiss. “Really you two? Right here and right now?”

-in a hallway nearby-

Saix continued walking throughout the hallways of the Castle That Never Was, aimlessly going with any sort of destination or spot. But more likely buying time to think how he was going to break it to Xeria about the cancelation of their trip tomorrow. She was so excited this morning.

Saix leaned back and sighed through his nose, the life and spark that came into those deep pools of red was enough to make even a nobody’s heart skip a beat. He brought his gloved hands up to rub his temples, he’d rather face a thousand heartless than tell Xeria they couldn’t spend the day together.

“Oh yeah take that you stupid Wesker!”

One of Saix’s pointed werewolf ears twitched. He glanced down the hallway and furrowed his blue brows. Was that Xolo’s voice? He listened as another high pitch yell came to his surprise with a flat ended response.

“And there he comes again.”

Saix knew that voice, could recognize it anywhere, Xeria. A small rise of hope rose in him but with a small hint of sorrow. He had to tell Xeria sometime, and it probably was now or never. Walking down towards the source of where the yelling was coming from he found himself at the doorway of the den area.

Sure enough he could recognize the back of Xeria’s, Xolo’s and especially the back of Axel’s spiky red head all turning facing towards the T.V. Saix really didn’t pay much mind to what was on the T.V. already assuming it was just that dancing game he knew Xolo failed at the game miserably and that was probably the source of her cursing.

“Dang it!” Xolo exclaimed loudly, making Saix pause and flinch as he tried to move towards the three, his presence still unknown. “What do you expect Xolo?” Xeria replied smirking at her friend, not noticing her boyfriend standing feet behind her. “You can’t beat Wesker.”

“If you would help her out there Xeria, maybe Xolo wouldn’t die so much. And not to mention the guy she is playing is completely fat.” Axel gawked smirking at his pouting love beside him.

“I can’t help but stare at Wesker,” Xeria shifted in her seat and slumped lower down in the couch. “He’s cute.” Saix’s imaginary heart skidded to a standstill. What? He could only stare at the back of what was visible of his love’s white hair. She just said another man is…..cute.

Saix stood there silently, waiting and watching in the silence between the three. Axel turned and looked down at Xolo, his lips turned into a pout. “You still think I’m cute right?” Axel whimpered. Xolo frowned coldly and scoffed. “You?! Cute? Heh.” Axel sat there with wide eyes staring at Xolo in complete disbelief, in complete utter shock.

Xolo turned and grinned at Axel. “You’re hotter than the flames you wield.” Axel laughed and leaned in and kissed a giggling Xolo on the forehead. “You had me scared for a second there.” Xeria rolled her eyes sometimes annoyed by the two’s flirting with each other.  Then suddenly she sensed someone’s eyes on her. She turned and looked at a Saix standing there with a blank unreadable expression.

“Saix!” Xeria greeted happily, trying to bring a smile to the nobody’s face. But nothing came. Saix’s lips were a thin unreadable line and now both Axel and Xolo turned around to look at him. “Oh hey Saix.” Xolo waved at the nobody, still earning no response.

Xeria blinked and titled her head to the side. “Saix?”

Saix without a word to any of the three lifted up his arm and summoned up a dark portal beside him. “Have fun staring at this so called “wesker” Xeria…” He coldly stated turning and then vanishing into the portal. Xeria watched with shocked eyes as the portal disappeared into the ground completely.

“Gee what’s his problem?” Xolo asked turning towards Xeria, equally confused as her friend beside her. Xeria clutched at her chest, where her heart was supposed to be. “I-I am not sure….Unless.” The sudden realization struck Xeria. She whipped her head towards Xolo. “He overheard me talking about Wesker!”

“And he got that jealous?” Axel questioned glancing over at Xeria.

Xeria shook her head and casted her eyes to the ground. “You don’t understand, Saix gets so jealous and consumed by envy so quickly. He got so offended one time when Marluxia complimented me once on how my hair was looking!”

Xolo and Axel exchanged a glance with each other. Xeria snapped her head up and quickly exclaimed. “I have to go talk to him!” Without another word to either her best friend Xolo or Axel she opened up a portal and ran right through it.

Xeria heard the portal behind her close and glanced around at her surroundings. Nearby was the golden bright heart shaped moon also known as Kingdom Hearts shining brightly in the sky, she was on the best spot to observe the moon, the spot Saix showed her. And sure enough there was the nobody sitting on the edge with his back turned against her, his head tilted towards the moon above.

“Got tired of staring at Wesker?” Saix coldly stated, not even bothering to turn around. Xeria flinched at his words as if it physically hit her but shook it off and walked slowly and cautiously towards the nobody.

“Saix please listen to me I-“ Xeria tried to defend herself but Saix stood up abruptly and turned around to glare at her. “So you can what? Tell me I am no good enough for you now? Some other guy has suddenly come into your life?” Saix growled bits and pieces of his tiny fangs showing.

Xeria shook her head. “No Saix please it’s not like that at all!” Saix growled in the back of his throat. “What do you mean then?” Xeria calmly and bravely reached over and grabbed one of Saix’s clenched fists, taking it carefully in both of her hands.

“Because Wesker is not real…” Xeria explained soothingly, stroking the back of Saix’s hand. Saix tipped his head to the side and it was hard for Xeria not to blurt out loud that he looked like the lost puppy at the supermarket. “What do you mean…?” Saix asked quietly.

Xeria smiled up at Saix. “I mean Wesker is just a guy in a game he’s not real.” Saix resisted to smile back and silently retorted. “But you called him cute.” Xeria switched from stokes to soothing rubbing circles on the back of Saix’s hand, feeling the larger hand relax a bit in hers.

“But that doesn’t mean I love him as much as you…” Xeria quietly whispered, beaming. Saix finally smiled down at the younger nobody and grasped both of her hands in his. The two stayed that way for a moment before Saix leaned down to Xeria’s level and kissed her gently on the tip of her nose. Xeria giggled lightly and blushed, just like every time Saix did that.

“So you love him more than me?” Saix grinned inches away from Xeria’s face. Xeria nodded and wrapped her arms around Saix’s neck. “Most definitely, you just need to be less jealous.”

Saix shrugged and fingered some of Xeria’s white locks. “I can’t help it.”
The two then shared a long kiss with the heart shaped moon casting down pools of moonlight upon the two, since they couldn’t spend their day in Twilight Town tomorrow they decided to sit on the roof watching the moon, together.