42Vexen's antidote seemed, for once, to work. This was proven to Demyx when he had been absentmindedly strumming on his sitar. "Dems! Look what Uncle Xig gave me!" A young, seven year old Zexion said, as he ran towards Demyx. In his hands he was holding a huge water gun. This young version of Zexion was clad in blue denim overalls and had a red and orange striped shirt on, and was wearing no shoes. He was also covered in mud, and was missing a tooth.
Demyx turned to him, a grin plastered onto his face. "Leave it to him to give you something gun related," He laughed, ruffling Zexion's hair. "Yea! I got to get Uncle Axe-owl back with it, after he ate all of my gummy worms!" Zexion said, laughing menacingly. "Oh, I bet he just loved that," Demyx smiled, taking the water gun from him. "How have your nightmares been?" He asked the boy, who was trying to get his toy back. "Umm they're still really weird and stuff, you know? Like, like, last night, I had one about you! But we were kissing like grown ups do, it was icky! Then we went to this really cool world that was dark and scary, and me and Uncle Xal were fighting this huge jack in the box thing, but it was trying to stab us and shoot us!" He explained. Demyx couldn't help but think, 'Uncle Xal and me, not me and Uncle Xal…' from his past experiences with Zexion.
It turns out, the dreams that Zexion, Luxord, Marluxia and Saïx had been having were that of their memories. It was as if they were coming back to them so they acted completely normal when the correct age once more. Zexion liked them though, because they usually included Demyx, who was his bestest friend. Zexion turned back around to ask Demyx if they could go play outside in the trees together, but was interrupted when he was sprayed in the face by his own water gun.
"KYAHH! Demmy! That's my water gun, come back!" Zexion screamed, laughing as he ran off after Demyx. Said water mage knew it to be not fair to use the dark portals (of doom and gloom? Yes) when playing tag because none of the kids were able to use them.
After running for a good fifteen minutes, it took him a good five of them to realize that Zexion had ditched him long ago. When he found him, both he and Luxord were mesmerized by this new 'slinky' toy, which was going down a huge flight of stairs. "GO SLINKY, GO!" They both shouted as it neared the bottom. Xaldin, who was sitting at the top of the stairs, blew a gust of wind towards it, so the slinky actually made it off the last step. "WOOOO!" Zexion and Luxord screamed, throwing their arms up in the air. They turned to Xaldin. "That was awesome!" Luxord told him, his British accent very prominent in his speech. "Yea! Where did you get this thing?!" Zexion asked, playing with the metal spring in his hands.
"Eh, used to be way popular back from my home world, when I was a kid," Xaldin said. "If you want, I could take you there and show you some other toys," He suggested. "OHMYGODYES!" Both boys screamed in unison. "Well, Zexion, you had best ask Demyx then…" Xaldin told him, pointing a finger at Demyx who was watching them with a raised eyebrow. "Oh god Demyx, can I go?! PLEAAASE? I'll bring you back something!" Zexion pleaded, getting on his knees and begging.
Demyx smiled and nodded. "But only if I can come too!" He grinned.
"Xemmy?" A ten year old Saïx asked, walking over to Xemnas' desk, where said nobody sat. "Yes, Saïx?" Xemnas asked, his cold voice showing no emotion (duh). "Um… Can I go play with the others?" The smaller one asked, having become incredibly bored with staying around Xemnas, all the time. He never got a chance to play with the others anymore! "I don't know, can you?" Xemnas rudely asked. Saïx hated when he did this to him. "S-sorry… May I go play with the others today?" He then asked.
"No, Saïx, I'm afraid you can't today…" Xemnas replied, making Saïx visibly deflate.
"Why not, Xemnas?" He asked, using the Superior's full name in hopes that he'd get his way. "Because, Saïx, because. We have important things to do today…" Was his answer.
"Like what?" Like giving the members their missions," If I go and do that for you, can I go and play afterwards?" Saïx asked, resisting from grabbing the stack of mission papers right off the desk. Xemnas sighed. "Yes, ok. I don't see why not," He said, handing the small boy the stack of papers. Saïx beamed with joy, before running out of the room.
First stop, Lexaeus.
Saïx gently knocked on the door, and gently swayed his head side to side, his semi-long (Like… a little past his ears) blue hair swaying along with him. Finally, he answered! "Why, hello there, little one. What can I do you for?" The tall man asked, giving Saïx a soft smile. "Hey, Lex! I'm giving out the missions so I can go out and play," Saïx told him, looking up (and up and up…) at him and grinning. He handed the paper to Lexaeus who accepted it even if he wasn't in the mood to go on a mission… ever.
Next, Xaldin and Axel.
Saïx went to Axel first, just to get things over with. "Here…" He said, and thrust the paper into his hands. He had been having these weird dreams about him and Axel fighting, a lot, so he decided to try and steer clear of him. Xaldin though, was a bit nicer to him. "Here is your mission, Xaldin," He said, handing him the paper. "I'm with Axel? Why?" He asked. "Xemmy didn't tell me! I'm sorry…" And with that Saïx sped off to his next destination.
Next stop, Demyx and Roxas.
Luckily for Saïx, Roxas was with Axel so he got rid of that paper fast. Demyx though, he had to hunt down. Turns out, he was in a completely different world at the moment anyway, so he just taped it to his door.
Last stop, Xigbar, Vexen and Larxene.
Not wanting to become a test subject, Saïx simply taped Vexen's mission paper onto his door as well. For Xigbar he did the same, because he most certainly did not want to be trapped on the ceiling for another long period of time like the other day. Larxene was the worst. She kept hiding from him and zapping him whenever he thought he found her. Finally, he just realized that it'd be so much easier if he just did what he did with the others'. Just tape it onto the door…
Yay! Now Saïx could go and play with his younger friends! But where are they, I wonder? After searching for several minutes, Saïx finally found out that Zexion and Luxord were with Demyx and Xaldin at that other world, so that just left him to go play with Marluxia… in the gardens. Oh well. Saïx walked to the conservatory, where he found his nine year old pink haired friend talking to a batch of snapdragons. "Hey, Marluxia, want to play?" He asked him, as he sat down on a stone bench that was nearby.
Marluxia looked up at him.
"Um, no." He said, before turning back to his plants. Saïx frowned. "Why not?" Saïx asked. "Because I'm busy!" Marluxia told him, snipping off a few leaves of the bush he was now working on. "Can't you do this stuff later?" Saïx then questioned, desperately wanting to play something with the other boy. "No! I have to do it now!" Marluxia demanded. "Oh. Well, when you're done can we play? I can wait a little while," Saïx suggested, only to have Marls turn back and glare at him. "NO! I don't want to play with you! You're ridiculously boring and don't know how to play anything right! Just go away!" He snapped. Saïx's head dropped down to the ground, and he shifted uncomfortably.
"Um… Sorry…" He said. He got up and left the greenhouse in silence, the only other noise besides the door shutting behind him being the soft snipping noises of Marluxia's sheers.
On the way back to Xemnas' office, he ran into Zexion, who was playing with a yo-yo. "Hello, Zexion," He said as he walked by. "Hey there! Whatchya doin? Want to go play something?" Zexion immediately said back. Saïx stopped and looked at him, before grinning and nodding. "Yea!" He said, running back over to him. "Ok, cool!" Zexion said, pulling a few slinkies out of his overall's pocket. He then dragged Saïx off back to the great huge staircase.
Stupid Saïx, wanting to play. He's so boring! And of course the only time he wants to play, which is whenever he's not sucking up to stupid Xemnas, is whenever Marluxia decides to start gardening! So when he came in today, Marly told him off. Stupid lamer just slunk off like a wet cat. So finally, Marluxia got to garden in peace.
That is, until stupid Vexen showed up. "What do you want?" Marluxia spat. "You certainly are a little bitch, aren't you?" Vexen growled back. "I was going to see if you wanted some tea, but I see you're busy having a tantrum," He snapped, and stomped out of the greenhouse, but not before freezing several of the plants in the room.
Marluxia growled, before actually throwing a real tantrum. He quickly sprinted around trying to save any of his frostbitten plants, but to no avail. Ooooh, how that old coot will pay!
After dinner though, of course! Marluxia needs his energy if he's going to plot revenge!
So far, today had been a good day for Luxord. First, he woke up, which is always cool.
Then, Xigbar taught him how to play a card game. He loves card games! Then he, Xigbar, and Xaldin all had breakfast together for the first time in a long time, and it was his favorite meal, too!
So then Xaldin showed him this really trippy toy, called a slinky. Zexion showed up and he, Luxord and Xaldin began having crazy times with that little metal coil of fun.
Demyx had showed up a little later, and then the four of them went to another world.
When they got back, Luxord went to take a shower, which he loved to do (he loved to just stand in the hot water). Then he met up with Zexion and Saïx and played with yo-yos for a while.
Then dinner came, and that as well was his favorite! Marluxia looked really grumpy though. He kept giving Vexen dirty looks.
After a semi-quiet dinner, everyone went to bed happily. Luxord even had this funky dream, about an older version of him! It was coooool.
Sorry if Marl's and Lux's segments are super short… I was trying to get this up for you guys today.