"Sigh. I hate morning meetings." Marluxia said as he walked down the halls of the Castle That Never Was, "Why couldn't the meetings be in the afternoon? Everybody's too sleepy to pay attention, and Xemnas' long speeches aren't helping." Marluxia stopped outside of Demyx's room, "Better check and see if these two are up." he said, and knocked on the door.

He got no response. He knocked again, harder, but still got no response.

"Being stubborn aren't we?" Marluxia said, and pounded on the door.

"Do you mind? I'm in the middle of something." a voice called from the inside.

"Axel?" Marluxia asked.

"Oh, hey Marly." Axel said.

"Hi." Marluxia said, "What are you doing in there?"

"Demyx and I are having a predicament. Do you think you can help? Ow! Demyx don't do that!" Axel said.

"Sure?" Marluxia said, wondering what he would find.

Marluxia looked into the room, and saw Axel laying on the floor, looking underneath Demyx's bed, rubbing his hand.

"What are you doing?" Marluxia asked.

"Trying to get Demyx out from under his bed." Axel answered.

"Why is he under there?"

"Because I don't want to go to the meeting!" Demyx called from under the bed.

"Why not?" Marluxia asked.

"Because the idiot is afraid of his chair." Axel answered.

"His chair?"

"It's too high!" Demyx said.

"You said you could tolerate the height!" Axel said.

"Just because I can tolerate it, doesn't mean I like it!"

"Demyx!"

"You sound angry." Marluxia said, walking over to Axel.

"You bet I am!" Axel said, "I have been in here for over an hour, and nothing I say will get him out!"

"Did you try to pull him out?"

"Yes!"

"And?"

"He bit me!"

"Nice reaction."

"We'll see how nice it is when Saix goes berserk for not showing up at the meeting!"

"I don't care what X-face does, I'm not going!" Demyx said.

"Demyx you get out here, or I'm coming in after you!"

"Do that and I'll flood you."

"Listen here you little-"

"Maybe threats aren't the way to go?" Marluxia said.

"Then what else am I supposed to do!"

"Something a little nicer, and smarter than this." Marluxia said, grabbing something off of Demyx's bed. It was a piece of string with a piece of candy tied to the end of it. "Went fishing for a Nocturne?" he asked.

"I didn't know what else to try." Axel said, getting up from the floor.

"Do you mind if I try to get him out?" Marluxia asked.

"Do whatever you want, I give up." Axel said.

"Hmm, lets see." Marluxia said as he crouched down next to Demyx's bed, "Demyx, can you please come out?"

"No! I won't! You can't make me go to that meeting!" Demyx said.

"Demyx please."

"No!"

Marluxia sighed. "I didn't want to do this." he said as he stood up, summoned a dark portal, and went through it.

"Where did he go?" Demyx asked.

"I don't know." Axel said.

Marluxia returned, holding a clear jar.

"What do you have there?" Axel asked.

"A tarantula." Marluxia said, opening the jar.

"A tarantula? Where did you get that?" Axel said.

"Vexen's lab." Marluxia said, putting his hand in the jar, and pulling out a large, brown, fuzzy, tarantula, "Isn't it cute?" he held it out towards Axel.

"No. Get that ugly thing away from me." Axel said, pushing Marluxia's hand away from him, "What are you going to do with that?"

"You'll see. Go stand on the other side of the bed."

"Why?"

"Trust me, you'll need to be there."

"Okay." Axel said, and went to stand on the other side of Demyx's bed.

Marluxia put the tarantula on the floor, and it slowly made it's way under Demyx's bed.

"Get ready." Marluxia said.

A few seconds later, Demyx screamed.

"Spider!" he shouted as he crawled backwards out from his bed.

"Got you." Axel said, grabbing Demyx by the arm and pulling him up.

"No! Marly why!" Demyx said.

"Arachnophobia comes in handy when you need something done." Marluxia said as he reached under the bed, pulled the tarantula out, and put it back in the jar.

"Great. Now that he's out, lets head to the meeting before Saix bites our heads off." Axel said, and headed towards the door, dragging Demyx behind him.

"No! I'm not going!" Demyx said, fighting against Axel's pull.

"Yes you are!"

"No I'm not!'

"Have it your way!" Axel said as he bent down and pulled Demyx over his shoulder.

"Axel no!" Demyx complained.

"It's your fault for not going on your own will." Axel said as he straightened up, and walked out the door.

"Axel put me down!"

"Not until we get to the meeting."

"Axel!"

"The heart collection rate is going as planned. If these numbers continue increasing as it does, Kingdom Hearts will soon be completed, and we will have our hearts back. With our hearts, we will no longer be nobodies, but some bodies, just like we used to be before the darkness took us." Xemnas droned on as the meeting continued.

All around the room, every nobody was trying not to fall asleep at Xemnas' dull words. The only one who was paying attention to anything Xemnas said was Saix. The higher ranking members were paying more attention than the lower ranks, but were still fighting drowsiness.

"Anyone seen as a traitor or not participating in heart collecting will be terminated. That is all." he concluded, and teleported away, Saix following.

"Finally it's over." Xigbar said.

"These meetings get longer everyday." Luxord said.

"In reality," Vexen said, "We are spending the same time in each meeting, but your bored state makes the meetings seem twice as long. So what you should say is-"

"Can it Snowman!" Xigbar said.

"Hmph. Pirates these days." Vexen said, and teleported away.

"I am not a pirate!" Xigbar said. And teleported as well.

One by one, each member teleported away so that only Axel, Demyx, and Marluxia remained.

"That was boring." Marluxia said as he sat up straight, "What do you think Demyx?"

"Yeah, boring." Demyx said, who was looking straight forward, holding on tightly to the arm rests.

"Demyx relax. You're not going to fall." Marluxia said.

"It's no use Marly," Axel said from across the room, "He's frozen."

"I wouldn't be frozen if you hadn't forced me up here!" Demyx said.

"Demyx just teleport like everyone else." Marluxia said.

"I bet you he's afraid to do that." Axel said.

"No I'm not!" Demyx defended.

"Then prove it." Axel said.

Demyx looked at his hands, slowly released his grip, and removed his hands from the armrests.

"That's it Demyx. Now just open a portal." Marluxia said.

"Okay." Demyx said as he raised his hand.

"Alright, now don't look down."

"Don't, look, down." Demyx said as he slowly looked down, and fell.

"Demyx!" Marluxia called as he watched Demyx fall.

"Marly why did you tell him not to look down!" Axel shouted, "That only made him want to do it!"

"I didn't know he would fall!" Marluxia said.

"He freezes when he looks down! That's why he falls!"

"What do we do! Demyx!" Marluxia said.

"I'll handle it." Axel said as he held out his hand.

A dark portal opened on the ground, and Demyx fell through it. Marluxia stared at where Demyx disappeared.

"Where did you send him?" Marluxia asked.

"I'm not sure," Axel said, "Guess we'll find out later." he teleported away.

"What do you mean you don't know! Axel!" Marluxia said, and teleported after him.

"Couldn't you have known where you were teleporting me?" Demyx asked as he and Axel walked down the hall of the Castle.

"Sorry." Axel said, "I was trying to teleport you somewhere soft."

"Well I ended up in my room, just on the floor next to my bed."

"Would you have preferred the height of your chair, or your ceiling?"

"My ceiling." Demyx sighed.

"Then stop complaining." Axel said as they entered the Grey Room.

"Where's Marly?" Demyx asked as he sat down on one of the couches.

"Probably off somewhere blaming himself for your near death experience." Axel answered.

"But it wasn't his fault. I'm the one that looked down." Demyx said as he summoned his sitar and strummed the strings.

"How do you fight with that thing?" Axel asked, "It's just an oversized guitar."

"It's a sitar." Demyx corrected, "And playing it is much harder than fighting with it."

"I doubt that." Axel said.

"Do you not see all the strings?"

"So it's a guitar with more strings than it needs, it'll still be easy to play."

"Again, it's a sitar. And it takes years of practice to play it."

"No it doesn't."

"Yes it does."

"No, I'll prove it." Axel said, grabbing the neck of the sitar.

"Let go." Demyx said, pulling the sitar towards him.

"Just let me see it." Axel said, pulling it towards him.

"No." Demyx said, pulling it back.

"Quit being stingy." Axel said, pulling it back.

"I'm not being stingy, I'm being protective. Now let go!"

"I just want to try it!"

"No you'll burn the strings off!"

"No I won't!"

"Yes you will!"

"Demyx!"

"Axel let go!"

"Fine I will!" Axel said, and let go of the sitar.

But Demyx also let go of the sitar, and it went flying.

"Arpeggio? Where did it go?" Demyx asked, looking around.

"Does it look like I know?" Axel said.

Then they heard a loud crash, and a thud after it.

"What was that?" Demyx asked.

"It came from over there." Axel said, and walked to a couch on his left that had the back towards them. He reached the couch, and looked over it. "Um Demyx, I think I found your sitar."

"You did?" Demyx happily said, and went over to Axel.

"Yes, but I don't think you're going to like what it did."

"Why not?"

"You'll see." Axel said.

When Demyx got to the couch, he looked over it to see his sitar laying on the floor, and an unconscious Zexion next to it.

AN: Oh Zexion what have you gotten in to?

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.