Marluxia opened the portal randomly and found that he had taken the group to one of his favourite worlds: The Enchanted Dominion. Simply stepping foot into the worlds made him begin to calm down. Larxene was still gunning for a fight, but the two quickly found they had a panicked Demyx.

Larxene grabbed his hand and tried to put herself into his field of vision. "Hey!" she tried to calmly say, "It's ok!"

"Sora… keyblade.. Nobody… gonna die.." Demyx's breathing was frantic as he closed in on himself.

"Demyx," Marluxia turned Demyx's head to look him in the eye, "We're right here. We're in the Enchanted Dominion. You're safe."

Demyx's eyes started to focus as he grabbed the two and hugged them tightly. The three stayed where they were as the fear slowly died down.

"So tell us again how you know Marluxia," Axel demanded, still offended that he had been soaked by Demyx.

"I.." Ven started. His eyebrows pinched in confusion, "Why do you guys hate him?"

Sora crossed his arms, "He's a bad guy, Ven. He tried to mess with my memory and take my keyblade."

"Why would he do that when he already has one?" Ven questioned.

Riku spoke up, "Larxene only got hers recently. We're talking about a couple years ago."

Ven shook his head, "No. He has his own. He was my age last I saw him, maybe a year older, and he was also getting trained."

The group was shocked. "Why doesn't he have it now?" Kairi wondered.

"I lost mine temporarily," Riku reasoned. "When I wasn't sure of myself and then when I was using darkness."

"There you go," Sora said satisfied. "Marluxia is still a baddie. That means we gotta catch him and stop his plan!"

Ven wasn't budging. He had known Lauriam. They were friends. Whatever he had done, is doing now, he must have a reason. "No," he protested. "I trust him. Besides, what about Aqua? Terra? I thought you were looking for them too."

The group was silent for a moment before Riku spoke up. "He does have a point. We can't waste time tracking down three separate people. We need to focus on our original goal."

Relieved, Ven smiled and joined the group as they made their way back to the gummi ship.

Larxene rolled her neck and stretched out her arms. "Why does it seem like all we ever do is jump from world to world and walk constantly? I feel like a hobo."

Sighing, Demyx joined her sentiment, "I just want a place to sleep where I'm not going to get attacked."

"You two are so dramatic," Marluxia stated. "It's not like we've not had places to spend the night."

"Oh come on Marly, we know you're just as tired of it as we are," Larxene accused as she trudged along the forest path with the other two.

Demyx put his hands together and theatrically called up to the sky, "Kingdom hearts, if you're still there, pleeeease let us stop being hobos!"

"Pretty sure it got destroyed, Dem..." Larxene trailed.

Marluxia stopped and gestured for Demyx and Larxene to follow him off the trail. "I think we've finally caught a lucky break," he smiled.

In the woods, right next to a pleasant stream, was a cottage. It looked like it hadn't been lived in for a while. There were several bird nests, one on top of the chimney, weeds, flowers, and grasses had overtaken the path to the door, a small garden behind looked as if it had been untended for a long time.

Inside, the trio found a dusty but well furnished house. It was simple, but certainly roomy enough for all three to not be stepping on each others' toes. In fact when they explored upstairs, there were four rooms; more than enough.

Demyx seemed to be near tears as he happily jumped onto the bed in the blue dominated room, "I never want to leave this world."

Larxene found herself peering into a light green decorated room and considered it for a moment, "It's not quite my color but… I like it." She declared it her room and walked to the bed before a crushing realization came to her. "I have to clean my room again…." she flopped on the dusty bed in defeat.

Lastly, Marluxia opened the second to last door. He found a room that was heavily pink and found it extremely convenient and actually better than his previous rooms at Castle Oblivion and the World that Never was combined. "I found mine!" he called as he opened his window to begin airing the place out.

After giving a quick clean, Larxene and Marluxia went to see what Demyx was up to, only to find him fast asleep on the dusty blue blanket on his new bed. They closed the door and while Larxene moved to figure out the bottom floor, Marluxia went outside to tidy up the plants outside. He didn't tear up the wildly growing bushes that were blocking the pathway, simply moved them to the side with his control over plants. When he was satisfying with the front being safe from Larxene's frustration when she eventually comes out of the cottage, he moved to the garden.

By the time he was halfway sorting out the vegetable rows from the spice plants and tomatoes from the zucchini, he heard a squawk as Larxene shooed the bird and nest from the chimney.

"Larx! Be-" Marluxia winced as the bird dove and caused the sparking girl to fall off the roof with the nest. "-careful."

It only took a couple of hours once Demyx woke up and started using his water to clean the floors faster, and the trio was thrilled they had someplace that wasn't whitewashed like the Organization or out in the wilderness without a roof.

"Please promise we never have to leave," Demyx said as he stuffed his face with the roasted vegetables they made for dinner. "I love it here."

Larxene leaned back in her chair, "I could use a couple upgrades in terms of having electric lights but that bed is super comfortable."

"I don't want to be the bearer of bad news," Marluxia started, "but there is still a war coming."

Demyx deflated, "I know… but can't we stop thinking about it for a week? Maybe two?"

"Unfortunately I don't think we can," Marluxia stated. "There's too much that needs to be done. Aqua can still be found before the war starts. We'll need another keyblade master on our side if we want to win."

Larxene scrunched her face, "I'm on Dem's side here. Maybe not a week, but I want a day or two without any war or keyblade talk. Stuff's going to go down and we won't have as much quiet time."

"Alright," agreed Marluxia. "Two days. Then we need to start planning."