While Sora, who is still sleeping, is moved from Castle Oblivion to Twilight Town by DiZ, Maxay and Naminé, who are overseeing the restoration of his memories. Maxay and Namine has a hard time putting back Sora's memories together, when they realize...
How many days had it been since he was last summoned to the Round Room? Roxas sat in his usual sea, waiting for Xemnas's arrival. Half of the other twelve seats were empty. Axe's arms were folded sullenly. Maxay and Xion weren't here yet. It occurred to Roxas that there was no seat for Xion. Maybe she would take one of the empty ones. Whose would she inherit? But... Maxay's seat was gone. The air trembled, and Xemnas appeared. But Maxay and Xion still aren't here, Roxas thought. Xemnas was already speaking. "Maxay and Xion are gone." Roxas stared at him shock. The other members of the Organization looked started as well. They knew about Maxay but not about Xion. But what happened to them? "What?! Whoa, whoa, time out... " Demyx hunched his shoulders. "You mean she, like flew the coop?" "Preposterous," said Xalidn. "Maxay's news is old. What would drive her to choose her own demise?" Roxas squint his eyes. What did he mean that Maxay's news was old news? They would never desert. They must have some other reason. Or what if both of them met the impostor in the Organization clock again and something happened to them... What then... The thoughts spun in Roxas's mind, dizzying. Xemnas interrupted them. " No one is to go looking for them without my express permission." "What? Why not?!" Roxas immediately on the defensive. But why wouldn't they want to find Maxay and Xion? Xemnas briefly glanced at him but offered no answers. Saix spoke instead. "Your 'friends' will be left alone. Or would you rather we find some punishment?" "I'd rather you get them both back!" Roxas shouted. "And why would we do that?" Saix challenged. Roxas didn't know how to answer that cold , flat question. He just wanted things to keep being the way they were. But Saix wouldn't understand that.
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As Roxas hesitated, Xemnas turned to him slowly, almost admonishing. "All will be revealed when the time comes." Axel finally stoped sulking with his arms crossed and looked up. "Which means, if the time doesn't come, things can stay as they are." Saix glared at him. "Lord Xemnas has spoken. Obey or face your end." After Saix's warning on his behalf, Xemnas vanished from the room. The others followed suit. Soon, only Roxas and Axel remained. "Axel...?" "Time to get to work." Roxas tried to bring up the question about Maxay and Xion, but Axel promptly cut him off and disappeared in a swirl of darkness. Why did the others thing this was okay...? Maxay and Xion had been out of sorts for a while now. But now that he thought about it... so had Axel. Roxas was starting suspect everyone else knew something about Maxay and Xion that he didn't. He tried to remember the look Maxay's eyes back then, but he couldn't. It felt like so long ago. Today makes 256 days since Maxay and I joined Organization XIII. I know because I just counted today. And Xion came on my seventh day, so it must be 249 for her.
It all made sense to him. All those mornings he couldn't see Maxay. Why no one would talk about her or how when ever she mentioned her to Saix he would have a scrunched up face. The days when Maxay couldn't join them for ice cream.
Roxas took a breath and let it out in a sigh before he created a portal back to his room. Axel mu
