"RaXi, Rayix, Vexe, Rexikat, and Sparx, you five are off to the Beast's Castle. It has been confirmed that an extremely large group of Heartless and Nobodies are descending on that area for no apparent reason. We don't need rogues. If you can control them, fine, but otherwise destroy them." Triskix gave us our orders swiftly and firmly.

I looked around for the others on my team, and noticed both Ayrax and Xaikis staring at me. Well, Xaikis was staring at me, at least. Ayrax seemed to be doing something else...I could sense her probing at my mind, and growled lowly in warning. She looked away, but seemed angry. I sighed in frustration. I couldn't get a moment of privacy in this place, not even in my own mind.

Pushing her out of my mind, I quickly found the other four in my group. RaXi, Vexe, Rayix, and Sparx all stood together as I joined them. "Well, unless anyone has to go back to their room to get something, I propose we leave now," said RaXi. I already had everything I needed--my chains, plus my secondary weapon, a crossbow my Other had sometimes used as an assassin. I nodded my assent.

Vexe, Rayix, and Sparx all agreed as well, so we portalled off to Beast's Castle, arriving in the courtyard. Immediately, we were besieged by a number of lesser Nobodies. I lashed out quickly with my claws, shouting out, "Don't bother trying to control them. Just destroy." I didn't bother using my chains to bind them; they were so weak, I could obliterate them without a second thought. One thing I did give a second thought to, though, was why there were so many.

We made short work of the Nobodies, glancing around to make sure we had gotten the last of them. "Geez, Tris wasn't joking when he said there was an 'extremely large group of Heartless and Nobodies' here," said RaXi. "Good thing he sent us in, right, Rex?"

I stayed silent. I couldn't shake the feeling that we were being watched, hunted, and these lesser enemies were just bait.