The birth of Xion

The Birth of Xion
I woke up.

All around me there was darkness.

Darkness.

The evil that corrupted many worlds. The evil that brought the heartless to life...or unlife.

I gingerly sat up and immediately noticed that this wasn’t darkness. It wasn’t light either. No, it was the in-between. The realm between the realm of light and the realm of darkness. Swirls of....something moved around me and I realised that this was the roads of darkness that the heartless created to be able to travel between worlds. Swarms of the destructive creatures of the darkness passed by me without even taking note of my presence. I didn’t understand. Weren’t those creatures supposed to claw out and steal your heart or something? But no, they utterly ignored me. That wouldn’t be possible unless.......

But that wasn’t possible! I still had my heart, didn’t I? Didn’t I? Right. But how would I know? Ah, there WAS no way to know....at least not yet. I stood up and glanced around, noting that the swarms of the creatures had dispersed and there were few left. That didn’t concern me anyway as I knew, or at least thought, they wouldn’t harm me. I walked for a few minutes before I realised I was going nowhere. My surroundings still looked the exact same as before. Damn. Was I going round in circles? Probably not. This damned place was the same wherever I went.



I called out for help. Ha! How foolish. Of course there was nobody here, and thus, nobody to help me. Wait......nobody? A figure emerged from a portal and calmly walked over to me. I felt a sudden twinge of fear. This person, whoever he or she was, had a sense of power about them. I cringed back, knowing that if this person came to kill me, I most certainly would die, even with a weapon. The figure stopped. I whimpered and attempted to scurry away, but some sort of power that emanated from this figure stopped me, and it prowled up to me.

Up close, I could see the figure was a man. He was wearing a black cloak and his face was hidden by a hood. It was a wonder that I saw him in the first place, as his outfit almost completely concealed him from view. I whimpered again. When the man spoke, he didn’t speak aloud, but rather the words appeared in my mind. “Ah......so you are another one.”

“Another what?” I asked, confused.

“Another one. Another nobody. Another one who lost their heart to the darkness.”

I froze. So I had lost my heart after all? Well, I can’t tell the difference. “How do you know?”

The hooded figure regarded me with disdain. “If you haven’t noticed the way the Heartless are ignoring you, then I pity you.”

“Of course I noticed!” I retorted. “And besides, nobodies can’t feel, so you can’t pity me!”

“Yes. That is true.” The figure inclined its head. “You already seem to know a great deal about nobodies.”

I nodded. “I just.....know it.”

“And do you know why? Were you perhaps a Keyblade Master in your former life?”

I gave him a confused look. “Perhaps not.”

I shivered again. This was starting to freak me out. “Who are you?” I asked breathlessly.

He scrutinised me for a couple of seconds before pausing. “My name is....Xemnas.” I gasped and he smirked in my mind. “I see you know me. What was your name?”

“My name is-” I started, but he cut me off almost immediately.

“I asked you what your name was.”

“Oh.....” I said. “I don’t know...” I looked downcast and then I brightened. “Can you remove your hood please?”

Xemnas regarded me for a fraction of a second and something passed between us. After several seconds of this mental communication, Xemnas hesitantly removed his hood. He had flaming amber eyes. I found myself staring into them for a couple of seconds before his voice brought me back to reality. “Do you know what a nobody is?”

I jolted at that. “The other side of a person?”

Emotionless orange eyes met cerulean blue ones. Xemnas nodded. “Yes. What we are now, is a mere shell.” Xemnas’ voice was a monotone. “We, the Organization XIII, seek to find our hearts and get them back.”

My eyes widened. “Does that mean I can get mine back too?”

“Only if you succeed.” Xemnas said softly.

“Succeed?” I asked.

The black robed nobody nodded. “Yes, succeed. The Organization XIII, as you may have guessed by now, is currently comprised of thirteen nobodies.” I nodded, wondering where this was leading. “We have several plans to get our hearts back, and one involves....”

“Yes?” I said excitedly.

Xemnas sighed. “I can’t tell you just yet.”

“Oh.” I said quietly.

We stood there in silence for the next few minutes, until Xemnas broke the silence. “Do you remember anyone from your former life?”

“Well....” I said thoughtfully. “I do remember a certain red-headed girl and a boy with spiky hair.”

Xemnas froze. “A red-headed girl and a boy with spiky hair?” I nodded. “This is interesting.....”

We fell in silence again. Did he know them? The red-headed girl and the boy with spiky hair? “X-xemnas?”

He glanced at me. “Yes?”

“Do you know them? I mean the red-headed girl and the boy with spiky hair?”

“Maybe.” Xemnas said quietly. “Maybe I do.”

“Really?! Who are they?”

He cocked his head at me. “I don’t know.”

Somehow, I felt he wasn’t telling me the entire truth. I looked up as he spoke again. “Do you want your heart back? Do you want your memories back?”

This caught my full attention. “M-my heart? My memories? Of course I want them!”

He scrutinized me for a moment. “Are you willing to obey me and the Organization, ready to follow us until your death, carrying out your daily duties faithfully, no matter what they may be?”

I paused for a moment. “And if I don’t?”

“You don’t have any choice.” He said coolly. “You belong with us.”

I hesitated. That was all it took. One second, he was looking behind him, next, he had knocked me to the ground, and his weapon, a bright red blade, was at my throat. “I gave you a chance, and you forsook it. Do you want your heart and memories, or lie here for all eternity, unable to feel, unable to care?” He said coldly, all trace of friendliness gone. I mentally cursed myself. I knew I couldn’t trust this guy! All he wanted was for me to join his Organization! I tried to edge away, but his blade pressed maliciously against my throat. I gulped. “I wouldn’t try that if I were you.”

I glanced fearfully up at him. “Why do you want me for your Organization?”

“That is irrelevant.” He said. “Now, will you come quietly, or will I need to force you?”

I gulped and rolled aside, narrowly dodging the red blade that had suddenly embedded itself in the spot where I had been lying just seconds ago. I rolled back into a standing position as the blade came whizzing by again. He made a quick jab at me and I leapt back. I prayed to myself that someone or something would help me. As it turned out, something answered my prayers. A heavy weight appeared in my right hand and I glanced down in surprise, allowing Xemnas to get a hit in. I yelped, as he stared down at my weapon, a key-shaped sword. I quickly rolled back and risked a quick glance at my weapon again. No...that couldn’t be true. But...that really was a Keyblade wasn’t it? “A Keyblade.” Xemnas said softly, confirming my suspicions. “Some say that it saved the worlds, and others say that it destroyed it.”

I looked at him in surprise. “So...it’s really a Keyblade then?” He nodded, and before I had time to say anything else, let alone react, he attacked me again. Holy mother of a....*BEEP*! This guy was fast! I guess I had underestimated him, not that I even had the slightest doubt that he could decimate me. I managed to bring up my Keyblade, knocking the weapon away, but not before it had cut my left arm. I yelled out and jumped back, blood now spilling from the wound. What happened next was a little more than a blur. Xemnas disappeared and reappeared behind me, allowing him to get another hit in. I wildly slashed at him, but he lazily dodged it, and once again teleported. I quickly spun around, just in time to block another hit. He leapt back, and lazily fired a few beams at me, but I managed to elude them. I pointed my weapon at him, and to both of our surprises, a barrage of fire attacks shot out of it. The flames enveloped him, and I felt a kick of triumph in my chest, but it was gone as soon as it came, so that I barely even felt it. So, nobodies couldn’t truly feel after all. Maybe a ghost of emotion, a memory, but nothing more than that.

I glanced at the place where the flames had been. Xemnas was standing there, completely unharmed, without even the slightest trace of a burn or cut on him. “How did you do that?” I demanded. Xemnas responded by smirking at me and fired a few more beams at me. I rolled to the side, dodging them, and managed to block another attack. I cried out as a huge explosion of lightning-like balls exploded all around me, but I managed to stagger out of the way of the second blast. Pillars of darkness erupted all around me, but I kept on weaving in and out of them. I just ran on and on, regardless of the explosions of power all around me. That was until Xemnas teleported in front of me. I yelped, and managed to roll to the side. I made a dash at him, with the Keyblade held in front of me ready to impale him through the chest, but he teleported out of the way. I growled in frustration, but I cut off when an unseen attacker slammed violently into my back. Xemnas’ blade slashed at me, but I blocked it. He disappeared but appeared in the same spot he had been in, and this time his attack was successful. His blade sliced at my hand and I yelled out in pain and surprise, dropping the weapon. He knocked me to the ground, and I stared at him helplessly as he loomed over me, having disarmed me. “I’ll let you know that I was going easy on you.” He said coldly. “I could have destroyed you in a few seconds.”

I gulped. “What do you want?” I asked fearfully.

“I already told you.” Xemnas said softly. “Join my Organization.” He paused. “Will you, or will I have to force you?”

“T-there w-will be n-o need for that.” I stammered nervously.

“Good.” Xemnas said with a lack of emotion so severe, that the sound itself was hollow. “Now, do you want a name?”

I was stunned. Did the freak just ask if I wanted a name? Five seconds ago, he had been beating the hell out of me, now he was asking if I wanted a name? What the hell? “W-what?”

“I asked you if you wanted a name.” Xemnas said, with a hint of almost...impatience.

I looked shocked. “Of course I do!”

Something between a smirk and a smile played on his lips. “Then your name is.......Xion.”
I walked into Where Nothing Gathers wondering what was going to take place.

“I would like to introduce to you all......”

“Our fourteenth member.....”