Organization XV

Chapter I: Induction of XV

Darkness… that was all that blanketed the young man as he drifted through what seemed endlessly. The boy had dark brown skin, clear of any facial marks and wounds, and jagged messy black hair that was reminiscent to a porcupine. However it was spiky in the back, but smoothened out towards the bottom. He had two bangs that framed both sides of his sides of his face. He wore a black and blues short sleeve jacket, with the blue and black interminginly on both sides, and blue horizontal bands on the ends of his sleeves. He sported black shorts, which reached just below his knees. Finishing up the outfit was black converse sneakers, albeit slightly larger than most. Lastly, around his neck was silver chain, which led to a silver and blue rosario that reached the epicentre of his torso. His hands were covered by black fingerless gloves, but the palms were white. His hands twitched a few times, as if a phantom sensation of grasping something had overtaken them. Soon, a flash radiated in the darkness, pulling the youth's body into it.

Unknown World…

The body slowly descended on what was thought to be ground. The world was set in the midst of large grassy plains and hills. Near them was several stalagmites sprouting up randomly from the ground. Behind the boy's body was a massive castle. The castle itself was remarkable; its tops resembled an isosceles triangle, with monster horns on the center of the castle. It had two structures on either side, connected to the main building by thick chains. The sky was covered in grey clouds, with a small crack of light hitting his body. His left hand began to twitch, before balling into a fist. His eyelids began to flutter open, showing his dark brown eyes. Sitting up, he rubbed his eyes, trying to make them adjust to the new surroundings.

'Where…am I? How did I get here?' he asked himself. As if someone heard his, a weird sound was heard. Leaping to his feet, he saw a black portal appear in front of him. Purple, black and blue seemed to swirl around inside of it as he saw a figure emerge from it. The figure wore a long black coat, with silver drawstrings. Near his neck, there was a silver chain, most likely to alter the strings. On his hands were pitch-black gloves. Looking down the figure, he noticed that near his waist, the zipper stopped, leaving the lower half of the coat open, allowing him to see he was wearing black boots with a silver trim.

"Can you feel anything? Do you remember anything?" The figure asked. He started to approach the orange wearing youth as he then would take steps back.

"Who are you?" he replied. He wanted to run. Waking up in a strange world + weird guy in coat+ no memories= Run away and don't stop! However, his legs betrayed him, not moving an inch. Perhaps he would play along for now.

"No… I don't even know… my name." He retorted. The hooded figure seemed to believe that might have happened. Pulling his hood back, the youth could tell that they were about the same age. The mysterious boy had dark blonde hair, swept toward the left, with glasses. He had small strands of chin hair. He had blue-grey eyes, that seemed calculating everything that was going on.

"My name is Xale, and it seems you are like me." He gave a cold smirk. Making a hand gesture, several letters appeared to string together a name.

I-S-I-A-H. Something about that name, it had an air of familiarity, but felt distant at the same time.

"You feel nothing. Nothing is real." Xale spoke. The boy put a hand over his chest. Nothing was there at all. He was human as far as he knew, so why didn't he have a heartbeat. He then put a hand on his right wrist. Still nothing.

"Something's wrong. Where's my heart beat? Where's my pulse?" He began to freak out. Something was definitely wrong.

"We're Nobodies." Xale spoke, the air around him seemed to chill as he talked.

"That's not nice."

"With a capital N. We are being that lack hearts, shunned by both light and dark." He dramatically placed his hands on his chest, where his heart would be. "You seek answers, and a purpose. Come with me, and you would have both." He held a hand out. On one hand, he shouldn't go off with a crazy guy who said they had no hearts, spewing nonsense about 'Light and Darkness.' On the other hand… purpose, answers... maybe sweet a coat like his.

"Fine. I'll go with you." Xale smiled and make another hand gesture. The name began to spin around but stopped to a halt. Now there was a golden 'X' in it.

A-I-S-H-I-X.

"Aishix?" the boy said.

Xale nodded. "A new name for the new you." Xale's left hand glowed with darkness as Aishix's clothes changed to the same black coat. A corridor opened behind Aishix as Xale pushed him through it.

Aishix only thought one thing; Why the hell did he wake up in an unknown place?!

As Aishix and Xale had crossed over to the other side of the corridor, Aishix was astounded by what surrounded him. A massive dark city, with building varying in size, but many was adorned by neon lights. Cracks of thunder began, allowing a steady fall of rain.

"This is the World That Never Being, a world much like us." Xale told Aishix, who had finally exited his star struck gaze.

"Guessing this world lacks a heart too?"

Xale nodded in agreement. "This is Memory Skyscraper. Here is the largest building in our world." Aishix looked up at the enormous building, seeing the screen with a star on top of the building. Both put their hoods up, trying to prevent not getting soaked by the rain.

"This is the homeworld of Organization XV. This world lies in the Realm of the In-between. There are a few other worlds that lie in this realm," Xale explained to the newborn nobody.

"So the world I was born in was?" asked Aishix.

"A classified world for the Organization's goals. Let's move, we've wasted too much time." Xale began walking southbound with Aishix following close after him. Aishix couldn't help but wonder if the others would be much like him. Looking down at his chest, he placed a hand over it. He wondered what it felt like to have a heart. The Organization seemed like his best way to find out what he was. Or at the very least, find out what made him this way.

As the duo made the way past Memory's Skyscraper, several pools of darkness began to pop up. Clawed hands were the first to appear of them. They grasped the ground, as it trying to pull their beings up. They were small with small antenna and yellow beady eyes. Despite small in size, they were a few of them. Then bigger, slender versions appeared behind Xale and Aishix. They had long, skinny claws, long antenna near the back of their heads. Along their faces, they had dark blue veins, pulsating with darkness.

"Get behind me." Xale spoke with authority in his voice. Holding his hands out, two massive knife-blades appeared. Each was nine inches in length. One had a blade of silver, the other, a blade as black as night. He flipped the black one into a reverse grip. His body lowered a fighting stance, the black knife close to his body. A Neoshadow leaped at him, to which to his white one sliced through it with ease. Three shadows tried to claw Xale, who effortlessly eliminated them. Both knifes began to glow with power.

"Aishix, can you summon a weapon?" asked Xale. Aishix's only retort was a shrug. Xale knew that was a stupid question. The younger nobody did not even have any memories of his human life. It was worth a shot at the very least.

Two more Neoshadows snuck up behind Aishix, but Xale was not fast enough to kill them. However, in a flash of light, a weapon appeared in Aishix's hand. The weapon itself looked as if it was a cross between a sword and a key. The weapon had two shafts, one shaft was black, the other was white. As it neared the top where they connected, the teeth of the weapon had was a symbol for 'Hollow'. The hand guard was grey, with spiral marks on both sides, and the hilt of the weapon was dark red in color. Looking down towards the bottom of the weapon, was a small keychain that had a heart shaped token, but the heart was broken with several cracks and missing pieces.

"Hollow Heart…" Aishix muttered under his breath as he raised his weapon into the air, to which a dark ball appeared. Xale looked around him as the heartless seemed to be pulled into the ball. In a feeble attempt, the heartless tried to melt into darkness. However, this only enabled Aishix's ball of darkness to pull them into it. With no more heartless surrounding them, it spheres of darkness was retracted into Aishix's keyblade. Black and white lightning surrounded the key sword as it absorbed the power of the heartless.

"Hm. Perhaps you're not as brain dead as I thought you were." Xale was mildly impressed at the power the nobody had displayed. As the Xale prepared to continue his train of thought, Aishix looked at the keyblade, and it vanished from his grip.

"Where did it go?" Aishix inquired.

"Never mind that, we need to get to the castle, you have some…orientation to undertake." Xale shoved Aishix in the direction they were going.

As they neared an empty pathway, Aishix looked down to see more of the expansive world.

"There's nothing here, I don't see…" Aishix's train of thought was quickly derailed as he saw the massive white castle floating in the air.

"Believe it or not, it takes a fuck ton of work to keep that place clean."

Xale focused on the castle, to which a translucent blue-green bridge appeared. Aishix poked it with his boot, seeing if it was safe enough to walk on. When he determined it was, Xale gave him a kick in the rear, causing him to flail through the air and to the other edge of the bridge. Xale leapt to where Aishix had fallen.

"What the heck was that for?" He groaned as he rolled himself on his back.

"Don't take so long and it won't happen again." Was Xale's only retort.

Creating another corridor, Aishix and Xale walked through.

Round Room…

As Aishix fully crossed over from the corridor, he was standing on a raised platform, with a strange insignia. When he looked up, he saw several thrones surrounding him. He looked towards the direction he was facing, a hooded figure appeared. 'Xale.' He thought. After that, several others began to appear, filling the other thrones. Soon enough, all but one throne was filled.

Pulling his hood back, Xale looked towards his fellow members.

"Good tidings friends, another has been chosen to bear the black . He who awakened at the crossroads between Light and Dark. Number XV. Let us all welcome one of the keyblade's chosen.

Various clapping filled the chamber, as the various members looked towards the hooded Aishix. Xale held his hand out as he made Aishix's throne descend. When it reached, the level he was standing at, Aishix took a sit in his throne as it ascended back to its normal level.

This was it, no turning back now. On the bright side he did get to keep the cool coat.

As the clapping finally ceased, Xale looked towards his right, with the figure close to him pulling down his hood. He was fairly tall, with light colored skin. His face was clear of any blemishes. He had a rather thin face, but his dark grey brown eyes seemed to express that he was a trouble maker. Noticeably, his hair grew in an upward curve, towards the left, and he had a two diamond piercings in his left ear.

"The Laidback Rocker, No. II, Hantex."

After Hantex, the next figure pulled down his hood. This one had a skin tone that was slightly lighter than Hantex, but instead of a curve, his hair went down and covered over his right eye. But from what Aishix could tell, he too wore glasses. His only light brown eye was focused on Aishix, as if he were analyzing him.

"The Maniacal Hacker, No. IV, Burthex."

The following one was a girl. At least she actually wasn't pale as the others. she had messy blonde, which grew down to just below her ears. She had a small smile spread across her face. She was rather small compared to the other members, but she seemed to enjoy being there. More so, she casted seductive glances at Xale.

" The Cloaked Vixen No. VI, Vilixao"

After Vilixao, was a somewhat pale boy. His he reddish-orange hair, which like Vilixao, grew messy around his ears. His eyes were grey, but there was something hidden behind them. The young teen had several freckles around his face, but at the moment, was preoccupied with his drawstrings.

"The Sarcastic Sadist, No. VIII, Lebaxk."

Next up was a boy with a completion like Lebaxk, but he was noticeably younger compared to the other members of the organization. He had pitch black hair and black eyes. His hair was resembling a certain comic book hero.

"The Master Academic, No. X, Tevexs."

And he was apparently British from his accent.

After the young nobody, was one who had a caramel skin tone, a somewhat skinny face, with a lean nose. He seemed to be much like Hantex, but more carefree.

"The Berserk Marksman, No. XII, Nexlaj."

The last person that was the closet to Aishix pulled back the hood. She too was tanned, but noticeably, she had frizzy and poofy hair. Her lips had a light red shade of lipstick on them.

"The Ferocious Angel No. XIV, Ticorixav"

'Since that was the even numbered members, then the left side would be all odd numbers.' Aishix thought as he noticed that the left side members grabbed the back of their hoods.

The first one who pulled his hood down… had… a unique hairstyle. His hair was spiky, looking like he was straight out of an anime. He looked similar to Aishix, but easily towered over Aishix in height.

"The Jet Streamer, No. III, Xaldyn"

After him, was another male. He had rather short cut hair, with thin eyebrows. His dark brown eyes focused on Aishix. Maybe, he had known him from somewhere.

"The Steel Dragon. No. VRixec" Following him, was a dark colored man. He seemed to be calculating several factors at one time. When he noticed that he remained too silent, he apologized.

"The Mortal Golem, No. VII, Xerdyck."

After Xerdyck, was an up was a girl with a somewhat pale complexion like Lebaxk, and had freckles much like him. She also had light blue eyes, light blonde hair reaching her back.

"The Demonic Maiden, IX, Koobre"

She had a light tanned skin tone, with several freckles on her face. Her hair reached down her to her back, and was pitch black in color. She was drawing in a sketchbook. When she turned it around it read

'Artistic Heroine, No. XI, Naxbica', with stars around her name.

Finally, the last member pulled his hood off. He wasn't as pale as Lebaxk, but rather pasty none the less. He had a red and black ponytail, with it going to the back of his head. The sides of his head were shaved.

"The Juggernaut of Chaos, No. XIII, Sihcrx."

With all of the members introduced to Aishix, they looked at him.

"Well, aren't you going to introduce yourself?" Asked Lebaxk.

"Xale gave me the name Aishix. I'm number XV." Aishix felt uneasy -talking to the others so far, but he'd eventually get used to them.

"Now onto business. The organization has a few goals. Our primary goal: Collecting hearts in order to create an artificial Kingdom Hearts. With its power and knowledge, we will be able to become complete once more. But in order to do so, we must destroy the emblem heartless in order to release the captive hearts they carry. As for now, Aishix must undergo… initiation.

The room filled with dark chuckling sent a cold chill down Aishix's spine. Before he could do anything, a corridor opened under his seat, making him vanish through it.

"WHOA!" He felt his body turn and be pulled as the corridor swallowed him and then he crashed face first into the metal ground of the Hall of Empty Melodies. The other fourteen landed gracefully on their feet.

"You guys need to teach me how to do that." Naxbica helped him to his feet and brushed off his coat.

"Thank you."

"Aishix, you may pick the opponent you will fight against, and the location. This room will change itself to mirror the feel, and space of it. So… whose it gonna be?"

Aishix looked around at the other members of the Organization, trying to come to a good assumption of who would be best to find. His eyes drifted to Lebaxk, who was currently sitting in a meditative stance, his eyes closed and his breathing slowed.

"I guess i'll pick him to fight. Maybe he can't be that strong if he's taking a nap." Aishix nodded to himself. "I pick the Sadistic Sadist! He doesn't look all that strong if he's falling asleep." Aishix grinned as he got himself into a fighting stance. His feet were a spaced evenly from one another, and his left hand was stretched out, crackling with magic as Hollow Heart flashed into it, and he gripped it tightly. Lebaxk cracked open a half-lidded eye and glanced at his 'Opponent', if you could even call Aishix that. The ginger laid on his back, then vaulted onto his feet, the back of his coat fluttering slightly as his drawstrings made their usual chime sound as they swung. His cracked his neck a few times. "Alright, but only because you're so damn lucky I owe you this ass-beating." Lebaxk placed his hands in his pockets.

(Song for this battle:13th Struggle)

Aishix jumps towards Lebakx, then swung Hollow Heart in a horizontal slash, only for Lebaxk to side step him, and with an elbow to the back, Aishix was slammed into the floor, creating a small indention as he did.

"ACK!" Aishix hacked up a glob of spit, and was picked up by Lebaxk by the back of his hood. "Now who exactly was weak?" Lebakx flung the younger Nobody into the air, and blasted his with a red ball of magic, which exploded in a flash of light. But to his surprise, Aishix used Reflect to nullify the attack. When he dropped to the ground, he sprinted to Lebaxk, connecting two heavy slashes, only for Lebaxk to start getting light on his feet, and dashing faster than Aishix's eyes could see. A boot struck Aishix in the back, only for him to turn and punch Lebaxk with his right hand. Sadly for him though, Lebakx caught the would be attack with little effort and with a cheeky grin.

"That won't work. You're a bit stronger than I gave you credit for." Lebaxk snapped his fingers and the entire area was bathed in a white glow, before the entire area was changed to an open forest, trees going on for miles upon miles. Lebaxk cracked his neck, and held his hand out, and closed his. He grinned a maniacal smile, and cracked his knuckles a couple times. Lebaxk held out his right hand and in a ball of condensed darkness.

"Now Aishix, you can always back out now. But if you don't want to, I'm fine with that too. This beating is something that's been 7 years in waiting." He launched a powerful blast of darkness, with Aishix standing his ground by deflecting the assault away, only for Lebaxk to quickly close the gap. He swung a fist at Aishix's kidneys, the clenched hand nearly tearing through his body. Only this time, Aishix hacked up blood, then smashed Hollow Heart over his head, cutting a bit into his scalp. Lebaxk made a verbal grunt, and slammed a knee into Aishix's face, and flung him through several trees. Splinters erupted from every which way as Aishix slid to a stop. Staggering back to his feet, Aishix brandished Hollow heart again, and made a rush towards Lebaxk. Lebakx dropped to his knees and slid underneath the magical sword, and as he made his way back to his feet, he slashed Aishix behind his knees, blood erupting from them.

"You're slow~" He sung in a sing-along like manner before back flipping, using his feet to kick his enemy in the jaw, then ended it with an open palm to the chest, launching the younger Nobody into a tree before using a few pencils he retrieved from his pocket to him to said tree. Despite his best attempts to escape, Aishix found himself unable to be freed. Lebaxk walked over, his eyes still having the look of absolute boredom screaming from them.

"Do you know where you messed up Aishix? You messed up by picking me as your opponent. Next time, don't use looks to gauge someone's strength. They can be rather deceiving." He pulled the pencils from his 'comrade', freeing him and tossed him in the air.

"Also…." Lebaxk reared a foot back and swung it forward directly into Aishix's back.

"THAT'S FOR WHAT YOU DID LAST TIME I SAW YOU!" He growled and left the battered twitching Aishix laying on the ground in a heap. Xale snapped his fingers and the area dissolved back into the cold steel arena that it had been prior. Naxbica dropped down to Aishix's aid, and gave a soft glare at Lebaxk.

"He barely even remembers anything from back then Lebaxk! That was definitely taking it too far!"

Lebaxk gave her a dismissive shrug as he continued walking away. Burthex's visible eye glowed bright blue before he extracted a smart phone from his pocket. He then pressed a gloved finger to it, and it began to process, several lines of data into coherent sentences. Once it was done, it played back the battle in a analytical format, showing the in-depth material of the battle.

"I'll be taking my leave everyone. I have some Team Fortress 2 to get back to playing." Xaldyn said, vanishing in a vapor of darkness.

"Yea me too. Data to analyze, codes to crack, you know how it is." Burthex muttered as he was enveloped in a corridor of darkness. Naxbica carried the unconscious Aishix bridal style to where his living quarters were.

(A/N: Aishix's room looks something like how Roxas' room appears like in the 358/2 Days Manga.)

Naxbica gently laid the boy onto his bed, and smiled softly at the peaceful expression that was etched into his face. It was a rarity to see him like that. Or rather… the somebody who Aishix used to be. She remembered the nights where he would return to them, caked in blood and wounds, his melancholy stare and bored tone of speech. But seeing Aishix talk and act, it filled her with hope that this could be the chance of redemption that he so desperately needed.