Note: This is my very second kingdom hearts fic. My first fic, however, was the first fic I ever wrote and was deleted with my old account. If you don't review any other chapter, I would GREATLY appreciate it if you at least reviewed chapter 1 to tell me what you think, what I should change and any errors I may have made. PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!
Pain. I remember pain. He says I don't remember anything but I do remember a great deal of pain before waking up in this inexistant world. I remember looking down at the keys in my hand as a man approached. "Who are you?" he'd said.
That question . . . why had it been so difficult to answer? I thought about it for several moments before responding. "I'm nobody."
He'd seemed amused by this because he smiled. Finally I gave him a good look. His skin was much darker than min and he had long silver hair and peircing gold eyes. He was wearing a long black coat zipped up to his chin. "Welcome." His voice was as dark as his aura. He held out a hand, which is when I realized I was sitting on the ground. I took his hand and pulled myself up. The keys in my hands dissinigrated into nothing. The shock must have been plastered on my face because he laughed and told me not to worry. "They'll come back," he'd said. I shrugged it off as he asked me another question. "Do you know your name?"
I had to think about it again. Have I ever known my name? I told him the first word that popped into my head sounding even slightly like a name. "Roxas."
He smiled, showing me a sinister grin. "Excellent." He looked down at me. "Well Roxas, it's time to go home." Home . . . where is that? What is that? He grabbed my arm, leading me through, what looked to me like a rip from reality until we came to a white room.
"This place," he said, "is a home for nobodies. Work for me, and you stay here with clothes, a room, and food, for free."
That sounded great. I was feeling hungry so the food sold me out. But still . . . "Who are you?"
He laughed again, this laugh sending chills down my spine. "My name is Xemnas. He walked into the next room, bringing a black cloak like his back out. "So are you staying?" He asked, offering the other coat to me.
Without any thought I took it, thinking about food and warmth. I wasn't thinking about who this man was. I wasn't thinking about how I'd work for him. All I was thinking was, What is home?
After putting the cloak on and eating dinner, Xemnas told me: "I'll show you to your room. Tomorrow you can meet the fellow inhabitants of this castle." He stood, gesturing for me to stand up as well. I looked back at the white table I had been sitting at noticing something underneath. The table gave off no shadow.
I followed Xemnas down a white hall, most of the doors were closed, but there were a few that were cracked open enough for me to notice that other people were indeed living there. A few people weren't in their rooms. There were a couple playing cards in a commoner's room, while others in the room sat doing miscellaneous things.
Xemnas stopped abruptly, causing me to run into him. "This is your room, and now you are number thirteen, Roxas." He said, pointing to the black numbers on the white door. "Go in and sleep. You have a big day tomorrow. And I have a meeting to attend to."
I woke up peacefully, feeling no pain, and almost anxious to meet the others that were living here. Getting out of the white bed I put on my cloak, thinking it uniform here. Besides that, I liked wearing black when everything was so white it blinded me. I stepped out of my room, looking down and up the hall before stepping out. I don't remember why I was so cautious. Down one way was a blonde man, sitting against his wall strumming on a large blue instrument, down the other was a man walking toward me with cards in his hands, flipping them through the air from one hand to the other.
I decided it best to venture out into the open world, vulnerable and unknowing. Suddenly the blonde man looked up, the man with the cards dropped the 52 pieces of paper he was holding, and the other people in the hall stared. "Umm . . . Hi." It was all I cold muster enough courage to say with all the eyes on me.
The card guy shrugged and picked up his cards, walking away. The other guy, they were both blonde really, got up, his instrument dissinigrating as my keys had done. He ran toward me eagerly, shaking my hand before I had the chance to pull away. "Hi I'm Demyx! Are you new here?"
He was acting so childish, I couldn't help but laugh. "Yeah. My name is Roxas." I watch as Demyx's smile grew wider, as he grabbed my hand, pulling me away from my room. "Wh-where are we going?"
Demyx pulled him along into the commoner's room. "You have to meet everybody." This room was more crowded today than it was last night. On the couch was a man leaning back to face me, though his face was upside down. He had bright green eyes and bright red hair.
At the table eating breakfast was a man with long blonde hair and the card man I'd seen earlier. Behind them, leaning on a wall was a tall man eating a bagel. Demyx pointed to each of them and told me their names. In order by appearance were Axel, Luxord, and Xaldin. None of them really seemed to like me. Except Demyx . . . who seemed to have the most talkative nature of any of them.
"There's also Saix who's probably with Xemnas. But you don't have to worry about him." Demyx continued to smile, despite the blank look I gave him. "There used to be more but they're all gone now."
"They deserved to go." The red-haired man spoke up. "They were nothing but traitors." And with that statement Demyx made a face, sticking his tongue out at the back Axel's head, to which I couldn't help but laugh a little. I was surprised to see Axel jump up from his seat after that however, walking toward me and towering above me because of his height. "The name's Axel kid. A-x-e-l. Got it memorized?"
I nodded. It wasn't that hard to remember a four-letter name. "I'm Roxas."
"What's your element?" He asked, which confused me. My element? Obviously he noticed how puzzled I was at his question. "Wow. You really are new. Well mine is fire. Mullet Man here is water." He said, patting Demyx on the shoulder. "You'll have an element soon enough."
"Come on Axel, let the kid relax for a little before you confuse him."Demyx grabbed my hand again, pulling me away from the redhead.
This was getting really annoying. . . I don't enjoy being pulled everywhere I go, so I pulled my hand from his. "Stop dragging me everywhere!"
I guess I hurt his feelings, because he gave me these huge puppy dog eyes and a pouty lip. "B-but...I just wanted to show you around."
"That doesn't mean you have to drag me everywhere. Listen, let me look around by myself for a bit." Before he could object I ran away. That guy got annoying really fast.
I walked down the hallway slowly, trying to memorize every turn, every corridor. Right. Conference room, game room, cafeteria, and kitchen. Left, filing room, computer room, and lab. Turn down the hall. Bedrooms. Turn again...when did it get so hot in here?
I turned to the door on my left. Training room 2. This hallway is burning up. All the heat was radiating from that room. Curious, I slowly opened the door. As soon as the white door cracked open, I was enveloped in an almost unbearable heat. And he was the cause of it. What was his name...Axel
He stood in the center of dancing flames, grasping a circular weapon in each hand. I looked for his enemy. Small shadows crept along the floor. As he destroyed one of the creatures, I realized that they were holograms, but as the small dark figure I'd later find to be called a heartless pizelated away, I couldn't draw my eyes and my mind away from the flames.
The orange and red hues were imprinting themselves in my brain, and I couldn't look away. It was until the redhead whispered in my ear that I had realized that his training session was over.
"Aren't they beautiful?"
I nearly jumped out of my skin as his words reached my ear, his hot breath sending goosebumps down my neck. Stepping back, I looked up at him.
"So that's what you meant when you said fire was your element."
He stood up straight, laughing huskily. "Yeah, I'm a pyro. I have chakras too though, so I don't completely depend on my magic." As he finished off the statemnt he summoned his weapons to his hand. "What's your weapon?"
I thought hard, but once again I couldn't remember. I shrugged, looking slowly away, finally giving up on remembering anything. Suddenly two warm hands were on my shoulder, his mouth next to my ear once again.
"Relax," he said, "just concentrate on your hands. Concentrate on fighting. Your weapon will come to you."
Closing my eyes, I took Axel's advice, relaxing. I thought hard, my hands soon holding to weapons. It took me a second before I opened my eyes, hearing the pyro's voice before I realized I had actually summoned anything.
"No way!" He looked at the two excessively large keys in my hands before looking back at me. "You're the keyblade wielder?" He picked up my entire arm, looking over the key in my right hand.
"Keyblade?" He lost me again...
"Yeah..." He dropped my arm suddenly, taking me by surprise. "You don't know about the keyblade?"
I shook my head, dropping my hands and allowing them to fade away from my grasp. He smirked at me before ruffling my hair. "Cute, Blondie. You don't know anything about the strongest weapon in the universe?" He took my chin between his thumb and the curl of his index finger as I shook my head again. "You, my friend, have a lot to learn." He let go as a voice came over a speaker in the ceiling.
"Attention! Every organization member is to report to the conference room immediately for a welcoming of the newest member. By order of Superior."
Axel turned away, walking down the hall. "Time for your formal welcoming, Newby."
And with that he left me standing there, slightly red-faced and confused. My feet finally decided to work with me as I started down the hall to my welcoming meeting. As I finally decided to myself that I was dead and this was the afterlife, I thought more on the subject. Is this heaven? I thought, Or hell?
Note: This is my first Kingdom Hearts fic like I said...so please tell me all the good bad and uglies of this chapter before I go on. I want to fix the wrongs, improve the rights and make it alllll better. Please and thank you!
Meryl is so lucky...
