Fire and Ice
Chapter One
I didn't have the slightest idea how I ended up in a backspace world like that. One minute, I just woke up and I existed. Just like that. I had only a tattered white dress on and I was curled into a ball in the back corner of an alleyway I had never even seen before.
In fact, I had never seen anything before. I couldn't remember who I was, where I came from… not even my own name or age. I was skinny, stupid and nearly naked in some alleyway. This is the beginning of my journey. My life filled with love, happiness, sadness, hope, dreams and despair. Except none of that is true, because I don't know what any of that is like. I'm a nobody. Nobodies can't be happy or sad.
My name is Kaxer. And this is my story.
Damn, I've always wanted to say that.
I heard a voice after a while. I had been sitting in the alleyway for quite sometime and I heard a sickly-sweet voice saying things like, "I wonder if she's here." and "Come here, darling." That sort of thing.
The source of the voice passed by my little alcove and he was… interesting. He had silver hair and it fell down his back and then it spiked crazily at the tips. It seemed to fly rom behind his ears, like he'd jammed his tounge into an electrical socket.He wore a long black coat with a hood on the back. The hem of the coat brushed the ground as he walked by me. I pulled my knees up to my chin and clasped my arms around them. I crossed my feet at the ankles and attempted to shake some of my long sandy colored hair around me. It worked like a charm and soon, it covered me like a curtain.
All my moving around got the man's attention and he turned and looked at me. He stretched out his hand to me and said, "Come with me. I'll help you. What have you go to lose?"
The question hit me like a rock to the head. What did I have to lose? I had no name, age, friends… no identity. The man helped me to my feet, I was a bit unsteady for a moment, but soon I got my feet under me and I was walking directly behind him. We walked through the abandoned streets of the creepy city for quite a while until we came to a large, white castle. Behind it was a moon in the shape of a heart. The man saw me looking at it and said:
"Kingdom Hearts."
The man with silver hair, Xemnas as I was told, took me to his office. It was a big white room with a big white desk and two big white chairs, one in front of the desk and the other was behind the desk. He motioned from me to sit in the chair in front of the desk while he sat in one behind the desk.
He looked at me for a moment. Then, he bent over and rummaged through a drawer. Finally, he sat up and tossed me a big black mass of cloth. I held it up and looked at it. It was a black coat, just like his, but in a muchsmaller size. I only came to his shoulders and was skinnier.
He waved me into a room behind his desk without so much as a word of what I was supposed to do with the stupid thing. As if I knew.
I stood in the new room for a moment. It too had white walls but it also had a mirror and a small bench. On the small bench were some more clothes. Some black under-drawers I guessed, so I put them on first. Then, a pair of black pants with pockets on the sides, I put them on next. I examined my self in the mirror. Then, I picked up…a thing. I moved it around on my body until I thought it was where it was supposed to go. I found out quickly that it looked best across my chest and so I clasped it and left it there. Then I picked up a black shirt and pulled it over my head. It had no sleeves somy arms and shoulderswere completely bare. I looked at the cloak suspiciously. How many clothes could a person wear?
I unzipped the zipper and unclasped the silver thing near the neck. I slid my arms through the sleeves and it fit perfectly. How strange. When zipped, it hugged my ribs tightly and pressed my chest nearly flat, but it was almost that way to begin with. I neatly clasped the neck-thing and looked around. The dressing room was…no wait. There was something else in the corner. A pair of black shoes. I put them on and wiggled my toes. This would take some getting used to.
I looked at the door I had come through. I walked over to it and took the doorknob in my hand. I turned it and opened the door. I stepped out and saw Xemnas at his desk, hunched over some papers.
"Sir." I said.
He calmly turned around and looked at me. His orange eyes grew wide and then he smiled, "Lovely. Gorgeous. Spectacular. Beautiful. Striking. Remark-"
"I get the point." I interrupted.
"Good." He said, then he looked in another desk drawer and handed me a pair of…gloves. That's the word. How did I know that? I hadn't known the word a second ago…
I put the gloves on and flexed my hands.
"Welcome to Organization XIII, Kaxer, you are number XIII. The new one at least." He smiled.
"New?" I asked.
"Never mind the old one. He was…a fool. You will learn so much more later."
Xemnas looked at me standing there stupidly. Now what?
As if he read my mind, he said, "Now, you can go to your room if you'd like. Here's a Darkness Door, step through it and go to your room." He reached he reached out with his hand and a swirling, black and purple vortex of doom appeared. I looked at it and then leapt through.
I fell out of the swirling vortex of doom in a new room. This one, like the others was white. It had four walls and a door on one side. There were no windows and the light seemed to come from nowhere. The floor was pure white carpet and there was a bed in the corner. There was a white blanket folded on it and a few white pillows. All of this was lying on a goose-down comforter. On the other side of the room was a small white dresser. I walked over to the dresser and opened one of the drawers. In it was another black coat and a set of clothes identical to the ones I was wearing. Spares, I supposed.
I opened another drawer and found a…hair brush…hair ties… I hadn't known what they were about two seconds ago. It was like I had forgotten all about everything and it was slowly leaking back to me. I took the brush and swept it through my long hair. Then, I took a hair tie and tied the hair in place at the nape of my neck. All the other drawers were empty.
On the back of the door was another mirror. I looked at my self again. The black coat was long and flowing and mysterious. I liked it. I practiced my mean face by scrunching my eyebrows together and frowning. I practiced many faces between that time and the knock on my door.
I walked to the door and opened it a little bit. I looked at the man who stood there. He was taller than I was and he had hair the same color as mine, but his was slicked up like a mohawk.
"Hello," I said, "Can I help you?"
"You're new right?" he asked.
"Of course."
"Right. Of course. I'm Demyx and I thought that you might want to get some food," he smiled.
"No thank you." I said, closing the door.
"Sorry," He said, putting a foot in the doorI was trying to close, "You'll have to come along because Xemnas told me to take you to the lounge anyways. I just thought we could get some food on the way."
"Fine." I huffed, opening the door and stepping out. I jammed my hands into my pockets and waited. Demyx watched me, a small smile playing across his lips.
"You got something to say?" I asked.
"Nope. Just thought…never mind."
"Well, lets go!" I suggested hastily, waving my hands around.
"Right…of course…" Demyx said, walking towards the staircase.
"We aren't going to use a…Darkness Door?" I asked.
"I don't see any reason too." He smiled, "Besides, it's not that long of a walk."
We started walking and after a while Demyx looked at me and said, "So…what's your element?"
"Excuse me?"
"Your…power… you know…like water, earth…fire…"
"Ice." I said the first thing that popped into my head. Wait a second, powers? I had no powers… I hoped he didn't ask me to-
"Well, let's see them." He said.
"Oh—okay." I said. Great. Now what? I laid my hands on the steps and concentrated really hard. I thought about the stairs turning into a large ice ramp…I thought it…pictured it in my head. I felt my hands getting extremely cold and then…
There was a crackling noise and I heard Demyx yell. I looked up and saw him slipping on…was that ice?
"Whoa!" he yelled as he went sliding down the ramp. I held out my hand again and he grabbed my fingers. I pulled him to the stairs that weren't frozen.
"Sweet!" he cried, "Let's go!"
I looked at it and then yelled, "GO!" and we both leapt onto the ice and started sliding.
It was incredibly fun and I had done it all by myself. I looked over at Demyx and saw him sliding and laughing like crazy. I smiled, while thinking that I might have made a newfriend.
When we reached the bottom, I was sad that it was over. I turned around and imagined the ice being gone, and then it was.
"Amazing!" cried Demyx, "We'll have to do that again sometime!"
"Yeah." I said.
"Now we use the Darkness Door," said Demyx.
"Why now?"
"Because we want to look professional," he grinned and opened a door. I stepped through wondering what waited on the other side.
Goodness gracious, whatever shall it be? Well, I know that there's only a handfull of people out there who actually enjoy original character stories, but they are so fun to write.
Especially Kaxer (rhymes with 'laser' and 'razor') because she's everything I'm not. I wouldn't want her as a friend though, she can be rather rude...
