Prolog:
Shadow's story takes place in the Nobodies domain, also known as the castle that never was. In it, there was a scientist hard at work in his lab. No. IV, Vexen, also known as the organization's scientist, was working on a project called operation: Shadow.
The name was quite ironic, due to the fact that he was the only one who knew of the project. He never asked Xemnas for permission on the project because he knew all too well that Xemnas would never approve of it.
So, he went ahead and granted himself permission, and got to work on his little project.
And because he never asked, and nobody besides himself knew about it, it was considered a quote on quote "illegal" project. This fact made it extremely crucial that nobody in the organization found out about it.
His project was to create a high breed Nobody that was stronger, faster, smarter, and more agile than any known Nobody. Right now, Vexen was working on a way to give the Nobody emotion.
He had studied human emotion for hours on end. Testing, studying, experimenting, ext. He was very confident he would be able to give him emotion, though there was one flaw he wasn't able to fix.
Due to the fact that he, himself, had no emotion, nor did anyone else in the organization have emotion, he had very little expearionts creating emotion.
He was, however, able to give the Nobody emotion, but it just wasn't as strong as Somebody emotion. But, I was better than was almost finished adding the final touches, when suddenly he herd a nock on the door.
"Number IV, you are needed in the meeting room. Xemnas has an announcement to make." His eyes dilated in fear. It was Saix! If he where to open the door he would be a goner!
"Um…uh, yes I will be there in a minute. Just don't..don't open the door!" Vexen answered, trying to hide the fear in his voice.
"And why not?" asked Saix, annoyance with a hint of curiosity in his voice. 'Great, now I have to make an excuse too?' Vexen thought.
"Because I'm, um, changing. And it would be kind of, uh, awkward if you where to…to come in." He answered, hopeing with every fiber of his being he would buy it.
He heard an irritated sigh. "Just come to the meeting room." Saix said, than walked off muttering something about losing brain cells by talking to imbisels.
Vexen flopped back in his chair and heaved a sigh of relief. He looked up at the test tube containing his soon to be conscious Nobody. He had short snow white hair, pail skin, with a teen like body, due to the fact that he was created to be a teenager. He was currently about 15 – 16 years of age. Vexen smiled with satisfaction.
"Soon, young one. Very soon." He chuckled to himself. He made sure that everything was in order, than walked out the door, making sure it was locked. "They don't even suspect a thing." He chuckled.
In the meeting room, everyone sat on their throne, waiting for the meeting to begin. Vexen set quietly, anxious to get back to his lab and complete his "project." He couldn't wait. Once he finished creating and training his Nobody high breed, everyone would see just how superior and intelligent he was. He smiled. 'Those fools don't even know a thing.' He thought to himself.
But his thoughts where interrupted when he saw Axel come in with a zombie like Roxas. He cocked an eye brow. H watched as Axel helped Roxas sit on his throne, positioning him so that he wouldn't fall off.
"Stay." Axel muttered to Roxas. 'How sad.' Vexen thought. Axel flopped down on his throne, existed from walking Roxas around all day.
"Hey nanny!" Xigbar taunted. "Shut up!" Axel yelled back agitatedly. Out of the corner of Vexens eyes, he saw Larxene roll here eyes. He slumped in his chair. Something told him this was going to be a long meeting.
He closed his eyes, trying to sort his thoughts when suddenly a loud farting noise was hears from across the room. He opened his eyes to see a very embarrassed Axel who was holding a whoopee cushion, giving a death glear to Demyx, who was laughing uncontrollably and childishly pointing and shouting "You farted, you farted!"
"Why you!" Axel fumed. "Way to bust a big one, gramma!" shouted Larxene, joining in on the fun.
Vexen rolled his eyes. 'Why am I forced to work with such juvenile delinquents?' He thought. Suddenly Xemnas appeared on his throne. 'Finally.' Vexen thought. Xemnas cleared his throat to get everyone's attention. Once the laughter and sarcastic comments died down, he began.
"Gathered friends," he started. "As if." Vexen heard Xigbar mutter.
"As you all know, we have finally found a keyblade wielder, No. XIII Roxas. With his help, we will finally start to make progress." Xemnas said with an approving smile. Vexen smiled. 'He's not the only one with a keyblade.' He thought.
"But recently, we have found a new member. Let us all welcome No. XIV Xion, a keyblade wielder." Xemnas continued. Vexen's smile faded as he staired down at their newest member.
'Sorry excuse for a Nobody,' he thought as he narrowed his eyes, 'What an insult to Nobodies everywhere.' His thought where cut off as he saw No. XIV look up at Roxas and smile.
Vexen turned his gaze upon Roxas, wanting to see his reaction. Roxas seemed utterly surprised to say the least. His eyes where wide in astonishment, while he was only able to utter a gasp. Vexen smiled in amusement. 'Dumb and dumber.' He mused.
"We shall treat No. XIV as one of our own. As for right now, you all are dismissed." Xemnas concluded. Vexen was the first one to teleport out of the meeting room. He desperately needed to get back to his lab and Finnish his creation. Once he did, he would finally be able to test it.
Once Vexen got to his room, he unlocked the door. Before opening it, he first checked to see if anyone was close by. Once he was sure no one was around, he quickly opened the door and ran in closing the door behind him. He let out a sigh.
"Finally." He whispered. He walked up to the test tube containing the still unconscious Nobody high breed.
He smiled. "It's about time you met your master," he brought up a hand and placed it on the glass wall of the test tube, "Isn't it, young one?" He smiled, admiring his creation. He started finishing the final touches.
But before he could press the button to wake his creation up, the clock chimed. It was time to rest. He had missions in the morning, and if he where to show up late, Saix would surely suspect he was up to something. He cursed under his breath. He looked up at the Nobody high breed, still unconscious in his test tube.
"How irritating, looks like we will have to save our little introduction for tomorrow." He heaved an irritated sigh, his expression changing into a look of anger and pure hatred.
"If it weren't for the superiors pathetic missions, I could have finished you weeks ago." He growled. But then he shrugged his shoulders.
"Ah well, nothing we can really do about it," he smiled darkly, "For now anyways." He chuckled.
"well, good night," he started, turning his back to his creation, a smile gracing his features, "young Shadow." And with that he went to bed.