Chapter One: The Winds of Change and a Storm of New Beginnings
In the middle of Hollow Bastion, A heart will soon be lost…
Heartless had swarmed a brother and sister from all sides. The girl picked up her kid brother and ran through the charging Heartless, with no care for anything other than saving her brother. She dashed through streets and alleys, the Heartless relentlessly chasing after them.
Having gained a few brief seconds of peace, the older girl set her brother on the ground. "Daren… you have to run! Go to Mom and Dad! Tell them I'll be back soon!" The girl said, gently shoving her wide eyed brother away from her.
Daren, the brother, shook his head. "You're lying! You're not gonna come back!" He whimpered, and ran away from his sister, crying.
The girl smiled sadly at her brother's retreating back. "I'm sorry, Daren…" She said, and then heard something behind her. She turned around, her expression grim. "So…it took you long enough." She growled, her hands clenching in fists as the yellow eyes of the Heartless glared at her emotionlessly.
As the Heartless charged, she noticed that they were trying to get past her. She looked over her shoulder and saw her brother. "IDIOT! Daren, I said RUN!" She shouted.
Suddenly, the Heartless in front of her brother were destroyed. A teen with green hair, wielding a giant key, stood in front of Daren protectively. "Daren, you know that you should listen to your sis…" He growled. Daren nodded and sprinted away as fast as his young 8 year old legs could take him.
The girl smiled at the green haired teen. "Thank you…Kite…" She said, smiling warmly, before ducking away from an attacking Heartless. She drew something out of her pocket, the only thing she had that could possibly help her; an elegant, razor sharp metal fan.
The green haired teen named Kite nodded. "You need to be more careful as well, Gale!" He said, running to stand by her side as soon they were completely surrounded by the black creatures.
Gale, the girl, nodded her head. "I'll do that after we dig ourselves out of this mess. Darn it, there are tons of Heartless here!" She said, getting into a fighting position.
Then the horde of Heartless swarmed the two. The two fought valiantly, and managed to push the Heartless back. Soon, they eliminated them all.
Gale smiled. "Thank goodness you came, Kite. Without you, my brother…h-he would be…" She said, trembling at the very thought of what might have been.
Kite smiled. "Don't worry. That's what friends are for, no?" He replied, putting an arm over Gale's shoulder.
Gale nodded, and suddenly shouldered Kite out of the way as a flash of black struck her instead of him. Wordlessly, she fell to the ground. She could feel herself fading. "D-damn…It seems that I was careless… D-doesn't matter…Daren is…safe…" She said, fading away into the darkness...
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Gale's silver-gray eyes opened and she sat up suddenly. "Daren!" she cried out, still half-dreaming. Blinking her eyes a few times, she looked at her surroundings. Where was she?
In the middle of a forest, it seemed. Gale racked in an attempt to remember where she was last, before the…dream. After a second, her mind was blank. She couldn't remember much of anything other than what was in her dream.
She sensed movement and quickly got to her feet, her hands clenching into fists. Her pale silver hair slid forward like a veil of moonlit silk, hiding her face. While her heart should have been pounding in fear… Gale had the odd feeling that she was hollow; that there was something… wrong with her.
A voice as cold as steel startled her. "You do not feel anything. You are empty. Incomplete." The voice said.
Gale spun around to see a man with pitch black hair, which stopped just above his shoulders, and bright yellow eyes. "…Like I care." She said, turning away from him, uninterested. She heard a laugh behind her.
"My name is Tenxah, if I may be allowed to introduce myself." The odd man said, sounding amused at Gale's behavior.
Gale shrugged. "A lame name… You must have had an idiot of a mother, her to have named you that…." She said with a shrug.
More laughter tormented Gale. "My original name was Ethan. I am like you; I have lost my heart and have come back as an empty shell. Tell me if this is not true…Lexga" He said with a smirk.
Gale looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "I'm a Heartless? And why did you call me that, Mr. Lame-o?" She replied, wondering why she wasn't experiencing what she would normally be having in this conversation; irritation and unease.
The man in question chuckled. "Let me explain, dear Lexga…" He said, and explained how they were both Nobodies.
Five minutes later, Tenxah finished explaining. "Now do you understand…? Join me and soon, we both can see those dear to us again. Join…the Organization." He finished, waiting for a response from Gale, or rather, Lexga.
Lexga sighed. "…Fine. I'm just doing this so I can have my life back. I'll join your lame sounding group of lameness." She replied with a reluctant nod.
Tenxa nodded, smiling. "Odd choice of words… but welcome to the Organization, number V, the Divine Wind, Lexga…"
In a Destroyed world, filled with only darkness and the pain of despair that only the Heartless could bring, another girl's eyes opened only to see nothing. The darkness swirling around her made her cringe. She blinked her unnaturally yellow eyes a few times, her eyes adjusting to the absence of light. She brushed her navy blue hair out of her eyes as she stumbled to her feet.
She heard something behind her and turned. Her eyes narrowed in suspicion as a young man with pitch black hair walked in her direction. She wrapped her arms around herself and shivered involuntarily.
Motion. She sensed something moving at her feet and her eyes widened as a black creature appeared out of the ground, eying her with yellow orbs, the color not unlike hers.
She instinctively backed away from the creature, her arms now at her sides, her hands balled in fists.
"The Heartless won't hurt you. It is far too weak to do that just yet." The man's calm voice said as he stood near the girl.
The girl looked at the man with an apathetic glare. "….so…?" She mumbled, with her voice barely a whisper.
"You feel nothing. You are nothing. Join me, and you can find a place in these worlds. By joining me, you can become truly whole again. What say you, Ruki?" The man replied, his amber eyes looking directly into the girl, Ruki's.
The girl called Ruki shrugged. "I don't care…I'll join if that's what you want. It's not like…I have anything….better to do…" She replied.
The man smiled. "Well said, Kirux, number VI, the Silent Storm. Welcome to the Organizaton" He replied.
All Seemed to be going to Tenxah's plan. He had acquired two new members… But both seemed unusual, for Nobodies. But no matter. Rebuilding the Organization would prove difficult without them. He needed to win them over, and he needed a certain Keyblade wielder to do so. In Hollow Bastion, where Lexga had been found, He spotted his target, surrounded by Heartless. He had green hair and was fighting to protect Lexga's former brother. Tenxah grinned. Things were going to get a whole lot interesting…