Opposites attract:
Opposites attract:
Chapter one: an unwelcome welcome.
The blackness started to clear as Brsxiana stirred.
"Wha…" was all she could manage. Before she totally regained consciousness there was there was a deep hallow aching in her chest.
"Augh!" she screamed as the pain sluggishly made it's way through her nerves finally signaling to her brain what kind of agony she was in. But the pain reseeded, fading into a distant memory as her vision cleared. There were decrepit buildings everywhere with flashing, half-lit neon signs that read only as gibberish. Brsxiana stiffened, hearing a scraping sound far off and sprang to her feet. As the noise grew closer Brsxana's breath quickened. Just where was she? She looked up to the sky as if would hold the answer. Not that she expected it to though, but perhaps that's why she was so surprised when it did. There suspended in a deep blue ocean of stars was a hart shaped moon, radiating off a warm glow. For Brsxiana though it might as well have been emanating radiation.
"No." she breathed to herself. "No way." Then she heard the scraping, like claws on chalkboard, from right behind her. In sheer panic she whipped around, feeling some thing well up inside her, and with a scream she let it out. She watched as a blue flame ate up the black creature that had been behind her. She stared in amazement as they lingered on the cracked concrete before vanishing. She felt something cold in her hands and looking down she saw the undeniable truth. In each hand she held a long thin steel sword, like that of a samurai, on which the sapphire flames seemed to dance. Slowly they disappeared seeming to vanish back into her hands.
There was a loud rumble of thunder, like a drum role. Brsxiana stared at the sky once again in desperation, pleading silently that the inevitable would not come, but as all bad omens it was followed with a disastrous outcome. The rain poured as if some one was having a field day with a million fire hydrants in the heavens.
" This is officially the crapiest day ever" she said staring back into the large yellow eyes of another creatures that had come up to her before dispatching the critter without another thought.
The water streamed down her face running her hair into her eyes. She looked frantically for a place to avoid the rain, a place where she could calm down and think through all the things that were happening to her. Then she spotted it, the only other source of light in this endless night. A castle, floating, with a few scattered lights from windows shining like beacons.
"This is impossible." She said to herself. (Note: Notice that the cold blue flames and the samurai swords just appearing out of nowhere was fine but the floating castle no that's impossible!) Brsxiana began to run sprinting towards the foreboding building. Finally she reached it, panting she knocked on the door. She could hear the sound reverberate on unseen surfaces behind the monstrous doors.
Xemnas looked up for his work, interrupted and thoroughly annoyed by a knocking at the door. He rose and walked to his window looking down. There looked to be a drowned rat standing on the threshold of the castle, a vary large drowned rat. He sighed to himself, quite put out, but then a thought came to him and a smile crept across his face at the prospect. A newborn nobody, the possibilities were endless.
Brsxiana realized she should be cold but felt nothing, a trivial fact she thought, and so dismissed it immediately. 'come on' she thought 'there's got to be some body home'. There was a flash of lightning, almost blinding, and Brsxiana caught her reflection in a window. She almost fainted at the sight. For the first time she noticed the black leather cloak she wore. Her hair was now the color of a tropical ocean, and her eyes flashed brilliant blue. Just then the door opened revealing a man dressed the same as she. He looked over her frowning. She noted his long gray hair that stuck out at odd angles. The frown then turned into a look of concern.
"Come in" he said, "You must be freezing." Brsxiana didn't feel like correcting him, she felt like collapsing on the floor. Instead though she thanked him and fallowed him into the darkness, despite every sane nerve in her body telling her otherwise. She reminded herself silently of what wait for her if she did turn and run.
"I'm Xemnas, by the way" he said before starting down the hall. They seemed to keep walking forever, up stairs, thru corridors, down hallways. All the while not a word was exchanged. Though Brsxiana did hear a few muffled noises from behind the odd door, even a scream once, but Xemnas's only reaction was a slight laugh and a mumbled something about a Larxine. 'Whatever that is' Brsxiana thought.
Finally they came to a stop. Right in front of a door to which some one had taped a rather bad drawing of a toxic waste sign. Xemnas knocked.
"Vexen" he said into the door. There was some shuffling on the other side of the door, then the sound of glass braking, and a muffled swear word. Finally the door opened and a man a little older than Xemnas with long straight blond hair looked at Xemnas and the Brsxiana with confusion, and then seemed to understand.
"My," he said "Your rather damp." Xemnas and this Vexen ushered Brsxiana into the room where they proceeded to talk about her as if she wasn't there, which was fine because mentally she was off in a land where every one slept 24/7. Vexen eventually went into another room, grabbed a large cage and came out.
"okay" he said "lets see what you can do" and released a heartless into the room. Brsxiana's brain was fogy and slow from exhaustion, but when she saw that thing she reacted immediately and instinctively, instantly dispatching the creature in a fury of flames and steel. She then resumed her stance of swaying back and forth in exhaustion. Xemnas and Vexen stared at her wide-eyed.
"Cold fusion" Vexen breathed.
"You sure?" asked Xemnas.
"Absolutely, the flames are so cold that upon contact with any thing they instantly freeze and shatter it down to the atomic level leaving only ashes, something like fire only cold. Of course that's dumbing it down tremendously. What I wouldn't give to have her power in a formula."
"Well," Said Xemnas, addressing Brsxiana "welcome to Organization 14."