Before I made this story, I had to research Kingdom hearts just to know about Axel's personality. I wanted to make sure that I got his personality as close as possible, since In Oc pairing stories, some girls get over obsessed and make the character out of character. I don't really like that to be honest, so I tried my best.

I won't use anyone from the "Chain of memories" or the "Final Mix" games just in case you've only played Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 for the PlayStation2.

You can find videos of kingdom hearts (is also where I researched Axel) in

. It's a very useful site if you're a kingdom hearts fan, and also good to know more about the story.

As for the main characters name… Yes I used the name Rei again. I was too lazy to think of another name to use and the name "Rei" seemed simple enough since it was only three letters. I don't go by Rei anymore, so don't worry for those of you who have read my Satoshi story. I go by Mari, since that really is my actual name, but the "A" is pronounced longer. Gotta learn to love your real name, ya know?

Heart of Fire

Chapter 1: Bad Luck.

They always said that nobodies have any hearts. With no hearts, they don't have any sort of feeling towards anyone or anything. Could that really be true?

Organization XIII seems to be more "Human-like" than the regular mindless nobodies called the dusks. Not having a heart… does it mean that a nobody can't have any sort of feeling, or are the nobodies of Organization XIII different. Maybe they don't have hearts, but they are living so, they can have emotion, can't they?

How is it possible for a living thing with a mind of its own to not have emotions?

So many things are left unanswered, and there are even more things that most people don't even know about.

Back when Organization XIII was whole, maybe a certain person had feelings, but since he was a nobody, he kept thinking that they were fake.

…or maybe… he grew a heart in knowing such a strong feeling…

The people around me always said that those guys in black long coats were bad. They told me to stay away from anyone who wore these mysterious black coats. I don't really know where all these rumors started. Many say that it was just a legend and to ignore the rumors, but a lot say that the legends teaches us a lesson and we shouldn't ignore the rumors.

So many stories circled my town of these horrible people with no hearts. I was told that these people had no feelings, and would kill anyone in their path, with not a single feeling of guilt. I actually believed the towns' people at first; though I thought it was silly. What kind of person would kill people at random anyway? I remember being so scared; I would run from anybody wearing even a black sweater on a winter's day. For a while, the color black had scared the life out of me.

Three years have passed since I was twelve years old, and I have gotten over my fear of the color black a bit. I still had the fear of seeing anyone in a black hooded coat. I held that fear until a certain something had changed my point of view on certain things.

"Remember, stay away from any strange people!" my mother called out to me as I walked out the front door to my house. That must have been the tenth time since I opened the door!

"I know mom," I replied hastily as I hurried out. "You've been telling me that ever since I was little. Do you actually think that I could forget now?"

"I know honey," my mom reasoned with me. "But I just get worried. There are always rumors around the town about these strange people in black causing havoc all over our town. I don't want you to get in trouble."

They're just rumors, I thought to myself as I crossed the street to get to the path that led to the street market. Anyway, it's not like those rumors could actually be true.

I've heard too many untrue rumors in my life; I've started ignoring the most ridiculous rumors. Though the rumors about these suspicious people in black coats sounded quite ridiculous, this was a HUGE rumor that circled our town, so I couldn't ignore such a big thing. Almost everyone in the town has said that they have seen these strange people who cover their faces with hoods. Even my neighbor says that she saw one guy once.

I took a glance at my list of things to buy. I had to buy mostly produce for what my mom wanted to cook tonight. I had to buy some fruits too. I decided to buy strawberries. I'm sure that my mom wouldn't mind me picking with fruits I wanted, as long as our family was eating healthy.

Taking a turn to my right, I looked through the narrow alleyway. I made sure that this was the right short-cut to the street market by looking for that same crack in the corner of the entrance. I found it, and started to walk in the alleyway. I have been using this alleyway ever since I was little.

When I was little, I played in here, pretending to be running from something. I always liked running in here when I was little because I liked the rush of the air in between me and the wall of the alleyway. Of course as paranoid as my mother was, she told me I couldn't play in here anymore. Back then, she said that she has heard yet another rumor about one of the black hooded guys had come from here.

I don't know what she was talking about though. I've been using this alleyway every time I had to go to the street market. Nothing in the fifteen years of my life ever showed up here. Sometimes I felt like ignoring those paranoid rumors completely, but something in my mind told me that I had to be careful where ever I went.

The alleyway was pretty long. It seemed much shorter in my memories, but then again, my mom would always stop me when I got to the end of the alleyway. Still, I've taken this path many times, and now it seemed strange that it seemed even longer than all those other times.

As I walked I couldn't help but have this strange feeling that something was following me. Stealing a glance behind me, I saw that I was just paranoid. There was nothing there.

"Come on, Rei! Don't let those paranoid rumors get to you!" I told myself as I quickened my pace. I looked back again and there was still nothing. I exhaled with relief as I kept on looking back while walking slowly.

I wish I could say that there was nothing there when I looked back in front of me, but then I would be lying to myself and my mind. I abruptly stopped my fast walking pace and stood there. I was staring at about three of these strange black things! Freaky glowing eyes shot straight at me as I tried to figure out what these creatures were. Then, right before my eyes, those things sunk right into the ground! I could barely make out the moving shadows on the ground. Once I finally caught sight of them, I could see that they were now racing towards me, taking a zigzag path to get to me.

My mind wouldn't let me move. I wanted to run away so badly, but somehow my brain wasn't fast enough to register the fact that those creatures were chasing me. My legs wouldn't move, and at this moment I thought I saw my life flask right before my eyes.

"Come on!" I shouted at my legs. My right leg moved a centimeter, then another. Yes! Come on! Just move enough to take big steps and run away!!

I tried to turn and run, but instead, I tripped on my own clumsy feet and fell back to the ground. That was it. There was no chance for me. My fate was to die at this very moment, and there was nothing in the stupid alleyway to change my destiny to die.

At the same moment when I had these thoughts, I thought I had gone blind and the creatures had already killed me. I saw black right in front of me, thinking that I had already blacked out. My thoughts of being dead were immediately interrupted when a person had stepped out of this oval shaped black thing right in front of me. He was wearing an all black coat. It was hooded too. The hood was covering his face, so I couldn't see if he was a friendly person or not.

A shiver when up my spine as I tried to get up, and took a stumbled step back. Were those rumors really true? There was a person in a hooded black coat, and my mind couldn't make up the decision to run or to watch what would happen next. Would he really kill me with no mercy-like the rumors stated?

Curiosity took over my mind, which could have been the stupidest decision I had made in my entire life of living. I stayed there to see what he would do. He didn't turn his attention to me, but at the creatures that were now going to reach him first instead of me. These strange weapons appeared. They were like chakrams with spikes on the edges. It reminded me a bit of the shurikens in those ninja movies, only much bigger.

It only took me a second to stand in shock again as the weapons lit with fire. Real, burning, fire! It took another second for him to kill all the creatures, and nanosecond for me to figure out it was time for me to go. I ran towards the exit I came from, hoping to get there in time before he noticed that I was even there. I was lucky that those creatures didn't kill me, now I hope that the luck would stay with me and let me escape from the mysterious hooded person.

Not quite balanced, I tripped on my feet again, and hit the concrete ground hard. I let out a yelp and watched the blood drip from my right knee. From the corner of my eye, I could see that the mysterious guy had heard my yelp and turned to face me. Wasting no time, I got up on my feet again and headed for the exit. All I wanted to do was to get out of danger, and fast.

I heard him shout something before I reached the exit. The words" Hey! Have you seen…?" I couldn't hear the rest as I turned the corner. His voice faded away as the street got crowded. No one noticed me panting as I slowed down to a fast walk.

What was he asking? Did I see the creatures? Obviously I saw them. They were right in front of me before he came and killed them! Did he lose something, so he was asking me if I found it?

It didn't really matter anymore. There was no way that I was going to turn back just because I wanted to know what he was asking.

As I walked the longer pathway to the street market, I had to wonder. What in the world were those strange thins following me like that? Why did those things decide to show up in the alleyway? Where did that guy come from, and how did he manage to get there so fast? Did anyone in Twilight Town know about those creatures? If that person came from somewhere, how did he get there so fast?

I sighed as I looked at my watch. My mom was going to overreact when I get home. I was taking way to long to get some groceries. I just knew that when I got home, I was in for a whole bunch of lecturing. I know she only means good, but she shouldn't worry about me so much. Then again, I just got attacked by strange creatures, so maybe she did have the right to worry a lot.

"Mom is soo going to ground me if I don't get to home on time." I told myself. My voice was drowned out by the noise of the people around me. I counted my munny as I looked around for the right line. My mom only gave me my munny in 1's. She told me it was a waste to not use them even if they were only 1's, so I had a lot here in my plastic bag. I emptied it out into my hands as I neared the produce line.

My eyes popped open as I stared at the ridiculously long line in front of me. Was this the right line?! I looked at the sign which felt like a mile away from the back of the line. Yes, this was the right line! Why was it so long?! I thought that people didn't like fruits and vegetables, so why was this line longer than she could have ever imagined?

This was not turning out to be a very good day for me. This was the first time I actually felt like I had the worst luck here in twilight town. May be it was karma or something. Since I didn't listen to my mom, I was cursed to having bad luck for a few years of my life.

I sighed deeply as I looked once again to the long line. This couldn't be karma. I didn't do that much bad did I? The only bad thing I could possibly think of was just disobeying my mom and taking a different route. That couldn't have been that bad, could it? Then again, I disobeyed her every time I went to the street market just to make my path faster and shorter.

Waiting in line for thirty minutes is really tiresome, especially if you have no one to talk to. Still, there were about ten people in front of me in the line. It wouldn't be long before I got my turn in the line. I felt even worse for the people behind me. They seemed so far away. The line stretched out even farther than I could see!! It looked to be about a billion people right behind me, waiting in the same line!

The first person in line wouldn't hurry up, and I started to get ticked off. Ugh. It still looked as if I would be here another thirty minutes.

Bored out of my mind, I started to listen to all the conversations all around me. One guy's voice caught my attention because it was so edgy and stood out of the crowd. He sounded very irritated, but tried to keep his calm. I looked back to see who was talking.

"Have you seen my friend around? He's got short blondish hair and blue eyes."

The first thing that caught my eye was his over-sized black hooded coat. He reminded me of the guy who was in the alleyway, instead this guy here didn't wear his hood. Why wasn't anyone else seeing this? Why didn't they run away from him? I thought the rumors around were started by these people, so why didn't they listen to their own rumor and run away?

This guy didn't look exactly the same as the guy the alleyway though, or at least I didn't think he did. It was hard to tell because the guy in the alleyway had his hood on, but this guy didn't. I could see his long red spikes as they went strangely backwards on his head. He has pastel green eyes. He didn't look like the guy in the alleyway, but I could be wrong. No one around me had a strange reaction like I did, so maybe this guy couldn't be any harm. He was just probably just cosplaying one of those guys just for fun.

"Nope, sorry! Haven't seen anyone like that around here." A voice interrupted my thoughts.

I turned to the front of me again, to see that luckily the line had moved when I wasn't paying attention to it! I looked at the munny in my hands happily. They were all there.

"Excuse me." I heard an irritated voice mutter. He might have sounded like he had good manners, but don't think he really did. Instead of waiting for me to move, he tried to push himself through the crowd and ended up knocking me over so hard, the change in my hands flew right out.

I watched in horror as all my little pieces of munny fell to the ground with a clanking sound. What was worse was that the line continued without me! The people in line just covered up my space, not caring that I was just knocked right out of the line! I thought that they would at least wait a few seconds for me to get up, but I was wrong. To actually believe that there were nice people in the world was nothing but a mere imagination, was the way I was feeling right now.

Now I knew this wasn't karma. I couldn't have done so many bad deeds to deserve this. This was my officially my bad luck day. I felt like crying. Here I was sitting on the ground with my munny spread all over, and nobody was paying attention to me. They were all ignoring me, or they were just too lazy to help a person gather all her munny. Nobody was doing a thing.

"S-Sorry, I hit you pretty hard there." It was this guy with the red long spikes. He bent down to pick up the munny that was around him.

"No, it's okay… you don't have to pick them up." I could hear my voice crack as my eyes welled up with tears. No one would really care anyways. "It doesn't matter really matter to me anyways." He looked at me surprised as I walked away slowly. It was probably because I felt a tear roll down my right cheek.

I guess I am officially a nobody in this town.

As I expected, my mom had lectured me at home about telling her about me being late and being responsible and check the time when it is time to go. She gave me an earlier curfew, and on top of all that, she said that I had to get a job to help pay for the munny I had lost back at the street marker. Obviously, when I told her the story, I left out the parts about the alleyway, the creatures, and the guy in a black coat.

I couldn't believe it. My life had turned from good, to horrible in just one day.

I placed my head on my light blue pillow and lay down on the left side of me body. I stared at the darkness through the sliding door to my balcony. It looked scary out there and I couldn't see anything.

My fingers played with a loose piece of thread that was connected to my bead sheet. I started thinking. This afternoon, those people didn't even look at me. It was if I wasn't even there, or they couldn't see me at all. That was just cruel. They didn't even think of helping me, so they just ignored me.

Well, there was one person who had helped me, but he was the only one who had helped me. I don't think he really counted though since he was the person who knocked me down. It was still pretty kind though.

I saw something zoom past my balcony's window. A bit suspicious, I got off my bead and headed towards the balcony's doors. It was hard to see anything through my window was it was pitch black outside. I couldn't see anything at all.

Then, something very strange happened. I saw two yellow orbs floating out of nowhere. Because I wanted to get a better look, I turned the knob of the door and stepped outside, closing the door behind me. My mom always complained about wasting the air conditioning by leaving the door open for a long time. It was then after I had closed the door, I realized that I had forgotten the key to my door. I wiggled the door knob, but there was no hope. I was now locked outside, on a balcony that's two stories high, and the only way out was to jump. I couldn't do that without having any serious injuries.

I felt my eyes welling up with tears for the second time today. Did I mention that this was the worst day of my life of fifteen years?!

The yellow floating orbs caught my eye once again. My tears blurred the image, but I could see that the yellow orbs were floating not very far from me. It was on my balcony. I saw these yellow orbs as they started to multiply. It turned to four, then eight, then sixteen, then twenty-four. Wondering what they were, I hastily rubbed the tears from ym eyes.

These were NOT yellow orbs! They were eyes! These were the eyes of those creatures I saw this morning! "Crap!" I shouted out loud as I tried to get back inside the house, then I remembered that I was stuck here with no way out. "You've got to be kidding me!" I shouted at the air as I backed away from those creatures. I felt pain as on of them got to close to me and a claw scratched me leg. What in the world did they possible want from me? Why were they bothering me of all the people in this town?!

It wasn't long before I had no place to go. This time I knew there was on way out of this. I was going to die a very dreadful death. I immediately shut my eyes as one of the creatures leaped towards me. I hoped that this thing could kill me quick and painlessly.

I waited and waited. Geez! This thing was in midair when I closed my eyes! Why was it taking to long to kill me already?! Too scared to open both of my eyes, I opened my right eyes only a slit.

"Pesky heartless… don't know where they all come from." I heard a strangely familiar voice mutter.

My eyes widened. All the creatures were gone! I wasn't shocked by the creatures disappearing; I was more shocked at the hooded person whom had killed them. I looked at his weapons. They were the same chakrams as the guy used in the alleyway.

Fear overtook me as looked back to me and began to speak. "Well, what do we have here?" He chuckled. "Someone must be forcing me to meet you, or it may just be a strong coincidence that this is our third time meeting today."

Third? I thought. This was only the second time we met. The first time I met him, it was in the alleyway.

I watched him suspiciously as he loosened the string on his hood. As soon as hood fell, I instantly recognized him. He was the same guy who had bumped into in the market street and he was the guy who killed the creatures in the alleyway!

"What's with that look?" He asked me with a smirk on his face. I took a step back, feeling threatened by the tone of his voice. Looking at the expression on his face, he chuckled again. "Instead of giving me that look, you should be thanking me, ya know."

"Why? Because you saved my life twice now?"

"Yeah… that and because it took me a while to pick up all these...I'm not even sure if this is all of it." I watched as the tossed me a plastic bag filled with something.

"What's this?" I asked dumbfounded as I stared emptily at the clear plastic bag in my hands. It was all my munny that I had dropped back at the street market. Why…Did he spend all that time picking up my munny? "Th-Thank you!" I managed to stutter out through my shock. I NEVER thought that he would actually have the thought to pick up all my munny!

He chuckled once again. "No prob…Was pretty much my fault anyway. Didn't wanna just leave all that munny on the ground like that."

"Your k-kind hearted." I spoke with a shy voice. I was trying to express how grateful I felt, but I was never really good at expressing my feelings that much.

I heard him laugh, but it wasn't exactly a kind laugh. It was more like a sarcastic laugh. "That's got to be a joke."

"No, I'm serious."

"I am too." I studied his expression, unable to figure out his emotions. "How can I be kind hearted without having a heart?"

I didn't know what he meant by that, but I could tell by his expression that he was dead serious.

End of chapter one: Bad Luck

Next chapters:

Rei forgets that she is locked out of her house, but luckily the one named "Axel" helps her get back in with a peculiar portal type thing. She starts to wonder how much things she DOESN'T know about this. Why don't the other people in Twilight Town know about this?

Meanwhile, she starts to wonder why the people in Twilight Town don't seem to notice her anymore, besides her mom. Every time she talks to someone, it's like she's not even there!