Thinking of you, wherever you are. We pray for our sorrows to end, and hope that our hearts will blend. Now I will step forward to realize this wish. And who knows: Starting a new journey may not be so hard, or maybe it has already begun. There are many worlds, but they share the same sky---One sky, one destiny...
The words echoed in his mind as he lay in bed, with a hopeless case of insomnia. "Why...why can't I remember..." he whispered to himself in the night with a hint of anger. He rolled over in bed and looked at his clock. 4 AM. He should've been asleep by now. But he wasn't. Who was that speaking in his mind? The eerie feel of losing himself was on the edge of his mind, and he shivered at the thought. He had lost himself once before, when he met Sora. But now...Merlin and Leon had found a way to extract the Nobody out of someone without turning their former self into a Heartless.
He rolled over again, and his eyes were deep in thought. All he could remember was that he was Sora's Nobody, and also one of the Chosen. But chosen by what? He couldn't remember, as hard as he had tried. Right now, he was once again back in the Thirteenth Order with his best friend, Axel. However, now they had a new 'Superior'. He had arrived before Roxas rejoined. His name was Xurik. He had silver hair, and had silver eyes. His element was Darkness and he wields a sword shaped like a bat's wing.
Roxas, now wide awake thinking of what he will do to recruit new members tomorrow, was now sitting at the edge of the bed. Him, Axel, and Xurik were now the only members of the Organization. He was thinking more of who to recruit more than how to. He ran through his mind everyone he remembered from his past life: Hayner, Pence, Olette, Goofy, Donald, King Mickey, Namine, Pete, Leon, Merlin, Yuffie, Tidus, Wakka, Selphie, Cid, Cloud, Sephiroth, Hercules, Auron, and Phil. The rest he couldn't remember. He plopped his head back on his pillow in disappointment and glanced at the clock again. It was now 4:30 AM. He groaned and shut his eyes tight, hoping he would at least catch an hour of sleep.
But there was something else wrong, he noticed. If he brought back 10 more members for the Order, wouldn't history just repeat itself? Or maybe it wouldn't...Maybe...Sora and his friends would help them...But then again, if Roxas and Sora met up again, Roxas would complete Sora again, and therefore not exist any longer. And he didn't even know what Xurik's plan was yet. Could be fun...yet...I have an omnious feeling about this...he thought to himself. Just then, Axel snuck into the room. Roxas sat up and stared at him with sleepy interest.
"Hey buddy, having insomnia again?" Axel queried with genuine concern.
"Yeah...I just have a lot on my mind..." Roxas remarked offhandedly.
"Well it's ok, you can tell me about it...what are friend for, right?"
"Well...ok..." Roxas said slowly, "You know how I'm Sora's Nobody right?"
"Yeah..." Axel replied thoughtfully.
"Well...I feel as if a part of me is missing...like...I'm incomplete...ya know?" Roxas said with anguish.
"Yeah...of course I know Roxas...that's how all Nobodies are...we're all incomplete...we're only half of the person we were..."
"But I'm different...I wasn't created by my original turning into a heartless this time...and I can feel some emotion...like depression...and a little bit of happiness..."
Axel pondered a little bit, and then responded, "Well...Yeah...but Nobodies are Nobodies, all the same...so you are incomplete, just not as incomplete as me and Xurik are..."
"Yeah...I guess...but..." Roxas stared at the floor and reminisced with the past.
"Hey, cheer up! At least you have a buddy like me, right? Ya know, a lot of Nobodies out there don't have any friends, so be thankful with what you have, right?" Axel said with an uplifting voice.
"Yeah..." Roxas said with depression.
"Ok well...see ya later then..." Axel sighed with disappointment. A portal appeared and Axel stepped through it and waved back at Roxas before it engulfed him and disappeared.
Roxas sighed and put his head back on his pillow and stared at the ceiling, the words still echoing in his memory. One sky, one destiny, huh? I guess so... he thought bitterly in his head and then nodded off to sleep.
He awoke in the morning and slowly turned his head towards the clock. 9 AM it read. He groaned with sleepiness and then got up and yawned. He looked in a mirror and fixed his hair, then summoned a dark portal and stepped through it, with the Organization's lounge as his destination. He groggily stepped out of the portal and yawned again. He surveyed the room lazily and waved to Axel without much enthusiasm. Then he dropped himself into a chair and reclined as he read a book.
"So how'd you sleep?" Axel asked as he scooped up his cereal. Roxas's reply was a wave of his hand, indicating he slept fine. Axel knew he wasn't in his best mood so queried him no further, and instead changed the subject to the next thing on Roxas's mind,"Who're you gonna recruit?" Roxas only shrugged while Axel cursed under his breath at a failed attempt to start a conversation. He returned to his cereal and instead found a new focus; the embers in the fire place. He chuckled to himself and snapped, sending a blaze of fire into the fire place and successfully lighting it ablaze. Roxas took no notice and continued to read his book, A Compilation of Ansem's Reports. He was humming a song to himself. Axel soon lost interest in anything in the lounge and walked out the door. "I'm going to gather some information on who I can recruit...see ya later..." he yelled as he disappeared. Roxas mumbled a few words of good-bye and then went back to his reading. It wasn't until later that night that his attention was derailed from the reports.
