Well this is only something that came to my head one day, and it's been a while since I wrote anything, so if my skills are rusty (if I ever had any to begin with) there's that.

Why do I exist?

It is a question I'm yet to answer, it been sometime since my birth, no, re-birth would be better way to describe it, a year for what I can tell, and it went almost unnoticed by me.

What am I speaking of?

Of the time that had gone since my heart was stole and the time my non-existence begun.

I guess that I am what sir Ansem has defined as.

A no-body.

How? I'm not very sure, there were heartless around but there were simply shadows, now don't mistake this for the Neoshadows, I mean I have faced Neoshadows before, I was a mess after but I live to tell the tale, maybe a group of Neoshadows, or a great number of shadows those could were me off but, they were the weakest kind, I mean if I can take on three Neoshadows and survive I think I can deal with ten of weakest kind, so I at least don't believe the heartless took my heart, I do remember vaguely a figure that wears a black coat much like the same I wear now.

And as for the reason I was fighting the heartless at all, well its simple really, you see some months before becoming a nobody, I was coming back from the fencing club in the town I was born in, it was getting dark so thought I should return home, half way through a few black thing started to move around (I would later find they were call shadows) they emerge from the floor and started to attack me while I could avoid a few some did hit the mark I thought that was it for me, but then a light shine through the dark and in my right hand there was a blade (that later I find out could open any lock) that looked like a key.

Indeed I'm a Keyblade wielder, I manage to survive (I have to admit thought I believe it was luck alone that I manage t win).

I'm sure few of you may be wondering how am I familiar with sir Ansem or why call him sir instead of his current title Ansem the wise.

But I'm not gonna speak of that right now when I see puddle of black in the air, a dark corridor I think it was called, something that I do realize is, that if I was still somebody I would feel really desperate.

How can I tell?

Well the fact that my first reaction at the image was to run straight at it, every instinct in my body telling me that it may lead to the answer for the question I been asking myself since the day I found out what had happen to me, what… I… had become.

Do I want to find my heart and maybe turn back into my old self? Or… is this a blessing in disguise and maybe I just need time to figure that out, in fewer words.

Do I wish to be somebody again or to stay as a nobody long enough to like it?

Something I should probably have noticed, and that I would have noticed was I not thinking all that while running, is that the place from where entered was gone, when I did figure that out thought, the floor was gone as well, and I started falling into the darkness.

Was this it?

Is this it how my non-existence ends?

So much for finding answers, guess I'll never find out.

-KH-

Or so thought imagine my surprise when I felt the heat of the sun in my skin, the first thing I did after that was to look at my surroundings and in one word I was… astonished.

Well, I at least believe that a castle been support by two mountains to be something unusual, the waterfalls that were on other peaks were shining with the sun creating rainbows midway through the fall, it was a sight to behold.

Then it click that I was still falling at a great speed at that the ground getting closer every second, and well following a mathematical principle then the result would be as follow:

Mass x Speed=Pain

SMACK!

Surprise, surprise! It came true, something I really shouldn't be happy for.

Thankfully for me I had manage to make a flip in the air allowing me to reduce the speed at which I was falling, I still hit the ground pretty hard mind you, but it wasn't something I couldn't live trough .

Standing I look at my surroundings and saw what I could only describe as post with rings hang of them, looking a little closer I realized that the rings seems to had a few dents here and there as thought something had hit them, based on that I thought it might have been some kind of target practice or something like that, seen as nobody was around I thought I could give it a go.

Taking a stance I been practicing in, with my right feet in front and the left back, my knees bend a little to remain standing even after taking a hit, holding my Keyblade with one hand the other at my side ready to cast the spells I know.

Giving a few hits to the targets I try adding more such as a combo of hit with a gather to keep the hits going also adding the stop spell to cause even more damage, it was something I was pretty good at my attacks weren't that strong my spells weren't either but they all add up, all thought my stance was somewhat off, the lack of use in while I guess.

I felt I was been watch thought so I look at my surroundings once more this time thought I did manage to see what had me on alert.

This guy was staring at me with what at first I mistake as a glare , I noticed soon that it wasn't thought he was stoically looking at me… no wait he's looking at my Keyblade no at me.

I was about to call out to him, but a more hostile presence make dodge by rolling in the ground, I couldn't had mistake the pure dark form it sharp talons and those empty looking eyes, it was a shadow heartless and it wasn't alone there were quite a few around.

Thinking fast I looked at where the man was and he was still there not having moved at all, the difference thought was that he wasn't looking at my Keyblade anymore, he was looking at me this time.

"You have to get out of here this things are dangerous!" I scream at him, he didn't move thought, actually during my time been tutored by Mickey, figured that this kind of heartless usually use their number to outlast their opponents taking down the weakest first, that make me realize something.

Whoever this guy was he was strong enough to make them believe that he was the biggest threat, probably a sign that I shouldn't piss him off.

Focusing again in the heartless, I took my stance, not the one I used earlier but another one, in this one I didn't have my knees bend and was more open to attacks but something that came out of using this stance was that it improve my reaction time, what do I mean?

Well been open all the time allowed many heartless to get quite a few hits at first but with time I end up realizing their movements and their behavior, allowing me to predict their actions before they could make them.

It didn't take me too long to finish them, they were stronger that your common shadow but they were still shadows, their movement were rather simple, jump from some point to try and scratch at you, after landing try a move some, or simply melt into the ground and a move erratically to take their opponent by surprise, if it was my first time facing them then it would have been more difficult to face them, but with a few wide swings, followed by the gather spell, more wide swings to hit more of them in a single hit, combined with stop and heal spells when they manage a some hits, I made quick work of them.

I glance once more at the man and he was still staring at me, this time thought he seem more relaxed than before, I think he still looks stoic but somewhat more relax.

He glanced at his right or my left whatever and he's eyes widened, and looked that way too and realize why, there were still quite the few heartless there, and seem they figure they couldn't take either me or him much less both, the horde of shadows were trying to scatter thought the world, I soon realize that maybe that wasn't the reason the man seem shocked thought.

The direction the horde of shadows were taking, somewhat further, there were kids my age (well more like the age I look like) and the horde of shadows seem to be going straight at them, reacting quick I took a full sprint at the direction they were at, I had manage to get there in time somehow, just in time to take down a shadow that had taken by surprise the brown haired teen that was a little taller than me, he seem surprised although the reason was not what I had in mind.

"You have a Keyblade!?"

I was rather surprise that he knew what it was so couldn't help but ask.

"You know what a Keyblade is!?"

He nodded, I was gonna asking something else but the blue haired girl that was with him snap me back to the situation at hand.

"There's more of those thing coming!"

Realizing that they were in danger I was about to tell them to run away, what they did however I wasn't prepare for, in a single movement they each had a Kingdom Key in their hands, both took battle stances.

I saw the girls what somewhat like a fencer would but more… gracious is the word?

While the brown haired guy at my left was more open but also firm.

We then begun fighting against the heartless, I soon noticed that, if they were new to fighting it certainly didn't look like it, the guy while open had a reaction time to envy over; he either blocked or counter the attacks sent his way, he was pretty strong too I took down shadows with a few strikes, took them down with one or two.

The girl in the other hand was more efficient with her spells taking down a large amount of shadows with them.

I didn't stay behind thought they had their specialty, I had mine I always like to give combos using both spells and techniques to finish my opponents.

It was Mather of time before we had finished every single shadow around, I had to admit we did make a pretty good team, the brown haired teen seem to agree with me.

"We kick ass" the brown haired teen said.

"Indeed we have" I couldn't help but agree.

"We make pretty good team" seems like we all agreed on that.

Deciding that the danger was over I was gonna ask them about their Keyblades.

"Well-!"

It wasn't possible thought the last thing I thought would appear make an entrance, and I wasn't the only one that noticed.

"!" the both of them could feel it too the thing that appeared in front of us.

The massive, muscular, humanoid Heartless with black skin, its legs are rather short and its feet are very thin and curl upward. Its arms are quite long, and it has two relatively small, twisted wings on its back, there is a large, heart-shaped hole in the Heartless abdominal area, which penetrates straight through from the front to the back. Its head is covered in dozens of twisted, black tentacles. Only its small, glowing yellow eyes are visible.

Indeed now we faced ourselves with a Darkside, this thing actually make me shake a little, the last time I faced something like this, I had only manage because King Mickey came and help me in the last minute. This thing is not to be taken lightly.

Seen like the others were still shocked at the Darkside appearance, I had to be the one snapping them out of it.

"GUYS FOCUS!" I shout at them managing to gain their attention.

"(Sight)… look this isn't the first time I've face one of this, so I actually know where to hit this thing."

They relax a little thought they had their guard up still, which was good of course.

"You…mm?" they got the hint.

"Aqua" the blue haired girl said.

"Terra" the brown haired guy said.

"Right, Aqua you're good with magic, do you know long range spells?"

She answers with a nod.

"Good then stay as far from this as you can, give without taking its a good thing here, make sure to hit its head its he's weakest spot"

"Ok!" she said.

"Terra, were gonna get intimately close with this thing, you see , we gonna attack its arms , he also takes good damage from there, forcing it to try bat us away, when he does that thought he will also summon shadows"

"It's that good?" he wonders, can't fault the guy.

"Don't worry I can make quick work out of them, thing here is that when he does that it leaves its head open for attacks, get me?"

His smirk told me he did.

"Alright guys we got a plan now we just need execute it, don't hold back, don't let your guard down for a sec, and this will be a breeze for us" I said with new found resolve that my temporal teammates shared.

"HM!""RIGHT!" Aqua and Terra said respectively

"Managing to remain calm in a grave situation such as this is something deem of respect" a voice that I didn't know said.

SWING!

What follow after that, was the Darkside burst in darkness.

-KH-

I was speechless.

If the way the shadows had acted when only he and I where around them wasn't enough to make me realize that he was stronger. Then the fact that he took out a Darkside with one hit did.

"Wow" Terra exclaimed, I couldn't have put it in better words myself.

"Master!" Aqua shout going toward him.

Wait… what… Master!?

That's when I took a better look at him, he wears a white, red lined haori that has a hood, along with slightly shorter than normal, light-colored hakama. Underneath his haori, he wears a navy blue shirt with a large white X pattern on the front; he seems to wear some kind of armor in his abdomen, and some metallic kind of boots, what called my attention more than anything though was the Keyblade he holds in his right hand has a smooth, cylindrical, grey shaft that tapers outward at both ends. It has a boxy guard, made up of two small, light grey boxes and copper rod. The base of the guard connects to the grip, and both sport several small indentations lining them, its teeth are in an 'E' shape.

"Master do you know where those things came from?" Terra asked.

I kneel with my head looking straight at the ground as I said my next words.

"I'm sorry" I said.

I could feel the confuse glances both Terra an Aqua were giving me.

"This is my entire fault."

Its seems that Terra and Aqua still didn't get it but the Keyblade Master in front of me knew what I meant.

"I wonder whatever the reason would be that you would come here, especially through a dark corridor" by now both teenagers seem to understand the reason behind my former apologies.

"Did you bring then here?" Aqua asked.

"Not willingly, they must felt me and decided to follow."

"You haven't answered my question, why did you come here through a dark corridor?" the Keyblade Master asks again with more authority to his voice.

"if you mean if this is the place I wanted to end up at, then no, I was simply handling a few heartless in my original world when this dark corridor, open when I realized I was already inside it, with no light from where I came from."

The master seem to be waiting for more, what he wished to know I don't know what, maybe more detailed information?

"You are a Keyblade master, yes?"

"Indeed"

"Then ask without reserve I have nowhere else to be"

"…"

"Why would you enter a dark corridor at all, if you can wield a Keyblade then you should know that darkness can corrupt the mind, right?" it surprise me that Aqua was the one who asked, she made it sound as though it was obvious and it actually was.

"I…felt desperate" the Master actually raised an eyebrow at that.

"No… rather I think if could feel something, it would been desperation"

"What do you mean child." the master Seem intrigued by my choice of words.

"Well you see I'm a nobody" it took them a second to process my words they seem somewhat annoyed, and I easily deduced the reason.

"Kid if you were looking for attention…" the Master begun before I decide to interrupt.

"I can't fault you for reaching that conclusion, but I do not mean the word in that way, this man, don't know if you heard about him, Ansem the wise, have come to the conclusion that a nobody is the term to describe a being witch heart was stolen" it took them a moment to process it again, this time even the stoic Keyblade Master seem shocked.

"Wait, what…but then how?" Aqua asked somewhat confused, Terra seem completely lost too, the master now was staring at me more fiercely.

"What you see before you, it's the shell of the body of my former self and what allows me to be rational it's the soul that it's within me." That seems to satisfy them.

"How did it happen?" the master inquired.

"I was facing a great amount of heartless and…-"

"I see, I-"the master seem to come to a conclusion, both Terra and Aqua did also, they were once more wrong though.

"The heartless weren't the reason"

"Huh?"

"I can vaguely remember a silhouette, wearing a coat much like the one I wear now, but after that… I was already waked up at Ansem lab."

"He's lab?"

"Yeah, he was doing some research of what I'm not sure but, apparently he wished to know what a heartless could do to a person and whether or not it could be reversible."

"Sometime after I learned what happen to me, I decide to keep doing what I had as a somebody, to give hunt to the heartless."

"That way a few months passed by with nothing other than more heartless, more powerful ones too, in the end Mickey came"

"Mickey?" both Aqua and Terra ask, I could see that the master was also interested.

"Yeah, Mickey I had meet him as a somebody, he was somewhat sad about what happen to me, I told him it was fine tough, he couldn't have been by my side always, I know for fact that my old self wouldn't have hold it against him for something he had no control over."

"I did ask in a favor thought, and it was if he could teach me some magic, he was quite delight it and end up teaching me a few spells before he had to leave, apparently he was needed somewhere and it was urgent, that's how I learned the spells Gather, Stop, Heal, and Aero"

"As of now I have master both Heal and Gather, I can use Stop almost without tiring, Aero I still practicing with and I actually figure out how to use Stopza, though it drains me completely."

"Like that time seem to just fly and it came to earlier today, the usual, a few heartless appeared, and I was to dispatch them, something new happened and there it was a dark corridor, without having noticed I was running straight at it by the time I stop I was already inside it with no way out, something I could confirm thought, was sir Ansem theory about this coat"

"What about it?" Aqua seem rather intrigue by it.

"It seems it posse's resistance to the darkness" it was now thought that the master was looking at me more.

"Is there something wrong sir?"

"What do you plan to do from now on?"

"Well from what I can tell the purpose of the Keyblade is to maintain the balance between the light and dark, not allowing the darkness to corrupt the worlds and end up consuming them, so I guess I should do just that."

He seems to be deep in thought for a few moments.

"You see I can't just let a rookie wielder going around doing who knows what with a Keyblade, so I can't just let you go without being sure that you can properly wield it."

For a moment I thought the worst.

"So I'm gonna make sure you can."

I could see Aqua had honest smile and Terra having a wide grin, they apparently knew what was next I myself have an idea thought I believe it too good to be true.

"That said would you like to become my pupil along Terra and Aqua?"

"Sir i-i-I c-couldn't p-possibly deserve such an h-honor I-"

"Not at all, it is my duty as Keyblade master to teach the next generation of wielders how to properly use the Keyblade, I can only hope you to head my words as I did my master's"

"Sir…I won't disappoint you sir!" I said feeling… is this determination?

"That's Master-actually we should introduce each other, a formal one I mean"

"I'm Terra, nice to meet you" now taking a good look at Terra he had slightly tanned skin blue eyes and was wearing a black T-shirt with a red design on it, with a pair of cargo shorts, and brown combat boots.

"I'm Aqua, pleased to meet you" having a good look now I can say without shame that Aqua is rather beautiful and elegant looking, and I meant no hidden meaning, if you can't acknowledge this then you are simply blind, with porcelain colored skin and those deep blue eyes that make a pretty good match with her navy blue blouse and black shorts with silver combat boots and black stockings that reach about halfway up her thighs, she was simply stunning.

"My somebody used to be called Nared, so I been calling myself that for some time, but giving it a thought I come to realize that I'm not him, I share his ambitions but I'm not an exact copy of him, so…"

"Please call me Xander; I hope we can get along"i said while bowing a little, thinking about it, I think haven't give a description of myself at all, well simply put as of right now, I'm wearing a black hooded coat, below it I have black T-shirt with the symbol of the kingdom Key Keychain in it, with black pants, black gauntlets and black combat boots, I was pale, with messy black hair, and silver eyes.

"My name is Eraqus and from tomorrow and forward I will be your master, , now, Aqua, Terra why don't you give your new classmate a tour around the castle" my new master said as Terra and Aqua show me the way to the castle.

-KH-

Pov: Eraqus

I wonder thought, do you really had no heart at all, could they had mistaken I wonder.

While you lack heart, or more like full one, I can still feel it, it's difficult practically nonexistence and yet there is indeed a piece of heart, my new pupil might not remain a "nobody" as he calls it forever.