This is set around the time of castle Oblivion. The mood varies from chapter to chapter. It may take a lighter approach on some matters and a serious approach on others. Another note is that in this chapter Vexen is referred to as Even by Xemnas, if you didn't already know, Even is the name of Vexen's somebody. Another note is like Vexen most characters are referred to as their real names by Xemnas and it is not in the eyes of one member, it will change from time to time. Another note: (So many) This is mainly all fiction and hardly any of it happens in 358/2 days. Well the deep storyline is the same, except things are changed a little bit.


Stories of the World That Never Was
Chapter 1
a Dramatic Turn of Events

It was late. Everyone in the Castle was asleep. All apart from two. A red haired man walked along the darkened corridors of the castle. He turned round the cold corners, as he normally did to find his room. He was wondering around the top floor of the castle. His bedroom was allocated half way between the top and bottom. He turned another corner and was met by a flight of stairs. He hurried down the stairs and found himself in a rather cold environment. The castle was normally cold, but never as cold as this. The man stopped and looked left. There was a large doorway. He pushed the doors open and entered a large room, it was dark and was lit by the white floors from above.

For some reason the man did not move as he entered the room. Instead he froze and scanned the room, there were unfamiliar shadows lurking all around him. There was an odd looking shadow in the right hand corner. The red haired man headed towards the exit to the room, not liking the atmosphere. But he was once again frozen to the spot of the clapping sound, coming from where he had just looked. It was slow clapping and went on for around a minute. The man did not turn his head, but what he did do was odd. He looked down at the ground and saw a shadow approaching, it would seem the clapping came from a different part of the room and this shadow had made its way behind the man whilst clapping.

"What a surprise! Axel..." The voice said from behind the man. The man, named Axel, now tilted his head as he recognized the voice.
"Xaldin..." Axel said slowly. He was met by more clapping. Xaldin, the now named shadow, made his way in front of Axel.
"Looks like your ears are working..." He said in his low voice. Axel looked up and looked straight into the face of Xaldin. There was silence until Axel tried to push past Xaldin. Xaldin pushed him back to where he was standing. "Don't try to push past me; I'm just here to deliver a message..." Axel was silent.
"Don't you wanna know what the message is?" Xaldin asked, once again breaking the silence. Axel nodded slightly. "You're to see Lord Xemnas and Saix tomorrow first thing..." And with that Xaldin was gone. He had created a black portal like thing and he stepped inside. It closed straight after and Axel was left alone.

Axel exited the room and headed down another flight of stairs. He remained silent throughout the whole journey, thinking over what Lord Xemnas would want with Axel. It was a good half an hour before Axel got to his room. It was cold as usual. He paused before he entered and thought again. 'What's wrong Axel? The boss man wants to see you and our worried? Just go with it! You never know it could be good!' He nodded and decided he was worrying too much. He closed the large door behind him as he went to the bed which lied by the window. Before he sat on the bed, he looked out his window. Looking down on the town, it was so dark and silent...Like a ghost town would be.
"What am I doing?" He asked himself. He turned away from the window and lied on his bed. He soon fell asleep...But he was also awakened soon after that.

"Saix...Awaken Axel" Xemnas ordered as he sat in his throne. Saix nodded and disappeared into a black portal. Xemnas crossed his legs and closed his eyes. "This should turn out to be interesting" Xemnas awaited the return of Saix, but as he did so he was met by another member. A member of the organization. There was a black portal that appeared lower down in the throne room. It was a scientist. Organization member no. IV...Vexen.
"Lord Xemnas, it's ready" Vexen told him with a hint of excitement in his voice. Xemnas smirked and nodded.
"Good Even..." Xemnas told him, outstretching a hand. "You know what to do" Vexen nodded and used a portal to exit the room. As Vexen left Saix returned, and opposite him sat Axel. Xemnas drew back his hand slowly and turned to face Axel. Also meeting Axel's eyes was Saix.

"Axel...I'm sending you away..." Xemnas told him. Axel jumped forward, nearly falling out of his throne.
"Sending me where? You can-" Axel was interrupted by Saix.
"Lord Xemnas will get to that later" Saix told him, giving him an icy stare. Axel stared back with a look of shock running through him. He was silent and slumped back into his throne. Xemnas waved his hand at Saix, signaling he should stay quiet.
"You're going away because I have a task in which only you can perform. Axel, you will be my eyes and ears when you travel to Castle Oblivion with some others. In other words you'll be my-" Xemnas started.
"Spy?" Axel finished for him. Xemnas nodded slowly, not liking that term.
"Marluxia will be leading the team, we know of his plans to try and bring a downfall to Lord Xemnas...You will accompany them and act as you would if you didn't know a thing." Saix told him. Axel looked at Saix.
"Do you agree to this? Lea?" Xemnas asked. Axel looked at him.
"What choice do I have?" He answered back, fading into a portal.

A young boy now, not the youngest, but fairly young compared to some of the members, roamed down the corridors of the castle. He traveled down a flight of stairs holding onto a book. It was entitled Lexicon. He arrived at a door. He pushed it open slowly and entered. There was no-one there. It was empty. He walked into the center of the room and was stopped by a hooded figure.
"Now now, where do we think we're off to?" The man asked. The boy stayed silent and tried to get past, but whichever way he went, he was stopped over and over.
"Xigbar, move" The boy told him. Xigbar shook his head.
"That won't get you far, Zexion...Talking to your superiors like that" Xigbar told him. Zexion looked down. Xigbar referred to himself as a superior...This was because out of the thirteen members, he was number 2...And Zexion was number 6. Zexion looked up and stared at Xigbar.
"I said move!" Zexion shouted as he finally got passed Xigbar. Xigbar stepped to the side, he let the boy pass.
"Kiddo...Lighten up a bit." Xigbar shouted as Zexion walked off.

There was a strong wind up on the clock tower in Twilight Town. A blond boy sat on the ledge in the open air, eating some Sea-Salt Ice cream. He was accompanied by Axel. The blond boy stayed quiet as he sunk his teeth into the ice cream.
"This is really nice, huh?" The boy asked.
"Sure is Roxas...Sure is.." Axel didn't seem right. Something was bothering him. No...It was more than something, and Roxas had seen it.
"Axel, what's the matter?" Roxas asked, now not eating the ice cream. Axel turned to look at Roxas.
"Xemnas has ordered me to go to Castle Oblivion with the others" Roxas had heard about the 'field-trip' to Castle Oblivion. It involved Marluxia, Zexion, Larxene, Vexen, Lexaeus and now Axel.
"Why have you got to go?" Roxas asked, a silent feeling of Deja vu of the loneliness that was about to come.
"As much as I want to tell you...I'm not allowed..." Axel said rising to his feet. "Sorry Roxas" and with that Axel was gone. He had disappeared from the ledge and gone back to Castle Oblivion.

"But I don't want you to go..." Roxas said to himself. Roxas looked down at his ice cream; it was melting in the sunlight. Roxas panicked and picked it up and swallowed the remains in one. It was a bad idea. Roxas spat some of the ice cream out as it didn't taste too good melted. He pushed himself onto his feet and he looked around him. The sunset was nearly over and he had to return to the Castle. He made a portal and headed inside. As he entered there was a ruckus in the Throne room. He appeared in his seat and looked around the room. It seemed as if those who went o Castle Oblivion had already left, that included Axel.
"Everyone settle down!" Saix shouted. The room went silent. Xemnas stood up in his throne. He then opened his arms as if he was about to hug someone.
"Fellow members of the Organization...The keyblade wielder has entered out trap, he's entered Castle Oblivion!" Xemnas shouted. There was a large noise of laughter that came from the others. Roxas however, did not laugh. He had figured out why they had gone to Castle Oblivion. To eliminate the keyblade wielder. Roxas looked up at Xemnas.
"How long will those who were sent be gone?" Roxas asked. Silence once again fell upon the thrones.
"It depends...It depends if the keyblade wielder goes quietly, but I'm sure Marluxia will drag it out!" Xigbar shouted down. Saix looked sharply at Xigbar.
"We'll have none of that Xigbar!" He ordered. Xigbar slumped in his throne.
"Whatever..."

"Even with the rudeness of the interruption, Xigbar is right, it will take as long as it needs to" Xemnas answered him. Roxas shook his head and made a portal and slid into it. "Saix, after him before he does something stupid" Saix nodded and, he too, exited via portal. Roxas was running through the halls of the castle, but he was interrupted by Saix.
"Axel and the others will be fine..." Saix told him. Roxas knew he was lying. Roxas' Keyblade materialized in his hand.
"Don't lie to me Saix!" He shouted. Saix smirked.
"Your weak and pathetic Roxas...You don't have the guts to cut down a superior" Saix taunted him. Roxas bit his lip in anger.
"You wanna try me?" Roxas replied, now letting the anger speak, not Roxas. Saix shock his head.
"No...You're the only hope we have...So I'd rather not" Saix said with his eyes closed. Roxas materialized his Keyblade and looked at Saix. With one look Roxas instantly ran back up the stairs in which he had came from. Saix walked after Roxas, as if he knew he could catch up to him without even trying. Roxas on the other hand, ran for his life up to his room. He was interrupted again by Xigbar.

"Kiddo, where you going?" Xigbar asked, placing both his hands onto Roxas' shoulders.
"Let me go!" Roxas shouted, struggling to escape from his grip. Xigbar followed the boy's orders and let him slide away.
"Don't go hurting yourself kiddo..." Xigbar told Roxas as he ran off. Soon after Roxas had left Saix passed Xigbar. Xigbar turned and looked at Saix.
"Leave the kid alone Saix" Xigbar told him. Saix turned and looked at Xigbar. Giving him the same Icy stare he had given Axel hours before. Saix smirked a little.
"Do I detect emotion, Braig?"
"No, But Roxas is our only hope to achieving our goal. If you go scare the crap out of him he's hardly going to wanna help now is he? I thought you had brains Saix!" Xigbar told him with a slight bit of attitude.
"So you think..." Saix replied, the grin wiped from his face.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, before Vexen left I had him do a little experiment for me: It was a successful experiment. What we did was, we created a replica of the boy named Sora. It doesn't look like the boy, but is possesses the ability to use the keyblade. And as soon as Roxas decides his fate we will no longer need him...as we will have our little puppet doing our work for us" Saix explained.
"Double work?" Xigbar exclaimed. Saix nodded.
"Indeed"

Roxas ran up a flight of stairs, they seemed endless but Roxas didn't really care, he just wanted to escape Saix. He knew it would be impossible for tomorrow when Mission time came, Roxas would be once again, face to face with the man with blue hair. Another flight of stairs approached Roxas as he hurried through the castle. However, before Roxas could hurry up the stairs, he was stopped by a black portal, and to his knowledge, out came Saix. Saix was holding is weapon, entitled Claymore. He waved it around once so it was behind him, but it soon came infront of him again. Two Red Chakrams. They burst into flames and a voice yelled out 'Run Roxas!' Roxas followed the orders and ran past Saix, who willingly let him past.
"Lea?" Saix asked through the smoke of the now extinguished Chakrams. Axel stepped forward.
"Names Axel! A-X-E-L Got it memorized?" He said in his cocky voice. He was annoyed at Saix calling him by his old name.
"What's gotten into you Axel?" He asked. "Attempting to fight your superiors...Not like you" Axel smirked and was now holding his Chakrams.
"Screw Numbers, Doesn't mean a thing!" Axel shouted throwing his Chakrams. Saix ran to the left and then sidestepped to his right. He ran towards Axel, swinging his Claymore like a mad man. Axel re-summoned his Chakrams and back stepped a few time, dodging the attacks of Saix. Saix flipped backwards to his original position.
"I don't want to end you Axel..." Saix told him. Axel stood up straight and walked slowly towards the blue haired man.
"To bad."

Roxas left the two men behind. As he ran off he could only here the voices of them and smashing metal. He closed his eyes, and started to speed up. 'Axel...Your supposed to be at Castle Oblivion...' Roxas thought to himself as he hurried up the final flight of stairs. These stairs were entitles Stairway to Heaven mainly because they took forever to climb and worse than that they led to the final floor of the castle, which was where some of the many rooms were allocated, like Roxas'. When he finally got to the top of the stairs he was panting like a dog. He fell to his knees with lack of breath and supported himself with only his hands. He heard footsteps from behind him. He struggled to his feet and ran a bit further, only to find himself on his knee's again shortly after. He was to weak to keep running, so he dragged himself along the floor, hoping to reach his room in time. Instead a Red Ethereal Blade ended up pointing at Roxas' neck.
"Roxas your going to kill us all..." A deep voice told him. Roxas turned to see the face of the Organization's number 1. Xemnas.
"Saix..Wants me dead!" Roxas shouted back. Xemnas picked Roxas up by the neck and stood him back on his feet.
"Saix doesn't want you dead...If you were to die...We would never become whole again..." Xemnas told him. Roxas gave a confused look as he supported himself by standing up against the wall. "He simply wants you to follow orders..." Roxas summoned his keyblade and pointed it at Xemnas.
"You want to be whole again...Do it yourself" Roxas said throwing his keyblade down the stairs.

Roxas turned and walked away, but to his surprise the keyblade was summoned in his hand again. Roxas looked at the floor.
"Why me..." He said as he walked off. As he left to enter his room Xemnas shock his head.
"Because you are his Nobody..." Xemnas said, now heading back down the stairs.

Axel rolled along the floor, dodging the Claymores death like impact. He flipped up from the ground throwing his Chakrams at Saix. Saix deflected them and they burnt up into the floor.
"Give up Lea" Saix shouted over the burning of the Chakrams. Axel gave a slight smirk and wiped his mouth.
"Not yet! And my names Axel!" He bent over, crooked like. A new Chakram appeared below Axel's hands, followed by 2 more. There were 3 now. They were burning quicker, gaining more power. "BURN!" There was a explosion from where Saix was standing. After the smoke cleared Axel began to see two faces. Xemnas was infront of Saix with a shield up. The shield faded, and so did the Chakrams. Axel shock his head.
"Should have known..." Axel murmured creating a portal to lead the the Dark Corridor. Axel took one step inside and the portal vanished, leaving Saix and Xemnas standing in, the now burnt, circular stand.