I woke up dazed and confused. My head thumped with wave upon wave of pain, it was as if the pain was in sync with the beating of my heart. My hand went to my temples to try and ease the pain. I knew it wouldn't stop the pain or make it better, but it was just a reaction I guess. I checked my surroundings…there was nothing, absolutely nothing! There wasn't a ground or a sky it was just a vast endless expansion of nothingness. I can't say that I wasn't scared, but I had an overwhelming feeling of helplessness and dread. I began to panic in my confusion. I ran from one place to another, but there was nothing to see nothing at all, no town or person…nothing. I sank to the ground hoping that it was some twisted dream, some unworldly delusion created by my imagination. Out of nowhere manifested a ball of light. In an instant my panic and the pain from my head dissipated, my mind was clear and I neared the orb of light. The curious little thing drew me in, but there was no alarm to it, nothing that indicated danger. It flashed a few times and I covered my eyes from the bright light. The curious little light was gone, but replaced with a mouse. I can tell it was a hologram...it didn't take a genius to figure that out. He spoke.
"Why hello!"
If I said that I was confused before, well now I was just down right baffled
"W-what??"
I mean how can a mouse talk??
"I said hello"
I came to a conclusion that this just had to be a dream, so I played along
"H-hello…"
"I've never seen you around, what's your name?"
I think I said:
"Kurai"
My head started to spin
"So your name is Kurai? I'm Mickey, Mickey Mouse!"
I didn't know where that name came from, but it just popped into my head, and I blurted it out. A dark realization came to me, one I hadn't thought about before
"Who am I…"
The mouse looked at me quizzically
"..but you just told me your name"
I sat on the floor once again, and I felt a sinking feeling inside of me.
"Who am I…where am I...what am I doing here!?"
I felt if I didn't get any answers I would surely go insane. My memory was void of anything…I had no past, as if I was a new born fledgling. Terrified and utterly helpless I ran my hands through my hair. It was short and silky, it was tied into a small high ponytail. I had a long red bang fall on each side of my face. I looked at my feet, then my legs. I was wearing black and white polka dotted shoes, and some snug jeans. I stood up and noticed I had on a studded belt, a plain black large hoodie and a tight black shirt on. I looked at my hands, and lifted the sleeves of the hoodie. My skin was a magnificent light tan-ish color…is this was really me, but then again who am I? Mickey kept looking at me strangely, then got serious
"You're not kidding are you?"
I shook my head and had to ask again.
"Where am I?"
"You are in the world in between the darkness and light-"
"What do you mean?...how did I get here?"
"The only way someone can come here is if they, themselves, don't know which path to follow…to be consumed by darkness or to be in the light."
"I want to be any where-any where but here..in this nothingness"
"I understand…oh and beware of the ones in black cloaks, they're bad news."
There was one more bright flash of light that caused me to shield my eyes again. When I opened my eyes and put my hands to my side again I saw that Mickey turned back into an orb of light then vanished. I looked at my new surroundings. This place was as colorless as the realm in-between light and dark.
Everything was white, it was pretty creepy. How can something be so…so white and spotless. Creepy was a fitting word. At that moment I felt the same vulnerability as before. I wanted to sit against the wall, or go back to the nothingness that resembled me. I heard a door open on the far side of the huge hall. Someone emerged, I gasped because it was one of the cloaked guys Mickey warned about. I swiftly and gracefully hid behind a column. I head the fiend's footsteps grow closer and come to a halt in front of the column I was behind. An alien voice came from him.
"I could have sworn I saw her here just now…"
I was sure he had found me and was just toying with me. I looked from behind the column, he was facing away from me, good, I thought. I snuck up from behind, quaintly not making a single sound and grabber the strings that were in his hooded cloak. I yanked them from behind causing the hood to fall off. I wrapped the strings around his neck, although I had to be careful from the spiky mane of red hair that threatened to poke an eye out. I choked him into submission. I kneed the back of his knees causing him to fall, as I kneeled still tightening the strings on his neck. I whispered threateningly in his ear.
"You are going to answer me some questions, and if you don't I'll kill you. If you try and run I will kill you, and if you don't cooperate I will kill you, so be a good boy and do what I say…got it?"
He struggled a bit, but it just brought more pain upon him. I kneed his back
"I'm not playing here!"
He grunted stopped his fussing.
"I'm going to let go, and when I do you stay put"
I let go of his strings and stood up behind him. He stayed sitting on the floor, just as instructed. I stayed behind him, to conceal myself from his gaze.
"Now, where is this place?"
With a growl he was reluctant to answer.
"This is Castle Oblivion."
"Who are you?"
"I'm Axel. A-X-E-L, got it memorized?"
"Yeah I'll keep that in mind." --'
"I'm also called number VIII, or the Flurry or Dancing Flames…"
"Geeze, how many names do you have?! …wait, number eight? there are more of you guys?"
"Yes.."
"…well go on…"
"I am a part of Org. XIII, we seek only to find our hearts…"
"You don't have a heart?"
"No, none of us do."
I was intrigued now and wanted to learn more. I moved to be in front of him and looked down upon him as he looked up at me. He had radiant green eyes and curious little triangle things under each eye. He looked me up and down with a smirk it caused me to frown a bit
"Stand."
He did, and was taller than I was, about five inches or so. He looked me up and down again this time causing me to blush a bit, I regained my composure and continued
"What are you?"
"I'm a Nobody, babe."
He was talking flirtatiously and I poked him in the chest.
"Don't play your little games with me, what do you mean a Nobody?"
"When a person is made into a heartless they get their hearts taken away, they become heartless, but I am what was left. The hollow shell that willed it's self to live."
"…I see…"
"So what are you doing here?"
"I'm the one asking questions around here."
"Geeze, you sure are a feisty girl."
"…what ever, so how the hell do I get out of here?"
"You don't."
He was beginning to get on my nerves
"What do you mean I don't?!"
"You have to go forward to go back."
A sudden urgency hit me
"I-I don't want to go back into that colorless hell! I just want to get out of here!"
"I'm sorry, babe, that's not gonna happen."
In a fraction of a second he summoned two circular spiky weapons and drove one into my gut. It caught me completely by surprise, but I wasn't going easily without putting up a fight. I punched him square in the face, although even the slightest movement caused a shot of pain to ring out from my wounded stomach. Despite the pain I kicked and punched at him with all my force. He stumbled back a bit, then there was a wall of flames that surrounded us. The eerie beauty of the blaze took my breath away. As I stood there dumbstruck, admiring the enchanting fire there was a sharp pain that admitted from my back. It sent a pulse of pain throughout my body. When it traveled up my spine, into my cranium and finally hit my eyes they rolled back and everything was dark. I heard myself fall limb on the floor. The only thing I could feel was the intense, almost unbearable pain in my back and the terrible thumping of the migraine that pounded behind my eyelids. I heard Axel whisper an apology, then nothing.
I opened my eyes, but the world around me seemed fuzzy and unclear. I was in a laboratory like place. There were computers and people around me, staring at me.
"Where am I??"
It looked as if they didn't hear me.
"Where am I!!"
They still didn't seem to hear. I lifted a hand and walked a pace forward. My hand touched a pain of glass. My hands shuffled over the surface of the glass, I was completely encased. It was five feet in diameter, but it still, for the first time I felt closter phobic. I turned in a complete circle I was in a tube, sheathed like a lab rat!! I shot backwards and slammed against the wall of glass. I was trembling so violently my legs could hardly hold me up. My mind was racing and I was utterly confused. Despite my shaking legs I stood up and pounded on the glass. one of the scientist persons looked curiously at me. He had silver hair, tan skin and orange eyes. (we all know who that is!! D) he was wearing a lab coat, just like the few others that were manning the computers. He pressed a few keys on a board and I could hear him.
"Calm down, girl"
He spoke in an apathetic voice. I didn't like him all ready. I figured if I could hear him, then he could hear me now too.
"Where am I, who are you….wh-who am I? ...what are you going to do with me!?"
I looked down and there were some ant-like creatures that popped up from the ground, these things looked as if they were made out of pure darkness. I looked up at him pleadingly. A smirk came onto his features. I kept repeating the same thing over and over in my head, what the hell's going on!!
"Heh, first of all I am Xehanort, you are in my laboratory at Radiant Gardens. You however, are merely an experiment-"
"w-what are you going to do to me…"
My body began its small spasms again. He chuckled and pressed a button.
"Wait-NO!!"
I knew it was no use, I knew he couldn't hear me any more. Rage filled me as I repeatedly hit the glass with all of my might. Xehanort laughed from behind it, then made a gesture of some sort. The ant things jumped up on me, I struggled to throw them off, but their numbers increased and it got harder to fight. They clawed at me, and clung to my limbs, I collapsed from the weight of their numbers. Although they had little bodies the sheer size of the group completely submerged me in darkness. I felt plunged into it and saw a glow..a pink glow. As I looked at this baffled I realized that what I was staring at was my heart! I sat up with my legs criss-crossed and panting, I was covered in a cold sweat. A shot of pain surfaced from my stomach and back. I winced and held a hand over the wounded area. Once the pain subsided I thought out loud.
"…it was only a dream?"
I sighed with relief.
"……or…was it…a memory?"
I calmed down, realizing that it was, hopefully a dream and looked around from where I was at. I was sitting on a comfortably soft bed in a dim room. The only light came from the luminescent moon outside a huge window. I stared in awe at the deformed heart-shaped moon. I was completely enchanted by it's beauty. I heard distant footfall heading this way. As I tried to jump out of the bed my feet got tangled in the sheet that earlier covered me. I fell out of the bed making my wounds hurt drastically. I heard that not only one, but two people heading this way.
"Shit!"
I clumsily got up and immediately felt the cold air on my torso, I looked down upon my self to find that I was just wearing my pants and a black sports bra, my whole stomach was wrapped in bandages.
"That guy better not have been the one to do this!!"
I heard them stop in front of the door. The crack of light from under the door was obstructed by two sets of feet.
