'You gotta figure, everything starts someplace. The closest thing for me is when I was just seven days old, and I met her.'
Day 7
The World That Never Was, inhabited by the strongest of the nobodies, and multitudes of mindless heartless. The dim light of the Castle That Never Was, named after its home world, stood like a metallic fortress, floating above dark buildings and even darker trees, and world who's only light came from the castle and the many neon signs attatched to buildings...
Roxas awoke slowly, blue orbs opening and blinking; He was in the castle, he realized. In a small movement, he swung his legs over the side of the bed, large black boots mking dull contact with what resembled less a floor and more of the inside of a spaceship. Today was making his debut as Number XIII, the last member of Organization XIII. They recruited him, he was told, becaus he had a strong heart, thus a nobody was born. He exited his room without so much as a sound, strolling down glass-like stairs with a bored look on his face. He saw a open doorway, which he remebered to be the Grey Area, where he was supposed to meet someone named 'Xigbar', who ever that was...
Strolling in, he looked around. It appeared to be a plain living room, with a couch, chairs and a table on one side, and just some chairs and a table on the other, colored in boring metallic greys, blues, and whites, adding to the sense of this being more of a prison, and less of a home. His eyes met with a man with fiery red hair, sitting on a couch, and then a digusted woman with cropped yellow-blond hair resting in a chair. He saw...what was his name? Oh yeah, Saix, the man with blue hair who gave out missions; Xemnas explained this in his tour of the castle. Then he saw a man with a grey and black striped ponytail, who leaned up against the massive window, arms crossed and a indifferent look on his scarred face; His gold orb wandered over and locked in place with Roxas'.
"Yo Roxas, how's it goin'?" The man greeted him with a strange grin of white fangs.
Roxas looked down, keeping his mouth shut.
"Not much of a chatterbox are we, kid?" The man chuckled."Name's Xigbar, and unfortunately, we got a borin' old meetin' in the Round Room..."
The man huffed, and frowned, scratching the nape of his neck as Roxas attempted to process the information.
"Round...Room..?" Roxas finally stated, blue orbs laced with confusion and ignorance.
"Yep, and we better get a move on. Apparently Mr. Boss man's got some big news. Wanna head over there now?"
"Okay..." Roxas breathed quietly.
"Alrighty then, follow me kiddo." Xigbar said, opening a swirling black and purple portal.
"Good tidings friends," Superior Xemnas deep baritone voice rang out, echoing throughout the round room, specifically made for the purpose of acoustics."Today is a momentous day.
I am pleased to announce that a new comrade has been chosen to wear the coat..."
Down below, a small teenagers strolled into the room with purpose, face comepletely hidden by their hood.
"Number XIV..."
Roxas stared down at the girl with a confused gaze.. Just like when he arrived...
"Let us all welcome one of the Keyblades chosen.."
That man..Xigbar, his name was, had escorted him into the Round Room, where the intersted, bored, or indeferrent faces of his superior's looked down upon him. The amber gaze of Xemnas, he remembered, was the most striking...and gapsed softly as the girl looked up at him from behind her hood.