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So, this is a story about Organization XIII. The Story is titled XXVIII, pronounced like the number 28. The story takes place five or so years before the start of Kingdom Hearts I.
"What the hell were those things?" Muriel shouted cautiously as she ran back to the other three, carefully stowing the wooden sword in her hand-sown sash which hung pathetically from her lacy belt. The four girls exchanged mutual looks of confusion; clearly desperate for an explanation for what had just happened.
"Well if there were four of them showing up, I'm definitely not hanging around to let more of them ambush us!" Arlene exclaimed as she started off down the moonlit trail. Her tightly pulled blond hair was shining brightly; illuminated by the full moon.
The other three girls followed her lead, as they often did. Their paces increased, as did the paranoia. Their eyes were darting back and forth searching for traces of movement in the greenery besides them. Their legs moved automatically forward; having taken the path dozens of times before. The trio eventually caught up to Arlene. Muriel was gripping her wooden sword so tightly that the sweat built up around her fist. "What do you think those things were?" Muriel asked again, breaking the sound of dirt muffled footsteps with her second attempt of making sense of this incident.
"Not human" asserted Agatha; clearly shaken by their encounter.
"Well, duh Aggy," Arlene retorted condescendingly, "I don't think those thinks were ready to be striking up conversation".
"How did they do that?" shouted Bethany, "They just rose up out of the ground!" They neared their home, as the dirt paths tapered into cobblestone and the nearby streetlamps flickered into dim existence.
"We should have know better than to go into that cave!" Muriel said sternly through her steady breathing.
"It wasn't my idea!" Aggy quickly responded, "Apollo told me about it in class! He said that there was weird cave behind the abandoned warehouse! He said he lived nearby and he had heard something weird going on back there! He said he was going to check it out after school that day!""It didn't strike you as dangerous when he didn't show up to class for the next three days?" Bethany pushed, wishing she had known these details before embarking on her foolish adventure.
"What if he was hurt?" Aggy responded "What if those same things that attacked us got to him? What if-"Aggy was quickly cut off by Arlene's abrupt halt in motion. Muriel was surprised and stumbled under the distinctly risen stones beneath her feet."What is it Arlene?" Bethany asked, suddenly reducing her speech to a whisper.
"I saw something move." Arlene proclaimed sternly as she pointed towards one of the many golden square buildings draped in loose vines. "Hey!" she shouted, "I know someone's back there, so come out or else I'll make you come out!"
"What if its not a person?" spouted Muriel "What if its one of those black creatures?" A trash can rattled in the direction Arlene had shouted. Bethany, Muriel, and Agatha gathered uniformly behind the steadfast Arlene who stood her ground despite possibly being assaulted again." Out of the shadows stepped a young boy. He was about their age, and had spiky forest green hair with a shambled looking outfit. He was quickly illuminated by the off-white bulb that stood a few feet away.
"Aiden?" Bethany said, taken aback by the appearance of a familiar face. She pushed her limey green locks out of her face and stepped in front of Arlene. "What are you doing here?""Sorry," Aiden started embarrassedly, "This is my house. I was taking some old boxes out of my garage into the back alley when I heard someone shouting. I thought I recognized a voice."
"Then why didn't you step out earlier?" Aggy interjected, "You nearly gave me a massive coronary!" "I said I was sorry!" Aiden replied, clearly remorsefully upset for the aberration he was getting from Arlene and Aggy."How do you know him, Bethany?" Arlene asked loudly as she made a full one-eighty to face her friend.
"What?" Bethany said astonished, "He's a friend of a friend. His friend Natalie is in my gym class." "What were you guys talking about?" Aiden started as attention swiftly focused back on him, "Some kid disappeared?" "Yeah." Aggy recounted, "This guy Apollo told me about a mysterious cave that wasn't far from where he lived. He said he'd heard weird sounds coming from it lately, so he told me he was going to check it out that night. I didn't think much of it until he didn't show up to school the next day. I didn't want to scare you guys, so I told you that I saw the cave when I was skateboarding back there. So tonight Muriel, Bethany, Arlene, and me went into the cave. It seemed shallow and ordinary at first and there was no sign of Apollo. The suddenly the entire cave turned pitch black.""Its not my fault the flashlight broke!" Muriel interrupted, "It just died!""Yeah, I know." Aggy continued, "Anyway, the cave was pitch black, we groped our way back to the entrance. Then suddenly, the earth started to shake! The darkness from the shadows of the trees above us stretched. You're probably not going to believe us, but these small black… things came up from the flat ground in front of us. There were four of them. One jumped right onto of Bethany." Bethany flushed in embarrassment, but it was too dark for anyone to see. Aggy kept recounting their story. "Lucky for her, Muriel whipped out her wooden sword and hit it. After a few hits from Muriel they all sort of… faded into smoke."
"Yeah, who knew the wallflower had it in her?" sneered Arlene.
"Shut up!" Muriel retorted impulsively. "I took kendo for 3 years!" She pushed her curly silver hair out of her naturally chubby face
"You're saying these creatures rose up out of the ground and exploded into smoke?" Aiden asked sounding astonished, "What did they look like?""They had small round heads with beady yellow eyes." Bethany began, "The had stubby little arms and legs, but they could jump like six feet in the air! And they had these gross antenna!""Antennae!" corrected Muriel."Sure." answered Bethany blandly "They weren't like any animal I'd ever seen! One jumped on me and I didn't hear a sound coming from it, or a heartbeat or anything!""Yeah, I never wanna see one of those things ever again" Aggy exclaimed with disgust.
"Then I'm afraid you will be surely disappointed." came a monotone voice suddenly from nowhere. At that moment, an orb of pure black rose from the cobbled ground like a rounded pillar and stopped about seven feet in the air. All five were taken aback by this sudden event and Muriel let out a deep gasp. A tall figure stepped out of the pillar, which hover ominously in the air behind him. The figure wore a jet black coat. He took another step, which brightened his icy blue hair and shined down on his indistinguishable "X" shaped scar on across his face.
The five were stricken with surprise and fear which prevented any movement. They all stared at the figure who stood sentinel in front of them. Again shadows of the buildings around them stretched and small flat figures materialized only a few feet from them. The same black creatures from earlier began to rise. This time there were a dozen. Or maybe two dozen. They surrounded them from all sides.
Given a sudden burst of courage, Arlene jumped back and swiped the wooden sword from the frozen Muriel's sash; knocking the helpless girl to the ground. With a grunt of rage, she began to swing the sword vigorously at the creatures to their left. Arlene was far outnumbered. Within seconds, the sword has fallen out of her hands and out of sight; hidden by the blackness of the shadowed creatures. The creatures closed in. Bethany watched in horror and several tackled Arlene to the ground. She too was lost in the blackness of the ferocious beings to her feet.
"Help!" shouted Muriel as several of the creatures grabbed her ankles. Aggy spun to help, but she too was engulfed in the shadows until she and Muriel were erased from sight. Before she knew what happened, Bethany was flat on her stomach, a heavy force pinning her to the grainy stone. She turned her head slightly and saw Aiden facing her, who slowly became invisible and faded out of view. She lifted her head up, suffocated by the heavy force. She saw the figure with the icy hair standing emotionless where he had emerged moments before. Bethany no longer saw anything. She was swallowed by the darkness. The liquidity of the shadows drowned her as she slowly lost consciousness
"Consider yourselves lucky." said the monotone voice.