Part 1
Everyone warped into the meeting room, just like they would on any other day. However, this wasn't like any other day.
"Any announcements for today's meeting?" The Superior asked. I wasn't surprised when Xigbar shot up his hand, because I was the one who had the announcement.
"Zexion has one!" he yelled. I sighed, making it apparent that I did have something to say.
"What is your announcement, Zexion?" Xemnas asked me.
"It seems I found another strong-willed nobody." I told him. The room was quiet for about ten seconds before Xemnas spoke again.
"Bring him here." Xemnas asked.
"Actually, it's a girl." I replied. When I brought her into the room, some of the members laughed. The ones who were laughing were Xigbar, Xaldin, Vexen, Luxord, and Larxene. The rest stayed quiet. The nobody looked no older than Roxas, and she was just about as tall. She had blue eyes and straight long white hair. I couldn't see what was so funny.
"I don't think she'll last two weeks here!" Larxene said, trying to stifle her laughter.
"I bet you she won't even last two days!" Luxord laughed off.
"SILENCE!" Xemnas shouted. With that said, the room was quiet once again. "I see nothing wrong with our new member. We shall just see what develops." After that, I got stuck "babysitting" as Axel put it.
I showed her everything in the castle, Vexen's lab, Marluxia's greenhouse, Saїx's training room, and all of the other stuff. What I had noticed was that all throughout my "tour", she wouldn't say a word. She was just following me with an absent-minded look. It wasn't until we came to her room that she finally said something.
"Umm, thank you." She said, with a smile, but she was looking down. "Umm, in case you've been wondering, my name is Xunakiy." When she was about to close the door, I suddenly remembered something. It was something I thought I would never say.
"I forgot to show you something!" I said as I stopped her door. "We have a library, if you want, you can come with me to read some books."
"I'd love to." She replied, with a friendly smile. I was really surprised she wanted to see my library. When I tried to invite the other members, they all turned me down.
"Here we are." I declared. She looked around and started twirling around the room.
"This is the largest library I've ever seen! And you're the only one who comes here?" She looked really happy when she said that but she suddenly hit her head on a ladder and fell to the floor. I didn't know anyone could be that clumsy.
While I sat on the nearest chair and pondered my thoughts, Xunakiy quickly got up and stacked books on the table where I was.
"Would you mind if we read these?" She asked me.
"Sure, why not?" The books all had dust on them, as if no one had touched them in decades. All of the books were of different topics but it seemed they revolved around a certain world. Xunakiy explained that the world that they all had reference to was her home world. They were actually pretty interesting. We were reading so much that when I finally checked what time it was, it read 11:15. Xunakiy's reaction was very funny…
"AAAAHHHHHH!! I MADE YOU STAY UP! IF YOU FAIL A MISSION BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GET ENOUGH SLEEP, YOU'LL GET IN TROUBLE WITH YOUR LEADER AND I'LL HAVE RUINED YOUR LIFE!!" Xunakiy was screaming and waving her arms around frantically. It wasn't until she tripped over a chair that she stopped.
"Are you alright?" I tried asking. But instead she got up, bowed, and ran to her room. I supposed that if it was this late, Xunakiy must've gone to sleep. And I realized that I should get some sleep too.
The next morning, I was woken up in a weird way. The first thing I heard was Xunakiy's voice yelling for me to get out of bed.
"O, Zexion! Time to get up!"
"What if I don't want to?"
"Then I'll make you!"
"How!?"
The next thing I know, my pillow is slipped out from underneath me and I'm being hit many times. Also, I start to see feathers flying.
"CUT IT OUT! I'M UP ALREADY!"
"Nice pajamas."
"Get out of here!"
"Okay!"
Xunakiy explained that Xemnas wanted me to take Xunakiy to Saїx's training room so I could teach her how to fight. Sure enough, Saїx was waiting for us.
"So, when do I get my weapon?"
"You will get your weapon when you need it. I'll be on top of that balcony, observing your battle." With that said, he warped to the balcony. "You may begin."
I was surprised Xunakiy attacked first, but not with a weapon. She attacked with martial arts. She started running at me and tried to hit me with a kick from the side. Before she could hit me, I held her ankle as it was about to hit my face. But then she twisted in the air, and hit me with her other leg. I was amazed at how well she could fight without a weapon, but I wasn't the only one. When I looked at Saїx, he wore an astonished look on his face. I was the one who was supposed to attack her, not the other way around.
I wasn't going to let her get the best of me, so I got my book out, and sent a few pages after her. Once again, she amazed me. She jumped elegantly, making a few twists in the air, as if she was a ballet dancer. Her actions reminded me of Marluxia-graceful, but deadly.
I had to land a hit on her, even if this was a practice battle. I was going to use one of my better attacks: a whirlwind of pages.
"There is no way you can dodge this!" I yelled. I felt pretty bad when I saw it coming at her. She was practically frozen with fear.
"HOLY CRAP!" Xunakiy was yelling as the flurry of papers was hitting her.
"Number VI! You shouldn't have gone that far!" I heard Saїx yelling. I think he wanted to say more, but he was cut off as my whirlwind dissipated, leaving behind Xunakiy and her new weapon. But I wondered why her weapon was a bullhorn attached with a built-in microphone.
"Wow! I finally got my weapon!" Xunakiy was obviously okay with her weapon. "I wonder what it does though." She spoke into it, and for some reason, music notes flew out of nowhere to attack me. The notes were as fast as Xigbar's bullets.
I was about to counterattack, but Saїx warped behind me and nearly bent back my arm. "That's enough out of you. The Superior wouldn't want you to kill our new member on her second day." Then he let me go. "This battle session is over. Number VI, you are going to stay in your room for the rest of the day."
"I'm sorry I got you in trouble, Zexion." I heard Xunakiy call out behind me. I just ran to my room. I didn't want to walk, in case Xigbar was waiting for an opportunity to tease me, and because the castle was so big, and I didn't feel like pondering my thoughts like I usually do.
I sat in my room for half an hour, until Xunakiy walked in with two trays of food.
"Are you okay? I brought you some food."
"I'm okay."
"Does the Organization always order takeout?"
"We have to because most of the Organization uses our kitchen as one big trash can."
"They do? We should clean it up! How about tomorrow morning?"
"Tomorrow?"
"You're grounded. Remember?"
"Let's just do it when everyone else is asleep."
"Um, okay."
"So what do we do in the meantime?"
"Let's just wander the castle to not get lethargic."
"…"
"Something wrong?"
"What does lethargic mean?"
"In general, lazy, tired, etc."
"Oh, okay! But aren't you grounded?"
"As long as Saїx doesn't see us, we're okay."
"Okie dokie artichokey!"
"Artichokey?"
We started walking and nothing interesting happened, until we bumped into Demyx.
"You're the new kid right?"
"Yup!"
"What's your name?"
"Xunakiy!"
"My name is Demyx."
"Demyx sounds like a cool name!"
"You really think so?!"
"Of course!"
Demyx and Xunakiy were getting off better than I thought. But Demyx got a little out of hand later when he pulled out his sitar.
"Wanna see something cool?"
"Sure."
"Dance, Water, Dance!"
Demyx summoned his water clones and they started dancing around us. Everything was going alright, until Demyx accidentally played the wrong string, and one of the clones attacked Xunakiy. She was flailing around so much that she broke one of Demyx's sitar strings and started a flood in the hall. Axel and Roxas were in the vicinity, so they got drenched too. They kept yelling about their hair getting messed up and how much Axel was going to hurt Demyx when this was all over. Eventually the water pushed us all the way back to my room.
"I'm so gonna kill you Demyx!!" I heard Axel yell.
"Umm…maybe we can just go back to our rooms and not start a war in the hallways." Xunakiy suggested.
Everyone left without a word, but then again so did she. So that left me alone. After ten minutes, I got bored and just went back to my room to sleep.
The next morning, there was actually a blizzard, but the snow being blown in from my window wasn't what woke me up. It was actually Axel arguing with Vexen.
"Make the damn blizzard stop, you old man! You know how much I hate the cold!"
"Stop calling me old man! And I'm not the one who's doing this!"
"Liar!"
"I am not!"
Saïx, not being any friend of Axel's, convinced him that Vexen wasn't the cause of the blizzard. He refused to listen, at first, and proceeded to try ad burn Vexen, but Saïx hit him hard with his claymore. Axel was knocked out after the blow to the head. He probably had a concussion, or something like that.
"G'morning everyone!" It was none other than Xunakiy, holding trays carrying numbered mugs. "I made hot chocolate for everyone! C'mon, take one!"
She was urging everyone there to take their mug and drink what was in it. Vexen reluctantly took his mug, and took a small sip. The same reaction came from Saïx. But, both of them apparently liked it, seeing as they did bottoms-up with their mugs.
"So you like it?" Xunakiy asked nervously.
"I love it!" Vexen shouted.
"Yay! Oh, I almost forgot!" Xunakiy handed me my numbered mug.
Seeing as even Vexen and Saïx liked it, I drank it…but I forgot to blow on it.
"HOLY CRAP THIS THING IS HOT!!" I yelled.
I wasn't surprised when I heard Vexen laugh, and I wanted to trap him in my book, but my tongue was still burning painfully from the hot chocolate.
"Are you okay!? I didn't make it too hot did I!?" Xunakiy was asking me, while frantically running around me in circles. This made Vexen laugh even harder until he was rolling aroung on the floor laughing his butt off until he was coughing and clutching his stomach out of pain. This made Saix give off a smirk, but he didn't laugh, he never does.
"Okay, seeing as you two emptied out your mugs I'll be going to the kitchen with them and filling them up again." Xunakiy said cheerfully. Which reminded me that I forgot to help her clean up the kitchen.
Saix and Vexen, still on the floor, looked puzzled. Vexen stood up and started walking in the direction of what used to be a trash heap. I think he was going to see what Xunakiy did to improve the kitchen, but someone else beat him to it. This was evident as we heard someone yelling from the same direction.
"WHO CLEANED UP MONTHS OF DECAY IN ONLY ONE DAY!?"
We all realized that that was Larxene yelling. And so, everyone, not only Me, Vexen and Saix, but everyone in the castle rushed to the kitchen. Everyone's jaw dropped. It was what everyone, except me, called "squeaky clean". It was exactly how it was before everyone used it as a trash can, with a bonus rice cooker.
"Surprised with what I did?" Xunakiy was saying behind us.
"The newbie cleaned it up!?" Larxene said with a confused face.
"The 'newbie' has a name." I protested.
"And it's Xunakiy!" Xunakiy said with glee. "Everyone! Grab your mugs!"
Everyone just stayed where they were, so Xunakiy wlked over and handed everyone their hot chocolate. Not surprisingly, everyone liked it.
When the castle started getting very cold as a result of the blizzard, Xemnas chose me and Xunakiy to investigate it. Xemnas said he chose us because the rest of the Organization, except Vexen, was coming down with a cold.
"Would this be my first mission, Zexion?"
"You can say that."
"What was your first mission like?"
"To tell you the truth, I don't remember."
"Why?"
"Maybe it's because I've been in the Organization for so long. It's funy how I usually ponder my thoughts in my spare time but still don't remember anything like that."
"So, where do we find the cause of this blizzard?"
"I don't know. Besides that's the reason why Xemnas sent us on a mission."
I thought we didn't have to look so much seeing as The World that Never Was, only consisted of the castle and the city next to it. But, seeing as the icy wind was hard to see through, it seemed as if we were walking in circles.
"How long have we been walking, Zexion?"
"I don't know."
"Do you think we'll ever find the source of the blizzard?"
"I don't know."
"Well, let's just stay positive!"
The way Xunakiy said made me feel…warm, inside. Hopefully I wasn't blushing at the time.
Fortunately, we didn't have to look far for the source of the blizzard. When we came to Memory's Skyscraper, we found it. An obese blue heartless with a rod of ice. Unfortunately, it had dozens of Blue Rhapsodies and Icy Cubes surrounding it and ready to attack.
"That thing, is a heartless, right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, it looks easy to beat!"
"Most of the heartless do, but usually they're not."
"Oh. Time for my debut!"
"What?"
"After cleaning up the kitchen this morning, I practiced with my microphone!"
With those words, we both took out our weapons: my lexicon, and her microphone. Almost immediately, the heartless attacked us. It was hard to move what with the snow being knee-high. It was a good thing we were both long-range attackers. And since Xunakiy had to speak into her microphone for it to work, she had to constantly yell out things.
"Take that! And that! Hey! Stop dodging!"
"Xunakiy, seeing as you still need to work on your fighting, I'll go ahead and handle the big one."
"Okay! AAAHHH! GET AWAY FROM ME!"
I took a big leap over all the smaller heartless and headed for the "boss".
"Okay, time to finish thi—what the!?"
Several Blue Rhapsodies had frozen my legs, my torso, and my left arm. The only parts of my body that were free were my head and my right arm where I was holding my book.
"Great, I'm a human popsicle. Now I know what Axel feels like."
"Zexion! Get away from him you creeps!"
Luckily, Xunakiy was there, and she blasted all of them away from me. She hurried to my side and tried to unfreeze me by yelling out tongue-twisters.
"A tutor who tooted a fruit tried to tutor two doodoos to toot! Okay, that didn't work. Um, oh yeah! How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood! Crap! That one didn't work!"
"Would you be able to finish this one by yourself?"
"I'll try."
For some reason, I was getting tired, maybe the cold was finally getting to me. I kept urging to myself to wake up while I was trying to keep an eye on Xunakiy. But, after a few minutes, I blacked out.
I woke up, lying on my bed. But, I didn't expect to find Xunakiy in my room with me.
"Good afternoon, Zexion!"
"Xunakiy?"
"The one and only!"
"How did you defeat all of the heartless?"
"Oh! I transfromed my microphone into a mike-stand, and then my music notes increased in strength ten-fold! So it was easy as pie to defeat all of them! Unfortunately, I must've fallen asleep due to all the power it took to actually just transform the thing."
"I suck."
"Eh!?"
"I let you down on your first mission, and I left you to fend for yourself. Face it, I suck."
"No you don't!"
"Huh?"
"Everyone has their bad days! Today was one, but it'll get better from here on out! At least until today ends."
Xunakiy had a warm smile that almost made me forget I had a fever. Wait—a fever?
"Unnh."
"Zexion, are you feeling alright?"
"I don't think so."
"Are you burning up?" With those words, Xunakiy held her hand to my forehead. Her face was so close to mine that I was blushing. But I shouldn't blush, right?
"Oh my gosh! You are burning! You need warm milk with honey!"
"Warm milk with honey?"
"It can help you feel as good as new! But you need to wait at least half an hour, because I need to fix some for everybody else first. So you need to rest during the meantime, okay?"
"Sure."
And Xunakiy walked out of the room. It took ten minutes, but I fell asleep…only to be woken up later by Axel and Xunakiy's yelling. And from the sound of things, Xunakiy was chasing Axel.
"YOU CAN'T MAKE ME DRINK THAT!"
"YOU'LL DRINK IT AND YOU'LL LIKE IT!"
"NO FLIPPIN' WAY!"
The sound of running stopped shortly after.
"There is no way you are making me drink that."
"Shut up and eat it."
"…"
"DID YOU HEAR ME!? I SAID 'DRINK IT' DAMN YOU!"
"Hell no!"
Then it was silent for about five minutes, then the process repeated with Xigbar. Another five minutes later, she came into my room with a steaming mug.
"Sorry for the delay. I had to force this down their mouths, since they weren't going to drink it willingly."
"Does it taste good?"
"Of course it does!"
"Did you tell Axel and Xigbar that?"
"Eh heh heh heh. No."
"No wonder they were yelling."
"Enough about that, you drink yours!"
"Um, okay."
I took a sip, and thank god it was warm, instead of hot like earlier today. It actually did taste better than I expected. And my head was clearing up.
"So, how do you feel?"
"You know what?"
"What?"
"I'm feeling better already."
I think that was one of the first times I ever smiled.
