The Earth Stone Dancer
CH I
A girl hooded in a long, black coat that fell down to her ankles strode down an empty street illuminated only by vibrant neon signs. She stopped and looked to the sky with two-tone eyes. Besides the tall, dark buildings, what really caught her eye was a single pale moon in the shape of a heart, Kingdom Hearts. Her view would have been perfect if there hadn't been a long, black line across the starless sky.
"Man, this hood is bugging me!" she grumbled and pulled back her hood to reveal forest green hair rolled up into two tight buns on the top of either side of her head and a single thin braid that fell over her right eye and down a couple inches past her waist. She was physically seventeen-years-old and had the figure of a dancer. Her left eye was brown and her right green. A marking the resembled a hollowed spade on the right side of her neck was exposed in the pale moonlight as she looked up again to Kingdom Hearts.
A boy with spiked blonde hair and blue eyes came around the nearby corner at a run and skidded to a stop and ended up a foot or so away from her.
"Watch it, would ya?!" she exclaimed taking a step back from the boy.
"Who are you?" the boy asked in a hard tone.
"Name's Whynexia," she replied stepping back to where she had been comfortable before this boy had practically run her over, "what's it to ya?" Looking at him, he didn't look older than maybe fourteen and she noticed for the first time that they were wearing the same thing. They both wore a long, black, hooded cloak that zipped all the way up the front, black gloves, and tall black boots.
"I'm Roxas," he said suddenly changing his attitude from semi-hostile to friendly; "you're new, correct?"
"And?" Whynexia wasn't about to trust anyone she didn't know……which was everyone at the moment. Roxas looked like he was thinking about something and fell silent for a moment.
"Why don't you come with me?" he asked after a while, out of the blue (or in this case black), "I want you to meet my friends and we can show you around." Whynexia looked at him strangely.
Is this kid serious?! She thought, disbelieving.
"Come on!" he said and before she could reply ran off the way he had come. Without much time to think about it, she ran off after him.
"Hey! Wait up!" Whynexia turned a couple corners, lucky for her there was only one way to go, and finally caught up to Roxas to find him standing on a ledge. She looked around to see if there were any other ways they could go only to find that there were none. Just a ledge leading to a dark abyss. She looked over at Roxas to see that he was looking up at something. She followed his gaze upward and found herself looking up at a monstrous white fortress simply hovering over the abyss.
"Is that where we're going by any chance?" Whynexia asked noting the huge, strange symbol that covered most of the immense wall.
"Yeah," Roxas replied and what looked like a cross between a blade and a key appeared in his hand, "watch this." He held up the elegant white weapon so that it was pointed to the fortress. As if he had pulled a trigger, a thin ray of pale blue light shot toward the base of the fortress and a path that looked to be made of a piece of glass appeared the base of the castle to their feet.
"Is there anything holding this thing up?" Whynexia asked in a worried tone as Roxas stepped on to the path.
"Nope," he replied continuing to walk on the path, keeping his gaze forward. Whynexia quickly caught up to him. She looked down to see the abyss below her, big mistake. Quickly realizing she had a fear of heights, she jerked her head up and before she knew it she was inside the monstrous fortress. As the two walked Whynexia noticed that most of the inside of the fortress was outside walkways and stairs and hardly ever a room that had at least one wall covered in large windows.
After the two had been walking for a while they came upon one of the only windowless rooms in the whole place. It looked very much like a cemetery and had the somber feel of one. Each place was lit up an aqua-like light blue color and was framed in a steel-like metal instead of stone and there were words etched into the top of the metal frame; like a title of some kind.
"Where are we?" Whynexia asked looking around the room.
"The Proof of Existence," Roxas replied, it looked as if he was eyeing a few of the place in particular, "The name basically says it. It tells us whether a Nobody in the Organization is alive, or dead." When he looked back to Whynexia, her head was tilted to one side. "Oh, I almost forgot you were new for a second there." He chuckled to himself. "The Organization is a group of Nobodies who want to become whole by gaining hearts from Kingdom Hearts." Roxas looked her up and down as if noticing what she was wearing for the first time. "And it looks like we have a 14."
"Wha?!?" Whynexia exclaimed, "Where the heck did you get that idea?!"
"Come on," he called over his shoulder, heading toward the tunnel at the back of the room, "the Superior can explain it better than I can."
"Who?" Whynexia called after him as she rushed to catch up.
A/N: ok! FYI: Whynexia is pronounced Win-ex-ee-ah. I'm very glad I decided to put my original chapters 1 and 2 together. Made a world of difference. No, Whynexia isn't going to be part of the Organization (I hate people who do that too), so please don't totally dismiss it yet.
Oh, you might want to know my name, huh? nervous laugh I'm Jistin. In case any of you wanted to know. This is my first real fanfic for anything really, so please be gentle. .U Anyways, please review on this! I'd like to know how my writing is! Constructive criticism welcomed as well as compliments if you think it deserves it (please, no flames). Working on ch 2, so please bear with me! sweatdrop