Day 0: Who's That New Nobody?

"Didn't you hear me, Roxas?" Xion asked. "Axel said he found another one of us while he went to Twilight Town to get us ice cream."

"Another one of us?" Roxas asked. "That means we'll be having a number fifteen then?"

"I think..." Xion said. "Xemnas looked very pleased yesterday at Axel's catch."

"No wonder the normally glum and solemn superior looks very enthusiastic yesterday," Roxas said sarcastically. Demyx warped in at the scene. "Hey guys, did you heard about the new girl that will be joining us?"

"We did, but how did you know it was a girl?" Xion asked.

"Well since Axel told me about it. He says her name is Sherry or something like that," Demyx said. "I wonder if she'll like staying here."

"So, can you tell me your original name?" Xemnas asked the new girl. She's hiding behind Axel and refused to see the superior face to face.

"Shelly," the girl said while peeping. "My new name is Lyxshel."

"I see," Xemnas said, looking pleased with Axel. "What is your power?"

"I... I don't know yet," Lyxshel said as a bow appeared in her left hand. "All I know is that I can use these things."

Xemnas looked towards Xigbar before the one eyed sniper looked back at the superior with a face that says: 'Don't look at me. I got my hands full already.'

"In that case, can you take care of her, Axel?" Xemnas asked. "Please bring her to Saïx and give her a coat."

"I will," Axel said. Since Saïx and Axel are friends back when they're still human, Saïx never really get pissed with Axel as quick even though Axel is one of the most annoying members.

"Where are we going?" Lyxshel asked Axel shyly.

"To see a 'friend'," Axel flatly said. He didn't like what happened to Saïx after he lost his heart. The man has changed and can no longer be truly called his friend but yet he is the quartermaster of the week and thus people went to him for spare coats, hoping that he's not in a bad mood.

Instead of Saïx, however, they met three moogles in organization's coat.

"The new member, kupo?" one of the three moogles asked. Lyxshel nodded. "Saïx left a while ago, kupo! He left the job for us, kupo."

"Well that makes things less complicated," Axel said.

"Are these moogle nobodies?" Lyxshel asked.

"Nope. The superior simply welcomed moogles into town. I don't know why, but since they provide us with items and weapons I guess," Axel said. "These moogles wore coats so that they don't feel... left out."

Lyxshel then went inside the room to pick a coat that is of her size. Axel waited while talking with the moogle until a scream was heard and a flustered Luxord appeared outside.

"Sheesh. She shouldn't have picked the storeroom for a place to change," Luxord said.

"This is not gonna be pretty," Axel sighed.

Sure enough, Lyxshel appeared wearing her coat with her bow drawn and pointed at Luxord.

"Pervert!" she yelled. She would have fired but Axel placed a hand on her shoulder, making her to reconsider her decision.

Lyxshel sighed and banished her weapon, but not before giving the older nobody a glare. Axel then suggested that she meet up with the other, more likable members. Axel took the younger nobody through a portal to the castle ramparts, where Xion, Roxas and Demyx were hanging out.

"Hey guys," Axel said.

"So this is the new kid," Demyx said. "She's cute. What's her name?"

"Lyxshel," Lyxshel said. "Nice to meet you."

"I'm Demyx," Demyx said while he shook Lyxshel's hand.

"Those two over there are my best friends," Axel said. "The girl is called Xion while the bonehead is Roxas."

"Excuse me for being a bonehead!" Roxas said.

"Calm down," Xion said.

Lyxshel walked towards the edge of the castle ramparts before conjuring a blue rose and looking at it intently.

"You met Marly already?" Demyx asked.

"Who's that?" Lyxshel turned around.

"I guess I take that as a no," Demyx said. "Is flowers your element?"

"Nah. This thing is part of my memory," Lyxshel said. "It's the symbol of Saint Nobara High back from my home world, a wild rose."

"Oh, i see," Demyx said.

"Is your memories about your past clear? Mine doesn't," Xion said.

"Neither is mine. Everything's fuzzy," Roxas said.

"Mine is clear, as far as I can remember. Some parts of it are foggy though," Lyxshel said. "I wonder if my older brother and sister will be glad to see me again... not this way I guess."

"Aww, we can be your new family," Demyx said. "We're all the same after all."

"Maybe..." Lyxshel said, sighing as she banished the rose. Her bow reappeared in her hand and she placed it like a sling bag.

"That's your weapon?" Demyx asked.

"I prefer a bow, but if I really need to I can use a few melee weapons as well," Lyxshel said. "Saint Nobara High is a combat school after all."

"Oh yeah. We will need to give you a title..." Axel said.

"I don't need empty names or titles," Lyxshel refused. "I only hope to find people here easy to get along with."

"Stick with us and you'll be fine," Demyx said.

"I hope Xemnas didn't stick you with any of the stiffer higher ups during mission or it will be a little hard," Xion said. "Xigbar is fine, though, once you get to know him well."

"Xemnas asked me to look after her," Axel said. "If you guys want to pitch in I don't really care."

"Cool! Wanna hang around with us? We can meet at Twilight Town's clock tower after every mission," Roxas asked after Demyx left.

"Sounds fun," Lyxshel said.

"It will be our little secret hideout, okay?" Axel said. "No one else must know."

Lyxshel nodded. Axel asked Xion to bring Lyxshel to her quarters since both of their rooms are side by side. Roxas decided to join in. Along the way, Xion and Roxas kept pestering her to tell them more about her past. Even though she's not in the mood for storytelling, she gave in and told them everything up to the point when the heartless overwhelmed her and when she found out that she's no longer home, where Axel found her.

"You know the rest," she said.

"I see," Xion said before stopping. "Well, this is your room."

"We will be sleeping quite close so if you need anything you can just give us a knock on the door," Roxas said. "No portal-ing directly into someone's room, that our rule."

"Okay, not that I know how to make those things yet anyway," Lyxshel said. "See you guys this evening, I guess. What time's dinner?"

"Around six. Normally a lesser nobody would drag you for meals anyway," Xion said.

Lyxshel went inside her room before locking it tight. She made sure to enchant the lock so that she's the only one who could open it from the outside without the need of a key. She's still afraid after today's incident with Luxord that someone would barge in when she's changing or bathing. She might be a nobody but she still values her privacy.

"A portal, huh..." she told no one in particular. "That must be how that man got into the storeroom when I'm changing."

She begins daydreaming about her life before she was attacked. She wonders if her older sister and brother made it to safety and wonders if they were worried about her for not showing up. A knock on the door brought her back to reality in the castle. She opened the door and saw a familiar eye-patched face.

"The superior wants to see you," Xigbar said. "Again."

"Okay," she said as she followed Xigbar. When he disappeared around the corner she got worried and looked around before Xigbar reappeared right next to her.

"Sorry. Kinda forget newbies cannot create portals yet," Xigbar said and opted to walk upside down on the ceiling while the younger nobody followed him from a distance.

When they reached the office, Xigbar ported away after telling her to knock before coming in. The superior is in the middle of his conversation with Saïx so she kept quiet until Saïx noted that the newcomer is there.

"This is our new member? She doesn't look much," Saïx complained.

"Well then why don't you test her yourself?" Xemnas suggested. A creepy smile formed on Saïx's face. "How I've waited to hear that."

Lyxshel quickly dodged the claymore that Saïx threw towards her before grabbing it herself, forming a much smaller, thinner form of it in her hand.

"What the!?" Saïx and Xemnas said at the same time as Lyxshel got up close before delivering a sword combo with the 'stolen' claymore. Saïx quickly cornered her against a wall, but just as the fight was going on his way, Lyxshel began running vertically up the wall, before leaping and firing a single arrow at Saïx. Saïx dodges the arrow, not expecting that it will be deflected off the wall and struck him on his back.

"A fight against a member on the first day?" Lyxshel wondered as she tried to catch her breath after running away. The superior looked at his new recruit with interest. She had somehow managed to best Saïx, one of his finest, in a duel. However, Saïx didn't show her what he really can do just yet. As usual, he went berserk and unleashed everything he had on Lyxshel, knocking her unconscious since he threw her with such force so as to cause a large crack in the superior's office.

"Superior... I... what the!? Lyxshel!" Axel said as he got in. "What happened in here?"

"Saïx is just showing his real fighting ability to someone who narrowly beat him," Xemnas said. As much as Saïx didn't like it, the girl nearly beat him. However, dropping his guard after turning his back on his defeated opponent is his biggest mistake ever. A single energy arrow pierced through Saïx's back all the way to his chest.

"I'm... not... done... yet!" Lyxshel said as she stood up, with her wounds healing rapidly. Her bow and sword are now blood red and she aimed at Saïx who is kneeling using his claymore as a support when Xemnas raised his hand.

"That's enough. Your strength has been proven," Xemnas said.

Axel looked to his former best friend and would have laughed if not for the look in Saïx's face that said: 'Laugh and I'll hurt you.' It was thanks to that same face that Axel opted to help the new member back to her room while leaving Saïx with the superior. It appears that she has strained herself too much and she fell asleep while he carries her.

"I would even go as far as to say that I really underestimated her... abilities," Xemnas said after the Axel left. Saïx is not as wounded as he seems to be and is already standing up. "Though I suspect what her power is, I cannot confirm it just yet."

"What do you think her power is, superior?" Saïx asked.

"I believe if she managed to get her hands on weapons belonging to our other members, she can be very dangerous if she becomes loose cannon," Xemnas said. "Keep a close eye on her."

"Xemnas pitted her against Saïx?!" both Xion and Roxas said at the same time. Axel carries Lyxshel to Xion's room since somehow her own room cannot be opened. Roxas went in and Axel told the two of them everything he saw.

"That's a little too cruel," Xion said.

"That would be, but it appears that she managed to fight him back," Axel said. He placed Lyxshel's bow and sword on Xion's desk. "However, she has a copy of Saïx's own claymore now. It looks perfect for her size and strength."

"I think that is her power! She can make copies of our own weapons that will be used as her own," Roxas said. For the first time, he said something smart.

"I think. For being young, she can become a very powerful fighter," Axel said.

A portal appeared in mid air and Demyx fell from it flat on his face before he quickly stood up.

"She looks really beat up... what happened?" Demyx asked in a whisper.

"The superior pits her against Saïx," Axel said flatly. Demyx winced slightly. "Ouch... that's got to hurt."

"Not really. Saïx is equally wounded," Axel said. "And she would have been in a worse shape than this, but her minor wounds recovered when she attacked him."

"That's strange... I never heard of wounds recovering when we attack..." Demyx wondered.

"That geezer might know something," Xion suggested, referring to Vexen.

"He might... in fact, I'm gonna leave Lyxshel in your care and visit him," Axel said as he warped away.

Lyxshel woke up minutes after he left and tried to stand and would fall to the ground if not for Xion's help.

"I'm still a little... dizzy," Lyxshel complained.

"Don't move around yet. You're hurt from your fight with Saïx," Xion said.

"I need to get back to my own room," Lyxshel said.

"I'll help," Roxas said. The three of them made their way to Lyxshel's room. Much like Axel, they couldn't open the door from the outside, but Lyxshel opened it with ease since they didn't know she enchanted the lock. Once they were in her room, Xion placed Lyxshel's weapon on the desk since she didn't dismiss it anymore.

"Should we leave?" Roxas asked.

"Stay if you want to," Lyxshel said while yawning. "I think I'm gonna get more sleep."

Roxas and Xion left her room before realizing that it locked on its own.

"Well that pretty much explains why we cannot open her door," Xion said.

"By the way, dinner will be served in two hours," Roxas said. "You wake her up, okay?"

"Sure. I think she would allow me to portal directly to her room," Xion said. "Still, I think it is better for me to use a keyblade to unlock her door perhaps?"

"I think I'll have a nap as well," Roxas said. That apparently triggers something in Xion's memory which prompts her to call him a lazy bum.

"Hold on..." Roxas said. "That sounds very familiar..."

Xion didn't say anything but she went inside her room quicker than lightning. "Did I say something wrong?" Roxas wondered.

Later that evening, Xion prodded Lyxshel with her Kingdom Key until the latter woke up. She looked displeased.

"What now..." Lyxshel asked.

"It's time for dinner," Xion cheerfully said.

"Five more minutes..." Lyxshel said as she turned to face the other way and covering her head with the blanket.

"C'mon, get up already," Xion said, pulling the blanket off.

"Who are you? My mother?" Lyxshel asked before Xion continues to prod her with her keyblade.

"Fine," Lyxshel pouted, sitting on her bed yawning.

Xion literally dragged her out of the room after letting Lyxshel changes to her coat. Axel gets his fair share at waking Roxas up, although Roxas' reaction was rather violent. The four of them encountered Demyx on the way up and soon enough they entered the dining room.

"It's nice to see that you have made some friends," Xemnas said. He's the only person apart from the group of five that is at the dining room, sipping his tea.

"Superior," Lyxshel bowed despite her head telling her not to but she didn't want to get into trouble yet.

Soon enough the remaining nine members ported themselves into the dining room. Lyxshel already know most of them from Axel's and Demyx's descriptions.

"Ooh, what a cutie," Larxene said as she looked at Lyxshel. "It's nice to see more girls entering the Organization."

"Indeed she is. A pretty flower just waiting to reach its full bloom," Marluxia agreed. Lexaeus stayed quiet as usual, befitting his title, and went directly for his seat. Zexion only glanced at her once before his gaze returned to his book. Vexen is clearly not paying attention to her at all, babbling on and on about his theories regarding her ability to recover wounds when she deals damage. Luxord is... well... looking at her with both fear and respect in his eyes. Maybe rumours already spread that she managed to fight Saïx off one on one in her first encounter. Xaldin and Xigbar looked impressed at her. Saïx didn't look pleased at all and simply glared at her.

"Now that we're all here, we can get dinner started," Xemnas said as their food appeared on their table. Marluxia approached Lyxshel after dinner and gave her a single red rose as a sign of friendship, but Lyxshel summons her own blue rose.

"No thanks," Lyxshel politely refused as she smiled. "I already have one."

"A blue rose... interesting," Marluxia said. "Well then, it's nice meeting you, but I have to tend to my flower garden again."

Larxene rounded Xion and Lyxshel up and asked them if they wanna hang out but both of them refused. In any case, Axel decided to ambush Lyxshel along her way back to her room, which resulted in her hands coming into contact with his chakrams and getting her own new weapon, albeit shaped differently. That confirms Axel's theory about Xion's powers.

"I stand corrected," Axel proudly said as Xion and Roxas inspected Lyxshel's new weapon, a pair of greaves with Axel's chakrams on its heels, albeit being smaller in size.

"Hey, this looks cool," Lyxshel said. "I wish I could go somewhere to test it."

"We can go into town from the castle," Roxas said. "There will be some heartless to fight down there."

Axel opened a portal so that they can reach the town faster. Sure enough, numerous Shadow heartless swarmed them immediately, although all of them aimed for Xion and Roxas. Lyxshel used her new greaves to a good extent by giving some of the heartless the heel. A single Neoshadow appeared from above and that prompted Lyxshel to unleash her new skill, the Flash Kick. The Neoshadow was caught in the move and was burned to death.

"Nice work," Xion said as the heartless ceased to appear.

"I think we'll have an easier time with missions now," Roxas said before turning to Lyxshel. "You really are good!"

"I can't believe it myself, but my late mother used to say that I have the potential to master any weapon within a short amount of time," Lyxshel said. "Well, my other's late mother, of course."

"Let's go to sleep. The superior is bound to give us missions tomorrow. Make sure you are ready," Axel said.

"I guess," Lyxshel said. She walked back towards the castle together with the rest and while the others went to their rooms via a portal, Lyxshel chose to walk to the moogles. She purchased some spare coats, curative items, a notebook and a few stationeries using the cash card that she was given by Axel. She met with Demyx along the way, as he too was preparing himself for another scouting mission for the Superior.

"You hated fighting? Why? It's fun," Lyxshel said.

"It's no fun when you're the one getting beaten up," Demyx said.

"My other's older siblings are stronger than I am and I kept getting beaten up too," Lyxshel said. "But I still enjoy the competition every now and then. It makes life interesting."

"You think?" Demyx asked. He sounds unsure.

"Yeah. We can practise on your form," Lyxshel said. "That's what my other's older siblings always do to her every now and then. Besides, physically whacking people is not the only thing that a fighter can do, you know. You can stay from a distance and blast them with magic."

"Blast them with magic, eh... yeah. I think I'll do just that," Demyx said. "Thanks for the tip, Lyx. I feel more confident now to take on those fighting missions, but perhaps the easier ones first."

"Alright. See you tomorrow, I guess. I'm gonna sleep now," Lyxshel said.

Lyxshel reached her room without any further annoyance from fellow organization members and reorganized her thoughts once she got inside. She opened a single notebook and begins drawing chibi-fied versions of her fellow members. She used fifteen pages for each member including herself, added with some comments below their picture. For some unknown reason, she is skipping the sixteenth page. She smiled once she's done and started her diary on the seventeenth page. After she had finished writing her diary, she walked to her bed and slowly drifted to sleep.

That night Lyxshel dreamt about being back in her home town, living peacefully with her older siblings. Her older brother chose to quit school and work in order to ensure that both of his sisters can stay focused on school, while her older sister works part time as a waitress in order to ease their brother's problems. Only she is schooling full time. Their parents died in a crash a few years back. They were lucky enough not to be taken into an orphanage. One day, a close friend of her older brother arrived seeking his aid. She and another one of her brother's friend offered to aid that person in his place, however it does not went well. A mishap caused her to be separated from the others and was soon overwhelmed by heartless. The next thing she knew is that she is in Twilight Town, wondering where she is and what's going to happen to her. Axel found her, explained her situation, and gave her a new name and purpose. Although reluctant at first, she didn't know anyone in Twilight Town so she decided to follow him back to this strange and dark world.

OC introduction

Lyxshel the Crimson Counter-attacker

This young nobody is found by Axel outside the abandoned mansion when he went to buy some sea salt ice cream. Although shy, she is a good fighter, capable of utilizing any weapon given to her with ease. Touching any weapon will allow her to conjure a replica of that particular weapon that is fitting for her size and strength or empower her old weapon. Lyxshel has lavender hair and has bi-coloured eyes, with her left eye being bluish lavender while her right eye is reddish lavender.

Weapon

Seventh Heaven

Lyxshel's bow. It is intricately shaped with a nobody symbol at the middle of the bow where its arrow spawned whenever the bowstring is drawn. Since it needs no ammunition, Lyxshel can fire the bow endlessly and its arrows can even be enchanted with proper elemental magic. It is actually a bow that she also used when she is still whole, but like its master, it too undergoes a change. Any arrows fired have the capability of reflecting off solid walls, making it difficult to dodge.

Razing Edge

Lyxshel's greaves. It is obtained when Axel ambushes her on her way back to her room. It allows Lyxshel to execute powerful strikes using her legs alone, delivering flaming kicks using it. It has a small chakram as a decor, which spins and emits fire whenever she jumps or kicks. Considering that Lyxshel could master any weapon in a short amount of time, it will be only weeks or even days until she decide to find matching gauntlets for this weapon.

Astrologia

Lyxshel's sword. It is obtained when she tried to attack Saïx using his own claymore and the first new weapon obtained by her. Unlike its original, it is sleek and thin, capable of cutting through anything with ease. This sword can also enter a powered up form much like its original, but it merely glows red instead of being covered with additional spikes. It is incomplete on its own, so Lyxshel secretly plots to get her hands on weapons belonging to other organization members.