SUMMARY:

This is a story about the Organization; duh. Look at the title! Anyway, Yes, it does say 17th member and indeed, the character is. I also put in two of my other characters, Nari and Akiko, because they are also in the Organization and kind of important for the beginning of the plot. Now, I don't want to give away the plot! So you will just have to read the story to find out.

EDIT: This story is currently under construction because I published it BEFORE Square Enix released 358/2 Days, so now I must re-write it with Xion. Whoopee, I'm so excited. Hurah.

rated T for:
mild violence
slight language
minor themes (if you know what I mean)

DAY ONE
=The Castle That Never Was=
1:23pm

"Look at what I found," Saïx announced as he held out a young teenage girl by the back of her shirt to Xemnas. "She was wandering alone in a castle when I found her."

"Interesting, we don't usually find them in a castle; usually in a forest or an abandoned town. How is your talent of fighting?" Xemnas asked, intrigued with the girl and the strange place she was found in.

"Extraordinary if I do say so myself," the girl bragged as she pulled out her weapons; two giant blades that were the same shape and size of hula-hoops. "Send me something," she commanded as she took her fighting position.

Saïx sent her five dusks to surround her, and she took them all out in one swing. "Impressive. I think you might have what it takes to be in this. Alas, I must be fair and send you through the same preliminary course that all of the others have gone though," Xemnas explained.

Saïx nudged his side and whispered in his ear, "What course?"

The girl sighed. "I think you need to work on your whispering skills, because I can still hear you."

This conversation would have continued, but a tall man with spiky, fire red hair strode in as if this was his place to be, although the conversation that followed made the girl think that he was unwelcome. "Good morning, Superior," the man greeted. "Oh, and who's this?" he spoke as he leaned over the girl, examining her like she was an experiment.

"Excuse me, you are very rude," she glowered.

"Indeed you are," Xemnas called. "What is the reason for your intrusion ,Axel?"

"Oh, you see," Axel began.

"If you have no explanation for being here then you are dismissed."

"But I-"

"Dismissed."

Axel grinned at the girl before leaving and whispered to her, "I can't wait to see more of you."

"He is disturbing…" she mumbled to herself after shaking the creepy feeling off her shoulder.

"Anyway, you shall enter the preliminary course immediately. Saïx, what is her name?"

"Shioxh,"

Xemnas looked her over, then nodded in approval. "Dismissed." Shioxh nodded as she walked out of the door.

"Ah!" Shioxh screamed as she felt a hand on each shoulder.

"Shioxh? What an interesting name," Axel mused as he stood to the left of Shioxh.

"It really is. 'Shioxh' is way better than my name; Demyx."

"Demyx, you are? Also Axel, are you?" Shioxh asked.

"Yes, and we are the two that will help you through this so called, 'preliminary course.'"

"I understand that this 'course' is non-existent, so I do not need you two making up excuses to follow me around."

Demyx leaned over to Axel and whispered in his ear, "How did she know that?"

"You're such a moron…" Axel responded. "Weren't you eavesdropping?"

"Maybe…" Demyx mumbled. "I did get very distracted by a butterfly…"

"What butterfly?" Axel shouted. "We're inside!"

"Oh, there it is again!"

"Where? I don't see anything."

"Right there!"

"If you two are done," Shioxh interrupted, "may I continue with my life?"

"Can I come?" Axel asked.

"No," Shioxh flatly stated as she shoved Axel away. He thought he saw her red highlights turn brighter as she grew angrier. Scared shitless, Axel ran. "Good, that imbecile is gone," Shioxh muttered. "There is something not right about fire hair boy."

"Yeah, I don't really like him; he just drags me around with him a lot when Roxas, Xion or Kaxiko don't feel like talking to him." Demyx mentioned as he watched his feet shuffle around on the floor. "He gives me a funny feeling, even though it isn't really a feeling. He makes me want to cry, but not like a sad cry, more like a, I want to kill myself, but I don't actually want to kill myself! I just want to kill him, b-b-because he is… a poop head!"

"Interesting," Shioxh pondered. "Axel doesn't make me feel that way; that may be because it seems he torments you in a more obscure manner than the awkward perverted way he talks to me."

Demyx looked up at Shioxh as if she had just spoken gibberish. "Okay, I didn't understand half of the words you just said."

Shioxh let out one of her rare giggles. If only Demyx could have known how rare this occasion was, maybe then would he have treasured it, or maybe even caught it on camera. "That's okay. I will just remember to lower my vocabulary when I talk to you." Even though this was partially an insult, Demyx laughed and blushed. Shioxh let her eyes scan Demyx completely; from his eyes to his feet. She believed every inch of him was cute, although she didn't realize it quite yet. Shioxh was slightly attracted to him.

"Wait, did I, laugh?" Shioxh asked as she zoomed back into reality.

"Yeah, there was a slight giggle there," Demyx laughed as he poked Shioxh in her stomach.

"I….never laugh…" Shioxh mumbled as she remembered something. Or, at least she felt like she remembered something. Shioxh pictured her and someone else standing in a room together and eating a popsicle.

"C'mon, Hoshi!" the other in the room with her cried. "Just one laugh! That's all I want!"

"I am not going to laugh, unless you do something funny."

"You're so…boring and…EMO!"

"I'm not emo."

"I beg to differ."

"You wouldn't…"

"Oh I am." The other reached over and pulled Hoshi's sleeve up her arm and revealed a bunch of cuts. Then, the scene faded in her head and she saw Demyx right in front of her face, smiling.

"You look sad," Demyx observed.

"No, I am fine," Shioxh contradicted.

"Well, then do you want to go and meet the others? I bet Roxas, Kaxiko and Ixran would be glad to meet you."

"Sounds like fun," Shioxh replied.

As Shioxh and Demyx walked through the hallways in silence, Shioxh took in some more time to examine the boy beside her. Shioxh thought that his hair was somewhat silly from the side, but very attractive from the front. All that she wanted to do was to run her fingers through it and pull out every tangle; but at that moment, the action would have many questions.

Even though Shioxh only saw the side of his eye, she took in every sparkle and every difference in color. "Here we are." Demyx announced as they stood outside of a door that had the number thirteen on it in roman numerals. Demyx knocked on the door. Soon, a higher pitched voice than Demyx's and Axel's mumbled, "Who's at the door?" the voice said it as if he had just woken up. "Axel, answer the door…" Oh no. Not him… Shioxh panicked.

When Axel answered the door, it was quite comical. "AH!" he screamed for a lengthy period of about a minute or two. "It's you!" he panicked. "Please...don't kill me…" he cried as he backed away. When Shioxh realized that Axel was shirtless, she was the one who began to worry.

"Axel, who's at the door?" the boy mumbled as he approached the door while rubbing his eyes.

"What umm… were you two doing in there?" Shioxh asked as she peeked around Axel and the boy.

"I fell asleep while Axel was talking up a monologue," the boy mumbled. "By the way, my name is Roxas; you must be the new girl; Shioxh, right?"

"Indeed. So why is your shirt off?" Shioxh asked as she poked Axel in the stomach.

"It is really hot in there!" he quickly responded.

"I'm sure."

"Do you two want to tag along? I'm showing Shioxh the castle," Demyx asked.

"Sure, I have nothing better to do," Roxas agreed as the four of us walked down the hall to another door that had a ten on it in roman numerals.

"Why are we at Luxord's room?" Roxas asked.

"What are the four places that Ixran and Kaxiko are always in?" Demyx replied.

"Their rooms, you're room, Axel's room, and... oh."

"Yeah, man."

"IXRAN!" Demyx called as he pounded on the door repeatedly.

"What do you want, Demyx?" Luxord called from the other side of the door.

"Are Ixran and Kaxiko in there?"

The door swung open. "Oh hey, Demyx," a girl with medium length, flippy brown hair said as she stood before the four Nobodies. Her eyes rested on Shioxh.

"Hey Kaxiko, this is-"

"Hoshi..."

"What? No, this is,"

"Ixran!" she cried.

"That's not her name either..." The poor Nocturne was so confused.

"What is wrong Kaxiko?" a girl with long black hair asked as she walked towards the door with a handful of cards. "I was just about to win."

The girl stopped and stared at Shioxh. Her breath came out in stuttered gasps. "How... I'm..." Kaxiko panicked.

"Don't worry; I won't let that happen, okay? OKAY? Akiko!"

Shioxh was starring at the two as if they were insane. The again, for anyone who didn't know these two, insanity came with their first impression.

"Hey, fancy a game?" a voice asked from the other side of the two panicking girls. "The name is Luxord and I think that my game includes you," he stated as he gestured to a card table with seven chairs surrounding it. On the table were three decks of cards, evenly stacked to the same height. Minus the cards that were soon plucked from the one girls hand.

"Depends on the game and what we're bidding," Roxas muttered.

"Not go fish!" Demyx yelled.

"Go…Fish?" Shioxh asked.

"It's icky to play with them," Axel whispered in her ear.

"How about Russian Roulette?" Luxord suggested.

"How about no?" Axel replied.

"Can I have a say in this?" Shioxh inserted.

"No!" the other four replied in unison as they continued to fight. Shioxh sighed. This was ridiculous.

"I'm going to my room," Shioxh called.

"FINE!" Shioxh didn't move to see if they would notice; they didn't. What a bunch of failures… Shioxh thought as she stood there until they stopped arguing.

At some points of the argument, Shioxh did listen. Some of those points were when they got into what they wanted.

"I want to remember everything!" Roxas shouted.

"Well I want ponies and a rainbow!" Axel yelled. Silence fell. "I'm serious. I want-ponies-and-a-rainbow." Wow, never saw that coming. Shioxh thought that the argument would stop there, but it went on for a couple more minutes when Demyx asked Axel if they could share the ponies. Yeah, not exactly the group of normal Nobodies, are they?

Shioxh then thought of a brilliant way to end the conversation.

"He's messing with my aura! I wish he would stop…" she whined.

"What?" Axel asked, turning around to face her.

"That's better. I thought you whiny girls were never going to stop. Now can we please progress with this? People to meet, places to see."

"Wait, Ixran, are you okay?" Demyx asked as he placed a hand on the girl with the black hairs shoulders.

"It's just," she glanced at Kaxiko, "nothing."

"You look familiar," Shioxh said as she stepped towards the two girls.

"I don't know, you look familiar too, but we might be mistaken." Ixran replied as she glanced at Kaxiko.

"Am I?" Shioxh inquired as she peered into Ixran's facial details. "I think you might be right saying that I am mistaken because I don't think I have ever been friends with someone as bubbly as you."

"Ouch. That was harsh," Kaxiko butted in, suddenly recovered from her panic attack.

"Really?" Ixran asked sarcastically. "Although, if I am too bubbly for you, then why are you taking a tour from Demyx?" That, Shioxh couldn't answer. "And for your information, I am not bubbly at all. I am intelligent and have been deprived of way to much to deal with you." Ouch.

"Sweetie, what have we talked about?" Demyx asked as he walked over to Ixran and swung his arm around her.

"Control your anger; don't say things that aren't nice, I know the drill!"

"Sweetie…?" Shioxh asked in direction of Roxas.

"Demyx and Ixran are a couple," he answered.

"O-oh…"

"Is there something wrong with that?"

"N-no, I know how to get what I want."

"What?"

"Exactly." Most people would be smiling evilly at this point, but Shioxh isn't. She really didn't smile; ever. She didn't even laugh or giggle, Roxas thought. I wonder what kind of tortured life could be hiding under her memories.

"Shioxh, can I talk to you later?" Axel asked.

"Sure, talk to me what about?"

"You'll see when you get there. Umm, and it wont be just you and me, maybe one or four other people will be there."

"Okay. Where meet will we?"

"I'll show you." Ixran jumped in as she grabbed Shioxh's wrist and pulled her away.

"Where, you know? Be there, will you?"

"Your improper grammar kills."

Shioxh was pulled down the hallway until they were out of sight from the others. "Okay, can we talk about what you remember?" Ixran asked.

"The only thing I remember is waking up in a castle one day, and then I was dragged away by Saïx. That is it."

"It must be great, being a Nobody."

"Are not you?"

"No, I am a Dobyon."

"Really? I think Dobyon's are fascinating. Kaxiko is one too, is she not?"

"She is, how did you know?"

"I don't know, you two seem to be attached, so I guessed that you have known each other for longer than you can remember."

"Yeah."

"So, what all have you gone through?" Shioxh asked as they rounded a corner.

"Well, after 1,000 years at sea, I was washed up on a shore on an island named Destiny Island. There, I met the perfect guy, Riku was his name. I knew there was something different about him to me, even though I couldn't feel. What with not having a heart and all. The two of us shared a paopu fruit. I was with him for awhile in the darkness, but he was changing and I realized that it wasn't only me that he loved, so I left him. I received emotions and the worst day of my life. When we met again, Riku wasn't Riku, he was someone else, and he forced the darkness into me and I evaporated. When I found him again, I helped him close the door to Kingdom Hearts. After that, I was separated from him, once again, when I ended up in Castle Oblivion. That was when I joined the Organization, found out Aki-I mean- Kaxiko was already in the Organization, and met Zexion."

"Zexion is another perfect guy?"

"I thought that it would be different, because I experienced his feelings first hand, and I had emotions when I was with him. But then he went and got himself killed."

"I'm sorry."

"I wasn't as devastated as I could have been. After Everyone in Castle Oblivion was killed, Axel and I escaped from there, and now, here we are. I got to know Demyx a little better and it just, clicked. Yet, I still think about Riku every night. I mean, if we shared a paopu fruit, then our destinies should be intertwined. Then why are we separated?"

"I understand."

"You do?" Ixran asked as we rounded another corner and descended a set of stairs.

"Yes, I seem to have a sense of ability to understand others problems, even if I don't have something to relate to. In this case, I feel that I do have something to relate to, but I can't remember."

"There were some things that I wish I could forget."

"Trust me, you don't."

"Oh, here we are." Ixran interrupted. "Just remember, from your room, it is all the way down the hall, towards Axel's room, and then you make two lefts and down the stairs, then straight. It is not hard to miss. As you can see, it is the only door that is wooden in this place."

"Thank you, Ixran," Shioxh said as she watched Ixran walk back the way they came.

Shioxh turned a full 180 degrees when she heard someone coming her way. "SHIOXH!" the person cried.

"Who-," Oh no, it was Axel again.

Axel just kept' running, he didn't stop. When he got to Shioxh, he threw the two of them to the floor, with Axel on top of her. "When was the last time you smiled?" he yelled in her face.

With Demyx, after you left, was what Shioxh really wanted to say, but she lied and said, "I can't remember."

"Ha HA! I WAS RIGHT!" Axel then jumped off of Shioxh and ran off, leaving her there on the ground.

"He is very rude," She muttered to herself.

"Yes, we apologize for his acts of behavior," a man spoke. He had an eye patch and a scar on his face, so Shioxh didn't exactly picture him as the nicest guy on earth. "My name's Xigbar; you must be the new girl who doesn't ever smile."

"Let me guess, you heard that from Demyx, or Axel?"

"Axel."

"I thought so. My name is Shioxh."

"Hmm, one of the better names. Lucky girl."

"I wish that was true."

"Don't be like that," said another member that Shioxh had not met. "I'm Xaldin."

"You two! At the meeting! Now!" Axel yelled from down the hall. Xaldin and Xigbar sent Shioxh a quick goodbye and scurried after Axel's voice.

Finally, Shioxh was alone. She decided that she would go and scope out her room. Shioxh believed that her door would have the number seventeen on it in roman numerals because she was the XVII member of the Organization. Once she found her room, she walked in to find a small white bed with the Nobodies insignia on it. In fact, the entire room was white; with the exception of some spots being light blue and others being silver. Shioxh laid down on her bed and starred at the ceiling. "How do these beings survive in this boredom?" she asked herself out loud.

There was a lout knock on the door. Someone entered. "Are you Shioxh? The new girl?" the hooded person asked.

"That's me. And you are?"

"My name is Xion."

"Is there something that you want from me?"

"I just wanted to ask you," she paused and closed the door behind her as she walked over and sat down on the bed next to Shioxh. "do you remember anything from before?"

"No," Shioxh replied. "I thought it was that way for all Nobodies."

She shook her head. "I thought so too, at first. But then when Axel told me that he remembered something from then, I started to wonder if there was something wrong with me."

"Is...there?"

"Well, now it is me, you and Roxas who all don't remember anything from before, so I don't think that there is something that is wrong with us. Just something that is different that may have happened to our somebody's."

"Let's find out together, just the two of us."

=The Secret Room=
3:04pm

"Alright," Axel began as soon as everyone was sitting in their seats around an old wooden table that looked like it would fall apart if someone were to lean on it. Before continuing, Axel quickly scanned the room to make sure that they were indeed all there; himself, Luxord, Xigbar, Xaldin, Roxas and Kaxiko. "Do we all know what we are here for?"

"I don't!" Kaxiko called as she jumped up out of her seat.

"Kaxiko, we explained to you many times, we are here to see what we can do with Shioxh, to make her smile and feel as comfortable as she can with whoever she chooses," Luxord kindly explained.

"So why are Demyx, Ixran, Xion and Saïx not here?"

"Because! Saïx would tell superior, we couldn't find Xion, and this involves Demyx and Ixran! Silly girl…"

"Alright you two, conversation is over," Axel interrupted. "Roxas tell everyone what you told me."

"Okay, when Shioxh had first met Ixran and discovered that they were a couple, I felt like she was planning something. The first thing I noticed was that she stuttered and seemed kind of sad when I said, 'they are a couple.' Then she muttered, 'I always get what I want,' so I think she might have meant, getting Demyx."

"So, we are trying to break up Ixran and Demyx, to get Demyx with Shioxh?" Kaxiko asked.

"How do you do you feel about that?"

"I think that it is a great plan!"

"What?" the others all gasped in unison.

"Well, think about it, Demyx is flamboyant and dumb; Ixran is intelligent and depressing really. So why do they make a couple? They don't. Ixran even shared a paopu fruit with someone else anyway."

"That is true; she is destined to be with that Riku guy," Luxord pointed out.

"Exactly! So I think that this is perfect!"

"I suddenly like this Kaxiko," Xigbar whispered to Axel who then slapped Xigbar.

"But we have another flaw, what if this emo girl doesn't like Demyx?" Roxas pointed out.

"That's why tonight, I am going to talk to her about it," Axel grinned.

"Axel, don't just jump out and yell, 'DATE DEMYX!' because that is way un-cool," Xigbar said.

"Like I would do that."

"You would," all of the others agreed.

"You'd slip up because you would be looking at her in that way, start babbling like you do, then you would start yelling and scare her off," Roxas continued.

"Psh, no, I'm under control! Although, when I was on top of her…"

"WHAT?" everyone screamed.

"I pushed her to the ground! Not like that you perverts!"

"Can we get back on track please?" Xaldin asked a little annoyed.

"You're right, sorry," Axel admitted.

"So how do you think we can get Demyx out of Ixran's heart?" Roxas asked.

"I know!" Axel yelled as he jumped up from his seat.

"No Axel, no," Roxas sighed.

"No to what? You didn't even hear my idea!"

"That's because you're plans are usually extremely dumb."

"Just listen to this one!" Axel had gotten to the point of whining, so everyone decided to listen. "Okay, the first thing we need to do is to get Demyx and Shioxh in the same room at the same time, but they need to be locked in that room."

"What room would we lock them in?" Luxord asked.

"How about Shioxh's room?"

"Simple enough," Kaxiko nodded. "So great plan master, what are we going to do to get them locked in Shioxh's room?"

"That's a good question," Axel mumbled as he sat down in his seat. Everyone slapped themselves in the face in result of Axel's stupidity. "Oh I know!"

"What…?" Xigbar mumbled as they all rubbed their foreheads where they had hit themselves.

"Do we still have the beer in the cellar?"

"Yeah, why?" Luxord answered scared of the response that followed.

"What if, we all get drunk, except for Shioxh and Demyx, and the-" Axel was cut off by Kaxiko.

"Axel, me, Ixran, and Roxas are too young to drink."

"Well, I'll make and exception." Xigbar–being II–muttered.

"Great!" Axel was so excited. "Anyway, so yeah, we all get drunk, then when Demyx sees all of us; he starts to worry for the safety of us, and wonders where Shioxh is. So when he goes looking for her in her room, we lock the door behind him."

"That is possibly the stupidest idea I have ever heard. I think it's dumber than the idea of giving us all a fake sickness that never went away for some of us," Luxord commented.

"Can we at least try it?" Axel pleaded. "Please!"

"No!" Xigbar, Xaldin, Luxord and Kaxiko yelled in unison.

"Well… Roxas thinks it will work… right Roxas?"

"Well…"

"ROXAS?"

"FINE!"

"Yay! So the plan is on!"

The whole room sighed except for Axel and Roxas. He felt bad because they were obviously disappointed in him.

"We will put the plan to work in three days at maximum!"

"Yay…" everyone mumbled sarcastically.

Soon after, there was a knock on the door. "All of you are to report to the rec. room immediately. It concerns Shioxh. Be prepared, some of you will be fighting her."

=The Recreation Room=
3:15pm

"Shioxh," She heard someone say from the other side of the door. "You are needed in the round room."

"How do I get there?" she asked shyly.

"You make three left turns and then up the stairs on the right. You can't miss it."

"Thank you, I will leave immediately." Shioxh and Xion made their way to the rec. room.

"Hey Xion," Shioxh began right after they left her room.

"Yeah?"

"Is there something that you know about Ixran that is special or weird?"

"As a matter of fact, yes. She can sense future events in her dreams."

"Really? That's weird."

They walked in silence as Shioxh thought, Did she know that I was coming?

When they entered, they were standing in the middle of what seemed to be a tennis court without the net.

"Shioxh, are you ready for the preliminary course?" she heard someone ask. Shioxh spun around 270 degrees to find Xemnas greeting her. Xion had also vanished. "Now, to put your powers to the test." Shioxh was all for disagreeing with him, but since he was the Superior, she had no other choice than to go with it. "Axel! You will be the first to test her strength." Oh Geeze… I have to fight him? Shioxh thought.

A/N:

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