"What do you mean you don't recognize her? Can't you see who she is?"
"I apologize if you are upset with me, but I have never seen this woman before. In both this life and the other."
"Yes, yes you have! She was with us that day years ago! She was by your side every step of the way during that project, every day until she was killed!"
"That's impossible. She died during the experiments. You and I both know that."
"No. It's not true. I saw her run off that day and I never saw her again afterwards. Not until now!"
"Trixa [Trisha], you must've been hallucinating. You might have hit your head on something after that explosion."
"Vexen, you son of a bitch! I wouldn't lie about something as important as this! Now take another good look at her and tell me that's not your assistant from years ago!"
Where...where am I...?
"That isn't her. Period. End of discussion."
"You...you heartless bastard!"
"Your one to talk. You didn't even try to stop the master from experimenting on her. It's almost as if you, her closest friend, killed her."
Silence enveloped me. The two voices, one feminine and the other male, seemed to have ceased their arguments over a person, a female at that. Who they were discussing about was beyond my knowledge. At the moment, I was too busy attempting to figure out where I was and how I suddenly came to be here. As hard as I tried, I could not remember what had happened before I found myself listening to this conversation about a woman. Everything from the past felt like one big giant blur, erased from my mind entirely. It got to a point where my head began aching from thinking a little too much and a little too hard. But why did I suddenly forget everything in what felt like a short amount of time? It was a question gone unanswered along with other unimportant questions I had up with, like "Where am I?" or "How did I get here?" So many questions, so little time to answer them.
My eyes slowly opened to find myself staring up at an all white ceiling. Although I could still see the ceiling above me, a blinding light forced me to squint my eyes due to its blinding rays. This place was unfamiliar to me, and it made wonder how I came to be in the strange place. Blinking, I slowly turned my head to the side, only to find what I assumed was a table filled with tools used for medical purposes. Immediately, I thought I was in a hospital, but as I looked around, my eyes took notice to vials filled with mysterious liquids along with scientific objects, like microscopes and such. I felt my face turn pale in shock as I continued to stare at every single detail of the strange. This was not a hospital, as I had predicted. Instead, it was some sort of laboratory! I must have been here in order to be experimented on or something along those lines, but I did not wish to stay here and find out the hard way.
Immediately, my body shot up into a sitting position, looking around the room in what felt like a panicked state of mind. Then, I looked down to find myself wearing a long black cloak. I did not know I came to be in this, but at the moment I did not care. Instead, I continued to look around the room. During my frantic state of searching, my eyes caught sight of two darkened figures turning around to stare at me. Both were wearing dark cloaks and their hoods were hiding their faces from my view. The first one looked very feminine, due to her hourglass figure, and stood in front of the second one, who looked manlier than the woman. Also, the cloak of the man looked slightly longer than the woman's cloak, covering his hands slightly and resembling a gown. The second one dropped the object he was apparently holding in his hands. Due to their stances, they were shocked to see me sitting there, watching them with a frightened and unsure expression.
"Oh my God..." The second one spoke, his voice filled with shock. "It's not...it's not possible..." The first one looked at him.
"Now do you believe me, Vexen? Now can you actually see who she is?" She spoke, still sounding upset from their arguement. The man, named Vexen, did not respond to her words. He seemed too…"shocked" to come up with something to say in response. Instead, the female, who I presumed was Trixa, looked back at me. Although, I could not see it, her face seemed to soften as well as her posture when she returned her attention to me. "Hey. How do you feel?" She asked, her voice softening to a point as if she were speaking to a friend. However, I had no idea who she was in my eyes. After another few seconds, she took a cautious step toward me. "It's me, remember? You know, we were friends a couple years back. Before we became…Nobodies." She hesitated before ending the sentence, but her words made me all the more confused. She took another step toward me, but my instincts did not trust her and thought she was some lunatic on drugs. I never met her before in my life. If I had, though, I probably never spoke to her before.
"W-what are you talking about?" I exclaimed, the feeling of fear creeping up my spine (or so I assumed that was what it was). "I've never met you before in my life!"-Trixa looked hurt by my words-"Stay away from me!"
Immediately, I attempted to leap off the table I was laying on, only to slip off and bring the table of medical tools down with me. A loud crash sounded throughout the room, but my mind did not care any longer. Instead of trying to clean everything up out of respect, I returned to my feet, wobbling suddenly in the process for it felt as if I had not walked in forever, before dashing toward the first door I that caught my eye.
"W-wait! Where are you going?" Trixa exclaimed as I nearly ran into the door before throwing it open and running out. "Come back! We're not here to hurt you! We just want to help!"
As soon as I exited the room, my eyes came into contact with a large trail of windows as well as a large white hallway. I suddenly stopped in my tracks as I looked both ways before looking back out the window. I noticed a darkened sky filled with millions of little stars high above the dull city below. Skyscrapers lined the ground for what seemed like miles, but I did not pay much attention to the ground. The sky, however, intrigued me the most. The stars seemed to have caught my attention all of a sudden, making my frantic form disappear like the wind.
My bare feet slowly began moving toward the large window in front of me, each step sending a shiver up my spine by the floor's cold touch. With each step I took, my mind seemed to turn hazy and blank as I looked up at the stars sitting so far above me. Something was happening to me, and it was beyond my control to stop it. It felt as if someone or something began moving me like a puppet tied to a set of strings. For what purpose, I could not comprehend on my own. Soon, my eyes became blurry, and the stars became so fuzzy, they began colliding into one another and turning into one giant ball of light. I was not sure if this was a normal thing for the people living here (if there were anymore besides Trixa and Vexen). It was a huge possibility. Or it could have been the fact I was beyond insane and started losing my mind the moment my eyelids opened. Nevertheless, there was nothing I could do to stop it now. No one could help me when I needed it, yet I could not feel the fear as others would have felt by now. It seemed as if all emotions escaped me and left me to rot. I had to feel fear, but why couldn't I? I could feel it before when I had awoken (or some version of it, since I had not been able to feel any emotions since that day years ago), but now it was no longer there. There was only one thing I could think of when it came to my hazy sight and mind: I was not supposed to be afraid of what was happening to me...whatever was happening to me.
Suddenly, everything around me seemed to grow darker, but the bright light remained the brightest of all. Eventually, it seemed to grow brighter and brighter until it completely engulfed my entire being, sending me to an unknown place with unknown wonders.
"Hey, who's the girl standing at the window?"
My eyes slowly opened to find myself staring up at the stars once again. They had returned to normal, but something felt very different. It felt as if I knew my surroundings better than I had moments ago, as if I had been here for at least a few days. But that was impossible. I could not memorize my surroundings so quickly and end up in a place like this so fast. It may have had something to do with the bright light that had engulfed my entire being, but the answer was far from my reach. So many questions had been raised in my mind at this point in time, but for some reason, I did not have any control of my body just like before. Who was doing this to me? And why me in the first place? Did I do something that forced them to do this? Did I anger someone and now they are exacting their revenge? I just did not know, yet I was afraid to find out the truth.
Without thinking, I slowly turned my body a hundred eighty degrees to find a small group of three people standing about eight to ten feet away from me. Two of them wore hoods to hide their faces from view, but the third had her hood off. She had arsenic grey colored hair kept back in a low ponytail. It reached down her back and stopped at her waist. She had bangs framing her face and her eyes were the brightest electric green I had ever seen in my life. Her skin was tanned a bit, making it look as if she had been in the sun for most of her life. She along with the other two wore dark cloaks, just like Vexen and Trixa. They must have been working together in some community or organization. But it did not seem to faze me as I stared at the three of them of another moment before turning to face them completely.
I took a small moment to scan my surroundings as well, although my body did not move in the direction my mind wanted it to go. But I was still able to see the room nonetheless; it was completely white just like the hallway I set foot in before the bright light came into the picture. Couches were placed around the room, also white, and were placed around the room in an organized manner. I noticed a few hoods sitting on the couches, but I could not tell who they were or what they were doing at the moment. Instead, I tried not to pay much attention to the other people sitting in the room and only focused on the three that stood before me.
The grey haired woman, looking to be in her late twenty early thirties, glanced over at my hooded form. "Oh! I almost forgot about her!" She spoke, rubbing the back of her head. Her appearance was very deceiving; she may have looked older to most, but she acted like an eighteen year old finally living on her own. "She was so quiet, it must have slipped my mind for a moment."-She quickly made her way over to me; she was taller than me by two to three inches (she had to be about 5'7" or 5'8", while I had to be around 5'5 1/2" to 5'6")-"This here is our new member. She was recruited to help out Vexen with his crazy experiments!"
"I heard that, Trixa..." Spoke the voice of Vexen, who was sitting on a couch several feet away from us. I blinked once as I glanced over at him for a brief moment. So this was the face of Trixa, huh? Surprisingly enough, she looked very familiar to me, but I could not put my finger on who she was in my eyes.
"You were supposed to," Trixa responded with a small smirk, before returning attention to the other two members. "Vex and I found her just outside the castle a few days ago. She was pretty badly hurt, and a large amount of Heartless surrounded her."-Heartless?-"Luckily, we saved her just before they finished her off. Almost died, the poor girl."-Died?-"Moving on from her moment of tragedy, she goes by the name of Xeela [Zeela]. Xemnas gave her the name not too long ago, actually. A couple days ago at most." I glanced up at Trixa for a moment as she looked back down at me. Xeela was my name, huh? And who was Xemnas? More questions raised in my mind, but my voice remained silent. "I think you should take off the hood, Xeela." She whispered to me, placing her hand next to her lips to prevent the other two from hearing her.
'Since when was I wearing a hood?' I asked myself, but unconsciously gave her a small nod and doing what she said. My hands moved toward my face to feel the soft material despite wearing black gloves before I pushed off the hood to unmask my identity.
My face was revealed just before navy blue colored hair cascaded down to my shoulder blades. My bangs fell into my face, but I was still able to see perfectly (it framed my face, but they did not cover my lavender colored eyes). Although I could not see myself in a mirror, I knew my skin color was slightly pale, but not sickly pale. I watched the two as I stood there, waiting for a response from either one. I took notice to the taller; he looked to have tensed slightly after I had removed my hood, but I said nothing in response. The shorter one, however, tilted her head to one side and crossed her arms, as if she were examining my form for a brief moment.
"She looks a little pale, Trix." She spoke, putting her arms back at her sides and walking toward the both of us. "Are you sure she's Organization XIII material?" I tensed slightly as she stopped in front of me and bent down slightly to examine me closely. Immediately, I took notice to her green eyes from under the hood. They looked to be uninterested and bored, as if she had better things to do than to meet new members and get to know them. I tried to keep myself composed by wearing a straight face, but I unintentionally spoke up without thinking.
"You seem uninterested in me..." I said, my voice remaining blank. Her green eyes immediately changed from uninterested to slight surprise at my choice of words. "I apologize if meeting a new member is boring to you." Obviously, I had guessed what she was feeling without even breaking a sweat. I could not blame her for seeming so bored; I am not a very interesting person to begin with.
She stared at me for another moment, before smirking slightly. "Huh, you seem to know me better than I thought, kid." She spoke, standing up straight and placing her hands on her hips. "I'm starting to like you all ready." Her voice sounded different than before, but it did not seem to faze me.
"Oh, come on, Larxene." Trixa spoke, shaking her head at the hooded female. "There's no need to be sarcastic." A small giggle erupted from the hooded woman, whom Trixa called Larxene, before she removed her hood and revealed her face to me. Along with her green colored eyes, Larxene also had short, jaw length hair slicked back and two distinctive strands that reminded me of two long antennae sticking out of her head.
"Oh, Trix, you know me so well." She said, still smirking like before. Trixa shook her head at her words, but smiled nonetheless. Obviously, the two were good friends, even though Larxene sounded like a very sarcastic and possibly a sadistic person. Trixa did not seem to mind the blonde's attitude toward life. In fact, she seemed used to it much like the other members in the room.
Speaking of other people in the room, I slowly looked past Larxene and over at the third bystander, the taller man, standing in the short distance. I noticed he had been watching us the whole time, but it felt as if he had been watching me even more than the other two women standing with. His hooded form stood as still as a statue, frozen in place, for quite some time. I blinked once as I continued to watch him, barely listening to the other two girls talk about something I did not hear. He did not say anything as I watched him standing there by himself. Clearly, he either did not seem to mind may staring or he did not notice.
Pretty soon, I felt Trixa's gaze on me, before glancing over at the taller man. "Hey, don't be such a loner! Come and meet Xeela!" She said. He, suddenly, jumped at the sound of Trixa's voice speaking to him. He glanced at her for a moment before slowly making his way over to the three of us. I continued to watch his every move. Each step looked very graceful and elegant, as if he were very careful as to where he walked not to make a mistake. Also, as he drew closer, the intoxicating scent of flowers entered my nose. For a moment, I thought I was going to lose my mind at the sight, but my chain of thought was broken by Larxene.
"Don't be so rude," she spoke, "Take off your hood." I blinked once as he looked over at Larxene in silence. Then, slowly, his hands began moving toward his hood. He was just about to remove the hood and reveal his identity, but suddenly, the bright light from before had appeared before my eyes. My eyes widened slightly, but it was not at the sight of the light. It was at the sight of something else. What it was I could not see, but it was probably more to that moment than what it was giving me. However, like before, there was nothing I could do to stop it.
As the light continued to grow brighter and brighter, my eyes slowly began to close as once again the light took control of me once more.
"H-hey! Are you all right? Wake up!" A familiar voice rang through my ears. I felt my body shaking as if someone were trying to wake me from a deep sleep. My eyes slowly began to open, only to find a hooded figure shaking me. I blinked a few times before the figure noticed I had finally awoken from my slumber. "Oh, thank God! You're all right!" The figure, Trixa I presumed from her voice, exclaimed with relief. I watched her for another moment before finally deciding to move on my own. For a second, Trixa tried to help me to my feet, but I politely refused the help. Instead, I quickly returned to my feet, wobbling for a moment, before standing up straight and looking at the taller woman.
"You're name is Trixa…" I spoke, "…Right?" Trixa tensed at my words, obviously shocked I knew her name without her introducing herself to me. However, she did not wish to be rude toward me.
"Y-yes…" She spoke, nodding slightly. "B-but how did you-"
"Your hair is arsenic grey and you have electric green eyes…" I interrupted, surprising her once again. "You're in your late twenties early thirties-no offense-and your tanned a bit, possibly from being in the sun a lot." She stared at me in silence. Clearly, she did not expect me to know any information about her simply by looking at her. Thing was she did not know I had seen her appearance before in what I assumed to be some sort of vision of the future. However, I kept my mouth shut about it, not wanting to bring up any unwanted questions.
She stared at me for another moment before deciding to remove her hood, proving my assumptions correct. Her grey hair was pulled back in the same manner as the vision and her eyes were the same electric green as I had seen. She looked shocked to find I was right, but she suddenly smiled. "You do remember me!" She exclaimed, placing her hands on my shoulders. I stared at her for another moment, confused by her words, but before I could question her she turned around toward the door I had just out of. "Vexen, come here! I think she's starting to get her memory back!" She exclaimed, motioning for whoever was there to appear from the darkness. My eyes followed her to where she looking at, until I saw Vexen, still hooded, appear from the room.
He stood there, obviously staring at me and shocked by my presence, but silent nonetheless. Although it would seem uncomfortable for a hooded stranger, I did not feel that way. In fact, I knew him from somewhere, despite the fact his identity was concealed from my view. His name was very familiar, as well as his voice. However, I could not put two and two together to figure out who he was and how I knew him. Trixa seemed to know me all too well, as if we had met somewhere before, but Vexen seemed to know me much longer than Trixa. How long exact was beyond my own knowledge. At this point, I had no idea who these people were to me. In fact, how I even came to be here in this strange world was a complete mystery. A mystery I would hope to have solved soon.
After a few more moments of silence, Trixa spoke up. "Vex, take off the damn hood!" She snapped, "She's not going to recognize you if you keep wearing it!" Immediately, Vexen removed his hood, revealing his identity to me. He had long, platinum blonde hair with two slightly short but still long bangs framing his face. Also, he had rather large, bright green eyes. My eyes widened slightly as I stared at him. Recognition hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew exactly who he was, but I did not know where or how I knew him. He was very familiar to me, and only one word escaped me, the only name I could think of that he knew I remembered him by:
"M-master…?"
Trixa's face lit up like the Fourth of July as she immediately embraced me in a tight hug. "She is remembering! She really is!" She said, sounding as if she were about to cry. Vexen simply watched the both of us.
"I knew she would…" He muttered to himself as I slowly returned Trixa's hug.
I did not think much about the future ahead of me, but I really should have. I did not expect anything to happen other than to assimilate with the group, or Organization XIII (as mentioned by Larxene in the vision). Thing was I did not expect a series of unthinkable and unimaginable events to occur to me as well other members of this "Organization," causing chaos and discord for every single one of us. Thing was I did not expect to be in the center of it either.