Waking up in a room filled with darkness was never something a person expected to do. This darkness, it leads nowhere. There were no walls, or doors. This was just darkness.
A mixture of black and purple smoke appears and a man in a black cloak is revealed.
"Hello there," says the man, his voice was young and lively. "Follow me, would ya?"
With that, he turned around and walked back into the darkness. He laid on the ground, staring at where the man was. Who was he? And where would this all lead to?
Suddenly there were walls. The man in the cloak obviously knew his way around these walls. The walls were different shades of grey, and it was a lot more soothing then the previous room where he had awakened.
"So your name is Kin?" asked the man, still walking. "Eh?"
"Yeah. Hey, exactly where are we going?" Kin replied, eager for answers.
"We're seeing Xemnas, ruler of this world, our king almighty, our God, for this religion that only Nobodies believe in." He laughed, waving his hands around as if he even he did not believe any of what he was saying. "At least, that's what he thinks of himself."
We stopped at a large door. "Oh and by the way, my name is, Demyx" He turned around, and finally took his hood off, revealing his face. Demyx was very young, had a mullet hairstyle, and had kind eyes. He seemed like a trustworthy person. Kin stared at Demyx, who raised his hand, and gave a cheerful smile. A handshake? Kin raised his hand, and they shook hands.
"Hey big guy, here he is." Demyx busted through the door, he took a bow and waved toward Kin. "This is--"
"Ah, that is our new member, Nikx. Very well, you may go." Xemnas stated, and shooed them away. Demyx and Nikx stood there, questioning if he was serious. Did they dare ask? Something about Xemnas' eyes shot fear through your veins. Pure darkness.
"Ah, okay then. I guess I'll show you your room?" Demyx suggested, lost and confused. "Hm, uh, this way."
Nikx was still questioning his new name. Why did he give him a new name? He stared straight ahead. He did not feel as if he were going anywhere, these halls were so long.
Soon, doors appeared and a door with a nameplate that read "Nikx" was in front of the two. Nikx opened the door, and the room was empty.
"Ha, you see," Demyx started. "Boss has this thing about the new rooms. They're empty, just like the spot where our hearts should be!" He started laughing wildly. Was it really that funny to him? Obviously, this was a carefree guy. "No, but really, just imagine what you want your room to look like, and it'll just appear." With that, he left. Leaving Nikx alone, in this empty room.
"Just like the spot where my heart should be?" Nikx felt the left side of his chest, and he felt no heart beat.
He stepped further into his room, and pictured in his mind what he wanted in his room. He saw nothing, but just a simple room, a black room with normal furniture. When he opened his eyes, he was standing in a black room with a bed, and a few couches and a dresser. Nikx wasn't into fancy things. He didn't really need it all. He walked to his bed.
He took of his two daggers he had that were attached to his waist, and sat them on the desk that was in his room. He unclipped the double-sided sword off his back, and leaned it against the wall. Nikx was very fond of weapons, so he always kept those with him. As kind as he was, he was known to get into fights.
He sighed, and laid in his new bed.
"Is this my new life?" He said aloud, as if he were expecting an answer. "Do I really not have a heart anymore? How could that be?" He closed his eyes, and imagined home. It wasn't all that great. Actually, he was fonder of where he laid now, then his old home. "I guess this," He smiled. "Can be my new home." Sleep came to him. He let his body rest, because surely all of this commotion would tire anyone out. So he laid there, and slept.
"Hey, wake up," Cried a voice, different from Demyx's voice. "And get dressed; your stuff is in your dresser." And he walked off. Nikx was unable to get a glimpse of who was talking to him. Lazy and resisting his urge to follow orders, he slid off this amazingly comfortable bed. Had he imagined it to be that comfortable? He dragged his feet against the tile of his floor to his dresser.
The room was quite large, and his dresser was on the opposite side of where he was. Nikx sighed, because he knew this would take a while. "Hey, hurry it up!" The man came back. His unique red hair that surfaced all over his head, his fierce green eyes that he would stare at you with. "Hey, I know you're new here, but come on, hurry it up."
"And just who are you?" I said, finally woken up. He snickered, and pointed him thumb up to his chest.
"I'm Axel, got it memorized?" He stared at Nikx, who just gave a simple nod. "Good. Now hurry up." He strolled off. Nikx yawned and decided to take steps that wouldn't give him the honor of having another visit from Axel.
When he reached his dresser, he opened it up, and there were black cloaks, that everyone seemed to wear. There were regular clothes, when did they ever wear these?
"Ah. I suppose I'll just put this cloak on." He slipped the cloak on, and he smiled. It fit him well and it made him feel powerful in a way. As if somehow it gave him power, or maybe it was just that he could finally belong somewhere.
He gathered his weapons from the desk and the wall. He needed to have these with him.
Nikx walked out of his door, clueless as to where he should be going. The halls were empty; he was definitely late for whatever he should be at. Thinking back, he remembered Axel leaving to the left. Nikx sighed and walked out the door and to the left.
"Is this gonna be some kinda welcome party? If so, I'm horribly underdressed, haha." Nikx laughed and stared ahead waiting for more doors or to see Axel or Demyx. "Why are these halls so long?!"
A portal appeared next to him, Axel popped out of it
"You could always try making one of these, genius." He jumped out of the portal, and started walking with Nikx. "Didn't Demyx teach you how?"
"Demyx? No, he just brought me here, and showed me my room." Nikx replied, questioning why they didn't just go into the portal back there so they wouldn't have to walk. "Why are we walking? Can't YOU make portals?"
"Yeah, but well, I don't know. We can take our time." He joked; he was a fun guy too. "Hey, you should meet Roxas."
"Uh, who? Exactly how many people live here?" This place was huge, and Nikx suspected at least over fifty people.
"Well, only the thirteen of us, fourteen now, live here. And I guess the nobodies live here to, but they just pop out whenever, so basically, the fourteen of us." Axel answered, he's been here for a while, It's not surprising that he knows all this.
"Fourteen people? In this huge place? Was it always this empty?"
"It used to be six. Besides, we prefer the private sector. Anyone who comes in here other than anyone we bring in is an enemy, so we kill them."
"Hm, I see." Nikx was learning a lot about this place thanks to Axel. He felt safe to call him a friend, as well as Demyx. "Demyx seems nice."
"Demyx? Ha, yeah. Demyx is pretty cool. No one really respects him here, since he acts immature, but yeah, he's alright. He, Roxas and I are always hanging out." He stopped and looked at Nikx. "Maybe you should just hang with us, I don't think any of the other members of the organization would welcome you as nicely as we would. They're pretty much hard-asses, even about the simplest things."
"Really? Well, sounds good." Finally, they approached these two long doors, they were there. Wherever they were supposed to be.
"The Throne Room," Axel stated. "This is where we all gather. We meet, and discuss missions and just whatever Xemnas throws at us. It's loads and loads of fun." He sounded sarcastic. "So, enough chitter chatter. Let's go inside." He opened the long doors that lead into a room, a pure white room with huge platforms that rose into the very high ceiling.
Some platforms were higher than others were, some were at equal height, and there were two empty platforms. One for Axel, and one for Nikx.
Nikx turned to Axel.
"Exactly how do I get up there?" Nikx gulped and was hoping he wouldn't have to climb. "Please don't say I have to--"
"Climb? Yeah, we all have to climb up there. It does suck, but it's good for the body." Axel paused, and glanced at Nikx who looked like he was having a hard time breathing. "Relax, portals dude, portals. But of course you don't know how to make a portal so you may have to climb."
"What?! Can't you just make me a portal?!" Nikx definitely did not want to climb that high. Was it even possible to climb up that thing?
"Alright, how about I teach you how to make a portal." He was obviously having fun with this. "Alright, just like with your room, how you imagined how you wanted it, just image a portal that would lead you wherever you wanted to go. That chair up there is yours,"
He pointed to one of the two empty ones, it was also next to Demyx. Demyx smiled and waved his hand. "Now, just picture the portal leading to you, and just imagine the portal appearing in front of you. Now… GO!"
Nikx concentrated on making the portal. A black portal just like Axel's portal had appeared. He stepped inside of it and a portal at the empty chair had appeared, and there Nikx sat. Proud of himself for making his first portal.
He saw Axel smile, and disappear into his own portal, leading him to his own chair.
"So glad you could join us, Nikx." Xemnas started, he seemed annoyed. "Well, you don't know everyone in this room, but that's okay, we all know who you are, so no worries. Now, you are now a Nobody. You have no heart. And now!"
He raised his finger and teleported to Nikx's chair. And laid his finger on where his heart used to be.
"You have unlocked a special power. That was hidden inside of your heart." He took his finger off. "So now that your heart is gone, that power is now able to be used, it now runs through your veins and you now have so much power in you."
He teleported back to his own throne. He smiled.
"Now, you have to figure out what that power is. Axel, Demyx, take Nikx to the training room." He paused, and smiled. "Help him, unleash his power."
Demyx and Axel nodded their heads and glanced at Nikx. He had a confused look on his face. He was wondering exactly what Xemnas meant by, powers.
A portal appeared in front of Nikx.
"Enter through there, it will lead you to our training grounds." Xemnas instructed, there Axel and Demyx can help you." He smiled. "Have fun."
Nikx jumped into the portal and when he came out he was in another large, white room.
"When did they find the time to build all these rooms?" Nikx joked, looking around, searching for Axel and Demyx.
At that moment, fire circled around Nikx, and he was trapped. Then a large wave of water shot out from behind the fire and was directing toward Nikx. He was stunned and had no clue what to do.
"What are you doing?!" He cried helpless, and defenseless.
"Bring out your weapon, just summon it in your mind" Demyx cried out. This was the first time his weapon was revealed. A large blue sitar. Never before had Nikx seen anything like it.
"Exactly how am I supposed to do that?" Nikx said, he was nervous and had no idea what to do. He held out his hand and expected a miracle of some sort to happen.
A cloud of smoke appeared around his hand and his double-sided sword had appeared.
"How… What?" He was shocked to see what had just happened.
"There ya' go!" Axel cheered, "Now look out, cus' here we come!" He raised the two of his chakrams and dashed toward him, entering the flames.
Nikx snapped out of his shock, and readied himself for combat. He raised his weapon and sprinted toward axel. Their weapons clashed together and you could see the burning flames in each of their eyes.
They both seemed to have forgotten the wave of water that Demyx had summoned into the center of the fire. Their eyes widened as the shadow of the wave covered them. They let out a yelp and dashed out of flames.
"OW!" Nikx wasn't as used to running through flames as Axel was apparently.
"Come on," Axel laughed, "It's just fire!" They both laughed. And Demyx appeared in front of Nikx's body. He gave a smirk
"Dance, water, dance!" he cried. Figures of water arose from the ground. They took the shape of musical notes. They rushed toward Nikx, swinging themselves at him recklessly.
Nikx swung his blade at them and twirled it in his hand getting a multiple bunch at once. He was beginning to grow tired. The heat of Axel's flames were intense and was very uncomfortable to battle near.
Nikx glanced at where Axel was standing, and saw him disappear. He felt wind blow behind his back and immediately leapt away from the area.
Axel let out a great burst of flames in front of him, eliminating all of Demyx's water warriors.
"Hey!" Demyx shouted, "Get Nikx, not my warriors!"
"Well, his speed is impressive and can get away quickly," Axel argued, "Not like some water warriors I know!"
"HEY!"
"WHAT?!"
Nikx stood there starring at the two and took this moment as an opportunity to strike. He thought about his two daggers. He made his double-sided sword disappear and his two daggers appeared in both his hands.
He sprinted toward the two, and when he was about a yard away from them, they sensed him coming and greeted his daggers with their weapons.
"It's always good to have two weapons," Axel stated, then laughed, "Too bad your two are occupied." He swung his free arm with his other chakram straight toward Nikx.
Nikx brought back his arms, and leaped backwards, dodging Axels attack. He was finally beginning to wonder why they both had an elemental power. He wondered if he too, had a power, but he--
"I have to unleash my power." He said, thinking out loud. "How do I do that?!"
"Well you could start by paying attention," Axel appeared in front of him, ready to strike. "And quit daydreaming!"
He struck at Nikx. The impact caused Nikx to fly back, he crashed into a wall. If this was the pain that he'd always feel, he really needed to focus more.
Axel and Nikx stared at each other. Nikx readied his daggers and leapt toward axel. There was a bright, orange and red cape that seemed to surround Nikx. As he struck Axel with his daggers, the cape of orange and red blasted toward Axel. Now Axel had flown back against the wall.
"Finally," Said Axel. He was hurt and it took effort to speak. "Now, keep it coming."
Demyx appeared next to Axel, and helped him stand.
"This is finally getting fun." Demyx snickered. "Dance, water, dance!"
"Burn, baby!"