Sorry that this was late for my usual updates. I literally rewrote this chapter five times before I finally felt that it was good enough. I really wanted to have a long chapter as an introduction, but I felt like it would have just been drawn out for no reason. So I hope that all of you still enjoy this chapter and leave me a review of what you think. Anyway, onto the chapter.

Inverted Sky: KH 358/2 Days

Chapter 1

-Day 49-

Nothingness. Or perhaps it was the darkness? But, what difference did it make? There was nothing to see...nothing to hear...nothing to smell...and nothing to feel. Whether it was one or the other, did it truly matter? There was nothing.

Wait...a voice? But whose?

A light? Where did it come from?

Slowly, she opened her eyes and gazed up at the bright light that hung over her hooded face. The girl turned her head slightly as she could see a pure white room that had various lights all across the ceiling. Yet, what drew her attention was the single black figure in the room. Which began to move slightly while having it's back turned toward the girl. Whom slowly began to sit herself up in the bed she seemed to have been placed in.

'Where...am...I?' she wondered to herself as she briefly closed her eyes.

But after doing so, the girl's vision was overtaken in darkness. This making her force her eye lids back open out of the fear of never returning from the dark. Though, after a brief few moments of looking around, she started to feel more of a sense of 'self'. This bringing about the new and even more important question of; 'Who am I?'

Upon thinking this over, the girl quickly realized that she didn't seem to have any memories to remember. However, she still felt as though something was, or should be something within her that would provide the answer of who she was. Yet after realizing this, the girl felt a strange spark inside of her chest. Of which she almost seemed to see after blinking her eyes and witnessing the darkness once more. There being a small orb of light within the endless darkness, but seemed to be just out of her reach.

Before she could wonder what this was, a voice spoke up from the black figure to the side of her. "Excellent, you're awake at last." was the confident and calculative tone that was used within these words.

The girl turned her gaze toward this person and blinked a few times as if finally realized that it was a man wearing a long, black coat. His platinum-blond-hair making a big contrast the color of his wardrobe, yet the girl just blinked a few more times while the man continued on. "I am Vexen, your creator."

"Vex..en..." she spoke out silently, her words sounding and even feeling foreign to her as she didn't even realize she could talk.

"Indeed...and from this point on, you will do everything that I tell you." the man stated firmly as he seemed to look her over for a moment with a raised brow.

Vexen's expression appeared as if he found something odd about the girl, to which he then removed her hood. However, his eyes quickly widened in response to what he saw and he quickly lowered her hood as he spoke out in a whisper. "I see..."

"My chameleon program was only meant to prevent you from looking like 'her', but it seems there is more to that girl than I expected." Vexen muttered silently to himself, making the girl look at him blankly and tilt her head slowly to the side.

"Regardless...you are to be designated as; 'Xion'. And your mission is to help collect hearts from the Heartless." the platinum-blond-haired man stated firmly, yet soon added; "For now that is."

Vexen then cleared his throat and gestured to her; "Now then...summon your Keyblade." he more of ordered than simply requested.

Xion looked from him before down at her gloved hand, which allowed her to finally notice that she was wearing the same outfit as the man watching her. However, the girl soon turned to him once more as she didn't even know what a Keyblade was. This bringing a noticeable annoyed expression onto his features, to which he then held out his left hand and summon a large blue shield within it. "Just like that." was all he said at first before his shield then vanished just as quickly as it appeared.

"Focus your mind on the power inside of you, allow it to take shape in your mind and call it forth to your hand." Vexen explained further after the girl simply gazed blankly at him for a few moments.

Upon his words, Xion moved her hand outward and visibly began to concentrate. Yet as time ticked by, nothing seemed to be happening, making Vexen all the more irritated. Him turning away quickly with a growl, to which he titled his head down in thought while muttering to himself.

"It looks like a failure...and I was so sure I calculated for everything before I even began on her creation." he hissed silently as he looked to a computer screen in front of him.

All the while, the girl had looked from Vexen, to her hand. Her wondering exactly what was supposed to appear within it, if or when her inner power took shape. "My...power?" she muttered aloud before slowly closing her eyes.

However, the darkness didn't seem to frighten her this time as she focused fully on the light that seemed to be just out of her reach. But when she finally leaned forward just enough, the light enveloped her and a huge number of images of a single person flashed through her mind. There even being a voice that spoke to her while each of these went by, yet it all ended in an instant and she wasn't able to make sense of anything. Yet when Xion's eyes slowly opened, she saw a white Keyblade in her hand and just blinked multiple times at the sight of it.

Vexen, having turned around at some point during all this, simply gazed upon the weapon with great intrigue. "It's...Oathkeeper." he whispered silently as his eyes narrowed briefly.

"Interesting...the Keyblade Roxas summoned Oblivion. And from what I've read about the reports on Keyblades, there does seem to be a connection between Oathkeeper and Oblivion." the platinum-blond-haired man muttered to himself, something that Xion barely managed to listen to as she was suddenly hearing a voice within her mind.

It sounding familiar, yet so foreign at the same time. It was that of woman, yet they sounded like a teacher or such from their tone. However, this voice slowly drowned out as the girl then looked from her new weapon, to Vexen. Whom was nodding his head in approval, to which he then took on a small smirk. "Excellent...it seems my research was spot on after all." he claimed firmly as if to add 'naturally' at the end.

"Now then...for the time being, you will be staying here. At least until a time that you're ready to join us." Vexen continued while heading over to one of the other computers.

"Us?" Xion whispered out with a slight tilt of her head to the side.

"Indeed...you will be joining Organization 13 as its technical fourteenth member!" the man declared as if proud of this statement.

Xion however, tilted her head a bit further to the side as she simply spoke her next words on instinct alone. "That sounds a bit contradictory, doesn't it? And a little lame."

Immediately following these words, Vexen turned to her with a shocked expression as the girl sounded just like someone else he knew. This making him then turn back to the screen and look through a great amount of text and formulas. "Perhaps I miscalculated the amount of influence she might have over your personality." he whispered to himself in a deeply thoughtful manner.

Yet Xion simply blinked a few times to him while placing her free gloved fingers over her mouth. 'Why did I say that? It just sort of...came out.' she thought silently to herself, all while tilting her head down.

"Well...whatever the case may be, you are a complete success. Therefore, you will be trained to not only wield your Keyblade properly, but also to use your other abilities." Vexen claimed while turning around to face the girl once again.

Whom nodded her head in response as she didn't think there was anything else for her to do. Not only did she feel no sense of purpose, but she didn't even have a strong enough sense of herself to want one. However, this man seemed to have far more answers than she did, so maybe he knew what the meaning of her life was?

-Day 56-

Xion moved slowly as she waved her Keyblade through the air with grace and precision. Though she still didn't have the technique of a professional, she wasn't quite an amateur anymore. But after hitting each of the dummies that suddenly shot up from the floor around her, she unsummoned her weapon and stood motionless in the middle of the room.

"Excellent. You've improved a great deal." Vexen exclaimed with a wide grin from off to the side, to which he took a few steps forward.

"I believe you're ready to join the ranks...at least for a trial run." he continued with a slow nod of his head.

"Remain here while I inform the Superior of your progress." the platinum-blond-haired man ordered while heading toward one of the larger computers.

Of which Xion had begun to associate with Vexen either becoming happy or upset toward. Each time, it always seemed to depend on her and how well she did that day. Though it had only been a week, the girl was learning things at a rapid rate. However, Vexen couldn't take all the credit as Xion always had strange dreams of a woman teaching her. Said teachings seemed to vary between proper etiquette, the use of magic and various other things that the man never taught her.

Despite not knowing how to use magic, Xion felt confident that if she tried it, she could become quite good. Yet her thoughts about this were interrupted as Vexen chuckled lightly after apparently reading a message from this person he addressed as 'The Superior'. "Excellent, it seems that he's also pleased with your progress and has agreed to put you through the trial run." he stated with a nod of his head.

"Now you finally get to see what the outside world is like." the man continued before he walked toward her and held out a hand to the side.

This created a dark portal a few feet away from them, to which he gestured for her to go through. "You shall be introduced to the rest of the Organization members first, so simply remain quiet for now." he added quickly as Xion simply nodded and walked through the portal along with Vexen.

Upon reaching the other side, they both arrived inside a huge white hall that held thirteen towering thrones in a circle. The highest one reaching well over fifty feet tall, while the shortest was still about fifteen feet in height. In all but one however, dark portals appeared simultaneously and revealed eleven individuals. But it was the one in the tallest throne that caught the most attention as he spoke in a silent, yet deep baritone voice that commanded respect.

His skin was very tan, making a large contrast to his orange eyes and long, spiky hair that was grey in color. He, along with all of the other ten people, also wore the same coat that Vexen and Xion did. "Good tidings, friends." the grey-haired man started with a brief glance around to everyone in the hall.

"Today is a momentous occasion." the man continued as he then gestured down to Xion with a hand while saying his next words.

"I am pleased to announce that a new comrade has been chosen to wear the coat. Number XIV, Xion." upon these words, the girl tilted her head up to look at the many new faces she had never seen before.

Her slowly moving her gaze further and further down until finally reaching a boy who appeared to be around her age. He had bright blue eyes and very spiky, golden blond hair, yet his expression toward her seemed almost as if he was recalling something. But the longer she looked at him, the more she felt like he was someone she knew, or at least should know. Even as everyone else's gazes were locked onto her, Xion had unconsciously smiled at this boy while thinking of the single name echoing through her mind.

'Roxas.'

And there you have it. It's not an overly dramatic or even a very interesting start of this part of the story, but it's the best I could do after trying and failing five times to get something good enough. Anyway, I hope all of you enjoyed and let me know your thoughts in a review. Also, if any of you have an addition or such you'd like to see, you can leave that in your review as well. Though this part of the story will be kinda short, and there won't be as much opportunity to put in a lot of additions, I'll still try my best. So, until next time everyone.