First AU fic. Go me.
Hope I didn't copy anything... already made, that is, from somewhere from the sixth dimension.
If I owned KH, Roxas would have gone to Atlantica and the Pride Lands in 358/2 Days. Then I would have stuck the KH characters in a world where they grew wings. e_e
This is actually just the prologue. And the prologue sucks, believe me. Or maybe that's just me worrying. Next chapter should be better... oh, wait. The second chapter is a bit weird too, but the third is better than both... in my opinion. Whatever!
Axel and Demyx's attributes are bothering me. A lot.
...oh well.
I'll shut up now; enjoy the actual story~
We had been bred like this.
It was hard to believe that this was even possible. Humans cloned from other humans, but tinkered with. Played with like genetic toys. Samples.
Hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of failures. Decades, perhaps centuries of research.
It was only throughout the last few decades did they manage to keep their specimens alive, for over six hours, that is. With mishmashes of different animal DNA, they had them grown. Tested them. Poked and prodded them to no end. Let them border on the edge of insanity... but not quite over that border, since they were the first to live, and they couldn't afford to have them harmed.
They were us.
Unknown. Others. Beasts. Clones. Test subjects. Nothings.
Nobodies.
There were twenty of us. Six died. None of the living remembered them, the dead, later on. We were all too young, and the eldest were mind-wiped from their knowledge through the stress of testing.
Then they made her. The second- no, the third girl. She was, somehow, different... so they gave her a different name as well. 'No. I', wasn't it...?
We doubted they were going to make more 'No.'s. The grimace in their faces as they stared at her showed that her way in being different wasn't exactly up to their standards. Maybe it was because she was still sitting around like a dumb doll, not doing anything, staring, emotionless... and she didn't react to anything, even after her first week. All of us always started acting with a taste of our own minds by the first week, at the least.
But, nah.
Us and our little mashes of DNA were tested day and night, anyways, regardless.
Speaking of that...
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There are fourteen... fifteen if you count the doll.
If you don't want to bother reading all these profiles, it's easy to skip, but it'll be harder to understand later on. Probably... really hard.
Our Somebody's memories come back to us, slowly, by the beginning of our birth. Our 'birth' actually has us mature to our Somebody's age, whatever it was, before we are left to interact with the new world. The older we are at our birth, the faster our memories return. Not that... they were really our memories in the first place.
I is Xehanort. For some reason he calls himself Ansem. Probably has to do with his memories. Traditionally the experiments here reformed their names with an 'X'. So, he is now called Xemnas. Did we mention that we gave ourselves titles, as well? His is 'The Leader of the Fissure'. You could say that he's our 'leader'. He was the first of us, and the weirdest... or you could just say most mysterious. Whatever you want. But, he's pretty indifferent and disconnected when it comes to his plans... not that experiments could really have plans for their futures. That was up to the scientists. Anyways, we really don't have a good thought of his animal DNA. Wolf? Cat? He did have orange eyes. Hawk? That would fit his eyes and his gray-white hair. Other than that, he doesn't have any other noticeable animal attributes.
II is Xigbar. Braig, we think his true name is. He's the one with the strange sense of humor. He would be the Freeshooter. He has a tendency of flying upside down and backwards. Yes, flying. We think he has bat and hummingbird DNA. He possesses large black bat wings, and is blind in the right eye. Maybe he didn't have that eye, instead of being blind in it. We don't know how he got it, but he wears a black eye patch to cover the eye. Though, for some other reason, he has perfect vision in the other eye. Huh.
III is... well, not all that friendly. He's even more indifferent than Xemnas. He is the nobody of Dilan. His anagram name would be Xaldin. His title is the 'Whirlwind Lancer'. There's Komodo Dragon, hawk, and eagle DNA in him... perhaps more, but who knows about us more than the scientists? Anyways, he's basically the master of wind. Him and his quiet, 'angry' (kind of) self has brown-black bird wings.
IV would be the Chilly Academic, Vexen. He used to 'be' Even. His DNA is fitted perfectly for an icy environment, and all other DNA concluded his extreme level of intelligence. However, he feels quite disrespected among us... heh. Nobody can have everything, huh? Anyways, he is thick-skinned, with the DNA of a parrot, yak, with the anti-freeze gene of fish with him, as well as whale, arctic fox and arctic owl. He has quite a lot of DNA with him, but other than his thick skin (that earlier comment was literal), he looks not much different from a normal human... or of what we remember what a human was.
V is the Silent Hero. Aeleus, or Lexaeus is a being of the earth, the heaviest and yet the quietest of us. We hardly know much about him, other than those facts and of his DNA. He is part snake, elephant, bear, and whatever else you can think of that possesses immense strength. You can see brown bear ears poking out of his hair, but you have to pay extreme attention to that or you won't spot them.
VI is Ienzo, in other terms, Zexion. He would be the Cloaked Schemer. He has a thing for scents, and for reading books that are given to him. He's part bug, part wolf. Other than silver-blue hair and antennae that can easily, though uncomfortably, be hidden in his hair, he looks... pretty normal. That and the four bug wings he keeps hanging down.
VII is Saix, Aïs. At least we think his name is Aïs. Could be something else for the Luna Divider. He is a wolf. Nothing else. Nada. Probably the only experiment with only one DNA alteration, other than Namine. But with one dose, comes a lot of it. He's usually calm, but goes with the moon... in other words, don't get near him under the light of the full moon. (Not that we ever get to see the moon at all. We just remember it.) He has silver wolf ears poking out of his blue hair, with an X-scar on his face, as well as a bushy tail of the same color.
VIII- Axel! Lea, pronounced Lee, thank you very much. The Flurry of Dancing Flames certainly is a flurry of dancing flames. The scientists gave him electric eel DNA, then kicked that power up a few notches... it ended up giving him fire power instead of powerful electricity. In their terms, that was an accidental, yet wonderful success, but also a downfall. But it doesn't mean that they like to put up with his sarcastic attitude. That and with red fox DNA, he has fox ears and a tail. With that, his lion DNA doesn't serve him anything.
IX would be Demyx. Even though the Melodious Nocturne is an open book, no one can figure out his true name. His sole purpose is being water boy. Not in college football, thank you very much. His DNA consists of all water creatures- dolphin, fish, whale, otter... whatever else. He can turn his legs into a tail. The water just does that to him, when he enters it. That ability gives him the title of 'most non-biologically sensible experiment'. Not that he likes that. Anyways, he hates to fight, but loves music and is given music lessons... probably because he's the only one knowing how to strum a sitar. He says it comes from his past life. Who knows...
X, the Gambler of Fate, would be Luxord, his true name unknown. Suggested by his title, he used to be a card dealer in his past life. No one really knows his animal DNA alteration, but he's quick and wily, so that might give you a suggestion.
XI. Marluxia, real name unknown, is the Graceful Assassin. He's part flower. Seriously. Only that would explain the thousands of petals he manages to whip around every day. It wasn't like he got them from outside. He's only let out in a cage, during mealtime, to soak up food from the sun. That, and he has bee DNA. At least, they recently gave him bee DNA, through a new program of injecting DNA. The scientists gave him it, that is. We don't know what it's going to do to him.
XII is the Savage Nymph Larxene. She has some kind of bug's DNA, along with lioness, wolverine, and electric eel. The scientists made her to use electricity and not fire like Axel, so they kicked the electric eel power down a notch compared to Axel and made her. Trouble is, they didn't know they were making a girl. All of the girls here were different or mistakes... well, she wasn't as much. She was still ferocious as a wolverine, with retractable claws, and with antennae that looked like a couple weird strands of hair. However, she still has a human mind... though a mean one...
XIII is probably in a silence contest with Lexaeus. The Key of Destiny never speaks, and hasn't spoken once for his life of two months. His Somebody is unknown even to him. The really weird thing about him is that he doesn't remember a thing. That is, Roxas's past life isn't with him. Anyways, Roxas has golden bird wings, though we can never see them right because they're usually tucked neatly against his back. He also has wolf DNA with him, and perhaps a bit of lion as well. No one has seen him fly, either. Perhaps when he starts talking, Xaldin or Xigbar could give him a few lessons.
That would make up Organization XIII, with thirteen members, hence the name. But, for now, we're just thirteen experiments. Thirteen nobodies. Other than those two weird girls...
Namine is just as simple as Saix when it comes to DNA. The scientists took a profound interest in her and her dove DNA. That's right- along with her white sundress comes a pair of large white dove wings. She doesn't say anything about her past, or who she is. She never had a chance of getting in with the Organization experiments, because she was always taken away by the scientists... and usually, she's stuck in a white room, drawing her life away (because her drawings were just sooo awesome). We don't know who her somebody is. And she doesn't have an 'X' in her name...
Xion, No. I, is the doll. Even though she's in that state, we consider her member XIV. Kinda. Okay, not really. That number was just a simple thought, for if she would ever wake up from her isolated dream. Though we almost never see her, anyone could see her shiny black bird wings if she ever came in sight. The scientists told us she had wolf and a twinge of lion DNA, like Roxas. Huh.
Those are the fifteen experiments. Were the profiles boring to read? Well, all the stuff coming up next will be much more fun...
But, it wouldn't be surprising if you didn't even get here in your reading.
Most people don't want to hear the truth...