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Marly`s beginning Everything was black. Man, my head throbbed...

Hundreds of questions flew through my mind as I lay on the cold ground...

...Where am I ... who am I... Why is everything dark...am I... dead?

I felt a presence near me. Sitting up I looked around I seemed to be surrounded by black clouds...

Suddenly a big dark cloud cleared revealing a tall figure in a dark cloak

"h-hello?" I stuttered "Who`s there?"

Wordlessly the figure extended his hand to me and helped me up, making my vision swim for a moment.

"I know you must have many questions Lumaria."

Was that my name, Lumaria? My mind was misting. How could I not remember my own name?

"You see Lumaria, something was taken from you. Your heart to be exact."

I was taken aback. "My... heart?" I questioned.

"Yes, but if you join us you will gain it back once we complete something called kingdom hearts"

What if he was lying? But why would someone take my heart? He sounded serious; maybe he was telling the truth. What did I have to lose? Honestly I had no memory, no place to go, and apparently no heart.

"But who are you?" I still had many questions unanswered.

"I am Xemnas, leader of organization 13, but should you choose to join us you must know that all the things you know, you must leave behind, and accept your new name... "

New name... I barely know the one I have, and since I have no memory of before right now, why should that matter? Maybe when I get my heart back, my memories will come with it! I had made my decision.

"Alright, I'll join your organization" I said finally.

He started spelling my name out mid air in front of me, made of a silver fog. it almost made my eyes burn as I had just gotten used to the darkness as confused as I was already he added an "X" to it and started mixing them up until it finally read "MARLUXIA, The Graceful Assassin". And that was my name from that point on.

For the next few weeks maybe even a month or so I acted like a zombie I just kept to myself in my dark room. Xemnas said it would take awhile to get settled and to develop my skills.

Skills? What skills might I have? I seemed pretty much useless at the time. There always seemed to be something missing, but I just couldn`t seem to solve it.