This took a while. To be honest, I wanted to finish this before uploading, but I find that since it's not being uploaded, there's no urgency in my finishing of the story. So I'm no where close.
As for what this story will be, it's basically 358/2 days with a few changes. One of which will be revealed in a side story, and the other is I'm once again adding my own characters. Maybe more. Maybe more.
Also still waiting for the very people to ask me about fan characters to give me info on the characters they want me to add to my stories. That offer is up for this story as well as the sequel to Darkness Within. I've gotta change that name. There's not enough darkness in the story.
Fanboys: GET ON WITH IT!
Why are you here? Anyway, on with Chapter 1: The Organization!
One more thing. To those who did read Darkness Within, remember how I was getting annoyed at how Fanfiction doesn't preserve anything from Copy & Paste? Well I just found out that my writing software lets me download my documents in a .odt format. That's the recommended format for uploading a story to Fanfiction, so hopefully all my troubles will be relieved and I can write my stories any which way again! Hazah!
Song: Hikari (Instrumental)
The brunette stood there, pondering.
"If I free Kairi's heart…"
"Sora?" Donald asked.
Sora turned back to his two anthropomorphic companions, a white duck mage named Donald, and a black dog knight by the name of Goofy. He smiled at them, and picked up the dark Keyblade. He looked down at the redhead he'd been searching for this entire journey.
He turned the keyblade around, and thrust it into his own chest.
"As long as you're awake, I can face any darkness."
"Pitiful Heartless. Mindlessly collecting Hearts. The rage of the Keyblade releases those Hearts. They gather in darkness, masterless and free. Until they weave together to make Kingdom Hearts. And when that time comes we can truly, finally exist.
Song: Axel and Roxas
A figure in a black coat walked after a blonde boy with blue eyes. "Not many people have the courage to say no to the Superior. I like your attitude." The boy did not respond. "If you can call it attitude. You seem more like a zombie than a disobedient prick. C'mon. Lemme show ya something."
The boy, feeling nothing, with nowhere to go, followed the man.
They sat atop the clocktower in town, with the man holding to objects in his hands. "Here. Eat up."
He stared at the thing he'd been given.
"You're supposed to eat it." The man said.
He took a bite out of the blue thing on a stick. "It's salty, but sweet."
"The zombie speaks!" The man exclaimed jokingly. "It's Sea Salt Ice Cream. C'mon. Once we're finished, I'm getting you off the streets. And for future reference, my name's Axel. Got it memorized?"
The boys name… was Roxas. Organization XIII's thirteenth member.
Song: Organization XIII
"... and you might want to stay away from Larxene." Axel finished explaining the other members to Roxas. His hood was off, and he was revealed to be a light skinned man with spiky red hair and green eyes. He also had two purple tattoos below his eyes. Larxene was a light skinned blond girl with green eyes, and two strands of her hair was put in a style that made them look like antennae. It was a day since the two met, and Roxas barely said anything more. He spoke to no one, and followed orders. The few words he said weren't directed at anyone, but were sometimes responded to anyway.
"Who are they?" Roxas said.
Axel looked on and noticed a few figures in white in the kitchen. "Those are… our subordinates. They're like us, but most of them are much less special than us thirteen."
Roxas looked at Axel, as if asking for an explanation. "We work for Xemnas, and they work for us. That's the chain of command. Those guys there are called dusks. The lowest of the low on our food chain. We in the organization must first prove ourselves to Xemnas by completing our missions if we want our own subordinates, and we start of with just dusks before we can have anything better. Mine are called Assassins."
Roxas nodded, but he looked a bit confused.
"Maybe I shouldn't have dumped all that info on you at once." Axel said.
"Of course not. His mind is too small to grasp anything important." Another member said. He was also light skinned, his hair was long and platinum blonde, and his eyes were green.
"And that's Vexen, if you recall. Not very nice for an old guy."
"You insolent… You're lucky I have experiments to be working on." And he left.
Axel noticed one of the dusks laughing. "I don't like the guy either, but you should respect your superiors." The other dusks left in a hurry, but the one that was laughing stood his ground.
"Just give me an assignment and I'll be out of your hair." This one's hood fell off, revealing a dark skinned boy with red hair and yellow eyes.
Axel turned to Roxas. "This here is an example of a dusk that's full of himself. He insists that we use his name. That slides with people like me and Demyx, but a lot of us would destroy him if he said that, mainly Larxene and Vexen."
The dusk flinched. "I give credit where credit is due. I don't want to mess with Larxene. But I don't see what the big deal about Vexen is." He looked at Axel, waiting.
"Oh… His name's Blyxil."
"Well… I don't have much of a reason to stay here, I'll be out of the way till one of you Big Bad Organization Members need me."
Saix walked up to the two. "You should've disciplined him for badmouthing your comrade."
"Eh. Let Vexen handle it."
Silence
DAY 7
"Good tidings, friends. Today is a momentous day." Xemnas paused for a second. His hood was off. He was dark skinned, had long silver hair, and orange eyes. "I am pleased to announce that a new comrade has been chosen to wear the coat."
Roxas sat in his first meeting in the round room sitting in one of these chairs. Axel explained that each chair rose in height depending on how well you do in the Organization, with the Superior, Xemnas, the highest. So it was only natural for Roxas to be the lowest. He noticed that a few of the members moved a little when Xemnas mentioned a new member.
"Number XIV."
They all looked down at the figure who walked in. Roxas remembered the day he joined the Organization.
"Let us all welcome… one of the Keyblade's chosen." The Superior said, as Axel and Roxas, now in a coat like all the others, walked into the round room. In the room were thirteen chairs, two of which were empty.
The new member and Roxas shared a glance.
"For the seven days since my arrival, the name Roxas, and the number thirteen, were all I had. Who the people around me were, what they wanted, or what they were trying to do, I had no idea.
DAY 8
Song: Sacred Moon
"Teach him well, Axel." Saix said. He was a man with long blue hair, yellow eyes, and a scar on his face.
"Don't worry. I'll be sure he makes the grade." Axel replied. "Roxas, let's go." Axel turned to Roxas to see him staring at the newbie. "What's wrong? You worried about the new kid? What was that name again?"
Saix helped him out. "Number XIV, Xion."
"Right. I knew that." Axel said.
"Xion…" Roxas said, blankly.
"Got it memorized, Roxas?" Axel said.
"Yeah."
"How about my name, then?"
"Axel." Roxas replied.
"And how about our bosses name, huh?"
"Xemnas…"
"No way you're gonna forget his name, right? Let's go."
Xion spent the first days walking around the castle, like Roxas did, but Xion was alone.
Xion walked around random areas of the castle, until one day, Xion came across someone.
The dusk that went by the name of Samuel was hoarding food. He dropped some walking past Xion.
Xion picked up an apple. "You dropped this." Xion said.
Samuel looked back. The feminine figure he saw was a little shorter than Roxas. Her hood fell off to reveal a light skinned girl with black hair and blue eyes. "Thanks, uh…" Samuel was too lazy to ask for her name, but she gave it anyway.
"Xion."
"Right. You know, your comrades will get on your case if you don't yell at me for hoarding all this food."
Xion didn't reply.
"What? Don't want to talk anymore?"
Nothing.
"You're like Roxas. I bet the next time you see me, you won't even remember who I am." Samuel was on his way. The next time he saw Xion he was back to square one.
Song: Axel and Roxas
The mission Axel and Roxas were assigned was simply Axel explaining to Roxas just what these missions are. Basically, the Organization assigns you something to do in a World, and you do it.
When Axel finished tutoring Roxas, instead of returning to the castle, or RTC, Axel took Roxas atop the clocktower.
"The icing on the cake." Axel said, and he handed Roxas a ice cream. "You remember what this ice cream is called?"
"It's… umm…"
Axel fell forward a little. "Sea Salt Ice Cream. I already told you before. Get it memorized."
Roxas took a bite out of it. "It's salty, but sweet." Axel laughed.
"Roxas, you said the exact same thing the other day."
"I did?… I don't remember…"
Axel sat back. "So what has it been, a week since you joined the Organization?"
Roxas stared blankly ahead. "I guess it has."
"You guess it has? C'mon, you must remember that much." Axel lightly elbowed Roxas, but got no response. "Well, here you are, finally out in the field, working for the Organization, right?"
"For the Organization?" Roxas asked.
"You might even say…" Axel continued. "… that today is where it all really begins for you."
Roxas and Axel looked up at the sunset. "Where it all begins…"
"Just a little recap… what's my name?"
Roxas turned to Axel. "Access."
Axel put his hand to his face. "I guess you're not quite there yet…"
"As a member of the Organization, I'll be receiving missions everyday… But, I'm still not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do."
"Roxas and Xion. I get a similar feel for them. I wonder what that feeling is, and what part does Axel play in this story?"
I don't see a difference. Paragraphs still aren't indented. And I have to add in Horizontal lines to replace the ~ that Fanfiction doesn't keep. But I assume it's less likely, if at all, to completely miss sections of text. So I'm happy with it.