A/N: First chapter of "Burn"! If you haven't read it, please read "Trust" before reading this, this is the sequel! Thank you all so much for reading my work and giving such positive reviews, they've really meant a lot to me, I love writing, and writing this series is great fun. This one is pretty up-beat to begin with, and a little different, but I promise drama is immanent, as it always is for my characters. Anyway, enjoy!

A year goes by, missions are given, days slip away, plans seemed to be almost out of reach for the castle's inhabitants.

Some things change, and some stay the same. Simple curiosity comes to a nobody's door. But, as we all know, curiosity can get us in to unwanted trouble.

Xembar sat in her room and held her daughter close, gently petting her blue and red hair. It was soft, and almost like silk. The little girl smiled, her bright eyes shimmering. "It's been a year already." She sighed, smiling. The girl looked up at her and blinked.

Only a year and a half ago, Xembar had joined the mysterious Organization XIII and fallen for number VIII, Axel. Number XVI, Xembar, then had their daughter, Blaise. The majority of the organization didn't know about Blaise until her third month of life, while Xemnas, Saix, Xembar, Axel, Ordix, and Demyx knew. A year later and the whole organization knew.

The girl was mostly silent, she was just learning to talk at a year old, she was usually shy around everyone but her parents. She was especially close to her father, who was currently on a mission. Xembar had gone to Vexen a few days ago, to be aged. She had only aged a year, and she would stop aging. For, every nobody can age for a certain amount of time before they're stuck in that age.

It didn't seem biologically possible, and every nobody stopped at a different age. Ordix had gone with Xembar, but it seemed she may forever be eight, though, Vexen did say it could take a few days, months, or even a year. Xembar pondered the thought of it taking that long. Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud yelp.

She quickly set her daughter in her crib and ran to see what the noise was about. She looked for the source of the noise, it had to be somewhat close, for she could hear it well. She narrowed it down to a room and opened the door, to find a surprised girl, "Xembar! Thank goodness! You've got to help me!"

Xembar studied the girl, she was a little bit shorter than Xembar and very thin, with short black hair swooping over one eye, red squared glasses, cat-like ears and tail, with a confused and worried expression. "Who are you?" She cocked her head.

"It's me, Ordix. I think I'm still Ordix, I went to sleep and I woke up big!" She stretched her arms up to illustrate her point.

Ordix was member XV, discovered by Axel in the streets of The World That Never Was. She was eight-years-old at the time, and befriended Axel, when Axel met Xembar, the cat-like nobody found someone who befriended her. Demyx, member IX. Ordix and Demyx developed a strong bond, and are still friends a year later.

"Relax. We went to Vexen, remember, he said he'd make you older. Remember? I was there to, and the next day I was a little bit taller and a year older. Obviously you stop aging at...however old you are. Vexen can probably figure that out, I'll even take you back to him." Xembar sighed.

"Thank you." She smiled a little.

"Whatever." The blue-haired nobody walked off and the cat-like girl followed her. "Vexen?" Xembar entered his room.

"Yes?" The blonde, older nobody came in. "Is something wrong?"

Vexen was number IV of Organization XIII. He helped Xembar through her pregnancy, by caring for her and telling Xemnas she needed a break from missions. He seems fascinated by members XVI and XV.

"Your aging...thing made Ordix older and now she's freaking out. Plus, we're curious to know her current age." Xembar sighed.

Vexen grabbed the cat-girl's wrist and studied her. "The aging process definitely worked physically. Mentally I don't know. I'd say from my observation she's about fifteen."

"I'm old." The cat-like nobody groaned, "What does mentally mean?" She cocked her head curiously.

"Well, obviously, the aging process didn't affect her mentally, physically, she's fifteen. Mentally she's still eight. In other words, I managed to age her body but not her mind." He blinked. "How odd."

"Great." Xembar sighed, "I'll let you explain that to Xemnas, I have to go watch Blaise." She and Ordix left the room, the cat-girl made her way through the halls to Demyx's room. She knocked on the door.

"It's Ordix. I have something reeeeaaally important to tell you." She whimpered.

Demyx opened the door, "You let Vexen age you, didn't you?" He sighed, "Come in, sit down."

Demyx was member IX of Organization XIII, and ex-best-friend of Axel. At first he was uninterested by XV, and reluctant when Axel asked him to watch her. Slowly the two nobodies bonded strongly. A year ago he confessed a friendly love to her.

She did as told and sat on the bed, "Are you mad?" She asked, flattening her ears to her head.

"No, of course I'm not mad at you. I'm your friend, I just think you should have told me. I don't want you getting hurt." He blinked.

"I didn't get hurt, silly." She grinned, "See? I'm great!"

Demyx laughed, "You're still Ordix, right?"

"Duh, who else would I be?" She smiled, swishing her tail.

"Good point." He smiled back at her. He moved his hand and gently stroked one of her ears, she flicked it.

"Why are you doing that? It tickles." She glared.

"Sorry, your ears are soft." He smiled, looking over to his sitar, "Want to listen?" He picked it up.

"Yeah." She smiled and sat on the floor in from of the bed, "I want a concert-experience."

He grinned and started playing the notes softly.

...

Axel came back from his mission and knocked on Xembar's room door. "Xem?"

Axel was number VIII of Organization XIII, he discovered Ordix and Xembar. He fell in love with Xembar, and he didn't give a very long courtship before deflowering her on the clock tower. Xembar bore his daughter, and he proposed that they make plans to leave the organization and wed.

"Come in." She looked up. He came in to see his fiancée holding their sleeping daughter.

"I wanted to talk...about leaving the organization." He sighed.

"We can't right now. Blaise is so young, the travel wouldn't be good for her, and it would start too much. Besides, what about everyone in the castle?" She sighed, "I want to leave, too. But now's not the best time."

He nodded, "I know. But, we can't ignore the fact that we need to leave, either. We need to come up with some sort of plan."

Xembar nodded in agreement, then looked down at her sleeping child. She was so innocent, and so calm. It seemed like nothing could disturb her peace. She smiled a little and petted the girl's hair. Everything was silent, and almost perfect for those few seconds.

A/N: End of the first chapter, I know it's not the best, but as most firsts of anything, it's more of an introductory chapter. Even if you have read Trust! I did the character explanation paragraphs after their appearances just to tell basically what went on in the first one, in case anybody decided to skip my Author's Note or something. Anyway, hope you enjoyed!