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Cold. If I could feel such a feeling as being cold. Becoming part of the XIIIth Order had never been by choice, for it had always been before me that you were recruited, after you and your "somebody" split. Nobody. We beings without hearts. That this fate befell my "somebody" raises questions. I have no recollection of my "somebody's" memories, but how could this have happened to him? He turned Heartless, and hence I am. Or … was. When the Heartless took his heart, he became I, but when I saved that boy, I became … ?

Cold. A Nobody returns to darkness when they die. But it is not as if I completely ceased existing, no. I still do, in darkness.

Roxas. When he returned to the wielder of the Keyblade, Sora, he did not perish into this eternal abyss. I had wanted to see him once more, but, of course, it did not happen. Why did I think that it would? Instead, I saved that boy, bringing me here. Through this darkness, some time ago (or was it?), though, light shone through. Bright as the golden warmth of the sun it had been.

A smile. Something — something that was not cold. Not that I could feel, for a Nobody does not feel. But I did at one point in time feel something. Thanks to him. Roxas. He made me feel like I had something beating right there in my chest. He … was my friend. He acknowledged me unlike any other member.

And the sunny warmth that shone through the darkness was his smile.

Brimming through the saviour of all the worlds … the final memory I had before I ceased to exist.

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XIIIth Order #: No. VII Axel POV

Kingdom Hearts (one-shot) fan 'fic

Asa Tasogare: This was for Honours English class earlier in the year, and, seeing that school ends in a few days here, I just got it back. We had had the choice to either write a humorous log or a short story free-write, so I gave my English teacher a fan 'fic. xD I wonder what he thought of it … ?