When a mirror breaks,
You can't see the reflection,
And shards are spewed everywhere around you,
You are the only one that can pick up the pieces
Chapter 1: Mckenna
You've probably already heard of Heartless; those things that are made out of the darkness in people's hearts, that go around and kill other people to get their heart. You've probably already heard of Nobodies; creatures that are created when a person with a strong heart becomes a Heartless. But I bet you haven't heard of us.
We're different. Let me back it up and explain. When a Nobody is born, a fragment of themselves separate, and becomes its own person. That fragment is known as a Mirror. Mirrors generally are similar to the Nobody they come from in some way or another, whether it be apperance, ability, weapon, whatever. But when a Greater Nobody is born, the fragment that separates also retains a human form, but of the opposite gender, and sometimes ability.
Take me for example, I was born from a Greater Nobody, and have the appearance of a girl, which means I can only imagine my original self is a boy. Actually, now that I think about it, most of us are actually girls. Anyways, let's move on, shall we? My "Brothers, Sisters, and Mother", as well as myself, were born from a group of very powerful Nobodies known as Organization 13. We each joined when we were created, and are very similar to that of our brother group.
We are known as Syndicate 13, or rather, were. Yeah, we're all dead by now, and our Nobodies are probably not far behind, what with that Sora kid going around and killing 'em off. Again, back to the story at hand. This whole mess started for me when me and two friends in the Syndicate, were given a mission.
"Go to a place called Twilight Town, and find the boy known as Roxas, he's the boy in the photo you saw earlier", Ayslin told us. So, we went to Twilight Town, and got utterly... totally... epically lost.
"Find the boy she says, she could've at least given us directions", I whined.
Number 6, Akira, one of my... friends, looked at me and said,"This town is not that big, it won't be hard to find him".
"I bet we would've found him by now if Ayslin gave you a lock of hair or something", I mumbled, earning me a hard glare from Akira from under her hood.
"Can we please finish this mission, without any casualties?", Ren, number 9 pleaded from under her hood.
I sighed, and said,"If we somehow manage to find the kid, what do we do then?".
"We were given the directions to make ourselves known, he is probably with his friend and mentor, so it will even us out if we happen to get in a fight", Akira replied as we walked up a hill.
"Yeah, but I don't know if I'll be of much use to you guys if I get caught by his mentor", I huffed, crossing my arms.
"Well then, we'll just make sure you deal with the boy then", Akira replied shortly, giving me another glare.
"Fine, fine", I sighed, bending over a little in depression. We climbed to the crest of the hill, and Akira stopped, which caused Ren to crash into her, which cause me to crash into Ren.
When I was about to yell her head off, she said simply,"There they are". I blinked, and looked over Ren, and saw the boy, and two other people, a girl with short Black hair and pretty Blue eyes, and a boy with spiky Red hair and Acid Green eyes.
"That's him", I whispered.
"Ren, make sure the mentor stays away from Mckenna at all costs", Akira ordered. Ren nodded, and with a signal from Akira, we darted in different directions.
"It's been a while since I had some fun", Ren giggled as she landed gracefully on the concrete railing.
"It does get a bit boring in the castle, doesn't it?", I asked, agreeing with her as I landed on the steps to the Train Station.
"We are on a mission now, that is all that matters", Akira said, landing in front of the group, so that we made a triangle. Hoods were on, we appeared out of nowhere, I say we looked pretty awesome.
"Who are you?", Roxas demanded, his Kingdom Key appearing. The girl with the Black hair did the same, and the other boy tensed.
"Wow, and I thought I itched for a fight", I laughed.
Akira let a small smile appear on her lips, and she shook her head while saying,"It does seem like they are... trigger-happy, if they were like Sophie".
"Who?", Roxas asked.
"Oh, we don't need to confuse you at this very moment, we just need to introduce ourselves is all", Ren giggled. She then extended her left arm all the way to the right, and Cyan Blue sparks began to erupt from her fingers. They then grouped together, and in a Cyan Blue light, a Cyan Blue flute with a Violet Purple metal rose on the end appeared in her hand.
She twirled it like a baton, rested it at her mouth, and said,"Number 9, Ren, the Melodic Siren".
Akira then extended her right hand with a open palm, and a white orb appeared. It exploded, and a book that was white with a black spine and the picture of a heart with the bottom slowly disintergrating appeared.
She grabbed the book gently, and said,"Number 6, Akira, the Masked Strategist". I then laughed, and crossed my arms in front of me. Amythest Purple, White and Ruby Red droplets of water began group a few inches away from my hands. In a Amythest Purple explosion, two large, Amythest Purple, razor-sharp hoops appeared. Then, in a Ruby Red blast, a razor-sharp, Ruby Red crescent moon-shaped piece of metal appeared on the top of the hoops, the dip facing outward. And finally, in a White light, two grips appeared on them.
I grabbed them, threw one in the air, caught it, put one hoop in front of me and the other close, one leg stretched out and the other loose, and said,"Number 8, Mkcenna, the Wave Of Eternal Rain".
"You're probably wondering who we are", Akira said, her book floating in the air in front of her.
"Or why we're here", Ren laughed, jumping and landing in front of me.
"Or where we came from", I said, tossing a hoop in the air and catching it.
"We could answer with words", Akira continued.
"Or we could answer with this", Ren giggled, playing a note. Balls of fire then appeared, and shot at the wary group. They managed to dodge the attacks, but just barely.
"Now, we'd like to be civilized", I said, grinning a little.
"But if brute force is necessarry", Akira continued, her book opening.
"Then that's what we'll use to get the point across", Ren finished, her flute by her side.
"Confusing much?", the Red-head sighed, looking at the other two.
"We aren't confusing, we're just... hard to comprehend", I said, putting a hand to my chin for a second, acting like I was thinking.
"Anyways, we're here to fight, possibly badly wound Roxas here", Ren said, pointing her flute at the Dirty-Blonde.
"Not without a fight you're not", the girl with the Black hair shouted, her Keyblade at the ready.
"Ren, you owe me 20 Munny", I laughed, Ren grumbling instead, taking out a small crystal from her pocket.
"You see, we bet on each other's luck", I explained, grabbing the small crystal and stuffing it in my cloak.
"Unless Destiny's involved, then we want nothing to do with it", Ren piped in.
By now, the three Nobodies were looking at us like we were crazy, so, I said,"Basically, we're gonna fight you, we're gonna kick your ass, and we'll make ourselves known to you, so you know you're not the only big group going after Kingdom Hearts". That made them get serious.
"Ren, how strong do ya think the girl is?", I laughed, walking down beside her.
"Not sure, fifty-fifty chance she'll win or lose", Ren said, teetering her spare hand to the right and left.
"I bet.. 200 Munny she loses", I replied, grinning.
"Hmm, I'll bet 20 Munny she wins", Ren laughed.
"350 to win". Ren and I shot our gazes to Akira, who looked unfazed.
"You serious?", I asked, eyes wide.
"The girl is stronger than you think, and than what her comrades believe", Akira replied simply, her book flipping to a random page.
"Well then, you get the girl, I get Roxas, and Ren gets the Red-head", I said.
"That's not fair, 'cause I control Fire too!", Ren whined.
"Oh fine, you get Roxas, I get All-Mighty Tallest over there", I huffed.
"But then, you have to fight the guy, and won't be of much use!", she shot back.
"They're fighting over who to fight", Roxas said slowly.
"Y'know, we could use this time to attack them", the Red-head said.
"Oh, right". They then shot at us, weapons in hand.
"Woah, H~ello!", I said, putting my hoops up just in time to dead-lock with the Red-head. I might've been imagining things, but I swear that at that moment, I saw a boy like him, staring at me.
"Holy crap!", Ren squeaked, jumping over Roxas as he shot at her like a bullet. Akira simply moved out of the girl's way as she tried to strike Akira.
"Show off!", I shouted at Akira as I broke the dead-lock, and kicked the boy in the face. He staggered back, and I jumped in the air while back-flipping, and shot my hoops to the ground. They embedded in the croncrete in front of him, and bursted into blasts of bone-breaking water pillars.
"Woah!", he said, back-flipping a few feet away. I looked in Ren's direction, and found her playing away on her flute, sending blast after blast of Cyan Blue flames at Roxas, who kept dodge-rolling, trying to get close. Akira on the other hand, was barely trying. The girl would try to attack, and Akira would just dodge, she hadn't even attacked yet!
"Hey, Spiky, you gonna attack any time soon?", I taunted as I dodged. He growled, and leg-swept me.
"Whoops", I said, rolling backwards and jumping up. I then threw a hoop at him, and while he was distracted with that, I leg-swept him, and he fell on his back. Both hoops were in my hand, and at his throat.
"Do the last thing your opponent would expect, remember that", I said, grinning. I glanced at Ren, who had the poor boy in a corner with freaking fire clones surrounding him. I then glanced at Akira, and lo and behold, she had the girl wrapped up in vines up off the ground.
"I say that's a wrap", Ren said, calling off her clones.
"Wait, we haven't shown them our appearances, I bet we'll look rather familiar", I laughed. Ren then nodded, and flipped her hood off.
"Woah, I always knew Demyx was a girl!", the Red-head said, staring wide-eyed at Ren. She had Brown hair that went to her waist, and two rather familiar strands of hair that refused to leave her face, and Emerald Green eyes.
"I'm not Demyx, I'm... someone similar", Ren said, beginning to yell, then softening her tone.
"Akira, we drew straws, you're next", I hummed. Akira gave me a light scowl from under her hood, and flipped it off. She had long Gold-ish Purple hair with bangs over her Gray eyes.
"Zexion?", Roxas questioned uncertainly.
"Not quite", Akira said flatly.
"And last but not least", I laughed, flipping my hood off. I had waist-length Navy Blue hair with a few small spikes on the back, and two dreadlock-like pieces of hair on both sides of my face that had spikes under them, which caused them to curve a little. I also had Sky Blue eyes.
"Oh my gosh, two Axels!", Roxas practically shouted.
"Again, close, but not close enough", I laughed, teetering my pointer finger to the right and left a couple times.
"We are, well, pieces of select members from your organization, that seperated from you, and become our own selves, not whole of course", Akira explained.
"Mckenna for instance, is the Mirror of your number eight, and has the ability over Water, while Ren, the Mirror of your nuber 9, has the power over Fire, and I am the Mirror of your number 6, and have the power over Reality, I can make things real whithin a instant", Akira explained, gesturing to each of us.
"You're probably thinking we're crazy", Ren sighed.
"Or that you're dreaming", I continued, walking around Axel.
"But the fact is, you're not, and we're as real as you are", Akira finished, her book now resting in her hand.
"But that means you're not real at all", the girl with the black hair said, her eyes narrowing in confusion.
"Exactly, we, much like yourselves, were never supposed to exist, but we do", Akira nodded. They stared at us in silence.
I stretched, and said,"Well, mission complete, let's go", and opened a Pathway Of Light, which was White and Sky Blue.
"That's a", Roxas started, pointing at my portal.
"A Pathway Of Light, it's a opposite of your Corridor Of Darkness", Ren interrupted.
"Anyways, we gotta go, and I warn you now, our next meeting, might not be so frendly, or clean for that matter", I said, mumbling the last part as I lazily saluted them with two fingers. We then turned, and walked through the portal. After a few seconds of unbearably bright light, we appeared back at our castle in the World Of Forgotten Memories.
"Well, I suppose that was a little easier than I thought it would be", I sighed as we walked into the Lounge.
"Hey Destiny, you owe me 378 Munny!", I called to the long, Black-haired girl at the table, who was currently fiddling with her Dice.
"Blast it all", she cursed under her breath as she handed me the Munny as I passed. While gambling is generally a bad thing, it's really the only fun thing that happens around that damn castle, except for when someone plays pranks on people, though, usually, I'm the one doing the pranks...
"Mckenna", someone said beside me as I sat down on a couch. I looked up to see Ayslin staring at me, her piercing Orange eyes staring at me intently.
"How can I help you?", I asked, leaning my head on my hand as I propped my elbow on the arm of the couch.
"I need to speak with you, privately", she replied, still staring me down. I sighed, got up, and followed her out into the hall.
When we got into the hall, she said,"I must tell you something about your mission from earlier".
"Go on", I said slowly crossing my arms and leaning against the wall.
"Roxas's mentor, did you notice something about him?", she asked, glancing at me as she came to lean beside me.
"What do you mean?", I questioned, raising my eyebrow slightly.
"Answer the question", she commanded.
I sighed, and said,"When we had a dead-lock, I... I caught a glimpse of a boy that looked like him, but younger".
"You saw his true self", Ayslin said after a minute.
"Go figure", I muttered.
"Anyways, what does that have to do with me?", I asked, catching her eyes in a lock of Navy Blue and Carrot Orange.
"You are is Mirror, correct?".
"Yes", I said slowly, my eyes narrowing slightly.
"What you saw... was a memory, and you intercepted it, and it is inside you", she explained.
"What's that mean?".
"With each encounter you two have, the more memories you will intercept and contain, which means you will slowly take his whole being, and you will become whole, it is the same for the rest of us", Ayslin replied quickly.
"Well, isn't there a way to stop it?", I demanded.
"Give back the memory you stole", she replied curtly.
"Well, that really helps me", I said sarcastically.
"Find him again, and grab his hand, focus on the memory, and you'll give it back", she growled. She then pushed off the wall, and walked off.
"Great, now I steal memories, beautiful", I groaned as I opened a portal. I walked through it, and appeared at the Train Station again. As if fate would have it, there were the trio lounging on the railing. Roxas caught a glimpse of me, and drew his Keyblade.
"Relax, I ain't here to fight", I sighed, slowly walking up to them.
"What are you here for then?", he asked, his Keyblade gripped tightly.
"I'm here to give something back that I never intended to steal from your friend here", I growled, pointing to Axel. I then turned to Axel, and with out a explanation, took his hand firmly, and focused on the memory. I slowly felt it drift away, until I couldn't see it anymore. Wait, what was I talking about again? I slowly let go of his hand, and stumbled to the left.
"My head hurts", I mumbled as I put my hand to my head.
"What the heck Roxas!", I heard someone shout faintly.
"I'm... tired, I'm gonna... take a... nap", I said, before falling over, and everything going black.
But I do remember hearing something along the lines of,"Restoration at... 5%".
