"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."

Number XV, Xenia. That's what they call me now. But, that isn't my name... Is it? I don't remember... Who was I?

"What are you doing? Get out of here now!" the girl shouted at me, swinging her oversized key at the shadows. A few of them disappeared, but they just kept coming back. Me? I was frozen, like a statue. I had no idea what was going on, and if I could, I would have ran away as fast as I could. But I couldn't move. Maybe it was from shock, or fear. Or maybe I wanted to help. Either way, I wasn't going anywhere, I was doomed because of that.

A shadow advanced on me, and my legs seemed to remember what they were for, and I stumbled backwards. I fell, and it was all over. The shadow attacked me, and... I guess I died. But... That doesn't sound right. Did I really go out that easily?

I was standing in the middle of a circular platform, with cloaked figures sitting on chairs surrounding me. I looked up to see amber eyes glaring down at me. He was an intimidating figure, with long silver hair and dark skin. I opened my mouth to say something, but no words came out.

"Welcome, Number XV."

I lowered my head, I've seen him earlier I think. That's right! He's that cloaked figure that told me my name.

A...N...I...E. Those were the letters in front of me. They spun around me before stopping in front of me. But now, there was a large X in between the letters.

"Xenia, that is your new name," the cloaked figure announced before disappearing. A girl with short black hair nervously walked in front of me. Somehow, she seemed familiar.

"Hi, I'm Xion. It's nice to meet you..," she introduced herself.

"Xenia," I told her, "The name's Xenia."

She seemed sad for some reason, "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing, really!" She shook her head, "Come on, we need to go to a welcoming meeting."

She summoned a dark portal and walked towards it. I just stared, "Aren't you coming?"

I quickly nodded and followed her.

After the meeting, Xion took me to a large room with a huge window at the end of it. When I looked through it, I could see a heart shaped moon, "Is the moon supposed to be shaped like that?"

"That, is Kingdom Hearts, we collect hearts to complete it. You will help collect those hearts today," A man with long blue hair and yellow eyes. He had an X across his face, and it didn't look pretty.

"How?" I asked.

"You will be going to Neverland today, Xion will show you the basics," he glared at Xion, "Don't fail this time puppet."

She winced and looked down nervously.

"Who are you?" I asked him another question. He obviously didn't like my questions.

"Number VII." I opened my mouth to protest, that's a number not a name!

"That's Saix, Number VII of Organization XIII. Or maybe it's Organization XV now, since there's a few more members!"Xion explained.

She then summoned a portal and walked through it, leaving me behind. I quickly ran after her before it disappeared. I was suddenly on a cliff, with the sea and beach behind me. Xion was in front of me, waiting.

"You need me to show you the ropes, right? Well.. I guess we could start with summoning your weapon," she said quietly.

"Wait... What? Summoning a weapon?" I asked her for confirmation. Since when could people summon weapons?

"Yeah, like this," she held her hand out and a huge metal key appeared in her hands, "You try it!"

I held out my hands and thought of having a weapon. What would it be though? I like fighting, but I don't really do well when we're punching and kicking each other. I usually attack from a distance, like when we have paint ball wars. I see a flash of white and suddenly, there's a compound bow in my hands. I feel weight on my back and realize that it's a bag of arrows.

"Wow... It's... Amazing!" Xion stared at my bow. I looked at it, I guess it was pretty cool. It was silver with a red handle that had weird markings on it. They sort of looked like magic runes, "Try to attack with it!"

"Um... Attack what?" I looked around, looking for a target. Suddenly, a heartless that looked like this soldier with wings appeared.

"Attack that, it's an Air Battler!" She pointed to it, but there was no need. It was kind of obvious flying around us.

I held my bow out in front of me and grabbed an arrow from my bag. It had the same design as my bow. I aimed my arrow for it's head, so it would land in it's chest. I shot, and hit it square on the chest. It flew backwards and then got back up, enraged.

"Great! Now try using a spell, like Thunder!"

"A... spell? Like a witch?"

"Just think of it, and you'll be able to do it. You should know a spell or two."

I thought of what birds hate, and thought of how they always hide during storms. Lightning and Thunder... I took out another arrow and aimed again. This one was crackling with electricity. I hit the monster again, and it exploded in a purple light, then disappeared.

"You did it! Now, um, let's go defeat some more," Xion cheered, and ran off.

"Wait, there's more of them here?!" I shouted, running after her, after hanging my bow on my bag.

~Time Skip~

"22 heartless. We defeated 22 heartless," I muttered, exhausted.

"If you think that's an amazing feat, you'd better think again, there's way more than that to kill during missions." A man with black side burns and dreadlocks told me as he passed by.

I groaned and laid my head down on the table I was sitting at. There was no way I would survive through tomorrow.

"Hey, Xenia! Um, since we completed the mission today, and.. you did great... So I'd like to introduce you to some of my friends," Xion said quietly.

"Sure! Where are they?" I looked around but only saw Saix scowling at us.

"They're in Twilight Town, come on, I'll show you," she summoned another one of those portals and motioned for me to come with her.

We arrived in a familiar town. I mean, it looked familiar. The buildings, the streets... Even the signs.

"I've been here before..," I say quietly. Xion looked at me in confusion.

"What did you say?"

I shook my head, "Nothing, let's go."

She led me to a huge clock tower, I could see two figures sitting on top of it.

"Great! They're already here! Let's go!" She ran inside the building and up the steps to the top. I, of course, raced after her.

At the top, a boy with spiky blond hair and a man with porcupine-like red hair were waiting.

"Looks like you finally arrived Xion! Is that the new member I spy behind you?" the red head spoke. He had bright green eyes, and some sort of tattoos under each.

"This is Xenia, she went with me to Neverland today!" Xion told them and she sat down next to the blond haired boy.

"Well, nice to meet you Xenia, the name's Axel," he tapped his head, "Got it memorized?"

"Um... I guess so."

"This zombie over here eating ice cream is Roxas," Axel shoved the blond haired boy, grinning.

"Hey! Nice to meet you!" Roxas looked at me smiling, allowing me to see that he had blue eyes.

"Here, take one, it's lucky I happen to have an extra one today," Axel handed me a blue and white ice cream bar as I sat down next to him, "This is-."

"Sea salt ice cream! I love this stuff!" I took the bar and bit into smiling, then stopped confused. How did I know that?

"How did you know...?" Axel started to ask, but stopped.

"I dunno. It just popped in my head."

"The sunset's nice today isn't it?" Xion said. We all agreed. Finally, I've got some friends in the Organization. It was easier than I thought it would be, everyone seemed so intimidating.

Somehow, this felt familiar. But why?