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~RoseAmongThorns13
Chapter Two
After that…
Meeting Axel…
Things changed.
A lot.
I met new people…
Got new friends…
Learned more about my past
As I went along the way.
But it didn't all happen at once…
It happened slowly…
Back at the day that I
Became Infinity
The next thing that I knew, I was somewhere else. I think indoors, because I could no longer feel the wind or smell fresh air. It smelled really clean, and every sound echoed. I was going to ask Axel what was going on and how we got inside, but he just tugged me along.
"Axel w-"
"Shush. Do not yet ask me any questions or speak until spoken to. I must first take you to Xemnas." Axel said quietly and sternly. I just nodded my head and followed silently.
We walked up some spiraling stairs. Then we walked down a long hallway. Took a left. Then a right. Then walked up a ramp. Walked down a long flight of stairs. Then took another right. Then finally, we walked into a room through a large set of doors. I heard noise coming from inside, but then silence as soon as axel pushed the doors wide open.
Axel let go of my arm, and walked in a straight line in front of me. I followed behind him silently, my head down. I felt like we were walking into the middle of the room… maybe on some form of platform. I heard that axel stopped walking, so I did as well, and stood right behind him. I heard him say very quietly under his breath that we were in the presence of the entire organization and to be polite.
"Axel… what is That?" said a male voice. It sounded strong, and powerful… and familiar….
"This is a girl." Axel replied, and I heard somebody laugh. It sounded like it was coming from… above? Now that I thought about it, the man's voice along with this laughter sounded like they were coming from above me. Odd….
"Well we can all see that Axel. She's as pretty as a flower too." Said another man's voice sickeningly sweet.
"Marluxia, can it. " Axel said to the sickly voice of that man. I swear I heard him say something under his breath, but I couldn't quite catch it.
"Why is she here number VIII?" the first man's voice said.
"Because superior, he found the need to bring a lost puppy home." Said another voice, more manly than the others. There were a series of laughs after this comment, and I could feel Axel tense in front of me.
"Because, Xemnas, she is a Nobody like the rest of us." Axel said smoothly.
"Yeah right!" scoffed another voice from above, but he sounded closer to the ground.
"How could there possibly be another one of us? We are organization XIII, yet we already have fourteen members… and you find manage to find a fifteenth?" says a quiet voice that sounds very close to the ground
"Yeah, we just got Roxas and Xion, and now there is another?" says a louder voice. It sounds like the second voice, but I can't quite tell…
"Silence!" Xemnas says, and everyone immediately shuts up. With a quieter tone, he continues, "Girl, what is your name?"
"Nyxox." I reply softly.
"Come forth and speak louder." He says. Axel moves aside, and puts a hand on my back. He pushes me forward a bit, and I keep my head down until he removes his hand from my back and I am in the center.
"My name given to me by a black hooded stranger is Nyxox. I have no memory of any other name, so Nyxox is what I go by. Please address me as such." I say clearly and strongly. I turn my head, looking upwards. Everyone began talking all at once. Probably over my blindfold wondering why I am wearing it.
"Ah… Yes… I remember you now." He says, and everyone is quiet. "You were the one that would not follow the path when I gave you the name. You were the one who refused me, even after I gave you a name when you had none. You were the one that fought back."
I see the red blades of pure energy again, and the hooded black figure. I remember silver hair and orange eyes. Fighting back as a weapon materialized in my hands. Matching blow for blow. Missing the swipe at my face. Blood in my eyes. The pain. Not being able to see. Laughter. It was all coming back to me, in my head.
"Yes. You are the one who did this to me." I said, and slip off my blindfold. I open my eyes, and let everyone in the room see my sightlessness. I let them see the heart on my forehead. "You are the monster who took away my sight!"
As I yell at Xemnas, Axel grabs my arm and yanks it. I growl at Axel, and pull my arm back. I don't like to be touched. He goes off and tells me to not yell at the superior as everyone else listens to me now yelling about how I don't give a fuck and that I am now blind thanks to that man that they call their superior. Xemnas just laughs.
"I may have taken your sight, but you are better off without it. It has trained you to be more alert and a better fighter. And a stronger person as well, has it not?" he asks. I look away from Axel and up at where I think Xemnas to be.
"As much as I hate to agree with you, I cannot fight logic and truth." I say after being silent for a moment.
"You are a bright girl…you have wizened up since we last sa-"
"-since we last encountered each other. I can't exactly SEE thanks to your weapons." I butt in.
"As I was saying Nyxox, is that you were smart and have found your way back to where you should have come in the first place." Xemnas said, sounding a bit pissed off. I could feel Axel looking at me, thinking what the hell was I doing.
"So it would seem…. And you have Axel to thank for that, so please see to it that my guide is rewarded, or at least not punished for bringing me here please." I half ask half demand.
"You believe that you can talk to number I like that girl?" says a sneering voice.
"Well, given that I can get you your 'kingdom hearts' and that I have more of a heart than any of you combined, yes." I say rather heatedly.
"What do you mean heart?"
"More of a heart?"
"Nobodies don't have hearts!"
"What the hell?"
"You can't be a Nobody!"
People who I don't even know are talking and yelling from their seats at me. I open my mouth to speak, but Xemnas does not give me a chance to tell my tale. "None of you need to know why she said any of it, for it would only make sense to me… however; you may ask Nyxox later if you must. Whether she answers or not is no concern of mine, but we must continue. Saïx, she is allowed to talk to me as an equal- for now. Nyxox, you need to be given your number and codename if you wish to join the organization and wear the coat."
"You have taken my sight away from me, tried to kill me, took away my name, and any memories that I had had left…. But despite all that…" I took a deep breath "I do Xemnas."
"Nyxox, you shall be-"
"Wait..." I said, cutting off Xemnas.
"Yes?"
"May I pick my number?"
There was a long pause, and i could hear some murmuring about how Xemnas ALWAYS picks the number.
"Yes." Xemnas then said after thinking it over.
"Infinity."
"Infinity? but... That's out of order..." I heard Axel say quietly behind me.
"Yes, Axel, it is out of order. But then again, Nyxox could never be in order. She never will. And that is the way it is." Xemnas said, apparently hearing Axel's remark.
"Infinity. The word number will not be attached, for infinity is not a number... I like it. "
"Thank you." I say, and nod my head in a show of respect.
"You are to be simply ∞. You will be known as The Heartless Lover. You are the commander of the heart and ruler of love. You wield the The Transforming Heart; the weapon equal to the Keyblade, perhaps even greater." There was many gasps after each sentence, but after the greater than the Keyblade part there were two cries of 'what?!'
"You are now part of the organization. Zexion, you and Axel shall guide her." Xemnas said, unfazed by everyone else.
"Yes superior. I'll make sure she learns all there is to know." The person I assume is Zexion says.
"Alright Nyxox! Me and Zexion are gonna be your new best buddies! Got it Memorized?"Axel said, and patted me on the back, and leaves his hand on my shoulder. Three shurikens appear in between my fingers, and I whip around and throw them at Axel. Next thing he knows, he is stuck to somebody's throne by his coat due to my shurikens.
"Rule one: Don't. Touch. Me." I say calmly, and then I turn back around. Laughter erupts around me, but I pay no attention to it. I snap my fingers, my shuriken disappear, and Axel is now free. I hear his Chakrams materialize, and roll my eyes.
"Come on Princess, let's not be so uptight." He says, and throws one at me like a boomerang. I flip over it, and him.
Landing behind him, I materialize one of my daggers. I slip my arm around his neck, the dagger now at his throat ready to cut him and hiss at him "Now what did I tell you about calling me princess earlier Axel?"
"Not to do it. But here's a clue Nyxox, fire is uncontrollable." And with that, fire envelopes us. He escapes my grasp and gets out of the fire. He then laughs, thinking I would be burned, but when the flames disappear and I'm still standing there. There is not a burn, scratch or any sign that the fire even touched me. He has a look of great confusion and surprise on his face.
"Love burns with a fiery passion, Axel. Fire doesn't hurt me. Neither does any element. Space, Time, Ice, Electricity, Lunar; none can be used to harm me. Got it Memorized?" I ask in a sneering voice and put one hand on my hip, smirking at him. There are a series of taunts and laughs at Axel, and I can hear a high pitched girl's voice laughing out "He just got burned!"
I expected Axel to go and yell at them, but he just walked over to me, put a hand on my shoulder, and laughed. It was a good, hearty laugh that rang out above all the others. Everyone started to quiet down as his loud laugh rang throughout the room. He laughed until he was out of breath, and then he just said to me, "You know, I think we are going to get along just fine number infinity."
I smirked at him, remove his hand form my shoulder, and replied "Most indefinitely number eight. I could get along with anyone…. But call me princess, or put a hand on me again and I will not hesitate to kill."
There was a pause, before Xemnas Cleared his throat and spoke.
"Well then, that was… interesting… I guess that is the end of this organization meeting, seeing as we discussed everything that need be discussed. You are all dismissed." Xemnas said, then I heard several sounds of smoky 'whoosh's' identical to what I heard when we left twilight town and ended up wherever it is that we are.
Then, from what I can tell, three portals open up not far off from Axel and me.
That was the first time
that the entire organization
saw me...
though I could not see them
It was also the first time...
that I would met the person
who would become
my best friend
