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Chapter II: Preparations

Sora looked to the medium-sized, elegant mirror adorning one wall of his room in his house on the Destiny Islands. It was made with the combined magic of King Mickey and the Kingdom Key—a special mirror only for the use of those who had recovered from turning into a Heartless.

A mirror that could show you your Nobody, and vice versa.

Everyone on Destiny Islands knew of his adventure, but none knew about Roxas. He was debating whether to tell them, but he told himself it wouldn't be a good idea to tell everyone that he had been a Heartless and his Nobody was evil and joined Organization XIII. He had had enough to deal with. He looked deep into the mirror again, and as he concentrated, his reflection wavered. He saw a figure seem to walk up from behind him in the mirror's reflection, but the figure took up his own reflection. Roxas grinned at him.

"So, Roxas, I have an audience with King Mickey," Sora announced. "He requested I come to his castle. I need to look my best; the message he sent sounded very important."

The mirror shone as Roxas spoke. "So, what did he say?" the Nobody asked.

"You know what he said. Just 'There is a problem I need your help with'."

"Well, no duh he needs your help," Roxas said. "But that didn't sound very urgent. It could be anything he needs your help with. Any menial labor."

"We're talking about the King," Sora told him. "It's not like he needs my help organizing his books."

Roxas got into a dramatic pose and pointed at him. "You don't know that. I've seen your memories of Queen Minnie's library; that place is huge!"

Sora laughed. "If that's what he wants, then I say that's a waste of my talents."

Roxas coughed. "What talent?"

"Shut up."

"What if Organization XIII is back?"

Sora rolled his eyes as he tried to pick out a suitable outfit. "Yeah, right. I kicked Xemnas's butt; he's never coming back."

"From my short time in the Organization, I learned things you never learned, not even in all your fights with their flunkies. Xemnas and the rest of the Organization or more powerful than they let on." Roxas looked at him and their eyes locked.

"Yeah… Uh…" Sora held up an outfit. "What do you think about this one?"

"Too bold," Roxas observed. "You're visiting the King; you're not trying to out-do him clothes-wise."

"It it really that bold? What about the outfit the fairies made for me before I started my journey?"

"That old thing? Give it a break; wear something casual. Hey! What about my outfit? It's sort of formal, but still nice."

"Yeah!" Sora said with mock excitement. "Why don't you go into your closet, change into something else, and give me your outfit?"

"…You don't have to be hurtful," Roxas said in a small voice after a moment.

"I was joking; come on, don't Nobodies have a sense of humor?"

"How about getting the fairies to make an outfit like you wore on your first adventure, but your size now?" Roxas said, ignoring the insult that was completely intended. "It says, 'Hey, King Mickey! Remember me?'."

"Good idea! So…"

"So what?"

"Axel said something to me before he died," Sora remembered. "He said how you were his only friend or something. What's that all about?"

"Axel was never truly with the Organization, in my opinion. Neither was I, but hey. He was one of my best friends in the Organization. He knew I was the one to break free and betray them. He told me it was about time someone did, but he didn't have the courage to do so until you were in trouble. I'm glad Ansem gave me my memories back; I remember him being worried about me when I was captured and placed in the virtual Twilight Town."

"But Axel's a Nobody," Sora pointed out. "They can't feel…right?"

Roxas looked down to his hands, as if they had asked the same question. "One would think," was all he said.


"Sora! The train's here!" Riku's voice echoed through the room.

"I'm coming!" Sora struggled into his new outfit, falling to the ground trying to get his leggings on. He finally got them on, and shot out of the room to where the mystical train was waiting, with Riku and Kairi already inside.

Kairi groaned. "Sora, your hair looks horrible!"

"Thanks," he said, glaring at her. He felt his hair with his hands; it didn't seem messy to him as he looked into the window of the bus to see his reflection.

"Yeesh, did you even brush it?"

"Um…no…" As she glared again, he said in his defense, "Well, I had to wait for the fairies to make me a new outfit!"

"You could've done your hair while you were waiting," she said with a grin.

He opened his mouth to say something, then, realizing he was cornered, he closed it and said nothing.

"You seem to be asking Roxas's opinion about a lot of stuff lately," Riku acknowledged, slightly inclining his head.

"Yeah, and your point?" Sora asked.

"Why don't you just let him fade away?"

"Why should I? He's me. We're the same person; the fact that he's a Nobody shouldn't change how he's treated. It's like racism if you're saying Nobodies shouldn't exist. Well, maybe they shouldn't, but he does exist and you can't change that. It doesn't give you the right to demean him."

"Okay, okay, sorry dude," Riku said quickly. "Goodness, Sora. Why so defensive?"

Finally, the train took off on magical track into the stars.

"Defensive? Why? Maybe because I'm mad, and Roxas deserves better treatment than what the Organization and Ansem gave him. That's why I talk to him a lot. He never got a chance to; I want him to live. Ansem decided to suddenly take everything away from him without any explanation as to why."

"He had a reason, though."

"He never told Roxas that, though." And

"I agree," Kairi interjected. "After Naminé restored Sora's memories, instead of thanking her, apparently Ansem tried to get rid of her." She crossed her arms. "Ansem the Dumb is more like it."

"Hey, don't—" Riku started to say.

"Don't get mad at us; you don't have a Nobody," Sora retorted.

"Okay, okay, I get it," Riku said, getting annoyed. He put his elbow on the arm rest of his chair and put his chin in his hand.


Axel and the others came out in the World That Never Was. Their first order of business was to go back to the Castle That Never Was and get the others' weapons; the only reason Demyx and Axel still had theirs was because Demyx wouldn't part with his sitar, even in death (or whatever happened to him when Sora defeated him), and Axel absorbed his special chakrams into himself when he preformed the suicide attack to save Sora from the Nobodies; that kept them with him into the Nobody's World.

Axel groaned and put a hand to his forehead, grinding the palm of his hand into it.

"What's wrong?" Demyx asked. The water-controlling Nobody held onto his sitar with reverence; like he'd die if he were separated from it.

"Xemnas is probably going to get out of there," Axel answered. "He has the power, as I just showed him. The others we left behind are probably going to help him, too."

"But that's not it, is it?" Sometimes Demyx was smarter than he let on.

"No. It's Roxas. Demyx, with him we could take Kingdom Hearts. With him, we could finally become whole again. But he's already become whole again; he's got Sora."

"Don't be such a crybaby," Demyx told him. "I doubt Sora would be happy to see the rest of us…" he looked back to see the others glaring at him, "…but if you face him alone, I doubt he'd attack you after helping him."

"Eh," was all Axel said.

"We made you leader," Xigbar said, pushing him gently, but hard enough to make him stumble a bit. "Better not mess this up for us."

"Don't worry," Axel said with a wink. He turned to Luxord. "Luxord, I have a special task for you…" He gave the gambler a card. A card the flame-controlling Nobody had kept secret from Xemnas ever since he had acquired it.

A look of surprise flashed on Luxord's face, but he quickly concealed it as he looked at Axel. "Where did you get this?" he demanded, though he sounded more surprised than mad.

"When you have the Assassin Nobodies under your control, a lot of things open up to you," Axel replied ominously.

Luxord shot him another quick look, then looked down to the card as the others crowded around. With a sigh, the Gambler of Fate then held the card up to the stars and closed his eyes.


Roxas had receded deep into Sora's mind, in a place his mind could think in peace with Sora's consciousness. Roxas had the innate sense to tell when another Nobody was near; all Nobodies had the ability. For a while now, all he'd been able to sense was Naminé, always close by. But now, he sensed someone else.

Axel…? he thought to himself. And Demyx, Xigbar… Uh… Marluxia, Larxene… He paused, trying to remember their names. Lexeaus and Luxord, that's right. Where're the others?

As he wondered this, he thought of something else. Wait, why are they here? There? Wherever?

His eyes snapped open as he got a view of Luxord. The smooth-talking gambler was holding up a card—Roxas didn't like the looks of that. He started to panic, and the feeling began to seep into Sora's mind. The Keyblade master would feel only slight panic from Roxas's influence, but he would not know why.


Sort of a short chapter. It should pick up. :D