Ns: Chapter 2 is up. Next chapter.

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Chapter two: Resurrection

X'ero had made a mistake. She wasn't quite sure how long it had been since Zexion had invaded her what she had of life, but it could have easily been around three years, and they were both still fully conscious and existing.

She sat at the café in District 1, drinking hot chocolate while her orange eye scanned Travse Town inhabitants as they moved around the town. That morning she had had her usual cup of hot chocolate while she waited for Zexion to finish his shopping in the moogle craft shop, and then just as she had taken the first sip she had realized, that she would miss it if she couldn't sit at the café and drink chocolate anymore. The train of thoughts had somehow led to the fact that she would miss Traverse Town itself if she were to leave. That irked her to no end. She was a nobody, how had she bonded with anything at all? When she was halfway through her cup she realized it: Zexion was fully to blame. When he had entered her hotel she had begun to intact with him, just a little, to be civil and somewhere along the road he had become, she dreaded the word, a friend, and her newly discovered ability to interact had affected the way she was around the normal townsfolk too. She would smile her 'disaster'-smile (as Zexion had named her smile) a lot less, which apparently made her less uncanny, and she had gone from being a feared person to a respected person, whom people relied on when the heartless needed a beating. Without a doubt this was all Zexion's fault, and X'ero did not like it.

Zexion approached X'ero with the component for his laboratory in the hotel. (He had tricked X'ero into financing it.)

"Did you buy a cup for me too," he asked. X'ero looked at him the eerie disaster-smile in place.

"Sure did," she said. Considering her smile Zexion found it safer to buy his own, last time she had smiled like that while offering him a drink, she had drugged it with sleeping pills – he had been out for a week.

"What's wrong?" he asked, while opening a book. X'ero didn't look the least bit offended that he intended to talk and read at the same time.

"How would you describe our relationship?" she asked, swirling the last bit of chocolate around in her cup.

"Huh?" Zexion actually looked up. "We are friends of course."

"But we are nobodies and we didn't know each other from before becoming nobodies, so how can it be friendship?" Zexion closed his book.

"I see the problem, but you are forgetting something." X'ero waited patiently while Zexion searched for the right phrase. That was one of the things he liked about her; X'ero never interrupted while he explained a theory, first when he was done would she give her opinion on the matter.

"We are like-minded, and we are cable of having an intellectual discussion, we are both nobodies, which mean that we both understand what it means to miss a heart. Thus we are able to bond on an equal footing."

"I guess that makes sense," X'ero said. She looked relived. "I also have this dark persona, which sort of fits with the town so perhaps it is not wrong to have a home." Seeing that she no longer was troubled Zexion returned to his book. They sat there for a while: Zexion reading, X'ero going over the hotels finances. Then Zexion smelled it, he had smelled it before but hadn't taken notice of it, because he couldn't identify the smell. It was a sharp smell and unpleasant because it was not one a Nobody should smell.

"X'ero," he said. "I think someone we don't know might be in town."

"You smelled it?" She asked. Zexion nodded, once more opening a book.

"I wonder…" X'ero whispered more to herself than to Zexion. She lifted her head from the finances to look at Zexion:

"Can I borrow you laboratory, I want to repair something."

"What?" Zexion asked, intrigued by the unusual request. Once more X'ero folded her hands, her disaster-smile appeared and her orange eye glowed.

"A defence mechanism, I want to greet our guest properly."


At the same time Sora, Riku and Kairi was waiting at Destiny Island's beach. Sora was clutching the letter they had found in the bottle.

"Relax, they will be here soon."

It has only been a year since Sora and Riku had defeated Xemnas, but now, with this letter from King Mickey, they knew that Organization wasn't finished.

"I don't understand it," Kairi said. "I thought they had all faded away."

"Don't worry," Sora smiled reassuringly. "We will defeat them as many times as it takes." Kairi smiled back

"And this time we will do it together."

"They are here," Riku interrupted. A star in the sky shone brighter and brighter, seemingly falling down to the beach. When it was close enough Sora recognized his gummiship.

"Donald! Goofy!" He shouted waving his arms.

"Sora!" Moments later was the trio reunited.

The World that Never Was hadn't changed much. The broken Kingdom Hearts was still hanging in the sky, as a bizarre purple and black moon. The nobodies crawled all around the city street and wasted no time in attacking Sora and his friends. Sora swung the keyblade and eradicated another group of random dusks.

"Man, they just keep coming, where were we supposed to look again?" he complained.

"I'm more concerned about his Majesty whereabouts," Riku said, Souleater lifted ready to attack. "Where did you say he had disappeared to?"

"About a half year after we went home his Majesty caught the wind of some world-threading rumor and went off to investigate it." Donald explained. Somehow that didn't surprise the rest. King Mickey was always the quickest to act when darkness formed.

"Something seems off," Riku mumbled, but kept his worries to himself. Sora would after all still follow his heart, trap or not. After an endless amount of fighting did the group reach the Proof of Existence, only to find that all the tombstones really was turned off.

"They seem dead," Kairi said.

"Sora, are you sure you read that letter correct?" Riku asked teasingly to hide his concern about this.

"Hey..." Sora began, but before he could continue to argue with his friend, the keyblade shone and reacting to that a door, they never had seen before, appeared.

"There's the way." Sora stated and went to open it.

"How convenient," Riku said as he followed his best friend inside of what seemed to be a large chamber filled with machines. The problem however wasn't the size of the chamber or the odd machines, but rather the person standing in the middle of it.

"Xemnas," Sora, Donald and Goofy shouted - perfect synchronized.

"Well, well" Xemnas, still dressed in his black and white clothes, extended his arms in a mocking welcoming gesture. "It's truly a blessing to see you again."

"You won't trick us," Sora said sure there was trick, but not sure was the trick was. "We will defeat you no matter what."

"Sadly, you are being misled by hearts on this matter." Xemnas summoned his weapons and charged at the heroes. "Allow me to correct that." Red blades met a black as Riku quickly blocked Xemnas' attack.

"Sora," he shouted, trying to prevent being pressed back.

"I've got it." Sora swung his keyblade into the standard postion, the beam of light emerged from the tip and pierced Xemnas' chest. A click was heard from somewhere as Xemnas reeled backwards from the blow. He smirked and then disappeared into a green mess of data signs.

"What happen?" Kairi asked nervously as the sound of running machines began to fill the room. Riku rubbed his sore arm muscles. It had felt real, but working so long with DiZ now paid off.

"That was a data-hologram. Properly made from one of these machines we heard."

"So, eh" Sora said, catching on "That click-sound was not a good thing." Five pair eyes all sought out the spot on the wall where the keyblade beam had hid. A keyhole was neatly placed in the middle of a bunch gear that was turning.

"Gosh, Sora I think you just started that thing-y,"

"Perhaps we should turn it off." Riku suggested, but before any of them could figure out just how they should do that. The gears stopped and an white orb rose from the floor. It grew - bigger and bigger until it exploded into the black and white threads so typical for nobodies. The blast threw the group of heroes back into the Proof of Existence, where they could only watch as the threads surrounded the tombstones and light them up one after one.

"Sora, they are being resurrected." Kairi clung to Sora. Evil laughter of ten different people filled the room, and Sora realized that all the nobodies were going to attack in one group.

"This is not good." Sora readied himself, Riku, Dounald and Goofy did the same. Even Kairi drew her fairly new keyblade. In that moment did a black portal form behind Sora.

"Sora, this way." A familiar voice came to their rescue. Sora and friends were not late in following voice into the portal and leave the World That Never Was behind.


"Axel," Sora sounded happy to see the best friend of his nobody. "You are alive. Now you can apologize to Kairi after all."

"So you got me memorized," Axel grinned. He rubbed the back of his he and turned to Kairi. "You know about that kidnapping..." Kairi smiled:

"It's in the past now. Besides we might have bigger problems."

"Yes," Riku interrupted arms crossed. "We must figure out what happened quickly. Starting with why you are alive."

"My guess is Xemnas had a plan B..." Axel began, but he never got the chance to finish. The dark corridor shook, beams of light penetrated the walls and before the friends had a chance to escape, the walls succumbed to the pressure and the corridor collapsed.


Ns: The chapter is short, but it seems the right place to stop.

Sora: So Ns, how did Xemnas do this?

Ns: I will explain the next chapter...I think