Gusting Darkness
Chapter I: Memories
"Best friends can be inseparable even when they're apart."
"He...was the only one I liked...he made me feel...like I had a heart. It's kinda...funny. You make me feel...the same...." The voice cut through the brown-haired boy's head. It was familiar, though again, it wasn't. He looked up at the sky from the Destiny Islands. Memories, deep from within, began pouring in. There was... A blonde-haired boy... Then there was... 12 coats around him...
"Good tidings, friends..." said a deep voice, from within those memories. A round room, thirteen chairs situated around it, a single platform in the middle. All chairs were occupied. The lowest chair, however, had the boy that ran through the other boy's memories.
"Today, is a momentous day..." the voice continued to call, consuming the boy's mind. "I am pleased to announce..."
At those words, a pain shot through him. He fell. Fell to the ground, face full of sand. He clutched his head, pain filling his lungs, body, and spirit. Memories, of something... Gone.
"That another comrade has been chosen to wear the coat..." A scream, a pain-filled yell. Memories, memories of everything. A red-headed male, vanishing into darkness, wishing to see a "Roxas".
The clock-tower, the ice cream, the three of them.
Kingdom Hearts. The giant moon in the sky, the visions. The visions of them, the unworldly beasts. The darkness itself, mindlessly collecting hearts.
"Number XIV."
"Number... Fourteen... X-Xion..." the boy mumbled, the memories pouring into him. Who's Xion?
No-one knows, or the ones that do never speak of them.
Who's... Xion?
"You are all probably wondering why you are here," said a male. The Round Room, yet again. The chairs, with just one not occupied. The lowest. The male himself wore what everybody wore: a black coat with their hoods on.
"I am happy to announce that Kingdom Hearts has already appeared, have you not seen it?" he pondered, moving his arms to his hood. Revealing his face. A young man, purple marks under his eyes, and two uneven bangs. The hair was bright, red, in fact. Spikes were at the back of his head, and could not be seen from the frontal stance.
"Yes, a momentous day. So close to our hearts. Are you not filled with anxiety? Our plans, so far, are going well, despite changes in our personalities, and a change in our whole organization. But soon, my friends, we will have hearts ourselves!" he consumed the room with delight. He looked at all the coats, the black ones.
"Continue what you do, it will help in a long shot. You are all dismissed."
The man had vanished in a black orb, just before the others had the chance to speak up. "What a change, the leader's finally happy," said one of coats, with an almost British tone to it.
"Eha, don't be so surprised, Lux, he's just happy of his own success," said one of the slouching coats.
"I don't even see why he needs us, he's the only one with the ability to collect hearts," said another coat, looking back at the slouching one. "And Dex, sit up more! It looks like you're going to fall off," the same coat lectured, having an angry tone.
"Are you my mother? I didn't think so!"
The coats laughed, though it wasn't pure laughter, it was fake laughter. Though it sounded like it through a Nobody's ears, the laughter itself wasn't artificial, it wasn't organic. It was the hollow husk of laughter, like the Nobodies are hollow husks of their real person.
"That's not funny! It's just st-"
"Ah, don't worry yourself, Vexn, have a good laugh, once in a while. Laughter's one of the ways you'll win the games," said the coat known as Lux, as he vanished into the blackness.
"That man's confusing, his references make no sense," yelled out the Vexn coat; Dex had laughed.
"More confusing then you? I mean look at you, are you a lunatic, or a scientist?" he asked, chuckling some more, "I mean, I believe that Scientists have some sort of intelligent look, then your crazed look of-"
"That's it, Dex, I'm gonna kill you!" Vexn screamed, ripping off his hood in such a manner. A crazy manner, one might say.
His hair was brilliant and blond: long bangs carried themselves over Vexn's shoulders. His eyes were colored in blue, and they had a crazed looked with them. An insane look...
"There it goes aga-"
"Shut up, both of you," another yelled out, in a more serious tone. The second highest chair...
"Hey, he started it," Dex said, in retaliation as he slouched back some more.
"Doesn't matter who started it, you two are dismissed!" The second chair yelled, taking off his hood as well.
His eyes were glowing with rage, though they seemed calm on the outside. His hair was dark blue, and he looked young himself, too. His hair shot up into the air as multiple spikes, looking at the two bickering coats with dark filled eyes.
"Guh, fine!" the two coats yelled out, vanishing themselves into the blackness.
"Those two are going to yell the Organization out before we get our hearts..." the second-highest coat had said, looking towards all of them.
"I hear you," said one of the coats, in a deep and quiet voice.
"You all have missions, get out of here."
And thus, they all vanished into the blackness, leaving the Second-Highest alone to ponder.
"And now, Roxas will be ours..."