Chapter 2: Introductions
"This is the Gray Area. This is where everybody normally hangs out," Axel told me, gesturing over at a group of people. "D-do you want me to meet t-them?" I asked him, still a little cold. Roxas gave me a nudge in the back. "Of course we do. You need to know them. Its required," he answered. Taking mental notes on things, I walked over (still scared and cold) to greet them. "H-hi…" I said. "Sweet! New girl! Hi! I'm Demyx! Or you can call me Demy!" the mullet-hawk blonde guy said, holding some weird looking sitar/guitar thing. "Hello. I'm Saix. Nice to meet you," the blue-haired man said. He had an X shaped scar in the middle of his forehead. "Marluxia's the name," the pink- haired man said, holding a pink rose. Axel came from behind me, and said, pointing to a dark man with dreadlocks tied in a ponytail," That's Xaldin," he pointed to a spiky, orange-haired man, "Lexaeus. The only way to remember his name is to say 'sue axel' backwards. My girlfriend made that up," he pointed to a black-gray haired man with an eye-patch, "That's Xigbar. Be careful around him," then he pointed at a long, blonde-haired man. "Vexen. Stay away from his lab, and you'll be okay," then he pointed at a short, blonde haired girl." That's Larxene. She has anger management issues, so just don't get on her bad side, got it memorized?" Nodding, he grabbed my hand again, and said, "Follow me!" Well, I don't have much of a choice, I thought as I was being dragged along. Roxas walked behind me, and said, "We don't have time for you to meet the rest of the members, but you will after you meet the superior." I walked the rest of the way in silence, looking at my surroundings as I was going along. Gray….white… black…. OH MY FREAKIN' GOSH, are these people emo or depressed or something? I thought crazily. Axel finally stopped in front of a large, gray door. "The Superior is in here, but we can't go in with you. Good luck!" Axel said as he opened the door for me, and Roxas pushed inside. "Wha-?" I managed to say before I realized the door was closed. It was dim in the room, the only light visible was a heart-shaped moon that glowed yellow from the window. "What is your name?" I heard from the room. "AHH!" I screamed in terror as I backed myself up against an unknown wall. "I asked, young lady, what your name is," the voice said again, but more calmly. "D-Dena," I answered, stammering. The lights came on, and I saw a man sitting on top of a super tall chair. "W-what is yours?" I managed to ask. The man disappeared from the seat, and then reappeared about 2 feet away from me. I thought I would scream again, but I bit my lip to stop myself. "I am Xemnas, the Superior of Organization XIII," he said. He wore a black cloak just like Axel and Roxas, but his hair was different from the other people I saw. His hair was silver, and it fell a little over his shoulders. His eyes were a brilliant yellow-gold. "So you're the guy Axel and Roxas keep talking about. I expected you to be older. You look like you're 24," I said, getting off the wall. His eyebrow lifted in possible amazement. "Well, you are certainly correct, Dena. I am that age," he answered. "Now we must do the name ritual, to see what your new name will be," he said, and with a slight gesture to his hand (black-gloved, like Axel's), the letters of my name appeared in front of me. "Cool," I said. I thought I would be scared of this, but why am I not? I questioned myself. An 'x' appeared right next to the letters, and then they switched around a bit, before they stopped at 'Dexna'. "Dexna?" I asked aloud. "That is your new name. I'm surprised that you were able to pronounce it correctly the first time. No one has before," Xemnas answered me. He turned, now facing the heart moon. "This, young lady, is Kingdom Hearts. As you may possibly know, you are a Nobody now. Your heart was taken by a Heartless. Nobodies are people who have had their heart taken, so they have no emotions whatsoever. Heartless, however, are creatures that take hearts from people who do have hearts and keep them for themselves.
It is up to us, as Nobodies, to recapture those hearts, and return them here, to Kingdom Hearts. This will, in turn, make Kingdom Hearts grow. And once we have collected enough hearts to complete Kingdom Hearts, our hearts will be returned to us, and we will be able to resume our normal lives once again. Do you understand?" He said, looking at me with his eyes. "Yes, I understand. Just one question though. How do we get the hearts from these Heartless?" I asked him. He gave a small chuckle. "We fight them, my dear. They won't hand the hearts to us like good creatures," he answered. "With what? AK-47's? Knives? Machine guns? Tanks?" I asked, really confused. He laughed a little more. "My dear, we aren't an army. We simply use the elements we are given after our hearts are taken. If you met Demyx, you saw him with a sitar. That is what he uses to channel some of his element through. He is water. Axel is fire. Roxas is light. I am nothingness. But what are you?" he asked me. I shrugged. "I have no idea," I said, raising my hands up. A box rose up immediately as I raised my hand next to me. "Oh my god!" I said as I backed away from the box. "Is it magical or something?" I asked aloud. "Ah, Levitation. That must be what your element is," Xemnas said. I moved my hand up and down, and the white box moved in the same motions. Whoa, this is creepy, I said to him through my mind, knowing he wouldn't hear. "It is very unusual, Dexna. And you must have telekinesis as well," He answered me. "You… heard what I said?" I asked, just a little shocked. "Well, you did say it to me," He said. "Now, we need to find out where you are going to be staying," he sighed as he began to walk towards the door. He opened it, and gestured a hand for me to go out first. I walked out, neither scared nor excited about what would become of the new me.