I don't know what to say. I don't know what to think. It's just been days of this, wandering, not knowing anything. Where I am, who I am. I don't even know my own name. I can't remember how I got here. I've just been in this dark place, for who knows how long. It seems like forever, like eternity. But I think that it's only been a few days.

I wandered the streets of this dark and dreary place. I can't seem to find anyone. Such a large city, yet no one seems to reside here. I have not seen anyone since I arrived. If I ever even "arrived" here. Maybe I have been here. But I don't remember anything, so there's no way of telling. I continued to walk the streets until I found myself at a large open area. This seemed like it might be the center of the city. I continued to walk towards this large skyscraper. It was big, with large screens on it. Some lights were on, but no one seemed to be in the building. The screens were blank, but soon enough I could see some pictures in them. They were blurry and flashing quickly, but it seemed that they were portraying images of a person. Then more people appeared. For some reason, they seemed familiar. As if I knew them from somewhere. But I still didn't remember. Were these people I knew? Why did they look so familiar?

Suddenly, the screens went blank again. I then heard the sounds of something approaching me. I turned to see this creature. It was strange. It was slender, wearing some sort of gray suit, a large crest on its forehead. It had a zipper around its head, which suddenly unzipped itself to reveal a mouth. It was standing there, looking at me. It stood in silence, so I thought maybe I should break the silence.

"Who...who are you?" The creature remained silent. It continued to stand there and I tried again. "Who are you? Where am I?" It remained still, but this time I heard something. I heard a voice, but it was weird. It was as if it was not speaking, but I heard it.

"Welcome." I stood in shock. I then walked closer but the creature jumped up and started whirling around in the air. It then went passed the skyscraper. I followed it as it kept going around, it was so flexible in its movements, it seemed so unreal. I followed it but then I was stopped by a large shadow that appeared on the ground. Then a figure began to rise from this "pool" of darkness. It appeared before me, this humanoid figure. But it was completely black. It had yellow eyes and large antennae. It stood there for a second, but suddenly, it leaped towards me. I jumped back as it attempted to slash at me with its claws. I then tried to run, but soon enough I found myself cut off by another one of these creatures. I turned back and more appeared. Two, four, eight, twelve. I found myself surrounded by these shadows. I stood there, panicked, but could not do anything. They merely stood there. I could sense it, that any moment they were going to strike. But then, out of nowhere, something hit one and it was destroyed. It faded into a cloud of black smoke and soon enough, they all were destroyed. One by one, they all were vanquished. I then looked up to see a man. This man in a black coat, a hood covering his face. He was floating, upside down. I couldn't believe my eyes. He had these weapons in his hand, which suddenly disappeared. He then disappeared and I looked around. I heard a voice behind me.

"Well, that was a close one, huh?" I turned to see the man in the coat behind me. I jumped back and he reached for his hood. He pulled it off to reveal his face. He had a large scar on one side of his face, one eye was covered by an eye-patch. He approached me and I kept stepping back. "What's the matter? You afraid or something?"

"Yeah. What were those things?" He looked at me intensely, and spoke once again.

"If you want answers, then you'll have to come with me." He then looked up, past the skyscraper. I looked as well and saw this giant castle in the sky. He then began to walk towards it.

"To that castle?" He then looked back and smirked.

"Where else do you think?" He continued to walk and I was hesitant. I didn't know who this man was. Why he wanted me to follow him to this large castle. But then again, he saved me from those shadows. I have no way of defending myself if more of them show up. And I have no idea what is going on. It would be nice to get some answers. So I followed him.

We walked past the large skyscraper and continued through the city. As we walked, the man just continued to face forward. I thought I might try to talk on the way, maybe get some questions answered right now. I was a little impatient, I needed to know what was going on.

"Why are you taking me to that castle? Where am I?" The man looked back at me and then looked forward again.

"You are in a world that never should have existed. One that doesn't really exist." I was so confused. What did he mean? A world that doesn't exist? How is that even possible?

"You didn't tell me why you are taking me to the castle. You said I would get answers there, why?" He continued to walk through the alleys and I followed closer behind.

"To see my superior. He has the answers you want." His superior. The lord of the castle. He apparently had the answers for me. I needed to know, so I guess I had no other choice but to follow the man. If I wanted to know where I really am, what I am doing here, who I am, I had to go see this man in the castle.

We proceeded to a large opening. Before us was a large sort of cliff. There, floating above it, was the castle. I was amazed at how such a huge building could just float there, on nothing. Suddenly, a bridge appeared that connected the edge of the cliff and the castle. The man walked forward, but I was reluctant. The bridge looked like it was made from nothing, I feared stepping a foot on it. The man continued to walk and then began to walk on the bridge. It seemed solid enough if he could walk on it. So I continued to follow. Soon enough, I was on the bridge. We walked across, and it was such a long one just to get to the foot of the castle. This probably was the same amount of walking as I did the past few days. But then again, I don't really remember how much I walked these past few days. I don't really remember anything.

We finally reached the foot of the castle. We continued and I noticed all these structures, these pieces just floating and moving around. It was such a weird sight. All this, this castle. Everything just seemed so odd, so unnatural. We continued until we entered a room. As we walked in, we stepped on a large platform. Soon enough, it began to rise. It turned out that the platform was an elevator of sorts. It was so fast I didn't even notice that it was moving. I felt it begin to slow down and then it came to a halt. The man proceeded to walk off of it and I followed him once again.

I looked to see there was another man in a black coat, waiting for him. This man had an x-shaped scar on his face, with long blue hair. He stopped in front of us and spoke.

"Where do you think you are going, Xigbar?" He spoke in a brisk tone.

"Saïx, pleasure to see you." The man spoke with a more light tone, as if he were not being serious.

"I noticed you found something. And you wanted to walk it through the castle."

"Well, I suppose that she can find her way to Xemnas without my help, right?" The man with blue hair then looked away. He held up his hand and in front of him, a large dark portal appeared.

"If it wants to see Lord Xemnas, then we must not allow any unnecessary interactions. We shall take it to Lord Xemnas directly." Why did he keep referring to me as "it"? I am a person. I am not a thing. At least, I thought so. But I don't even remember who I was. The man with blue hair walked into the portal. The man I was following then proceeded to follow into the dark portal. I suppose they were going to take me to this "Lord Xemnas" person. I guess he was the superior that he told me about. I was a bit nervous to follow them into this dark portal, but I had no other choice. I had to go in. I needed the answers, and it seemed I was going to get them if I talked with their superior. So I went in.

It was so dark, I couldn't really see anything. But soon enough, I could see something. It was bright, I squinted and covered my eyes. I kept walking and all of a sudden, I was in a large, round room. Below me, was a large crest. The very same one I saw on the strange creature I met at the skyscraper. I looked around to see many tall pillars around me. At the top of each one, was a throne. They were all different heights, some shorter, some taller. I saw the two men that brought me here sitting on two of the thrones. I assumed were their respective thrones. Then I looked upon the tallest one and I soon saw a dark cloud appear. Then as the darkness disappeared, a man appeared on the throne. He wore the same coat that the other men wore, he had long silver hair, and he had amber eyes. He then looked down upon me, and I stood nervously. He spoke with a deep and monotone voice.

"I see we have another that has wandered into our midst." The others then looked upon him.

"Yes, I found her wandering the Dark City where she was attacked by Heartless after a Dusk scouted her out." So, the creature that I encountered was called a Dusk. The place I was in was the Dark City. But this served nothing to help my memory. They continued talking.

"Lord Xemnas, this is the fourth one that has been found recently. I do not think we need any more members joining our ranks."

"Oh come on, Saïx, why so harsh on the poor kid?" The man with the blue hair, who the other called Saïx, spoke again.

"You do not see how unnecessary it is, Xigbar. We already have found one of the Keyblade's chosen. And we have the other one to help in our efforts to achieve our goal of collecting enough hearts. We do not need more members." Xigbar, the man who I followed and who saved me from those creatures. They kept arguing for a while. I kept hearing words I didn't seem to understand. Nobodies, Heartless, Keyblade, hearts. That last one, especially. What is a "heart"? I couldn't think of anything. Nothing was bringing anything back in my memory. As I was thinking, the focus then turned to me, when Xemnas spoke again.

"Friends, we need not concern ourselves with such idle quarrels. Though it is true that we no longer need others to join our Organization now that we have our Keybearers. But like the others we found, they may prove to be useful. I can see great potential in this one, especially." I was getting tired of their seemingly endless conversation. I wanted answers, and I was told I would get them. I spoke out to them.

"Hey, I want some answers! Who are you people? Where am I, really? And why can't I remember anything?" Saïx and Xigbar looked up towards Xemnas. He then disappeared in the same manner that he appeared. He then appeared before me, which startled me. He approached me and I backed away, nervously. He continued and reached out to me. I close my eyes in fear. I then felt a hand on my shoulder. He looked at me, a slight smile on his face.

"Do you know your name?" He asked me. I blanked. I still couldn't remember anything. I still didn't know who I was, my name, so I couldn't answer.

"No. I don't." He then backed away, and suddenly, letters appeared before me. But they were so bright, that I could barely see what they made out. They then began to spin, to whirl around in the air. They stopped. Then I saw it. The letters and what they spelled. "Xaik..." I read the letters out loud. He then spoke.

"Yes. That is your name, now." He said that was my name. But I didn't remember it. It didn't sound at all familiar. So why did he claim that it was my name? I was confused further than before. But I supposed that I should go by it. At least until I could remember my name. My real name.

"So, you are Lord Xemnas, lord of this castle?" I asked.

"I am."

"Why am I here?" The two above suddenly disappeared. I then looked back to him.

"You are here because you were not meant to be." This was all too confusing.

"What do you mean?"

"You are a Nobody." That was kind of mean.

"What?"

"You are a being that was never supposed to exist. Like all of us, you were created when you lost something. A very important piece of your being." I lost something? My memory was still failing me.

"What piece?"

"Your heart." There's that word again. Heart.

"What is a 'heart'?" He then turned an began to walk away.

"You need to rest. Saïx will answer all of your questions tomorrow." He then lifted his hand and another dark portal appeared. He gestured me to walk through. I still had so many unanswered questions. But he was right. I needed to rest. I had been wandering around those streets for days, without a real shelter to rest in. I could sleep, but I did so in dark alleys. It would be nice to get a good rest. And then tomorrow. Tomorrow, I will get the answers I seek. But at least I have something I can remember now. My new name, Xaik.