Chapter Three – Organization XIII
They reappeared in a large hallway, out a window he could see that it was night time, "What time is it" Roxas asked.
Axel turned and saw him looking out the window, "Don't let it fool you" he said, "It's always dark hear, lets go" he grabbed Roxas by the collar of his shirt and pulled Roxas in front of him, making him walk first.
They stopped in front of a door, "Xemnas is waiting for you in there, just make sure you call him Superior, unless you want to die on your first day," He smirked rudely and walked away.
Roxas gave him a dirty look; "I didn't want to be friends with you ether" he said to himself and cautiously walked through the door. Through the door was a huge room with lots of book cases and there was a desk in the corner where a man with long silver hair sat looking at some papers, he didn't notice Roxas come in.
"Um S-Superior" Roxas stammered and Xemnas looked up.
"Aw, number thirteen" he said and Roxas could tell by his voice that it was the figure that he fought, "Glad to see you decided to join us" he snapped his fingers and two white creatures came up with measuring tape and a notebook and pen, one of then started measuring Roxas while the other started righting on the notebook.
Roxas noted about how thorough they measured him; they measured from the length of his legs to the width of each of his fingers. After about a minute of this they left.
"What was that about" Roxas asked.
"There making measurements for your uniform," Xemnas answered.
Roxas knew that he should have expected this; everyone else wore those black clothes he would have to where one.
"Now I believe it's time for you t meet the other members, go to the room Where Nothing Gathers, down the hall eighth door to your right.
Roxas nodded and left the room while Xemnas created a dark portal and stepped in. Roxas walked down the never ending hallway when he finally reached the eighth door he found that it was a huge double door.
In this so called 'Where Nothing Gathers' he walked in and there was absolutely no color on the walls it was all blinding white, in fact it was so bright that Roxas had to shield his eyes a moment when he first walked in.
The room was huge there was twelve towering chairs lined up in a circle at all different heights but they were all at least over 25 feet high. All of the organization members sitting on each of the chairs, Xemnas sat at the tallest one.
Roxas walked into the middle of the circle of chairs to get a better look at the organization members some of them had there hoods up shadowing there faces, but from the ones that had there hoods down he saw, Xemnas of course than he saw a man with long gray black hair with an eye patch on his right eye and a real nasty scar on his left cheek, he sat on the next highest chair.
Then he spotted a guy with black hair that was braided in parts and also had interesting sideburns, he was sitting at the next highest chair, there was a girl with blond hair with strips of it sticking up on ether side, like antennas, he noticed that everyone had if not totally, a some what emotionless face but she wore a evil smirk, she sat on the lowest seat.
He saw Axel sitting next to a well built man with orange hair and he was sitting next to another girl or at least Roxas thought she was a girl with purple blue hair that went in front of his face making him look emo.
The rest of the member had there faces covered, Xemnas seemed to be telling them about the new member 'himself,' none of them seemed to have noticed that he came in. He thought that Xemnas didn't notice ether until he said, "And hears our new member now."
24 eyes looked down at him and he suddenly felt like a sore thumb, they all stared at him a few moments in silence, the blond haired girl was the first to break it, she started laughing as if the whole thing was a joke, "Ha, ha, ha he's so adorable ha, ha-are you out of your mind Superior" she asked as if Xemnas was crazy.
Xemnas' eyes narrowed, "Would you like to repeat that number twelve" he asked in a low deadly voice.
"As a matter of fact I would, are you out of your mind," she repeated.
A few of the other member gasped of whistled, obviously it took a lot of gust to talk to Xemnas like that, "I mean look at him, he's just a kid, he wont last five minutes." She continued
"For your information number twelve, he can wield a keyblade" Xemnas said icily and looks of shock crossed all the faces that weren't covered except number twelve that gave Roxas an evil look, "And now we have enough members we can reach our goal, 'KINGDOM HEARTS'," Xemnas continued.
"Oh boy" number twelve said putting her face in her hand.
"With all do respect Superior, he may be able to wield a keyblade, but he's still a kid and wont be much help to us and also you said that twelve is enough for us to reach our goal," one of the members with there hood up said.
"Well if you guys want my opinion, I like the idea of having a thirteenth member, Organization XIII has a better ring to it than Organization XII," a different member said that had his hood up.
"Well you know what no one really cares about your opinion number nine" Number twelve shot.
"Enough" Xemnas ended the argument calmly, "He is our new member; Number thirteen…Roxas, the key of destiny."
All eyes once again looked down at him, Roxas wondered about the key of destiny thing was all about, figured it was a title name or something, "Now I think we should all give a hand to number twelve for volunteering to train our new member.
The blond looked outraged and started protesting, "What no I didn't, why do I have to-"
"ENOUGH!" Xemnas shouted his emotionless face turned angry, "You will start training him first thing in the morning."
"Fine" Number twelve gave in "I'll baby-sit the brat," she slumped in her chair and gave Roxas a look of hate, "He is potty trained, right?"
Roxas rolled his eyes, "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea, I mean look at what these people think of me" he thought.
"Meeting adjourned" Xemnas announced ignoring Number twelve's question, and they all teleported away except Xemnas who just teleported to the ground that Roxas was standing on.
"I will show you to your room" he said and walked to the door, Roxas hesitated a moment then followed.
"You will be training with number twelve tomorrow, so the rest of the day you have off, dinner will be at seven, I'll send someone to come and fetch you to show you where the kitchen is," Xemnas explained as they walked down the hallway.
After what was probably an hour of walking Xemnas stopped in front of a door that had the number XIII on it. Roxas was huffing and puffing by this time and he stopped and grabbed his knees taking in gulps of air.
Xemnas smirked at seeing this then said, "Don't worry Number twelve will teach you how to use the corridors of darkness so you don't have to walk so much," he explained, "You uniform should already be made and waiting for you so make sure you put it on and we'll see you at dinner," with that he teleported away.
Roxas walked into the room, it was plain and simple, and a queen size bed in the corner, a night stand with a lamp next to it, and a closet in the other corner, and a dresser that was it.
He spotted a bundle of clothing sitting neatly folded on the bed; "Must be the uniform" he thought and walked over to the bed.
The Uniform was four articles of clothing, a plain black T shirt, jet black pants, a long leather zip up coat that went down to his heels, and black leather gloves.
Sighing in defeat figuring that he'd better get used to it since he was going to be wearing it all the time, he took off his vest and stripped off his shirt and pants, and replaced them with the black ones. Then he put on the coat and looked at the bottom of it to find the zipper, it took him a moment to figure out that it was at the top.
He zipped it down until it reached his thighs so that he could easily move around. He was surprised at how comfortable the uniform really was, the only think that might get uncomfortable was the leather jacket and gloves on a hot day.
He sat on the bed wondering what he should do now, he was just thinking about maybe going to explore the castle but not knowing how tired he really was he fell asleep, then a few hours later he woke up to loud knocking, he opened his eyes and looked around.
It took him a moment to remember where he was and noticed that someone was knocking on his door. He got up and opened the door to one of the organization members it was the girl with blue purple hair that hung over her eyes.
"Its time for dinner" she said but the voice was a male voice which proved that Roxas was very off at which gender he was.
"Wow, you're a boy" Roxas said without thinking, the other member narrowed his eyes, "I mean, I'm not hungry."
That was quite true, he wasn't that hungry and also wasn't eager to join that other member knowing what they thought about him. "The other member deciding not to comment on Roxas confusing his gender replied, "Well come with me anyway so I don't have to show you where the kitchen is."
Not waiting for Roxas to reply he turned around and walked down the hall, Roxas followed figuring that it wasn't really an option. They walked in complete eerie silence.
When they finally made it to the kitchen there were several other members there milling around some of them were pushing each other around to grab there dinner while other were already sitting down.
Every body in the kitchen had there hoods down so there was some new faces, the ones he had already seen was the guy with the eye patch who was already sitting down eating, the big muscular guy who was in the process of serving himself and number twelve that was just sitting at the table sharpening some knifes and having a look in her eyes that basically said, 'come near me and die.'
Other than the guy that brought him to the kitchen there were three unfamiliar faces, two of them were sitting at the table playing a card game. They were both blond but one noticeable older than the other, one was a boy probable in his late teen, his hair color was about the same as his but had a mullet.
The other one was an older man about in his mid thirty's his hair was short and he had a short beard and cross like earring in his ears. He noticed that the younger one had a very nervous look in his eyes while the other had a triumphant look on his face.
The last unfamiliar face was an interesting guy with pink hair, it took Roxas a second glance to relies that he was a boy not a girl, he had his arms crossed over his chest pouting after losing the fight with the muscular guy on how got there food fist.
"DANG IT!" The blond boy suddenly shouted and through his cards down on the table making Roxas jump.
The older guy laughed and said with a British accent, "All right pay up, 6,000 munny" and he held his hand open.
"Well I'm um a little short" the younger blond said.
"Then borrow some," the older one said at once.
"Um, hey Marluxia, can I borrow munny."
The guy with pink hair had just sat down with his food and looked up and asked cautiously, "How much?"
"Um, 5, 999," the boy said.
"Demyx, when are you going to learn that you should never play a game with Luxlord," the guy that walked Roxas to the kitchen said as he was serving himself.
"I guess I can just put it on your tab" the older blond guy Roxas assumed was Luxlord said and then he pulled out a calculator, "So you now owe me," he paused as he punched numbers, "746,583,927,465.83 munny." (AN Don't even ask me how to say that number).
"Great that's at least 142, 378, 59.6 less munny than last time," the younger blond known as Demyx said happily.
Roxas could barely believe that what he just heard was a real conversation; he made a mental note not to ever play a game with Luxlord. He suddenly heard his stomach growl and decided to at least try and eat.
He walked over to the pot on the stove that everyone got there food from and looked to see what it was, it looked like some sort of stew, he was just about to serve himself with someone pushed him out of the way.
"Out of my way twerp" it was the blond girl.
Roxas thought about saying something but then decided against it, he sighed and patiently waited for her to finish then got food himself, after, he sat down as far away from the others as possible and stirred the stew around, he felt very uncomfortable.
"Dose the little guy ever speak" the guy with the eye patch suddenly asked.
Roxas was about to answer 'yes' when the girl answered for him.
"He probably hasn't leaned yet" she said smugly.
That was the last straw, these people thought of him as a baby and the guy that brought him to the kitchen didn't even back him up, even though Roxas told him that he wasn't hungry, he just remained silent.
Roxas was furious, he abruptly got up from the table completely forgetting about dinner and left the kitchen slamming the door behind him, as he walked away he heard Demyx say, "Aw Larxene, I think you hurt his feelings."
Then he heard the girl also known as Larxene reply, "Where nobodies we don't have feelings." That was all he head before he was out of earshot.
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