I Am Nobody

Chapter 7

"Castle Oblivion"

It had been a few days before I was able to get out of bed. When I had first woken up I had energy, but as time passed on, I was so drained I couldn't even get out of bed. Xion and Roxas had come almost every day to keep me company. Even Xiggs and Demyx came by a few times, but no Axel. I asked Roxas what was going on with him and all he said was that he was doing a lot of missions and didn't have any time to visit. I speculated this and figured he was just ignoring me, but I needed answers! Something had happened between the fight with me and Sephiroth, but I can't remember anything, I'm not even sure who won! Anyways after the few days of being in prison, I was finally able to go on a mission again. So I went on a mission with Xion. Our mission was to go to Twilight Town and knock out a certain number of Heartless. It didn't take us long to complete it so we were heading to the Clock Tower to meet up with Roxas when Xiggs appeared out of nowhere.

"Hey Poppet, you need to RTC. Saix wants to see you."

"Me? Why me?"

"I don't know. He just said you needed to get back to base ASAP."

I sighed and turned to Xion. "Tell Roxas I won't be there today."

"Yea, sure. You just be careful this time, Xina." Xion had a serious look on her face.

I smiled to assure her. "Don't worry it won't happen again." I walked back with Xiggs to HQ and headed towards the Grey Area. I saw once again that Axel was with Saix. "And again, you're pitching me with the redhead.

Saix ignored that comment and started. "You're late."

"Well I was on a mission." I said.

Saix's face darkened a little. Axel had his signature smirk. I guess he enjoys Saix's frustration. "Can we get on with the show now?" Axel said.

Saix's glares were now turned to Axel. "This is an important mission. Failure is not an option."

"What's going on?" I asked.

His eyes now faced me. "It seems that we have some rats in our beloved Organization that are trying to take over it. I want you and Axel to dispose of them."

"Who would be stupid enough to do that?" I asked again.

"That is, what I want you two to find out."

"So when does the mission start?" I asked.

"Actually," Axel got off from the wall. "The mission already started. We're kinda late to be honest."

"Why are we late?"

"Because…..um….I slept in…"

I facepalmed myself. "Are you serious? You slept in and made us late."

Axel gave a nervous laugh.

"Since you're late, how about leaving now." Saix came in.

We both nodded and walked through the portal. There was an awkward silence between us. I could tell from the corner of my eye that Axel gazed at me from time to time, but he wouldn't give me direct eye contact.

So I decided to ask my questions "Axel can I ask you something?"

"What is it?"

"Can you tell me what happened in our last mission?"

Axel's body grew tense "What ya mean? You won the fight and end of story."

I had won the fight? "Yea but, wouldn't I have some recollection of this?"

Axel turned to me "I don't know you tell me?"

"Don't you dare turn this on me?" I snapped. Then I took a deep breath and continued. "Look Axel I have the right to know what happened to me. It happened to me after all, not you!" I said sternly.

Axel had thought about it, as if to choose his words carefully. "You…changed…" was all he could come up with. I could tell he knew more, but wouldn't say of course.

"Changed?" I questioned.

"Yea like you was a different person. You weren't yourself when you fought Sephiroth. You were a lot more scary and darker then you usually are."

I thought about this for moment. "So did I kick Sephiroth's ass at least?"

"More like scared him off. He's still alive and that won't be the last time you'll see him either. He looked pretty pissed off when he left. So what's the story between you two anyways?"

"I had a dream about him, killing some girl's mother." I said softly

For a split second there was a look of hurt, like he knew exactly what I was talking about, but the faster it came the faster it left. I wanted to say did he do know more, but I figured I had enough answers for one day.

"About those dreams," Axel said. "Don't mention it to anyone else, okay?"

"But why?"

"Just follow the rules it will do you good."

Haven't I heard that line before? "Try again, Axel."

He scratched the back of his head nervously. "It's just….not normal, okay?"

I had started to say that Roxas and Xion had these dream as well, different they may be. But I decided against it considering it wasn't really my place to say that. Plus if what Axel was saying is true, that it wasn't normal for us Nobodies to have these dreams than I would have been putting Roxas and Xion at risk.

Axel notices my silence and nudges me on the shoulder. "We're here."

I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at the huge building before us. This castle was huge! But like always I had a familiar feeling about this place, like had been here before. It tugged at my brain slightly like I had to remember something from here. There was also a pang of sadness, intuition had told that something sad had happened here. But of course I was confused as ever, like always. The building itself looked kind of creepy. It was kind of torn apart in away, like it was destroyed before and this is what was left of it. When we entered the building it was all white. There was absolutely no color what-so-ever and I cannot stress that enough. The place was as plain as our headquarters.

I looked around the place in awe. "This place is huge!" I said my voice carried on throughout the hallway making a echo.

Axel smirked at my comment, but then got serious. "Stay focused. We gotta snuff out the rats remember?"

I nodded to Axel. "I remember."

We walked further down and up some stairs. Everywhere we went was the same, white walls. I swear our headquarters is more appealing then this! We finally came across a door and walked through it. I'm telling you that nothing is worse to look at than Larxene's face and hair which was….green? What the hell? I had started to say something, but Marluxia cut me off.

"Ahh, you're finally here."

Axel gave a nervous laugh. "Yea. Sorry we're late."

"And I see you brought our newcomer." Marluxia said looking at me.

"It's nice seeing you again, Marly." I smiled. Larxene spat to herself as if trying to get my attention. To be honest, Larxene had caught my attention the moment I entered the room with her green hair. I still don't know the situation with that. Did Demyx prank her again? No it couldn't have been that because I would have heard about it by now. I was snapped out of my thoughts when Marluxia started explaining the mission.

"Xemnas wants us to capture Sora and take his memories."

"Why is that?" Vexen asked. I hadn't even known he was here, which creeped me out a little.

"If we take his memories then he will become useless that and I can shape Sora however I want him to be."

A certain light bulb lit up in my head and I paid attention to Marluxia's words. He said 'I' instead of Xemnas. This made me conclude that Marluxia was the rat in the Organiztion.

"And just how are you going to do that?" Axel asked interested. I guess he picked up on Marluxia's words too.

He pointed to a girl in the corner sitting in a chair. I hadn't noticed her when I entered the room, I guess because she was wearing a dress. She had a neck-length of blond hair and wore white sandals. She also had dark blue eyes similar to Roxas's. Her head was low not responding to the world around her. Marluxia walked up to her, she jumped when Marluxia touched her shoulder.

"This girl will make it happen, won't you Namine?" she didn't respond, but there was look of fear on her face "I will be luring Sora to this castle very soon. Is there any questions?"

I shot my hand up high like I was in school. "Question, why is Larxene's hair green?" there was a low growl coming from the direction Larxene was standing. Axel on the other hand was chuckling trying to keep low from Larxene's ears. Marluxia couldn't really was respond to this question. Vexen laughed as well which was creepy in my standards. Then another question popped into my head and I figured everyone would get a kick out of this. "Why is the creepy scientist with us?" I asked pointing at Vexen.

"Why you brat! I'll have you know that my presence is needed on this mission.

"I hardly believe that. In fact your very presence makes me uncomfortable." I said bluntly. I could tell Axel was enjoying this because he was laughing under is breath, trying his best not to laugh out loud. Larxene and Vexen leave the room, their faces red with anger, or at least pretended to be.

"Do not worry about them, Xina" Marluxia came. "In the meantime you're on guard duty. Do not let that girl out your sights." I nodded. He then looked at Axel. "Axel, I want you to stay here for further orders."

"Hehe sure."

Marluxia then opened a portal and walked out. Axel leaned against a wall and turned to face me

"You sure have a death wish talking about Larxene and Vexen like that."

I smiled at him. "I guess you can say that. So I assuming that Marluxia is the rat behind all this?"

"Your assumption is right."

"So what do we do?"

"Will just play along for now and maybe will find some more rats along the way." Axel gave a mischievous grin.

I turned to look at Namine again. She still had that depressed look on her face, I wonder why? For some strange reason she reminded of that girl Kairi. Maybe it was because of the eyes. I was snapped out of my thoughts when I heard a voice

Xina you must stop this!

I jumped a little and looked around the room.

What the….hell….?


Yay I finished a chapter lol. Sorry if this one was a little shorter than the rest. Posted a day before Christmas eve, nice. O MI GOSH I'M GETTING SPIRIT BOUND AND LAST SACRIFICE FOR CHIRTMAS!1 ALONG WITH THE HUNGER GAMES I'M SOOO EXCITED! I finally get to find out what's going on with Rosemarie Hathaway and I get to be introduced to Katniss! Oh yea a sneak peak of the nxt chap: The Introduction To Xina's Somebody! And more on Xina's Heartless form! MERRY CHRTMAS EVERYBODY! :D