Hey. I finished another one, yay!

Well, I hope that you will like this one, because I literally wrote this in a matter of three days, so it might be a bit too short for you guys ^^'. Sorry! The only reason why it took me so long is that I was busy with my other story, Shattered, and also my brother and sister were hogging the laptop to play Minecraft. (Yeah, like that's productive, T. J.! She's not really writing anymore, so I have to take up where she left off with our story that we wrote together.)

Anyways, I don't own it, nor will I ever will own Kingdom Hearts.

Dedicated to my mom and every other awesome mom out there, because it's Mother's Day over here in this part of the world.

...Moms rule! :P XD

I woke up the next morning feeling utterly exhausted. I had hardly slept a wink during the night, for my mind was entirely occupied with the thought of Galen being the legendary First Experiment, and that I was an experiment as well. I had thought that since all of the experiments that I've read about the other day were dead, I was the only one that had survived to be used. What didn't make any sense to me is that, why isn't Xemnas using Galen for his plan? Is it because he had a heart, or that he can't summon a Keyblade of his own? Or is it that he didn't know that Galen was the First Experiment, and that he had somehow survived?

And most of all, if he was an Experiment, why does he have a heart, and I don't?

All of these questions were swimming around my mind as I got dressed in a clean white shirt with short, black sleeves, and loose fitting grey pants. I looked around some more and found my black leather knee high boots that I had tossed carelessly to a corner the night before. I tugged them on as I walked over to the labs where I expected Galen to be at. Surely enough, I found my mentor there, slumped up on a metal table, using multiple science books as his pillow, his left arm dangling over the edge of the table still somehow holding a pen in between the fingers, and his right arm was curled around a microscope. Out of the corner of his mouth, I could see a faint, shiny trail leaving from his lips to the table; obviously drool from sleeping with his mouth open.

I laughed at the sight, for I've never seen Galen sleep before, let alone drool in his sleep.

I walked up to his sleeping figure, and gently prodded his body. "Galen, get up! I'm awake, and it's already eight hundred hours in this world's time."

My only answer was a slight snore as he twitched his fingers around the microscope.

I rolled my eyes as I poked his face gently. His eyes twitched slightly underneath their lids, as if he was looking at something. I poked him some more, and his lips started to twitch as well. I would've gone on and on like that, if his left arm hadn't suddenly twitched, sending his pen flying like a dangerous projectile at the wall behind me.

"Galen, get up already," I said, shaking his body. "You just tried to kill me with your own pen, so get up already."

I got a couple of grunts as a response.

I started to shake him harder. "Galen! Get up before Xemnas comes here and gets you in trouble!"

Nothing.

I glared at him. "I didn't want to do this Galen, but you've left me with no other choice." I rummaged around in the lab looking for his stethoscope. I found it inside its box in one of the glass cabinets. I placed the ear buds of the instrument over his ears, and then I grabbed the end piece and started to gently tap it so it wouldn't break and Galen's ears wouldn't be damaged.

"Nugh?" Galen muttered as his eyes started to flutter open. "Sravv, will you please stop that?" he said as he took the earpieces away from his ears.

"That's better. I was trying to wake you up for a while now." I said as I took the stethoscope away and placed it back where I found it.

"Well, if you had noticed my eyes moving around like crazy underneath my eyelids, you could've at least knew that I was in the middle of a dream," he yawned.

I closed the cabinet slowly as I put the box with the stethoscope back into its rightful place. "Galen, what sort of dream did you have?" I said without turning around.

"It wasn't a dream, Sravv. It was one of two things: a vision, or a memory," he said. I heard him fumble around with some books and start writing something in it.

I turned around to see him writing on the margins of his science book again, completely focused on what he was writing.

"Galen, what exactly do you write about on those things?" I asked. "I read them sometimes, but they make no sense at all. At first, it seems like you're writing notes about your different research projects, but there are times where it seems like you're writing stories about different people, with a few of them always reoccurring."

Galen didn't answer until he finally finished whatever he was writing. He turned to me with a blank expression on his face. "Those notes where it seems like stories are the memories of the people whom we are cloned after. Some of them are fragments of the future that will happen to them one day. But, if you look hard enough, there are some that I've written that are about my future, and your future."

I cocked my head to a side in wonder. "How is our future like?"

"It varies each time, for some reason. But I can't tell you the specifics exactly, because I forget everything that I see eventually, which is why I write them down so I won't forget. But, I can tell that you have to ability to do the same thing with the memories and the visions, because your genetic makeup is more similar to mine than to that of the others, with just one alteration in it. And if my research proves to be correct, you are able to remember them all."

I lowered my gaze to the floor, unsure about what to say. "Yeah, I can remember some things that I dreamed about when I was in total darkness, but they were with different people, all of which were different but have some of the characteristics that I have."

"Those people are the people whom we are cloned after. The reason why Xemnas was crazy enough to combine such a monstrous mixture to create beings like us is because he wants Kingdom Hearts, the great heart shaped moon hoarding fallen hearts, and the X-blade, the ultimate Keyblade that shattered into seven lights and thirteen darknesses during the Keyblade War. But I believe that there is something more that Xemnas wants out of the clones he's making."

"But aren't you making them, too?"

"No, I only monitor their health and train them until Xemnas thinks they're ready to tackle his goals, or until he thinks they're such a waste and… orders me to… I don't want to talk about this right now." Galen got up, closed his book and left the room in a brisk walk. I followed after him, having to literally run in order to keep up with his fast pace and wide strides.

"What did you do to them?" I yelled after him, still running to catch up.

"Use your imagination," he yelled back without turning around to face me. "Think why you don't see any of the other clones besides me, and remember what you've read on my journal last night."

I stopped in midstride, thinking back to the journal that I've read last night. The records of the clones that I've read about were almost all dead. My eyes widened in horror at the sudden realization. "Did you… kill them?" I asked, whispering the last bit of my sentence, not wanting to believe that such a good man like him, who was basically a father to me, could do such a cruel thing like that.

"His orders were to dispose of them, because they posed a threat to our lives," Xemnas said from behind me. I flinched in fright when I heard his sudden voice. "Of course, I don't have an existence in the first place, so that mostly goes to Galen."

"But was it really necessary to do that?" I said in a hushed whisper. I felt my legs tremble, and I fell on my knees and hands, staring at my weak reflection on the white marble floor looking back up at me.

"Yes it was. They were failed experiments, and you must already know that the strong survive whereas the weak die," Xemnas said as he grabbed my arm and helped me up. "You mustn't grow weak, Sravv. You have to be strong in order to survive the monsters of the worlds."

"Does that mean that I have to kill, too?"

"It's called self defense. And you're going to have to experience that soon enough." Xemnas said. I heard him summon a Corridor behind him.

"What do you mean-?" I asked, but I wasn't able to finish what I was going to say because he easily picked me up and tossed me inside the corridor.

I rolled around inside the Corridor for a while, eventually finding myself in other section of the castle that I wasn't familiar with. I knew for a fact that I was still in the same world because the walls were still white, but I was outside of the area where the labs were. I looked around, and it seemed that this part of the castle was an area where people would lounge around in, kinda like a waiting room. It had a couple of empty white couches and tables, a long hallway leading somewhere, and a large window revealing a black night sky with a floating heart shaped moon hanging in the middle of the black velvet sky.

I stared at the moon, feeling drawn to it. From the descriptions that Galen gave me about the moon, I knew that this moon is Kingdom Hearts, where all of the fallen hearts released by the Keyblade gathers.

I pressed my hands up against the glass, staring at it. I felt like I was meant to be there, that the missing piece of me is up there, somewhere, inside that moon. With that thought, I smiled.

"It's impressive, isn't it?" a cool, steady voice asked from behind me.

"Yeah, it is," I answered back without turning around to face the speaker. "I wonder how many hearts are inside that thing."

"Millions, most likely."

"That much collected from Heartless? Wow, it must take years in order to get that much."

"Yes, it does, and only those with a Keyblade are able to fill it up completely."

"It's not complete? It sure does look complete to me."

"No, that's just the illusion. If you can really feel the power of it, you can tell that it's still not complete. Not everything that you see is the complete truth, for there is more to everything than we can see. Like you, for example."

I stopped smiling when the speaker said that. "What are you talking about?" I asked him warily, tensing up in case I had to fight.

"You surely are a different one. I can tell that you are a Nobody like me, but there is something strange about you. You're not a member of the Organization, yet you have the boots. You act like you've seen Kingdom Hearts before until now, and then there's the matter about that strange coloration of your hair. Red, brown and black, all of which seem to have a different personality all on their own because of the way that they're arranged in spikes on your head."

"I also have yellow-gold, by the way," I added. "You can't see them, because they serve as my bangs."

"Really? Then what is your eye color?"

"Mostly blue, with gold and bright green specks circling around my pupil in a uniform way."

"Huh, you sound well educated."

"Thank you. I just have a really good teacher."

I heard the speaker say nothing else for a while. Then he finally spoke these two words. "Turn around."

"What?" I asked, taken back as to why he would want to see me. I looked at the glass, trying to see a weak reflection of him, but all I could see is just the black of his coat covering everything, with his hood pulled up to hide his face.

"Turn around," the speaker said again.

"Just as long as I get to be able to see your face as well."

"You knew that my hood was up?"

"I can see your reflection on the glass here easily."

"Wow, you really are a smart one. Fine, I'll take it off now."

I kept my eyes glued on the glass, making sure that he will keep to his promise. Surely enough, he took off his hood and revealed a large mass of red hair covering his head like a lion's mane. His red hair was the exact same shade as mine, which had left me momentarily stunned.

"Now turn around," he said.

I complied. I turned around slowly, and I sharply inhaled as I saw him. He was easily taller than I am, about the same height and age and Galen, probably, with scarlet red hair slicked back in spikes, revealing his slight widow's peak. He had narrow, cat-like eyes and small red eyebrows, and his eyes themselves were of a brilliant green that seemed impossible for a human eye to have. Underneath both of those eyes, he had upside down purple tear drop shaped tattoos. He had a curious, angular face that slightly reminded me of a cat's, and his skin was as pale as mine. He wore a black coat like Xemnas, but unlike Xemnas, the coat was really tight around his arms and torso, making him look really thin.

I cocked my head to one side, still slightly taken back. "Axel?" I muttered.

"Excuse me?" Axel said as he cocked his head to one side as well, putting his hands on his hips.

"That's your name, isn't it?" I said, louder that time. "Your name is Axel, and you're the eighth member of Organization XIII."

Axel raised an eyebrow at what I said. "That's rather strange and creepy that you actually know my name, but I never really ever recall ever seeing you before until now."

"So you… but I thought that…" I stuttered, not really sure about what to say. I then said finally, "Show me your weapons."

"Excuse me?"

"Summon them. I need to know."

"Fine, but don't blame me if you might get burned." Axel said as he summoned them. Twin silver and red chakrams appeared on both of his hands.

I stared at them for a while. "Dismiss one of them. I want to show you something."

Axel gave me a confused look but complied, still holding onto the other one. I reached my hand out, and summoned the other one.

"Whoa-! How'd you do that?" Axel exclaimed as he stared at it.

"Try to summon it, if you can," I said coolly, smiling slightly.

Axel reached his hand out to summon it, but nothing happened. "Huh, so you really do have the other one." He stared at his empty hand for a few seconds, and then he focused his attention on me. "Really, just who are you, exactly?"

I looked behind me to make sure that no one is coming, then I turned back to look at him. "I'm your clone. Well, actually you're one of the five people that I'm made up of. My name, my full name, is Experiment Subject SRAVV 813, my nickname being Sravv. The letters of my name stand for the different people that I was cloned after."

"And who are they?"

"Sora, Roxas, Axel, Ventus, and Vanitas. S-R-A-V-V."

"And your number, 813. Does that mean that you're the eight hundredth thirteenth one created?"

"Yeah, and I'm the only one besides the First one that's still living. The First one is my mentor."

"What's your mentor's name?"

I gave him a confused look. "Why do you want to know, you've never even meet him before."

He smiled, showing white teeth. "His name is Galen, isn't it? About as tall as I am, probably around the same age, too, with brown eyes, pale skin and brown hair cut military style?"

"How do you know?"

"I've met him a while ago. Didn't know that he was also a clone like you because I could tell that he had a heart and all, but I somehow knew that his heart doesn't really belong to him."

"Wait a second. How would you know that?" I asked, wondering if I would have one of my questions finally answered.

"How would I know that?" Axel said as he scratched his temple with his finger. "I'm not so sure. Somehow I just felt that the heart that he possesses belongs to someone else."

"Do you know any more than that?"

"Well—"

"Sravv! What are you doing here?"Galen asked from behind Axel. Axel swiftly turned around to face him, grabbing his other chakram out of my grip.

"Oh, long time no see, Galen." Axel said sarcastically. "Did you get lost again?"

"No, I didn't, Axel. Sravv, how much did you tell him?" Galen asked me.

"I…I told him—"

"Oh, he told me a lot of things, but they're not really important to me." Axel said coolly, dismissing his weapons.

"Cut the act, Axel. I overheard you talking to Sravv, and I know that Sravv told you everything about him." Galen said, raising his taser nightstick at Axel. He activated the nightstick, making blue sparks of electricity dancing around the metal rod.

"You think that an electrified nightstick is going to scare me?" Axel said, staring up at Galen in disbelief.

"Just let the child go, and forget about everything that you've heard." Galen said, his voice sounding tense. I could see his weapon slightly shaking from fear.

"Alright, you can have the kid. I'm not really one to hold kids hostage, you know." Axel said as he grabbed my arm and pushed me towards Galen. "And besides, why would I threaten someone who is basically my own blood?"

Galen said nothing as Axel disappeared into a Corridor of Darkness.

"Sravv, how did you get here?" Galen asked me suddenly.

"What? Oh, well Xemnas grabbed me and tossed me into a Corridor after he told me that you killed all of the other Experiments, and that soon enough, I might have to kill some people as well." I explained, feeling rather confused.

Galen said nothing for a while as he gave me a hard stare. "Go back to the labs now."

"But I thought that—"

I wasn't able to finish what I wanted to say, because I heard a Corridor being formed somewhere. I looked down to see the black darkness of the Corridor underneath me. I fell into it screaming. I didn't know whether or not Galen called out my name, because the Corridor had already closed as fast as it had opened to suck me inside.