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You peoples need to vote if you haven't, so I can start on ya'll surprise as soon as I can:D (Or else I'm picking!)

Now, we finally get to find out what's up with Xed!!

Here goes:

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Arm shaking, Vexen hung the phone back up on the receiver and tried to take in a slow, deep breath. But it only came in broken, shattered fragments.

"Dude, what's up?" Xigbar asked, looking up from his magazine. Larxene, Axel, Luxord, and Lexaeus looked up at the scientist in interest and curiosity too, having heard his end of the phone conversation.

"It's…Xedramon…" he said slowly, fixing his acid-green gaze on the group of Nobodies before him.

"What about Xed?" Axel asked, not truly interested, but out of morbid curiosity.

"Something's wrong with her…" He took a breath and found it difficult to swallow it. "That was Kuxir right now. H-he said she just…collapsed…and now s-she's not waking up…"

Larxene and Axel now looked mildly interested, Luxord slightly worried, Lexaeus unfazed, and Xigbar a combination of anger and worry…and more anger.

"I KNEW IT!!!" The Freeshooter shouted, jumping up from his seat and slamming the magazine down on the kitchen table. "I KNEW THAT LITTLE XORAS PUNK WAS BAD NEWS!!!"

"Woah, wait," Larxene said, crossing her arms and leaning back in her seat, "Who's this Xoras guy? And Kuxir?"

"Some friends of Xedramon." Lexaeus replied, sounding cross. "We told her to stay away from them." He turned his attention back to the novel in his hands. "Serves her right."

"How can you say that?!" Vexen exploded, his face now red with anger at The Hero. He took a breath to calm himself down a little bit. "Luxord." The Gambler looked up at him. "Alert the Superior of what has happened. Xigbar, Lexaeus, Axel, come with me."

"Heh, don't have to tell me twice." Xigbar said, opening up a portal and stepping through. Number V grunted slightly, but nevertheless followed after Number II. Vexen stepped through, with a bored Axel bringing up the rear.

"Please…

Hold on…"

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"Xedramon!!!" Vexen called out, once the portal opened up and revealed to them The World That Always Was. The Nobodies looked around, but they only saw white, pure white, and the city which, although was all white, had a mysteriously deviant aura about it.

And sitting in the middle was a group of three kids…

"HEY XED!!" Xigbar broke from the group and ran over to the kids, which he could identify to be Xed, Xoras, and Kuxir. Seeing the eye-patched man speeding towards them, Xoras scrambled to his feet and backed away quickly.

"I swear I didn't do it!!" the blonde shouted, putting his hands up in a defensive gesture. Xigbar shot him a very evil look, kneeling on the ground next to Xed's still form.

"As if" he muttered bitterly, grabbing hold of the girl's shoulder and shaking her very gently. "Xed?" Number II spoke, gently yet firmly and with worry.

But she still wouldn't wake up.

"What's wrong with her?!" Xigbar turned up to look at the other three Nobodies, whom had caught up by now. Number IV kneeled down and looked at her. Although unconscious, she looked absolutely miserable. Her face was pale with an eerie grey-white shade, her eyes tightly closed. Her breath came out faintly and ragged, as if she were struggling to live. He placed the back of his hand on her forehead. Even through his thick, leather glove, he could feel that she was burning up.

"So?" The redhead questioned. The only reason why he hadn't died of boredom was because of the fact that the kid could still die. He pyro smirked inwardly, hoping that could be the outcome.

"She feels sick, but…" Vexen tilted his head slightly. How could he put this? "…I feel it's more than that." He turned to Xigbar. "We have to bring her back to the castle right away. I can't figure out what's wrong with her until we do."

"Got it." Xigbar picked up Number XIII gently; walking briskly through a portal Number IV had just opened up for them, with The Academic following right after. Kuxir stood up slowly, a look of nervousness on his face.

"I suppose," He began softly, but strongly, "you wish for us to go now…" Axel chuckled, looking at him out of the corner of his eye before walking through the portal. Kuxir gave him a look, but was interrupted by a certain orange-haired Nobody appearing behind him.

"I can only imagine that The Superior will have questions for you." Lexaeus boomed, startling the younger Heartless slightly. His expression hardened. "You two," flicking his gaze up over at Xoras for a moment before looking back at Kuxir, "are coming back with us right now."

"Hey!" Xoras shouted, while walking up to where Kuxir was. He crossed his arms and turned away from Number V, a smug frown planted on his face. "You're not the boss of us!" Kuxir, gaining a bit of confidence, crossed his arms and turned away from Lexaeus as well.

"Yeah," he scoffed, "you can't tell us what to d—"

"RIGHT NOW." The man roared, grasping the back of the two Heartless' cloaks, lifting them both a full two feet from the ground.

"YES SIR!!!" The boys squeaked, trembling slightly from the (scary) man's outburst.

Grunting out of satisfaction, Lexaeus literally dragged the Heartless through the portal, leaving the eerie white of The World That Always Was and trading it in for the darker version.

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"Xedramon?"

Was someone calling her name?

"Did you know…about Roxas?"

Who?

"Would you like…to know the truth? About who you really are?"

Xed opened her eyes easily, letting her sight adjust to the pitch-black darkness that swirled around her. She was lying on something hard; that much she knew. Yet, it wasn't cold…nothing was… There was nothing there.

"Wha…?" Xed pushed herself to her feet, looking around wildly. There was nothing there. "Where am I?"

An ear-splitting ringing-noise rang out, causing the girl to cover her ears. When the sound subsided, she found herself standing on a colorful platform. She didn't know the design of it, but she knew who was featured on it:

Sora.

CLANK! CLANK!!

The sound of Keyblades clashing together filled her ears.

Xed looked up, to see that two people were fighting before her. One had spiky brown hair, and a very…interesting outfit. He strongly resembled Xoras, except he was older. The other person there was had a black cloak on, hood up, holding two Keyblades. Xed could immediately tell that he was the boy who kept 'bringing her to life' in her dreams.

"Hey!!!" Number XIV shouted, running towards the two fighting. "Stop fighting!!!" She stepped in the way of the two, just as the brown-haired kid swung his Keyblade at her—

—And striking her square in the chest.

She tumbled back, losing her breath completely. But she felt no pain.

"It doesn't hurt, does it?"

"No…" her voice came out strained, barely a whisper. "Why?"

"He's not real yet. He can't hurt you."

The cloaked person loomed over her.

"It's time you woke up. It's time you breathe again."

"What?" "Don't…no…please, let me die."

"I'm sorry, but I can't let you die…not yet."

Something slammed into Number XIV's stomach, causing her to cough harshly.

"It's time for you…to be brought back to life…"

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Xed's eyes flew open, grasping her stomach tightly and coughing. It felt like a 20-pound weight had been smashed into her.

"LARXENE!!" Vexen hissed angrily. "Was that necessary?!" The woman snickered, turning around and waving the man off.

"Hey, it got her to breathe, didn't it?" she said. "AND it got her awake. Two birds with one stone."

"Xedramon, are you alright?" Number IV asked. Xed sat up, still catching her breath.

"What…happened?" she looked around, realizing she was on her bed, in her own room. She tried to remember anything, but her memory would only stretch as far as the beginning of her training with Kuxir. That, and the bizarre dream she just had…

"Xedramon, you passed out." He explained, sitting down on the edge of the bed next to her. "You were training with those Heartless again, and you got sick and collapsed. We came over there to get you, but…on the way back…" Vexen's voice became soft and quiet, quite unusual for the rather eccentric scientist.

"You stopped breathing."

Xed looked up at him in disbelief. It was just like the dream!! I stopped breathing… and then…

"Then I got to punch you." Larxene declared proudly, earning a hard look from Vexen. She scoffed, "well, that a bit of an add-in. But, it got you breathing again. So what?"

Xed couldn't understand it. Nothing…was making any sense. What had happened in the dream…was real life? But, that boy in the cloak wasn't there in real life! Was he? He didn't really exist…but…could he possibly…?

"Xedramon?"

Xed looked up.

It was Xemnas.

"Hello, Xemnas…" she began. Letting her voice trail off as her eyes lowered to her lap. Everything is ruined. Everything that COULD'VE gone wrong WENT wrong.

"Number IV, Number XII." Xemnas snapped, seeming a bit angry. "Leave." The two left soundlessly though a portal. The Superior crossed his arms, looking at her crossly. Xed didn't have to look up to know he was staring harshly at her. She could sense it.

"Care to explain what's been going on?" Xemnas offered.

Number XIII remained silent.

"Well then." Xemnas said, moving across the room towards her. "I'll just tell you what's been going on." He sat down on the far edge of the bed, never taking his eyes off of her.

"You've been acting very strangely, Xedramon, and, to be honest, I'm not exactly pleased with that. From what I've heard, you started training with another person, a HEARTLESS, for that matter, and, to make things even worse, he is a part of The White Disorder." Xed cringed at the bitterness in his voice, but remained silent. "I've heard that you skipped out on a training session with Lexaeus due to a simple scratch. I've heard that you were attacked by a Heartless during your training, and attempted to hide it with a bold-faced lie, RIGHT to my face."

"But—"

"I've heard that some stranger tried to take you from the Organization. I've also heard from Saix that you were in possession of, what you claimed to be, medicine." Xemnas sighed angrily, narrowing his eyes at her. "Is there anything that I'm missing?"

Xed could only shake her head 'no'.

"THEN WHAT IS GOING ON?!" The girl trembled slightly. Xemnas had never raised his voice at her and, quite frankly, it scared her. He stood up abruptly. "I don't understand this. I don't understand this at all!! Why are you this way? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"

"EVERYTHING!!!!" Xed yelled out. "EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH ME!!"

Xemnas was taken aback by her sudden yell. He quickly masked his surprise with anger. "What do you mean by that?"

Xed muttered something.

"I cannot hear you, Number XIII."

"I said," she sighed. "There is something wrong with me." The Superior crossed his arms in back of him, standing up a little straighter.

"Well then, what is it?"

The Keybladist looked down and her hands and closed her eyes, as if to say she were ashamed.

"I'm fading away, Xemnas. My existence is ending."

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I'm sorry this took so long to come out, but…it was a hard chapter to write.

Well…there's not much to say. The next chapter explains all.

Chapter 21 (Sweet! Broken through 20!) Preview:

"What are you talking about?"

"The accident…that's when it started."

"I'm sorry Xemnas…you gave me so much, yet I can't give anything back."

"Why is this Organization so important to you?"

"Because, you all—"

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That's all you get!! I'm gonna try to be better about updating from now on. :D