Thanks to DGMSilverAirHead ( :( ) and MonMonCandie for the reviews! MMC: It's not so much that Xion doesn't have a heart anymore, it's because of the fact that she does have one again. The theory is that when the defeated Nobody and Heartless of a person are reformed, they are a new type of "thing," in a sense. I'm not sure how that would work with Xion, being that she was with Roxas and Sora, and it might not work at all, but trust Xehanort to get that confused if she wasn't just to ruin her psyche. :P

And as if that right there wasn't bad enough already, please forgive the general nerdiness of this one-shot; I thought physical science and chemistry were actually kind of fun, or as fun as science can be for me, and for some reason nothing else relating to elements would work in my mind. Go figure.


Vexen taught her that an element is any substance that cannot be broken into any smaller substances. Xion has that fact engraved into her mind. By her own definition of the elements that make her up, Vexen actually has a fair part of himself in her, his "finest creation," along with the pieces of Kairi and Sora and Roxas and Axel.

Riku is a part of her, too. At first his influence was small, but now, lying beside him in the same bed, Xion imagines that if someone broke her down, her Riku would be the most abundant "element."