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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome to another chapter of Twilit Mages.*
*I will keep this short, so let's get this stared.*
*First off I do not own Fairy Tail or Kingdom Hearts.*
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The Sorceress's Gift
Roxas woke up and tried to get out of bed, but was met with a familiar scene.
"Xion, can you please let go of me?" He asked the Replica, who was clinging onto him once again.
Just like every other morning since moving here.
"Nooo...too warm..." Xion mummured out drowzingly as Roxas kept trying to pry her off.
"Xion come on everyone is waiting at the guild today, besides you know what today is?" Roxas said, his words getting her to let go as she woke up.
"Of course I know what today is do you think Mira finally perfected makeing sea salt ice cream." Xion sighed out groggily.
"Hope so." Roxas sighed out.
Appearntly making the perfect sea salt ice cream was extremly difficult. One wrong misstep and at best is a bitter taste. At worst you will probably be occupying a bathroom for quite a while.
A lession Natsu learned the hard way as he tried Mira's very first batch, much to Gray's amusment.
Still the two of them were hoping that she perfected the recipe as today was the perfect day for sea salt ice cream.
For due to the time Xion had spent in this world before Roxas had arrived she had estimated that the two of them were now the exact same age since she was created after Roxas came into existence. And today was the 365th day he had ever existed.
Meaning that today was the day they turned a year old, today was their birthday.
It had been a hell of a year, but here they can celebrate safetly here with all their new friends at Fairy Tail. It was a shame that they couldn't have done so with Lea or Namin, but they couldn't really do anything about it as they were worlds away and unable to leave. They would have to fidgure out something when they got the chance.
Still they have to get the guild hall in order to celebrate with their friends, as they had something planned for them.
"I will head to the shower first if Lucy hasn't used it first if that is alright." Roxas asked Xion as he got his clothes.
"No problem, I am still half awake anyway. You go on a head, I'll take one after you do." Xion said, getting Roxas to nod.
"Alright then." Roxas said before exiting their bedroom.
This was a strange new experience for them. Neither Roxas and Xion were born persay. One just simply came into existence and the other was created as a fail safe to the other. So they weren't just quite sure about how to truly celebrate this day.
Or come to terms that they were truly a year old.
It was going to take some time to get used to.
"And you sure it is a good idea to get lost in your own thoughts, partikually with myself in your head." Ultimecia called out from behind Xion, the Replica turning around to see that a mirror had manifested behind her, a pure white haired reflection of Xion standing regealy.
"Which is why I try not to, though this is a strange situation. Not as strange as sharing a body with you. Speaking of which, can you stop possessing me in the middle of the night. It is hard enough to hide any black feathers from Roxas before it wakes up and do you know how awkward it is to wake up with wings on your back?" Xion vented out, getting Ultimecia's mouth to twitch for a second before it settled down.
"I will not apologize for that, it has been a literal eternaty since I last had the need for sleep. Unwillingly uniting with all of time and space itself will make one miss the basiks of being a human being. As for sleeping with wings I wouldn't know, I was born with them and had them all my life. As for taking possession of your body while you sleep, I will not possess you tonight but after that I make no promises." Ultimecia said, getting Xion to sigh at that.
Figuring that it was better to not argue with the woman who could potentially take over her body permanetly if she wanted to.
Though there was one thing she noted.
"I see that your magic has recovered a little bit as you used to have me bring the mirror into existence, now it seemed like you can do so on your own." Xion said, getting Ultimecia to nod as the mirror started to crack
"Not for long though, it is a step better then being able to throw books at my studious little brother from my personal hell. Still this is a simple slight of hand for me, those fools hadn't provided as much of a start as I had hoped. Yet it was enough to finish my peperations for Roxas. That will go on today." Ultimecia said, getting Xion to sigh.
This meant she was going to be in pain later on.
But it also meant one thing, Ultimecia had now held up most of their agreement. There was one final claus there agreement, but that was after Xion had held up her end.
It meant that she would have to go on the hunt soon.
"Soon yes, but not at the moment. Today is an important, despite you and Roxas not being able to enjoy it sadly. So I will give you a week to before we begin." Ultimecia said, before she frowned. "However a week is all that I am giving you. If you do not start to move beyond then, I will take kontrol and I know that you hate that. But I have done everything we agreed on, yet it is time for you to honor your side of our agreement Xion. Or I will take aktion."
The mirror shattered and Xion let out a heavy sigh at that.
She should not have taken that deal, but it was either this or fade out of existence and leave Roxas to become Xemnas's puppet.
But she couldn't change what had been done.
But it didn't matter, all that mattered was two things now.
Making sure Roxas was safe and that she would be free once their deal was done,
But if Ultimecia did betrayed her, then she swore that she would do what no one else had done and end the sorceress herself.
She just hoped that it wouldn't come down to it.
Roxas was sitting on the apartment's couch, waiting for Xion and reading a book on lacrima that Levy had lent him.
After all he did not know that much on Earthland and and Xion had suggested that he seek her help which Levy agreed to.
He was wearing a black shirt with a silver x like sygil that he decided to adopt as his own, two toned pants, gray and black shoes with red stripes, and a white jacket with brick block patterns, a red folded collar, and a gray helm.
All of them were picked by Xion.
He had to admit that while didn't really care about the clothes at first, he now thought that they looked pretty good on him.
At least that was what everyone else kept saying.
He heard a door open to see Lucy coming back into their apartment, having had to run an errand earlier.
"Well I got everything that I needed done, are you and Xion ready?" She asked, getting the Nobody to shake his head as he closed his book.
"Almost, Xion should be finishing up getting ready sooner or later." Roxas said, getting Lucy to nod.
"I see, though I have to ask shouldn't you be more exited for today. You and Xion are turning a year old after all. It is still wird to think about it." Lucy said with a shudder.
"Well how do you think we are with this situation." Roxas said, getting Lucy to sigh.
It had been a few days since Roxas and Xion had told them everything to her and a few other members of the guild.
And safe to say that they were stunned
5 days ago
Lucy couldn't believe what she was hearing, and neither could the others Roxas and Xion had brought into the guild early in the morning. The only people not surprised were Markrov, Mira, Cana, and Elfman. The former three case Xion acidentially told them and Elfman as Mira told him last night.
"Sp let me get this straight, the two of you are actually something called a Nobody, which is formed when someone loses their hearts to darkness and becomes a monster called a Heartless!" Lucy exclaimed, the very thought of such a thing out horrfying her.
"Actually it is only for those with a strong will and as far as I can tell there is no Heartless in sighted in Earthland." Xion explained.
"She is right, I pulled in a few favors and there is no confirmation of their being any Heartless in Earthland. At least in Fiore, but if there had been any sightings of anything the two have described then I can assure you we would have heard something about them." Makarov said, getting everyone there to nod. And some to look quite relieved.
No need to worry about everything and everyone they know being swallowed up by a hoarde of darkness.
Natsu was relieved that he was smart enough to bribe Happy with fish so that he would not be tempted to come here after all. This talk about things like the Heartless, Nobodies, and his irrational fear of Xion would only make him think of her as an inhuman harbinger of the apopcalypse.
Well he wasn't wrong about her being inhuman as from the way the two described it Nobodies were a little different from everyone else with the main difference being that they lacked a heart.
"And you both claim to being from a different world and there are many others out there, but you can not leave due to how you were both brought here that and is also keeping this Organization from coming here." Levy said, getting both Roxas and Xion to nod.
"If whatever brought us here can block how travel we through the worlds then it will have blocked them from entering this world as well." Roxas answered.
"Which I still find hard to believe." Gray grumbled out, only here because he had thought of getting a job early only to stumble onto this gathering.
"I can believe them, Celestial Spirits come from a world of their own. So it wouldn't be too far of a stretch to say that there is more worlds out there." Lucy said, wondering what other worlds were like. Without the constant invasion of Heartless that is.
"Fine, can't really argue with that." Gray sighed as she had a point.
"Well that is great and all, but their is also the strangest of these revalations." Mickey said, wondering how her teammates will react once they hear about this.
"Which one, that they are less then a year old or that Xion is a clone of Roxas?" Lucy asked.
"Both of them." Mickey said, getting most of the assemble mages to nod and the Nobody and the Replica to look at them in deadpan.
"Out of everything that we told you, that is what you all find strange?" Xion asked incredulously.
"Even after you telling us this day ago Xion you have to admit it is a bit strange from our perspectives. Things like the Heartless, the Organization, and other worlds can be compared to things like Zeref's demons, Dark Mages, and legends." Mira said.
"But something like a human being born already grown from someone else's body or creating a clone of them is usually something that is usually associates and documented with Dark Magic. Though not always, still it is unusual to see something like that in front of us." Levy said, getting some of the mages to nod and Roxas to sigh.
"They got a point Xion, especially with what the Organization has planed for us." Roxas said, getting a Xion sigh and nod as they indeed have a point.
"Also how is Xion a girl while she is a copy of Roxas?" Natsu asked, getting everyone else to look at him. "What is nobody else thinking that as well?"
"It is something that you really shouldn't ask." Lucy said in a deadpan.
"And nobody else was thinking about it ash for brains." Gray said.
"What was that frigid stripper!" Natsu shouted.
"What did you call me!" Gray shouted, the two ready for a fight.
Until a fist crashed over Gray's head and a small bird pecked right in between Natsu's eyes, getting both mages to groan out in pain.
"Knock it off you two this is not the time or the place." Mickey said, dispelling her bird. "Either save it for after this meeting or I tell Erza when she gets back. Got it?"
"Got it." Both Natsu and Gray groaned out, deciding to fight it out after this and not have the wrath of Erza in the future. That and for their respective headaches to die down.
Roxas, Xion, and Lucy just wondered once again what this Erza was like to get the two to behave at the mere mention of the name.
"Seriously though Natsu, Xion said that she was a flawed attempt to copy Roxas. Though it doesn't matter in the long run what they are, they are members of Fairy Tail now and that is all that matters." Mickey said, getting all the assembled mages to grin at that.
"Mickey is right about that and besides you have to admit Xion is more of man then most of the guild, isn't that right Elfman?" Cana asked before drinking from her barrel.
"You are right about that, both Roxas and Xion are pretty manly for dealing with everything that has come their way and still standing strong." Elfman said with a respective nod.
"It doesn't matter if you two have a heart or not, you are one of us now and forever." Gray said with a small smirk.
"And if anyone says otherwise including this Organization, they better be prepared for a Fairy Tail style ass whooping!" Natsu said with a grin.
"So safe to say that the two of you have nothing to worry about when you have all of us behind you." Mira said with a smile, getting both Roxas and Xion to smile.
They had made the right choice in joining Fairy Tail.
"Thank you everyone, this means so much to the both of us." Roxas said with a smile, getting Xion to nod as well.
"It has just been the two of us and Lea for most of our lives, so to be able to make some many new friends and new people that we can trust. Well it is just as important as having a heart for us." Xion said honest, getting all of the mages to smile.
"Well the two of you do not have worry about anything like that anymore. As long two remain members or Fairy Tail and evening afterwards if you chose to leave, you will always be one of us. The two of you and Lucy, no matter who or what you were are before joining Fairy Tail, from now on you are all one of us and we look after our own no matter what!" Makarov declared getting everyone to smile.
Roxas and Xion shared a smile with eachother, knowing now they had finally had a place they could belong.
Present
After that Markarov had made it clear that the rest of the guild had the right to know, on their own time of course and it must be kept in the guild.
He didn't quite trust what the Magic Council would do with the information of other worlds if it ever reached them, so it was best to keep it within the guild or those who they could trust. With over half the guild currently knowing about it, all of them not really caring about the two's origins.
But left with plenty of questions about things like other worlds that Xion and Roxas answered whenever possible.
Yet there was one more issue that was addressed in that meeting.
That Roxas and Xion where nearly a year old. In fact at the time of the meeting Roxas confirmed that he was 360 days old. With Xion having no real clue on her own, but at least knew that she was at most six days younger then Roxas and spending a few more days here that she was at least anywhere from two days younger to three days older then him.
So simply put, they decided to share the same birthday today.
Which would be today.
The rest of their friends at the guild has been rather mute about they had planned, but what she did know was that Mickey and her team had been fighting a lot over something for the two of them.
Whatever it is, it must have been big.
Either way today was going to be a special day for Roxas and Xion, that was what their friends at Fairy Tail was hoping to make sure of.
Lucy and Roxas heard the sounds a door opening and saw Xion walking out.
"Sorry I took so long." Xion said, getting Lucy to wave it off.
"It's alright, but now that you are done are the two of you finally ready?" Lucy said, getting both Nobody and Replica to nod. "Then come on let's go, you only get to turn a year old once...and it is still weird to say that out loud."
"Now you know how we feel." Roxas said a smile as he closed his book and got up. The three of them smiled as they left the apartment, looking forward to today.
Though with Xion, she suppressed a frown.
Today will be a good day...but it was going to be painful for her and Roxas in a bit. At least the end results would be worth it.
(Fairy Tail Guide- a hour later)
Lucy just sighed in exasperation from her table as the guild was in another full scale brawl.
One that started off not even 10 minutes after they entered the guild and the celebrations began. At least it was milder in comparison to all the others she has seen in the past week. Then again with Markarov watching over them to make sure they did not go overboard it was a given.
All except for one fight.
"Say it!" Mickey shouted as she had Natsu in a headlock on the ground.
"Never and is that all you got!" Natsu shouted as Mickey tightened her grip around his throat. "Regret, Regret!"
"Is this really necessary?" Roxas asked Joey as he, Xion, Mickey's team, Macao, his friend Wakaba, and Cana watched from the bar while Lucy, Levy, Gray, Romeo, and Elfman watched from a nearby table. The ice mage laughing at seeing his rival getting his ass kicked.
"Considering how hot headed and stubborn the two can get at times it seems like this is the only option." Joey sighed out, getting Wan to nod.
"That and if our leader is determine to get something, she will not back down at all." Chico added in.
"And Natsu is much the same way, so this was inevitable for this to happen." Levy said, getting Lucy to sigh out in exasperation.
The two were fighting for one thing and one thing only, who would get to take Roxas and Xion on their first request today.
Mickey had been the one to promise Xion that to go on one about a week ago with her team, if anyone found Roxas or not. And if the later to help look for him.
As for Natsu, it was because he wanted to do so and figured they could possibly find a request that could possible fight someone strong.
To put it simply, they were not willing to budge on their end and started to fight.
"If you put it that way I suppose, but they could have at least let us decide." Roxas said, getting Xion to sigh.
"Actually I was hoping to go with Mickey, though why can't we all just go?." Xion asked.
"Cause the flame brain would then argue which quest to pick, unless either one of you feels like smacking some sense into his thick skull." Gray said, getting like both of them shake their heads.
"No thanks, I think we had enough of that earlier this week. What we would like to do is at least celebrate this day a little. After all we do deserve it for making through to a be year old." Xion said, getting most of the guild members surrounding them to sigh at that.
"I swear with you kids they keep getting younger and stronger each time someone strong joins Fairy Tail." Wakaba sighed as he took a sip of his drink. "Still find it hard to believe that the two of them are younger then our own kids.
"That's what you are caught up on, I am still finding trouble to believe that Xion is a girl version of Roxas." Macao said, getting his friend to nod in agreement.
"Xion is a what!?" Romeo shouted out, looking aghast.
"You didn't tell him?" Wakaba asked his friend.
"Didn't think that I had to." Macao said with an amused grin as his son looked like he wanted to be anywhere than around the two of them. "Here's to my little boy growing up so fast." He said while raising his tankard.
"Here here." Wakaba said as the two of them cheered for that.
"Normally I would join in on the drinking, but I believe that could wait till after the cake." Cana said, pointing towards Mira as she came walking towards them, carry a large cake in her hands.
"Can the two of you stop fighting already!" Lucy shouted as Mickey and Natsu as continued to fight on the floor.
"It is not manly to fight when there is cake around!" Elfman shouted with a shudder.
He learned that lesson when he was sent flying into one of Erza's cakes during a guild brawl. He still had nightmares of that incident even a year later.
The fight continued on for another few moments until Mickey grabbed the back of Natsu's head and slammed it straight through the floor.
"I win." Mickey said as she dusted her hands up and walked over to her team, while Gray laughed at his rival trying and failing to get his head out of the hole it now occupied.
"Master is not going to like that." Levy said, getting the older brunette to scoff.
"Don't worry I can fix it after the party." She said, with a wave of her hands.
"You better!" Makarov shouted from across the guild. "Now gather around you brats and someone help get Natsu's head out without him burning down the floor once again!"
"I'll help him." Roxas said before walking up to help him.
He took not even two steps towards the dragonslayer when he felt something pulse inside his chest.
"What the-" Roxas screamed out in pain as the pulsing grew stronger, getting the attention of the entire guild as he clutched his chest in pain.
Xion widened her eyes as she felt the pulse too and sighed.
It was time.
"Roxas what's wrong?" Mira said as she put down the cake as the guild started to surround the two of them, with Natsu managing to free his head from the floor and rushing to his new guildmates.
"I don't know, it feels like-" Roxas was cut off when Xion screamed out in pain as well. "Xion!"
The Nobody tried to move towards her, but another pulse through his chest and he collapsed onto the ground. Xion following suite afterwards with Mickey catching her.
"Mira check Xion, I will check on Roxas." Makarov said, getting the silverette to nod as the guild started to wonder what was going on. Only for the guild master to widen his eyes as soon as he checked Roxas. "One of you brats better get Porlyusica over here now!"
"Already on it." Mickey said as with a burst of magic her bird appeared. "You know what to do."
The bird chirped before flying away and out towards the guild.
"Levy do you have any idea what is going on?" Lucy asked, concern lacing her voice as now both of her roommates where passed out and with Mira's expression after checking on Xion's condition was not helping at all.
"I think I do, but according to what Roxas and Xion told us, it should be impossible." She said, sounding surprised, getting Lucy to widen her eyes in realization.
"You mean that they gained hearts!" Lucy said, getting her friend to nod and most of the guild to look at the unconscious pair in shock.
"...WHAT?!" Most of the guild exclaimed in shock.
"It's true, but enough upon that. Bring the two of them to the infirmary immediately! Roxas is going into shock and Xion is as well! We need to get them stabilized before Porlyusica arrives or we could risk something terrible happening to them!" Markarov shouted, getting the guild to snap out of their shock and immediately scramble to do anything to help.
Today was supposed to be a be a day of celebration, but now it was a race against time to stabilize Roxas and Xion or risk potentially permanent damage to their bodies.
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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hoped that you all enjoyed this chapter.*
*So now Roxas's and Xion's 1st birthday got cut short before the celebrations began. Roxas now has a heart and Xion's borrowed heart has been revealed, but things have not exactly has gone what either Xion and Ultimecia had planned.*
*What that is...you will just have to wait and see next chapter. Along with the harem update. Which I hope you will all enjoy when it comes out which it will be soon.*
*Please remember to review and if you have any questions feel free to ask me and I will get back to you while I can. So until next time, ciao!*
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