A/N: Gee guys, I'm glad you all like it so far! nn That makes me smile. Sorry it took so long to update! I kinda forgot what the plot is to this story when I originally decided to make this a story... so I decided to change it up a bit... meaning expect the unexpected. Enjoy!
Chapter 3- Roxas's Story
Seifer had a smirk planted on his face. Just behind him, a girl with silver like hair and brown eyes was staring blankly at the people before them, Fuu. Next to her was Rai, a tall and buff guy with black hair and brown eyes. This really couldn't be happening.
"I assume you've all met dear Roxas Hiroshi." Seifer said crossing his arms. There was a murmur from the crowd below. His cold green eyes looked down at Namine. "And Namine, I'm guessing that you're making him feel quite welcome."
"Yes. I am." She replied.
"Good, that's very good." His voice full of amusement. My hands slowly turned in to fists. This was all a set up for me to feel awkward coming here.
"He doesn't seem like a bad person." Kairi spoke up.
"I don't see why you have a grudge against him." Sora said walking up to Seifer, Fuu and Rai. Seifer let out a hollow laugh.
"He has always been the hero at Twilight Town. Roxas Hiroshi has always been the most well known Struggle fighter. I don't want him to be that way here. I want him to feel like the most shallow, low self esteemed loner here on the Destiny Islands!" Seifer cried out. Fuu and Rai planted smirks upon their faces.
"What the hell is wrong with –." I yelled, running out towards the group of people when suddenly, everything stopped. Everyone seemed frozen in time. I looked up into the sky to see birds stiff in the sky, not moving a single feather. "Wha–."
"Roxas..." I looked over toward the crowd. Namine walked out slowly with her hands placed neatly in front of her; fingers laced through one another.
"Namine..." I ran up to her. I looked around again. "Wha-what's going on?"
"I-," Her crystal blue eyes looked down at the soft beige sand under our black boots. "I stopped time, Roxas." Her voice was quiet.
"Wait, how? How is that possible?" I was completely confused. The blonde girl in front of me remained silent and seemed awfully fascinated with the sand. I put my hands on her shoulders and shook her lightly. Just as sudden as everything stopped, her head shot up to look into my unique ocean colored eyes.
"I have a special power. One no one else has. My powers are something no one from the Organization understands but uses to their benefits." Namine's voice was barely understandable but just loud enough I could hear.
"Huh? Powers? Organization? What?" I let go of her shoulders and put my hands to my sides. "I still don't think I understand what you're talking about."
"Roxas, you're a nobody. I'm a nobody. We're not supposed to exist but for some reason, we're existing in this bizarre parallel universe. Our lives aren't really what they seem. Something has come up. Organization XIII needs you."
"Ah!" I yelled out of frustration. "I don't understand! Who's this 'Organization XIII'?"
"They're a group of incomplete people who wish to be whole." She explained. "Thirteen people from the worlds around here have became heartless and in result of that, a nobody was born too."
"...uh... heartless... nobodies... what are they?"
"Heartless are beings that are hearts corrupted by darkness and without a body or a soul. Nobodies are creatures without hearts. They are leftovers "born" in Twilight Town and other worlds that exist "in twilight", existing as merely the body and soul of people who lost their hearts to darkness. As they lack hearts to possess light or darkness, they exist in between, in the twilight; they are nothing."
"Okay, so what does that have to do with me?" I asked curiously as I folded my arms together across my chest. Namine's sky blue eyes looked around us before looking back at me.
"They're looking for you Roxas."
"Who, the Organization? Why would they want me?"
"In the Organization, there's Xemnas, who's the leader of the Organization. Xigbar, the free shooter; Xaldin, the whirlwind lancer; Vixen, the chilly academic; Lexaeus, the silent hero; Zexion, the cloaked schemer; Saïx, the luna diviner; Demyx, the melodious nocturne; Luxord, the gambler of fate; Marluxia, the graceful assassin; Larxene, the savage nymph; and Axel, the flurry of dancing flames." Namine said looking around again. I started recounted the names in my head and used my fingers as remembrance. I looked up at her.
"That's only twelve though." I said. "Who's the thirteenth member?"
"Think about it Roxas, what do all of them have in common?"
"Being nobodies." I said with an as-matter-of fact tone and a smile.
"Besides that." She shook her blonde head. I sat there and thought for a second.
"They all have 'x's in their names?" I shrugged. Namine nodded slowly with a small smile.
"That's right. Now what do you share in common with them?"
"I-I have an 'x' in my name..." I said slowly. "Wha? How is that possible? I'm human, I'm not a nobody!"
"I'm sorry Roxas, but you are a nobody. You're human form was turned into a heartless a year ago and that caused you to be born." Namine said with sadness in her voice. "I'm a nobody too, like I said. My human form lost her heart for a short while and in result of that, I was formed."
"Then how come you're not part of the Organization?"
"I work for them, but they're only using me." I looked out into the ocean. The waves were still stopped from crashing into the shore.
"I want to know who my human form is..." My blue eyes returned to the girl in front of me.
"You have to listen to me first, Roxas." Namine said sternly. "I don't know how you and I managed to be here but our real purpose, our real place in life, is to get rid of the Organization with the help of the Keyblade Master, an undercover member of the Organization, A Princess of Heart, A King, A Royal Knight, A Royal Wizard and the friends they made along the way to closing Kingdom Hearts last year."
"My head hurts." I said rubbing my forehead. "This is so much information."
"You'll remember. Somehow you forgot everything. I'll show you again, you'll remember everything."
"Namine, I see you found our missing member." A deep voice said from the crowd of frozen teenagers. Namine and I both looked over toward the group when I noticed a tall figure in a black cloak, with the hood up, shadowing his face.
"Who are you!" I yelled.
"Roxas, we have to go!" Namine said holding her hand up next to us. Suddenly a dark mystical portal formed in front of us.
"Are you sure this is safe?" I asked hesitantly looking at the swirling purple and black matter in front of us. Namine looked past it to see the man in the cloak walk closer.
"Just go!" She pushed me through the portal.
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"Ah!" A teenager's voiced called out through a dark portal that opened up in a placed called Twilight Town. Without notice, a blonde haired boy flew through it and stumbled onto a bed. "Umph!"
A blonde haired girl walked out casually; the portal closing right behind her. She looked at the boy that was laying on the bed rubbing his head. The young boy of 16-years-old was dressed in a black zip up shirt that wasn't zipped all the way with a star zipper. He had an unzipped white colored jacket over it with thin checkered stripes on the shoulders and across the chest. It was red on the inside and black rimmed on the outside lining. His pants were black at the top with and just above the knee, it changed into a solid beige. The young man's shoes were black with red bands across it. He also had a checkered wrist band and on his left hand he had a black band like ring on his index finger and a white one on his middle finger.
The girl that was watching the boy had a simple white dress on her petite body. Her feet had white sandals on them.
"Where are we?" The boy asked looking up at the girl. His sapphire blue eyes widened. "Namine?"
"Yes?" The sky blue eyed girl asked, her head tilting to the right a little. The teenage boy looked around the room they suddenly appeared in.
"Hey, this is my old room!" He declared jumping up. He turned around and looked outside the window of his bedroom. "We're in Twilight Town. How'd we get here?"
"Roxas, I need you to remember what's going on. I need you to remember everything." Namine said softly. The room was lightened by the lowering sun that was falling over the town they were in. The boy known as Roxas sat down at the edge of his bed facing the blonde in white.
"Okay, so what I have so far is there is this Organization who wants me because I'm a member. I'm a... nobody," He looked down and off to the side. "My 'human' form was turned into a heartless a year ago and so did yours in some way. There's this thing called Kingdom Hearts and that's about it..."
"Good so far. You've been listening." Namine smiled successfully. "Okay, firstly, our human forms. You remember Kairi and Sora, right?"
"Yeah. They're pretty nice. What about them?"
"You're Sora's nobody as I am Kairi's." Her pale hands let her down easily onto Roxas's bed as she sat down to explain more. "A year ago, Kairi was captured by heartless and they stole her heart because they needed all Seven Princesses Of Heart to open up Kingdom Hearts to darkness. No one close to her knew Kairi was a princess. However, once they stole Kairi's heart, they noticed Kingdom Hearts wasn't working to their needs. Sora found Kairi at Hollow Bastion and realized that the only way to save her was to sacrifice himself. To everyone's surprise, Sora took a keyblade to heart and vanished into darkness while all the princesses, including Kairi, was reunited with their hearts. Since Sora had such a strong heart and Kairi proved that she cares about Sora, even as a heartless, Sora was able to return to his normal state. Those times that they didn't have their hearts in them, was the time you and I were born."
"Wow." Roxas said breathlessly. "This is all insane." Namine nodded in agreement.
"Now, for the reason of you needing to help get rid of the Organization. Since you left the Organization a while ago to find out what you really were, the second year of finding the door to the light was happening. Sora went on his mission with a duck named Donald and a dog named Goofy to find the door to the light and rid all of darkness again. Riku, Sora and Kairi's best friend, was-."
"I remember Riku." The boy stated. Namine laughed a little.
"Good. Anyway, Riku was working with Ansem the Wise to help get Sora's memory back from me erasing it a while ago. Before Sora's memory was restored, he killed off most of the Organization. Riku took the form of Ansem to hide his real identity. Kairi was eventually captured a little after Sora's memory was restored. However, once Sora came out of the memory pod, you vanished. I, however, had to stay and help Kairi out of trouble. Eventually after traveling to many worlds, everyone was reunited, the Organization was vanquished, things were restored to natural state. Everyone returned to their rightful world and you and me were sent back to be Sora and Kairi. Something's come up though. I don't know how it happened, but you and I were pulled from the two again and all the Organization members erased everyone's memory, but somehow whatever they did to do that, didn't effect me."
"Huh? How does that happen? I thought Sora got rid of all the members." Roxas asked confused.
"That's it, I really don't know. All I do know is that you and Sora need to repeat all of last year. Roxas, it's your job to help Sora this time and get rid of the darkness in peoples hearts." Namine said, her voice getting bolder with each word.
"How is that possible? Everyone's back on the Destiny Islands. No one remembers anything."
"I've already worked this out. We're back in time Roxas. I took you a year back in time. Sora should be waking up soon from the memory pod. You can't tell anyone what I've told you today, you understand?"
"Yes."
"Good. When you see Sora, he should be aware of who the Organization is and you won't have to go through everything Sora did because I added those memories" She sighed standing up. "This is it Roxas. Are you ready?"
"I... I think so." He said, slightly confused still from all the information that had consumed his mind the last hour.
"We have to change history." Namine said. "For the good of everyone." Suddenly, Roxas blacked out.
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Everything was black. Only voices entered his head. Voices he wasn't sure of. It had to have been something from the previous year that was reminding him what he needed to do. He had to fight off every last member of the Organization... even the ones that should have been dead before... even if that resulted in... death.
"Kairi... I know you! You're that girl he likes!" His own voice said.
"Who? Do you have a name?" A delicate teenage girls voice replied.
"You forgot my name? Thanks a lot, Kairi. I'll give you a hint. It starts with an 'S'..." It wasn't his own voice that spoke this time. However, he knew that he knew the voice from somewhere familiar.
Another remembrance sounded in his ears.
"Why does looking at you always tick me off?" A voice he knew quite well this time. The voice of his worst enemy.
"I dunno. Maybe it's destiny." He replied.
Why were these memories appearing, why was everything so dark?
"Why? Why do you have the keyblade?" A deep teenagers voice yelled out of furry. This one was familiar too.
"Shut up!" The younger teen said through clench teeth. He remembered this event.
These quotes were coming from his lost memory. He was finally understanding what Namine was saying. He was remembering all that he forgot.
"The Roxas I knew is long gone. Fine, I see how it is..." His best friends voice. Axel. The red headed member thought that he didn't hear him, but the thing was... he did.
'I'm sorry...' The blonde haired boy thought as he lay there in darkness.
He was finally remembering everything he needed to know.
"Don't you want to know the truth about who you really are." That voice, the voice he loved hearing because it was soft and enchanting; it belonged to her.
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"Namine..." He finally was coming to. Roxas covered his eyes with his hands from the bright white room he was laying in. When he finally regained his eyesight, he looked around.
The room was a light pearl color with a light blue floor. There was a glowing pod in the center of this white room. Roxas lifted himself up using his right hand and jumping onto his feet. He slowly moved one foot in front of the other to reach this odd rosebud-looking pod.
'Looks like my summer vacation is... over.' Another memory. Roxas shook his head and looked up at the pod.
It started to rattle and suddenly stopped as the door, which reassembled a petal, opened up to reveal a spiky haired brunet in a rather small red jumper. As the boys eyes started to open, two voices came from behind the blond.
"Sora!" A voice that was quite similar to a quack hollered. Roxas looked next to him to see A white duck with a blue zip up jacket, a matching hat and gold bands around his wrists. Next to the white duck was a tall goofy black dog with a gold hat, goggles, a green shirt with a black vest, a pair of golden yellow pants and big floppy shoes. The blond raised an eyebrow at this odd site. The boy known as Sora stretched before looking down at the three people in front of him.
"Donald! Goofy!" He ran out of the pod and towards his friends where he collapsed to his knees and hugged them both. The three grabbed hands and laughed as they danced around in a circle. Roxas stood on the sidelines and crossed his arms waiting for them to notice him.
"Uh, hello?" Roxas finally called out to them as he waved his left hand in the air. The three stopped and looked over at the blond haired version of Sora.
"Um, who are you?" The ocean blue eyed boy asked as he let go of the tall dog and white duck. He walked over to face his look alike.
"The name's Roxas. You're Sora." He replied. Sora tilted his head a little.
"Have we met? You look awfully familiar." Sora said. The white duck waddled over to the two and so did the dog.
"No. I'm just... er... someone."
"Hiya! The name's Goofy and this here is Donald." The dog said to the blond. The dog known as Goofy waved while the duck nodded.
"Nice to meet you." He relied. "Look, we need to protect Kingdom Hearts." Roxas said with a small nod. The trio stood there for a second, exchanged glances at each other and then all bursted out laughing.
"Why? Kingdom Hearts is sealed! No need to worry about it!" Sora said though his laughter.
"No, it's not. Organization XIII is using it to their advantage." Roxas explained. He really didn't know how he knew this when he wasn't even quite sure what Kingdom Hearts was, but it just came to him. "You don't really need to protect it from the heartless anymore, it's the nobodies you have to worry about!"
"Nobodies?" Donald asked.
"Urgh..." Roxas said with frustration. "Okay, I'll explain everything on the way to get out of this place."
"Uh, alright..." Sora said as the four of them started to walk out of the white room. As Sora, Roxas, Donald and Goofy tried to find their way out of whatever building they were in, Roxas explained everything Namine explained to him. Sora did recall knowing something about Organization XIII but didn't know their purpose. As they finally made it out of the odd rooms, they made it up the stairs into the main part of some old, broken down mansion.
"I know this place!" Roxas called. "This is the Old Mansion in Twilight Town!"
"Twilight Town?" Goofy asked with a pondering look.
"Yeah! This is my home!" The blond cheered. "Come on, let's get out of here." The four ran out the double doors and into the fresh woodsy air. As they started to walk past the gates of the old mansion, Roxas looked back. Up on the second floor to the left, Roxas noticed a girl looking down at them. She smiled softly.
"Namine." He said quietly to himself.
"What?" Sora asked looking back at him. Roxas turned to face the brunet.
"Look, it's Namine." He pointed back to the window, but as everyone looked, only the white curtains were in the window. "Or not..."
"Uh, right. Let's keep going." Roxas looked down before taking the trio out of the woods. Finally, they entered the quiet streets of Twilight Town. The sky was shining pinks and golds as the town was light up with a golden tint. It was awfully quiet in this town; it always was.
"Not a busy town, is it?" Donald quacked at Roxas.
"No, not really." He replied as they continued walking. They all continued walking past the town shops and a few people in town. After a short while, they heard people cheering and numerous clanking.
"Gee, what's going on over there?" Goofy asked pointing with his white gloved finger towards what Roxas knew as the Sandlot.
"Let's go check it out!" Sora ran down the ally way towards the noise, along with the others.
A/N: eh, so how was that? Yeah, so I really don't know what happened to me writing this story along with Living In The Shadows. I'm not sure when Dear Diary 2 will be updated, but it wont be any time soon. Sorry for that. Living In The Shadows, sadly I don't think it'll be update until DD2 is finished. Sorry everyone who's waiting for an update! Well I suppose this is your part now... reviews are great on my part and get me more motivated!