Me: Hi again!

Sera: Are you hyper today?

Me: No, why do you ask?

Sera: You've been a bit hyper for the past few days…

Me: I can't get hyper. Ever. I only get excited about stuff, and that makes me seem hyper.

Sera: Right.

Me: Ember shall now be introduced in my story as one of my character's personalities. I don't own in any way, shape, or form, any of the characters of this fic except for Sera and myself if I appear.

Sera dreamed that she was a child again, alone on the streets. The police had just taken Ester, and the city seemed like a very big place for a girl like her. Tears were flowing down her cheeks, as shadows seemed to move and come towards her. She suddenly woke up and found that the tears were real. Wiping them away on her arm, Sera quickly got dressed to rid herself of the chills of early morning. She glanced at the mirror.

Blood red irises (The colored part of your eye for those who don't know) stared back from the glass. Fiery red hair drew her eye and looked fine despite being slept in. She sighed and rubbed her upper arms to provide some warmth to them. Noticing the cold when I didn't even think about it before. Today's definitely a 'Fire' day. She opened the door to the silent hallway. Jogging will help keep me warm… Starting a brisk jog with practiced breathing, Sera wandered the halls in search of a window to look out of to tell the time. The redhead had no such luck. When her stomach deemed the time for breakfast, she stopped in front of the dining room doors, took a deep breath, and opened them.

Only Sera's friends, as well as Axel and Roxas turned to stare at her new hair color when she entered. She sat down in an empty chair next to Larxene and asked for scrambled eggs, bacon, and water. The serving dusks appeared with her food and set the dishes down in front of her. The tired teenager waved a dismissing hand, and the Nobodies left. Grateful that no one had asked questions (or made fun of her) yet, she ate heartily. Only after she was finished did Demyx comment, "You tryin' to be Axel or something?"

Sera's temper flared a little. "No, it's another effect of my powers. Get over it." She said as a warning. Axel, however, didn't take this warning and walked up to her.

"So, are you going to be like Marly tomorrow? Or Xigbar? I mean you've changed your hair color every day now since you came. Do you dye it or is it natural?" Balling her fists, Sera attempted to ignore the older Nobody. "How about those eyes of yours? There's no way they could be naturally red. If I looked in your pockets, would I find several pairs of colored contacts?" Playing with her new bracelet to ignore the loudmouth was proving unsuccessful as well. "Come on, I want to see what you can really do. I bet that the little show you pulled at the meeting was all tricks and illusion. I bet you can't even fight by yourself!"

A quick-but-hard punch to the face from Sera silenced his monologue. She stood up and quickly left the room before her anger caused some real damage. Walking quickly to avoid contact with anyone, she ended up in what seemed like a practice room.

She called up five dusks to fight with her (she had learned through observation that most of the members did that to train at times). Not needing a weapon to attack, she let the weak creatures make the first move. One of the dusks slithered up behind her, while the others surrounded her to prevent escape. This reminded the red-eyed girl of a brawl that she had gotten herself into as a kid. Like then, she allowed the flames of her anger to become real to cover her hands and lower arms. She balled her fists again as a dusk on her right came at her with a punch of sorts. Sera dodged and punched back into her enemy's stomach, then rapidly made an uppercut. The former street kid then moved aside as the other creatures came at her for a piece of the action. Her moves were a blur as she punched, kicked, and threw small fireballs at the five dusks in succession, moving from one enemy to the other as they disappeared, one by one. When the mock battle was over, Sera came out victorious with only a scratch or two from the dusks. The fire on her arms had disappeared when she had landed the final blow.

Suddenly, black shadows appeared on the pure white tile. The shadows then entered the third dimension as small black creatures with antennae and yellow eyes. Their hands seemed to have sharp claws on the ends of them. Sera was cornered by several of these creatures. She then remembered the conversation that she had with Axel the day she had come to Castle Oblivion. These must be Heartless…basically don't let them kill me, and I should be fine…right? Sera gulped and made a fire shield appear around her. This will buy me some time, but I can't hide forever. Even as she thought this, some of the Heartless were jumping towards her and receiving minor burns from the shield.The redhead then summoned fire to her arms again and burst out of the shield to attack the closest Heartless. Her first target 'died' when she punched it. Sera smirked and used a strategy similar to the one she had used on the Nobodies to defeat the Heartless. Her enemies were quickly vanquished. "SERA!" A chilly voice shouted.

"Uh oh." Sera ran to the basement, hoping that Vexen would forgive her for being late on the first day of her punishment.

From another room, Xemnas smiled a little at Sera's fighting. He had sent those Heartless, though they were only illusions. He needed to test them before the keyblade master arrived. Successful. The battle between the two of them should be most interesting. To think he shall be here in a about a week…

Meanwhile,in Vexen's underground lab, Sera was receiving the lecture of a lifetime from the old man. "…And further more, don't you dare be late again or so help me…"

"Ok! Ok! I get it! I was just distracted!" Sera yelled to stop Vexen from giving her any more torment.

"Kid's these days…well, now that you're here, I want you to sort these ingredients by color and size, as well as answer these questions as truthfully as you can." He said, pointing to the ingredients and paper, and then left his new assistant to work on the silver-haired teenage boy. Sera shrugged and started her work writing down some of the answers (it was an aptitude test) and working on sorting when she needed time to think. Eventually, she finished both the sorting and the test at the same time.

"What else do you want me to do, Vexen?" Sera asked, since she had nothing better to do and she was going to be stuck with the dirty blonde man for the rest of 13 days.

"Drink this, then tell me what feels different to you. After that, you may leave." The Chilly Academic said coolly. Sera downed the potion in one gulp. After waiting a few seconds, she made her observations out loud.

"Nothing happened." She then shrugged and walked out of the door, thinking of a plan to do more than punch Axel for deliberately making her lose her temper, however temporarily.

Vexen was astonished. The potion should have worked within 30 seconds of her drinking it. He wondered what the effects of the potion would be. After all, something happened to her. It may just take a while for it to happen.

Me: Mwahahahaha!

Xemnas: You need to work on your evil laugh.

Me: I only laugh evilly when I act it.

Sera: Like leaving a major cliffhanger for your readers?

Me: Yep. Sora will appear in this fic. I don't know exactly when, but he will. The potion's effect will be in Chapter 11, when I get to it.

Sera: What about Chapter 10?

Me: The potion's effect will only happen in the morning of the next day.

Sera: Ah.

Axel: But what about me?

Sera: May whatever deity you believe in have mercy on you.

Axel: I die in KH 2…oh.

Sera: Yeah. Very few people survive Ember's wrath with less than 3rd degree burns…you may be an exception because you also control fire.

Ember:cracks knuckles:

Axel: o.O;;