The Actual first chapter, I'm hoping people like this, since theirs not much to say, on to the chap! Also, I keep forgetting, if the Thens and Thans are messed up, I've always done that, I get papers back that are B's because I can't tell the difference.
"'Words'" is normally when Purple is masking her voice, it doesn't happen often.
eh.sure.whatever—yeah, um… I think I know what happened, I'm writing most of this in school, I have three classes I have time to, and one is after lunch, two hours apart from the others, I think I got lost myself, I'll try to read through it before continuing, I didn't notice.
I don't own anything from Kingdom hearts, Disney or Square. Sorry, if the characters are off.
Chapter One:
Twilight Appearance
Sora's head was basically a tornado by the time that he and Roxas got back to Merlin's. He couldn't keep a single thought in line and settled for being confused. Neither one really talked much, as neither could think of the question they wanted to ask, nor an answer should one come up with a question.
Sora had seen a lot in his travels, but this took the cake. Roxas shouldn't be there, not that Sora was complaining exactly, it just wasn't supposed to be possible, though, and Sora thought on it, anything was possible.
Roxas opened his mouth, about to ask something or comment when he was cut off, they were outside Merlin's house still.
"Sora, about time—what happened to you?"
"Long story, short, we have one psycho running around who knows some serious magic." Sora was exhausted by the day's events and he knew they weren't over yet.
"Roxas?" Riku would know the No body.
"Yeah, like Sora said, we have one psycho on the loose who knows some serious magic."
"Who's he?"
"This is Roxas, My No body."
"Oh, my." Merlin looked from one to another while the others took a moment to take in the news.
Roxas couldn't help feel a little nervous, but rebellious by nature, Roxas stood defiant and daring them to say what he knew to be true, that he should not be there.
"This is very dire indeed." Merlin said, "I dare say that it's catastrophic."
"Oh, thanks." Roxas had the words out of his mouth before he could think them over. "It's not like I asked to be here."
"Of Course not, Sora, did you happen to see who cast this spell?"
"No." Sora shook his head but stopped to think a moment, "but I did almost run into someone, they seemed odd, they were wearing a jacket similar to Roxas's, only blue."
"Teal." A voice corrected, sounding somewhat offended. Again Sora got the mental image of Demyx. "Talk about rude, blue, Hmph. If he were here, you'd really catch it."
A hand tapped the Teal cloaks shoulder, and then promptly smacked a hand over his mouth, in an evident "Shut-up." The figure was shorter then Teal, and dressed in purple. For some reason Sora just knew it was a girl, though there was really no way to tell from her appearance.
"Oppes, sorry."
The same hand was waved impatiently.
"Right," Teal sighed. "Jobs done. I'm gone. Bye."
Teal then vanished, blinking out of existence. Okay, Sora had expected the dark door or some kind of power related to the power of darkness, but there was no such thing no sign of magic at all. The purple clad figure crossed her arms, and tilted her head, looking at first Sora then at Roxas, though her gaze lingered on him.
She held out one hand and snapped. Before waving and vanishing in the same fashion as Teal had. Sora wouldn't notice that until later, though. Because in a circle around Roxas, No bodies had shown up. But they didn't move, the only looked at him. Confused Roxas looked at the others, who at most, could only shrug.
The dusks continued to stare until fed up Roxas told them to leave him alone. Which to the shock of everyone they did. The vanished without moving, without attacking, and only when Roxas told them to.
"O-okay." Roxas said. "What was that?"
"I think we need to discuss things in detail." Leon always sounded solemn. "We need to figure out what's going on."
Nods from everyone else, agreed that something was defiantly screwy and they needed to figure out what.
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"Well?" Another jacketed figure came from no where; coming into existence in the time it took to blink. "How did it go?"
The only major difference, besides one being a girl and the other a boy, were the colors of their coats. Purple and Green.
"'Well enough.'" The voice was oddly echoed like three people were talking at once, Purple only spoke when she masked her voice, something that bothered Green because that meant she didn't trust him.
"And?"
A nod. Purple wouldn't mask her voice again for a while, the process was time and energy consuming. She made symbols in the air, to express herself, once it had confused the rest of council, just learning to understand her, and she had worked her self to the point of fatigue talking, but her underlings learned how to read her symbol language and so, knowing that if they could learn, he could too, Green had figured out how she talked, it made conversations less one-sided.
"So we were right? He can control them?"
Another Nod.
"That gets those No bodies off our case, anyway." Green sighed; there were far too many complications in his mind to go on with their plans. "And the other one? The Keyblade Wielder?" Green's tone was mocking.
Purple shrugged, she hadn't tested him yet. She pointed at Green, accusing him of being late.
"I know, I know. Talk to Blue, he held me up, with nonsense about searching the planets in groups."
Purple's accusing hand dropped to her side. Even though you couldn't see it, Green knew she was staring.
"My thoughts exactly. We've never worked in groups, our underlings work with the Nothings, and that's it, it's always worked before. Besides, he may not have noticed, but the rest of the Chapter doesn't like follow another sections orders."
Purple nodded, lost to thought.
"Anyway, when do you want to give him the test? You're the one who has to fight."
Purple held up her hand, thumb and forefinger marking a small space.
"Soon?"
Nod.
"Alright." Green agreed, settling down on the roof to watch.
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"Basically, you ran into someone, the one in teal, and then had a throwing knife chucked at you, didn't notice, and then got stuck in a spell that pulled Roxas back into his no body existence, and the other no bodies will listen to him. Is that all of it?" Leon asked.
"That's the short of it." Sora replied, still a little shaken by that episode, the spell had freaked Sora.
"But why did the No bodies listen to me?" Roxas asked, more confused by this then his physical presence. "They were trying to kill me before."
"The rest of Organization XIII is dead, that means they have no one to listen too, then," Cloud pointed out, breaking his silence. "One of them comes back. Suddenly they have someone to listen too, to help accomplish their goals."
"Is that really it? I don't intend to help them." Roxas said.
"They don't know that."
That gave Roxas something to think about.
"Still, how did Roxas get here?" Sora asked, wanting an explanation. "Who were those two in the Coats? The No bodies came when she snapped her fingers, doesn't that mean she's a No body too?" all in one breath, it took a moment to short the separate questions out.
"Maybe." Cloud's answer, before he renewed his silence.
"It's possible, but I doubt it." Leon was thinking, eyes closed. "It wouldn't make sense to bring Roxas here; he would take away her command. She's not interested in the No bodies, probably not in the Heartless either."
"That's A Given."
The comment was for the most part ignored. "That still leaves us with who are they?"
"That one, Teal, or whatever, he was kind of picky about it, wasn't he?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I called him Blue, and he spoke up, I never noticed him until then."
"It's probably something to do with the pecking order of their group." Cloud again broke his silence.
"Pecking Order?"
"Leadership." Leon explained farther. "Where they stand when Orders come along."
"Well," Sora looked out the window again. "That girl, she must have been pretty high up, that teal one too, he was pretty powerful."
"I should say so!" Merlin was still agitated, though he had been going over records. "To be able to separate a no body from the original without creating a heartless first…it's unthinkable!"
"So it can't be done?" Roxas was getting feeling the down side of the situation. How would they handle the problem? Him? It made him a little nervous.
"No, no." Merlin replied, now less agitated. "But it's very difficult, and I've only ever heard of it happening once and no one knows just how true a tale that is."
"We do now." A regular chatter box today, Cloud was definitely talking more then normal, given he's usually wandering around town looking for someone or another.
"Yes, indeed we do." Merlin agreed, again lost in his own thought.
"But why?" Roxas asked, "Why get me? Aren't there other No bodies? Or people? What about Naminẻ?"
"Not every one was once a member of Organization XIII." Leon told Roxas, who frowned realizing that it wasn't simple, and wishing it were. "There's also the matter of the Keyblade, you could not only call one, but two. We don't know much about them, yet."
Roxas's look was bland. "Great."
Sora was still thinking, "Why did they call the No bodies?"
"They know they have a leader again."
"I still don't see the point. Do they plan to have me help or are they getting the no bodies out of the way?"
"What do you mean, Roxas?"
Roxas know had everybody's attention. "Well, if they brought me back to handle the no bodies one of the first thing's I'm going to do is stop them, I've never really liked the dusks and they're going around hurting people, and probably getting in the way of everyone not just the heartless."
"You've been thinking about that for a long time, haven't you?" Leon asked.
"I'm just trying to figure out going to happen to me."
"Self-Preservation." Cloud agreed, thinking over Roxas's comment. "It makes sense, at least, almost."
"Self-Preservation?" Sora was lost on the term.
"Protecting one's self, keeping it alive no matter the cost, groups like the heartless tend to act like that, removing major threats or dangers that may destroy the body." That was the first time Cloud had ever explained something he'd said, "The Military did it often enough."
The explanation didn't help Sora much, but he settled for there being one and moved on to another question. "What about the Heartless?"
"If they have a leader," Leon started as though the thought wasn't finished. "Then they'll be after Kingdom hearts, if they don't—"
"Then they're annoying pests, at best."
"And the No bodies are worse?"
"No Bodies can think."
"Oh!" Sora suddenly remembered. "That's right! Yen Sid told us that, but if the heartless are after kingdom hearts, then won't they—" Sora broke off as those attending looked at him. "What?"
"There's nothing to say that these new people are after Kingdom Hearts. There are more threats and more things vital to the universe then just that."
"Let's call it a night." Leon decided seeing as Sora look completely lost, along with just about everyone else. "And start fresh in the morning. I've got things to see to, so try not to get into anymore trouble."
Sora grinned sheepishly.
"I'm going to stay here and see if I can't figure things out," Roxas told Sora. "So be careful, they may be after you too."
"Right." Sora nodded, but had never been able to just sit around and he had lots to think about.
Why not just destroy the No bodies? Sora wondered, and what could they want that isn't Kingdom Hearts?
"'Hey.'"
Sora could only blink and sigh. Why was he an object of attention? Well, here was an opportunity for getting answers.
"Who are you people?"
Purple shook her head, and another sitting on a roof behind her, mimicked the action.
"And we'd tell you why?" The voice suggested that the body it belonged to is male, but he was too far away to see the color of his coat.
"I could always make you tell me?"
"Yeah Right. Prove it."
A snap pulled Sora's attention back to Purple; She held out both arms and snapped again, to Sora horror, two Keyblades appeared, both bearing some resemblance to dragons, and she spun both before taking a more balanced stance.
"Alright, I will."
---End Chap.
I was going to go farther, but I'm trying not to spend more then one or two days on any chapter. Which is why they're all so short. I'll try to have the next chap up in a day or two.
