Once a Somebody

By Lynx of Organization VI

Rating: PG

Summary: The first six members of the Organization were once the apprentices of Ansem the Wise...but what about the other six? A look into the Somebodies of #7 through #12, and the Disney worlds they may have come from.

Author's Notes: The ideas came from chatting with Gext, who gets credit for a bunch of them, plus from another Roll-of-the-Dice challenge. (One of the chapters is the same as the themeset drabble.)

Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and its characters belong to Square and Disney, not me.

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Got a whale of a tale to tell ya, lads

A whale of a tale or two

'Bout the flappin' fish and the girls I've loved

On nights like this with the moon above

A whale of a tale, and it's all true

I swear by my ta—

"MYYYYYDE!"

Gordon C. Myde started from his sitting position, nearly dropping his lute. The two boys he'd been playing for scurried off as the head merchant approached, reeking of fish. "Myde, what in hell have you been doing!"

He hated being called by his last name...not that the other sailors cared what he thought. "Just singin'."

"Well, sing yourself down to Prince Eric's castle and pick up that cloth shipment already!" the merchant barked. Myde groaned and shuffled around to the front of the cart, snagging the horse's reins. The merchant added, "A sailor that's afraid of the water's useless enough already..."

Myde scowled at having that brought up again. I'm not afraid of the water...just cautious.

But he bit his tongue, climbed aboard the cart, and urged the horse down the path, waving away the merchant's fish-stink. Of course, there was a reason for his stalling...the route to Prince Eric's castle ran along seaside cliffs.

The incessant churning of the waves just beneath the cart kept him on edge...even the horse's clomping hooves couldn't stamp it out. While he couldn't play his lute and drive at the same time, he could at least sing to distract himself.

I was born and raised by the sea

Shy yet proud

Learned to stay away from the crowd...

A flash of something in the waves caught his eye.

Myde stopped the horse and ventured off the cart. The waves boomed louder, but for once, he forced it out of his brain. He had to see...

There it was again! A flip of green scales, and what looked like...red hair? But that shouldn't be possible!

The thing surfaced. It looked like a young woman with long red hair, facing away from him. What the prince's steward would have called "nautical nonsense."

Myde felt like he should do something…call out to the girl? Play his lute for it? But before he could decide, the figure was gone. And he suddenly realized that, in his enchantment, he had wadded knee-deep into the ocean.

He scrambled back to dry land on shaky legs, and returned to the safety of his cart. But once he caught his breath, a smile spread across his face.

Perhaps...perhaps the water wasn't so bad after all.

As he urged the horse back in the direction of the castle, he decided this called for a new shanty.

I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue

And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho

Look out lad, a mermaid be waiting for you

In mysterious fathoms below...