Authors Note: OK, kind of a weird start, but I had to introduce the characters. I have such wonderful plans for this story…. It's just getting there. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them. Thanks, please Read and Review.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, just my original character Exsor.


"Exsor, concentrate!" Xaldin yelled, sending forward a burst of high powered wind with his lances.

Exsor twisted away, doing a graceful back flip to avoid the wind. Pulling a long dagger from its sheath Exsor thrust it forward at an angle, sending a jet of wind flying toward Xaldin. Xaldin easily blocked the wind with one of his lances, not even a hair on his head twitched.

"To obvious!" He yelled, sending a lance flying at Exsor, a stream of wind following in its wake.

Gripping the dagger tightly Exsor clipped Xaldin's lance in such a way that it spun around the daggers blade and ended up in Exsor's free hand. But, not seeing the wind behind the lance, Exsor was blasted back into the wall. Gasping for breath Exsor stood back up slowly and tossed the lance back to Xaldin.

Xaldin sighed heavily as he walked toward Exsor. "You're not learning anything." He growled, snatching the lance from the air. "The least you could do is learn from past mistakes, that's the third time I've gotten you with that move."

Exsor chuckled. "You're too uptight, loosen up some." Pushing back the black Organization hood Exsor brushed away long white blonde bangs.

"You don't take anything seriously, how do you expect to gain a heart if you can't even fight?" With that Xaldin stalked away.

Frowning slightly Exsor tucked away her dagger, blowing at the strands of black tipped hair that had fallen back into her face. Then with a shrug she smiled and walked after Xaldin, her walk long and graceful. She entered a room off of a long hallway and was instantly greeted by two of her friends.

"Hey, Exsor! How's it goin'?"

"What's up?"

Exsor beamed at both Demyx and Axel, flopping herself down onto a high backed chair.

"I'm ok, what's up with you guys? Still trying to outsmart each other in that stupid game of yours?"

Demyx smirked. "Nah, I've already beasted him, he just won't admit it."

"No way man, you know I won, let's see, what was it you said? 'Wow Axel, you really are the smartest in the Organization; I should listen to you more often.'"

Both Demyx and Exsor snorted at the same time.

"You? Smart?" Exsor started to laugh loudly, her head held back for added drama, Demyx copying her exactly.

Axel frowned. "What? I'm not stupid if that's what you're getting at." He sounded slightly hurt.

Exsor patted him on the shoulder. "Oh, we know you're not stupid." She stood up and strutted around, acting like Axel, an overly dramatic smirk on her face. She spoke in a deeper voice, actually getting close to sounding like Axel. "Hey, Exsor, did you know that I once saved a fish from drowning?" Exsor changed back to her voice. "Oh really Axel? That's… um…" She went back to Axel's. "Heroic? Yeah, I know. It was just floating there, not swimming, so I picked it up and set it on the ground. It started to flip around; I think it was thanking me…. I don't speak fish though."

Demyx was rolling back and forth on his seat, laughing so hard no sound was coming out.

Axel darkened slightly. "Hey, you know I was only joking that day."

Exsor raised an eyebrow and put her hands on her hips. "Oh, really now? You sure sounded proud of yourself."

Axel rolled his eyes and crossed his arms over his chest, not looking at either of his friends. Exsor walked up to him and punched him in the shoulder.

"Hey, lighten up man, don't take it so personally."

Smiling at Axel Exsor plopped her self back down in her chair, crossing her legs and looking up at the ceiling, her arms back, holding her weight.

"So how did practice go?" Demyx asked, cleaning his sitar lazily.

"Not good at all." Exsor sighed. "I think Xaldin wants me to be as good as him." She raised her hands up in defeat. "Everyone knows I'll never be that good."

Demyx nodded in understanding. "Well don't fret over it… wait, what am I saying? It's Exsor I'm talking to; she's never anything but happy and hyper."

Exsor beamed at Demyx. "Yep! That's me!" She bounced up and down in her seat. "Hyper, hyper, hyper!"

Axel chuckled. "Man, we need something to do. It's been months since we've gone on a mission."

Demyx shook his head. "Nah man, the longer we can just sit around the better. I don't like field work."

"You're pitiful dude." Axel leaned his back against the almost overly bright white wall; he swept a gloved hand over the room. "There's nothing interesting about this place."

"Careful what you say." Demyx muttered. "I heard Xemnas awoke the Key blade bearer."

Axel punched the air in triumph, his sulky mood forgotten. "That can only mean action!"

Exsor shook her head at Axel. "Well I hope you have fun out there."

"What, you don't want any action?" Axel asked, cocking his head to one side.

Exsor shrugged. "It doesn't really matter to me either way, but I know Xaldin will tell Xemnas I'm not good enough for field missions."

"You never know." He jumped down next to Exsor, putting an arm over her shoulder and sweeping a hand across the room again, this time more dramatically. "It might be you and me, two of the best from the Organization, fighting for our hearts, quite literally actually, and winning every battle sent our way!"

Exsor chuckled and pushed Axel away. "You need a life dude."

As if he didn't hear Exsor Axel frowned in thought. "I wonder why they woke him up… maybe Xemnas has finally decided to get things underway…"

Demyx caught Exsor's eye and smacked himself on the forehead as if to say "Duh!" Exsor coughed, trying to hide her laugh.

"And that means we'll have our hearts soon!" Axel did a little dance.

It was too much for Exsor to stand, she burst out laughing again. "Hey, Axel!" She said in between laughs. "Don't ever quit your day job."

"Yeah dude, dancing's not your thing."

Axel frowned and ran over to Demyx, giving him a not so soft pat on the head. "It's alright Demyx, I know your jealous of my skills, you don't have to pretend any more."

The World That Never Was practically throbbed with their laughter. While three other people, close friends that had been separated for almost a year, started on a journey that would lead them onto the other three's path more then once.