Alright! Time for chapter 3! This is finally the first chapter in story that actually is completely all my own (since ya know the last two followed the two times Sora went to Traverse Town)
Now things start to get interesting! Enjoy!
Ch. 3
A few days had passed since Sora had lasted visited in Traverse Town, and of course Lea was bored because there was nothing interesting to do. It was late in the evening, though without looking at a clock you could never tell because of the always nighttime sky in Traverse Town. Lea was laying on top of his bed, staring at the ceiling, spacing out. Soon the chiming from the clock on the Gizmo Shop was heard, and it was now the next hour. Lea sighed as he say up, rubbing his head.
"That's it… I am done with just sitting here doing nothing." Lea muttered before getting off the bed. He then exited his room and made his way down the hallway, On the way down he passed by Isa's room, his door was open and Isa was at his desk, reading a book. The floorboards creaked as Lea passed by, causing Isa to look up.
"Lea? What are you doing?" Isa asked.
Lea stepped in the doorway of Isa's room, "I'm going outside. I'm going to go to the Gizmo Shop. Finally see what's in there."
"Lea, no. You know that it's too dangerous. There still is a ton of Heartless roaming around," Isa replied.
"I'll be fine…" Lea muttered. "I'm old enough to know how to fight off Heartless. I got an idea of how to handle them."
"But Lea…If the others come back to find that you are gone..." Isa started, but Lea interrupted him.
"I am sick of sitting around all the time doing nothing. All these years we have been here Leon hasn't let us help out. Yuffie though, she gets to help out, but we just sit here. And she is the same age as us."
"Yuffie has had proper training since she was very young. She is more prepare than we are to fight against the Heartless." Isa responded.
"I don't care," Lea said with a huff of air, "I'm going out there and you won't stop me. You can follow me though, see that I know what I am doing." With that Lea continued his way down the hallway towards the front door, grabbing his two frisbees, before heading out of the house.
"Lea wait!" Isa said as he got up from his desk and headed out of his room. He ran down the hallway and headed out after Lea.
Outside of the house Isa looked around and noticed Lea running in the direction of the Second District. "Lea…"Isa grumbled as he ran after Lea to try and catch up to him.
Isa catch up to Lea just as he was opening the doors to the Second District. "Lea stop!"
Lea didn't even look back at Isa as he opened the doors and ran through them. Isa followed quickly behind as Heartless started to appear around them. To Isa's surprise as some Shadow Heartless appeared in front of them Lea actually smack them back with just his frisbees. He didn't actual destroy them, but it did seem to stun them for a bit as Lea ran past them. Lea, followed closely by Isa, made it all the way down to the Gizmo Shop doors. Lea swung them open and ran inside, and Isa followed right behind.
Finally inside the Gizmo Shop the two looked around the room, with its bright lights and gears. Lea turned around and smirked, "See? What did I tell you? We made it here no problem."
"But we shouldn't be here," Isa stated.
"Yeah Leon said it's off limits...blah blah blah. Whatever," Lea said with the roll of his eyes. "Now that we are here, let's check it out." Lea started to look around the room, examine the gears and various other strange things.
Isa sighed and didn't say a word. He just stood there quietly with his arms cross.
Suddenly without any notice several different types of Heartless appeared all over the room. Lea jumped back in surprise as several, Shadow and Soldier Heartless surrounded him and Lea.
"This is why Leon said not to come here!" Isa hissed, "It's full of Heartless."
Lea sighed, "Alright fine...let's head back then."
The two turned around to try and run out the door, but before they got a chance a Large Body Heartless appeared and blocked the exit. The other Heartless started to get closer, but Lea swatted at them with his frisbees, trying his best to push them back.
"Come on, let's try the other side!" He shouted as he ran past the Heartless as they tried to attack. But just like the other door, a Large Body Heartless appeared, blocking the way out. Lea backed up again and looked over at Isa, who was glaring harshly at him.
Lea chuckled nervously as he smacked some Shadow Heartless back, "Heh...we can take them though."
"We don't have any weapons though!" Isa shouted.
"Hey, I got these at least," Lea said, trying to sound optimistic in the situation, as he held up his frisbees before turned to smack some of the Heartless around again.
"Well you can try to play hero...I am going to try and get out of here." Isa said as he turned around and tried to head towards the door again. He tried to run pass the Large Body, but it blocked Isa's way and knocked him back from the force of its belly. Isa fell back to the ground and immediately several Shadow and Soldier Heartless pounced on top of him.
"Isa!" Lea shouted as he tried to run over to Isa, but Soldier and Shadow Heartless blocked his way. Lea tried to smack them back, but they just kept coming at him.
Isa struggled under the pile of Heartless on top of him, as they clawed and scratched at him. He tried to shoved the Heartless off him, but they just kept jumping on him. Lea pushed the Heartless around him back and tried to get over to Isa again, but before he could move the Large Body rammed into him, slamming him onto the floor. Lea collided with the floor, causing him to drop his frisbees. The Heartless piled on top of him, scratching and clawing, Lea struggled to get back up. The weight of the Heartless on top of him became to much for Lea to handle, and soon everything started to become a blur, and then complete darkness.
Sometime later
Lea slowly opened his eyes and slowly sat up. Looking around he noticed that he was no longer in the Gizmo Shop, but now in he was some unfamiliar town. Looking up he saw that he was next to a large clock tower, and in the sky the sun was giving a golden sunset. Lea looked down to see that just a few feet away from him was Isa, lying unconscious.
"Isa! Hey Isa!" Lea shouted as he ran over to Isa, and shook him on his shoulder.
Isa groaned as he pushed himself up. He rubbed his head and he started to looking around, and then looked over at Lea. "Where are we?"
"I don't know. Some other world, looks much nicer than Traverse Town."
Isa didn't respond, he just started at Lea, giving him a unamused look.
"What?" Lea asked.
"If you hadn't gone to the Gizmo Shop we wouldn't be here." Isa replied.
"Why are you complaining? We are in some other world, we can do what we want now."
"We don't even know where or what this world is. How did we even end up here?" Isa asked.
Lea just shrugged, "I don't know. But who cares really."
"Who cares? Lea, think for a moment, we were being attacked by Heartless and then we ended up here. How can you not care? Don't you think the others will worry now that we aren't in Traverse Town?"
Lea sighed and looked down at the ground, "I know… But least go explore and see just where we are. Alright?"
"Fine," Isa said as he and Lea stood up.
"Maybe we can get a good view of where we are from up there," Lea said as he pointed to the clock tower.
Isa nodded as they started walking to the clock tower. Inside they found a staircase that lead up to the top of the clock tower. They walked up to the top of the stairs and exited onto the top section of the clock tower.
"Whoa…" Lea said as he looked out at the horizon. "That's some sunset."
Isa just shrugged as he leaned against the wall, "I guess so…"
"This place is so much better than Traverse Town." Lea said as he looked around the area.
"Sure…" Isa muttered quietly.
After looking out at the sunset a little more the two headed back down from the clock tower and headed down to the town area. They walked by various shops, looking around at the sencery. As they walked by one of the shops Lea stopped and looked at the list of items being sold.
"Hmm… Sea salt ice cream… Sounds interesting," Lea said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out some munny. "Want to get some ice cream?" Lea asked Isa.
Isa just shrugged as he didn't say anything. Lea then walked up to the shop and bought two sea salt ice creams. He then walked back over to Isa and handed him one. Lea looked at the ice cream before taking a bite of it.
"Whoa," Lea said with surprise. "This is good. It's so strange, it tastes salty, but at the same time sweet."
Isa looked down at his ice cream for a bit before biting into it. "Yeah…"
"I also asked the worker. This place is called Twilight Town," Lea said before taking another bite of ice cream.
"Interesting name…" Isa muttered.
They ate their ice cream as they continued to walk around Twilight Town, checking out the area. As they walked around they noticed that an area in one of the walls had a large hole in it. A hole large enough to walk through. Isa and Lea walked through it, and they ended up in a forest like area.
"Well look what we got here," A voice said from somewhere.
The two looked around to try and find the source of the voice, but didn't see anyone. "Who's there?" Lea asked.
"Nobody in particular." The voice said with a chuckle. Suddenly a guy wearing a black cloak walked out of the darkness in the forest. He had long black hair, with grey streaks, and a eye patch over his right eye.
"And what do you want?" Isa asked.
"Well you see, I am apart an organization, and I have been tasked with finding new recruits. And you two seem to be just what I am looking for." The guy said.
"What do you mean?" Lea asked.
"Don't you wanna know how you guys ended up here? You probably got a lot of question. We can help you guys get the answers you need." The guy replied.
Lea turned to look at Isa, "What do you think? Should we really trust this guy?" He whispered.
"What else can we do? We have no place to go here. If they have answers, we should take this chance." Isa replied, sounding so casual about it. He then looked back at the man, "Fine, we will go along."
"Alright," The man said as he raised his hand, and a dark portal appeared next to him. "Let's go then." The man then walked through the portal and Isa and Lea slowly followed behind.
They soon exited the portal and found themselves to be someone else. Isa and Lea now found themselves in a white room with thirteen different chairs. There was only other person in the room though at the time. A man with greyish hair who sat on the highest chair, he also wore a black cloak like the other guy.
"Hey, I found two more recruits for you," The eyepatch guy said to the man in the chair.
"Very good," The man said in a deep voice.
"So what's going on? We were told we would get some answers or something," Lea said as he crossed his arms.
"Indeed," The man replied. "To start with, you both awoke in Twilight Town, the birthplace of all Nobodies."
"Nobodies What are those?" Lea asked.
"Nobodies are beings that do not truly exist. A Nobody is someone who has lost their heart. That is what we are. That is what you two are," The grey-haired man replied.
"What" Lea asked with a confused look. He looked over at Isa, who just had a calm looking expression on his face. "When did we...But how…" Lea said trying to think, then it dawned on him, "Oh…"
"Yes… Whatever the reason may be, you both have lost your hearts. You are no longer whole. Without a heart you are no longer able to truly feel emotions. But this Organization, our goal is to create Kingdom Hearts to gain hearts and become whole once again." The man replied.
"Regain our hearts…" Isa muttered quietly, as he started at the floor.
"So we join your organization and we can work to get our hearts back…" Lea sighed. "Guess we don't really have any other option."
"Good. We shall give you new names and you shall be apart of our Organization." The man said.
"What? New names? What for?" Lea asked.
"Is it a way of a new start. The new you," The man replied. "All will be explained in time, for now we shall get you set up with what you need."
And with that Isa and Lea were giving new names; Saix and Axel. Saix was the eveleth member and Axel was the twelfth. Once they had gotten their new names they were handed black cloaks like the others had. They were told to wear they at all times, as to help protect them when traveling between worlds. They they were brought to a room to choose a weapon to use in fights against Heartless. Saix choose a blue and silver claymore, while Axel choose two chakrams, as it reminded him of his frisbees. After all of that, they were lead to their rooms, so they could rest up and be ready to soon start helping out in the Organization. Once the two boys had been left alone, Axel went over to Saix's room. When he entered he found Saix starting out of his bedroom window at the sky outside. It was a dark sky with the darkness running on and on for miles.
"So...quite an interesting day, right?" Axel asked.
Saix didn't turned around to look at Axel, he just continued to stare out at the sky, "Yes… Very interesting."
"We probably won't get to see Leon and the others though probably…"
"Yes… Not only would it probably confuse them on what has happened to us, but we also need to start focusing on the Organization's goals." Saix responded, with a almost emotionless voice.
"What about Sora though? With him traveling to different worlds, isn't it possible that we might see him again?" Axel asked.
"Perhaps...But it isn't something we should be concerned with right now. Right now we need to adjust to being a part of this Organization and doing the tasks given to us."
Axel sighed, "Yeah...I know…I hope we can see Sora again though, and everyone else too. After we get our hearts back of course."
Saix didn't say anything back, he just continued to stare out the window.
"I guess I'll head back back to my room now," Axel said as he turned to leave. Saix once again said nothing as Axel left.
"I hope Isa is handling the situation okay...he seemed more quiet than usual today…" Axel thought to himself as he walked back to his room. "We no longer have hearts...still can't believe it…"
And that ends chapter 3!
Hope you all enjoyed this one. I know it's shorted than the other 2, but I thought it was good to end it here.
So yeah I did plan to have Lea and Isa become Nobodies since the beginning of this idea. It still changes up a lot of things and when we get to KH2 time, boy that makes things interesting for Sora.
See you all next time!