Hey all, just wanted to say sorry for the last chapter being rushed. Don't worry though, now that I am not restricted by my own idea's (three chapter prologue) and deadlines, my writing "quality" shouldn't suffer...I think and/or hope.

Anyway, this is a little tidbit that just came to me.

(7/9/18 Edit: Updated Xigbar to how he looks in KH3. Before I was running on the idea that he would have a fused look between the two. But then E3 happened.)

(7/24/18 Edit: I didn't realize Xigbar's Ponytail was so long, lol)

(8/11/20 Edit: Updated character descriptions to fit with KHIII)


Interlude - The 13th Deliberation

The World That Never Was - Where Nothing Gathers

The current area was white and circular. The platform in this room was decorated with the sigil of the nobodies, the area around the sigil and on the platform itself was designed in a fashion that wouldn't look out of place in a data world. All around the room at the edge of the circular platform were thirteen white chairs, each varying in height. Sitting on these chairs were twelve black coated figures, six of them had their faces revealed, while the rest of them had their hoods up.

"Hmm..." the one to the left of the tallest chair had his eyes closed, as if sensing a change. He had tanned skin, and long white hair that was slicked back at the top. He slowly opened his eyes, revealing them to be gold. This man is Xehanort's Heartless, Ansem The Seeker of Darkness. "It seems Golden Darkness has finally decided to move." He concluded with a smile.

"Heh! About time, I was wondering if Goldie-locks was even gonna take part in this whole shebang." a man in a chair below him said. This man had a light skin complexion, and light black hair with quite a few white skunk stripes going through it vertically that was tied in a very long ponytail. He wore an eye-patch over his right eye due to a severe injury obtained some time ago, but his left eye showed that they were gold in color. He had a big scar on the left side of his face going down past his chin, and his ears were pointed. This man was called Braig, but he abandoned that name when he became one of Organization XIII, so he was given the name Xigbar. "Then again, guess she had to once I gave her that small handout on her little murder crush."

"I wonder..." a deep voice above Xigbar pondered. This one was sitting to the right of the tallest chair and looked similar to Ansem; tanned skin, gold eyes, and long white hair. However, his hair had sharp bangs all over instead of being slicked back. He is Xehanort's Nobody, Xemnas, and the previous leader of Organization XIII. "How will the weapon's heart fair when it finds that the boy in question has lost his?"

"I fail to understand, Master." a new voice joined in a few seats away from Xemnas. He had a light skin complexion like Xigbar, gold eyes, and long light-blue hair with two long unkempt bangs coming down the sides of his face. His face was marked with a 'X' Scar right in the middle. This was the man Lea was staring down some time ago, his former friend Isa. However, like Xigbar, when he became one of Organization XIII, he was given the name Saix. "I thought our objective was to get Sora to become Number XIII?"

"It still is..." someone to the left of Saix began. He had tanned skin, gold eyes, and sharp white hair that reached passed his shoulders with two sharp bangs coming down both sides of his face each with another two behind those. Unlike the other unhooded ones here, this man was on the young side. That's because this is Xehanort's youngest incarnation to join Organization XIII, simply called Young Xehanort. "Sora is currently our ideal candidate. The others are simply in case he proves to be worthless in the end."

"It matters not..." a gravelly old voice started. This voice came from the tallest chair in the room between Ansem and Xemnas. He had gold eyes, dark skin, a white goatee, and a bald head. He was wearing a long black open trench-coat, two long white gloves with a black band around each wrist, and a white trench-shirt with two black belts going around his abdomen. He was also wearing black pants and tall black boots. The man was rather elderly, but make no mistake, he is the leader of this True Organization XIII, Master Xehanort. The same one who spoke to King Mickey about gathering the Seven Lights and Thirteen Darknesses. "All of the pieces will appear in time, whoever they may be. However, that does not mean we cannot guide them to their proper places. Destiny is never left to chance after all."

"Of course, Master." Xehanort's young incarnation agreed.

"You all have your duties, now go." Master Xehanort ordered, to which they used the darkness to leave. The only exception was Saix, who had one last thing to ask his master.

"What is your concern?" The elder asked when he noticed Saix looked deep in thought.

"I have been meaning to ask, we've focused our attention primarily on Keyblade wielders this whole time. How long have you known about this 'Golden Darkness'?"

To this question, Master Xehanort merely gave a villainous grin. "All will be made clear in time..."


So yeah, nothing too big.

Also, about the whole Mea/Nemesis thing? I'm an idiot, there was a passing kid in episode 5 of Darkness 2nd who noticed Nemesis, who was talking to Mea at the time.

Bye!