Yay! Part 3! Xion's first day!

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Forgotten: The First Day (Xion POV)

Flashback

I walked though the unfamiliar hallways of Oblivion High, my new school. I stared at a piece of paper, trying to figure out where to go. Period one: room 06. Now where the heck was that? I looked around. The rooms were all odd numbers. Hm.. I must be in the wrong hall. I did an about-face and immediately crashed into someone behind me. "Ahh! Sorry! I didn't mean to do that!" I quickly apologized. I raised my head and looked into bright blue eyes. "No, it's okay. It was me who wasn't looking. Sorry." He smiled at me. Then he bent down and picked up my fallen books. "Man, these are heavy! What subjects are you taking?" He inquired. "Um.. Well, I have Honors Biology, Honors Literature, Geometry, Chinese 1, Unknown? and... a blank period. Wait. Unknown?" I stared at my schedule, confused. I was sure my schedule had said something totally different the last time I looked at it. Yeah... I'm pretty sure it had said French 1 and PE where Unknown and Blank were there now. The blond haired boy also had a quizzical look on his face as he gently took my schedule and read it over, just to be sure. After reading it for about the third time, he looked at me with a mixture of surprise, awe, and concern on his face. That got me kind of nervous. "Umm.. Is anything wrong?" I asked, kind of worried about him staring at me. Before he could answer, the warning bell rang. I groaned and quickly started to walk away. A slightly tanned hand stopped me. "I'm in the same class as you, so why don't I walk you there?" The blond requested, though it sounded more like an order. I slowly nodded and followed him in silence.

As we traversed the campus, I kept wondering why he looked so... cautious, but excited. We walked all the way to the other side of the school (I guess the even numbered rooms aren't by the odd ones) until we finally stopped in front of room 06. Stopping in front of the door, he held out his hand toward me. "By the way, I'm Roxas. Roxas Hearts. What's your name?" I shook his outstretched hand and laughed. "Xion. Xion Heart. Did you steal my last name or something?" He grinned. "Well, you sure you didn't steal mine?" We both laughed. Then we heard a small "Ahem" and quickly jumped out of the way. A tall, proud-looking man with white-blond hair strode past us and began unlocking the door. "So, Roxas, may I know who this lovely young lady is? I don't think I've seen her before." He asked as he opened the door and looked at us. I blushed and studied my feet. No one's ever given me such a nice compliment before. Roxas patted my shoulder and said with a grin, "This is Xion Heart, your new first period Bio student." I lifted my gaze to be polite and saw a friendly smile on the teacher's face. "Nice to meet you, Xion. I'm Ansem the Wise, but you can call me Ansem." I shyly smiled back. I'm pretty shy around most adults. "N-nice to meet you, Mr. Ansem." I softly answered and followed Roxas into the Biology classroom. Mr. Ansem told me to sit next to Roxas since we have almost the same last names (the seating chart's in alphabetical order here), so I set down my heavy books onto my new desk and slipped into the chair. Once seated, I saw a note stuck partly under my books. I looked at Roxas, but he was too busy talking to some of the other students to notice. I took the note and read it:

I'll tell you about your schedule later. Meet me after class, okay?

I looked over to him once again and gave him a nod. Catching my slight movement, Roxas winked and went back to talking to his friends. "Alright, everyone! Let's get into our seats and start class!" Mr. Ansem cheerfully yelled over his students. The kids who weren't in their seats scrambled to get to them just as the late bell rang. "Hello, everyone! I'm your Honors Biology teacher, Ansem the Wise. But please, call me Ansem. Now, let me have the chance to learn your names." Mr. Ansem then started calling roll. "Alright, let's see... Umm Wakka Aurochs? Good. Is a Selfie Brightheart here? Okay, got you..." As the bio teacher continued calling role, I looked at Roxas, who was busy scribbling down something on paper. Once he finished, he gave it to a sort of short silvery creature that moved like a snake but was human-shaped. The creature took the note, fell into the ground, and disappeared. None of the other students didn't seem to notice it. I stared wide-eyed at where the creature had been. What was that? Where did it go? What was that note? What just happened?

"...Heart. Ms. Xion Heart!" I jumped. "Are you okay?" Mr. Ansem asked gruffly, obviously not liking that his student wasn't paying attention. My face felt warm with embarrassment as I responded, "Yes, sir! Sorry sir!" The biology teacher's piercing red-orange eyes regarded me with some concern, but soon went back to the attendance list. I hear some snickering as I silently groaned. I snuck a glance at Roxas and glared when he chuckled at me. This could be a long day.

Luck seemed to be on my side after that. Until fourth period, anyways. Roxas escorted me to my other two classes, though he had yet to tell me about the Unknown class. He promised to inform me right after third, so here I was, standing in the hallway like some stupid person while everyone else hurried to their classes. I scanned the emptying hallway constantly, but there was no sign of the blond anywhere. Just to be safe, I also checked and rechecked my schedule to make sure I didn't have a class. It still said Unknown. The bell rang and the hall grew completely silent as each classroom's door was shut. I felt as if I needed to get out of there. That something bad was going to happen. My mind kept giving the 'danger!' alarm. My bones and muscles were automatically making me run down the eerily silent halls toward the exit. "Xion!" I immediately stopped and turned to face the owner of the familiar voice. I let go of most of my tension in a sigh of relief as the blond started running toward me. "Geez, Xion! I know that I'm late, but you don't have to try to find the place yourself." Roxas laughed when he caught up to me. He grinned and grabbed my wrist. "And besides, you're going the wrong way. Just follow me." and with that, he started pulling me down the hall, toward the very last room. My bones told me to get away from that place, my muscles screaming to run away. But Roxas' grip on my wrist was too strong and I couldn't wriggle out of it even if I tried. By the time we got to the door, every bit of my body was screaming to get away from there. I stopped and refused to move. Roxas tried tugging me, but even his strength couldn't budge me. "What's wrong, Xion? Why aren't you moving?" He asked curiously, obviously he'd be wondering at my behavior. My blue eyes, filled with a terror unknown to even me, stared into his wondering eyes. "I..I don't want to go in there." I managed to say. One of his eyebrows lifted in confusion. "Why not? It's not like anything bad's in there." He said with unwavering faith. "Come on and don't worry. Nothing bad's going to happen to you." He started pulling me again and this time, I let myself be pulled into the room.

Twelve pairs of eyes looked up at me as Roxas and I walked in the room. A man with long, silvery hair and cold, golden eyes stood up from his grand looking chair and walked towards me. My 'danger' alarm went wild as he stood right in front of me, looking me over. A cruel look of triumph flashed in his eyes, a look that none of the others were supposed to see. Roxas bowed respectfully to the man and said cheerfully, "Superior, sir! I think she's the one we've been looking for!" He pushed me a little, toward this Superior and nodded for me to introduce myself. "H-hi. M-my name's X-Xion." I stuttered nervously and bowed. Superior tilted my head up and I could see the ice in his eyes despite his warm smile. "I am Xemnas, the leader of Organization 13. You may address me as the Superior." He slightly bowed. "You were brought here because Roxas believes you have a special power, like the rest of us. If I may ask, do you know if you have special abilities?" He asked in a deep, yet polite voice. I hesitated, not really trusting the man. I didn't want to hand him over my biggest secret just like that. But if he was telling the truth, then everyone else in this room might be like me. Heck, they might've gone through what I've had to go through. After all those years of being the different one, the outcast, I might be able to fit in and even make some friends.

My brain and my common sense commanded me to not trust the man, but I disregarded them, blinded by the thought of belonging. I nodded my head at the Superior confidently. "I do have a special power." His eyebrows were raised in an excited, surprised way and he quickly asked, though it sounded like a demand, to see it. I felt everyone's eyes staring at me intently as I held out my right hand. I closed my eyes and began to draw the power from my body to my hand, willing it to take it's shape. I heard the familiar 'ching' sound and felt the metal handle in my grasp. Opening my eyes, I was a little nervous about the awed looks on everyone's faces. Roxas rubbed his eyes just to make sure he was really seeing correctly. Two teens that had been laying on the couch were sitting straight up, mouths wide open. Everyone else in the room had wide-eyes filled with shock. The room filled with an awed silence as they looked at my black keyblade, Oblivion. Roxas was the first to recover from the shock and grinned happily. "You've got a keyblade, too!" he exclaimed as he summoned his power. It was a keyblade, too, but it was light and formed a shape similar to a snowflake or something at it's end. "It's name is Oathkeeper!" Roxas said proudly. "This is great! Now we have two people that can use keyblades and we ca-" "Quiet, Number XIII!" a man with long blue hair and a red X on his face barked. Roxas instantly stopped talking and stepped back, bowing his head a bit. Even though his head was bowed, I couldn't miss the scowl he gave to the bluenette.

Xemnas coughed quietly, bringing my attention back to him. From the wicked gleam in his golden orbs, I was surprised that he asked if I "would like to join his organization to use my powers for the good of all" instead of forcing me to join. Without even thinking about it, I said yes. He smiled triumphantly at himself and then announce in a booming voice, "We now have our fourteenth member! Number XIV, Xion, the Second Key!" Everyone, save Xemnas and that bluenette, cheered or at least smiled. The bluenette just glared at me with even more piercing glare than Ansem the Wise's. I have a slight feeling that he doesn't like me that much.

Giving me one last evil grin, Xemnas ordered X-face, well, he called him Saix, to give everyone their missions. What the heck does he mean by that? Everyone except a few groaned and grabbed slips of paper from that Saix guy. Roxas, noticing my confused look, explained, "As being part our organization, you have to do certain missions and stuff. What you do depends on what Saix, that guy over there, assigns you. Since you're new, you'll probably be assigned for heart-collection with me. Don't worry about it, yet. I'll explain more later." and with that, he grabbed my hand and took me to get our missions from Saix. The first thing X-face (my new nickname for Saix) did when he saw us come over was scowl. The second thing he did was roughly give us our now crumpled slips of paper with an even bigger scowl. The third thing he did was threaten us: "If you both miss even one heartless tonight, I'm going to make sure your punishment is deadly." I'm also guessing that he's the punishment dude. With an angry glare at X-face, Roxas took my hand and lead me out of the room.

"Let's see...'Go to Twilight Town and destroy all the Heartless there. Warning: a Zip Slasher has been spotted near the Sandlot.' Aw nuts." Roxas sighed after reading our mission. "Zip Slashers are hard to fight against. Saix must be in a really bad mood today." I, while somehow feeling empathetic with Roxas, was confused out of my mind. Heartless? Zip Slasher? In Twilight Town? And we have to fight these things? What? Roxas noticed my confusion and chuckled a little, receiving a glare from me. "Hey! Don't laugh!" I exclaimed, though I was smiling. Roxas grinned and summoned a black portal with dark purplish streaks swirling inside of it. I jumped back only a bit, but the blonde was too quick. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me after him as he entered the portal. "Don't worry! It's not gonna hurt you!" he said as he pulled me inside. After a moment of pitch darkness, we walked out of the portal and into a city. I gaped in awe at the tall buildings and the magnificent tower that towered above them. The portal disappeared as quickly as it had come. "How...how did you do that?" I asked Roxas. Teleportation like that would come in handy one day. He shrugged. "I'm not sure... You just put out your hand and think about where you have to go." I nodded, fascinated. "Oh. And you can only summon them for missions." he added after seeing the smile on my face. A frown quickly formed, replacing my smile. "Darn." I mumbled. Portals that'll take you anywhere and you can only use them for missions? Totally not fair! Roxas chuckled again at me and I gave him another glare.

Then, I saw something creeping behind him. "Roxas! Behind you!" I shouted as the thing sprang up to attack him. As quick as a flash, Roxas summoned his keyblade and slashed the thing through. The thing burst into like a cloud of darkness that quickly dispersed. Rising from that cloud and into the sky was a bright heart. "Wh-what was that?" I nearly shouted out of shock. Roxas glanced around cautiously before answering me: "They're called Heartless. Creatures of darkness that like to steal other people's hearts. The Heartless that just attacked me is called a Shadow. Though Shadows usually don't release hearts when you destroy them... It must've had just stolen someone's heart." My eyes went wide. "Y-you mean it killed someone?" Roxas nodded. "That's why our job is to destroy the Heartless. So people can be safe. The problem is: Heartless appear everyday, so we can't just somehow get rid of them forever. Though for some reason, only a set number of Heartless appear everyday. Then we can at least defeat that number and keep the towns safe for the night." I nodded, getting most of it. Of course, though, Roxas had more to add: "On yeah. There's many different kinds of Heartless and certain kinds release the hearts they have captured when you kill them. Well, that only happens when you use a keyblade like mine or yours." He held up his to make his point clear. "For some reason, no one else's powers can release those hearts. That's why Xemnas was so pleased that you joined." I nodded again. So that's why everyone looked so surprised when they saw my Oblivion. Wait. Something doesn't add up... "Why is it so important that we can release hearts?" I wanted to know. Now it was Roxas's turn to be clueless. "...I don't know... It might be so that the defeated Heartless can't respawn again, but I can't really tell if they're the same ones or not. I'm sure if we ask someone else in the org, we'll get our answer." Then he chuckled a little. "Man, I'm talking as much as Vexen! Sorry if I bored you or anything!" he apologized as he scratched the back of his head. "No, no, no! That's perfectly fine! Thanks for explaining this stuff to me!" I quickly said and bowed a little. "Okay! Well, let's get on with our mission! Those Heartless aren't going to kill themselves!" Roxas said enthusiastically and we ran toward the gates of the town.

"Come on, Xion! Hit it with all you've got! Whoa! Dodge it! Now jump up and smash it down! Yes! Nice work!" I panted a little from the adrenaline rush as Roxas congratulated me on defeating my first Heartless. "That was great, Xion! See? It isn't that hard!" he exclaimed as he struck down a Shadow. I nodded briefly and quickly blocked another Shadow that tried to creep up on me. I quickly slashed it into a burst of darkness and helped Roxas make quick work of the rest of them. Though Roxas did most of them in since it only took him one hit to do so and me, like, 5 hits in order to defeat them. "How come you only have to hit them once when I have to hit them more times?" I asked curiously after we cleared the area. "I've been doing this longer than you have. It would seem only right that I'm stronger than you." he stated simply. He has a point. "So... are we done with our mission? We did clear this whole area." I gestured to the now empty alleyways. Roxas laughed and shook his head. "Sorry, but we also have to clear out the Sandlot, the tram areas, and the underground tunnels. I say we should head underground first." He pointed to a doorway clearly marked as an entrance to the underground area. I groaned and followed as he cheerfully ran into it.

By the time we got to the Sandlot, I had tiny little claw marks where the Heartless had gotten me all over my arms and legs. I panted as I followed Roxas to the center of the area, tired by all the fighting and dodging I had to do. Roxas looked at me, concerned. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asked me for the fifth time. I nodded and looked around for the last Heartless that we needed to defeat. "Where is it?" I murmured loud enough for him to hear. As if to answer my question, a blue Heartless about my height jumped out at us, its sharp blades ready to attack us. We immediately summoned our keyblades and blocked its attack. It quickly attacked again, this time too fast for me to react. I winced in pain as the Zip Slasher slashed at my arms and tried to counter. My keyblade bounced off of it's metal skin and failed to do any damage at all. Before it could hit me again, Roxas stunned it with a... was that a fireball? I was a little stunned, but scrambled away before the Heartless could attack me again. "H-how did you do it?" I asked shakily to Roxas, who had just thrown another flame-induced ball at the Zip Slasher. "I don't know if you can do it yet, but try imagining a ball of fire collecting in your hand and then throw it." he puffed and threw another one. I tried a couple of times, dodging and blocking whenever I could, and was finally able to produce a tiny fireball. I threw it at the Heartless and to our surprise, a huge explosion blasted the creature.

"I thought you guys looked like you needed help." Axel said as he sauntered towards us, holding huge spiky chakrams. "Axel," Roxas grinned at the red-head. "Nice of you to join us." Axel returned the grin and looked at me with his bright emerald eyes. "You must be Number XIV. Xion, was it?" I nodded, a small smile tugging my lips. "Thanks for the help, Axel." I said timidly. Axel laughed. "Hey, friends got to help each other out, right? And any friend of Roxas is a friend of mine. Got it memorized?" he stated and tapped a finger to his head. Roxas and I laughed at his funny gesture. Axel joined us but quickly grew serious when he saw the Zip Slasher recovering from the attack. "That Saix," Axel growled, "He knows that Zip Slashers are too dangerous for beginners." and with that, he shot another exploding fireball at it. Three flaming bombs later, the Zip Slasher burst into darkness, a heart bigger than usual floating into the sky.

We desummoned our weapons and I made ready to go back to the school when I noticed Axel and Roxas walking the opposite direction. "Where are you two going?" I called. Roxas looked back at me and smiled. "We're going to get us a treat, of course! Want to join us?" He answered. I nodded and followed them.

"Wow! You can see the whole town from up here!" I exclaimed as I stared at the town from the top of the tram tower. Even a part of the of the ocean was visible through the tall buildings. Everything was blanketed by the reddish-orange tint of the sunset. "Pretty, isn't it?" Roxas sighed, taking in the view. "I think the red from the sunset is the best." Axel added his opinion. We turned to him. "That's cause you're a pyro, pyro!" Roxas teased. "Hey!" Axel replied with fake anger, "I am not! And if you keep saying that, I'm not going to give you any ice cream!" Roxas perked up. "Ice cream? I want some! Gimme!" He reached for the grocery bag Axel was holding. Axel held it away from him. "Uh-Uh! You're not getting any until you take that back!" Roxas pouted and I giggled, bringing their attention to me. "You guys are so funny!" I laughed. Axel gave a playful pout. "Are not! Now I'm not gonna give you and ice cream either!" Roxas and I replied with puppy dog eyes. Axel couldn't refuse. With a sigh, he handed over two ice creams to Roxas and kept one for himself. Roxas smiled and handed me the light blue Popsicle. "It's called Sea Salt ice cream. You'll love it!" he said and started eating his. I took a bite and relished in the wonderful combination of sweetness and saltiness of the ice cream. "It's salty, but sweet!" I exclaimed, kind of surprised by it's taste. Roxas and Axel laughed. "I said the exact same thing when I first tried it!" Roxas said. I laughed, too.

We stayed there until the sun dipped under the horizon. When Roxas and I gave Saix our status report, he glared at us, but grunted a "Well done." Roxas and I solemnly received our rewards and then left the room. "Nice job today, Xion!" Roxas said for the nth time after Axel defeated that Zip Slasher. "You did really well, too, Roxas. Thanks for helping me." I answered. Roxas smile and patted my shoulder. "I'll see you tomorrow, k? And meet us at the Tower after you finish your mission!" he called as he ran down the hall. I smiled and said to myself, "I think I'm really going to like it here."

This... Is a really long chapter... The next part's probably going to be published sometime next week. I'm working on it.

Sorry for any Saix fans out there, but I just love calling him X-face. xDD

Thanks for reading! :D