Chapter 1:

Demyx's POV

Organization XIII's lair, 8: 20 a.m.

I roll over and pull the blanket over my head as sunlight pours into my room (Wait, how is there sunlight in The World That Never Was?). I completely hate it when I get up this early. I face the opposite side of the window and try to fall back to sleep again. I do, for all of three seconds before the door bursts open. I'm half-conscious so I really can't tell who it is. But by the voice, it was Axel.

"Demyx! Get your butt out of bed before you miss breakfast!" He yells at me.

I groan and roll onto my stomach. I hear Axel's footsteps walk over before he pulls back the blankets exposing me. I give in and I roll onto my back and face him. He's already dressed and ready, as usual. His spiky read hair almost blinds me when its mixes with the sunlight. I blow a piece of hair out of my eyes and sit up.

"Get dressed and meet us in the dinning hall. Xemnas would like to speak to all of us, got it memorized?" Axel explained, adding his catchphrase at the end.

I give a puzzled look. I have a hard time picking up stuff when I first wake up. I looked down and see what he means. I'm in my boxers and Axel is standing in front of me. I feel my face burn, I can already picture what Axel is seeing right now. Axel smirks slightly and leans over me.

"You're so cute like that," He commented.

I swat him away and he leaves my room shutting the door behind him. I climb out of bed and almost trip over my Sitar poking out from under my bed. Note to self: clean up room later. I pull on some black pants and a sleeveless shirt as well. I grab my organization jacket and throw it over my clothes as I walk out of my room. I don't bother to do my hair because I'm going to the hot spring after breakfast anyway.

The "dinning hall" is actually just a big room with one long table on one side and the kitchen on the other. It the same as always: Zexion has his nose buried in a book (I think it's The Lighting Thief. Wait hasn't he read that at least four times before?); Marluxia and Larxene are chatting in the corner, Vexen is tinkering with some kind of contraption, and Xemnas and Saix are looking over something at head of the table. Since we sit in number order I sit next to Axel and Luxord. We actually sit five on one side six on the other because Saix and Xemnas get the heads. Xemnas clears his throat and stands up, shutting everyone up.

"Good morning Organization thirteen. I have just heard from Saix that he has sighted something unusual," He announced. "He claims to have seen a large creature roaming The World That Never Was. And-"

"Are you sure it isn't one of Vexen's experiments gone wrong?" Marluxia asked impatiently earning a glare from Vexen.

"Positive," Saix replies. "I tried to fight but it fired a powerful red beam that I barley managed to dodge. Judging by its unfamiliar feeling it wasn't any type of magic I know of," He explained.

"How interesting…" Xaldin muttered. "Are sure it wasn't dark magic or something like that?" He asked him.

Saix shook his head as Roxas glanced at him.

"Are you sure it wasn't a heartless or even a Nobody?" He wondered.

"Think logically, Roxas. If it was a Nobody than Xemnas would have told us about it," Xaldin pointed out.

"A word of advice, proceed with caution when you're sent out," Xemnas told us sharply. "Dismissed,"

Half of us left, and the other half stayed behind. I walked up to the bathroom and grabbed a towel and threw on my flip-flops and my organization jacket. I walked outside and was almost blinded by the light. Again, how the heck is there sunlight?

I began to walk towards our private hot spring. A funny story about how we found it. Vexen was testing one of his experiments and it flew out the window and somehow exploited. We went outside to try figure why it exploited and it lead us to our hot spring about a couple hundred meters outside of our lair. Turns out, something he put in there heated up in the water and went boom. Forgot what it was, but I'm way to lazy to memorize big words I'm never going to use.

As I begin walking up the stone path, a feeling of dread washes over me like an ocean wave. I turn around and see nothing but Marluxia's garden. I shrug my shoulders and continue walking. I hear an almost-silent growl behind me. I turn around and again, nothing. Is something stalking me or have I been watching "A haunting" too much?

"Saix?" I called.

Silence.

"Axel?" I called again. "If this is a joke it isn't funny!" I yelled bravely.

Another low growl.

I shake it off and continue. I hear a loud howl, LITERARY, right behind me! I whirl around and gasp in horror.

It's a HUGE creature that's a least twelve feet tall that has a deep red color. It's sanding on two legs and has two arms with swords extending from its elbows and a large tail. It has a boney head with piercing yellow eyes and teeth as sharp as butcher knives. A hole that goes right through its chest, likes its been drilled through. Out of all the heartless and nobodies I've seen, this is the scariest, if it is one.

The first reaction that comes to my mind: run like hell. I try to move but my legs feel like bags of cement. I can't take my eyes away from its deadly stare. When I turn my head away from its stare, I do exactly what I planned on doing, run like hell. I raced up the path towards the hot spring at lighting speed. I turn towards it as it disappears. I stop when I reach the end of the trail and it's waiting for me.

"Well…you look like and interesting snack," It mutters licking its teeth.

With no other choice, I summon my Sitar. The creature laughs before he runs towards me at lighting speed. Before he attacks he faded right before my eyes. I turned around and saw nothing. When I turned back around it re-appeared in front of me and swung it huge tail at me. The force slammed me against a rock like I was bug being squashed. Despite the pain I stood up and played a couple high notes on my Sitar.

The creature charged again but a huge jet of water blasted at him and knocked it off its feet. I smirked slightly, but my joy didn't last long. It jumped up in the air and slashed at me with one of its sword-like arms. I tried to sidestep but I was too late. It slashed against my shoulder, leaving a nasty gash that was bleeding rapidly. I clutched it tightly as I felt blood run through my fingers.

Panicked, I played a few more notes on my Sitar as nobodies made of water appeared out of thin air. The nobodies threw themselves at the huge…thing trying to fight it. The creature swung it mighty tail at them, destroying them in one blow. It swung its tail at me again slamming me against the rock once more. I fell over, coughing up blood. I already had big injury on my shoulder and it didn't have a scratch.

I stood up, aching with pain and played a couple low notes. The creature laughed and threw itself at me. Before it was able to hit me, a small stream off water slashed across its mask like a knife. It left a huge crack in its mask and it fell to the ground in mid-air. I turned and began to run away but I didn't get very far. I felt something wrap around my legs, making me fall over. I turned my head slightly and saw the huge monster had wrapped its tail around my legs and it dragged me towards it.

It stood up and held me upside down from its tail. I smirked, reveling its huge yellow teeth. It laughed, a deep booming laughter.

"You're quite the weakling, little boy. You can barley fight!" It laughed.

I tried to pull it tail off my legs but it was hopeless. He moved his tail up a little more before he threw me to the ground, knocking the breath out of me. I lay there gasping for breath, every breath I drew in sent a sharp pain across my chest. I was pretty sure I had broken a rib somewhere. My arm had streams of dried blood all over it and I had scratches all over me. I felt like absolute crap.

Damn…how do I beat this thing? I thought. If my water attacks don't do anything then…what wi-

I snapped out of my thoughts when I felt a slimy tentacle wrap around my neck. It tightened its grip on my neck as it held me up to its face. I had both of my hands on the tentacle trying to pull it off. No use. I was about to die anyway in the state I was in. The monster opened it large mouth as a red dot began building up in its mouth. I tugged at the tentacle with all the strength I had left. Suddenly, Saix's word echoed in my head:

"I tried to fight but it fired a powerful red beam that I barley managed to dodge,"

I that moment I threw I was going to die. It laughed as it aimed the beam at me and fired. About to die from lack of air anyway, I shut my eyes tightly and waited for pain to take over.