Twilight roads...

Crossing the path...

It's coming closer... the dark. Never has it smelt so sweet, never have you wanted so much to reach out and take it!

"Well you're doomed now."

UMPH! Demyx's head hit the hard floor. He had fallen out of his new bed, barely missing the sitar which Xemnas had given him the evening before. I'm here, this is my home now. He looked at the bland room around him, then he thought of the underwater nook where he used to live. It was small, but comfortable and Demyx knew every stone and crack in it like the back of his fin. A bed had been built into one of the walls and shelves covered every other inch of the wall. At the top of the stone creation was a small hole which let in the light. A thin slab of rock had been used as a door, even though it almost never covered the doorway. Medy had liked to veiw the mermaid world from it. Once again, he looked around the drabby room, this will NEVER be my home.

Demyx rolled over and jumped up off of the ground. After he dressed, he wandered down the stairs, planning on exploring the castle. He quickly noticed that nearly every hallway looked the same; white, 3-D Nobody signs covered the already white walls. After one wrong turn here, and a turn around there, the young Nobody easily became lost. Great... My first day here, and I'm already lost. Suddenly, a guy about Demyx's age, with blue hair that hung in his face appeared from around a corner. He was ingrossed in the book he was holding, but Demyx really needed to find out where he was.

"Um, could you tell me how to get back up to the bedrooms? Or at least the main part of the castle."

The guy looked up from his book, "Demyx, right?" Demyx nodded, "I'm Zexion, possibly the only sane person in this building."

Demyx thought about how Xemnas had thrown a ceramic pot at his head, "Yeah, that's probably true."

"Well, since I'm the only person here who dosen't need meds, I'll give you some information you may want to know. First, stay away from Xaldin and Saix, both of them have the ability to eat you. Second, stay away from Vexen, Lexeaus, and their lab. The last time someone went down there the castle nearly exploded. Third, stay away from Xemnas, he will give you some random assignmet that you REALLY don't want. Fourth, stay away from Xigbar and Axel, they will both get you into alot of trouble."

"You named every member except for yourself."

"Then I guess you can be like me and avoid all of the idiots that live here. The last thing is, always watch your back. You never know when someone could turn traitor."

"You still haven't answered my question. How do you get the the main part of the castle?"

"Just warp."

"Warp?"

"You use the powers of darkness to take you anywhere you like, it's easy." At this Zexion was swallowed up by darkness and appeared on the other side of Demyx.

"How do you get the darkness to do that for you?"

"You just call upon it."

"How?!?"

Zexion had clearly had enough of this. He disappeared into the darkness again, and this time he didn't come back.

Demyx tried to do the "call upon the darkness" thing that Zexion had mentioned, but failed... miserably. He just sat down on the ground and sighed. It was hopeless. Right after words though, a warping portal appeared before him. Out of it stepped the red-headed Axel.

"I've been looking all over for you! How did you get all the way back here?" Axel asked.

Fourth, stay away from Xigbar and Axel, they will both get you into alot of trouble. Demyx shook the thought out of his head. What does Zexion know? "I was exploring the castle and ended up here."

Axel shook his head, "Come on."

Axel opened up a portal and dragged Demyx through it. It was the weirdest sensation he's ever felt. On the outside, he felt bitterly cold, but in the inside he was warm, and felt... safe. He felt as if he could cram all his problems away in the dark and just hide here. Nothing would hurt him, there was nothing that could. He felt powerful, yet at the same time he felt as if he was being manipulated into doing something that deep down he didn't want to. A sudden burst of light had Demyx blinking rapidly. The front lobby on the Castle That Never Was envolped around he and Axel.

"Wow..." Demyx said, still disbelief that he had been transported to the opposite end of the castle.

"Cool, huh?" Axel said. "It takes time to learn how to harness the darkness and use it to your advantage. If someone of your lack of experience had managed to open a portal and get into it, they would forget what they were doing and wander aimlessly around the dark realm forever."

"That would stink..." Demyx looked at his feet. "Anyways, thanks for helping me get out of that maze of hallways."

"Yeah, I told Xemnas that is was stupid to make all of the hallways look the same."

Days came and went. Demyx learned the ropes, but could not ever figure out how to succefully warp. Axel was given miniscule missions which were easy (and boring) to complete, thus he still felt slighted. Then one day Xemnas called both to the meeting room. Xemnas was seated in his tall chair, hands folded in his lap.

"Demyx will have his first mission." Xemnas anounced.

Oh great... I soooo can't do this! Demyx screamed in his head.

"And Axel will go with him."

Axel looked startled, "What?!?"

Demyx closed his eyes... thank you. I don't think I could do this by myself. "What are we doing and where are we going?"

"You will be going to Halloween Town. There you will dig up a grave, any should do, and bring the body back."

"Eww..." Axel looked up at Xemnas, "Do you seriously want us to do that?"

"Yes, Vexen is going to conduct an experiment to see if he can create Nobodies out of bodies that didn't already become Nobodies... and to do so he needs a dead body." Xemnas explained

"I'll do it," Demyx said, "with or without Axel!"

Xemnas smiled, "Good, good now go! Both of you!"

Axel sighed, then once again dragged Demyx through a portal. The sensation returned to him, but this time it wasn't as overwhelming. The darkness reseded, but the world that now surronded them was almost as dark. The sky was blood red and the buildings were ghostly and looked as if they hadn't been used in ages.

"LOOK AT OUR CLOTHES!" Demyx exclaimed. They had changed into different creepy creatures, Axel was a cool looking mime with blood dripping of his hands, and out of his chest, while Demyx had a white sheet thrown over his head with eye holes and was a "ghost". "Man, your outfit is way cooler than mine!"

Axel laughed, "I'm sorry, but you look like a dork! All that there is to your costume is a bed sheet and and eyeliner."

"Eyeliner?"

"Yeah, your eyes are covered with it."

Demyx reached up and felt his eyes. Sure enough they were surrouned by and inch thick line of eyeliner. "Let's just go do what we have to do."

Even though Axel was laughing the entire time, they finally found a grave yard. After bickering for sometime, a grave was decided upon, and the two Nobodies dug it up. The hard stone casket took both of them to lift the lid and reveal the smelly carcus of a young woman. Braveing the unbearable stench, Axel picked her up and shouted, "Come on Demyx!"

Just as they were about to enter the darkness again, a voice cried out over the silence, "STOP! What do you think you are doing?!?" They turned around to see a white man sitting in a wheelchair coming near them. "Why are you taking that body?"

"Uhh... funny story." Demyx and Axel said together.

"JACK!!!" the man yelled.

"Looks like it's time to go!!" Axel said, grabbing Demyx by the arm and trying to hold the dead lady at the same time. He opened up a portal and pushed them into it.

Demyx landed on the cold floor, right next to the woman and Axel moaned on the ground a few feet away. They were in the lobby of The World That Never Was. The pitter patter of feet approched Demyx's ears, he looked up to see Xemnas staring down at him.

"We got the dead body." He spat out.

"I see that, but in doing so you have harmed yourself."

"What?"

"Try to move."

Demyx did and realized that electrical charges were running all over his body, makeing it excrusiatingly painful to move. "What happened?"

"We're trying to figure that out."

Darkness clouded his head, and he went out flat.

Somewhere...

"Riku! The Organization is on the move. What became of the two members?"

"They're still alive."

A pound was heard against the wall, "I want them dead, Riku!"

"Yessir."

"We will them kill them all... Nobodies weren't ment to exist."