Meeting a Nobody
A Kingdom Hearts fanfic
By:
Chison
Iris slowly sat up in the small sofa, "DiZ…why is that name familiar?" she asked herself aloud, but the personage in the black coat shrugged his shoulders, "That is because you have already met me once…" a voice came from Iris' left, she turned to see a man dressed in a black robe, with a red cloak on his shoulders, and his face seemed strapped together with red belts. "I've…met you?" Iris asked, and the figure nodded, "I am the one that made you into an Unknown, however I am not here to perform that again…" With that, DiZ moved towards the computer and sat in the chair, turning to the man in black, "Ansem…Would you go and find him?" Iris' attention shot to the man in the black coat, "Wait…You are Ansem? The seeker of Darkness?" Slowly, the man took off his hood, revealing it to be indeed Ansem, with his long, white hair, dark skin and orange eyes.
Ansem turned away from Iris and lifted his left hand, causing a ellipse of darkness to form, and he walked through it, shutting it behind him, "Now Iris…we have much to discuss…You know your friend is already a Heartless…" She got up from the sofa and walked toward DiZ, "You mean…Zashi?" He nodded, "you can feel it in your heart correct?" Iris gave a simple nod, then DiZ turned back to the monitors, "fortunately for everyone, Zashi had a strong will, resulting in both a Heartless, and a Nobody…" Iris was confused, "what's a Nobody?" DiZ turned away form his computer and looked at Iris, "A Nobody is simply a shell of a former person, however they have no hearts…" He turned back to the monitors, "Nobodies respond as though they have hearts, but they cannot feel intense emotions that only the heart can produce: love, hate, joy, rage…"
Within a few moments, the black ellipse came back, and two people appeared, Ansem and another young man. DiZ turned in the chair to meet the two of them, "ah…It is good you have found him so quickly Ansem…" All he did was simply nod, and moved to the opposite side of the room, and leaned against it, arms folded in front of him. Iris looked over the other man, he had brown hair, green shimmering eyes and he was wearing a black coat like Ansem, "who are you?" he asked, narrowing his eyes, looking Iris over, "I'm Iris…" she slowly nodded and DiZ got to his feet, "Now, Zeoshi, behave your manners…" He turned to DiZ, "fine, whatever…" he shrugged his shoulders.
Iris seemed to stare off into space, "although he doesn't act like Zashi…if he had black hair and different eyes…it could be him…" DiZ sat down at the computer again, and proceeded to push buttons on the console, "Iris, we need to get you to Kingdom Hearts a quickly as possible…" Then he got up from the chair and walked over to the machine in the wall housing a beam of light, touching a few buttons on the wall, the beam enlarged, filled with numbers, and faded revealing a black coat like Zeoshi's. "Take this, the Nobody will be watching you, it will keep you relatively safe, since they only rarely attack their own kind." Handing the coat to Iris, she unzipped the front, and slipped it on, the sleeves extended past her hands, and she zipped it back together. "It's a little big…" Iris said, holding her arms out, finding the coat was still too long, DiZ chuckled, "Don't worry, it's a natural component of the coat, it keeps the wearer safe."
Ansem moved away from the wall and walked toward Iris and placed his hand onto her shoulder, "You'll get used to it…" With that, Ansem removed his hand and opened another black ellipse and disappeared into the darkness. "What exactly is Kingdom Hearts?" Zeoshi asked, trying not to sound interested, but his expression told otherwise, and DiZ sat back down at the computer, and pushed more buttons. "Kingdom Hearts… The gathering place of all hearts, the doorway to the ultimate power within the heart of all worlds…" Zeoshi stood stunned, "wow…sounds kinda…nice." He said with a mild expression, DiZ had moved from the chair and placed a hand onto Iris' forehead, "what…" she started, but DiZ silenced her, "I am reading your heart for what kind of weapon it would wield." And after a few moments the beam shone, then faded revealing a black trident. He removed the hand and gestured for her to take the weapon, she moved timidly towards it, and grasped it with her right hand; feeling the cold metal sent shivers up her spine, but she used her other hand and wielded the weapon. "Good. That weapon is connected with your heart, so you can summon it through your heart" DiZ smiled, and a few seconds later, Zeoshi was also equipped with a weapon, a sword.
"Now that you are prepared for your journey, you must make haste to Kingdom Hearts. The fate of all worlds depends on your success." DiZ claimed firmly, looking at both Iris and Zeoshi. "Right. The fate of all worlds…" Zeoshi repeated sarcastically, and he lifted his left hand and opened an ellipse of darkness, "are you ready?" he turned to Iris, who simply nodded her head, and he passed through without another world, followed closely by Iris.