Me: Here we go.
Caixsa: Finally.
Zoxey: People are starting to stop reading. Probably.
Xasech: And why don't I have any time on screen!
Me: ...That's because it's a story, not a film.
Xasech: ...Oh...
Korrax: Just get on with it...
Me: What's wrong with him?
Caixsa: Oh, it's just what you're doing to his character.
Me: Ah. Anyway, enjoy!
Traverse Town. A dark world in between the realms, caught in perpetual night as the people in the three districts lived out their lives.
However, nobody noticed the Nobody standing on top of the Gizmo Shop, his coat flapping in a non-existent wind as he looked down at the Second District, at the various shops, the hotel, the fountain...
"Yes... this place will be perfect..." He muttered, before summoning a Dark Corridor in front of him, stepping through as Heartless started to invade the world.
He grinned, watching from a foothold in the Lanes Between as Heartless started to attack the people of the World, but frowned as he noticed something. Heartless were being destroyed. But by who?
Leixym, Onyxz and Xion stood in the strange place, a cylinder of space that emerged to the Alley to Between on one side and Twilight Town on the other. Although, the Twilight Town part was closed.
"Where are we?" Xion asked as she looked at one side of the cylinder. There was not solid wall, but the Nobody Symbols spinning around the edges were enough to keep anything from falling out. She looked down, and was glad. She couldn't see anything solid-looking.
"It's a place between the Realms, like a tunnel. It connects them." Leixym paused. "That's what Axel said anyway..."
"It's kind of... I don't know." The girls looked around for him, but didn't see him.
"Where are you?" Xion sounded worried.
"Up here!" He called, looking at them as he sat on the upper curve of the tunnel.
"What are you doing there?" Xion asked.
"And how did you get up there?"
"Simple. I have power over space. Remember ?"
"Oh. Well, get down from there!" she ordered, getting ready just in case he refused.
"Why? I like it up here."
"All right then." She sent the orb of water she had ready hurtling into him, surprising him and knocking him off the roof of the tunnel, heading directly for a crash landing with...
"OW!"
...Xion.
The girl blushed as she realised who was on top of her, and tried to push him off.
"Hello..." He said, grinning slightly goofily.
"You... you're crushing me!" She called, trying to force the thief off of her.
Instantly, Leixym remembered the matchmaking plans and summoned a sphere of water around them, not letting them get out.
Stage Two – Starlight
"Well, this is awkward..." Xion muttered as she finally managed to start breathing. However, Onyxz was still on top of her, and was now playing with her hair.
"What? We don't have anything else to do..." He whispered. "Until Leixym lets us out, that is."
Both of them seem to have forgotten about Dark Corridors and Onyxz's Teleport spell.
"So, what can we do to pass the time?"
"I've got a deck of cards..." Onyxz suggested.
"Why?"
"Lifted them from Luxord." He explained briefly.
"Oh. I knew there was a reason that you are called 'The Star-Eyed Thief'. She muttered.
"Well now you know." He said.
"And that makes me the winner!" He cried as he put down his Queen of Hearts against Xion's Queen of Spades. "I am the champion!"
"No you're not." Xion said, smiling.
"What? Why?"
"Because... I got all of the points."
"So? In Hearts you want as few points as possible."
"But what happens if one person gets every Heart and the Queen of Spades?"
"Then they've got every point."
"Exactly. But, the rules say that is one person gets every point, the other players get twenty six points, and the 'looser' gets none. So I win."
"...Really?"
"I'm afraid so."
He stood and walked towards her. "Good game." He said, offering a hand to shake.
"Yeah." She took the hand and, thinking it was to help her up, pulled. Onyxz fell on top of her.
Once Xion was finally thinking straight, she noticed something. Something at Onyxz's waistline was poking into her.
"Onyxz? Are... are you..." She had turn beet red.
"What? No!" He rolled off of her, then reached into his pocket. "I think it was this pen you felt." he showed her it, a simple biro. "Sorry." he added.
Outside of the sphere, Leixym yawned. This was going too slowly. She made half of the sphere of water collapse, drenching the two Nobodies. They gasped in surprised, then Onyxz suddenly appeared in front of Leixym and slapped her, before evaporating the remained of the sphere with Fire spells.
"Why didn't you do that earlier?" Xion asked as she finally got out, dry from the heat of the magic.
"Forgot I could." He said simply. The other two face-palmed.
"Why were there so many Heartless?" Demyx asked the rest of the quartet.
"For the seventeenth time, we don't know." Zoxey growled.
"But he's right. There are never this many Heartless in traverse Town..." Xirama commented, acting slightly out of character. "Oh well. We got rid of them at least!" She chimed. And now, she's back in character.
"Hey, you didn't even have to take out many." Roxas complained. "All you had to do was direct them to me!" The trio reached the alley where they had arrived. "Ready?" He asked as he summoned a Dark Corridor.
Me: There we go, a chapter with no scene inside The World That Never Was.
Caixsa: No real plot development.
Me: Well, there was foreshadowing.
Korrax: What will happen to us!
Me: You'll have to wait and see. Anyhow, that's the end of this chapter. Don't give up on that competition!
All: See you soon!
Coerixn: Yuck. Mushy.