Might be more filler. Might not be. Who knows. X3

15: Fate of the Unknown


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"The Heartless are getting more daring." Luxord shuffled his worn out deck of cards and set them out for a game of Solitaire, "Four…five…six…seven…One…two…three…"

"You think they're looking for a way out?" Roxas asked from his perch atop a vending machine. He seemed to have a thing for sitting in high places, "Or maybe the Heart of the World?"

"They know they're being cornered." Xilvin put in, his monotonous voice tweaked a bit by annoyance, "They're irritating."

"Yeah, well, you're heart is in there somewhere, Xil, buddy." Axel said with a grin, "Lucky, lucky you."

"Yeah, yeah, lucky me." The Howling Storm snorted indifferently, "Where'd Saix go?"

"Back to The World That Never Was." Demyx said and Luxord cuffed him in the back of the head without looking up from his game, "Ouch! Jerk."

Xilvin winced suddenly and squeezed his eyes shut…

"I've got a match in Chaotic tonight," Tom says, smiling to cover up his worry, "Wanna come and watch?"

"Nah," He replies, rubbing the tiredness from his eyes, "I stayed up all night working on my project. I think I'll just go home and sleep."

When he opened them again, he found the gaze of every Organization member on him. He decided that he didn't like it.

"Quit staring, it's rude." He muttered and slipped out of the room. The OverWorld Cafeteria was practically empty save for most of the staff members and Joseph Khaos. The latter gave Xilvin a cold look that he ignored as he wandered into the noisy Mipedian Cafeteria.

"—I love you but does that mean I have to walk on water? When we are older you will understand it's enough when I say so. And maybe some things are that simple!" A boy Xilvin recognized as Nick and a girl were singing into the karaoke machine, "When you walk away you don't hear me say, "Pleeeeeeaaaasssseeeee, oh baby, don't go!" Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feeeeeeeeeel tonight! It's hard to let it go!"

The Howling Storm shook his head, walked up to the buffet, grabbed himself an apple, and sat down at a table. As he bit into the apple, the table thumped and he looked up to see Tom smiling at him from a chair across the tabletop.

"I thought you hated me."

"I thought Nobodies didn't have emotions." Tom replied cheekily.

"What makes you saw that?" Xilvin asked through another mouthful of fruit.

"You have this annoyed expression on your face."

Xilvin hurriedly threw up a mask of indifference and Tom laughed.

"Now you look pissed!"

"Quiet you." Xilvin grumbled, turning away to watch the other teens playing karaoke.

"Hooooolllld me! Whatever lies beyond this moooorrrrrninnnggg is a little later on! Regardless of warnings the future doesn't scare me at aaaalllll! Nothing's like before!"

"Kaz would never sing karaoke." Tom said slowly and The Howling Storm glanced at him but the boy was looking at the singers, "One time, I even offered him some of my best scans and he flat out refused. It was pretty funny."

"If you're trying to get me up there it's not happening."

"Ha…ha, ha…" Tom started chuckling, covering his mouth with his hand, trying to hold back his laughs, "Aha…ahahahaha…" It didn't work, "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHA! AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!" He was practically falling out of his chair with laughter.

"What're you laughing at?" The embarrassed growl that came out of Xilvin's mouth startled him but he squashed it down in an attempt to get answers from Tom.

"All this time, since the first second I saw you," Tom had one arm wrapped around his stomach and was wiping tears from his blue eyes with his other, "I've been trying to convince myself that you're not part of Kaz!" The smile on Tom's face was genuine, "But I guess what I really wanted was confirmation that my best friend could come back after all of this done!"

The apple suddenly lost its flavor and The Howling Storm lobbed it into the nearest trash can, "So you really can't stand me, huh?" Something in his throat was burning.

"What?" Tom didn't realize what he'd said.

"When you walk away you don't hear me say: "Pleeeeeaaasseeeee, oh baby, don't go!" Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feeeeeeeeel tonight! Nothing's like before!"

"No, I guess I see your point." Xilvin stood up, summoning his whip in a flash of blue and white lights, "I'm going Heartless hunting. See you." He summoned a Passage of Darkness right there, stepped through, and vanished.

"What?" Tom asked himself in wonder, "What'd I say?"

Xilvin slammed his whip down, sending a shockwave of sound across the floor that eradicated Heartless and ripped up tiles so that they smashed against the walls. Then he spun, using the momentum to lash out with his weapon and destroy several more Heartless. The hot feeling in his throat was like a fire; it made his mouth dry and his tongue tasted nothing but ash.

Jealousy.

The word stung his mind as his whip screamed—literally—through the air. Jealousy? Jealousy!? But Nobodies did not have emotions! They felt nothing! They only mimicked them! And what was there to be jealous of anyway!?

You want Tom to befriend you. A voice in the back of his head chided, You want him to forget Kaz and be your friend instead.

"No I don't!" Xilvin shouted, lashing out again and again at the Heartless who stood no chance against the storm Number XIV had become, "I want to find my heart! I want to be a somebody again! I! WANT! MY! HEEEEEAAAARRRRTTTT!"

So, you want your heart, Little Nobody?

Heart. Heart. Heartless. Us. You. Hunger. Hearts.

Yes, yes, I know. But it's so much more fun to toy with him. I'll get you some hearts soon enough.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Hearts. Fun. Soon. Hearts. Yes. Hunger. Yes.

Silence! This task is becoming increasingly difficult. That Keyblade is especially annoying.

Keyblade. Keyblade. Hate. Bad. Heartless. Hunger. Keyblade.

I said SILENCE!

…………

That's much better. Now then, find the Heart of the World…I first need to rid myself of the Organization. Once they are gone those pesky barriers will fade and the world will be at my disposal. But it's hard enough by myself…

Hard. Hard. Barriers. Hunger. My. My. My. My. My. Heart. World. Hunger.

I told you to be QUIET! I need someone to create chaos with me. Someone strong enough to survive the darkness.

Chaos. Hunger. Strong. Chaos. Survive.

Yes…chaos…just might do the trick…

"Xilvin's mad at you?" Tobias turned away from the oven where he was stirring a large pot of stew, "But Nobodies don't have emotions."

"That's what Roxas said." Tom said, attempting to steal a hunk of cheese from a bowl and getting his hand slapped by a cook, "But Xilvin seemed, I dunno, really upset about something."

"What did you say to him?" The oldest Khaos brother asked, sprinkling a tiny bit of spice into the stew.

"What do you mean?"

"What were you talking about before he left?"

"Um…" Tom thought back for a moment, "I was saying how I was happy that now I knew there was a way to get Kaz back when this was all over with. And before that I—."

"You hurt his feelings." Tobias said sharply, "Or, at the very least, made him feel unwanted. If a Nobody does not have feelings and so cannot get them hurt, then if they are rejected it would probably give them the sense that they are not needed." Tobias pushed his glasses up his nose so he could glare at Tom, "If I felt unwanted, I would want to fade away."

Tom's eyes widened in realization and panic. Roxas had explained to him, soon after Xilvin had appeared, that when a Nobody runs out of strength and energy they Fade and disappear back into darkness, never to be seen again.

If Xilvin Faded then there would be no way for Kaz to come back.

Tom bolted from the kitchen, ran through three of the Cafeterias, and burst into the Organization's room. It was empty; no doubt the members were out hunting Heartless. Tom barreled across the room and slammed into the doors that led to the hallway. Surprisingly, they burst open and he fell to the floor.

Forcing himself to his feet, he took off down the halls to search for the Howling Storm.

How kind of them to leave the door open…this is the perfect opportunity for you. Go.

Feeeeeeeeeeed.

That's not considered a cliffhanger, is it?

Way to go Tom, leave the Cafeteria, real smart. Oh wait, it's Tom, Mr. I'm-Never-Wrong. Ha, ha.

Just wait and see. You'll get what's coming to you…A BUS! MWAHAHAHA! Okay, no, I'm kidding.

Anyway, I'll see you guys next chapter! Stick around, this is slowly turning from a Chaotic fan fiction to a Kingdom Hearts fan fiction.

Thanks for reading, please review, and see ya'!

(p.s. For those of you who don't know, that song is "Simple and Clean" from the first Kingdom Hearts game. X3)