The Oracle's Apprentice:
1. Unexpected Reunion
Unknown's POV
I was watching Sora and Riku pummel Xemnas that one day. They weren't aware of my presence, but that was probably because I was watching from far away. I enjoy manipulating and observing objects of my interest from a distance, directly interfering with other's affairs can be dangerous. I learned from experience, a long time ago, when I was still young and foolish. But that's a different story.
It was quite amusing watching Xemnas being bested by two children, but apart from that, I was waiting for the right time to put my plan into motion. Xemnas plays a very large part in it, and I couldn't risk suspicion from his enemies. They had to believe that he, they, the Organization, was wiped out. It took precise timing, and in the end, even Xemnas believed that he was dead, "faded away" as they put it. "Fading away" is actually an illusion to make others believe that the individual who, "faded away, is gone. But truly, they have just been transferred to an alternate dimension created by, yours truly. Of course, you don't know who I am, but you will find out in time, and until then, you'll just have to keep on guessing.
After I'd transferred Xemnas out of Kingdom Hearts, into the mysterious oblivion between dimensions. I let him have a look back into his life, but he was starting to get angry, a useless emotion by my standards. It blinds you and your intuition is nearly, if not completely, destroyed. I had to stop him from doing anything that might damage the thin line of balance that he'd already disturbed by his crazed antics. I sent a mind ghoul after him. Mind ghouls aren't real, just conjured up from the very corner of the mind that holds the most darkness. None two mind ghouls look the same, that's because nobody's minds are exactly the same, which just proves the uniqueness of each being. Because mind ghouls are conjured up by your mind, they technically aren't real, but your mind makes them real. No one else can see your mind ghoul but yourself but if it attacks you, it can hurt you, even destroy you. Which just shows to prove that humans have a notion to destroy themselves built inside their minds. They often upset the stability of dimensions and I have to interfere with their affairs, and I don't enjoy doing that. And if I don't enjoy doing something, then I often am in a bad mood. Even I can lose my temper sometimes, resulting in catastrophes of the world that tip the dimension's balance back into place.
When I told you earlier that I'd learned from my mistake in interfering in other's affairs, it was because the balance was completely thrown of after I'd interfered. It took me most of my lifetime to restore the balance, not something that I would like to repeat. But now I'm getting old and I have an apprentice, someone to train to take over my job once I pass on, to finally sink into a quiet, peaceful place and rest. But I have to make sure that she doesn't make the same mistake that I did, but me leaving is still far off, she has a lot to learn. And I believe that Xemnas could help speed up the process. The Organization is powerful, but is full of idiots. Maybe staying with them will give her a sense of responsibility that she doesn't posses at the time. I've sent her to a blank dimension to bring back something that wasn't there before but now is.
After the mind ghoul scared Xemnas he stumbled into a portal which leads to the blank dimension. I've often used that dimension to train my apprentice, creating, destroying, and repairing stability of that dimension. That is basically the only power you can use in there, the power of the mind. Magic is powerless there and weapons gain minds of their own. That is a world run by my rules, completely blank and, at the moment, completely stable. This is where Organization XIII has disappeared to, that is where they slumbered until the last of them finally appeared in the dimension. Now they are awake, about to be reunited, my apprentice on the way to bring them here. This should be interesting…
Your POV
"'Bring back something that wasn't here before' my ass, this place is the same boring hellhole that it was before…" you muttered under your breath.
You'd just walked through the shimmering portal into the blank dimension. Why did it have to be so boring? It was completely white and you hated it, sometimes you thought that the Oracle was the biggest loser ever, but he could be pretty cool sometimes. Unless when he was in his fortune cookie mood, then he was extremely annoying.
You sighed again and looked around again, but this time, you saw a shimmer in the distance, like a portal opening, 'That must be what he was talking about… I better go take a look.' You thought. You closed your eyes and brought up the dimension's woven blanket in your mind. This particular dimension was loosely woven and nearly completely blank except for a few of the Oracle's law embroidered into it with a gold thread. Gold thread's can never be removed from a dimension, and only the creator of the dimension can embroider gold threads into the dimension, and since here it was the Oracle, these laws were, in your point of view, unnecessary and stupid. But, it was pretty funny to see someone get their butt kicked by their own weapon, so you had to be careful to only use hand to hand combat if you needed to fight. In your mind you pick up one of the smallest, nearly invisible threads and wrapped it around your finger.
You'd been walking towards the portal all this time and now you were almost there. Now, when you opened your eyes, you were completely blended into the white dimension, invisible. You saw a black-cloaked man with long silver hair standing in front of you facing away from you. He seemed to be concentrating on something, the way he was standing still. "Yo, Xemnas!" A voice called out from behind you, making you jump.
Xemnas looked up and turned around, looking for the owner of the voice, his gold eyes looking straight through you, and then widening in surprise and recognition. "Impossible." You heard him whisper, his mouth barely moving. You whirled around wondering what, who, you'd see. What you saw made you gasp in surprise, twelve people, eleven men, all dressed in identical black cloaks. You slapped your hand over your mouth and hoped that they hadn't heard it, but, as usual, you didn't have the best luck. All of the black-cloaked figures froze and looked to the place where they'd heard the tiny little noise from, it felt like they were staring directly at you, even if they couldn't actually see you. "What the hell was that?" a short, emo looking guy asked.
"I don't know Zexion, but I have a feeling that we're not alone." Growled a spiky haired redhead. You recognized his voice from the one who'd greeted Xemnas. His emerald green eyes where menacingly glaring at you, even the little red triangles under his eyes looked hostile. He uncrossed his arms and let them fall to his sides, where silver and red, wheels axel looking weapon appeared in each hand with a spin, his eyes still on you. "Come out, come out, wherever you are." He taunted, a half smile on his face.
You sighed and closed your eyes, mentally letting go of the thread wrapped around your finger. When you opened your eyes you where the center of attention, and even though you usually loved and craved attention, you wished that they could look away, you were starting to feel kind of creeped out. The only reason that you'd let the invisibility go was because you were in the blank dimension, and obviously, these strangers didn't know the Oracle's rules and how to bend them, you were going to kick butt.
The redhead smirked and said, "So this is our little spy, did you get lost going to the candy store?"
You cocked your head to the side and gave a cute little smile. It's true that you probably didn't look very menacing at the moment, since you'd just gotten out of bed, you'd forgotten to get dressed and were still in your pjs, which consisted of blue Winnie the Pooh pajama bottoms that were too long for you that the Oracle had gotten you for last Christmas. It was a thoughtful gesture, since you adored Winnie the Pooh, but at the time, you really wished that you'd put on different clothes. Your top was a giant Timone and Pumba T-shirt and you'd used a pink and sparkly princess tiara to keep your long, wavy, strawberry blond hair out of your face. 'Damn that Oracle… he should know by now not to send me on errands until I've fully woken up…' you grimaced, 'and the bunny slippers aren't helping either.' And there was also the fact that you had big, dark blue eyes that were framed with long blond eyes lashes that, if the person didn't know you, seemed pure and innocent.
"Did you get lost on your way to plastic surgery?" where the words that came out of your full, dark pink lips.
The redhead blinked and his smirk disappeared. You could tell that he was wondering what to make of you. You crossed your eyes and stuck out your tongue and it seemed like the rude gesture made him snap. He pointed one of his weapons at you. "Shut up or you'll get hurt…. Got it memorized?" He growled.
Everyone else had taken a step back giving you space; they sensed that a battle was about to start. "Sorry I have short term memory loss." You said softly with a tiny smile creeping onto your face.
The redhead's smirk returned and he spread his legs, getting into a ready position and spun the weapons in his hands. "Get ready to die, bitch." He murmured and something dangerous flashed in his eyes, as if he was going to enjoy hurting a poor, innocent girl who'd just woken up.
Get real. Its true that you'd just woken up, but you were grumpy after you woke up, and right now was no exception. Your little smile turned into a full blasted grin and your dark blue, violet-ish eyes glinted with mischief. You placed your hands on your hips and leaned onto your left foot. "Your going to get your ass kicked…" You said softly.
The redhead raised his weapons above his head "…in three…" and they started spinning wildly. ".,,two…" He threw one of the red and silver weapons in your direction and it came spiraling towards your head. "….one…" Just as the weapon was about to strike you in the eyes it stopped spinning and levitated and inch away from your nose. The redhead's eyes widened in surprise, "How can this be…?"
You closed your eyes and remembered the first time the Oracle had taken you here. He'd told you to attack him and you tried. You swung your staff at him only to be stopped by some sort of power. The staff was ripped out of your grip and started battering you until you were unconscious. After you'd woken up, the Oracle had explained the laws of this dimension and which one had done its work on you. "The one who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. Weapons brought into this dimension grow hostile if you try to use them. They turn on their bearers and if not stopped will kill them." The Oracle had saved your life that day, stopping your staff from bludgeoning you to death.
You opened your eyes just in time to see the weapon go whirling back towards its owner "…Blast-off…" The weapon slammed into his stomach, making him grunt and go flying backwards. The weapon spun off and then levitated a bit away from its owner, readying itself for another attack. The redhead got back onto his feet while holding his side. "What the hell just happened?" he asked himself more than anybody else. He didn't have time to figure out why this was happening since his weapon had started spinning again and was now coming back for another shot. He threw his second weapon to try to block the first one, but that one changed directions before it crashed into its pair and came rushing back at him.
The redhead couldn't believe what was happening and could only try to block the attack with his arms. He flew backwards again, landing on his back and sliding another ten feet. He groaned and got up again, this time spitting blood on the floor. He squinted at where he'd spit and then yelled in surprise. The bloody spit seeped into the white floor and disappeared, which was another one of the Oracle's laws. Any filth to find its way on any surface of this dimension would be disintegrated. Which made you wonder how come these guys were still here, they seemed like filth to you.
"AXEL, RUN!!" yelled a spiky, blond haired boy when he saw the weapons start to come back at his comrade.
Axel didn't waste anymore time staring at the now clean floor. He took off running with his two spinning weapons after him. He had such a frightened look in his eyes it made you crack up and laugh so hard that your face turned red and you were shaking. The scene was just too comical for you to bear. But then something that you hadn't expected happened. The weapons stopped chasing him and fell to the ground, Axel, noticing that they'd stopped their pursuit, bent over and tried to catch his breath. The rest of the black-cloaked figures were looking at you like they wanted to kill you, but didn't want to end up like Axel. Then a voice boomed through the dimension that could only belong to one person. "KRYSS, STOP PLAYING GAMES AND GET A MOVE ON. BRING THEM BACK HERE NOW OR PREPARE TO FACE MY WRATH."
The voice faded away, leaving you with an annoyed look on your face, "Geez, man, I was just having a little fun." You grumbled to yourself.
You looked up to see Axel looking like he was going to murder you. His right eye was twitching and his hands were clenched into fists. "Heh-heh, hi?" you said nervously, scared that he actually WAS going to murder you.
"RAAAH!" Axel roared and charged at you. You screamed and tried to run away, but he was faster. He punched you in the face and you were sent careening to the floor. You groaned in defeat but he wasn't done yet. Axel leaped onto you and pinned you down with his legs, and then he grasped your neck with his black-gloved hand and pushed his thumbs into your throat, closing your esophagus. He was strangling you.
You tried to kick him, but he had you pinned down too well. Your hands where trying to pry his off but with no avail. Your eyes were bulging and you where starting to feel the need for oxygen, where you really going to die like this? Just as you were going to pass out from lack of air, the weight was lifted off of you and you could breath. You started coughing and turned onto your stomach as you tried to catch your breath.
Someone patted you on the back and grabbed your upper arm to pull you up. Once you were standing you looked up at your savior. He had blue hair and an X shaped scar between his eyes. "Are you okay?" he asked in a concerned voice.
You looked behind the blue haired dude to see Axel sitting on his butt and looking pissed off. "What the hell was that for Saix?" he snarled.
You looked back at Saix, "Yeah seriously, why did you help me?" You knew that you weren't helping your situation, but you were curious. "Do you like me or something?" you asked with a flirty smile and wink.
Saix stared down at you with a blank face, "You're the only person who knows the way out of here. If Axel would've killed you, we'd be stuck here probably forever. This was not an act of kindness, and you are going to take us out of here."
You felt intimidated by Saix, the way he was glowering down at you, but you didn't let on. If there was something that you learned from dealing with the Oracle, it was that at times when someone was trying to scare you, you couldn't let on, or they'd get what they wanted. So instead of crying or whimpering, you just yawned and put on a bored face, even though your heart was beating a mile a second. "Fine, sure, sure. Just don't get your panties in a bunch."
You looked over at where the others were standing and motioned for them to come over, "Follow me if you want out of this hell hole."
You closed your eyes and conjured up the image of the dimensions woven blanket again. You took a needle and stuck it through the blanket, making sure not to damage any of the weaving. When you opened your eyes there was a shimmering silver-ish white portal in front of you. You were about to step through it but Xemnas grabbed your shoulder, "Where does this lead to?"
You blinked slowly and only opened your eyes half way before answering, "Out of here."
You tried going through the portal again and this time nobody stopped you. When you were on the other side you looked around to see the oblivion between dimensions. "Damn it! I forgot to connect the portal to the Oracle's mansion!" you groaned. You had only been partially kidding when you told Axel that you had short-term memory loss.
You conjured up the blanket again but this time there was another one too. That blanket was a rainbow of colors and not one piece of it was unembroidered. You pulled the needle through the Oracle's kingdom's blanket and connected the two with a white thread. When you opened your eyes you saw that everyone had gotten through and where giving you strange looks. "Sorry, my bad. This one will get us out of here." You said, pointing to the new portal in front of you.
By going through the new portal you finally arrived at the Oracle's mansion. The room that you were in at the time was made out of smooth black marble and had a black marble water fountain in the middle of the room. The rest of the room was empty and the only decoration on the fountain was a giant crystal ball with a soft gold glow emanating from it. On the other side of the room there were Four giant windows looking out over a rose garden that seemed to have every single type of rose that ever existed surrounding another water fountain, but this one with a beautiful woman sitting on her side and leaning on her left arm looking longingly towards the sea that could be seen glimmering past the dark mountains in the horizon. The statue was made of a sparkling black rock, adding mystery and allure to it.
As each black cloaked figure stepped into the room, it seemed to get bigger and bigger, as if to accommodate the new guests. Finally when all of them where through one of them, this one with a black pony tail with gray streaks and an eye patch, broke the silence by asking, "Where are we?"
You looked at each and everyone of them before saying, "Welcome, to the Oracle's mansion." Your words echoed into the darkness before disappearing. Suddenly, all of you were aware of another presence.
