Superior
The heels noisily clicked against the ground as the red-head calmly walked through the white halls. It was quiet as she explored the various tunnels. Her adventure abruptly came to an end, though, as she heard her name being called, causing her to return to the large group a few halls back.
Six teens lined the room, all staring at the figure as she entered. "Nirax, where the heck have you been?" His grey eyes seemed angled with anger as he approached the girl.
"Whoa, take it easy, junior," All eyes shifted to the elder teen as he spoke. He was sitting sideways in a couch as he spun a watch around his hand. The boy rose, calmly taunting, "That's no way to speak to a lady, especially one as fine as her."
"Thanks, but no thanks," Nirax's hand flew to her hip, "I can fight my own battles. I was simply exploring our new, 'Base of Operations.'" Her hands air-quoted the final words, showing she was peeved, "And who put you in charge?"
"Well, I believe I'm the most suitable for leader." Rekix calmly mentioned as he struck a geroic pose.
"Hey, junior, you're like, what? Sixteen?" Timex smirked, "If anything I'm in charge of this."
"Well, we're fucked." Rekix whispered while face-palming, only to feel a hand on his shoulder.
"Nonsense! If I'm in charge, I declare anarchy!"
"Kingdom Hearts just kill me now."
"If you don't want anarchy, we could always have a monarchy, but I'll need a queen for that," Timex's eyes focused on the oldest redhead, only to see her scoff. His concealed eyes began to picture her in all sorts of twisted fantasies before a crack of a whip brought him out of it.
"How about a democracy?" Timex looked down to see a young girl, no older than 12, staring up at him with a beaming smile on her face. He ruffled her hair in a family-like motion, earning a chuckle.
"Hey, why does she get to decide? She's what, ten?" Red eyes glared daggers at the young girl, causing her to slowly move behind Timex's legs for protection.
"She's eleven, and dude, take it easy. You already scared the crap out of Cavex." Now everyone's orbs focused on the violet-haired girl staring at her feet in a chair. "If I were you, I'd apologize."
"Well, what do you know? The perv can feel more than lust." His violet eyes shot towards the cocky red-head now leaning against a wall, "You'd think with all that class might come at least some respect."
"I only respect people worthy of it."
"What!" The red-head's brown eyes began to burn with a fiery passion to punch his face in as she leaned back into a fighting pose, a black shinai materializing from flames. "You want to say that again?" Only her lips moved as she scowled at him.
"I didn't know you were deaf, also," Timex refused to flinch from his haughty pose, inflaming the girl even more. She pounced. Her attack was blocked. A wall of vines sprang up from the ground, curling around her weapon and preventing it from moving as a wail arose from the corner of the room.
Cavex sat there, curled up against the wall, crying from the mean boy on his knees trying to talk to her. Every time he would open his mouth, another plant would spring up, trying to push him away, and subsequently filling the room with numerous floras. "Please listen!" Tears continued to fall from her eyes, leaving stains down her cheeks. "I—I was just messing around! Please stop crying! I was only kidding!" The crying barely softened, "I guess that's a start." Then, the red-eyed boy did something unexpected; he embraced the girl in a hug, calming her down even more. He pulled back, noticing the bawling had devolved to slight sobbing. A smile crossed his face, "That's a good girl."
"Wow, Xeac," The red orbs locked with purple ones, "I hope that's merely platonic."
"Heh, don't worry, it is." He jested the more vocal member, "And if anything, I should be leader. I am the oldest."
"Blah, blah, blah, you're not mature enough to handle all of the stress that comes with being the leader." Timex huffed as he crossed his arms, "Am I right, Rekix?" The musician calmly shook his head. "Whatevs! After all, I am the one who had the idea of finding people like us!"
"But Thiaxf found this place." Rekix piped up, earning all attention on him, except for Nirax, who was busy trying to penetrate the wall of vines.
"Democracy it is, then!" The newest member finally spoke up, a wide grin plastered onto his face as the corner of his mouth twitched. Everyone stared, confused at him, "What?" His head rapidly jolted from each member to the next. His words were barely understandable due to his rapid speech. "You know what? Democracy is the best! We should all have a vote right now! But what about campaigns? Oh, who needs them! Let's just vote! Vote, vote, vote!"
"Um, anyway, we should decide soon on how things are going to be run around here." Rekix calmly declared, "Tonight, we'll each think of reasons why we should be the leader, and tomorrow, we'll have a debate. Let the best leader win."
"Sounds good to me, see ya tomorrow, paupers." Xeac left the room, laughing to himself.
"Jeez, that guy really bugs me," Timex slid a hand through his short hair before bending down to Thiaxf's level, who was still latched onto his leg, "Hey, Thiaxf, how about you try to spend some quality time with Cavex over there." Her light brown eyes looked into his purple ones before she nodded and dashed over to the green-eyed girl. They made various small talk before the older girl stood up, brushed off her purple sleeveless jacket and walked out with the youngest member. "You better get going, Rekix." The mentioned boy looked towards Timex, "You have a lot of planning to do if you wanna be leader." Rekix smiled and nodded before running out of the room, "And I want to have a little alone time with Nari." No one heard the last part as the fancily-dressed male walked over to the vines.
Scotux departed right after he spoke his rapid monologue, leaving the two eighteen-year olds in the grey room, parted by the large vines. Timex leaned against the wall before a small amount combusted into flames creating a hole, followed by Narix's head. "Missed me?" She looked around the barren room before noticing Timex staring at her, "Oh, crap."
"Actually, I did miss you, beautiful," He leaned in close to her face.
"Figures." She looked down before whispering, "Hey, Timex, can you come a little closer?" The boy's eyes widened as a smirk reappeared on his face as he leaned forward.
"Is this good en—OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" He reeled back, furiously rubbing his now red cheek. The girl's head was replaced by a hand.
"That's payback for earlier! Now get me out of here!" The fire-maiden yelled while sticking her head back through the hole.
"Hmm, nope, can't do that." Timex laughed as he calmly walked out of the room, brushing some dust off of his jacket.
"You Perv! Get back here and help me!" She shouted while flailing about, "You know what?" I don't need your help! I'll get out by myself!" And with that final yawp, the girl set to hasty work trying to remove herself from her little plant-built prison.
The members of the new organization all messily filed into the room, some cracking their backs from a horrid night's sleep and others scratching their head hoping they were ready for the debate. They took their spots along the floor, obviously distraught from the lack of furniture. Nirax slowly scrambled awake as she felt the presences around her before completely waking up and staring at the sixteen year-old male standing at the front. He cleared his throat before beginning.
"Hello, as you all know, my name is Rekix, and I would like to run for leader of this group. I personally believe I have the right skill-set and goals necessary to increase our true potential." He nodded as he finished, obviously pleased with his words, "See, I learned of this weird library part of this castle-thing, it contains numerous volumes of literature, even a few that have enlightened me. We are what are known as nobodies; a shell of our former selves left behind after our hearts have been stolen." This other set of information caused a gasp to ring out throughout the crowd.
"But wait! Some of us still act like we have emotions, though, like Cavex crying." The numerous heads turned towards the mentioned girl, obviously now deeply blushing from the undesired attention. When they returned focus to the teen—now coughing to regain attention—one head stayed turned around, waiting to connect eyes with the girl. When they finally met glances, a simple 'sorry' was muttered from Stocux's mouth, only to have no effect on the girl as she quickly averted her gaze, hoping not to get involved.
"Ah yes, those beings are simply faking emotions; it's a common by-product often left behind by a sudden shift into a nobody. It is an attempt to fill the void."
"So… how do we fix it!" The lightning teen spoke up again.
"Well, umm—" Rekix began to stutter, unnerved by the sudden question he has not looked into, only to be rudely interrupted by a plume of black hair rising up from the spectators.
"This is where I come in. Rekix, you can sit down now." The 19 year old shooed the kid off he imaginary platform as he cleared his throat. "So, I'm Xeac, master of water. I too stumbled upon an alcove within this—erm, place. Much like Rekix's hole, this one was filled with knowledge, but instead of the archaic form of books, I found a computer."
"This computer holds mass data on us, for example, we aren't even the first nobodies, can you believe that? There was actually a number of nobodies before us, known as Organization XIII. I decide we take their spot and continue this tradition." A hand ran through his hair, obviously pleased at the faces of awe staring up at him.
"Their leader was this man, Xemnas, who knew how to regain their souls or hearts as you call them. He knew the best attack strategy was to attack the monsters who originally stole our hearts, the Heartless. Trust me, you'll know them when you see them; anyway, I noticed files depicting how exactly we should go about this. First off, we'll send everyone off daily on missions to collect hearts to help cure this disease. Second, we'll collect reports detailing how many you have collected. And finally, if all works out, we should be able to become human or whatever you are, relatively soon."
"But there aren't enough heartless here to turn all of us normal." Scotux questioned again, before lowering his head due to him starting to feel a little annoyed at his own outbursts, which in turn earned a slight chuckle from a certain purple-haired girl in the back.
"Excellent question teal hair," Xeac ignored the 'hey' from the boy, "See, there's these things called worlds. They each are different and in turn contain varieties of heartless. The computer in the basement monitors this and feeds reports declaring whether or not activity has increased." A hand began to raise, "I'm pretty sure you are all wondering how we can get to these worlds," the hand fell, "Well, as a nobody, we all have a slight control over darkness, so we can set up umm, pathways of darkness, which we can walk through to different worlds."
"I like corridors of darkness more!"
"Yeah, that sounds cooler!"
"Fine! We'll call them Corridors of Darkness… happy?" A series of heads nodded in response. "Anyways, I think that's it for candidates, so now comes the voting process. All voting for Rekix?" Two hands rose. "Okay, and all voting for me?" Three hands rose. "Okay, then I win by default! And, that means Rekix, you're second in command."
"What? Why?" The musician stared agape at the elder.
"Well, it's a good consolation prize, and you know a lot about who we are, so you deserve it." Xeac patted the teen on the back, urging him to speak.
"Alright, you all rest up because tomorrow, we're gonna give you guys your first missions!" Groans and mumbles were heard throughout the room as the persons rose. They all left the grey-walled area as a different teen finally walked in.
"Hey, what did I miss?" Timex lowered his glasses as he asked Thiaxf, who was now departing with Cavex by her side.
"Oh, Xeac is gonna be our leader, and Rekix is vice president." Thiaxf pulled a strand of strawberry hair out of her face as she spoke. When she finished, Timex stood back up and continued his casual stroll.
"Ok, cool," Timex's walk soon stopped dead in its tracks, "Wait, what!"
Well, what a long wait, and for this pile of s**t... Oh well, real fun starts next chapter, so yoyu can expect that in about a year! Haha, nah, I'm just kidding, I'll work on this one sooner... I just got sick of so many messages asking me when I 'd be done.
You know who you are.
Anyway, every time I received a message, I just felt so compelled to just... not continue this story at all. Oh well, review, no repetitive messages... And I hope you liked it.
Peace.