KBOXIII ReaderXOrganization XIII Chapter 4

    “Superior, superior!” Vexen shouted as he hurried to The Proof of Existence; the room filled with portals to everyone’s rooms. He rushed up the stairs and into the largest portal in the middle which led to the highest rooms in the castle, which all belonged to Xemnas. Papers were flying about while he gripped them tightly, awaiting to be read and explained. “Xemnas.” Vexen said as he finally reached the superior.

     “Yes, Vexen.” Xemnas turned to The Freezing Scholar. “It seems you have something of much importance to show me.” He extended his hand and Vexen gave him the papers. As he skipped them over he explained.

    “I’ve made a groundbreaking discovery. The details aren’t all very explained but it seems that-“ He was cut off by Xemnas, who now seemed to understand the situation.

    “Y-yes!” Vexen stammered. “You see, it’s not like a shadow.” He paused thinking of a word. “It’s more of a hollow radiance. Being a nobody with only a body, mind and soul and our hollow parts where a heart should be has an exact shadow of a radiance. I’ve tested it on my observations of others and their reactions and it has come to my understandings that-“ He was once again cut off by the superior who now understood it all.

    “We can feel few emotions?”He asked for confirmation.

    “Precisely. Most emotions we can only remember how they feel, but the more stronger ones are more of a presence we can feel. Stronger emotions being anger, love, and sorrow.” Vexen finished explaining. Xemnas gave a sly smirk.

    “I see...” He trailed off. “Call in a meeting, and if you will alert Saix as well.” He sent Vexen off.

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    The Grey Area was a room with a huge window wall. Outside you could see nothing but darkness in the castle. It was the room everyone went to before departing on a mission, as well as finding out if they had a mission that day or not. Today a paper was posted on the glass window. You walked up to it seeing that it read: We are having a meeting today.

    Meeting? Where would that even be? Now that was one thing you did not yet know about the organization. You then remembered the feeling of worry. What would you do if you couldn’t find the meeting room?

    “[Y/N].” You turned to see the guy who was around your age. He had steel blue hair and gray-blue eyes. He was the one who read his book the entire time when you met him. What was his name again?

    “Zexion.” You say quickly. He turns to the paper and briefly views it.

    “Do you know how to get to the meeting room?” He turned to you, asking. It was like he saw right through you. Or at least he knew this because is the was first meeting to be held since you came here.

    “I don’t, actually.” You admit. He opens a dark corridor and gestures for you to go in first. You give him a nod, remembering the feeling of thanks. When you walk out you appear on a chair. Was it yours? You looked around and saw that everyone was already here and all in number order. You didn’t have a number, so you only hoped you were in the right seat. To your right was Larxene and to your left was someone you hadn’t seen before. He had silver hair and orange eyes. Was this the superior?

    Your question was quickly answered when he spoke up. “Now that everyone is here we may start.” He took a pause. “Vexen has came in with a groundbreaking discovery for us being called Nobodies. We are made of a body, mind, and soul but alas have no heart. Only a hollow area where it should be.” He motioned for Vexen to continue where he left off.

    “It is difficult to explain as I am trying to understand it more myself, but it seems it isn’t as empty as we thought to be. A shadow, or hollow presence or radiance is inside of some or even all of us.” He explained.

    “Are you saying some of us have remnants of a heart?” Zexion questioned.

    “Something quite similar to that. There are no words to explain it. Scientific terms aside, it seems that we can experience stronger feelings but only remember how other emotions feel.” He answered. "Perhaps...we have a fragment as our individual heartless have the remainder of our hearts."

    “What just what are those stronger emotions?” Xaldin asked.

    “Hatred, love, and sorrow.” The superior answered. Everyone started to mumble to each other and themselves. This continued for a minute or so until the superior called silence on you all. The room fell silent once again. “That is all. You are dismissed. Enjoy the rest of your day off.” People started to dark corridor themselves away from the meeting room one by one.

    You still weren’t so sure if you could create one yourself just yet, but you tried your hardest. You fell in through the darkness you created and appeared in your room.

    “Hatred, love and sorrow…” You mumbled. Just then someone came into your room. It was Saix.

    “You have a mission today.” He said. That was kind of unfair. You had a mission today but no one else did? “I am to watch you train.” Oh, well that made more sense. You stood up and followed Saix through a corridor of darkness which led to The Hall of Empty Melodies. You watched as Saix summoned something you haven’t seen before.

    “What are they?” You asked while summoning your weapon.

    “These are dusk nobodies. You are to defeated a few then take on a high ranking nobody.” He explained. You then started to attack, dodge, and even fall down a few times. You did get back up every time and before you knew it all of the dusks were gone.

    “And the high ranking one?” You questioned after you felt it was over.

    “Yes.” He summoned a new nobody. This one had samurai swords which somewhat resembled yours. Only they had actual handles and sheaths. “This is a Samurai Nobody. It is your own personal type of nobody. We all have our own personal nobodies to summon and command at will.” He then summoned a larger nobody with a huge, flat weapon. “As these are mine.” He then snapped his fingers and it disappeared.

    “So I have to fight one of my own?” You asked.

    “Unless you are ready to control it yourself.” Then it lunged at you with a rush attack. You blocked its attacks a few times. After a while you decided to see if you could send it away. You snapped your fingers and nothing happened. You decided to block a few more attacks for a while then you tried snapping your fingers again. This time it disappeared and reappeared by your side. You looked to the Samurai and it stood there, not harming you.

    “It’s like a pet.” You mentioned before snapping your fingers again and it vanished from sight.

    “You did well today, [Y/N]. You are dismissed.”

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    After a while of wandering the castle you came across Axel. His eyes brightened up at the sight of you and you couldn’t help but hide your mouth with your hands to fight back a smile.

    “[Y/N], you wanna go get some ice cream?” He asked. You started to play with the tips of your [H/L] [H/C] hair and decided.

    “Sure.” You then followed Axel into a dark corridor. On the other side you found yourself on the side of the ice cream shop in Twilight Town. Axel walked up to the counter and ordered two sea salt ice cream bars. He came back with the ice cream and handed you one.

    He made another dark corridor once you were out of sight of any residents and you two walked in. This time you were on top of the clock tower, still in Twilight Town. You both sat on the edge and watched the sunset, as usual if you two went to get ice cream.

    “Saix gave me a small mission today.” You said, starting a conversation.

    “How’d ya do?” He asked.

    “He said I did good.” You answered. You took a bite of your ice cream.

    “Did he say exactly that?” Axel licked his ice cream.

    You tried your best to muster the best Saix voice you could before answering him. “You did well today, [Y/N]. You are dismissed.” Axel looked at you with wide eyes at your impression before he burst out laughing. You giggled beside him.

    “That sounded exactly like him.” He wiped a tear then spoke with a serious tone. “He never used to be that serious when he had a heart.” Axel sighed. “Him and I were good buddies. Best friends, in fact.” He looked to you. His eyes seemed to be filled with sorrow. Whether today’s meeting was true or not, you could really feel that Axel felt sad.

    “What’s that look for?” You asked. You took a lick of your ice cream on the sides before it melted.

    “Nothing bad.” Axel looked back to the sunset. “It’s just…” He started. “You make me feel like a kid with ice cream.”

    “I remember that feeling.” You smirked.

    “If we can remember, or even feel those three strong emotions, then we might as well be actually feeling. Right?” Axel took a bite of his ice cream.

    “I think we feel with our minds. So it’s artificial. Those three feelings must be hollow and not complete without a heart, but it’s better than nothing.” You said.

    “That’s a mouthful.” Axel said, trying to lighten the mood from its serious tone.

    “Of ice cream!” You exclaimed as you reached over and took a bite out of Axel’s ice cream.

    “Hey!” He protested. The both of you laughed. Inside of you, you wondered why happiness wasn’t apart of those strong emotions because you were sure feeling that right now.