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And now, I bring you the first chapter:
Voices. They were the first thing she heard when she regained consciousness. Keeping her eyes closed, she listened, trying to figure out whether she was in a safe place, or if she was in danger.
"Rox, you're gonna creep her out if you keep staring at her like that. If she wakes up and sees your face, she's gonna scream - mark my words," someone said.
"Cut it out Axel, I'm not that creepy," another replied, his voice sounding awfully familiar.
'Ventus?' With that thought, her eyes immediately opened, only to be met with intense blue eyes. "Ven?" she whispered, recognizing the eyes.
"You okay?" the blue-eyed male asked, his voice somewhat emotionless. Pulling away from her, he turned to look at another person in the room. "She didn't scream," he said smugly.
"Yeah, yeah," the other person - a male with shocking red hair and greener than green eyes - replied nonchalantly as he made a shooing gesture with his hand. "She's still probably in shock."
With an nearly invisible huff, the blue-eyed male turned to her again, his dirty blond hair swaying with his every movement.
She remained immobile where she was. Considering the fact that the two males in the room appeared to be sitting, she assumed that she was lying down, probably on a bed or a mattress or something to that effect. As her mind slowly processed several things, she slowly sat up without anyone's help. "Where am I?" she asked, turning to the blond male, the one who looked so familiar.
"Castle Oblivion. We found you in the Keyblade Graveyard," the male replied. "Oh yeah, before I forget, my name's Roxas. That's Axel," he added, gesturing to himself before pointing to the red-haired male.
She froze. The male wasn't Ventus? Then why did they look so alike? Her memories were intact, as far as she was concerned, so why didn't he have the same name as the person she knew?
"What's your name?"
She only vaguely heard the question, and was caught off guard, but she recovered quickly. However, before she could reply, Axel cut her off saying, "You dolt, I don't think she remembers anything - she's a Nobody after all, just like us."
'Ventus', or Roxas, rather, rubbed his head sheepishly before he gave them an embarrassed grin. "I knew that," he remarked.
‘I'm a nobody? What?’ Aira huffed. "Last time I checked, I was a somebody," she retorted.
“And she’s strangely talkative for a newborn Nobody..” Axel commented offhandedly. But his words were true – whenever the Organization had new recruits, they would be as silent as death for the first few days. This girl, on the other hand, could formulate simple questions, and her eyes didn’t seem as empty. In fact, her eyes shone with life and - dare he say it? - knowledge.
Sighing, the redhead offered a hand to her. "We've got to get you up so you can meet Xemnas," he explained when he saw her quizzical look.
“Oh,” was her simple reply as she took his hand and allowed him to pull her into a sitting position. Slowly, she tried to get her feet on the ground, but it took her a while to actually stabilize herself.
Once they were sure that she wasn’t going to fall over, Axel handed her a black hooded cloak which she carefully, and slowly, slipped on. All the whole, the two males were studying her movements - she wasn’t robotic or halting in her actions, which was very strange. She didn’t act like one of them, she seemed perfectly conscious of what she was doing, very much unlike the rest of them who acted like zombies for the first few days - they merely shuffled around, mumbling one-word answers.
The ravenette noted how the cloak seemed to drown her - it was too big: the ends pooled at her feet and the sleeves went well past her hands. Sighing, she looked at the two. “Are there any other sizes?” she asked dryly as she raised her hands to show how much it was sagging.
“Oh,” Axel was silent for a moment before his eyes drifted to his partner. “Let her borrow one of your cloaks for a bit,” he said and gave the blonde a little push when he hesitated.
Roxas left the room for the moment and returned with another cloak slung over his arm. “Here,” he said, giving it to her. Their hands brushed for a second as she accepted the item.
She grinned at him before taking the old cloak off and slipping on the new one. “Perfect, it not a bit loose,” she chirped as she pushed the sleeves up slightly. It was a lot better than the last one, and she knew they could see it. She didn’t bother closing the front zipper and merely fidgeted with the chains that were on either side of the hood.
Axel nodded his approval. “Okay, time to bring her to the boss.”
