The rain created pools of darkened water on the graveled streets of a dark city and dripped slowly down locks of rosy pink hair. A female wearing a long blue dress with white ruffles lay drenched with no life, heart disappearing into the sky. The shadowed creatures who killed her vanished into the depths of the city. A robed figure emerged from a portal created at the scene and slowly stepped towards the fallen victim. Her black boots began to disintegrate into a flurry of rose petals that scattered into the night sky. Forming beside her with the left over petals was another female with silky pink hair, her body draped in a black lacy dress. The figure lifted the newborn soul up and carried her away into another dark portal created from his one free hand.

They appeared in a bright white room with chairs that floated up in a spiral towards the ceiling. He set her down on the center platform in the room before leaving once more to gather the others of his group. In a matter of minutes more robed figures appeared in the room, their clouded faces concentrated on the frail girl in the center. The figures teleported to the seats above and waited for their leader to begin to carry out the situation and for the girl to awaken.

The young woman stirred and slowly rose, struggling a bit with her form and looked up from beneath her rosy pink bangs at the figure towering before her. “Do you remember anything?” was the first thing he asked. The question left the others whispering in thoughts and confusion. The young woman shook her head. “I don’t remember anything, nothing except a name. Ai.” She replied her voice soft and lovely, almost alluring.  She held her head, giving a groan of pain as she tried to study what was around the room.

“Then we shall give you a new name.” from the sound of the voice the young woman figured it was a man standing in front of her. He waved one arm and the letters A I appeared in front of her. With another wave an X hovered above the two before they started swirling together faster and faster until the word Xia came out of it. The girl stared at it before testing the name on her tongue. “Xi…a.” she said and slowly stood herself up in front of the figure. She was tall and slightly curvy, her black dress trailing against the upper parts of her knees and was sleeveless and strapless with an open back.

The others broke into murmurs before the man silenced them. “Well then Xia, I welcome you to Organization XIII. You are now our new 14th member.” He said and waved dismissal to the others but stayed with the rather confused girl. “Why are you doing this?” she asked, though her voice was full of gratitude, or at least what would be gratitude if she had a heart to feel it. “You have no memories; therefore you have nowhere else to go. I will assure you while you are here you will remain safe and have a place to call your own.” He replied and slowly lifted his hood.

He had dark skin and vivid orange-yellow eyes that would look menacing if angry. He brushed softly back long silver locks of hair and strode past the girl. “Come, we need to train you and see what you are capable of.” He said and like a lost dog Xia came with no questions asked. Soon she discovered she had the power to summon vines and control them and other plants, as well as make a weapon materialize in her hands, a large bladed ring that was half the size of her body. “This is great and all but you never told me your name and what is this Organization that I’m in.” She said after he told her she was done practicing her newfound power.

“Xemnas. You can just call me Xemnas.” He said gruffly and took her on a tour of the castle. He explained who exactly he was and about the Organization that she was now a part of. He also explained what Xia and the others, including him, were. That they were Nobodies, shells with no heart but a soul and the memories of what it felt like to have a heart, so much so that sometimes the others mentioned they could feel real emotions.

Xemnas also explained their goal, to collect the hearts that Heartless, figures born from the darkness of people’s hearts, have stolen and with the hearts they will be able to make Kingdom Hearts, the Heart of all Worlds. Completing Kingdom Hearts would give the Nobodies a chance to get their heart back and thus become whole again. This excited Xia, the chance to gain back the heart she lost and become normal again.  Everything all made sense, however Xemnas mentioned how strange it was that she had no memories, none whatsoever. Every other Nobody could remember who they were before they turned into a Nobody, everybody but Xia.

He let her go to meet the others in the castle, wandering to his spot in the castle called The Altar of Naught to be alone. The first person she ran into was a younger looking boy with spiky blonde hair wearing the same black coat Xemnas wore. She collided with him in the hallway and immediately apologized but the boy laughed.

“It’s alright, you must be the new recruit. I’m Demyx.” He said with a grin and stuck his hand out to shake. She shook his hand, looking at him confused. “Does everyone have an X in his or her name?” she asked, looking past him briefly to see a lounge like area in the distance. “Well yeah, it’s our trademark I guess you could say.” The boy replied, stroking his chin in that thought. Xia had yet to receive the Organization’s trademark cloak like him and the others she remembered seeing when she first arrived here, but she figured she would receive one soon.

“Come on, I’ll introduce you to everyone since you really didn’t get to meet them when you first came here.” He exclaimed and had her follow him to the lounge like area. Sitting on a couch reading a book was an older man with short blonde hair and a goat-tee and nearby playing darts was another older man with long salt and pepper hair tied to a ponytail and wearing an eye patch over his right eye. The blonde man upon seeing Demyx and the young girl enter the room looked up from his book and raised a brow.

The man playing darts stopped a moment and turned towards the two and gave a big grin. “Well well, if it isn’t the lovely rose coming to meet us.” He said and Xia gave a slight frown to the nickname, “Might as well introduce myself to you, name is Xigbar.” He walked over to the girl and patted her on the head. “Nice to meet you sweet rose.” He continued with a mischievous grin. The blonde man in the mean time had rose from his seat and strode past and shoved Xigbar to the side.

“Xigbar that is no way to treat a young woman. She is not a child.” He said with a scoff and took Xia’s hand and leaned down and gently kissed it then stood straight back up. “I apologize about him, he has no manners.” He glared at Xigbar who frowned back, “My name is Luxord. I welcome you to our Organization.” He continued with a charming smile. If Xia could blush she would have as she stared back into his dark blue eyes. “P-pleasure to meet you too.” She managed to say through a bit of a stammer.

Demyx took her to meet everyone that was left in the Organization, Saix, Xaldin, and Axel. Xia pondered on the fact that not all thirteen were there, but Demyx simply answered he didn’t know what happened to them, and it seemed like a lie. She didn’t question any further though and after Demyx left she thought of what to do next. Suddenly Xemnas popped in her mind. Xia didn’t understand why she would want to see the Superior as the others called him again but opened a portal to the Altar of Naught anyway and stepped in.

She saw Xemnas standing and looking at the dark sky and slowly approached him. Without even looking at her he said, “I forgot to tell you one thing. While everyone has missions they must accomplish each day in different worlds, I want you to stay in the castle.” This confused Xia. “Why? You saw what I am capable of! I can do those missions just as easily as anyone else.” She cried out back. Xemnas didn’t give an answer but instead said, “Just do it.” This wasn’t good enough for Xia as she huffed at him in frustration and disappeared into a portal to her room which Xemnas had shown her earlier.

The room was simple with white walls and floors and a bed and nothing else. A black cloak, the kind the Organization wore, laid on the mattress. Xia crashed onto the comfortable white bed and lay there upset. Why couldn’t she go? Why wouldn’t Xemnas tell her anything? To calm herself down she started to decorate her room, growing vines on the walls with pretty white flowers and blooming giant red roses from the ground all around her room. She even grew one on top of her bed, big enough that she could rest in the soft petals.

That’s when she decided she would sneak out of the castle to a random world. It would be easy to do without Xemnas knowing, and she could leave her cloak behind so no one, including the Keybladers Xemnas told her about, would know she was part of the Organization.