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Post by Shinn on Mar 18, 2009 13:42:24 GMT -5
As if a ghost from his past was calling out to him, Xemnas sensed the presence of a most familiar Nobody. He was surprised in a logic point of view that Lexaeus was still alive and was in this realm. Although it was faint, The Silent Hero was not that far away from them. Lucky for him that he happened to be in the area where Xemnas had intended on taking the other two or he might have been left to rot in the realm of darkness.
Xemnas smirked at the thought of seeing his old acquaintance again after such a long time. He did not attempt to put any effort in tracking the former members of Organization XIII after their defeat, due to a lack in caring anything about them. But as a Nobody he could not care for anyone or anything, even if it was a old partner from when he once had a heart.
The three finally arrived to the cavern where Lexaeus lay dormant. Xemnas examined the area to see where he was at sensing a spot where a small collection of darkness seemed to be gathering. He walked over to it to see a reforming Silent hero floating there. A rather pathetic sight to see Xemnas could only give off a sly smirk.
"It's been a while....Lexaeus. To think that you had survived and are still alive after all this time. My my, you don't fail to disappoint."
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Post by ♥ kats KAT kats ♥ on Mar 24, 2009 15:45:35 GMT -5
Katsumi, Master Xemnas's new recruit and Nobody in training followed behind Xemnas, with a new Nobody following close to her. Katsumi didn't quite understand what she was, all she knew was that she was something and that something she did not remember what it was. Who she was. She would be tricked easily into doing things because she didn't know what they were, all she knew was that she wanted to find who she once was. What she didn't know was that instead of finding who she once was...she was being led to the path, along the path, in finding herself something new. Into someone she wasn't. But who she eventually would be.
Because she was Nobody, so she could only be nothing.
She followed Xemnas to the cavern, where yet another person like her and Master Xemnas and Magus.... She wouldn't ask questions. Well of course she eventually would but not on Xemnas's intentions because she already thought them to be good-willed. He had saved her.
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Post by nascent on Mar 30, 2009 19:34:35 GMT -5
As Magus' eyes fell upon the regenerating Nobody, a sense of comprehension dawned on him. What he saw, what he sensed, told him that this person slowly reassembling before his very eyes was somehow hollow at its core... a shell formed from darkness and... and something he couldn't quite grasp. Perhaps something beyond clarification. Form without substance, mass without matter ... being without belonging. Was that... what the man with white hair had meant by non-existing?
It was only then that it occurred to him that neither the girl nor the man who seemed to be her master had yet mentioned their names. If they, like he, were non-existences... were names superfluous? He briefly wondered whether there was any value at all in the name he'd given earlier, but such a riddle was not forthcoming to his mind. There was still too much of significance to puzzle over before something like names would be worth considering.
The Nobody known as Magus gazed for a long time at the dormant Nobody, pondering both himself and the mysteries all around him, then turned to Xemnas. "What is to be done with him?"
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Post by Shinn on Apr 2, 2009 22:20:11 GMT -5
"If we leave him here, he will spend the rest of his days attempting to reassemble himself with the darkness. But, unless he utilizes the power of Nothingness, he will never return to being a Nobody. His fate will be far worse than that of a Nobody."Xemnas said in his melodramatic tone while making various hand and arm gestures to give a sense of emotion to his empty words.
Xemnas crouched and leaned over towards the Silent Heroes reforming body. He knew full well that only he would be able to save him from such a fate. But would doing this be really worth it? Lexaeus was a fool to rely too much on the power of darkness instead of his own power that was given to him. This was the result of his pitiful reliance on darkness. He should have known better.
On the other hand, Lexaeus was a faithful member to the Organization unlike most of its members. Plus, he and Xemnas were colleagues before they turned into Nobodies. He may have made the mistake of relying on darkness too much, but Xemnas believed Lexaeus was the kind who would learn from past mistakes. Even Xemnas had to learn of his own past mistakes and not commit them once more.
The Superior stood back up and held out his hand. It began to collect a massive amount of white and light purple energy made from Nothingness, forming it into a ball of purple energy.He looked down at Lexaeus and grinned, then he turned the ball in his direction and fired the orb of energy straight at Lexaeus. A flash of light soon engulfed the Silent Hero and beams of light and darkness shot out from his body. You could hear the sound of Lexaeus screaming in pain before all went silent.
Once the light dimmed down and vanished, Xemnas gazed at the fully revived Lexaeus with a sinister smile.
"Welcome back Lexaeus, Organization XIII's number V."
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Post by ♥ kats KAT kats ♥ on Apr 2, 2009 22:43:51 GMT -5
The blue haired female Nobody watched as her newly found companion looked at the ball, which looked like a human was inside but the nobody couldn't be sure. She just watched as he talked to it, well about it. It seemed that Master Xemnas new him, or had known him. What would they do with it? How could they uh, restore it, him? She watched, motionless as well as emotionless as Master Xemnas gathered some kind of energy in his hand after stepping back, and then blasted it at the ball of which the man was in.
Katsumi saw a flash of light, but did not wince at even the brightness of it. Not flinching from the light in such a dark place. She then heard screams, of which one might guess were coming from Xemnas's partner in the Organization 13. Of which the blue haired female had no clue about, but she wouldn't even ask about Master Xemnas's intentions, or what he was doing. He was helping her discover who she was and that was all that mattered to her, at the time being that was. She stood there, silent. Like any good slave would.
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Post by Lexaeus on Apr 3, 2009 0:06:47 GMT -5
And scream he did. Lexaeus' deep voice echoed a single blurt of pain before the geomancer's own jaw clenched shut, thankfully not on his tongue. By the time the light faded the small group of Nobodies was treated to the sight of a fully-reformed former member of Organization XIII. The man previously-numbered five was knelt down before Xemnas, right hand on the matching knee and head down, catching his breath. Slowly the dirty-blond head of hair tilted back so that the strong-jawed face could take in the sight of the world around him. He squinted at first, as if his vision was still a little out of focus, but one sight quickly seemed to snap awareness back into him.
"Superior!"
It was a word uttered with utmost respect, or at least the equivalent mockery of respect. A second later the Silent Hero rose fully to his feet, all signs of disorientation banished form him if only by sheer force of will. He looked into Xemnas' orange eyes with no real emotion. It was the stoic face he had almost always held... until his final words of regret. He turned to look at the others. Not another familliar face among them.
Lexaeus may have had all the look of the brawn-over-brain type of member of a group, but he had been one of Ansem the Wise's original six apprentices. An idiot he was not. A man without a heart would have no need to search Lex out and bring him back, and the Hero was sure he felt the same lack of heart in Xemnas as he always had. It seemed more like an act of coincidence, all things considered. Though comatose, Lexaeus had been fully awake of his... "situation" moments ago. It had been agony to endure. Yes even if coincidence, a heartless man would also have no need to bring back a failure of a subordinate out of any type of mercy.
Looking back to the only being he would offer it to Lexaeus spoke again, as concentrated to the point as always.
"Have you any need of my strength again?"
If that was the reason for his revival then the Superior would have it. If not then it would still be offered.
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Post by Shinn on Apr 3, 2009 21:32:36 GMT -5
Lexaeus was as faithful to the Superior as ever. Even if it was a faith of the mind and not the heart. Xemnas slightly nodded confirming to the Silent Hero that it was indeed him. Lexaeus was not one to waste time with idle chit chat and quickly asked a question that the Superior had hoped he would ask.
"It depends, does your strength still rely on the power of Darkness, or have you realized how limited it is when compared to the power of Nothingness? The true power that exists within a Nobody." Xemnas had clenched his right hand during the last sentence in order to fully illustrate what he was getting at with the power of Nothingness. He had no use for Lexaeus if he still depended on the darkness for power. Lexaeus was a smart individual despite his appearance, but Xemnas believed that a part of Lexaeus was still humanly attached to the darkness like he and the other apprentices had been when they had hearts. He could not have such a weakness, for it was the one thing that would lead them to their downfall.
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Post by Lexaeus on Apr 3, 2009 23:57:46 GMT -5
Lexaeus may have been emotionless but surprise was still within his grasp. He blinked and let his eyes go wider than they had been before, tilting his head back slightly at the same item before letting it shift to its original point, almost unnoticeable in its subtlety.
The Superior's statement certainly forced Aeleus' empty shell to think. The Organization had used the power of darkness constantly towards its goals, their lack of hearts increasing their resistance to its corroding effects. Increasing but not eliminating... their cloaks were proof enough of that, designed to protect them from the very force they wielded among other things. In all of the Organization few commanded a force of darkness as prominently as Lexaeus had, except possibly Marluxia. And in the end it was not even the hero Riku that had defeated him, but rather the ultimate darkness itself that had awoken within the boy once he slipped into unconsciousness at the Silent Hero's hand. Even then he had managed to keep himself from fading into total oblivion only by the power of darkness, if not to fully revive himself yet. To say he should have found the power of darkness limited... his experience spoke almost entirely the opposite.
But it spoke against the words of the Superior.
"Then shall I abandon all of the darkness I have brought under my command?" he asked after his expression had returned to its usual rock-solid form. From anyone else, even with the emotionless inflection, it probably would have sounded like a rhetorical question, or sarcasm. Especially considering that the volume of dark power this Nobody contained was no small force to be reckoned with. From Lexaeus, however, it was a simple honest request for clarity. At Xemnas' word it would be discarded. Whether or not he had truly realized what the greater Nobody seemed to speak as fact was irrelevant. A being like him, without a heart, had no future or purpose unless one was forged. Only the Superior had both the power and mind to do that for any of them. Whether he would keep his darkness but simply put it in its proper place behind nothingness or leave it all behind for the pursuit of this "true strength" of the Nobodies was up to that man.
Some may have called him a pitiful follower with no will of his own for such a line of thought. Foolishness, considering it was the power of his will that allowed Aeleus' body to remain even as close to its original form as it had. Rather, Lexaeus was a realist.
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Post by Shinn on Apr 4, 2009 18:26:41 GMT -5
"What good would it do you?" He replied looking at Lexaeus with a expression of curiosity. Xemnas was indeed curious as to the Silent Hero's small hesitance towards his request. Perhaps Lexaeus was still not able to fully grasp the power he as a Nobody was able to control.
Darkness had its advantages, but when against light it becomes a weakness rather then strength. And after his battle with Sora and his friends, Xemnas could see the potential light had to vanquish the darkness. But Nothingness had an even greater potential to overpower both light and darkness.
But Xemnas asked this question because he wanted to hear from Lexaeus himself. How would he still be able to make good use of darkness for the organizations benefit? What good would come from staying with something that caused your downfall? If Lexaeus proved to the Superior that there was still some value from using the power of darkness (save for summoning and controlling the Heartless), then he would let him keep it for the time being.
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Post by Lexaeus on Apr 5, 2009 0:35:28 GMT -5
What good indeed? Besides the obvious of controlling Heartless and moving through the corridors of darkness, other members of the Organization such as Xaldin, Saix, Axel or even Roxas had little active use of the darkness. Each had rather make great use of their individual powers granted uniquely to the Nobodies. Of course, each and every one of them had fallen as well.
"Only the ability to fight as I know if our interests become threatened," Lexaeus conceded. The man did not have to explain that any further. Even if he did not command the most darkness in the organization the Silent Hero had still been the one to rely on it alone the most in conflict, almost fully disregarding his element of Earth except as a supplement. But if he could abandon the darkness as a weakness... then surely anyone of the old company could. For now Lexaeus crossed his arms, an old and common habit of Aeleus'. "It would seem I have missed much while sleeping here."
The former Number V. opened his arms and held up both gloved palms, looking from one to the other, as if darkness was in one and Nothingness in the other. His statement spoke of his guess about what had become of Organization XIII during his period of reconstruction.
"But I haven't forgotten my end. It was not Riku who proved greater than my darkness, but your shadow," Lex said in recollection. He then closed his right hand and let the other fall as he locked his eyes on Xemnas' again, as if the memory had brought him all to his senses. "If my darkness could not be the greatest then it truly was worthless after all."
He spoke in past tense.
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Post by Shinn on Apr 12, 2009 16:35:04 GMT -5
"Darkness is strong my friend.." Xemnas said. "But, only when the power of ones heart is weighted with it."
Xemnas turned around facing his two new followers. They probably hadn't the slightest idea of what he was talking about. They lacked hearts, so they couldn't understand what the power of a heart contained within it. What it could do, what it could achieve. Lexaeus relied on the darkness that resided within his body, it would prove worthless in the end. Darkness was just a mere tool, meant for specific tasks to Nobodies, at least that was what Xemnas had intended it to be used for. He knew very well that while Nobodies were created from the darkness in one way or another, they could not truly master it. Not in the way someone who has a heart could.
Xemnas turned his head to address Lexaeus."Riku was victorious because his reliance on the power of darkness came from within his heart, the fact that a part of my Heartless still resided within him meant very little." Xemnas believed that Lexaeus would now understand why his reliance on darkness was futile. He had to understand that there was no comparison between the darkness he controlled and the darkness Riku controlled, they were two different things.
"Do you still wish to rely on the darkness as your only source of power Lexaeus?"
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Post by Lexaeus on Apr 15, 2009 13:54:32 GMT -5
His missing heart. Was that not what Lexaeus had been fighting for? To gain the one thing needed to truly master the darkness he carried? Or perhaps it was all just a fool's dream to think he could master what destroyed his original heart simply by finding a new, stronger one with the Organization and building up his strength and familiarity with it in the meantime. Xemnas' words ringed true to the brown-haired warrior. His darkness was, when one took a close look, nothing but empty brute force. It was unrefined in all ways, not put into any specific form or power as Riku could do when they battled. All he was capable of was storing it in himself as pure strength and releasing it as darkness in its most common, forceful form. Either way the Silent Hero was finished speaking much on the matter, so as he let his remaining arm fall back to his side and his blue eyes met orange ones once again the large Nobody summed up his response to the Superior as would be expected of him.
"No."
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Post by nascent on Apr 17, 2009 8:46:02 GMT -5
Magus had watched, waited, and listened to the entire exchange with rapt interest. Darkness and Nothingness... strange powers that seemed, to him, almost incomprehensible in their abstraction. The mage glanced at his wound, liquid darkness still trickling from it and running down his arm. He didn't understand it; if Nothingness was the true power of a Nobody, then why did Darkness seem to leak and spill forth from the core of his being -- or, was that non-being? All he was learning was quickly becoming a bit much to keep track of.
'I have only just awoken, haven't I? Only just come into existence... then why am I filled with Darkness, if that is not my nature? Could it be that the Darkness of this place has infected me somehow...?' Confused thoughts filled his mind, and though he waited for the Voice to speak it offered him nothing but silence. 'Tainted with Darkness from a heart I no longer possess, it said. So this Darkness... belonged to the one who cast me off?'
He placed his hand to the wound as if to hold it closed, then withdrew it and looked at his palm. The leather glove was stained as if by black ink... as he watched, however, something truly bizarre happened: the substance ignited without warning, small blue and purple flames reducing it to a hazy vapor in front of his eyes. In that instant he felt... felt something. It was like an electric current running through his hand, an unnatural warmth that chilled him straight to his core. Synthesis, antithesis... was this the power of Darkness he felt?
Why was that power part of him? As a Nobody... it didn't make sense. Shouldn't he be... blank? Empty? That was the impression he got.
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Post by Shinn on Apr 26, 2009 21:43:30 GMT -5
Xemnas smiled fiendishly after hearing Lexaeus response. Now with that taken care of things could finally start. He looked over at Magus who was looking at the darkness that came from his wound. He seemed confused by all of this. After the conversation Xemnas had with Lexaeus, it was possible that he was not truly aware of the role darkness played with Nobodies. Xemnas would inform him soon enough.
"You must have many questions, don't you?" Xemnas looked straight into Magus' eyes. The Superior could somehow 'feel' what was going through Magus head at the moment. It reminded him of himself when he became a Nobody, the only difference was Xemnas had an understanding of the human body and its relationship with the darkness.
"Come, you will find your answers soon enough. But first let us leave this cave, we have unfinished business to attend to."
Xemnas turned around and headed for the caves exit.
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Post by nascent on May 11, 2009 7:54:38 GMT -5
He did have questions, possibly more than he could put voice to. The way the Superior acted made it seem like, although he would not divulge answers at the moment, they would indeed be forthcoming given time. Magus realized he had little other option or hope; this group was the only safety he expected to find in such a bleak place, and the only clue he had to who he was and why he was here.
The Superior turned to leave the cavern, and the Nobody who called himself Magus followed in his wake. Even if his choices hadn't been limited, the mage got the impression that he'd follow this man anyway -- there was a certain charisma about the Superior that he couldn't ignore. It was a quiet but commanding presence coupled with the mystique of someone who knew more than they were letting on. No doubt this was why the girl and the man, Lexaeus, followed him... though he suspected these two had far more history with the Superior than he did. Were there others? Somehow, some part of him thought there had to be -- the impression that Magus had stepped into something much larger than himself was something he couldn't shake. What prompted it? Maybe the uniform which the Superior and Lexaeus shared, or perhaps it was the Superior's very title that gave a sense of overarching command...
He would follow, learn, and perhaps in so doing discover himself.
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I did post in shades of grey if anyone even remembers that lmao