The Void

Throughout all the worlds there are many stories of many different species large and small. Each have their own niche throughout the cosmos. They all have their own place to belong, except for one. This race is one who isn't supposed to exist, yet they do.

For they are the Nobodies, beings who are created from the lost body and soul of someone with a strong will who has lost their heart to darkness and become a Heartless. They are generally nothing more then an empty shell.

For they have no hearts of their own.

They have their memories from when they were whole, but they can't feel any emotion. So they have to rely on their memories to fake them.

They neither exist in the realms of light or darkness. So they exist in the little space in between, the twilight.

As they were created from nothingness, they are destined to fade back into it.

For that they truly aren't meant to exist, they don't understand what it means to have a heart.

So why do they even exist at all?

These were the thoughts of the Nobody known as Roxas as he was floating in what appears to be a white void.

He awoke in this void after his final encounter with his Somebody, Sora.

He had mixed feelings about meeting him again. He knew what he had to, but Roxas honestly wished he didn't have too. Yet he had resigned himself to his fate. Roxas thought he was ready for everything, but what Sora's answer was surprised him.

"No. Roxas you're you. We are not the same. I wanted to tell you that. That you deserve as much as I do to be your own person."

Roxas getting over his shock could only give Sora a small smile. Trust his Other to give him the chance that he never could have. But it was to late for him as he knew what he had to do. He gave Sora the only things he had left.

His memories.

Considering that as much as he cherished his memories of Twilight Town, Hayner, Pence, and Olette. They were all as fake as he was. He considered that if anything was real as he was. The only thing he considered real was his time with the Organization. He didn't really have many good memories besides his times with Axel, but he wasn't exactly friendless without him. Before their deaths he had formed a kind of companionship with Marluxia and surprisingly Larxene, though he still didn't know what happened to them. During his later stay with them he came to consider Luxord as a friend and he was saddened at having to see Sora kill him as one of the few memories he saw within his Somebody.

Truthfully, even though he willingly made the choice to merge back Sora, all he wished for was to exist. Anyone else would have also wished to do the same thing. To eat sea salt ice cream, laugh, and enjoy summer vacation with his friends.

Sadly Roxas realized that what he really wanted was too much for any Nobody to ask for. He understood that now and had come to accept it for what it was.

After he was done transferring memories with Sora, Roxas began to fade. He was waiting for this moment as he knew it was his ultimate fate. It was the ultimate fate of all Nobodies, to fade back into nothing.

After all Nobodies weren't even something to begin with anyway.

But Roxas somehow ended up into this void anyway after being absorbed back into Sora. Every since then he has called the void his home. Roxas truly didn't know what it was, but he got the feeling that this was the light within Sora's heart. He also didn't know how much time has passed while just floating here. It could be seconds or years for all he cared. He just knew that eventually everything that was his very being would disappear forever.

He let out a sad smile as he stared up at the void.

"You have no idea how lucky you have it Sora." He said to himself. He started to clench his fist for a moment before letting out a sigh and continuing.

"To actually exist. It is something a Nobody can only dream of. As much as wish for the opposite, it truly must be you."

For how much longer that he didn't know, Roxas just continued to float. And that was all he could do at this point.

'How am I even existing right now? Shouldn't I've been absorbed fully back into Sora by now? Isn't enough that I shouldn't have existed at all.'

Roxas just tried tried to make himself comfortable as you can while floating in a void full of light.

"Why can't I just fade from away in piece?" He just said to himself. When he found a position that he was comfortable with he just closed his eyes and tried to rest.

'Maybe I can finally disappear in my sleep. It honestly wouldn't be the worse way to go.'

Roxas then tried to fall asleep, awaiting his eventual fate.

(Later)

"Hello?"

Roxas snapped his eyes open and began to look around the void. He floated around just to get a full view of his surroundings. Nothing but endless light all around.

"I must be hearing things." He muttered to himself. After all he was in Sora's heart, right? Then again he might just be in some kind of nothingness for all he knew. Still he was the only one here as it wasn't possible. He heard the voice giggle before answering.

"No you're not."

Now knowing that he wasn't alone, Roxas began to spin around. Looking for the source of the voice and prepared for anything.

"I'm down here."

Following the sound of the voice, the Nobody noticed 2 things that he had missed. The first was the void now apparently had a floor. The other was the speaker. The speaker appeared to be a female in a silver hood and it appeared to be lined with green tassels. From he can also see she was wearing a white robe and bluish-lavender clothing underneath her cloak that looked it the color was slowly fading away to silver. But what really struck him odd was her face.

It was mostly obscured by her hood and a silver fox mask with a blue trimming.

After that he lowered himself to the floor, surprised there was even solid ground here. When he touched the ground the woman began to study him, which put Roxas on edge. He began to study her as well he didn't like what he saw. The way that she held herself was that even if she was a bit relaxed right now, it was that of a master combatant.

"Interesting." The masked woman said as she began walk toward him. After a minute of what seemed to be a pure stalemate, she suddenly rushed towards him. Before he could even summon Oblivion, she was within an arms length away and proceeded to turn intangible.

'Wha-' That was all Roxas could think before the woman passed through him.

"AAUUUGH!" He could only cry out as his mind was assaulted by images and voices he had never seen or heard in all his little time of existence. There was so many that he couldn't even sort though them. The pain continued for a few seconds before the flood of images stopped. He tried to regain his composure, in case the woman tried to attack him from behind.

But he heard her groaning from behind. So he turned around and faced her. She was hunched over a bit and grasping her head with one hand. Apparently the process had also affected her as well. She immediately straightened up and faced him. Although he couldn't see her eyes, he could tell that they were filled with sorrow and surprisingly...hope?

"Roxas...you could had your own chance to truly exist." She said though ragged breaths, catching his attention. "But you gave it away to awaken your Somebody and fade back to nothing. Even if you have resigned yourself to your fate, your resolve to be your own person is still going strong."

This caught the Nobody off guard. How did she know his name, or anything else that she said? It must've been when she passed through him. But what did she mean by that last bit? He did wish more then anything to exist. But that is an impossible dream for a Nobody like himself.

He tried to think about just letting himself fade away, But his conversation with Sora kept coming back to him in his thoughts. So in grossed in them he completely ignored the presence of the woman.

"So Roxas, what would you do if I presented you a chance to be your own person separate from Sora." The woman said interrupting his thoughts.

"What did you say!" He asked shocked. There was no way that she could really give him that.

Could she?

(Chapter 1 end)

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