The Heart that was Never Mine

"Fianlly," I said, "I've managed to get the last one...."

All my memories had come back to me except the last, and now that I had it....I felt the change of my power.

"You look back to normal," the Leader's sharp voice said.

I turned and looked straight at his hood as I always had.

"I am sorry for all the distractions," I said, "Especially when I favor order above my own life...."

"Triskix....with your memories restored I expect that work will actually being then..." the Leader asked.

"I would having nothing better done," I answered.

"I would expect nothing less from a man like you," the Leader chuckled.

"You know everyone's past including mine," I answered, "You understand and yet do not help but laugh at me."

"Why would I help someone who willingly gave up his own heart?" the Leader asked.

"Very true," I smirked, "It was the last memory returned to me....as a child it was taken from me for my own good...hidden away in my mind to a place I didn't even know....but you knew I bet...."

"They hid it from you for a reason Triskix.....you were a threat to existance..."

"Was I now?" I asked not with sarcasm but with a semi-genuine curiosity.

Years before when Triskix was five. An unknown town and an unknown goal had brought Axel to a world without a name and discarded from the rest of the worlds. Axel walked through it calmly looking around.

There was no one within the mist not even a heartless...Axel walked for some time not encountering anything. A flash of red caught Axel's eye and he walked to see a boy sitting in the mist. The boy wore a red T-shirt and jeans that seemed to only exult his red hair.

"Are you the only one in this world?" Axel asked looking through the mist for any other signs.

The boy didn't answer quickly, but finally he said "yes."

"And what is this place's name?" Axel asked but the boy did not reply.

"Did you create this place?" Axel asked.

"I don't know," the boy answered.

"How did you get here?"

"I don't know."

Axel was getting somewhat irritated because of such nondescriptive answers.

"Well then....what do you know?" Axel asked.

The boy looked up at Axel for the first time with piercing red eyes.

"I know that I am Triskix....and I know that I am nothing and a nobody....and....I know why I exist...." the boy answered.

Axel looked a moment at the boy and finally smiled.

"So then.....you your name is Triskix but say you are nothing? a nobody in this mist world? And you know why you exist? heh .....so then....why do you exit?"

"My former self....gave up his own heart to a girl....and made me....a fragment of him....so in a sense I gave up my own heart....but....what is someone without a heart?"

"You ak as though you already know the answer to that question" Axel said.

"Someone without a heart is a nobody...and therefore...I am a nobody..."

"So then what is the purpose of a nobody?" Axel asked.

"The purpose of a nobody is whatever he choses it to be just like someone with a heart..." the boy answered.

"And then what is your purpose here?" Axel asked.

"My purpose is to keep order....in this world...."

"Is that so?" Axel asked.

"That is my reason...." Triskix answered.

"So then....how do you feel about this world? What connection do you have to it?"

"None. It is a place I know nothing of but it is a sancutuary from the light...."

"The Light?" Axel asked.

"Is it wrong to find sanctuary from the Light when one has nothing? Not even a heart to call their own? I don't think so. And therefore...I defy this and make myself a nobody in the world where everyone wishes to be somebody...." the boy laughed.

"You think deeply for just a kid," Axel commented.

"No...I think what there is to think in this place..."

"Well....if you were in a different place...would you think differently?"

"What place?"

"A place where other nobodies are....called Castle Oblivion....."

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