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Challenge Post
Challenge: [115] An offer you can’t refuse
Title: Recruitment
Word Count: 516
Spoilers: Slight if you don’t know who’s who in Organization 13.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for language
Notes: Glimpses of how the Organization was formed.
When they found one another again, of course it was the first of them to choose a course of direction- first to take a step into the Darkness, first to emerge from it. First to begin moving forward.
The five of them stared at the unfamiliar face of their old friend and allowed him to lead them now as he had in their Other lives.
~~~
Xemnas stood in the epicenter of the storm.
He had not caused it, but he viewed it, removed from it even as it whirled all around him.
A man with blue hair staggered through scores of Heartless, batting them out of his way and clutching again at his chest. Xemnas drew the tendrils Nothing off and let them disperse now that his tracker had arrived. The Nobody stared at him.
He extended a hand.
~~~
Xaldin stood waiting as the redhead smiled.
"Yanno... the subtle intimidation, the menacing expression, the way you're standing," he gave two thumbs up and a sardonic twist of lips, "it's a great effort, but I guess that whole spiel about me not having a heart is true." He crossed his arms over his chest and let his face drop into annoyance.
"Because I'm not impressed, and I don't wanna join your little club."
He simply raised an eyebrow and held out a hand- into which fell a spear. He raised the other hand, and caught another spear.
Then the other four dropped into line around him.
The redhead raised an eyebrow.
"Well shit."
~~~
"Come," Lexaeus said urgently as the darkness crossed over land and air and left nothing behind, "I will take you somewhere safe."
The smaller man cringed as another house crumbled in on its foundation, and ran for the solid ground beneath Lexaeus' feet.
~~~
Vexen was sitting in a cafe with a cup of tea and a stack of notes when the blond walked up and boldly dropped into the empty seat at his table.
Vexen glared, blinked, and recognized another like himself. They stared at each other for a moment.
"I see you know what I am," he said.
Vexen raised a slow eyebrow.
"I do so hate to seem inquisitive," the other Nobody murmured, "but would you kindly explain it to me?"
~~~
Xigbar reached for the fallen man- smirked as he glared, then hissed in pain.
"Don't feel embarrassed," he said, wrapping the new recruit's arm around his shoulders. "No one else can kick my ass either."
~~~
Zexion sat very calmly in the face of the woman's screaming tirade. He took in the lifeless city around them- the sky dark and starless, the streets dead aside from themselves and a few Shadows- and turned his gaze pointedly back to her.
"Did you have something better to do?"
Her eyes narrowed. She straightened up, drawing her face away from his, and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"So I thought."
~~~
Xemnas smiled as he approached the blond rising from the grass. He might have felt satisfaction, if it were possible.
Now the organization was complete.
Title: Recruitment
Word Count: 516
Spoilers: Slight if you don’t know who’s who in Organization 13.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for language
Notes: Glimpses of how the Organization was formed.
When they found one another again, of course it was the first of them to choose a course of direction- first to take a step into the Darkness, first to emerge from it. First to begin moving forward.
The five of them stared at the unfamiliar face of their old friend and allowed him to lead them now as he had in their Other lives.
~~~
Xemnas stood in the epicenter of the storm.
He had not caused it, but he viewed it, removed from it even as it whirled all around him.
A man with blue hair staggered through scores of Heartless, batting them out of his way and clutching again at his chest. Xemnas drew the tendrils Nothing off and let them disperse now that his tracker had arrived. The Nobody stared at him.
He extended a hand.
~~~
Xaldin stood waiting as the redhead smiled.
"Yanno... the subtle intimidation, the menacing expression, the way you're standing," he gave two thumbs up and a sardonic twist of lips, "it's a great effort, but I guess that whole spiel about me not having a heart is true." He crossed his arms over his chest and let his face drop into annoyance.
"Because I'm not impressed, and I don't wanna join your little club."
He simply raised an eyebrow and held out a hand- into which fell a spear. He raised the other hand, and caught another spear.
Then the other four dropped into line around him.
The redhead raised an eyebrow.
"Well shit."
~~~
"Come," Lexaeus said urgently as the darkness crossed over land and air and left nothing behind, "I will take you somewhere safe."
The smaller man cringed as another house crumbled in on its foundation, and ran for the solid ground beneath Lexaeus' feet.
~~~
Vexen was sitting in a cafe with a cup of tea and a stack of notes when the blond walked up and boldly dropped into the empty seat at his table.
Vexen glared, blinked, and recognized another like himself. They stared at each other for a moment.
"I see you know what I am," he said.
Vexen raised a slow eyebrow.
"I do so hate to seem inquisitive," the other Nobody murmured, "but would you kindly explain it to me?"
~~~
Xigbar reached for the fallen man- smirked as he glared, then hissed in pain.
"Don't feel embarrassed," he said, wrapping the new recruit's arm around his shoulders. "No one else can kick my ass either."
~~~
Zexion sat very calmly in the face of the woman's screaming tirade. He took in the lifeless city around them- the sky dark and starless, the streets dead aside from themselves and a few Shadows- and turned his gaze pointedly back to her.
"Did you have something better to do?"
Her eyes narrowed. She straightened up, drawing her face away from his, and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
"So I thought."
~~~
Xemnas smiled as he approached the blond rising from the grass. He might have felt satisfaction, if it were possible.
Now the organization was complete.