Maxsodin came awake to seven faces staring down at her with baited breath. She smiled weakly, utter exhaustion hitting her like a train.
"That was some good exercise you got there, huh?"
And out of total fatigue, Maxsodin passed out.
Nexan stood up, sighing audibly. "Phew! we ought to get her somewhere to sleep. I don't know how long she'll be out, but I can bet it'll be a while!"
Sora nodded. "Right. Got anywhere in mind?"
Nexan smiled. "Does Castle Oblivion sound good enough for you?"

Awake

Braxyd chased the crazed Maxsodin, trying hard not to let her let away from him. She couldn't desert him now, not when they could be real again. He tackled her, pinning her down. Xassha, Nexan and the rest appeared behind him.

The struggling form of Maxsidon suddenly stopped squirming. She closed her eyes. Nexan knelt beside III, willing the old Max to come back, to suppress the dark in her heart. She did.

Breaking Free

Somewhere in the unconscious depths of her mind, Maxsodin was pacing.

Somewhere, in those depth, she was worrying.

And somewhere, the real Maxsodin was trapped.

Maxsodin kept hearing the occasional faint scream, setting her nerves on edge. Around her a feeling of peace was attempting to penetration her mind, to engulf her senses and block her out for good. And yet she had the strength to resist it. She had a REASON to resist it.
Pacing, ever pacing. Maxsodin didn't think she could stop. Pacing... pacing...
There was no way out. The Darkness had no weakness, no point for her to focus her effort at. And yet Maxsodin refused to think she was finished.
Somewhere she was trapped. Somewhere...
The feeling of peace began to ooze into her tired form. Slowly, her determination began to ebb. Maxsodin could not help but feel a wave of exhaustion sweep over her. Her eyes drooped. As she tried vainly to keep them open, the stronger the need to close them was.
And as the eye lids of the real Maxsodin began to close for the last time, Maxsodin felt something. In her chest, slightly to the left. It was a feeling of warmth. A slow smile spread on her face as she placed a hand on that source of heat. Concentrating on it as she gave her last effort to break free, to gain control again.
Concentrating on the one thing that separated her from everyone else.
The tiniest dust of what she still had from her previous life.
Her heart.

Zut.

Nexan stared at what Maxsodin had become. SHe hadn't wanted this. Nexan knew that if Sora knew about the connection between Kingdom Hearts and the Heartless, he would have helped. But Maxsodin had become enraged at what she thought Nexan would do.

"Maxsodin, listen to me. I was never going to hurt Sora. You know that. Somewhere in there, you know that. Snap out of it. Now!" Nexan voice rose as the former Maxsodin growled at her.

"What do you mean 'never gonna hurt me?'" Sora asked, somewhat ignoring the savage Maxsodin.

"Kingdom Hearts controls the Heartless, why else would I want to destroy it?!" Nexan said, "Xemnas wanted to control Kingdom Hearts, not destroy it. He wanted control over Kingdom Hearts, over the Heartless. "

"What can we do about Maxsodin? I don't think this is normal," RIku backed away as Maxsodin lunged at him.

"Braxyd, grab her!" Nexan screamed, frantic to get her under control.

Sora walked into the battle ground. Five hooded figures stood at the other end. Sora saw Riku give his Keyblade a few nervous swings. Shouldering the Kingdom Key, Sora took a step forth.
"If you've come to ask me to help destroy Kingdom Hearts, then I'm afraid you're wasting your time."
The center figure of the five strode out and took off her hood. "It was the NEGOTIABLE part of our being here, but not the entire reason. You sure you don't wish to help us?"
Sora nodded and took a battle stance. "Absolutely!"
Just as Nexan signaled for the attack, a voice called out. "Wait!"
Everyone turned in the direction of the voice. A portal opened up and another hooded figure tumbled out of it clumsily. Sora couldn't take his eyes off her. There was something familiar about her...
The spell was broken when Nexan did a face palm. "Maxsodin! NOT a good time to show up!"
The figure threw off her hood and ran in between Nexan and Sora, which had closed to only a few feet. She spread out her arms and stared at Nexan. "I CAN'T let you harm Sora!"
Surprisingly, it was Sora who asked the question. "Why?"
She turned and locked her grayish-blue yes with his blue ones. "Because Sora! You're my brother!"
There was a prickly silence as the secret was thrown out into the open. Nexan's sickle appeared at Maxsodin's throat.
"Choose, Maxy." she said coldly, the light of battle in her eyes. "His side, or ours."
And Maxsodin knew then that Nobodies did indeed NOT have hearts. At least, she thought, NORMAL Nobodies.
Maxsodin's Keyblade appeared in her hand and in the same instant knocked the sickle point away from her throat. "Nexan..." she said pleadingly. "The moment this battle starts, it won't be ME in this battle." she said, already loosing feeling in her feet and legs, a sure sign of the Darkness taking over. "It will be the Darkness itself..."
As Maxsodin felt more and more of herself becoming possessed by the Darkness. Xahssa tried to run up and help her, but Nexan held them back, all three of them backing away from Maxsodin.
"What happening...?" Sora asked, backing up too.
"Sora..." Maxsodin gasped out. "Brother...! I love you..."
Then her eyes became totally black and she have a horrific shudder. For a moment, she stood still. Then she flexed her neck, her figures, her arms.
Her voice was gravelly and deep like thunder, and it seemed to come from all around them. "Hello Sora, my old enemy!"
The Darkness had control of Maxsodin: her body, her thoughts, and even her weapon.

Prep

Nexan popped into the room where everyone was. She eyed them and spoke,

"In just a few short minutes, we will be heading into a potential bloodbath. Be prepared. Have the potions you need and your weapon ready for your call. If Sora does not agree with our views, we will have to resort to force. "

"Wait, agree with our views? What are you talking about," Seycax asked, unsure of the motive.

"If Sora will not join us in our quest to rid the world of Kingdom Hearts, we will have to dispose of him," Xassha explained calmly. Maxsodin better be there, she thought to herself.

"Ready?" Nexan waited for the silent nods then opened a portal. "In you go," she motioned for them to enter the dark abyss, then followed them into an uncertain future.

Yes, It Begins

Sora stared at the odd note he had received. Riku looked at it over his shoulder.
"You gonna go?" he asked Sora.
Sora read the note to himself one last time.

It ends today. Everything ends today. Only one will walk away from this battle: either the Organization, or you, Sora. Either way, it ends today.

Nexan, I


Sora shrugged. "Is there any other choice?"
Riku looked directly into his eyes. "Sora, it could be a trap."
Sora smiled his confident smile. "I know, but it IS our last chance to finally end the rein of Evil. I think I should go."
Riku shouldered his Keyblade. "I'm going too, then."
"To the battle!"

* * *

Maxsodin sat on the pier, unable to think. Thinking only brought confusion, and the confusion more thinking, as the cycle went. The words of Nexan echoed in her empty head, mixing with the words of her dream Roxas. And out of those two jumbled memories, one thought was born.
It ends today, whatever the outcome. Only I can choose HOW.
Some kinship instinct told Maxsodin that Sora would be there. He WOULD come. Maxsodin had to follow whatever theoretical heart Roxas had told her to follow.
And some throbbing deep inside her told Maxsodin there was no escaping destiny.
"You were always destined for something greater..." Sora's words echoed around her.
Swelling her chest, Maxsodin let out a shuddering sigh. "I'm the master of Darkness. I control IT, and it will do as I say!"
Her figures began to give off a glow that looked like black fog. Grabbing the air around her, Maxsodin pried open a portal. Shutting her eyes and willing herself to arrive where she needed to go, Maxsodin stepped into the portal, and left the peaceful atmosphere of Port Royal behind her.

It Begins?

Nexan was flustered, she still needed to get everyone ready and find III.

"First things first," she muttered to herself and vanished

Maxsodin was watching a ship preparing to leave for sea. She swung her legs over the side of the pier. Nexan suddenly appeared next to her and sat down. Maxsodin jumped slightly.

"Listen Maxsodin, I don't care what this is about. I-we really need your help with this. Unless Sora goes down, Kingdom Hearts can never be destroyed. Once we destroy it, we get our hearts back. Heartless disappear and the worlds go back to normal. I know that you aren't the definition of a regular Nobody, but this has to happen. With, or without you. I really want you to be there though. It would mean so much to me, to all of us. So please, come," Nexan stood as she spoke the last sentence and opened a portal.

"I'll leave this open for you, if you decide to join us. See you soon Max?" Nexan stepped into the dark and disappeared, leaving her tentative smile imprinted in Maxsodin's mind.

Maxsodin was in a peaceful meadow. There was nothing but endless sky and hills. Sora was walking towards her, a confident yet gentle smile radiating off of him. Maxsodin knew it was a dream buy the soft lighting and the floating feeling inside her. But she didn't want it to ever end.
She ran up to Sora, letting him embrace her in his arms, letting his brotherly love envelope her. There was nothing quite the same. So secure and confident. For once in her life Maxsodin felt truly safe.
"I wish I was never taken from you." Maxsodin said, her own voice sounding far away.
Sora's voice was deep, yet soft as he spoke. "It was always in you to belong to something bigger. To make more of a difference."
Maxsodin unburied her face from his sweet smelling clothes, staring up at his face. He had changed. He looked like Roxas now, as if she were talking with that part of her brother.
"You faced my same challenge. What can I do when I have to fight Sora?"
Roxas smiled sweetly, and Maxsodin felt like she was very little, and were asking those silly questions like "Why is the sky blue?" or "Where does the snow come from?"
"You will know as I did what is right. You will feel it in your heart."
Maxsodin's spirit fell a little. "But I have no heart..."
Again, Roxas smiled that sweet smile as he backed off, becoming Sora as he was washed in the soft light and lost from sight. "Look inside yourself, dear sister. You will find one is there..."
Maxsodin was lost in the darkness of unconsciousness once more. But she was ready to fight. She had to get up. Dying wasn't the answer. Something had to be done to save her brother.

"Oh no" xahssa and braxyd said in unison
"its got maxsodin" xahssa said in anger
"it seems to be using her darkness to make itself stronger."
"Barbosa is controlling it!"
"well of course he is the master of them here, port royal. Heartless just prey on his evil"
"oh i hate heartless"
"dito"

What was it like?

Maxsodin was blacked out. She didn't care. Her mind still raced about her past life. She wondered about what she could no longer recall. Her life as Madison. What was it like?

Maxsodin crunched on the cone of her fourth ice cream that morning. Xahssa shook her head in disgust as Maxsodin shoved the remaining cone in her mouth and licked her figures with relish. "MMM shmn ood!"
Xahssa placed her hand over her face. "Maxsodin, PLEASE wait until you swallow that mess!"
After some effort, Maxsodin did indeed swallow and cleared her through. "I said 'Yum, that's good'."
Immediately, Maxsodin eyed up the sea salt ice cream Xahssa hadn't finished. Xahssa sighed and handed it over. Maxsodin bolted it down in no time flat.
Licking her figures as she gulped down the sweet mixture, Maxsodin questioned Xahssa "So... what brings... you out 'ere.. tryin'... ta find me?" She said, pausing in between to lick each individual finger.
Xahssa answered by spraying her face with a blast of water, cleansing it of the sticky ice cream. Maxsodin gave a cry of protest. Rubbing her eyes to regain her vision, Maxsodin saw that Xahssa was up and walking out of the store. Maxsodin hopped from her seat and ran over to her friend's side. Together, they wandered the streets, conversing in low tones.
"I came find you because what you did was stupid."
Maxsodin stared at her blankly. Xahssa sighed and tried to explain it simply. "Look, running off like that and simultaneously leaving that much information that the diary made EVERYONE suspicious of your true motives. Seycax, for example, will now on consider you a deserter and traitor."
Upon seeing the worried expression cross her face, Xahssa quickly explained to Maxsodin. "No but not me, Maxy! Not me or Nexan OR Braxyd! We've known you too long, too personally, to believe you'd do such a thing."
"But you still didn't answer my question!" Maxsodin protested. "Why did you bother to come find me?"
"Because you're my friend! Your problems are my problems!"
"More than you know..." breathed Maxsodin.
Just then a figure staggered out of an ally towards them. The man was burnt and blackened. Maxsodin and Xahssa watched him stagger out onto the street before collapsing. And out from the ally from which the man came, Braxyd strode forth, snapping his wrists to extinguish the flames. He looked down the street and then up the street. Spotting him, Maxsodin's face became pale, and she started to back off, her eyes wide with fear.
"Maxsodin?" Xahssa said.
Upon hearing her name, Braxyd looked in their direction and began running towards them. Xahssa looked at Maxsodin, then at Braxyd. Then she remembered what the diary had said: Braxyd was programmed to destroy Maxsodin!
Xahssa ran up to Braxyd, meeting him half way. She barred his path with a haughty glare and menacing water torrents rushing around her hand to form her trident.
"Braxyd, I WON'T let you harm Maxy!"
"No, no! You don't understand, Xahssa!" Braxyd said, trying to glance around her and spot Maxsodin. "It's gone! My programming is gone!"
"What!?" Xahssa's trident disappeared.
"Yeah! Number V deleted my programing!"
"That's great B! Let's go tell Max-" She turned around to beckon Maxsodin, but she was missing. "Where did she-"
A startled cry echoed faintly on the breeze. Xahssa and Braxyd looked at each other. Both their eyes reflected the same panic and horror. The cry was unmistakable.
Maxsodin!

getting things fixed up

“Nexan, you have to look at this,” Braxyd said hastily as he shoved a note into here hands.
“What is it Braxyd you’re interrupting my snack… oh my god! Where did you find this Braxyd? Why would she leave? Maybe it’s because of this. You should take a look.”
She shoved a leather bound book out offering it for Braxyd to read.
“I have read it already.”
“You have!?!”
“Of course. I told maxy that I was different. I am different because of my ‘programming’. That bastard is gonna make me kill Maxsodin, but we shouldn’t worry about that now I heard there was a new nobody snooping around C.O.” Braxyd lied so he could be alone with number five, the tech wizard of the organization. “Take Xahssa and Seycax with you I need Xahnan here to monitor the security systems.”
“ok we will leave now” with a snap of here fingers the superior was gone.

Xahnan was typing on the organization computer when Braxyd walked in, “hey I need you to do something for me. Can you reprogram my mind?”

Braxyd lay on the exam table; two cables were probed into his head. Xahnan pressed multiple buttons on here keyboard and smiled. A job well done on her part. She removed the probes and slapped him across the face. “OWW that really hurt. You sure know how to wake a guy. Did it work?”
“There is only one way to find out. Please bring her back and I might be able to help her too.”
“I love you like a sister. I will bring her back.”
"I know that’s what I’m worried about for her.”

It was a long day of training, burning toast, confusion and more training. Xahssa uncaringly slunk towards the hall where the Organization rooms were held. She lingered for a moment in front of Braxyd's door, listening closely to make sure he wasn't in the room. When she confirmed what she thought, she turned to the left where Maxsodin's unoccupied room faced her. Xahssa frowned at the neglected air the room let off, not liking the fact that Maxsodin had yet to return back to the Organization.
She had panicked when Nexan entered the dining hall to inform them that Maxsodin had disappeared. Seycax seemed scandalized, thinking it disrespectful to leave the Organization in such a way, and Brayxd stared ahead with a blank face. It chilled her to see the unconcerned look the Braxyd had on his face, as if he didn't care that their friend was gone. Perhaps that was the way that he delt with his troubles.
Turning from the room, she wandered over to what she thought was her room. It wasn't until she was actually in the bedroom when she realized that it wasn't her room, but the Superior's. Xahssa felt the urge to search around but her instinct told her that she wouldn't like what she found and begged her to turn around and forget that she even went into this room. She disregarded that fact, feeling a little like a child as she crept around the room carefully, attempting to be sneaky. Feeling quite bored with the lack of interesting things in Nexan's room, she turned to leave when she saw a black book.
The title on the book was hard to read from a distance, so she went closer and she let out a small gasp. So this is what the Superior hides in her room! She glanced behind her at the doorway before her hand shot out and grabbed the book. Xahssa ran out of the room, hiding it in her cloak.
When she got to the sanctuary of her room, she shut the door and sat on the floor. She flipped open the book and scanned the pages. Useless stuff about the ins and outs of the previous Organization. What a jacked up bunch. Couldn't even destroy one kid and there were thirteen of them. She thought, slightly amused.
It wasn't until she got towards the end of the diary did things get interesting. The book was slammed shut when she was done as she leaned her head forward and supported it on the book's binding. Xahssa attempted to sort through the mind-boggling information she just recieved. Maxsodin was the sister of Sora. The four of them were chosen specifically. Braxyd was designed to kill Maxsodin. She wasn't supposed to have a Keyblade. Everything defied what it should have been.
Xahssa shot up immediately, the book falling to the floor. There was only one thing to do. Find Maxsodin.


Maxsodin shivered, leaning against the wall of an ice cream parlor. The rain was warm as it hit her back, but she felt as though every drop was colder than anything she's ever felt. She was so hungry, but too tired to get up and buy something. Maxsodin even felt herself yearning for Xahssa's burnt toast and Nexan's quirky sandwich choices, like guacamole and fish.
She was too deep in her thoughts that she didn't see or hear someone approach.
"Hey." Maxsodin's eyes widened. She knew that voice. Her head jerked up. Xahssa. Her face was smiling and hesitant and her hair completely dry despite the pouring rain. Maxsodin was too speechless to talk. "You there Maxy?" Hearing her use Braxyd's nickname for her was odd and so startling that Maxsodin actually spoke.
"Xahssa." Her voice was hoarse from lack of use. "I thought I told you not to find me." Xahssa rolled her eyes.
"Please, Max. I'm not stupid. I know that you were trying to help us but you're not. Just because you're Sora's sister doesn't mean anything. At least to me. You're still clumsy, confusing Number III. Now come on. Let's get you something to eat."
The best words Maxsodin's heard all day.

Where am I?
Maxsodin was totally lost in the streets of Halloween Town. Rain had already throughly drenched her and her coat, but still it poured down in silent persistence. A woeful atmosphere hung over the deserted streets. The rain clouds blocked all star- and moon-light from reaching her. Maxsodin shuddered in cold loneliness.
It was no world for her.
Finding a bench, she curled up on the cold, wet surface and tried to sleep off the exhaustion that felt like a thousand pounds tied to her feet. The only sound was the ominous rumble of thunder and the quite pattering of the raindrops.
But sleep would not come. Maxsodin lay there, wondering about her only friends. Their faces appeared in her mind: The ghost of a smile that always hovered on Nexan's stern face; the cheery smile that Xahssa always had when she teasingly threatened her; the tough-guy smile that always covered up Braxyd's playful, childish self. How she missed them all.
A tear rolled down Maxsodin's already soaked face. She frowned as she recalled one fact that made her leave: those were the old days. Now Nexan's presence was threatening, Xahssa would scold her for what she didn't understand, Braxyd doubting their loyalty towards each other.
Maxsodin lay on the bench in the rain, focusing on the happy thoughts of her friends, trying to find reason for why those days had to go away. But the persistent answer that kept coming up made Maxsodin less and less happy: She was the reason.
Why did it have to be her? Why was Sora HER sibling?
Maxsodin was awakened by a glimmer of sunlight that tickled her eyes open. Dawn. She had to move.
Maxsodin sat upright. Her entire body ached from the night in the cold wetness. Rolling her shoulders and wincing, Maxsodin stood up slowly and began to locate the nearest ally.
Another day; perhaps she would find more answers.

Note Left on Maxsodin's Bed

Dearest Friends,

Yes I am gone. Don't bother looking for me. I have no idea where I'll go. Don't worry, I'll be back in under a week's time. I only need to sort out my thoughts. Alone. Please do not think less of me for needing time away from that hate and misery of The Darkness.

III

Secrets No Longer

Nexan walked into the training room. It was really early, before dawn even, which gave her all the reason to startle when she found Maxsodin in there.
She was wearily prodding at the wall. She seemed dead, or at least half asleep. Nexan was truly puzzled. Maxsodin NEVER woke this early. Then why was she up and training?
Summoning her sickle, Nexan walked silently over to Maxsodin. The weary figure failed to notice her arrival.
"Hey." Nexan said quietly, not wanting to disturb the silence that hung thickly in the air.
Maxsodin stopped prodding and slowly turned to look at Nexan. She blinked her bloodshot eyes and turned back to prodding.
"Hey." she answered, her voice hoarse and groggy.
"Why you up so early?" Nexan began whipping her sickle skillfully around a stuffed dummy, making precise and actuate cuts in the tough fabric.
"Couldn't sleep. Too much on my mind." Maxsodin said. She staggered over to a dummy next to Nexan and began half-heartedly attacking it.
They practiced in silence for a while. Nexan felt guilty about how she treated Maxsodin after her ordeal. She hadn't meant to be so harsh, it was just the pressures of running the Organization combined with the ever nagging question of what to do with Maxsodin had made her so.
Some time pasted. Nexan had been racking her brain for how to apologize when Maxsodin sighed.
"I'm sorry, Nex." she said woefully.
"Sorry? You? For what? I'm the one that's done all the wrong!" Naxan stopped practicing to stare in puzzlement at Maxsodin.
Maxsodin shrugged. "Well, you had the right to be the way that you were. I know I would have been if I had needed to deal with the likes of me. But me, I shoulda known better. As soon as I found out about my condition I shoulda left. I shoulda rid you guys of me, rid you guys of your biggest problem."
"Max..." Nexan felt immediate sympathy towards Maxsodin. If she would have know Maxsodin had found out about her condition...
"Here Nex. Maybe you'll understand better with this. I... I was keeping it from you cuz... cuz well,... here..."
Maxsodin held her palm up and a leather-bound book vaporized from darkness in it. Hanging her head sheepishly, Maxsodin held the book out for Nexan.
Still puzzled, Nexan took the book. She stared at Maxsodin then read the cover: The Diary of Xemnas, Head of Organization XIII
"The last few entries is what you need." Maxsodin said.
But as Nexan looked up to question Maxsodin, she had vanished.

Oh Crap...

Maxsodin stared at the memo with relief.

She was safe. For now at least. Her slip-up was forgotten.

Letting out a heaving sigh of relief, Maxsodin flopped onto her bed. Xemnas's diary, which had been sitting on the bed, now flew a small distance into the air. As it came down, Maxsodin caught it skillfully with one hand. She laughed aloud at her luck.
Fanning through the pages for the zillionth time, Maxsodin allowed the pages to breath history to her. Again and again she fanned the pages, until her hands slipped and the book fell to the floor with a mute thud.
Growling quietly with frustration, Maxsodin lay on her stomach, reaching down off the bed for the book. Grabbing a hold of the back cover (for the book had landed face down), Maxsodin haled it back up to the bed.
She stared at the inside of the back cover. There was writing there she hadn't noticed before. She read the quickly and not so neatly written words.


To whosoever finds my diary,
In my perfect plan, I have found but one flaw. Yet it is a major flaw. Maxsodin mustn't be allowed to stay in the Organization. As I have only now found out, she is the younger sibling to that accursed Sora. This allows her to wield a Keyblade. DO NOT LET HER WIELD A KEYBLADE. If you have already made the mistake of allowing her, there is no turning back. The immense power of a Keyblade combined with the sheer power Maxsodin possesses is a deadly if not fatal combination for our Organization. In order to insure that the Organization will not fall again, you must activate Braxyd's programming immediately. You can do so in 'The Room', which is the room down the hall from the room in which you found my diary. His programming should automatically activate if Maxsodin openly threatens the existence of the Organization, but that would be cutting it too close. I hope you succeed in your task, for the fate of the Organization, and the destruction of Kingdom Hearts.
Xemnas



Oh crap....
Maxsodin jumped off her bed and quickly read through the memo again.
OH CRAP!
In very little time, Maxsodin would have to face Sora.
He was her BROTHER, whether she knew it or not.
He might be the only one to accept who she truly was, what a monster she had always been.
Would she dare fight against him?
Could she?
But worse yet, did she have a choice?

Memo. (Left in each Member's Room.)

Train fast and hard. The date of Sora's demise is approaching swiftly. One week from tomorrow we attack. Build endurance. We will attack united, friends bonded together with one goal in mind.

I

Forgotten Entries

Maxsodin was cleaning her room. She might as well get all her stuff together, or at least organized. While shuffling some sketches and drawings together, she noticed one of them was stuck under a stone block in the wall. Sighing, she walked over to retrieve it.
She pulled, but the paper didn't come loose. She placed a hand on the block for leverage and pull again. The paper didn't move, but the block did.
Maxsodin lost her balance as it moved, but he was too shocked to catch herself. She fell onto the floor and stared at the block. It had just move. She pushed it again, more directly than before. It slide easily farther back. The sound of an airlock was heard along with the sound of stone being pulled slowly over the floor. She looked over. A secret door had just opened in her room.
Curiosity trumped all fear as Maxsodin went inside. It was dark, but some groping around found a light switch. She flicked it up.
A single light bulb hung from the ceiling. It hummed and buzzed quietly. The room was small, no bigger than an office cuticle. In it was a single table, and on it a single leather-bound book. At the table was a plain wooden chair.
Maxsodin walked into the room and sat at the table. The wood was smooth and dust-covered. She picked up the single book, and blew of the thick layer of dust on it's cover. When she brushed the rest off, a title could be seen, engraved in the leather:

Diary of Xemnes, Head of Organization XIII

Maxsodin gingerly flipped it open. In neat script, Xemnes had scrawled all his personal thoughts and plans into this one book. This was the single pathway into Xemnes's head. It was a mind boggling thought.
Maxsodin flipped slowly through the pages, barely bothering to skim the entries. She was looking for one thing: the last entires Xemnes wrote. She found them as the diary flipped a chuck of pages at once, opening to the last writings of Xemnes. Maxsodin read them to herself:

It has been a long and hard day. It is in these days that I realize my fate, the fate of the Organization. Too many of us are already defeated. We are destine to be destroyed. As much as I want to deny this, I know deep down it is true. That is why I have formed a plan. Organization XIII might fall, but I can prepare a new generation who won't.


Dear Diary,
I have sent my plan into action. The outcome was a success. Four young children have been taken and brought into the world of Darkness. They are currently undergoing the process of becoming Nobodies. They hold the fate of the Organization and the doom of Kingdom Hearts in their tiny little hands.


Xigbar brought the children to me this morning. They are three girls and one boy. I was quite proud of them. Their former names were Anne, Sasha, Madison, and Brady. That will soon change. But one of them, Madison I believe, there is something about her, something in her eyes. When I saw her I felt the Organization's doom hit me like a thunderbolt. Like that miserable member Roxas, I feel that Madison is the weak link. And like Roxas, she must have a 'Xion' to destroy her if it comes to such a time. I choose young Brady for this heavy task.


I began Vexan in Braxyd's (for that is Brady's new name) altering today. If the time comes when Maxsodin (the new name of Madison) openly threatens the existence of the Organization, Braxyd's programming will kick in and he will have no choice but to destroy her.


Lexaeus was destroyed today. We must be fast.


It is official. Tonight Xigbar and I will take the children to their new guardians. Very few villains volunteered for the task, but we found enough for each little member to have their own guardian. Xigbar is taking Nexan and Xahssa (formerly Anne and Sasha) to Jafar and Cruella. I am to take Braxyd and Maxsodin to Captain Hook and Barbosa. I hope they will be safe until they are old enough to join forces.


Xigbar was destroyed today. I am the only one left.



Maxsodin stared in shock at the last page where Xemnes's last ten words stained the page. Maxsodin knew the truth now. She no longer could trust even Braxyd. Whether he wanted to or not, Braxyd would kill her in the blink of an eye. Maxsodin was on her own