Kairi hears a pitter-patter on her window. She jerks awake expecting a heartless's yellow eyes to be peering at her from behind the glass; instead she sees a boy with spiky hair. Kairi looks at the boy with an annoyed glance. She doesn't care who is at the window at 2 am; it is still 2 am! Kairi tries to fall back asleep.

The tapping on the window starts up again.

Kairi groans and flips on her bedside lamp before dragging herself to the window. Her pale pink shirt and shorts look almost white in the dim lighting. Kairi opens the window. "What is it?" She roars through tired eyelids. Only a window screen separates her from Sora.

The boy on the other side of the window grins at Kairi's words. A shiver goes up Kairi's back warning her to back away from the window. Sora's grin has a mischievous fakeness to it. Before Kairi can take a step back Sora throws his hand through the window screen and grips Kairi's throat. Kairi grasps for air. "Sora…" She whimpers.

Sora's eyes are full of focus, his smile fades as he speaks, "Maleficent is back."

Kairi thinks quickly as the crushing force of Sora's hand stops her breathing. In a swift movement, Kairi snags a calligraphy pen off her desk and stabs it into Sora's arm. On impact both the pen and Sora's arm make a sickening crack. Sora reels back in pain. Kairi falls to the floor. She crawls as far away from the windows as possible. "Why are you doing this?" Kairi yells at Sora. Instead of answering her, the spiky haired boy jumps through the screen and lands in Kairi's room. Kairi screams bloody murder as she races toward the door. Sora rips the pen out of his arm and lets a dark liquid spew from the hole it made.

Sora quickly catches up to Kairi. He sticks his fingers into Kairi's hair trapping a mob of strands in his fist. Her head thrusts backward due to the pain. Kairi only stops with enough time to spin herself around and elbow Sora in the nose. She tugs her hair out of his grasps and races toward the back door. A toddler stands in a doorway beside the hall rubbing his eyes. Kairi gasps when she sees her brother. She picks him up in a swift motion and puts him in a large closet in the his own room.

"What's going on?" Timmy asks with a yawn.

"You have to hide, ok? Don't come out until I come to get you."

"Ok." Little Timmy crawls behind a pile of clothes blending in perfectly.

"Kairi! I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me. Could you stop hiding? Mickey brought news about Maleficent." Sora yells as he struts down the hall toward Kairi's brother's room. Kairi let's herself sink into the darkness of a corner of the room. The door squeaks. "Kai-ri," Sora calls out like he is playing hide and seek. Sora takes a step into the room. Kairi leaps out of her hiding space and kicks Sora directly in the face. He falls to the floor with a loud thud. Kairi steps over him. The unconscious boy takes hold of one of her feet. Kairi stumbles.

"Why are you running?" Sora asks.

"Let go, Sora!" Kairi demands. She shakes her leg free and races toward the phone. She barely stops to pick it up. The scared girl's fingers dance gracefully over the numbers. The call goes through. Riku picks up on the other line of the phone with a moan.

"Sora is insane! He's trying to kill me!" Kairi whispers desperately into the phone as she races through the kitchen.

"Sora is at your house…now?" Riku asks with suspicion in his voice.

"He leaped through the window! You have to…"

A force pushes against Kairi's back sending her flipping forward into the linoleum. She is barely able to catch herself before her chin hits the floor. The phone flies out of her hand.

Sora picks up her ankles and chucks her into a corner. He walks over to her and picks up a knife from the counter and crouches next to Kairi sealing her into the corner. "Stop." Kairi pleads. She hits her head against the cupboards as she seeks to escape the knife that inches forward. Sora grins and places the knife onto her cheek. He slowly drags the metal down to her chin. Kairi screams.

The knob on the nearby backdoor twists, the sound is followed by a thud. Neither of which get the door open. On the other hand, it did get Sora's attention. Kairi twists her head away from the knife and slams her hands into the fist holding the knife, causing Sora to drop his weapon. Kairi shoulders Sora in the chin as she makes her way out of the corner. She swipes the knife as she goes by. Kairi runs toward the backdoor and the person behind it. She runs through the doorway, Sora follows close behind her. Riku stands behind the screen door and slams it into Sora's face as he tries to enter the garden. Sora losses his balance due to the hit and falls down the stairs. Kairi barely catches him before Sora's head hits the concrete.

"What happened to him?" Kairi asks. She puts the knife by Sora's neck to keep him from going after her again.

Riku didn't know what to make out of all this. Sora would never try to hurt Kairi. Has the darkness finally consumed him?

"Kairi, Riku, what is going on? You're scream woke up half of Destiny Islands, Kairi." Kairi and Riku's head swing toward the sound of the voice, the voice that sounds like Sora, but it the sound came from a darker part of the garden.

Sora goes maniac again. He pulls Kairi's knifed hand away from his neck and swings it around so that she is forced to threaten herself with it. "Kairi!" Riku yells. Kairi just whimpers.

A bolt of light shoots out of the darkness of the garden and into Sora. He flips into the air sending the knife into the bushes. The boy lands with an ear shattering crash.

"Who was that?" says the person who unleashed the beam of light, he holds a keyblade. "Sora!" Kairi cries and embraces the real Sora in a bear hug. Riku turns a blind eye to the lovey-dovey moment and walks over to the menace that attacked Kairi. The thing that use to look like Sora doesn't even look remotely human anymore, half of the thing's face is whipped off showing a silvery sheen, one of the legs is completely demolished, and its limbs are twisted in odd directions. "It looks like a robot." Riku answers Sora's question.

"Who would be able to build a robot like that?" Kairi asks as she finally lets Sora go and moves closer to the machine. Sora walks over to the robot with her.

"Organization XIII, maybe. They built a replica of me once, but that replica wasn't a robot like this one." Riku explains.

"It said something about Maleficent being back though, and the Organization is gone." Kairi adds. Sora pokes at the robot's head. "There is a metal plate on the neck, it says100297, and has an Organization insignia on it." He analyzes.

"Maleficent is using the Organization's technology." Riku spits into the pile of rubble.

"She is trying to take us down one by one." Sora says solemnly. A mechanical hands grabs hold of Kairi's ankle. She screams and gallops around sending screws and bolts everywhere. She smashes her feet into the head collapsing the metal skull. She stops to breath and whips a tear of blood that is dripping down her chin.

"We are just going to have to destroy her first." Kairi speaks triumphantly and looks up at the stars.