Ai: Hi guys! This is my first story, so I hope it's good! My english may not be very good so please bear with me.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, because if I did, DiZ would be dead. You can trust me on that.


"Don't lose yourself in the darkness. If you do, your heart will be lost, and all your chance at a second life is determined by the power of your will. Pass, and a new adventure begins. Fail, and…"

Those were the words I had heard since I was young, and they were burned strongly inside my mind. I'd never have thought that I would have known the meaning behind these words, but I did now.

The darkness surrounded me in all directions and began to swallow me up, almost hungrily. I felt myself sink deeper and deeper into a never ending abyss. I lost consciousness, but not before feeling the hand of the person beside me being forcefully torn away from my grasp before I could even respond.

******

I could feel a hand on my shoulder shaking me awake roughly. "Hey, kid, wake up. Wake up!"

"Ra…!" I sat up with a jolt and found myself looking into a pair of bright green eyes. "Oh… Wrong person. Sorry."

"Took you long enough to wake up."

I blinked once and took a look at my surroundings. I was in a quiet place which seemed to be in the night and was full of tall dark buildings. And, in front of me, was a tall skinny man with fiery red hair spiking back and emerald green eyes with a tattoo of an upside down teardrop under each eye. His companion, on the other hand, was short and had brown hair and blue eyes. Both were dressed in a long black coat reaching their ankles.

I sat up from my position on the floor and dusted myself off. "You are…"

"Axel," the red-headed man said and pointed to his companion, "and this is Roxas. Got it memorized?"

"Umm, yeah, I think so. I'm Claire. Where am I and what am I doing here?"

"Wait, wait, wait. Before we answer, we've got a few suspicions about you, so I propose something. You see that huge white castle over there?" I nodded. "Right, if you manage to make it up there from where we are now in one piece, we'll answer your questions."

"Axel, I don't think…"

Axel snorted. "C'mon, Roxas, didn't you just say that you thought she was that too?"

I fumed. They were deliberately refraining from telling me anything, that much was obvious enough. But Axel's challenge didn't look that hard to me. I looked up at the castle mentioned. It wasn't all that far from here, in fact, I was sure that I could easily make it up there in a few minutes.

"Don't worry. It'll be easy enough. All I have to do is make it up to the castle, right?"

"Yeah, but it's not gonna be as easy as you think," Roxas said. "These things are going to be attacking you all the way." Just as he finished his sentence, a bunch of dark beings emerged from the shadows and leapt towards him. He summoned a weapon and dispatched them quickly enough, leaving me stunned.

Axel smirked. How infuriating. "So, good luck!" Following that, he and Roxas walked into a dark portal of some sort, which disappeared behind them.

I decided to take some course of action before I was attacked again, so I quickly pondered on what I could do. I could just keep running and avoid whatever monsters appeared, or I could actually fight them. But these options would be too energy-consuming for my liking, so I decided to use the idea which had suddenly struck me. I flexed my fingers.

"I hope this still works…"

******

I opened my eyes as my feet touched the ground, now at the entrance to the castle. Axel and Roxas were already there. I ran up to them.

"How did you get here so fast?" I asked.

"No, how did YOU get here so fast?"

"I don't need to tell you that. Okay, now answer my questions! You promised!"

"Okay, okay! We're gonna take you somewhere. There, there'll be someone who can explain things far better than we can. Are you fine with that?"

"Well, then hurry up!" I said impatiently.

Roxas raised his hand up and a black portal similar to the one before appeared. He beckoned for me to follow him into it, so I did. The next thing I knew, I was in a huge room surrounded by white walls with a balcony, from which a large moon in the shape of a heart was hanging form the sky. There was a man with long blue hair and an 'X'-shaped scar on his face dressed in the same clothes as Axel and Roxas in the room as well.

"Another Nobody?" the man asked.

"Yep."

The blue-haired man raised his hand in front of me. I wondered if he was going to summon that weird black portal again. But he didn't, because the next thing that happened was that my name appeared in big gold letters. Then, to my surprise, an 'X' was added to my name and the letters began to mix themselves up, and stopped.

"Calixre." the man said, referring to me.

"Ummm, no. It's Claire."

"As of now, that is no longer your name. Your new name is 'Calixre'."

"Could you pick something less weird for me ?"

"You don't get much of a choice in it," Axel suddenly said, causing me to jump violently. I had completely forgotten that he and Roxas were still there. "At most, we'll give you a nickname. 'Calix'. Okay, that's it. Got it memorized?"

"I like that much more. Fine with me."

The blue-haired man spoke up again. "So, what special abilities do you possess?"

I crossed my arms defiantly. "I don't feel like telling you that. I came here under the impression that I would be getting some answers to my questions, and not vice versa, so if I don't get some answers quick, then forget it. I'm outta here."

"Don't feel like talking, do you? Eight, take her to the prison. She can keep that boy company. Maybe the Superior will visit them later."

I found my wrist in a tight grip and looked up to see that it was Axel. "Come on now, move along," he said, dragging me forcefully towards a black portal which had appeared from nowhere.

I growled angrily. What was going on?! I came here to get answers and the next thing I know, I'm being forcefully dragged off to some kinda prison! Is this my unlucky day, or what?! "Axel, you big, big, BIG LIAR!!" I screamed. But it was ignored because the next thing that happened was that I was shoved to the floor and Axel vanished through the portal we had just been through.

I swore with every single vulgarity I had in my head and kicked the wall with all the strength I had. "Axel is such a big liar… if I ever get out of here, I'm going to kill him!!" I screamed again and gave the wall a final kick. Great, now my foot hurts. This is REALLY one of my unlucky days.

"Quit doing that, you woke me up!" a voice to my right complained.

I looked at the person who just spoke to see that he was sitting up. We stared at each other for a long time.

Then screamed. We were each looking at someone we knew very, VERY well.


Author's Notes:

And well, that's it for the first chapter! I'll post more chapters up as soon as I can, so please look out for it! Also, you see that Review button down there? Please click it. Come on, you know you want to! It's my first story, so make a girl happy, won't ya?

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