Disclaimers: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of its characters. They belong to either Disney or Square-Enix

Warnings: slight language, AkuDemy in far later chapters.

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Dreaming...

What is there to dream?

Seeking...

What is there to seek?

Longing...

What is there to long for?

Loving...

What is there to love?

Heart broken...?

I haven't got one...

Nothing. Nothing but a black void deprived of every sense but sight and sound. There was nothing to focus on, nor anything to speak to. Only black void surrounding. For a long time the dark void was what it saw, nothing more. Memory had been stolen, locked away. Movement was ceased to barely breathing, which was strange to be able to do in such a stark world. To keep its mind at least intact, it asked questions to the darkness, all the while answering them itself. Though it was merely in its mind. Time was not known, therefore it could not tell how long it was trapped in this prison, wishing to be free. But wishing doesn't get you far. It was a mere child's thing while innocence was fresh at heart. Heart... one it knew it lacked. Something warm, beating, full of emotions to actually feel and experience. It knew not of the deep feeling of such, able to express them, but not feel them.

I'd do anything to get out of here.

But... you're technically dead.

I still want out... I want another chance, I don't want to be worthless.

You're not worthless.

But I was beaten. I did not want to fight, I wish I wasn't here.

But you are...

Not far from the first being, was another in the same condition, yet they did not know the other was next to them. The Dark had swallowed any image, to prevent them to see one another. The second being seemed to be in a nightmare, having been in the dark void slightly longer than the first. Drowning itself in a sulken state, the second being was almost to the point of madness. The first was merely lost, confused. So there the two beings were, stuck in a world of nothingness, imprisoned in their own minds. What they didn't know, was time itself outside this prison was ticking away faster than their minds could process if they knew. What felt like a mere minute to them, a month in the outside world passed, then another, and another. Each minute that ticked away in their minds was a month gone. Oh how they would realize what was happening out there... in the Light.

It is Time...

Who said that?

Come... be free...

Free!

Come to the Light... forget your evils... follow the Light.

I see nothing but Darkness.

Look harder... follow the Light... follow the LIGHT.

It only took an instant, before both beings in their own prisons saw a blinding white light growing into a seven pointed star, and ever growing, about to consume the darkness. Somehow the first was able to flinch a hand, then its arm, slowly reaching out. The light began to grow and brought with it a sence of warmth. Somehow, the being was slowly freed of it's hold, and spoke for the first time through its throat than its mind. "It's... warm... FREE ME!" The white light thus, upon the requested, exploded, covering both beings in white light and warmth. Sound rushed into their ears like a thousand waterfalls, each roaring so loud, they threaten to silence their hearing forever. Everything was so blinding, they were forced to shut their eyes. Everything was coming back, memories returned, names given back, everything... except the thing they lack the most... their hearts.

My name... is Axel.

My name... is Demyx.