I really just need to pick one story and keep working on it -_- Oh well. I've been on a bit of a Kingdom Hearts high lately *cough overly obssesed cough* and i've had this story stuck in my head so I thought I would try write it down :) Here goes nothing.

I don't own Kingdom Hearts.

Dreams

"Our union was not complete."

"Join me now, and we can complete the X-blade!"

"I've got a better idea. How 'bout i destroy you both?"

"The X-blade is made of your heart to, idiot. If you destroy it, your heart will vanish forever."

"Whatever it takes. Anything to save my friends."

"Hmph, it's always about your friends isn't it?"

"At least I still have some! I've become a part of their hearts, just as they've become a part of mine. My friends are my power...and I'm theirs!"

"You're such a fool...Ven-"

"I'm sorry...Van-"

-Line Break-

Identical pairs of blue eyes snapped open as two bodies simultainously shot from their respective beds. Two boys sat breathing heavily, surrounded by tangled masses of bedsheets.

The first to recover had spiky, golden blond hair that swept to the right. His hazy, ocean blue eyes began to clear as he wiped the persperation off his forehead. He huffed, blowing some honey coloured bangs out of his line of sight before looking over to the other side of the room at his brother.

The other boy had soft, brown hair that spiked out in all directions, more so due to his current bed head. He sighed, covering his blue eyes with his hand for a few seconds, then finally looked over to the blond.

"Again?" He asked his twin. The blond boy got a grave look on his face as he nodded slowly. "Roxas, we should realy tell someone about this."

"Are you kidding Sora? People will think we're crazy." Roxas said anxiously as he untangled himself from his mass of bedsheeets.

"But it's the same thing every night! If this keeps up I'll start falling asleep at school or something." Sora got a thoughtful look on his face. "More than usual."

Roxas smiled at his brothers remark as he finished making his bed. Though he wouldn't admit it, he knew Sora was right. The same dreams had been re-occuring every night for the past three months, two days after their fifteenth birthday, and were getting more and more vivid. The dreams always contained the voices of two boys, though they never saw their faces. What made it more bizarre was that both he and Sora dreamt the exact same dreams.

Roxas was brought out of his musing by the sound of Sora finally getting out of his own bed. He raised a brow as he watched the brunette make his way towards the door.

"You gonna make that?" He asked, motioning to Soras messy bed.

"Hm? Nah, I'll do it later. Race you to the bathroom!"

Sora ran out the room at full speed, laughing at his brothers shouts of protest.

"Hey, no fair! You got it first yesterday! SORA!"

-Line Break-

"You didn't have to trip me." Sora grumbled as he 'limped' down the hall. Roxas walked next to him, a triumphant smirk on his face.

In the end Roxas ended up making it to the bathroom first, after throwing a clothes hanger at his brothers feet, causing the brunette to face plant the floor and allowing Roxas to easily slip past him and into the room.

"Oh quit whining you big baby." The twins were now fully dressed and ready and on their way to get some breakfast. Roxas was wearing a black, sleevless shirt with a grey collar and a grey line down the centre. A white, shot sleeve jacket covered the shirt. It had a black hood that was red on the inside; the right side of the jacket had the roman numeral XIII, whilst the left side was decorated with a strange black symbol that looked like a three pointed star at the top, but became rounded and circular at the bottom. (A.N-the Nobody symbol). The jacket also had black trimmings. His pants were baggy and black at the top with light grey chaps. On his feet he wore a pair of black and grey sneakers with red straps and silver buckles. (A.N-his pants, shoes and undershirt are just the same as in the game). To finish it off he wore a black and white checkered wrist band as well as a black ring on his index finger and a white ring on his middle finger.

As for Sora, he was wearing a dark blue, sleevless shirt with a white collar and a large, red pocket at the front. His jacket was similar to Roxas' only his was black with a grey hood that was white on the inside. On the left side of the jacket was the white outline of a heart while on the left was a symbol similar to the top of Roxas' (A.N-the wayfinder or the zip on Roxas' shirt in KH2) that was also white. The jacket also had white trimmings. Around his neck sat a thick, silver chain with a crown shape pendant. His pants were black and extremely puffy with a blue belt and gold straps; they reached to half way down his shin. On his feet were a pair of black and gold, ankle high sneakers. His hands were covered by a pair of black, fingerless gloves with a gold band around the wrists and silver trimmings and staps goig over the back of his hands. (A.N-basically he's wearing the same as in KH2, only his jacket has changed).

The boys continued their banter as they made their way into the kitchen.

"Morning Axel." They greated simultainously. Leaning agains the counter, newspaper and coffee in hand, was a tall, thin young man with fiery red, extremely spiky hair. He wore an orange, short sleeve shirt that was left unbuttoned revealing a white undershirt; a gold and black scarf was wrapped around his neck. His pants were a beige colour and he wore a pair of red sneakers. (A.N-similar to what lea wears in BBS).

Axel lowered the paper revealing his vibrant green eyes and the purple teardrop tattoos that sat beneath them.

"Morning guys. You do know it's still totally freaky when you two do that." The older male pointed out with a smirk. The twins shrugged as they took thier seats at the counter where their slightly burnt breakfast awaited them. It wasn't their fault that they often talked in unison, maybe it was a twin thing.

"Mmm, nothing like a nutritious plate of coal to start the day." Sora said dryly as he poked at his food, causing Roxas to snort into his orange juice.

"Yeah, no kidding. Can you ever make anything without setting it on fire?" Roxas asked as he crunched on a slice of charred toast.

"Hey, if you don't like my cooking then you can make your own breakfast." Axel retorted looking slightly offended.

"I offered to, but you're always up so freakishly early." The blond boy shot back.

"Well unlike you lazy buggers, I have to work for a living."

"Right...work." Sora said softly. He and Roxas shared a quick glance before returning to their food, all conversation ceased. Axel never talked about his job, no matter how much the younger boys asked him. Although he tried to hide it, the twins would notice him return home with injuries and all roughed up; sometimes he would be gone for days, even weeks before finally showing up again.

A sharp knock at the door caused the trio to jump as they were pulled out of their own thoughts.

"I got it!" Axel shouted as he left the room, happy for an excuse to get out of the awkward atmosphere.

"Yo Roxas, Sora, it's your lady friends." The twins turned bright red at Axels outburst, nearly choking on their breakfasts.

"Axel!" They yelled in unison as the older male walked back into the kitchen with a smirk on his face. Following behind him where two young girls.

The first girl had auburn hair that reached her shoulders; she wore a pink, strapless dress that was decorated with multiple zips, the middle one slightly unzipped revealing a white, thin strap undershirt that had a black hood attached to it. A black belt sat around her waist with black braces. Finally, she wore a pair of pink sneakers with black ribbons around her ankle. (A.N-the same as in KH2).

The second girl was slightly darker in comparison. She had short, midnight black hair and soft blue eyes. She wore a purple shirt that exposed her shoulders and stomach and reached down to her elbows. Underneath she wore a black, thin strap shrit that was slightly longer than the purple. She wore a black, pleated skirt with hight purple stockings. A purple belt sat loosly and crooked around her weist, with a silver buckle and the roman numeral XIV. On her feet were a pair of black, ankle high sneakers. For a finishing touch she had black wrist bands around both wrists and a thin, black ribbon tied in a loose bow around her neck.

The girls smiled at how syncronised the two boys were.

"I see you two finally decided to get out of bed." The aurburn haired girl acused with her hands on her hips.

"Give us a break Kiari." Sora whined as he dropped his empty plate into the sink. Whilst he and Kiari continued their soft banter, the black haired girl made her way over to Roxas, who was busy chugging down the last of his juice.

"Good morning Roxas." She said with a small smile.

"Hey Xion." Roxas greated with a much larger grin. Roxas and Xion had been best friends for as long as they could remember; their bond almost rivaling that of Axel and even Sora.

"Are you ok? You look a bit pale." Xion asked sofly as she took in his pale complextion and the small bags under his eyes. Roxas smiled at her concern.

"Yeah, i'm fine. Just had a rough night." Xion nodded but said no more. She, along with Kiari and their other friends had noticed the change in the twins, however whenever they approched them about it, they would simply blow it off as nothing.

"Hey, you two! Are you coming or not?" They heared Kiari shout. They looked over and saw the red head standing in the doorway with Sora in an uncomfortable looking headlock. Deciding they didn't want to know how it came to that, Roxas dropped his dishes off at the sink, grapped Xions hand and walked towards his unfortunate brother and thier energetic friend.

"See you later Axel!" They shouted over their shoulders as they left the house. Axel simply waved his goodbye, none of them noticing the grave look he got in his eyes.

-Line Break-

"I can't believe we're gonna be late, again. You two really need to get your lazy behinds out of bed quicker."

"Hey, we were ready by the time you got here! Maybe it's you who needs to be quicker."

WHACK

"OW! What was that for?"

"You can't rush a lady. Unlike you, we have to look nice during the day."

"You saying me and Roxas don't look nice?"

"Exactly."

"You wound me so kiari."

"You're such a dork."

"I don't know Kiari, we've both seen the amount of hair gel those two go through."

"Don't encourage them Xion."

"Sorry Roxas, but it's true."

"A guys gotta look his best."

"HEY!" The loud shout brought the group out of their bickering as they made their way down the beach, towards the docks. The source of the voice belonged to to a tall boy with long silver hair and sharp, aquamarine eyes who was stood by five small rowing boats with his arms crossed.

"Hey Riku." Xion greeted with a smile.

"Took you guys long enough. I think the tide went out like three times." Riku joked

"Sorry, but tweedle-dumb and dweedle-dumber were taking an eternity to get out of bed."

"Hey!" The accused twins glared at kiari who simply smiled back at them.

"Nevermind that. Lets get over to the island." Riku said as he shoved the smaller boys towards the boats.

"Race you guys there!" Sora suddenly exclaimed as he jumped into his boat. The others followed suit, each getting into their own rowing boats and racing after the brunette.

-Line Break-

"Seriously. Again." Sora grumbled as he attempted to ring out his soaked clothes.

"Not having much luck today huh bro?" Roxas pointed out as he patted his brother on the back. During their race Riku had caught up to Sora and used one of his oars to tip the boys boat allowing him and the others the row merilly past him, leaving the spiky haired brunette to sputter in the sea water and attempt to correct his capsised vessel.

"You guys are mean." Sora pouted

"You know it." Roxas said as he pinched his twins cheek.

"Have you no respect for your big brother?" Sora stated dramatically causing Roxas to snort.

"By like, forty seconds."

"Alright you two, break up the bromance. We have a raft to build." Riku intervened, taking the two boys into a headlock and dragging them towards the designated building sight.

"You know, I've been wondering. Why are we building a raft if we have boats?" Xion asked the red head beside her.

"Cause the boats arn't ours, we only rented them remember." Kiari answered.

"Oh...Yeah." Kiari giggled, hooking her arm around Xions and pulling the black haired girl after their male friends.

"Come one, they're gonna start with out us."

-Line Break-

"You're doing it wrong."

"Am not!"

"If you lift it like that you're gonna throw your back or something."

"I know what I'm doing Riku."

The girls arrived at the raft in time to see Sora attempt to lift the mast into place, Riku attempting to correct him and Roxas standing to the side face palming.

"Sora, just give the mast to Riku." Roxas finally said.

"Wah, no."

"Well he obviously knows what he's doing. And your probably just gonna hurt yourself...again."

"Arn't you meant to be on my side." Roxas sighed at his brothers imaturity before deciding to give him a hand. Once the mast was in place the blond boy grabbed Sora by the arm and pulled him away before he decided to touch it again.

"It's looking pretty good." Kiari noted as she pulled a piece of material from a backpack she had brought with her. She then pulled out a sewing kit and began finishing up the flag that was to be tied around the top of the mast.

"You really think this is gonna work?" Roxas asked soflty.

"Of course it is." Riku said confidently. "Besides, don't you two wanna find out where you came from?" He asked, pointing to the twins. Sora and Roxas shared a look and grabbed their left arms, before nodding.

One of the reasons the group was building the raft was to feed their curiosity of worlds beyond their own. Also, they had agreed to help Roxas and Sora find out where they had originally came from. The twins were not actually from Destiny Islands, the world they where currently living in. People had told them that they had washed up on the Islands when they were barely a year old. What stumped them most was the marks that were on the top of the two babies left arms. On the brunette baby was a golden mark that looked like a three pointed star, whist on the blond baby was a silver mark that looked like a three pointed star at the top, but then became rounded at the bottom. At first, the residents had thought that the marks where tattoos, but tests had shown that the marks where actually part of their skin, more like birthmarks. As time went by the boys began using the marks as their own symbols, hense why they had them imprinted on their jackets, even going as far as using them in their signatures.

The babies were sent to Destiny Orthanage were they grew up happily, becoming quick friends with Axel. Once Axel was of age, he moved out of the orphanage with the twins, who had become like brothers to him. After an emotional goodbye, the trio moved into a small bungalow (hence why the boys share a bedroom) where they have lived ever since.

Roxas and Sora met Xion when she had moved to Destiny Islands to live with her Aunt and Uncle, Kiari's parents, due to unfortunate circumstances. She and Roxas have been inseperable ever since.

"I'm gonna go get some extra wood." Xion said, breaking the twins out of their remenisance, as she walked of towards the trees. Roxas shook his head and let go of his arm.

"Come on Sora, lets get this raft finished."

-Line Break-

The group of friends continued working on the raft for the entire day, half way through Roxas and Sora had removed their jackets, revealing their strange birthmarks, as the heat intensified.

"We only have a couple of things left to find." Kiari said as she examined a list.

"We'll get 'em." Roxas offered as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"What do you mean 'we'"

Roxas ignored Sora as he took the piece of paper out of Kiai's hands.

"C'mon, it'll be quicker if we both go." Was all Roxas said as he grabbed his jacket and his brothers ear and dragged his unfortunate twin off.

"OW! Roxas. Let me go!" The blond boy finally released his captive and took a look at the list of things they had to gather.

"Right, Sora, you go get the fish, while I go get the seagull egg."

"Why do I have to get the fish? I've already been soaked through today." Sora whined.

"Cause I don't trust you to climb that tree without hurting yourself."

"Gee, thanks." The elder twin grumbled as he removed his shoes. Roxas smiled at his brother and shoved him towards the water.

"Swim along then fish boy, your catch awaits."

"Shut up! Jerk."

-Line Break-

The boys soon re-joined each other once they had claimed their prizes.

"So whats next?" Sora asked as he rang the sea water out if the bottom of his pants.

"We just gotta get some mushrooms, then we're done." Roxas answered as he folded up the list and shoved it in his pocket.

"Great. So, where should we start looking?"

"How bout the secret spot? It's pretty dark and damp in there." Roxas suggested.

"Worth a shot. Lets go." Sora quickly pulled on his shoes before the twins made their way to their secret spot.

The secret spot was actually a cavern that was hidden by thick brush that the group of friends had descovered when they first came to the island. Roxas and Sora quickly made sure no one was around, then pushed the branches aside and crawled through the small opening. They continued through the thin passage way before finally coming to a large, open chamber that was covered in intracate drawings all over the walls and rocks.

The twins smiled at all the memories that they and their friends had created in the open space, marveling at the fact that no one else had stumbled across their special place.

"Here." Roxas had to go cross-eyed in order to see the small rock Sora had just shoved in his face. "We agreed to add something everytime we come in here, remeber?." The blond greatfully took the rock and looked for a place to add his markings.

"Sora, over here." He and Sora walked over to, what looked like a large wooden door, though no one knew where it led as no one had ever gotten it open, and found a large rock, clean of any drawings. The boys got busy, quicky scraping down a new addition to their collection.

"There, done." Roxas said softly as the twins took a step back. "No question to who's been here now." The younger twin said with a small chuckle.

"Yeah." Sora breathed as he reached up to touch his left arm.

"Hey look, there's a mushroom." The brunette watched his brother walk over to the fungi and pull it out of the ground. "Well, thats that. Lets get back to the others." The two boys began to make there way towards the passage way before they stoped dead, a shiver making its way up their spines.

"This World has been connected."

Roxas and Sora jumped at the sound of the voice. They quickly spun around to see a hooded figure, standing in a dark part of the cavern, next to the wooden door.

"Wh-wha...Who are you?" Sora exclaimed. The figure said nothing, only continueing to stand in silence.

"How the heck did you get in here?" Roxas tried. Again, the figure said nothing. The twins moved closer together, unsure of how this hooded...man? had gotten in without either of them noticing.

"Roxas, Sora, are you in here!" The boys subconsiously grabbed onto each other as another voice made its self known. "Ah, there you ar...What are you two doing?"

They looked towards the opening to the cavern and saw Xion with a confused look on her face. The boys then noticed their close proximity and quickly darted apart, sputting excuses.

"Nevermind that. Come on, Riku and Kiari are getting worried." The twins turned back to the figure, only to see that there was no longer anyone there, causing their hearts to skip a beat.

"Sora, Roxas?" The boys jumped again as Xion walked towards them. "Wow, you guys sure are jumpy. You're acting like you've seen a ghost." Have we? The twins thought. "C'mon." Xion finally got impacient and grabbed the boys wrists and dragged them out of the secret spot and back to the raft.

-Line Break-

"What do you think it was?" Roxas looked over at his brother who was lying on his bed, hands behind his head and staring unseeing at the ceiling.

"I...I don't know." He answered softly as he sat up in his own bed, Sora following suit.

"First the dreams..and now a ghost. I...I think we really are going crazy." Roxas didnt reply. He simply hid his face in his knees and sighed. "Roxas...we really need to tell someone." Sora said softly.

"Alright, you win. We'll tell Axel about it tomorrow." The blond finally said. Sora smiled and was about to lie down again when an emense crack of thunder nearly caused the boys to fall out of their beds.

"Oh no! The raft!" Sora exclaimed as he jumped out of bed and ran to the window. Roxas joined him and watched as thick, black storm clouds began to cover the sky.

"C'mon. We've worked to hard to lose that raft now!" Roxas shouted as he stripped his sleepwear and pulled his clothes back on. The boys quickly and quietly snuck out of the house and made their way down to the docks. By the time they reached the boats, the wind had picked up as well as the rain; hammering down on them relentlessly.

"ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS?" Sora shouted over the storm.

"NOT REALLY!" Roxas shouted back as he jumped into his boat. "COME ON!"

The boys battled the waves in a desperate effort to make it to the island before the raft was lost. Once they arrived they noticed two other boats also docked there.

"WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS?" Sora yelled.

"WHO CARES. LETS JUST SECURE THE RAFT AND GET OUT OF THIS STORM!"

With great effort, the boys made it to their precious raft and managed to drag it inland and out of harms way. They secured it to a strong tree, that just so happened to be right next to the secret spot. The twins decided that waiting out the storm was better tham attempting to make it back to the mainland and rushed to get inside the cavern.

"I so don't wanna go back in here." Sora said with a shiver

"Well it's either this or drowning. Take your pick." Roxas shot back as he rung out his jacket. It frustrated both boys that they where frightened of a place that they held so dear to them.

As they rounded the corner, they noticed two figures standing in the dark room, infront of the wooden door.

"Kiari?...Xion?" Sora asked. "What are you doing here?" It was then that the twins noticed the blank, lifeless looks in the girls eyes.

"Ro...xas...So...ra." The girls said simultainously, alsmost roboticly. Suddenly, a large Keyhole appeared on the door and from it a huge gust of wind which blew them towards the boys, who tried to catch them but to their surprise, and horror, Kiari and Xion past right through them and vanished. They didn't have time to ponder this as they too were caught in the gust and blown rather violently out of the cave.

The boys quickly recovered from the landing and sat up to adress the situation, however, what they saw caused their eyes to widen and their jaws to drop.

The entire island was covered in large masses of black smoke and bright beams of light. From them crawled strange creatures, that soon began to wreak hovok. The creaturs that crawled from the black smoke were as dark as night with peircing yellow eyes, that sat in their round heads. They would shrink down into the ground and sliver along as shadows, before rising up again.

The creatures that crawled from the light where sharper than their dark counterparts, with more pointed heads and features. They moved with quick, precision like living lightning. They had sharp, peircing red eyes that illuminated just like the rest of their body.

Sora and Roxas continued to watch the mayhem, not quite yet believing their eyes, that is until some of the creatures finally took notice of their precense. The boys tensed as the beings made their way towards them.

"R-R-R-Roxas." Sora began frantically shaking his brothers shoulder, who just continued to sit and stare, frozen in fear.

Suddenly, the creatures attacked, diving on the twins all at once. The boys screamed as they were surrounded by the creatures. However, they felt no contact. They opened their blue eyes only to find themselves in unfarmiliar surroundings.

They looked down and saw that they where standing on what lookind like a large glass window. The image was of both boys who looked to be sleeping, surrounded by smaller pictures of the people they held dear. They noticed that they were holding something, but didn't get a good luck before they were once again surrounded by the wierd creatures.

"Fear not the darkness. Fear not the light."

The boys jumped as they heared the voice.

"That's the same voice as before." Sora whisperd to his brother, who was standing back to back with him. Roxas nodded.

"Yeah. I know." They noticed as the creatures began to get aggitated before finally making their way towards the twins. Suddenly, a bright light and deep darkness covered the room, causing Roxas and Sora to cover their eyes.

"For within you there lies the strongest weapons in existance."

The boys felt something manifesting in their hands as the light and darkness began to fade away. They removed their hands and gasped at what they finally saw. Both boys had hold of what looked to be qiant keys...or swords?

"The Keyblades."

The key that Roxas held was black in colour with a thick chain going down the middle and a bat wing like handle. A black chain was attached to the handle with a black crown shape pendant. On closer inspection he noticed the word Oblivion carved in delicatly curved writing on the side of the blade.

The one in Soras hand was silver and split down the middle then met in a heart shape near the top. The head of the key had soft gold, blue and purple colours as well as the handle, which was shaped like angel wings. His too had a chain hanging off the handle, with a pendent that was shaped like the star shaped paopu fruit that only grew on Destiny Islands. Sora also noticed the word Oathkeeper carved in the same curved writing on the side of his blade.

"The power that sleeps within you."

The creatures, that had myseriously frozen when the keyblades appeared, began advancing towards them yet again. The boys gripped their new weapons tightly, feeling the power flowing through them, and began instictavly attacking their enemies.

They continued to fight in perfect balance until all of the light and dark creatures had vanished. However, they had no time to recover as they found themselves back on the island and surrounded by an even bigger threat.

It took all of their will power to not drop thier keys as they gazed upon the two giand beasts that loomed above them. Both creatures where identical, only one was made of darkness whilst one was made of ligh. A huge, heart shape hole sat in their abdamons, that seem to be shooting out balls of energy.

The boys felt their Keyblades shake with antisipation and pull them towards the monsters. Instictivly, Roxas moved towars the dark being, whilst Sora moved towards the light and as if triggered, the twins dove towards their prey, attacking them with moves they never though possible.

It took a while, but finally, the creatures, stopped, to injured to fight on. However, one again Roxas and Sora didn't have time to think before an emense vortex of swirling light and darkness began to suck everything away. Sora grabbed onto his brothers hand in hopes of them not being separated as they both grabbed a tree, though their efforts where fruitless as they too where pulled into the portal, screaming all the way, yet never letting go of each others hands.

-Extra-

"Man, what a storm." Axel stretched as he made his way to the twins room to check on them. "Hey Roxas, Sor-" The words died on his lips as he entered the room. The first thing he noticed was the crutains, flapping violently in the harsh wind and water that pooled in the open window. The second thing he noticed was the empty beds. Putting two and two together all the colour drained from the red heads face.

He moved quicker than he ever had before, throwing open the front door and racing down to the docks, knowing exactly where the younger boys where heading. However, when he finally made it to the beach he noticed the twins boats were gone, then he got a good view of the island, or what was left of the island. He watched in horror as two enormous monsters where sucked into in even bigger portal, along with the small piece of land. Then he heared somthing that made what little colour he still had on his face, drain completely.

Two Screams. They were carried across with the wind and seemed to swirl around Axel as if tormenting the young man.

"ROXAS! SORA!"

Oh my holy marshmellow, it took me all day to right this DX This has to be the longest thing I've ever wrote, EVER!

Anyhoo, enough dramatics. I'm sorry if there are any spelling or crammer mistakes, the laptop I'm using doesn't have spell check (seriously, what kind of computer doesn't have spell check!)

If you havn't already noticed, this is like a balence fic, you know, both light and dark are good and bad blah de blah. Also, Axels job will be described later.

I'll try and get the new chap done soon :)