Note: Alrighty, just a quick thing real quick. P I don't own any of the characters from Kingdom Hearts. All of the original characters, locations, items, in KH, such as Sora, Riku, and Kairi, belong to Squareenix and Disney, all of the Disney characters, locations, and items belong to Disney, and all of the Final Fantasy characters, locations, and items belong to Squareenix. All original characters, locations, and items, belong to me. Squareenix and Disney created a truly amazing universe, I'm merely stampeding through it. P

Chapter One: Nobody's Gain

Pale orange lights flickered in the dimly lit room as the red wrapped man stepped forward. His fiery orange eyes seemed to fade in and out in time with the room's poor lighting. He took another step towards the black hooded man kneeling before him, before removing one of his gloved hands from his robes. He idly picked up a dark globe sitting on the desk beside him, which was littered with papers of all different sizes, colors, and textures.

"You have failed me Marluxia." The man's deep, rich, voice burned in Marluxia's ears which had grown accustomed to the room's inescapable silence. He recoiled within his cloak, pulling it tighter around him.

"I'm sorry sir." he managed to mutter after struggling with the words that seemed to stick in his throat.

The man wrapped in red cloth laughed, the sound of his voice flooded the room once again.

"You're sorry?" The man repeated, dark humor clearly evident in his tone of voice. "You loose control over a key location in the grand scheme of the Organization, and you say you're sorry?"

Marluxia whimpered as he began to shuffle slowly backwards, trying to put as much distance as he could between him and his superior in that tiny room.

"Oh Marluxia... you are going to be more than sorry..." The red wrapped man raised his hand, and Marluxia began to raise as well, his hood falling behind his panic stricken face.

"Pl... please, sir... I... I... wont mess up next t-time!" Marluxia stuttered as his brown jagged hair danced around his face oblivious to the torment the rest of Marluxia's body was going through.

"Oh trust me Marluxia..." The red wrapped man smirked, showing off his dangerously white teeth. "You won't. By the time I'm done with you... You'll be praying for sweet death!"

"Nooo..." Marluxia whimpered, trying to crawl up into a ball in mid air. "No.... NOOOO!!!"

"NOOO!!!" Riku shot up from the ground and quickly began to look around, ready to attack any foe that might be sneaking up on him.

"Riku, what's wrong?" King Mickey began to look around in the same directions as Riku, wondering what he was so nervous about.

"Uh..." Riku looked around a few last times, before sighing. "It's nothing... Just a bad dream..." He sat back down on the dark grass that grew besides the path he had been walking down for two days.

"Was it Ansem?" King Mickey asked, sitting back down alongside Riku, smoothing out his dark robe that matched the one Riku was wearing.

"Nah... it was..." Riku sighed again, and fell down roughly on the ground. He stared up at the stars shining down on him and wondered about what he had just seen.

"Well?" King Mickey inquired, worry clearly evident on his face.

Riku smiled up at the King and shook his head. "It was just a dream. Nothing to worry about."

"Well if you say so..." Mickey said while standing up. "But I think we had better start off down the path again." Mickey walked off the grass, and his feet soon met the familiar road.

"Yeah, probably." Riku got up and stretched, before taking his place besides the King. They walked for a few moments in silence, before Riku looked down at his shorter companion. "Hey Mickey?"

"Yeah?" Mickey replied, looking up at Riku while he walked.

"Marluxia was using Naminé to gain control of Sora, right?"

"Right."

"And he wanted Sora, so he could take over the rest of the Organization, right?"

"Right."

"So, that's why Lexaeus wanted me. So he could use me to defeat Sora, right?"

"Right..." Mickey replied, wondering what Riku was worried about.

"So... we know that there's all this inner struggle and ladder climbing within the Organization... but what IS the Organization?" Riku's gaze shifted over to the stars that guided them while they walked down the path that seemingly lead nowhere.

"Er... Gee, I never really thought about that..." Mickey looked down at his feet, beginning to realize where Riku was going with this.

"And what exactly is their purpose?" Riku sighed. "All we really know about them is that they want me and Sora... and what's their connection with Ansem? And DiZ?" Riku shuddered as he remembered his nightmare about the red wrapped man.

"Golly, I dunno the answers to any of those questions." Mickey smiled looking up at Riku. "But I'd sure like to find out!"

Riku laughed. "Me too." He nodded. "So it's settled... We're going to find out what we can about the Organization! For some reason, I feel... I feel like it's tied into all of this more than we can comprehend right now."

Mickey grew quiet for a moment and watched Riku. He continued to walk along side his companion, contemplating things he had learned on his journeys. However, he was quickly, and harshly, shaken out of his day dream.

"Mickey look!" Riku shouted, pointing at a huge orange and black door that seemingly came out of nowhere.

"How long has that been there?!" Mickey exclaimed, jumping back eyeing the door suspiciously.

"It popped up after I said we were going to find out about the Organization..."

Riku took a step forward, watching the door cautiously. It stood two stories high, with intricate black designs depicting faded people on orange stone. Riku ran his fingers over the ridges on the door, and wondered what had caused it's appearance.

"Whoa!" Riku jumped back as the designs began to light up where he touched them. They began to move, and the light spread, covering the door in a bright, pearly, light. Riku looked up at the top of the door, and for the first time, noticed a large golden bell, which began to ring as soon as the light reached its tip.

"What's going on?!" Mickey shouted over the deafening roar that was caused by the bell.

Riku winced as he cupped his hands over his ears. "I have no idea!" he shouted back.

"You made another choice."

Riku and Mickey snapped their heads up at the same time, and watched the man who was standing besides the bell.

"DiZ..." Riku whispered, his voice drowned out by the bell.

"You've decided what you want to do, have you not?" DiZ smiled as his voice clearly flew into the ears of the cloaked figures in front of him. "This door will take you to where you want to go. It will lead you to your answers."

"Where does it lead?!" Riku shouted, tears beginning to form in his eyes from the continuous eruptions of sound from the bell.

"Enter and find out." With that said, DiZ faded from view and the door flew open causing pearly white light outlined in deep purples to flow out of the orange framed door.

Mickey looked up at Riku. "Well?!" He shouted, looking back into the door.

Riku nodded down at his companion and took a deep breath. "Here goes nothing..." he whispered before charging head first through the door, Mickey right by his side.

The door then swung shut, and faded away as suddenly as it had appeared, leaving DiZ visible once again, chuckling to himself.

"You'll get your answers Riku... oh yes... you'll get your answers and they'll be more spectacular then you could have ever imagined..." DiZ stepped forward, and began to fade away. "And so begins Act 3... it's going to be quite the show..."