Alone in the darkness....I do not fear

Alone in the darkness....I do not fear, for I am the one, I have been trapped here for what has seemed like an eternity. I rock back and forth as I cradle my knees close to my chest. I stare out into the nothingness that I can no longer see. I hear the silence that resounds in this lonely place. I take in the scents of the tiny room that I now call my home. My hands reach over the ground, searching for a way out for as long as I can remember. I whisper, 'Help me....someone help me.' My voice is soft as I grow weaker and weaker, soon I can say no more. I am falling, falling forever through the darkness.

I am now only able to see my reflection in the eternal shadows. The small light that began to pull away from me seemed to take all pain as it left, my body became numb. All the emotions within my heart were stripped from my body; the light was the essence of my soul. I tried to lift my arms to take it back in but I was unable to move. I had become an empty shell. I existed yet I did not...I had become one in the lines of the non-existent ones. Why me? I tried to speak but my lips were numb also, I could not breath, I felt my life being stripped away with that small shining light that he saw in the distance. What is happening to me? Sora? Kairi?

Where am I? What the hell? I can't move, fuck...where am I? The darkness...it....it's taking me again. No, I don't want to go back there, anywhere but there.

A voice could be heard even though I saw not where it was coming from, 'Do not fear the darkness, you must embrace it. You must become one with the darkness once more if you wish to escape.'

I jolted suddenly awake as if from a horrible nightmare, I could move my arms and legs freely but I was still very weak. I needed to find a place to stay where I could raise my strength. When I glared around I had finally taken in my surroundings. I was sitting on some kind of path; it was grey and all around it I could see the darkness once more, the place I loathed with all my heart. 'Oh my...' I had been stripped down to my birthday suit and covered myself quickly with my hands, 'Hehe...good thing no one was here to see this.' That all too common red tint soon took over his tanned features.

I had soon found myself walking up the abysmal path, things crept closer to me the farther I headed up the trail. My eyes wandered and my thoughts strayed as I fought for warmth in this cold, dead place.

Two years pass in what seems like a moment, so many thoughts and memories were simple moments in the eyes of time. This place, I have thought for my entire journey but still my ideas for a name come blank. No hunger and no weariness has held up my pilgrimage for I have none in this place. Am I the empty shell that I saw in my dreams? The ones talked about by Ansem? Why am I being pulled upwards, the path, it always slants upwards, I shall call it 'Ascension.' Why am I being led there?