Author Notes from I. Write. Love.: ... And I'm going to die now. Three chapter stories... This one is ALL iSpazzeh's fault in a sense... Being over at her house makes my brain work to well... -glare- Now I'm co-writing a story with her? Awesome... (Spazzeh: Thanks.)

So anyway. Welcome to next Kingdom Hearts chapter story! Weee! This time it's got randomness and humor, romance and adventure! Not to mention you'd get what I'd call a peek in on my boring ass life! W00t!

No, I'm kiddin'. If this actually happened, I'd own Kingdom Hearts right now. Literally.

Well, enough of the useless talk. TO THE STORY!

Disclaimer: Although I might own the rights to use iSpazzeh (Alison), Cody, Paul and I in this story, I don't own anything else, including PlayStation, Kingdom Hearts and the creepy dark portal guy... -shivers-

Riku stole my rum during "The Opposite of Light". Steal it back from that bastard if ya see him, kay?

Shoutout from iSpazzeh14: =D Heyo, everyone! So, FINALLY, I make a MAJOR contribution in one of I. Write. Love's stories, rather than the minor ones that I've made in her previous stories, WHICH I never gained much credit for. Thanks, I.W.L -glares back- (I.W.L: DON'T GLARE AT ME BITCH!) But Anyways... Enjoy!~ And be sure to read the sisterfic that I'll have up soom! (The same story, but from my point of view =p )

Quick Edit from I.W.L.: The last names have been changed as well as R.L. locations. Sorrrry stalkers.

Chapter One:

"Rachell! Xemnas got Sora!"

"Cody, shut up and stop telling me the obvious!"

I shoved the annoying brunette away and gripped the controller as I smashed the 'X' button down. I heard him growl in irritation as he sulked to sit beside me as my friend, Alison, and her boyfriend, Paul, chuckled from the couch.

"Ya'll are more fun to watch than that game." Paul said sarcastically, most likely texting on his rather than actually paying attention. He wasn't a gaming nerd. So what?

Alison, on the other hand, was, and decided to comment as such. "Well, I have to agree; you two interesting when you argue."

Cody turned. "Shut up! She's fighting like crap!"

"Doesn't mean you need to tell me, Cody!" I snapped back, losing my focus on the game for a whole second and getting a nice round of attacks as a consequence. Dammit. "Besides, I'd like to see you do better!"

The brunette started for the PlayStation's controller, only for it to be moved out of his reach. "How am I supposed to prove you wrong if you won't give me the damn thing?" He growled, scowling in my direction.

"I'm in the middle of a boss battle! You can wait!" The health bar dropped half-way. Daaaammit. With little to no control, I pressed pause and turn toward him. "If I keep losing health because of you I swear I'll get a Keyblade and kick your ass!"

"That's not a threat!"

"Like hell it is!"

Alison threw a pillow at us, frowning at us both as Paul wrapped his arms around her. "Both of you shut up and play the game already!"

We didn't decide to argue. Cody threw the pillow back at the couch as I resumed the game and continued my Xemnas-ass-kicking time. The stupid brunette wasn't talking, and I assumed he had given up on control of the game, so I settled back into the fight easily; a few hits on me, even more so on the boss, and I would be done. I would have beaten Kingdom Hearts II. Accomplishment? I think so. I was down to no health, as was Xemnas… Just one more combo…

My vision of the TV went nearly all to dark and I screamed, pounding on the pause button as I kicked whatever was in front of me hard in the stomach. Cody rolled off me in pain as I pulled the controller back to me, glaring daggers at him. "What the hell?" I screamed at him as he rose up from the ground, holding his stomach.

"I tackled you and you kicked me!" Cody yelled back, brown eyes staring me down.

I growled. "Yeah, I kicked you because you tackled me, dumbass! Maybe next time you shouldn't do that!" Even as focused as I was on Cody right now, Alison was pinching the bridge of her nose, Paul still having no interest and on his phone. Why was he here again?

"That's it…" Cody dove for the controller again, this time his hand actually managing to make contact and seize it, wrestling for the thing on the carpet. I aimed a cheap kick and he tried for a bit on my wrist, but the cord wrapped around one of our ankles (to this day I swear up and down it was his), and the PlayStation fell off the TV, crashing into the ground below in a display of sparks and smoke. Our fighting stopped as we gapped, the screen going blank. Alison made a noise caught somewhere between "what-have-you-just-done" and "I'm-going-to-kill-you".

"M-My PlayStation…" she whimpered a little, standing as her boyfriend tried to pull her back down. Shit. We were dead.

Cody took the defensive. "What the hell did you do?" He yelled at me, releasing the control from his grip and pulling away.

"ME? I didn't do it!"

"You're the one with the controller in your hand!"

I threw it at his face, missing, but growling. "The cord wrapped around your ankle!"

"Like that happened!" He threw it back at me, but I dodged it and it struck the ground, bits of black flying everywhere. Now we were dead… Twice.

Alison made another noise, but I was to busy gaping at him. "Look what you did!"

"I didn't dodge it!"

"You threw it!"

"SHUT UP!"

We (including Alison) looked over at Paul, who had put down his phone for a split second to glare at us, annoyance in his brown eyes. "Thank you. Yellin' ain't gonna fix that thing."

"Then what is?" Cody snapped back, just having to be sarcastic in a time like this. Alison had sunk back to the couch, holding her head and mumbling something about torture chambers and an abundance of chains. I was trying to collect pieces of what was left of the controller, as the PlayStation still scared me to touch; smoke was still rising from the tray area and sparks were still flying from the back of it. I'd get Cody to pick up later. If he got electrocuted, it wouldn't matter, really.

Paul didn't have an answer back, leaving Cody with a scowl as he turned back to the blank TV and broken PlayStation. "Well, guess you won't know how it ends."

My last nerve snapped. "Of course I won't." I faced him, and he winced away if even a little. "All I needed was one more combo. ONE MORE COMBO. Yet, you had to be stupid and try to get the controller away from me, and now I will never know. AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT."

"That's really what you're worried about? You just broke my PlayStation, and you're worried about the ending?" Alison was asking, looking up from her hands, a glare set in her brown eyes. "Fine. You want to know the ending? Roxas dies. The end."

My jaw fell open as Cody snorted. "That's not the ending. The real ending is…"

"SHUT UP!" I punched him on the arm. "Don't tell me how it ends!"

He rubbed his arm and stood, sulking away toward the kitchen. "Hey, Alison, anything else to eat?"

She glared in his general direction. "Yeah, I think there's some bleach in there somewhere…"

"That's not funny." Cody popped back into view, frowning. "Really, I'm hungry."

"Really, my PlayStation's broke now because of you and Rachell. Food should be the least of your worries."

I paled a little, then stood and stalking Cody into the kitchen, opening the fridge door and pulling out the box of pizza from earlier. "Here. Food."

"But we already ate that…" He whined, taking it from me anyway and opening it up. "Sweet, there's still pepperoni!" All thoughts of eating the left-overs escaped from his mind as he grabbed a slice and bit into it, nearly skipping back to the living room and leaving me behind. I narrowed my eyes and picked up the box, carrying it back to Alison and Paul.

Cody had flopped down on the couch as Paul picked up what was left of the PlayStation, Alison still mourning over the loss of her favorite game console, and most likely her favorite game as well. "There ain't no way we're gonna be able to save it." Paul said, swatting away the smoke from the console and looking back to Alison. "They wrecked it."

She whimpered painfully. "You… You owe me so much now…"

I made a face and set the box down, moving away twice as fast to avoid anything else being thrown at me. "Well, um, on the bright side, uh…"

"We have pizza!" Cody chimed with the brightest smile on his face that quickly faded as we all gave him a look. "Sorry for being optimistic…"

"I'll return to optimism when I've got another PS2 and a copy of Kingdom Hearts II." Alison said, voice muffled by her hands. "Until then, the positives are not in my mind."

Paul's look was sympathetic, while mine was crossed between that and the pain I knew was to come. Cody didn't seem to care for much over his disappearing slice of pizza, though, like he completely forgot what had happened only a few moments before. If he did, that wouldn't have surprised me. Cody Hatton was not the brightest person, his intelligence consisting of hitting his head harder than normal against just about every locker he saw. Most of the lockers at our school had nice sized dents in them, and Cody seemed pretty proud about it.

While Cody had the intelligence of a squirrel, Alison Beishem fared a whole hell of a lot better. She had taken honors English for a while in school, and was in two juniors' classes, which was more so to say for me. Her boyfriend Paul Hardwick seemed to be the same way, although I wasn't entirely sure. He was visiting us from Waco for Spring Break, and I had only met the guy a few days ago. We got along fine, though. Well, at least better than Cody and I.

I, Rachell Davis, am a dumbass, and that's probably the sweetest way to put it. In school I nearly failed Algebra I and Chemistry when I took them, and I didn't do much better in my other subjects, the only two I've ever been good at were English and History. The only reason people ever automatically think of me as "smart" is because I wear glasses and sit in the back quietly, never drawing attention to myself. Well, thanks for the stereotypes high school.

Aside from our smarts or lack-thereof, we all were video game nerds, minus Paul, of course. Cody and I had actually met because of Kingdom Hearts II in Biology, and getting to know Alison was a plus because of the game. Unfortunately, Paul had never heard of Kingdom Hearts, and was lost even watching us play the game for three days straight from the beginning two different times, leaving Cody and I to wonder where it was he grew up exactly.

So we were all crazy, but I'd like to know about any group of friends who aren't.

After Paul managed to clean up the PlayStation's remains and Alison held a quick funeral, we went back to the living room without anything to do, our motivation to actually do anything at all suddenly drained as that last shred of entertainment was dumped in the trash. As we sat there, just looking at the wall, there was a crash from down the hall, and Cody jumped a little, dropping his phone onto my lap.

"Dude, did you not get enough out of throwing that controller at me?" I snapped, when Alison waved at us.

"Shut up. What was that?"

I shrugged as Cody and Paul went into the room to investigate. There was a muffled yell and Paul reappeared running and ducking behind the TV screaming, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?" Cody was quick to follow suit, cursing and mumbling while holding his arm, blood dripping a little.

"Cody, what the f-"

"That's a freakin' Dusk!" He yelled, and I swore it took way to long for my mind to process that.

Alison and I exchanged a glance as our brains caught up. "What?" He had to be going completely mental right now. There was no way there was a Dusk in the house!

I hate being wrong.

If on a cue, the stupid white creature slithered out from the back, hissing and clawing its way toward us. Paul still was hiding behind the TV and Cody stepped in front of Alison and I, probably in some way of protection.

It stopped as quickly as it started, and stood, body moving in that creepy dance as it stared us down, mouth hanging open. I made a face caught between confusion and relief before there was a 'whoosh' and a boot heel on tile, making Cody and I turn around quickly. A well built and obviously taller man stood in front of the door, a rippling and swirling dark portal behind him as he surveyed the room, face hidden from sight by his hood. "This world seems weak and pathetic."

"Who in the hell are you?" Cody snapped, glaring at him, even though I could guess he knew.

The man's gaze turned back to us, then lingered down a little at Paul, who froze. "And you four are who connected it. Equally as pathetic."

"Who are you calling pathetic?" Paul asked, standing up with more courage than before, fists tightened at his side. A man he could handle, but a creature unknown to him was too much apparently.

"You fool." The man shook his head, and I caught a glimpse of silver hair. My stomach sunk. "You think you're brave, but you could never handle yourself up against me."

Paul's rage was growing, I could tell, and Alison took half a step forward.

"I could take ya." The teen growled, never moving from his spot in front of the stranger.

"No, you couldn't Paul." Alison then stepped forward, smiling mischievously at the cloaked man.

I smirked as well. "But we know someone who can."

"What-"

It was enough of a distraction, and with Cody's hand firmly in mine, Alison and I dashed toward the portal, Paul having enough understanding of the situation to follow. As soon as we fell through it, the grip on Cody's hand faltered and my vision went black.

The first thing I realized when I came to was the pressure on my back. The second was said weight was of Cody, who was right on top of my back, equally as unconscious as I had been. Without hesitation I pushed him off with a low curse, successfully waking him up.

"Wha' the?" he groaned, rubbing his head and sitting up. "Where in the hell are we?"

During the quiet commotion, Alison and Paul had been roused from their sleep as well, sitting up and rubbing their eyes, all while trying to take in the sights around them. I was the one with enough clarity to actually answer Cody's question however. "I know this going to sound crazy and unbelievable, but I think we're in the World That Never Was…."

"Huh?" Paul asked, face showing evident confusion as well as some sort of belief that I was indeed crazy. "The World That Never what?"

Alison, as soon as her cleared eyes would allow it, looked around and all color left her cheeks. "Well I'll be damned…" She didn't even stop to correct herself as she stood and collected more of the castle. "We are… You can tell by the walls."

Cody and I exchanged glances, rising to stand as well and looking around. She wasn't lying; eerie white moving walls with the same insignia on each of them, evidence that we were in that cursed castle. "But… How?"

"The dark portal…" Cody mused, eyes scanning over every detail. "Either we're in some obsessive fan's house or this is the real deal… We're in Kingdom Hearts."

I almost fainted.