I am only putting this ONCE! Disclaimer: Anything and Anything that you haven't seen in the games belongs to me. The rest belongs to Square Enix and their wonderful crew.

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A Gummi ship sailed through the stars as a warp gate opened in front of it. As soon as the owner and only resident on the small ship knew it had opened, she sent a message to the ruler of where she was headed. Turning on her heal, the girl walked calmly out of the room. Her silver eyes were holding back tears the whole time.

The outside of the ship was checkered black and white. Custom made and painted by the young teen in the ship. Her family was always off on business, helping to keep what worlds they could out of the clutches of darkness. Their world must've been the only one that still had knowledge that all of the now separate worlds were once one.

As the girl grew, she had spent her time in the Gummi garage, learning how to fix ships and helping where ever she could. At the age of ten, she started to construct her own Gummi ship at the garage under the supervision of the owner, Eztli.

At the age of twelve, the girl had started working for the king and going out on missions to help the worlds that the kingdom had a connection with. Of course, she was never alone on the missions. No one was. They needed someone with a certain power to unlock the paths between the worlds. A key bearer.

But on the mission the girl had tried to return home from, said bearer had fallen in battle with a powerful Heartless – monsters of darkness that took your heart if they over powered you.

On the home though, her ship's main computer had noticed something strange. The coordinates took them to a place where nothing existed.

The guardian world had been taken by the darkness.

When the girl made it to her room in the back of the ship, she sat on her bed hugging a fluffy purple pillow and let the tears roll.

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"Tala, we'll be at Atlantica in a few minutes. You should make yourself presentable for Triton." A computerized female voice called from a speaker.

The girl had gotten herself tangled in the dark sheets of her bed, making it a struggle to show signs of life. A groan and a few harsh curses was all that the computer could understand from the mutters of the teenager.

"Tala, get up. We're arriving. Make yourself halfway decent at least..." There was a click to show that the computer was not in that room anymore so to speak.

After a few minutes, Tala decided to try and escape her sheet made prison. That of course, ended with her on the floor and her sheets on the bed. Standing and dusting herself off, Tala ran a hand through her long dark hair and walked through the door. Her right hand's fingers toying with her collar's tag in thought.

The choker around her neck was spiked, and had a violet tag with 'Zuka' engraved on it in katakana. The rest of her outfit was a white fitted tank top and really baggy black pants held up by a single belt. On her hands were black and white striped fingerless gloves with ruby hearts on the palms.

Telling her computer to disguise itself, Tala muttered a simple spell and left the ship, being engulfed in the salty water. Her white top turned to white sea shells, and her pants to a black fish tail.

As soon as Tala was able to let the water flow into her mouth, the teen found herself in someone else's arms and her sight was blurred with red. Tala could only tell that it was a girl due to certain body parts.

"Tala, daddy sent me to greet you. I heard about the tragedy." Pushing the girl away, Tala saw who the mystery female was. It was her best friend Ariel. They had met on Tala's first mission, which just happened to be to Atlantica. Ariel's long red hair flowed around her, giving her an innocent look. She had purple sea shells made her bra, Tala was jealous due to them being her favorite color, and a tail like Tala's, only a lime-ish green.

It took a minute to register what Ariel had said. Surely Triton hadn't told her about other worlds. Ariel was having enough fantasies about the land world, he didn't need her wanting to go to other worlds all together.

Ariel looked away, "Those terrible creatures…but now you've come to stay with us." Ariel's expression brightened considerably, "Come on, daddy said he would meet us by the market."

Tala nodded and tried to follow, but ended up going the opposite way, just backwards. Ariel turned around, "You're not used to these waters are you? Here, let me show you."

After a few basic movements were covered, the two headed towards the market, exchanging short stories about what's happened to them in the past year.

"I got it! I got it!" Yelled a voice off to the side of the two mermaids. Tala turned only to have a body come crashing into hers. The two went plummeting down a hill. "…I don't got it."

Some laughter came from above them, mixed with Ariel's worried gasp.

The other person, a merman, pushed himself up and shook his head. "What I hit?"

"The term you're looking for is 'who.' And the name's--"

"Tala, are you alright?" Ariel called, cutting off said mermaid.

The boy looked at Tala through long bangs and smiled, "I'm Demy. Nice to meet you Tala."

If you looked close enough, or as close as Tala was, you could see a glint of something in his eyes, but it something that came and went as quickly as a thought for world conquest to a pure hearted person.

With a simple smile, Tala swam past Ariel and towards the market, grabbing Ariel's arm on the way. Her only hope was that the blush she knew was there wasn't noticeable.

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Ariel had gone back to the palace under order of King Triton, it was just Tala and the king. After a short silence, Tala asked about Triton telling Ariel about other worlds.

Triton laughed, "You're from another kingdom correct?" Tala nodded. "And your kingdom was taken by darkness?" Again, Tala nodded. "That's all Ariel knows. I said nothing about other worlds, so unless you told her about you being from another world, she's completely oblivious."

"Your…happy about that?" Tala inquired.

Triton shook his head. "No, but it's better than her hoping to find ways to other worlds. With enough will power, I'm sure she'd be able to find a way."

Tala nodded. "Ariel said you needed to see me about something. Is it about where I'll be staying? Or who I'll have as a roommate?" Tala was always fond of the idea of having roommates. But that didn't happen unless you were in collage or battle troop training. Mostly men signed up to go fight heartless though, so that hadn't been a big thing for her.

"Well, yes and sort of."

"Sort of? Will I have more than one roommate?" Tala got excited.

"You'll be moving in with a family that has close ties to the palace. I've informed the parents about you being from another world and about your situation. I believe Ariel is friends with their daughter."

Tala sighed. "It's because of my age isn't it?"

"Yes. Thirteen doesn't quite cut it as adult here. But I think it would be wise to enjoy your teenage years, despite the fact you're an adult back in your world."

After negotiating, the two came to a few agreements and Triton gave Tala directions to where she was to live for the next five years.

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It was dark when Tala finally made it to her new home since she had stopped off to get something to eat with some of the money that Triton gave her.

After knocking on the rock hard door, it was literally rock hard-possibly made FROM rock-, Tala heard some yelling on the other side of the door before it opened. Tala cast her gaze down, too shy to see who had greeted her.

"…Tala?" Asked a strangely familiar voice. Said person looked up and met the blue eyes of the one that had crashed into her earlier that day.

"Demy?"

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Okay. New Intro. New Story. New Material. Sue me, I couldn't think of anything for Demyx to be named and scramblers don't help that much. Next chaper I'll work on later today. It's like 1 in the morning, I need sleep.