My second FanFic and sequel to There will always be Light. This story starts almost directly after the first ends. Enjoy my story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Disney, Square Enix or anything else, except my storyline and the characters I created.

Like I promised I refined the dialogue. I hope you enjoy 16afoster

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Dawn will always rise chapter one: Ghost boy?

Sora looked out at the ocean and could hear a faint hum coming from the air. He looked up and saw the Highwind descending. Sora stood up and waved. Riku stepped next to Sora and Kairi did the same. The Highwind landed and the hatch opened. Donald and Goofy came out. When Sora saw his friends he ran towards them and they fell in a messy pile. Riku and Kairi laughed while they greeted each other and helped Sora up. Sora looked at his two friends and saw that they wore their old clothes. Goofy wore his helmet and armour while Donald wore his blue robes and matching hat. They invited them in and Sora, Riku and Kairi carried their belongings into the ship. Donald and Goofy followed and they soon departed.

As they flew Donald and Goofy told them what they've been doing the last few days. Sora told them what he, Riku and Kairi have been doing. "That's incredible Sora. So now you have control of the Nobodies and the Unversed. From what the King told us the Unversed were a much stronger enemy a couple years ago. Especially Vanitas and Xehanort." Donald's voice was scratchy as usual but Sora couldn't think of anything else that reminded him of the duck.

Sora agreed but told them that he still hadn't gained control over all the Unversed. "Vanitas told me that almost all of them gained free will when Vanitas was defeated by Ventus." Sora leaned back and closed his eyes.

Kairi asked him what he was doing and he looked at her with one eye. "It'll be hours before we reach Disney Castle, so I can just as well catch up on sleep like I did a year ago." Sora closed his eyes again and within a minute he fell asleep. Kairi looked at Riku and saw that he was already asleep.

Kairi looked at the residing blackness between the worlds. When she got bored she headed to the cockpit. She knocked and the door opened. She walked in and saw that Donald was concentrating on the monitors and panels in front of him. "Wow, and you did this every time you guys travelled to different worlds?"

Goofy nodded and made his characteristic h-yuk "Yuk but Sora did most of the flying. Me and Donald just handled the monitors and sometimes the weapon systems." Kairi looked at Sora and knew she had underestimated him, again.

Kairi looked out the window and saw stars the stars coming closer and shining brighter. "The stars are so pretty. Which one is Disney Castle?" Goofy pointed at a star directly in front of them.

Kairi looked at it and saw it slowly become larger. It shone brighter than most of the other surrounding stars. She asked them about it and they said it was because the castle was protected. She asked what the meant and they just said the castle was protected.

When they landed Donald and Goofy opened the hatch. They led the way and the trio of friends followed. When they reached the garden brooms walked up to them and took their baggage. Donald and Goofy led them to the library. Donald knocked and the door swung open. The five walked in and the door swung closed behind them. King Mickey sat behind his desk.

Mickey looked up when he heard someone enter and ran towards Riku. Mickey jumped and Riku caught him. Mickey hugged him and Riku did the same. Riku set him down and he did the same to Sora and Kairi. When they were done the king adopted a serious look. "Unfortunately this is no time for celebrations. We have a problem. But please sit down." Mickey waved at the space in front of his desk. Sora was just about to say there were no chairs when three comfortable chairs appeared in a puff of smoke. The trio of friends sat down and Mickey took his place behind his desk.

"As of four days ago the worlds were at peace. But for some reason we lost contact with a wide range of worlds. Not any you know of, on the outer edges of this universe. At the same time a great cloud of Darkness appeared in some separate realm. So far we haven't been able to send in a spy to investigate. No doubt they have something to do with the problem we're having with contacting the outer worlds. But as of two days ago we finally discovered what the cloud of Darkness was concealing. A great castle. Similar to Castle Oblivion as far as we've been able to discern. We have been able to find out who is the master of this castle. Look." A sphere of light appeared in front of the king and it widened into a screen. Sora could see a cloaked figure; similar to the one he had seen when Yen Sid told him. "Your Majesty. Sorry to interrupt but we already know who they are. Or at least we know of them. One of them appeared on the islands two days ago. He completely wasted us. A few friends of Roxas helped us get away." Sora explained what he, Riku and Kairi had been doing for the last three days. Sora explained that Xavier had taken them to the Twilit Realm, a realm completely out of sync with all others. The Twilit Realm existed outside of time and space. Sora explained that millennia could pass within the Twilit Realm and not a single second would pass outside of it. Sora explained that they had trained and gained control of most of their powers. "We went back to the Islands and destroyed the Heartless Dante had brought with him. I killed Dante. After my training he fell like all the other threats I've faced. But from what Yen Sid told me Dante was the weakest of the weak. He wore no cloak because the leader was disgusted to associate himself with them. The stronger they become the more complete their coat becomes. Yen Sid told me the leader often wore a multicoloured cloak. His cloak is complete; his subjects all wear different coloured coats. The stronger they are the more colours they add, and of course the more complete their coat becomes."

While Sora spoke Mickey was staring at his face in concentration. When Sora finished Mickey nodded. "Thank you Sora. Now we know what sets them apart. We have seen multiple members with coats. But they differ each day so we don't know if they're the same people. Maybe they change their coats each day or it's a different member each day. So far we have determined that at least ten of them wear a coat hanging below their ankles. They must be his elite. Or maybe his personal guard, we don't know but they never leave his side." Mickey explained all he knew about the new threat. But when he was done he sighed and leaned heavily on his desk. "We do have one problem though, our spies were all caught within a day. And each time we send in others they return even faster. They told me that the enemy is gaining more troops by the hour. But the more information they give me the more in the dark I become. I don't know the motives of this new enemy. They seem to act recklessly but no matter how recklessly their plans succeed."

Sora, Kairi and Riku listened to Mickey in silence except for a few questions. Hours passed and the trio was getting hungry. Sora tried stifling the noise his stomach made by coughing but all he did was give himself a hoarse throat. Before long Mickey gave up trying to speak over Sora's coughs and decided to take a break. "We can talk about this later. But it looks to me that you know about all you need too, if you want you can remain in the castle for a few days resting." Sora protested and they finally agreed on setting out the next morning.

Sora and Kairi wandered around the town that was stationed below Disney Castle. They decided to go shopping for recovery items and other essential thing on their journey. A few hours later they had dinner at a small restaurant. The waitress wanted to set them in a private booth but Sora protested. "Please keyblade master. It is an honour that you decided to dine at our restaurant. We wish to seat you in a private booth." Sora still protested but Kairi agreed with the waitress. "Oh come on Sora. They want to put us in a private booth so I say we let them." Sora looked at Kairi and the waitress and finally sighed in defeat. "All right, but you get a big tip."

The waitress smiled and led them to the back of the restaurant. She opened a door and ushered them through. Sora and Kairi stepped through the door and gasped. A wooden table was stationed in the middle of the room. The room's floor was marble with golden candelabras. But that wasn't the biggest surprise; a fire was burning in the exact centre of the table. Sora sat down and looked at the fire. He saw that the coal fire burned in a deep marble hole built into the table. The chair Sora sat in was the softest he had ever sat on and the wood that was visible was obviously gold plated.

The waitress laid the menus out in front of them and told them the special of the day. "Two lobsters boiled in butter covered in honey with a great variety of different fish surrounding it. If ordered the type of fish can be decided." Sora looked at his menu and decided; he looked up at Kairi and saw her stare longingly at Sora. "Sora can we have the special? I've never had lobster. And I know most of the fish on the menu. Most of its good but only if cooked just right." Sora sighed and told the waitress that they would have the special. "Of course sir. What fish?" Sora pointed at Kairi and the waitress looked at her. Kairi told the waitress what kind of fish and how it should be prepared. The waitress nodded and wrote it down. She asked for their drinks. Sora told her first thing that popped to mind. "Chai tea," Kairi nodded and asked for the same. "What kind?" Sora thought about it and told her. "and remember the honey." The waitress wrote it down and walked out the room. Kairi thanked Sora for letting them have the room and the special.

The food arrived and Sora took his first bite. The fish was delicious but he could taste something was off. Something that he had tasted before. Sora thought back to when he had tasted it before. In Port Royal. In a bar Sora had ordered some food and had tasted what he tasted now. 'Like liquorish but sweeter, much sweeter.' Sora remembered that Jack had tasted his food and he had spat it back out. "That's Thallium mate. Nasty stuff. Won't kill you now, but if you keep using it for a few days you'll die. It weakens you, blurs your vision and slowly your heart will stop beating." Sora took another bite of the fish and knew for a fact he had tasted it before. 'Thallium huh, sneaky. Thank you Jack.' Sora looked at Kairi and saw her eating the lobster with gusto. Sora looked up at the waitress and saw her smile at him. He called her over and she asked him if something was wrong.

"Oh its nothing. Except that I taste Thallium. I do hope you're not trying to poison us." Kairi stopped eating and looked at Sora. She looked down at her food and pushed it away. Sora looked at her. "Don't worry Kairi. For Thallium to kill you have to take it for at least three days. Keep eating."

She nodded and slowly continued to eat the lobster. Sora stood up and looked the waitress in the eye. He focused his will into his stare. He looked her deep in the eye and he could see her begin to shake. "Why did you poison us?" The waitress tried looking away but she couldn't. "Answer me."

The waitress stopped struggling and started laughing. "Why? To kill you of course." Sora drew his keyblade and walked over to the waitress.

"Why?" Sora stared deeply into her eyes and laid his keyblade against her throat.

She started bubbling about family honour and pride. "Xehanort killed my family. I want revenge." Sora looked at her and looked away. The waitress stumbled forward and drew a hidden knife. She drove it into Sora's chest and looked into his eyes. "Die keyblade wielder." She looked into Sora's eyes and stepped back with the knife still in his chest. She looked in disbelief as he pulled the knife out. She looked at his injury and saw that there wasn't one. The knife had scratched across his skin and bent.

She fell to her knees and cried. Sora walked over and pulled her to her feet. "You can't kill me. If you could I would already be dead." The waitress looked at him and continued crying. "Stop crying and leave this place. I will spare your life. Go." He let her go and she ran out of the room. Sora walked back to his chair and sat down. "Heal." A green light shone over all the food and drinks on the table. The green light also shone on Kairi. Sora started eating and couldn't taste a hint of Thallium. "This is good Kairi." She nodded and continued eating.

Sora payed the bill and walked outside. Kairi was already standing outside looking up at the stars. They walked back to the castle and went to the room Mickey showed them. They bathed and went to bed.

The next morning Sora and Kairi went to the library after they took a shower and had breakfast. The king was already there but Riku was not. They waited in silence. Riku walked in ten minutes later looking exasperated, took his seat and waited for the king to begin. The king cleared his throat and the monitor from the day before appeared. "Riku I'm sorry to tell you this but I need you to infiltrate this castle. I would send Sora and Kairi with you but they do not have the same kind of training as you."

Riku glared at the king. "Is that your way of telling me I'm better at being the enemy than them?"

Mickey sighed. "Of course not. It's just that, Ansem the Wise trained you to perfectly hide yourself in any situation. I would train Sora and Kairi the same way but I can't. I just don't have the experience nor the time for such a difficult task. Now I need you to take the place of one of the mid-ranking officers. You should feel comfortable in the area he's situated. He is the only one in that sector and he never does anything. He's like Demyx but lazier."

Riku sighed and donned his cloak. He stood up and went to stand beside the desk."Where am I going?"

Mickey enlarged the screen and showed Riku the area this recruit has under his control. "At the moment he has disserted his post but we need you to take care of him the second you see him. Take his place and gather all the information you can. If you're caught immediately return here. If you encounter any singular unit in a disserted place, dispose of them." A corridor of Light appeared in the middle of the room. Riku said farewell and ran through. A single golden dot appeared on the monitor. As they watched the dot moved and stood still. A purple dot appeared and the golden dot moved slowly towards it. Within seconds the purple dot was gone. "At least Riku can do this quietly." Sora and Kairi muttered. Mickey looked at them and smiled gravely.

"Sora I'll be sending you to a world which I suspect houses a small regiment of soldiers. I need you to find them and destroy them. Because this mission puts you in such danger I will be sending Kairi along." Sora smiled secretly at Kairi and she smiled as well."What can you tell me about this world Your Majesty?"

Mickey clapped his hands and the screen changed. In its place was a picture of two places. One a perfectly normal town and another of a world that was green. "I'm sending you to the hometown of a boy, who under peculiar circumstances gained ghost powers. His town has recently found out about his secret and started accepting him. This boy has a very large amount of enemies. Most ghosts, some humans and two that are like him. The first is Vlad Masters, he gained ghost powers little over two decades ago and has long since mastered them. The second is Danny himself." Sora and Kairi looked at the king in confusion. "Ehh?" Mickey laughed at the noise they both made and continued. "Well, a while ago a ghost sent a multitude of ghosts against Danny. This ghost sent ghosts from the future. This ghost wanted to prepare Danny to fight himself, from a different timeline. A timeline where Danny's friends and family are dead. The Danny from that time wanted to get rid of the ghost within him so he had Vlad, who was his uncle, remove the ghost from Danny's DNA. Vlad was successful but the ghost turned on them both. The ghost removed the ghost from Vlad and merged with it. Creating Dark Phantom. Danny defeated this ghost and sealed his future self away." Mickey opened a corridor of Light and Sora and Kairi stood up. "Danny himself will explain the rest. You will need his help to defeat this new threat. Now go, and good luck." The two young warriors waved and stepped through. "Oh dear I didn't explain to them that the ghost zone is parallel to the real world. Oh well, they'll figure it out. They always do."

Sora and Kairi stepped through the corridor of Light and looked around them. What they saw confused them. They saw multiple doors floating around them, suspended in midair. Sora tried walking but found that he was floating as well. Sora tried moving with little success. He looked at Kairi and saw that she had used two firaga spells and was using them to propel herself forward. Sora did the same but with the power of Inferno. Two black and silver flames appeared in both his hands and he could feel the cold heat they expelled. Sora thought back on when he had gained this power. He thought back to the beach where he had stood up, utterly exhausted feeling a strange presence make itself known in his mind. That presence had been Thorn, Sora's familiar. Over time Thorn gave Sora a great assortment of powers. Firstly it had been his armour and Dragonslayer. Both his armour and cursed blade was coloured red and black. The next power Thorn gave Sora was the power to use the Dragons Tear. The dragons version of a corridor of light. Then in the middle of a battle Thorn had given Sora the power of Inferno. The power of a dragons soul. Sora had quickly found out that the more Inferno he used the more his rage grew. The same with Dragonslayer, the more he relied on the blade the more anger and hatred entered his heart. The more rage and hatred, the more Darkness. Over time Sora had learned to suppress these emotions until he could barely feel them writhing within his heart.

Sora propelled himself forward and opened a door. He looked through and saw that it led to the middle of nowhere, literally. Sora looked out into space. He saw the sun and could feel heat permeate his body. "Kairi, check this out." Kairi propelled herself forward and looked through the door.

"Wow. It's so pretty." Sora closed the door and went to the next one. This one opened to an empty field. He closed it and went to the next. And on it went, Sora opening each door and looking through. Sora got bored and decided to head towards a bright speck in the distance. Kairi followed closely behind. When they reached the speck they saw that it was a portal. "Should we?" Sora looked around and saw a ghost floating past them.

"Hey ghost. Do you know where this goes?" The ghost floated down. "Beware, for I am the Box Ghost. The master of all things box like." Sora sighed and asked again. "Oh that's the Phentons portal. You don't want to go through there. If you do Danny would just throw you back through." Sora looked at Kairi and she nodded. "Danny Phantom?" The Box ghost nodded and drifted away. "Thank you Box ghost." Sora and Kairi went through the portal and found that they were in a lab.

Sora and Kairi looked around and saw a boy with black hair sitting next to a computer talking to a Goth girl. The girl laughed and stood up. "C'mon Danny. We told your parents we were gonna help them with something. Remember?" The boy settled deeper into his chair and shook his head. "Nope, can't seem to remember." The girl laughed and saw Sora and Kairi.

"Danny, who are they?" Danny looked over his shoulder and saw Sora sand Kairi. "Trouble." Danny stood up. "I'm going ghost." A single white line appeared in the middle of Danny's chest. It separated into two and travelled up and down Danny's body. Where the lines passed Danny's clothes changed. In less than a second Danny's clothes had changed into a skin tight suit. His blue eyes had turned green and his hair had turned white. His pale skin had darkened and a frown appeared on his face.

Sora and Kairi watched in awe as Danny transformed. When he was done they both smiled and nodded. "Wep, found him." Sora looked cautiously at Danny and saw that he had grown rigid. "But do you think we can use his help? He doesn't look that strong. Sure he's a ghost. But then again, if you count Thorn then I'm half dragon."

Kairi snorted. "Oh come on Sora. You know it doesn't work like that. You have five hearts so your three parts human, one part Nobody and one part dragon."

Sora scratched his chin. "Huh I guess you're right. But I do suppose we should stay on guard. I mean I didn't look all that powerful when I defeated Ansem, I mean Xehanort's Heartless."

While Sora and Kairi were talking Danny and Sam were looking at them with caution. "Who do you think they are Danny? They don't look like ghosts." Danny nodded. "Yeah but neither do I, but Vlad kinda does." Sam chuckled and looked at the two strangers again. "You gonna attack or defend?" Danny shrugged. "Gonna wing it. Here I go." Danny flew forward and blasted the boy with a ball of energy. The boy didn't even move. Danny looked at the boy and saw that he didn't even have a mark. 'Well guess I'll try again.' Danny took a deep breath and wailed. The boy threw up a barrier of some sort and it shattered. The girl clutched at her ears and the boy did the same. Danny kept using the ghostly wail but he could feel his strength failing. The boy looked at him and Danny looked into pure silver eyes. Eyes filled with pain but kindness. Eyes filled with great strength but greater love. Danny ceased his attack and watched as the boy took the girl's hands between his own. The boy straightened up again and looked at Danny again. Danny watched as black and silver fire formed on the boys hands. The boy pointed one hand at Danny and the fire shot forward. As the fire burned Danny he could feel his skin cool. The fire died and Danny opened his eyes. He looked at the boy and saw that Sam had stepped in front of him. The boy looked at Sam with respect and the fire burning on his arms died.

Sora watched as Danny burned. He pitied the boy but he had to do something. The Goth girl stepped in front of Danny and spread her arms wide. "Leave him alone." Sora lowered his arm and killed the fire burning Danny. Sora extinguished the fire consuming his arm and he crossed his arms.

"Sora." Sora looked down at Kairi. She had a look of pity and pain on her face. "Heal him. Please." Sora raised his arm over his head and spoke the words. "Heal." Soothing green light washed over Kairi and Danny. Danny moaned and stood up. Danny looked at Sora cautiously and stepped in front of Sam. Sora did the same with Kairi. Kairi smacked him and walked forward. Danny bristled but Sam pushed him aside. "I'm sorry Sora did that." Kairi apologised for Sora and Sam did the same for Danny. Sora walked forward and Danny did the same. Sora apologised and Danny did the same. "There, was that so hard Danny?" Danny looked away and Sora smiled. Sam smiled at them both and introduced herself. When they were done introducing themselves they got down to business, or at least Danny did. "What do you want?" Sora smirked and walked away. Kairi followed him with her eyes. She sighed and explained. "Well we're on a mission to find a couple people. And the person who sent us here told us Danny may help us." Danny snorted but still paid attention. "Well Danny, if you need to know why we came to you is because your other self may be involved." Danny paled and looked around cautiously. "Don't worry. With Sora around no one will attack." Danny looked at Sora and saw that Sora had put on a blindfold. "Why's he wearing a blindfold?" Sora turned and looked at Danny with his blind eyes. "My eyes can't lie." Danny looked confused and Kairi explained. "Well with the kind of enemies we have we need to hide our true power. If we don't they will probably attack as a single unit." Sam asked why Kairi wasn't doing the same as Sora. "Well my power is of the heart. From my own inner Light. Sora is probably the same but lying to himself will suppress his power." Danny snorted. "What power? I had you both at my mercy." Sora stood up and walked over to Danny. "No you didn't. We used the barest minimum of power. We need you alive, not dead." Danny snorted again. "Fine I'll show you. Where can we fight without being interrupted?" Danny turned to the door and changed back to his human self. He walked towards the door and waited for them to follow.

Well I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I hope you continue on with this story. Next chapter: Ghost blade?

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