Hello ! I'm Just Alexa and this is my first story. I officially hate first chapters, because they take forever to write because you have to set the groundwork for your entire story here. I know that this chapter is short, but I promise the next chapter will be longer Anyway, enjoy the first chapter.

Bina Raynd (Means Pure Heart)

Chapter One: The Fall of Radiant Garden

"Hey! Come back here!" The baker yelled as a small, blonde boy named Roxas raced away with a loaf of bread. Roxas, being small and quick, soon lost the rotund man in the streets of the bustling seaport of Radiant Garden. Being Market Day, the city streets were packed with people buying and selling their wares. Soon, the boy arrived at the abandoned, one room shack were he lived. With the windows and door boarded up, he had to slip inside through a small hole in the back wall. Once safely inside, Roxas quickly tore into the loaf of bread. As he ate, he looked around at his house. The walls had small pieces of colored glass that had washed up on the beach hung on them, along with some shards of pottery. A piece of cloth sat in the corner and served as a bed. 'Someday, I'll get out of this place,' Roxas thought, 'I'll see the world and become rich and famous.' Roxas soon finished the loaf and lay down for a nap. Within minutes, the blonde boy was fast asleep.

While Roxas slept, a gigantic ship neared the harbor. It had black sails with a bizarre red emblem on it. It looked like a heart with a barbed wire X over it. The emblem was able to instill absolute terror in people the world over. It was the insignia of the dreaded pirate captain, Ansem the Heartless. He was infamous for being merciless to anyone who dared to cross his path. Now he had his sights set on the city of Radiant Garden. As the ship neared the sea wall, he ordered his crew to start firing the cannons, sending the people into a frenzy. The guards fired their cannons back at the ship, but it was completely useless, the cannonballs just bounced off the strong boards of the ship without any damage. When the ship reached the walls, the landing crew swarmed the turrets and slaughtered the guards in no time at all. Then, they opened the gate to the harbor to let the ship and the rest of the crew inside the city. The ship landed and the crew rushed into the streets, killing anyone in their path.

Roxas opened his eyes, he saw a boy sitting next to him. The boy had spiky brown hair and bright blue eyes. But what drew Roxas' attention were his clothes. The boy was dressed like he belonged in the castle, not in a poor boy's shack.

"Who are you?" Roxas asked rather loudly. The boy gasped, threw his hand down on Roxas' mouth, and he shushed him.

"Quiet! We can't let them know that we're here," He whispered.

"Who's them," Roxas whispered.

"Pirates. They're raiding the city! Now shut up!" Roxas did shut up, and they sat there, waiting for the pirates to leave. They had a few close calls, like when a pirate came just a few feet from the entrance hole. But, the Roxas and the brown haired boy managed to remain undetected. Once night fell, the pirates left and pulled out of the harbor, leaving the city in shambles. The two boys sat there for a few minutes, until Roxas broke the silence.

"Who are you?" Roxas asked again.

"My name is Prince Sora James Lyon the Third, but please call me Sora," Sora answered with a smile.

"Wait, you're the prince!" Roxas exclaimed, totally shocked.

"Yes."

"What are you doing in my house? Aren't you too good for poor people like me?" Roxas asked angrily. Roxas hated royalty. His parents had been killed during a robbery, and the government didn't even investigate it because they were so poor.

"What's you're problem?"

"Well, you majesty, my problem is that you and your idiotic family take taxes and food from the people and use it for your parties and yourself, yet you do nothing for us in return! And if we don't pay your taxes, even if we can't afford to, you have us executed!"

"Shut up! You don't understand! I hate the way my father treated the people of the kingdom. I've been like a prisoner in the palace for my entire life, never allowed to leave. That doesn't matter now because my father is dead, slaughtered by the pirates, so there. I saw it with my own eyes. Have you ever seen your parents killed right before your eyes!"

"Yes I have! I saw both of my parents killed and right before my eyes. Any your government did nothing to hunt down the man who did it."

Before Sora could respond, Roxas smelled smoke in the air. Without a word, he grabbed Sora's hand and raced out of the hole in the wall, dragging the confused prince behind him. When they were outside, the two of them gasped in shock. Radiant Garden was now a raging inferno.

TBC

Well, how was my story? Please tell me what you think about it in reviews. BTW, Axel will appear in the next chapter. Now, I wish you all a Merry Belated Christmas and a Happy New Year. I will have the next chapter up soon. Just Alexa