chapter 1

A mystery. That is how Nina describes half of her family, her father's half at least. Her mother's side is full of adventure, romance, and multiple near death experiences, but her father never reveals the truth of his past. She decided that today was he day when she'd finally confront him. His hair was brown and spiky with small flecks of grey, as always, and she finally got the guts to look into his icy blue eyes and talk to him.

"Dad? What were you like when you were my age?" she asked. He looked down at her surprised at the question.

"Why do you want to know?" He asked

"Just curious. Mom told me so many stories about her and her friend Sora. Can you at least give me a hint?" Nina asked. He looked at her from his seat and gave her a wooden sword that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

"This is where it began." he said before handing it to her. "Keep this. You'll thank me." She didn't understand, but she took the sword and went outside. A woman with long red hair tied back in a waist long braid came in, looking out to the clear blue waters.

"Destiny Island looks good in the afternoon." she said. Her father was watching her fighting imaginary enemies from the kitchen window. Even at 16, she was still a hyper girl with long auburn hair so spiky, it was nearly poofy.

"Yeah." Nina's dad said. There was a pregnant silence between the two before the woman talked.

"Why don't you tell her the truth?" she asked

"Truth? What truth?" the man asked looking at the woman questioningly.

"The truth that it was you who saved many worlds, as well as me, from many near death experiences. She is our daughter after all."

"Kairi, telling her the truth can change someone's idea about you. She might not understand." He pulled out a keychain with a mickey symbol on the end. "She wouldn't understand."

"Either tell her now or let her find out the hard way, Sora." Kairi said as she went outside with another wooden sword to fight with Nina. Sora continued to sit and watch Nina and Kairi fight and he reminised about the days he fought with the keyblade. The day continued as such all the way into the night. She sat on a palm tree that bent down low enough for her to sit on the trunk like a bench. She looked up into the starry sky.

So many stars mean so many worlds, she thought, and I wanna be the first to see them all!

"Nina! Dinner's ready!" she heard her mother call. She went inside and silently ate her dinner.

"Still upset I beat you two times today?" Kairi said breaking the silence.

"Hey, that last one was a tie. And no, I'm upset daddy won't tell me about his past." Nina said

"No." Sora said. "You wouldn't understand, it's too confusing."

"Then explain it to me! I want to know!" Nina said standing at her seat.

"It's complicated Nina. My past is so confusing, it confuses even me!" Sora said

"It's still nice to know these kind of things dad! I just want to know what you were like. Is that such a bad question?"

"Yes! You have no ideas what I've seen and done! Like I said before, it is WAY to complicated for you!" Sora said, his voice raising.

"But--"

"No buts! We shall not discuss my past at this table. Is that clear?" Nina just looked at him before running to her room, tears forming in her eyes. Sora looked at Kairi who glared at him angrilly before walking after her daughter.

"Great." Sora said slumping in his chair. "I'm turning into King Triton."

"Nina?" Kairi asked on the other side of her door. She walked in to see Nina under her covered, facing the open window.

"Nina sweety," Kairi said as she sat on Nina's bed, "your dad, he... has had quite an adventurous and dangerous life. You can almost say as adventurous as Sora's from the stories I told you."

"He may look like him, but he's not Sora, and he'll never be." Nina said

"Don't be so sure. Things aren't always as they seem." Kairi said. "Think about that." Kairi then got up and walked out of the room. Nina looked after her mom as she left and soon went to bed, but not before feeling a chill deep inside her very soul. Somehow, she felt that something was wrong.

Later that night, from Nina's room came a scream of fear. Sora rushed to his daughter's aid. He opened the door to see her being pulled into a dark hole by shadow heartless. He reached in and pulled her out just before the hole closed. He held onto her arm and dragged her into his room where Kairi was nowhere to be seen.

"No, KAIRII!" he yelled. Shadows were starting to surround them and the two escaped outside.

"Dad, What's happening? What were those things? Where's mom? What's happening?" she said in a voice that was mixed with anger, fear, and concern, but he cotinued to look into the sky. She looked up and saw a black hole seem to form, and soon it began sucking everything.

"No." he said reaching into his pocket, "Nina, you want to learn about my past then you should take this." he held out his keychain with mickey on it.

"Dad?" she said. A blackhole was forming underneath them as Nina was reaching for the keychain. Everything went dark for them both. A flash of light and Nina was safe on land holding a strange weapon, but her father was nowhere to be seen.

"Daddy!" she called out. Heartless began forming around her. The weapon was forcing her to hold it to the air. A light beam shot out form the end up into the sky. A bigger beam shot down onto her and she was lifted into the air. She fell unconcious.