Quest for the Keyblade

Test One: Summons

Arianna Black's POV

I looked around and sighed silently. Another damn dream! I had begun, over the past two or three years, begun to absolutely hate and love dreaming.

I was in a place that this time I did not recognize. It was lush, with marble palaces scattered about and clear crystal blue waterfalls and streams. Everything somehow glittered. Everything somehow seemed poisonous. I walked around, finding nothing and no one, which annoyed me, and I walked into one of the building, hoping to find some clue of where I was - no such luck.

With a mutter, I sat back on a bench, rather pissed-off, and I began drilling my fingers into my arm, wondering when I was going to wake up, happy that this wasn't one of the dreams where I couldn't discern reality from fantasy.

I began to nod off, and suddenly I opened my eyes.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I cursed. I had expected to see my ceiling - not stars that were unfamiliar.

I sat up with a sigh, and look around, and froze, looking down at the cold, hard surface of which I lay on - it was water like at home in Hollow Bastion. I looked up and in front of me about a hundred yards away, I saw a stone circle with what looked like a miniature galaxy spinning around it and within it. Looking back, I saw a stone structure that reminded me of a gateway.

"Just great..." I muttered, standing up and brushing non-existent dust off of my black leather pants, red velvet corset shirt and long black trench coat, "I had to sleep walk here didn't I? Figures. How the hell did I change while asleep...?"

I had realized - and only thanks to my great-great grandfather, Ansem, was it that I could recognize this place - that this was "End of the World" as he had called it.

I heard a familiar sound behind me, and turned slightly to see a Wyvern Heartless appear out of a dark portal.

"Did Aki send you to find me?" I asked, looking at the familiar Heartless and it nuzzled me with its beak, "And you actually listened to her for once? Amazing..."

I looked around, wondering how I was going to get myself out of this one, when the Wyvern flew towards the stone circle and flew into it. With a sigh, I followed.

We walked for a long time through strange terrains, and every once and a while I saw other Heartless, but I didn't mind. Most fled, others followed a while before loosing interest in me and disappearing to elsewhere.

After a long while, we reached a small room with an ornate white door. I grabbed the door handles and pulled, yanked, tugged, pushed, shoved, slammed at the door, and kicked it, causing myself to hop around like an idiot, and finally cursed, and glared at the door.

"I hate doors that will not open." I muttered flopping down on my rear end in the stone-like stuff that made the floor, and prodded a rock, annoyed, then I looked at the Wyvern who was perched next to me, "Any ideas how to get out of here? Me neither."

I sighed and closed my eyes, trying to think. My head was all foggy for some reason, so I was having a bit of a hard time. I don't know how long I sat there trying to think, but it was a while, and finally, I opened my eyes.

One problem. The only reason I opened my eyes was because suddenly a dagger-sharp pain had shot through the whole of my body, making my cry out, and double over.

I should have been used to this by now, since it had been happening for years, but it had never come without warning before. Usually I felt immense thirst and hunger, and then the pain would start. Not all of a sudden just pain.

The pain worsened and I doubled over on my hands and knees, shaking violently, sweat pouring off of me.

Then the most terrible pain I had ever felt began.

I felt as if the skin along my lower right cheek, down all the way from there, to the bottom of my right foot, was being ripped apart. I felt two places around my shoulder blades rip into agony, and felt as if something large was being yanked through the openings.

Next, a lacework of patterned pain began on my left side - starting on the left side of my nose, down to my left foot.

The ground rushed up to me and suddenly I fainted.

Aki Yuichi Shindou's POV

I really wished that blasted Wyvern would hurry up and bring Ari back! I was, again, lost amongst the Waterway in Arianna's castle.

I had been swimming in the water, since I had figured out how to actually get into the water, and had gone and gotten somewhere I didn't recognize.

Ari must have gone really far... I thought, pacing a long, narrow wall, She'd better not be having another one of her "Is this reality or fantasy" spells...

I heard a thud, and whirled around to see the Wyvern, dragging a very unconscious...Arianna!

I prodded Ari with a foot and she didn't budge and I gulped. If she had gone into one of her comatose states again, I was going to kill something.

Suddenly all the new features to Ari disappeared, and her eyes snapped open, and I yelped, jumping back as her eyes flashed red with slitted pupils, then went back to their normal bright green-blue.

"What the-?" started Ari, looking around, "What a dream..." She yawned. "Oh, hi, Aki."

"Hi! Hi!" I yelled, waving my fists around in the air, "You were sleep/world walking again! Plus! What happened to you! When you came you had wings and scales!"

"Did I?" asked Arianna blankly, a thoroughly blank look on her face, "Well, fancy that... I think its time to take a nap- Wings and scales!" she yelled all of a sudden, jumping to her feet, and I rolled my eyes - how typical.

"Yeah." I said sarcastically, "What did you think I said! Fur!"

Ari looked around, muttering to herself as usual, then noticed where we were.

"Are you stuck?" asked Arianna slyly, her eyes sliding over towards me, a twisted smirk on her lips.

"Yes!" I yelled, and Arianna began laughing hysterically.

"Oh. My. God!" she choked, grinning, "You've been by here a million times before!" She walked over to a wall, touched a carving and a door appeared, showing one of the lifts from the Lift Stop, and Arianna walked onto it, "So, any particular reason you sent the Wyvern after me this time? Beside the fact you were lost?"

"Yeah." I replied, "We got two really strange invitations. They're in your Library."

We got out of the Lift Stop and walked into the Entrance Hall, Arianna ignoring the Heartless that appeared there, and my skirting around the Heartless, eyeing them warily.

"Come on, hurry up!" called Arianna, pivoting on one foot to face me, "You never know, if you lag too far away, they might attack!"

She winked, grinned, pivoted away, and continued walking, and I ran to catch up, nearly running into her back.

"Whoa, girl." said Arianna as if she were talking to a horse, then grinned slyly, and walked into the Library.

Dear Arianna Jade Black, and Aki Yuichi Shindou,

This is a formal invite to bring the two of you together to the Olympus Coliseum to compete in what we call the Quests for the Keyblade. You and others are being gathered to Traverse Town to await transportation to the Coliseum. We wish for the two of you to come along and see if your hearts are strong enough to allow you to wield the Keyblade.

You must arrive in Traverse Town on October the twenty-eighth. We can't wait to see you.

Sincerely,

Quest Official

"They have got to be kidding." said Arianna, eyeing the letter, "I think I'll go sleep on it..."

"Ari!" I yelled, exasperated, "You've already been asleep for at least thirteen hours!"

Arianna looked guilty at that, and just muttered something and walked off between the shelves, and I rolled my eyes, and went to get ready to go and see my cousin, Soma Shindou.

Arianna's POV

I stared at a wall blankly while I sat in a dark corner of the "Chapel" near the very top of the castle, stroking a Shadow's head absent mindedly.

A pile of books sat on one side of me, and I stared at the center of the circular portion of the room, where there was sometimes a raised platform, though, at the moment, it was flush with the floor.

I always came up here, since all of my other hiding places below had been found.

I liked being alone.

"I just don't get it." I muttered to the Shadow, and myself "Why in the worlds did they send me an invitation for that contest?"

I picked up a book began reading, while muttering to myself, but eventually, I lost interest and stared holes into the wall again.

"You don't look like you're in a very cheery mood today." said a voice, and I looked up to see a teenaged girl who could have been my double, except for the green hair and purple eyes, strolling towards me.

"That's because I'm not." I said flatly, and I punched at a wall.

"Aww, does little Ari not like being alone?" teased the girl.

"Begone!" I snapped, and a power wave slammed into her and she disappeared.

I stood up and strolled out of the chapel and looked over the railing at the ground that was hundreds of feet below.

I was going to be a long time going back down - a very, very long time indeed.

Aki's POV

"Yuichi!" called my younger cousin, running towards me, waving a paper in his hand, "I got an invitation to try to get the Keyblade!"

"So did Ari and I." I said.

"Speaking of Ari... Where is she? She usually comes with you, though she never says anything..." asked Soma.

"Well... She's...'thinking'." I sighed.

"In other words she staring blankly at a wall trying to see how long it takes before it forms a hole." said Soma, rolling his eyes, "Figures."

We both discussed what we thought the tests would be, and we both figured it'd be fighting others, though, I couldn't really see how the Keyblade would judge the strength of a person's heart that way...

"So," Arianna suddenly appeared out of nowhere, making us jump, "Are you two coming along?"

I stared at Arianna in utter shock. Since when did she dress like that. So...black...red...silver...

Put simply, she was wearing tight leather pants (black, of course), a red and black corset shirt made out of what looked like velvet, and sort of showed...half of...things. She wore a black and red trench coat and several black and silver pieces of jewelry.

"Come on!" she grabbed us both after we'd gotten out stuff, and opened a black, purple and red energy/portal thing and stepped through, taking us with her.

Nick Night Shade's POV

"What the hell is wrong with your sister?" I asked Erikk Honnakai Ensoka as we meandered through Twilight Town, bored, as usual. and flicking rubber bands at random little kids.

"She says she hates your 'best warrior ever' shtick." replied Erik with a shrug, and I rolled my eyes.

We walked around a while longer, but had to split ways after a while because it was getting late, and when I got home I found a letter taped to the refrigerator - looks like someone knew the first place I got when we got back...

"Invitation?" I muttered, grabbing it and opening it up, "Is this some sort of joke? If it's a test of strength," I flipped the paper over and looked at the back of it, "I'll definitely win."

I tossed the letter onto a table and walked into my room, wondering whether someone was pulling my leg or not, when the phone rang.

I snatched it, and brought it to my ear.

"Nick? This is going to sound really strange, but, my sister and I just got invitations to try and get the Keyblade." said Erik on the other end.

"What!" I asked, spitting soda out of my mouth, "So did I!"

"This is really weird." I heard Erik's sister, Kyasarin/Kat Shizuka Ensoka say on the other end.

"Do you think it's a joke?" asked Erik.

"Who knows?" I asked, leaning back in a chair and propping my feet on a table, "But who cares? Either way, I'll win."

I heard his sister yell in frustration and stomp of, and shook my head.

"Meet us at the launching bay tomorrow at six pm, okay?" asked Erik with a sigh.

"Alright, I'll see you two then." I replied, and I hung up.

I walked back into my room and sat down on the bed, and began to think, then pack.

Peter Phantome Gheist's POV

I was fiddling with a strand of cord that I was going to attach to a complicate device for the upcoming Halloween, while stranded in my thoughts.

"Peter?" asked Jack Skellington, making me jump, my one wing's feather ruffling.

"Yeah?" I asked, then I remembered the cord, and finished attaching it.

"Winged ONEder!" yelled Lock, Shock and Barrel, running up, waving something around.

I grumbled. Only they were allowed to call me that, but still...

"What is it?" I asked as they handed me the paper, and I scanned it, then looked at them, "Is this another of your tricks?"

"Nope!" said Shock, "That just came in the mail!" She shrugged, "Are you going to go?"

Figures they would have read it.

"I have to leave two days before Halloween..." I said, grumbling.

"Go ahead, Peter." said Jack cheerfully, "I knew the last Keybearer, he was a good kid."

I thought for a moment, then muttered and decided to agree, then walked off to my house, Lock, Shock and Barrel following.

"Hey! Wing!" yelled a voice, and I looked up to see Kimimaro Ryu was also waving around a paper, so I walked over eyeing his black and red wing, then his white and blue one.

"You got an invitation too?" I asked.

"Yes. Do you think it's a joke?" asked Ryu.

"That's probably what everyone else wants to know." I said with a shrug, "I'm going to go pack."

I walked off, Lock, Shock and Barrel still following me.

"Take us with you!" they finally demanded.

"No. Stay here and help Jack." I said, then I walked into my house and began packing.

Amber Kaze's POV

"Hey, Ceil." I said, as I sat on the beach, staring at the water. I had heard her walking up behind me.

"We've got mail." said Ceil, dangling a piece of paper in front of my face, and I snatched it.

"Where is everybody?" I asked, "Usually people are out here being weird and worshipping the Sora the Keybearer, my great-great-grandmother, Kairi, and casting spells to keep Riku's spirit and descendants away, and well as Ansem's."

"I dunno." replied Ceil, who loved to synthesize things, "I just got back from Moogle Universal Studios."

I opened my letter, and read it, and felt like fainting.

"Let me guess - invitation to the Quest for the Keybearer thing?" asked Ceil.

"Yeah..." I replied, "You think it's a trick?" I held the paper up to the sunlight, and looked through the paper.

Ceil shrugged.

"You kids aren't supposed to be out here!" yelled a voice, and a woman in blue robes came running towards us, "The Evil Ones were after Lady Amber's great-great-grandmother, who says their spirits won't come after you two too!"

We rolled our eyes and stalked to our boats, and headed home, both of us annoyed -

that particular island was the only place any of us could go without being shepherded around by the mystics and priests and priestesses.

"I'm going." I said, "What about you?"

"Definitely." said Ceil flatly.

Kage Misuo's POV

"What's wrong, Kage?" asked a voice, and I turned to see my cousin, Drake Lionheart walked over, ignoring the rain, not having to wipe water out of his eyes like myself thanks o the blindfold he wore.

"I got a really weird invitation." I replied, "Said that I was invited to participate in a contest to become the Keybearer. We're supposed to meet here, in the Third District on the twenty-eighth..."

"I got one too." said Drake, coming to stand next to me, "Are you going to join?"

"Are you?" I asked.

"Yes." replied Drake.

"So am I." I sighed, "Everything has been so boring, lately..."

"Why don't we go see if there's anything interesting to do?" asked Drake with a big grin, then he grabbed my arm, "Come on!"

"Wha-?" I started, but he was already dragging me, so there was no stopping him.

Chaos Black's POV

I stared out over the sand, prodding the sand while not listening to my father ranting about how my twin was such a disappointment.

"-And Her obsession with the Heartless!" exclaimed my father to my mother, "She is too much like Him! I tell you! She would Never have gotten an invitation to something like This, like our Dear Chaos did!"

"Obviously I'm not in the room." I muttered under my breath, staring at the sand as my father clapped me on the shoulder.

"Its a good thing we Left Her when we did!" said my mother, "The effect She Could have had on Chaos! I Shudder at the Thought!" she shuddered rather flakily.

"I hope the Damn girl is Dead, then we can Return to our Rightful home!" said my father.

"Don't get your hopes up." I muttered, I knew Arianna was most likely alive, its just the question is, have the Heartless taken her heart yet or not. If she ever had one to begin with.

I had always adored my sister, followed her everywhere. She was only a few minutes older than myself.

"And our Dear Chaos has come into Manhood! He has the Demon race's Scales and Wings now!" added my father, clapping me on the shoulder again, "And Such a Good Worker too!"

I scowled at that. I had been a slave in Agrabah for a while, before I had finally been freed. Working for an evil sultan and guarding the evil genie Jafar's lamp was not a fun or workless job! Plus, had to carry it everywhere with me!

"Chaos, you had Better start Packing your things so you can Leave for Traverse Town." said my mother.

I stood up without a word and left, and I heard them mutter something about being glad I was gone. My Demon father had obviously corrupted my Elven mother. Tch.

I stared at the invitation that sat on my desk, and tried to figure out whether Ari would have ever gotten something like this or not. The one thing a lot of people forgot, was that the Keyblade could be used for good or evil.

I sighed and began shoving my few belongings into a bag.

Jean Lockheart

I stared at the solid water I stood on and then looked up at the sound of approaching footsteps, and saw a cloaked figure that was familiar by now.

"I'm off duty." I said, giving the figure a look.

"Jean." said a girl's voice, well, teen's, "We have a new job for you."

The girl pulled back her hood, which was something she had never done before, and I saw silver hair and half of her face had red scales, the other had electric blue ones, and I suddenly recognized the cloak as at least a dozen wings. She had ruby red eyes.

"There is a contest being held." said the girl, coming to stand next to me, "They call it 'The Quest for the Keyblade'."

"I got an invitation." I said, confused. What was this girl? She had pointed ears like one of the Elven folk, but...

"I'm a Demi-Elf." said the girl as if she had heard my thoughts, and she glanced over at me, "Left to die in Hollow Bastion at the age of five.

"We need you to help assassinate the candidates, but make it look like the Heartless did it." She eyed me, "And we both know you can easily do that."

Without another word, she held a hand out to the side, and a black, red and purple energy portal opened and she disappeared through it.

"What the hell?" I muttered, staring at the spot that the girl had been standing in, she had looked fifteen, "What normal Demon or Elf can do that?"

Kage's POV

I looked around Traverse Town with a small sigh. I had been standing, sitting and walking around the Third District for about an hour.

Drake was just listening to me pace nervously.

Suddenly, I jumped as a portal similar to the kind Heartless used to appear and disappear, and a tall girl with long curly dark brown hair, blood red scales on her right side, electric blue scales forming patterns on her left, and twelve, black, reflection-less wings stepped through the portal, followed by a shorter girl with blue-black hair in a flopped over Mohawk and one bright green eye, and one bright blue eye. And following them was a boy with blonde hair and bright blue eyes and an impossibly large sword.

"Ari!" yelled the shorted girl at the taller one, who was looking around her arms crossed, "I could strangle you! I swear if you ever do that again I'll-" She seemed to finally notice that I was staring at her and her friend, "Hi! I'm Yuichi Shindou, and this is my cousin, Soma Shindou!" She was motioning at the boy, who looked annoyed at the mood swing.

I started at the sudden mood swing. The taller girl said nothing, but her wings and scales disappeared and she leaned back against a wall, and I noticed a black, red lined tattoo on her left arm and nearly yelped.

The shorter girl nudged the other in the ribs with an elbow, and the other gave her a look that said she was annoyed.

"And I am Arianna Jade Black." said the taller girl looking up, and her eyes flashed blood red for a moment, then she added with a small smirk, "Descendant of Ansem, and ruler of Hollow Bastion."

I managed not to look shocked, and I saw my brother shift slightly. Everyone knew who Ansem was, and hardly anyone would even say his name, because they were all afraid that, by doing that, they would summon his spirit back from Hell, and he would posses the one who had spoken his name.

"I'm going to go have a look around." said Arianna, turning to Yuichi, "I'll see you around later, Aki."

"But, Ari-" started Yuichi/Aki? but Arianna held a hand out to her side and a dark portal appeared and she stepped through.

"I'm Kage Misuo." I said.

"Please don't mind Ari." sighed Yuichi, who look like she had a headache, "She's been like this ever since..." she paused guiltily, "Ever since her family found out her 'unhealthy' interest in the Heartless. They left her in Hollow Bastion. Alone. I came there a few years ago, and found her in a maze 'talking' to the Heartless." Yuichi sighed, "Her family has done their best to get all of Ansem's blood out of their line, but Arianna frightened them by being 'so much like him', that they left, and hasn't heard from them since she was five."

"How come she called you Aki?" asked my cousin, " You introduced yourself as Yuichi. I'm Drake Lionheart, Kage's cousin, by the way."

"I don't let anyone but Ari call me Aki." said Yuichi/Aki flatly, "Aki is my first name, and Yuichi is my middle."

Aki looked up towards the roofs of the buildings and I followed her gaze, and with a start, I saw Arianna sitting against a wall up on a balcony.

For the next hour, Aki tried to figure out how to get up there, then gave up and came back to the Third District, and saw Arianna walk through a door.

Arianna's POV

I walked along the narrow line of a roof railing, pacing back and forth.

"I'm surprised you're not with the others." said a voice, and I turned slightly to see a familiar, tall man with a black blindfold, and long silver hair walking up to me along the edge of the roof.

"You shouldn't be, Nightmare." I said looking down over the edge of the roof at people walked along the walkways, "Why are you here?"

"Come to watch the fun." replied Nightmare with a smirk, "What are you doing here? This is the first time you've left Hollow Bastion of your own free will. Decide to cause someone pain and suffering?"

"I got an invitation." I replied holding up the letter.

"Really?" asked Nightmare, "Well, we needed someone to help the Heartless kill-off the contestants anyway."

I just remained silent, gazing down at the Second District, balanced on a rail on the edge of the roof. A Shadow Heartless appeared, and climbed up my leg and torso to perch on my shoulder, looking around.

"That's my job, is it?" I asked with a small laugh, and I looked over at him, amused, "Well, we can't have me getting bored, I suppose." I got...scary...when bored.

"Come now, you know it is." said Nightmare, then he glanced at my feet and the rail then back up at me, an eyebrow raised, "I thought you were afraid of heights?"

"Not anymore." I said with a shrug, then I turned around easily, letting my form shift and I stepped onto the roof.

"What is it that you want from the Heartless, Dark Angel?" asked Nightmare, using my nickname for once, which annoyed me - especially since it was now so fitting.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, glancing up at him, annoyed at his six feet eleven inches in height.

"You know." said Nightmare, "Everyone who follows the Heartless is either crazy, or has made a deal with them so that they can get something they want."

"That, is none of your concern." I said, crossing my arms.

"You're right, it isn't." said Nightmare, "But what is, is what weapon you are using in for the Quest."

I could have kicked myself then.

"I don't have one." I admitted, feeling like an idiot.

"Well, we all have one for you." said Nightmare, "But first, we need your advice and instructions on what to do about the Princess's."

I sighed, and opened a portal to the Chapel in my castle, and soon, Nightmare followed.

"What's the problem this time?" I asked walking out of the shadows to the center of the room.

There were seven or eight people in all that I had personally approved - another was one who had once served Ansem - not counting myself, Nightmare, and another of our dear circle of power-hungry bastards.

"We are having a very hard time finding the Princesses." said one of the people gathered around the risen platform in the center of the room, "They are not in the worlds they were during your great-great grandfather's rule."

"That should be no problem. The Heartless should have led you to them by now." I said flatly, giving the person a look, "There is nothing other than the Keyblade, or the Shadowblade. Or even the dark Keyblade, Ansem's staff, or the other blade that Riku once wielded that could possibly interfere. And none of these has been found."

"Actually, the Shadowblade is in the possession of one of Riku's descendants." said a woman across from my at the platform, "That is just one reason we have been searching for you.

"I had a vision of The Great Ansem just last night."

I eyed her, she was known for things such as this, and Seers gave me the creeps.

"Well, I do declare," said a male bean sack with a southern accent, "Why don't you just tell her right now?"

"Ansem said that you underwent a change last night." said the woman, and I started, but quickly smoothed my face over, "And he gave me his Great Bladed Staff to give to you."

This startled me.

"What kind of change did you go through?" asked a deep, seductive, powerful voice, and I glanced to my right then back at the platform - I did not like this particular...individual...that much, he could read minds, and therefore knew me a little too well.

I let my form shift again, this time completely. Silver hair, red eyes and all.

A shocked silence filled the room, and the woman across from my jumped when I looked up, showing my red eyes.

"I think my Demon blood is finally showing through." I said lightly, "It has probably happened to my brother, as well. If he is still alive."

"He is." said Nightmare, and I looked at him, "He has been invited to the Quest as well."

I shook my head slightly, "That does not surprise me."

The woman drew her hand over the table, and a black staff with a blue jewel at either end appeared. Out of each jewel were one large bat wing shaped blade, and two smaller ones, that stuck out to the side, and were more like the cross-guard on the hilt of a sword.

I reached out and wrapped my hand around the center of the staff, and picked it up off the table.

It was a lot lighter than I though it was going to be. I gave it a practice swipe.

"You must pick-off the contestants by how high they're points are." said another voice, "The higher the points, the more likely to be a goody-two-shoes Master. The lower, a Master who would be more of a help to us."

I remained silent, fingering the staff, then I looked up, "And let me guess, convert the ones with the lowest points?" I asked, "And try to cause the higher point ones to try and kill themselves?"

Nods.

"Fine." I turned around, then stepped through a portal and returned to Traverse Town, and flew into the Third District, and landed right in front of Aki, making her jump.

"Ari!" yelled Aki, then she noticed the weapon I held, "What's that?"

"My inheritance." I replied leaning back against a wall, leaning my head back.

I remained silent, listening to Kage, Drake, Soma and Aki talk, while I absently mindedly stroked the head of a Wyvern that had found its way to me.

After a long while - twenty minutes to be exact - a group of people walked through the entrance from the First District.

Aki, Kage, Drake, Soma and I all stood up as the others approached.

"Are you here for the Quest?" asked Kage, as she eyed the nine people.

Several nodded, other were just looking around.

"Why don't you all just introduce yourselves?" asked a voice from somewhere behind us, and I turned to see a man in a velvet, dark purple suit, pale purple silk shirt and a pale yellow bow-tie standing in the middle of the Third District, "Then we can get going to the Coliseum! Shake hands! Be friendly!"

I felt like strangling this male cheerleader.

"I'm Yuichi Shindou!" said Aki cheerily.

"And I'm Soma Shindou!" added Soma just as cheerily.

"I'm Kage Misuo." said Kage.

"I'm Drake Lionheart."

"I'm Erikku Honnakai Ensoka." said a teenaged boy with puppy brown eyes and close to blonde hair.

"I'm Erik's sister, Kyasarin Shizuka Ensoka. But call me Kat." said a girl/woman with light brown hair and green eyes.

"I'm Nick Night Shade." said a buff teenaged boy with black, shoulder length hair and bright green eyes, he was eyeing me warily.

"I'm Kimimaro Ryu - Ryu for short." said a boy with long black hair and one blue eye and one red eye - both had slitted pupils.

"I'm Peter Phantome Gheist." said yet another teenaged boy with black and red hair, one was red, the other was closed. He also had only one wing, and the other was little more than a stump, and looked like it might have once been a full-fledged wing at one point, but was torn off. Ouch.

"I'm Amber Kaze." said teen girl with short, dark red hair and gray-blue eyes.

"I'm Ceil Avenir." added a teen girl with a jet-black ponytail and hazel eyes.

"I'm Chaos Black." said a voice that sounded very similar to mine, and a boy with long, wavy dark brown hair and gray-blue eyes stepped forward, and I managed to not yelp.

"I'm Arianna Black." I decided to finally add, and Chaos stared at me in shock, "Chaos' twin sister..."

"Ari!" yelped Chaos, "You're alive!"

"I'm not that hard to kill." I said, "Its not like mother and father took all the food when you all left." I shrugged.

"I'm Jean Lockheart." added the last, a woman somewhere in her twenties, I'd say, and she had gray hair. and dark gray eyes.

"Don't be shy!" said a the irritating male with the horrid suit, pushing me and Chaos forward, "No need to hide your true forms!"

"What!" yelped in unison with Chaos, "How did you know about-!" We stopped and stared at each other, "You have a different form too? Hey! Stop doing that! Its not my fault, its yours!"

We other gave each other annoyed looks.

I debated on whether to change my form or not, if I did, I might be recognized... But...

Without a word, Chaos suddenly sprouted gold scales down his left side, and silver ones in a pattern on his right. To top it all off, he sprouted two white wings that looked like quartz with veins of gold running through them.

With a small, annoyed sigh, I let my form shift.

"Are you two sure you're twins?" asked the man.

"Are you sure that suit looks good with that shirt and tie?" I retorted, "Yes, we're sure we're twins. Though, we probably act nothing alike now..."

"Are you still playing around with the Heartless?" asked Chaos.

"Yes." I replied, "Are mother and father still accusing me of being way to my like Ansem!"

"Don't say that name!" yelled Chaos.

"Why not! It's not like it a curse word or anything!" I yelled back, then a mocking look came across her face, and she waved her hands around like an oracle, "Dooo nooooot saaaaay the naaaaame of theeeee Evil One! You will bring a cuuuursssse on toooo yoooour faaaaaamily! That's a bunch of bull. The reason Ansem became controlled by the darkness, is because, while studying the Heartless, trying to figure out where they come form, he met King Mickey, who had come from another world. Ansem wasn't in good enough shape to make a trip to another world, so he made a 'deal' with the Heartless, resulting in his Guardian. The Guardian, without Ansem's knowing, took control!"

"Ari! Chaos!" said Aki, "Cool it!"

"Humph." I muttered and suddenly a Shadow appeared and perched on my shoulder, and I stalked away from everyone a little ways, muttering about "stupid people", more and more Heartless appearing and clustering around me, and I managed to pet them all somehow.

"Hey, by any chance," I turned to see Jean Lockheart had followed me, "Have you ever been to End of the World?"

"I world walk when I sleep." I replied, "I woke up there the other morning, then I returned home, unconscious, carried by one of my Wyverns, why?"

She dragged me out of earshot of the others.

"You're the one who been hiring me!" she said, and I managed not to wince.

"Hired you to what?" I asked, my face confused, and she stopped, and I walked off before she could say anything else, and I perched on the edge of a cement half circle.

"Well, now that everyone has gotten to know each other, let's get to the Coliseum!" said the idiot purple suit man, "Miss Black, would you mind...?"

"Don't tell me you didn't bring a Gummi Ship." I said, staring at the idiot, "Yep, this confirms it. You are a complete, fashion senseless, blithering idiot." I stood up, and grabbed Aki by the arm, "Everyone grab something other than my free arm, possibly Aki, instead of me...?"

Once we were all ready, I opened a portal, and walked through and we arrived at the Olympus Coliseum Gates.

Well? How was it? I hope it's a fairly good start. I typically write chapters anywhere between 35.5 kilobytes and 120 kilobytes, so, some chapters, needless to say, will be rather long. If there is something you forgot to add to your character's description, don't hesitate to tell me!

Darkness will swallow your heart - I hope it tastes good.