Hello everyone!

Welcome to all new readers, and hello again to veterans of my Captive of the Organization story! I'm back with a new fanfic!

So this story's been brewing in my mind since I finished Captive of the Organization haha. Just couldn't stay away lol. I'm hooked on writing fanfiction now!

This story begins at the end of Chain of Memories, and has no OCs. Just KH characters! And it won't be as long as Captive of the Organization. Holy wow, that one was long!

Anyways... hope you enjoy!

Prologue

Sora ran up a small piece of land amidst everything crumbling and separating into different worlds at the End of the World. Finding Kairi, he quickly grabbed her hand as the ground she stood on slowly drifted from his own, holding it tightly as he spoke.

"Kairi! Remember what you said before?" Sora yelled as the chasm between them grew larger and larger. "I'm always with you too. I'll come back to you! I pro–".

Suddenly the memory disappeared from Sora's mind. It was as if it had never existed. This happened to more and more memories, each being selectively removed or altered. In the memories he did retain, Sora no longer saw the red-haired girl named Kairi. Instead, there was a girl with blonde hair replacing her. She grew up on the islands with him, and they had always been together as childhood friends.

Sora could no longer remember Kairi. She had been completely removed from his memory. All his time had been spent with Naminé, and he had sworn to protect her, always. They had lived together on the islands since childhood, playing games, and running around on the beach. He had finally found her again after so long, and wanted nothing but to protect her. Everything else in his mind had been lost.

"Your darkness belongs to you, the same as your light does," said Mickey, surrounded by the walls of Castle Oblivion. "I didn't think it was possible before, but since meeting you, I've seen a different way, and would like to walk that path with you."

He reached out his hand toward Riku, who stood in front of him after having defeated Ansem. Riku looked down at him in surprise, not having expected this from the King. After a brief moment though, he relaxed and smiled, kneeling down and shaking the mouse's hand in return.

"Your majesty, I'm flattered…" he said.

"Aw, you don't have to call me that anymore!" said Mickey. "We're friends now!"

Riku's head fell back slightly in surprise, but then he smiled, relaxing even more.

"Okay, Mickey." he said.

Suddenly and without warning, a blast of darkness impacted Mickey in the side, sending him flying across the room. He lost his grip on Riku.

"Wooooah!" he yelled.

"Mickey!" Riku yelled after him.

Crashing into the wall beside the door Riku had come in, Mickey slumped to the ground unconscious. Riku looked worried as he saw the mouse lay there, wounded, and then gritted his teeth as he looked to the opposite end to where the attack had come from. A man in red bandaging, who he had learned was called DiZ from Mickey introducing them earlier, stood holding a device out in front of him. It was aimed at the King. Lowering it, he began to walk toward Riku as he stood up and took on a defensive position. As he came to a stop a short distance away, Riku spoke.

"I don't know who you are, but Mickey's my friend, and I WILL protect him!" he said, angrily now.

He summoned Soul Eater and ran at the bandaged man in front of him, jumping up to attack from above.

"Haaah!" he yelled as he came in close.

DiZ merely activated a different function on the same device, a spherical barrier appearing around him. The second Riku impacted it with Soul Eater, he was deflected and sent flying backward, pain coursing through his body from the device. Landing hard on his back, Soul Eater dropped out of his hand and disappeared.

"Ngh!" he grunted as his head hit the floor.

Riku tried to get up, but his entire body ached with pain. The energy that had shocked him had seemed to affect his entire system. He could barely move. Lifting his head slightly to look at DiZ, he saw that the man remained in the same position, seemingly undisturbed by his attack. The man smiled as he spoke.

"You and Sora will be very beneficial to me…" he mused.

Riku's eyes widened at the sound of his best friend's name, as he pushed harder, and finally brought himself to a seated position. That man was not going to do anything to hurt Sora. He would make sure of that.

"What have you done with Sora?!" he yelled angrily with as much might as he could muster.

"Nothing, as of yet," said DiZ nonchalantly. "He is living happily on the Destiny Islands – a version of my creation of course – with his dear friend Naminé, whom he has known since childhood…"

"Naminé…?" said Riku, confused. "I don't know anyone by that name…"

"Of course you don't," said DiZ. "She works for me. Naminé has been taking Sora's memory apart piece by piece to mould him into her perfect little puppet. Suffice to say, Sora likely doesn't even remember who you are anymore…" He grinned slyly.

DiZ' words angered Riku, enough that he was able to get up to his feet, albeit a little unsteadily, and face him. Whatever they had done to Sora, he had to help his friend. He didn't know who this man or Naminé were, but he had to save Sora. Summoning all the dark power he could in his weakened state, he pulled his arm back and sent a blast of darkness straight at DiZ.

The blast was merely deflected by the same shield that he had impacted earlier, disappearing harmlessly around it into nothingness as a slight wind rushed past the man across from him. Riku fell back down to a seated position from the exertion as DiZ began to walk toward him. His bandaged face showed no expression whatsoever as he came up to stand in front of the weakened Riku.

"There is nothing you can do to stop me," he began, looking down at him without pity. "You are powerless; you have only just begun to explore the darkness within yourself, something that will be very useful in my research…"

There was nothing Riku could do to stop him. His body ached with more pain than before, and the blast of darkness he had sent had taken the last bit of energy he had left. He could barely move. Straining to look up, he saw DiZ point the device in his hand straight at his head, and push a button. Within seconds, Riku lost consciousness, falling to the ground.

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