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Prologue

In "Kingdom Hearts II: Another Side, Another Sister," it was learned that Sora had a twin sister who had been under a spell of darkness, which he freed her from only days after awakening in the basement of an old mansion in Twilight Town. He learned that half of her heart had been stolen from her when she was just three years old, and had suffered greatly because of it. They grew to be close, and became near inseparable at times. However, Sora had to leave to continue on his mission to find King Mickey and Riku and defeat the evil Organization XIII.

Unbeknownst to Sora, Geni and Riku had become good friends through a dream link during their time spent in the darkness. For them, as time went on, that friendship grew to be a little something more. It was difficult for her to hide her relationship with him, considering they spoke even though Sora thought Riku was no where to be found. He rescued her at Hollow Bastion when Maleficent had her trapped under a falling bridge, and also gave clues to Sora, Donald, and Goofy that they might find the relationship between Twilight Town and the Nobodies.

Towards the end of their journey, Kairi was kidnapped by Axel. Sora and his friends raced to Twilight Town and found the entrance to The World That Never Was inside of the basement where they had originally woken up. Geni ended up following them there, but thought it was safer not to tell anyone that she went in case someone tried to stop her. When in the Nobody's world, they fought Heartless and Nobodies in a race to stop Organization XIII's plans of entering Kingdom Hearts.

Even though they had collected thousands of hearts, Ansem the Wise foiled Xemnas's first plan by the use of his machine that would convert the hearts into data. When it backfired, he disappeared and Riku returned to his original form. At that same moment, Xemnas kidnapped Geni and used her power to try and open the gate a second time. To do this it involved her willingly giving up her heart. However, without a full heart, the gate would not open and she would not survive. Xemnas, in a desperate move, flung himself into the vortex of the ruined heart-shaped moon and merged with Kingdom Hearts. Geni's life force was quickly fading away, so they thought they might be able to find her missing halves inside of Kingdom Hearts while they battled Xemnas.

Xemnas was eventually defeated, but Geni's heart was lost forever. As her friends and family gathered around her still body, four unexpected people showed up. Roxas, Naminé, Axel, and Geni's Nobody Cirèna had brought both halves of her heart back for her and were willing to restore her body for them. In the process, Riku unexpectedly was drawn into Geni's mind, to search for and restore her present state of mind. Once done, Geni woke up and was smothered with gratitude and relief. Humorously, she did not recognize Riku at first and thought him to be a new friend of Sora's –she had never seen his true form before.

The friends' reunions were cut short, however, as the castle around them began to disappear into oblivion. Naminé appeared and opened one last dark portal for them, but Sora and Riku were cut off from the others as the doorway closed prematurely behind them. They then battled Xemnas again, and were thrown into an empty and desolate world for what they thought was eternity. However, a letter from Kairi and a spelled feather from Geni brought the two back into the realm of light where they were reunited with their loved ones.

After a long meeting on the Destiny Islands, it was decided that they would all go back to the Disney Castle and make sure nothing else had happened. Geni, running away to join the fight without telling anyone, got an earful from Queen Minnie and Lady Daisy that lasted for several hours. However, their anger quickly rose and then abated when they learned of her sacrifice and then the joining of her heart halves. Everyone was greatly surprised at finding out she had a Nobody that was half human. However, the most important thing of all is that everyone came back safe and sound.

Now onto the biggest problem of all. Geni had found her biological parents – they were Sora's parents after all. What were they going to do? Queen Minnie and King Mickey had never officially adopted her; they just assumed the role as her caretakers when she came to live with them. However, both Mr. and Mrs. Akeno – Sora's parents – looked into the adoption records and found that no one had chosen to adopt Geni before she had disappeared out of the nursery at the hospital. So at the moment she didn't have any legal guardians. It was then decided that because she and Sora had been away for so long from each other that Geni would split her time between the Destiny Islands and Disney Castle as a custody agreement. However, once school began in the fall, she would enroll at the local high school with Sora.

And now, summer vacation was in full swing for the adolescent residents of the Destiny Islands. When Kairi was kidnapped by Axel, she only had a week or so until the end of the semester. Now, several weeks out, the only thing Sora, Riku, and Geni could do is take the high school entrance exams and wait until September when school started once again. Even for the heroes of the universe, there was no power high or strong enough to allow them any leniency within the school system.

And finally, this is where the sequel begins. It is early in the month of July, the hot days cooled by the gentle breezes off of the ocean. The sun is just rising over the horizon, and not many people are up and about yet. There is, however, one lonely figure walking down the beach, enjoying the warm waves lapping at her bare feet while her face was basking in the warm glow of the sun. It had become her daily routine as of late…