Summary: 'An experimentation gone horribly wrong. Now 28 days later after being hospitalised in a coma, Sora, Riku and Kairi find themselves suddenly completely alone on Destiny Islands. As they search to find their salvation, mysterious people and horrifying creatures get in their way.'

I watched the film a couple days ago and really thought that this could work. So yes, this story is slightly based on the film's storyline but I'm making it into a Kingdom Hearts atmosphere, so it will be purely Kingdom Hearts characters and Kingdom Hearts scenery, and I'm trying to spiral the Kingdom Hearts story in with it too. I will add a bit of romance, but where the romance lies you will have to wait and see ;D

So I hope you enjoy this as much as I will writing it!

28 Days Later…

Chapter 1

Ansem Report #1

My efforts these many years have come to fruition, with the world I govern having become a paradise worthy of being called "Radiant Garden."

Nurtured by the pure water that is the source of life, fragrant flowers bloom in abundance, and the people face each day with hopeful smiles.

But where there is light, darkness also lurks.

As noted in my earlier reports, I must solve the mystery of this "darkness of the heart." This paradise depends on it.

I shall perform an experiment to probe the depths of a person's heart. One of my own apprentices, Xehanort, has volunteered to be a subject.

The young man has served me ever since I nursed him back from death's door some years ago. He had lost all his memories at the time, but later showed remarkable intellectual curiosity and readily absorbed my teachings, gaining deep wisdom. Any mental immaturity is surely due to his young age.

If I explore Xehanort's heart with psychological tests, I may be able to recall the past locked away within. My apprentice Even has also shown great interest in Xehanort's memories.

But is he really the right subject? Xehanort does indeed exhibit extraordinary talents...

Too extraordinary... Perhaps they are even superhuman.

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The cold air in Ansem's study fell unusually quiet today. The countless papers on the desk remained untouched and faced down as the two men in the room looked at each other intently. Nothing could be heard apart from the distant sounds of the generators in the castle. No words were spoken for at least ten minutes. The elderly man who sat behind the desk had his eyes in a harsh glare, and the tall elegant man standing before him looked in only all seriousness at him.

"You're preparing to risk your life for this experiment." The elderly man cut the silence softly.

"I am," the other man's serious tone matched as if proving something.

"Xehanort, I forbid it."

"Master Ansem, you must understand…"

"No!" Ansem's voice rose slightly and Xehanort's eyes darkened feeling almost threatened. "Forget this talk of 'hearts'. I have taught you all too well for you to be thinking this way, and even I have to say that it is dangerous. Do not underestimate the powers of the human heart, Xehanort. Not even you, the most intelligent and exceptional scientist I have ever met will truly understand such a creation."

Xehanort had to admit; he admired his teacher, his master. Only words but wisdom were spoke by the man, he would never doubt that. However Xehanort felt he had to rule his own ambitions and seek knowledge his own way, it would be the only way to surpass his wise teacher.

Xehanort could only obey Ansem and give a small sigh to himself. He couldn't argue with the man who had brought his dreams to life and taught him in so many ways. His dreams and ambitions would live on, he had no doubt about that, with or without his master's help. "Very well."

He gave a small bow and left Ansem's study with no readable expression for his master to observe. Ansem narrowed his eyes and watched as the door closed after him. He didn't like the way his apprentice's ambitions had evolved so quickly, and it had gotten to a point where he could not truly read Xehanort's mind anymore. The man was far too unpredictable for comfort.

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"I'm telling you Even, this whole thing seems a bit sketchy. I really think old man Ansem's right on this one," Braig said to his companion as he sat on the side cabinet in the big white laboratory, his long black and silver hair flowing behind him in a ponytail.

"Braig, your voice is irritating and distracting," Even replied in a cruel voice as he gathered up several test tubes with different coloured liquids inside. His white lab coat had all kinds of colourful stains marked on it, showing how passionate an alchemist he was.

"As if. You say that to me every time."

"Because I mean it every time."

The large metal door of the laboratory opened loudly and Xehanort strode in with a look of murder across his elegant features. The two men looked at him not daring to say a word incase they pissed him off, but Even soon carried on with his small experiments without fazing. He'd gotten used to his old friend's mood far better than Braig had.

"Even, Braig, I need to speak with you all at once. Follow me to the main experimentation room." His voice was a lot serious than ever before, even Even could sense this. Braig suddenly didn't like the way he wanted them in the room Ansem usually never allowed anyone into.

"What's happened now?" Even sighed placing his test tubes in the small rack and taking his white gloves off.

"I'll explain everything in a moment." Xehanort walked out of the door again expecting the two to follow and, of course, they did.

Braig jumped off from the cabinet and screwed his face up following Even out the door. "He seems really pissed," he whispered to Even. Even smirked.

"I think he's finally snapped."

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Braig walked last into the huge experimentation room and greeted his other fellow scientists; Dilan, Ienzo and Aeleus. All but one in the huge castle were gathered together here, in front of a machine familiar to them all. The machine Ansem forbade any of them to use.

"Why have you dragged us to a machine we cannot use, Xehanort?" Ienzo asked before anyone spoke, not wanting to waste his time.

Xehanort turned with a smile towards his friends, his long white hair whirring around with him. "A machine we cannot use? Or a machine we aren't allowed to use?"

Even smirked to himself. He was right afterall. Xehanort had finally decided to rebel against his master, he could tell by the strange look in Xehanort's eyes.

"Gentlemen, all of the answers to our research lies right infront of us. We'll leap ten steps ahead towards our goals! To finally understand the human heart. Once we understand it, we will have countless options, countless answers. Our minds will be at ease." The five men before Xehanort were indeed listening. They all admired his intelligence and trusted him with their lives. "So please, let us conduct the final experiment that will answer all of our questions. Us, six men with strong hearts; we'll be the key to a perfect experiment. And we all know this machine can do it."

The men fell silent, as silent as it had been in Ansem's study, and Xehanort grew anxious. He needed his friends, his scientists, without them he could not do this. His heart alone would not be powerful enough to control this experiment.

"I have always trusted you Xehanort," Aeleus began, "and I will trust you with my life. With your wisdom I believe this cannot fail." He stood bold and faced Xehanort. Xehnort placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Thankyou, my friend."

The other four men grew some courage from Aeleus's small speech and nodded.

"You have never let me down, Xehanort," Dilan spoke.

"I have to agree, I do think this might work," Ienzo added.

"You know I have always been obsessed with this experiment too," said Even.

Xehanort smiled in thanks to his fellow scientists then looked towards Braig who stood at the side, arms folded to his chest, eyes to the ground. Xehanort walked towards Braig.

"And you, Braig?"

"You know that Ansem doesn't…"

"Ansem has no faith in the heart, he'd lost that faith a long time ago. He has taught us all very well and we must all admire him for it. But he isn't willing to take the bigger step, the step we must take to make him proud."

"If he is as wise as we think, shouldn't we take his advice and not mess around with his huge machines?"

"Coward," Dilan retorted and folded his arms over his broad chest.

Braig frowned and scowled at Dilan, he refused to be called a coward. He knew if he didn't go along with this he'd be banished from the small group, cast aside as the master's pet. He sighed. What could it hurt? Xehanort did always know what he was doing.

"Okay, I'm in."

Xehanort smiled and closed his eyes in relief then turned towards the machine in awe, his eyes wide and mouth curved. Nothing could stop him now. Although originally he was only willing to test his own heart, his selfish side had caught the better of him recently and decided that six hearts were better than one. With each heart being unique, he'd have a lot more answers and intelligence in his hands.

Ansem had once taught him that every heart is consumed with both light and darkness. It was the darkness he was very curious about, the darkness in people's hearts. What was it? Was it powerful or weak? Could he remove it and store it some place else? Extract people's darkness and make them whole, solely light. The machine was created to do purely that, to remove the darkness from one's heart. The six men and Ansem had researched for years on this, until Ansem had finally gathered enough information to create this wonderful machine. Xehanort never understood why Ansem was never fully prepared to use the machine on a real heart.

His excitement grew and grew as the six of them got into their positions inside the human sized pods. The pods would send them into unconsciousness and wires and tubes would be connected to their chests, while the machine would 'read' their hearts. The machine was stated 'unstable' by Ansem, but Xehanort had failed to mention that to the other apprentices.

"Braig, I'll need you to manual the machine while we are inside it, after that you can quickly climb into your own pod then this man can do the rest," Xehanort pointed towards a normal looking lab assistant as he bowed toward Braig slightly.

Braig looked at the others who seemed fairly confident with this whole thing. He then looked to Xehanort and nodded reluctantly.

"You're the only one who can do that for me." Xehanort patted his shoulder then walked towards his own pod as Braig watched him closely. He didn't know why but he was still uncertain about this whole procedure, but he had to trust his friends, to trust Xehanort.

Braig stood behind the control panel and locked the pod doors and the five men looked at him proudly through the glass doors. It was encouraging, and Braig gave a small smile. He pushed the green button and the five men slowly fell asleep as gas lightly filled the pods. Next, the wires and the tubes connected into place on their chests. All Braig had to do now was push the big red button. He breathed in heavily and pushed it down. The generators began making a loud humming noise and the experimentation began.

Braig walked towards his pod casually thinking that this whole thing didn't seem so bad after all. "Heh, what was I thinking? I should have more faith in Xehanort." He stood outside his pod and nodded toward the lab assistant who nodded back behind the control panel. Braig took another deep breath and mumbled to himself, "good look bud…"

His thoughts were interrupted when strange noises began to erupt around the five men in the pods. He frowned and turned around to see the pods darker than usual. What? The pods had no lights in the first place. Braig walked cautiously towards the pod Ienzo was in and noticed a large shadow looming around his feet. Horrible noises cracked and screeched around all of the pods and he turned towards the lab assistant who looked equally confused.

"Did you press something?!"

"I swear sir, I didn't touch a thing!"

Braig snapped his head toward Xehanort's pod and his eyes widened as he saw the shadow beneath his feet taking a form of something. Braig then jumped away quickly from Ienzo's pod in surprise as his shadow was doing the same.

"What the hell is going on?" Braig said to himself as he watched the shadows in all the tanks take form into some sort of… creature. Once the formations had stopped the creatures stood still and looked almost asleep as they drooped. They stood in front of each man in the pods, almost as if they were their masters. Each creature was differently and oddly shaped, although all of them were pitch black, like the shadows. "This is so… weird." Braig walked towards the creature in Xehanort's pod and looked closely through the glass, examining the dark features.

"Sir! Look!" The assistant cried, pointing toward Even's pod. Braig turned his head towards Even's pod and the creature had its arm stuck inside of Even's chest hissing and screeching. Blood spewed everywhere from his chest and the life reading on his heart monitor drastically started beeping fast.

"Even!" Braig cried and ran toward his pod, banging on the glass as the creature pulled out Even's very heart. Braig fell to his knees, eyes wide, fear swooping all over his very soul.

"It won't let me open the doors sir!" The assistant yelled as he frantically pressed the button. The hissing and screeching began once more and Braig saw Dilan's creature doing the same thing. Then the same with Ienzo, then Aeleus, then Xehanort. Tears glazed in fear in Braig's eyes as he watched the strange creatures murder his friends. All that could be heard was screeching and tear of his fellow scientists flesh, then the faint beating of their own hearts. The heart monitors beeped and beeped until eventually they all fell into one single drowning tone.

"Open the fucking doors!" Braig screamed, tears streaming from his eyes. "I can't let them die! I can't let…"

The glass door of Even's pod behind Braig smashed open suddenly and the creature screamed and pounced on top of Braig, hissing in his face. Braig yelled and tried to keep the creature away from his chest, thinking it was the only thing he could do. It was no use, the creature had tremendous strength and soon he felt the pain of his chest being ripped open and he screamed twice as loudly as the creature did. The assistant watched with wide eyes and not long after, the creature's in the other pods smashed through the glass doors and ran towards the only sign of life they could find, him.

"Run! Fucking run!" Braig screamed at him, but it was too late. The four creatures ran with god like speed at him and soon their was only darkness.

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Ansem Report #2

I have made a grave mistake.

My study of the "darkness of the heart" began with a simple psychological test and quickly snowballed.

Spurred on by my youngest apprentice Ienzo, I constructed a massive laboratory in the basement of my castle.

Unbeknownst to me, my six apprentices then began collecting a large number of subjects on which to perform dangerous experiments into the "darkness of the heart."

As soon as I found out, I called my apprentices together and ordered them not only to cease their studies, but to destroy the results of their research thus far.

What on earth was happening within the hearts of my six beloved apprentices? While pursuing the mystery of the darkness of the heart, could they themselves have strayed into its depths?

Yet I remain the most foolish of all, for having begun these experiments.

We are not meant to interfere in the depths of another's heart, no matter what our reasons for doing so...

And my error plunged me into despair.