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Yen Sid's POV

I sighed with relief as I took a sip of my tea. With Xehanort destroyed and Braig and Vanitas on the run, things have really quieted down. I took another, longer drink.

The door to my study flew open, causing me to drop my tea cup. "Yen Sid!" Lea shouted. "A new World appeared!"

I glared at the pyro. "And why did you feel the need to tell me this?"

He opened a short Corridor of Darkness as a window into the space between the Worlds. A gigantic cloud of Darkness was slowly approaching one I had yet to see. "Heartless," I observed.

"No duh, Sherlock!" I glared at him again. "Apologies, Master!"

I took a closer look at the World they were approaching. "It appears to be just a city. Why would they be going there?"

Lea shrugged, then suddenly stiffened. "Hold on a sec." He closed his eyes. "The Hearts in that World have an abnormally low tolerance to the Darkness. Braig or Vanitas might be guiding them to bait us into a trap." He grimaced. "And they know that we can't just sit by while innocent people are killed."

I sighed. "Most of the others are on other missions, but luckly Xion and Isa are free. I'll summon them." I raised my hand, creating two swirling hurricanes. The tornadoes vanished, revealing the two former Organization members. I explained the situation and they hurried to this World.

Xion's POV

We landed in the World before the Heartless. A voice in my head told me it was called Sunset City, which made sense due to the beautiful sunset on the horizon. I looked around for anything dark. "I don't feel anything," I stated.

Isa nodded. "We must have gotten here ahead of them. We should prepare a counter attack."

"Too late, losers!" A purple blast hit the ground between us, throwing us back. Braig stepped out of the shadows, his guns loaded. "Guys, you seriously thought we wouldn't plan around everything? We've fought you before." He looked up into the sky. "And, again, too late." We followed his gaze to a gigantic Corridor of Darkness forming in the sky, leeking Heartless into the World.

Isa immediately grabbed me and threw me through a CoD, sending me back to The Mysterious Tower. Yen Sid was startled. "Xion! Thank goodness you made it out alive!"

I pushed myself up and used my Keyblade to open a gate. "I'm going back."

Yen Sid stopped me. "You can't go in there without a ship or armor." I switched to my Final Form and jumped through.

I landed in front of a school that was already being swarmed by Heartless. I ran in and started hacking away at them.

?'s POV

I was walking down the hallway with my friends when the school suddenly shook. "What was that?" Ben asked.

Screams erupted from down the hall as the ground started to rumble. A wave of black insect-like things flooded the hall, overtaking several surprised students and staff. I took off running, trying to get to the nearest exit before-! One of the monsters, a big humanoid one with a huge gut, stepped in front of me, causing me to bounce off of it and into the wave. I struggled to get up, but the monsters kept clawing at me and biting me, keeping me from getting any higher. I kept sinking until only my left arm was sticking out, unable to do any more. I felt some kind of poison rushing through my veins, numbing my body and slowly sapping my will. Then a hand grabbed my free wrist and tried to pull me up.

Xion's POV

I pulled desperately on the arm, not willing to accept that I had failed to save anyone. I pulled on it and cut at the Heartless, trying to free him. I managed to reveal a bit of his face, only a green eye, but then the light faded from the eye and the lifeless body vanished into small dots of light that floated away and faded. I angrilly stabbed my Keyblade downward, instantly destroying several Heartless and embedding it in the floor. I gave up and left, running to find Lea and Isa.

?'s POV

I immediately felt rocky ground jabbing into my back. I shakily pushed myself up and looked around. There didn't appear to be a single source of light, yet I could see just fine. In fact, I could see the tiny monsters running all over the place perfectly. Hold on, what?! I stumbled back as I remembered my "dream" and felt my body, seeing whether or not I was a ghost. Luckily, I was fully solid, though I didn't appear to have any clothes. Or privates.

I looked down at myself, hoping to find the same body I always saw in the shower. Instead, smooth black flesh replaced my old normal body. My feet only had three clawed toes and each of my fingers had claws as sharp as knifes. I felt my head, finding the familiar spikey hair, but as I touched it, the individual strands cut at my skin. Ram horns curled off the sides of my head. I looked around and found what seemed to be a lake. I ran to it to look at my reflection. I was greeted by what appeared to be one of those monsters, but shaped like me. I stared into the completely red eyes for a minute or so before the full force of the situation hit me. I'm one of them! I shook with fear and shock. A monster! I clenched my fists, stabbing my claws right through my hands. I couldn't hold it anymore and screamed, but what came out was more like my voice, accomponied by a little boy's voice and a man's, all making the exact same sounds at the exact same time. "What is going on?!" I shouted, still using the same voice. "What the hell is going on?!" A cloud of Darkness began to rise from my skin, darkening the surroundings even further and causing some of the monsters to grow.

"Whoa, calm down there!" I looked up and saw a man in a black coat. "Cheer up or these Heartless'll get too strong for me to control."

"Con...trol?"

He struck a heroic pose. "The Heartless ally with the strongest force within range of their freaky noses, and that would be me and my bud, Van."

I started to shake. "You brought those things to my home?"

He seemed taken aback. "Home? Wait, you can remember being human?!"

"You did this to me!?" I lunged at him, slashing with my claws. He jumped away, his hood falling away on the process. His one good eye was wide with shock.

"Easy, kid! I'd rather not become a Heartless again!" He summoned two guns and fired at me. Glowing 2-D daimonds stabbed into my body, one after one, until I couldn't even move without causing serious damage. "Now, let's get you back to base and find out what you are."

I gritted my teeth and stepped toward him, despite the immense pain. He backed up. I continued to approach him, slowly growing numb to the pain. Step by step, my pace increased. The shards loosened and fell from my body, shattering on the ground. The lacerations instantly healed and I slashed at him again, this time getting his coat but failing to cut his flesh.

He picked at the shredded leather, an annoyed look on his face. "Screw this. I'll kill you some other time." Darkness swirled around him and he vanished.

I panted, then fell to my knees, staring at my clawed hands. "What am I?"