Chapter 1

The Beginning

"Where... where am I?" I slowly said.

Last I remember was a swarm of... what? I was in my room asleep. But some loud booming sound woke me. I got up and walked out of my house. It was dark and cold, strange for the summer weather. But there was something black moving about and it was growing. They came after me so I ran. Then I fell. Fell into what? Where did I go? What is this place? It's definitely not my New York City.

I made myself get up to look around. I heard my back crack in about six different places. I moaned, I didn't want to move, and fell back down. But... what did I fall back down on? I moved my hands across the surface but I didn't feel anything there, nothing at all. But I was on something solid, right?

I jumped up as quick as I could, ignoring the pain. I looked around and saw small patches of rock scattered all over. I look below me and saw myself. I saw my brown and blue hair, my gray eyes, my pale skin and dark clothes, my shaking scared self, I saw my reflexion.

I took a small step forward. A black ripple exploded from my foot. Was this water? No... what was this stuff?

I knelt down and touched the ground. It felt really weird, like melting whipped cream or something. It didn't stick to me at all, it just fell off, like water to oil. I stood back up and took another look around.

"What kind of place is this?" I mumbled to myself. I looked down again and there was blackness. I jumped back in shock. What happened to the ground? There was nothing there and yet I was standing. How? Then I heard a 'whooshing' sound.

I turned around and I saw something large come up from the darkness. It was a door about fifteen feet away. I walked toward it, almost drawn to it. For some reason, I felt the need to go to that door. As if I was being called...

Suddenly I was knocked off my feet. I gasped and closed my eyes, waiting for the crash. But seconds passed and it never came. I opened my eyes and saw the door and other small rocks floating up. No, I was going down. I was falling. I tried to scream but nothing came out.

As I fell, it just got darker and darker. I flailed my arms, hoping to maybe catch onto something. Then the crash finally came.

I opened my eyes back up but it didn't matter, everything was black.

"Are you awake?" Asked a voice.

"Who are you?" I asked back, very wary about my surroundings.

"What do you know about Sora?"

"Who?" I mumbled. I rubbed my head and sat up. I hurt all over. But this time I was at least on something flat, something real. A table perhaps?

"Sora. The bearer of the Keyblade. What do you know about him? Tell me what you know." The voice said. A boy's voice?

"I don't know who that is." I replied, "So who are you?"

A long pause. I waited silently.

"Do you know King Mickey? Or the heartless?" He asked, "What about the nobodies?"

"Uh, no." I said in confusion, "But what about you? And where am I?"

"You're useless." He said.

"What?" I growled.

I hear foot steps walking away. His foot steps? I jumped of the table and ran after him.

"Hey! Wait up!" I called, "What's going on, where am I, who are...?" I grabbed his hand. Something made a click sound and suddenly the whole room was bright.

"Wow" I mumbled.

The boy was much taller then me, he being five feet seven and me being only five feet. His hair was shoulder length and silver. His black eyes burned my skin but I didn't mind it. He was so dark and yet... so brilliant.

"Wow." I said again.

"What do you want?" He asked.

"A name." I said, "You're name."

"Riku."

"Jess."

He stared at me hard, studying my eyes.

"Where is this place?" I asked.

"A better question would be... what is this place?" He said.

"Mm... then, what is it?"

"I don't know." He mumbled.

"Oh, wow, you're a huge help..." I sighed, rolling my eyes.

He almost smiled but then he got serious again, looking at the wall. The room was large, but it was round and had no doors or hallways, just a large table in the middle of it all. What could possibly come in?

"We're leaving." Said Riku, grabbing my arm. Out of nowhere, a cloud of darkness appeared. I gasped and stepped back but Riku pulled me forward. We walked into the void and my mind went black again.

Ugh.. my head... I turned onto my side. What happened? I opened my eyes. I saw walls, a floor, a ceiling. I was laying in a bed. This was my room. Was I just dreaming that whole time? I sighed and blinked; suddenly I was in water. I couldn't breathe! I blinked again and I was in my room. I took a deep breath. I sat up and looked around. This was my room, it was really my room.

I blinked a few more times and the pictures switched between the water and my room. I got really dizzy and lightheaded.

"What is going on...?" I mumbled, holding my head, hoping that it would stop the spinning. It didn't. Then switching was now happening even without my blinking, it was happening on its own.

"Riku?" I mumbled, gasping for air when I could.

Then I felt him grab my arm.

"Hey... hey, snap out of it!"

"What?" I opened my eyes again and there he was. "Whoa, what just happened?"

"You let the darkness take over your heart." Sighed Riku, "I knew that you'd be useless." He got up and walked a few steps in front of me. I looked past him, wondering where we were now. We were surrounded by water on all sides but up and yet it didn't cave in. In the distance there was a huge castle that looked like it was completely empty.

"I... what is going on?" I asked, "Why am I here?"

"I wish I knew." He mumbled.

"You wish?" I laughed, "I'm the one stuck here with no freakin idea of where I am!" I think I was going into hysteria. My mind was filled with so much. Only an hour I've been here and I was crazy. I have never felt so lost in my life.

"Hey, hey, calm down!" Said Riku, shaking my shoulders, "Get a hold of yourself. you're just letting the darkness take over!"

I stopped, blinked a few times, and let myself fall onto Riku. "I wanna go home. I just... all I wanna do is go home."

"You just got here." He said.

"I don't like it here." I mumbled.

"Then you can come with me."

I turned around and there in front of me was a tall women in black and purple holding a staff was staring down at me. Her green eyes glowed uncomfortably at me and strange horns were placed upon her head.

"Maleficent." Growled Riku.

"Who?" I asked.

"Oh Riku, what a good boy you are." She laughed, "This girl... her heart is strong. It'll make for a very powerful heartless."

"Heartless?" I mumbled in question.

"You won't touch her." Scoffed Riku, pulling me in closer.

"Is that so?" She cackled, grabbing my arm, "What a tiny little thing."

Riku pushed me behide him and out of nowhere, he pulled out a sword. It was dark with a wing-like blade. It was really insane, the darkness flowing from it.

"Give me the girl." She said, getting angry.

"She's with me." He snapped, slashing at her a few times. I grabbed onto him tightly, trying not to fall too far from him.

Then behide me, a portal of darkness, like the one before, appeared. Out stepped a figure in a black coat. I pulled on Riku a bit.

"What?" He growled, then he saw the guy, "Who are you?"

"Maleficent, the girl is to be mine." He said quite calmly.

"Xemnas, this is my territory, so she is my claim." She spat.

"I can claim her if I will it and it is my will to obtain the girl." He turned to me, "Come here, I can help you." He extended his hand to me. I stepped closer to Riku, hiding under his arm. "She's staying with me, that's final." Said Riku sternly.

"Nonsense." He laughed, "She's coming with me."

I was so confused. Why did these people want me? What was going on?

"Enough talk!" Snapped Maleficent. She raised her hands and out of the ground rose several hundred, no, several thousand shadows. They were exactly like the tiny creatures that attacked my home before I woke up here.

"If that is how you must have it." Xemnas sighed. He snapped his fingers and white creatures with snappy mouths appeared from nowhere, about the same amount of them as the other things.

Riku mumbled something to himself and started backing up with me still clinging to him. He readied himself to fight. We were surrounded with no way out.

Suddenly, it all went black. I felt nothing, saw nothing. Then there was a scream. It was Riku, it was him in pain. I tried to move but I couldn't. There was nothing that I could move, I had no feeling. Then I heard another scream. This time, it was me.

Then it all hit me. I felt like I was on fire. I screamed louder, I heard it and I felt it. I tried to flail, hoping the pain would escape me, but I couldn't move. Almost like I was pinned down onto the ground.

I heard them laugh; Maleficent and Xemnas. They laughed at me and Riku in pain. Then the fire disappeared. I breathed. Then my mind drifted. The feeling all went away. The voices faded...

I faded.

ok, so there's my first chapter!!

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