Oh my goodness, here we are.

The first chapter of the awaited story[really?]... New Game!

Hopefully it'll turn out better than Game Over, Memory Game, and Nameless Days altogether, and hopefully you guys will enjoy it as much as I will write it.

I don't think I have to address anything else, except... Don't forget to look at my profile for the pictures I drew of Marie!

Well, Here goes nothing!

Disclaimer:
I Do not own Kingdom Hearts.

Chapter One

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Counted Days

A far-off dream that's like a scattered memory.
A scattered memory that's like a far-off dream.
I want to line the pieces...
Yours, and mine.

We fly on different wings, you and I.
I'll always be heading left, and you, right.
But no matter what happens, no matter where destiny takes us.
I'll always be in your heart, and you'll be always be in mine.
No matter how far a distance we are, I'll still hear your voice.
Loud and clear.

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"Give me a break, Kai—"

"Sora, don't ever change."

"With Mar—, It's totally different. I want to protect her! If she was lost in the darkness, I'd dive in and save her from it!"

"My feelings for Sora are really strong, and you could almost say that I love him."

"The doors are opening..."

"But I've been protecting this power, and I'm not about to give it to them either. Even if it kills me, I have to protect it."

Silence grew in, and he grunted a bit before fully waking up. Roxas looked at his bed, and questioned the dream he had, the dream about him. He opened up the window beside his bed, and looked out into the sunny town, filled with people and the noise of birds. He also heard the bell from the clock tower tolling, and decided to leave so he could go to the hideout.

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"Man, doesn't that tick you off?"

"Yeah, that's just wrong."

"Seifer's gone too far this time."

Hayner, Pence and Olette all looked towards Roxas, who only nodded at the three of them. Hayner jumped off his sitting area, and walked around the room. He couldn't believe that Seifer blamed his gang for stealing stuff around the town, but he understood where he came from. Seifer and Hayner's gang were always on wrong terms with each other, but Hayner absolutely hated how Seifer went around telling everyone it was Hayner and his gang that were the thieves.

Hayner thought about what they should do, and everyone looked around and thought as well. Roxas suggested they find the real thieves, and Pence agreed. Hayner asked what they should do with Seifer, and Roxas told him to concentrate on the real culprits first.

Hayner growled, and Pence shouted in fear. "Oh no!"

"It's gone!" he shouted. "Our — are gone!"

Pence grabbed his throat, and wondered what the heck was going on. Hayner and Olette also tried saying the word, but it just wouldn't come out. They grabbed onto their throats, and stroked it to see if that had been the problem. However, it was not. Roxas wondered, their photos were stolen, and even the word had been stolen, as well!

As the three others went out to do some recon, Roxas followed behind. He felt a little dizzy, and stopped for a moment. He passed it off, however, and continued with his friends.

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Marie

"We're never gonna save up to go to the beach if you're always sleeping on your job!"

"W-what?" I said, quickly getting up from sleeping on the counter of the ice cream shop I'm working at. I rubbed my eyes, and looked in front of me. Hayner, Pence and Olette all looked at me, either laughing, smiling or smirking. I sighed, and placed my elbows on the counter.

"It's not my fault no one wants to buy ice cream," I said, looking at them. "And I already have enough saved for one person, you guys need to pick up the pace."

"Pfft, please," replied Hayner. "I'm doing so well at my job. Delivery has never been this fast since I came around."

I rolled my eyes as Olette and Pence laughed. Olette has been working at posting up posters for the big struggle tournament that's coming up soon, Hayner and I already signed up for it, right now we're just training. The foam sticks we use to train are a lot of fun, but whenever I get distracted Hayner hits me.

...It doesn't hurt since it's made out of foam, but still...

Pence has also been helping putting some cargo away, and he's quite happy about it. Since he's doing labour, he's getting more paid than all of us. I think he has enough to go to the beach as well, but he wanted to save up more so that we have some extra munny while there.

It was funny how the whole talk about going to the beach started, you see, it was their idea to save up, so we could all celebrate my birthday. It's coming up soon, but for some odd reason, I'm not really happy about it. I don't know why, but I get the feeling that we'll be short one person. I get the feeling that I'm suppose to celebrate with someone, specifically, a boy.

...Olette keeps saying it might be prince charming coming, and he'll sweep me off my feet and kiss me. We'll ride into the sunset on his white horse, and we'll be together happily forever after.

Really, Olette?

Anyways, I didn't think anything of it as time passed, but It's been bugging me now. I don't want to feel like this on my birthday, but I think it's because I don't have a family. I remember coming here, with no one to call mom, dad, brother or sister. Olette was kind enough to let me stay with her, until I remember where, or who, my family is. Hopefully I remember soon, I want everyone I know and love to be there for my birthday.

"Well, in any case," Olette said, which took me out of my thoughts. "We'll need a lot of munny if we want to really enjoy Marie's birthday."

"Thanks," I said, smiling at all three of them. "I hope it'll be the best birthday. Hey, I get off soon. Let me get out of here, so we can practice for the struggle Tournament."

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Roxas

Roxas, Hayner, Pence and Olette all walked towards the sandlot, and saw Rai, fuu, Vivi and Seifer there. Fuu pointed them out, and Rai merely stated how low they were to actually steal. Hayner grew angry, and Seifer told them to give back what they stole.

Seifer then went on saying how they were simply losers, and didn't need any proof to show it. Seifer looked at them, and smirked. "Maybe if you get on your knees and beg, maybe I'll let it slide."

Roxas walked forward, and took a deep breath. Hayner, not believing what was happening, called out to him. Roxas looked around him, and noticed two sword foams near him. He wasn't going to let this go easily.

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Marie

We walked towards the sandlot, and Hayner had two foam swords with him. We needed to be in perfect shape and condition to fight, so that Seifer and his gang wouldn't beat us.

Hayner and the rest didn't really like Seifer a lot, but it was assumed that they had history even way before I arrived. I had nothing against him, in fact, I knew he was a mean person to those who were mean to him. So I did what any smart person did; play suck up. Hayner didn't like the idea at first, but Olette said that it was good having a mediator between them. I shrugged at the idea, since I didn't really have any comments on it. I try my best to be friendly with everyone.

Hayner threw me a foam sword, and I caught it, although a little lazily. I was still getting used to catching and fighting, but I wanted to join in this tournament, because something told me I would remember more of my past if I did. I walked to one end of the sandlot, and Hayner walked to the other. I took my position, which felt completely awkward, and looked at him. He was so pro at this, but he admitted that Seifer was a little better, even though he hated it.

I told him that if we both enter, it would rise our chances of beating Seifer. If I didn't beat him, Hayner had the chance, and if Hayner didn't beat him, I had the chance.

"Alright, Marie," said Hayner, looking at me in his fighting stance. "Just like last time."

I took a deep breath, and Hayner suddenly came at me. I blocked his attack, and he attacked again. I manage to half-block it, and I attacked him, though he blocked it. He ran a few away from me, and I stood my ground, I want to see if I can try and read his moves.

As he ran around me, I noticed he jumped right back in to attacking. I block the attack a couple of times, but the last one hit me. I stumbled a bit from it, but I regained my posture. He went back to running around, and I had his moves locked in. As he came in to attack again, I blocked the first attack, and quickly went in to attack him.

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Roxas

Seifer blocked a couple of attacks, and Roxas kept at it. Seifer managed to hit him hard enough for him to stumble, and attacked him afterwards. Roxas blocked the last two attacks, and hit Seifer a couple of times in return.

Seifer fell down after the last attack, and both Rai and Fuu came to defend him. Pence took a picture of Roxas in front of Seifer, and gave him a thumbs up. All of a sudden, a white, fast... thing came up to Pence and stole the photos. Hayner shouted at it, and Olette questioned if it was the thief. Roxas ran to follow it, and headed all the way into the woods.

He eventually made his way into the mansion, and there was the white thing. He walked towards it cautiously, and the zipper that appeared to be his mouth opened. Roxas growled, and held his foam sword against it.

This enemy was fast, and avoided all of the attacks Roxas pit against it. He wasn't getting any attacks on it, and the thing kept hitting him. He stopped attacking it, and figured it was no use. He looked down, and suddenly, his foam sword transformed into what appeared to be a Key looking sword. He questioned what it was, as it began pointing towards the enemy.

As if on instinct, Roxas began to attack the enemy. He begun to notice that the attacks were having an effect, and the thing actually felt the pain Roxas delivered. The enemy attacked Roxas a couple of times, but he managed to block them. He attacked the thing in return, and soon enough it disappeared.

As it did, pictures kept falling from the sky, and he watched as it did. He picked up the pictures, and headed back to the hideout.

Once there, Hayner, Pence and Olette looked at the pictures. They noticed that all of the pictures were of Roxas, and Olette realized why everyone thought they stole them. Pence thought for a moment, and wondered if the actual thief wanted to steal Roxas.

"Get real," said Hayner. "Who would want to steal a bonehead like Roxas."

"Oh, thanks."

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Marie

"Augh," I said, dropping to my knees. "No more! Please!"

Hayner laughed as he stuck out his hand to me. I was so tired from fighting, but I think we got a lot of training done. I got a lot better at blocking, and I was finally able to attack without getting hit in return. I looked at Hayner, and laughed as I took his hand. I got up, and patted the dirt off my knees.

"You guys were pretty good," said Pence. "You're getting a lot better, Marie."

"Yeah!" agreed Olette. "Imagine! What if Marie won the tournament? She'd be the first girl to win it!"

"Pu-lease," Hayner said while waving his hand around. "Marie is way to clumsy to actually win the whole tournament!"

I huffed, and pushed Hayner. Olette and Pence laughed, and soon enough, so did I. Hayner smirked, and then chuckled along with us. We said goodbye to each other, and walked towards our homes.

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The 2nd day

"What happened to my home? My island?"

"Riku! Kai—"

"Hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel."

"Donald Duck"

"Name's Goofy."

"And I'm Mar—"

Roxas suddenly woke up, and looked at his hands. "A Key...blade?"

He had been having those dreams again, the ones with that boy. However, images popped up of a girl with red hair, and what looked like to be blue eyes. He didn't know what that meant, but he figured maybe it was a friend of the boy's? He didn't know.

He also had been having dreams of another girl, but she didn't appear as often as the girl with red hair did. This girl had blonde hair, but Roxas never got to see her face, since when she turned around, he would always wake up. Roxas shook his head, and decided to not think on any of these things. He got up, got dressed, and headed towards the hideout.

As he made his way, he stopped to think about the Keyblade. He looked over to see a stick, and picked it up. He started attacking the air with the stick, and then shrugged his shoulders. He threw the stick behind him, and it hit a man wearing a coat that was black.

He turned around and said sorry, but the man simply walked away. Roxas shook his head, and walked back to the hideout. As he entered, someone walked out in front of it, and watched as Roxas walked into it.

Aura stood there, with her hands close together. She softly grunted, and looked at the ground. Riku had just passed by not too long ago, and Aura had actually meant to see him. She sighed, and looked at the hideout. She closed her eyes for a moment, and then opened them as she walked away.

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Marie

I had been sitting on the couch with Olette at our hideout, while eating some ice cream. I wasn't working today, so I was happy eating ice cream with my friends today.

"How awesome was it that we all got the same day off at work?" asked Olette, taking a bite from her ice cream. "It gives us more time to just hang out and have fun."

"Yeah, but what is there to do?" asked Hayner, who took a big bite off his ice cream. True, there was really nothing to do, since we did most of what we had planned to do during the summer. I wanted to practice my cartwheels, as well as my hand stands, but I don't think that would be fun for everyone.

"Why don't we practice for the tournament?" asked Hayner. "It's two days from now, and we don't have a lot trained."

I sighed, and didn't really want to train. But I guess if we want to defeat Seifer, we have to be on top of it. I agreed with Hayner, and Pence and Olette nodded as well. As soon as we finished our ice cream, we headed to the sandlot, and trained.

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Roxas

"Let's head to the beach!" shouted Hayner. It was made apparent that the summer was almost over, and none of the members had anything to do. So Hayner suggested they went to the beach, however, Roxas reminded him that they had no munny.

Hayner smirked, and told the gang how they would work to get munny. He ran out to the market street, and everyone else followed. As Hayner ran towards the street, he stopped, and looked at the poster on the wall. It had sported the picture for the struggle tournament, and Hayner smirked and looked at Roxas.

"Just two more days," he said. "If we both enter, one of us will win, and split the prize."

Roxas looked at Hayner, and nodded at him. Olette and Pence cheered them on, and wished them luck on that day. Roxas and Hayner promised each other they would try their hardest to win the prize, and crossed arms with each other to symbolize it. He looked at everyone, and changed subjects.

"Alright, one ticket to the beach is nine-hundred," said Hayner. "How much is it for four?"

"three-thousand six hundred," replied Olette. "With three hundred for us to spend, it's one thousand two hundred. A total of four-thousand eight hundred."

"What do we need three hundred for?" asked Roxas. Hayner patted his chest, and told him they were going to spend it on pretzels. Roxas suggested watermelon, but Hayner told them they were too expensive. Olette told them they needed four-thousand eight hundred, and Pence told them he had eight hundred already saved. Olette had six hundred and fifty munny, while Roxas only had one hundred and fifty munny.

"one thousand and six hundred munny, that's good!" said Hayner. "Just three-thousand two hundred to go."

Hayner told the others to split up and find jobs, and to meet back at the station when they each earned at least eight hundred munny. Hayner ran as fast as he could, and Olette sighed. Pence laughed, and Roxas was getting hungry from the though of eating pretzels. Everyone had split up, and went to gain jobs to get munny.

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Aura

Aura stood on top of the clock tower, with Riku beside her. She had been coming and going between the two Twilight Towns, to check on both Roxas and Marie. Although it pained her to see Roxas, she had to do it. She mostly stayed in the real Twilight Town though, mainly because she was more concerned for Marie.

"What do you think about it?" asked Riku, looking into the town.

"He acts like he's a normal teenaged boy," she replied, shaking her head and crossing her arms. She scoffed, and placed pressure on her left foot. "If only it were that easy to be one—a real person."

Riku sighed, and watched as Marie, along with her friends trained for the tournament. "So, did you see Marie?"

"Yeah, I did," Aura replied. "We do look a like, but she looks a little more naive and innocent than me."

"Well, that's because she is," he said. "She was dragged into the battlefield, and she's had a pretty rough past. But still... she remains strong... and happy."

"Xemnas would do anything to see to it that her happiness is destroyed by using her in his plans," stated Aura. "Well, he's got another thing coming if he thinks he can get away with it."

Riku chuckled, and Aura looked at him. She was finding it weird how he was laughing at something so serious. Riku stopped laughing when he noticed Aura giving him a weird look, and he looked at her. "I'm not laughing because of what you said. I'm laughing because... well, when it comes to it... Marie can get just as angry as you can."

Aura chuckled, and Riku did the same as well. They soon began to laugh into hysterics, for really no reason. Riku was starting to accept Aura as Marie's nobody, since at first he didn't really like her attitude. But he soon realized that it was something that made Aura... well, Aura. He knew he could never witness the nice side of her, what with everything happening, but one day he would.

Aura also began to show trust in Riku. Although she was so distant from everyone else, seeing Riku as a friend to Marie made her think that he could be trusted. Of course, she knew about Riku's little battle with darkness, but Aura completely understood, since she harboured some dark powers as well.

"I'm going to take a look around the virtual Twilight Town," said Aura. "The Organization knows where Roxas is hiding, so I think I need to keep a close eye on it."

Riku nodded, and Aura created a portal for herself. She walked through it, and Riku watched as she did. He turned back, and felt bad for the girl. She must be going through a lot.

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Marie

I took a deep breath, and stood up straight. Olette and Pence had been sitting down, while Hayner and I trained for the tournament. Honestly, I was a little scared of not winning, only because I didn't want to let my friends down. I was getting better, but not good enough for the game. What happens if I lose? Seifer and his gang will forever make fun of Hayner and his friends, and me, but... I could care less about these tournaments.

My eyes widened a bit. Oddly, I remember thinking the same thing some time ago, but where? And with who? All I really recall, is how I didn't want to be apart of some monster fighting arena tournament. But where, damnit?

My eyes grew wider as I got poked on the forehead with Hayner's foam sword. I looked at him, and had an unimpressed look on my face. I moved the sword away, and sighed at Hayner. "Still wanna train?"

"Nah, I think we're good for today," he said, waving the sword around. "But let's get something to eat, I'm starving."

I laughed as I agreed. Luckily, I was able to get free ice cream where I worked, so that didn't cost us munny. Munny that we need for the beach.

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Roxas

Roxas headed towards the station, and met up with Hayner, Pence and Olette. They looked at him, and smiled, Hayner asked how much Roxas gained from the job, and he handed the munny to Olette. She counted it, and she smiled at everyone. "Nice work everyone! From when we started, now we have..."

Olette stuck out her hand-made pouch, with munny inside of it. "Tada, five-thousand munny!"

Olette handed the pouch for Roxas to see, and she, along with Pence and Hayner, walked towards the station. Roxas followed along, but as he made it closer to the station, he was attacked, and fell to the floor.

Hayner, Pence and Olette turned around and gasped. Roxas got up from the floor, and rubbed his chin. As he started getting up higher, someone grabbed his arm. It was the same man that he had hit with that wooden stick. Roxas looked at him, and he had said something. He questioned what it was, but the man walked away.

Hayner told him to hurry up, and Roxas looked at him. He shook his head, and ran to the station. Once inside, Hayner asked for the tickets, to which Pence asked Roxas for the munny. He checked his pocket, but it was no where on him.

He gasped, and realized that the man had taken his munny. He tried running back, but Hayner had stopped him. Roxas explained that he fell, and that the man had taken his munny. Hayner questioned him about the man, stating that there was no one beside him.

Roxas looked distraught, how could they have not seen the man? The sound of a train leaving was heard, and everyone sighed. They walked past Roxas, and he sighed as well, following them to the clock tower.

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Marie

We all sat on top of the clock tower, eating ice cream, and looking at the town. It was pretty nice up here, as it was so calming, and peaceful. Olette was talking about a story she had read, and Hayner made gagging noises, while Pence laughed. I smiled at them, and looked back at the town.

My head began to hurt a bit, and I rubbed it. I looked at the area beside me, and for some reason... I was able to feel a presence... almost like it was left behind.

"Marie, you okay?" I heard Hayner ask. I looked at him, and smiled while giving him a thumbs up.

"Never better!" He laughed, and went on to mock Olette about her romantic stories. I smiled, but I felt out of it. That presence really bothered me, it came and left so quickly. I wasn't able to get a better feel... but wait, what am I saying? How the heck am I feeling presences?

...odd.

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Roxas

"Can you feel Sora?"

Roxas looked at the town, while his ice cream melted. What did the man mean when he said that? What was he trying to say? Roxas didn't understand how Hayner and the rest wasn't able to see the man that had grabbed Roxas. He was starting to feel weird, and he was starting to feel like something was wrong.

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DiZ, Riku, and Aura

"Is it really that hard to make a beach?" asked Riku, holding the pouch that he stole from Roxas not too long ago. Aura looked at it, and wondered what Roxas was doing at the moment, although she shook her head. She had better things to worry about, plus, she was still unforgiving to the boy.

"We'd be giving the enemy another entry point," replied DiZ, who sat in front of his computer. Aura walked over to Riku, who still had the pouch. She looked at it, and snapped it away from Riku. He scoffed, but made no attempt to take it back.

"What about this?" she asked. DiZ turned around, and looked at Aura holding the pouch. He laughed, and commented on how she should buy ice cream with her so called friends that she no longer had. She laughed bitterly and mockingly, and gave the pouch back to Riku, and left.

DiZ turned around, and Riku watched as Aura left. "Objects of that town must be kept out of the real world. You can delete it."

Riku looked as Aura left, and sighed. DiZ noticed this, and chuckled. Riku asked what had been so funny, and DiZ turned around once again. "Your relationship with Aura... you should remember that Nobodies don't have the right to make friends... they're not even suppose to exist."

Riku sighed again, and didn't really like how DiZ was so cruel towards both Aura and Naminè. The two had never met, but Aura remembered seeing her briefly, though never talked to her. He thought about her, and wondered how she was going to defeat her once called allies...

should they ever find and kidnap Marie and Roxas.

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Yay, finally finished the FIRST chapter of New Game.

Gosh, I'm so tired.

Shadow 1n2:
Aww, thank you so much! I hope you enjoyed them, really I do. I don't feel too good on the job I did with Nameless Days, so I'm making sure New Game has as much details, drama, romance, and action than all of my other stories combined.

Anna Shiki:
No one ever said this would be a happy ending. XD But maybe, in New Game, there will be a kiss with Aura. But... maybe it won't be with Roxas? Hmmm.

Lvl-ZeR0:
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Ahaha, well I don't know how awesomer it'll be, but I hope you like it. It is ironic how they boast about it, but I think it has deeper meaning. Either way, she's one of the suffering, so once she's saved they'll remember her. LOL, I love Roxas. He's so stupidly cute. And it's fine, I rather have reviews with lots of words that one line.

Lele-the-Greek-Geek:
Yeah, I guess it did. Yeah, her story is a little tragic. And yes! NEWWWW GGAAAMMEE!

starlightmint72:
Ahaha, well Marie's past story will be first, since it's a very short story. Ten chapters long, and the chapters won't be very long. Kinda like a mini-story. Stella's story will be longer, and completely made up. So I have to haul butt to make it sound good. DX And well, she's still pissed, and that's all it is, really. It'll get weaker as she continues on, so yeah. And thank you! I didn't like the game either, it was too boring.

HopeReincarnated:
Thank you! It's actually a mixture of both. You see, KH2 is when Sora starts to have feelings for Kairi, so I want that to be a rising dilemma between Sora and Marie. But since Marie can't remember Sora, he can't remember her as well. Ohh, french. Hate it. And thank you so much! it's such an honor for you to say that, so thank you so much!

Alexandria Volturi:
Thank you! Here's New game, hope you enjoy it.

SisterOfScarletDevil:
LOL, thank you! It's not as exciting a beginning, but the game starts off slow anyways. So yeah.. Hope you liked it.