*Prologue – Scattered Memories*

A scattered dream that's like a far off memory.

A far off memory that's like a scattered dream.

I want to line the pieces up –

Yours, and mine.

Nothing but blackness is visible, nothing but the blackness of the heart. How difficult it is to find the light in each heart. Yet, it is attainable. So near and yet so far out of reach.

I covered my eyes from a sudden blinding brightness, having been walking for quite a while in blackness. I gasped, looking beneath me to see that I was standing on a platform of stained glass. The glass depicted a boy with spiky brown hair and forget-me-not blue eyes. He bore a giant key in his right hand, and his left arm rested on his raised knee. Four circles near his head depicted a girl, a boy, a duck wearing a hat, and a dog, also wearing a hat. I looked up next and noticed three floating objects before me. A staff, a sword, and a shield. Curious, I reached and took hold of he staff, holding it gingerly in my hands. Then, I heard a voice, that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

The magic staff. A weapon of great power, destruction and healing. You wish to wield his power?

I looked around, wondering where the voice had come from, but decided against continuing my search and tightened my grip on the staff, making my decision. Then, I looked to the other two floating weapons as the voice sounded again.

However, before you can wield this power, you must give up something in return. Choose wisely.

Give an ability in return for gaining one? I sighed mentally as I thought out my decision, then slowly walked to the shield and picked it up.

The mighty shield. Defending your allies and comrades exceptionally. You give up this ability?

I sighed, nodding my head though it could not be seen, and placed the shield gingerly on the platform, where it, and the sword, disappeared before my eyes, while I still clutched the staff in my hand. I looked around then as three, shadow like creatures appeared before me. I gasped, but tightened my grip on the staff, taking up a stance that felt natural to me as the creatures came crawling toward me. Closing my eyes calmly, imagining their positions in my mind, I swung the staff, feeling the stagnant air pulse with electricity, enjoying the sensation. When I opened my eyes again, the creatures were gone, leaving munny and other useful items in their wake. I picked up every last item, before looking toward the opposite end of the platform, to see that a door had appeared.

The door has opened. But do not be afraid, for you hold the key to the Heart of the key. Step forward, can you do it?

I scoffed in indignance at the last sentence, accepting the challenge and walking towards the door, pushing it open and stepping through. Then, light blinded me, and I fell into blackness….

"You have arrived." I looked up at the scene in front of me. Three figures cloaked in black, one standing further away from the other two.

"I've been to see them. They look a lot like you." For some reason I could not hear the voices of the other two, but I seemed to speak aloud what it was they were saying.

"Who are you?"

"I'm what's left. Or, maybe I'm all there ever was." He replied in a complacent tone of voice.

"I meant your name."

"My name is of no importance. What about you two, do you remember your true names?" I contemplated this question, as my mouth formed the words one of the other two or both were speaking.

"My true name….is…."Suddenly, a flash, bright as day, blinded me momentarily, and I fell into darkness once more….

"Ree-! Sora!" Two pairs of eyes, one green, the other blue, slowly blinked open. The green eyed one of the pair slowly sat up, covering her mouth as she yawned. The boy did the same, going to lay down again as he yawned, before red hair and purple-blue eyes startled him.

"Whoa!" The two girls laughed at his antics.

"Gimme a break, Kai –! Ree –!"

The scene changed again and now a boy with silver hair and eyes the colour of the sky was running along the beach, the blue eyed boy and the two girls running after him.

"Giving up already?" The silver haired boy taunted as they all ran after him, the red haired girl falling the farthest behind and laughing the whole time before the scene changed again with a buzz, as if coming from a television screen as the same four youths were now watching the sunset. The blue eyed boy sat next to the green eyed girl on a horizontal tree trunk as the silver haired boy and the red haired girl sat on the ground next to them. The silver haired boy was talking to the other three.

"If there are any other worlds out there, why did we end up on this one?" As the blue eyed boy was about to say something, the scene cut to static and changed again, an ominous voice speaking as the blue eyed boy and green eyed girl stood in a cave of some sort, different chalk drawings all over the walls.

"This world has been connected." The boy and the girl spun around, having been looking at a drawing they had both created of each other in their younger years. The boy stood protectively in front of the girl.

"Wh-who's there?" He called, meaning to sound brave. A cloaked figure was revealed to be the speaker, and continued to speak.

"Tied to the darkness…" More static, now, the green eyed girl was sitting with the blue eyed boy on a dock as they watched the sunset.

"Sora, don't ever change." The girl murmured as she stood, her white hair becoming tousled in the gentle breeze.

Now, the girl and the boy were facing their silver haired friend, who held his hand out to them as he spoke.

"The door has opened…" Both ran to him as the girl spoke up.

"What?"

More television static and yet another change of scene. The girl and the boy were now standing in front of a giant, shadow-like monster.

"You understand nothing."

Things changed again and the girl and boy were back in the cave, a transparent form of their friend facing them. A door in the cave, that had been previously shut, opened up, and the girl flew towards them.

"So…ra…Ree…na…" Their red haired friend passed through them as they both tried to make a grab for their friend, before they were flung back out of the cave by the force of a gale.

Then, everything faded into white…