Chapter One: A New Friend

She sighed as the trio of warriors vanished from the crystal. Her time would soon come to kill the wielder of the keyblade for all the trouble he has done. A man with long, white hair walked down the stairs behind her.

Her body turned as fast as the light, to face him. "They have disappeared from the crystal, Ansem."

"Good. Then it seems that it is now your turn. You must destroy Sora." He stared down at the long, red hair covering the eighteen year olds face.

She nodded but was deep in thought. "But sir, what about Roxas? Won't he become a nuisance?"

"Then you must take care of him. Search the world that is called Twilight Town. There is the location at which he lives. Dispose of him then start the true mission." He handed out a map of the worlds surrounding it. It will be quite easy to navigate between the planets.

She took the map from his cold fingers and started to trot toward the portal that was awaiting her.

"Before you go, take this. It should be of some use to you." He waved his hand. Out of thin air came an object which landed in her hands.

According to her past, it was called a Half-blade. There was only one in existence. The blade was split in two. One side was dark and sinister with a white dot at the top. The other was light and comforting with a black dot at the bottom. The tip was aligned with stone hard roses. Along the handle were chains. They wrapped around it, almost as if protecting something.

"As you may remember, it controls the power of both light and dark which is taken from the Kingdom Hearts. It changes the wielder into shadows and/or creates objects of light. Use it well, for if Sora is allowed to live, they might never re-awaken." He gestured toward the two bodies on the ground. One, a girl at the age of sixteen, with hair as white as the purest cloud overhead and the other, a boy at the age of seventeen, with hair as black as the devil's wings. They seemed lifeless... Soulless... heartless...


She walked down the dirty, unpopulated streets. The few people that were there, starred at her, for she looked as if she was of another world. Her bright silver dress shined in the sunlight whereas the people of this world were poor, so most had to live on the streets and wore old, hand-me-down clothes. Her eyes also seemed to frighten those who looked at her. One eye was black while the other was white. She also had two white and black clips in her hair which held up most of the annoying locks. Around her neck was a barely visible pendant. It was of the sign Yin-Yang.

She walked up to a blond haired young man that was working on a broken skateboard. He turned to look at her and laughed. "Oh, why hello. What are you, from another planet or something? Seriously what's with the get-up? And those eyes, don't even get me started about how those things give me the heebie-jeebies."

His laugh was cut short by the cold end of the stone roses that were held to his neck. "I don't give a piece of crap about your idea of fashion sense or what you think of me. Just tell me where to find Roxas or else you might just lose that pretty little head of yours."

Hayner gulped. No one had ever acted this way toward him, let alone while looking for Roxas. "O-ok, lady. He went to the old haunted mansion. Now would you mind putting that thing away?" He tried to push the tip of the blade away.

She caused the Half-blade to disappear from sight as she walked down the street. Her smile seemed almost murderous.

Hayner lifted the walkie-talkie to his mouth. "Roxas come in. You better get ready. You are about to have some otherworldly company... Over."


The gates in front of the so called haunted mansion were guarded by a man in a black hood. At the first sight of her, he started to back up, startled. "W-what are you doing here? I'm taking care of Roxas, not you!"

A smile grew across her face. "Ansem sent me. Don't worry. It won't take long." She pushed him to the ground as she walked past, not caring about his kind.

He stood up quickly and grabbed her arm. "Oh no you don't, you little Nobody."

At the moment he said that, he knew he was about to die. The Half-blade was called forth and delivered into her hands. "Say that again and you'll be the one to be put away, not Roxas. And besides, do you truly wish to go against Ansem's orders?"

He dropped his hand quickly and backed up. "N-no, sir- I mean Rose! Uh... I'll just go get the container ready." He ran off, not looking over his shoulder because of fear.

The blade once again disappeared into thin air as she walked through the gates into the mansion where, if had Ansem allowed it, it would be Sora's final resting place. But he said to follow him, so that she could have some fun.


The stairs leading down into the basement decreased in number. She could sense two great powers down here. One she recognized as Roxas's but the other one was of someone she had betrayed long ago.

The spiky red hair of Axel disappeared in a black smoke. He had been defeated.

The shadows gave her protection from prying eyes. The way Roxas darted from the room told her that he had sensed her presence, but did not recognize it. She followed, slowly, passing two containers holding the bodies of Donald and Goofy. Roxas yelled angrily from the next room.

When she walked through, she saw him swinging the keyblade at a hologram of Ansem. She turned herself into a shadow and hid in the corner of the room. When the hologram disappeared, he looked up and she dropped the disguise. The face that he had at the site of her was amazed. He had earlier believed that she was dead. Before he had a change to say anything to her, the hologram once again appeared. It called him toward a giant, white flower like thing.

The hologram winked at her and once again left. The flower started to open. Inside was the body of Sora. "Sora, you're lucky. It looks like my summer vacation is over." His head turned back to her. "How are you alive, Rose? I thought when Yin and Yang came and took you away, that you were killed."

She stalked forward, allowing the Half-blade to fall into her hands behind her back. "Oh I can promise you I'm not dead. But I am here on a mission... I'm supposed to make sure you don't get in the way." She brought down the blade as fast as she possible could, not giving Roxas time to react. It hit his head, causing it to go bloody, and his almost lifeless body fell to the ground.

Now with Roxas out of the way, it was time to get rid of Sora. After Roxas was knocked out, Donald and Goofy and woken up and gotten Sora to awaken. They went to Hallow Bastion, the closest world to Twilight Town.


She called forth a few Nobody Dusks to attract the attention of their old friend Yuffie. After only a short two minutes, all of the Dusks were defeated. These warriors were defiantly not people to fool around with.

Yuffie led the trio to a hidden room, which Rose did not enter and ,after what seemed like an hour, the one they called Leon, ran off. The trio came out after him, but walked off in the same direction. When they were a while away from any other person, she jumped off a ledge and landed in front of them.

They were startled but not frightened. "You three must listen to my words. Organization XIII is here. They are after you, Sora. You must leave immediately."

A few pebbles fell down on his head. They all turned to look upwards and, standing right on the edge, was a man in a black hood. A few strands of red hair flowed out from under it. "Why thank you for that introduction Rose. You might have just ruined our original plan, but then again you might have just saved us time... *Sigh* But you always did have a big mouth, that is why I still don't understand why they decided to take you. Oh well."

He jumped down and did a flip in the air. His feet touched the ground almost the exact same moment that she and Sora both called forth their blades. Sora looked at her. "I still don't know who you are, but you look like you're here to help. So let's see what that black and white blade thing can do."

She smiled at him. Axel chuckled and many Dusks appeared out of the ground. "You should have done what the little missy said... You're really gona regret it now." In his hands, came two twin Chakrams. The now group of four was outnumbered by at least twenty.


"*Huff, huff* Man. That was too close for my liking." Rose had her hand covering her pain filled side.

After helping to take on the Dusks and taking many hits to protect Sora from Axel, the group had run the entire distance from the center of the town to the gummi-ship.

"Yea, well at least we made it. Hey uh... Rose wasn't it? You're a pretty good fighter. You should join us." Sora's hands were put behind his head. He obviously wasn't dazed by the near-death encounter with Organization XIII.

Donald and Goofy exchanged unsure looks. I mean, sure she saved them, but was it really smart to trust her. For all they knew, she could be an undercover spy for Ansem or Organization XIII. They did know her.

Sora crawled into the ship, followed by an agitated Donald and a tired Goofy. Rose grabbed the almost invisible chain on her neck and sighed. The sign glowed within her hands. Don't worry guys. Sora will pay for stealing your hearts. He will beg for mercy, and he will die at my hands.

"Hey Rose! Come on! I picked out a special room for you!" Her eyes rolled as she boarded the enemy ship.