I hit the Heartless twice with the keyblade, the second sending it flying, and, in midair, I thrust my sword through it. It faded away, and I helped my sister up.

"Go get Mom and Dad and tell them to get out of here." I ordered. "I'm going to get Ianus."

"Alright." Tracy said. "What if more of them come?"

I picked up a baseball bat that Tracy had, as she was an avid baseball player. "Crack them over the head and get away from them. These...shadow-things can't be that strong." The keyblade faded, and my sister looked at my hand.

"What was that key-thing?" Tracy asked.

"I don't know." I said. "I don't know. Just go!" Tracy ran off, and I went to the front door, looking up at the dark sky. For a second, I wondered if this was the apocalypse, then ran off to Ianus' house. A few steps out of my house, however, three Heartless came out of the ground and attacked. I ducked under the first's flying attack, then spun and destroyed it. The second walked towards me before I destroyed it, then, I pointed the keyblade at the last Heartless and shot a ball of fire at it, burning it to nothing. My keyblade disappeared, and I kept running to Ianus' house.

When I say Ianus' "house," I mean apartment. I knew that he had a sister of sorts, Phaedra, that he'd taken off the streets. I'd sworn on my life not to tell anybody about her, due to the fact that she'd be shipped off and Ianus would be arrested.

When I got to their room, I tried the door, finding that it was locked. My keyblade (at the time I just thought of it as the 'giant, magic, cartoon key') appeared in my hand, and I tapped the door. I heard the lock clicked and opened the door, only to have a book thrown in my face. I caught it, then looked at the cover.

"Phaedra, throwing your manga?" I asked, shaking my head slowly. "For shame."

"How did you open the door?" Phaedra asked.

"This thing." I said, waving the keyblade. Ianus opened the door, raising the keyblade over his head, but noticed it was me before he attacked. "We gotta go," I said, feeling that the classic 'hello, how are you doing?' was out the window and the 'world's ending, we need to go' was in.

Ianus nodded, and told Phaedra to follow us. We walked out into the hallway, where several Heartless came at us.

"Shit," I cursed. "I can't keep this up, man. I'm getting tired."

"You've got me now," Ianus said. "I can take a few."

I smiled, Ianus' words encouraging me more than he knew. I lifted my keyblade, and said "I take these. You take those. Phaedra, you can watch in amazement." I shot forward, spinning in a circle to take out two of the Heartless, then impaled the third. A fourth nearly hit me, but I blocked and kicked it away. It hit the wall, and I swung my keyblade, destroying it.

"Nice!" Phaedra said.

"We need to get onto open ground," Ianus said. "It's too hard to fight in close quarters with these keys."

I nodded, then ran down the stairs, taking out the few Heartless that appeared. Once we got to the bottom of the apartment building I opened the door, and what I saw was unlike anything I'd seen, even counting the Heartless. I saw my world, fading away, and I knew that my family was gone. I felt numb, and didn't hear whatever Ianus and Phaedra said.

For some reason, my keyblade lifted itself up into the doorway, pointing out into oblivion, and turned itself, my hand hanging on. A white circle opened itself, showing another world. I was shocked enough to come back to the present, looking through the portal with wide eyes.

"Is that a portal?" Phaedra asked.

I shrugged and said "Should we go through it?"

"Do we have any other choice?" Ianus said.

"Guess not," I said, and jumped through the portal, landing on the sidewalk of a snowy word. Ianus and Phaedra followed, but calmly walked through the portal instead of jumping through like an idiot.

"Where the hell are we?" Phaedra asked.

I stood, and shivered. "It's freakin' cold." I said.

"Man up!" Phaedra commanded.

"Hey! I'm short, so I don't hold in much heat." I said sarcastically. I noticed the portal was still open behind us, with several Heartless getting ready to jump into the new world. I'd gotten pretty good at making my keyblade appear by this point (or I thought I did; in truth I had a lot to learn about, well, everything) so I made my keyblade appear and closed the portal. I was too late, sadly, so a few Heartless got in.

A couple turned the corner, one of them with dyed hair and the other wearing a 'Plumtree' shirt.

"Heartless!" The girl blurted out, and, out of her purse, pulled out a giant mallet, smashing one of the shadows.

"What the-!" I was cut off when a Heartless jumped at me. I ducked under it and destroyed it with my keyblade.

"You have a keyblade?" The girl asked.

"Ianus does, too." I said, jumping and destroying a Heartless. "I'm Jeremiah."

"Ramona Flowers." The girl said. Ianus finished off the last Heartless, and I sighed.

"I can't keep fighting shadows like this." I said.

"You mean Heartless?" Ramona asked.

"You know what these things are?" Ianus asked.

"Yeah." Ramona asked. "Don't they teach this stuff in Canada?"

"We're not exactly from your world." I said.