The young girl smiled wordlessly as another heart appeared in Kingdom Hearts, and she glowed the slightest bit brighter. She was nearly as bright as the inside of Kingdom Hearts itself, now, what with all of the hearts that had been sent there to date. It got very boring inside of Kingdom Hearts, but the hearts that she was being given made her chipper and boosted her powers, so she did not complain… not that there was anyone to complain to, anyways. However, lately, she had found that she could entertain herself by focusing on looking upon something exciting; she wanted to see people's adventures and heroics.

And that was how she came to look upon the happenings in the life of a young boy called Sora.

She watched as he wove his way through the place that she somehow knew was called The World That Never Was. It was strange how she knew the name of the world, even though she had never heard of it before; it was like the name just came to the front of her mind unbidden when she looked upon it for the first time. It confused her, but then, being alive inside of the one and only Kingdom Hearts when she doubted anyone was supposed to be able to live there at all made her a bit more open to accepting strange things than your average human, she supposed.

"Hmm… what's this?" she mumbled to herself as she leaned forward towards the orb of light that showed her the goings-on in the world she wasn't sure was either close by or far away. Something was going on… someone whom she was fairly sure was not on friendly terms with Sora was helping him, and Sora rushed on to go somewh-

A sharp pain exploded in her chest, and the white-haired girl gasped, clutching at the robes over the left side of her chest, where her heart was. It felt like… someone had run her through with a spear, or something. She wasn't sure, but it was very uncomfortable, to say the least. However, after a moment it ebbed away, though as she looked down, she could see that her brightness had diminished.

"It… took away the hearts I absorbed?" she asked the air, confused. In response, the chains binding her to Kingdom Hearts rattled slightly as they shifted in an almost upset manner. She glanced back at them, where they trailed off into the whiteness. "I'm alright. It just stole my little power boosters. It didn't hurt me." For long, she added in her head, but decided not to say it out loud. She wasn't sure what Kingdom Hearts would do if it thought her life was in danger. She shuddered, not wanting to think about it, because she was pretty sure that whatever it would do, it wouldn't be pretty.

The chains rattled as they shifted once more, going slack as though they were relaxing. The girl shook her head, turning back to the orb of light just in time to see something…

Explode.

The orb of light blinked out of existence just as a shockwave from the explosion she had just witnessed rocked the whole of Kingdom Hearts, tossing her back so strongly that she was knocked clear off her feet, sent skidding backwards several feet. There was a loud sound of protest from the chains that bound her as they followed her flight path and tightened, rattling and screeching as though in pain.

And then, they broke.

The girl's gold eyes darted about her as she lay, confused, on the ground, unsure of what had just happened, but all too aware of the absence of the chains that had been both a nuisance and a comfort over the unknown amount of time she had been alive. They lay broken, scattered on the ground all around her, void of the life they had seemed so full of before. Confused and with adrenaline pumping through her, she quickly scrambled to her feet, hearing the blood pumping through her as she suddenly felt another shockwave follow the first one. But this time, she didn't fall back onto the ground.

She fell back through a portal… and fainted dead away.

A/N: Originally I was going to make this the first chapter, but I decided it was too short to be considered an actual "chapter", even if it was just a beginning one. So it is now officially the second part of the prologue. The real action begins next time. Next update is March 1st, so tune in then! xD -feels like a cheesy cartoon announcer-

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