Disclaimer: Like I said last time, I don't Kingdom Hearts, SquareEnix does. The plot, however, is still mine.


Chapter 2

Kairi didn't know where she was. She was being looked up in a dungeon somewhere. It was clean and all the surfaces were smooth and dark grey. She leaned against the wall in her sitting position and looked around. She moved her hands from her lap to the floor on either side of her. He left hand touched down on her 'lucky charm'.

Kairi un-clipped it and glared at it.

"So much for being lucky," Kairi said as she threw it across her cell.

It landed near the door and sat idle for a few minuted before glowing and disappearing. Kairi looked at its last position before her right arm shook and a keyblade appeared in her hand.

Kairi looked at the keyblade and knew it was the Oathkeeper. Sora had shown her what it looked like a long time ago.

She heard the door to the dungeon opening and she stared at the keyblade in fear it would be seen, and it disappeared right before her eyes. Kairi looked up to see a black haired woman with pigtails and a black jumpsuit come in.

"Morning, Princess. Brought you your breakfast."

"Who are you?"

"Me? I'm Lauren."

"Were you the one who brought me here?"

"No, that was Sarg. He was boasting that he took you right from underneath the keyblade master's nose."

"Kayblade master… You mean Sora?"

"Is that his name? Ah well, it doesn't matter, because he's not going to get you back."

Kairi glared at the older woman as set the tray down in front of Kairi's cell and left.

Kairi fought back tears as she curled up in a ball in her cell. Breakfast going forgotten.


Once again, Riku sat on the beach. Kate and Shawn weren't with him this time. Shawn was sick and Kate insisted that he went to the island, not wanting to break his habit.

Riku looked and saw Tidus, Wakka and Selphie talking by the pond, but he couldn't find Kairi. He knew she always came to the island even if she was feeling under the weather.

Riku walked over to the trio and asked, "Have any of you seen Kairi?"

The boys shook their heads and Selphie said, "She wasn't home when I went over so I thought she was downtown somewhere."

Riku had a bad feeling and hurried to his boat. He was worried about Kairi himself and he also knew that Sora would do something drastic if anything happened to her.

Riku jumped off his boat and ran to Kairi's small flat that she lived in by herself and knocked on the door.

Kairi didn't answer and he tried opening it to find that it was locked. Riku went to find the spare key and let himself into the house.

"KAIRI! KAIRI!"

Riku knew she wasn't there. He knew she was kidnapped and had a gut feeling told him that she wasn't even on Destiny Islands anymore.


Sora looked around his dorm. Mitch stood in the doorway.

"You're allowed to decorate it however you want. I know your not going to be here forever like that rest of us are but we're all allowed so that we can fell more at home.

Sora nodded.

"Well, since your clothes are not exactly wearable, I'm going to take you to Balamb's own fitter."

"A fitter?"

"She makes clothes for Balamb's personnel she's works hard and fast to make people look good when we're not in uniform.

Sora looked Mitch and his uniform. It was like Cassidy's but instead of a dark blue shirt, he had a red shirt.

"Why do you have a different uniform than Cassidy?"

"Cassidy and I don't do the same things around here. The shirts are colour-coded, red is for soldier, dark blue is for mechanic, yellow is for medical personnel, blue is for the people on the bridge, gray is for scientists, white is for family members who don't have jobs and black is for any other people. You will probably get one for now until Wylie finishes some new clothes for you."

Sora nodded and followed Mitch back out. Sora had seen his clothes and they were no longer wearable. Just his shoes made it. They walked back to the elevator and went two floors down. Mitch led the way down the hall and to a door before leading Sora inside.

"Hello, Mitch. And this must be the teenager Doc told me about. I was looking at your clothes and couldn't help but notice that they had magical properties. Why is this?" asked Wylie.

"Donald, Goofy and I travel to different worlds to protect them," Sora started.

"Why bother, why don't you just take care of your own world?" Mitch asked.

"Because, I have the keyblade. It's my duty."

"Keyblade… You're a keyblade master?"

"Yeah…"

"Well, that makes three in total for this region. Man, we have some luck to find you in the ocean of Atlantis."

"Three? There are other keyblade masters here?"

"Well not on this ship, one comes around occasionally because she's the Doc's daughter and Doc made her promise to visit every once in a while," said Wylie.

"And the other one?" Sora asked.

"He's one the Twilight Savior mother ship. He's their army's commander."

"Oh…" Sora said.

"They are Damia and Damien. Damia never stays in one place. She's always on this ship, Damien's ship or on a world. Damien occasionally gets off the ship and goes with her but he can't leave for too long."

"Because he's the commander."

"Right. You weld the keyblade. Can I assume that you will help us?"

"Well, the reason why I'm here is because me and my friends were going to seal keyholes on other world in a different region of space. Me and my friends were on our way to a world called Kelowna," Sora said.

"Oh dear. You were so close to that world. Had you made it closer there then they could've use their satellite cannon to help you."

Sora sighed, "Oh…"

"But you're all ok and you can continue, if you want, or you can wait for the mechanics to fix your ship and make it stronger to withstand an attack from the despair ships so you can go home. The choice is yours."

Sora nodded.

"Well, I'm going to get started. In the mean time, you can find a uniform that fits you and take two. Make sure they're black shirts though. And another thing, do you want me to add in the magic that on your old one?" Wylie asked.

"If you can, that would be great. If you can't then don't worry about it," Sora said.

"Okay, dear. Now Mitch, show him to the uniforms."

Mitch nodded and led Sora over to the next room. There were lines of jackets and bins of shirts and pants everywhere. Mitch walked over to a bin, knowing what sizes were where. And tossed Sora a couple pairs of pants.

"Go in the change room and try them one," Mitch said pointing to a door.

Sora nodded and walked into the change room. He came out a minute later with a pair of black pants on. The other pairs were in his arms with the white hospital pants. Sora told Mitch the size and he pulled out another pair for Sora and put the other ones away. Mitch then went to a bin of black shirts and pulled out a few for Sora to try on. Sora just pulled off the white shirt he already had on and took a shirt from Mitch to try one. The first one turned out to be the size Sora usually wore. It wasn't baggy on him and it wasn't tight on him. Mitch grabbed another shirt the same size and gave it to Sora before heading over to the line of jackets. Sora browsed the jackets himself before pulling out one that fit him nicely.

"You only need one of those," Mitch said.

Sora nodded and Mitch led him out of the room. They stopped in the hall so that they could talk.

"Okay. You saw the dorm, there's a lock on the inside so you can lock it and when you make a password, you'll get a keycard so you can lock it when you leave. There's a washroom at the end of each hall that you share with the people in your hall, which is eight people most of the time. But there are only six in your hall right now, as the other two rooms have been reserved for your friends when they are released. Breakfast starts at 0400 hours and goes till 1000 hours. Then the cafeteria is closed for an hour for cleaning, but there is a place outside where you can sit and there's tea, coffee, hot chocolate and other things to drink along with snack foods. The cafeteria reopens at 1100 for lunch and goes till 1400 hours. When they stop serving lunch they serve other snack foods until supper, which starts at 1600 hours and runs till 2100 hours. Then its snack food just set out so that the cooks can sleep."

"You only have the people cooking?"

"No, there are four cycles of cooks for every six months. They alternate days for six months, and then they have time off to either go back to their world, or to just relax."

"Six months?"

"Everyone has a six month shift, or an all year shift. People who live on this ship work all year or three-quarter shifts."

"Okay, makes sense."

"There's an alarm clock in your room if you ever need it, and a video phone with a networked phone book that is displayed on the screen if you need it. If an alarm goes off saying 'code red' or 'code blue' then you follow the instructions on the sign that's posted in the hall."

Sora nodded, trying to remember everything.

"Your ship is in the hanger currently being fixed and upgraded. When it's done you be told. If you get lost, there are signs everywhere that'll point you to where you want to go. The first floor is the garden floor if you need to sight see."

"Okay," Sora said, finally getting everything.

"You can wander around anywhere you want, just don't get in the workers way, or if you go to the bridge, then don't bother then, just watch. I'd steer clear of the second floor at 1500 hours because that when the classes let out."

"There's a school on here?" Sora said, worried that they would make him go to school.

"It's only for the kids with parents that work on here. They'll either start training for work at 14, or continue going to school until 16, then they have to either start working, or go to their home world to either continue schooling or start working. These people are wearing white shirts."

"Why to their homeworld, can't they go to a world of their choice?"

"They can, after they go to their home world, then they have to go through world security to become a citizen of a different world. And if they break laws, then they are sent back."

Sora nodded and then asked, "You're a soldier right? What you do on here?"

"I'm a captain. To my team and when I'm on duty I'm Captain Nightwalker. I'm on my time off right now."

"What kind of a shift do you have?"

"Soldier shifts are different from the regular shifts. Cadets work nine months; Lieutenants work ten months; Captains like myself work every month and get weekends off; and Commanders work all year and get a week off every month. It's scheduled so that only one commander is off and the rest are on duty. Lieutenants and Cadets are scheduled so that the same amount are on duty all the time, every they're on with other people."

Sora tilted his head trying to figure it out.

"Aren't you just full of questions. Well there are groups. Cadets have eight groups and Lieutenants have six. The groups are spread out with the months. From January to March, groups A, B, C, E, F, and G would work; From April to June groups A, B, D, E, F and H would work; From July to September, A, C, D, E, G and H work; and from October to December, groups B, C, D, F, G and H would work. The same logic goes for Lieutenants only with six groups though."

Sora nodded.

"Well, I'm going to leave you to explore. Cassidy and Aunt Georgia are stopping by your dorm tomorrow before Aunt Georgia's shift at 1000 hours."

"Okay," Sora said.

"Well, I'm going. Supper will be served shortly and I have a date to go to."

"Thanks, Mitch. And have fun on your date."

"No problem. And I'll have fun."

Mitch disappeared into the elevator, leaving Sora standing in the hallway. Sora walked to another elevator and went to the sixth floor to see Donald and Goofy.

Sora walked into the ICU and stood in the hall so that he could look into both of the windows. Dr. Loss was in Donald's room checking on him. She noticed him as she left the room.

"Donald's awake if you want to go and talk to him."

Sora brightened up and went into the room. Donald looked at him through tired eyes and smiled.

"Hey man," Sora said while sitting beside him.

"Hey, Sora. How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay. I got let out this morning," Sora said quietly.

"That's good," Donald said.

"…I-I'm sorry, this is all my fault," Sora said with looking down at the clothes on his lap.

"No it's not. It was that black ship's fault. You tried to get us out of there. And we're all going to be fine."

"But still…"

"Awww, Sora."

Sora just sat there looking at the spare clothes on his lap.

"They said there are two other keyblade masters around here. Maybe I can help them," Sora said.

"Getting out would be good for you, Sora. And when your done, we can go home," Donald said.

Sora smiled and nodded.

"No more sad faces," Donald said.

"No more sad faces," Sora repeated before getting up and heading for the door, "Okay, I'll come and see you guys later!"

"Bye, Sora," Donald said.

Sora looked over into Goofy's room to see that he was still sleeping. So he decided that he would leave him be and left the ICU and headed for the elevator. He was about to punch the number for the floor where his dorm was but decided against it and went to the first floor to see this garden for himself.


Author's Note: So there's another chapter. What do you think? Review!