"Sora! What do we do?" Riku himself was at a loss for a plan. There were so few options and they all seemed hopeless and futile. There was a strong possibility that if they went in to rescue people or seal the keyhole and banish the darkness, they would fail. Nothing had ever seemed this ominous and dark to Sora before now. Not even when he was a heartless. The possibility of becoming one scared not only him but Riku and Kairi. What frightened Sora the most was that he might not even be able to do anything, that they would show up and everyone would already be gone.

"Sora, you need to make a decision." Kairi gently pushed his mind back into focus mode. Sora looked around him looking for anything to give him even an idea of what to do.

"Lets go on a rescue mission. We can take the gummi ship in and hover over the world to see if we can see anyone. If we leave the ship stay together and close to the gummi ship. You never know what's gonna happen while we're here." Sora brought the ship into the world. This world looked very old. No one could spy anything with a name on it. The world looked like one big city. Tall, ornate buildings towered over the streets. No two building looked the same or were even the same height, even if there was only a millimeter different. Most of the building looked like no one had been inside them for years. There was no movement in or around the buildings except for a few idle heartless. One old building began to fall when the gummi ship passed it.

"Sora, what is this place?" Kairi asked as she looked out one of the small windows. She was admiring the craftsmanship put into the buildings and yet mourning over the fact that they had fallen in to disrepair because of the years of neglect.

"Well, what ever this place is, no one seems to be here." Riku added quietly almost as if he knew that if his voice got to loud every building would fall to its doom. Sora shifted in his seat. He didn't want to leave yet, something deep down in his stomach told him that someone was here waiting for Sora to come rescue them.

"We've been here 20 minutes and we haven't seen any sign of LIFE. The sky just keeps getting darker, it's almost black now. I'm starting to get scared. Can we just go?" Kairi asked with genuine fear in her voice. It was hard to distingue what she was afraid of, leaving and finding out they left someone, or not leaving and losing her and her best friends hearts. Sora had finally gotten around taking her seriously, she didn't want to die now.

"Five more minutes and then we'll leave." Sora said as he piloted the gummi ship over a few tall buildings to follow about 5 or 6 heatless that suddenly started moving towards the sun that was slowly turning purple. He scanned the horizon and buildings closely until he spotted where all the heartless where now gathering. There were about 50 going to a tall, grey building. it was about 60 stories high. You could see the windows to the stairs in one corner. He saw someone running up the stairs.

"Guys! Look over there!" He pointed out the building to them. The next moment a girl burst open the door to the stairs on the roof. She was out of breath and skinny. Her face looked like she had just seen a ghost. Her long, black hair hung down in the stagnant air. She started to run for the edge of the building when a group of heartless stopped her. She turned only to find more heartless. In the small instance the sun was fully blocked out and lightning streaked across the sky. The gummi ship was jolted by something leaving a indention near where Kairi had previously been sitting.

"SORA!" Kairi screamed as she and Riku both fell from the jolt.

"Sora! Get us out of here. Now!" Riku commanded as he threw Kairi into a seat and got himself into a seat.

"But the girl!" She was now struggling to keep the heartless off her. She was throwing them here and there.

"It's to late! We need to go!" Sora knew Riku was right, he just didn't want to lose a heart. He looked one more time at the black haired girl. She looked up at the gummi ship she hadn't noticed before. Her eyes were green like envy and she gave Sora a look that he would never be able to shake, it was terror mixed with relief and sadness. He almost couldn't move his arms. He broke away from her stare and quickly took the gummi ship far, far away from here.


What! Did I leave you at a cliff hanger??????? Well I hope this is better then the first chapter. I always hate writing the beginning! But I promise that it's gonna get better. I've already discussed this story from pretty much beginning to end with my buddy, Manyissues101. By the way!!!!!!!! She wrote this totally freaking awesome one-shot called All's Fair in Love or War. I totally recommend it to anyone who like Kaiku! It's totally awesome. I cried! I laughed! I had my own little spaz-out going on! But reviews make me happy and make me want to post the next chapter faster! Yes I already have chapter 3 written I just need to type it up. AND! Chapter 4 is ALMOST done! So drop me a line or two!