Disclaimer: If I owned kingdom hearts Axel wouldn't have died.

AN: Well, I was just going to do the beginning of KH and the end of KHII, but some reviews changed my mind. Now, I'm doing the entire game Riku POV! This is going to be fun. And when I say fun, I mean frustrating and annoying.

And I'm sorry that the update took so long. Almost a month! This is the fault of procrastination, camping, my birthday, and the beginning of school. I'm fourteen now.

AN: I just played through the beginning of the game again and found out that I missed some lines. Whoops! Hehe… from here forth they should be accurate (with minor changes)

Post Hoc Ergo Proptor Hoc

'After it, therefore, because of it'

Chapter two: Progredior

The place that the darkness had taken me was called hollow bastion. The name suited it. It was an empty place with cryptic messages scribbled hastily on the walls. I hadn't really liked it there; the lights didn't seem to be working properly.

As I said, the bastion seemed to be almost completely devoid of life. I had my pick of any of the empty rooms to stay in, except two. Naturally, these two rooms occupied most of my attention after the complete exploration of the rest of the bastion. It would have been a lot funner if Sora had been with me, or if Kairi wasn't laying in the most well-lit room I could find, still and silent. All alone, it was kind of lonely.

The fist was hidden away underground. One of those rooms that you could only get to through a complex series of twists and turns, going up one staircase only to go down another that was twice the length. I had found the path by following one of the people who showed up on a regular basis to speak with Maleficent about things unknown. Oh yes, Maleficent was the tall woman with the tattered cloak. He called himself 'Captain Hook', but I think he gave himself that name after losing his hand.

Anyway, I followed him down through the lift stop. Up one staircase, only to go down another that was twice the length. There were more twists and turns that I really don't feel like mentioning, and in the end he entered a plain, nondescript room that was a floor above the dungeon and a little to the left. All the doors surrounding it were open, but empty. Figures, the only interesting one was the only one locked. Having nothing better to do, I sat near the crack at the bottom of the door and listened in…

"That little brat took down that heartless? Who would have thought ha was up to it?" I knew that voice. He was probably the oddest that I had seen so far, with a hot, blue, flame where his head should have been. I lay on my stomach and peeked under to see a few pairs of shoes, something that looked like a burlap sack, and a purple mass that could have easily imitated tentacles placed about a stone table. One of the shoes shifted and someone began to speak.

"Such is the power of the keyblade. The boys strength is not his own."

"Why don't we turn him into a heartless? That'll settle things quick enough!" I recognized neither of these voices. It seems that more people were entering and leaving the castle then I first thought. It sort of bugged me that blue-flame-hair, Hook, maleficent and I were not the only ones here. Also, Maleficent and co. tend to leave for days at a time, so there might be more timed than I had thought when I wasn't alone in here.

"And the brats friend are none other than the kings lackeys! Swoggle me eyes, they're all bilge rats by the look of them.

"Your no prize yourself!"

"Shut up!" ahh finally. Hook had been the first speaker. I was amazed that he had managed to stay quite that long. Again, however, there was someone that I hadn't recognized. I didn't get time to assess the voice because Maleficent began to speak.

"Enough. He has been chosen by the keyblade. Will it be he who conquers darkness? Or will the darkness swallow him? Either way, he could be useful." That was the second time that someone had mentioned 'keyblade'. I was in the middle of pondering what that was when Maleficent opened the door to find me sitting there. I tried going back there once, but all signs that there had been anyone there were stripped. No one but me has been there since.

Maleficent doesn't talk to me. When I first came to the Bastion, She told me that Sora had stolen Kairi's heart. I didn't believe her. She then told me that plans needed to be finalized and executed, and that I should have patience. She has said nothing to me since, even when she caught be eavesdropping. Normally I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell me what to do, but I have been outside the Bastion. There is nothing but waterfall for miles around, and I would be screwed if I tried to leave now. At the very leased I need a ride out of there.

But I digress; I have yet to tell you of the second door. Well, I can't even call it a door for lack of hinges and handles. I don't really have a story for this one. I found it when I was wandering around looking for a back entrance to the castle. If you were to go through the hall in the back of the chapel into the lift stop and go to the right, you would find what looks like two large blocks in the arch of a door. (1) Engraved on these was the symbol that was strewn about the castle, and heart crossed with thorns. I tried to push it, pull it, and kick it (out of frustration) but I have yet to find a way in. It seems unlikely that it would just be a dead end. If it was, then why did it need to be sealed off so well? Therefore, there must be something important behind it. I made it my objective while I was here to find out.

Remember when I said that Maleficent never talked to me? Well, after the first three weeks she began to. The fact that she was acknowledging my existence really astonished me at the time. When that happened, the first thing she told me was that they had found Sora, but she didn't think I would want to see him anymore.

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(1) No you won't. That was made up purely for this story.