Here's the next chapter everyone! Just to let you know, I'm going take my time with Roxas's summer vacation in Twilight Town for character development and other shenanigans.

I'm really happy with the response this fic is getting :D You guys are awesome!


Chapter 2 – The Intruder

Levina looked at Roxas stunned. "What do you mean 'who am I'?" She asked him. "Don't you remember me?"

"Levina!" Lira shouted swinging her sword at the group of Dusks. She angrily glared at the small girl. "I thought I told you not to go near him!"

Levina lowered her head. "I'm sorry Lira," She apologized and then looked back at Roxas. "He doesn't even remember me."

"What?" Lira asked and lightly glared at Roxas. "What kind of friend are you?!" She yelled. "How can you forget one of your friends?!"

Roxas was completely confused as to what was going on. 'Who are these people?' He thought dismally. 'I've never even met them before!'' He then saw the Dusks moving again. "Hey look out!" He called out to them.

Both Lira and Levina turned around at the group of Dusks. The creatures from the world between light and darkness surrounded the two girls forming a cage around them using their flexible bodies.

"Let us out!" Lira seethed casting fire on them.

The Dusks flinched, but they still maintained their hold. These two weren't their target. Their target was Roxas.

'Are those creatures ghosts?' He thought and held his Struggle bat in his hand. He watched as the Dusks lunged at him. "There are a lot of you guys!" Roxas tried blocking and attacking the Dusks with his weapon, but the bat just went right through them. 'No matter how many times I attack them, it doesn't work.' He then saw Levina swinging her keyblade at the Dusks. The moment the keyblade touched one of the Dusks surrounding her and Lira, the Dusk would disappear.

'She's able to fight them off using that key-shaped weapon?' Roxas thought and fell over as one of the Dusks knocked him down. "Where are Hayner and the others?!" Roxas shouted wishing his friends had come with him. 'I've gotta run!' He thought.

The Dusks that were surrounding Lira and Levina all jumped at Roxas. They latched onto his foot as the boy tried running.

"Roxas!" Levina cried out. She looked at Lira pleadingly. "We have to help him!"

"Do we really have to help him?" Lira groaned irritated by what was going on.

"Let go…!" Roxas squirmed trying to shake the Dusks off his leg.

"Let him go right now!" Levina ran towards the Dusks with her Starlight keyblade in hand, but she stopped as the Dusks towered over Roxas.

"Great there's no way we can attack now." Lira growled as she saw the Dusks use their bodies to trap Roxas.

"Let me out!" Roxas yelled holding the Struggle bat in his hands. He then saw a dark corridor open up.

"Oh no!" Levina feared the worst.

'Is Organization 13 behind this?' Lira thought looking at the familiar dark portal. She took Levina's arm and pulled her back. 'If they think they're going to take Levina again, it'll be over my dead body.'

"What the hell is that?!" Roxas panicked seeing the dark corridor.

The Dusks began moving towards the dark corridor taking Roxas with them.

'Are we going towards it?!' Roxas thought in fear. "H-Hey wait!" He stammered trying to get out of the Dusks grasps.

Roxas tried with all his might using the Struggle bat to fight back. Nothing he did worked.

"It's hopeless…!" Roxas frowned. He suddenly saw the Struggle bat change into a keyblade, the Kingdom Key keyblade. 'I have a key-shaped weapon too?' He wondered in surprise. He swung the keyblade at the Dusks that were keeping him imprisoned. The Dusks went flying to the ground.

"What the…?" Roxas gasped at his new weapon.

The keyblade moved towards the Dusks, it was like the weapon had a mind of its own.

"Whoa!" Roxas held his grip on the keyblade as it hit one of the Dusks nearby. "I hit him!" The boy smiled.

"Roxas! You're ok!" Levina smiled at him.

"Pat yourself on the back later." Lira said to him. "Let's finish this fight."

Together, Lira, Levina, and Roxas fought off the Dusks. Soon enough the Dusks were no more.

Roxas caught his breath and the keyblade in his hand disappeared. He looked at Lira and Levina. "Thanks for the help." He said.

"So you remember us now?" Levina asked eagerly.

"No…," Roxas replied. "But how do you know my name?"

Levina sighed in defeat. 'How could you forget about me, Roxas?' She thought. 'I thought we were friends…'

Lira noticed that there were photographs on the ground where the Dusks once were. They were all of Roxas, Hayner, Pence, and Olette.

"Are these yours?" Lira asked Roxas as she picked up the photographs.

"Yeah they are!" Roxas smiled relieved to see the photographs again. "They're of me and my best friends!" He beamed.

'Those aren't his friends…!' Levina thought. She looked at Roxas and said, "I thought Axel was…" Lira clamped her hand over Levina's mouth.

"Don't confuse him than he already is." Lira told her as she let go.

'Who's Axel?' Roxas pondered as he looked at them completely confused. "Thanks again for the help," He told them. "I've gotta get these pictures back to my friends."

"But…!" Levina frowned as she saw Roxas walk off.

"Don't even think about following him." Lira said sternly.

"But we have to go into town anyway and fix the gummi ship, right?" Levina asked. "I want to help Roxas remember."

"No." Lira said.

"He's my friend!" Levina pouted.

"No." Lira told her.

Levina dropped her head in defeat. "Why won't he remember?"

"Maybe he doesn't want to remember…," Lira replied. "He seems a lot happier with his new friends. Do you really want to take that away from him?"

Roxas returned back to his friends at the Usual Spot. He was still reeling from what had happened earlier and he was most curious as to how Levina and Lira knew him since he never met them before until today.


"Ta-Da!" Olette smiled holding up the sea-shell covered frame. "I'm glad it came back to us," She told her friends. She held out the sea shell covered frame out to her friends. They all smiled seeing a picture inside the frame. It was a photo of them at the beach sharing sea salt ice cream together. "It's the 'picture' of our precious memories." She told them and then gasped. "We can say the word now!"

"That was strange wasn't it?" Hayner thought.

"Everyone who was robbed had nothing but photographs stolen," Olette assumed. "What a weird thief."

Pence was fumbling around with the photographs that Roxas had found while fighting with the Dusks." I've got it!" The chubby boy deduced. "The culprit is a stalker targeting Roxas!"

"Huh?!" Roxas exclaimed.

"Take a look," Pence told his worried friend. He showed them all the pictures. The boy was partially right since all the pictures were of Roxas. "They're all of Roxas."

"He's right…" Hayner replied. 'I wonder if the thief dug through our trash.' He thought.

'We'd better start closing our curtains.' Olette thought in fear.

'I wonder if there's a wiretap on the back of our T.V. or something…' Pence pondered.

"This is bad!" Roxas screamed staring at the photos, wondering who or how the thief was taking pictures of him.

Hayner looked at Roxas. "Just what kind of criminal do we have here?" He asked.

"Uh…" Roxas stammered trying to remember what the Dusk looked like. "You all saw it didn't you?" He asked his friends. "When he stole our camera and ran off? It wasn't human," The blonde haired boy could easily remember the features of the Dusk that ran off with the camera. 'Nobody came… and I ended up near that strange mansion, where I met that girl with the key shaped sword…How come she remembers me? But I don't remember her?''

"Roxas!" Hayner broke the boy out of his thoughts. He inched closer to the boy's face to see the fear in his eyes. "You're not scared are you?"

Roxas blinked trying to hide the fact that he was a little nervous. "No," He told his friend. "It's a freaky story, but…"

"Got anything else about the culprit?" Hayner asked.

They all saw Olette looking at the Clock Tower. The bells were ringing signifying the end of another day.

"It's already this late?" Olette pondered. "The 2nd day went by so quickly…"

'Summer break will end in another week too…' Roxas thought gloomily.

Olette held out everyone's homework books. "We'll definitely figure out who the culprit is tomorrow!" She tossed everyone their notebooks. "For now we need to catch up on our homework!"

"Hey!" Hayner spitefully scowled looking at his notebook. "Don't be so impatient!" He yelled. He looked at Olette's notebook and noticed the pages were blank too. "Yours is blank too!"

"That's the beauty of blank space!" Pence chimed in.

"What does that even mean?!" Hayner and Olette asked.

Roxas smiled at his friends and laughed.

"Hey what's so funny?" Hayner asked.

"Nothing." Roxas smiled at them. 'I'm glad I have best friends.'

The four friends soon departed from the Usual Spot.

"We'll meet again tomorrow!" Hayner told them.

"See ya!" Pence smiled.

"Later!" Olette said.

The three walked their separate paths home while Roxas stayed behind. "It's so bright…" The light from the sun was almost blinding. "What's that…?" He thought trying to see, but the bright light was blinding him.

The boy soon lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground. 'Just a little longer…' He thought lying motionlessly on the ground. 'A little longer…'


"It seems 'they' are becoming desperate too." DiZ said as he examined Roxas's progress in the fake Twilight Town.

"But 'they' won't find him that easily," Riku said.

DiZ remained silent for a few moments before saying, "I've scattered pictures of Roxas around town. That way they'd be able to recognize the real thing. But it's the same at the other end, Roxas can see them too." He typed in a few commands on his computer. An image of the Twilight Town's Clock Tower appeared. They saw Axel sitting on the Clock Tower patiently waiting for something.

"Organization 13?" Riku asked.

DiZ stared at the screen. "Don't think you can act on your own pretenses in this area," He said to the screen as if Axel could hear him. "This man with red hair won't take his eyes off Roxas." He turned to Riku seeing him in the Organization's traditional black coat. "Those clothes suit you."

Riku's eyes lightly flared. He wasn't the same person as he was when he left Destiny Islands. His yearning to leave the island, a prison to him made him susceptible to the darkness. The darkness was now harboring inside his heart as a manifestation of someone who he hated, Ansem Seeker of Darkness.

"Shut up!" Riku snarled. "I can wear whatever I want, can't I?"

DiZ laughed a cold laugh. "I suppose so." He turned his attention back to the screen. "At any rate, the awakening is coming soon."


"Damn it you guys!" Axel face palmed at the Dusks as they approached him. The Dusks handed pictures of Roxas to him. "What am I supposed to do with all these photographs you're brining?" He burned the pictures. "Now then," He looked at the Dusks. "Where's the real thing?"

The Dusks responded by taking off and searching for Roxas again.

'I know he's here…' Axel thought. 'We used to come here all the time.' He smiled lightly. 'Man, were those good times.'

He smiled as the memories of the two of them sharing ice cream together and talking about anything other the sun filled his head. 'It was always just the two of us…' He trailed off thinking of someone else. He couldn't quite place who this person was. 'Was there someone else with us too?' He struggled with the memory of Xion. No one would able to remember her.

It was a long time since Axel had seen his best friend. All he was able to remember was Roxas leaving headquarters. After that, he never came back. Axel made it his life's ambition to find his best friend.

To make sure he was alright.


Roxas was still on the ground. Memories of Sora flooded his mind.

'Who are you?' Roxas thought as he struggled with the memories that didn't belong to him.

'I'm dreaming of him again.' Roxas thought trying to wake up.

He saw Sora holding a keyblade. 'A keyblade…?''

Roxas woke up with a start. He saw that he was in his room. "Huh?" He blinked in surprise. "When did I get back?" The boy looked at his hand and squeezed his fist like he was holding the keyblade. "The keyblade…"

"About time you woke up." Roxas looked over and jumped out his bed seeing Levina and Lira.

"Told you we should've left." Lira said impatiently.

"Were you two the ones who brought me back?" Roxas asked.

"We saw you passed out on the street when we came into town." Levina explained.

"So we decided to bring you back home." Lira added. She took by the arm gently. "Now that you're awake, we'll leave." She began dragging Levina out not wanting to be involved in any more or Roxas's problems.

"Wait!" Roxas yelled trying to follow.

Levina gently shook Lira's hand off her. "What is it?" She asked. "Do you finally remember us?" She asked hopefully.

Roxas shook his head at the second question. "I want to know what a keyblade is," He said. "You have one too right?"

"Yeah, but…" Levina rubbed the back of her head. 'How am I supposed to explain to him what a keyblade is, when in all honesty, I don't even understand the full power of the keyblade.' She thought.

"It's a weapon used to fight the darkness," Lira spoke for Levina. "That's all you need to know."

Roxas smiled at the answer as he saw Lira and Levina leave his room. "The power to fight darkness…" He thought out loud. "I have the power to fight and make a difference…"


Hooray Axel showed up!

DiZ is being gangsta...Ugh freaking DiZ.

That's all I have to say :) Review!