Kingdom Hearts…

I know it's only a computer game, I know, I only finished it three days ago…

But, lately, I've been having reoccurring, surreal dreams, about Sora, his friends, and especially the Heartless… I finished Kingdom Hearts in the hope of deciphering my dreams, but what happens in my dream doesn't happen in the entire game, not even Final Mix, and Sora is still in his K.H. 1 gear…
What can it mean?

I was woken from my daydream by the loud, recorded sound of St. Anger coming from my phone. I shot up and fumbled at it as I tried to answer it. "Hello?" I yawned, finally answering it.
"Dude, you're late! You were supposed to meet me ages ago!" Samantha's voice shouted from the other end of the line.
"Hello to you too, Sam." I laughed. I looked for a clock, but it was nowhere to be found. "Is it that time already?" I grumbled.
"You're damn straight it is! Now get you're lazy ass out of bed and meet me in Elliot's now!" she replied, cutting me off. I turned my phone off.
"Yes, ma'am." I laughed.

Samantha's a long time friend of mine, a cute Goth chick with flowing brownish-black hair, dual-coloured eyes, blue and brown circles in both eyes, is about 5"8, has a wicked sense of humour and a bit of a temper, but she's a good friend… I was meant to meet her at half past ten, but I was too busy trying to sort out my own mess, so I'm in serious danger of having my testicles rearranged by her…

I walked into Elliot's the coffee shop in town, and saw Sam talking to a small American girl I kinda half-recognised, but couldn't think from where. Other than them, the place was empty. "Hey, there you are!" Sam said, beckoning me over. I walked over to them and sat down. The other girl waved at me. She was about 5"4, with black and Auburn short hair, a pale complexion, wearing a pink t-shirt and red trousers. "I don't know if you two have met… Pippa, this is Alexis Edmenton, Alexis, meet Pippa Askew." Sam said, introducing us.
"Hello, Pippa. Have we met before?" I asked her as I shook her hand. She smiled broadly.
"Oh, so you do remember me, then?" she laughed.
"Huh? You do know each other?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, ish. We met a couple of years ago. We were sat next to each other at OzzFest, I nearly knocked him out, clipped him in the temple with my elbow as I tried to catch Dave Ghrol's thrown T-shirt." she said, her eyes glazed over with nostalgia. It finally clicked in my head and I remembered her.

"Oh, now I remember you! You were the girl wearing the purple bandanna, anime top and black trousers with pink around the zips, right?" I laughed. She thought for a second.
"Yeah, I was… That's some memory you've got!"
"I know… You wouldn't stop apologising to me. Man, it was so funny." I laughed.
"Funny? I nearly killed you! You were temporarily blinded for twenty minutes, and you think it was funny!" she replied, astonished.
"At least I see the funny side. I could be bitter about it, but where would that get me?" I replied. She just shook her head and smiled.

"Anyway, to business. How did the police briefing go, Alex?" Sam asked. I looked at her, then at Pippa, then back to her.
"Is this an appropriate time to talk about this?" I asked, concerned.
"Don't worry, Alexis, that's why I'm here. I've come to help you out." Pippa replied.
"What? Why?" I said, confused.
"My own personal reasons. But you will find me pretty useful. I have something to contribute to the group," she said, trying to win me over.
"Like what?" I asked.
"The keys to the college." she smiled. I raised my eyebrows and nodded at her, impressed. Sam smiled at me.

"Alright… The police confirmed that no force was authorised to seal off the Q.E. In fact, no one knows who did it, not even the top-secret, all knowing organisations can rightly say they know how it happened. There's no way anyone could ever enter the grounds, even those Men in Black. My contacts couldn't even believe they were talking to me about it, because all of the horror stories about what happened, they think I'm crazy." I said, writing down a memo on a piece of paper and putting it in my pocket.

"He may be right, but that makes 3 of us. I've figured out how to get in, all I need are my ingredients and my spell book, and we can go in as soon as I get the word from the police." Sam said.

"Hold on a sec, spell book? Just how was the college sealed?" Pippa asked.

"Okay, let's go through what we know…" I said.

Eight and a half years ago, a child named Gabriel Fisher, an orphan, was visiting the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, an old-school Higher Education facility. He was with a representative of the Orphanage he was being kept, who was applying for a course there. He was seen walking into the long-sealed boiler room to the main building, above the Hope Hall, and the power went out seconds later. It was the middle of the night, so it was pitch black. It was then that a massacre occurred…

There were 200 people in the college at the time. 17 survived. The rest were ripped to shreds, torn apart, like something out of an Elm Street movie. There was so much blood; legend has it that the blood caused a lake that ran through the corridors…

3 of the 17 survivors saw Gabriel going into the boiler room. 3 years ago, the first was murdered. The second was convicted for the other's murder and sentenced to Death. The other went insane. Another 7 claimed to witness the killings. They were laughed at - big monsters with red glowing eyes and big claws weren't a possibility in the eyes of the law. 2 went dumb, never spoke again, still haven't. 4 went insane a lot sooner than the one who had seen Gabriel. The other girl killed herself a week after the incident.

The police made a major investigation, but none of it made sense, so they closed the case. The next day, the college was sealed off with a magic spell, and no one has been able to enter the ground since, as the force that was created by the spell repels them. Like I said before, nobody knows who is responsible for that.

And as for little Gabriel Fisher...

He was neverfound…