Chapter One: Brother

Yay, second chapter out! This one is going to explain more of Ashlee's past.

I don't own Kingdom Hearts, Disney or Square Enix or Final Fantasy. I just own Ashlee, Rika, and Leila.

Ashlee was looking around Radiant Garden and it was so much different from the other worlds she was in. She was wondering if she was going to be trusted and was also wondering what was Maleficent was up to. She knew that she was once again going to be targeted. Also, she didn't want to be a burden.

So, Ashlee was walking around until she walked into an unexpected person.

"Hey Watch Were- What? Cloud!" Ashlee acted all surprised. "What are you doing here? Where is everyone else I mean I thought I lost you when-" she was cut off when she received an unexpected hug.

"I missed you too. I thought you were dead." Cloud whispered.

"Well, you got tons of explaining to do and since I have no idea where were are I suggest you show me around bro," Ashlee teased him.

Cloud just chuckled. "Fine, but don't you need to tell Sora and the others where you are?"

"Hey… how did you know? I just ditched them I mean come on, they weren't the most friendly people around I mean come on everyone in a while gives in the darkness and its not my fault I was born with darkness in my heart." Ashlee placed her hand over heart.

"Come on Ash, lets go to Crystal Fissure and past that there is a cliff that we can sit and talk."

Ashlee nodded and she left with her brother.

"So, where do you think she went?" Sora asked.

"Oh I have a very good feeling on where she went and who she probably ran into." Leon said as he came forward from the wall.

"Who then? I mean from what I heard she was all alone from the beginning right? She never told us that she had any family. . . wait are you guys hiding something?"

"She has a family all right." Yuffie explained. "She was from original from Gaia like Cloud. Then when Cloud disappeared from the world because of Heartless threat, not a lot of people escaped. The only ones would be Tifa, Ashlee, Cloud, Villagers and some Moogles. The world has been like completely destroyed. No one can restore it because it's all barren."

"Wow, that is depressing. That is sad on how that one person could lose so much on who she is." Kairi told them.

"Of course. Then again once we met Cloud after his fight with Hades he was looking for his light he told us he was looking for two people." Leon added. "He knew one thing that it was Tifa, and the other one was his little sister. He tried to find her but always failed. Turns out today that Ashlee appeared in Radiant and Cloud was in Radiant Garden looking for Sephiroth. So, I'm guessing about right now they found each other and talking and catching up about things they missed and besides, she is the only one that can make Cloud smile or laugh." Leon finished.

"So how do you know all of that Leon?" Goofy asked.

"Aerith told me everything. Cloud was always around her because he swore to his Mentor Zack that he would protect her."

"Wow. Cloud certainly keeps his promises." King Mickey finally said.

After everyone was done talking about Ashlee, they all started talking about on how Sora's adventure on his home world. Which was no success since they had to leave after a few months and they really didn't do anything fun. They were all interpreted when Cid was looking at the computer and saw an evil threat lurking around Radiant Garden.

"Hey kid, you going to take care of that problem or someone going to do it?" Cid complained to him.

"Of course we will." Sora's Oblivion appeared in his hand and then Riku's Way to Dawn appeared and Kairi's keyblade appear.

"Hey Kairi have you decided on the name of your keyblade?" King Mickey asked her.

"Hmm, Its name is Destiny's Embrace." Kairi thought out loud.

"Well okay. Lets go and stop that threat and Cid is it Heartless by any chance?"

"Of course your majesty. What else could it be?"

"Oh nothing." King Mickey said as he left with the others to go and defeat the threat.

"Hey Cloud?" Ashlee called his name as she was staring into the sunset.

"Yeah Sis?" Cloud responded as he suddenly felt an evil presence that wasn't coming from his sister.

"I don't know but do you feel a presence that shouldn't be here?" Ashlee started to shake uncontrollably.

"Yeah, hey what's wrong?" Cloud had a worried face.

"Um. There is too much evil around here. More than one. I know I sense heartless but I also sent to more dark figures also." Ashlee started to calm down when Cloud hugged her.

"Come on we got to leave." Cloud helped Ashlee up and before they even left green flames appeared.

"Great. She's back." Ashlee muttered. She sighed and a bight flash appeared and in here hand appeared Dark Hearts. It looks just like Riku's Way to Dawn, then again it was orange and silver with a black heart near the end of the keyblade.

"Ah, this is more trouble then I thought it would be." Maleficent appeared with an scornful look.

"Maleficent!" Cloud screamed.

"Well, it seems you have found your older brother. That is definitely a problem. Don't worry you will play right into my hands. Mwahahahahah!"

As soon as that was over Maleficent disappeared and left them with tons of heartless.

"Hey Cloud, want to have a race to see who can destroy most of the heartless? And who ever wins, has to treat each other to ice cream!"

"Your on Sis!" Cloud said as he and Ashlee ran forward to try to win the bet.

Sora, Riku, Kairi, King Mickey with Donald and Goofy were running to the area were Cid pointed out there was some Heartless. When they got there, they saw Cloud and Ashlee worn out sitting back by back.

"Hey!" Sora yelled at them. "You guys all right?"

Cloud nodded. Then he stood up and help his sister up.

" Ha! I beat you Cloud! You have to treat me to ice cream!" Ashlee smiled as she teased him.

"Yeah Yeah. I'll do that later." Cloud muttered. "So, what did you guys come running here for?" Cloud asked.

"Cid told us that there was Heartless around here so, we decided that we should get rid of them but, since that they are all gone thanks to you and Ashlee I guess we don't have to anymore." Sora explained.

"Oh," was all the siblings could say. They both knew that they couldn't tell the Keyblade Master about the event with Maleficent or who knows what will go on.

"Well, I know that I have to go and check up on things on my job so Ash, why don't you hang out with Sora?" Cloud suggested to his younger sister.

"Fine," Ashlee pouted. "You still owe me ice cream."

Cloud laughed. "Even though you look all grown up, you still act like a kid."

Then Cloud left Ashlee behind with Sora and the others. She wasn't happy for this idea but she decided that she would not disturbed her brother for the rest of the day. She still respected him after all this time, wait she was the only person she respected . . . for now.

"So," Ashlee started to say. "What do you guys want to do?"

"Well, Since its almost dark outside. You guys want to get ready for the night as in sleep?" Sora suggested.

"Sora's right, You guys must be tired and I know I'm tired so I agree with him." Kairi confessed.

"Of course you do." Ashlee whined. "I know you have a thing for Sora. Roxas agrees with me on the same thing. You can come out, you know. I won't bite you."

As soon as Ashlee spoke those words. Roxas appeared out of Sora except Roxas was all transparent.

"Hey everyone." Roxas said. "Nam, I feel lonely out here since I'm the only transparent person here. So come on out."

Soon enough Namine` came out of Kairi. Ashlee looked over at Kairi and sure enough her nobody came out of her.

"Wow, well hello Kairi's Nobody. I'm Ashlee. The Princess of Darkness and Yeah Cloud told me that was original my title."

"Oh, that is cool." Kairi's nobody said. " I'm Namine`. I'm as you know Kairi's nobody and Roxas girlfriend. Even though Kairi and Sora haven't talk about their feelings yet, Roxas and I have." Soon enough Sora and Kairi faces turned a crimson red.

"Ha Namine` just got you two. I think Sora and Kairi should go back to Merlin's house and 'rest up' and I don't know about you Mickey but since you could go back and rest up too but I completely don't mind." Ashlee suggested to everyone. " As for me. I think I'll go and put my thoughts in order about some things that are important."

Soon enough Ashlee left the keyblade warriors alone.

"Ashlee did have a good point. I guess Donald and Goofy and I will go back to Merlin's house." King Mickey told them. " So we'll see you guys there." Then King Mickey and his two buddies left the Keyblade Master and his friends.

Riku then smirked at the words that Ashlee said. "Hey Sora. Are you going back to Merlin's house with Kairi to you know." As soon as Riku told him that Sora blushed and Kairi giggled.

"Maybe Riku, what about you? I thought I might as well go strolling. I want to see this world as it is and not when its under Maleficent's control," Then Riku started to walk away from his friends.

"Well Kairi, its just me and you. I think we should head back to Merlin's. Even though what Ashlee said was embarrassing I agree with her. I also think that Namine`and Roxas would like some alone time." Sora told Kairi.

They both saw Namine`and Roxas blush before their very eyes. Then they disappeared back into their originals.

"Come on Kairi, lets go." Then both of them left while holding each others hand without each other noticing.

Now Ashlee escaped that death trap of unwanted and left to go and sit on someone's roof and look at the moon. She didn't know that she was being followed by anyone, especially Riku. She didn't want to be followed by him but I guess it didn't matter anymore.

"Hey Riku," Ashlee sighed. She wasn't really paying to attention to him as her thoughts were somewhere else.

"Something wrong? Cause I can tell that you're not in a exciting mood." Riku said to her as he sat right beside her.

"Its your friends." Ashlee admitted. "I can sense doubt. I know that they been around so many people who have been sucked into darkness and I know that they don't trust darkness that well and it seems like that they think I might betray them or something."

"They probably think that but I don't. They can't sense it but even though you smell of Darkness I know that you don't have the smell of evil. I have been trying to get rid of Darkness since I've been used so many times by it. Then when I met you, my thoughts changed. Cause I know when I was in a world with a this huge caste and Mickey helped me though it. He thought that we had to get rid of the Darkness for good, but when he came to the conclusion that we need both Light and Darkness but they just need to balance each other out."

"Mhm. I thought of that so many times in my life. I always went by this statement though. 'Light May Not Always Lead To Good As In Darkness May Not Always Lead To Evil.' That statement made me keep going. Soon enough I started to live my life freely knowing that I needed to play a part in the whole keyblade/princess destiny. I never did like Destiny because it made you think that your life will end right then and there like it was foretold. For me I have a feeling that I will change it no matter what they say." "By the Way Riku, why did you come here anyways I thought you would be resting up for tomorrow. Cause I know that you have to go to other worlds and seal all the keyholes and probably check up on other Princesses of Heart just to make sure that Maleficent isn't using them up for like a back-up plan you know just in case she has a trouble getting me."

Riku laughed. "I knew that already. Sora and Kairi are the clueless ones. Anyways I came up here for you. I knew you have been lonely and Sora and Kairi are the ones that need are together so I felt left out. I also feel comfortable around so and you don't smell like Light so its different being around you. You probably need to get to know someone other than Cloud to be apart of our team." Riku eyed her a moment before Ashlee started to respond.

"I-I get to be apart of your guys' team?" Ashlee stuttered at the moment since she was always alone.

"Yeah. I talked it over with Sora and the rest and they said that you could come but Sora wants me to watch over you since he has Kairi to watch over." Ashlee pouted.

"Why do I have to be watched over. I am not a kid."

Riku chuckled. "Cloud was right, even though your like my age, you still haven't grown up."

"I do too. I grown up physically and in some places mentally."

"Well I'll take note of that. So.." Riku wanting to change the subject on her. He wanted to know why she comes out at night and look at the moon and how long has she been doing it. "Why do you come out at night like in the middle. Practically everyone is already asleep?"

"Oh, I'm trying to think of a way to stop Maleficent and also I think about my past and sometimes of the future. That changed today though. I still have the same thoughts but when I met Roxas and Namine` I figured even though they were a nobody they have a soul and a physical body before right? So I was wondering how and what way they could have a heart."

"What? Roxas and Namine` exist but I don't think that they could get a heart that easily." Riku was surprise on hearing that.

"Well course its not easy." Ashlee admitted. "You know I have a keyblade right?"

"Of course. How could you fight off those heartless that attack you with Cloud since apparently you beat him and he still has to treat you to ice cream."

"Yeah true. He can do that on my birthday." Ashlee muttered.

"Hey, when is your birthday?" Riku asked her even though he knew he was getting off the main subject.

"Its October 31st. Its on Halloween. My favorite holiday." Ashlee said with excitement.

"Cool. Mine is June 15th." Riku admitted.

"Wait a minute, I wasn't finished explaining on the Roxas and Namine` heart thing. It's your fault I got off topic." Ashlee barked at him.

"Sorry Princess, I'll listen more carefully and no interruptions." Riku said sarcastically.

"Whatever anyways. My keyblade Dark Hearts is a keyblade for fighting and restoring hearts. I can create a heart but if you want one, you need to have someone with the power of light to put light into it. I can also put some darkness in it to balance it out but that is it since I don't want anyone turning into a heartless. For that I would need Sora, Kairi, or King Mickey to help cause they have to use their keyblades."

"That could work, but why didn't you ask?" Riku asked her.

"Cause I have to get to know them and be more friendly with them so they don't like hurt me or anything. I really don't like to be hurt emotionally or mentally but I can take physical pain."

"Well, don't worry. I think your strong enough to be able to handle yourself." Riku smiled at her.

"Yeah whatever." Ashlee muttered. "You can go and catch up on some sleep. I know I can that your tired and besides the light doesn't suit me that much it hurts my eyes. So I stay up and go to bed around 4:00 am and then wake up around 5:00 pm but then again since I'm going with you guys I have to change my ways. So you want to walk back together Riku?"

"Sure Ashlee, Sure" Riku said.

Then enough Ashlee and Riku both walked up and headed back to Merlin's house for a good night sleep. Then again Ashlee was the one who had trouble even making that decision because she is a night person. The one thing that they didn't know was that they were being watched as they were heading towards Merlin's house.

So How Did You Guys Like My Latest Chapter? I Know It Was A Lost Of Explaining But It Was Worth It. Cloud and Ashlee are Siblings. Yes I Know I Am Not Doing Incest That Is So Wrong! Anyways I told you Guys That There Was Going to Be a Roxas/Namine` and I Was Planning On Using Ashlee's Keyblade and Someone's Light. Also. Sora and Kairi Moment There. Anyways I am Still Thinking About Riku's Pairing. I Don't Want Him To Be All Alone. So Let's See What Happens In The Next Chapter! See Ya Later :D

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-Shifuni