Episode 2

"Linx!"

I snapped up, hearing my name called. I saw water all around me, and I couldn't breathe.

Panicking, I tried to reach the surface. And then, I felt arms around me, pulling me upwards to the air. I surfaced, and coughed. Sora moved my hair out of my face.

"Are you alright? How did you get out here?"

I coughed again, and gasped for air. Sora was wearing his red outfit again. But his shoes and jacket were farther out on the beach.

Soon, we reached the shore, and I collapsed in the sand.

"It…was…just a dream…" I whispered. "I'm not hurting anyone!"

Sora put his hand on my head.

"Do you need to see my mom? She has medicine for you…" Sora asked.

Tears streamed down my face.

"NO! Didn't you just see that girl? She told me I was hurting you, Sora! And, she was talking about the real world! And Nobodies…and…I…" I said, but Sora put his hand over my mouth.

"Linx…nothing happened. You were asleep on the beach, and the tide took you out to sea."

I looked up at him, and moved away from his hand.

"I…I'm not real, am I?" I whispered.

"What are you talking about?" Sora asked. As if he wasn't really there, Sora seemed to flash, like the sun's reflection on the water. I got up, and ran away to the Seaside Shack.

It was semi-dark in there, and the perfect place to be alone. Tears burned my eyes, but refused to fall, and I thought about what the girl had said.

"What if all this really is an experiment?" I asked myself. If it was true, then all I knew, and all I loved was false. Even the place where I lived was fake. Sora was fake.

I put my head on my knees, and tried to shut out the girl's face.

I felt myself getting weaker, like it was draining a lot of my strength just to do so.

Eventually, I fell asleep, into the dream, but this time, it was more real.

I woke, under a beam of light. Sand was everywhere, and there was a giant object, sort of like a computer in the legends. There was a girl at the computer, and she seemed to be drawing something on the screen.

"Linx." the girl said.

"Hello Naminé." I said. Subconsciously, I felt as if something else was controlling me.

"I'm going to break you out of here. I've decided…I'm not as important as you are in Xemnas's plan. After all, you aren't quite one of us, or one of them."

"Naminé! Don't say that…" I said.

"Don't pretend to have a heart, because you don't." she snapped, and turned around in her chair. Her arm was in a sling.

"I wish my body wasn't so fragile. No thanks to Kairi, I would've fought back. Xemnas…he caught my first plan to stop the organization. To get you out of here…when you went to the real world."

I nodded, but didn't recall those events.

"If he finds your memory files, he'll delete them again, until we finishes the programming. He wants you to take over, since you're body won't fade, like ours do.

We take to long to regenerate." Naminé said, "Demyx wants to see you. He's in on my plan."

I nodded.

"I'll be careful not to be found." I said with a smile. Naminé rolled her eyes.

"There she foes with her 'feelings' again," she whispered.

I walked out of the computer room, and out into the hallway, and hear a splash of water.

"D-Demyx?" I called.

"Yeah?" his boyish voice answered my call, and instantly, I remembered his face.

"Linx! It's been awhile."

I saw him walk around the corner waving. His hood was up, and he reached to remove it from his face. He smiled at me, like he was really happy. My head spun, and I fell to the ground.

"Linx?" called Demyx, although I could barely hear his voice. Something I remembered flowed before my eyes.

I saw Demyx's face. He smiled.

"New member, huh? Wonder if this one's gonna work out." He said. He handed me a sword.

"The dream sword. This was created when you were born, from the memories of some…well, some pretty messed up people."

I took the sword, and it dissolved in my hand.

"It'll be there when you need it."

I blinked, and saw Demyx again. This time, his face looked concerned.

"Land legs, Linx. This world takes a little getting used to. Was it a memory flood?" he asked. I nodded.

"Yeah…its no big deal…" I said.

"What did you remember this time?" he asked. I laughed.

"Just the blockhead in front of me, and my sword."

"HEY!" Demyx shouted. "You'll pay for that." He turned around, and I felt a splash of water on my face.

I opened my eyes to pitch darkness. Rain was falling on the roof of the Seaside Shack, and leaking through the spaces between the boards.

"I thought you'd never wake up." Said a voice. It was Sora's. He was sitting in front of the window, silhouetted against the moonlight.

"I hate it when you cry yourself to sleep. You've been doing that a lot lately. I don't know what makes you feel like you aren't real." Sora said. He turned his head to me, and the moon reflected in his tears. "You're real to me."

"I'm not so sure lately." I whispered. "But I've been…seeing things that are locked away in my memory. Like someone…tried to erase them. Every time I close my eyes, I dream, and the dreams seem so real. Maybe they were…my past-life."

Sora stood, and walked close to me. He kneeled so I could see his eyes.

"What if you can see your past life? All that matters now is that you're here." He said.

"But Sora, I think I saw you in the future, too. You didn't even know who I was, and I was told of the real world, then. I'm here only because someone…is using me." I said.

"But it's just a dream, because, you haven't gone anywhere that I haven't seen." Sora answered.

"I think I have. I think I'm the key to reviving…" I started, but I didn't finish my words. Sora kissed me softly.

"I think you're the key to defeating that evil in your mind, Linx." He said. I felt the skin on my face blush.

"I have to go home. Mom's probably worried." I whispered. Sora smiled.

"I won't let you go alone anymore."