The girl from the awful nightmare rolled over as she came out of the dream. She hoped it was a dream; it seemed all too real for her. The feeling of being sore racked her body along with a heavy feeling weighted on her chest as she struggled to breathe.

"What?" her eyes fluttered open only to peer straight into two yellow orbs with black surrounding them. It took her a second to register what she was staring at, until the orbs moved over as the head they were attached to began to twitch.

The teen gasped before swinging her arm at the creature, effectively knocking off balance enough for it to fall onto the floor beside her.

She continued to vocalize her fear in short spasms as she got a better look at the thing that had come so close to her.

It was short in stature, but resembled a human figure, like a child. It was pitch black with antennae-feeler objects and had an eerie set of glowing yellow eyes.

And it was coming back to her.

She continued to back up slowly as the shadowy figure began to regain its sense of movement. It then appeared to sink into the floor, effectively becoming flat before making up the short distance that was between them, and then rising again only to lift a clawed hand and swinging at her.

"Whoa!" the girl turned around and began to sprint down the hall she had woken up in. The hall was seemingly narrow and lined with pipes and a metal floor that made short metallic banging sounds as her feet pounded on them. What was that thing?! Where did it-

She turned a corner to see the hall split into two directions and stopped for a brief second to consider which way.

That thing's going to be here any second! I've got to think, come on!

That's when she looked down and saw not one, but three of the beings in front of her. She took a step back before recoiling to the pain in her left leg; turning her head, she could see the original creature with small amounts of red coloring its smoky claws. It brought the claw to its face like it was sniffing or looking at it. The hand was lined with what appeared to be smoke drifting off of it. Apparently it didn't find what it was looking for because it slashed at her again, only this time she turned to the left and bolted down that hallway.

She could hear her heart pounding in her ears as pain began to seer again into her left calf. Not looking down, she tried to maintain her speed as the shadows were surely gaining from behind. She could see another intersection coming up and, without thinking, slammed her foot into the metal hard to make the right turn.

She rounded another corner before panning her head to look behind herself. Nothing this time, just to be safe though, she continued a jogging pace until she came around another corner. Only this time it was worse.

Instead of sweet salvation from this growing horde of shadow denizens there were taller and more humanistic versions of them. They seemed to be consumed with twitching and moving around with no purpose until she made a sharp intake of air. Some slowly, others lightning quick, panned their heads toward the sound and fixated their luminescent piercing eyes on her.

That's when the words, I'm going to die, etched themselves into her brain. Instead, she said, "Great." In a nearly horrified manner before turning around to run into what felt like a brick wall that barely moved an inch, knocking her to the ground.

She looked up and saw, not a brick wall, but a man clad in some guard-esque uniform. He didn't look down at her, but she could see the striking blue eyes and red hair instantly. What caught her attention the most, though, was an oversized sword that looked like the main centered blade was cut out, only leaving one half of the thick border as the blade.

He stepped over her and placed himself between her and the growing number of monsters.

"Go!" He shouted as he raised his weapon, but the teen didn't need to hear it twice. She scrambled to her feet and pushed off the ground just an ear deafening 'WHAM' rocked the floor and everything on. Back to the floor she went just as another grunt signaled the oncoming of another swing. Instead of running, this time she curled over in a ball and covered her face since she kept losing her balance while on her feet.

WHAM!

Another shockwave roared by, her ears now ringing like a continuous cymbal, but this time, the shockwave didn't knock her onto her side, but instead flew around her.

She took her hands off her face to see something shielding her from the blast.

"Come with me, hurry." She turned to see another man, his arm holding firm to a bar on the inside of the shield that had protected her. His voice didn't sound completely urgent, more like obligation.

When she didn't respond, he nudged her with the inside of the shield. "You heard him, now go!" his voice became heavy with irritation before they both got up and ran down a series of hallways down to another room. By now the noises were growing weaker and weaker until they couldn't be heard at all and the rest of it seemed a blur until the man begins to question her within another room.

"Aren't you going to even answer me?" The thin blonde-haired man was wearing a white lab coat with an ascot and he didn't seem in the mood to mess around.

"Huh? What?" the teen said after coming back to reality with the situation. She winced as the adrenaline in her system began to wear off and the soreness from before, along with the new burning sensation in her left calf, began to root themselves deeply into her muscles.

The man sighed and put a hand to his head. "Just sit down."

She did so while he continued to stand.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?"

The teen tried to recall her moments prior to waking up in the hall while surveying the room they were in. There was a window across from her and over to the left, along with shelves and dozens upon dozens of books. The weather, as seen from the window, looked really grey and the view was a bit distorted as was when rain was falling. She looked around again and saw a work desk and several portraits of what appeared to be other scientists.

It was then that it registered that she remembered nothing. Absolutely unequivocally nothing.

What's my name? Who am I?! her eyes searched the floor as if she could find her memories there, but in reality, she was beginning to freak out.

"Well?"

"Oh, um…" she rubbed near the burning feeling on her skin, hoping it could be rubbed off, but to no avail. Instead she winced in her chair and spazzed for a moment. Get a grip! Quick being so helpless looking! Her thoughts buzzed.

"Well," the word came out in an almost gargled sense, throwing the scientist off. She noticed this and cleared her throat before continuing. "I don't know. I just woke up in that labyrinth of a basement." She brought her hand that she rubbed her leg with into view to see bright red fluid. Blood.

"Look," she started. "if I've trespassed or loitered or something, I'm really sorry, I have no clue what's going on right now. What were those things?" The sentences came pouring out in a delayed panic.

The man didn't yell or rant, but was rather interested. "You don't remember anything? Nothing at all?"

She shook her head absent mindedly.

"What about your name?" he inquired.

She shook it again.

"Well, first thing's first, you need a name." he said just as the door burst open with the red haired man from before. The scientist smirked. "Are they all gone?"

The well built man shut the door and nodded. "They must've come in after her." He looked straight towards her. "The Heartless don't normally come in here otherwise."

"We should probably start with introducing ourselves," the scientist looked to her again. "My name is Even, and my acquaintance here," he pointed to the man, "is Aeleus."

"Even and Aeleus." She nodded.

"Now then Aeleus, I was just addressing the fact that our intruder here needs a name."

She winced at the word intruder. This wasn't the way to make a good first impression.

"She doesn't have one?" Despite it being a question, his face didn't express it.

Even shook his head and began to explain briefly what had occured in the moments he was fighting the...what did he say? Were they called Heartless?

As Even explained to Aeleus, two more men, one much closer to her own age and the other around Even and Aeleus' age, came in. They were also introduced as Ienzo and Dilan, respectively.

Unlike the previous men, Ienzo extended a hand to her. She smiled before promptly grasping hold it and shaking it firmly, but no sooner than when she had done that did the strangest thing occur.

Instantly, the whole room melted away and images began flashing in front of her. Images of this young man, whom had grayish-blue hair, soared by her at tremendous speeds, all the while she was grasping all that was happening around her and she was able to decipher them, to a degree. At one moment, she could see this boy with nearly identical hair and eyes going through a courtyard and the next, her vision shifted as if seeing through another's eyes at something else. She briefly saw another young teen come as these blue creatures surrounded the viewer only to have the young teen utterly destroy the creatures and ask to see if the viewer was ok.

That was another thing. Sounds could be heard as well as what could only be described highs and lows in personality. These could be felt. Suddenly the vision shifted upward to see Even rushing over. Even muttered some sort of apology and how the boy was without any parents before thanking the older boy and taking the viewer back to the castle.

The visions shifted again, as if fast forwarding, and then extreme pain in her chest could be felt. She, seeing through the viewer's eyes, fell down onto the ground with Even before everything going black.

Again, a vision shift to what was now a series of people wearing black coats. She didn't quite understand what was happening as these visions streaked through until one of the last ones consisted of being what could only be described as being destroyed. A silver haired boy with a strange suit began to drain all power and essence as a red haired man in a black coat egged him on.

Suddenly, she was back in the room, still clutching Ienzo's hand, only now his face was one of shock and almost one of horror.

The teen ripped her hand from Ienzo's and began clutching at her heart as a maelstrom of emotions tore into her. She felt frustration, confusion, and fear, but also felt happiness and laughter. Her body didn't know whether to cry or to smile so instead she fell from the chair and began to cry out in confusion with each breath.

What was that?! She could barely even retrieve her own thoughts and emotions let alone what she just experienced.

Ienzo was almost the same way, only that he clutched the desk behind him and gasped before looking back to the others.

"What in the world?" he was able to convey what she could not.

"What's the matter?" Even crossed his arms.

Ienzo was trying to grasp the situation.

"I just had the biggest moment of déjà vu." He shook his head.

The teen continued to lay on the floor until Aeleus came and was about to place her back in the chair.

Fearing this would lead to another mind blowing attack on her psyche, she waved her arms frantically and scooted back.

"And what's wrong with you?" he asked.

"Memories," she muttered. Ienzo saw it too and he called it déjà vu. What I just saw…was it Ienzo's memories?

"I saw someone else's memories?" she struggled back to her feet and held onto the chair as the others looked at each other, not sure of what to think or say.


Hey guys! I want to thank you so much for the views and feedback! It's helps a lot and I'm just glad that you guys like it : ) Now something else, yes, her name hasn't been mentioned yet, and yes, it can get annoying with how many times I use the words, "she, teen, girl." and all that jazz. I'm sorry. I just didn't feel like it was the right time for her name, but rest assured, next you see her she will.

So yes, I hope you guys enjoyed the first little instance of our heroine's ability to see into another's memories and the chapter too! Again, thanks so much for your feedback and even giving your time to read the story. I hope you guys have a good one; should have the next chapter up soon! : )