And here is chapter 4. Should start to get interesting. I still don't own anything except for part of the plot.

Chapter Start!

The quartet had been following Pluto for quite a long while. They weren't sure how long exactly, just that they'd stopped to rest several times. They talked occasionally, but there wasn't much for them to talk about since they were missing all their memories from before a few days ago. Eventually, they got somewhere very noticeable. It was a town with apartments, a forest, and a large wall surrounding it.

"Wow, what a pretty sky," said Hana. "It looks really familiar…"

Raven shrugged. "It's just sunrise or sunset. You've probably seen it before and just forgot it like everything else."

"How come there wasn't any sunrise or sunset before now?" asked Kaze. It was true. Before, it just went from day to night and vice versa in a split second. There was no transition. It was a bit unsettling.

"Guys, we have a problem," said Sora.

"Yeah, that dog's still not leaving us alone," said Raven. It was still following them quite happily.

"No, it's not that," said Sora. "People are giving me really weird looks." That made them pause. Yeah, they were dressed oddly, but Sora really stood out with his torn and bloody jumpsuit. It seemed to actually be scaring the people away.

"We better get you some new clothes," said Hana. "Does anyone have any money?"

They didn't. This was a problem. After all, they were gonna have to get food eventually. "Bet we could get some off of people," said Raven.

"You mean like payment, right?" asked Kaze

"…No."

"Raven!" Honestly, why was that the first solution he thought of?

Fortunately, it turned out people in this town posted jobs on bulletin boards so that anyone who was interested could do them. Only problem was that no one really wanted to hire Sora due to the blood. This left most of it to Hana, Kaze, and Raven, although people were kind of nervous about Raven too because his appearance screamed badass troublemaker. Thankfully, they managed to scrounge up enough munny (weird currency) to get Sora some new simple clothes, a long-sleeved red shirt with a black T-shirt to wear over it, and Bermuda shorts. He kept his yellow shoes since they were about the same size. After a couple of minutes of finding somewhere deserted for him to change, the other three found themselves waiting outside an alley.

"How long do you think it'll take to get new clothes for me?" asked Hana. "These are really tight and uncomfortable…and I think they're starting to chaff me."

"Oh come on, we just got Sora new clothes!" complained Raven. "Besides, I'm hungry. I wanna get some food!"

"Yeah, I think we should focus on food right now," agreed Kaze. "I mean, we need to eat. We can wait to get clothes." He paused. "Although if we are saving up for clothes, I think we should get Raven new clothes too. His are creepy."

"Hey! I like my clothes!"

"Hardly anyone hired you because they thought you were some sort of psycho!"

"Hey!" The three blinked and looked up. There was another quartet in front of them. The one who had talked was a boy a bit older than them wearing a sleeveless white trench coat, a black beanie, a blue vest with white lining that showed off his stomach, gray drawstring pants, and black boots. "Yeah, you!"

"Uh, can we help you?" asked Hana. They were making her nervous, but she figured she should be polite.

"Are you the troublemaker's we've been hearing about?" asked the boy.

That caused some confused blinking. Kaze turned to Raven. "You didn't do anything did you?"

"Hey! I behaved!"

"Well, so did I," said Kaze. "Sora didn't really get the chance to do much of anything, and Hana's too nice to misbehave for no reason. You sure you don't have us mixed up with someone else?"

"One of them's supposed to have yellow eyes, ya know!" said the bulky looking guy. He had scruffy black hair, a tan, a chain necklace, an orange wife beater with some black designs on it, blue and white wristbands, black pants with two parallel orange stripes going down the side with an 8 near the top, and black and yellow shoes. Everyone looked at Raven.

"Sure, pick on the creepy looking guy…Besides, that kid has yellow eyes!" Raven scrunched his eyes at the kid. It was a weird looking kid. "…and no other facial features."

Said kid looked down sadly. "I know…"

"Yeah, Vivi looks kind of weird," said the guy with the beanie. "But that's not the point! There was also supposed to be a guy covered in blood."

"No one here with bloody clothes," said Hana. Yeah, she's nice, but she's caught on that it would be best to avoid getting in trouble with these people.

At that moment, Sora chose to come out with his bloody clothes slung over an arm. "I'm done. Sorry I took so long. I had to get some of the blood off." Then Sora noticed the extra group. "Uh, hi there?"

The girl in the other group, who had silver hair covering her left eye, a sleeveless zip-up shirt, khaki clam diggers, and lavender slip on shoes, pointed at his torn up jumpsuit. "Blood."

"Found ya!" Seifer marched up to the brunette. "And why are you covered in blood?"

"I got hurt!"

"Do you have any proof?"

"Oh!" Raven ran over and lifted up Sora's shirt. "He's got this scar!" Sora yelped and tried to cover himself up. For some reason, he just felt really uncomfortable letting just anyone see it. Raven grabbed Sora's ripped up clothes. "It fits the tear in his clothes!"

"Yeah, Sora got hurt real bad, and we just now got the money to replace his clothes!" said Hana.

"So stop picking on Sora, you big bullies," demanded Kaze.

"Can you let go of my shirt now?" asked Sora. It was an uncomfortable position for him.

"We're not bullies," said the guy with the beanie. "We're the Twilight Town Disciplinary Committee. Don't you know anything?"

"I thought those were for schools," said Hana.

"That's not the point!"

"Seifer, I think they're telling the truth," said Vivi. He seemed more timid than the others in the Committee.

"You're actually falling for this Vivi?" asked Seifer.

The girl suddenly walked up to Sora and grabbed his old jumpsuit. "Cut." She held up the jumpsuit. It had been cleanly cut through at some point.

"Yep, it's been cut, ya know."

The girl rolled her eyes. "Clean cut. Not torn."

"Oh, good point," said the guy with the beanie. "Still, no one recognizes you, and you must've come here for a reason!" And then Pluto jumped on him. "What the-" He looked at the growling dog. "Get this mutt off me!"

"Sorry about that." Hana grabbed Pluto's collar and pulled him off with some help from Kaze. "It's strange. He's a really friendly dog…" Pluto was still growling at the group.

The guy who had been knocked down got up with a sneer. "Haven't you ever heard of a leash law?"

Raven smirked. "We don't have a leash."

"And he's not our dog," said Sora. "We just sort of found him, and he stuck around."

"Actually, we followed him here," said Kaze. "We were kind of lost at the time…"

"There's nothing out there for miles," said the guy with the beanie. "No way could you get lost!"

Raven had apparently had enough. He stomped up to the blonde man and sucker punched him in the face. "Back off!"

"Why you-!" The blond grabbed the Raven and slammed him into a wall. Kaze and Sora ran to try and help, but were intercepted by the girl and the other man, respectively. Raven kicked out at the blond and hit him in the crotch, successfully getting out of his grip. Sora dodged a punch from the other guy. Kaze had to jump over an attempted sweep from the girl.

Hana decided to sneak over to the odd looking kid. She didn't know if she had any fighting skill, but she felt she'd just get in the way so she decided to talk to the other person who wasn't fighting. "So, Vivi, right?"

"Uh huh."

"Does this happen often?"

Vivi sighed. "It usually doesn't go this far." Both winced as Raven grabbed a pipe and hit the blond in the side with it. "It happens sometimes…"

"So, Disciplinary Committee?"

Vivi shrugged. "There's not a lot to do here…"

"Oh…" Hana paused as Sora dodged a trashcan, which hit Kaze instead. It was starting to become an all-out brawl. "Any idea how to stop this?"

"No…usually they stop pretty quickly." Both winced as the girl did a flying kick into Raven. "Who are you guys anyway? Are you moving here?"

"I'm Hana, this here is Pluto, the brunette is Sora, the blond is Kaze, and Raven is the one with the yellow eyes." Hana paused. "I don't know about moving here." She didn't even know where she lived… "So, who are you guys?"

"I'm Vivi." He pointed at the guy with the beanie. "He's Seifer." He pointed at the girl. "She's Fuujin." He pointed at the other guy. "And he's Raijin."

"Those two talk kind of weird."

"Yeah, but you get used to it." They heard a loud crack and turned around. Seifer was currently unconscious, and Sora was standing over him with a broken board.

"Okay, we win. Now get lost!" said Raven. The rest of the Disciplinary Committee decided to listen and quickly grabbed Seifer and left. Raven grinned. "That was pretty exhilarating."

Sora patted himself over. "Huh, I don't feel sore or tired."

"Yeah, it's weird," said Kaze. This was kind of odd, especially because they'd gotten hit a few times.

"I think we're gonna get in trouble if we stay here," said Hana. "We should leave."

"But there's nothing around here," said Sora. It was true. They literally had nowhere else to go. They were stuck.

Then Pluto suddenly sat up straight and started sniffing. He ran off down the alley. They decided to follow him. After all, he'd gotten them to Twilight Town. Maybe he'd show them where to go this time. He didn't. Instead, he jumped on a small boy and started licking him.

"Pluto!" Sora quickly pulled Pluto off the boy. "Sorry, he's…friendly."

The boy just blinked up at the older boy. He was unusually pale with short black hair and big blue eyes. Hana knelt down to talk to him. "You okay? You didn't hit your head when Pluto knocked you down, did you?" The boy shook his head.

"Okay, now what do we do?" asked Raven. They were silent. Then the little boy yawned. This caused everyone else to yawn.

"Can we just get some rest?" asked Kaze. "We've been busy for…I don't know how long!"

Everyone decided this was a good idea and went back to the alley they were at before. For some reason it had a couch, a dartboard, and some blankets. For some reason, the little boy followed them. When they asked him where he lived, he just shrugged. They let him have the couch and just improvised with everything else.

When they woke up the next morning, they were sore. "Okay, let's avoid sleeping on the ground from now on," muttered Raven. Everyone muttered an agreement. Then their stomachs growled. They promptly used the rest of their munny to buy breakfast for themselves and the boy.

"Do you have a name?" asked Hana. The boy shook his head. "You sure?" He nodded. "Do you have amnesia, too?" He shook his head. "Where do you live?" He shrugged. Hana sighed. "Can you talk?" He shrugged.

"He's kind of a weird kid," commented Kaze. "And shouldn't someone have recognized him by now and asked about him?" Kaze had a good point.

"Maybe he's not from here either?" suggested Sora. "I mean, it would explain why no one seems to recognize him."

Then the boy's head suddenly jerked up and looked towards a corner of a building. He promptly hid behind Hana's legs. "Uh, you okay?" He kept staring at the corner. "Is something over there?" She made to go over there, but he grabbed at her and desperately shook his head.

"Eh, I'll go check." Raven walked over to the corner and peered around it. He came back over frowning. "There were some footsteps when I walked over there. I think someone was watching us."

"The guys from yesterday?" asked Sora.

"I dunno. I didn't see who it was." Raven crossed his arms. "We better keep an eye out, just in case."

The boy suddenly looked up. Then he started running away. He stopped a few feet away and waved at the quartet. Then Pluto ran after him. Seeing that the only other thing they had to do was odd jobs, the quartet followed them for several minutes until they got to the tram station.

"We don't have the munny to ride one of those," explained Hana. He ran into the station anyway.

"I think we should follow him," said Raven.

"Why?"

Sora frowned and looked over towards the slope they'd walked up. "Is it just me or is there someone over there?" Kaze looked at him in surprise.

"You feel it too?" There was an awkward silence. They decided to go into the station.

The boy was standing next to an empty track that Pluto was sniffing at curiously. He perked up when he saw the quartet. He ran over, grabbed, Hana, dragged her over to the empty track, and put her hand on something. Hana's eyes widened. "Guys! There's something here!"

"Seriously?" The boys came over and ran their hands over the seemingly empty space. There did seem to be something there. It had windows and a door. Maybe it was a tram? The boy then walked forward and seemingly disappeared.

Sora's eyes widened. "Whoa! He disappeared!"

"Do you think we can get on it too?" asked Kaze.

"I don't know," said Hana. "Do you think it's safe?"

Sora stuck his arm through the spot. It disappeared up to his elbow. "It feels okay." He stepped through. A second later, he stuck his head back through the door. "Hey, come in here! It looks really cool!" Pluto suddenly started growling. Then Sora blinked and looked up. "Who're you guys?" The other three promptly turned around.

There were two people in black hooded cloaks standing right inside the station. There hoods were up, hiding their faces, but one seemed to be about a head taller than the other.

"Are you the guys who were following us?" asked Raven. Then he tilted his head and frowned. "Are you in a cult or something?" That made everyone sweatdrop, including the two in cloaks.

"That's the first time anyone's ever asked that," said the taller figure. It was a guy.

"Really? I can see why they would think that," said the smaller figure. This one was a girl.

"Uh, can we help you?" asked Hana.

"That boy who was here a moment ago," the man paused and looked where part of Sora seemed to be sticking out of thin air. "Although I suppose he's still here. We need him."

Sora jerked back into the car for a second. He came back out, frowning. "I don't think he wants to go with you guys."

"You sure?" asked the girl. "We can help him. And he really needs help the way he is now."

Sora shook his head. "I don't think that's a good idea. He seems really scared of you."

"Then we will have to take him by force." That said, the man summoned six floating lances and threw them at the kids around the invisible tram. They all had to dodge them, which was difficult since there was six lances, and the four of them were pretty close together. Pluto yelped and ran into the tram.

"You guys get in here!" shouted Sora. "That lance was stopped before it could get through the door!"

"You first!" Kaze pushed Hana (She was the closest.) into the door, and Sora pulled her the rest of the way in. Before the other two could jump in, a bunch of paper came out of nowhere and wrapped around them.

"Crap!" Raven tried to pull some of the paper off, but it was stuck like there was glue on it, and it was making it nearly impossible to move as it covered more of his body. "Where's this coming from? !"

"Guys!" Sora popped back out, grabbed Kaze, and started dragging him into the tram.

"Xaldin!"

"On it!" The man's spears split in three groups. Two aimed themselves at Kaze, one aimed itself at Sora's head, and the other three surrounded Raven. The lances were thrust forwards towards their respective targets. Fortunately, Raven managed to jerk his body back. He fell onto Kaze, which pulled Sora down. Four of the lances missed. Two managed to hit Raven in his sides. Sora quickly finished pulling Kaze into the tram, and then both dragged Raven into the tram. At that point, there was an odd clacking sound for a moment.

The girl ran forward to the track and waved her hand through the air. She sighed. "It's gone! They got away!"

"The Superior will not be pleased."

The woman reached up and removed her hood. She was a pretty young woman with brown eyes and brown hair held in a bun by a jeweled band with a lock draped over her right shoulder. "That kid probably doesn't even realize he's a Nobody…I hope nothing happens to him." She turned to her companion. "We can find him later, right?"

The man also removed his hood. He had braided hair in a topknot, noticeable sideburns, violet eyes, pointy ears, and, for some reason, hoop earrings. "He is a Nobody. The Superior will be able to track him as long as something does not cloak his signature. While it is very unlikely, there is always the chance a way will be found to do this. The fact that he is with several individuals raises those chances slightly."

The young lady sighed. "That's not good." She looked down the tracks the invisible tram had been on. "I wonder why he was so attached to them. Do you think it was because he noticed we were following them?"

"I doubt that. He was already with them when we found him. Whatever reason he had for associating with those four, it wasn't because of us." He held out a hand and a portal of darkness appeared in front of him. "Come on. We need to get back and report what happened exactly."

"Okay." She walked over, but not before glancing over her shoulder one more time towards where the invisible tram had been. "It's strange. Those kids looked really familiar, like I'd seen them before. Do you think I knew them before?"

"I wouldn't know." With that, he walked through the portal. The woman shook her head, slightly exasperated, before following him through.

As for the tram, the five kids and dog were sprawled in it, slightly stunned and confused. The inside was black with gold trim with amethyst lamps. As soon as they got over the shock that the tram had started moving on its own and they were now moving through what appeared to be a multicolored vortex, they remembered that Raven had been stabbed.

"Crap!" Raven jerked his arms out of Kaze and Sora's grip and quickly felt himself over. "Huh? That's weird. I don't feel any tears."

"But you definitely got stabbed!" said Kaze.

"We both saw it!" agreed Sora.

"He got stabbed?" asked Hana.

"Yeah, you didn't see?" asked Sora.

Hana shook her head. "The window frames kind of made it hard to see right outside the door. Do you feel any pain?" She turned her attention to Raven. "If you got stabbed, you'd definitely feel it."

"Good point. I feel okay." Raven took a closer look at his outfit. There were a couple of dents where the spears had hit him, but it didn't look like they'd been able to penetrate his bodysuit. "I guess this doubles as body armor. I am definitely keeping this now!"

"Oh come on. What are the chances that will happen again?" asked Kaze.

Raven gave him a look. "We've been up for, what? Less than a week? And we got attacked by people with weird powers in that amount of time and got stuck on an invisible tram to who knows where."

No one could really come up with a response to that. Instead, they all found a place to sit so they could wait out the ride to the mystery destination.

Chapter End

And there you have it. They reached Twilight Town, got into a smack down with the Disciplinary Committee, and Sora got some new clothes. Let's face it. He really needed them.

Hana didn't do any fighting in this chapter, but she'll start taking part in fights soon.

Who is the mystery kid? And who is the mystery Nobody with Xaldin? Where exactly did the invisible tram come from, and where is it going? Find out the answers to some of these in the next chapter!

Ansem's Report:

It has been a decade since Radiant Garden fell. A decade since my apprentices betrayed and exiled me to this dark realm. I have learned to harness the darkness so that I may come and go as I please, and I have seen how things have changed since I last saw my home.

The chaos of the Heartless has spread to many worlds, not just Radiant Garden. It seems that in trying to unravel the mysteries of the darkness, my former apprentices flooded the surrounding worlds with darkness. I suspect many have lost their lives.

However, the inhabitants of the worlds have banded together in fighting off the Heartless. The Heartless continue to increase at a steady rate though. I suspect they are fighting a losing battle. After all, Heartless simply re-spawn when destroyed. To permanently kill a Heartless, the heart must be released.

The worlds are truly in a bad state if the borders have eroded to the point that they have become aware of each other. Normally, the inhabitants would have no reason to even suspect that there are other worlds, but because of the dire situation they face they have discovered other worlds and now interact with them. I have to wonder what would happen if the borders suddenly returned to their full strength. Would the people be aware of what happened? Would they still believe in other worlds? Would they be able to return to their previous way of life?