We came out at Twilight Town and before I had a chance to do anything a heartless started attacking me, I was pushed down surrounded by hundreds of them. I tried to find Axel but I couldn't see him amongst the heartless, my breathing started to quicken and if I had a heart it would have raced, I desperately searched for Axel ignoring the heartless that were closing in on me. Finally I found him, he was far away and near a portal, his orders were to let me handle these heartless after all. My head started to pound and my vision got blurry.
"No not now, please not now" I begged inside my head
I couldn't stop it though; I fell on my hands and knees and took deep breaths trying to stay focused. Things seemed to pulse right before my eyes and my surroundings started to change, it looked like I was in the town from my dreams and instead of wearing my coat I was wearing a beautiful dress. I looked up to find Axel but instead Lea was there and there was another man next to him wearing the organization coat and he was leading Lea into a dark portal.
"NO!" I called out but my voice was drowned out by the heartless
My head dropped down and I clenched my hands feeling completely hopeless but then I lifted up my head and started to stand even though the heartless quickly pushed me down, I didn't stop until I was standing then I tried to push my way through to him. It was impossible, there were too many heartless between us.
"DON'T TAKE HIM!" I shouted once again only this time all the heartless around me got blown away making them vanish and their hearts released into the air
Things were starting to clear, the buildings around me started to flash between my past and my present so did Lea. One minute it was Lea and someone from the organization and the next it was Axel but I didn't care I ran towards them but by the time I reached the portal I was back in the real world holding onto Axel's coat tightly as I fall to my knees.
"Whoa..." he said quietly "I heard you were good with magic but I never did listen"
I stared at the ground; I was starting to understand everything. I was from a different world and in my world I was a princess but when my parents left I tried to search for them and that's when I met Lea, we were friends the second we met and since then I would always sneak to his world but then on my 14th birthday I heard the news, Lea's world was attacked by the darkness. I rushed there the second I heard the news but by the time I got there it was too late. The world had thousands of heartless there, I searched for Lea everywhere praying that he was safe but by the time I found him it was too late, he was being led into the darkness.
I fought my way through the heartless but I was too late, that's when I first discovered I could use magic, I was heartbroken and I used wind and fire magic to get rid of every heartless there but as I watched all the hearts float into the sky there was one that looked like it was shining. I remember catching that heart and realising that it was the heart of Lea then I took it back home and locked it away. After that I vowed not to return until I found his body so I could give him his heart back. There were still things that hadn't been answered like how did I get here? Where is my heart? Where did I get these charms from? Something's still didn't make sense.
"Hey you ok down there? Haven't passed out again have you"
"No, I'm ok" I smiled "tell me something... You're past... how much do you really remember?"
"Where'd that come from and do you want to let go of me already?"
"Do you remember your home, your family? Your friends?"
"Well sure I do but they aren't important anymore, I don't have the heart to miss them"
"There are probably people looking for you! Worrying about you!"
"If you must know my world was destroyed and only us strong ones survived" he said shaking his sleeve
"So you don't even remember me?" I asked looking up at him
At this point I knew he was Lea, sure he looked a little different but I knew it was him, why else would I get flashes with Lea only when I'm around him?
"What are you talking about?"
"No-nothing, let's get back, our mission here is done" I said pulling away from him
At this moment I had never wished so hard to be able to summon a dark portal of my own but at least know I knew why, I was of the light, I didn't belong in the darkness.
"Well hurry up and make a portal, I want to go back" I stated not daring to look him in the eyes
The sound of a portal opening came from behind me, I waited a few seconds before turning around hoping that Axel had already left but he was still standing there. I ignored him and walked into the portal returning to the mission room.
"Finished already?" Saïx asked
"Yes"
"Very well, you may have the rest of the day of"
"Thankyou"
I walked out of the room and headed towards mine.
"Stupid Axel" I frowned
I was too busy yelling at Axel in my head that I didn't see Xion walking towards me and walked right into her.
"I'm so sorry" I apologized from the floor
"No it's my fault"
I took one look at her and I could tell that she too wasn't paying much attention to her surroundings.
"Are you ok?" I asked standing up
"I'm fine"
"Xion is the only other girl here that I can talk to... well there is Larxene but she isn't very nice..."
"Are you feeling better? It's good to see you walking around again" she smiled
"Yes I'm ok now"
"That's good, Axel will be glad to hear it"
"What do you mean?"
"He would never admit it but he has been worried about you, at least once a day he would go in and check on you and whenever Roxas or I talked about it he said Saïx told him to but we know that's not true"
"I had no idea... hey Xion... do you remember anything from before?"
"No, why?"
"So you never get like feelings or flashes or dreams... anything?"
"Well..."
Her face said it all, she has been experiencing something similar to me, I guess for me it was worse because of the charms only I had yet to figure out how that worked exactly.
"I have to"
"Really?" she asked hopeful
"Yeah, I haven't told anyone though... I guess I'm too afraid to but I dunno I guess it gets to a point where you have to talk to someone... right?"
"I guess so"
"I just wish I could remember everything you know?" I sighed "I know enough to confuse me and make me feel completely lost"
"I know what you mean"
"If only there was someone who could fill in the pieces for me... tell me everything but I'm starting to realise that I'm the only one that can do that"
"Every time I start remembering to much I pass out and have the strangest dreams" Xion admitted
"Yeah me to... during that time I was asleep I saw so much and it was hard to tell if it was real or not"
"What do you remember?"
"Well..."
I was hesitant in telling her but I was secretly dying inside to tell someone something.
"Well I know why I can't create my own dark portals"
"Why?"
"Because I'm from the light, where I used to live, it was part of the light"
"Light..."
"Yeah and... well I think... I think I might be a... Princess?"
"Princess of light?" she whispered to herself
"Huh... I never thought of it that way"
"I think I have heard that before"
"Really?"
"I don't know" she giggled "it's probably nothing"
"Hey Xion... thank you for listening to me"
"Any time" she smiled
Feeling a lot better I said goodbye to her then continued on my way, once I reached my room I laid down looking up at the ceiling.
"I wonder if I can still do that... that light thing... Least it would explain how I got to all these places" I wondered holding up my arm "but who gave me the charms? And why?"
I sat up pushing the charms to the back of my mind and decided to try and open a light portal but I didn't even know where to start. To open a dark one I was taught to imagine myself forcing a door open between two places but for light... well I imagined it would be different, less forceful.
"I have no idea what I'm doing" I sighed
There was a knock at my door which made me jump.
"Ye-yes?"
"Saïx wants to talk to you" Demyx yawned
"Oh ok"
I walked over to my door pulling it open and saw Demyx leaning on his sitar yawning.
"Let me guess, you just woke up?"
"And ready ~~~ to start the day" he yawned
"You sure sound like it" I giggled
We walked down the hallway together and into the mission room, there were less people there now, probably all off on missions. One person I did notice was Axel, he was back now and lying in a chair with his feet on the table, he looked over at me but I just turned my head away and continued walking to Saïx.
"You wanted to see me?"
"I have 2 more missions for you today"
"Oh... umm ok"
"1. You have to go to Agrabah and search the desert then 2. Go to the Colosseum where they is rumoured to be a giant heartless"
"Ok"
"And don't bother coming back until both missions are %100 completed"
The portal opened and I walked through, 3 missions in one day, Saïx really was trying to get rid of me but I didn't mind to much after all I was getting the chance to go to 2 places I hadn't been and that meant there was a chance I had a charm hidden there.
I walked through the portal and came out in a desert, that's all there was, desert. I looked around me but there just didn't seem to be anything else.
"Great, this should be fun" I murmured to myself
I had been walking around in the desert for over an hour when I finally decided I couldn't take it anymore.
"There is no wind and when there is it's just hot and fires sand at me! I haven't seen a single drop of water at all AND I can't even find anything. IT'S A DESERT!" I shouted at the lump of sand in front of me
I sighed and sat down on the lump of sand "Saïx obviously knows that there is something here... and if I'm right I have heard someone saying something about a desert and some kind of town"
I laid back in the sand when I felt it starting to move from under me, before I had a chance to save myself I fell through the sand and into a huge hole.
"That hurt" I moaned rubbing my lower back
"I caught one!" someone shouted
"What do you mean that isn't a heartless?"
"You're just a rug, what would you know"
"Is he talking to himself?"
"Well if you're so sure why don't you go see then"
So far all I had got was this person was trying to trap a heartless in a hole, and they seemed to be talking to themselves. I looked up thinking I might be able to see who it was when something covered the hole, I got a little bit worried for a second but then what ever it was uncovered the hole and started to float down.
"Is that a... carpet?" I asked myself out loud
The carpet stood itself up and seemed to be looking at me.
"Is it a heartless?"
The carpet looked up at the whole and I guess it was shaking its head, I looked up to then saw something else cover the hole but not completely, it looked like the outline of some kind of person.
"Hello?" I called up "uhhh look I'm not a heartless"
"Who are you then?"
"I'm Are... I'm a friend oh and one more thing, you're not going to catch a heartless in a trap like this"
From where I was it looked like the person was flying down into the hole, but people can't fly, not like that anyway.
"My name is genie, formally of the lamp"
"You wouldn't be able to help me out of here would you?"
"Of course I can, carpet my man?"
The carpet seemed to do a kind of salute then hovered in the air with the end closes to me shaped like stairs.
"If you would kindly hop on"
I was sceptical but still I walked onto the carpet then sat down as instructed to, once I was sitting down and holding on the carpet lifted into the air until we were high above the hole I fell in.
"Whoa... so umm how is this possible?"
"It's a magic carpet"
"He said that like it was normal"
"Hey what's that... in the distance?"
"That's Agrabah"
"It looks pretty far away..." I mused
"We can get you there in a jiffy, hold on tight"
I didn't have time to register what he was saying, the carpet suddenly shot of towards Agrabah, I held on for dear life but it was really fun up here and I couldn't help but laugh. We reached the city within minutes, if I had been walking it would have been hours or day's maybe.
"Welcome to Agrabah" genie said flying in front of us
We landed down near the front gate and carpet made some stairs for me to walk down, once I was on solid ground I sighed, it was wonderful flying but there is nothing like solid ground.
"Thank you so much"
"Are you sure you saw him?" a girl asked
"I know I did" a boy answered
"Al!" genie shouted
A boy dressed like a present and a girl dressed like a royal walked into view, I guessed that the boy was Al.
"Hello genie, carpet, what are you two doing back?"
"We were on the lookout for heartless when we ran into her" genie explained pointing at me
Suddenly all eyes were on me, it made me a little uncomfortable.
"Uhhh hello" I waved nervously
"You're new around here? My name is Jasmine, and this is Aladdin" the girl smiled
"Hello... I'm...I'm..."
"I'm not really Arexis... but is my name really Seria? Jack said it was but..."
"I'm Se"
Before I could finish my sentence there was a rumble from below, we all jumped back a little, expect carpet and genie and stared at the ground.
"So I'm guessing that isn't normal" I asked
"Jasmine you should get to safety" Aladdin ordered "carpet get her and our guest to safety"
Another salute from carpet as he came down and picked us up, I wanted to stay on the ground after all I would be more help down there but everything happened so fast. There was a loud growl and the ground started to break away then out shot a giant bird heartless nearly hitting us on the way up.
"Well... I guess I am in the right place after all" I thought with a small smirk
"It's so big" Jasmine gasped
"Carpet, take us down"
It listened to me and took us down.
"Jasmine you should get of here, I'll take care of the heartless"
Once Jasmine was of the carpet I smiled at them then got carpet to get me closer to the heartless.
"You will catch me right?" I asked looking at the carpet
I know he couldn't answer but he did have his own way of talking, so I trusted that he would catch me then told him my plan. We flew high above the heartless then I jumped off of carpet landing on the heartless back. The heartless screeched and I tried to sooth it but it was hard when it was flying all over the place, I fell of a couple of times but carpet always caught me. I was about ready to give up and just attack it when I thought of one last thing; I created a kind of cage out of wind. The walls got smaller and smaller until the heartless was forced to land but I didn't let up on the wind.
"I'm not going to hurt you, I want to help you" I whispered to it "will you trust me?"
It screeched then laid down letting me get off; I jumped off him then smiled. Slowly the wind walls started to glow white, I had no idea what was going on but I wasn't afraid, I had a warm feeling. The heartless almost seemed at peace and was starting to fade away but just before it did the heartless struck me with its beak tearing my coat. I yelped a little and fell back on the sand, by the time I looked up the heartless was gone and its heart was floating away. The whiteness also died down and followed the heart, like it was guiding it.
My wind magic died down and genie, carpet, Jasmine and Aladdin all came up to me.
"Are you alright?" Jasmine asked jumping of carpet
"Yeah I'm ok"
"He didn't hurt me at all... just tore my coat... why?"
"Your clothes, their torn, come back to the palace I'm sure we can find you something there"
She helped me up then led me to carpet; once we were all on we went to the palace.
"Maybe I haven't been here before... no one has recognized me yet"
I got led into the palace and up some stairs to Jasmines room, she went into her cupboard and started to pull out clothes for me to wear, I sat down on a chair in front of a mirror looking at myself. I was a mess, my hair was half done up and half down, my coat was torn nearly all the way through and it didn't look like I would be able to fix it.
"Here try this one"
She was holding an outfit that was exactly like hers but it was white instead of blue.
"Thankyou" I smiled facing her
I took the clothes and went behind a screen to get changed; it was weird showing of so much of my skin after wearing that coat for so long.
"Perfect fit" I said walking away from the screen
"Now for your hair"
She patted the seat I was sitting on before so I walked over there and sat down, Jasmine took out my plait and started to brush it. She didn't tie it back up but left it out, it was slightly annoying having it in my face but I could always tie it up later anyway.
"If you had a crown you would look like a real princess" she laughed
"You don't know how right you are" I thought with a smile
"This might sound like a strange question..." I said turning to face her "but well... have I ever been here before?"
"I don't think so"
"So you don't recognize me at all?"
"I'm sorry"
"I guess I should move on then"
"Well thank you for everything but I should be leaving" I sighed standing
"Wait you can't leave yet, you have to stay for lunch"
"... well I guess I should accept your offer" I smiled
We headed down to the dining room where there was a large table laid out with more different kinds of fruit then I could count. We sat down with genie, carpet and Aladdin and started to eat, after lunch I said goodbye to everyone then carpet went to take me back to the portal but he seemed to be going in the wrong way.
"Ah carpet... I think it was the other way..."
He ignored me and continued on his way, after a while I saw some kind of large sand dune in the distance but as we got closer I realised it was in the shape of a lion's head. Carpet landed down in front of it and waited for me to get of then started to fly towards it trying to get me to follow.
"Who dares tries to enter the cave of wonders"
I jumped back and stared wide eyed as the sand lion talked to me.
"Uhhh..." was all I managed to choke out
"Come closer"
I inched slowly closer weary of the talking lion head.
"Seria it's you"
"Wait... you know me?" I asked with my mouth slightly opened
"Only take what you have come for"
I was about to ask him what he was talking about but then his mouth opened wide and carpet flew in so I followed after him. I followed carpet passing by many different kinds of jewels until we came to one room that was completely dark apart from one small light shining down on one thing. I walked forward until I was in arms reach of the small jewel. It was a golden lamp and it looked like a charm.
"So I have been here before"
I carefully picked up the charm and connected it to my bracelet then let carpet lead me out, before we flew away I said thankyou to the talking sand pile without knowing if he could hear me or not. Carpet landed down near to portal then flew away, I was about to go through but well I knew we weren't meant to talk to people so how was I meant to tell Saïx what I found? Besides it was all old things anyway, and my clothes, well that would be hard to explain.
"Well I can't sit here forever" I sighed "I wish I knew how to make this charm work..."
Just like that everything came back to me; I got lost in the desert but took shelter in the talking sand head, that's where I met carpet and where I left the charm. I didn't go to the castle and I didn't meet any people, I was only here for such a short time but still I learnt about that light, it's a guide for hearts so they can find peace and let go of whatever is holding them to this world. They don't go to kingdom hearts, in fact I'm starting to think kingdom hearts is a bad thing but instead, the hearts that I free they go to a place filled with peace and not a tool used to give hearts to others.
"But still... that doesn't help me now" I sighed
