Chapter 3:
Appearence

The children were led to the dining room where a tv was with some footage was ready to be shown. The children took their places, the servants were standing in their places Ansem and Xemnas were sitting at the table all ready "So what's this all about, watching a movie or something?" Vanitas joked "Since when did we have 'family time'" He added, Xemnas spoke "This isn't funny Vanitas!" He said with a firm voice "A 19th person has appeared in the mansion grounds." The whole room suddenly became tense "Eh?! You actually saying there's some one ACTUALLY here?!" Sora bursted out, Ansem spoke up "Calm down, we'll be sending the servants out once we show you the footage to look for this 19th person." Xemnas pressed play on the remote.

On the footage was Xion walking in the rain without an umbrella "That's today's date." Ventus said pointing to the corner of the screen, the date, time were exactly the day's date. Xion smirked a little "She's about to appear." She commented. On the footage appeared a silver and blue butterfly, then a form took shape into a woman.

The children's eyes widen, Roxas said "W-What's that?!"

"We can only see the back of her!" Sora said watching and couldn't believe what he was seeing. Then the footage suddenly cut off.

The lights were switched back on and behind, Xion, Ventus, Roxas, Xigbar and Saix was something written in blood. Ventus and Roxas jumped "W-What the?!"

'Love is hate, hate is love.' was written on the wall. Ansem stood up "Who did this?!" He glared at the servants, Axel, Naminé, Zexion and Vexen. They all looked at each other and their hands but none of them had blood on their hands or their clothes.

"This is too much." Xemnas said "How could this woman whom appeared in front of Xion come in here without making a sound?!"

Xion cackled "It's as I've told you all Kingdom Hearts can do anything with her strange magic, even write on the wall without a single sound."

Ventus gulped a little "This is too much. If she really who she says she is how come." He blinked and snapped his fingers pointing at Xion "That's right! If she appeared in this room how come, Sora, Riku, Vanitas, Xemnas and Ansem saw nothing happening behind us? How come they didn't say anything if they saw a figure behind us? The tv was bright enough to see behind us so they would of saw something moving if they were to move their eyes away from the screen. Also the servants were standing in their place the whole time! How come they didn't notice anyone enter the room or anyone moving from the table?"

Xion gave a bored look "Kingdom Hearts doesn't have a form. You can't see her, it's rare for her to show her true form to those who don't believe in magic. And if she does then you'd be so honoured" She replied with a dull tone "Kingdom Hearts doesn't need to show her form to create something like that on the wall."

Vanitas banged his fist against the table "Bullshit!" He snapped back "I've never heard of anything so shit in my life! Oh so since you believe in magic you think you're so special that she'll show herself in front of you?!"

"I'm not born with Anti-toxin." Xion replied "I've opened my heart to magic."

"Enough!" Xemnas called out "Let's just calm down all of us. Axel, Naminé. Please clean that off later after your duties."

""Of course."" Axel and Naminé replied with a bow.

"Wait." Riku spoke up. He sniffed the air "Isn't that... Paint?" The scent of paint hit the air, everyone could smell it. Riku walked over to the 'blood writing' He sniffed it closer "It's paint." He turned to everyone "This is paint. Not blood. It's just made to look like it. While we were distracted watching the tv some one had paint hidden somewhere in this room. I mean look at the writing, they knew they didn't have a lot of time to write it on the wall so they quickly wrote it on the wall then hid the paint again. My only guess is that the paint." He paused and opened the cabniet under the writing on the wall. But there was nothing in there.

"Where's the 'paint' Riku?" Vanitas asked with a tone "I really don't care about the paint situation. Our main focus is the 19th person walking around this mansion right now!" Everyone agreed. Riku sat back down in his place. Sora place a hand on his arm and whispered "You did well." He smiled softly, Riku gave a small smile back, holding his lovers hand under the table. Vanitas rolled his eyes "So what now?" He asked.

Xemnas thought a moment "You children go to bed. We'll search the mansion for this 19th person. Also it's best to set the chains on your doors as well. We'll use the phones if there is anything else."

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Ventus, Vanitas, Roxas and Xion; left the dining room. They wished each other goodnight and headed to their rooms setting the chains like they were told to. In Sora's room Riku was staying with the brunette. They were laying on the bed together holding hands "Sora. Do you believe in Kingdom Hearts?" Riku asked, Sora sighed softly "To be honest... I don't know. Because I've heard so many stories not from just father, Ansem and Xemnas. But also from previous servants who left because they say they had contact Kingdom Hearts. I just... Don't know what to think." Riku pressed a soft kiss on Sora's forehead "Whatever happens I'll protect you. Always." Sora blushed on his cheeks and giggled a little nuzzling into the older male "Yeah. I know you will."

In Ventus' room, Ven was typing away on his laptop until suddenly the internet cut off "Damn it.." Ven said, the phone rang and Ventus answered it "Hello?" It was Roxas "Hey Ven is the internet working?" Ven replied "No it seems the storm has cut it off." He sighed "Oh well. Guess I'll just do some work until I feel tired." He added, Roxas replied "Yeah same here. Might as well since we have that-." The phone suddenly went dead. Ventus said "Roxas? Oh for goodness sake. The bloody phones." He tried calling Roxas again but nothing was getting through. He sighed and put the phone down. Ven sat back at his desk and got some of his school documents up, he was about to work on them when came a knock at the door "Hm?" Ven stood up and opened the door, on the other side was Xemnas "Xemnas?" Ventus asked, Xemnas said "There's a meeting being held in the dining room. Sora, Vanitas, Xion and Roxas are being called there too." Ventus walked over to his laptop shutting it down. He unset his chain and left his room.

In the servants room, Axel, Naminé, Terra and Aqua were sitting drinking tea together. Naminé felt uneasy "We're going to die aren't we?" She asked. No one said a word, the room was silent. Saix came walking in "It's our duty as servants to this family that we must for fill. We are servants until the very end Naminé." Naminé nodded "Of course." She replied, taking another sip of her tea. Saix walked over to the desk placing some papers down "We must prepare for tonight's ceremony. Continue for filling your duties." The other's nodded finishing their cups of tea before beginning their night shift.