Hearts in the darkness

The darkness swallows all hearts, no matter how pure or light. The darkness finds away to get to us, weather by feeding on our desires or engulfing us at our weakest moments. Once the darkness has you in its grasp it won't let go easily, if you reach out and grab light's hand, you shall be pulled away from the darkness.

Sora, during his confusion of memories, was falling through the darkness, being engulfed by it . His friend, his power, was out of reach as he tried to navigate through the darkness. He was falling into darkness, falling. Falling...

Then the light grasped his hand. It pulled him out, bringing him back to the light...

"Sora!" called a familiar voice. The voice kept on calling him. Sora followed the voice to the light.

He opened his eyes. In front of Sora's eyes kneeling in front of him, was Kairi!

"Kairi!" gasped Sora, waking up fully.

Kairi sighed with relief.

Sora sat up. "What are you doing here?"

"That's a nice thank you, for saving your life." She said.

Sora shook his head. "Hey guys?" called Riku, " A little help please?"

Sora looked passed Kairi's head. Riku was single handedly fighting off some glider heartless. Sora sprang to his feet. Riku needed his help, Kairi was weapon less most probably , and he had just been sleeping! Whatever was happening to him could wait. Sora summoned his Keyblade and sprang into battle. Riku was fighting with " way to the dawn " Keyblade. With the two of them fighting together, the gliders were vanquished.

"Thanks." panted Riku, Holding his injured arm, it was bleeding. Kairi went to treat Riku's injury. Sora looked around him. They were on a path that he couldn't see either end of.

"Kairi, how are you here?" said Sora.

" She stowed away in the Gummi ship. When the ship vanished, she had no place to hide." Said Riku, cringing as Kairi applied force on the injury.

Sor shook his head, "Why didn't we see that coming?"

"Ansem said you would need my help, I don't like him much but I don't care. I don't care what you say either, I wasn't going to let my friends go off into the darkness while I'm safe." She argued not looking at him.

"And did you think how we would feel if you got hurt while you were with you?" retorted Sora.

"Quit it guys, don't argue. Don't let the darkness get to you." Said Riku getting up with a bandaged arm. " Now Kairi's here and we can't reverse that but what happened to you Sora?"

"Yea, if I hadn't pulled you up, you would have been swallowed by the darkness. It's not like you to just faint on the job." Said Kairi, worried.

Sora calmed down, he didn't want to tell his friends what happened to him.

"I don't know, must have hit my head when the gummi ship vanished." he said not looking them in the eye. He hated lying, but he didn't want his friends to worry about him.

" Impossible" said Riku walking towards Sora, "the Gummi ship totally disappeared , there was nothing to hit your head with."

"It's nothing, seriously." Said Sora, giving them as much of a smile as he could manage.

Kairi grabbed his hand. "Sora, if you lied about it in the first place, it must be something serious. Please tell us."

Sora looked at her and sighed. He couldn't lie to his friends. He then told them about what had been happening to him- the strange names, the memories that weren't his- when he finely finished, Riku and Kairi were silent.

"Sora.." began Kairi.

"Don't worry." He gave them a real smile. "Let's find Aqua and then we'll see what wrong with me ok?"

They nodded, one step at a time.

"Ansem said I would be able to find her." Confessed Kairi.

"And you believe him?" said Riku with narrow eyes.

"How?" asked Sora.

"We are both Princesses of heart, we may never have met, but a link exists between every single Princess." She explained.

Sora nodded, " Give it a try."

Kairi closed her eyes and concentrated. The darkness then began to be broken by lights. Around her where two lights. The one beside her, Riku, was a greyish light. In front of her a strange two coloured light was being emitted from Sora, yellow and green, it was strange. Then from the distance a bright white light could be seen. First it was small, then it grew larger and larger, until a white light path came towards her. The lights besides her shifted and gasped. She opened her eyes, her necklace was giving of such a feint light that no one noticed. The light path was still there.

"I guess it was a good thing you came." Admitted Sora.

Kairi smiled and the trio began to walk on the path.