"Mirror, Mirror, on the wall… you know what, I don't have the time or the patients for all this poetry shit. Just show me the members of the Court of Kingdom Hearts." Morose was not in a good mood.

One of the entire reasons for even bothering to attack her mother (besides revenge) was for her Mother's Mirror. The same Mirror that had lead to her mother's banishment from their home world. No it was that witch's undue vanity that caused it. She was so obsessed with being 'the fairest of them all' when she wasn't much to begin with. Maybe if she had focused more on being the strongest of them all her fate would have been different.

But that was nether here nor there. What was relevant was that she had the mirror.

"I'm sorry my mistress, I will only be able to show you one member at a time." The regret in it's voice was obviously fake but she didn't care. The damn thing didn't have to like her it just had to do as it was told.

"Very well, then ignore the Princesses of Heart. We already know they are included, in fact my stepsister is already in our 'care' and her friends will soon join her."

"The redheaded one will be difficult to capture, my mistress."

"I know this. That is why she will be the last to be captured. Now I need to know who else will be joining this little party."

The mirror sighed. He really didn't want to help her but he didn't have a choice. The face on the mirror dissipated and in it's place was the face of a girl, so beautiful it would put Snow White to shame.

"Very good." Morose said, " You know what to do."

At her command thousands of heartless and nobodies charged through the darkness to her world. In the confusion no one noticed Morose's shadow join them.


Forks, Washington.

"Neisse, sweetie, it's time to go." A voice called from the doorway. The girl in questioned sighed.

Do we have to?

"Yes. It's time." Her father answered. Edward did not want to leave either. Forks would always have a special place in his long dead heart. It was the place where he meet the only person who's thoughts he could not hear. It was the place where he had married Bella and the place they had their only child.

It w as also one of the many places the Cullen's would not be able to visit for several decades, for fear of being recognized. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, the Cullens weren't human. In fact, most of their kind would equate that to being called cattle.

Most vampires had no reservations about feasting on the blood of humans. The Cullens, on the other hand, took great strides not to be monsters. Because of this regard for human life they retained most of their human emotions. They could love, have friends and other attachments.

"Hey Ness, maybe if you ask nicely your dad will let you ride your bike with me." Said a husky voice from behind Edward.

Edward growled at Jacob's words. He hated that mechanical metal death trap but Neisse loved it and because of that Edward had allowed her to have it.

Come on, leach. Do you really think I'd suggest it if it wasn't safe. Let her have a little fun once in a while.

Please Daddy. Neisse made the voice in her head sound as pitiful as possible and put on her best puppy dog face.

"Aright. But if she crashes it will be on your head dog."

The teenager's moment of triumph was interrupted when the fierce growl of a wolf . It was Leah. Something was wrong. Within seconds all they were down the stairs and in the yard.

Swarms of black creatures were coming out of the forest. Emmet and Jasper were fighting along Leah but to little avail. For some reason they were resistant to even the strongest vampires.

Their was a horrible shredding sound as Jake phased into his wolf form. He quickly jumped over Emmet and Jasper to attack the creatures. Within seconds the only one not joining in on the fight was Neisse. She had never been taught how. Their had been no need.

She watched as one of the larger creatures lunged at Jake's heart.

"No!" Suddenly something appeared in her hand that made everyone, including the creatures, turn to face her.

Had the situation not been so dire, Jake would have doubled over in laughter at the sight. There was Neisse, his love, his world, wielding what looked to be a giant key as if it were a weapon.

What no one knew was that this was a keyblade. A mystical weapon that could put almost anything to shame. Each was unique as the wielder. The bronze headed girl's was covered in what appeared to be photographs.

The creatures lunged at her as if drawn to the keyblade. One particular creature was faster, knocking the girl through a dark portal into the depth of the unknown.


In space Kairi slept. It was not exactly what she would call a peaceful slumber. The princess was having one of the strangest dreams she could remember. Though it was thoroughly haunting, it was not a nightmare. It was a memory. A memory of a time she had no other recollection of.

A man was running ahead of her as he held her hand. The path blurred. It was hard to tell if she was outside or in. Their were walls and floors as if inside a building but the walls were covered in moss and vines grew through the windows.

She was scared, but not of him. He could be trusted. She was more sure of that then anything. He would keep the bad man far away.

"I'm scared." She told him. It was clear by the slight lisp that she couldn't be more then five or six.

He stopped and picked her up so that her face was level with his. For some odd reason Kairi could not see the man's face.

"Kairi look at me. I'll never let anything hurt you. You mean more to me then anything. He's not coming back. Not if he knows what's good for him." The deep rich voice got dark during the last sentence, almost as if it were a threat.

"Can we go home now?" The little girl asked burring her head in his neck. Even with out being able to see his face she knew that his expression softened.

"Let's get you home to mom." He whispered as the little girl fell asleep to the slight sent of musk and charcoal.

Kairi bolted upright out of her bed. Somehow she knew that the dream was actually a memory of her life before Destiny Island. She racked her brain but could not remember the man's face. That confused her. If she meant as much to him as he said, then obviously she should be able to remember him.

She threw the covers off her legs and walked to the cockpit. Aqua was the only one there.

"Good. You're up. We're almost there. Could you wake your friends please?"

It seemed to Kairi that Aqua had taken extra care to be kind to her. For some reason while she had no qualms bossing the boys around and taking her grief out on them she reserved herself against treating Kairi the same way.

Kairi nodded and went to the boys room. Riku was spiraled out on the bottom bunk snoring lightly while Sora was half hanging off the top. The princess grinned. This would be too easy.

She garbed Sora's hand and pulled with all her might. Within seconds he came toppling to the floor with a "Thump" and a "Hey!"

The commotion was enough to wake Riku who started busting out laughing at the couple's antics.

"Kairi, what was that for?" Sora wined. He never was a good sport a wakening up.

"Aqua says we're almost there."

"Why are we going to the Coliseum first?" Riku asked.

"It was the only route open."

"Oh."

"Sora, Riku, I need your advice on something." Kairi said, and then proceeded to tell them of her dream. They listened carefully and it was obvious that they were very interested. Kairi's past had always been something of a mystery to them.

"You think it could be your dad?" Sora suggested.

Kairi shook her head. "He seemed too young."

"Do you think the 'bad man' was Thanroe?" Riku asked. Both his friends turned to stare at him as if he had grown an extra head.

"Think about it. Aqua said that Thanroe wanted to use the Princesses of Heart for his own reasons, and Kairi is a princess."

Sora and Kairi looked at each other for a moment. Riku was right it was a vary good possibility. Another thought that all three had but let go unsaid was: would Thanroe come back to finish what he started.

"Landing time!" Aqua's voice sounded over the intercom.


Over the past months the Coliseum had changed a lot. It no longer resembled a pile of rubble but instead was almost to it's former glory.

Aqua chose to stay outside while Sora introduced his friends. She was not ready to be in the company of others. She was not ready to pretend to be pleasant.

This was not the first time she had been here. In fact she had participated in several tournaments along with Terra and Ven. To her it was only yesterday. To everyone else it was a decade ago.

She was so lost in her own little world she did not realize that someone had come up behind her.

"Thinking on the good ol' days?" A familiar voice asked.

At first glance the boy did not appear to be more then fifteen. He was a hansom young man with brown hair, green eyes, and the face of an angel…or a god.

"Eros. You remember? But Ansem said…"

He smiled.

"I know of no one else that remembers. Whatever caused it took my keyblade from me. I can no longer call it forth, nor can the rest of them, but I still remember. It is not so easy to erase the memory of a god." He explained.

Aqua sighed at his words and then managed to roll her eyes at him.

"What?"

"You've been reading too many of your mother's turn of the century romance novels. You're starting to talk like your in one of them again." She said with a little laugh.

Eros wouldn't say it but that was the point of him talking funny was to get her to laugh. She severally needed to.

"But seriously. I came to talk to you for a reason. Hades' underdrome has been opened and their's a tournament going on. You need to enter. The first prize is a chaser's ring. I don't know how he got it just that he did."

"Alright. Once they've had their reunion I'll tell them."

"So what do you think of them?" The young god asked.

"The kids? They're nice enough. A little too naive maybe."

"I wonder if the girl knows that she's almost the entire reason behind the keyblade war?" He mused aloud.

Aqua shook her head.

"If it wasn't her it would have been someone else. He was too much of a classic knight to turn away from an injustice."

Little did they know, Riku was listening to their entire conversation from behind one of several giant stone pillars.


"So where's the girl?" Aero asked.

"I took her to Radiant Garden. She should be safe there. What I want to know what is the 'Court of Kingdom Hearts?" The shadow replied, perfectly mocking Morose's sugar-and-poisoned-honey voice.

All was silent for moment before Aero replied.

"I don't know."

Blaze's jaw dropped. How could their be anything Aero not know? Didn't that kind of defeat the purpose of her being the oracle?

"Part two of our plain is close at hand. How ready are we for part three?" She asked, making it clear that she wanted to change the subject.

"The twins are set. It could happen now if we wanted. All you have to do is lead them to the right place. But I was thinking if you lead them to some place like Sunset Horizons, a place equally dark and light, wouldn't it take less energy? Then we could move on to part four even quicker."

"I'll do it." The answer was a little too quick. Blaze smiled. She was so predictable.


The underdrome tournament was easy to say the least. Ten battles of entry level heartless against three keyblade masters. They sliced through the enemy with an almost unnatural ease. When all enemies were dispatched, Hades appeared.

"Okay so you little twerps got past my heartless. I'm surprised. But the prize isn't yours yet."

"Hades, this was a ten round tournament. We beat them all so we won. Now give us the ring!" Aqua yelled. Most people in the stands were impressed. Not many people had the nerve to stand up to the lord of the dead like that.

"Shese. Fine you can have it. If you survive!"

With a snap of his blue fingers, a strange creature appeared. It was nether nobody nor heartless but it was within that family.

The creature roared and in that moment it looked vaguely kin to an irritable grizzly. It's amber eyes showed intelligence, showed conciseness, showed fear. It did not want this but it could not stop itself. So the task fell upon the keybladers, and the only way to do that was to put it out of it's misery.

All three attacked at once but it had little effect on the creature but to make it angry. In turn it decided to make it's attackers angry. In a flash it lunged into the stands straight for a certain redheaded girl.

As she saw the creature come towards her with all the ferocity of a mother bear, Kairi knew their was little she could do. She had no keyblade. The one Riku had loaned her so long ago was simply that, a loner. The girl closed her eyes, ready for death, when instead she was assaulted not by the creature but by a memory.

"How did you get so strong?" She asked in the same lispy voice as before.

"I eat all my veggies and get plenty of rest." The same rich voice from before said teasingly.

"Besides that."

"Well you see this ring?" He asked holding out his hand. "If I twist it something special happens."

Their was obviously more to the memory then that for it simply cut off, but that didn't matter. It had given her the information she needed.

Almost without realizing what she was doing, Kairi grabbed the ring her mother had given her and twisted. Top half spun around and continued to spin long after it should have stopped. With a slight hum, it expanded and continued to expand until Kairi was covered head to toe in metal. It was armor. An entire suit complete with a keyblade. It was the same flowery keyblade Riku had given her but it was different somehow. It was real. It was hers.

Determined not to be the victim, Kairi jumped straight in the air and landed on the creature's back. Driving the keyblade between the beast's shoulder blades, she did what no one else could.

Darkness surrounded the still form of the creature and in it's place was a dark haired young man.

"Kairi how did you…?" Sora asked. Everyone stared at her in awe.

"Where did you get the ring?" Aqua asked. Her eyes didn't even move. She was staring at the young man waiting to see if he could be trusted or not. She could not tell if he was unconscious or if he was simply out of it.

"My mom gave it to me." To say that the girl was a little confused was an understatement. How did Aqua know about the ring?

"It's a Chaser's ring. How do you think we got so strong? They weren't used often, but when they were we could hardly be beaten. Not all the Chasers had them, actually their's only suppose to be about three dozen or so in existence."

"It's unexpected that you should have one, but not unpredictable." A new voice said from behind them. Someone new was standing beside Eros. He had blond hair and hazel eyes. From the looks of him, to say that he must be a god as well would not be too far off.

"What do you mean?" Kairi asked, much more then simply curious. But the boy just smiled and ignored her.

"Apollo. How many times do I have to tell you? If you're just going to leave them hanging like that why tell them anything in the first place?" The god of prophecy left that question ignored as well and walked over to Aqua and set something in her hand.

"I went ahead and got this for you from Hot Head. I knew you wouldn't mind."

The small silver ring sat perfectly in the crook of her palm for a second before it begin to glow and hover. After hovering for maybe ten seconds the ring shot out to Aqua's right and into Riku's hands. Aqua's eyes bulged. In all her five years of being a Chaser she had never seen a ring do anything like that.

"Guess it's yours now." Apollo said nonchalantly before turning to walk away. About ten paces away he stopped and turned back slightly.

"You know pretty soon the Highwind won't be big enough for you anymore. Your party will get bigger. Much bigger. It wouldn't be a bad idea for you to stop by Delphy to pick up the Sanzu, it may just come in handy."

"What he hell would the Sanzu be doing at Delphy?" The shock and anger was more then evident in her voice. The Sanzu was Aero's pride and joy. Her flagship. The kind of vassal that would put Cid's wildest imaginings to shame. The only way it would be at Delphy is if Aero herself flew it there. And that would never happen. Ever.

The second the sisters had left that world seven-no seventeen- years ago they promised that they would never set foot on it again come hell or high water.

The god of prophesy just shrugged. "Whatever. It's your choice."

The dark haired boy moaned and came too.

"Rose? Jazz? Ness? Edward? Anyone?" He asked still groggy.

"You okay? You were unconscious for while." Sora asked bending level to his face. The words sent a just of surprise down the dark haired boy's spine. Him unconscious? Impossible. It had been decades since he had even slept.

"I'm cool. I'm Emmet by the way."

Once the introductions were complete, Emmet pretended to look around, even though he knew he would not find what he was looking for.

"You wouldn't happen to know where my family is would you?"

"You're the only one we've seen."

"The oracle might know." Apollo suggested from over Sora's shoulder. "It does know almost everything, and since you're already going…"

"I never said we were going!!!" Aqua shouted viperously, almost ready to hit the immortal.

"I'm sure you have questions of your own. Why not ask?" He said slyly. It was clear he knew something she didn't but at this point she didn't care.

"I would much rather discover them on my own." She hissed.

"Whatever. Like I said it's your choice."

Eros stood watching the entire exchange. Aqua was being more then slightly unreasonable but not with out merit. He waited until his uncle was completely gone before turning to his friend.

"I'm sorry about that. You know how people like him are. Those that can see the future. They tell you just enough to get you interested…or angry. Aero was the same." He hadn't meant to say the last part aloud but he did.

After a moment's award silence he was resolved to give her the advice he had wanted to since Apollo started talking.

"You hate that place, that's understandable but if Apollo spent that much energy trying to get you to go, you probably should."

Eros turned and within the space of time it took to blink was gone. Everyone was silent for a moment until they felt it was the right time to seek.

"What was that about?" Riku asked, slightly irritated. He was getting tired of all the secrets and all the meaningless hints but he knew what it was like having something you would rather not confess so he didn't press the issue.

Aqua shook her head sadly back and forth.

"I'll tell you on the way."


Damn. I never thought I would get this one done.

"Court of Kingdom Hearts" what's that? Only the beginnings of the major plot. Hee hee. Finally. But I have to assemble the entire cast before we can move onto act two.

I know that a lot of people are really ticked at me for making Emmet a heartless thing (actually their called rebirths but that's a secret okay) but I had to. Emmet is one of my favorite Cullens along with Alice, Jasper, Edward, Bella, Neisse, Carlisle, Esme, Rose and don't even get me started on the wolves.

Seriously though, this one was much longer then my other ones. I spent all weekend on it (and number seven) and wanted to finish it before school on Monday. Didn't happen. Actually it's almost eleven and I'm just now getting it finished.

P.S. for those of you who don't know Eros is the Greek version of cupid, but he don't ware a diaper. In fact one legend mentioned that he fell in love and got married (different versions of the legend have different endings) so that puts him at at least fifteen or so. Hey it was ancient Greece.