(-CHAPTER-X-)

Daikirai na Boku Juukyuu Sai

-nOte-

First, let me apologize insanely for the lateness of this chapter. I got so frustrated with my laptop that I hit it so hard that it couldn't read the RAM disc, and it's been in the repair shop for over TWO FREAKING WEEKS. So I finally managed to get on this computer and type a chapter. I apologize also, in advance, for anything… inaccurate.

-/nOte-

"You all ready?" Broden asked, mindfully looking back at everyone else. He snickered a little bit as he realized; they were all old farts.

"I think I should be asking that." Sora's eyes narrowed at Broden. Either himself or Charity, depending on the trip, had always been the unspoken leaders of the group. Something set something off in Sora's gut about Broden acting like a leader.

"Let's just get out of here." Charity shook her head, and muttered something about boys under her breath. This only caused Nessa to laugh; how in the world had Charity gotten married?

They all jumped out of the Gummi ship and onto the familiar bleak terrain of The World's Creation. Some of them had never even gone into that world; but those who had immediately started shoving Axel and Roxas up the glass-like steps.

"What's this about?!" asked Axel heatedly.

"Go back into your memories and see if you can find where the new Door to Darkness. Like I said, it makes the memories real, so it's in its new location." Charity smiled, and gave Axel one last shove up the glassy stairs.

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Leander, June, Adum, and Amali all breathed in the fresh air of Destiny Islands. This was a place that Amali had only ever seen in dreams, and that June and Adum had a faint recollection of being taken to when they were still very small. Leander, however, had to go once when he was still really alive to complete a mission. Nothing had changed except for the location of Sora, Riku and Kairi's boats, which were probably sunken and destroyed.

"Trevor really thinks that our Almost Somebodies would be here?" asked Adum, looking over at Leander.

Leander shrugged. "Why not? Your parents were Sora and Kairi's Nobodies, and they grew up on these islands."

June smiled. "Lucky… it's so pretty here. Azure Daybreak is nothing in comparison to this." She twirled on the tips of her toes and let the salty smell of the ocean fill up in her head.

"'Kay, enough fantasizing. Let's find them."

"Where did they hang out the most?" Amali asked.

Leander scratched the back of his head. "I dunno. I guess just on this island. See, that one across from us is the island where they lived and went to school." He pointed around the ocean.

"Adum and I will look around this part then," Amali said, and then she pointed to some kind of pathetically-made door, "You guys look on the other end."

Adum smirked at Amali, and June and Leander left without saying a word.

Amali immediately began to look around the shoreline.

"I doubt you're going to find a person down there." Adum laughed.

Amali shook her head. "I'm just looking for clues. Or something interesting."

"Or something…" Adum's smirk grew.

"Whoa. What's that?" asked Amali. A wave had come in, and something large and wooden had appeared on the shore. It almost looked like a raft, with a flat bottom and a large sail. It was probably years old, as mold had grown on the bottom and was peeking out from the sides, and indescribable bugs were crawling on the edges.

"It's a raft." Adum stated, and kicked it a little bit so the bugs all swam or crawled away. This raft had to be ancient. "Hey." He said, and looked over at the sail. Hanging at the top was a necklace with many beautiful colored shells that looked both antique and frail, but new and strong.

"It's not even dirty." Amali said in amazement.

Adum smiled and took it off of the raft. "Thalassa shells," he stated, "sailors used to use these to ensure a safe voyage."

"Must have worked," Amali commented, and patted the raft as if it was a huge, warm, bulky, breathing animal, "stayed in tact for so long."

Before Amali could blink, she had the shells around her neck. They smelled of wet sand and fragrant fruit.

"It'd look better on you." Adum smiled.

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Q was getting more than annoying. He was counting the amount of steps that they had been taking. What was worse is that he was counting out loud.

"One-thousand six-hundred forty two, one-thousand six-hundred forty three…"

"Okay, we get it!" his brother shouted angrily, grabbing him by the collar. Even for being the younger one, he was at least a half of a foot taller than his brother. "We are in an endless desert. Endless. You can stop counting now."

"I don't know." Trevor stated. As they finally reached an end to the desert, they saw a large castle poking up from the horizon like an icy dessert. Author's Note: Yes, I just compared the castle of Agrabah to an ice cream cone.

"Agrabah." Jaiden commented.

"I think so." Trevor agreed.

"One-thousand six-hundred sixty seven…"

"Shut up!"

"We need June here." Jaiden shook his head. "She knows how to calm things down."

"You only say that because you like her." Q countered, crossing his arms.

"Whoa, whoa. Can't a guy say something nice about a girl and not like her?"

"I can see it in your eyes."

"Teenage relationships aside, Jerry Springfield cases, let's get in there and find the memory, okay?"

"Got it." Jaiden shook his head as if shaking something horrible out of his hair.

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"Nothing over here. But it's kinda nice how there aren't any Heartless in this world." Leander commented. He looked over at June, "Anything there?" She was looking by some many large rocks.

"Nothing." She wasn't too content with Leander. How could a corpse be at rest for thirty years and come back undamaged? It made no sense and it made her uneasy. "Wait…" she almost screamed from the sudden surprise of a Shadow Heartless lurking around beneath a palm tree.

Whipping out her keyblade, she got rid of it in a few easy slashes, but backed away as if it was an ant only there to warn against a swarm. "Leander," she shouted, "Heartless."

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"It's there." Roxas breathed, standing in the glory of a large, black door. Seeping out seemed to be shadow after shadow. So willingly they had gone through it as Nobodies, but what damage would befall them trying to walk through it as simple, incompetent humans? Roxas found himself wishing Naminé was there for an idea, or at the very least, support.

"I don't recognize where it is, though." Axel said, looking around and scratching his fiery red head.

"I think I do." The door was in the middle of a desert.

The both of them ran back down the stairs, only to find a few of the others asleep on the ground.

"What happened?" asked Roxas.

"You two were gone for hours." Nessa shook her head.

"We were gone for a few minutes!" Axel said heatedly.

"Whatever. Where's the door?" asked Broden, as if he really cared.

"Agrabah."

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"Thank you," came a voice from behind them. Q, Anty, Jaiden, and Trevor flipped around to come across a man with big, yellow eyes, a gentle yet harsh face, and a wicked smile ruining its features, "for finding for us the location of the Door to Darkness. We need only now to bring the Princesses of Heart over here. We have only one left to capture, not including your dear Amali… who I'm sure will come straight over once she realizes you're in danger."

"What danger?" asked Jaiden both sarcastically and angrily, pointing his keyblade outwards at the strange man.

The man smirked wickedly, and tossed Jaiden something invisible. To Jaiden, however, it was a shimmering memory. "I picked it up deep within the city." He mentioned pompously, "Does it interest you?"

Jaiden glared up at the man, but still took the memory and let it sink into his mind.

Something didn't fit.

Since when was Amali his enemy? He saw visions of fights and tantrums and evil things that Amali had done to him. "Oh, did you not know?" asked the man. "Your little friend has been lying to you all along. You two were never friends. She only hoped that by looking for your precious memories she could find the way to me."

"You can't be believing this crap!" shouted Anty at Jaiden's slightly convinced face.

"I don't know. I remember…"

"How can you be sure that memory isn't a fake?" asked Trevor calmly.

"How can he manipulate memories?" asked Jaiden.

"I know someone that can." Q stated. They passed it off as nothing.

Before they could blink, Jaiden had been seized by the man.

"Do you want to know how I can manipulate the memories?"

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"Agrabah?" Sora remarked, climbing into the Gummi ship, already feeling a load off of his shoulder from being in that world heavy with memories. "How… random." He commented, and looked over for others to nod. It seemed like he relied on his social health since Merlin stole his mental health.

"Yeah." Charity said.

Riku sighed and shook his head. "I hope we can get Kairi back." Naminé seemed to silently agree, but she looked over at Sora as the Gummi Ship took off.

"I don't think we'll have much to worry about even if they have 'all of the Princesses of Heart'."

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"That's just creepy. You sure you weren't hallucinating?" Leander asked June, who was still staring nervously at the spot in which the Heartless had been destroyed.

"I'm positive. I don't hallucinate."

"Then keep a lookout. If there's a Heartless, it probably was just left over from when this world was once infested, but it might mean that you and your brother's Almost Somebodies are around."

June shook her head. "Loveless, though? I don't understand. I love my parents."

Leander shrugged. "Maybe it's because they were Nobodies once, too."

"But I love…" She looked down at her feet. Not the right time. "Never mind. Let's go see if Amali and Adum found anything."

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The Master looked over at the three other boys, as if daring them to make another move. Before any of them had a chance to speak, or breathe, or blink, a long sword was stabbed through Jaiden's stomach.

The rest of them stood in scared silence. The only noise existing were the final gags and gasps of Jaiden, the blood pouring from his stomach and mouth as he fell to the ground. His blood stained the sand red, and the Master ground his shoe into the boy as if to grind a cigarette butt into the dirt.

"What was that for?!" screamed Trevor, pointing the keyblade to his neck.

The Master only laughed. He said nothing more than, "It will bring her here." He then disappeared in a flurry of feathers, leaving only one behind, which landed peacefully on Jaiden's dead mouth.

Author's Note: I leave you for two weeks and then I kill off Jaiden. You must love me now. xD So hopefully I will get my laptop back soon. If I don't, I promise I'll keep this more regular.