A/N: Everything you need to know is in chapter 1.

Ch. 10: Voices

Sora was not happy to be returning to Hogwarts. He did not want to be stuck with that woman and he didn't want to be left in the dark about what was happening. And he really didn't want to sit in a room for a required career consultation.

It wasn't so bad at first since McGonagall knew as well as he did that this whole thing as just for show, but then Umbridge walked into the room and Sora really wanted nothing more than to walk out of the room. Or hit her with the keyblade, he doubted that McGonagall would mind. Considering the hell Umbridge was putting her through, she might even help him.

"Are you sure you don't want a cough drop?" McGonagall asked as Umbridge, once again, gave a fake cough to get her attention.

Sora would have found it funny if he had not been forced to stay there. As though someone was granting him a wish, McGonagall dismissed him and he ran for it only to groan upon realizing that he had Umbridge next. He walked to class and sat next to Donald who gave him a worried look. Sora shook his head and knew that if Donald was giving him that look, he must have looked pissed.

He spent most of class glaring at the text in front of him feeling useless and like he wasn't making any difference at all. It was frustrating.

Class ended in chaos as screams and yells echoed through the school seconds after the bell rang. Sora saw Harry shoot down the hall in the opposite direction. He frowned ever so slightly but got caught in the chaos that was surrounding him. By the time he was able to pull himself free of the flow, he found himself standing in the entrance hall with the rest of the school. He saw Harry appear toward the back of the group looking like he had narrowly escaped being caught doing something.

In the center of the crowd were Fred and George, looking rather trapped as the poltergeist bobbed above their heads.

"So!" Umbridge cried making Sora jump since he had not seen the woman, "You think it's amusing to turn a school corridor into a swamp?"

Swamp? Sora mentally echoed and that little voice in his head started cracking up, which Sora found odd since he, himself, was too worried to find the whole thing funny.

"I've got the form and I've got the whips waiting…" Filch said causing Sora to pale.

Whips? They were going to punish them with whips? The voice in his head instantly stopped laughing and Sora got the distinct feeling it was sitting up straighter, more alert.

Sora made a mental note to consult the King on his sanity the next time he saw him.

"Accio Brooms!" the twins yelled together rather suddenly and Sora saw Harry move out of the way just in time as George and Fred's brooms came flying toward them, the chain that had been holding them still attached.

The two got upon their brooms and took off into the sky yelling one last thing to the poltergeist, "Give her hell Peeves!"

Peeves saluted them both as they flew off, cheers echoing throughout the halls as every student cheered them on.

The aftermath of the Weasley twins leaving was hysterical. Not only was there still a swamp on the fifth floor that no one seemed to know how to get rid of, but everyone was rising up and pulling pranks left and right. Even the teachers were turning a blind eye toward the pranks that were being pulled and Hermione swore up and down that she heard McGonagall helping Peeves cause mayhem. Sora felt his spirits lifting again and they would have stayed lifted if it weren't for the fact that he walked into his room to find a Heartless tearing up his bed.

"Hey!" Sora shouted before banishing the Heartless.

He looked around the room to find everyone's stuff scattered all over the place. Apparently his bed had been one of the last that the Heartless had decided to go through. But what was it looking for? And, more importantly, how did it get inside?

Donald came up the stairs a few minutes later and gaped at the destruction, "Sora, what happened?"

"A Heartless was in here tearing everything up," Sora responded, letting the keyblade disappear from his hand.

"A Heartless? In the castle?" Donald said in obvious shock.

"Looks like the King was right, without Dumbledore here we do have something to worry about."

Sora quickly told the other boys in his dorm that he didn't know what happened and that it was like that when he came in, which was only half true. They spent a whole afternoon going through everything on the floor and returning the belongings to the rightful person. Sora was dismayed to see that the pocket on his shorts had been ripped at and that Kairi's lucky charm was no longer in there.

He searched the room again once everyone else (except Donald and Harry) had left but couldn't find it anywhere.

"What are you looking for?" Harry asked as he finished putting his things back in his trunk.

"A gift Kairi gave me. She told me not to lose it, it was her lucky charm that she made out of the shells from back home," Sora said in a rather depressed tone.

"You mean the one that looks like a star?" Donald asked from where he was sitting on his bed.

Sora nodded, "It was in the pocket of my shorts, but the pocket's torn and now it's gone. I think the Heartless-"

"Heartless?" Harry cut in, "That's what did this?"

Sora nodded, "Yeah, it was in here when I came in."

"What do you think it was looking for?" Harry asked worriedly.

"I donno," Sora answered, "but I wish I did."

Gryffindor won the Qudditch Cup which lead to much celebrating. Sora didn't really care but seeing as both Ron and Ginny were on the team, he gave his congratulations to them.

Sora did not stick around though, he went to meet Donald and Goofy in the library; one of the only places they could still talk. Donald and Sora explained to Goofy about the Heartless appearing in their room and how it seemed to be looking for something.

"What could it have been looking for?" Goofy asked.

Sora closed his eyes and crossed his arms, leaning back into his chair, "Well, it had to have taken the shell charm since it's gone…"

"Maybe it was looking for you Sora," Goofy offered.

"Just one? Nah…" Sora said with a slight shake if his head.

"Maybe they were looking for something about you for Voldermort," Donald said quietly.

Sora did not like the sound of that, but it was the most plausible thing they had thought of so far. Sora let out a tired groan and put his head in his hands. He wanted nothing more than to go back to Destiny Islands and enjoy the beach.

I quite agree, the voice in his head said with a grin.

Sora slowly looked up at Donald and Goofy, almost afraid to ask the question that had been bothering him since Fred and George had made their escape, "Hey… guys?"

"What's wrong Sora?" Goofy asked, noting the hesitant tone in Sora's voice.

"Is… I…" he seemed to be unable to find a way to ask what he wanted to ask so he sighed and tried again, "I've been hearing voices."

"Voices?" Donald echoed, leaning over the table.

"Yeah, ever since Trelawney was fired there's been this little voice in the back of my head. At first I thought it was just like my inner voice, but it seems to have its own personality. It can hear my thoughts and it responds to them. A minute ago it grinned at me," Sora said, sounding slightly distressed.

Donald and Goofy looked at each other. Neither of them had any words of comfort for their friend.