During her time at Delphy Aero had had to learn to sleep with her eyes wide open. It wasn't a particularly difficult thing to do, all things considered. Adjusting to actually being able to close her eyes was the hard part.

After her soak Aero had gone straight to bed, partially with the intention of going to sleep, but mostly to avoid her sister. It was craven of her, she knew, but it was better to be called coward then have her entire operation blown simply because Aqua didn't believe in second chances for those she deemed wicked. And that was almost all Blaze had ever been in her eyes: wicked. Nothing her sister could do would change that which was so firmly set in stone in the eyes of the blue haired girl.

Aqua could sometimes be as backwards as the world she was raised, not that Aero would ever say that to her face. She believed in good and evil, but no in-between. It was a bad trait for a chaser to have. Actually it was a bad trait for anyone period, but expectably those trusted to guard the worlds.

The job of a chaser was to help normal keybladers without completely interfering. They were forbidden form completely obliterating the forces of darkness on any world unless that villain had crossed over from another world or planed to.

The one thing a chaser could not do was judge. It was not there place to judge a world. They could not deem it a 'dark' or 'light' place. All worlds had equal parts dark and light. It was how those were arranged and mixed that mattered. The same could be said of people.

"Hard day?" A voice asked from the shadows. It was times like this, that insomnia became a blessed curse. With the exception of the resident vampire, everyone else was most likely asleep. It would do them no good to have someone hear Blaze, not that he was making that much noise, actually, but better safe then sorry.

"Like you wouldn't believe." The girl huffed. "What about you?"

"Well I've looked everywhere I can possibly think of for some mention of the court of kingdom hearts. Can't find a damn thing." It was clear that Blaze was more then a little disappointed.

"Where all did you go?" She asked in hopes that she might give a little advice. They needed this information a little too much for them to simply give up.

"Ansem's library, his computer, the library in the mansion in Twilight Town, Disney Castle, and Merlin's entire collection. Hell, I even went to see Roger Bacon and Maleficent. Seeking of which, did you know she's gone missing?" His voice was somber. Blaze may have been the last person to ever side with that old hag, at least now, but that did not mean that he could ignore her occasional usefulness.

"Not good. Not good at all." Aero muttered. "Morose?"

"Most likely."

"You know she's probably dead, right?" Her voice was soft, almost as if she were trying to comfort Blaze on some great loss.

"Most likely. The question is what do we do know?" They sat in silence for a moment thinking until a agonized grown was heard.

"Great. Just great." Blaze muttered.

"There is one last place I could look but I won't find it in any book." He explained. "I'm going to have to ask him man to man. He probably won't tell me shit but…"

"Who?" She was getting a little impatient.

"Yen Sid." The shadow all but spat the name. The ancient magician was the one person Blaze hated most in the world. More then Thanroe or Maleficent, he could barely even hear the old fart's name without getting angry.

Aero's opinion of him wasn't very high either, and she wasn't exactly in his good graces. She thought him a pompous old fart, while he regarded her as someone who saw too much and said too little about it.

"It's not going to help us if we get in a fight with the old geezer." She started, then continued as an epiphany struck. "But if what if I ask someone who he likes."

"Who would be better to send then Yen Sid's favorite ex-apprentice."

He smiled. This was one reason he loved working with Aero. Most often she could find a way to get someone else to do the dirty work. The best part was the 'someone else' never saw it as dirty. Why would they? What is an agonizing task for some could actually be pleasant for someone else.

"I'll take care of it. Hey, by the way, right now we're going to Radiant Garden. We won't be long and then it's time for part two. Be ready, we'll only get one chance." Aero warned him. If this got messed up just because he couldn't be at the right place at the right time she would be more then pissed. Not only would it mean she had spent a decade in hell for nothing, it would mean two, possibly three lives lost.

"You're warning Ansem?" He asked, his voice almost uncharacteristically level.

"It would be cruel not to. I only regret that I can't warn her, but at this point it would do more harm then good. She can't know. Not yet." For the first time in a long time Blaze saw honest to goodness regret in her face. Aero was not a cold person, she just regarded things like regret, vengeance and anger as things that hindered people form accomplishing anything, ergo she doesn't let herself near them.

"Well, good luck." He mumbled before leaving.

"Thanks. I'm going to need it."

Aero didn't sleep at all that night, instead she enjoyed the silence. Most would think that after spending so many years in solitary, she would enjoy a little conversation. Not in this case. In this case she knew that noise was coming eventually, and lots of it.

"You're up early." A voice said behind her. It was Ienzo, Ansem's youngest apprentice. Except he wasn't so young anymore and Aero doubted he was still under the master's tutelage.

"Or late depending on how you look at it." She mused. Ienzo looked at the clock. It was six a.m., hardly late unless..

"Insomnia?"

"Yep. And boredom. Lots and lots of boredom. What are you doing up?" She muttered.

"Cooking, I'm the only one of my brothers' that has any idea what there doing."

"So I've heard. Terra once mentioned something about omelets and pickles, but I'm guessing he didn't mean at the same time, right?" She said drawing her knees up to her chest in the pilot's seat.

"You'd be surprised."

"That I may just be. Want me to wake everyone?" She offered.

"Thank you, that would be nice."

Within fifteen minuets everyone except Emmett was sitting at the table chowing on a plethora of pancakes, waffles, eggs and just about anything you can imagine.

Just as everyone (except Myde) was stuffed to bursting, a beeping noise came from the cockpit. It wasn't and alarm, it was a timer.

"Cool. We got half an hour before landing. We should probably start to get ready." Aqua explained, excusing herself from the table. Many soon fallowed. Aero to make a call, Sora, Kari, and Ienzo's brothers all went to get ready for the day. Only Riku stayed to help clean up.

Truthfully this wasn't so much about being polite, it was more about him taking an opportunity. Something had been bothering him and he wanted answers. Who better to ask then one of the ships smartest people?

"Ienzo can I ask you something? What is everyone hiding about Kairi?" Riku said wile handing a rinsed plate to Ienzo to put in the dishwasher. His voice was so surprisingly conversational that Ienzo almost dropped the plate. Almost. The young man was able to keep his cool, but not before Riku noticed his little slip.

"What do you mean?"

"Aqua's friend at the coliseum mentioned that Kari almost started the keyblade war. Her mom knows about the keyblades. Aqua was surprised that she hadn't heard about the chasers and is actually being nice to her." Riku had stopped the pretences. His eyes were sharply at his former enemy waiting for an answer. Ienzo stared back wordlessly assessing the situation. This wasn't something he was going to be able to play dumb about. Not this time. Sometimes being known as the smart one came back to bite him in the ass.

"I can't tell you. It's not my place."

"She's my friend."

"And Aqua's mine." He snapped. Something told Riku that that wasn't as true as the young man made it out to be. Sure they had been acquaintances, but actually friends? Not so much. It was probably used more as an excuse.

Kairi stood staring at the closed door for several seconds trying to decide wither or not to go in. Something told her to go in; that she would find something precious of hers there. But it was the one room the sisters had asked everyone not to disturb.

The redhead princess knew that going in would be wrong, that it was a final monument to the dead, but her heart told her otherwise. It was almost as if deep down Kairi knew that if the room's owners had still been here they would not have minded.

Looking around quickly like a thief at market, Kairi opened the door, all the while thanking goodness that her mom never let her come to breakfast in her PJ's. The other passengers of the Sanzu where too busy getting ready to land to notice the girl, but because cleanliness was one of the only three things her was strict about (the other two being punctuality and honesty) she had come to the table already dressed.

The boundaries between the boy's sides were as definite as if it had been drawn with tape. The right side was a little cluttered and messy, but not to the point of suggesting it's inhabitant a complete pig, merely a few clothes lying on the bed and some scattered papers about the room and such, much like Sora's room was on the island. The left was so neat and simply decorated that it almost suggested a military precision. However it was not without personal touches. A book here, a picture there. They were little details, but they gave the impression that that was how the owner chose to keep his home.

It was to the left she veered. Looking around, she touched nothing, but nothing called to her. Nothing told her why she had been so compiled to do the one thing she had been asked to not to.

Tentatively she slid open the drawer to the bedside table. In it was a single leather bound notepad, some sticks of charcoal and a few specialty art pencils. Kairi knew she shouldn't but this was it. This was what had called her. She slowly slid the notebook out, almost as if not disturbing anything else would somehow lessen her transgression.

Kairi flipped open the cover only to be assaulted not of words, as she would have expected from a diary, but with an exquisite drawing. It was of a young girl of maybe one or two that she almost recognized, though she couldn't say from where. Perhaps because the only view offered was of the girl from the back, standing on her tip-toes to reach a flower growing high on a stone wall.

Deciding it best not to be caught in the room, she decided it was best to take the sketch book back to her own room. There she could look at it without worrying about having to explain to those she would rather not where she got it.

Holding the book close to her chest, she walked down the hallway focusing maybe just a little too much on not seaming suspicious. She didn't notice the door to the library open and someone step out just as she passed it. The person didn't notice her walking either, for soon enough…

"Ahh…Sorry!" Aero said, bending over to pick up her books as Kairi did the same.

"Shakespeare, Poe, and Frost," Kairi said reading off the titles, "I didn't see you as the poetry type."

Aero gave a little loaded grin.

"There's a lot about me that can surprise you."

Kairi quickly picked up her book and scurried back to her own room. As she sat down on the bed she opened the cover only to find something she was not expecting. The words felt like doom to her.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

Aero had known. Aero had planed this. That's what the lavender haired seer had meant about surprises.

Emmett was pissed. Unlike Delphy, the world known as Radiant Garden was not a cloudy place, at least not today. He was forced to say in that dammed ship with only the twerps word that they would find Neisse. But it was the best that could be done.

Aero was just as anxious to get off the ship as the vampire and for not so different reasons. In a very real way she had long lost 'family' on this world as well, and although their reunion would not only hold pleasure, there was also business to attend to. Grim business indeed.

"Why don't you guys go look for Emmett's niece, while I find Ansem and explain the situation."

Aqua quickly grabbed her sister's arm as she turned to leave.

"Don't you think that's more then a little cruel?" She hissed. Aero knew what she meant. This man had spent the past ten years grieving the loss of his son and suddenly he was to see that not one but two of the boy's closest friends had survived the very incident that had clamed his life. It would probably give him false hope; make him believe that there was a chance…

"This isn't something we can sugar code, nor is it something we can just hide." Aero's voice hade and edge to it that told her sister that she wasn't going to give in on this one, and she was right. This wasn't something they could just sweep under the rug. Something gave Aqua the impression that there was more to this situation then her sister was telling. But with Aero when isn't there?

Like Aero, Sora decided to branch off on his own. His intention had been to find Leon and see if he knew anything about these memories Kairi had been having. He thought that since she was originally from Radiant Garden, and Leon and others had regained their memories of the place, he might know a thing or two. It was a long shot, he'd admit, but it was worth a shot.

The keyblade master decided that it would be best to look in the lab since that was were his friend had spent most of his time before. As he came to the door that lead to Ansem's study he heard voices. Normally he wouldn't have eavesdropped but he could tell this wasn't a conversation he wanted to get in the middle of.

"Look Ansem, I thought it was only fare that you know. I can't promise anything by far but if all goes well…" Aero trailed off in a way seemed to suggest she didn't want to jinx whatever it was they were talking about.

"Does your sister know?" The old man asked, earning a little laugh from his companion.

"Does my sister know?" She repeated in a half amused half wary voice. "No. It would do more harm then good to tell her, even though keeping her in the dark kills me. No, things are too black and white for her. Blaze's situation is much like your friend Riku's. He lives too much in gray for Aqua to see him as being anything but dark."

"I see."

"Speaking of telling…" She began, trailing off just enough for Ansem to get her meaning.

"I…I can't." He whispered.

"Ansem it's not my business what you do, but maybe it would be best if you lay it out on the table instead of waiting for someone else to do your dirty work. You know the way my powers work, the more someone's destiny is entwined with mine the less I see, so I can't tell you how she would react. I would if I could."

"Is her destiny truly that tangled with yours?"

"Hers' is so knotted with Terra's that it makes it impossible for it not to be." Aero replied a little hot.

The scientist was silent for a moment before answering.

"I think I'll wait. At least until we see if this plain of yours works."

"And if it doesn't…" She asked, slowly shaking her head.

"Ten years is enough, don't'ch think?" Her words sounded like a jab of some sort but Sora could not tell what kind.

It was clear the conversation was over, so Sora crept back to the others before he was seen. There was so much new information to ponder that he had completely forgot to talk to Leon. Who were they talking about and what was this plain Aero kept talking about? For the first, Sora was starting to believe there was more to his new friend then meets the eye and he wasn't sure he liked it.

Sometime latter, after Emmett had been reunited with his niece and the others had seen there friends, Aero came running back from the ship.

"We need to get going soon. Mickey just called, he's got some information for us, and I think it would be better if we meet him at the castle to hear it." She announced.

"Why not just listen to what his majesty has to say via the communication system?" Aqua asked, causing her sister to sigh.

"I thought, maybe since they," she motioned towards Sora and company, "have friends there it would be a good opportunity for a visit. Beside that I wan' a see her majesty. It's been so long…" She practically whined the last part. For some odd reason, Queen Minnie was the only royalty that Aero ever refused to as 'majesty' or 'highness.' Perhaps it was because the mouse was the only royalty that Aero didn't see as a comrade in arms.

"But if you guys don't want to go… I guess I could just call." Reverse physiology wasn't really needed at this point. Sora had been wanting to show Kairi and Riku all the worlds he had been to during his adventures. This had been his dream since he first stepped foot in Traverse Town.

"Let's go!" He said enthusiastically as only he could be.

Aero smiled and tried to calm the butterflies in her stomach. After part three, they were going to realize something was up, then she was going to have to fight for part four of her plain and part five would be almost impossible. But she would do it she had to.

I'm so sorry that it took so long to get this up. The day we got internet my computer started acting up and I was sure it was going to crash. I couldn't keep any program open longer then ten seconds. So for almost three weeks I thought I had lost all the chapters I had written. (all together it was like twenty pages worth of content).

With my computer completely crapped out I was able to convince my mother to get me a laptop with her tax returns. Just before I unhooked my old computer I decided to try one more time to at least get my stuff off it. It worked. I was able to get my stories and home videos off of it.

Thank goodness.