A/N: I own nothing of Kingdom Hearts by Square Enix and Disney. All I own is my OC and plot. With all that taken care of, enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 10 - Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust

Entry 44

After a small nap, I woke to see Ash writing in you. For some reason, I was enraged when I saw this and jumped up immediately, jerking you out of her hands and shouting, "Don't steal my stuff!" without thinking. In the haze, I had forgotten that she had asked for you before I was dozing off earlier. When I recalled that crucial information, I apologized and gave you back to her, but she didn't take you back at all.

We were silent after that. I felt bad about my reaction but didn't have a clue about what I could do to make it up to her.

Entry 45

THE SHIP WAS TAKEN CONTROL OF BY OUR FELLOW KIND!

As Ash and me were just chilling in the storage room when we felt a spike of dark energy coming from aboard the ship. We didn't understand what was going on until rushing to the main hall, where three Pirate Heartless had just burst into the doors armed with swords. They marched their way to the control room, where Sora and his gang were. One pirate named Pearl, the leader barked an order to get Donald and Goofy, which her crewmates, Treasure, and GP gladly did.

Having no room to run and trapped in a small space, Sora, Donald, and Goofy stood trying to fight without their weapons. Little to no luck since Donald and Goofy were hit from behind knocked out cold by the two crewmates.

With only Sora left shocked and hopeless trying to fight Pearl, hand versus sword only to get cut on his arm. As he had winced in pain, Pearl took the moment to strike grabbing Sora's other hand then pinning him to the ground in seconds. "Get the duck and dog!" Pearl had demanded. GP, Treasure, and EVEN Ash tried to help, which got us caught!

"Who in Blackbeard's name is you two!" She yelled, before knocking Sora out cold with her bare hands.

Ash confessed who we were, but left out the whole truth of why we were on the ship, to begin with. She more so explained that we had been caught by Sora and them to sell for money. I was confused by the story she told having no clue what was going on. When she said, "Right Nico?" all I could do was nod my head.

After that Pearl felt sorry for us enough to let us follow them to their leader back on their captain's ship. She gave us their names and just mumbled things about trash all the way to the ship.

When I asked Ash what she was doing, all she replied was "Hunters." pointing to our kind, then "play along." I didn't understand what she meant but did as I was told.

Entry 46

Reaching the deck of their ship, GP and Treasure carried Sora's friends away as Pearl called Ash and me to stay with her. Another pirate came our way carrying a bucket of water, slowly creeping toward us. That was when a high level of darkness, a familiar darkness came from no one other than - Riku.

When I looked at him from below, I thought he was looking at Ash and me, which almost made me bolt until he shouted, "Wake him up!" The pirate with the bucket did as command and splashed Sora with water waking him up. As Sora woke he coughed and tried to see what was going on before laying his eyes on my kind, Ash, and me. He shouted to his friends for aid, before seeing his ex-friend. Riku asked who Sora really wanted to look for and then revealed her!

Kairi.

From down below I could see her, but I could tell she was important to Sora by the way he broke from Pearl's grasp and rushed for her. However, the man in red from the villain meeting, with a hook for a left hand stopped him. Everything seemed fine until Riku announced that he could control the darkness.

Had he gone insane! Riku had forsaken himself into the darkness to have power that would eat his heart away! Riku the Jerk had turned into Riku the Idiot now! I had even muttered Idiot to myself, which Ash didn't understand why I did it, but I promised to explain later.

Riku the show off gave Sora an example of his new power by making a shadow version of Sora from the ground. Ash was shocked to see someone call upon our fellows, but I was more focused on Sora to worry about Riku's new power. After finishing talking to Sora, Riku snapped his fingers making a trapped door open underneath Sora who screamed as he fell.

Poor Sora….

Entry 47

As Riku left the deck barking orders at the man in red (Captain Hook) and his shorter, chubby swashbuckler (Smee), he carried in his arms a short red-haired girl who without a doubt was Kairi. Ash spotted this before I did seeing that Kairi's eyes were open, but she by the had no heart.

We saw that as Riku walked into another room. We saw clear well that the girl he called a friend had lost her heart already. Yet she wasn't a Heartless…. It was stranger than strange. Almost abnormal. Like Kairi was hollow inside.

Entry 48

While we followed Pearl, who told of her adventures of the wild sea, Nico had explained who Riku was and everything that had happened to him since they met in Wonderland. From what I've studied, Riku isn't really that bad because he just wants to help Kairi. Nico called me insane for wanting to defend Riku, yet I couldn't help it since this felt familiar to me. Not just that, but Kairi... the name felt kind of familiar. I wondered why until learning something had happened!

Sora and his friends had escaped. How we knew this was when She opened the prison cell door and became shocked to see that it was empty. He ordered us to find them, which we had to follow since we had to act mindlessly like our other fellows.

Why?

Because of Hunters, the sworn enemies of Heartless since we were born. They were worse than reapers ever would be, mainly because of Hunters - our own kind- attacks weaklings like Nico and I for power or food. When we came across, Pearl and her mates, GP and Treasure back in Sora's ship, I knew we were dealing with heartless ledges above us. Not alpha Heartless, but "caring" Heartless that had no fear in ending our short lives. Acting like we were prisoners to Sora would show Pearl, we were tough to take on strong enemies even if we were weaker.

Luckily Pearl had been amazed by it, but I just hope she doesn't found out we're smarter than the average Heartless. Nico and I are more intelligent than others, but we lack defense and health. Heartless like Pearl could kill us in seconds without mercy. That's all Hunters had if you weren't on their level. I had told that to Nico as we searched for Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

In the world of Heartless, "the weak die and the strong live."

Entry 49

In the dark halls, we moved in the dark, before finding Sora, Donald, Goofy, and another boy in green clothes FLOATING in midair named Peter Pan. I didn't know how Peter did it, but he was able to fly around. It looked so cool, I wish I could do that!

Anyway, we found them in a large room talking to a girl above in the top room. She warned them that the pirates were coming before Sora asked if another girl was with her. The girl responded with a yes only saying the other girl looked to be sleeping. That was when I wanted to scream in cheer, "We found Kairi!"

My happiness was short lived when we heard Pearl barking, "Get them worthless lasses, boys!" from above us. The girl above gasped, while we heard the other girl being dragged off. "Take them to the captain's chambers." After that nothing was heard, meaning it was time to get to the upper deck and find out what was going on!

Entry 50

I'm happy. No sad. NO, I'm enraged by how stupid of a discussion I just made!

During our time following Sora, we ended up also finding Riku as well when we entered Captain Hook's study. He had Kairi in his arms and by the way, his darkness rose just by looking at Sora, he was enraged enough to call Shadow Sora!

Without a word, the Shadow of Sora jumped from the ground attacking the Real Thing (aka Sora) in seconds. Donald fired ice and even a spell called gravity which made Shadow Sora fall flat to the ground, while Goofy plowed the Shadow Sora over once he was back up.

As all the chaos happened, Ash and me watched from underneath the table since we were trapped in the room as the battle went on. Shadow Sora had spotted us once shouting, "Hey buddies, care to lend me a hand in this battle?"

Me: Sorry we don't want to die today!

Ash: This is your fight, not ours. Don't drag us into your problems, short-brain!

After that last part, Shadow Sora enraged by what we said tossed Real Thing our way knocking him into the table. Papers and pens fell from the desk, as Sora regained from the hit healing himself before jumping into the defective than switched to offensives slashing at Shadow Sora, who hissed in pain at the blow.

Everything was okay and dandy until Ash said, "I'm going after him." She had started to gather three sheets of paper and grab a pen, then turned to me with her eyes filled with determination. I asked what she was doing and her answer was to go AFTER Riku. I begged her to explain why which lead to her not explaining and asking if I could open a corridor for her.

At first, I hesitated, not wanting to see her leave. Then, I sighed when I saw her puppy dog beg that ended with me opening a corridor. She gave me a hug before going, saying that she would be back.

I'm happy and filled with joy that she wanted to find where Riku was going off to, yet I'm sad that she left me alone. While topping off my mixed emotions was rage for approving to let her go!

I just hope she will be okay….

Entry 51

On another note, Peter Pan went to take the girl: Wendy (that was taken captured by Captain Hook) home leaving Sora and his gang alone. Yet before he had left, his tiny winged friend named Tinker Bell had rushed off after being annoyed by him. I could feel by her darkness that she was sad. (He really had hurt her feelings.)

On the deck, Sora, Donald, and Goofy, plus me came face to face with Captain Hook and many other Pirate Heartless waiting. Sora demanded to know where Riku was going and found out learning of Hollow Bastion. That's when I recalled where I'd been the first time I followed Riku. My mind was blown for a second before I saw that he had caught Tink in a glass lantern.

As Sora had to give up and accept defect walking onto the plank preparing to jump, I sneaked over to the swashbuckler who held the lantern, ready to unleash a surprise like no other. From the sidelines, I saw all my kind as pirates watching in awe, while GP and Treasure were up close making SURE Sora would fall into the sea. Yet I couldn't let that Hook-handed geezer get the best of Sora and his friends. His "I won" laugh really rubbed me the wrong way. Enough to make me want to disobey, "Ash's act like a normal heartless" plan.

While Sora jumped down into the sea, then suddenly flew back up, I took the shock to take it to the next level.

Without thinking and all the Hunters watching (mainly Pearl), I jumped up and pushed over Smee causing him to drop the lantern just in time for Peter Pan to fly in and catch it. He released Tink before a battle broke out with FLYING Heartless or most like reinforcements to fight all the reapers!

As Sora and his team fought my kind, I ran into trouble with Pearl who tackled and pinned me to the ground. She was trying to slice me in half holding my antennas to keep me down, while her sword was ready to cut me in half. I thought I was a goner!

Then, out of nowhere Pearl was kicked in the head causing her to look up before being blown away from me with aero. When I got up to see my rescuer, I found it to be Tinkerbell, floating above me smiling and waving her hand as some form of thanks for saving her, before kissing my forehead.

Hurrying off to Peter Pan and Sora, Tinkerbell along with the others pranked the "brave" captain that hid in his study the whole time. When Captain Hook found out it was a joke, everyone - minus me - engaged in a fight that ended with him getting kicked off his OWN ship! I burst out laughing when it happened, more than I should have, but it was worth it!

Entry 52

Sora and everyone left by flying into the distance, while I stayed aboard the ship. Standing and waiting.

Entry 50.5

After leaving Nico and following Riku, I had a great fear that I would be spotted by a Reaper or a Hunter, but during my journey, I found that they weren't the ones to fear. SHE was the one to fear.

As I had trailed Riku to a darkened castle reeking of darkness, we passed six other sleeping people in glasses pinned to the wall with thorns wrapped around their legs. There was a brown-haired woman in a yellow dress, three blondes: one child and two other adults, a maiden of snow white skin and raven hair, and lastly, a girl in a short top and pants, with long black hair. They all looked different by appearance but were identical in one way. They all felt like Kairi, lifeless and lacking a beating heart.

I had no idea why they were like that, but something made their body's not fade away. It's very odd….

I continued to follow Riku as he puts Kairi in a similar glass before heading back out into the corridor. When I followed the trail, I came to an empty dull room, where a woman in black with ill green skin stood talking to him. Then, it hit me!

Screams, not mine, but from other people crowded my mind and soon I saw a vivid memory in second person. I saw adults and children running away from Heartless, while others perished before me into nothing, but hearts. From Large Bodies and Neon Shadows to different colored Operas casting spells, and Poison Plants hitting people with seeds, I panicked looked everywhere before spotting her…

Watching it all from a distance view was her, the mistress of all evil: Maleficent. She held her staff with her black bird perched on top of it.

When I came back from my memory, I was shaking in fear. I didn't understand what the memory was about! Even if I didn't know, I was scared inside and out that the sound of a loud roar caused me to flinch and almost got me caught. After Riku left the room I made a dash for it, following him somewhere else, not wanting to be in the same room with that MONSTER!

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