The dreams never ceased. He pretended they didn't bother him, pretended they didn't exist but they plagued him. When the sun went down when his body laid against the cold ground the dreams entered his mind. The only escape was when the sun greeted the earth that's when he became free. It wasn't the task that haunted him it was the darkness that followed him while he was completing his task. Stress also took control he often wondered what next? What would happen after he sealed all the keyholes? This door where was it? How could he bring Terra back? Fourteen so young still naive still uneducated in what he faced. He couldn't sleep not this night he got up off the ground quietly so not to wake his brother and Namine. He stepped down the ladder leading to the town that was now no longer filled with merchants. The night sky was a beautiful scene, he let the magnificent shinning moon guide him to the desert. The wind was gentle slightly blowing the sand in his face. He kept walking his feet seemed to know his destination. A cave lay before him in the shape of a tiger's mouth the opening was wide enough for him to go in. Inside leading to the bottom was stairs he cautiously and curiously walked down them the room he first entered was lit only by the bubbling lava. He saw a man sitting close to the lava he appeared to be meditating.

"Why is it they hate it?" Sora had begun to leave but when addressed he turned around.

"Hate what?"

"The darkness, why do they hate it?"

"Because, it's scary, it's creepy."

"Is that a reason to hate it because it's scary?"

"No that's a reason to fear it that's why we need to get rid of it."

"Well what will you do then keyblade barer what will you do when the world is out of balance?"

"Out of balance what do you mean?"

"Darkness and Light work together Yin and Yang. Two different forces that blend like the sun and the moon. The sun lights the sky gives off energy the moon pulls the tides gives the light to night sky. There can not be only light the world needs darkness."

"Maybe it does, maybe light and darkness are like Yin and Yang but right now darkness is trying to take over the light. There's no balance here."

"For years the light has conquered the darkness."

"Well I guess it's my job to keep the balance."

"I guess so Sora..."

"How do you know who I am? Who are you?"

"Who am I? That's a good question." The man went back to meditating. Sora waited for him to answer but realised the man was done talking. He went back through the cave to the town up the ladder. After the walk he thought he could sleep dreamlessly but unfortunately sleep wasn't granted to him. After hours of waiting to be carried off his eyes finally shut he was asleep.

"What this for?" Sora asked looking at the girl.

"Somnus intus atrum." She smiled at him putting the crown necklace on him.

"Huh? Wait." She disappeared as a light started coming towards Sora. The first rays of sunlight startled him he woke from his sleep. When he looked down at his neck he saw the crown necklace. He repeated the words in the dream.

"Somnus intus atrum."

"Sleeps within the dark."

"How do you-"

"We speak..." She paused remembering the deaths in her village. "We spoke that language in my home. Somnus intus atrum means sleeps within the dark. It's from a fairytale my grandmother said it to me all the time. Long ago, people lived in peace, bathed in the warmth of light. Everyone loved the light. Then people began to fight over it. They wanted to keep it for themselves."

"And darkness was born in their hearts."

"You know it?"

"My mom used to tell me that story when I was a little."

"But true light sleeps within deep within the darkness, somnus intus atrum. That's where it comes from...where did you hear that anyway?"

"In a dream."

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