Chapter Fourteen: Mystery Unfolding

At the Radiant Garden, Kairi sat in the studies room where Ansem the Wise worked. The room didn't changed, the diagram of DTD was still written out across the wall with the picture Xehanort on the side and there was light at some parts of it. She wasn't there too long, as a matter of fact she was escorted by a Legion and a group of nobodies. She sat at the rear end of the desk, hugging her legs and burying her face into her arms with tears, wishing that she understood what was happening. She ran her hands across her bruises on her arms and legs which she have gotten from being pushed and shoved while she walked along the corridors to get to the study. She rubbed her right arm more often, since it was Legion firmly grabbed her with no care whatsoever, leaving a mark that irritated her.

"What's going on?" She thought, "Why do they want me? Who are those Nobodies and what is Maleficent doing back here again?...and Sora..." Sora suddenly came in her mind, "I wonder where he is and how he's doing...I hope he's alright!"

She pulled out Sora's letter from inside her shirt and read over it, remembering how she caught Sora in her room. The embarrassment of seeing her the way she was then, made her pretty upset, but she just couldn't help see how Sora made faces to make her laugh. A little sense of courage warmed up inside of her. She placed back inside her shirt, near her heart.

She then stood up slowly and glanced around the room. Her eyes met at the large dark corridor, where it lead was something that she didn't know. She looked inside deeply and noticed that blue light sparked on and off which caught her attention. Looking behind her, seeing the diagram which showed DTD and a picture with a heart in the center. She saw the frame of the Xehanort. It took a moment for her to realized who she was staring at...

"...Is that...Xemnas?" She asked herself.

She tried to walk around the best she could, ignoring the bruises her arms and legs. She noticed the place was filled with many books and scattered papers. She picked up book and papers in her hands, and read through them. Pulling up the chair near the desk, she sat down to read them. Most of the papers were filled with notes and facts about the darkness and its essence, most of the things came as common sense to her till eventually it began to bore her. What sat in front of her was a book layed out on the desk and flipped open to a certain page, as if someone were reading though it before.

"Hmm..."

The top of the page was written out in large red ink 'URGENT' it said. Kairi took interest and scanned through it. The book was more of Ansem's reports, this page was different from the others. The words were difficult to read and very small, seems as though it was written with haste. At times when Kairi read the page she had to squint her eyes. After a few paragraphs, she was scared, and after she finish the page the fear grew. When she finish the entire section of the urgent message...

A heart dropping gasp was all that came from Kairi.

Her hands covered her mouth and she began to shake and shiver. Her heart beated rapidly in a fast pace from what she had read. "This can't be happening...no...this can't be true!" Kairi shouted, "I have to get out of here!"

She got up from her seat and ran toward the door. Twisting and turning on the handle and pulling as hard as she could to open the door, but it was locked. She hit the door frustrated and scared, escaping could not be possible. Then a voice cried out from the corridor...

"Hello? Is anyone there?" A somewhat electronic voice said,

Kairi turned to the voice, "Who's there?"

The voice didn't answer back, but she heard static coming from the next room. She gingerly took steps inside, making her way through. Her feet made sounds of glass, when she looked down it was a transparent floor. She saw what seemed like a factory,

"In a study room?" She thought to herself.

She continued and glared around, seeing a monitor and a huge red transporter (She doesn't know that). It was all to weird, but it didn't take her by surprise. The monitor started flashing on and off, which explains the lights she saw before. As she walked toward it, the voice appeared again,

"Hello?" It said,

Kairi looked into the monitor's screen. "Umm...who are you?" She answered back,

"So there are still users out there." The system call back. "My name is Tron. What is your name?"

Kairi wasn't sure if it would be weird to be answering back to an object, "...My name is...Kairi." She said hesitantly.

"Hmm...Kairi..." Tron hummed, "I need to know where Sora is located. Do you know about his where abouts?"

Kairi was caught by surprise by hearing Sora's name. How did this computer know that name? "Sora?!...How do you know him?"

"I have known him for awhile." Tron answered back, "I owe him much for his help, I couldn't be anymore thankful for his help. But enough of that, I need to find him quickly!"

Kairi shook her head, "I'm sorry, I don't know where he is...what happening here?"

Tron began to explain the situation they were going through, through the monitor. Kairi took interest. "You must be aware already that Maleficent is very much alive. I don't know what she is planning, but I can tell you that she is going to different worlds and taking over them. She has three soldiers at her right hand much stronger than she is, but maybe not for long."

Kairi thought about the nobody, Legion who escorted her to this room, "I came here with a man named Legion. Do you anything about him Tron?" Kairi asked,

"Let look into my data base." Tron said, as he began searching.

"..." Kairi waited patiently for Tron. Legion reminded her of Riku. She then became worried. "Riku...I hope you're okay." She thought to herself.

Not long, after a moment Tron returned, "I have information related to Legion. It seems if he isn't just one man, but more than 6,000 men in one body."

Kairi heart skipped a beat.

"Though he wears the cloak of one of the members of the organization, he isn't necessarily one of them. He use a cloak of of one of the fallen member Marluxia. He is, although, a nobody with his own purpose. He is just a so called a 'puppet' of Maleficent who had persuaded him to join her."

"But what is he really?" Kairi asked, "You said he is like 6,000...of what?"

"6,000 nobodies." Tron answered, "Probably you heard his tone of voice sound multiple, or maybe you heard him take in terms of 'we'. Nonetheless, he is very dangerous and is well fit to challenge Sora."

This all became new information to Kairi. "This is all wrong." Kairi muttered under her breath, "Tron, is there anyway he can be stopped?"

"Sorry...It may seem that he is indestructible, but he is only using the other nobodies he has inside him as a shield. One strike may not hurt him, but it doesn't mean that there's nothing happening." Tron concluded.

The monitor's screen caught a glitch, interrupting Tron's words. "Something is wrong with the monitor Tron." Kairi pointed out.

"Sorry...the system is...beginning to shut down...again." Tron said, trying to speak through the glitches. "I will soon...reboot it...stay near the computer...system." The monitor zipped and shut down.

"Tron...?" Kairi called out, "...Tron?" She repeated.

Tron was no longer around. Kairi felt alone again. Resting her back against the cold red transporter in back of her, she slid down to her knees and began thinking. What was she to do now? She felt like someone tugged her heart and felt breathless and cold. More questions erupted in her head, but all were left with no clues to answer them. She gave up and hoped that in time that this whole tribulation would come to an end soon.

Then suddenly, Kairi felt light wind blow by her hair and face but she did not feel it. Slowly it grew until then it caught her attention. She stood up and looked forward to see where the wind came from. Her eyes lead her to see a something white from a far across the factory. She walked away from the monitor and toward the glass railing to stare closely into the white object, watching it grow until she froze in awe and in shock.

The object was a white dragon. It flew with such speed and cunningness that Kairi took several steps back. The creature finally found it's way into the factory, it flapped it immense wings to land safely unto the empty platform. The creature stretched it long neck with its head held up high and its wings tucked under its belly. Kairi took one glare into the large beast...

"AAAH..." She screamed aloud, quickly covering her mouth.

The Dragon became alert, turning its head left and right to see where the scream came from. Kairi slowly took more steps back, trying to make way back into the study room. Dragon stopped looking, sensing a small person in his large presence. It looked straight forward with its eyes met with Kairi's, from then she stopped moving and stood still. It was a terrorizing silence for the moment. Kairi was still fearful, but it very slowly had calmed from seeing the beauty of the Dragon. She put down her hands carefully.

"Who are you?" She heard in her mind, someone speaking to her.