And here's another chapter, released not long after the previous one! Well, I'm glad. Now, if you were wondering where the next world would be after I told you I would not be doing Neverland any time soon, and if you couldn't tell by the hints I left in the last chapter about what world will be the next…well, read on and find out! Hope you enjoy this chapter!

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My Friends are my Power

It was the next day. Kaylee had woken up bright and early—which you really couldn't tell in a world like this—and forced all of us to get out of bed. I had forgotten to mention that beds would appear in this room whenever the time would come that we needed sleep. Then they'd vanish as soon as we stepped out of bed. Man, I loved Disney's magic. I yawned, about to ask Kaylee why she had woken us up.

Kaylee spun around in the center of the room, showing off her new attire. She said she had just gone to Daybreak Town and raided the shops for another outfit while we were asleep. I was kinda glad that she had ditched her business suit-type dress for something a normal girl would wear. She wore a plain white sleeveless shirt that had a floral pattern along the bottom edge of it. She wore blue jeans that went just below her knees. She slipped into her pink and white flip-flops that showed off her pink toenails. She put a headband on her head that pushed her hair back so no bangs fell in her face or over her shoulders.

"Now this is more my style," Kaylee said with a smile, twirling one more time before coming to a halt face-to-face with Domino. "Look at your hair!" She rushed to Disney's desk and picked up her hairbrush, which she used to forcefully brush Domino's long purple hair. Domino may have yelped out a few times. I never realized how knotty his hair gets after he wakes up. "There, I think you look perfect."

"You sure act different when you're not all dressed in whatever you wore before," Domino remarked. "In fact, you remind me of someone we know." He darted his eyes to me. I knew he meant Tara. He was right. She did seem as excitable as Tara…you know, when she's not all serious and stuff.

"Walt, I'm going to take them to the next world now," Kaylee said to the man who sat at his desk, his arms crossed and his face looking as if he were deep in thought. She held a hand out and a portal of white appeared in the very center of the room. Then her eyes darted around the room and she said, "Where are Rika and Phoenix?"

As if on cue the door to the room opened up and Rika and Asher walked through. Rika and Asher were wearing outfits similar to Kaylee's, except that Rika's jeans were higher than her knees, and Asher was wearing a tropical looking button-up shirt that was unbuttoned all the way along with gray silky looking shorts that looked like a bathing suit. They both wore flip flops.

"You think you're the only one who can dress for this world?" Rika asked rudely. "Think again."

"Rika made me tag along with her," Asher said, looking at us with a smile. "She said something about not wanting to go alone—" Rika jammed her elbow into Asher's belly, causing him to double over in pain. "Okay, okay, I get it, secrets are meant to be kept secret."

I looked from my clothes to Domino's. I guess our Utopian outfits were good enough for this world. It didn't matter if I got my shorts and underwear wet because I could use Aero too dry myself off. I looked to Kaylee and said, "So are we going to go, or…?"

"Yes," Kaylee replied, waved to us, and stepped into the light. Domino didn't waste any time in grabbing me by the wrist and yanking me into the portal with him. I could hear Asher and Rika running behind us. We were surrounded by light. Before the light could vanish, I heard the sounds of birds chirping; the sounds of waves lapping against the shore; the sound of peace. "Here we are." The light around us vanished, and we could now get a good look at the world around us. "Destiny Islands."

"Whoa," was the only world that could escape my lips. The sky was a bright blue. Not a single cloud was in the sky. The bright sun, rather than looking harsh and hot, looked inviting and warm. The air was humid, but every now and again I could feel a cool breeze sweep through my hair. The air smelled like the fresh smell of the sea. We stood on the edge of a shore. We stood on white sand. Crystal-clear water lapped against the shoreline, going passed out feet and then back into the sea. It reminded me of the shore of the Lake of Destiny, except that shore was covered in grass.

"Holy crap," Asher said, taking a look around the place by spinning around.

I looked around as well. Trees rose up further along the beach, some sort of star-shaped fruit hanging down from them and looking delicious. The entire place looked beautiful, but there seemed to be no signs of life besides the birds flying above us and whatever sea life lies below the surface of the water.

"Holy crap," Asher repeated, his smile growing larger by the second. "This is the place!" He stopped admiring his surroundings for a second and repeated less enthusiastically, "This is the place."

"What place?" Domino asked, kicking his bare foot through the ocean and sending sparkling water into the air.

"After I found out that Raven was missing…after I found Ibiki and he became my master…this was the first world I went to outside of my homeworld," Asher answered, looking down at the sand. "Lucina must have hitched a ride with me because next thing I knew after I arrived, she was by my side demanding answers. If she would have never followed me through that portal, she wouldn't have been roped into all of this. It's my fault for trying to find Raven. She probably hates me."

"Don't say that," Kaylee snapped. "Phoenix, that girl would never blame you. You were unaware she was following you. And just think—if she would have never followed you, she may have never seen you again after you left your world."

"You're right," Asher replied, looking up towards the sky now. He was smiling again. I thought I saw a trace of a tear in his eye.

"I have a surprise for you…Phoe-Phoe," Kaylee said with a smile.

As she said that a white portal appeared directly behind Asher. Without turning around, Asher immediately gasped in surprise. "No way," he said without looking back. The portal vanished. Standing there, dressed in nearly the same outfit as Kaylee, was Lucina.

"Yes way," she said with a smile. Asher smiled widely and whipped around to see his closest friend. Asher ran up to Lucina as she jumped into the air, and he caught her in a powerful embrace. He gave her a quick kiss on the forehead, twirled her around in the air a bit, and then lowered her to her feet. "Did you miss me?"

"I wasn't away from you that long," Asher replied.

"Did you miss me!?" she asked more insistently.

Asher nodded and kissed her forehead again. He then ran to Kaylee and hugged her, taking her by surprise. "Thank you so much," Asher said, tearing up a little. He quickly wiped his eyes. "But, uh, why did you get her to come here?"

"If we're going to relax, we might as well hang around those closest to us, right?" Kaylee asked with a smile. A sudden calm wind caused her hair to flutter in the breeze. I took a good look at her…she was the spitting image of my mother in her youth.

"So, how long do we have to relax before finding that Keyhole?" Asher asked. Kaylee gave him a look that said, "Pshhh, what Keyhole?"

Asher's face lit up as he took off his shirt and flip flops and splashed into the ocean water. Lucina removed her clothing and showed off her red two-piece swimming suit. She followed her best friend into the water. They looked like two little kids going into the big-kid pool for the first time. I chuckled at the sight.

"I'm going to go take a look around," Kaylee said to Domino and I. "I want to find the location of the crystal Keyhole so you guys don't have to." And with that she walked away. Man, Kaylee was an amazing person. Without a world Rika took off in a random direction. I decided not to ask her where she was going.

"Well, isn't this amazing," Domino said, looking to the sky above. "Last night I checked one of the calendars Disney provided…this day is the anniversary of the day we met. Three days after the Keyblades were created. We've been knowing each other for four years now." I didn't know what to say. But that brought up a question. So that meant three days ago was the fourth anniversary of the days the Keys were invented? "Well, if you don't count how we technically met before I came to Utopia."

"I remember that day well," I replied. "You were so shy. You wouldn't talk to any of the other kids. Yet for some reason you came up to me and started up a conversation. You asked me if I believed in other worlds. I wasn't too optimistic about the idea of other worlds…" I then started to laugh. "And I remember shutting you down so quickly, making you feel bad that you even asked me. I thought you were crazy."

"Then a few days later Mr. Elijah Brunner became our teacher and his first lesson was on the newly created Keyblade and the topic of other worlds," Domino said with a smile. "After that day you thought that I can see the future, because it almost seemed like I predicted that lesson. Man…we became the best of friends."

As we continued reminiscing of the old times years ago when we met, I began thinking back to that time clearly…it was almost as if Sight was making these thoughts so real that they seemed like reality at the time. The thoughts projected in my head showed a certain situation in which Domino and I's friendship became even greater.

It was about a month and a half after I was put into the Kamikaze Home and had met Domino. We were the best of friends (and he actually had kind of short hair). His parents, Marian and Demetrius, invited me over for dinner and I would sleep there every single weekend. I tried to ask Ibiki to allow him to come over, but he never let. One day when I slept at Domino's, we had the television on the Utopian News Network. They were doing a story on some vigilante running the streets of Utopia.

The anchorwoman said, "Last night was the fourth time in the past month that one of Utopia's notorious criminals was found unconscious in a random location. Slashes were found in his clothing and skin just like all the others. He was beaten unconscious with some kind of weapon. We have yet to find out who this vigilante is, but stay tuned for more on—" Before the lady could say more, Domino switched off the television.

"Domino, it was getting interesting!" I protested.

"News isn't supposed to be interesting," Domino replied back, and I pouted. Domino just laughed whenever I pouted. He pinched my cheek and said, "This cute little pout doesn't work on me, kid."

I slapped his hand away, angry.

The next day we had school. Sirens were heard all around the school yard during a particularly scorching recess period. Some criminal must have been on the run. In just the past two months alone the crime rate had grown eighty percent above normal. I tried to look for Domino to ask him what was going on. I couldn't find him.

In fact, the rest of the day I went about my business without Domino. He never showed up for any of our classes. Finally during the last class of the day he walked into the room looking almost out of breath. I chose not to question him; he didn't seem to be in a talking mood.

A whole week went by and Domino seemed to vanish into thin air every single day. Then came the weekend. I went to sleep at Domino's place. Domino's parents made sure to order the fried chicken. That particular day Domino had allowed me to sleep in his bed and he slept on the floor. He seemed to be comfortable. Then I woke up in the middle of the night. It was a little past midnight. Domino was no longer in the room. I looked in the bathroom, the living room, and even his parents' room, and he was nowhere in sight. I tiptoed down the hall and exited the doorway out of Domino's house. It was raining. I was instantly soaked.

And there he was. Running from some alley behind the Kamikaze Home was Domino, soaked from head to toe. He immediately stopped and locked eyes with me when he saw I was standing outside his house. He nervously scratched the back of his head. "What's up?" Seriously. That's what he said.

"Where did you go?" I asked him urgently, running up to him, my bare feet splashing against the puddles of rain. "I got worried."

"I'm glad you care," Domino said, sidestepping the question of where he went. "Let's get inside before you get sick."

"Where did you go?" I asked him again, more insistently, grabbing onto his shirt and looking straight into his eyes.

"I can't tell you," he replied. He looked sad. It looked like he really wanted to tell me, but decided against it. "I'm sorry, I wish I could."

I don't know why I asked this, but I did. "Does it have anything to do with that vigilante running around?" Domino seemed to jump when I mentioned it. "I'm right, aren't I? Are you sneaking away to try and find him? Are you really that desperate to meet a superhero?"

"No," Domino said, looking up and into my eyes. "I wasn't trying to find the vigilante…" He seemed to choke on his own words when he said that. I had to know the answer. I wasn't prepared for it. "I amthe vigilante."

"No you're not," I instantly said. "You aren't strong enough to hurt all those bad guys."

"But I am—" Domino tried to reason with me.

"Let's go inside," I snapped back at him. "We'll get sick." As soon as I said that, a police car roared through the street in between the Kamikaze Home and Domino's house, the siren blaring loudly. The vehicle disappeared behind a tall building. "What the—?"

"I am the vigilante," Domino repeated. Appearing in a flash of light was the Keyblade I would soon learn about, Starlight. As he said that and his mighty weapon appeared, all time seemed to stand still. For a moment I could almost swear the raindrops froze in midair, and everything around us seemed silent. And just like that, the world came crashing down around me.

"You're what!?" I yelled at him, the thunder and rain getting louder by the second. "What the heck is that?" I pointed to his weapon.

"A Keyblade," Domino replied. "I'm one of the Keybearers."

"I thought it was all fake," I said, almost at a loss for words. "You can wield…a Keyblade!?"

Sure I was mad at him after that day, but I eventually warmed up to the idea of him potentially becoming my own personal superhero. That one secret he shared with me is what caused us to stay even closer than we already were. Domino laughed at the memory and said, "Man, that day I was so scared you'd run for the hills. But it brought us closer." Without warning Domino hugged me. He kissed my forehead and then whispered into my ear, "Thanks for not running for the hills, Kane."

I pushed Domino away and started laughing. I didn't know what I would do without this guy.

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The mysterious figure in the black hooded coat watched the group from a distance. He wanted to yell out in anger and attack, but quickly decided against it. But he had to find some way to scare them. To let them know that they weren't safe. The figure chuckled to himself. Ever since the last time he saw them months ago, he experienced a mental breakdown. Nothing mattered to him more than getting his revenge. He raised a hand into the air and a Shadow Heartless rose from the ground, it's neck twisting in multiple different directions as if waiting for orders.

The man swiped a hand through the air and the Shadow sunk into the ground, moving along the shadows of trees and headed towards the group. The mysterious figure clutched a fist, watching and waiting for the group to realize that even on a world of light like this, they weren't safe.

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Domino and I spent a few minutes talking about the old times. Man, I sure missed them. The days were so simple back then. But at least I was still with Domino…even if we were somehow destined to fight one another in the future. I was not looking forward to that. I was going to say something more but Domino put a hand in the air as if to shush me. But I saw it before he did. A Shadow rose from the ground and leapt at Domino from behind.

I raised a hand to conjure a Thunder spell to finish the Heartless off, and lightning shot from the sky and slammed into the Heartless. The creature dissipated into darkness. It was then that I realized something. It wasn't me who conjured that spell. I hadn't even felt the rush of electrical energy. That's because the person behind Domino beat me to it. Domino quickly whipped around to be face-to-face with the person who had defeated that Heartless. It was Robin Cale; Six.

He wore a smile on confidence on his face as he said, "Did you miss me?" He walked past Domino and held a hand out for me to shake, and I gladly took it. "Good to see you again."

"Same here," I replied.

"Can we focus on something else?" Domino interrupted our reunion. "Why was there a Heartless here? And a single Heartless, in fact. Actually, why are there ever Heartless following us around? I'm sick of this. One of these days one of us will get hurt."

"I found something!" came Kaylee's excited voice as she dashed from up ahead to the three of us. She looked at Six and nodded at him as if silently saying hello, but quickly looked to Domino and I and said, "Come and follow me." She dashed back to where she was before.

Domino and I shrugged, following Kaylee. Six tagged along, and not long after Asher, Lucina, and Rika were behind us. The seven of us followed her past a couple of trees to a small waterfall that fell down from the cliff of the rock wall in front of us. The waterfall fell into a small pond that for some reason didn't overflow. Kaylee walked to the left of the pond and put her hand on another rock wall. She knocked on it a few times and said, "Unlike the rest of the wall, this spot is hollow. There's something secret inside this place."

She held her palm against the surface of the rock and just like that, the rock vanished. Into thin air. I wasn't sure how she did that, but I wasn't about to ask. What we were looking at wasn't a rock wall at all. It was a giant hole at the base of a large tree. Looking into it all I saw was inky blackness. I wasn't sure on how far you would be able to go in there.

"What are we waiting for?" Rika asked. "That crystal Keyhole isn't going to find itself." She walked confidentially into the dark opening.

"Looks like we're getting another one of those crystal Keyholes together, huh?" Six asked as he looked at me. He winked and followed Rika into the darkness. The rest of us followed his lead.

Kaylee raised a hand into the air and a bright light shone from her palm like a flashlight. I would have admired it and asked her how she could do that, but we were on a mission. The time for questions would be later.

Roots sprouted out from the ground along each wall and disappeared into the ceiling above our heads. I admired the walls of this cavern. I saw drawings all along the walls, drawn in white. I saw pictures of worlds I've already been to and completely unknown worlds. I saw illustrations of things that didn't make any sense to me such as seven women all standing around in a circle with a heart in the center of them. I saw hordes of Heartless ravaging worlds. I saw other creatures, too.

The hallway we walked down opened up into a larger circular room. Drawings covered the walls even more so than in the hallway we had just came from. Our eyes then fell upon one picture on the wall—a Keyhole. Kaylee pressed her hand against the picture and said, "Looks like the Society of the Keyhole sealed this place off years ago. This is their insignia. They must've closed this place off to hide the crystal Keyhole better than all the rest."

"What's that?" Asher asked, pointing to a large door on the far wall in front of us. That's right. A door.

Domino ran to the door and tried to push and pull it open. It wouldn't budge. "Why is there a door in here? Where could this lead?" Domino walked back to the group.

Suddenly we were surrounded by a ring of Shadows and Neoshadows. Everyone instantly went on alert. Domino, Rika, Asher, and Six drew their Keyblades. Kaylee and I got prepared to cast our magic. Lucina drew a sword. I looked to the ceiling and nearly screamed. Covering the ceiling like a bunch of balloons in the air were Darkballs, covering every inch of the rocky ceiling. In front of the door ahead of us appeared a Darkside's head, rising from the shadows on the ground.

Kaylee used one huge blast of Thundaga, and every Shadow and Neoshadow vanished into darkness. The Keyblade wielders threw their Keys into the air, slicing through the Darkballs effortlessly and causing them to disappear as well. Darkness spawned from the Darkside that was just growing in size by the second. Soon its head reached the ceiling, only its legs still in the floor. I then noticed something peculiar. Within the heart-shaped hole in its chest was a floating sheet of paper. The fifth Disney Report! That creature must have taken it from this world.

Before I had time to think, the Darkside's fist crashed down right in front of me, sending a shockwave through the ground that caused me to fall onto my butt. I was about to use magic to take down this Darkside…but then my head his the ground. I looked up lazily to see a Shadow standing on my chest, slashing its claws at my face. Its sharp, shadowy class rug into my cheeks and drew blood.

Domino kicked the Shadow off of me and helped me to my feet, quickly healing me. "Uh oh…" he said, looking towards the ceiling. I looked up as well. Two gigantic hands most likely belonging to a Darkside were coming out of the darkness on the ceiling. A quick double-Thunder spell, curtesy of my twin and I, destroyed the beast trying to enter the cave through the ceiling.

"No!" yelled out Lucina. A Neoshadow had swiped its claws and smacked the sword from her hand. When she went to run for it, two more Neoshadows rose from the ground and latched onto her legs, their claws sinking into her skin. "Ow!"

"Lucina!" Asher yelled out, firing bullets of lights at all three Neoshadows, causing them to disappear. Six kneeled down to Lucina and healed her. Before Asher could go and check to see if she was alright, a Darkball appeared behind him and bit into his neck. "Gah!" Blood streamed to the ground, staining his clothes.

Rika sent a wave of darkness after the Darkball, absorbing the monster and relieving Asher. She cast a darker version of Cure on him, closing his wounds he had on his neck.

Kaylee leapt for the Darkside in front of the huge door and snatched the floating Disney Report in the center of its heart-shaped hole. As soon as she fell back to the ground the Darkside slammed its hand into my twin, sending her flying into the right wall. I quickly ran to her, healed her, and helped her up, taking the Report and stuffing it into my pocket.

Domino, Rika, Asher, Lucina, Six, Kaylee, and I had been fighting off the Heartless for quite a while. Finally the only Heartless left was the Darkside in front of the door. I blinked. It was a quick blink, but something had happened during the time my eyes were closed. Someone appeared. Opening my eyes not even a millisecond after closing them, I saw that now standing in front of the Darkside was a person in a black hooded cloak, like the one Dante wore.

Maybe this was the person that was with Dante. "Is he the one controlling these Heartless?" I asked.

"That isn't possible," Domino said. "Didn't Disney's brother create the Heartless? Shouldn't he be the only one controlling them?"

"Is that Disney's brother?" Asher asked.

"No," Kaylee answered. "That's not even possible." She took a step forward and called out, "Who are you?"

The man snapped his fingers, and the Darkside behind him vanished into the shadows. The man began clapping, and then he leapt into the air straight for...me. Domino quickly jumped in front of me, extending his arms out and stopping the mysterious figure in his tracks. The figure shot his arms forward and wrapped his fingers around Domino's neck, prepared to strangle him. I couldn't believe this. The man got right into Domino's face and Domino gasped. Could he see the face under the hood?

"This isn't possible," Domino squealed out, still being choked. Domino kicked the man in his chest. The man jumped back and stared at all of us. Then he looked directly at me, and sent a dark fiery ball towards me. Kaylee was quick to intercept it with an orb of light. The two collided and exploded in the air.

"Who is he?" I yelled out. I knew that Domino saw who it was. He was still speechless. I stared straight at the man, trying to see if I recognized his body shape. It was impossible. There's one thing I'd like to know though: why was he only aiming at me?

The man raised his hands into the air and it seemed to get chillier. Darkness swirled around the mysterious figure, emphasizing this man's strength and dark powers.

A dark wind entered the cave, whipping our hair around. And the man's hood flew off. His face was now in sight. At first I tried to remember the face, but couldn't. He looked like he hadn't shaved the stubble from his cheeks and chin in months. A mop of stringy gray hair fell from his head and to his shoulders. Bags were under his eyes as if he had never slept in months. His eyes were dull and gray. I almost didn't recognize him. When he spoke it cut through to my soul. I could remember him as soon as he said, "It has been a while."

"Mr. Brunner!?" I shouted out in disbelief. "You can't be alive!"

"Elijah, what are you doing here?' Domino asked, almost sounding not surprised. "Why are you after Kane?"

"He ruined my life," Elijah Brunner, in the flesh, muttered in a scratchy voice while pointing at me with a pink finger. "If not for that boy, I would have made it out of Utopia with the rest of the Keybearers. The two of us would rule and create our dark team together. We would be reigning over Sanctuary like kings right now."

"You're a killer," Domino replied, standing his ground.

"And you're not?" Elijah asked, keeping his arms outstretched as he let out a raspy laugh that sounded like a cough. "I heard that you killed your parents. I'm willing to bet that truthfully, you wanted to kill each of the Keybearers that lived on Utopia. I was just the first domino to fall, isn't that right?"

"You killed yourself," Domino shot back. "How did you survive?"

"My Keyblade landed inches from my heart," Elijah said. "I quickly realized this and used a portal of darkness to escape. By the time I awoke, the entire world was flooded and I was barely alive, drifting towards the bottom of the Great Lake. It took all the power I could muster, but I escaped."

"You can control these Heartless?" It was my time to ask the questions here.

"If you have a strong, firm, dark hand, the Heartless will do anything you want," Elijah cackled. "Simple minded creatures. They spawned from the darkness coming from my hatred of you." He pointed menacingly at me again. "So in reality it is all your fault."

"How can it be my fault?" I asked him in anger.

"You idiot, you really have no idea!" Elijah screamed out. "You took away everything, you twit! Without you the world would be a much better place! I should have killed you four years ago when you were still a weak little thing. Wait, you are still a weak little thing! Nothing but a pathetic weakling!" Then he started laughing. It didn't sound like the stereotypical evil laughter either. It sounded like he had gone insane. He choked on his last laugh and scowled, "Don't look at me like that, Carter. I hate when people give me that look."

"What is wrong with you?" I asked. I wasn't liking this one bit.

"He seems to have gone through some kind of mental breakdown," Kaylee said, standing to my side. "He's gone completely insane and enraged."

"Oh, yeah, I almost forgot," Elijah said with a smirk, holding a hand out. In the palm of his hand appeared…the crystal Keyhole. It vanished in the blink of an eye. "I have what you came here for. Fight me for it, Kane."

"No, I will," Domino snapped, but he was immediately flung to the wall. An incredible force stopped him from moving. He was planted on the wall, screaming to be free. "What did you do!?"

"Now the others," Elijah said, snapping his fingers. Suddenly Rika and Asher flew to Domino's side, getting stuck against the wall as well. Lucina, Six, and Kaylee flew to the opposite wall. Nobody was able to intervene and help me now. It was scary. I had never faced anything alone before. In that one moment I felt completely and utterly alone. "Fight me, Kane. I'll win. Believe it. Believe. Believe. Believe." And for some reason he kept repeating that word. He was becoming more and more insane by the second. Then he suddenly slapped himself hard across the face and yelled out, "God damn, what's my problem?" His eyes then locked on mine and his lips curled into a twisted smile. "That's right. You are."

Suddenly, in an explosion of darkness, Elijah leapt at me with his Keyblade, Skeleblade outstretched. I quickly dodged by rolling out of the way. His Keyblade became implanted in the ground where I stood seconds before. "You can't run away from the point of my blade forever!" Elijah screamed out, yanking his Key from the ground and swinging it at me, barely grazing my shirt as I backed away. "Die, bastard!" He vanished into thin air and reappeared directly behind me. He jabbed Skeleblade forward but I rolled out of the way just in time. "What's it gonna take to take your life, eh, Kane Carter!?"

I noticed something then. There was a stream of darkness attaching to the back of Elijah's head. I followed the stream to Rika's eyes. Rika was creating this stream of darkness…she had done this once before, to calm down Domino by mixing her darkness with his. Seeing this as her plan I yelled to her, "Is it working!?"

"Is what working!?" Elijah screamed in outrage, swinging his Key at me again. I jumped away from it just in time.

"No," Rika called back. "I calmed down Domino like this before. The only way I was able to do so was take one of his emotions and overpower the feeling of anger inside of him. So I took his love for you, the caring, compassionate side to him, and brought it to the surface. It caused his anger to subside. I can't do that with Elijah…I can't find a single emotion in there besides anger and rage. This is impossible." The stream of darkness vanished. "Sorry."

"Not your fault!" I yelled back to her. I looked at all six that were stuck to the wall. The only ones looking conscious were Domino and Rika. Domino had his eyes barely open as if he was on the verge of going unconscious, while Rika was completely awake and still struggling to break free. The pressure of the force sticking them to the wall was too much, but Rika wouldn't give up in trying to fight it.

I conjured a ball of fire but it was useless as it bounced off of a dark barrier around Elijah and flew back towards me. I didn't have much time to react so Rika took care of it by sending a dark beam at it from her eyes, slamming into the ball of fire and making it dissipate into thin air before it could hit me. I looked up at Rika and winked. She would have winked back but she was already passing out from the pressure of the force holding her in place.

I looked at all of my friends again. They weren't looking so good. I wanted to keep them safe. This maniac was after me and me alone. I held my hands out to either side of me and an explosion of light filled the entire cave, blinding even me. Elijah Brunner was most likely being blinded as well so I leapt from where I stood and slammed my body into the powerful man, sending both of us to the ground. When the light disappeared I found myself kneeling with one knee on his chest and one pressing against his neck.

"Don't kill me, Carter, hehe," Brunner said in a raspy voice. I could smell his foul breath from where I kneeled. I could feel the white electricity sparking around my body. Elijah Brunner was an awful person to begin with, and it didn't help that somewhere after he 'died' he lost his mind as well. In that one instant, I went against my very nature. My fingers began glowing red with heat. I wanted to kill him. That wasn't in my nature. I lowered my fingers towards his neck when he screamed, "I know who killed your mother!"

I snapped out of my wanting to kill him. What he just said may have saved his life just then. Elijah continued, "Did you think that Samuel and Rebekah were killed by the same person? I know one of the Keybearers sent to Utopia killed Samuel. I'm not sure which one. But I do know the person that killed your mother."

"Tell me," I said, my anger quickly growing. "Don't be a bad person. Tell me and I'll let you go."

"Don't be a bad person, he says," Elijah said, looking towards the rocky ceiling and slowly closing his eyes. "Too late for that, Kane Carter." As he said that the crystal Keyhole appeared floating inches above the ground right to the side of us. "I've been to a number of worlds after I left Utopia and before I came here. I hear things, see things. I know who killed Rebekah Carter. The killer told me." With one final breath he said, "I know who killed your mother." And he sunk into the ground, into a portal of darkness. I dropped to the ground as the darkness vanished. I slammed my fist into the ground.

My six friends dropped to the ground. I grabbed onto the crystal Keyhole and it vanished into light. We had our sixth crystal Keyhole and our fifth Disney Report. I smiled at the thought of getting closer to our goal, but a tear fell from my eye at the thought that I could find out who killed Mom. I looked to my friends. Domino and Rika stood up and helped Asher to his feet. Six stood up wobbly and helped Lucina up. But then there was Kaylee, still laying on the ground, face-first.

"Kaylee?" I asked. I rushed to her and gasped. Blood stained the hair on the back of her head. She was bleeding fast. She must have hit her head hard when she was thrown against the wall! "Kaylee!?" She was unresponsive. I laid her on her back—her left eye was barely open and her right was shut tight—and pressed my ear against her chest…I couldn't hear a pulse. I dug two fingers to her neck, and then her wrist and I still could not find trace of a heartbeat. "Kaylee!" I held onto her shoulders and yelled out, "Cure!" She was not healed. If you were dead, you couldn't be healed. "Cura! CURAGA!" Nothing happened. She lay lifeless on the ground.

"Kane…" Domino said from where he stood. I didn't bother looking at him for comfort.

I then felt a surge of energy into my heart. I thought I could feel my own body being healed. The air seemed eerily warm around me. I could see green light begin to glow around me. I looked at Kaylee's lifeless body and willed her to be alive. And then I screamed out, "CURAZA!" My voice echoed off of the walls. It was almost too loud.

"Kane!?" Six yelled out.

I stood up and walked backwards away from Kaylee. Flowers—roses—began sprouting from the ground around Kaylee. Her entire body seemed to glow green. I was healing her with that one spell—a fourth or fifth level spell—that my evil self had used to revive Tara after he killed her. The green light vanished. I saw Kaylee's chest begin to move up and down. I fell to my knees and almost started sobbing. I had done it.

Kaylee suddenly lifted her head off of the ground and she sat up, opening up her left eye but leaving her right eye closed. "Kane?" she asked. I tackled her in a hug, feeling the back of her head and discovering that there was no blood in sight. I looked to the wall that she was thrown against…there was so much blood stained to the wall and the floor. It was enough blood to leave her body and kill her. "What happened?" Suddenly she clutched her right eye. "What the?"

"What's the matter?" I asked her.

"I can see…light…in this eye," Kaylee muttered, still holding a hand over her right eye. "It's adjusting…do you think that when you healed me…you healed my blindness…as well?"

"I don't know, maybe," I told her. "Give it a shot and open your eye."

And Kaylee opened her eye. Her face nearly lit up when she can see out of it. She began darting her eyes everywhere, seeing everything in an entirely new light with two eyes instead of one. But there was something about her right eye that immediately freaked me out. Her right eye was silver. The same silver as Domino's.

It didn't make since. On Utopia I had met several people with gray or silver eyes, but none were exactly like Domino's. I paid attention to little details like that. But Kaylee's left eye was gold…and her right eye was silver. Domino's same silver eye color. "What's wrong?" she asked me.

I reached into my pocket to find Tara's old mirror, and I handed it to her. She looked into it and gasped, dropping the mirror. Domino had good enough reflexes to dash from where he stood to where Kaylee and I were, and he snatched it a second before it hit the ground and shattered. It was safe. He stuffed it into his pocket. And then he got a good look at Kaylee's eye.

"How do I have two different colored eyes?" Kaylee asked, looking from me to Domino. Domino just stared straight into that one eye. That silver eye. Domino's eye. Kaylee looked up at Domino with wide eyes. "Domino?"

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How did you like that chapter? What about the return of someone we thought was dead? Things are heating up since we now know Elijah Brunner knows who killed Kane's mom, andKaylee is revealed to possess one golden eye, one silver eye. What is going on? Stay tuned for next chapter!

This chapter is dedicated to friendship. 'Nuff said.