Enamis09: Those are some pretty good guesses! I won't say much so as not to spoil anything, I'll just say...you're not entirely right, but you're not entirely wrong, either. :)

xOneSkyx: Well, I've heard it said (paraphrased) that the first draft is for making your story exist, the second draft is for making it work, and the third draft is for making it great. So as long as you get SOMETHING down on paper to start with, it doesn't matter how much of a jumbled mess it is. All you need is something to work with for future drafts! Good luck with yours, and thanks for the review!

Coolmegan123: I'm glad you enjoyed that chapter so much! I liked that one, too.

Oooh I wanna see your cosplays! I made 3 KH2/FF cosplays a couple of years ago, and yeah...KH costumes are complicated. So many pieces! The big one that I'm working on this year is the most difficult I've made so far. It's live-action Cinderella's ball gown, for my sister.

Today starts all of the requests that I have received (besides the couple that I stuck in so they'd be in chronological order)! First up, a request from SquidbaggerofWoomyandNgyesness. They wanted me to write a oneshot that included their OC, Xolette. I have to admit, I struggled with this one a bit, since I haven't read the entirety of Xolette's story, and also because the two timelines don't perfectly line up. So this may be...a little weird? But hopefully they'll still enjoy it.

All of the other oneshots in this series are canon. However, this one should be considered an AU. The events in this chapter will not be taken into account in the sequel. Theoretically, though, this takes place sometime after the end of Sorrow's Promise and before Inferno's Edge begins.

AU Chapter

Meli's Perspective

I was bored. Everybody was at school, leaving me at the house by myself. I had finished the latest book that I had borrowed from Mr. Yoshida's library, and there was nothing decent on tv. This whole recovery process had been going on for quite some time now, and though I was grateful for the rest, I was starting to lose my mind from the boredom.

Glancing at the clock by the bed, I heaved a sigh. Still another hour until Mrs. Yoshida would be home from work. At least then I'd have someone to talk to. In the meantime, though, I really didn't want to spend that much time just lying on the bed staring at the ceiling.

Pushing myself up onto my elbows, I studied the mirror hanging on the wall across from me carefully, an idea forming in my mind. It had been a really long time since I had been back to my universe. Well, actually it really hadn't been nearly long enough, but I wasn't going to think about those times, the times that I had been forced into going. It had been a long time since I had been there just for the fun of it, just to see the sights.

I hopped up off the bed and crossed to the mirror. Yeah, maybe I would go for a quick trip somewhere. Just long enough to kill some time before Mrs. Yoshida got home, then I'd make another portal back... That plan screeched to a halt as I realized I no longer had my pocket mirror. I shuddered at even the thought of the thing. I'd need some way to get home, though, so I ran out to the bathroom I shared with Kairi and found her compact, shoving it into my jeans pocket.

Now the question was, where should I go? My palms rested against the cool glass as I ran through the possibilities in my mind. For some reason, though, I kept getting distracted with memories of the first portals I had made, back in the mansion. Back in Twilight Town...

To my surprise, a portal suddenly opened beneath my hands. I jumped back, frowning at it, wondering where it could possibly be leading to. The last place I had been thinking of was Twilight Town, but that was clearly not part of my universe. I stepped toward the portal, uncertain. Should I go through? Double checking to make sure my way back was still safe in my pocket, I made up my mind and stepped inside.

The place where I found myself had clearly been a town at some point, but all that remained of it now was a blackened mess of half-standing buildings and charred stone streets. The sky above was completely dark, and there was not a sound to be heard, not even a whisper of wind. I wrapped my arms around myself as a shiver ran up my spine.

"Where am I?" I muttered under my breath.

Cautiously, I started down the street, picking my way around fallen street lamps and broken glass from windows. It wasn't until I noticed a familiar, unlit sign still hanging amidst the rubble that it finally dawned on me where I was.

"That's...that's the cafe!" I gasped. The very same cafe where I had spent many hours sipping tea and hanging out with Roxas. "But...how...?"

I spun around in a slow circle, taking in the damage with new eyes. This couldn't be our Twilight Town. I would have heard if something like this had happened to our Twilight Town...right? Besides, I had gone through a portal. Portals led between parallel universes. So, could this be a Twilight Town from yet another universe?

Breaking into a sprint, I made a beeline up the hill to the clock tower. It was one of the few things still standing, though the base of it showed fire damage. I craned my neck back to stare up at the top, my mind still reeling with the implications of what I had walked into.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

The sudden break in the silence made me jump, and I spun around to see who the other living soul could possibly be. It was a girl, around my age, with choppy white hair and yellow eyes. The combination of those two colors immediately set me on edge, and I took a step back.

Her expression quickly changed from stony to surprised, then to confused as she tilted her head to one side. "Kairi?"

"Um, no. I'm..." I wasn't sure what information I should trust this girl with. "Who are you?"

She studied me with one eyebrow slightly raised before answering. "Xolette."

The name, combined with her appearance, rang some kind of bell in my brain. "Xolette? Wait..." I furrowed my brow, trying to remember. That girl, from Twilight Town...one of the kids that had seen Sora off at the train station... "Olette! Are you...?" The pieces finally fell together. "You're her Nobody, aren't you?"

Xolette did not look happy at having been figured out. "Who are you? I don't remember ever meeting you. How did you get here?"

"Yeah, I...I don't think we ever technically did meet." Since the most likely scenario seemed to be that this was a different universe's Olette. "I'm Meli. I...I got here through a portal." That was all the detail I was going into. Nothing good ever came from Nobodys knowing about my abilities. "I'm a friend of Kairi's."

"You look like her twin."

I merely shrugged the comment away and turned my attention back to the ruins of the city. "What happened to this place?"

Xolette followed my gaze. "Heartless took over a while back. It fell to darkness."

Even though it wasn't my Twilight Town, that still saddened me. "It was such a nice little town. Such nice people living here." Now, I supposed, they were all gone. I wondered briefly what had happened to Olette's other friends, the two boys.

"Yeah. It was." Her voice sounded almost wistful, and there was a faraway look in her golden eyes for a moment before her expression hardened again and she turned back to me. "You shouldn't be here."

I bit down on the inside of my lip. "Yeah, I know. I'm, uh...I was just about to leave." I gestured back down the road the way I had come. Before I turned to go, however, I took another good look at her. Somehow, despite the fact that she was a Nobody and had no real emotions, she struck me as sad.

"Are you...okay?" I ventured. "Do you...I don't know, need any help or anything?"

Her stoic expression creased into a scowl. "Why would I need your help? Get out of here before I throw you out." With those words, she summoned a weapon to her hand that looked suspiciously like Riku's sword.

"Okay!" I threw my hands up in surrender, really not wanting to get in a fight right then. "No need to get violent. I'm gone."

I trotted down the hill, glancing over my shoulder once to see Xolette still standing at the base of the clock tower, watching me go. When I was positive that I was out of her sight and alone, I used Kairi's compact to create a portal back to my bedroom. The familiar atmosphere made me heave a sigh of relief, but didn't stop me from checking to make sure that all of my own possessions were there, just in case I had ended up in some other universe's version of the Yoshida's house. As soon as I was satisfied with that, I made a dark corridor straight to Twilight Town.

The stores were standing cheerfully, the town square was bustling, the sky was its usual bright, sunset colors. The relief fully flooded through me now. I spent some time wandering around, drinking in the normalcy of it all, before I was ready to head back to Destiny Islands. By the time I arrived, Mrs. Yoshida was downstairs in the kitchen, and I joined her.

"What have you been up to this afternoon, sweetie?" she asked as I got out a bowl and some cereal.

I stopped and stared down into the empty bowl for a moment before looking up at her. "I think I just traveled to another parallel universe...different from mine. And I don't ever want to do it again."

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