A/N: Yo! I'm back! I don't really have anything to say, except that I am grounded from my computer. Then how did I type this, you ask? Simple. I have to do slave labor to earn back time on my computer. X.x

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Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts is property of Square and Disney. Lilith, Chemuk, the doctor dude (Lilith's dad), the Nekohoshi sisters, and this plot are mine.

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Two Words: Catapulting Teacups.

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Shinjite|Believe

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Chapter 02: Garasu Yoake ~ Glass Dawn

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"Come on now, you little brat!"

Yuu slapped the woman in the cage, who, in response, snarled venomously and flared the large bat wings connected to her shoulder blades. "You're my daughter, you HAVE to listen!"

The woman bent her head down, bright red hair hiding her unnaturally yellow eyes. "You wish. You aren't my father – just a man with the same genes as me!"  Yuu growled and slapped her again.

"Shut up bitch! You're nothing but a failed experiment! You don't even have a name!"

The woman grinned, and wiggled her wrists in the shackles. "You're very much wrong, buddy. For one I DO have a name. A very nice name! It's Lilith.

Yuu growled.

"And for two... I'm no failed experiment!" She growled and pulled her wrists apart with inhuman strength, before the chain linking the cuffs twisted and snapped, freeing her arms.

"No!" Yuu flinched back. With her arms free, she could...

"Chaos flare!" She wrapped one hand around the metal bar holding the cage door shut, narrowed her eyes, and the bar started to glow, changing from a deep red to a eerie blue, to a burning white.

"No..." Yuu made a wild dash for the safe room, before the steel doors crashed together with a hiss of steam.

"Heh. Weakling!" Lilith smashed the bar with her bare heel, and it split and bent outwards, letting the door swing open. "Perfect." Lilith grabbed a spare lab coat from the rack, before ripping apiece off, and tying her wildly curly hair up into a bun.

She scratched her shoulder, before frowning, and scratching the base of the huge black bat wing. "Well, let's see what daddy-dearest has here..." She glanced through his stack of inventions. "Ooh! Communicator Watches! I'll take these!"

She turned to the next table, but the huge spike on the joint of her left wing brushed a lamp, and she sighed. Lilith sighed, and concentrated, before the wings seemed to fold into her back, and disappear. "Good." She declared, before looking down at her hands. The claw-like nails had turned back into her short lavender painted nails.

She scouted along the table, picking up more inventions, including a pocket plasma gun (with just three shots); a device that would concentrate energy and allow a person to change their size ("Useful for Chemuk... she'll be a lot less conspicuous as a normal-sized dog."); several handguns and holsters (Which she strapped around her waist).

Standing in the corner was a huge boomerang. The points on either end had been sharpened to turn it into a huge shuriken. It was made of some glossy black metal, and Lilith went to lift it. It was rather heavy, which meant most people wouldn't be able to use it efficiently. However, Lilith wasn't most people.

Grinning like the fiend she was, she hefted it onto her back, before pulling a black and silver cloak over the short red spaghetti strap dress her father had put on her. As she dashed out the door, she passed a mirror, and stopped short. The heartless sign had disappeared from her left cheek as well. "Good." She said again, before running up the stairs that lead to the basement of Hollow Bastion.

~§~

"Will she be alright?" Chemuk asked urgently, pointing her large muzzle at the closed door.

"I don't know..." Leon said, pain evident in his eyes. Chemuk whimpered, before nudging his shoulder for comfort.

"My lady would never forgive me if I let her die..." Chemuk declared, shutting her acid green eyes tight. "Or..." She let her eyes open slowly, "If I let one of her dearest friend's hearts be broken." She said quietly, leaving Leon with a surprised look on his face.

"Her fever isn't going down..." Aerith came out, her hands shaking. Cloud looked up from staring at the floor, in his signature pose, leaning against the wall with his arms folded. "I don't know if she'll make it through the night...." Aerith gave up the act, and collapsed to the floor sobbing.

Wordlessly, Cloud crouched down, before lifting her up and carrying her to the other room. "ARGH!" Chemuk burst out, purposely smashing her head against the wall.

"Uh... Chemuk...?" Leon asked in concern.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?! Yuffie-chan gets sick, Aerith-chan gives up and Lilith-cha--- AH! I sense M'lady! She's alive!" Chemuk suddenly burst out, causing Sephiroth to jump.

Chemuk howled a long mournful note, before grabbing Sephiroth's coat and dragging him out the door. "We'll be back!" Chemuk yelled.

"Oh no! We're coming too!" Cloud growled, walking out of the room, and now-calm Aerith close behind, smiling sweetly.

"What about...?" Leon glanced over at Yuffie's closed door.

"Bring her!" Chemuk yipped, running in a circle and waving her twin tails wildly. "M'lady could probably find what's wrong!"

"That's true, Lilith was a... expert at viruses..." Cloud recalled, causing Chemuk to nod her head wildly.

"I can contact her..."

Chemuk closed her eyes, and concentrated, 'Lilith! HEY LILITH!'

'Gaaawwd! Chemuk, you don't have to shout... I got a headache already!'

'Good to hear you're yourself. Where have you been?!'

'Che-Chan... It's Yuu... He's back!'

'WHAT?!?!!'

'DON'T SHOUT!'

Chemuk toppled backwards, her head ringing with Lilith's strong mental shout.

"Chemuk?" Leon asked, squatting down. Chemuk shuddered, the muscles tensing and releasing under her thick coat.

"Sephiroth-san, Cloud-san... It's Yuuyami... he was the one who had Lilith hostage this whole time."

A dread-filled silence filled the room.

"If he's alive, then that means that sick freak will probably..." Sephiroth started.

"Bring Ansem and a army of Heartless back to life." Cloud finished, and Chemuk nodded.

"Well then, we better meet up with Lilith and stop him." A weak voice stated, and the whole room turned to face the source.

Yuffie, dressed in the simple white under kimono that Aerith had changed her into, unadorned with any headbands or anything similar, was leaning against her door's frame. Obviously weak, the sweat running down her brow proof, she smiled weakly.

"Yuffie!" Chemuk and Aerith both shouted, before the girl raised a hand to stop them. "I'm fine, let's just find Lilith and find out what's wrong with me."

~§~

"Wow... this place is different." Lilith stood in the entrance hall, before glancing around. "It's so much more.... cheerful." White roses, the thorns cut off, stood elegantly in crystal vases. Lights danced in the base of the fountain, turning the water red and green and blue. Colorful tapestries hung on the walls.

"I wonder what ever..." Lilith let the boomerang fall to the floor with a loud crash, before she dashed up the stairs, and up through the elaborate Lift Stops. She skid to a halt at the Chapel, staring at the open wall leading to the Grand Chamber.

"I don't think I can take it..." She walked slowly into the room where everything began, and everything ended. There were pools of melted marble that had cooled and reformed. A huge wooden pole, obviously a replacement until another marble column could replace the one that had exploded, supported the upper level.

Lilith closed her eyes, and calmed her jittery nerves, and read the energy waves in the room. There was a high concentration in the upper left corner, where some form of energy transportation had occurred, whether it was a summoned beast to travel with, or a void.

Lilith opened her eyes sadly. No other traces. None. "Ugh......." She dropped to the floor, and frowned. What had happened in the past 6 months she had been gone?

~§~

"Any luck finding any hints on the "Door to the Light"?" Sora asked Donald, who shook his head. "Damn." Sora swore, getting all too fed up with this. He was dying to find Riku, and just go back to Destiny Islands.

"SOOOORRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" An earsplitting shout echoed through the enormous Kingdom.

"Eh?" He asked, looking up.

"We found her! We found her! ... Which means we can find Riku and Mickey!" Chemuk slid through the door, claws unable to stop her two-ton mass on the polished floor, and she slid right past him, toppling over a few bookshelves in the process.

"Not exactly graceful when excited, is she?" Leon asked, sighing and covering his face.

"Nope." Cloud answered, also sighing.

"Found... who?"

"Lilith-Chan... Err, My lady!" Chemuk popped her head out of the pile of books, before displaying her colossal strength by standing up under the 6 solid oak bookshelves and pushing them aside.

"Really?" Sora rose to his feet, and Donald and Goofy both stared.

"How did you get here?!" Donald asked, and Aerith smiled.

"Lilith's ship is fully capable of passing through the walls... but there aren't any walls anyway."

There was a stunned silence from those who didn't know.

"How... How long have they been down?" Sora responded.

"Only a week."

"Well, let's go then!" Sora jumped up, and drew the Ultima Weapon from beside his chair, before laughing.

"He's waaaaaaay too happy-go-lucky." Sephiroth declared, and Chemuk nodded in agreement.

~§~

As it turned out, Mikaa Nekohoshi's accent wasn't the same as Lilith's by coincidence. Mikaa was, in fact, head of the Shadow Guard, an elite band of warriors that fought alongside the Empress.

"It's just my luck, after almost a year, someone who my lady Hime-sama trusts enough to give her mother's pendant to ends up under my roof!"

"Who knew Lilith?" An angry voice growled. Izumi stood in the doorway, one hand squeezing the doorframe so tight that Riku thought it would split.

"That's Lady Hime-sama!" Mikaa growled, jumping to her feet.

"Like I care?! That woman left us here to DIE!"

Rather than Mikaa retaliating, Riku rose to his feet and stepped up to Izumi. He was a good eight inches taller then her, and he looked down on her, blue eyes icy, "Actually, Lilith seemed very dedicated to destroying Maleficent and the Heartless, AND finding the Door to the Dark to save those trapped inside the dark world." Izumi flinched. This guy was a LOT more intense then he first appeared to be.

"O-okay." She stuttered, before dashing out of the room. Mikaa stared, before trotting up to the islander.

"How'd you get her to do that?" Mikaa asked, obviously surprised. Riku shrugged, before turning and leaving.

~§~

Lilith flew throw Hollow Bastion with remarkable speed, bare feet making a constant clapping noise against the cold marble. "Damn it!" Lilith jumped from the ledge of the lift stop, hooked her fingers around the ledge across from her, and flipped up, not even pausing as her feet hit the ground, and tore around the corner.

"If Chemuk leads the others here NOW, they'll have to face my damn father...." Lilith very nearly missed the turn she was supposed to take, throwing her hand out and grabbing the door frame to swing her force in the right direction. "So I've got to stop them!"

Lilith dashed to the head of the Entrance Chamber, and very nearly felt her heart stop. Standing in the center of the hall, was a young woman, her straight ebony locks trailing down to her waist. Her eyes were the color of acid, dangerous and sharp. Her skin was as white as milk, and her nails were painted deep silver. A gown, black as midnight, graced her lithe form. It had no straps, and a black ribbon twisted around her neck several times.

A gasp escaped Lilith's slightly parted lips, and the girl smirked, revealing the one flaw to her appearance. Vampire-like fangs, stained with blood, belied her angelic looks. Lilith smirked and walked down the steps, her smirk growing every step.

The woman took a graceful stride forward, and Lilith came face-to-face, teal meeting acid. Lilith smirked again. "So you found me." The woman grinned again, before shrugging.

"Oh that's right, you're mute."

The woman frowned intensely, and Lilith patted her bare shoulder as apology. Lilith suddenly spun to the doors.

"Che-Chan, change back! Sora's here."

The woman nodded, before a deep violet glow enveloped her, and then the huge black wolf stood in her place.

"Lilith!" Sora ran into the room, where the girl stood. She smiled at him, and turned to face him. "You're alright?"

Lilith puffed up her cheeks, "OF COURSE I'M ALRIGHT! What do you take me for, you?!" She taunted, forcing herself to act normal. Something was nagging at the back of her mind, keeping her from being cheerful. (AN: Remember, Ansem took her BEFORE Riku was sent to the Dark World.)

"Lil!" The redhead looked up, and Cloud and Sephiroth ran over to her.

"Yo." The Empress replied, making the well-known peace sign.

"Where's Yu?!" Cloud growled.

"NO!" Lilith shouted, grabbing his cloak.

"Wha?" Sora asked curiously.

"Yu... he'll kill you all... we've got to leave... we can deal with him later!!!" The girl started pushing on Sephiroth's back, shoving him away.

"Eeehhh......" Chemuk sighed, and everyone followed behind her.

~§~

"Heh..." Yuuyami pushed the metal door open, and the figure within coughed.

"Welcome back to the world of living, Ansem."

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AN: God, did I mention I hate Ansem?

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