Dive to Oblivion
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Squirrel Tamer

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

Chapter 1
Disconnected

Far away the laughter turned to gentle snores, three figures were laying on the ground but only two of them were really asleep. The one that was left awake tossed and turned, trying his hardest to join the others in peaceful slumber, but something was holding him back. Maybe it was the fact that once again him and his companions had lost their guide and were left following their own terrible sense of direction. Even as the thought crossed his mind he dismissed it, there was another reason he was still awake, he felt like he had forgotten something very important.

Then he knew exactly what he had forgotten, he walked a little bit away from his two companions, and came to a crossroad. This was a perfect spot for him to accomplish his task.

He looked up towards the heavens, knowing that it was the one thing besides his heart that was connected to her.

He threw open his arms and whispered, Good night, Kairi.

He took one final look around himself, praying that she heard him, even though they were both so very far away from one another. He turned around to head back to camp and then realized that he had almost forgotten something else. He smiled at how bad his memory could be sometimes. He looked over his shoulder, back to the crossroads, and with a grin on his face he whispered more words that were lost in the wind.

Good night, Riku.

The boy headed back to his companions, to sleep peacefully for at least one night.

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Four Years Later...



But, Mistress, where will you go? asked a very short balding man to the dark girl.

I do not know Mr.Bernard, I only know that I must leave.

But it is impossible, the door has been closed, you have said so yourself. You have known for the past four years. Your mother failed, you must accept it.

Indeed, I do accept it, and it seems as though you do not understand me Mr.Bernard. You never have, you think that I am my mother, but I'm not, and I am not my father either. I am me, Laleah, daughter of Maleficent and a man who I never knew. But I am also so much more than that, for I have known my whole life that I am not like either of them. My heart may be surrounded by darkness, but the darkness has never been able to touch it. My heart remains one of light, and it will never be consumed by darkness, she quietly spilled this all out
to him.

Bernard just stared at her like an brainless idiot. Unable to think of how to respond except to stammer out:

Y-yes ma'am, I will have all of your things r-ready b-b-by tomorrow afternoon.

Thank-you Mr.Bernard.

Bernard ran as fast as he could out of her room. Laleah was so glad that he was gone, he had no mind of his own, he only did what others told him to do. Plus she hated always having to talk so proper around him, but mainly how he was actually a mindless idiot. The truth was that was how everyone in her world seemed to be, except Kem. Kem was the only real friend that Laleah ever had. He was never afraid to say what he wanted and he usually made good decisions, those were the reasons she had decided to leave him in charge.

Suddenly things were beginning to look up for her. Tomorrow she would be long gone and finally free of this world. But then again there was the fact that she didn't know how to leave. She figured that she'd figure it out when she was ready to leave and who knew, maybe she would find someone that could help her.

Laleah lay back on her bed and closed her eyes when she was suddenly overcome by fear. She felt as though she was no longer laying down, but floating high in the air. She was afraid to open her eyes, but she did.

She was flying, but if you wanted to be precise, you would say that she was actually falling. She felt herself falling, she had never liked heights and was especially not enjoying the thought of falling from a most terribly high altitude. At least the ocean below her would help break her fall.

Ocean? How is that possible, I was laying in my own bed, only a minute ago. I have never even seen a real ocean before. But this ocean seems familiar like one from a story that mother once told me. It was a story about the ocean of different skies. Could this ocean be the same one?

And as these thoughts ran through her mind she plunged into the icy cold depths, down into the dark. It was impossible for her to breath, and she couldn't move anything either. She realized that this would most likely be the place where she would die.

But suddenly she found that the ocean was no more. It still surrounded her, but it wasn't the same and she could breath again. She looked around and then she heard a voice speak:

So much to do,

So little time...

Take your time.

Don't be afraid


Once again the door is shut.

Now step forward.
Can you do it?

She cautiously looked around for the source of the voice, but no one was there. She carefully placed one foot forward and then the other, until she reached a light. As she touched the light, the ground began to tremble and the voice spoke again as a great pillar rose.

Power sleeps within you.

A shield appeared on the first pillar and a second pillar began to rise.

If you give it form...

This time a staff appeared, and yet another pillar rose.

It will give you strength.

Upon this last one appeared a sword and the voice spoke two last words:

Choose well.

Laleah had never seen anything as powerful as these three weapons, not even her mothers magic staff. The power inside of them scared her. She new that it could very well be corrupted. She longed for something else, something just as powerful but warmer, she just didn't know what. Then she caught a glimmer of light from behind the shield's pillar.

She went over to it and saw that it was an old mirror, the glass was cracked and broken, and the rest of it was rusted. She was glad for the broken glass, she hated the reflection that would have stared back at her, but even as the slight glimpse of joy passed her mind it faded, the mirror would have been beautiful, it was awful to see such a thing of beauty laying in ruin, unceremoniously tossed behind a pillar of lies.

Without realizing what she was doing, she gently picked up the mirror. As she did so, the mirror began to change, it seemed as though it was repairing itself. The glass slowly returned, and the rest of it returned to its original state. She smiled and then looked into it to see her reflection, to make up for her earlier thoughts. When she looked into it she immediately gasped, because the image in the mirror was not her own and then the voice came again, although different this time:

Get out! Leave this place, you are not wanted here at all! GO!!!

The voice frightened her, she looked around for a way out, when the ground began to shake and suddenly a huge, black creature appeared. She screamed and ran, the creature followed. She knew what it was, she had grown up surrounded by them, her mother had led them for many years, but eventually they destroyed her.

Laleah ran all the way to the edge of the platform. It was a long way down, but it was the only way out. She turned back to the creature and uttered one word:



Then she jumped, and she screamed the whole way down.

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Sora sighed, they were lost again it seemed, he wondered if Donald and Goofy had realized it yet. They seemed to be getting lost quite a bit in the past four years. He was hungry and tired from having walked for the past three days, with barely any food or sleep. He hoped that they would come to the next town soon, he was starving. It seemed like he was living an endless story that would never stop. The only good thing was that he hadn't seen a single heartless since he sealed the door. Not that he didn't still practice fighting, just in case. He just hoped he was still just as good as he once was.

There was something else that had been bugging him for awhile. They had been traveling in the same direction for the past four years, but they still had not come upon the crossroad. It seemed impossible that Sora had walked farther than he was now in just thirty minutes, those four long years ago.

There was another feeling growing too, he felt as though he was being watched. Day and night he felt this way, and it made it difficult to sleep.

There was also the ever present feeling that something was beginning to disappear. This feeling began just a month ago, but it still seemed strange. Whatever was disappearing was something important to him, something like a connection between his heart and Kairi's. He tried pushing the idea to the back of his mind, saying that it was only because he was tired that he was losing the feeling of their united hearts.

He took a few more steps, when he suddenly doubled over, grabbed his chest and cried out:

Oh, no!

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Far away, on an island that was once called the Children's Paradise, a young woman stood looking out to the ocean. She saw a single meteor fall from the sky and then a terrible pain overwhelmed her. She couldn't breathe, it felt like someone had just ripped her heart out. Then she realized a startling truth.

"His voice... It's left me."

Then she fainted.

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A/N: Got Chapter 1 out and now Sora enters the story. Hope you like it, and please review! Hope to see ya back again for Chapter 2: Transfiguration.