Well, I decided to completely start over on this. I went back over through it, trying to pick up where I left off, and found out that this was REALLY bad. So I'm trying again. I think I can do much better. So here we go.

Haven't I already said this once? I don't own Kairi or Sora, or any of that stuff. I do own my characters. So there.

A teenage girl stood on the dock of the smallest island in a chain of islands, known to the locals as Destiny Islands. She had just stepped out of her boat that she had paddled to the island in, so she bent down to tie it to the little dock. Her shoulder length chestnut hair fell in her icy blue eyes. A tarnished, undecorated, simple sword was laying on the dock nearbyjust barely reflecting the bright sun above. After securely tying up the little wooden boat, Julie stood up and picked up her sword. She walked down to the beach, scanning the horizon for her friends. They had told her to meet them there, for the Annual Destiny Islands Fighting Tournament was tomorrow, and they all wanted to get in some last minute practice. 'Where is everyone?' Julie wondered, as she sat down on a log.

Julie had just started to day dream when she felt someone tickle her sides from behind. She emitted a small shriek, and wriggled out of her tickler's grasp. She looked back to see that it was one of her friends, Riku. Julie smiled as she noticed that he had brought his sword as well, it meant that the guys hadn't used the promise of practice as a lure to get Julie out of the house and over to the island that the teens played upon. His sword wasn't very old, for it still had the slight shine of newly forged metal. It was simple enough, a standard blade with a black handle. It matched the teen's dark clothing, which were identical to what his father wore when he was at Riku's age.

Riku was almost identical to his father, Sora, with the slight exception of his hair. His hair was the same color as his father's although it didn't have the insane gravity defying locks that his father possessed. Instead they just hung loosely, more like his mother, Kairi. They were still short and choppy, but most certainly a bit more vertically challenged than Sora.

"So you're here. But where is Zade?" Riku asked as he sat down on the log. Julie was brushing the sand off of her black cargos as she responded.

"I have no idea. I pretty much just got here. I didn't pay any attention to see if his boat was here either."

"It's here. This isn't that big of an island, so it won't take too long to find him." Riku commented. "Got any idea where he might be?"

Julie adjusted her white tank while she thought. After going through her mental list of places he would most likely be, she came to a conclusion. "I bet I know where he is. I'll be right back."

Julie walked off behind Riku, towards the waterfall. She walked over to the left side of the waterfall, and lifted up the sheet of ivy that covered the entrance to the Secret Place. She walked through the short hallway and into the main cavern. Just as she imagined, there was Zade, sitting on a rock and staring off into space. His gleaming black sword was in the corner, sitting idly. It had been a gift to him for his recent sixteenth birthday from his parents. They let him pick out the one he liked the most, so he chose a ornate black sword that featured bright red flames down the blade.

Julie smiled as she watched him as he was zoned out. She enjoyed to study his sculpted arms and haunting grey eyes. His jet black hair was slightly ruffled due to the unusually strong summer winds that were visiting the islands, and his weathered jeans and black shirt showed the signs of a recent trip across the small area of water that separated the two islands. Julie you could say liked Zade, although she didn't really know much of what to make about her feelings, since her only friends were Riku and Zade. They were all the family she possessed, for her mother had died during childbirth and her father was killed by the heartless two years ago.

"Dreaming about other worlds again?" she said quietly. He gave a small jump, having been taken totally aback from Julie's silent entry. His pale face became flushed with pink, as he stood up.

"Oh, hey Julie. I didn't realize it was you," he said quickly. "You scared me there."

Julie smiled. "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to." She said. "I was just trying to find you. Riku is already here, and we're all ready to train. All we need is you."

Zade nodded. "Well then what are we waiting for?"

The two teens exited the cave and walked back to the beach.

"Look who I found hiding in a cave!" Julie said, her voice full of spunk. She was already excited about getting to get an idea about how hard the tournament was going to be. The tournament was always the highlight of the summer, and everyone on the islands came to watch. Riku stood up right as Julie and Zade reached him.

"Hey Riku. Sorry about hiding like that. I figured it would be a while before you two would wake up. I guess time just got away from me" Zade explained.

"So who's going first?" Julie asked. They each looked at each other and Zade said, "Ladies first." Riku walked towards the ocean and said, "I'll go if that's fine with you Zade." Zade shook his head and said, "Go right ahead. I'll battle the winner." He then sat back on the log to watch the battle. Julie and Riku each took their places facing one another in the middle of the beach. The sun was shining down brightly, and the breeze had died down. A seagull flew overhead, screeching as it went by. Then Julie leapt and made a strike at Riku. Riku swung his sword up, effectively blocking her attack. He then swung it back around, aiming at her side. She jumped back and casted water on him.

"Thanks for cooling me off. It's such a hot day." He said to her, grinning.

"You're going to think hot when the sweat is pouring down your face from fighting me." She responded, a grin on her face as well.

No one noticed when the wind picked up again, carrying dark clouds from the horizon over their island. Julie cast thunder, and zapped Zade. "Nice one" he said as he ran at her. He jumped up high, and Julie's eyes followed him. He was high enough that thebarely visiblesun blinded her as he brought his sword down upon her. He stopped just short of hitting her.

"You lose" he said, a triumphant grin on his face.

"Wow, what a great win for you." Julie said sarcastically, as she blinked furiously, trying to regain her normal vision."Blinding me with the sun is such an honorable way to win."

"Using your settings to your advantage is something you need to work on." Zade said from the sides, in his usual calm voice.

"Why thank you Mr. Tournament champion." Julie said, as a grin spread across her face. "Oh, wait. I forgot! I won last year. That's right…"

"You won't be so lucky this year." Zade said.

The three friends continued to battle for the rest of the day, until the sun began to set. Then they headed over to the small peninsula, where they each picked a coconut. Julie jumped on the paopu tree and leaned against the trunk, while Zade sat on the sand and Riku sat next to her. They were each drinking the sweet milk from the coconuts when Julie broke the silence.

"I wonder if we ever really will see other worlds" she said quietly.

"I'm not sure that we want to." Riku said. "Look at my parents. They lost their best friend and nearly each other."

For once, Zade piped up. "But look at what they accomplished. They saved all of the worlds from Ansem and the heartless. And they still do have each other. If it had never happened, do you think they would have known the things about one another that they know now?"

Julie shrugged. "True. All I care about is that we stay together. I don't know what I'd do without you two." She said, softly smiling. She wasshowing a rare stroke of maturity, something you hardly ever saw in the tomboyish teen.

"Yeah." Riku commented.

"I agree."

(Julie's Point of View)

After we had finished our coconuts, we each headed our separate ways to rest up for the big day tomorrow. I stepped into my small house that I called home. It wasn't much, just enough space for me and my possessions. My dad had been killed by the heartless, and my mother in childbirth so I was alone. I was about fourteen when he was killed. As I sat my sword next to the door, I considered what to eat for dinner. My stomach growled loudly, signifying that it wished to eat spaghetti.

AfterI had eaten dinner, I decided to go ahead and go to sleep for the night. I went to my room and changed into a pair of plaid boxers and a white cami, and collapsed on my bed, exhausted. I quickly fell asleep unintentionally, with the light still on.

I awoke in a dark arena type area, where a soft spotlight was on me. Another spotlight appeared on a hooded figure.

"What the hell? Where am I?" I said quickly. I thought I had fallen asleep on my bed! "And who are you?" I added.

"That is irrelevant. What does matter is who you are, Julia." The figure said. I cocked my head. Who calls me by my full name?

"You are the wielder of the keyblade that they all seek. You do not know this, but you wield a great power in your heart and in that key. You are they key. Your destiny, your friends' destinies, the destiny of the worlds, they all lie in your hands. Darkness is approaching quickly, but what will you do? Embrace it? Or will you try to fight? Just don't forget that you hold they key. You will be the one to determine your fate. The power is in your hands. Don't forget this."

The cloaked man then turned around and walked out of the light. Then the light ceased to exist. It was pitch black darkness. I felt my keyblade appear into my hands. It was emitting a slight glow. But why was it? It had never done this before… Then I realized as I looked up why it was glowing. In front of me was a huge dark creature, with long legs and arms and a huge heart shape missing in its torso. "What in the hell?..." I murmured.

I had little time to figure out what it was before it tried to bring its gigantic hand down upon me. I leapt out of the way and brought my keyblade into a defensive stance. I still couldn't believe the thing was here. I mean, I thought it was locked away in my room! Looking at it though, producing a heavenly white glow from the pure white surface of it, it reminded me of that the figure had said. If I determine my fate, then I will get through this. So I leapt towards the black creature, attempting to strike it wherever I could hit. I managed to hit its arm fairly hard, which seemed to anger it, since it slammed the ground where I had just stood. I thought I was fine since the punch had obviously missed me, but when darkness started to spread from his hand, I jumped away. I couldn't run for long before the darkness began to surround me.

I jolted up from my laying position. I was back in my room, with everything normal. My mom must had come in during the night and turned off my light, because it was now dark. Was all of that just a dream? I could have sworn it was real. I felt the cold metal of my keyblade in my hands; I heard the man's voice. But waking up in my room told me it was a dream. All of my thoughts about that dream quickly disappeared when I heard a loud clap of thunder. I looked out my window over my bed to see if it was raining. It wasn't just raining, it seemed to be pouring. Yet in the pouring rain, I saw shapes moving on the beach of our island that Riku, Zade, and I had just been on a few hours ago.

Gut feeling told me to go see what they were, so I reached under my bed and pulled out a long, locked rectangular box. I had kept my keyblade a secret from everyone, although I neverreally knew why.I pulled the chain from around my neck and used the key at the end to unlock it. Inside gleamed my keyblade. It was glowing just like in my dream, and the white of the metal seemed to be even brighter. Even the archaic text that said "Purity" seemed to glow. Taking this as a sign of bad news, I changed quickly into a pair of light blue jeans, a light blue cami, and a black scoop neck long sleeve shirt. I also grabbed a black hoodie and my keyblade and left my home.

After I had paddled to the island in the pouring rain, I stepped out of my boat to find odd little black bug creatures all over the island. It seemed the second my foot touched the dock they all saw me. I was soon surrounded. I fought my way to the beach, trying to see if I was alone on the island, when they finally enclosed me in a circle. Every where I looked all I could see were the creatures. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I knew what these things are. I couldn't believe I didn't recognize the darkside when I saw it. They were all heartless. I remember having seen a drawing of different ones that Sora had seen on his journeys. Knowing this, I knew these things should be easily defeated. There was just one problem. It was one keyblade against what seemed to be a million heartless. The island looked to be covered in darkness, there were so many of them. I was just starting to become afraid when I heard something that I had never been so glad to hear in my life.

"Need some help?"

Chapter one, finished. Wow. I can't belive I've started this. I'm just completely starting over. Wow. Anyone care to remind me that I'm crazy? Do me a favor, and give the hopeless writer a review. I'd appreciate it. I need something to tell me that I'm not totally wasting my time.