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Those who left us in the past,

They just don't seem to matter in the future.

Behind the Darkness

Rushing down the hallway had never felt so different to Kamificent. In times before this, it had normally been a game of tag that had sent her blazing down the hallways after her friends. Sometimes, it had been because they had stolen some food from the kitchens and threw them around the hallways, trying to soil everything in sight. On a night like this one, it had been to escape any prying eyes looking around on all the racket in the halls.

That entire day had been filled with grief, misery, woe, and a hella a lot of questions about Ansem's motives. The people of Hallow Bastion, or those who were left, had come out of hiding to ask what had been happening. It seemed as if the Keyblade Master had given them a ray of hope, and a stinging pain in the chest. Restez and Kamificent had no idea what to do, but they knew that they somehow had to take responsibility for their parent's actions. They had to take care of the castle and use what their parents had left them.

The decisions they made in a couple of hours led to Kami running down the many winding hallways of Hallow Bastion. The girls had found what they needed to do and they both agreed that it was the only right thing left for them to do in memory of their parents. It had been a difficult decision at first for they didn't know if they could even pull off a task like that behind everyone's backs. But in the end, it seemed like the best thing to do.

The girls had decided to remake the Heartless army down in the waterways.

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And he ran across the rooftops of the surrounding city. The fleeting air and aroma of this town at night made it almost impossible for Jesse to think of anything else but what he had to do. The wind whipped his blonde hair and the moonlight shone in his blue eyes, making them almost look silver. He jumped to another rooftop and then another, tearing away all his memories and focusing on this one task.

It had only been a few months since those damned creatures showed their faces in the beautiful city known as Twilight Town. Jesse had grown up here, and his life had been an exciting adventure with his little sister up until those things arrived. Chaos had ruled over the city for countless days, almost ruining the whole place in the name of all that was unholy. The second they showed up, he knew something was amiss, and now they had done the unthinkable.

It had been easier before to just destroy them with a flick of this weapon he had received, but on a night like this, it was seemingly impossible. It was true that Jesse had gotten the Keyblade as a gift from an unknown voice. He had the same dream as another Keyblade Master had once and he had taken the Keyblade as his own in that time of peril. The same night he got it was the same night in which the Heartless had shown up in Twilight Town. Their darkened bodies and twitching movements had scared most of the inhabitants away, except for a few thieves and some murderers.

Jesse had also learned how to use two Keyblades at once. It had been a hard task to accomplish, but after a while, he had mastered it simply enough. However, tonight, he couldn't so much as summon his Keyblades for fear of losing the one thing he could not lose again. His little sister was in trouble, and the only reason why was because Jesse couldn't save her from his older brother.

The eldest of the family had become a murderer after their parents had died, and he exiled himself to another island for fear of shaming the family further. Unfortunately, he had come back once Jesse was proclaimed protector of the family name and Marisol, his little sister. Jesse's brother had been blabbering on about some Organization that he was part of, and for some strange reason, he had appeared wearing a black cloak.

It seemed so complicated to the young blonde. His brother had challenged him to a fight, and once he had accepted, the fight commenced between the two. It had ended with Jesse winning, and gaining some new knowledge from his elder brother, however, some strange new Heartless had circled around them. These Heartless were quite different from what Jesse was used to, and therefore, he didn't know how to respond at all. They twitched like the old style, but were white and gray, and the symbol on their chests seemed to make something in the back of his mind quiver.

Those same Heartless lurched forward and attacked the two brothers. The eldest disappeared in a flash, leaving Jesse to fend for himself with his two Keyblades and his knowledge of the battlefield. There had been a scream from the next room over in his house, and he saw his sister being taken away by some more of those Heartless. This had sent him running along the rooftops, searching for an answer.

"I'm coming, Marisol. Just hold on, and I'll be there to save you." He muttered through gritted teeth.

Jesse couldn't explain how, or why, but he knew exactly where these Heartless would bring his little sister. It had been the first place that he had seen such creatures, however, they were the black kind, the kind that reminded him of shadows. His friends had been hanging out atop the clock tower of Twilight Town after winning a trophy of some sort. They had each pulled off their orb; Jesse going last to pull off the blue orb he claimed was his. The second his sphere was removed, those black Heartless appeared all over the tower and began to attack the teenagers. That same night, his dream showed him the true path he was destined to take with the Keyblades in his hands.

Just as the past vanished from his memory, he approached the top of a building at top speed and Jesse stopped short, eyes wide. A giant orb stood upon the top of the clock tower, glowing purple and black. His mouth dropped open as his whole body locked up. Marisol was there, and he knew she was in danger by the way the Heartless seemed to snicker at him behind his back. At the top of the tower, where Jesse and his friends had been sitting nights before, was Marisol, her red hair blowing with the night wind.

"Marisol…" He whispered through grit teeth and sprang off towards her.

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"What are you going to do again?" The brown haired girl said, leaning against the wall.

"Well, this machine here is the same one Ansem used to make all those Heartless that took over the worlds." Kamificent nodded to herself, taking out another wrench from the toolbox.

"And… we're going to take over the worlds again?"

She shook her head, "No, no. We're going to get revenge, my dear." Kami chuckled to herself and went under the machine again to repair it more.

"Well, I wanna take over the worlds." Restez sighed, her gaze settling to the floor.

"We can do both if you truly want to, lovely."

"…What's with the pet names, Kamificent?" Her eyes rested on Kami's back, a glare trying to burn through her heart.

"Hee, hee. That's nothing for you to be worried about. For now, gimme a screwdriver!"

Upon making their decision to remake the Heartless army, the two girls had headed deep down into the waterways to rebuild what they had remembered of the whole ordeal. It had been several years since Ansem had even started building up the army to take over the worlds in the name of science. Due to some freak accident, his motives were switched around and he only wanted power from the darkness. Since his defeat, Kamificent and Restez needed to rethink their options.

It was true that Ansem was dead and Sora, the Keyblade Master, was responsible for his death. It was also true that Sora was a hero to many a people in the universe. Although most did not know his name, he was revered by so many as being a savior, even to the smallest of people. However, the prophecy about the Keyblades had only begun where Sora's journey ended, and Kami was the only person who saw it slowly unfolding itself.

But it had been a difficult thing to discover all on her own in Hallow Bastion. She had known of some sort of prophecy involving the Keyblade and its master when she was younger, and it had only become apparent that the prophecy was true when she overheard some older children talking about it. It had been a fairy tale to a small child until that day, and until the next day, when she had found out more than what she bargained for. Many rumors were flying about the castle in those days, some of which were completely false, and others that were very much true.

For one thing, Ansem appeared to be disappearing around the castle at that time. He had been traveling down into the Waterways for quite some time and hadn't been returning until really late in the evenings. He skipped over meals and important meetings with the people of the castle. He didn't even seem to care about his daughter anymore. That was where Kami and her mother stepped in to help take care of Restez and the rest of the castle. It was how her mother took a strong hold over the castle and drove all the people in it to other worlds, or to darkness itself.

She had every intent on keeping the castle to herself with the use of Ansem's new and improved Heartless that he had created down in the Waterways. Of course, there were people who had escaped the evil fairy's tyranny and Hallow Bastion itself. But now, those people were the ones who could endanger Kami and Restez's plans of revenge and the spreading of darkness.

A small gray ball of fuzz zoomed down and landed on Restez's shoulder, "Oh, hey Steve." She smiled at it, scratching it behind its ears.

Kami hit her head trying to get out from under the Heartless machine, "Meh? Steve?"

"Yup! It seems like the little fella came down to visit us." Restez grinned at Kami.

"He aint the only one, gurlies." The two of them turned to find Cid walking down the stairs with Squall in tow.

"Now what do we have down here?" Squall crossed his arms over his chest, his famous attitude already showing its true colors.

"Uh… I can explain."

((End of Chapter Two!))

AN: hope you guys enjoyed that! Heh, Thanks go to my friend Mike for breaking my writer's block… THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! See ya next chapter!