Sora hesitantly walked across the trashed ground of scrap metal that was pounded into the earth below his feet. Zidane simply hopped across each and every way, quickly trying to catch up with Aleisa who didn't seem to care where she stepped. Zidane obviously knew his way around here.
Sora found himself on the other side of the Pandemonium and safely on firm ground. He quickly followed Zidane up a flight of stairs as Zidane challenged his speed after Aleisa. What's wrong with her? Sora kept questioning himself.
As they passed through a narrow hallway, a rusted, metal shaft closed over their entrance and exit. Sora jumped, and turned to see that Zidane obviously did not hear them being closed in. He glanced back and forth between the entrance and hallway that slanted at a thirty degree angle as it approached a room of glowing mushroom shaped boles.
Aleisa made her way past the glowing enigma of blue light. If activated inadequately, a fiend would appear. Aleisa found her way through the puzzle and onto the glowing bridge ahead.
"It's a trap," Zidane said, quickly steering way of the glowing shrooms. "Try not to get around the-"
Sora lost his balance on the uneven floor and fell overtop a bole. Zidane blinked.
"Lights..?" Sora said as he looked up to a large, flying creature with a misfigured face and sharp talons. It raised it's claws to strike at Sora's face when Zidane jumped atop of it and stabbed it in the back with his dagger.
"Go!" he shouted to Sora as the blade pierced through the fiend's flesh. "You gotta catch up to her!"
Sora squeezed around the fiend and ran ahead for the bridge that began to dissipate. He heard Zidane's voice trail behind and stopped to see a pendant fly through the air. He caught it seconds before it fell to the hard ground below and shattered.
"Follow her to the end of Pandemonium and insert those in the cavities." Zidane struck his second dagger into the fiend's face and it cried out in pain. "Hurry," Zidane added, and whilst distracted, looking to Sora, the fiend swiftly knocked him to Sora's side and nearly over the cliff where the bridge illuminated.
"Zidane!" Sora yelled, and knelled to his side. Zidane struggled to his feet.
"Don't worry about me," he said, wiping away a trickle of blood from his lip. "I'll take care of him." He charged in at the fiend again, and Sora saw that the bridge had almost completely disappeared. He sprinted most of the way and as the bridge glew a bright red a moment before complete dissipation, he jumped and clinged to the edge of the cliff. He felt his ribs take the blow as his torso pounded into the cliff side, and he cried out in pain. He struggled over the edge and knelled for a moment to catch the wind that was knocked from him.
He jogged and held his side as he heard echoing footsteps up the climbing cliffs over his head. He quickly ran onto a transporter, and activated each from cliff side to cliff side. He walked past a small moogle who flew up in a panic.
"Where are you going, kupo! There's danger in yonder!" it chirped frantically.
"My friend's in there," Sora said, wincing as he stopped for the break.
"But something's wrong, kupo! She was acting very strange, kupo!"
"She's just mad cause I mentioned another girl friend of mine, and she's probably jealous." He looked up and towards the light that shown at the end of the long cave ahead. "Now, lemme pass."
The small moogle refused to move, it's pompom in a puff. "No! It's too dangerous, kupopo!"
Sora swiftly moved past the moogle. "I don't have time for this!" he said, and stomped forward into the caverns. At the end of the dark hall, he saw Aleisa standing at the end of a cliff, where several indentions in a single stone floated in the air in front of her. Her back was turned on him.
"Aleisa, you got the other two stones, right?" Sora said, walking closer to her.
When Sora walked close enough to clearly see Aleisa's face, her eyes were no longer green, but blue. Her hair began to turn a reddish tint, and Sora jumped back when he saw how closely she started looking like Kairi. Her face was in a blank stare.
"Kairi..I mean, Aleisa?"
Aleisa smiled. "Wrong," she said in a hollow voice. Her facial structure began to physically change, and a phantom with red hair and a black trench coat arose from her body. Sora ran to her as her eyes rolled back in her head and she fell to the ground. Sora held her in his arms and looked up to her the floating young man.
"Who are you!" he demanded.
This young boy refused his question. "Some call me a Heartless in the shape of a human. Technically, I'm a former keyblade wielder who craved power and my soul has become that of a Heartless."
Sora's eyes of anger turned to anxiety. "I'm not the only keyblade wielder?"
He looked down to Aleisa. "She was jealous of her own sister. Jealous that you liked Kairi instead of her, and that jealousy and envy turned to hatred. Her heart became dark." He smirked. "Which is where I came in. I possessed her to come this far. That is why her physical speed surpassed even that of Zidane."
"Answer me! Are you the only other keyblade wielder!" Sora shouted.
The boy's smile faded. "No, there is someone else you know very well who is also a keyblade wielder." He floated overtop Aleisa and looked down to her. "There is also someone who knows Kairi very well and is a keyblade wielder. He just isn't aware of it yet. Ones heart does not have to be pure to be a keyblade wielder." He looked to Sora and grinned. "He will soon become a keyblade wielder because of your intentions."
"What do you mean? How do you know all of this? Who are you!" Sora asked.
"I was called Axel," he said, closing his eyes and flicking his long bangs away from his forehead. With this, a dark plasma engulfed him and he disappeared.