Hello everyone! Well I've been getting a lot of comments from some of my friends from xanga. I hope you all like this as much as they did! Sorry that I always take so long to update -- We are having exams and I've been studying and reading my book. Since summer is coming, I'll be able to update even more! I also will have some more fan fictions up. I'm working on a new Kingdom Hearts fan fiction that is totally different from this one. I am also finished writing an Azumanga Dioh fan song.

I am going to raise the rating and what the story will be classified under because I am thinking that there will be some violence in later chapters. There is some in this chapter but no too much. I'm sorry about this.

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Chapter 3

Old Friends

I woke up in a small puddle of water. I wasn't quite sure where I was but I had a feeling that I had once been here. It was somewhat cold where I was and everything around me seamed to be water besides the walls, which looked like ice. I wasn't sure why they were ice because you would think it would melt because it seamed to warm for it to be ice.

I got up and started to walk. I fell down a few times before I got comfortable walking. I noticed that there was a small walkway to an entrance to a building. I saw the top of the building where I was and it seamed to be some type of castle.

The walkway led to a small platform that sent you towards the entrance of the castle. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the castle. I was in...

"Hey there is another one over here" I heard someone yell this. They seamed to be near by. I started to walk away but I then heard some one start yelling and screaming in frustration. I looked back to and saw a girl and an older man following me.

I then started to run fast. It took a lot for them to lose track of me. I was glad that I lost track of them because I didn't have my weapon with me. After I came back home I decided to destroy my weapon. I walked around for a bit more when all of the sudden I heard something else following me. It didn't sound like a person in fact I have never heard anything like it. I started to run faster, faster than I have ever ran before. I then discovered that I was in a dead end.

I then caught a glimpse of the thing that was chasing me. 'It was... no It could of been... a heartless.' It jumped out from the shadows and grabbed hold of my arm, digging its sharp claws into my skin. I started to shake my arm hoping that it would let go but it was no use.

It started to then scratch at my chest. I knew that it wanted my heart. I screamed and I punched the heartless as much as I could but it was no use. I knew that no matter what I would end up losing my heart.

I couldn't struggle anymore. I was too worn out from trying to keep the heartless away from my heart but I couldn't move anymore. There were cuts all over my body from the heartless's claws trying to get to my heart but missing and then ending up to scratch my other arm.

The heartless took up its arm and with me no longer struggling had a clear shot to my heart. Just as the heartless got hold of my heart, I saw the darkness of the heart. It was like being close to something you love but you can't seam to reach it. It was almost like reliving the time when Sora closed Kingdom Hearts, locking Riku in there with the king. There seamed to be no hope left for me. I was to be lost in the darkness for the rest of eternity.

There was a familiar voice coming somewhere around me. "A light shies it's brightest when encircled by darkness." There was another voice that also sounded familiar "There is always a small glimmer of light in darkness."

"A glimmer of hope" I said to myself. There was a glimmer of hope in this dark heart and I was going to get out no matter what!

Just then a blinding light came. I was back to where I was last. The heartless was still there. It didn't seam to have engulfed my heart yet.

The heartless noticed that I was not dead and started to attack me again. I then noticed that there was a sword at the edge of my feet. I quickly picked it up and killed the Heartless.

I wasn't sure what it was that I used to kill the heartless with or even how it got there. It just appeared. I looked down at the sword. It was like nothing I have ever seen before. It was lightweight but it looked like it would weight a lot.

I suddenly heard voices coming from behind me. It was the same voices that I heard when I fist came here, the ones that were chasing me. I turned around to see who they were and I saw that the girl was chasing me again. I was still having trouble walking since the fight with the heartless so I stood there hoping that she would miss.

Sadly she punched me right in the nose. She pinned me to the ground. My sword fell out of my hands when she pinned me to the ground and my sword was thrown out of reach. I struggled to get her off me when all of the sudden the other man called out "Yuffie, stop."

Yuffie? Was that her? The last time I saw her and the others was two years ago. I then closed my eyes knowing that I was no longer in danger at the moment.

Yuffie then let go of me and started to yell at the other man. "Squall what are you talking about? She's most likely working with them!"

Squall- I mean Leon? He was here too? I ken then that I had to be in Hollow Bastion since that's where Yuffie and Squall boat grew up.

"Lets take her back home, she's most likely weak with that fight with the heartless." I felt Leon pick me up. I then started to fall asleep while he took me back to a small house.

End Chapter 3

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Yes I know this was a very short chapter compared to the other chapters. I just thought that this was a good place to stop the chapter.

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