A/n: one review and that's who I will thank at the end.

Change of Heart

Chapter 4: Aides

They both stood out by the shore the girl and an enraged Riku, along silence was ringing between them, and the only audible sound was the waves crashing against the shore.

"Then who does!" Riku screamed over the sound, his tone of voice didn't phase her. She just turned to him with her face as straight as board, not letting any emotion slip she said,

"Ansem does." Riku froze on spot, eyes wide from shock.

Kairi lay in her bed her hair fanned out on her pillow, she breathed softly as she slept. Sora was right at her bed side gazing down at her, and never looking away as though he didn't want to miss a thing.

His eyes scanned her, worried looking for a way to help her.

Something inside Kairi snapped, and she grabbed her chest, jolting awake screaming in pain. She was sitting up leaning over the side of the bed; just her screams hurt him, they were the distress of a person in real pain.

She felt as if her chest was collapsing and unable to bring the air back that she needed she screamed louder as the pain grew, consuming her whole body. Sora held her shoulders; he had no idea ho to help her right now he wasn't a miracle worker.

Her wheezing scrambled her brain from the lack of air, and she became dizzy falling from the bed making a loud thud against the old wooden floors Sora followed her every movement helping her, making sure she wouldn't hurt herself anymore.

He looked at her, balled up on the floor in a fetal position. Her once smiling dark blue eyes were now wide from shock; they almost looked like they would pop right out of the socket.

Sora almost wanted to cry. He didn't wish for her to feel this kind of pain, he now wished it was him that got this sickness rather than Kairi, and by the looks of it she would be lucky to make it.

She hardly moved like when her heart was stolen by the heartless, a zombie, a vegetable. She was alive but not there. Not thinking anything.

"Ansem? Sora destroyed him." Riku stated with pride trying to come up with some fact that she was lying.

"Are you sure? Did you make sure that he didn't go back into a rehabilitation state, and made you think he was dead just so he could recover like when he fought Sora? You don't." She spat back at him feeling that gooey ball of anger rise again. "Nothing can protect you for what's to come. I don't know all the details, but I know enough to leave. This wont be my fight." Her voice was now calm and she turned to Riku, her lips curving she gave him a sweet smile, and for once she didn't look the least bit angry even her eyes were laughing.

Riku seemed tempted to return her smile, but didn't.

"If this isn't your fight then why are you here? Why did you end up on the beach, and why did you appear to me on the Island that evening? If what you say is true then you also have a part in this. You wouldn't appear out of no where if you didn't." His words shocked her; she never took the time to think about those incidents.

"Look I have to go if-" She paused just she heard a snipping noise in her head like scissors cutting a thick strand of hair then her body went numb and she collapsed still conscious. She felt as though a part of her life was gone, or was it just a memory. Something she witnessed before.

Truthfully she didn't know her past, or what happened, and how she came here, or why she was even here. She was in the same boat as Kairi whenever that question was asked.

Regaining feeling she slowly stood back up as though it was nothing.

"Like I was saying. I have to go…but if you are in trouble call me I'll come." She slowly started to walk away her body slowly started to become transparent, and when the though of his dream struck him he had to stop her.

"WAIT!" Riku called, sounding desperate. She turned to him with again a straight face but also a hint of curiosity. "I- Is your name Aides?" He asked sounding uncertain.

She almost seemed shocked or was very close to it. She gapped her mouth open but her throat closed not letting anything come out. Her body became solid again

"How did you know? I never told you or any one." She was almost demanding an answer, but tried keeping it as low-key as possible. Riku mildly debated in his mind whether or not he should tell her about his dream, he decided not to.

"Just a lucky guess." He replied hoping she would take that excuse, too bad she didn't.

"No, it wasn't a 'lucky guess'." She started to get suspicious and had a feeling that Riku knew something. "What is it?" Now she was demanding, and before Riku could speak Sora yelled his name. Again it was nothing like the childish boy-who-cried-wolf cry.

Sora appeared over the vision line at the end of the island, and collapsed at Riku's feet breathing asthmatic.

"They have her. They took Kairi." He mentioned trying to catch his breath. Riku ignored Aides completely as they both panicked. Riku trying to get Sora to tell him who, and Sora was just traumatized.

Aides examined them both, but Sora seemed to put up a fight against something. His clothes tattered and torn with open cuts still bleeding, his hair matted and sticking out in all kinds of directions. It was obvious he tried to fend it off, but failed and ran for help.

Before she could get another though across she heard the sound of a horses and the rhythmic beat of several hooves galloping in their direction, soon the ground started shaking and so did her body, but it was shaking from fear,

She slowly turned around to something she wished she'd never see again.

Four coal-black horses heading their way with crimson eyes filled with the hate of hell and purple mains. They pulled an ebony chariot that was just emanating with darkness. "Get out of the way!" She yelled at Sora and Riku. They looked at her then at the Chariot. Riku grabbed Sora and for some reason Aides' hand and ran to the side out of the rumbling pathway of the deadly animals that left a line of blazing hot fire in their wake.

Aides watched the flames burn the sand, never spreading from their starting position. The blaze reflected its orange light on her face as she stared at it.

Aides…..

It was a deep voice getting her attention along with Riku's and Sora's. She looked up at the sky still with a straight face.

You are the key……

Come to me……

"Sora!" It was a girl's voice that came from the same location as the man's. Sora reared up and started to race toward the fire when Aides put a hand on his chest stopping him.

"Run in there, and die." Her tone and choice of words pierced him like a knife.

"But its Kairi-"

"Killing yourself won't save her. At this point I don't know what can." Aides looked again at the blaze, feeling an attraction she couldn't tear her eyes away from it.

Then they came back….memories of another life.

She saw a girl with hair as dark as the night sky with subtle red highlights. She was attached to the wall by chains that dug into her flesh, her head was leaning forward to where her hair fell over her shoulders hiding her face.

A figure chuckled as he walked into view point. Then all was scrambled. Aides saw bits of memories racing by like lightning but strangely she caught it all.

She collapsed on her knees clutching her head with both hands gripping her hair. It hurt taking in all those lost images so fast. It really hurt her physically as she felt the pain of her childhood coming back. She never knew what happened, and why she is the way she is. She now knew every question that she has ever asked her self about her life.

Why she was here, howshe ended up here, why she appeared to Riku.

It was because she died.

END 4th chapter !

A/N: Well how was that! If you are well read on some certain thing then you will now what the horses and chariot stand for and why her name is Aides, but I cant say or it will give It away! Review! And I will be a happy person!

Reviewers: Raven Luna Lilith: Im glad that you like it. Though I didn't put much though into them except trying to make them not sound mary-sueish. But I think I failed in that spot on this chapter. Heh heh