And here is chapter 1, after only a couple of days…wow. That's really worrying. Usually I procrastinate for hours on end and never get around to doing this sort of thing…XD On with the fic, as I always say. Some reviews would be nice too…it only takes about a minute of your time to say if you liked/disliked it, and some small criticisms are alright too. And now…the not much anticipated chapter 1!

Chapter 1

It watched him. And waited. For some movement perhaps? Or not. It was impossible to tell what the person was feeling. Its face was masked and the clothes it wore were too baggy to see a figure of any kind. But there was a distinguishing feature—perhaps the only one. The eyes. They almost shone from the mask, nearly yellow, but closer to tawny. And the clothing…black as a heartless.

It continued to watch, and its waiting did not go unrewarded as slowly the slightly battered form of Sora began to wake from slumber. "Wh-where am I?" he asked no one in particular. The drowsiness left him in another few minutes and, realising that it was Traverse Town, stood up. Some good friends were here…once. However, after the Kingdom Hearts incident, it seemed unlikely that they were still here. That raised up an interesting point: how was he able to be here? His memory started buzzing if he tried to think about how he had got here from that field. So maybe if he was here…so were the heartless. No point worrying about that now, right? The heartless had vanished, locked away forever.

You know they haven't really gone, don't you? Said the nagging voice at the back of his mind. The voice that had a nasty habit of being right about the worst things. There's one now.

The voice really did have a nasty habit of being right. There was one watching him now. Sora held his hand out and in a small flash of light his weapon appeared. That weapon that distinguished him from everyone else. The reason that they never left him alone. The keyblade.

Once the 'heartless' that had been watching him saw it, it began to walk away. Turning, it broke into a run, Sora close on its heels.

A crooked paving stone. That was all it took to trip someone. It was no exception. It went flying, landing face first in a puddle of trouble. The distance might help though. It just had time to turn the right way and block the blow that would have killed any heartless. But it didn't escape unscathed. The mask it wore was ripped and, as it began to stand up, the mask fell off.

That should have killed it! Thought Sora in outrage. That was his first thought. Then the mask fell down. That's definitely not a heartless.

"You're…"

--END OF CHAPTER 1--

Things to come…

Things are heating up as a new person is introduced. But who? What was Sora going to say? Who is this person that bears an eerie resemblance to a heartless? Where is Riku? And why do my chapters seem to constantly get shorter? You'll have to keep reading to find out…

Well, this was a pathetically short chapter if I do say so myself…but the chapters will get longer soon, I promise. It's just all of the introduction crap is taking forever to get out, and I keep screwing up how to introduce my characters. This is Chapter 1 mark 2 I'll let you know. Anyway, Chapter 2 is coming soon…