Hey all! I know, it's been a little while...My computer crashed.

Demons Slasher: And this time he's not lying.

Did I envite you?

DS: Do you ever?

Whatever. Anyway, apparently I'm not allowed to review responses anymore, so, uh...Yeah.


"Sora?"

"…It's Ansem. He's back."

Kairi's eyes went wide, and her jaw dropped. Sora starred at Donald. Donald turned to Goofy. Goofy looked at Sora. No one spoke. It seemed that the four of them were trying to come to grips with what was inevitably going to happen.

Sora suddenly shot up. It effectively scared Goofy and Donald, who both jumped impossibly high.

"We've got to warn everyone!" Sora cried. "This world is in danger! And every other world!"

Donald and Goofy nodded. Kairi still seemed to be in shock. They all three ran to their weapons just as Kairi snapped out of her reverie. Sora grabbed the Keyblade and starred at it woefully. He had hoped to God that he would never have to use it again. He looked at Donald and Goofy, who both seemed to be thinking the same thing.

'I guess I'm not really surprised…' Sora thought.

'I knew it would happen…I just hoped it wouldn't…' Donald thought.

'How did that scuff mark get there?' Goofy thought.

"Let's go!" Sora yelled.

"Hmhmhmhm…"

The quartet stopped and turned around. A familiar cold chuckle erupted from the beach. They all looked around, but no one was there.

"So very eager to play the heroes."

Sora turned to the waterfall. That's where he stood. The one who had destroyed this

world before. Ansem.

"You!" Sora cried. The other three turned around and saw him. Behind The

waterfall, smirking in a victorious manner.

"Hello, Sora." he said.

"Ansem! How…what…?"

"Hell itself decided to give me a second chance." Ansem chuckled to himself, then continued. "I wanted to say hello."

"Enough pleasantries, Ansem!"

Ansem shook his head, then walked through the waterfall. The water never touched him. Sora took his trademarked fighting stance.

"I'm not here to fight." Ansem said. He was directly in front of Sora. However, Sora was not as short as he had been in their last encounter. They were almost the same height.

"I see you've grown. How long has it been?"

Sora looked at him scrutinizingly. (A/N: Is that a word?)

"Two years."

Ansem chuckled, then pushed past Sora. He walked past Goofy, who had stiffened when he got close. Donald ran at Ansem, but the Dark Emissary put up a shield, and the duck got the electric shock of his life. Ansem stopped in front of Kairi.

"Ahhh. The cause of so much of my pain."

Kairi froze. Her heart was beating fast. What was Ansem thinking? What did he want?

"Leave her alone!" Sora yelled. Ansem ignored him.

"You Princesses were hard to obtain, you know. But, alas, we got you. We had you." he said. He paused and closed his eyes in bitter remembrance. He turned around quickly and angrily pointed at Sora.

"But he somehow got to us! He killed my associates one by one! And he did the impossible…He beat me. Me!"

"What are you getting at?" Sora asked.

"I'm so very glad you asked." Ansem turned to the unconscious Donald and held out his palm. The duck rose in the air and woke up.

"All of you should hear this."

"Welcome back, Donald." Goofy said.

"Shut up!" Donald yelled.

"Thank you, Donald." Ansem said, then went on. "I assembled the most powerful evil-doers in the worlds I deemed important. But, they were not strong enough to defeat you. So, I decided to go after you myself.

"Where a normal boy of your age would have given up, you kept going. Darkside couldn't beat you, but I knew that. He was a distraction. I fought you again. And again you prevailed. I fought you a third time. And a fourth. And twice again you beat me.

"But one thing you couldn't do….was kill me. You left the job of permanently disposing of me to Kingdom Hearts. You locked me in a prison of light."

Sora was thoroughly confused. Why was Ansem reminiscing about an event that locked him in solitary confinement for two years?

"What are you getting at?" Sora asked again.

"I am merely allowing you to be warned." Ansem said. His figure slowly began to disappear. His legs and torso blew away in the wind. He grinned as his fingertips began to make an exit.

"This time you won't be so lucky!" he said, just as his head disappeared.

"Stop!" Sora yelled, to late to make an difference


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