I think I've calmed down a little since last time's...-ahem- rant. But sadly a fever has been going around my school (although it could just have something to do with the fact that our classroom is definately the crappiest classroom IN THE ENTIRE SCHOOL, and everyone I know agrees on this one, even the people not in our class, but it seems there are 'no other available classrooms'. Such crappy crappy crappy crap. Oh shit! I'm ranting again! I should really stop that...). It does mean that I might get to stay home one day of the week, but then guess what fun I have to do? CATCHING UP WITH THE HOMEWORK! OH FUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNFUNHAPPYJOY! WHAT WOULD I RATHER BE DOING WHEN SICK?

I really am going to stop now...

Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts...wow, that's a nice notion. But as far from the truth as one can get T-T But I guess the fans out there who don't own it feel as I do...that's a small comfort I suppose...

Midnight

"Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour/When pleasure, like the midnight flower/That scorns the eye of vulgar light/Begins to bloom for sons of night--"Fly Not Yet, Thomas Moore.

It had been barely audible before, but now the deep sonorous sound rang through the streets of Twilight Town. I could sense that this was foreboding. The coming of midnight...

The clock bell finished its twelve rings.

And the twilight began to fade.

Something was watching me. The hairs on the back of my neck were standing straight up and my nose itched. And noses always itch at the worst moments. I could swear that there were lights shining, like streetlights, but when I turned around to look properly there was nothing. Only the advancing shadow. Why, why, why, why, why, why, why me? Was it that crap that romantics called destiny? Unlikely. What proof was there that it existed anyway? And why was I thinking these things? Now of all times...Is this what the boy in the mirror, me and yet not, like? Getting on the wrong train of thought and going right to the end when really he should be concentrating on the present task at hand? And he was doing it again...

All at once, as if I had been walking somewhere, but managed to get somewhere else, I was here. Why here, of all places? It wasn't like I could possibly immitate the things I had seen in a dream.

Why the square?

And, as in the dream, they came. The shadows came, flocking to this one spot and becoming solid, more than what they had been. Living. If you could call them that, of course. Instinctivly I held the keyblades tighter.

As in the dream, they attacked as one.

A clumsy parry here, another one there. I was trapped in the middle. The worst place to be if you were getting attacked by hoardes of shadows or whatever they really were.

Thisisityou'regoingtodie, thought a very panicked mind that might have just been mine.

How was I meant to defend myself against an entire army, especially when I had never even held a weapon, save the wooden sword that I remember?

I was surprised I had lasted this long. I was bleeding from dozens of cuts, some shallow, a few deeper. And they weren't even suffering. I couldn't hit them. Where's the help when you need it?

Something must have struck them, for a few fell, leaving only the glowing green balls.

I hadn't attacked them...I hadn't even seen anyone attack them. They just disappeared.

More this time. And...a black blur flashed by. But it was hard to tell if it hadn't just been a product of the lack of my blood flowing through my system.

Something grabbed me by the arm and I whipped around, trying to whack the thing that had grabbed me. But then I saw who...

It was never a dream, was it?

The person who had opened the clouds and smiled at nothing, looking at him through the blindfold with unseeing eyes...

"We have to go! Now!"

And again I was too shocked to argue. After all, I seemed to be a pawn in the greater game that people were playing.

Pawns are always sacrificed for the greater cause.

Midnight: End

I'm sorry for this chappie being so late T-T! -glares at evil slave-drivers that have set loads of revision homework...IT'S TOO EARLY IN THE YEAR FOR A TEST!-

I swear that the next chapter will come out some time next week at the latest...Because now that I'm sick I'll -hopefully- get to miss some school. And what better way to use my new-found spare time than writing fanfiction?

Review answering time!

Stuck in the Shadows: Thankies :3 I would love to talk to meh teachers in latin...BUT WE LEARN LATIN AT OUR SCHOOL! Life is so sad...-sniffle-

whatever: Thankies!

I think that's it so...

Until next time XD!