--Chapter II—

In the library of Hollow Bastion, Aerith was sitting on a table on the top tier as she red her book. Leon and Cid were there, but Yuffie had gone back to Traverse Town to figure out where Sora had disappeared to. Leon was pacing around the seemingly endless labyrinth of books and Cid had placed himself in a corner, smoking as usual.

Just then Aerith stood up and dropped the book she was reading. Cid noticed this first.

"You alright kid?" asked Cid, aware that Aerith was having another one of her visions.

"The darkness is increasing, at the throne room. He's still alive" replied Aerith, unaware that Ansem had reawakened in Castle Oblivion. A second later a large knock came at the door. Leon rushed upstairs to see what the commotion was. Leon opened the upstairs door to see the entire central lobby swarming with heartless. Leon quickly shut the door.

"Cid, get me that table!" screamed Leon as he rushed to grab the table Aerith was sitting at. Cid and Leon managed to wedge the table against the door.

"How bad was it?" asked Aerith.

Leon stood in shock "You can't even see the floor."

Their attempts to keep the heartless out failed, a black smoke began to rise at the other end of the room. Leon drew his gunblade and prepared to fight the black figure that was about to appear. Out of the smoke came a man in a similar Black Robe Leon had seen wandering Traverse Town, but his hood was down, revealing a sinister looking man with dark blue hair. The man took a couple more steps forward.

"So, you're the ones that have been causing trouble with the master?" asked the blue haired unkown.

"Who are you?" asked Aerith, bravely but afraid.

"Hehe, you fools have no idea what's about to happen here. The revolution is about to begin." Spoke the unkown again. Leon set his gunblade in front of him and walked toward the unkown. "You really are clueless. Well, let me fill you in on the future." Leon rushed toward the unkown and the unkown quickly thrust him back. "Ah, yes, I see. For one of you an old friend awaits. Now, you must all come with me to Ansem."

"Never!" shouted Leon as he rushed toward the unknown again. This time the unkown trapped all three of them in a sort of crystal, and Leon, Aerith, and Cid were thrust somewhere nobody knew about.

Riku and King Mickey had gotten on their gummi ship and headed for Hollow Bastion. They were approaching the castle when the King stopped the ship.

"Mickey what's going on?" asked Riku wondering why the ship stopped. He looked at the King, too shocked for words or thoughts. The King just pointed at where Hollow Bastion was, or should have been. Riku took the controls and flew in for a better look at the black structure. He got a little closer and realized that that was no kind of unnatural black cloud. Those were heartless! Millions of them. They flew into the air and were dispersing out in every direction.

Riku, too, became shocked until he noticed one of the large battalions of heartless was headed straight for them. Riku took evasive maneuvers but was unable to clear the large crowd of heartless. The heartless clipped the side of the gummi ship, causing the ship to spiral out of control.

"We've been hit!" screamed Riku as they descended and began to plummet. Riku hoped they would crash on a hospitable planet.

--TO BE CONTINUED--