Note: Sorry it took so long to update, but I was just lazy for a moment. Anyway, here is the next chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter Two: An Unknown Place

Somewhere, far away from the heart-shaped moon is another moon, a round moon, shining down on a quiet, but disturbing, dark forest. Sounds of the creatures can be heard off in the distance, but they were never seen at all, which made it completely disturbing. The atmosphere of the forest is more like walking through a never-ending swamp. The trees have no openings for any rays from the moonlight to shine through; this is because the leaves are covered with a sticky substance that is unknown to anybody, making them stick to each other very tightly. The slime sticking them was not the only thing covering the moonshine; it was also the branches being abnormally thick and the leaves were as big as a large man's fist. The only openings, however, for any moonshine coming through were some opening between the trees. They were, however, very thin openings, looking like cracks you would see on the ground created by an earthquake. But they were big enough to see the sky, the stars and the moon. The ground was from the moisture of the trees having no openings for air and light, thereby becoming mud. There was some mud that had holes made by the creatures that lurked around the forest, which, because of the moisture, made the water in the mud come out and form small puddles. The grass that grew in the forest, mostly around the trees, had a dead appearance from top to bottom. They grew in huge piles next to the tree's stumps, growing up to one and a half feet in length. There were some strings of grass around the puddles, some of them were in the discolored puddles, smashed in by feet of some of the forest creatures.

There was evidence proving the existence of the forest creatures lurking around. Lying around the muddy ground were remains of some small animals, dead for a few weeks, that cannot be identified as any creature anyone has seen. Where they were moved gives out the possibility of other creatures killing them and dragging their body parts from their dead carcasses.

Besides that, no sign of life could be seen from any path of any kind until one such life did. The life of a young fifteen-year-old girl named Kairi, who walked through these woods with deep caution. "Where am I?" she said, deeply confused about the place she was in. She looked up at the sky and shouted, "Sora? Riku! Wake me up!" But there was no answer. Kairi was in this forest all by herself.

She eyed her surroundings with her clear blue eyes, as if trying to memorize everything she saw. The trees did have a normal-looking body structure, but the demeanor of the branches and stumps were a bit perplexing. Kairi couldn't tell if, by the way the stumps formed over its years, there were even any roots in the ground. Some slime from the leaves dropped down on part of her red hair. She wiped it off, with her hand, in a disgusted expression. She didn't know it came from the leaves attached to the trees. When she did, she realized she was not anywhere recognizable. From all the worlds she stumbled onto, or places where Sora went to save her in, none of them were anything like the place she was in right at that moment.

She didn't even know how she even got here in the first place. The last thing she remembered was that she was standing by the beach of the island, looking out at the sea. She believed that she was standing there, waiting for something great to happen to her. And then, she was standing in the middle of an unknown place. Kairi took a few more steps, with the sound of mud squishing from the bottom of her feet, into the woods. But Kairi changed her mind and turned back, to see if she could find a way to get home.

Suddenly, she heard something deeper in the forest. It sounded like footsteps walking at a quick pace. There was also a possibility of someone whimpering in terror, echoing in Kairi's ears. "What was that?" she wondered out loud. Even though it may be dangerous, wanted to go find out, but her confidence wasn't there with her. Then, trying to get her confidence to work with her, She started saying to herself, "Come on, Kairi, you can do this. I know you can. You went out there to find Sora and Riku. Now, let's go and see who's out there, okay?" So she, after waiting for a few seconds, walking along the muddy grounds, following the footsteps ahead.

As she followed the footsteps, which seem to fade away after every fifteen minutes, she noticed that there was hardly any moonlight shining down. These leaves are so thick, thought Kairi, no wonder it's so damp down here. When she got close to an opening, Kairi looked between the trees to see a beautiful dark-blue sky with the moon shining brightly in the night. The light brightened the colors of her pink dress and was glistening through her red hair, giving Kairi the demeanor of a goddess. The stars were sparkling with peace and gaiety. Nothing seemed to be going wrong with them or neither the moon.

Kairi smiled and stared with awe in her eyes, seeing the sky she would watch down at Destiny Island. Then she heard the footsteps and the whimpering come from behind her. She ran towards the source until it faded away. Looking around, Kairi couldn't figure out where it came from. So she gave up and walking through the woods, waiting to hear the footsteps and the whimpering again.

After some time, walking down on the forest and looking around for any strange occurrences, Kairi stopped at her tracks and shrieked at the sight of what saw: A skeleton of a human being tied next to a tree, hanging a few feet from the ground. From the look of it, the person appeared to have been tied to the tree and was left there to die. The skin and the flesh were still moist from the lack of light. Kairi almost gagged when she noticed some of the flesh was torn away from the corpse. "I guess some animal here was hungry." She said as she was backing away from it. She could also feel her stomach acids about to come out from the wrong way; she turned around and puked for a few seconds.

Suddenly, Kairi heard a sound coming from behind her. She turned swiftly to find a figure with an organization cloak standing in front of her. Realizing whom it was, Kairi backed away from him. But she also realized that Sora destroyed all of the organization, including the ones she didn't knew about. She walked closer to the cloaked figure. "Hello?" she said. "Are you one of them?" she was referring to the organization. The figure didn't respond; instead, he just walked backwards, disappearing in the forest, leaving the perplexed Kairi behind.

Then, once again, the footsteps and the whimpering were heard and they were closer this time. Kairi looked around to see where it was coming from; then, some sounds were heard from the right side of Kairi. So she chased after the person making the footsteps and the whimpering, only not to realize the corpse turned toward her. But, strangely, it wasn't the corpse. It was something else hiding inside the corpse.

Kairi ran after the person until she could see a figure of a human being a few feet away. "Good. I'm close." She said out loud. She called after the stranger she was chasing, but he or she didn't stop. Kairi ran faster to catch up with the figure, to see why he or she was in the forest. Then, without warning, the figure stopped, making Kairi fall to the ground while trying to stop. When she got to her feet, she realized that the figure was shaking a little bit. Kairi walked up to the figure with caution and said, "Hi there. Are you lost?" the figure nodded. "Well, I'm lost too. Maybe we could team up and find a way out of here."

"I can't." The Figure replied.

Kairi was confused, she asked, "Why not?"

"They're coming." was what the figure retorted. "They're coming this way."

"Don't worry. I have some friends that can protect you from whatever is after you."

The figure turned around, its face covered by the shade of the trees. It stared at Kairi and said. "It's not me they want. They are after you."

Kairi's face darkened after what the figure told her. She was afraid of getting kidnapped again; she didn't want that to happen again. She was kidnapped twice already. Then, she realized the figure didn't mention what was it that was after her. Was it the Heartless? The Nobodies? New members of the Organization? Or was it Maleficent and Pete trying to recapture the seven Princesses of Heart? She wouldn't know until she asked the figure. "After me? They are after me? Tell me, who is after me? The Heartless? The Nobodies? Are they hiding somewhere in this godforsaken forest?"

The figure was shaking his head. "No. No Heartless. No Nobodies. They are not hiding behind anything here. They don't even know the existence of this forest."

Kairi didn't understand what she just heard. Is this figure lying to her? Does he even know what the Heartless and the Nobodies are? "Then, who are after me?"

The figure walked up to some light, revealing its face to Kairi. The face was dead pale and with no eyes in its sockets. The figure also had dark-blue lips and when it opened its mouth, you could see nothing but emptiness. The hair was in a dirty white color; it was long and straight and was hanging down to the neck. It was wearing a black coat that went down to its legs. The hands were bony and had long, sharp fingernails at the edge. It knew that Kairi was standing in front of it because it could feel something in her that she didn't know about. But, what was it? It walked up to her—actually, it glided up to her and said with deep terror in its voice. "We are."

Then, without any sight of warning, more figures, identical to the one standing in front of Kairi, suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Kairi counted about fifteen, this is including the figure she talked to, of them circling around her. The only difference was their hair: some of them had the same hair that the talking figure had. Others had short black hair and are a bit spiked. Only a few of them had blood-coated hair that went down to their shoulder blades. The rest only had shaved heads. They all gathered around Kairi and all kneeled back, as if ready to pounce. Kairi looked around to see any openings so she could escape, but there were none in sight. "Goodbye, Warrior!" the Figure said, then signaled all the ghosts to pounce. Kairi fought them off as best as she can, but she was too weak. They surrounded her body while she was screaming for help. She called for Sora and Riku, but there was nothing. She was calling them with tears in her eyes and was still calling for them while being swallowed up by darkness.

Here's the second chapter. Who were the creatures that attacked her? Who was in the black cloak of the Organization? And how did Kairi get in that forest in the first place? Keep on reading and you will find out.