I don't own kingdom hearts (not the company anyway).

Chapter 9

This library, I used to dream about this place, bookshelves that reached the ceiling, books of all types of languages. In my dream there was always an old woman sitting at a table reading a book, it would always be the same book every time. I never got to speak to her she always disappeared before I got to her. Kairi was always there too, peeking at me from behind shelves. She too, would disappear once I got to her.

I told Riku that I wanted to stay here while he went with captain hook to go look for kairi. I wanted to do a little exploring around here, I want to remember why I know about the heartless and the keyblade. My answer fell on my head with a thud.

One of the bookshelves above my head had given out and heavy books came toppling down like an avalanche of four-inch spine books.

"Well that was convenient, painful but convenient, "I said to myself while holding the back of my head in pain. On the floor in front of me was an open book, the page read "mysteries of the heart". I picked it up and carried it to a table, sat down, and started reading it. One page caught my attention that was about the heartless

April 26, 1996

I always thought that heartless were incapable of interacting with humans. Until this day the heartless just wandered beneath my castle or as test subjects in my lab. The heartless as I have said before are beings of pure darkness that arise when people give in to the darkness in their hearts.

So that's what the heartless are? But why do I feel like I already knew that? A vision of a creature incased in purple fluid with needles and wires attached to its body flashed through my mind. "What was that?" I yelled to myself as the image dissapeared.

Its seems though the heartless can be controlled and trained, even though I will not let them outside the premises of my lab. It would just be too risky, especially if my daughter's mera or Kairi were to

I stopped reading and stared at the page 'Kairi.. his daughter…so that means…KAIRI IS MY SISTER. My temple started throbbing again as memories started to flood in about the heartless, about Kairi until my brain couldn't take the images. One was a heartless pouncing on me ready to attack, another was Kairi horror stricken face, another was me turning around to find someone behind me with a raised sword. They all sent terror through my body until finally all I saw was darkness as unconsciousness took over me and my body fell limp onto the floor.

I opened my eyes some time later to find that I wasn't sitting at the table anymore but instead was pressed against something warm and incredibly good smelling. My first impulse was to curl up against whatever it was until I realized the ground was moving beneath me and that I was a couple feet above the ground. Then I looked up and saw that Riku was carrying me.

"Good morning your highness", he said half laughing then put my feet on the ground and let go when he knew I could walk, "you really need to lay off the cream puffs", he pretended to be tired and I punched him in the arm. "here you were reading this", he handed me the book that caused me to faint "but I guess you don't want it since it made you fall asleep".

"No actually I learned something about my family"

"Really what mera",

"That Kairi is a part of it", this took him a minute to sink in and when it did his eyes got wide "you mean Kairi is royalty to, have I been surrounded by princesses all my life, let me guess selfie was a queen", he was laughing now.

"So where is she, I mean you got her didn't you?"

"Sure she's this way", he motioned for me to follow him and he led me into a huge room with six girls on each side of the room incased in crystal and a huge platform with a staircase on each side leading up to it. Kairi was lying on a table in the center of the room and seemed to be sleeping but standing at her side I could see that she wasn't breathing or moving.

"Is something wrong with her?" I asked.

"Yes it seems that she has lost her heart", he said solemnly.

"Is there a way to help her?"

"Yes Mera with that", He pointed up to the platform where a heart shaped doorway of some kind was set up with lots of machinery around it, "with that we shall open a portal that will take us to a world where we shall attain infinite knowledge". He stepped beside me and put a hand on my shoulder "then we will most certainly find a way to bring her back".

Okay the reason I made Kairi related to Mera is because I'm trying to establish a relationship between these two. Next chapter will be up sometime this week. Until then bye and review or evil flying monkeys shall burn down your house.