Hey, guys! Don't forget, I won't update next week… Going on vacation. So, I'm giving you two chapters today, as well as a party thing at the end of the next chapter. Here we go!

Sonic 101: Okay… I didn't realize that. It'll be changed soon, promise. And it's nice to know that people like my stories enough to put them on their favs! Thanks!

Chapter VII

Sabrina awoke in the middle of an empty street. Groaning, she sat up, only to find Jeremy lying on her chest. She couldn't stand up with him there.

Sabrina gently picked him up and set him on the ground next to her and then stood up. Looking around, she saw that she was in what the teachers back home described as a 'human place', or a city. It was a giant town of big brick buildings. For once, Sabrina was afraid. More so than when she fought Heartless. Humans had always scared her, with their guns that shot droplets of lead. They killed one another, having no respect for life. If they would kill their own, what would stop them from killing her and Jeremy?

Meanwhile, Jeremy was waking up. He sat up, putting his back against the brick wall and looking around. Where was he?

Jeremy managed to climb to his feet. He was still wearing his robes he had thrown on when the Heartless had attacked. The Heartless…! Jeremy quickly readied a spell and glanced around, looking for Heartless, but all he saw was Sabrina.

"Sabrina, what-"

"Oh, Jeremy, you're awake. Good." Despite the time they had spent in the vortex, Sabrina's face was still puffy and red.

"Sabrina, what happened? Were you crying?" Sabrina nodded.

"Jeremy, I think we're all that's left. Everyone else was taken by the Heartless, except Agatha, but she's still…"

"Sabrina, what's been happening?" Sabrina explained to him everything that had happened, starting with waking up in the middle of the night, up until now. Then she explained her fears that this might be a human city.

"I wouldn't doubt it," Jeremy said. He was, in fact, worried about Sabrina after her fight with the giant Darkside. How could she have faced it alone? She could have been killed!

"We'll just have to stay on our toes. Watch for any humans with guns," Sabrina said, but the last part was drowned out by a loud BANG that rang through the air. Sabrina immediately drew her sword and ran towards the sound.

"Dammit, Sabrina! Don't-" Sabrina stopped, looking around the side of a wall. There stood a man with long brown hair and in a black leather jacket, holding the biggest gun Sabrina had ever seen. The long nose of the weapon that the lead droplet shot out of was a long blade, but it seemed it could still shoot. He, and the boy, about her age, crumpled in a heap next to a wall about three yards away were definitely human.

Angered that he could kill someone so young, Sabrina lunged, sword tilted for a killing stroke to the throat, wings giving her speed through the air. The man was faster than she thought. He blocked, and Sabrina pushed off with her sword, flaring her wings. That was supposed to unnerve humans. It did. He gasped and stumbled back a step, then caught himself. He jumped forward, catching her side with the flat of his blade. He threw her into a wall. Sabrina was trying to get up with a bleeding side when she saw the point of the blade aiming at her heart. He'd outmaneuvered her.

"Now," he said, lowering the blade, "why the heck did you attack me?" Sabrina hauled herself up using the bricks for leverage, looking him straight in the eye. She was pleased to find that they were the same height.

"You killed, or at least hurt, that boy over there. I couldn't let you just walk away." The man's eyes narrowed and then returned to their regular size as if with sympathy, although his hard face never changed.

"You fought me to avenge the boy? All I did was knock him out. For reasons I will keep to myself." The man's gaze turned to her wings. "What are you? Certainly not human." Sabrina scowled.

"I should hope not. I'm a drakin, sir. Ancient lore describes us as the offspring of a warrior princess and a dragon king of lore. Perhaps you've heard of us?" The man shook his head.

"I'm not of this world, and I'm sure you aren't, either. Your world wasn't devoured by the darkness, was it? Or did you just stumble in here?" Sabrina turned her gaze down to her feet.

"I really don't know. Our town's witch told me to fly into the vortex with… Jeremy!" Sabrina turned and ran, suddenly remembering that she'd left him alone. How foolish was she?

The man just looked on and shook his head. He turned back to the boy. The boy, with strange spiky hair, wearing blue jeans, a black shirt, and a gray knit hooded jacket. He alone held the key to their survival, the key that could defeat the darkness.

Sabrina sprinted back to the clearing, finding Jeremy, of course, surrounded by Heartless. He had created some kind of shield of wind around him, keeping them from attacking. Sighing, Sabrina whipped out her sword, slicing through the awful things surrounding him. Once the monsters had been dispatched, Jeremy let down his shield, frowning.

"You left again! When are you going to learn to stay put?" Sabrina just shrugged. They walked back to the front of the shop were Sabrina and the man had fought, just in time to see the man carry the boy away. Sabrina could only see one part of the boy; the giant key he held in his hand.

Okay… Next chappie comin' up! You guys will be caught up with how far I'e written!