Me: (walks in with stitch ears on, a stitch hoody, Mickey mouse flip flops, a red skort, and a happy bunny shirt) IM BAAACCCCKKK!

(Sora and Riku walk in with sunglasses and Riku has a goofy hat on…you know with the long ears) hey!

Me: Vacation was the best! I went on the rockin roller coaster, went to blizzard beach, faced some cute guy in dance dance revolution, seen the fireworks at the magic kingdom.

Sora: in summary, we did just about everything.

Riku: yup

Me: and I DIDN'T want to come back! It was so fun and you could do whatever you wanted too! Unfortunately the only kingdom hearts merchandise their, was the two video games.

Sora and Riku; (sniff) it was sad.

Me: but I got 31 souvenirs anyway. Hehehe. Including a giant bow for my REAL kimono I got their last year……Which Digi and Wish want. Hehehe.

Sora:…watch it Fire…

Me; anyway, I have to write this and its really hard to write it when I'm in such a happy go lucky mood. But I'll try my best.

P.S: its mostly in Sora's P.O.V this chappy.

NOW READ!

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The rain poured wildly outside as it had for the last past hours. It lashed heavily against the windows of the office building causing Riku to walk over and press his head against the cold glass. They had taken refuge inside the large office building several floors above just in case. Dark shadows moved like ink blots in the square below and sparks of flames flickering in the wet night could be seen arising from building and houses as they were destroyed; everything was going wrong…

"Is he ever going to wake up?" Yuffie asked picking up a strand of Sora's hair which had fallen lightly over his left eye and gazed closer at him. Leon pulled her back by her shoulder as Riku cast an angry glance at them and came back over beside his fallen friend. No one could figure out what was wrong with him.

"He'll wake up." Riku said shakily.

"What about Kairi?" Yuffie asked.

No one answered for a moment and Riku shot a glance at the body lying against the wall. Dead pale skin and blood met his eyes causing him to turn away. His stomach churned sickeningly as the same words repeated itself. 'She's dead. Kairi's dead. Its over.' the one person he had risked all to save was dead………thanks to his best friend.

'Don't think that!' he told himself. ' It was Jenza. Not Sora…."

Mickey sat quietly in the corner watching Riku and the others with shadowed eyes. Most of the time he kept his gaze locked upon Sora slowly sinking into deep thought. No one had said a word to him so far. They knew that if he wanted to be spoken to, he of all people would speak first.

Leon leaned against the wall casually watching Yuffie sitting beside Sora blinking innocently like a little girl. Things had gotten far out of hand from his point of view. This one kid had gone through things he himself had not even been able to witness or experience ( he had know problem with that though.)

"But still…" Leon muttered. " What does this all add up too?"

Yuffie blinked. 'Add up to what Leon?"

'Exactly."

Yuffie, being the clueless one at the moment simply stared at the dark, lost, look on her friends face and sighed. Whatever she had gotten herself into was become one hell of a show. 4 actors gone, and an audience they wish they could knock dead.

Literally.

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( Sore's POV)

When I first came to my-self all I could hear was voices. Voices of my friends.

….they didn't sound too happy.

The last thing I felt like doing was moving. But I knew it was the only way I was ever going to get anywhere. So with a groan, I opened my eyes only to be met with a pair of shimmering green blinking down at me from Yuffie.

" HES AWAKE!' She squealed. "HES ALIVE!"

I winced at her shrieking and tried to roll over on my side but all I felt was pain. Blinding, searing, painful PAIN!

Did I mention I felt pain?

Suddenly everyone was around me and a hand grabbed my shoulder for support. I looked up realizing it was Riku. God, it was good to see him still alive.

"Need help?" he asked smirking.

I glared at his mocking tone. " I'm fine." I answered stubbornly. Slowly I tried to get to my feet, but the pain became so intense that I doubled back over to my knees and wretched blood onto the blue carpet floor.

Everyone got quiet around me and the bitter taste stuck to my mouth almost making my stomach contract again. Things were just getting worse by the moment. Oh joy.

"Sure Sora." Riku said practically yanking me to my feet." Your fine. Just peachy."

My head didn't spin as much this time but my anger rose. Why was he always right? I swear if I throw up again its going to be aimed toward him.

Unfortunately he knew me to well and as soon as the thought crossed my mind, he rolled his eyes at me. "Don't get any ideas either spike head." he mumbled.

I swear its creepy how he knows these things. I chose not to say anything and glanced over at the other end of the room.

…..Kairi's body lay there.

That usual pain filled me again, and with a jolt I ran from Riku and to her side. Where I got the extra amount of energy I don't know. But maybe…maybe she could be alive…

Carefully I put my hand against her cold skin caressing her face. I could feel everyone watching me and tears welled up in my eyes again. The least thing I felt like doing was crying; I had already shown how weak I was earlier and it got me into even more trouble.

But at that moment, I realized that I would never see her smile again. Never see her laugh, walk, never see her do anything. She was dead. And she would do what most dead people do.

Nothing.

I watches Leon peak out the window from the corner of my eye. I suppose the only reason I noticed was to find a distraction.

But as I looked back down at my girl friend a memory sparked in the back of my mind."

"She can still be saved."

"Hold it!' I bolted to my feet causing everyone to jump. I had been so quiet sense I woke up I guess it was a bit of a shocker. Best part was it had caused Riku to fall out of the chair he was sitting in.

But more on that later.

'Roxanne told me I can still save her. And everything Jenza's destroyed."

Everyone blinked.

"And…when did she tell you this?" Leon asked.

" In my dreams… or more like a vision. It doesn't matter."

"Hey, where is Roxanne anyway?" Riku asked half heartedly.

'…She died. Jenza killed her cause she kept trying to save me." I explained hollowly. 'But anyway, I'm supposed to get answers. Answers I didn't get last time." I turned my gaze toward Mickey in the process who was sitting against the wall lazily staring at me. His eyes narrowed at my words and I took a step away from Kairi listening to the screams and crashes from the city below.

But the relaxed look on his face turned into a smirk and he laughed. "About time you asked. I've been waiting." he hopped to his feet and removed a crumpled roll of parchment from his coat pocket. I recognized it from the day at the castle but it seemed longer then before.

" Roxanne was supposed to tell you. I asked her sense you ran off last time I told you."

I felt my face turn red but kept my eyes locked on his. I was being serious. I wanted Kairi back! I wanted Donald and Goofy back too… AURGH! I just wanted everything to go back to normal!

I guess the mouse caught what seriousness I was forcing to show, cause after that he held the scroll out in front of him and cleared his throat. " This explains everything. Everything your supposed to do, and how to fix what problems have come up."

"ooohhh.. An instruction manual. " Yuffie popped up smirking.

Everyone: ( anime sweat drop)

" Ah...Anyways, here it goes." And he began to read:

" The one who wields the key blade and bears the Sky shall determine the fate of all worlds. His task shall not be easy but may he prove worthy to the end. Whether he chooses light or chooses darkness life shall choose with him. But to bear what makes eyes shine and hearts glow costs the light of the purest. So it shall forever shine in the gleaming sky."

I rolled my eyes. I had already herd all of this.

Unfortunately their was more. A LOT more:

" Power sleeps within the dark and shall awaken with the light.

But darkness himself shields the truth from those week of might.

The shards of light are broken,

Darkness gathers in.

Light himself will show his face.

The shards will never dim.

Blind is the dark without a light,

The power is revealed.

For only in lights death,

The darkness shall be sealed."

….Silence. That was all I herd around me was silence.

Good moment to break it.

" WHAT IN THE NAME OF EVERYTHING THAT MEANS ANYTHING DOES THAT MEAN?" I shouted with my eyes wide in horror. Everyone looked at me like I was a complete spaze but Riku just smirked. I haven't said that line in awhile; I used to say it on Destiny island a lot so he must of remembered.

To make matters worse, Mickey threw the scroll at my feet and smirked twitching his ears back. "That's for you to find out spirit."

I glared at him in frustration and stared at the scroll. How on earth did he expect me to figure out something like that?

Suddenly the back of my neck prickled slightly and I turned finding my gaze being drawn to Kairi's body.

…..I knew it was me who had killed her. Me. I had killed Kairi, Donald, Goofy, and just about beat the crap out of all my friends. And yet they STILL forgave me!

I wanted my friends back. I wanted Kairi back…

"…If I have to solve out a scroll to save my friends then I'll do just that." I told them strongly. Everyone smirked in exception and I picked the scroll up unraveling it to the first line that I hadn't understood. The paper crinkled in my hand worn out and stained from age; the words were harder to read then before.

" Power sleeps within the dark and shall awaken with the light.." I repeated. " I guess…that must means when the light is awakened I get some sort of power."

'When the light awakens inside "you." Yuffie pointed out.

I nodded and went to the next line.

" But darkness himself shields the truth from those weak of might."

Everyone simply stared at each other and then at me. I guess they expected me to be as clueless as they were but something told me it had to do with the past. My past.

"Jenza…Jenza was the one who shielded the truth from me." I spoke almost to myself. "And I was weak to believe him." I glanced up at Mickey and the look on his face told me I was going in the right direction.

I went back to reading and noticed out of the corner of my eye Riku had regained that dark, lost look on his face. The whole 'weak of might" thing must of gotten to him.

"... The shards of light are broken, darkness will gather in."

…I had no idea what this meant.

"Anyone got an idea?"

'What are 'Shards of light'?" Yuffie asked curiously.

I shook my head. "I don't know…"

I racked my brain for anything that could fit my life with the poem but nothing clicked. Mickey made no move to help me which just got me more frustrated and I crinkled the scroll in my hand.

'Damn it…." Was all I could say.

" It means your friends."

I turned and looked at Riku who still had the dark look in his eye. He avoided my gaze and kept it straight at the ground. Clearly he was thinking about this as hard as I was.

"The shards of light are us Sora." he said hollowly. " Donald, Goofy, and Kairi are the broken shards. We were all supposed to be broken by your darkness which increased each time you killed one of us."

My heart sank and I gritted my teeth trying to keep my anger down. I didn't like talking about that even though the memory was fresh and clear in my mind.

"How did you figure that out?" I asked coolly.

Their was a moment of silence while he just simply stared off into space and brushed his silver hair out of his eyes nervously.

" Maleficent…told me something similar….way back then." he muttered.

Everyone darted their eyes away from him and I found myself doing the same. I had forgot…the same thing happened to him.

Boy, no wonder we were friends.

" Alright…so, so far, I'm supposed to have some special power. Revealed with the light. And my light is...you guys, and 3 have been broken. So the darkness becomes stronger."

As the words came out of my mouth my voice quivered slightly. Everything was starting to make sense...but I didn't like the way it was heading.

I didn't think I would anyway.

"Next." Yuffie announced to the silence and walking over toward me.

Leon's eyes widened slightly at her action and he sighed heavily. I guess he was still getting used to Yuffie's mood swings from funny to serious.

"Alright, next is, 'light himself will show his face, the shards will never dim."

I looked up at Yuffie who looked at me and their was a long moment of silence.

"….Alright, I give up." She stated sitting down in front of me like a kid at story time.

Gggrrrr… just when I thought she was getting serious.

'Alright..' I sighed. 'I'll take a go. I think it means light is a….person or something?

" A person who is the truest of all light.' Leon spoke with his eyes closed. He was leaning against the wall like he usually did in serious conversations and I could tell he was putting a lot of thought into this. "Someone without a shred of darkness in their body."

Everyone's eyes widened at the thought and my mind treaded back to what Roxanne told me. It seemed to be almost nothing but a blur.

Had I forgotten?

"Well…the other part talks about the shards again." Yuffie pointed out. " Sense the shards mean us, it would say 'your friends will never dim."

"And dim means fade." Riku added in.

I nodded placing everything together in my head. Why did everything have to be encoded in a riddle? I swear the authors going to get it when this is over!

( me: HEY! Watch it spike head.)

But then it came to me. "I think it means what friends I lost will come back." A quick glance at Mickey again made me realize that my theory was right. For the first time in awhile I smiled and my heart started beating faster in excitement. Their was still a way!

"Read on!" Yuffie urged.

"Alright…" I unrolled the paper some more. " Blind is the dark without the light, the power is revealed. Now what's that mean?"

I gave them some time to answer trying to answer it myself, but nothing clicked as usual.

"Wait a minute, how can the darkness be blind without light?" Yuffie asked.

Riku shrugged and rubbed his temples in frustration. " Well sense darkness has nothing to do with light, it would mean that the dark is blind all along."

" The kids right." said Leon opening his eyes. 'So that would mean the light is right cause it isn't blind. It knows the truth."

" And when it realizes it knows the truth the power that sleeps in the dark will be revealed."

"Now your getting somewhere." Mickey piped up strolling over and grabbing the scroll from my hand.

"Hey!"

He turned and looked at me seriously. " Now, piece all that you have found out together. Only you Sora."

Everyone turned and stared at me. Jeez, I hate it when he puts me on the spot.

'Alright…" I nodded and closed my eyes to concentrate. I knew it had something to do with a power. A power hidden inside of me. A power that I was guessing I could use to bring back Kairi, Donald and Goofy. And light was meant to prevail over the dark because the dark was blind to the truth. And the truth it believed in, tried to blind the light with.

…But that couldn't be right. Light was never blinded by anything. It wasn't a person it was an element. The only person who had been blinded was………………………Me.

"Wait a minute.." I raised my head from my thoughts and realized everyone was watching me curiously.

"Well Sora?"

I didn't speak and glanced down at Mickey who was gazing at me strangely. My eyes locked with his and slowly he nodded answering my confused thoughts.

My blue eyes widened in horror. "YOU MEAN I'M-"

But I was cut off as suddenly a loud cracking noise filled the room as the glass from the nearby windows shattered and flew at us in a raging wind.

Yuffie screamed, and in seconds me and Riku had pulled out our weapons and scanned the room to see what had caused it.

Something told me the answer was outside.

"Guys, get out of here." I ordered.

'What?" Yuffie shrieked. "And go where?"

"Just go somewhere other then here and try and spread out."

Yuffie just stared and Leon grabbed her hand pulling out his gun blade. "Whatever you say kid. But don't expect us to hold back if you get yourself in anymore trouble."

"Who? Me? Trouble? Nah you got the wrong person." I said smirking.

He smirked back and with a nod dragged Yuffie out of the room.

2 down, one to go.

'Riku you go too."

"Hell no."

Heh. As I expected.

" Riku, I'm serious."

'And so am I."

We both glared at each other and then looked down to find Mickey glaring at us with the same expression.

" Sora, will go alone." he told him making his face harden. "But you can still help him."

Now, Riku's known Mickey longer then I have. Sense they were in Kingdom Hearts and all. So I guess that was the only reason why he took a step back and nodded in agreement.

Heh. Wish I had that kind of power over him……WHAH! What am I thinking?

For a second Riku's eyes locked on mine and he put his hand on my shoulder. I forced myself to look into his and smirked challengingly.

"You die, and I'll bring you back and kill you myself." he told me smirking back.

I nodded. "I'll try and remember that."

For a moment we smiled which was really unusual. It just…felt good to know I still had friends with me. And Riku had been with me through just about everything.

"All for one and one for all." I told him.

He nodded and clapped his hand with mine in mid air. " Ditto." And with that he ran out of the room shutting the door behind him.

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5 minutes later…..

I sighed heavily putting my hand to my head. Solving all those riddles had given me a headache.

"You know the truth right Sora?" Mickey asked me.

I nodded. 'Which truth?"

'That Jenza has Kairi."

My eyes darkened. "…Yeah. I know." how could I forget?

" Just remember. That every trick he pulls on you is a trick. You have to much to risk if you fall for it." he walked over to where kairi lay and nodded at me. "I'll watch after Kairi."

I nodded back and turned my gaze away from her body. I had to concentrate on bringing her back… and seeing her dead wasn't helping much. "Thanks Mickey."

I went to walk out but stopped as a question that had been nagging at my brain popped up suddenly; I turned back to him.

"…Jenza kept calling me 'spirit.'…… What does 'spirit' mean?"

The mouse stared at me for a few seconds before shrugging playfully. "Find out for yourself."

ARGH! Why me?

I walked through the door into the other room which connected to the one I had came from not in the mood to get into an argument. I leaned against the wall heavily staring at the Keyblade in my hand. Its metal base glinted in the light from above and was covered in scratches and dents from previous battles. I was the one chosen for the Keyblade. The one chosen to defend all worlds from the darkness.

Little did I know it was only part one of the whole package.

'Which came with a complicated instruction manual." I muttered to myself thinking back to the scroll. Their was one part in their the king had not let me read. But I remembered what it said.

"For only in lights death, the darkness shall be sealed."

I thought about it reviewing everything over in my head again from top to bottom. And it all add up to the same thing.

It all add up to me.

I was the light.

My heart suddenly tingled at the thought and I realized it was seriously tingling.

"Strange…" I put my hand against my chest and the tingling seemed to increase. I had felt that tingling somewhere before……

Suddenly a jolt shook the building causing me to fall over. I hopped to my feet and glanced out the window. Millions of shadows moved down in the square below and I could feel their eyes gazing up at me hungrily.

I shuddered and made my way to the door walking into the deserted hallway. The silence was so immense it hurt.

" Where are the stairs?" I fallowed the hallway to the left and after 5 minutes found the stair case. The elevator stood right near it but only a complete moron would take an elevator in a situation like this.

Thank god for movies.

I went down 5 floors tripping on the steps. The lights flickered on and off at random which led me face to face with a solid brick wall in between the 3rd and 4th floor.

"Oww…." I shook it off and decided to head through the door next to me as the lights gave out and died. My nose tinged but it was nothing serious.

As I went down this hallway, it led me to a giant open room with one giant window for the wall. Sense I was down on a lower floor I could see the buildings from across the square clearly. The shadows seemed even closer then before and I pressed my nose against the solid glass watching.

I knew I had to go down there.

As if to answer my question a giant cracking sound filled the air, and at the last moment I noticed the giant spider web pattern weaving across the glass and dodged rolled back.

Within seconds it shattered and I shielded myself as sharp pieces flew and cut into my skin. Wind blew hard against me as if pulling me to the edge and I stood up noticing the increase in shadows. Their beady yellow eyes connected with mine and quickly began crawling up the side of the building.

"Crap!" I gritted my teeth holding my Keyblade over my head in battle stance watching them come closer and closer. When the first one reached my I swung down hard causing it to shriek and fall back down among the rest. The rest came in large groups and within minutes found myself surrounded on every side.

"…..perfect." I let out a sigh and narrowed my eyes at the largest group over in the left corner.

"BLITZ!' I struck my blade against the ground causing a giant shock wave of energy to come towering against them. Their shrieks filled the air as they evaporated before me only to be replaced by more. I felt a cold hand grab my ankle and I yelped jumping back against the ledge separating me from the building and the black, shadow covered ground below. Why is it I always seem to get myself into these situations?

I swung my Keyblade out again blindly steadying myself with my wings. For the first time I noticed the usual black feathers and I cursed Roxanne in my mind. They were supposed to have turned white! I wasn't with darkness anymore!

I cast the thought to the side remembering the situation and shot fire spells at random causing a few shadows to burn and shriek.

But as suddenly as they had come, they began to disappear. One by one they looked down, fear shining in their eyes and disappeared in a cloud of black smoke. I regained my footing and gazed around trying to find what had caused their reaction when a hand yanked my wing and I went flying off the ledge to the Square below.

"AAAAHHHHH!" I tried to flap my wings but the ground was coming nearer by the second. At the last moment I dodged rolled twice breaking the fall but landed hard on my arm skidding several feet across the cement.

When I came to a stop a gripped my arm tightly seeing the new deep red spot where my skin had been ripped on the impact; it stung like hell.

And then the worst possible thing arrived.

" Hello Spirit."

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Me: Dies) So…CONFUSING! GAH!

Sora: hurt. Pain torment. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

Fire: its fun reading your thoughts.

Riku; laughing head off )

Fire: To tired to put anything else….Please review. REVIEW!