Chapter Eight

The screen becomes scrambled TV without signal to other channels…

"Restoration at 12%" repeated the computer

Someone in a black coat walks up to a man with red wraps around his face and a red cloak, who is sitting at a computer desk in front of many lit screens, looking at a digital boy standing there like he was asleep and one TV almost like it's recording what's going on in Twilight Town as he watches the white creatures that Roxas fought squirming and flying around all over Twilight Town.

"Organization miscreants...They've found us"

"But...why would the Nobodies steal photographs?" asked the hooded figure looking at the screen and then at the other.

"Both are nothing but data to them. The fools could never tell the difference" replied the other looking at the computer.

"And Andi how was she able to retrieve that memory?" Asked the black coated man.

"From Namine's doing" said the red masked man.

"She knew about the seashell?"

"She knew Roxas had it. That witch is going to ruin everything that we have planned. We're running out of time. Namine must make haste on Sora's memories. Before it's too late"

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Sora's memories continue to race through Roxas' mind, as it continued like scattered film.

Sora is awoken by Pluto licking him in the back alleyway of Traverse Town, looking at Pluto then around Traverse Town as he stands up slowly.

"Oh...Where am I?" asked Sora

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Sora races into the Second District looking around wondering how and when he got here full of distress, "What happened to my home? My island?" he asked

Small dark creatures with bright yellow eyes appear around him as he holds a giant key in his hands looking around him, "Riku! Kai-!" yelled Sora

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A static image of Kai- appears smiling at him in Destiny Islands. Another creature came out of nowhere with armor on its head. Sora turns from behind him and is confronted by a tall, strong, shoulder length dark brown hair with a huge scar across his face in the First District

"Who are you?" asked Sora looking at him

"They will come at you out of nowhere, as long as you continue to wield the Keyblade" he said pointing at him with his black gloves. Sora stands there ready for a fight as he doesn't know what this person is confronting him.

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Data appears and then pops memories of Donald and Goofy being knocked out of the sky and onto Sora in the Third District with Sora laying on the ground, hurt with Donald and Goofy piled up on him feeling a little dizzy.

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"Hey, why don't you come with us? We can go to other worlds on our vessel" said Goofy standing next to Donald.

"Sora, go with them. Especially if you want to find your friends" ordered the man that confronted him earlier and a short black haired girl beside him with her arms crossed.

"Donald Duck" said Donald putting his hand out.

"Name's Goofy" said Goofy as he puts his hand on top of Donald

"I'm Sora. I'll go with you guys" said Sora as he put his hand on top of both of them

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Another image of Kai- appears in a white room as she stands there, smiling.

"The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade" explained the dark haired man pointing at the large key in a room where Sora was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"That's right. The Keyblade" repeated a women with dark brown hair in a ponytail and pink dress sitting on a different edge of the bed looking at them.

"So...this is the key?" said Sora looking at the large key in his hands lifting it up high.

Another image of Kai- appeared again and disappeared in a second. Like he was thinking about her a lot, like she holds the key.

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"But the boy is a problem. He found one of the Keyholes"

Sora sticks his Keyblade out and a glowing light flashes from the Keyhole and locks it.

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Roxas wakes up in his room and sits up fast looking at his hand where the keyblade appeared last time. Looking confused, "A key...blade?" he asked as he opens and closes his hand into a fist a few times.

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Andi sat down and petted Bear as he laid there sleeping on her bed, "I'll see you later buddy" she whispered and she walked off; grabbing her skateboard and off to the Usual Spot.

"HEY ANDI!"

Andi turned and sees Olette running at her, waving. Andi stops her skateboard and smiles; waving back as Olette finally catches up to her. Andi grabbed her skateboard and walks with Olette.

"What's up?" greeted Andi.

"Nothing...except...from what happened...yesterday" answered Olette trying to catch her breath, Andi chuckled at her exhausted friend trying to take deep breathes as she walked with her. She guessed she probably been running for a while the way she was gasping for air; lOh look we're here" she exclaimed as she came to the Back Alley and saw the Usual Spot entrance.

"I like your necklaces" commented Olette.

"Huh? Oh! Yeah thanks. Roxas gave it to me" replied Andi pushing strands of hair back.

Olette smiled at Andi, "you might wanna take a breathe before you come in. Or he's going to see you blushing" teased Olette as she walks in the Usual Spot.

Andi looked displeased by that, "I am not!" she argued following Olette inside.

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Roxas walks to the Usual Spot a few steps away from the entrance and stops, "A Keyblade..." he mutters.

Roxas spots a stick leaning against a wall and picks it up whacking it with his hand feeling its solid figure and starts swinging it around like a sword. Then looks at it again and shrugs, "What was that about?" he asked himself as he tosses it over his head and hits someone wearing a black cloak in the chest.

"Oh!" said Roxas as he turns to the person standing there for a second and then walks away down the steps without a word, "Sorry... about that..." apologized Roxas watching.

Roxas walks into the Usual Spot and sees Hayner, Pence, Olette, Andi and Falcon already sitting enjoying some sea-salt ice cream. Hayner offers Roxas some, "Thanks" said Roxas taking the ice cream.

"Do you guys think we'll always be together like this?" asked Pence licking his ice cream worried as Roxas sits down by Andi who was sitting on the floor between Olette and his seat, smiling at him.

"I sure hope so" answered Olette.

"Huh? Where did that come from?" asked Hayner looking at Pence with curiosity.

"Oh, well, you know. Just thinking out loud" answered Pence

"Well, I doubt we can be together forever. But isn't that what growing up's all about? What's important isn't how often we see each other, but how often we think about each other. Right?" asked Hayner looking at the gang.

Pence laughs, "Get that off a fortune cookie?"

"That's it, no more ice cream for you! Man, today's turning out to be a drag" said Hayner sounding a little upset.

"Maybe because of yesterday's memory thief" answered Olette looking at Hayner.

"Nuh-uh. You know what it is? We don't want summer vacation to be over. That's all! So, how about this?" said Hayner as he stand up. Pence shrugging his shoulders at Olette, they watch Hayner.

"We all go to the beach! And why do we go to the beach? Because we haven't gone once this entire vacation! Blue seas! Blue skies! Let's just get on the train and go!" said Hayner walks past his friends and then turns to his friends who were standing up. He runs up at them, "No? Aw, c'mon!" said Hayner

"Maybe you forgot, but we're broke" answered Roxas breaking up the group's silence.

"Maybe you forgot I'm smart!" said Hayner pointing at himself with a smile.

"Really that's new" blurted Andi as the group ran off laughing as Hayner gives Andi a glare; Andi giving a smirk in return.

"We're going to Market Street!" said Hayner as the continue to run to the Market Street: Station Heights. The group stops reading a poster on the wall about The Struggle Match.

"Just two days to go. You and I have to make the finals! That way, no matter who wins, the four of us split the prize!" said Hayner with his hand over Roxas' shoulders, Roxas smiles, "Okay, you're on"

"You two are gonna clean up!" said Pence pointing at them as Roxas gives him a thumbs up and Olette bouncing up and down, "Go get 'em!"

Falcon just smiles at them as she leans her hand on her hip and Andi came up with also a smile and nods at them with approval. Roxas and Hayner make a sign of friendship with their arms leaning on each other's arm and their hands curled into a fist, "It's a promise!" said Hayner as they both nod.

"Now, let's get down to business. One ticket to the beach is 900 munny. How much for six of us?" continued Hayner looking at the group.

"5400 munny" answered Andi. Hayner looks at her, "And 300 each to spend there. What's that for all of us?"

"1800 munny. A total of 7200 munny"

Pence puts his hands behind his head as he listens to the conversation with Hayner and Andi then looks at Roxas, "To spend on what?" asked Roxas looking at Hayner.

"Pretzels, of course! What else is there?" asked Hayner with a "Duh" expression.

"Well, there's always watermelon"

"Too pricey. They're, like, 2000 munny a piece"

"Pretzels it is"

"So, where were we?" asked Hayner

"We need 7200 munny altogether. But all we have is..." said Olette

"I've got 800" answered Pence as he laid his arms down at his side.

" ...650" said Olette

"150. Sorry" apologized Roxas

"350" replied Falcon

"1500" answered Andi

The group looks at Andi and shakes their heads. "What?" Asked Andi looking at the group.

"Rich girl" coughed Falcon.

Andi glared at Falcon. "Sorry I don't spend money like it grows on trees" snapped Andi.

"Hey she's doing at lot of contributing in this. So you girls just stop!" Said Hayner looking at the girls. Falcon rolls her eyes and Andi folds her arms and looks away from Falcon aggravated.

"That's 4100 munny! We need 3100. Let's find ourselves some odd jobs and earn some dough! We have 'til the train leaves to earn at least 516 munny each!" exclaim Hayner as he runs off with Falcon, "MEET AT THE STATION WITH CASH IN HAND!"

"Didn't he say he had it covered?" asked Pence putting his hands over his head again looking at Roxas, "Whatever. Those pretzels are sounding pretty good" said Roxas

Roxas helps out with some odd jobs, While Andi helped at the market with posters and groceries for people; they meet the other four at the Station Plaza.

"All present and accounted for?" asked Hayner

"Yep" answered Andi

"What've we got?" asked Pence

"Let's see..." said Roxas

Roxas pulls out some munny

"Just this" said Roxas

"Good job" said Hayner congratulating the gang

"Nice work, everyone. Added to what we started with, we now have..." said Olette as she shows them the munny pouch she made with the munny inside it.

'Tada! 7200 munny!" said Olette showing her munny pouch with excitement.

"Alright!" said Andi smiling as we pumped her arm to the sky.

"Sweet!" said Pence

Olette gives the bag to Roxas and smiles at him, "Let's get tickets!" said Olette as she, Pence, Falcon and Andi run ahead into the station.

"We can't be together forever... so we'd better make the time we do have something to remember" said Hayner watching his friends run to the Train Station as he talks to Roxas, "Huh?" asked Roxas looking at Hayner confused.

"Gotcha!" said Hayner jokingly punches Roxas in the stomach and joins the other four. Roxas follows but something rips his feet from under him, "WHOA!" yelled Roxas.

A small stick drops to the ground. Hayner, Pence, Olette, Falcon and Andi stop. Hayner steps back a bit down the stairs. Roxas grunts in pain coming to his knees, touching his lip. He looks up and sees someone in a black cloak standing beside him. The person he saw yesterday when he threw that stick.

"Huh?"

Andi watches as hooded man picks Roxas off the ground by the arm and brings him close and whispers something to him, "What?" asked Roxas looking at the hooded figure.

"ROXAS! THREE MINUTES!" yelled Hayner snapping Roxas' and Andi's attention to him.

"OKAY!" yelled Roxas as he turns to look back to the figure, who was gone. He catches up to his friends in the station.

"Who was that?" Asked Andi whispering to Roxas as they kept some distance from the rest of the group.

"I don't know. I seen him earlier today when I was coming in to meet you guys" explained Roxas quietly.

Andi looked puzzled as this hooded man didn't look like the last guy she meet yesterday.

Hayner bends at the teller and holds out 6 fingers; "Six students!" said Hayner smiling.

"Roxas, the money!" said Pence looking at him.

"Wait—"said Roxas searching though his pockets from where he put the munny pouch, "No" said Roxas still searching through his pockets.

"Huh?" asked Hayner looking at him

Roxas looks back out toward the plaza and remembers the cloaked person picking him up, "He took it!" mutters Roxas and begins to run outside into the plaza.

"Where are you going?" asked Olette confused. Roxas turns around and looks at the group, "Remember when I fell? I had the munny before that. I bet that guy took it!"

"Guy?" asked Hayner

"He couldn't have gotten too far..."

"What are you talking about?"

Hayner remembers Roxas outside as he gets up by himself and stands there dozed off into space, "There was no guy" answered Hayner looking at Roxas like if he was crazy.

Andi looks confused at Hayner, Falcon, Pence and Olette as they looked at Roxas like he was crazy. Andi looks towards where Roxas fell and she had clearly seen a hooded man pick up Roxas.

"How did you not see him?" Asked Andi looking at the group.

"He pulled Roxas up like he had some beef with him" Explained Andi

"There wasn't a guy" said Pence.

"He wore a black hooded coat he wouldn't have been hard to miss!" Said Andi in disbelief that they didn't see this guy; it would make sense if her or Roxas just seen it but they both had seen it. So how come they act like they didn't see a thing.

The train station bell wakes Roxas up from his thoughts as he looks at the group.

"Huh? But he...There wasn't...Really?" asked Roxas

The train whistle blows and they realize they've missed it as the group turns to watch the train go by, Pence sighs "Oh boy..." as he slumps down in defeat.

"There wasn't anyone...there?"

Hayner, Pence, Olette, Falcon leave the Station. Andi stands beside Roxas looking at the group as they left.

"I seen him"

"Huh?" Said Roxas looking at her.

"I seen him grab you. I've seen one wearing the same cloak yesterday when you where chasing that theif yesterday" Explained Andi

Roxas turns towards her; "why didn't you say anything?"

"I did! They-"

"No; yesterday. You said you were lightheaded." Interrupted Roxas.

"I...I didn't think they would come back." Replied Andi as she turned towards Roxas.

"They?"

"That guy wasn't the same guy I seen yesterday. He's a different one" said Andi.

"What do they want?" Asked Roxas

"I don't know. The one I meet said he was checking on you. But that's all he told me. But he seemed surprised that I could see him? All I know is somethings going on and I'm going to find out what it is" said Andi as she walked away.

Roxas watched her for a minute and followed her up to the top of the clock tower where Hayner, Pence, Olette and Falcon sitting there eating sea salt ice cream on the clock tower ledge.

"Here" said Falcon handing Andi and Roxas they're ice cream as they sat down on the ledge. The train is moving in the background, while Roxas sits and thinks as his ice cream started dripping as it melts.

"It's melting" said Olette snapping Roxas out of his thoughts again, "Sorry" apologized Roxas turning to them.

"Cheer up already!" said Hayner

"Yeah no big deal" said Falcon

"That was definitely weird, though" said Pence

"Strange" said Olette

Andi looked down the cloak tower confused on how today had gone.

"You said it" agreed Hayner as the group looked at Roxas.

"Can you feel Sora?" mutters Roxas to himself as he looks down at his ice cream...

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The hooded cloaked man yanked Roxas on the arm bringing Roxas close to him, "Can you feel Sora?" he asked in a whisper as he looked at him….

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Andi stood up, "Well I got to go. See you guys tomorrow" she said with a smile as she started walking.

She was grabbed by the arm, Andi glances behind her and sees Roxas. "Don't be looking for trouble by yourself" he warned quietly.

"You know trouble usually finds us before we find it right?" Asked Andi

"I'm serious Andi" said Roxas flatly.

"Hey! What are you guys talking about?!?" Asked Hayner.

Andi and Roxas look at their friends looking at them puzzled. Then look back at each other; "I dropped this and Roxas was just returning it to me" said Andi with a smile as she showed her musical keychain like it had came off showing it to her friends.

"I'm going home, I see you all tomorrow" said Andi as she gazed into Roxas' eyes as he lets her arm go and she tilts her head and smiles at him.

Going through the events the past two days has been quite weird and unexplained. Andi wonders what they want with Roxas...

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"We have a friend in common" said the mystery coated man from the day before that she meet...

Then the man that pulled Roxas up on the train station. Roxas never told her what he actually said to her...

"Don't be looking for trouble by yourself" warned Roxas before she left...

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"Who are you?" Asked Andi looking at the two men; one in red and the other one in a hooded black coat.

"Hey! You're the one that picked Roxas up at the train station!" Exclaimed Andi pointing at the black hooded man.

"You should keep you're noise out of things that doesn't concern you" Snapped the man in red.

"Does when it involves my friends" replied Andi

"Roxas can't have friends"

"Says you!" Snapped Andi glaring at the men.

The red man laughed at her; "I see I've made a wise choice on you, Andi"

"How do you who my name?" she asked

"Let's just say I've been watching you."

"Why?" Asked Andi as her hands curl into fists, "who are you and what do you want?" she continued.

"You can call me Diz. I want you to stay out of what's going on with Roxas" replied the man in red.

"Or what?!?" Spatted Andi.

"Or my hands will be tied"

"Humph...thanks for the warning" said Andi as she turns to walk away and sees the hooded man in front of her. She looks at Diz. "You might wanna call off your dog" warned Andi looking at the hooded man.

"You know what to do" Said Diz.

Andi watches as the hooded man summons his weapon out of no where from his hand. His weapon looked like a bat wing of a sword with a eye at the connection of the blade and the angel and bat wing handle. Andi gets on her guard waiting for sudden movement. As he comes slowly closer as she tries to back away giving each other the distance for her to react. As she looks at the weapon again her vision starts to double and her head throbs. Holding her head...

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Andi is holding a weapon that had rose gold colored rose thorns around what looked like a key with musical notes at the end. Silver musical notes that took place of the roses. Two sliver and rose gold small half opened roses in between the key and the handle.

She was being overpowered by the same key that she seen but it was a white haired boy that held the key. As she uses his strength against him she does a front walkover and gets behind him and before he could counter attack she stopped the weapon right by his heart.

"Impressive"...

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Andi putting her hands down; looks at the hooded man again and a flash of light from her hand summons the weapon she had visioned.

Diz chuckled at the sight. Andi not knowing what to do with it. Stands staring at the weapon; slowly moving her eyes from the key to the hooded man. She brings the keyblade in front of her in a more defensive stance. As the hooded man lunges at her Andi blocks it as she is pushed back by the hooded man's strength. Getting overpowered Andi front walkovers the man losing his balance and Andi single handed cartwheels away from his counter swing.

"Can't fool me again with that trick" stated the hooded man.

Andi smirked and shrugs her shoulders; "had to try"

As the hooded man lunges at her again she dodged him with another single handed cartwheels. She counter attacks and knocks the keyblade out of his hand. Andi lunges to Diz and as she jumps at him for an attack he disappears from her sight. Andi shocked by the quick reflex glances behind her and gets hit with a hand on the back of her neck and she falls on the ground. Scrabbling up quickly putting her keyblade in front of her as she looks around to find the men had disappeared.

Andi's keyblade flashes and disappears from her hand. She rubs the back of her neck that was hit as it didn't hurt. She looks around and sees no sign of anything that happened. She looks at her hand where she summoned that weapon and nothing happened.

"Was that real?" She asked...

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"What was that?!?" asked the hooded man coming out of the dark portal at Diz. Diz walked to his computers and started typing. "We had to change plans since she's starting to question what's going around her" explained Diz as he never took his eyes of the screens as he typed.

"She about got you!" said the hooded man.

"I overlooked what she is capable of. I won't make the same mistake again" Explained Diz.

"We need to get control of her before she causes anymore trouble" continued Diz...

To Be Continued….

Author's notes: Hey guys! Hope you are still enjoying this story! I'm trying to stick with some of the original Kingdom Hearts story. If you haven't read Kingdom Hearts: Whispers of the Past you should read it! It explains more of Andi and what's going on in the current storyline. Please Fave and Review!