BHK was awakened by the feeling of cool water supporting his body. He rolled over to his stomach and slowly opened his eyes.

He was laying on water. Water that did not make him wet, or allow him to plunge under the surface. Ahead of him, he could see a waterfall. No, the water was rising. If it could be called a waterfall, the water would be falling up.

"The Rising Falls of Hollow Bastion." Said a voice. BHK rolled over again. There was a strange girl looking down at him. She had brown hair and two differently colored eyes. One green, one blue. She gave a slight bow. "My name's Yuna." She said smiling.

BHK sat up and shook his head. "Where's Kairi?" Yuna waved her hand away, indicating a sleeping girl lying peacefully on the water.

"She'll probably be up in a moment. Between the fall and her near-death experience, she deserves a little rest." Yuna frowned. "What happened up there anyway?"

BHK looked up at her, breaking his gaze from Kairi's resting form. "I was hoping you could tell me the same thing. Kairi and I really shouldn't have survived that fall." Yuna knelt down beside him. "Why don't you tell your side, and I'll tell mine?"

BHK nodded. "Well…."

BHK sighed, and he began his ascent via the stairway. After walking for a good five minutes straight, and after wondering if he was going anywhere at all, an explosion knocked him to the ground.

He quickly kicked to his feet and ran over to a window he had just noticed. He stuck his head outside and looked down. A little way below him, a smoking crater had formed in the side of the castle.

BHK knew that the wall was not going to hold much longer, and he briefly considered returning to his (quickened) ascent up the stairway. But then he saw the hair. Kairi was bound in rope below him, and the wall was beginning to give way.

Another movement caught his eye. The Keyblade master was in the air, near Kairi, but unable to help her at all. BHK's mind raced. He had two choices. One: Make his way down and meet up with Sora, or, Two: Save Kairi. Though the urge to join Sora was almost unbearable, BHK knew what he had to do.

The wall began to collapse, huge pieces of stone tumbled through the air, threatening to crush the onlookers below. BHK had to act, now. He dove through the window and out into open space, with no plan whatsoever.

BHK was forced to rely on reflex, as his mind held no spectacular last minute ideas, and he had betrayed his instinct. After all, for normal people (BHK included), instinct would never tell you to enter a drop from at least six stories up without a parachute strapped to your back.

The falling blocks had a heavy lead on him. He pointed his body ground-ward and slapped his arms to his side and legs together to attempt to increase his descent. In this way, his body reduced the friction of the air, so he could move faster, but not fast enough. In a few more seconds Kairi would be crushed.

BHK drew Oblivion. "Shatter!" He called to it, he could barely hear his own voice above the roaring wind in his ear. BHK hurled the Oblivion toward on of the stones in his way. He would not reach Kairi, before those bricks did, but maybe he could still get her out of the path of danger.

The Oblivion sliced through the rock as if it were paper, leaving it in two even sized pieces. They slammed into the ground on either side of Kairi, leaving her very shaken but otherwise unharmed.

But the danger had not been resolved yet. There was still heavier debris after him, and two more slabs of stone were on a deadly collision course with Kairi's skull. The Oblivion had not yet returned to him, so BHK had to try something different until it did.

BHK drew the Oathkeeper, and used its energy to shift the Aero spells into something more suited for the situation at hand. Once he had the idea of what he wanted clear in his mind, BHK shouted the spell's name, and forced it through the blade to bring it to life. "Aero!"

BHK could feel a whirling blanket of air surround him. By using the Aero spell in this form, he could manipulate the air around him, mostly to give him and added boost by blasting it under his feet and onto a hard, solid object. BHK smiled. The debris all around would do nicely.

BHK shot down through the mayhem, passing one of the boulders in his way, just as the Oblivion was returning. The blade also happened to smashed the second slab in its way.

Now all that was left was Kairi. BHK had one chance to do this right, or they'd both be crushed. BHK jet off the rock behind him and as the moment drew nigh, could think of nothing about how to save the Princess.

She had fought her way out of the rope around her legs, and was now standing perfectly still, frozen, as there was nowhere for her to run. Even if she stepped off the edge behind her….

BHK made up his mind. He repositioned his body to "land" just a little over the edge. He used the last of the Aero in one final shot and threw himself into Kairi, sending the both of them over, and falling even more, towards an unseen ground below.

Kairi was screaming in his ear. BHK didn't even think she knew that he was holding onto her. BHK even doubted she saw him coming in the first place. But for some reason, BHK couldn't focus on these thoughts. Or any for that matter. His mind was beginning to fog over, he couldn't keep himself awake.

"The last thing I remember is hitting something soft, and losing all the strength I had left." BHK reported to Yuna. He looked at the strange girl. "Now it's your turn. Explain how we ended up down here."

Yuna smiled. "Unlike yours, my story isn't nearly so complicated. I had been walking around near the dining room, looking for Kairi. But she didn't show up, which made me a little worried. In the short time I've known her, she's never been late. Not once."

Yuna smiled over at the (still) resting girl. "So, I thought that I'd look for her myself. I wandered through the castle for a bit and made my way to a balcony overlooking another entire side of the castle. I saw an explosion, two people falling, and I realized that one of them was Kairi.

"I wished for something to save her, and an enormous bird swooped down from the sky and caught you both. Valefor came back to get me after he had set you two down in a safe spot." Yuna ended.

"A bird huh? That would explain the soft thing I felt." BHK said, absently rubbing his cheek. "Where'd you get the name Valefor from?"

"I didn't give him his name. He told me what it was." Yuna said in defense.

"What? It can speak too?"

"No…not really." Yuna mumbled looking down at her hands, "I just sort of knew, okay? It just felt like he had told me himself."

BHK shrugged and stood up, intending to check Kairi over again if she didn't wake soon. "So, how'd you summon it? A gem? A phrase?" He asked interestedly.

Yuna, however, was bewildered. "Summon? So it really is me that's bringing these creatures here?"

"Who else? Unless the Unknown summoned it, but I doubt they'd save me too. Maybe not even Kairi. They were just using her as bait in the first place." BHK walked over to Kairi. "Look, just don't be afraid alright? Instead, why don't you try learning about it instead, see what you can summon and what you can't. If you have the power, then put it to some good use" BHK looked back at Yuna and grinned. "Alright?"

Yuna nodded. "Alright."

BHK crouched next to Kairi. "I think she's stirring."

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