The Dominator: Well, I got some response to Falling Into Nothing, so I decided to expand on it a little bit. Here's chapter two. Hope it's decent! Kingdom Hearts style characters, but no Disney ones, because Disney is too happy.

The Other Side of Light

Sora twitched, burning pain climbing his arms. He rolled and rocked in the bed he laid in, feeling as if poisonous, gouging daggers were ripping at him. Blood rushed in his head, and his heart was dying, like the broken person he was. But suddenly, the pain eased. The daggers dulled, and his wounds felt cool and relaxed.

"Sora? … Sora!" Yuffie's voice woke him up. She looked concerned, although alert.

"What happened to you? Cid found you in front of his shop dying in your own blood! Your arms were gouged deep, and your head had been busted open! He thought you were dead, bur Leon found you had a pulse and we stabilized you. You've been in a coma for three weeks! You look decent now, though. But back to what I was saying, what happened to you?"

Sora opened his mouth, but only tears came from his eyes. It all came to him. It was real. It was no dream. He wanted to tear and kill things, but he couldn't move very well. He just managed to whisper,

"She's gone…"

"Who's gone?"

"K… Kairi…"

"Who's Kairi?"

"The girl he used to always tell us about," Leon entered the small hotel/ hospital room. "That's the sacrifice Ansem used. The girl. Kairi."

"How… do you know what… he did?" Sora whispered.

"Because, Sora. People have been losing light. All the happiness and care people have leaves them. They want to destroy more light. They become savage, unhappy creatures. Ansem controls so many places now. He happily proclaims how he gained the power to destroy light. He relishes in it. He made a sacrifice. And now we know what… who it was."

"I was too weak to save her! I… I can never forgive myself…"

"Sora, rest. There's nothing that can be done now." Yuffie was trying to calm Sora down. Sora went back to sleep.

He saw a door. It wasn't much. Not more than a simple glass door attached to its hinges, sealed shut. On the other side was something to bright to see. Suddenly, the door faded, and blackness took his mind. He wanted to kill, rip, and tear. Pain spread through his body, like needles driving themselves into his flesh. His heart beat was irregular and painful.

Sora woke up. All the pain and anger were gone, except for a dull throbbing on his wrist. Leon was sitting by his side. Sora was in silence sorrow.

"I… I… can't let it go."

(Leon) "My father used to tell me stories about those who died. If they were good, they went to the other side of light. They weren't really gone, they were safe and happy. For years, I have wondered if the next part of his tale is true. He said the entrance to the other side of light was deep in the core of this world. I searched for the core of the Earth, for anyway to it. I came across a cave, but it was to overgrown with traps and danger. Besides, I never had any reason to find the way to the other side of light."

"I would do anything to reach that door to see Kairi again…"

"Well, I can tell you the way, but I can't tell you what's inside."

"Tell me!"

Leon told the way, and he also gave his ideas to Sora on what was inside. Leon warned that his father always said the door was sealed. Sora didn't care. He would find a way to open it.

(Leon) "What's that on your arm?"

"I don't know."

Sora looked at his arm. A spot a pure purple-ish black was pulsing on his arm. It looked like it was very slowly expanding. Sora was mesmerized by its horrible beauty.

"No…" Leon whispered quietly and fearfully.

"It's on you. That's a symbol that the light inside you is being killed. Ansem cursed you somehow, just like he has cursed so many others."

Leon backed away, losing his normal calm mien.

Suddenly, Sora felt extreme pain. It was pain above pain. Everything inside him was cringing, smashing, breaking, and burning. The sheer horrible hate returned. He wanted to kill and rip. He didn't see anything except the black.

Sora was still burning when he woke, but what he saw hurt him much more. Leon was a bloody corpse in his own blood pool. He was dead obviously. Sora realized what had happened. He lost the light within himself, and he had attacked and killed Leon. He glanced at his arm. The pool of dark had spread up his arm to his shoulder.

"My weakness of body caused the death of someone who was a part of me. My weakness of heart cost another friend his life." Hot tears poured down Sora's face as he told himself what he had done.

The path had been set before Sora. Covered in his own friend's blood, Sora left to find the door to the other side of light.

The Dominator: Well, I may continue this story, because it's not really finished, is it?

Stay away from my pie,

The Dominator