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Key:

- Dream State - , Flashback , ' thoughts ', " Dialogue "

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Author's Note: This takes place after Chain of Memories. Hope you guys like it. Comments and critisism's loved, be kind it's my first fic!

Romance/Drama/

Rating: M

Warning: This is a Yaoi fic! It pairs Sora and Riku and lemony stuff, so if you don't like kingdom hearts... or Sora+Riku, or yaoi, don't read it! Possible spoilers as well.

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(Chapter 6: Within the darkness, there is light.)

Kairi monitered Sora from that evening on, being his girlfriend was almost the best excuse she had to spend the nights with him to make sure that he didn't have any more of those dark nightmares. She relayed what she saw to the hologram sent to her by the king which gave her a direct link to Riku. She told him night after night anything that she noticed about Sora's disposition. It seemed that erasing his memories of Riku had cured him of the creature of darkness within him, but Riku was convinced that it would eventually find another way to taint the boy's heart.

As for Sora he was his normal cheery self on the outside... however whenever he was alone he was thoughtful and quiet. In his dreams he saw a strange light leading him away from Destiny Islands. A friendly voice called to him and told him that he was forgetting someone very important to him. Someone on the other side of a door that he wasn't supposed to go through. During his waking hours he had realized that his girlfriend... was really just being near him to keep an eye on him. She didn't really love him. They were friends but that's as far as it seemed to go between them. His dreams told him that his soulmate was somewhere else... somewhere drowning in his forgotten memories.

Then one day he sprang up out of bed, an overwhelming sensation having woken him up.

"What is it Sora?" Asked Kairi immediately waking up as well and staring at him.

"Evil... something evil has come to Destiny Islands!" Sora said carefully as he tried to asses the situation and get dressed at the same time.

Kairi immediately joined him and together they ran outside. They paused when they saw the scene unfolding before them. Dark clouds were rushing into the islands from out of nowhere, bringing with them a torrent of rain that began darkenning the bright sand as they slowly began to cover the island. Sora and Kairi waited under an alcove as the rain caught up to them, drenching everything in it's path. In the distance a single form was floating in the air just over the ocean, a glow of eerie green light surrounding it and flowing into the dark clouds above.

"Kairi you stay here. I'm going to go check it out." Sora said imporantly whipping out his keyblade..

"No Sora! I'm coming with you." She said firmly, she stared him down until he sighed and nodded.

"Alright... just stay out of range." He said running as fast as he could to the source of the disturbance. Kairi was right behind him, secretly pressing the button on her holographic device so that it recorded everything that was happening for Riku to look at later.

As they got closer to the scene they saw the source of the disturbance. A girl that couldn't have been older than 8 or 9 years old floated high above the churning sea. She had long dark-grey hair done up in two half-buns so that the rest of her hair hung down to her waist. She had large yellow eyes with no whites, each had a black pupil in the center that were currently staring upwards. She was wearing the most violent shade of purple as an eyeshadow. For her clothing she was wearing a loose netted top over a simple black bra and a many-layered short black skirt. She wore a pair of tall boots that seemed to be torn open in the back in several places. A pair of fishnet stockings covered what skin the boots did not. To complete the ensemble was a long black cape that flowed down her back and ended in jagged spikes around the tips of her boots. Her lips, which were open in a diabolical grin, were bright red in color. In her right hand she wielded a long black staff topped with a glowing green orb.

Sora stared at her for a while, an overwhelming sense of familiarity washing over him. She looked just like... a miniature version of Maleficent... except that she didn't have demon horns... and her hair was grey. Maleficent... one of the most frightening of the evil people he'd fought back in the days that he'd been trying to rescue Kairi. She could do anything she wanted with that magic staff, including her nefarious ability of becoming a fire-breathing dragon. Sora shivered and clutched his blade a bit tighter. "HEY! Stop that right now!" He shouted up to the little girl.

Her bright eyes swiftly shifted down to look at him and her smile widened, lightning cracking just behind them and lighting up her face in the most sinister way possible. "You don't really want me to stop. You want me to sink the whole island! This place means nothing to you." She said confidently from where she floated, cackling darkly.

Sora stared at her then angrilly swung his sword up and pointed it at her. "What the hell gave you that idea? This is my home! I wouldn't want to destroy it! I belong here, with my family and friends."

The little girl giggled darkly, "Liar! Your heart is telling me a different story. There's someone important to you... someone you want to find. Someone you've forgotten because your so-called friends forced you to forget!" She said gleefully, pointing to Kairi purposefuly.

Sora turned to Kairi in surprise, momentarily distracted by the guilty look on her face. "Kairi? What is she talking about?"

The little girl cackled some more turning his confused attention back to her. "Come with me Sora. I can show you the truth. I have seen the memories on the other side of your heart. They've got a story to tell you that you wont believe!" She chirped.

"Who are you?" Sora demanded, deciding that trusting her was obviously not the best choice in the world.

"My name is Saigi. I'm the daughter of the great Maleficent, whom you so kindly murdered." The girl said spitefully.

"Yeah well... she was a heartless!" Sora defended back.

The girl sneered at him, "So were you at one point... and you are quickly becoming one again."

Sora couldn't help but stare at her in shock. "What! I am?"

"Don't listen to her Sora! She doesn't know what she's talking about." Kairi piped up distracting him desperately. She had to stop him from finding out. Things weren't going well ... Kairi had to do something fast.

Sora looked over at Kairi. "Stay out of this. Sora doesn't know what a backstabbing little girl you are." Saigi said, waving her wand towards Kairi, a beam of violent green light heading toward her.

"Kairi! No!" Sora cried in alarm diving in front of her and blocking the attack with his body. Unfortunately, he hadn't known what sort of attack and screamed as his body vanished into thin air.

Saigi looked shocked... and even more surprizing was the look of intense pain that crossed her features before she too vanished entirely. The island's weather returning to normal.

Kairi's jaw dropped and she fainted onto the wet sand, in disbelief of what had just occured.

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(Somewhere in the realm of darkness.)

A low groan issued from a chocolate-haired boy who was lying flat on his back. His electric-blue eyes opened slowly, then they closed again. Everything was black! Maybe he was still asleep, he thought numbly as he tried to move his arms or legs. He was surprized to find it easy to move, whereas in a dream it was sometimes hard to move one's limbs. Slowly he opened his eyes again and sat up to look around. Black and darkness everywhere he looked. Where the hell was he? He tried to remember what had happened before he'd appeared here... to no avail. It seemed he had no memories at all. 'Who am I?' He thought to himself as he began to panic.

He didn't have much longer to worry about this however because suddenly strange creatures began appearing all around him. They were short creatures, their skin was black and their beady eyes were yellow. He backed up in fear as they began creeping up to him, looking menacing, stretching out their claws to try and scratch him. He spun and found that he was in the center of a large circle of these monsters. He bit his lip as his heart began to pound against his heart. Shit! What the hell was he supposed to do? One of the circling creatures lunged at him and his reflexes surprized him so much that he fell over. A long golden key-shaped blade had appeared in his hand and he'd hacked the creature into a poof of black smoke.

'How did I do that?' He asked himself as he stared at the weapon in his hand. Then he got back onto his feet, feeling a bit more confident as more of the creatures lunged after him. He wacked them away, his confidence mounting as he realized that he could fight! He swung about slashing the dark creatures into nothingness. After several hundred swings however, his arm was beginning to tire... that and it seemed the weaker creatures he'd started the fight against had been replaced by taller and stronger versions. He wimpered as one of them knocked away his weapon which vanished from sight when they did so. He collapsed onto his knees and threw his arms up over his head to block the inevitable attacks from these new creatures.

No attack came. Instead a new sound of metal meeting shadow was heard nearby and he lifted his head up to look at what was going on. The nearest creatures had also turned at the precense of another sound. They didn't have much longer to wonder what it was though as a long, purple and black, blade shaped like a dragon's wing sliced through them like butter, causing them to dissipate. The owner of the sword stepped into view, slashing away at the creatures that were surrounding the brunette. It was wearing a very strange outfit of dark-grey trenchcoat and matching tall boots, making it impossible to tell anything about it. At least, the boy thought, it looked human.

"C'mon, get up and follow me." Said a husky male voice from behind the hood, holding out a black-gloved hand to help him up. The boy accepted the help gratefully and followed the other man quickly away from the scene.

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OMG... Sora's lost his memory! And who on earth is this Saigi person? More next time!

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