Well, time to give this another shot, and do the next chapter. Well, that's it…. i think. Oh. I don't own KH2 or KH or anything of the like, I don't even pretend to. That said, on to the story.

Chapter Two:

Sora heard his name called, and blinked, he'd been looking at the ground trying avoid giving his headache anything to rage at. It hurt enough as it was. He looked for the source of the voice, around an abnormally bright light. It took a moment to realize it was from the city's defense system. When had that started to follow him? Oh, well, it had probably down a better job watching out for the Heartless then he had.

A lot of good I'm doing. Sora thought to himself. I can't even stay focused anymore.

"Sora!" The odd accented voice of Donald cut through Sora's wandering thoughts.

Oddly Sora was a little angry at the duck and confused as to why he was angry. Donald hadn't done anything lately.

"Sora, You won't believe what we saw."

"Really? And that was?"

Donald blinked a moment at Sora's tone, but Sora grinned and pointed at his head and replied, trying to hide his own confusion, what exactly was going on. "Headache."

"Really?" The quiet, but confident voice belonging to Cloud announced that the man had come into the conversation. "Where were you anyway?"

Sora had never really heard cloud talk much, and it was usually only asking a question. That part at least was normal. But the Question rarely…okay, never…involved Sora's behavior.

"Thinking a few things through." Sora said, confused as to why it should matter.

"You should have come back before it got dark, Hollow Bastion isn't safe anymore." He said all this while walking away.

Something in Sora's mind brought the image of Cloud's sword, rarely far from him, to mind. And connected it with his headache. Then Sora shook his head and laughed at himself, first he's freaking out over the No Bodie's Kingdom Hearts and now he's going crazy and lashing out at friends, at least wanting too, and thinking he'd been attacked by them.

"I need some serious rest before I completely lose it." He said to himself, just to hear his own voice.

"Sora!" Donald didn't like being ignored, never had, actually. "I was attacked!"

"By What?" This time Sora didn't have to pretend he was honestly curious to know, he hadn't seen any heartless for a few days, not that he'd been paying attention, really.

(On The Roof Tops, start of chap.)

Zaetyne had followed the boy who held that blasted key out of curiosity. She'd seen his horrid attempt to get the duck. Hmm, it had never occurred to her to get the ones…. never mind. She'd seen the man in black before. His hair had stood out to her night-vision, the bright color seemed oddly familiar, but at the same time horribly foreign.

It had been so long since she'd walked in the day that her eyes stung and hurt with the light. And that blasted little orb following him made things difficult. It was far too bright for her eyes and it was new, very new. Nothing of the like had ever existed in her memory. Then, she hadn't used her human memory in a long time.

Settled in the shadowy overhang where two roofs met, Zaetyne let her watched, having gotten very good at waiting. She absently watched little bits of shadow float off, half-expecting them to crackle and pop like embers from a fire, then she shifted and thought of other things. Fire was something that hurt. Something she…no longer cared for.

Why was she following him? Her curiosity had died when she'd nearly been discovered, something she'd been very, very careful about up to now. Still something was nagging at her, a bothersome feeling that would not yield, so Zaetyne stayed. Settled down and at one point dosed off.

(Back to Sora.)

"Wait, wait." Sora asked his tone disbelieving. "A human like heartless? They've never managed anything close to what you're suggesting."

"This one was!" Donald said hoping up and putting his wings on the table in emphasis.

"Right." Sora then turned to Goofy. "Did anyone else see it?"

"Cloud may have." Goofy suggested. "He found Donald."

"And got the Thing!"

Sora's head hurt painfully, almost blindingly. "Goofy!"

The Dog-man, for lack of a better term, had lifted his shield and the light had been reflected right into Sora's eyes. It left Sora blinded and feeling annoyed…no angry with his two friends. Okay, they were spooked by a heartless or No Body attack, but damn! He'd already told them about his headache.

"Sorry, Sora." Goofy apologized, moving so that the light from the Shield didn't go directly into Sora's eyes.

Hiding a sigh that was both relieved and annoyed, Sora turned back to Donald. He was tired and wanted to get some sleep. Maybe that would help him feel better, and make his headache go away. "Now, Why again is this so important?"

"Sora!" Donald was shocked and even Goofy turned to look at him, dropping his shield on his foot and spent a few minutes hopping around the room. "It's got to be a Heartless! It attacked me! It pulled out my feathers…" After that Donald's speech got too jumbled to understand and Sora mocked concern and interest while hoping that he could get to bed soon. All he'd done was walk around Hollow Bastion but he felt like he'd run a marathon, after fights hundreds of heartless.

"Wait, Feathers?" He did remember something about feathers. "Oh! I found this."

He been walking and found a long white feather, without think he'd picked it up and put it in one of his side-packs. Donald promptly snatched the feather before sticking it back where it belonged, somewhere on his left wing. "Your Welcome, to you too!"

Donald looked embarrassed and laughed a little. "Sorry, Sora."

"That's okay." Sora said, giving what he hoped was a genuine smile. "I'm just really tired."

"Then maybe you should get some rest, while we explain to Leon." Goofy suggest, shocked into silence from Sora's earlier statement.

"That sounds good actually. I'll do that. Let me know if anything happens."

Nods from both satisfied Sora and he went up into the part of the building the three of them always stayed at, when they were in Hollow Bastion long enough to rest. He was really tired.

Behind him, Goofy and Donald Exchanged looks, each one thinking they were more worried then the next. Sora had never talked to them like that. He next to never, talked to anyone like that. Even his worst enemies got a lighter tone. They'd started to think he did it because it annoyed the Organization and Maleficent.

Twilight Keeper

Well, chapter two, not as much action, but it will be made up for, I promise. R&R please.