Chapter Seventeen: I Think I'll Call Him Dimples

Ha! How'd you like them apples! Okay, well, originally it was going to be Marluxia under the coat instead, but you know, Xemnas was a better idea. I think it could freak some people out more easily. Okay, get some chocolate chip, chocolate icing cookies and milk, they's yummy.

"Oh…my god." I muttered to myself, backing up, wanting to just run away…but I couldn't. The computer here was broken and I wouldn't be able to get back no matter what I did. "How are you back…?"

Xemnas lifted his arms up and examined them for a minute, as the two lightsaber looking swords appeared in his hands. They flashed away, and he stepped forward to me. "Why, help from this young girl in front of me." He said, offering me his hand.

I hit it aside. "Thanks, but no thanks." I said, trying to sound brave, when inside, I was scared shitless. I just brought back the one guy that Sora and company have been trying to defeat for, almost, what, three years?

"That's a shame." He replied. "I was expecting a more…accepting response from you, Anna."

"There was another." I commented. "Roxas's replacement, right?"

"Yes," he assured me, as he backed me into a corner. "A friend of yours, Elizabeth?"

"Her name is Lizzy." I growled.

"Yes, we found her quite a while ago. We were just waiting for your to hit your peak, but instead, that King of yours lead us to the archives of your memories." He continued. "Either way, you've been quite helpful to us all."

"What's going to happen to me now?" I asked, shakily, keeping my hands at my side, ready to unleash the chakrams the first second I got.

"Preparing to fight me is a foolish decision." Xemnas said…Holy crap, did he just get in my head. "I know, you believe that if you say the right things, you'll catch me off guard and take me down and escape." He laughed, in that oh-so-awesomely clichéd maniacal laughter. "I am a different Xemnas than I was."

"Get away from her!" a voice from the other side of the room called. I looked past Xemnas and saw…well, not exactly a Knight in Shining Armor, but Hayner's close enough. He threw a well-aimed rock at Xemnas's back and ran up to me, and ran out of the room with me.

He ran out of the mansion and through town before taking me into the Usual Spot, Place, whatever…omigod, I sound like Axel! Stop it, Anna!

"Are you okay?" he asked me. I was surprised that somehow this world was still in tact even though the computer projecting it was damaged so badly.

I breathed heavily. "No…" I muttered. "Thanks…" I then replied quietly. "If anyone comes in here asking about me, tell them I was never here. I have to go."

"Do we even know you?" Pence asked. "What's your name, anyways?" I almost laughed.

"It'd be a bad idea if I tell you." I responded.

"Then how will we know that someone's asking about you?" Olette added.

"It begins with an 'A.'" I assured them, walking out, covering my face with the hood.

Now I'll say it…It doesn't look like we're in Hicksville anymore, Toto.

I grabbed my head and wished I had kept the hood on…then again, Xemnas still would've seen me.

"Axel!" I cried out. "Where the hell are you!" Doesn't it suck being all alone?

There was no response. The one time that I wanted to hear Axel's irritating voice…there was nothing. At this point, I was even willing to listen to Demyx's inconvenient question games.

I shook my head around the cords on the coat swishing around, this is one of those times, where even my brain can't solve it.

I wished I were dreaming. That way, I could wake up, and say, "This would be an awesome fanfic!" but that's not what's happening. I'm not dreaming, and I'm not going to wake up.

"We'll help you, Anna!" I looked to my side, and saw three of the characters from my story, "The Princess Who Ruled Nothing."

"Jakano, Auriako, Ieana." I said to them. "Wrong story."

"Damnit!" Auriako, the only guy, said as the three of them vanished.

I could've actually used their help! Mother…ducker!

I sighed heavily and put the hood up. I wondered if I was stuck here until someone actually…

"Wait a minute…" I said aloud. "I have two options. The Organization's new base is around here somewhere…or…there's that portal into darkness in the mansion…then I have to go past Xemnas again…" I sighed heavily… "No…Xemnas would have gone to wherever the new H.Q is…and it definitely wasn't the mansion…Then where is it?" I had no idea, so I headed back towards the mansion, in a, "What would Sora do?" situation.

I kicked open the door of the mansion and ran towards the basement once again. I was hoping I was right this time around and maybe I could do something right, without anyone else's help.

Xemnas wasn't in the basement anymore, so I ran for the room in between the computer room and the room with all those…pods. In the back corner was the same swirling hole of darkness. I inhaled deeply and ran into it, feeling myself sucked in.

This might almost be worse than being in a world that I can't get out of. I have no idea which direction I'm facing. Which way is up or down, right or left. I almost hate this.

I hugged myself and wanted to cry…In fact I did. "Where am I going!" I shouted, just running forward, hoping that I would end up somewhere that wasn't here…or the Twilight Town that I was just in.

I got sucked in, and I hoped I'd be somewhere, where I could really talk to someone who I knew wasn't playing around with me.

"Oh this sucks." I whined, as my glasses got hit with a drop of water. I looked up and I realized I was in the one and only, World That Never Was.

I ran forward, only to remember that…This place was infested with Heartless, like, an infinite amount…I've never actually killed all of them in the game…So I think they're infinite.

"Eeee!" I squeaked as Neo-Shadows came storming up to me. "My heart! You can't have it! It's mine!" I stopped for a second when I was just about a block or so from Memory's Skyscraper. "I control…I have chakrams…" I giggled cheekily and conjured the chakrams and let the fire spread outward.

I then ran like hell to the Skyscraper, and yes, tripping several times. And this, was how I met Dimples.

While I was flat on my face, I found myself looking at what appeared to be a Baby Shadow Heartless…it looked very happy, and albeit, stupid. If a normal shadow Heartless saw me in this position, it would have attacked like crazy. But this baby Heartless…barked at me, and started to act like a cat and try and get its scent all over me.

"You're so cuuute!" I squeaked as I sat up and it crawled in my lap. "I think I'll name you Dimples." It barked at me again. "You want to sit in my hood?" I asked, taking it off. It barked once more and I seated it in my hood. What? It was cute, it liked me.

"Befriending Heartless, now?" a cocky voice asked. I looked around. "Up here!" I looked upwards at the Skyscraper and…not another one!

This Organization member jumped down and landed feet away from me. He took off his hood and…

"Jebus chris, Riku!" I complained. "I thought you were Demyx!" He laughed. "Why're you here anyways?"

"Sora came back and said that you disappeared. " he replied. "So, I came here, just in case you ended up here."

"Why didn't Sora or Kairi come then?" I asked. Riku began walking ahead.

"A small part of me is still walking in the darkness." He answered, looking back at me. "But that doesn't matter, you and Dimples come with me. You should explain what happened, because I don't think your little disappearance had anything to do with Axel."

"Hey!" I yelled. "That's almost…it is gross!" Riku laughed.

"Lighten up." He responded. "I'm only joking. But we did hear from Roxas that something wouldn't let him into the other Twilight Town. You want to tell what happened?"

"Well," I started. "at first, it still looked like Roxas was with me, and we got into this fight, and the he took off his hood, and…and…"

"Yeah?"

"He was Xemnas." Riku laughed. "What! It was really scary!"

"Looks like we're all headed on to another journey." He told me.

"And that's a good thing?"

"Why wouldn't it be a good thing?" I sighed.

"It's just that, already, this is way to much for just me to handle."

Riku pat me on the shoulder. "Don't worry about it." He assured me. "So far, you've been doing most of your part on your own. But in the long run, you'll have all of us and your other friends helping along side you."

"This is only the beginning!" I asked, shocked, and Dimples barking.

"Yeah, but you're a lucky kid." He added. "You even know where your mom is and you know that she's safe." I laughed a bit. "You'll be alright. Just don't let the darkness take you, don't get kidnapped by the Organization anymore, and avoid anything that'll get you killed, and you're set."

"You better be right, Riku." I said, looking at him from the corner of my eyes. "If I die, I'm coming back to haunt you."

"You won't die." He guaranteed. "Just remember, we're all in this together."

I'm still not used to everything. It's like starting at a new school. I've been here for almost two months now. Yes, it has been that long, but I'm still not used to being in the worlds from a video game. My life is actually on the line, and I'm part of this giant plot by Organization XIII. At least I know that the characters…I mean people, here actually care about me, and that they'll be backing me up.

And if they don't, I'm gonna bite their freaking heads off!