Chapter 12

---------------A-X-E-L---------------

Axel stood on the shore of Destiny Islands. What ever happened to Riku, and Kairi? He looked out at the horizon until, the sky got dark. As he looked harder hs saw a boat, no two boats. Two boats heading towards the island. As they docked on shore the two of them looked happy to see each other. Axel could just barely hear their faint voices.

"Where are Riku, and Kairi, Sora?" the boy with red hair asked Sora.

"They must be here, their boats are here," Sora replied. The two ran towards a small bridge on the island, many creatures blocked their path, the Heartless.

Axel chased after the two, to see what had happened next. Riku stood there by a Paopu Tree.

"The door- has opened, can't you see now you two. Now we can travel into other worlds," he said.

"What are you talking about, we've gottas find Kairi..." Sora was interupted.

"Kairi's coming with us," Riku said as he reached his hand out towards Sora. The boy with red hair shaking his head no.

"Don't go Sora," he said. Sora ignored his gesture and reached his hand out. Darkness surrounded the three boy, and then a bright light. Sora, and the boy were both left behind. Sora now held the Keyblade. Heartless surrounded the two, and Sora attacked the creatures. The boy with red hair, scared. His face turned pale as he backed away.

"Axel!" Sora shouted reaching out his hand so Axel wouldn't fall into the water. Axel nodded his head no as he backed away farther. He fell over the ledge, Axel jumped in after him. So this is how it all happened. He held his breath as he descended into the dark depths of water. Then there was an explosion of white light, that sent the two hurdling out of the water. Axel closed his eyes as he moved floated in the air. He started to descend, until finally he hit soft sandy ground. Axel opened his eyes and jumped to his feet. He was at his house, and the little Axel looked stunned. He was crying over a lifeless body, his mother. He heart was taken and she was starting to fade away.

"MOMMY!" he screamed as he cried his heart out. Now... I remember. Mother was everything, I loved her, and she loved me. A man appeared behind the two, he wore a black coat with his hands behind his back. Like many other members, his face was covered by the hood he wore.

"Child, it's to late," the man said as he approached the little Axel. "But, I can make the pain go away."

"Yes sir, please," the little Axel murmured. The two vanished, and so did Axel. He appeared in a dark place standing on a large pillar with a picture of flames on the bottom of it.

"Give up your heart to the Darkness, and the pain will go away," the man said. This is the truth, he planed to make everybody in the Organization whole... except for me. But the thing is, I willingly didn't mid this, because of mother. The boy kneeled down to the man, and then there was a flash of light.

Axel was standing in the pearly white hallways of Castle Oblivion.

"Well, that was a short trip," Axel said to himself as he walked towards the second door, but something stopped him. A familiar voice, of a friend.

"Axel, do you wish to go past that door?" the voice asked.

Axel whipped his head around to see a man in a black coat. He wasn't much taller than him.

"Yes, I want to see what happened to me when I first joined the Organization," Axel said.

"Well, before you go through that door," the man said. A Keyblade appeared in each of the man's hand. One was black, with a black crown dangling at the end of it, while the other was white, and had a small Paopu leaf hanging at the end of it. "How about we have a fight between friends.

"Okay, but I'll have to make it quick," Axel said drawing his two weapons.

---------------S-O-R-A---------------

The three hung over at the edge of the table, Sora let go of the edge, and landed on a nice soft cushion.

"Come on Donald, your turn," Sora yelled back up.

"No," he yelled back.

"Come on Donald, it's just like this," with that Jack leaped off the table onto the cushion. "Now, you!"

Donald jumped off the table with his eyes closed. He looked down, screamed, and flapped his arms up and down, "WAH!" He fell down onto the cushion and started laughing.'

"Was that so hard little fella?" Sora asked.

Donald looked up and pointed at the bottle, "okay, now how are we supposed to get up there?"

Sora sighed, "I guess I should've thought the plan out more."

"Ya, think?" Donald shouted. Suddenly the three heard footsteps. They came closer, and closer. They stopped when a giant shadow overcast them.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" the voice rumbled. They were then picked up by two giant hands. "Jack Skelington."

"Oogie Boogie," Jack said.

"How'd you three escape Christmas Town?" Oogie asked. Sora couldn't summon his Keyblade because Oogie was crushing him.

"Let us go!" Sora shouted.

"Why would I do that?" Oogie asked, "when the heartless are here." Small black creatures surrounded Oogie.

"You see that Machine?" Oogie said as he pointed the three towards a giant blue ray type thing. "That's gonna make the Heartless the size of the buildings in this place, trey defeating them with that puny Keyblade of yours?"

Oogie dropped the three down unto the ground. The three of them stood in the center of the Heartless. Donald held his Staff, Sora held his Keyblade, and Jack was ready to fight. The giant Heartless moved in, and Oogie walked closer to the machine.

"Okay guys, we've gotta stop Oogie from getting to that machine!" Sora yelled as he ran towards a small chair. He jumped up on the chair, and hopped unto the counter. The other two followed. "HEY OOGIE!"

Oogie Boogie turned and saw the three on the counter. "You guys are getting really annoying!" He smashed his hand into the counter causing the others to shake.

"Alright Oogie, we're ready. Sora jumped up at Oogie with his Keyblade, "Your going down!"

---------------R-Y-A-N---------------

The school day was over. Daisuke had missed first period, but nobody seemed to notice.

"Anyways," I said as I walked along the sidewalk with Yumi, and Daisuke. "That pop quiz in science was killer."

"I'm tired, what along day," Daisuke said. He walked with his eyes closed in the center of the sidewalk.

"Were you even listening to me?" I asked as I stared at Yumi, almost tripping over a small rock.

"Oh, sorry," he replied. "It's just that I had this... doctors appointment today, and you know, I got a shot. I'm a little tired now."

"Right, I thought you said you got a special medicine," Yumi said.

"Well, I got both," he said. His face was turning red. I laughed a little, and walked forward.

"Daisuke!" a voice called from behind us. We all turned around, and Risa was running towards us.

"Huh, Risa?" he said startled.

"Oh great," I said getting angry.

"Hi, wanna walk home together?" she asked.

"Uh, sure," Daisuke said. At first it was a good quiet walk, and then Risa broke the scilence.

"Daisuke, is everything okay, I was worried about you today," Risa said.

"Oh brother," I murmured under my breath.

"Excuse me," she said, "do you mind?"

I stopped walking and said, "yeah I do, why are you so superficial?"

"What do you mean," she asked as she stopped along with me. Yumi and Daisuke walked on.

"I heard what you said yesterday, you don't like Daisuke because he's not hot, if he heard what you said I bet he'd be really hurt," I said crossing my arms and leaning up against the wall.

"Well, I didn't mean to hurt anybody. I'm sorry," she said. I smiled, and I knew I was blushing. "Okay, I think we should catch up with the others."

"Hey Daisuke, hey Yumi," I said as I started walking alongside them once again. Risa followed.

"Anyways, don't you guys think Dark is the coolest?" she asked. I rolled my eyes, and started laughing.

"Well, we'll leave you two love birds alone, Yumi and I have got to get to the museum," I said starting to run off. Yumi followed.

"Okay see you guys tomorrow!" Yumi shouted.

As we walked into the museum wearing the uniforms Satoshi had given to us, we heard the chief's booming voice screaming at the troops.

"PHANTOM THIEF DARK AGAIN, THIS TIME HE'S AFTER THE CROWN OF ALICE!"

"Quiet! I think they could hear you," I shouted.

"Oh look, it's the juniors, lemme tell you something. I know how to command my troops, and I'll do it any way I please," he said turning his back on us.

"Well if you know so much why did Dark get away last night?" Yumi asked. The chief froze, and continued yelling.

Satoshi walked into the room catching the Chief's attention, " well commander, any comments?"

"Your men are so unprepared that I don't expect much from them this time, I'm simply going to observe them and analyze Dark's actions," Satoshi said. "I'm working on organizing future strategies against Dark, along with ways to compensate for the sub-stand form of the police.

"Got it," the chief said turning away.

"Inspector, the Crown is gone!" an officer yelled.

"Time for us to get to work," Yumi said to me. She ran out the front door, and I followed.

"What was that?" I asked as I stared up onto the roof. I saw a slight movement. In the corner of my eye was a ladder. "Let's go." We climbed up the ladder until we got to the top, from there we heard a voice. Dark ran across the top of the building about to jump off the edge.

I snuck up on the roof quietly, and summoned my Keyblade. Yumi followeed with her wand. I threw my Keyblade at one of his wings, and he fell face forwards.

"Got him!" I yelled as I moved to the edge of the roof. As I looked over the roof, there was nobody there.

"That's strange, he was just here wasn't he?" Yumi asked. My Keyblade appeared back in my hand.

"Did he get away?" I asked. I then felt a breeze on my back. I turned around, and there Dark stood. Behind Yumi and I.

"So we meet again?" he said in a bone shivering voice.

I jumped at him with my Keyblade in hand smacking him around as hard as I could. He fell down, but vanished.

"Where'd that jerk go?" I asked.

"Watch out," Yumi yelled. "THUNDER!" Lighting his the ground sending a shock wave through my body. It did the same with Dark. He jittered around like crazy. He fell on his back and then got back up.

"DEAL WITH DARKNESS... I ACCEPT!" he yelled. The moonlight from the sky vanished.

"Yumi!" I shouted. I turned around, but she was gone. Dark was gone. Everybody was gone, I was trapped in the darkness.

Not far in the distance were footsteps, and then a voice, "I'm so, tired."

"Who's there?" I asked.

"Huh, is that you Ryan?" the voice asked.

"I'm Ryan, who are you?" the voice belonged to as girl, but he couldn't pin it to who it belonged to. A flash of white light came from the bottom of me, and then a picture of a white bird. I looked up to see a girl about my height wearing a black coat. She had brown hair tied back in ponytails. She looked up at me, and then it his me.

"Roxanne," the girl said. I walked up to her and stared into her deep blue eyes. "It's gone, my heart is gone. I have to get it back."

"Don't worry, we'll get it back," I said. "But if it was taken by a heartless, how are you still alive?"

"She's alive because her heart was strong," a voice from nowhere came. A man appeared in between the two of us. "She's with us now, in the Thirteenth Order. We'll make her whole again."

"What happened to her?" I asked.

"The Heartless, took many hearts from your beloved home," the man said.

"No," I said. I held my Keyblade tight ready to fight. The man held out both of his hands.

"But that's not why you are here," he said. Red balls of energy appeared in his hands. "Without the help of the heart, your weak. So let's see you fight without it!"

"But, I have my heart," I tapped my chest. The beating of my heart vibrating through my body. The balls of red changed to white energy blades.

His hands glowed of electricity of a dark force.

"The Darkness is tugging at your heart, but yet you ignore it, but can't you see?" the man said as he walked towards me slowly. "Here, your heart is weak, for your heart... is gone." Blasts of energy came from the sky, but I used my Keyblade to block deflecting them away. "Please, allow me to test that power."

I smiled, and leaned in a fighting position, I'd never been more ready, "bring it." The man charged towards me at a slow speed, but soon picked up the pace. He used the blades to his blades to attack me, but I used my Keyblade to block most of them.

"Well," he said. "Skilled, you are." He jumped backwards leaving him wide open for an attack. I jumped towards him, but I was knocked backwards by some strange unseen force.

"What the," I said as I stood up slowly. I threw my Keyblade as hard as I could, but it was also blocked by the force. I tried to rush my Keyblade through his torso, but he did nothing. He slashed me across the chest. I fell down to the ground holding my chest. "Roxanne, help me." I stood up, she wasn't there.

I stood up, my chest had a black mark across it. Smoke erupted from the scar. I started to whimper.

"She's gone boy," the man said. "Your alone now!" He rushed at me, and more shots of energy shot from the air. The man vanished, and I was left there to deflect of the the shots. I was shot in the back by an unseen blast and I fell forwards. "Hmph, SUCH A WEAKLING, YOU'LL NEVER BE LIKE SORA."

I stood forwards, and I saw the man standing on the edge of the pillar.

"Never," I said standing up, "don't ever compare me to Sora." I tried to stay calm, but the anger was in my body looking for a way out.

"That's it," the man said, "use your anger, let the Darkness fight for you!" The power within me killed me. I couldn't hold it in anymore. "That's it boy, just let it out."

"GRAAAAAAHHHHHH!" I screamed. The power was rushing out of me. I felt the energy within me becoming unleashed. I used every bit of my energy and ran towards the man in the coat. I jumped up into the air and smacked him around with the Keyblade. He blocked my blows, but my energy was not yet fonished. I couldn't control myself, I attacked, and attacked. I heard the clash of our two weapons. At that moment nothing else mattered.

I slashed him in the throat with my Keyblade sending him flying backwards. He spun around insanely sending lethal blows to anything that came in range. I wasn't thinking so I jumped at him, and swung the Keyblade as hard as I could. I was only knocked back, almost falling off the edge of the pillar.

He walked closer with the blue blazing swords.

"You are weak without your heart," the man said. He rose his hand up into the air and brought it down.

"AHHH!" I screamed. I closed my eyes and waited for the pain.

"No way," said a familiar voice. I looked up to see Dark hovering over me. He spread his wings and backed away. "I'll get you next time, you just watch." He flew off into the moonlight, wearing the crown upon his head.

Yumi walked towards me, "are you okay?" she asked.

"I, I saw Roxanne," those were my last words before I fell asleep.

---------------?-?-?-?-?---------------

The girl woke up from her short slumber, and laid down in her bed. Where are they?

She got out of bed and walked towards the white pearly door. Naminé, was she the one in this room, is she the one who changed Sora's memories. She opened the door, and walked out into the dark hallway of the old mansion.

"What's wrong?" Dragan asked. He had been standing by the door, guarding it so she wouldn't escape.

"Who is Naminé?" the girl asked feeling a need to be curious.

Dragan folded his arms and looked into her shallow, empty eyes, "she is close to you."

"What do you mean?" the girl asked.

"Do you remember... Destiny Islands?" Dragan asked as he kneeled to her height.

---------------S-O-R-A---------------

The battle was on, Sora had tried to slash Oogie's eye, but he was brushed back with a mere blow of his breath.

"THUNDER!" Donald yelled. Lighting shot down from the sky shocking Oogie. The bugs in his eyes were clearly visible.

"STOP!" Jack yelled. Oogie immediately stopped moving. Sora jumped up once again, and sliced Oogie up with his Keyblade.

"Huh?" Oogie said as he snapped out of it. He fell backwards and his face moved backwards as if he were being sliced by some sort of force.

"Take that!" Sora yelled as Oogie fell down crushing all of the Heartless behind him. Oogie stood back up and smashed this hand into the counter. The three friends shook, and fell backwards.

"This isn't so easy," Sora said standing back up. He held out his Keyblade and pointed it towards Oogie Boogie . "But this is, Wind!" Sora's hair blew up in the powerful wind surrounding him.

"This is it you puny runts!" Oogie smashed both of his hands into the table. Donald, and Jack jumped just in time to avoid the vibration, but Sora wasn't so lucky. His hair still blew from the wind even if his eyes were closed.

"Okay, that's it Oogie!" yelled Jack. "GRAVIA!" Oogie was surpressed into the ground.

"CURA!" Donald shouted as he pointed his wand at Sora. Shamrock leaves floated around Sora giving his body life. He jumped to his feet, and held his Keyblade above his head.

"BLIZARA!" he shouted. Ice blasted from the tip of Sora's Keyblade. Ice shot down from the sky onto Boogie as he started to stand up.

"C- cold," Oogie said as he stood up from the ground. He slipped causing another Vibration, but the three jumped up into the air together, completely avoiding it.

"Okay, time to finish you off!" Sora yelled. "WIND!" Sora screamed. His hair rushed around his hair crazier than before, making his hair even more messy. He looked towards Donald and pointed at his Staff, "Donald, cast Firaga on me!"

Donald shook his head, and pointed his staff at Sora, "FIRAGA!" the flames rushed around Sora, the wind spell keeping the flames in check.

"Okay," Sora yelled. Oogie stood up from his lying position. "IT'S," Sora yelled as he jumped towards Oogie. "OVER!" He landed on Oogie's chest, and started to slash him with his Keyblade. The flames spread all over Oogie, burning him all over.

"NOOO!" Oogie yelled as he started disintegrating. He screamed, and screamed. "I'LL BE BACK YOU JUST WATCH!"

Sora jumped off of Oogie, and stared at the burning, melting monster on the ground. All the Heartless had ran away in horror.

"Okay, now to Easter Town," Sora said as he placed his Keychain back on his belt.