Chapter 17

---------------M-I-C-K-E-Y---------------

Behind the King were the orbs of black from previously slayed heartless. "Okay Pete, we're on the third floor, ten more to go."

Pete collapsed from exhaustion. "Your Majesty, I don't know how you do it, but you sure are energetic."

"I've been to Castle Oblivion before Pete, I know my way around, but this time... I think the affects may actually be hitting me hard," Mickey said as he walked towards a large yellow door. "Pete?" Mickey turned around, a man in a black coat hovered over Pete. Mickey summoned Oathkeeper. "What are you doing with Pete?"

"Shut up," the man said. A dim light in his hand appeared, when it faded a broard blue sword was in the man's hands.

Mickey froze in his tracks. "Who are you?"

"You should remember me, you walked these very walls, and corridors," the man said. He brought the blade up close to the King's neck. Mickey started to sweat, he could almost feel the particles of the blade touching his silky fur.

"What do you want?" Mickey asked.

The man gave off a maniac laugh, and stopped. "I want you dead." He swung his blade, but it hit nothing, but air. "Where-- where did he go?" The man felt a sharp pain on the back of his neck, and then another causing him to fall on all fours. The man's blade vanished. Mickey had kicked him in the neck. Mickey tucked his hands into his pocket.

"That all you got?" Mickey asked. "You Organization members may not know this, but the last attempt to create Kingdom Hearts failed."

"But, that was when Diz was alive, wasn't it?" the man asked. Mickey felt something in his stomach drop. How did he know that? "Without Diz, or Ansem the superior's plot will rise. Nothing will get in our way this time, and with two Keyblade Masters it will grow even faster than before." The man stood up, King Mickey fell off of his back, and slammed into the ground. "We haven't sent much heartless because we're giving them a little break, but you'll see, tomorrow their tests will truly begin. We'll send armies of heartless crashing down upon their doors. But just think of this, as a sample." The man rose his two fingers, and the entire room filled with heartless. There was no breathing room, the heartless reached up to his chest, not even enough room to summon his Keyblade. "Have fun, and your friend is coming with me." The man vanished leaving Mickey in a room full of these black creatures. All of them jumped at him at once, there was still not enough room to summon his weapon. Could... could this be the end?

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

I woke up in the dark room. My back hurt from the hard mattress I had been lying on. I stood up, and moved my feet to the side of the bed. I stood to my feet, and stretched, and yawned. I walked to the door of the room, and slowly opened it. On the other side was another dark room, everybody must've still been sleeping. I summoned my Keyblade, the gleaming light lit the entire room.

"Light," I muttered. The light remained, and I started to walk towards the cockpit. I opened the door, and there was Lan, using the main computer to pilot the ship. "Sup, Lan." The pilots seat leaned forward, and Lan fell forwards. "What the!"

Lan was out cold on the ship controls, and we were hurdling around in deep space. I dashed towards the co-pilot controls and flipped the switch which authorized me to take control. I placed the blue tooth headphones over my ears, and tried to come in contact with Cid. The screen in front of me read: System Hacked.

"What the hell?" I asked myself. I jumped up from the seat and bumped into somebody behind me, I turned around to see a man in a black coat. "Wh- who are you?"

"A forgotten friend Ryan, a sleeping memory what you might say," he said. His voice sounded familiar, but not like an old friend. "Search your heart, for both of our memories."

There a a flash of white light, and a split second later I found myself standing in the middle of a dark meadow. Where am I?

"Welcome to the meadow of endings Ryan," the man said as he appeared in front of me. He summoned a Keyblade, it was black with a dark heart dangling off the end of it. I summoned Oathkeeper.

"It's time Ryan, your memories, will return. But the question is... are you worthy of them."

Ryan charged towards the man. The man charged towards Ryan. Their Keyblades clashed, and then...