A/N: How is this chapter? I am going to include the character Alexa because Alexa2006 asked me to. If anyone else has an extra character they think I should add then post it in your review and I'll have a look. Please read and review.

Endless Abyss

Roxas and Kairi opened their eyes and saw that they were surrounded by fire which held no heat. The ground they stood on was rocky and hurt their feet. As they walked forwards the fire began to disappear until they were standing on the top of a cliff over looking a dark valley. There was no sun in the sky yet a faint light shone and lit up a path through the dark valley.

"Where are we?" asked Kairi.

Suddenly a small shadowy figure ran up to Roxas and Kairi getting closer and closer until Kairi couldn't take it any more and she screamed.

"Kairi, Sora!" the figure called.

"Your Majesty?" Roxas asked.

"Yes it is me." The shadows stopped clinging to the king and Kairi saw him now for who he was.

"Sorry king Mickey," she said.

"There's nothing to be sorry for," said Mickey. Mickey looked at Roxas as if seeing him for the first time. "Oh dear," he said. "You're Roxas aren't you?"

"Yeah," said Roxas. He realised that he didn't that Mickey was a king and yet it felt right to call him one.

"Things must be worse than I thought if you are here instead of Sora."

"What do you mean?" Kairi asked. She could tell by Mickeys tone that something terrible must of happened.

"You two haven't by any chance seen Riku?" Mickey asked them.

"No, why?" Roxas asked. He remembered Riku and the battle that he had fought with him and a sense of hatred rose like fire within him. Then he remembered everything that Riku had been fighting for and if it were not for him then he would never be experiencing what it was like to have a heart. That thought was like ice in contrast to the burning hatred that had filled him a moment ago.

"Well lots of strange things have happened lately and I'm hoping one of them will be that Riku is still alive."

"Oh no, is Riku alright?" Kairi asked, with a worried expression on her face.

"Well in a sense he might be."

"Your majesty, you're not making any sense," said Roxas.

"Well does this clear things up!" A tall man appeared behind Mickey.

"Xehanort!" Roxas yelled. Roxas had never actually met Xehanort but he had faint memories of him from somewhere. Most likely they were Sora's memories because they all told Roxas that Xehanort was an evil man.

Kairi shivered. She had never met Xehanort either but she had met his nobody Xemnas and knew the evil he was capable of doing.

When Mickey saw their faces he put his hand up as if to calm them. "Don't worry. Xehanort has done evil things in the past but now I believe his true memories have awoken. I have forgiven him for his past offences and we must now give him a chance to start fresh. In any case a great evil comes to destroy us all and in time his help will be appreciated."

"We need to find Sora," said Kairi.

"Yeah, do you have any idea where he might be?" Roxas asked.

"No, we looked for hours and we never found anything," said Mickey. "It seems that which ever direction we go ends up in the same place."

"Well what happened to your keyblade?" Roxas asked remembering that master Aldan had said that no keyblade could be used in this place.

"Well, both my keyblade and Riku's keyblade cracked. Xehanort was brought here with me because at the time he was trying to take over Riku's body. It would seem that he now has his own body." said Mickey.

"Hmm well that doesn't help," said Roxas.

"How about this," said Xehanort as he threw a ball of green energy at Roxas.

The energy covered him and wrapped itself around his whole body, seeping through every gap in his skin, through his ears and eyes and nose and as it did Roxas began to see random flashes of memories that were not his own. These he suspected were Xehanort's.

Flash

Roxas looked up and saw the king falling through the air. He looked down and saw a platform beneath him. As soon as he landed he leapt back into the air and spun around. He looked at his hands and realised he was wielding a keyblade. The king came crashing down swinging his blade downwards at Roxas.

CHING

The two blades connected and the force of the blow forced Roxas back to the ground. He looked up and saw that Mickey had been pushed higher into the air. Roxas saw Mickey mutter something and then a ball of flame shot down and covered him. Strangely Roxas did not feel afraid as he would have expected. Instead he felt angry.

"Is that how you want to play eh foolish king? Well then lets play!" Roxas yelled although the voice that spoke was not his own. His body covered itself in darkness which put out the fire. Roxas knew there were other changes which had happened to his body but he couldn't see them and so they didn't matter.

Mickey gasped. "What have you done!"

"I have ensured my future!" Roxas yelled, again the voice was not his own.

Mickey landed on the ground and ran towards Roxas. He flipped into the air and spun towards Roxas, spinning so fast that he appeared to be wielding two keyblades.

Roxas charged his keyblade with darkness and met Mickey in the air.

CHING

As the blades connected for the second time they made a cracking sound. Roxas had just enough time to see Mickeys keyblade stop glowing. He knew that it was because Mickey had charged his own keyblade with light.

Flash

Roxas was free from the green energy. "I know that place," he said. "It's where I learned how to use the keyblade. How did you do that?" Roxas asked Xehanort.

"It is an ancient technique developed by my race, the chasers," said Xehanort.

"Oh."

When Mickey saw the even more mystified look on Roxas's face he said, " Don't worry, I'll fill you in later."

"Well none of this is going to help us find Sora or Riku," said Kairi.

"You're right," said Mickey. "We should split up and look for him. Me and Xehanort will go this way," he pointed the way which Roxas and Kairi had come. They turned around and looked seeing that there was a path symmetrical to the one infront of them.

"Let's go," said Roxas, starting to walk down the path, Kairi at his side.

Endless Abyss (the other side)

"A boy and girl are walking through our territory," said a tall man with a small nose and sharp ears. "What do you want us to do about it master."

"How many times have I told you not to call me that," said Sora. "It feels weird."

"What do you want us to do about it Sora," the man said.

"Send Alexa after them. She'll do the right thing," said Sora.

"Yes, master."