(Cloud's POV)

"How long do you think you can hold me off?"

"Damn you!"

"Face it Cloud, you'll never be able to destroy the darkness in your heart. Your efforts are futile."

"Shut up!"

"Fool! I don't even know why I even bother with the likes of you. Come back when you grow stronger"

"Come back! I'm not done killing you!"

"I'll be waiting for you Cloud."

"Sephiroth!" And just like that Sephiroth was gone. I cursed under my breath; I was so close into defeating the darkness that dwells inside my heart. For some weird reason the darkness in my heart has started to get a little stronger since my battle with Sephiroth. Why does this journey have to be so hard for me? Every time I see that bastard he always ends up vanishing. Its like he's doing that on purpose.

"Once again Sephiroth you manage to escape. Now where do I go? After all that searching and I end up at square one again. I might as well go home."

I've never realized it until now but it that was a tough battle I just fought. If Sephiroth didn't leave just then I would have been dead so I guess you can say I was spared. I started my way on home slowly moving my weak and injured body. I was so tired and exhausted from my battle with Sephiroth that sleeping on the floor in the middle of nowhere felt like a good idea but unless I wanted to get mugged or something it would be best if I just went home.

"I can't wait to sleep. I said in a yawn. I was halfway to my apartment when I started to feel like something was wrong. I stopped to look at my surroundings and found nothing wrong. I guess you can say I was worried that Sephiroth was coming back to finish what we had started. I continued my way home when I saw that darkness was starting to appear in front of me.

"What the?" I stared at the ball of darkness that appeared in front of me and started to fear that heartless were about to show up.

"Not now." I was too weak to fight off some heartless. 'If I try to fight them now I'm done for.' I continued staring hope that I was wrong and that my vision was playing a trick on me but it didn't go away. It kept getting bigger and bigger. As much as I didn't want this I grabbed my weapon into a fighting stance and waited for the heartless to come out and fight me. I just hope they're not the weird white ones that always give me a hard time. Finally after a while of just standing there and waiting for what ever to come out the darkness started to vanish, showing what was inside its presence to me. Since it was one heartless that came out of the ball of dark I knew this wasn't going to be easy. I gathered up the last bit of my strength to make this attack count and destroy what ever it is away. Shock came over me as I saw what came from the ball of darkness. It was…Sora. Sora was just standing there like he didn't notice me or something. Blood was spread all over his body from the wounds that were on his body. Sora's body became weak and started to fall. I didn't want him to hurt himself even more so I ran to him to prevent from touching the ground.

His breathing was a little slow and weak.

"What happen to you? Sora, Sora, Sora!" I said to him in hopes to wake him up. I tried to wake him up but it was no good, he was out good. I gathered him into my arms and rushed him to my apartment. If I didn't do something quick he would probably die and that's something I don't think I could handle.

"Where am I?" Darkness covered the boy's vision as he was left to wonder around in this cold and terrible place that started to frighten him. He wondered around endlessly searching for a way out of this place but no matter how far he went it only lead him to more darkness.

"Riku! Kairi!" The frighten boy shouted in hopes for help but got no response in return. But Sora soon found himself back home and way form that endless abyss, but this time was different. The sun was no longer shinning like it would every day and instead was covered by a moon that was no longer pale. The pale moon was covered in hate and darkness making it look like it was bleeding the sky. The stars were as well we missing, leaving the moon alone in the sky. It felt like that the hate and the darkness that the moon was admitting destroyed the stars away. The ocean never felt and looked so weak, no longer in its blue and clear color. Sora walked hesitant to the ocean and found it tuning into a dark red color that reminded him of blood.

"Wh-whats happening?"

"This heart. This heart has been filled with darkness."

"Who's there? And whose heart is filled with darkness?" He looked around and found no one was around

"This heart will continue to be control by darkness if no light is shined upon it. Soon it will affect other hearts and send them into darkness as well. This heart has pieces missing."

"Pieces? What do you mean?"

"These pieces are important to this heart that was once light. These pieces are…"