It was as Isa had informed.

His plan required patience, and it required Lea and Isa to be silent. Isa had memorized all the guards patterns, so he knew where they would be at any time… And where they wouldn't be.

Carefully and methodically, Lea and Isa moved from spot to spot, moving to a place where a guard wouldn't be for the next few minutes, waiting for the next area to be clear.

Finally they reached the hiding spot… Where they had to sit still for exactly thirty-six minutes before being able to move on.

Isa had to hand it to Lea, Lea could be surprisingly professional when he wanted to be, the redhead did indeed do exactly what Isa asked him to do, and didn't make a single sound.

For the entire time they sat at their hiding spot, Lea didn't move, complain or even ask a question. He was absolutely quiet, and absolutely still.

As Isa lifted his hand signaling them to move, Lea followed, ones again without even asking questions, quiet as a cat did he followed as they reached their entrance point, a window going to the basement and they both slipped inside, finally standing in what was clearly a storage room, filled with box's and jars. "You can't relax yet." Isa whispered to Lea.

Lea nodded, looking very serious.

Isa reached out an arm to look at his wrist watch. "Forty minutes and all the students will go to dinner, that will be our time to go west, hopefully there will be a way further down from there."

Again Lea nodded, one thing they had figured was that the weird sounds came from below ground, their only assumption was that what happened above ground with all the students and what happened below ground were two different things.

The secrets… Were hidden below.

As the time had arrived, the shadows had grown longer, the sun was almost down as Isa and Lea snook across the hallways, stopping at every single corner as Isa peered forward while Lea kept a close eye on what was happening behind them.

Yet, as they found stairs, they didn't seem to go further down, Isa frowned.

"The sounds comes from below." Lea whispered. "I am sure of it."

"It could very well be what-ever is beneath the castle is so secret, that none of the main stairs goes there." Isa frowned. "That… You have to take the elevator, and from there, need a special code to access the floor."

"Then… What do we do?" Lea asked.

"Simple." Isa turned back to him. "Imagine you were in the underground lab, that a fire happened and the elevator broke. Then what?"

"You… Would be trapped." Lea blinked.

"Except, unless the person who build this place was an idiot, there must be an emergency exit." Isa stated. "Considering how secret the lab below must be though, even this emergency exit must be secret."

"Then.." Lea halted. "How do we find it?" he asked.

"Patience." Isa asked as he pressed his hands towards the wall and knocked with his knuckles. Then he walked a few steps and knocked again, and did so a third time.

"Isa?" Lea asked.

"Quiet." Isa hissed as he knocked then he blinked. "Here… It's hollow." he stated touching the place with his hands. "But how do we open it?" he asked.

"The opening mechanism can't be to far away." Lea noted as he looked around. "Something easy to reach, yet is not obvious and is not something a random passerby would do." he frowned then he looked up.

"Lea?" Isa asked as Lea walked to a statue standing in the hallway, then he grabbed the head of it. "Lea, what are you-?!" Isa tried to stop him as Lea simply removed the head and revealed a button.

Isa halted as Lea turned to him with a grin on his face. "if I went to school here, I would be super careful with the statues, I wouldn't want to get into trouble." he stated as he pressed the button and sure enough, the wall opened up.

Carefully did Lea replace the head before running to the entrance slipping inside with Isa, allowing the wall to close behind them, leaving them both in complete and utter darkness.

"I… can't see a thing." Lea admitted.

"Yes, a shame you don't have flame powers." Isa commented.

"There has to be a switch." Lea mumbled as he fumbled at the wall.

"No don't." Isa asked. "If someone is down there, turning on a light will definitely give us away."

Lea halted then nodded, only to realize that Isa couldn't see him nod as it was well… very dark in there. "Okay… Let's move on." he asked as he stepped forward only to walk straight into another person.

"Auw." Isa hissed. "Lea seriously?"

"I'm sorry, I can't see anything." Lea muttered.

"Oh for the love of." Isa muttered as Lea felt another hand firmly grabbing his. "Now follow me, quietly." Isa asked as he pulled Lea with him. "The stairs starts here, be careful." he asked as they started to descend the promised stairs.

It seemed like for-ever, the stairs just kept going on and on, Isa kept leading the way as he held Leas hand so the other boy wouldn't suddenly go missing.

Finally, they reached another door and Isa let go of Leas hand, then… They both pushed.

The door was very heavy, but finally it opened and both boys tumbled out into a room.

Then Lea looked up, this room as well was very dark, only silhouettes were visible to him as he looked around.

Yet he heard it… Movements, all around him. It didn't sound like people walking though, some sort of animal?

Confused Lea looked around trying to figure what he was seeing then he blinked. "Isa, is this… Cages?" he asked.

"Or prison cells." Isa commented as true enough, all around them there were areas barred, big cages or prison cells.

Lea stepped backwards. "Why-Why are the cages down here?" he asked.

"Well… Usually cages are meant to contain something." Isa commented.

"Contain what exactly?" Lea asked.

Just then, two glowing orange orbs became visible from one of the cages… The orbs were moving.

Leas eyes widened as he realized, the orbs they were… Eyes! On some sort of creature.

"Isa.." Lea swallowed. "What… Is that?" he asked.

Just as more pairs of eyes, all round like spheres and all glowing orange appeared. Yet, it was to dark to see what kind of creature it belonged to.

Just then a bang sounded from the other cage and both boys turned around to see a massive creature banging on the bars, its eyes glowing and yellow as the others… It was impossible to see most of it, but it was definitely huge and then it lifted its massive fist again, and hammered again.

"Isa..." Lea swallowed. "I don't think that thing wants to be our friend." he stated as suddenly, a huge arm reached out making a grab for it. "RUN!" Lea shouted as he grabbed Isa's arm pulling him with him and both boys ran.

Though, for every cage they passed yellow eyes appeared, there were hiss's and sounds, tentacle like arms reaching for them, then suddenly one grabbed Isa and Lea jumped forward slapping the claw like hand away.

"We need to get out of here!" Lea hissed.

"There!" Isa pointed. "I see a light, maybe another exit!"

And Lea nodded as they both ran for the light, trying to avoid any grabs for them before finally they realized, the light did not come from an exit, but a big computer screen.

Isa squinted his eyes at the display. "Heart… Less?" he asked.

"We'll figure it out later! For now we need to get out." Lea exclaimed.

Just as a new voice sounded from across the room. "What is it now?!"

Both Isa and Lea gasped and then scrambled to get out of the way as a man walked across the room, this man wearing a long white lab coat and had long blond hair, as well as sharp green eyes. Right now though he looked extremely annoyed as he walked to the computer and started to press all the buttons.

"Stupid heartless." He muttered under his breath as he worked the computer. "Why do I have to waste time on this?" he asked. "My genius is wasted on these things." he stated as he pressed a final button and suddenly a gas was released into all the cages and the creatures seemed to fall down as the blond man looked at them then snorted as he walked away.

Had he though walked a bit further to the left, and looked around the corner, he would have seen the two boys huddling together, shaking.

"Isa..." Lea swallowed. "Let's get out of here."

And Isa nodded.

As the boys finally found their way outside again, they were both still shaking, the creatures they had seen could might as well have been from a nightmare. "Those creatures.." Lea swallowed. "Those were the ones making those sounds!" he stated and he looked up. "But… What are they?!" he asked.

Isa was lost for words, he had no idea either.

"Heatless?! What is a heartless?!" Lea asked.

Ones again, Isa had no answer and Lea looked like he was tearing up.

Isa glanced down… Yeah, this probably wasn't going to help Lea with his nightmares. Furthermore… What-ever was going on down there, they hadn't even scratched the surface.

What was those monsters?! Those heartless? And who was that blond man? Did Ansem the wise know of this? And if so, what was he doing?!

The question were to vast and to many, they circled in Isa's head… he had to find out what was going on!

Authors Note: Okay, this is where I allow myself a little more loose interpretation.
And I am doing it because I am trying to make the timeline fit.

The reports are vague, which you know makes sense, they are just glimpses into what was going on. I always figured that this is the place where the heartless were originally created so there you go... The very first heartless.

Don't worry though, I am trying to stay as true to the original games as humanly possible!

Anyone else whom is just so happy that KH3 finally came out? I played the two first games a ton on the PS2 when I was a kid. I am just so happy that we are back on track :)