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Me: Will not! Anyways...thanks for the reviews! -should be working on Katara-...Oops...lol

Fear +

"Is this what's left of Ansem's lab?" A voice belonging to a fourteen year old boy whispered. He covered his nose to try to block the smell. He began looking around. He tripped over someone. She didn't move. "What the...?" He got up and found a girl, probably about eighteen, laying on a dead man. Sora lifted her head gently and put it in his lap. She began showing signs of life.

"Where am I?" She asked, her voice cracked from crying and from sleeping. Dawn looked at her hands, they were covered in Ienzo's blood. She decided it had gotten there when she found him.

"Hollow Bastion," The boy replied. "What are you doing here?"

"I work for Ansem. All I remember is that Ansem wanted us to do an experiment, but the Heartless got loose and I...don't remember the rest," She sat up and looked away from Ienzo.

"My name's Sora, you can come with me if you want to. We're looking for Ansem to defeat him," Sora stood up and extended a hand to help her up. She took it and replied,

"I'm Dawn. Wait, you're going to kill Ansem!? Why!?"

"He's the one that released the Heartless that are destroying the worlds! How could you not know that?" Dawn was confused now. Ansem wasn't a bad man. He might have been a little insane, but he wasn't bad.

"Master Ansem would never do something like that...only Xehanort was that crazy," She frowned. She had always disliked that man.

"Who?" Sora asked, even more confused.

"Nevermind, this conversation is going no where," Dawn was still frowning. She walked out of the lab and into the rest of the castle. It was almost unrecognizable. "This...is..terrible...My...my home is completely...destroyed..." She choked on the rest of her words and felt it was harded to breathe through her nose. Once again tears trickled down her slightly tanned face. Sora looked up at the taller woman.

"Are you okay?" Ienzo had always asked that. She missed that question.

"I think so," She looked down at her feet, her reddish brown hair falling in her face. The hair tie that held it back had been broken and some of her extremely long hair had been chopped off. It was atleast three different lengths now. The shortest being up to the middle of her neck. Without warning she turned sharply and entered the Hollow Bastion ruins. She wandered the halls until she found her room. It wasn't all destroyed. If she was going to travel whis Sora, she didn't want to do so in her filthy lab coat. She slipped out of it and found a black cloak that resembled the ones Organization XIII wears, but the sleeves had been torn out. It revealed the heart and wings tattoo on her chest. She took off her lab pants and boots and put a black skirt on with two brown belts crossing each other over her hips. She then put white leggings on and put her feet back in her lab boots. She found a pair of black gloves and put them in the pocket of her skirt. Dawn made her way to the kitchen and found a usable pair of scissors and returned to her room. She had no choice but to cut her hair as short as the section that was at the middle of her neck. She quickly styled it to match that section. She left two long pieces in the front, these came down to the bottom bone of her jaw. The two pieces were cut to frame her face. Once she was satisfied she returned to where she left Sora. He stood there, speechless. Dawn smiled, but quickly let it fade.

"I hate that lab coat...this one is much better. I feel like I should be in it..." She placed her hand over the tattoo, usually she could feel her heartbeat, but now she couldn't. She looked extremely worried.

"What?" Sora asked, looking at her face closely to see if he could figure it out on his own.

"I...don't have a heart anymore," She said softly, frightened.

"That's stupid, Dawn! If you didn't have a heart then you wouldn't be standing right here!" Sora protested. The thought of her not having a heart was ridiculous.

"No! You can live without a heart. That's what we were researching. If a person of a strong heart and will gets turned into a Heartless they will leave behind an empty shell that begins to act on it's own. We called those empty shells 'Nobodies' some are stronger than others. Some can think and act on their own and others are lower and rank and look like monsters. I must be one of the higher ranked Nobodies," Sora couldn't understand what she was talking about.

"Wait a minute...so when I was turned into a Heartless something else was created?" Dawn gave him a stare.

"You turned into a Heartless?" She asked with one eyebrow raised.

"Yeah...I don't remember when though...or where...this stupid castle makes me forget things..." He looked back up at Dawn and recognized the cloak. "You're in the Organization! They all wear those cloaks!" He pointed to her.

"What?"

"Nevermind...let's just get out of here," Sora said, fed up with this world. It was too confusing for him. He had already done everything he needed to in this world. He told Dawn to follow him out of the gate of the world. Once the did they stepped into the castle Sora had been ranting about. A cloaked man appeared before them.

"Very good Sora. Who's this?" He asked, observing Dawn. She stood still, staring at where the man's eyes should be.

"I found her in Hollow Bastion," Sora replied. The man twitched a little and disappeared. She didn't want to tell Sora, but she knew that man. In a few minutes he reappeared, but this time he wasn't alone. He brought someone much shorter with him. The shorter man stood there, his eye was wide underneath the cover of darkness. Dawn didn't speak. The taller man chuckled and grabbed Dawn's arm and took her in the darkness with him.

"Hey wait!" Sora called, he almost ran into the dark portal, but Donald and Goofy stopped him. Apparently they thought he was insane, running after the man. They couldn't see Dawn.

"Namine, please erase the memories of this girl, she'll cause trouble for little Zexy here," The man took off his hood, revealing red hair and sharp green eyes. Under his eyes were two small black tear drops. Zexion frowned at Axel.

"Why are you...?"

"Oh, and erase his memories of her as well," Axel interrupted The Cloaked Schemer. The blonde girl nodded quietly and began unchaining the memories in Dawn's heart. After she was done Axel took the sleeping girl deeper into the castle. Next, Namine began working on Zexion's memories.