This is different, Tara thought to herself, as her dream took her to an island, rather than the traumatic dreams that she has been having. She stood at the shore of the island as the sea touched her bare feet. The smell of the salt water was a pleasant, calming feeling.

"Tara," a familiar voice whispered in her ear. She turned around to see Riku, although, this time, his blindfold didn't cover his deep, blue eyes. He didn't wear a cloak, but, a black zip-up tank-top and a white and yellow vest over it, and a pair of baggy blue denim jeans held up by a black belt covered with square spike studs. He was smiling; a warm, tender smile. "This is my home; Destiny Islands."

"It beautiful," she said to him as she stared at the sunset. "Why did you leave it?"

"It's a long story."

"I'm a good listener."

"Alright, I wanted to-."

Wake up…

Tara's eyes widened. "Riku, this is a dream, isn't it?"

"No, Tara, it isn't."

I said, wake up!

And with that, a pillow was put over Tara's head.

"What is with you and putting pillows over my head?" Tara sat up and yelled at Lexus!

"It was either that or make the guy downstairs wait!" Lexus shouted back. "Besides, if I could, I'd let you sleep so that I could here, 'Oh, Riku, how I love you so! I dream of you every night! Let us elo-.' AH!"

Tara had put her hands around Lexus' neck, attempting to choke her. "The guy downstairs; it is a boy with silver hair?"

Lexus nodded, her face turning a bright red from the lack of oxygen.

"Lexus, if you say anything about what I dreamt last night, you can kiss your ass good-bye!" She let go of her neck and hopped out of bed. "That 'guy downstairs' is Riku!"

She ran out of the room and down the stairs. There, she saw the boy who had saved her the evening before, holding onto her kissaki.

"Don't touch that!" She said, sternly.

Riku looked over at her. "It's like a keyblade," he said. "What is it?"

"I said 'Put it down'!" Tara yelled.

Riku quickly gave the sword to her. "Your friends tell me that you can see the future," he told her. "Is this true?"

Tara put the kissaki on the counter. "Only in my dreams; and that's a literal statement."

"Is this how you knew my name?"

Tara kept silent.

"That's it, isn't it?"

"Why are you here?" Tara asked.

"I'm helping Diz."

"Diz?"

"Never mind that! What's going to happen to this town?"

Again, Tara kept silent. She looked down at her kissaki, then back to him. She didn't know what to tell him. I can't just tell him that he's going to die, she said to herself.

"I-I can't say it…"she whispered. "It's too much. I haven't even known you one day, and, yet, I've known you for months. Riku…" her voice became shaky, and tears started to build up in her eyes

Riku's expression remained calm as he started to walk towards her. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "What have you been seeing, Tara?"

Tara bit her lip, blinking back any tears that would dare to start falling if they hadn't already. "This town…I don't know what's going to happen to it. The only thing that's been happening in my dreams is…your death…"

"I get killed by Alan?"

"How did you know…or, is it already obvious?"

"That and…your friend had already told me."

"Of course they did," she looked around the room for a few moments before giving more detail. "There's…always a storm," she explained. "I can always feel the rain hitting my skin, and my bangs sticking to my forehead. I think that some of that has to do with Lexus. This is all I know."

Riku looked at the kissaki that still lay on the counter. "That sword of yours: where did you get it?"

Tara looked at the kissaki. "One night, when I was very little, I went to bed, and dreamt of an island. There was a boy, and he had this huge key! He treated like a weapon. Then, I woke up, and there was a sword lying next to me. A bit stupid, but, that's how it happened."

"The keyblade!" Riku almost seemed surprised. "That boy; did he have spikey hair and really big shoes?"

Tara lifted an eyebrow. "Do you know him?"

"That's Sora! He's my best friend!"

"Then, the island: that was Destiny Island? That's your home world!"

He looked down. "Yeah…"

An awkward silence was exchanged. A slow two minutes must've gone by before either one of them spoke again.

"What is Alan? I mean, why did he kill our, Eva, Eliza, Lexus, and my, parents?"

"Diz hasn't said anything about that. The only thing I know is that he is a heartless that carries a heart almost powerful enough to-."

"...fuel Kingdom Hearts?" Tara smirked. "I do my homework. The organization needs it in order to have hearts, right? What's so bad about it?"

"That's classified information, sorry."

"Fair enough," Tara looked around. "By the way…where did Eva and Eliza go?"

Eliza read her book as she listened to the three friends, Seifer, Fujin, Vivi, and Raijin (1), practice for the struggle matches coming in summer. The "Disciplinary Comity" is what they were called. Such protection from kids her age, of course, sarcasm was implied in such comments.

"Dammit!" Seifer shouted in frustration, "I'll lose at this rate!" With annoyance, he threw his struggle bat in Eliza's direction.

"Seifer!" Fujin shouted.

"There's someone sitting over there, y'know!"

Eliza lifted her eyes from the book to the struggle bat. Interesting bat, she thought, focusing her mental energy on the bat, stopping it in mid-air and settling it on the ground. "If there wasn't something weird about that bat," she shouted to them, returning her focus to her book. "Although, Seifer, you put a lot of force into that throw and did nothing to warn me of the impact. Are you implying that you were truly trying to harm me?" She turned the page.

Seifer glared at her. "You need to keep that mouth of yours shut, Eliza!" He started for the bat.

"I wouldn't touch it," she said. "Someone may get hurt." She closed her book, standing up and beginning to walk away. "Just some friendly advice."

Seifer, disregarding the red-head's words of warning, picked up the bat, which, as if on cue, lifted itself out of his hand and hurdled towards Eliza.

"Eliza!" Tara's voice came from the alley ways, as she came running into the sandlot. "Head's up! Down! Look out!"

Eliza turned around, once again, stopped the bat in mid-air. "Well, looks like my false words were true."

Seifer looked at the two girls, dumbfounded by what he had just seen. "What…the…fuck?"

"It appears explanations are in order," Tara looked to Seifer and the rest of his posse. "It's a really long story."

"I really don't care," Seifer said. "As far as I know, this never happened."

"Uh…okay?" Tara was honestly surprised. There was a struggle bat floating with no explanations.

"Tomorrow better be normal, or I will ask for explanations!" He walked off, signaling for the three others to follow him. All of them, except for Fujin, followed him.

"Telekinesis?" She asked.

Eliza nodded, a smile making a way onto her face.

She turned to Tara. "You?"

Tara smiled, shaking her head. "Precognition; I have visions in my dreams."

"Secret?"

"Yes," Tara said. "Please keep it!"

"Yes," Fujin nodded as she followed the others.

Tara smiled as Fujin left, and then looked to Eliza. "Cut the crap! Eliza's never that serious!" She said sternly.

"Aw…" a voice came from behind the bushes. "You're no fun, Tara!" Eliza walked from behind the bushes.

Tara looked at the two Eliza's. "This is not normal."

"Indeed it's not," a male voice came out of one of the girls. "You have sharp senses; such to be expected by the sister of Alan." They smirked as dark streams began to surround them, covering them, and disappearing to reveal a taller man with messy blue hair, the bangs covering his right eye. He wore the same black cloak as Riku and Demyx.

"Sister?" Tara questioned. "To him?" The expression on her face was terrifying.

"Tara!" Lexus and Riku came running from the alley way. "Is everything alright here?"

Riku's attention turned to Zexion; a familiar face to him. "Didn't you die in Castle Oblivion?" He asked coldly.

"Still the same as when we last met, Riku," Zexion replied, equally as cold.

"You two know each other?" Eliza asked.

"Alan's my brother?" Tara shouted again. "This is bull shit! How am I related to him?"

Everything fell silent. All attention fell onto Tara. "I was an only child!" She shouted. "My parents said nothing of another sibling!"

Again, silence, for no one knew what to say at this point.

A dark portal appeared suddenly, and out of it came a man with red hair, spiked up and wild, wear, yet another, black cloak. Behind him stood Eva; a look of distress on her face.

"Guys, we've got a problem," Eva said. "Axel and I saw Alan again."

A/N: FINALLY!

Kat: We've reached the climax?

Me: Yes, we have!

REVIEWS:

Anexi Naie Nightshade:

Thank you. I've been doing much better now. I hope you also liked this chapter and many more to come. ^_^

Kat: -.-' Is that what you call a troll, Emi?

Me: Um...^^" Well...I thought it was funny. Sexy Zexi in a girl's body? Lol?

Kat: ...-.-'

Both: Ja ne~!