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Well. That didn't work out like I thought it would.

I brought her to Wonderland, and we met the Cheshire Cat, but Xorisa's as clueless as me…

If she's not a mind-reader, what is she? I guess I'll have to battle her and see. Where to go? Oh, yes, the hedge maze. That place is full of stuff. If anywhere, she'll find her element there. I mean, I found my element in this place when I got so frustrated trying to find Xigbar that I burned down all the hedges, so she can find her element here too. Somehow.

Xorisa's POV

After meeting this weird purple cat, Axel brought me to this hedge maze. He says that for training, I'm gonna have to battle him. Great… I'm going to get totally destroyed…

"Alright. I'll stay on this end of the maze; you go to the other end. When you see a hedge on fire, you know the fight's started. Use your element to its full advantage. Chop chop!"

Axel cheerily sends me off to prepare to get my ass kicked. 'use your element to its full advantage'… Hah. Like I even know what it is.

.:A few burning hedges later…:.

I watch in satisfaction as small furry animals savage my tutor. It appears that I've discovered my element.

"I can't believe you're letting some squirrel bite you in the face!" I shout gleefully.

Suddenly, flames start spouting all over him.

Dang… I made him mad. There go the small furry animals…

A sparrow randomly flies out of a bush and combusts.

…And feathered animals.

Axel, now thoroughly pissed off, launches out of the blaze and starts Limit Breaking. I do my best to dodge and block the onslaught, but in the end, it's just too much. Dropping down on one knee, I clutch a wound on my arm. My keyblade's a few feet away, embedded in one of the few hedges that hadn't been reduced to ashes.

"Okay, okay, you win," I grit out, teeth clenched in pain. Axel relaxes, and hands me a potion.

"Here. So anyway, looks like your element is… life?"

I gulp down the potion quickly, wincing at the bitter taste. I get up, feeling much better.

"I suppose so, yeah," I agree, walking a little stiffly towards my keyblade. I notice something about it that's different, and looking closer, I see words inscribed into the arches around the grip, made clear by the soot filling in the gaps.

"What mattered the most…" I murmur, reading the inscription.

"was remembered the least."

The last thing I remembered was collapsing, and then it was black.

"I don't understand," the girl whispered, eyes wide with shock.

"Yes. And the pity is…" murmured the figure, in a voice that was oh-so-familiar,

"you never will."

The sword came down, and the girl's scream was chopped off by shining steel.

I opened my eyes in my own room in the Castle That Never Was. How did I get here? Noticing none other than Xemnas beside my bed, I sit bolt upright, stuttering out a hasty greeting. The Superior's lips twitch into what might have been a faint smile.

"Good. You are awake. You may spend the rest of today regaining your energy. Tomorrow you will continue your work." He turns around and walks out the door. I stare after him, then collapse back on the bed. A whole day, to recover… and to think about that strange vision. I attempt to recall the image, but it's blurred. The voices and sounds, however, are crystal clear. I close my eyes, remembering.

It's a dark night in the city. Even the streetlamps look dim in the oppressive darkness. A girl, dressed in dark clothes with raven-black hair, walks down the street, a shadow among shadows… Another shadow, taller, clearly a man, tackles her, pinning her to a wall. Or is it a shadow, too? Most of the words passing between the two are too faint to be understood, but the last few sentences are clear.

"I don't understand."

"Yes. And the pity is… you never will."

A flash of light on steel, and then the shadows blot out the light.

I open my eyes and stare into space as I try to puzzle out the meaning of the vision. With a sigh, I summon my keyblade and reread those words.

"What mattered the most was remembered the least." Could it refer to… my past?