Xemnas walked though the halls of the castle that never was, until he came to the grey area; the room where organization members would relax and lounge, a peaceful and quiet place.

But now it wasn't so quiet, the room was filled with the shouts of the other members, as they all fought each other. "silence!" xemnas yelled, the whole room went quiet as the loud chatters and screams faded away. To the left of the room was xaldin holding axel against the wall,

to the right was lexaeus who had marluxia caught in a hold.

"perfect" he thought. All the traitors had been assembled, now he just had to decide there punishments.

He walked his way to marluxia, who was screaming his head off at lexaeus.

"hello marluxia" xemnas said in a flat tone. "you have a lot to answer for"

"like what?!" he said.

"putting your fellow members at risk, using sora for your own personal gain." xemnas opened his fingers as he went down the list. "alright I get it" marluxia said, his voice filled with irritation.

"what are you going to do?" he continued "turn me into a dusk?"

"yes" xemnas said blandly, not a very original punishment, but still a punishment at least.

"take him away"

marluxia began screaming as lexaeus dragged him out of the room,

"you fools!" he shouted "he's just using us all! None of us are getting hearts! We are just tools!"

"you're nothing but rats! Running in a maze for his amusement!" his shouts slowly decreased in volume as he was dragged away.

"now to deal with you" xemnas said as he turned to meet axel, but to his surprise all he saw was xaldin knocked out on the floor, axel had escaped. xemnas snapped his fingers and then four dusks appeared behind him. "find him" he said "search everywhere" with that, the dusks disappeared and began their search for the fire haired rogue.

He turned to larxene, who had been standing there quietly with her arms crossed, that was most unlike her. Larxene was always loud and active, but now she was silent... odd.

"you look rather bored" xemnas said to larxene "i have a welcome back present for you"

"really? A present? For me?" she said with excitement.

"there is a prisoner down in the dungeons, her main duty is to collect hearts for us, but you may do whatever you wish with her when she is not needed"

"really? My own slave? I like the sound of that!" "can I discipline her if she misbehaves?"

"of course" xemnas said with a smile "just don't discipline her too much" he knew how cruel larxene could be, which was what was needed to keep the prisoner docile, the prisoner was to obey the organizations commands, and she was to be reminded of her place, she was a tool, and a tool she would stay. Until his kingdom hearts was complete and then he could truly, finally exist. Or at least that's what he wanted the 'others' to think.

"wake up! WAKE UP!" her peaceful rest was disturbed by a woman with long blonde hair and deep green eyes. Just ignore her, she'll go away. The prisoner thought, this only angered larxene though.

who did this slave think she was? "i said WAKE UP!" larxene brutally kicked the poor girl

and was rewarded with the sound of a pain filled scream.

"good, now that i've got your attention, get. up." she said with venom in her voice. The prisoner, not wanting to get kicked again, stood on her feet and stared the blonde woman. "come on, its time for you to do your job" she said. her job was to slay those weird black monster things they called heartless, she didn't know why she was being forced to do this, or what would be gained by slaying the odd black things, but she did more than just that. Sometimes this organization would take her to other places and lead her to something they called a 'keyhole' they would then force her to unlock it, whatever that meant. "you move too slow, pickup the pace!" she was pulled away from her thoughts when the blonde woman grabbed a fist full of her silver hair and began pulling, the silver haired girl screamed at the top of her voice, begging the blonde woman to stop, but she wouldn't listen. She just kept pulling. And the prisoner kept screaming in pure pain.

Her screams continued until she was pushed into a huge room with blue floors, the roof of the room was a huge skylight that gave a clear view of the endless night sky, she noticed that no stars or even a moon could be seen, which was kinda odd, seeing how this place never saw daylight, she thought there would be a lot more stars Or at least a moon in the sky. She always enjoyed looking at the moon,

it would have certainly gave her comfort in this horrible place. She was going to escape this stupid castle, she was going to run as far as her legs could carry her and not look back, but she knew trying to run now would be suicide, she just had to wait, be patient and wait for the right time.

"now, slay the heartless" the blond woman said as she snapped her fingers. four little black shadows came into the room, not attacking or even moving, just standing there, waiting for their lives to be taken away from them. She felt bad for them, she didn't want to hurt the little guys, they were kinda cute, she would rather take them as pets instead of pushing a huge house key through them, but she didn't have a choice. She summoned her Keyblade.

The keyblade was silver and ivory-colored. The shaft was thin and smooth with a fleur-de-lis-shaped spike at its tip. The teeth were comprised with a pair of uneven, silver wings framing a broken, bright red heart. The base of the blade was adorned by a simple, grey heart, and the handle was black. Two uneven wings decorated the Keyblade's guard, with the larger wing being on the same side of the weapon as the teeth. The Keychain had silver chain links and the token at the base of the chain resembled a miniature version of the Keyblade's teeth; a bright red heart surrounded by silver wings.

(AN: its lost memory. Ventus' keyblade from birth by sleep)

it was such a beautiful blade. She always loved holding it, it gave her a sense of security.

As long as she held it in her hands she felt safe, it was a shame, she really wanted to use it against an opponent who could fight back, instead of just swinging it at things that didn't even harm her.

"well?! Are you going to just stand there and look at it? Or are you going to use it already?!"

the blonde woman interrupted her thoughts again... which was annoying, she couldn't even think because these idiots kept interrupting the peaceful voices in her head.

"what if I don't want to slay these things?" she questioned. She had enough of this. Holding her keyblade close had given her the courage to stand up to this stupid cult of black robe wearing freaks, she wasn't going to take this anymore, even if this woman was going to attack, then she would have the chance to fight against a real enemy. A real danger, and maybe she could win, this blonde woman didn't look that strong.

The woman started to laugh, it started out as a small giggle but quickly turned into a fit of insane laughter.

"ooh that's cute" she said "you actually think you have a choice" she continued that... horrible laugh.

"i didn't want to do this but... who am I kidding, I TOTALLY WANNA DO THIS!" she said as she snapped her fingers which sent a jolt of electricity to the prisoner's body, causing her to scream in pure pain and agony, until she collapsed on the floor, gasping for breath. "i'm not going to ask again" she said "do as I say or i'll fry you!"

she was about to snap her fingers again until the prisoner got on her feet and moved toward the heartless.

"good girl" she said "now kill it"

She held her keyblade close to the monsters neck, ready to strike, the blonde in the black robe stood next to her, watching closely. The prisoner had an idea, maybe now was the perfect time to escape, nobody else was in the room, the door was open, and her captor was standing right next to her, all she had to do was swing in the other direction, then she would be able to hit her in the face, drop her to the ground and make a run for it. Maybe she could find help, this wasn't a very solid plan but it was a plan, it could work, at least she hoped it would.

She had to take a chance.

She prepared her swing and the keyblade made contact with the woman's face, dropping her to the floor.

The prisoner ran through the open door, down one of the halls, passing one of those black coated freaks along the way, Was it the one with rockstar hair or the eye patch?, who cares, the point was she was still running, not stopping at all, until she came to a dead end, only to find out that it wasn't a dead end; it was an elevator that was big enough to be a room. It must have been a big castle if it needed one of those. The elevator room... thingy reached the bottom floor and she was able to see the way out, "freedom at last!" she cried.

As she ran out of that stupid place she turned around to get a good look at it, it was a flying castle of darkness, kinda cliché. mysterious black coated bad guys, gigantic floating castle of darkness surrounded by a city of darkness, was she in some kinda video game or something?

She continued her endless running, passing a huge, black skyscraper, and continuing down a small, dark allay. She leaned against one of the walls to catch her breath and give her legs a little rest, finally, she was free, but one question kept buzzing in her head, where would she go from here?. She could obviously see that she was very far away from home, and nobody had come looking for her, but then again, who really would come looking for her? she was a loner, someone who wasn't very good with people, the only person she could think of that would actually notice she was missing was her mother, but her mother rarely cared about her.

She probably though I ran away.

She stood on her feet and began walking, thinking she had put a good distance between her and the flying castle.

There wasn't much she could do now, maybe she could find someone who could help her, maybe if she just explained her situation very carefully, then it would be believable

I was captured by a group of people wearing black cloaks, who forced me to kill these black little monsters for no apparent reason, they all have an X in their names and they live in a white floating castle of darkness.

Yes, I know it sounds crazy but i'm telling the truth. Please don't send me to the nice man with the very big needle.

Yeah, if someone said the same thing to her she would think they were crazy too.

Maybe she could just say that she was lost and needed help finding her way home... wait, where was her home?

"there you are!" she jerked her head around and found one of those coat organization guys. This was the one with the blue hair, what was his name... saix! That was it. She summoned her keyblade, prepared to fight him.

He also summoned his weapon. I gigantic... hammer? It looked like a hammer, it was blue, and he held it backwards, entering his fighting stance.

She also entered her stance.

Holding her blade above her head, and stretching her left arm in front of her. In a taunting position

(it's the same way riku and vanitas hold there weapons)

to a normal swordsman, this fighting style would make their sword arm rather tired, but for her it felt natural.

It felt right to hold her keyblade this way, she didn't really question it, just followed her instincts, they got her this far, and they could get her farther.

She charged ahead, attacking first, she delivered a quick slash through his torso, leaving a good sized cut through his flesh, she smiled at this, it felt good to finally take her anger out on these jerks, she even had a little bit of the fabric from his cloak caught on the teeth of her keyblade. Saix quickly recovered from the attack. And begun to swing his claymore left and right, up and down, but she dodged rather easily, as big and intimidating as he looked, he couldn't land a single hit fast enough, she was just to quick, and his weapon must have been really heavy. She was ready to give him another slash, but her weapon collided with his.

"BEGONE!" he yelled as he threw his claymore at her, it hit her directly in her chest, and she fell on the ground.

Saix stood above her with his claymore back in his hand, ready to strike her with all his might. He held his weapon up in the air. "no exit" he said. He was about to bring his claymore down on her, until she held her hand up, and shot a blast of dark energy at saix. He screamed as her dark blast hit one of his eyes, causing great pain and damaging his sight.

She was surprised, when could she do that? If she knew she could shoot... whatever that was, then she would have broke out of this place weeks ago. Saix remained there, covering his damaged eye with his hands

she quickly ran as far away from him as possible. Once the pain subsided, he would be pissed off.

She kept running until she heard a whistle, looking in the direction of the noise, she saw a portal, she decided to step through it, not knowing where it would take her, but knowing it would probably take her far away from here.

Leon was walking around radiant garden, on his way to one of the restoration sites. Him and the others had achieved so much in these few short days. The town was halfway complete and if things stayed on schedule then radiant garden would soon reclaim its title, the city of light. The only things left on the construction list was to restore the bailey, which was destroyed when maleficent sent an army of heartless against the city,

and the destruction of villain's vale, maleficence's castle.

"leon!" leon turned around to see yuffie running up to him, the look of panic clear on her face.

"yuffie, what's wrong?" he asked, it was odd to see her this way, whatever was going on must have been important.

"some girl just fell from the sky!"

"what?"

"come on, this way!" yuffie ran ahead of leon and brought him to merlin's house, where cid, tiffa, and aerith were trying to wake an unconscious girl.

Leon took a closer look at her, and noticed her long silver hair, her very slender figure. Clutched firmly in her hands was what looked to be a Keyblade.

"get her to the castle and let me know when she wakes up" leon said. Cid then picked the girl up and held her over his shoulder, walking towards the castle of radiant garden.

AN: god it took me forever to get this chapter done. i wanted to get our silver haired keyblade wielder out of the castle as soon as possible.