Nobody dreams suck; that was something Roxas learned a long time ago.

He dreamt that he was in the middle of a huge fire, but the area around him was not burning him yet. He could just barely make out the silhouettes of seven figures, each one calling out his name as they burned in the fire. As the dream went on, they began yelling at him, blaming him for their deaths, cursing him and the Guardians of Light. Even though they were saying cruel words to him, they continued to cry out "Save us! Save us!" as the fire's flames got larger.

Roxas tried to save them, he really did, but whenever he tried to move he moved as if he was in slow motion. And it did not take long for the figures in the fire to vanish and for the flames to consume Roxas himself…

That is when he woke up, darting into a sitting position as he began to breath heavier than usual. Roxas could feel his newly discovered heart pounding in his chest so hard that he thought it would come out of him and flap on the floor like a fish out of water. He took a moment to calm himself before he stood out of the bed.

He was unsure of the time, but he knew he had to have received several hours of sleep. And, since he knew sleep would not come to him again, he decided to go over to the closet to change into a clean pair of clothes. Roxas frowned when he looked at the contents of the closet, almost forgetting that the only thing he had to wear was the Restoration Committee's uniform. He sighed, not wanted to change into the uniform, but he knew he had no choice.

So Roxas slipped out of his familiar clothing and slipped into the uniform Aerith had provided for him. They were comfortable, hugging his skin, but he refused to say it out loud. It was at this moment when Roxas noticed that there was a mirror on the inside portion of the closet door. He observed himself in the mirror, noting that the uniform fit him perfectly. He did not know how Aerith had managed to find him a uniform that was exactly his size, but he chose not to question her mysterious ways.

Once he looked at himself in the mirror on last time, Roxas shut the closet door and headed for the exit. The gush of fresh air greeted him as soon as he opened the door, allowing the hallway to be visible. Even though he only took his first and only walk in the hallway for the first time yesterday, he knew that he had to turn left and continue to walk down the hallway until he got to the door at the very end. He did just this, and in no time at all he entered into the main room that left him in a state of awe just yesterday.

There were not many people at the computer monitors as there where yesterday, with only Cid and a handful of others that their computers. Roxas did not know where everyone could be, but he decided to ignore the fact when he saw the flash of a red scarf in the corner of his eye.

Roxas turned gladly to see Aerith, with her back turned to him, talking to… wait, who was she talking too? There was no one in front of her, but Roxas noticed that Aerith's head continued to move as if she was watching several bugs swarm around her head. Slightly confused, Roxas walked closer to her, hoping that he would see what Aerith was looking at.

When Roxas finally saw what she was looking at, he froze in his tracks. Flying around Aerith were three small pixies, each one in their own tiny Restoration Committee uniform. These three pixies acted like they were the best of friends, but from their appearance, he couldn't imagine anyone believing them to be. One of them had short brown hair, chopped off at her shoulders with blue eyes that Roxas could spot out from a great distance away. The one to that pixie's left had long blonde hair that was kept up with a blue headband, and she was moving around much quicker than the others. The last one was the one that moved around the least with her arms crossed against her chest, and she had short, greyish brown hair that was styled to almost look like a Mohawk.

The first pixie, the one with the short brown hair, was the first to notice Roxas. "It's you!" She said in an excited tone before she quickly flew over to Roxas. The other two pixies followed her immediately, the blonde haired one being equally excited, while the grey haired one seemed like she could care less. Their flight also caused Aerith to turn around, and once she saw it was Roxas, she smiled and gladly walked up to him. "We were just talking about you!" The first pixie continued.

"Oh my goodness! I cannot believe I actually get to meet a new Guardian in person! I still can't believe that Ansem was correct!" The blond one squealed. "It is an honor, it really is!"

At that moment, the blond haired pixie flew very close to Roxas's face, observing his every movements. "Um… Hi?" Roxas said awkwardly, hoping that someone would pull the pixie away from his face.

Thankfully, Roxas's hopes were answered when the grey haired pixie pulled the blonde one away from his face, her hand going over the blonde one's mouth to get her to be quiet. "You are going to have to learn how to ignore her," she said calmly. "She can get a little too excited sometimes."

The blonde haired pixie continued to try and speak even though the other pixie's hand was over her mouth.

"Roxas, these are the Gullwings: Yuna, Rikku, and Paine," Aerith introduced, pointing her finger to each of the pixies when she said their name. "Fellow members of the Restoration Committee as well as trusted friends of ours."

Wait, the blonde's name was Riku?

"It is so very nice to meet you!" The pixie, revealed to be named Yuna, said happily. She then did something that Roxas did not know how to respond to: she held her tiny hand out for him to shake. So, trying to be careful, Roxas brought out his index finger and allowed her to grab on to it, and they shook 'hands.'

"Nice to meet you as well…" Roxas said, slightly awkward, but if he did sound that way, Yuna thankfully didn't notice. Instead, she only smiled from ear to ear, letting her sparkling white teeth shine for him.

"You three are supposed to be in the supply room," a voice said from behind them that made Roxas sigh and roll his eyes. The five turned to see Leon walking towards them, his hands behind his back, acting professionally. "You three are the ones who stole most of the items, shouldn't you be evaluating it?"

Roxas rolled his eyes. After what happened the night before, he was really not looking forward to seeing Leon again. And the fact that Leon was bossing these pixies around wasn't giving Roxas much hope of a friendship ever forming between them.

"We didn't 'steal' those items, we took them from Xehanort's lackeys to try and assist humanity in its survival." Yuna said, flying in front of Leon's face as she did so. "And you know that."

Leon arched an eyebrow at her. "Besides, it gets clammy in that room, we need some fresh air!" Rikku exclaimed happily.

Roxas was shocked to see Leon actually chuckle at this comment. He actually had feelings? "Very well, but please do get back to the room as soon as you can," Leon replied.

"Of course sir," Paine said. "We have been out for several minutes, we should head back now."

To reply to their friend, Rikku and Yuna nodded before they began to fly away. However, before she left, Yuna turned around, waving her tiny hand to Roxas and said, "It was nice to meet you!" And once she said that, she flew in the other direction, following Rikku and Paine to their destination.

Once the three pixies were out of the room, Roxas heard chuckling and turned to see Aerith, holding her hand over her mouth. "What's so funny?" Roxas asked.

"Nothing, it's just…" She laughed again before continuing. "You should have seen the look on your face when I told you Rikku's name."

Roxas tried to force out a smile to Aerith, but he couldn't find the will to do so as long as Leon was standing next to him. "Oh and by the way, your uniform looks nice on you," Aerith continued.

Roxas huffed before he looked down at himself. "I would prefer if you don't comment on that," he said as politely as he could. "Still not joining your Committee or whatever you call it."

Aerith placed a finger on her chin before she turned to Leon, who seemed to speak for her. "You don't need to join us to assist our cause," Leon explained. "We have several allies across the worlds who are not official members of the Restoration Committee, but they do help us. Perhaps you can join them."

"Joining you, helping you, what's the difference?" Roxas spat. He could have sworn at that moment that these two were attempting to trick him into joining the Committee and he was not about to fall for it. If there was a difference between the two, maybe he would consider helping them.

"It doesn't matter what the difference is," Aerith began. "All we want is to stop Xehanort, if you're an ally or an actual member, that is our goal. You can say you don't want to join us or ally with us as much as you want, but we know one thing: you do want to stop Xehanort."

Roxas was taken aback by Aerith's words. She did not seem like the person to snap like that, but he admitted that he saw it coming from one of the members here. He refused to join them, it had to be coming eventually, he just wasn't expecting that person to be her.

"Does he even care if Xehanort is ruling the worlds? That the worlds are suffering because of this man?" Leon asked him. "I would think that someone who actually does care would try and do something about it."

"Don't you dare ask me if I care about Xehanort ruling the worlds," Roxas retorted. "Of course I care how could I not?"

"Well then why aren't you trying to find a way to stop him?" Leon continued to argue. "Joining us, even helping us could bring the worlds' one step closer to stopping him. So why are you so against helping? Are you afraid that Xehanort is going to find out and end our lives?"

"Stop," Roxas hissed, but Leon ignored him.

"Tell me Roxas, if your life meant the worlds would continue to suffer, what would you do: end your life or allow them to continue their suffering?" Leon asked. "I am not saying that is the case, but you cannot let fear rule over you."

"I said stop," Roxas hissed out again. The former nobody did not even realize how close he was to Leon's face at this moment, staring him down, about ready to attempt to rip his head right off his body. Roxas wished he could summon both of his keyblades so that he could knock Leon into the next world, but he knew it was pointless so he did not even try.

How did Leon even have the nerve to say such words to him? Of course he didn't want the worlds to suffer, or course he wanted Xehanort dead for what he did. But Leon pushed Roxas to the limit when he claimed that Roxas was afraid of death. Everyone dies, so why should he be afraid of it? Was it just the thought of dying at Xehanort's hand that scared him? No, Roxas wasn't afraid of that coward. All Xehanort wanted was to the rule the worlds, he got what he wanted, but he continued to let the worlds suffer. Xehanort just allowed the worlds to suffer so people could be afraid of dying at his hand, it did not mean that Xehanort could kill them.

Leon was wrong, he wasn't afraid of Xehanort or death.

Or was he?

Before Roxas could even attempt to think of anything to say back to Leon, a sudden alarm that startled all of them stopped him. As soon as it went off, the everyone began talking, panicking and looking to their monitors to know what to do next. Never before in his life had Roxas seen so much chaos occur in such a short amount of time. He had no idea what was going on, but apparently everyone else did.

"Leon!" Cid's voice called out, which made everyone turn to his direction. "I got a hit!"

Before he could say anything else, Leon and Aerith quickly jogged over to where Cid's computer was. Roxas, sighing, reluctantly followed, knowing that whatever this alarm was could not be a good sign.

Once they made it over to where Cid was, Leon spoke up. "What's happening?" He asked.

"Xehanort just sent a huge load of his soldiers out to another world!" Cid began to type quickly on his computer, causing a screen to show up that showed several rid blimps heading out of the world. "There's got to be at thirty of them heading out at least!"

"Do you have any idea as to who is leading them?" Leon asked before he placed his hands on the back of Cid's chair, nervously staring at the screen.

"Hard to say, but as far as we know, Xehanort has never sent a group of his soldiers out this large without one of his Seekers of Darkness leading them," Cid explained. "If one of his Darkness' isn't leading them, I would be extremely surprised."

"Well if that's not a sign that they found another Guardian of Light then I don't know what is," Aerith muttered before she cleared her voice. "We have to follow them, if there is a Guardian of Light there; we need to get to them before they do."

"What world are they heading to?" Leon asked, basically taking the words right out of Aerith's mouth.

Cid laughed. "They are actually heading to a place that Blondie might recognize."

"Blondie?" Roxas questioned, knowing that Cid was talking about him.

"Cid now is not the time for games," Aerith said calmly.

Cid huffed out another laugh before he finally responded. "They are heading course for Twilight Town."

When the words slipped from Cid's mouth, Roxas immediately froze, not being able to move. They were going to Twilight Town, the world he called home for so long when he was a member of the Organization. It was the world he and Axel escaped to everyday after they finished their missions, and would just relax and eat sea salt ice cream. How could it possibly be on that world? Was it someone he knew?

Roxas heard Leon inhale next to him before the leader of the committee turned to him. "You want to prove you care about the worlds' safety?" He asked him. "Now is your chance."

Leon then began to quickly walk away, motioning for Roxas to follow, which he decided to do. As much as he hated Leon right now, he would prefer that if he was going to stay here until Xehanort gets off his back, that there would be no tension between the two. If doing what Roxas thinks Leon wants him to do is what it takes to remove that tension, it was something he was willing to do.

That and it would get Leon off his back about not caring about the worlds' safety.

Roxas had to jog to catch up to Leon, along with Aerith, who walked alongside the former nobody. It did not take long for them to get to one of the doors that Roxas did not know where it lead to yet and enter inside, which brought them into a long hallway. "We need to get to Twilight Town before Xehanort's crew does," Leon repeated himself. "The only way we can do that is if we send out the people meant to carry out missions outside this world."

"So I am taking it that Cid and Aerith would be joining me then?" Roxas figured. "They were the ones to come and get me so does that mean they will come with me too?"

"Actually, leaving the world for missions is not my department," Aerith said. "I normally stay here as a healer, since I am the most exceled in magic out of the committee. We only have one other ally who has more magic power then me."

"Well then why did you come to grab me at Destiny Islands?" Roxas asked.

"Because if we sent our normal group out, you would be so scared that you wouldn't want to come with us," Leon replied for her.

And this comment sent a chill down Roxas' spine.

"Cid should be bringing you there," Leon continued. "But besides him, you, and our two others, that will be all we send out. The less the better if we want to get out of there easily."

Roxas nodded, even though he knew Leon would not see it. The keyblader admitted to himself that without Aerith there, he would probably feel nervous later on about this; she was the only person he felt comfortable around out of all the people here after all. But he respected the system.

After several more short moments of speed walking, Leon and Aerith finally stopped at a door towards the end of the hall (which Roxas realized really wasn't as long as it seemed to be). Leon then gripped the doorknob tightly and opened it, revealing the huge room that hid behind the door. At first glance, Roxas could see it was some kind of training room, with several lifts and floor covered in mats being the most obvious give away. On the walls of the room, Roxas noticed it was lined with weapons, each being unique, that rested on ledges for each weapon. He was slightly amazed by how big of a variety of weapons they had, but he didn't bother to show it.

"You two heard the alarm?" Leon asked the two people in the room, who Roxas had just noticed. One of them, who was heading for the largest weapon he saw on the wall (a long, heavy sword with a pointed tip at an angle) with spiky blonde hair and eyes that were alive with energy. The other, who was simply strapping on fingerless gloves for protection, had long black hair and blue eyes, who glared at Leon when he walked in. The two both wore the uniforms of the committee, which both hugged the muscles that showed just how strong they were. Roxas identified the two, based off Sora's memories, as Cloud and Tifa, two of Sora's friends.

"Do you think we are deaf?" Tifa retorted as she strapped the last hatch of her gloves, which showed the scares of former fights on them.

"Just making sure of course," Leon replied to her. "I needed to bring who you were working with here anyway."

Upon hearing this, Tifa and Cloud both looked to Roxas, who just seemed to notice his presence in the room. As quickly as she noticed him, Tifa glared and looked away, making sure that the straps of her gloves were tight enough. Cloud was not much better, but he did acknowledge Roxas by nodding before he swung his large sword onto the holder that rested on his back.

"You really think that we are going to be able to get the new Guardian out of there fast enough with him joining us? All he would do is slow us down," Tifa finally said.

Roxas didn't argue with Tifa, since he did agree with her slightly, but that didn't mean that her words didn't irate Roxas.

"He can handle himself," Cloud said. "That is if he can fight like Sora did."

Roxas shrugged as all eyes turned on him. "I can manage," he replied.

"I'll be the judge of that," Tifa replied to him as she headed for the door with Cloud following behind her. And as quickly as they entered the room, the five of them were jogging out of it, heading back towards the main room before anyone could question their movements.

When they made it back to the main room, Leon immediately began to take order. "Cid!" He yelled. "Are you ready to head out?"

"Who do you think I am?" Cid yelled back, running up to the group before they could call out his name again. "Also went through the trouble of starting up the Gummi Ship before you ask."

"You four better head out right now," Leon warned the four. "Since most of his soldiers are probably going to Twilight Town, the streets should be empty for now. You better get to the Gummi Ship now before Xehanort fills them up with soldiers again."

Before he continued, Leon looked away into Aerith's eyes, which reassured him, and then he continued. "If Xehanort gets a hold of this Guardian, we are getting further and further away from stopping him. We have one Guardian allied with us, but we have six more to go. I have full trust in you to get the Guardian out of there."

Leon then nodded to the group, and Cloud, Tifa, and Cid nodded back. Roxas couldn't find himself to nod, but he fully understood the mission and was ready to try and save this Guardian from Xehanort's clutches.

"Then move out," where Leon's last words to them before the three members of the committee ran in the opposite direction, towards the exit. Roxas followed their lead, trailing behind them by just a few inches.

But as they continued to run, Roxas couldn't help but wonder who this new Guardian could be. If it was a new Guardian, then he figured it must have been someone he didn't know, but he could not help but keep wondering. Roxas remembered from Sora's memories that being a keyblade wielder was rare, so maybe the person who is the new Guardian just was granted the power of the keyblade? Or maybe it was someone who had the keyblade for some time now, but only just gained the power?

As they got out of the house and were now running along the streets of Hollow Bastion, more thoughts began to travel through Roxas' mind. What if the person was a former Organization member, but since their heartless and nobody was destroyed, they came back as a human and were granted the power? Silently, Roxas prayed that it would not be the case, since he did think most of the former members of the Organization would be pleased with seeing him, and Roxas was just the same with most of the members. Who knows: maybe the person was the nobody of someone he knew, who had gained a heart without knowing it like Roxas did, and somehow got the power of the keyblade?

And as the invisible Gummi Ship reappeared before his eyes and they all quickly boarded it, Roxas wondered more possibilities. But before he could continue to come up with more, he stopped himself. Xehanort's men were going to get this new Guardian, to capture him/her and most likely later end their life. Who knows how far ahead they are! They could be at the world right now, towering over the new Guardian with a sword pointed at their chest. Twilight Town could be in flames just as Destiny Islands was when they left it…

But before Roxas could worry any further, the sudden jolt of the Gummi Ship startled him, which was a sign that the ship was taking off.

And as the ship flew through the star filled sky, Roxas could only pray that his former home was still intact.

"It's who we are

Doesn't matter if we've gone to far

Doesn't matter if it's all okay,

Doesn't matter if it's not our day.

So won't you save us?

What we are?

Don't look clear,

Cause' it's all up hill from here..."

~Who We Are by Imagine Dragons

Oh my gosh guys, I am so sorry for the shortness of the chapter and the long wait! I had writers block for this chapter for some reason, and I can not say I am perfectly happy with it, but it is something right?

I know this chapter was somewhat of a filler/set up, which only introduced you to more characters and gave you more insight as to how the Restoration Committee is ran, but I can guarantee you, the next chapter does have stuff going down. We get introduced to not only a new Guardian, but also one of the surviving members of Xehanort's Seekers of Darkness!

Also, I have come up with a beta list of worlds that should be appearing in this story and what FF characters should be appearing. I hinted towards one of them in this chapter... So whoever finds it gets 200 bonus points!

Oh, and I came up with this thing I decided to do at the end of every chapter we get introduced to a new Guardian/Seeker of Darkness. So when this happens, I am going to make a list and add on new one. Here is what it looks like as of currently:

Guardians of Light:

Roxas

TBA

Seekers of Darkness:

Xehanort

Xigbar

Saix

Young Xehanort (not currently in this time frame)

TBA

I just thought it would help!

By the way, Catching Fire was amazing for all of you that didn't see it. Every close to the book in the second half of the film. I was very pleased with Katniss, Peeta, Finnick, and Johanna's performances! I cried like 5 times though... :(

So please R&R and look out for the next chapter!

P.S Shadows Assemble! XD (For those of you that don't know, The Shadows are what I call my fan base like. FE: Lady Gaga = Little Monsters, Slyfoxhound = The Homies, etc.)