T: Hello! Sorry for the wait but I have been busy with stuff such as wrapping up my college work for the summer, playing with my stuff I finally got back and writing for my other stories. But anyway, here it is, the long awaited chapter 21.

The same knight that had appeared on Destiny Islands had fled to his starship, they immediately returned to their homeworld The same knight that had appeared on Destiny Islands had fled to his starship, they immediately returned to their homeworld. He walked through the halls of their mighty castle fortress; his destination was the throne room. He had recovered from his wounds, he was amazed at the princesses powers, he knew she would be powerful but not that powerful.

The doors to the throne room were forced open as he walked towards the king, the king saw him enter.

"I take it you found her Orion?" The king was sitting in his throne; he was looking at a book.

"Yes your majesty. But there was a problem..." Orion knelt before the king. The book was slammed shut and the king looked at Orion.

"What problem?"

"Her power has awakened..." The king was shocked and at the same time not.

"How long has it been awakened?"

"A few days at best, she's only just discovered them." Orion looked up at the king, he seemed to be chuckling.

"Your majesty?"

"This is better than I thought! She can't control her powers and most likely doesn't know how to call upon them. This is the perfect opportunity to capture her." The king began to laugh.

"There was something else your majesty..." The king stopped and looked at Orion.

"What?"

"I sensed the presence of a Nobody within her." This gave the king quite a shock.

"A Nobody!? How!!"

"I do not know, but I could sense it, hiding." The king was silent for a moment, nothing in the books of prophecy foretold this event. He then realised something, what one of the side effects were if the princess was blessed with Alexander. If she could call upon the holy guardian...

"Ehehehehe! Yes!" The king looked at Orion again.

"GO! FIND THE PRINCESS AND BRING HER BACK TO ME!!" Orion bowed before leaving.

"Oh and Orion." Orion looked at the king again.

"Your ship is fully repaired and ready." Orion smirked underneath his helmet.

"The Zodiark?"

"Yes, and we have improved it as well. You will find that Alexander won't be as effective as last time." The king smiled underneath his helmet, he could sense Orion's feelings and knew he was thrilled with this.

"Thank you, your Majesty." Orion left the room leaving the king alone.

"Can he be trusted?" A disembodied voice rang out.

"He's my most reliable and strongest warrior. He will not fail now."

"For your sake, you better hope he doesn't."

It was morning now; the sun was rising in the sky, shining down on Disney Castle. It had been several hours since Kairi had fainted, she still hadn't woken up. Sora was near her bed holding her hand, Riku was leaning against the wall. He and Sora were worried for Kairi, so many things had happened to her in such short time. Donald and Goofy were there as well, trying to keep Sora from going crazy. He was the most worried for her, he felt as if it was his fault for this. He looked down at the mysterious object that was on the table next to her bed, he didn't know what it was or what it had to do with Kairi, but he hoped Mickey would be able to make sense of all this.

"Hey Sora, you okay?" Sora turned to see Goofy with a worried look.

"Hmm. What happened to her? Why did it happen?" The doors opened to reveal Mickey and an unexpected guest.

"MERLIN!?" The wizard was standing next to the king, with a small smile on his face.

"Hello boys. Are you okay?" He walked over to Sora to see him looking at Kairi.

"Sora?" Sora snapped out of his little trance and looked at Merlin.

"Sorry, what are you doing here Merlin?"

"Well, the king here sent for me. He said it was an emergency so I got here as soon as I could." Merlin walked over to Kairi and examined her; he made a lot of 'Hmmm' noises before speaking again.

"She's fine but it could be a little while longer before she wakes up. You said there was something in Kairi's hands correct?" Sora picked up the small piece of metal and gave it to Merlin.

"Hmm, let's see what we have here." He dropped his bag and a table with examining equipment came out.

Riku had a shocked look on his face at the table that sprung forth from the bag, he had seen many things but nothing like that before. Merlin could sense his thoughts on his bag and chuckled slightly.

"Don't worry it won't eat you." He returned to examining the metal.

"Hmm, this is going to take a while. You guys might want to do something to help pass the time, I will call you when I am done." Mickey led everyone outside, leaving the wizard alone.

Sora was in the garden, he was sitting on one of the grass patches. He stared at the sky, his mind raced with thoughts about what happened. There were so many questions with no answers.

"Sigh..."

"What's wrong dude?" Sora looked up to see his Nobody.

"Roxas?" Sora was slightly surprised to see him and glad at the same time.

"One and only! So what's up, worried about Kairi?" Roxas sat down next to Sora.

"Of course I am. I just wish I knew what was wrong with her..." Sora looked down at the ground.

"Maybe I could find out..." At Roxas's words, Sora turned his head towards his Nobody.

"You could? How?"

"I could ask Namine, hopefully she hasn't fallen unconscious."

"How can you ask her?" Sora didn't see how he could.

"Get me near Kairi and I can try and talk with Namine. It usually works when you two meet up."

At this Sora got up and walked over to where the guest bedrooms where. He stood outside the window but made sure Merlin wouldn't see him, he stood at the window closest to Kairi. She was still unconscious, he frowned at this and Roxas could sense it.

'Don't worry Sora, I'll find out what's wrong with her.' Roxas concentrated his thoughts toward Namine; he hoped she was still conscious.

Namine, can you hear me? It's me Roxas... At first there was nothing but he thought he heard her voice slightly.

Roxas?

Yeah it's me Namine, are you okay?

Yeah. What happened to Kairi?

I don't know but, I think it was something to do with that sphere hidden underneath the throne room.

Sora knew what she was talking about; she was most likely talking about the Cornerstone of light. Sora wondered what the Cornerstone could possibly have to do with Kairi fainting, his only clue was that piece of metal Merlin was examining.

It had been an hour and half since Merlin started to examine the strange piece of metal. Riku was talking with Donald and Goofy, they were talking about their last adventure. Donald and Goofy kept probing Riku with questions about what happened after they were split off from each other. Riku told them the whole story, they even discussed about Sora and Kairi, Mickey came by and wondered what was going on.

"Your majesty, what are you doing here?" Donald said surprised to see him.

"Merlin has said he has discovered something." The four of them went to the guest room.

Sora was already there waiting for them, they walked in and saw Merlin standing at the window. They all took a seat before Merlin began to speak.

"As you know I have been having a look at this mysterious metal piece. I have been able to confirm what it is."

Merlin held it in his hands. "It seems to be a piece of an ancient relic, although there isn't much information about what it does, but from what I can tell, there's more of them."

"Like, how many?" Riku asked.

"...That I do not know, we would need to ask someone else about this. Someone who knows more than me." Mickey knew there was only one other person in the galaxy who knew what this could be.

"You mean, Yen Sid?"

"I'm afraid I do, but I believe he's busy at the moment so we won't be able to see him immediately. Although I could go look for him."

"Please..." Everyone turned to see Kairi awake.

"KAIRI!!" Everyone was glad to see her well again.

"Did you hear that princess?"

"Yes...but Sora, can I ask you something?" Kairi said looking slightly tired.

"Sure, what is it?" Sora looked at Kairi, trying his best not to stare at her. "When you find out where these pieces are...will you go looking for them?"

"...I guess so. If it is an ancient and powerful relic then we will have too! There are others, if they found out about this, would use it for their own purposes." Sora said looking thoughtful.

"...People like Maleficent. Remember, she is still out there, alive..." Riku said looking slightly angry mentioning that witch's name.

"Yeah that's right!"

"In that case guys, let me come with you." Kairi said getting out of the bed.

"Kairi you can't...it's too danger-"

"Look Sora, I'm not helpless! I can fight, just, not as well as you. But I can still help! Besides, I have been left out all the time when you go on adventures! Not anymore, I am coming with you, whether you like it, or not!!" Kairi said crossing her arms.

Sora just sat there, looking at Kairi's determined face. In all these years he has known her, this was one of the few times Kairi had raised her voice at him. He smiled lightly before speaking.

"Looks like I am going to have to teach you how to handle that Keyblade of yours then." Sora said smiling at Kairi.

"HEY! Don't forget about us!!" An unknown voice rang out of nowhere.

Everyone looked around for the source of the voice, Donald and Goofy went as far to check under the beds and even Merlin's study desk. Their search ended when five bodies fell from the ceiling.

"OWWW!!"

"RENO! YOU WEIGH A TON!"

"MY HAIR!!"

"GETETH OFF MY WINGETH!! I CAN FEEL IT BREAKING!!"

"The Turks? What are you doing here?" Mickey said looking at the pile of bodies that belonged to the Turks.

"More importantly...how did you get in? I locked the door so that no one would disturb me." Merlin said stroking his beard.

"That...is a secret amongst the Turks." Tseng said.

"We slithered through the air vents, just like snakes. Remember the old days Rude?" Reno said looking at Rude who was brushing his head; he still thought he had hair.

"Ah yes...good times."

"Hey Mickey?" Riku spoke up.

"Yeah Riku?"

"Didn't you say you were going to tell us more about this Alexander?" Riku recalled Mickey saying he would the other day.

"Ah yes! I would have taken you guys to see my Master, Yen Sid, but he's not there. There's only one other place where we can find out about Alexander." Mickey knew there was only one place that held everything about it, the place he had discovered the materia in the first place.

"Where?" Sora looked at Mickey with a serious expression.

"...The lost city of Atlantis." At this everyone's jaws dropped, except for one.

"Sweet! We're going to Atlantis!! Home of the fish people!!"

"That would be Atlantica." Goofy said, correcting Reno.

T: There we are, hope you enjoyed it. Next world will be Atlantis, the one based off of Disney's Atlantis: The lost Empire. But first will be the journey to find the world first. So stay tuned for the next chapter!