Vanitas studied Raven, before looking at her sister. "What is Raven's heritage?" He questioned trying to figure it out but he was drawing a blank.

Dove gripped her side, while watching her sister suddenly create a piano out of nothing.

"Our father was a genie." She stated simply.

Raven's outfit turned into a sleeveless kimono styled dress that was black and red with the Heartless symbol on the skirt. Black thigh high socks on her legs and red boots formed on her feet. A single giant fan appeared on her back.

"A genie?" Riku took in that fact but it didn't fit to him.

"You mean like the whole, you rub the lamp and get three wishes kind?" Sora asked like a ditz.

Dove nodded as Raven sat at the piano. Dread ran through her veins as she watched her sister lift the cover and laid her fingers on the keys. How was she supposed to explain the whole genie thing to her sister's friends?

"She doesn't have a lamp because she was born into it rather taken in to it. You see the thing about genies is that most people wish themselves into the life of a genie. She will never have a lamp unless she breaks the rules three times." She explained as the dark and hunting melody started.

The Heartless started to react, attacking the group while Raven played.

"Keep her safe!" Terra ordered before taking down a couple of Heartless.

"How are we gonna deal with Raven?" Kairi asked summoning her keyblade.

Vanitas didn't summon his keyblade, instead he had a hoard of Unversed come to his side. Most of them taking care of Raven's sister. "I'll take care of her, I'm a Guardian like she is. Only now I know more about her."

"Her magic doesn't need the 'I wish' phrase." Dove warned suddenly. "That is also what makes her different compared to our father. He could only grant wishes or make things appear for a purpose. Raven doesn't have to grant wishes, because of her oddity."

Vanitas took note of that, meaning Raven was in complete control of her magic. There was no lamp to rub to make her behave, or order to give to make her stop everything. She had the cosmic powers of a genie but without most of the chains.

He recalled Raven's nature to want everyone happy. He had an idea and hoped that it would work because of the genie in her.

Dove watched the dark haired man head toward her sister. Memories of her parents flashed through her mind, how they explained how different Raven was from her.

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"She's so tiny." A young Dove wowed at the sight of her new born sister.

Her mother and father sat on their bed with the pink baby laying in between them. The birthing had been done at home because her father had thought it safe that way because he sensed the magic in the baby.

"She won't grow into her abilities for a while but they are powerful." Her father smiled stroking the baby's cheek.

"What are you going to call her?" Dove asked looking at her mother.

A woman with beautiful brown hair that had princess like curls. She could have been a princess if it hadn't been for the fact a genie, Dove's father, had swept her off her feet. Her mother's purple eyes sparkled in the setting sun light as she looked at the new baby.

"Raven." She replied before running a hand through Dove's dark curls. "I have a beautiful Dove and a beautiful Raven."

"That's perfect." Dove's father replied kissing his wife's head.

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Raven grew quickly but by the age of five, they learned about how weak her heart was. It had been a wonderful fall day, the trees had dropped so many leaves into the yard and between Raven and their father the leaves were brought into large piles.

"Now watch carefully, Raven." Their father said firmly giving his hand a wave.

Magically Dove was lifted into the air above the pile before being dropped down. Both girls giggled in glee, though Dove had to dig herself out of the pile in order to show how happy she was.

"Dad, I want to be dropped next!" Raven cheered lifting her hands in the air.

Her magic lifted her only a couple of inches off the ground, but nothing too serious like her father had managed.

"Cyrus, be careful with the girls!" Their mother called from within the house.

He chuckled some before turning towards his wife. "You worry too much, Alice."

"My turn!" Raven demanded pulling on his fall jacket.

Cyrus let out a chuckle before giving into his youngest demands. Slowly lifting her into the air, her lovely red-brown eyes filled with so much life as she saw a new view of the garden. But went he released her to fall into the leave, something felt wrong.

Her heart beat fluttered like crazy, causing her whole body to scream in pain. Instead of letting out a scream of joy, it was a scream of fear because she didn't know what was happening.

"Raven!" Cyrus called jumping into the pile to find her.

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Raven was rushed to the hospital, where they ran several tests before figuring out what wrong. Her heart was weak, and the fall was the first time she experienced the right kind of stress to set it off.

"She just has to take it easy. Some physical therapy will help strengthen her heart." The doctor explained.

Dove listened to everything from the end of her sister's hospital bed, where Raven was sleeping. The doctor seemed to find it better to tell them when she was sleeping. Dove took note of how much lower their voices got when they realized she was still up.

She looked over at her sister, before climbing up by her and moving some of the hair from her face.

"I just wish for you to get better." She whispered softly.

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Raven's song suddenly came to a stop, which brought Dove out of her thoughts.

Several Heartless tried to charge Vanitas, but several Unversed appeared to prevent them from getting to him. His amber eyes held a serious look, one that said he wasn't going to give up. Dove had never seen anyone give a look like that.

"Xiro." Dove whispered to herself before looking for the white haired man.

She found him trying to fend off her sister's Heartless but he wasn't faring well due to the fact his ability was useless without a mirror of some kind. He wasn't one to really fight and here he was stuck in one because he messed things up.

"I won't give up, Raven!" Vanitas shouted drawing everyone's attention.

Raven frowned at his words, only to send more Heartless at him. "Get rid of him!" She ordered with a hard voice.

"Why is she acting like this?" Namine asked.

Dove took note of how red Raven's eyes had become. Before they had been a dull red but now they were bright more blood red.

"Because it's not Raven in control, it's the Darkness." Dove replied softly.

Vanitas fended off a Heartless that got by his Unversed, though he didn't do too much to it. "We want you to be happy!" He shouted letting his creatures of Darkness move as they wanted, leaving him wide up.

"What is that idiot doing?!" Roxas asked guarding Ven's back.

"Getting at the real Raven." Riku answered watching as the Heartless piled on top of Vanitas. "Raven wants us happy, so if her being happy makes us happy it might bring her out."

That's when it set in. Raven didn't act on mundane desires of the human heart, she responded to the true needs of them. Seeing the people you love happy, doing what you can to make them happy. Why hadn't Dove noticed this? She was her sister!

"Raven, I want my sister back!" Dove shouted suddenly. "I want things to go back to how they were. Our family spending time together, eating dinner together, having small parties out in the yard!"

"I want you to try Sea Salt Ice-cream with me once!" Roxas called.

It caught on, everyone started to call out everything they wanted to do with Raven. Anything from small meaningless memories to the kind that would last a lifetime.

"I want to win your heart back!"

Everything froze at those words. All the Heartless stopped in mid attack, while Raven looked over at Xiro, who was bloody and bruised but still standing.

He held his side while panting. "I want to win your heart back from these people." He panted as his dark eyes started to get unfocused.

"HA!" Vanitas laughed suddenly. "You're already losing that one!"

The World of Darkness faded and the ruined house returned to the woods. Raven stood on top of the rubble watching the two men bicker about who had the rights to her heart.

"Shut up, you two idiots!" She shouted suddenly knocking them over.

Kairi let out a small cheer. "She's really back because of that!"

Dove could see that Raven had changed because of this though, she wasn't sure how though.

"Are you alright?" Namine asked getting Dove's attention.

Looking down at her hand, it looked like broken clay. She hadn't even felt the pain of it happening. Her time was up, Xiro's hold on her wasn't going to keep her here anymore.

Her knees gave out under her weight as her legs started to fracture from the impact. Riku took notice and came to see if there was anything he could do but she told him there wasn't.

"Let me see my sister." She requested looking at the silver haired man.

He nodded and called Raven over.

Raven's eyes widen at the sight of her sister. "DOVE!" She knelt down and took her hands. "This is my fault!"

Dove shook her head, "No, it was never your fault. I made a wish a long time ago for you to get better. The Darkness was the only way for that to happen, this was only my fault."

Tears built in both women's eyes as they realized something had to be done, but nothing could stop death. Until Raven remember, in order for there to be a Nobody there had to be a Heartless. Dove saw the look in her sister's eyes but she couldn't stop Raven.

Raven summoned a Winged Soldier, it didn't look different from any other Winded Soldier but that must be the one that holds Dove's Heart.

"Sora, kill it." Raven commanded suddenly as her hair fell over her eyes.

He didn't question her, only used his keyblade to cut the creature down.

"We can't be sure this will work!" Riku pointed out to Raven, taking her arm.

Dove knew what was going through her sister's mind but she wasn't able to ensure her at all because she finally lost use of her voice. The only part of her part that hasn't fallen apart yet was her head.

"Xiro told me about this working!" Raven argued.

Riku was about to say more but they both caught sight of Dove. She gave the saddest of smiles before mouthing something to Raven, something only she understood. Tears rolled down Raven's face as she watched her sister turn into dust.

A new dark aura formed around Raven for a moment, before she turned toward Xiro and started beating on his chest. He didn't stop her from hitting him, just took every single hit that she gave him. He didn't block any that were aimed at his face.

"This is your fault!" She cried finally falling to her knees. "You're the Guardian of Nobodies! There was no reason why she should have just died like that!"

Xiro looked at her with dark eyes. "There was a reason, she kept breaking out of the place I kept her. Using up the energy and power she had; this last task I gave her, used up what was left." He had his reasons for keeping Dove away from Raven but he would never admit them.

She pulled him down to the ground a slapped him a couple of times. "I HATE YOU!" She screamed before Vanitas and Riku pulled her off of the poor guy.

Xiro sat up, his face already starting to swell. "I know."

"Why do you want something that you keep breaking?!" She questioned trying to break out of the hold she was in.

"Because, I love you." He replied simply before vanishing through a Corridor of Darkness.

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Days after everything happened, Raven had re-found her music and found out that Riku's house had a piano in it, she started to play for days. No one got sleep in the house, because she was pouring so much into the keys.

"I regret making my parents get me that piano when I was ten." Riku moaned into his pillow.

Sora listened to the haunting melody that floated through the entire house. "It's nothing I've ever heard."

The guys were over at Riku's while the girl's where sitting with Raven.

"Because it's her own music." Ventus replied with his eyes closed.

Riku groaned more tucking his head under the pillow. "She hasn't stopped playing for three days, how is that possible?!"

They shrugged though he didn't see it.

"So she hasn't eaten, drank, showered, or slept for three days?" Terra asked with a worried look.

Vanitas scoffed, "I wouldn't either after everything that happened to her. She lost the last part of her family, regained the memories of killing her family and came to hate the person she loved most in life that she could've had a family with on top of losing her childhood home." He crossed his arms. "If I could play Piano like she can, I'd play until I passed out, too."

They were all quiet because he was right, but Riku did have some right to complain. He was losing sleep from worry, which meant he was hardly eating as well. He was falling asleep anytime he got away from the house, which dragged down any guy time.

Aqua came in with that new motherly look on her face, along with her arms crossed over her chest. "She needs to either shower, ear or rest." She stated simply.

"If you try to stop her, she'll just hit and curse at you." Riku retorted holding up his bandaged forearm.

Raven had taken his removing her from the piano as an act of war and pulled one of the blades of her fans out and sliced into his arm. He learned his lesson right away, though she did apologize later on when he checked on her again. She never stopped playing though.

"Well, whose gonna stop her?" Aqua asked looking around the room. "Kairi, Namine and I have tried everything we can think of to get her to stop. All we get is 'when I'm done' from her."

Ventus looked at Roxas and Sora, who both shook their heads. Terra looked uneasy about it all because Raven had changed since the whole ordeal, her words had become a new weapon. It had to be someone who wasn't going to care about what weapon she used.

"You all are pussies!" Vanitas barked while leaving the room.

He marched through the house, until he came to the sun porch that Raven and the piano occupied. Namine and Kairi were standing off to the side.

Namine was drawing Raven playing, while Kairi watched over the blonde's shoulder.

Vanitas was shocked to see what Raven was wearing. A black button up shirt that went down to her thighs, her legs were very much bare. Her hair was tied into a knot with a couple of pencils holding it together. She had gone through the hassle of changing her part back to her old one, causing the bangs to fall into her face, while most of them were tucked behind her ear.

"Alright, enough playing you need to shower!" Vanitas snapped walking over and pulling her off the bench.

"HEY!" She shouted starting to fight against him.

Before she could give anymore resistance, he managed to turn her over and throw her over his shoulder. From there she started to hit his lower back.

"You'll have to do more than that if you want down!" He said trying to put his hand behind her knees in order to keep her from falling. Her kicking prevented him from doing so.

"Vanitas, be nice." Kairi called from the sun porch.

He scoffed only to let out a cry of pain when Raven's fingers knotted in his hair and pulled.

"You are an asshole! Riku left me alone, why can't you?!" She snapped trying to kick him but barely got his thigh.

She finally got the bright idea to tangle her legs with his, taking them both down.

"Okay, you need to stop being such a bitch!" He called her out finally, rubbing his head.

She gave him the bird, "Make me!"

He narrowed his eyes at the young woman, his mind and gut knew what he wanted to do but they also knew how the girls and Riku would react if he did those ideas.

"HA! A twenty-three year old man can't stop me!" She laughed before trying to get up.

"You're only a couple years younger than me!" He retorted grabbing her ankle, tripping her.

Once she was on the floor again, he crawled on top her hands were pinned above her head. She tried to kick in between his legs but missed because he leaned forward in time, only to learn the top couple buttons were undone on the shirt.

"Have you no shame, woman!" He turned bright red looking away from the exposed cleavage.

"If I did, I'd be wearing pants!" She retorted lifting her head so that it meet with his.

Both cried out in pain as they held the spot that got rammed into the other's skull. This only paused the fight for a moment. Raven quickly used that time to try and crawl away, back towards the piano.

"Oh no, you don't!" He grabbed her leg again pulling her back.

"Mother fucker!" She tried to kick him in the face, but missed.

A different type of darkness filled his amber eyes, "I can be if you want."

Raven turned bright red at that statement, then quickly fixed the shirt since it started to rid up and moved away from him. "N-no thank you."

He got puzzled at her sudden change. She was basically wearing nothing yet sexual comments flipped on the shyness switch.

"What is going on out there?" Terra asked coming out of Riku's room.

Vanitas got up and quickly threw Raven over his shoulder, purposely putting his hand on the back of her bare thigh. "Just taking her to the bathroom for her shower." He gave a sly grin.

"Aqua!" Terra called as Vanitas darted off into the nearest bathroom.

Raven was still bright red when he set her down and turning his back toward her.

"I'm just waiting for Aqua. She'll make sure you shower, I just took the task of getting you off the piano." He explained finally.

Raven looked at him confused while her face cooled down.

"What you're doing is causing everyone to worry. I know a lot of stuff happened but if you really need to play the piano like that, tell me so I can make it happen in a way that Riku doesn't have to suffer as much."

A knock from the door kept Raven from replying to him, because he opened it and switched places with Aqua.

Her mind became numb as she thought about his words over and over again. Trying to grasp their meaning. She barely recalled taking her shower because she did everything in auto pilot.

What was going on with her?