I DO NOT OWN THE MUSIC OF EVANESCENCE. THE LINK TO THE SONG IS IN THE CHAPTER AND ON MY PROFILE.

(Natalee's POV)

I tossed and turned the whole night. The possibility of me not being able to go back home and staying in this castle until the Organization gets what they want, IF they get what they want saddened me. I know in the games they all die but with Anthony and I in the picture now anything could happen. The Kingdom Hearts world is cooler than Earth, but sometimes you get a little homesick. It's been a year and I haven't thought about home or even Anthony until today. I guess I really have gotten too caught up in this world. I guess I need to get my head back into reality and keep it away from this fantasy land. I looked at the clock and it was 5:30 am. I shut off the alarm and got ready. I stole a piece of toast from the kitchen when Xaldin wasn't looking and sat in the lounge until Saix came in. Saix greeted, "Ah, good morning Natalee. It's good to see you ready for your mission. We have a highly classified mission for you today. You need to follow Sora so we know where to send nobodies and members."

I nodded at him and opened a portal to Hollow Bastion. Right when I was about to step into the portal, Saix said, "By the way, we'll be watching your every move so don't try anything stupid."

I rolled my eyes and walked through the portal right next to Merlin's house. I peeked through the window to see Sora and the gang there talking. A few minutes later I see Leon get up and start to heading for the door. I quickly run to the side of the house and see Leon run by. I look to see the coast is clear and see that Leon left the door open. I crouch behind the door and hear Anthony say something about meeting Leon at the Bailey. Before I knew it, I see them running in the same direction Leon was. I dart after them but keep a good distance. They walk into the balcony where Leon was overlooking the castle. I stood behind the iron gates and listened to their conversation. Leon said, "Look at that."

Sora gasped at the mounds of heartless that surrounded the castle and Leon continued, "We want to restore Hollow Bastion to what it used to be. Who knows- maybe something even better. There's still a lot to do, but I'm sure we can handle everything- Except… for that… and that."

Leon pointed at two dusks heading towards the castle. Sora replied, "We'll handle 'em."

Leon sighed in relief, "Well, that's good to hear. So Sora- do you know what's going on, then?"

Sora said, "There's this guy, Pete, who's been going around plotting with the heartless. But he's not smart enough to tie his own shoes. The ones we need to worry about are the Nobodies."

Anthony said, "And those Organization 13 guys that are in charge, too!"

"You called?" Xemnas' voice echoed throughout the area.

I pulled my hood up and Sora and the gang ran out of the building we were in. "You're doing well." Saix's voice echoed throughout the area.

Sora shouted, "Who's that?!"

Xemnas' voice echoed, "This calls for a celebration…"

I made nobodies appear everywhere and everyone started fighting. Luckily, nobody noticed me yet. As soon as all the nobodies I sent out were defeated. Xemnas' voice echoed, "The Keyblade… a truly marvelous weapon. Were it only in more… capable hands..."

Everyone's laugh in the Organization echoed throughout the area. Anthony shouted, "Show yourselves!"

I walked behind the opening of the building, right behind everyone. I see Xemnas, with his hood up; appear on the building parallel to this one. He lifts his hands up and a portal opened up from below me. In a second, I'm standing right next to Xemnas with the rest of the remaining members. "Organization 13!" Goofy shouts.

Sora and the gang nod at each other and Anthony shouts, "Good. Now we can settle this!"

Xemnas replies, "What a shame… And here I thought we could be friends."

All the members started to laugh and they disappeared. I was the only one left. Anthony stepped forward and said, "Natalee?"

I turned my head from him and opened a portal back down behind the gate. I hear Anthony cry, "Natalee! Natalee! Where are you?! Why won't you come back?!"

I walked back to the opening of the building and crouched behind the gang. A member appeared and Donald said, "What's the big idea?!"

"Oopsy-daisy!" Xigbar replied.

Sora shouted, "Move!"

"Now do you think that's polite, shutting me down like that?" Xigbar replied.

"I said get outta the way!" Sora yelled.

Xigbar answered, "As if! You can talk all you want, but that won't change a thing."

Donald yelled, "Then we're gonna MAKE you move!"

"See, that would work- if I were just any old dude. 'Cept I'm not. I'm with the Organization. Nothing "any old" about me." Xigbar said.

Sora replied, "Ha! Tough talk for someone who stood on the sidelines while his nobody flunkies did the fighting!"

"Where the hell is Natalee?! Why is she avoiding us?!" Anthony yelled.

"Oh, dear. I think you got the wrong impression." Xigbar replied while shaking his index finger back and fourth.

Sora said, "You gonna cry?"

Xigbar said, "As if! Why don't I remind you how tough the crowd you're dealing with really is?"

"Remind me?" Sora asked.

Sora thought about it for a second and shook it off. Xigbar laughed, "That's RIGHT, he used to give me the same exact look."

Sora said, "I guess you think you can psych me by saying really random stuff!"

Xigbar said, "Gee… I just don't know. Be a good boy now!"

Xigbar disappeared into a portal and Anthony yelled, "Wait!"

Anthony ran after him but missed the portal. Everyone started to talk about things while trying to calm Anthony down. Sora pulled out his Hollow Bastion Restoration Committee card and read it. It chimed and everything got really bright. Sora unlocked a gate that would lead him to the next world, thus leading us on their journey on finding Riku, the King, and I. I followed them to many different worlds. I shot arrows towards the gang as little keepsakes for Anthony. Sometimes, I even shot them at some huge clues that they needed for their quests in different worlds. Whenever they stopped for the night, I went back "home" and got some sleep myself and then the next day I would find them in that world again and continue to follow. Everyday seemed like the same, sometimes it even got a little boring until one day. I walked into the lounge through a portal and told Saix what the gang was up to as usual. Normally at the end of the conversation he would dismiss me and I would get some sleep. This time he told me the superior wanted to see me in the meeting hall. I walked into the hall and music started playing ( watch?v=Hgdbt2WOFIk). Xemnas slowly walks behind me and sings in my ear, "Stay low. Soft, dark, and dreamless. Far beneath my nightmares and loneliness."

I noticed his voice was not his. It was with my voice mixed in with Amy Lee's (the lead singer of Evanescence) voice! He put his hands on my shoulders and continued, "I hate me, for breathing without you. I don't want to feel anymore for you."

I sung back but in the same voice, "Grieving for you, I'm not grieving for you."

Xemnas caressed my chin and came face to face with me and sung, "Nothing real love can't undo."

I turned away from him and sang, "And though I may have lost my way all paths lead straight to you."

"I long to be like you, lie cold on the ground like you," he paused and continued, "Halo. Blinding wall between us, melt away and leave us alone again. Humming, haunted somewhere out there. I believe our love can see us through in death."

He walked over to me and caressed my chin as he did before and came face to face with me again and sang, "I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you. There's room inside for two."

I slapped his hand away from my chin and sang back, "And I'm not grieving for you."

I started to head for the door and he sang, "I'm coming for you."

I stopped for a minute to process what he said. I shook it off and continued. He sang, "No matter what they told you."

He spun me around and grabbed me by my arms and sang, "You're not alone, I'll be right beside you forevermore."

He shook me on every phrase and sang, "I long to be like you, lie cold in the ground like you. There's room inside for two."

I tore away from him and sang, "And I'm not grieving for you."

He sang, "And as we lay in silent bliss I know you remember me. I long to be like, lie cold in the ground like you. There's room inside for two."

I sang back, "I'm not grieving for you."

I ran out the door and as I ran I heard him sing, "I'm coming for you."

I opened a portal to my room and ran into it. My mind was blank. I didn't know what to think. I ran into my bed and fell on it. I kicked my boots off and threw my coat across the room. I felt disgusted, I couldn't believe it. He trying to, what did this mean? What was he trying to get across to me? I was scared. I ran into the shower. When I got out I wiped the mirror from the moisture. I looked at myself; I looked like I had just seen a ghost. I put on my pjs and went to bed. I tossed and turned the whole entire night. I did not sleep at all. I looked at the clock and it was 6:00 am. Good, now I can get out of the castle. I opened a portal and stole a bagel from the kitchen. I almost got impaled in the process and checked out with Saix the minute he walked in the lounge. I opened a portal to Port Royal where I last left the gang. I snuck back onto the Black Pearl and continued to follow them on their journey. I followed them for the day and they stopped in Hollow Bastion again before the 1000 Heartless Challenge. I did my usual routine with no private talks with Xemnas. I did my usual routine the next morning and I walked into the lounge and found a note taped to the glass wall overlooking Kingdom Hearts. The note said there is a meeting. I opened a portal to the meeting room and sat in Axel's empty chair while waiting for the rest of the nobodies to turn up. The nobodies who were already there were Demyx, Xemnas, and Saix. Demyx was in the chair next to me and noticed I popped in. We started to talk for a couple minutes until the Xaldin, Xigbar, and Luxord finally showed up. Xemnas greeted, "Hello my fellow comrades. Today is the day we get more than a thousand hearts. We shall send more heartless after the Keyblade in order to get more hearts to build our Kingdom Hearts."

Xemnas gave everybody special jobs to do in Hollow Bastion. Xemnas looked at Demyx and me and said, "Now Natalee and Demyx, I'm going to pair you two up."

Saix asked, "Why?"

Xemnas replied, "For two reasons. The first reason is that Demyx screws up the missions we send him ninety percent of the time. The second reason is that I need Demyx to keep an eye on Natalee to make sure she doesn't try to reunite with Anthony during the chaos."

Demyx said, "I'm right here ya know!"

Saix ignored Demyx's comment and said, "He will fail because like you said, he fails ninety percent of the time. How about we send her with someone more reliable?"

Xemnas replied, "I want to test her. I want to see if we need to babysit her during a perfect time to sneak away. Then maybe she can join our ranks if she does well. Plus, I'm pretty sure Demyx will screw up any other assignment we give him. This is something easy, especially if Natalee can control herself."

Saix scowled at us and Xemnas said, "I need you two to fight the keyblade bearer and his companions to see how strong they are. Hopefully you two can win and bring Roxas back to us. You all have your missions to fulfill now go!"

Demyx and I nodded at each other and teleported to the castle gates and waited for the gang to show up. There was a huge earthquake all of a sudden that lasted for about five seconds. Demyx said, "What the heck?"

I replied, "They'll be here in about an hour."

Demyx whipped out his sitar and started strumming a few notes. I lay down on the blue tiled floor and looked at the sky. Demyx came over and stood over me haughtily and said, "You're not going to start thinking about Anthony on my watch. Nope, you're gonna sing quietly while I play my sitar."

I chuckled and he sat down next to me. We did some covers to pass some time until we heard Sora's voice. I opened a portal up to a tiny cliff overlooking the castle gate. I said, "I do not want to be seen and I don't want to make it look like we're spying on them either. You teleport down there the minute they get there. You fight them and I'll give you some support if need be. If anything goes wrong, I'll save you. I promise."

He held out his pinky and asked, "You pinky swear?"

I wrapped my pinky around his and replied, "I pinky swear."

He nodded and we saw them get down to the gates and Demyx teleported down there. The gang and Demyx talked for a few minutes. Then they started to fight. Normally, Demyx would've died in this battle, but I won't let that happen. He is tied with Axel for my favorite character. Anthony started beating the crap out of Demyx and I felt so bad for him. Demyx managed to teleport to the opposite side of the arena and happened to be close to me. I pulled up my hood and jumped down right next to him and handed him an elixir and said, "I promised I'd help you!"

The gang cocked their heads to the right and had a confused expression on their face. We nodded at each other and split. I started sending hordes of heartless and nobodies at them while Demyx shot pillars of water at the gang. I didn't even dare to pull out my bow and arrows, which would give me away. I noticed the gang was not attacking me as much and Demyx. They weren't a 100% sure if I was just a member or if I were me. We were doing very well until Sora managed to sneak up on Demyx and hit his spine. Demyx gasped in pain as he slid across the wet floor. Anthony was about to give him one last blow with thunder magic until I opened a portal and pushed Demyx out of the way. He slid into the portal while I took the huge shock. I fell on my back and my hood slid off. Anthony gasped and realized what he had done. I saw tears roll down his face and he was about to put me in his arms until I opened a portal below me and sank into darkness. I appeared in the lounge right next to Demyx. I grabbed two mega-elixirs from my pocket and gave one to Demyx. We drank them in silence until Demyx said, "So I was supposed to die back there, huh?"

I replied, "Yeah, but I didn't want you to die because you're too awesome to die."

We both laughed and got back up. I said, "Let's go back to Hollow Bastion to see how everyone else is doing."

I opened a portal and ended up right next to Xemnas who was overlooking the battlefield full of heartless. We saw the King and the gang come onto the battlefield. Xemnas smiled at them while the King said, "Now I remember! Xehanort! Ansem's apprentice! The leader of Organization 13 is Xehanort's Nobody!"

Anthony looked at me and shouted, "Natalee! I'm so sorry I hurt you back there! I didn't know it was you! I never would think you would fight alongside the Organization! Come here! No one is holding you back! Run while you can!"

Xemnas grabbed my shoulders. Demyx asked, "Can I go home now?"

Xemnas nodded and Demyx said, "Thanks for saving me back there. I really do owe you one. I'll be waiting for you back home."

Demyx left and Xemnas steered me towards the portal he created. We appeared on a cliff that overlooked the castle. We stared at the castle until we heard foot steps behind us. Then we heard a couple more and then we heard Donald's voice say, "Your Majesty!"

Mickey said, "Xehanort!"

Xemnas said, "How long has it been since I abandoned that name…"

Anthony said, "Give me back Natalee!"

I turned around. Xemnas looked at me and I looked back and fourth between Xemnas and Anthony. And then I closed my eyes. If I went with Anthony, Xemnas would kill him here and now. But if I didn't, Xemnas wouldn't even bother in wasting his time with him. I don't want Anthony to get killed. I would rather have his feelings hurt than him getting killed. So I took a step back and continued to look at the castle. Everyone gasped and Sora said, "Out with it Nobody! Where's Kairi? Where's Riku?"

"I know nothing of any Kairi. As for Riku," Xemnas turned around and continued, "Perhaps you should ask your King."

The gang became confused and Mickey grimaced. Mickey yelled, "Stop!"

Mickey started to run towards us and Xemnas opened a portal and shoved me in and he followed. Mickey managed to get in too. We were in darkness and Mickey shouted towards me, "What is wrong with you?! Why didn't you go with Anthony?! Don't you love him?!"

I replied, "I don't want him to get hurt."

Xemnas opened a portal and grabbed Mickey. He threw him into the portal and walked over to me. He grabbed my hand and helped me up. He opened another portal to take us back "home". We appeared in the lounge where everyone was waiting for us. Xemnas announced, "We captured many hearts today! Kingdom Hearts is almost complete! We shall celebrate tomorrow night with a ball at Hollow Bastion. Tomorrow will be free day too. Good night to you all."

Everyone cheered and Demyx came running up to me and gave me a giant teddy bear hug. Demyx cheered, "I'm so close to having a heart just like you!"

Demyx and I were about to leave to go to our rooms until Xemnas grabbed my shoulder and said, "I need to talk to you once everyone has gone."

He looked at Demyx and Demyx waved bye and left. Everyone eventually left until it was just Xemnas and me all alone in the lounge. We were looking at Kingdom Hearts until Xemnas walked over to the lounge door and locked it. Music started to play and he sang in the same voice he did the other day ( watch?v=OvqhbsJgzsE), "Stoplight lock the door, don't look back."

I still faced Kingdom Hearts and he unzipped my coat as he sang, "Undress in the dark."

It fell to the ground and I was in my black spaghetti strap shirt, black pants, and black boots. I sang back in the same voice, "And hide from you, all of you. You'll never know the way your words have haunted me. I can't believe you'd ask these things of me."

He sang back, "You don't know me."

He grabbed me and pulled me to face him and he sang, "You belong to me my Snow White Queen. There's nowhere to run so let's just get it over. Soon I'll know you'll see, you're just like me. Don't scream anymore my love cause all I want is you."

Xemnas disappeared and I ran behind the couch. Xemnas' voice echoed as he sang, "Wake up in a dream, frozen fear."

I tried to scream, but I couldn't. I couldn't let a scream out, I was so scared. I sang back, "All your hands on me. I can't scream, I can't scream."

I heard him sit on the couch that I was hiding behind. If the couch wasn't there, we would have been back to back. He sang, "I can't escape the twisted way you think of me. I feel you in my dreams and I don't sleep."

He was in my face again and sang, "I don't sleep!"

He pulled off my boots as I scrambled in fear and he sang, "You belong to me, my snow white queen. There's nowhere to run so let's just get it over. Soon I'll know you'll see, you're just like me. Don't scream anymore my love cause all I want is you."

I stood up and looked around but he disappeared again. And then he was back to back with me and he sang, "I can't save your live, though nothing I bleed for is more tormenting."

I grabbed my head and fell onto my knees and sang, "I'm losing my mind and you just stand there and stare as my world divides."

He sat on top of me and sang, "You belong to me, my snow white queen. There's nowhere to run so let's just get it over. Soon I'll know you'll see, you're just like me. Don't scream anymore my love cause all I want is you."

He pulled off my clothes piece by piece as I started crying. He continued to sing, "All I want is you, all I want is you, all I want is you."