Kingdom Hearts does not belong to me, though that should be obviously. How's your summer break going? I'm sorry I have been away from this story but things kept coming up, I lost inspiration, had writer's block, yada yada yada. Anyway, if you want, I'll tell you exactly WHY I haven't updated in a while. This next chapter was supposed to present the world of Neverland. I'm sorry if you were hoping for this Disney world but alas, I could not find the inspiration to finish it. I must have written it about three times in the span of two months but I just couldn't. So while I worked on that I was developing the plot of this chapter which in the end eventually replaced the Neverland chapter. I won't spoil anything that will be in this chapter, nor will I spoil what would have been in the Neverland chapter, assuming I ever put that chapter in some later part. Anyway, enough rambling. Warning: This chapter contains blood. Maybe a lot, maybe a little. This chapter takes on a far more serious tone. If it disturbs you…some of this fic is just NOT for you! Anyway, let's get into this!

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Twin Worlds

Sight. That's what Disney called my special ability of seeing into the past, future…and pretty much everything. Domino said he had never heard of it. After that day—the day we had learned about the mysterious Society of the Keyhole—we had waited a couple of days until traveling to a new world. We hadn't heard from people like Six or Dante, so either they had found Sanctuary and stayed there, or they were still looking. In the meantime I went out onto the courtyard of the Mysterious Castle and practiced using magic. I greatly improved my Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder abilities. I think all of them were level two spells now.

"I have received word from Merlin," came Disney's voice. I looked up at him from where I stood. He was on the steps to the tower. "I think the two of you need to hear this." Domino quickly jumped to my side. Rika was inside napping while Asher…well who knows where that boy had run off to. "The crystalized Keyhole belonging to the world of Utopia is no longer within that world. Any chance we had at using that specific Keyhole is gone now."

"What?" Domino shouted immediately. "How could it just vanish like that!?" Disney shook his head. He must have known. He, his brother, Destati, and a select few others could foresee all of destiny. He had to have known of what happened to it and when it happened.

A bright white portal appeared high in the sky above our heads. Landing only feet from us Asher, who must have exited through that portal. The portal in the sky vanished. I gave him a puzzled look as if to ask where he had been. Asher responded with, "I had to check in with Lucina." That's all he said. I wonder what happened while he was gone.

"Hello, Kane," a female voice said. Kane recognized it. He backed up two feet and a bright light shone directly in front of him where he had been standing at seconds before. The light diminished and standing there was the mysterious girl from a few times before. Her face was still covered with those black bandages. Instead of saying something, I just waved. "It is almost time for my identity to be revealed." Her left eye sparkled with golden light. I was almost mesmerized. She put her hand on one loose bandage. She looked like she was getting ready to strip herself of those bandages. But something stopped herself.

The ground rumbled.

It was so subtle that I could barely feel it, but Disney, Domino, and the mystery girl instantly went on alert. Every few seconds the ground shook some more. I looked up to the tower to see that even it was shaking. And then an eruption of noise followed.

A powerful blast of noise nearly knocked Asher and I to the ground. I covered my ears. It was earsplitting, as if you were sitting next to an atomic bomb as it went off, only, well, you're not dying because obviously you'd be dead right away but if you could still hear it that would probably mean that you're not dead…well, you get the picture. My gaze drifted away from the tower and to the sky. A bright star—perhaps the closest one to this tiny world—exploded in a flurry of light and darkness.

It looked like the light and darkness that once made up that world were having a war in the sky, swirling around one another and fighting as it sent tremors through the air and noise was heard from all directions. The light and darkness warring in the sky now looked like a huge orb of black and white, swirling endlessly in the sky. The orb grew and grew, taking only a few surrounding stars into its chaos.

"What the hell?" Domino yelled out.

"What's happening?" Asher said, slamming his face into the ground and covering his ears, trying to escape the noise.

"The world's been destroyed," the mysterious girl in an ominous voice. "The light and darkness of that world were fighting to take control. If they keep fighting like that for a long time, the world is destroyed under the immense pressure the war of light and darkness brings."

"So you're saying if the light and darkness stay out of perfect harmony, and they war over which one is the best, then the world is destroyed?" I asked. The girl nodded. Just a nod. But it was just enough to make something click into my mind. If Domino wants the darkness to be supreme and superior to light…what if the light fights back just as hard? What would that mean for the worlds? Would everyone be in danger?

Domino didn't seem concerned with that. He didn't even seem to care. He just stared up at the sky, not saying a word. I felt a tug at my heart. A quick thought hit me—were we too close? Were we going to die? What was going to happen? Could we get out of this? Okay, maybe a quick thousand thoughts rushed through my mind. And then in a quick flash, the chaos happening in the sky that was growing ever larger just…vanished. Not even a millisecond later, I felt myself rising off of the ground. I was encased in light. Had it gotten to us?

That wasn't possible. I looked down and saw each of my friends standing on the ground below me. it was only taking me. The light around me vanished. All was dark. I thought hit me—as if I didn't have enough terrible thoughts already—was I dead? Could I actually have died? This isn't what destiny had intended. I was supposed to…fight in some sort of war. I was dead. I had to be now. It dawned on me. How long was I in this expanse of blackness? I thought of my home. Of Utopia. I wanted to be there. I wanted to be with Domino, sitting at the shore of the Lake of Destiny one last time. I wanted to taste Tara's fried chicken. I wanted to be attacked by Kale and Ty daily as part of their "Keyblade practice" with their toy swords. I wanted to be scolded by Ibiki—the one I grew up with, not whatever monster he had become. I wanted Utopia.

And I got it. It took my eyes time to readjust, but I could see things now. The sky was dark. Clouds covered the sky so I couldn't see the stars above. The smell was unpleasant. Smog covered the world around me. But one thing was certain. I was in Utopia. My brain went into overdrive. I tried to think of multiple theories, of possibilities, or anything that could tell me how I got here. My first thought after that was to yell out "DESTATI?!" I mean, I had wished to be here once before and Destati brought me here in my mind. I could've been here for another test. But Destati never responded.

A cat ran passed my leg. Its fur was filthy and it ran into the side of a building as it ran away from something. Where was I standing? I was standing on the edge of the big bridge. Or what was left of it. There was only half of the bridge left. At the halfway point of the bridge, it looked to have been broken in half. The edge of it was splintered and broken up. This was the edge I was standing on. One wrong move and I would have plummeted many feet into the dark ocean below. I had to do a double take. Dark ocean? The Great Lake below was no longer its crystal clear color. It looked black.

I screamed. I'll admit it. I screamed like a little girl. I fell backwards and onto my butt. This bridge and that lake…I had known them since I was born. Now they looked like…this. It wasn't even that bad seeing the entire city flooded, but now it was flooded and looked completely…depressing. Sad.

"K-Kane, are you ready?" I heard a familiar voice say. I quickly stood up and looked behind me. Standing on the beginning of the bridge was…Domino.

"Domino?" I asked, rushing to him. Whatever I did to make him flinch, I didn't know. That's right. The brave Domino jumped backwards at the sight of me running towards him. "What's wrong?" I held a hand out for him to take as he had almost fallen over, but he let himself fall down with a thud. "Domino?"

"I asked…" Domino stood up to his feet and backed a few feet away from me. "Are…you ready?" I kept silent. I had no idea of what he was asking of me. I shrugged. "Just take it and get it over with!"

"Take what!?" I asked. My outburst made him jump again, but this time he quickly recovered and looked me square in the eye. He then looked to my hair. Why was he interested in my hair? "Something wrong? What's going on?"

"You're not him," Domino said, looking as if a huge weight was lifted off of his shoulders. "You're not him…" He reached forward and grabbed a strand of my silver hair, and then released it. He repeated those same three words about six times. What did he mean? I'm not who? "You're not—"

"Yes, we established this already," I said, trying to stay calm. "Just tell me what's going on here, Domino. What… happened here?"

"I…I know w-what happened h-here, y-yes…" Domino said shyly. He did not look alright at all. Bags hung under his eyes, his long purple hair seemed even longer and messier, his face was pale, and his silver eyes were just…dull. "Y-you happened…I mean…no, not y-you…" He fell to his knees and wept. He was crying?

"Did I…do something wrong?" I asked him.

"No!" Domino yelled out…not out of anger, but almost out of fear. "I'll tell you…" His face had become more normal and less pale than before. He was steadily relaxing. "We've been reading about what would happen…in destiny, you see. What could've happened yesterday, three weeks from now, in a decade…today. The books He gave us spoke of a hero…f-from another dimension. Another…here. Does that make sense?"

"Not really," I told him. "Another dimension? Like…an alternate universe? Like the ones they have in those movies?"

"You yourself are from another universe…another dimension," Domino said in a shaky voice. "I thought…you were…well, you…but you're not you…I mean, you are you but…not the you I know…" He slapped himself hard across the face and blurted out, "I'm sorry, Kane! Um…as you probably have figured out, I'm not the Domino you know. We're in a completely different, uh, flipside of the Utopia you live on. I thought you were the Kane of this Utopia but…you couldn't possibly be. You seem nice…and your hair. My Kane has black hair."

So…if I got all of this straight, not only did they have more than a million worlds out there, but each of those worlds probably had multiple…realities…to them? It was a confusing concept.

"I have to take you to my house," Domino said, quickly turning away from me and pointing away from the bridge to where his house would normally be at. "Everyone is over there. We'll explain the situation." Suddenly he was sounding way more serious than the Domino I know and love. He got frightened easily but was serious when he felt he was safe. He grabbed my hand and yanked me, rushing me off of the bridge, passing the Kamikaze Home.

I stopped dead in my tracks, looking at the Home. It wasn't there. The place I had known for so long was no longer there. I looked to Domino. He quickly said, "The Kamikaze Home…was destroyed a year ago. Along with that bridge." He pointed back to the bridge.

"What happened to them?" I asked, trying to not shed a tear at the sight of home being gone.

"You, uh, destroyed them," Domino said. Domino must've seen my widening eyes so he quickly continued with, "The uh, this world's version…of you. He…destroyed…a lot of the, uh, places in Utopia he hated. I'm sorry. I'll leave Tara to explain everything for you."

"Tara!?" I shouted, stopping right in front of Domino's house before he could even get into the doorway. Tara was alive in this world? I then noticed Domino's house. It wasn't a house. It was an old, wooden shack with no windows and a single door that didn't even seem to be attached to its hinges. In fact, there were no hinges. Domino opened the door by grabbing it, lifting it into the air, and taking it away from the opening in the wall. I took that as my cue to walk in. Domino came in after me and closed the door by closing off the big gaping hole in the wall. What I saw next made me say, "Holy Hades."

Sitting against the very back wall of the shack were the unmistakable faces of Kale Kamikaze and Ty Skye. But they were almost completely bald. Kale had little stubs of pink hair sticking out of his scalp. A single pink bang hung in his eye. It looked weird and slightly depressing. Completely bald except for a few tiny stubs and one long bang. Ty was completely bald. Not a single stub of hair stuck out on his head. Their eyes looked like they hadn't closed in ages. Kale and Ty were wearing nothing but rags. Dirt covered their arms and legs, hands and bare feet, and even their faces. They looked to have lead a rough life.

Who I saw next made me shed a tear. She was dead in my world. Domino had accidentally killed her. Yet here she was. Tara. She wore a white t-shirt that was a tad dirty along with short blue jeans and leather boots. Dirt was smudged on her face. Her hair…was shorter than my own. Whereas I had shoulder-length hair, her hair barely went below her ears. Her eyes held a serious gaze.

When I stepped into the only room this shack had, Kale and Ty had begun to cower in the corner of the room. They were frightened.

Tara immediately went into an attack mode. She gripped a knife from a holster on her thigh. She immediately drew the knife and threw it at me. I didn't have time to think. I was too caught up in the moment of seeing old faces. But Domino intercepted it. For a guy who seemed timid and scared before, he certain jumped into action pretty quickly. His arm extended so his hand was in front of my face, and with that hand he grabbed the knife. The knife was so close to my face that the tip of the point was poking my nose.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Starr?" Tara yelled at Domino. Her voice seemed extremely serious and sounded a bit deeper than I had last heard it. And…I don't recall her even knowing Domino's last name. "Wait…" She sized me up before saying, "His hair's silver. This one isn't our Kane." She looked into my eyes and said, "My sincerest apologies. Thank you, Domino, for being on red alert."

"Y-yes ma'am," Domino said, sounding almost afraid of her, and he walked to the corner of the room and comforting the two boys who didn't dare say a word. "E-explain everything to h-him, Tara."

"Of course," Tara said, stepping towards me in confident strides. "You met Domino so I can assume he already blurted out everything even though we already established I'd be the one to explain things to people." She snapped a look to Domino who nearly jumped out of his skin at that comment. "Well, he must have told you the gist of things. This world is another version, another side, of your own. Anyone who was born and raised or who has ever lived in your Utopia has another version of his or herself in this one. Including you, Kane. Most of the times, no two versions of the same person are exactly alike. You seem like a good kid. Not threatening at all." She said that with a bit of sass to her voice. "The version of you in this world is dangerous. He's downright evil. He's caused all of this carnage. He flooded this town and killed thousands. The group you see before you would be considered a large percentage of the people left on Utopia."

That part of the story made me completely speechless. In this version of reality, I was the one to flood Utopia? Not Domino? And bigger still…I was evil? From the looks of things, I caused a lot of mayhem here. I was…evil. No. I had to snap out of it. I wasn't evil. My…uh…alternate universe counterpart was. How many people were still alive if this was a large percentage?

"Domino's going to be meeting with the evil Kane," Tara continued. "It's at that point we'll strike. We have to try all we got to save this world."

"Why is Domino meeting with him?" I asked.

"He wants this," Domino said, and Starlight appeared in his hand. So in this version of Utopia, he owned a Keyblade as well. Good to know. "There's a way to perform an…inheritance ceremony on someone…to give them the ability to wield a Keyblade. But the power awakens at random times…who knows when someone would get that power?"

"So Domino has to allow the Kane of this world to drink his blood," Tara finished. "Drinking the blood of a Keyblade wielder, as odd as it sounds, completely gets rid of his ability to own a Keyblade himself. Instead the power is transferred to Kane, giving him the Keyblade, Starlight, as well. Kane is finally at full power. To be complete he needs a Keyblade of his own. Who knows what he'll do…"

"I see," I told her. I put my hands on her shoulders. She almost jumped from the sudden contact. She hadn't expected this move. "I'd love to help in any way I can." Tara seemed to drop her serious act. She even smiled a bit. Her eyes seemed to twinkle. "Where I come from, we were close friends. I'd help you out with anything, Tara."

Tara closed her eyes and thought for a moment, and then opened them again. "You said were…you said 'were close friends'. Am I to assume that I'm dead in your world now?" I hadn't even realized I said were. And I pay a lot of attention to detail. I nodded. She nodded back. And then she leaned upwards and placed a soft kiss upon my lips. She stood up straight again. I had no idea of what to think about what had just happened. She just smiled, but her face quickly hardened.

Domino quickly jumped up from where he sat with the kids. He and Tara were on alert. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"Can't you feel it?" Tara asked. "It's like we can feel the temperature drop every time…he's here." She shot a quick look to Domino. "Don't be afraid, Domino. Go and meet up with the other Kane. Our Kane. I'll stay back here and inspect the meeting from afar. And you—" She looked back to me as if completely ignoring the fact that she had kissed me a minute ago. "—follow Domino but don't get too close. I want you to use your eyes and ears to check in on their meeting. You can find out about what kind of guy your counterpart is."

My eyes and ears? She must've meant my special powers of Sight and how I can hear things so well. I shook Tara's hand and ran after Domino towards the door. He kicked it open. The two of us dashed out of his shack. He ran straight for the bridge. I lingered behind, not wanting to be seen. I stayed behind a building that stood next to where the Kamikaze Home should have been. I activated my Sight.

I don't know how, but from where I was, I could now see Domino running onto the bridge. He ran to the halfway point, where it seemed like the entire other half of the bridge was gone. Standing at the very edge, his toes hanging off of the splintered edge of the bridge, was who I could guess was…the me of this world. He had black hair that was slightly longer than the hair I had now. In fact, his hair seemed even darker than mine when I still had black hair.

The boy turned towards Domino who stood shaking in his presence. He wore a black shirt with a dark gray jacket along with black jean pants and dark shoes. Nothing I would normally wear; it was too dark. His hair was a tad messy. His eyes radiated with gold energy. They seemed more…sinister…than my own.

(For the sake of less confusion for anybody reading this journal, I will call him Kane. Since, well, I'm writing this, I never normally write MY name down so it shouldn't be confusing if I actually write Kane as his name.)

Kane smirked. He stared directly into Domino's eyes which caused him to back away slightly. "What's the matter?" Kane said in a sinister voice. His voice was like mine…but it was as if I could feel the darkness echoing off of his voice. It was terrifying. At the sound of his voice Domino backed away three more steps. Kane chuckled. "Don't go chickening out now, my precious Domino. We had a deal and I'll make sure you keep your end of the bargain."

Domino reached in his pocket and took out a knife. He held it to his wrist and said, "K-Kane…why does it have to be like this? There once was a time that we were friends. W-why aren't we f-friends a-anymore?" Before Domino could say any more, Kane reached his arm out and clutched Domino's throat with his fingers. I could hear his fingers as they pressed against Domino's skin. It was a sickening sound. "O-o-okay!" Domino cried out, and Kane released the poor boy.

"No more questions, please," Kane said, licking his lips. I half expected his tongue to be forked. Domino stared at the silver knife barely touching his skin. "Do you need a demonstration?" He yanked the knife from Domino's hand and slit a huge cut going up his forearm. Blood streamed down, and not even a second later the wound shut on its own. I hadn't even heard Kane say a spell or even try to conjure a spell. How strong was this version of me!? Domino refused to say or do anything. "What? You need help? Fine." He gripped Domino's arm and cut into it. As soon as the wound was created, Kane threw the knife to the ground. This was sick to watch…how could anyone be so evil like this?

Kane raised Domino's arm up to his lips. It looked like…he was ready to suck the blood right out of him, like a vampire. Domino would have been drained of a little blood if not for the flying knife that cut through the air at Kane's face. Kane immediately pushed Domino out of the way, sending him flying from the bridge to the building I hid behind. He slammed into the brick wall, almost denting it. The knife stopped in midair in front of Kane's face, then turned around and shot in the opposite direction.

I heard a scream. I saw someone else on the bridge. Tara. She had thrown the knife, but Kane had made the knife retaliate. The knife was planted firmly in her shoulder, blood staining her clothing. After that one scream she showed no emotion. She gripped the knife and yanked it out of her shoulder. Domino found me behind the building. I put a hand over his bloody wound and sealed the cut.

"I trusted you, Domino!" Kane shouted over to Domino. "I would have just obtained your Keyblade and nobody would have gotten hurt." Kane laughed out loud. "Just kidding! As soon as I would have gotten the damn Keyblade I would've stabbed you right in your puny heart and killed you right then and there. But I mean, come on. Getting your girlfriend to try and help you? Do you want more people to die?" This guy was seriously sadistic.

I tried to remain hidden behind the corner of the building while Domino stood facing Kane from in front of the building. Tara was at the beginning of the bridge facing down Kane.

"A puny little girl with no backup?" Kane asked. "Pathetic. Worthless." With the flick of his wrist, Tara was sent magically flying over the left side of the bridge. Before she could fall down she grabbed onto the side for dear life. "Great reaction. Looks like you aren't completely suicidal after all."

"Tara!" I instinctively yelled. I thought she would fall soon. I felt the need to yell. But Kane looked directly at where I was hiding as if he saw through walls. And with my luck, he could see through walls and that he knew I was here the entire time. I figured I couldn't stay hiding any longer. I stepped out from my hiding place. Together Domino and I walked to the beginning of the bridge.

"Well, would you look at this?" Kane smiled, licking his lips again. While his attention was focused on me, Domino rushed to the side and helped Tara back onto the bridge. "You're me. You know, I've been waiting for you to arrive for years. Though I guess you aren't as smart in your world so you probably had no idea of my existence before today. Correct?" I clenched my teeth. This guy was really screwed up. "Oh yeah, I know all there is to know about you and where you come from. You only just discovered your powers. I've been working on perfecting mine for over three years."

Three years? More than that even? How strong was he!?

"What?" Kane asked, hands on his hips. "Speechless? You can't say it's like looking in a mirror. Our hair's different." He emphasized this with the tug of a strand of his hair. He smiled wickedly. "Plus, I look a lot cooler than you. I mean, whoever saw a guy with silver hair before? Silver hair? Golden eyes? Not a good combination." A flame appeared in the palms of his hands. "I know a lot more than you will ever know. I've gotten more practice." He extended both hands towards the sky and columns of flames rose from his hands and shot to the sky, disappearing beyond the clouds. "You see, in your world, you spent most of your time simply traveling the worlds, finding your magical abilities along the way. I, however, started earlier and stayed home until I mastered EVERYTHING. And with a Keyblade I will achieve…everything."

He bent his neck backwards so his face would be facing the sky. He opened his mouth and let out a maniacal laugh…and black lightning shot from his open mouth and to the sky. As soon as the lightning reached the sky it began raining, lightning striking down on all corners of Utopia. Black water spouts rose up from the waters below, extending upwards until they reached the dark sky above. The entire world began to shake.

"Domino, I need your blood," Kane said, his smile fading into a menacing scowl. "I can then obtain your Keyblade and this world will finally be destroyed. Then it'll only be a matter of time before I begin my reign on each and every other world out there! I am the Prince of Darkness!" He jerked a hand forward and immediately the same wound he caused on Domino earlier had opened up as if I had never Cured it at all. Kane's mouth opened and Domino's blood shot from the wound and into Kane's mouth. I was stunned. I had never, ever seen anything like this.

I quickly Cured his arm again. Hopefully some of his blood regenerated as well.

Kane held out a hand and out of pure darkness came Starlight. Domino flicked his wrist a few times. Starlight never appeared. Then it was true…Domino—well, of this world—no longer owned the Keyblade known as Starlight.

"Prince of Darkness? Really?" I asked, trying to keep my cool. It wasn't working that well. "You sound like some kinda stereotypical villain, out to destroy all worlds."

"Destroy all worlds?" Kane asked, pointing Starlight menacingly at me. "I want to conquer all worlds! This world holds no more meaning to me. You, the version of me from another world, will die along with everyone else here. Thank you, Domino, for the awesome Keyblade."

"You're a monster, Kane," Tara yelled at the evil version of me in front of us. "We grew up under the same roof…and you destroyed the place. Why? Did Ibiki's death mean nothing to you?" Ibiki was dead in this world?

"You know as well as I that he had a plan to kill Domino to ensure I never obtained this," Kane said while waving Starlight around. "The man had to die. And man was it fun. His heart didn't stand a chance."

"Stop talking," I snapped at him. I raised a hand and a ball of fire shot from it and zoomed in on Kane. But it vanished before it made contact. "Is there anything that could hurt you?"

"Your voice," Kane shot back with a smirk. "Ooh, what's this?" He took his attention away from us to look back at Domino's shack. Standing outside of the doorway were Kale and Ty. They must have gotten out to see what was going on. This was the worst possible time to do that. "Let's see…I could kill them now or wait for the destruction of this world to take them away. I vote for…now." A blast of black lightning shot from the clouds above Kane and straight towards the two little kids who were too scared to move.

"Destati, you know what to do!" Tara yelled out and pointed her hand at the two kids. Destati!? Immediately after she said that, a white beam of light shot from her fingertips and rocketed towards Kale and Ty. The glowing light found its way to the two kids and surrounded them, protecting them. In a flash Kale, Ty, and the light that was Destati had vanished. Black lightning slammed into the wooden shack, shattering it and sending a shower of wooden splinters into the air. I looked at Tara in shock. "Destati has been using my body as a host. Good thing; I was able to save them just in time." She was right. I was finding it strange she left the two kids by themselves, but she had prepared for that. Smart girl.

"You bitch," Kane snarled. "You realize I could stop the flow of blood in your system. It'd kill you pretty quickly." Tara hesitated before attacking. "Or should I stop the air from entering your lungs? Maybe…" With the flick of his wrist, Tara's leg twisted and she fell to the ground. I thought I heard something in there crack. "Broken leg." He snapped his fingers. Tara's arm twisted in a way it shouldn't. "Broken arm." He closed his eyes and smirked evilly. "And now…" At the bow of his head Tara's neck twisted. She slammed the back of her head on the ground. "Ding dong, the bitch is dead."

"Tara!" both Domino and I shouted.

"But wait, there's more!" Kane said with a laugh, and instantly Tara began standing up. Her leg and arm and neck seemed fine now. Had she been…? "Oh, yeah, the fifth level spell, Curaza. Strong enough to bring someone back to life."

"What—?" Domino rushed to Tara and wrapped his arms around her. Domino of this world really does care about Tara.

"Quit playing games," I told my evil counterpart. This guy was pissing me off more and more. He toyed with life and death as if they were, well, toys.

"But games are fun," Kane said. "I suppose we can settle this in a fight to the death. If I win, and kill you, this world dies and each and every other world is mine to control. An army of darkness will reign under the name of Kane Carter, the true prince of pure darkness! If you win and I die…well, I can't die…then we'll see how this goes."

"Don't fall for Kane's mind games, uh, Kane," Tara told me in a shaky voice. She pushed herself away from Domino and stepped up to me, putting a hand on my shoulder. "I'll call upon the Goddess of Heart once again and have her whisk us away from this world. We'll be saved. She'll send you back to your world. While you go home, we'll prepare for when he builds up his dark army. You cannot be involved any longer."

"I have to help," I told her. "He's me. I should be the one to face him."

"That's just it!" Tara shouted forcefully at me. "He's not you! The two of you are polar opposites. He'll ether destroy you, or the two of you will be stuck in an infinite match without a winner. I'm not asking you to leave. I'm telling you. Get out of here and be the savior of your world, not ours." Suddenly her eyes began glowing white. "Other Kane, stay back. Domino, make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." A glowing Keyblade of Light appeared in her left hand. "Destati and I will finish this."

Without another word Tara leapt into the air at a surprising momentum. She darted straight for Kane. She swung her Keyblade at Kane, but it was simply deflected by some sort of barrier around him. She kept slamming the bright blade against the barrier, attempting to break it. While she did this, Kane just laughed. He didn't even attack her. He just stood there laughing. I was disgusted. My heart began beating fast and my breaths became heavy. This guy was a true monster. It freaked me out…how he looked somewhat liked me and yet he was capable of this much carnage.

I tried to step forward to do something but Domino held his arm out in front of me to keep me from going near the battle. It was no use. Whatever Tara ordered, Domino had to follow through. So it looked like I wasn't going to be joining the battle.

Tara landed on the ground feet away from Kane. She pointed her Keyblade of light at him and a beam of pure light shot at Kane, slamming into the barrier around him and deflecting upwards, the light blasting into the sky. Where the light disappeared beyond the sky, the clouds began to disperse, and a little light shone through. She slammed her Keyblade into the barrier once more…and it shattered. No sooner than that and Kane shot his arm out and grabbed hold of Tara's Keyblade of light. The Keyblade vanished in a flurry of light.

Tara gasped and jumped backwards. Kane was too strong. Kane let out a bellow of laughter. He looked to me and said, "If you give in to the darkness, you can be as strong as I. Let your hatred of others fester and boil inside of you. Turn every other emotion into rage. You won't feel sadness from ending a pathetic world like this. Together, we'll be unstoppable. What do you say? You and I are a lot more alike than you might think." He held a hand out for me to grab. I didn't take it.

Instead something happened. Something big. I had never wanted to witness something like this, but I did. While Kane's attention was focused completely on me, Domino rushed forwards without either of us even noticing. I hadn't noticed until he was directly in front of Kane. He wrapped his arms around the other version of me and slammed into him, pushing him backwards. And just like that, the two went soaring over the cracked edge of the bridge. Tara immediately rushed to the edge to look down. I did the same. I saw Domino restricting Kane. The two were flailing around as the fell through the air to the water below. And the two hit the water, sinking below the surface.

"Domino…" Tara cried out, falling to her knees. "If…Domino can keep restricting Kane like that…Kane will drown and die. This world will be saved. But Domino…" She wiped a tear from her eye. "Domino wouldn't want me to cry. He'd want me to press on like I always do."

"I'm sorry…" I said, speechless. I felt myself tearing up. Even if that Domino hadn't been the one I grew up with…it was still Domino. Knowing that he was dying this very second scared me. It made me sad. "I'm sorry I couldn't do more…"

"Don't be sorry," Tara said, putting a comforting hand on my shoulder. I felt a surge of light rush through me that warmed me to my very core. I had felt this feeling before. "I did not want to put you in harm's way. You need to stay alive, for your world's sake."

"That is quite true," a voice came from behind us. I turned around to see none other than Walt Disney. He looked the exact same but I knew he was this reality's interpretation of him. "Kane, I have a few things for you before you depart this world." He held a hand towards me, and in it was an old looking scroll. On it in bold letters was the Roman numeral for four. It had to be the fourth Disney Report. I took it and pocketed it. "Take this as well." Appearing out of thin air in between us was a crystal Keyhole. "Every world, including ones from the other dimensions, has a crystal like this. Take it." I placed a hand on the smooth surface of the Keyhole and it vanished into light. It would be able to go with me back to my reality.

"I guess you're going back to your world then," Tara said, standing up straight and throwing her arms around me. "I hope for the best, Kane. Be a savior to the worlds. Do everything the monster down there is not capable of." She kissed my cheek, sending a warm pulse into my soul.

I nodded, returning the hug. I released her as Disney held a hand out before him. A portal of light appeared in between me and him. I was about to step through when I heard a yell of frustration. The evil version of me shot straight out of the water and rose above the bridge, soon darting towards me and the portal. So I rushed into the light. In a flash of light I had vanished from that world. I couldn't see anything.

When my vision returned, I was being embraced by Domino. My Domino. He was almost at the point of sobbing into my shoulder. I smiled and said, "Domino, I'm alright."

"I told you he'd come back," said the voice of Rika, who sat on the steps of the Mysterious Tower with a grin on her face. "That kid, he's a fighter, I'll give him that. He gets himself outta trouble." I smiled wider at Rika's compliment. "So tell us, Kane, where in the worlds did you go?"

Domino finally released me. Asher stood next to me and put a hand on my shoulder as he grinned at me. Disney stood at the edge of the courtyard looking up at the stars with his hands folded behind his back. I explained to them everything that happened. They all listened intently on everything I had to say, fascinated about the possibilities of more than a thousand versions of each and every world out there. When I finished I took out the scroll from my pocket and unrolled it, staring at the scripture that was on the page.

Disney Report, IV

Each world out there developed hearts of their own. They were like living, breathing creatures which need a heart to survive. Their hearts were known as "Keyholes". The dark denizens found their way out of the Realm of Darkness, as my brother had called it. They attacked the many worlds out there. They tried to sink each world into the depths of darkness. Instead of worrying, my brother was fascinated. He loved how the dark denizens, which we dubbed the "Heartless", acted on instinct. The Heartless came after our world again. Our lonely Kingdom was attacked.

It took all of the power I could muster, but I created a seal on our world. A seal that would keep any and all beings from entering our sacred place. But if a problem were to ever arise in which we would need to unlock the door, I created the necessary locks. The Crystal Keyholes, which I had Destati place in secret locations within each and every world.

Seven of these Keyholes, when united, could unlock the door to our world. But it could do much more. Those Keyholes would be the keys to unlock great power, or great destruction. It all depends on who uses them. I have to make sure none of the Crystal Keyholes never make it into the hands of someone foul.

Disney had stood by me as I read it aloud. He took the scroll, rolled it up, and placed it in his pocket. Out of thin air in front of me appeared the glowing form of the crystalized Keyhole, which Disney soon took into his hands. The crystal vanished into light.

Disney cleared his throat and said, "We have now recovered five of the Crystal Keyholes and four of the reports I have written. We are getting ever closer to unlocking the door to my world."

There was one person I had forgotten was even there. Her feet crunched against the grassy ground as she approached me. Domino and Disney backed away from me. The mysterious girl's eye was glowing. She wrapped her fingers around a loose thread in the black mask she had around her head. And she unraveled them. As she removed the bandages white mist seemed to escape from underneath, almost like dust, as if she had never taken this off in a long time.

The black bandages fell to the ground. I caught my first glimpse at a woman that looked very much like a younger version of my mother. Silver hair cascaded down her shoulders, a few bangs hanging in the middle of her forehead. Her other eye was finally revealed. It wasn't golden. It was a light gray. Her pupil stayed focused in one area. She was blind in that eye. She smiled at me. I couldn't help but to smile back.

"I would say it's been a while since we saw each other, but you never even knew of my existence," she said in a soft voice. "Mother thought it would be better that way. I'm Samuel's younger sister. And your twin. My name—" She held a hand over her heart as she gazed into my eyes. "—is Kaylee."

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How'd you like this new chapter? SORRRRRY it's been SOOOOOO LOOOOOONNNNGGGG! Next chapter should be out soon though…I hope. I keep saying that and it never happens but this time I'll try to speed things up. See ya next time!