Someone save me. :P

*Cracks fingers* Alright, here we go.

As soon as my eyes fluttered shut, I started drifting. When I was able to open my eyes, I knew I wasn't really awake. I felt it inside of me, I felt lighter, no, not lighter…emptier.

"Where am I!" I called, distressed. I stood up slowly, smoothing my black shirt and making sure there was nothing wrong with my clothes. Why did I care? I'm still not sure, I guess I just wanted to make sure I was still me. Of course my clothes and hair were the same, and I still remembered everything, so I wasn't mentally hurt.

"Hello, anybody there?" I tried again, just to see if I could get a respond. There was no respond, or at least it wasn't a voice. There was a blinding light, and I shielded my eyes from it. When it was gone, my eyes opened, then closed again, slowly in that pattern.

Riku was next to me, I laid on a bed in a dark room. The only way I was able to tell it was him was because there was a small light turned on next to the bed, on a nightstand.

I coughed and sat up. Riku pushed down on my chest and commanded for me to lay back down.

"What…happened?" I asked.

Riku sighed and pushed a strand of hair behind my ear. "Maleficent fractured your heart. Don't worry, you're okay now."

"How am I…okay if…my heart is fractured?" I sat up, resisting his plea for me to lay back down. I leaned my head on the headboard and stared into his eyes.

"You'll be alive as long as your heart doesn't break any further," he looked down at his lap. "you need to stay resting, I'm afraid you're going to get hurt."

"So…she lied to me…about keeping me safe?" I asked wiping my hand across my forehead, to get the bangs off of it. I guess it's just an old habit or something.

Riku glared at me. "What are you talking about? She never saw you conscious, it was an accident, she told me. You've been asleep for three whole days. Y'know, you shouldn't just…never mind."

"What if she was lying to you?" I moved away from him, just in case he decided that was a bad question and that he could finish me there.

He just shook his head instead and walked out of the room. I pressed a hand against my chest, trying to get a feel for a heart beat. What I got was very faint. A small beat, I kept my hand there for a lingering moment, then I put my head back down on the pillow, drifting off to sleep in moments.

Maybe my heart was really fractured. I mean fractured so badly each time I woke during the night I felt weaker and weaker, until in the morning I felt like I couldn't move. Nonetheless, I pushed the bangs off my face, a simple movement that hurt so badly my hand fell against the mattress in mid-stroke. The small strands of black fell back into my eyes and I shut them and sighed. I buried my face into the pillow and inhaled. I had no idea what was going on, I didn't want to know. What if they were hurting people, people they barely knew. I had a feeling that was what was going on.

I tried falling back to sleep, going inside the black comfort, but I resisted. I reached up, with all my strength, and shut the light off, which took my into the black, even though I tried my hardest to resist.

When I woke up again I felt stronger, almost like I could get up and run.

I lifted myself up and put my feet on the floor. Pain shot up through them but I paid no attention to it, I just stood up anyway and walked to the door. I opened it, and looked into the hallway. It was falling apart almost. The stones were green and worn, they looked like they had moss or something on them. I walked on, looking around, when I got to a throne room. Maleficent was there, and so was Riku. He glared over at me, then that glared faded and he walked over.

"Hey, how do you feel?" He asked wrapping on arm around my shoulders.

I moved away from him, creped out beyond hell.

"Fine, I guess," I stepped away from him and looked up at Maleficent.

"Good to see you're awake," she told me with a cheesy grin. "how did you sleep, child?"

"I have a name," I told her, looking down at my feet. They were bare, I'd left my shoes in the bedroom.

"Of course Airie," she said, still smiling.

I put my hand on my arm. "What do you want from me?"

"To keep you safe,"

"You fractured my heart," I arched an eyebrow. She sounded like an abusive parent, saying she wanted to keep me safe, but hurting me. Emotionally and physically.

"That was a terrible mistake my dear," Maleficent put her other hand on her staff. "I wasn't sure if you were going to do anything we were both going to regret, like hurting yourself. So I cast a spell on you, and in the process your heart was fractured. I had Riku bring you here, the poor boy was so worried about you."

I glared over at him. He was blushing and I rolled my eyes.

"So, how do you plan on 'keeping me safe'?" I asked, crossing my arms. I'm sure I looked like a bratty little girl, but whatever, I was getting a little irritated and I needed that answer.

"With the power of Darkness," Maleficent started. "I can do anything, as can you. If you accept it, it will be able to keep you safe, and I will too. But if not, I'm afraid your heart will crumble until it is nothing," she smirked. "So, Airie, what do you say?"

I looked down at my hands, then my vision shifted to Riku. He had a look of concern in his eyes, but even staring at him, I shook my head. When I looked at Maleficent, her eyes glowed with anger.

"No, Airie!" I heard Riku call. Before I could reply back or realize what was happening, the world went black yet again.

"Maleficent, what did you do?" Riku bent down next to my body and pressed two fingers under my neck. He let his hand fall back.

"I told you the consequences she would face if she refused." Maleficent insisted.

"But did you have to take it that far?" Riku screamed back. His eyes blazed with hatred for her, but of course he didn't do anything.

The only answer he gave him was "Dispose of her,"

I jerked up before he could do anything.

A bit of a cliffhanger, sorry, but I had to. And sorry for not updating for a while! (Or my defition of lately.)