Cold Blood

Hi everyone! So, I just wanted to thank MayonakaGirl14, XesmeKH, and X Namine's Twin X for reviewing! I love you guys for taking time to read my story! It brings me to tears! :') Anyways, I will take your guys' ideas in check. I will use every possible idea you throw at me and more if my mind can come up with more stuff. And, can any of you recommend me any good videos about Sora, Kingdom Hearts, or any really good stories that center around Sora and Kairi or an OC, maybe?

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own any of the characters. I only own Kailee, Kailee's family, Eliza, Xylen, Realm Chasers, and Shadow Crossers.

No, it can't be Eliza. She's supposed to be off frolicking with Xylen. Or back in the hellhole that my family was captured in.

Kailee took a few deep breaths as she descended the stairs. A crowd of onlookers gazed upon her as she flashed her dress to them. Most of all, the Eliza figure approached her, taking swift steps slipping through the crowd. The Eliza figure stepped up and confronted Kailee, giving her a cold yet business like stare. That's when Kailee knew that something was suspicious about Eliza. She didn't give stares likes these. She usually gave a plain bored one, she didn't have enough courage to stare someone down because she would always lose in the end. Plus, her eyes, instead of a silvery gray, they were a scorching yellow rimmed with black. Kailee barely retained a shiver of fear as she faced her "sister".

"Hello, Eliza," Kailee wavered.

"Sister," Eliza responded coldly.

"What are you doing here?"

"Not a very nice way to appreciate that your sister is still alive now isn't it?" Eliza cocked her head to the side.

Kailee crossed her arms. "You're not my sister."

As Kailee began to walk past Eliza, She quickly grabbed hold of Kailee's arm. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"What did you think I was going to do?" Kailee forcefully pulled her arm away from Eliza.

"Let's cut the friendly banter and explain why we're here," Eliza demanded. "You first."

Kailee contemplated for a second. Would she really risk telling this imposter, who posed as her sister, what she really was here for? That she was here to possibly extract the darkness that was now invading her body along with Sora's and Riku's? And if she did, would she even do anything about it? Kailee just couldn't take that risk. If she wound up telling Eliza about the unforgiving wound that could kill her, she could stop Kailee in her tracks and make sure that she would never be able to bond with a Shadow Crosser. Kailee would be risking a whole lot more if she told Eliza about Sora or Riku. Who knows what kind of things this Eliza-person would wind up doing to them both. Then comes the fact that it was her duty to save all worlds and seal all keyholes. Plus, the connection that she had to make with this other person, after all.

Kailee chose her words carefully. "To make some new friends and have some fun. You?"

Eliza chuckled darkly. "You can make up some pretty decent lies. In any case, I came to charm a couple of boys, have fun too." She took a look around. "That particular one with the spiky brown hair and blue eyes is definitely on my list."

Kailee barely suppressed a gasp when Eliza made her reference about Sora. Eliza flashed a smug smile over at Kailee as she made her way over to Sora. Kailee was seething with anger and an unfamiliar feeling that also boiled up inside of her. She, so badly, wanted to go and claw Eliza's face off to see who had higher power in their family. Riku had been casually speaking to an octopus man when he had seen the black-haired beauty. He assumed that she wasn't from here since she hadn't been wearing a costume, only a black shirt with black tight pants and similar black lace up boots. He admired her as she had swiftly made her way over to Kailee who was wearing a stunning dress that completely complimented her figure. Only then did he notice that something was off about this peculiar girl.

As she had finished talking with Kailee, she briefly locked eyes with him. He was met with piercing yellow eyes with black rimmed around the edges. They struck him to his very soul. She casually brushed past him, when he caught an alluring scent that stopped his train of thought. Darkness. He turned briefly to see that she now was nearing Sora, clearly intent on winning him over. Kailee walked up to him, her cheeks flushed an angry red.

"Figured you would see something wrong about her as well," Riku commented, breaking Kailee out of her angry stupor.

"I just can't believe it," Kailee said, shocked. "Why would she out of all people, be here?"

"Who is she?" Riku asked, curiously.

I should probably tell him about the missing fact that I had forgotten to tell Mickey. I just hope he believes me.

"She's Eliza. My older sister," Kailee explained.

Riku gave her a confused look. "I thought you only had one sister."

"Not really. I have two, in fact," Kailee turned towards him. "Let's just say that something happened in the past, and it broke the bond between sisters. Now, I hate her guts."

"Figures."

"What do you mean?"

Riku folded his arms. "Well, since the fact that you're clearly jealous of her because she's over there, flirting with Sora."

"I am not jealous."

"But, only a jealous person would say that they're not jealous."

Kailee threw her arms up. "Ok, look. We have to find out what she's doing here. She's clearly up to no good."

"Yeah, because I could smell darkness on her," Riku said.

Kailee raised an eyebrow. "You can smell darkness?"

"Remember what I told you about how I got a bit too involved with the darkness?"

"Yeah. You said that you practically fell in darkness but under good intentions because it was only to save Sora because he had to regain his memory."

Riku nodded. "After that, I could distinguish what darkness and light each smelled like. For example, I can tell it's darkness because it smells strong like cinnamon where you almost choke on the intensity. In the case for light, it's like vanilla for girls and for guys it's more of a chocolate type."

"Huh. Well what do we do about-" Kailee was cut short as Eliza and Sora approached them.

"What are we talking about over here?" Eliza asked.

"Just about how distasteful the costumes are at this party," Kailee lied. She looked over to see that Riku was keeping himself from choking on Eliza's scent. As Kailee tried to smell Eliza, she found out that Riku was right about that strong, sharp cinnamon smell emanating from Eliza. All she got from Sora was that chocolaty smell coming from him.

"You are right. For rich folks, they couldn't of settled with better costumes," Eliza perked up as she heard the tone of song change into a slower one. She quickly grabbed hold of Sora's hand. "Come on Sora. Let's dance."

Kailee's blood boiled with fierce rage as she witnessed Eliza and Sora dancing together. Riku was watching her face get redder by the minute. He too was a bit jealous that Sora got to dance with her, but was smart enough to hide it. He knew that he could never be able to love someone that was oozing darkness, even if he had already been there and back; he wouldn't take any chances.

I have to do something about this.

Kailee glanced at the oncoming crowd on the dance floor. Since the tempo had risen up a bit, they were constantly exchanging partners. "Come on, Riku. Let's have some fun."

Kailee dragged a reluctant Riku out to the dance floor. They were dancing a cross between the waltz and a strange jig. It kind of reminded her of that strange dancing that they did back in the Kingdom of Corona. She came up with the idea to constantly swap partners until she across Sora and Eliza, who were clearly avoiding the whole swapping partners situation. Kailee made clear to mention to Riku about her plan. He simply went along with it until they arrived to their destination.

"Mind if I cut in?" Kailee quickly stole away Sora before giving Eliza a chance to respond. She left a very angry Eliza with a determined Riku on the dance floor.

"You look amazing," Sora said, clearly noting Kailee's annoyance.

"Save it. What did you think you were doing with her?" Kailee fumed.

"I was being nice," Sora answered.

"Didn't look like it because you were clearly drooling all over her."

"Excuse me? I did what I had to do. I was only trying to be nice as I always am. Besides, she was only interested in talking about you."

Kailee's ears perked up. "What do you mean by that?"

"She kept asking these weird questions. She asked about how we were supposed to heal our inconspicuous wounds or how we were supposed to travel to worlds, etc."

"How could she know that kind of stuff?" Kailee pondered. "She's never been anywhere farther than the mall."

"Who is she, Kailee?" Sora asked, confused.

"She's my older sister, Eliza. She wasn't really mentioned by Mickey because I never told him on the fact that I didn't feel like talking about her," Kailee explained. "To cut things short, she followed the path to darkness by following this guy who was dark himself."

"Why didn't you mention this before?"

"Because I never thought it was worth mentioning since my life is already messed up as it is."

All of a sudden, the band picked up into a jazzier tune as the drum player banged on his drums. A loud shriek was heard from the crowd and everyone turned their heads to see who dared to ruin the music. It was Charlotte; only she was trying to grab at something that had gotten into her dress, obviously a living creature. She stumbled and tripped, landing on her face as her dress' arc revealed itself. A pair of green, slimy frogs slipped out from under, in which Charlotte emitted a loud scream, causing them to become afraid and run off.

Kailee tried to see if Eliza was still hanging around only to be brutally disappointed at her sister's disappearance. A dazed Riku came to them, his face pale.

"What happened Riku?" Kailee asked, worried.

"Eliza said horrible things to me," Riku grew paler.

"What horrible things?"

"She said that I only had a few minutes left before I…before I…" Riku trailed off as he fell to the ground.

"Riku!" Kailee and Sora cried out in unison. Between the commotions of the crowd, their screams were barely heard.

"Sora, go get Donald and Goofy. We need them here now!" Kailee managed to say, trying to block the crowd from stepping on Riku. She hastily located the burning scar on his calf and barely suppressed a cry. I had seeped deep into his veins, turning them a deep violet with red. Black swarms of creatures were swirling around in his muscles, causing them to spasm now and then. The most terrifying feature was that, as Kailee opened Riku's eyes, they had turned an emotionless pallid white. Sora came rushing to them, accompanied by Donald and Goofy who had been caught up in the snack table, feasting on the delicacies.

"What happened?" Goofy said.

"The injury got to him and now he's not responding," Kailee answered.

"Have you tried using a healing spell?" Donald suggested. Just as he was about to perform the spell, the pair of frogs ran right by them.

"Help!" One of them cried out. At first, Kailee thought that her ears had been deceiving her, only to notice that the rest of the group had heard them too. It also had a familiar ring to it, almost like it was coming from…

"Tiana?" Sora burst out, confirming Kailee's thoughts.

"Do you guys think it's really her?" Kailee asked them all.

"It must be. Let's follow her!" Sora said, already going after them.

"Wait!" Kailee exclaimed. "What about Riku?"

"Donald do you think you can whip up a spell that can make Riku's body float simultaneously to follow us?" Sora directed at Donald.

Donald had briefly been in a trance before answering Sora's question. "Already done."

A silver cloud had swept up Riku and lifted him up, at least three feet off the ground. He briefly groaned as he was being lifted, but then slipped back into unconsciousness.

"Are you sure he's going to be okay Donald?" Kailee said, worriedly.

"I think so. I put a healing spell on the cloud too so it'll ease the pain a bit," Donald answered.

"Great. Let's go!" Sora said.

The group was quick on their feet as they followed the trail of broken dishes, shattered cups and confused guests. Tiana and the other frog had already gotten quite ahead considering the giant dog that was after them. Sora was ahead of them all, trying to not trip over the guests that had been thrown over and apologizing to them beforehand for all the commotion the pair of frogs had done. Just as they had thought that the frogs had come at the end of their rope, they had tangled themselves in a group of balloons and were now being lifted into the night sky.

"Wait!" Kailee yelped, trying to catch their attention.

"Help!" Tiana said, once again as she was carried away toward the bayou.

"Now what are we going to do?" Goofy said, scratching his head.

"We have to keep following them. Tiana did save us. We owe her that much," Kailee implied. "Come on! Let's go to the bayou!"

What have I gotten myself into?

Kailee looked over to see a vast forest, vaguely reminding her of the path that led her to the secret cave in her world. She quickly shook her head, trying not to remember all of the horrible things that had occurred in her world. It was just as the Chaser had described. A swamp filled with many trees and wet moss covered the entire expanse. Every now and then they would come across a dirty, brown lake that swarmed with mosquitoes, that tried to get at Sora, and Kailee who constantly tried to swat them away. Thankfully, Riku had been lifted up over the treetops, following them to try and search for Tiana. Kailee had tried calling out Tiana's name but all she got was the murmur of crickets. Just as they were about to give up, a tree with a gaping hole in the center lighted up. Kailee was about to look into it, but Sora told her to stay back. He didn't want her to get hurt, especially because she was important to their survival. Inside, found two frogs, deep asleep, curled up in a human like position.

"I found them!" Sora whispered, excited.

Everyone sighed in relief. "I guess we should rest up here for the night if we're going to stay with them," Kailee suggested.

"Where exactly?" Sora said. "There's not really a place to sleep on."

"I've got it," Donald said, waving around his staff.

Two shelters, both the color chocolate brown, so as to blend in somehow, appeared right before them on the edge of the lake that they had come across when they found Tiana. Riku was now coming down towards them, still asleep, yet his face was scrunched up in pain.

"We'll keep Riku in our shelter so I can keep an eye on him," Donald assured Sora and Kailee.

"So you're saying we have to share a shelter?" Kailee gulped.

"Yeah, but don't worry. They're completely safe to sleep in," Donald said, already going into his shelter with Goofy and Riku's body following. Kailee awkwardly went into the shelter opposite theirs with Sora trailing behind. It was incredibly extravagant. The inside was painted a fluorescent orange with sun yellow lines crossing in between the walls. On the left side were two beds, each one covered in blue satin sheets and pillows. Conveniently, Donald had placed a bathroom right in the far left corner and a small kitchen on the right. Plus, there was a convenient light switch that turned on a multicolored lamp hanging from the ceiling.

Kailee immediately kicked off her shoes and crawled into the nearest bed. Sora took his time though, even if he was utterly exhausted. Kailee was already drifting off just as he was getting into bed. The last thing she saw was an endless sea of blue just before sleep claimed her.

"What do you mean my heart?" Mickey yelped, struggling against the chains.

"Master Xehanort was clear. He specifically asked for your heart," the Illusionist responded, the red box in his hand opening. It released a thousand red tendrils, anxious to grab onto anything with a heart. It sought out Mickey's and injected themselves into his skin. He screamed out in agony as they began to rip out his heart, breaking arteries and veins.

"You may stop the torture session now. His wound hasn't reached him entirely yet," a masculine voice said from the darkness.

"Master Xehanort wanted his heart, now," the Illusionist responded, the red box retreating its tendrils.

"Well, Master Xehanort said it could wait," the voice said, impatiently. "He's busy dealing with Kailee right now. Besides, I'm supposed to interrogate the prisoner. To see what he knows about her."

The Illusionist retreated, mumbling incoherent sayings as it passed through a black portal.

"Who are you?" Mickey managed to say, barely clinging to his life as his body slowly tried to repair itself.

The voice stepped out to reveal a young man. He had short, blond hair with side-swept bangs that accompanied his fully black eyes. He was extremely pale; his veins were even showing, pulsing in grotesque blues, purples, and reds. He was currently wearing a full on black robe, with red lining the bottom and Xylen written on his sleeve.

"I am truly sorry. My name is Xylen. I am sure you have heard about me before," Xylen responded.

"What of it?" Mickey spat out.

"A bit feisty, now aren't we?" Xylen laughed. "You see, I will try and make this as painless as possible, if you are willing."

"I will tell you nothing!" Mickey said.

"Now, I wouldn't be so sure of that," Xylen replied, grabbing onto the chains that held Mickey together. He strapped all four chains onto a device and pushed a button on a far, unseen wall. They began to wind up and pull on Mickey's arms and legs, almost as if it were trying to tear his arms off. Mickey screamed, as the pain was increasing each time the device pulled at his arms and legs. Xylen pushed the button again, stopping the device from cleanly ripping Mickey's arms and legs off.

Xylen chuckled to himself. "The fun is just getting started."

OUCH! That sounded like it hurt! I wanted this chapter a bit longer because I left a cliffhanger a couple of chapters ago and I wanted to continue with Mickey's torture. I should mention that someone will save him, but it's not anyone you would expect. And no, it's not Kailee, Riku, Sora, Donald, or Goofy. Oh and about Riku, *gets teary eyed* I don't want him to be enveloped in darkness again! Oh dear, what have I done? But, in any case, I wanted to build up the suspense. Oh, and what do we think about the tension with Sora and Kailee sleeping together? *wink, wink* I am NOT putting anything sexual in this story. If I was, then I would've changed this to an M rated story. But in any case, if you want you can answer my questions and review!

Sora (after running in trying to interrupt me): To set the record, I did NOT sleep with Kailee.

Me: Sure, Sora. SURE.

Sora: I didn't! You said that there were two beds!

Me: Now when did I say that? ;P