Hola! OMG! I love this chapter sooo much. I'm sorry it took a while to get out. The stuff you learn in this chapter will leave you jaw-dropped, mind-bending surprised and/or confused. Yes—yes it will. The first half is in Raene's POV and then it switches to Axel's. Yay! Now, by the chapter name, you can tell there will be dreams. Yeah sooo have fun and read the Author Notice things please. Sorry that it's long too.

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I don't know what came over me at that moment. I felt sad, but I didn't know why—it wasn't because of the fact that I was slowly dying. No—it was something else. Axel dropped a hand from my face but kept the other cupping my cheek. His eyes were staring straight into mine. His pupils zipped back and forth between both of my eyes as if they were looking for me to say something. But I didn't. I took Axel's hand that was still on my face and grabbed it with both of my hands. I could feel tears swelling up behind my eyes. And I knew that the second I closed them I would start to cry. I dropped Axel's hand, but it didn't fall back to his side. Instead, it just stood there, held up in front of us.

He wanted me to take back his hand, but I couldn't. I knew that he only cared for me, but he couldn't see the fact that I truly didn't want to be saved like this. It was fate. And once fate has been set, it cannot be changed.

I turned and walked out of the library at a fast walk. As I made my way across the room tears started to fall down my cheeks. I had no idea why I was crying but I was. I closed the doors behind me and teleported far away.

I arrived at the entrance to the once grand castle that I once lived in. I tried not to be upset by its new appearance. I walked in the large doors that had lost its beautiful color.

This was one of the only parts that were still intact. The fountain in the center of the room was no longer working and parts of the staircases were collapsed or had completely missing steps. I looked at the room and a memory of when this room was lively came to my mind.

Aerith and Yuffie were sitting on top of the fountain. Yuffie was quietly rocking side to side while Aerith splashed her bare feet in the spout of water.

"Whatcha thinkin' about Aerith? Cloud?" Yuffie asked as Aerith started to hum a song quietly to herself.

"No. I was just thinkin'…about—hey you two! You're dad wouldn't want you both getting hurt running around like that. Be careful, OK?" She said loudly to the two twin girls chasing each other around the three-story tall entrance hall.

The two girls paid no attention to the brunette as they continued to slide down banisters and jump down from the second floor.

"Squall, would you please do something about them? The King would get so mad if they got hurt under our watch," she said to her other friend who had just entered the room.

Squall reached out and grabbed the younger twin, threw her over his shoulder, and waited till the older twin, who had been being chased by the younger one, come back around the room. He then grabbed her, threw her over his other shoulder and carried them both up to the library while saying something about a math lesson.

I teleported up to my old room, thinking that the lift was no longer working in this old castle. I appeared in the room that had one large glass window for all the walls. There was no furniture or toys left in the room. Only empty boxes.

I walked over to window looking out at the world. There was no life anymore. This wasn't the beautiful home that I once lived it at all.

"Hey Xarene!"

I spun around after nearly falling into the window, which would have caused me to fall to my death. Luxord was standing there with a large smile on his face.

"Umm—hi," I said tilting my head to the side.

"Well ok, Xigbar told Axel about something, that I don't know anything about. Axel talked to someone and now you don't have to go on that mission with Xaldin," he said very quickly.

"Umm—thanks."

"But, Xemnas said that you will have to go on a mission tomorrow."

I nodded and thanked him. He disappeared and I settled down on the ground, with the sudden urge to sleep.

I ran through the halls of the castle with Axel next to me. Larxene and Demyx were right in front of us and Roxas and Naminé were right on our tails. We were all laughing hysterically until a large roar sounded from behind us.

We all halted and waited for whoever made the sound to come near us. Vexen came into view with his shield in his hand. He looked very angry but none of us moved; it was as though our feet were glued to the floor.

Vexen came up to us and then shot six ice crystals in our direction. The next thing we knew, we were all pinned to the wall, including Naminé, who was wearing Roxas' old cloak. He was getting so tall so fast. Naminé, Larxene, and I were all the same height. Roxas and Demyx were about four inches taller than us and Axel was about two inches taller than them.

There was a crystal launched in the hood of our cloaks. Axel and I were at eye level to Vexen. The others were closer to the ground and on either side of us. Vexen had pinned us in a sort of pyramid shape on the wall. Naminé was farthest to Vexen's right. Roxas was beside her. Next to Roxas but higher up was Axel. I was on Axel's other side. Larxene's head was just an inch too far away from my foot. Demyx was on Vexen's far left and next to Larxene.

All of a sudden the other members appeared in front of us. "Vexen, what happened now?" Xemnas asked looking at us pinned to the wall.

"Ask them!" He yelled pointing another ice crystal at us.

Xemnas looked at Roxas. "What were you all doing that ticked him off so much?" he asked the blonde.

"Well—ya see, we were playing Hide-and-go-seek Team Tag and—"

"What is Hide-and-go—what?" Xemnas asked getting tongue-tied.

"Well ya see were playing and we decided to hide in Vexen's lab and then we accidentally broke some of his potions. Then he put us on the wall." The rest of us agreed by saying 'yeah'.

"Vexen, just get them dow—" Xemnas started to say, but Vexen was already gone.

"Ok, all of you follow me—Saïx, Lux—"

"No way, man. You guys woke me up because the brats were stuck to a wall. I say leave 'em there. I'm going back to bed," Saïx said teleporting away.

"Luxord." Xemnas said turning to the gambler.

"Sorry, boss. But I'm late for a poker game," Luxord said before teleporting away also.

"Fine! Lexaeus, Xigbar, Xaldin, let's go!" Xemnas said turning.

"What about me?" Marluxia asked after he was done laughing at us on the wall.

"You're staying here, Pinky," he answered. Zexion erupted in a fit of giggles. "I don't know what you're laughing at Purple Boy, you're staying here too." And with that Xemnas disappeared down the hall followed by the others.

All at once we started to unpin ourselves from the wall. We all started trying to pull the ice out, but that didn't work. Naminé was pretty much out of luck and just hung there. Demyx was also out of luck. He realized that he couldn't do anything either. He couldn't melt the ice that was launched in his hood. Apparently his element couldn't interfere with ice even though they were almost the same. So he crossed his arms over his chest and hung there like a puppet.

Larxene pulled out a kunai and aimed it above her head to where she thought the ice was. All of a sudden smoke filled the hallway. Once it cleared, everyone looked over at Larxene. Her blonde hair was sticking out in all directions and her flawless skin was now covered in gray soot.

I snickered at the fact that she had electrocuted herself. She placed the kunai away, patted down her hair and then punched above her, hitting me in the shin. I tried to kick her in the head but I just wasn't tall enough.

Axel was the only one who really had a chance to get free but he was also having no luck. It was as though the other members couldn't tamper with Vexen's element. Roxas and I suddenly began to swing at the ice above us with our Keyblades. I unfortunately hit Axel a few times in the head in the process. Since we couldn't get down, we just sat there, hanging by our hoods stuck to a wall.

It was silent for a while until Larxene shrieked. "Marly!" she yelled looking at Marluxia who was standing next to Zexion wishing he was anywhere but here. Larxene was like a little baby chicken who followed the mother hen around. That's how it was with her and Marluxia. Ever since she got here when she was a toddler, she followed Marluxia like he was her mom or something. Marluxia gave up a long time ago to trying to get her to follow someone else around. But he wasn't gonna answer her unless she used his real name.

She shouted the nickname for a while and Marluxia continued to act like he wasn't even there. After a while, Demyx caught on and shouted 'Marly' too. Marluxia was ticked off now. "What?" he asked annoyed.

"Get me down from here!" Larxene said attempting to pat down her hair again.

"Not a chance, you're staying right where you are," he said placing his hands on his hips in a rather girly way. She glared at him and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Fine! But, when I DO get down, I will make you pay for making me hang up here with all these losers."

All of us hanging next to her said a bunch of 'Heys' and such but she ignored us.

Marluxia stepped forward a bit and bent down in Larxene's face. "Pft. Larx, don't forget—I'm twice your age. There's no way some little ten-year-old is gonna take me down," Marluxia said laughing and turning to his fellow adult behind him.

Zexion just gave him a look like 'I don't know man, you don't wanna be doing that'. Marluxia smiled and started to turn back to the outraged blonde. But as he turned, he fell forward; his knees buckling below him.

"Ha! That's what ya get!" Larxene said. Axel, Roxas, Demyx, and Zexion all winced at what she had just down. Naminé and I simply laughed quietly to ourselves.

Marluxia crawled away from the wall and sat still on the other side of the hall. It was silent for a little while longer until, in unison, Axel and I both yelled "Zexy!" at the top of our lungs.

Zexion turned around from watching Marluxia. His silver purple hair spun around, brushing over his dark eyes. He gave the two of us a look that said he was annoyed.

"Zexy, could you PLEASE get me down," I said in a very nice voice. He just shook his head from side to side.

So it must have been a few hours before we actually got down. Xemnas and the others finally found Vexen and convinced him to let us down, since he was the only one who could rid us of the ice crystals that just WOULDN'T MELT! Of course the second we got down, Vexen went into a sort of berserk state of being like Saïx does when he's annoyed, cranky, or just feels like being a pain in the butt. He began swinging his shield around and throwing ice at us left and right. The other members just sighed and went back on with their lives as the crazy scientist chased the six of us down the hall.

My eyes opened and I looked around. I was still in the large room. The sky was a deep shade of purple now. I must had been sleeping for a few hours. I got up and teleported outside. Everyone in the town was wrapping up the day and was heading to their houses for the night.

There was a man standing a little ways to the side of the town square. He looked to be in his young twenties maybe even in his late teens. He had dark brown hair and big teal eyes. He was just standing there in the wind looking up at the castle. I walked by him to get to a shop. I was stopped however, because he said something to me.

"Sure is beautiful, huh?" He said. He had his hands in his pockets and was just staring up at the silhouette of the castle.

I stopped and backed up a bit and stood next to him. I was looking at him, but when I saw that he wasn't gonna take his eyes off the building I looked up too. "Yeah…it is."

"Shame what happened to it. But I'm sure someday it'll look the same that it once did," he said smiling. "You from around here?" He asked turning to me.

I kept my eyes on my old home for a moment before looking at him. "Not anymore, I'm not."

"I lived here my whole life. I was about ten maybe when the King ordered everyone to leave as soon as they could. They gathered up all the children they could and left. I wonder what ever happened to the King…" he turned back to the castle.

I crossed my arms and tightened my cloak because it was getting very chilly. "I dunno. I sure hope he made it out too," I replied also turning to face the now completely shadowed castle.

"And the princess. I hope she's ok too." I turned my gaze to him once more. "I wonder whatever happened to her…"

"She's safe." He looked at me but I didn't look at him. "She has a home and friends. A great life."

"How do ya know?" He asked.

"I just do. I know that she's happy there," I replied.

"Has she ever tried to come back? There was a rumor that she was here last year. But no one knows for sure."

"She doesn't remember this place. But she'll come back one day," he tilted his head to the side. "One day she will. But part of her won't be here, it'll be somewhere else. The other part can never come back."

My eyes started to swell with tears but I held them back. If Kairi did come back, she would only be half here. I would be somewhere else. I was to fade away and make her whole. But I would still be somewhere else. I would never get to come home. I was a Nobody. Nobodies don't have homes.

"What was here name again?" He asked.

"Kairi." I answered whipping my eyes so that he couldn't see.

"Kairi…by the way, what's your name?"

"Raene," I answered.

"That's a beautiful name. I'm Dason."

"Dason…" I said.

"Raene, have we met before?" he asked.

"I don't think so," I answered.

"I think I knew a Raene. You just look so familiar. Did you ever go in the castle?"

"No," I lied.

"My parents worked in the castle. My dad worked with Cid in the hangers. My mom was a seamstress. I came in and spent most of my time in the library."

I nodded. I did know him. I recall a boy who used to read to the little kids a lot. The children from the orphanage would come in and there was an older boy you used to read to them. Kairi and I didn't get to listen a lot though; we were always busy when he was there.

"It sure is beautiful," I said. "One day it'll look the same; Princess Kairi will come back one day and it'll be like nothing ever changed."

Neither of us spoke for a while. The wind blew around us. Dason shivered and pulled his arms up to his chest. "Ya want me to walk ya home? It's getting' kinda late." He said.

"Nah, that's Ok. I'm just gonna stay out here for a while." I looked up at the castle and pictured it as it used to be.

"Ok then. Nice to meet you, Raene," he said before turning and heading to the village.

"Yeah, nice to meet you, too," I said. Nice to see you again.

I started walking out of the town and into the outskirts. I wanted to just get away for a while. I walked in the direction of the large structure in the distance. I walked through caves, jumped off cliffs, walked through the valleys. It was as if I had a map saying which pebble to step on and which crack to jump over in order to get there.

I eventually made it to the ledge looking out at the structure. It looked like a castle with several single towers. It was crumbling, much like the other one, and had a large Heartless symbol on the middle tower. There was no movement, no light, no life. It was like an old house where people once lived. Now all the people had died and there was no one to take care of the old house.

I felt calm here and not sad like I did over there. But then I started to think; did I really feel sad or did I just think that I felt sad, and that being a Nobody was really starting to act upon me.

I suddenly had the strange feeling like wasn't alone. I turned my head but didn't get to see if someone was really there because I fell over. I huge pain started to seer through my head like someone had hit me with a bat. Everything started to go dark as I felt the warm sticky blood drip down my head.

I was standing there on the same tower I always did, staring up at the moon. He was standing beside me laughing at a joke I just said. He smiled and I looked at him. Every time I looked at him, my gaze fell right onto his deep green eyes. He was staring straight at me, but I couldn't take my eyes off him.

He laughed again. "Raene, I gotta tell ya something," he said quietly.

"What is it?" I asked looking into his eyes.

"I've wanted to tell ya this for so long, but I was always too scared of what you might think," he looked down at his feet as he said this.

"Just tell me what it is," I said. I was really too slow at this point to see what he was trying to say.

He smiled. "Raene, I think I'm in love with you."

My eyes widened and I looked at him not believing my ears. "Wh—what?"

He smiled. "I love you, Raene. I always have. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me," he said.

I just stood there looking in his green eyes and taking it in. He wanted me to say something, but I couldn't. My heart, or what was left of it, had stopped beating. My lungs had stopped working and I couldn't blink.

After a minute of silence, he spoke again. "Xemnas wants to get Kingdom Hearts. But we don't need it. I don't need it. He's doing this to get our feelings back, but I already have them. I can love, I love you. If I were to become whole again, you wouldn't be there, Raene. I would never see you again. If our goal is accomplished, we'll all be separated again."

I looked down at the ground. Why was he saying these things, but—also, why was I smiling? I was happy!—but why! I couldn't feel the same way, I wouldn't let myself fall for him.

But I did. I fell right into his arms that were begging for me. He wrapped his arms around me and I placed my hands on his chest. It was cold and he pulled me in as close as he could.

I looked up at him and he looked down at me. He was smiling the biggest smile I had ever seen on him before. We stood like that for what seamed like forever, in each other's arms in the cold, staring at each other.

Then—he kissed me. He slowly brought his lips down upon mine. I closed my eyes and smiled again beneath his lips. It was great. My stomach felt like it was rising to my throat and I thought I was going to float away if he let go.

There was no way to hide it—I was in love with Demyx.

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When I said those last words, I wasn't expecting her to do what she did. Her blue eyes started to swell with tears but she held them back. I didn't know why she was about to cry. All I did was care, why was she so upset that I wanted to save her?

She pulled my hand off her face and let go of it. But I kept it there, begging she would take it back. Why was she so upset? She turned and sped out of the library and slammed the doors closed behind her.

Usually I would chase after her, but I didn't. I stood there for an hour with my hand poised where she had left it. She wasn't gonna come back soon, so I finally decided to move also. I walked over to the desk where I had placed the drawings she had done and slowly walked to my room.

When I got there I dropped the drawings on the floor. I sat down on the bed as the sketches scattered across the floor. "Naminé—help me." I started to speak to myself. "Please. You're the closest thing to an angel for me right now. I need to save her. I need to know how. Why doesn't she want to be saved, Naminé? Why?"

I laid my head on my pillow. "Please, send me a sign, anything! I have to know what to do. I can't lose her. Please, Naminé—you can see me—you know what's happening. I can't talk to Roxas…so you're the only other person who knows what I mean. I know you are the only person left who understands. Send me a sign, Naminé."

She stood there by the open window. The breeze from outside was blowing her long, curly red hair around her round face. Tears ran down her cheeks.

"Ale," she spoke looking up at the boy she had known her whole life.

He turned to her. His fiery hair fell down over his dark green eyes. "What?" he asked.

"Ale, I know you don't get what I'm trying to say—but, please—don't do this." She spoke not getting any closer to him.

"Why not? It's my life, I can do what I want with it!"

"Please, listen. You don't believe in the realms of Darkness and Light. You think there's no such thing. That's why you don't get that what you're doing is slowly destroying you." She took a step closer; wrapping the green sweater he gave her tighter around her body.

"I understand what you're saying. You say that there are two sides to everything—good and evil. I get that! That's why I have to do this."

"Ale! What is your problem? This is your home, this is your life—you're slowly going away from the people who care about you the most," she said walking closer to him.

He didn't look at her completely. He was looking in her direction, but he didn't see her. "This world that we're in is the Darkness."

"What! This world isn't Darkness. Why do you say that?" she said, tears ran down her cheeks some more.

"This world took my parents away from me when I was just a child. Then the only family left was taken away."

"This world we live in isn't the evil side! Ale, your family is right here." He turned and looked at her and smiled. Some more tears fell from her dark eyes. "You and me, Ale. This is our home, we're not kids anymore, we're free to live a life the way we want. We can be a family. Ever since we were little we wanted to be a family together, Ale. Now we do. Please, don't do this. I wanna spend the rest of my life with you, don't go throwing your life away."

He walked up to her and pulled her into his arms. He whispered in her ear, "Listen to me, Love, I'm doing all of this because it's the right thing. We can be together forever—but only if I submit myself to this other world. This world we are in is Darkness. I must turn to the Light, then you and I can live forever and ever. We'll be immortal and we can be together forever, Love."

She pulled away from him. "No…no…no. Ale, you're wrong. This world that you want to live in, it's not the Light—it's Darkness. You go there and you'll never see this place again."

"I never do wanna see this place again."

"Honey—I won't go with you. If you go, then I'll stay here." He looked at her with an expression of sadness and anger. "If you're gonna go there and be like that, then I guess it was never meant to be."

"Don't say that! I love you! Please, Love, come with me—so we can be together forever," he said holding out his hand.

"No. Ale, my love, I won't do this. It's either that world or me…I'll give you some time to think about what's more important to you." She turned and walked out to the bedroom.

I woke up breathing very fast. "Ale," I said. "Was that my name? And that was the girl. We were in love? What was her name? What was I thinking—turning to the Darkness? Is that how I became a Nobody?"

I looked out the window. "Naminé? Was that my sign? What kinda sign was that? Why did you show me a memory of her? Is that supposed to help me save Raene?"

Stop asking questions, I told myself. I took a deep breath. I then fell back on my pillow once more.

It was dark everywhere. The whole room looked as though a tornado had hit it. The boy was standing with his back turned to the girl. He was breathing deeply.

The girl was crying. He wasn't going to change. He had made up his mind and so had she. She wasn't going with him to the Darkness—but she couldn't live without him. "Ale!" she yelled.

He didn't answer. "Ale!" she yelled again.

He turned to her, his green eyes glowing like a rabid wolf. "Ale, I can't love someone who cannot see that he is killing everyone who cares for him," she said quietly.

"Don't say that," he said in a whisper.

"What? Don't say what?" she asked.

"Don't say you don't love me! That's not true. You do love me," he said closing his eyes.

"I'm sorry, my love. You have pushed away the last bit of light in your life. Now the only thing that you can do is go to that place, but I've warned you, Ale. Only Darkness awaits you. Every ray of light is gone now, Ale. And it can never come back."

Ale opened his eyes. The love of his life started to glow. Her feet slowly lifted off the ground. The light coming off of her started to grow brighter and brighter, then it died down again.

She started to fade away. Ale's eyes widened but he couldn't move. As she became almost completely transparent she spoke her last words. "I still love you." She then closed her dark eyes for the last time and then disappeared completely.

The boy was completely still and silent for a long time. He then fell to his knees. He pulled on his hair and screamed out in anger. "This world is what took you away. The Darkness. Now I will go to the light. Why didn't you come with me, my love—to the light so we could never be parted? Why?"

He stood up, closed his eyes and lowered his head. Just before he too faded away, he spoke. "I'm so sorry, Amaya."

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What did ya guys think? Raene got knocked out, but by who? Raene's having sweet dreams about Demyx. What could it possibly mean? Axel finally remembered his name and the girl from his memories. Yay! The whole issue with Axel and the girl in his dreams was a lot like Anakin and Padmé from the 3rd Star Wars. But I liked it. Ok. Sorry it was long and sorry it took so long to get out. What's gonna happen now? Tune in next time to find out. Love you all. Oh, and I put in so pics of Kairi and Raene on my profile. Check 'em out.