My home has been destroyed. There is nothing left of it but pieces of rock floating in space. I can't stop the tears from coming and neither can the others. I've never felt pain like this before, not even when Roxas left me. How can it just be gone?

I'll never be able to sit on the sand and watch the sunset ever again. There are so many things that I am going to miss. And I didn't even get a few minutes to prepare for the loss. It hurts.

Sora slowly moves away from the window and wipes tears from his cheeks. He turns to the man who brought us here. "Who are you? What is happening?"

The man pushes past Sora and Kairi to go to the front of the ship. He slips into the pilot's chair and starts pushing buttons. "There's no time for explanations. I have to get you out of here before they come back."

"Before who comes back? We're not going anywhere with you until you tell us who you are."

The man continues pushing buttons. He takes a deep breath. "My name is Nyzol. I'm here to help you. I am not with the two who destroyed your world."

"Then why do you have the same powers as they do?" I step behind the pilot seat.

"I am still afforded some abilities due to my former position in the church."

"What church?" Riku sits in the chair next to Nyzol.

"I know you are all confused. You have that right after what you have just witnessed. I will explain everything when we are all safe. Be patient and trust me."

I don't see how we have much of a choice right now.

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It took a long time to get here, but I'm not sure where here is. This entire world looks empty. I didn't see a single blade of grass the entire time we were flying over. It's just a giant ball of dirt with some trees that look like they've been dying for a long time. "What is this place?"

"It's a dead world." Nyzol is stacking wood to make a fire. "Not many people come here because of its remote location...and other reasons." He holds his hands out over the wood and small flames shoot up.

Namine sits by the fire and looks at Nyzol. I think we've all decided to trust him because if he wanted to hurt us he had more than enough time to do it. Everyone except Sora, who still has a bit of distrust in his eyes. "What other reasons?"

Nyzol looks into Namine's eyes. The look on his face is strained. He doesn't want to talk about whatever it is. But he will. "This world was the site of a great war that took place nearly twenty years ago. The battles lasted a long time and a price was paid. This world can no longer create life on its own. It can barely support ours. But we won't be here long."

Sora sits down as well. "Please, tell us what's happening. What happened to our world?"

"It was destroyed by Hubrin. He is the leader of the church that I used to belong to. And he destroyed it for one reason, to stop the marriage between a Chosen One and a Child of the Keyblade."

"Why would he care so much about who I married?" Riku squats down and puts is hand on Namine's shoulder.

"The church that he leads is called the Holy Remembrance of the Keyblade. Long ago, when the church first started we believed that Keyblade's power was something to be worshipped. We lived to serve those who were chosen, help them along their path. That was back in the days of the Creator."

"The creator of what?"

"The creator of the Keyblade. You have been kept in the dark about the history of your weapon. That was one of the responsibilities that we used to take on, but things have changed. Hubrin worked closely with the Creator. As time went on, he felt that we should not serve the power of the Keyblade, but harness it instead. Slowly, he gained more power and more support for his cause. The result was the Keyblade War. In the end, Hubrin trapped the Creator in a prison that was originally intended for him. And he seized power of the church, twisting the Creator's vision. I am one of the few loyal to our original purpose still alive. After the war, Hubrin had most of the survivors slaughtered."

The rest of us sit around the fire and stare. I think I see a tear in Namine's eye. "What does he want with the church?"

"He thinks that if he gains enough power and sticks to his own twisted ideals, he will become worthy of his own Keyblade. With it, he will be able bring chaos and ruin to other worlds. He uses his anger at the Creator for never crafting him a Keyblade to fuel his work, trying to duplicate the process of creation. He has been unsuccessful so far. No one has been able to forge a Keyblade since the Creator."

"But what does that have to do with the wedding? Why go through all the trouble of destroy our home to stop it?"

"Namine is what we call a Child of the Keyblade, what you know as a Nobody. Hubrin feels that Nobodies are abominations of nature. They were never meant to exist, but were born from a side effect of the Keyblade. The Creator taught us to believe that Children of the Keyblade can be sacred beings."

"Not all of them are." Sora shifts uncomfortably.

"I know of who you speak. Xemnas had a deranged mind. I knew him in his previous life, before he fell on Ansem's doorstep. I knew him as Xehanort. He was Hubrin's most loyal soldier. I fought him in the war. He gave me my scar. As a side effect to some magic that I performed he was transported to Radiant Garden with no memory of his life. What was intended to kill him gave him a second chance to spread his evil."

"But what has Hubrin been doing all these years since the war? If he wants power why hasn't he made some sort of move?" I'll admit that this is all scaring me a lot. Now I finally know what Andriel meant when she said that we would face horrors we could never imagine.

"He has been waiting patiently, studying you. Gathering information. You six are the last of the Keybearers. He feels it is important to watch you and learn. And he did not enjoy what he saw. He does not approve of you living with Nobodies. But he was willing to let it go for the benefit of his studies. Marriage was too much for him to handle."

"How do you know so much?" Kairi has leaned against Sora and is pushing herself as close to him as she can get. That means she's scared.

"I still have contacts within the church. People who can feed me information. I've tried to use that information to help when I can."

"What have you done to help us?" Sora is having a hard time letting go of his doubts about Nyzol. I guess I can't blame him.

"Who do you think gave you the Keyblade in the first place? It was entrusted to me by the Creator. I was told to give it to you when the threat of the Heartless became too great. The protection of Kingdom Hearts was the Creator's main concern. That's why the Keyblades were created in the first place. What they were eventually used for was not part of the plan."

Sora's doubts seem to be melting away. Finally meeting the person responsible for him receiving the Keyblade is probably a chance he never thought he would have. "What can we do to stop him? There has to be a way right."

"Some of us have been planning for years, but Hubrin is gaining more and more power. If he ever does unlock the Creator's secrets and learns the forging art, there may be nothing that can stop him."

Nyzol may be right. What if we can't stop him? Is destiny stronger than power?

"We have to try." We all agree with Sora.