"What do you mean, 'we're in Kingdom Hearts,'?" I asked. Wanessa just looked at us for a minute before answering. A light shone up through the colored glass, sending shafts of colored light into the darkness around us. The white door stood open and we couldn't see through to the other side.
"What I mean is, there's no other explanation for it," she said, sounding as calm and collected as normal, "I've already decided this is not a hallucination or dream, you don't feel pain in those. I'm bleeding, Meg's rubbing her arm, and Rachel your hands are blistering badly."
"This is impossible," Meg muttered.
"This is a hole in the space time continuum," Nessa said.
"This is awesome!" I exclaimed. Nessa looked at me.
"So what's the plan?" She asked. Meg looked at me curiously.
"We go through the door."
[Somewhere in a dark castle]
"There's been a disturbance in the dark precept," A cold, elderly, woman's voice said. The glow of the table beneath her lit up her face from below. The featured sharp lines made her have a severe expression.
The figures of a boy, a duck, and a tall dog walking, faded slowly from the table surface. The walking images were replaced with three girls standing together before a door of light. Their mouths were moving quickly, like they were arguing.
"Who are they?" A man with dark curly hair and a hook for a hand asked.
"They're looking scrumptious!" said another. He was just a bag and licked his "lips" with hunger.
"You insufferable bag of bugs!" A very tall man with a small curling bear, dressed in desert robes of red and black, snapped. The snake headed staff in his hand glowed red, "You cannot possibly think about eating them."
"You desert beetle!" The bag-man yelled, "I'll-"
"Enough!" The woman interjected. Her piercing gaze made them sit back in their seats, the other seated around the table let out a small chuckle. "The only ones to enter that realm are the key bearers. These girls hold no key, and yet they have arrived. Therefore they must hold the key to something."
"And what, Maleficent, do you think that key is to?" A deep voice said from in the darkness. The room was filled with silence. Maleficent looked ahead to the commanding voice.
"I do not know," She admitted, anger burning in her eyes. The man stepped forward, the light from the table captured the tint of his dark skin and long silver hair. His eyes lit up evilly.
"I wonder why you are all still sitting here," he said quietly, his eyes never leaving the old witch, "The key bearer could be nearing your worlds and preparations must be made."
"What of the girls?" The pirate asked.
"What of them?"
"Are they a threat to us? Should we stop them as we are stopping the key bearer?" the pirate inquired.
"Let them run about the worlds, they have a lot to learn before any actions can be made against them," The man looked at each man around the table, "You're dismissed." Each one got up and walked out of the room.
"Who are they Ansem?" Maleficent asked.
"Their names I do not know, but their purpose is clear. There are three of them and three realms. They will be the connectors of the realms," He answered. She was unsatisfied, he could tell, but she said nothing else. He turned to leave but when he reached the doorway he stopped. "What of the boy Riku? What are your plans for him?" Ansem asked.
"He will help us enter Kingdom Hearts," Maleficent informed him, her voice full of creepy happiness, "He's the perfect way to gather the princesses' hearts and destroying his friend Sora." Ansem nodded and left the room. He didn't voice his plans and decided to Maleficent think herself powerful.
"Riku!" Maleficent yelled. A boy of 15 emerged from the darkness. He looked at her with piercing green eyes. "Get to Agrabah and help Jafar capture the princess. I will be along shortly to assist him in a defense against Sora and his friends. Just make sure he, or you, brings the girl back here." Riku nodded and started to walk out of the room.
He'd caught the ending of Maleficent and Ansem's conversation. He'd also seen the girls on the table and wondered what Ansem meant by they represented each of the three realms. He only knew of two and wondered who would represent his realm.