Hello reader ^^ Um, well this chap was pretty long I have to admit (wasn't really expecting that) But I hope you like it enough to read and read the next one and the next...

I do try to keep the characters' in character (referring to Axel) so I'm glad you noticed ^^

Disclaimer: (In first chapter)

An interrupted Beginning

My feet walked along the dirt road with the green tree leaves in overhead, which hardly blocked the sun from our foreheads. My backpack clung to my back that held important necessities. Two placed katana swords were also glued to my back in two scabbards. Axel was walking steadily behind me. We were just now leaving the house where I lived for the remainder of my life; from infant to teenager.

We both decided to leave in two days, but during those two days, I thought of nothing but what we were going to encounter and see. Heartless perhaps; Axel said we were definitely going to see lots of those. Evil little vermin, that snatches people hearts out for their own pleasure. I knew my weapons probably won't do much damage to them, but I could still try; I was going to find my sister and Axel's heart. No telling how long away I would be from my home…my nostalgic home.

I twisted slightly to see Axel up on the side of me trying to even with my pace. 'When did he get here?' I turned back to the road, just now seeing a large gap of space up ahead where the sun shone significantly. "Deonna…" He broke my small trance.

"Eh?" I looked up and saw his arms up behind his back with his face composed in thought. "I was wondering how you knew all about the different worlds and stuff anyway. How'd you know?" he said with curiosity. "Well, I learned about them by my parents telling me of them throughout my life." I looked back down, feeling special in a way. "Hmm seems that your parents were very informative people." My lips curved slightly. "Yeah, you can say that. They really wanted to ingrain important stuff into me and my sister." 'And so they did.'

I sighed. "Just if you were at my house more often, you would know more about me."'

'Tch quite acting like you don't know why," he said with a huffed laugh. A laugh came forth in giggles as I placed my hand over my mouth. "I already know. I was just messing with you."

"Yeah right." About this time, we made it to that clear space where leaves where out of the way of the sun to expose itself on our walking tract; From where I was, the path parted right, where you could see the sky and an open trail free of leaves and trees. Axel voiced out again at this particular time. "Hey Deonna, I've been thinking…" My body halted just as I was about to enter where the forest marked the dirt path. " Hmmm?" I turned a little bit, but turned further when I saw Axel at the center of the clearing in a wide spread stance.

"You say that your parents taught you some stuff about fighting and such?" Axel yelled as if he didn't know the answer to that question. My body twisted all the way in his direction with a confused glare; I just stood there feeling annoyance curve its way up my nerves. "Uh yeah!" I noticed he had a slight smirk showing in his mien, which probably meant he was about to do something silly. "What are you doing? We can talk while we walk!" I was about to turn around when he spoke up again. "No wait! I want to see something!" "Ugh what?" I grunted with my arms at a cross. He placed his fingers up like a mad scientist with a huge grin and spoke in a monotonous voice. "I want to fight you."

My eyebrows crooked with puzzlement at his far off comment. 'What…?' "You want to challenge me!" I said pointing to myself with dubiousness. "You got to be joking! I'm not fighting you!"

"Oh come on!" He put his hands on his hips, shifting his weight on his feet in an imposing challenging way. "Just a friendly competition." He crossed his arms. "Let me see you swing that stick around!" Obviously, I knew what he was talking about. "It's not a stick, it's a katana you pea brain! And I'm not fighting you!" I crossed my arms and turned around with my eyebrows stitched together. 'Idiot...what's with guys and competition…?'

"Can we just go?"

"Oh come on Deonna! I just want to see how good of a fighter you are!" My ears heard him coming up behind me in a quick walk. "It'd be better if I knew anyway so that I could tell how hard you would be against a heartless." A sigh came forth from my mouth as I thought of his words; I closed my eyes, feeling his aura near me. After a few moments, I realized what he was getting at and thought of going through with it. 'Hmph…I guess I have to admit that is a pretty smart gesture…' And I believed it was. 'But I don't want to fight him, but then again I do, just to see how strong I am against him…a new challenge perhaps?' My ears heard the wind blow gently through the leaves as it made the leaves shake movement in the trees; it hit my skin giving me a sensation of repose, despite the situation I was having with Axel. I finally opened my eyes with my verdict, but feeling rather averse to it.

"I'll fight you, Axel happy?" I felt his spirit perk up from behind in a shocked voice. "Eh really?"

'"Yeah, I guess so, might as well." I took my backpack off and through it by a berry like bush and turned on my heels to look up at him who showed a pleased face. "Tch crybaby."

"He, he," he tittered. "You're going to regret that as soon as we start fighting!" He turned and went to where he was standing before. "Oh please, go ahead and hold nothing back!" I reached my hands back in an X-form and pulled both my silver-blazed katanas' out of its scabbards. A smirk crept up. At first, I felt reluctant to go ahead with this. But now, pulling my blades from there resting place, I felt excited. I stood with them both in hand, feeling like a pro as the hearing of green leaves shook further more. "Ooh somebody's eager!" Axel said with smugness. He widened his legs out and bent down with his arms out to its sides in a cool like manner. Spinning circles came up in his hands in sparks of fire that finally showed two circular disks with spikes on its exterior. My heart sped up with a nervous eagerness as to what will happen during this fight. 'Will he really try to hurt me?' His head shot up with a smirk, the smirkiest smirk I've ever seen him display.

"Oh, did I forget to tell you that I have the power over fire?"

"Please don't get smug-oh yeah you did forget to mention that." 'Was he trying to scare me into freight?' Well, it partly worked, but I wasn't going to show it not the least. "Don't go easy on me you hear?"

"Alright you asked for it."

I put my swords in front of me in an X form like I always did before, but this time wondering who was going to strike first. My answer gave way when a circular disk came up at me with fast motion. I dodged it by kneeling down and running up to him with speed, ignoring his first attack. With my swords at my side, I brought one up trying to get him hit with my blade. I felt the impact hit him but he disappeared into a black ball before I could do any real damage. Stunned, I turned around and saw him coming up from behind with both weapons at hand. I quickly turned and placed my left hand in front of me with my right at the side and ran to him. He placed his disk in front of him as I did the same and made a blockage with our weapons as a guard.

"Your pretty quick little missy," he said like he was impressed. "Hmph!" I jumped back and ran around him to the left with his eyes following intently. I stopped at the other side of him and jumped in the air; I pulled my weapon up, wanting to strike him with the handle to his head. He seemed hesitant for a second as to how close I was to him. The handle soared down almost into his head, but missed because he disappeared yet again. My legs fell into his spot with a kneeling stance not wanting to damage my legs. I looked up and saw him with his weapons in the air spinning with fire.

'Good thing he missed because that hit would have hurt for a week. What is he up to now?' I didn't realize how far I was going into this; I didn't really honestly want to hurt him. Before I knew it, fire came up in flames from the ground; I instinctively jumped trying to avoid getting burnt. 'Maybe he didn't think the same- perhaps it's just a test.'

I jumped to less burnt ground on my right, trying to avoid getting burnt and getting hit by the flying disk. I soon made my way over to him on my left and struck his right arm without him noticing my appearance. The fire dispersed, leaving the smell of smoke still present in the atmosphere. I jumped back and ran across from him to see him with both disks in his hands, showing a grin of entertainment plastered on his face. I grinned back. "You really a tough cookie aren't cha?" he asked.

"Perhaps, you can say that." Before we both knew it, we were both running at each other with our weapons at hand. Just before I swung a hit, a feeling of immense pain hit the top of my head. My weapons dropped out of my hands as I saw black crowding up my vision. "Deonna!" Were the only words I heard from Axel mouth.

"De..o..a." Deo..a." Deo..na!"

The feeling of strong hands shook my shoulders intently, calling out my name.

"Deonna!"

My eyes went in and out from the darkness of sleep and the light of day.

"Deonna!"

'That voice…Axel…?' Hands lightly slapped my face for some reason, which made me wake up from my tiredness. My hazy eyes finally opened to see green eyes filled with concern. "Eh…dad?" I asked with blurred eyes. He laughed lightly. "Man you really are out of it huh?" My vision came to me as I saw Axel starring at me with a light grin. "You alright?"

His right hand tilted me to sit upright; I raised my hand and sat it on my forehead to rub it, trying to unwind myself of my grogginess. "What…happened?" Before I knew it, a feeling of pain started to showcase itself in the middle of the top my head. "Ow…" I mumbled, rubbing it in pain. "You passed out. Something fell on your head." I looked up to see him kneeling on his knees on the left side of me, not realizing how close he was. He leaned over me and placed his hands on my head and touched my aching spot with light pressure. "Ow-what are you doing? You know that hurts!"

"Hmph, and you should probably know that I'm just checking out your head." I grunted. 'He should might as well use a magnifier glass…'

"What was it that fell on me anyway?" Before he could answer, I realized the damage he did to the green grass that was abundant; a whole lot of burnt marks here and there just like burnt marks on your skin. 'Whoa…' Just after that realization, he backed off on is heels with his eyes narrowed. "Not exactly sure." I stopped considering the mess up and watched him stand up above me like a giant over a city. 'Whoa… he's so freakin' tall from down here!'

He held his gloved hand out for me to grab; I did just that and grabbed it. I patted my clothes and hair of dirt, waiting for him to continue. "It all happened so fast that…" He paused. Knowing he stopped talking almost instantly, I stopped dusting my self and saw him looking behind me at the ground with a raised brow. My body turned as to what he was looking at. "What? What are you looking at…?" I slowed my sentence to a stop as to see what have possibly fallen on my head; A metal dark pole that had the appearance of a key; It was glinting in the sun of a light so bright like a star in the night; it was only a few feet away from us. "A Keyblade!" Axel exclaimed in disbelief. "Huh?" I turned to look at him, but he had already started to move towards the object in a rushing movement that brushed off my shoulder. My feet caught up with him where we both finally stopped to stare at the keyblade. It had the colors of black and a hint of a pinkish-purple in diagonal stripes on the fuller, while the blade part had a key shape that had a design in the middle of it, with two angular appendages on both side, helping the blade to connect to the fuller.

"A keyblade huh?" I knelt down to observe its features attentively. My heart, yet again sped up with excitement. 'Wow-can't believe I get to see a keyblade up so close like this!' Almost all my life I've only heard of the word keyblade; now it just so happen that one have fallen on my head during my battle with Axel. What a chance of a life time, to at least touch it…

"Well we don't have all day here to dilly-daily, are you goin' to pick it up or what?" Axel's voice woke me up out my thought. "Oh right." My hand shook a little as I picked up the blade with caution. Standing up myself, it didn't feel so heavy like I thought it would be with its big structure full. "Wow! I haven't seen one of these things in ages!" Axel said, almost with a nostalgic voice.

"Hmmm…" I turned to Axel who was on my left, who looked at me with starry eyes, and then I looked up to the sky where no tree leaves were in view of the clouds presence. 'Wha- why would it fall out of the sky though?" My head dropped down to look at its features again. "Hmmm…perhaps it's broke," Axel said. I looked up at him, who then shrugged as in 'I-don't-know'. I looked back down and observed the chain that hung suspend at the end of the handle, with a heart symbol at the end of it. "Hmm, maybe it is broke." By then, I walked a few feet away from Axel and started to swing it around like I did with my two swords. "No, no it can't be broke…" I stopped and looked back at Axel who had his finger on his chin with a contemplating look. "That's impossible. It can't be broke." He came up to me and crossed his arms. "Just busted."

My eyebrows crooked in stupidity. "Axel that's the same thing!"

"Well, I don't know what to say. It's broke and busted!" "Well, whatever. It's a weird thing to happen, knowing it's supposed to come up in your hand when you are in danger…" A pause came up. 'Wait- I was fighting Axel, but…' Axel spoke up, interrupting my thoughtful trance. "We were fighting each other. Your feelings must have brought it to you." I looked up at him, feeling the muscles in my face contorted in confusion. "But, I didn't really feel like I was in danger."

"Maybe subconsciously," Axel spoke, as if he knew all the answers to the questions. I looked down, having a feeling that the keyblade came as a protection for me. "Perhaps… but I still would have beaten you either way!" I shot my head up with a smirk. He rose is eyebrows and pursed his lips into a short whistle. "I had no idea you could be so cocky." 'I gave way to a titter. "I'm not really," I said with a wave. "I was just kidding. I'm not really sure who would've won."

"Hmph." He turned around and placed his hands on his hips. I just looked at his smug gesture, as if he knew he probably would have won. For all we knew, it probably would have been a tie the way we were both going at it. "Well, I'm sure you know what this means," Axel began. "Huh?" He was still turned looking suspenseful. "It means that you are able to fight heartless more greatly now." He turned around with a small grin with his hands still on his hips. "We hit the jackpot. Got it memorized?" he said, tapping his head. My eyes turned narrow and grunted a line. "Just if you could at least forget to say that for once…"

"Ha- I don't think that's possible!" My head dropped feeling slightly annoyed. 'Maybe when he's sleep? Heck! He probably even says it in his sleep!'

"Well, I believe it would be wise to continue on this big journey, especially since we got this hunk of metal here to help us along the way,"Axel said. "Yeah, you're right, except that we hardly even started!" His hand waved in the air and he turned around, yet again. "Stop complaining. The sooner we begin, the more ground we are to likely cover."

"Fine." By then, I started to search for my other two swords where I fell from. They were in the same spot; I ran to them, dropped my keyblade and started to put them in my scabbards. "Hey! Uh I don't think you will need those anymore." I looked and saw Axel looking at me. "You got the keyblade now. Using those would just be like a crick in your neck."

"But…" I sighed. 'I guess that would be wise as well, It's just that I haven't used these in ages…'

"Fine, I'll be back." I picked up my keyblade and started on my way back to the house.

Going back to the house through the forest, I didn't realize how far down the sun has gotten. Though I couldn't see the sun through the trees being in the view, I knew a sunset was setting on the east coast of the island. I finally arrived at the brown house and opened the door. When I went inside, the house looked dark of gloom with a discarded feeling showing in its presence. 'This house will be empty for a while.' My head turned to the left and saw a tad pale light from the outside shown through the window by the refrigerator, where little particles could be seen floating in the midst. 'Definitely going to be empty.' My feet subconsciously walked toward the woodened table; I lifted my blades from their scabbards and gracefully placed them on the table. 'So much for using my precious babies.' A sigh came forth as I turned and headed for the door. My heart started to feel heavy, like earlier before I left the house. I decided to look at the interior of the house one last time; everything will be cold when I get back, everything I will most likely touch, if I do come back. My hand twisted the knob and opened it to feel fresh air coming in the cold dome. I went out and closed the door, my feet landing on the 'welcome mat'.

"Of course I'll be back…" With that thought in mind, my feet ran back towards where Axel was.

After a few moments of running, I saw Axel waiting patiently with his head hanging low, leaning up against a tree where the sun shone on him from the east with a resting look on his face. He appeared blameless yet again, like when I first met him. He brought his head up in my direction and saw me with widened eyes. He beamed a grin. "About time you got back."

"Be quiet," I said with a grunt. I walked up to him, still holding my keyblade in hand. "You ready?" I asked him. "Well, that is what I've been waiting, for so yeah."

"Okay then lets go." I went up towards the bush where my backpack was and grabbed it to put on my back; I started walking towards the path where I stopped from the beginning. "Eh, wait where are you going?" My feet halted do to Axel's question. "What do you mean?" I turned around and saw Axel showing a smirk, as usual. "Listen, were taking the corridor of darkness, 'Kay?" My eyebrows crooked. "Huh-what?" I went back towards his stance and crossed my arms. "Were taking that dark path you have control over?" He raised his finger and tapped my head. "Bingo!" Still confused and at the moment, slightly annoyed I asked him yet, another question. "Well, why didn't you tell me that before?" He gave me a smug look. "Since you started off first in front of me, I just wondered where you would lead us to, just to see exactly where you would go."

'That's the point isn't it? There is no where to go on this island. My eyebrow ticked of annoyance as my muscles stiffened. "You know I hate it when you annoy me like that."

"What's to hate?"

"I hate you."

He tittered as his body shook mildly. "You really shouldn't say stuff that you don't mean." He was right, I didn't mean it. I'm just upset that he almost happened to make a fool of me! Out of nowhere, a dark cloud came up behind Axel in swirls. It was tall as Axel; a gulped came up in my throat. He looked down on me, probably studying my face. I looked up and he spoke. "I'm warning you though; I don't feel mighty comfortable using this with you."

"Huh?"

"If you don't wear what I'm wearing, your heart could be corrupted. So stay close." I nodded with consent and got closer to him, but only barley touching him. He placed his hand on my shoulder and forced me by his side on him. "Eh!" I looked up at him and he looked down. He grinned. "Don't get the wrong idea. I'm doing this for you y'know." I grinned slightly feeling uncertain. 'I guess so…' But to me, it was awkward since I only met him just a few days ago. His warm body started walking towards the dark cloud as I followed right by him with my arms around his waist. 'Oh, so awkward.' We both entered together; once inside, my eyes closed out of slight freight, not wanting to see what might be in the darkness, if there was anything. Axel walked a few feet, holding me tightly as I followed suit. My eyelids felt a shiny light wanting to pass through my eyes. I opened them and saw an orange colored sky with only a few clouds in view. There were a few building on both sides of me and what appeared to be a road that I was standing on. Axel let go of his grasp on me and stood in front of me, grinning.

"Well, were here D. Were in Twilight town."

'Twilight town?' My eyes gazed at the buildings and the shops that seemed somewhat empty, almost like a ghost town. It seemed quiet. "Twilight town huh? Is there any people in this place?"

"Yeah, there is a lot might I add. I just transferred where less people could see us."

"Hmm." The glassy windows appeared clean and shiny on the building on my left; I walked up to it and saw my reflection. I gasped; no keyblade. My right hand raised itself as my eyes just almost peered through it. "My keyblade is gone!" Axel came up and I looked at him with fret. "No sweat Deonna. It'll come back when the time is right," Axel said with assurance. "But what if it doesn't?" I let my hand fall, feeling my heart being dragged. He put his hands on his hips. "Don't be silly! It'll come back."

"Mmmm-it better."

"It will," Axel said with a wink. My heart felt funny when he did that, but I ignored the feeling, knowing what it meant. He turned and looked back at me with a grin. "I know what will make you feel better. Follow me." He started walking ahead with a leader posture, while I followed like a puppy. After making a few turns here and there, we both made it to an ice cream carrier where a man was selling ice cream. I was standing on the side of Axel when he took out four munny and put it in the man's hand. "Two sea-salt ice creams please." The man grabbed the money and took out two ice cream bars out of the carrier and handed them to Axel. "Here ya go!"

"Thank you," I said with a grin to the man. "Oh, yea thanks," Axel said. He then turned to me. "Here, eat up!" I took it out of his hand and just looked at it, weirded out by the name. "Sea-salt ice cream?"

"Yeah, don't hate it 'till you try it!"

"Right…" I stuck my tongue out to lick it. It was cold and icy feeling, hardly getting a taste from it. I started to suck on it to warm it up and soon, I finally started to taste the flavor; a creamy cold treat that had the flavor of vanilla and salt. My eyes widened in content to this treat. "This is good!"

"Told ya! Let's go over here." He directed me to follow him over by a bench where a tree was overhead. We walked a few feet and sat down on the cold bench. After a few moments of sitting down, I heard Axel smacking on his ice cream so I turned to look at him. He was eating and smacking on it like there was no tomorrow with his legs crossed and left arm up on the top of the bench behind me. He noticed me looking at him and smiled with blue liquid lining the top of his lip. "Man, your really tearing that thing up huh?"

"Pretty evident hmm?"

"Sure is…" I paused with a thought giving way. "What made you want to look here first though?"

"Twilight town is the town where people who have lost there heart come here afterwards. So most likely, your sis would be here if she disappeared and lost her heart."

"Huh…" My eyes diverted me to look up at the sky with the appearance still the same before; orange and sunny with different hues of red from the sun. 'If my sister is here, then I should find her sooner than I thought. I thought an adventure was supposed to be fun…a well. But it will be more exciting to see her more than anything.' I licked my ice cream once more, grinning in pleasure. 'This did cheer me up!'

"Ahhh!" A voice screeched behind us, making me jump out of my seat. "What in the world!" Axel said as he turned around. My head turned as well to see black creatures down the street, attacking civilians. "Oh great! Just when I was feeling relaxed!" I turned back on my right to look at him who showed an agitated leer on his face. "So this means we should help them right?" He sighed. "Yeah, might as well or else they would just spread all over the place." I stood up with ice cream in hand with my hand on my hip, furrowing my eyebrows. "Why do you sound so reluctant? Come on, let's go help them!" My feet started off as I heard another scream. "Wait for me! You can't start the party without me!" I paused and looked back from his outburst. He came up to me with the stick of the ice bar in his mouth. "Maybe you can start putting that blade of your in good use." I beamed a grin. "Oh yeah!" I looked down at my hand and tried to call it to me. Nothing happened. "Huh? Why won't it come?" My body started to feel whoozy and heavy, almost instantly from trying to call the blade to me. "Wha…what...is happening?" My ice cream dropped out of my hand as I pressed my hand against my head.

"Deonna?"

"Axel…I…" My legs felt weak, making me fall on my knees due to not feeling well.

"Deonna!" I heard Axel call out my name as darkness submerged my mind.

Author's note: Ahhh! What happened to Deonna? Read the next chap to find out(whenever I put it up...I will when I get the chance)