Revelation

Alarm seized my sense's as I tried to mentally grab at anything that would help me. I was so stupid. I should have seen this coming. He had been following me this whole time, waiting for me to be alone. God, I'm an idiot.

Because I hadn't used my brain, Divan was now standing less than a yard away, soaked from head to toe in water with a puddle forming on the floor around his feet. He should've looked like a drowned cat with his hair plastered to his face and water dripping from his chin and hands, but the water seemed to make him more alluring. Slowly drying strands of dark hair framed his striking face, emphasizing the deep pacific blue color of his eyes. His already form fitting shirt clung wetly to every muscle on his chest and arms.

My heart, already hammering from fear, skipped a beat and continued to try and break free of my body. Stupid hormones. I have enough trouble without you adding to it.

Mentally shaking away such thoughts, my eyes shot over to where my bow was lying on the floor. On the other side of the room. My shoulders tensed at the inconvenience. I had to try and reach it. I wasn't going down without a fight.

Swiftly moving to the side, I pushed myself across the floor, reaching for the weapon just out of my grasp. However, fate had intended a different outcome for me. A heavy weight slammed against my ribs and redirected my body into tumbling across the floor, as far away from my bow as possible. I cried out as my already bruised limbs slammed into the wall. The Earth book flew out of my hand and slid across the floor toward my bed.

Breathing heavily, I tried to push myself up, but cried out again as a sharp pain shot from my arm and through my ribs. Just great. He bruised them even more! What a jerk!

Divan composed himself and moved to the edge of my bed where the Earth book had slid. Bending down, he picked it up from the ground and swung around to look at me. Feeling pathetic, I made my body sit up and lean heavily on the wall behind me. I hissed at the movement and wrapped my arms around my torso. I scowled and glared at Divan as he walked casually forward and squatted before me, Earth book in hand. The side of his mouth tilted up in a humorous smirk. Like I was some child that he thought to be funny.

"Now, there was no need for that." He told my haughtily. "I hadn't planned on doing anything to hurt you."

Fear of being captivated by his eyes kept me from meeting them, so I focused my cold stare on his nose. "Then what are you here for?" I asked through my teeth. "What do you want?"

"What I want..." He said seriously. "...is what I can't have." His free hand lifted to trace a lock of my hair that hung in front of my eyes. He pushed the strands behind my ear and slowly pulled his hands away, letting the damp tresses slide from his fingers before letting out a simpering smile. "Yet."

My body had frozen as he played with my hair, but that last word had me frowning in disgust. I considered spitting in his face, but since I liked having my face the way it is, I kicked out at him instead. He caught my foot and shoved it back at me painfully. I grimaced and glared frostily into his eyes. Screw not meeting them. I want him to see how much I hate him.

Divan chuckled at my expression. "I came to talk." He said smoothly, as he turned the Earth book over in his hands.

My frown deepened. "About what?"

He ignored my question and continued to examine the book. I grinded my teeth in frustration. If I didn't get him to leave soon, I was ether going to huddle in the corner of the room and scream for Sora or get really angry and punch his face. I couldn't see ether one of those turning out well.

"About what?" I growled at him.

Divan looked up at me for a second before looking back down at the book as he flipped it open and stood up. "Temper, temper." He chided as he paced away from me. I stumbled to my feet and watched him warily as he flipped through the book. I'm sure that it's not a good thing that he's looking through it.

"Ether tell me what you need to," I said impatiently. "Or leave."

"Patience is a virtue," He said as he leafed to the table of contents at the front of the book.

"And Pride is a sin." I countered icily.

Divan opened his mouth to say something more, but his eyes stopped moving and his voice was lost as he read something on the page. His eyes hardened and I saw the muscle in his jaw tighten as he snapped his teeth together."Well, now..." He said as he flipped to a chapter in the back of the book. "Why would that be in here?"

"What are you doing?" I asked, taking a wary step toward him.

Of course, he ignored what I said and just kept flipping through the book. He skimmed a few pages and shook his head disapprovingly. "This just won't do." And the next thing I knew, he grabbed about twenty pages in his hands and with one swift jerk, tore out the whole chapter from the book.

My mouth dropped open in disbelief as he emitted flames from his palms and burned the pages to ashes. I snapped my jaw shut and lifted my burning eyes to his. "What the hell?!" I exclaimed, stomping over to him. "Why did you do that?!"

Closing the book, Divan faced me and offered it to me. "Here, you can read it now."

I snatched it back and flipped to the damaged section. The whole chapter was gone! "Why did you do that?" I snapped at him, accusingly.

"There was no need for that information to be in that book." He stated coolly.

Aggravation bubbled through my veins, threatening to explode through any open source. Who in the hell does he think he is?! I've had enough! "Out!" I exclaimed, slamming the book closed. "Get out now!"

"What about our talk?" He said pretending to be crestfallen, but had an amused glint in his eyes, from my anger most likely.

"I don't care!" I snapped. "Get out!"

"Fine." He said resigned, walking smoothly toward the door. "I'll leave. But let me tell you this..."

My breath caught in my throat and all my anger vanished as fear jolted through my body. Divan stopped at the open door way and turned back to me, locking his eyes with mine. I felt an uncomfortable burning pressure behind my eyes, like when they had turned gold before. I knew I should have turned my eyes away, but I couldn't move. Darkness, sickly sweet, slid silently across my arms and over my paralyzed body. I could taste it... feel it looking for a weakness. Any way to slip under my skin.

Divans eyes lit up as he felt my fear through the darkness and smiled at it. "My master sent me to give you a warning." He said, darkness coating his words. "He said, 'Tell her that we will be watching her.'"

My body stiffened. "What do you mean?"

"He was impressed by your actions at Castle Oblivion. The way that you saved your friend and how you resisted the pull of darkness... even though you wanted to accept it." His voice took on a questioning edge as he stared at me like a complicated math problem that just wouldn't add up. "Your ability intrigues him. He believes that there might be more to you then he previously thought and wants you to be aware of all of your abilities before he takes you. It would make our job so much easier if you already discovered everything on your own."

So I'm a lab rat now? Awesome. That's just perfect. "Thanks for the warning." I said venomously. "You can tell your master to shove it because I'm not some bug under a microscope!"

Divan smirked. "I'll be sure to pass it on."

Then he was gone.

Blinking back angry tears, I stared at the spot Divan had been standing in. I walked up and slammed the door shut, making sure to lock it. Good riddance.

I stood staring at the wood of the door as the adrenaline rush from the fear and anger pushed through my veins. So now I was being watched? That's just peachy. It's better than being hunted down, but it's like being a bag of popcorn. You find it, heat it up and watch it pop until all the kernels are exposed, and then you take it out and eat it.

I grimaced at my own analogy. I was a bag of popcorn to them. Great.

I kicked the door and went to my cluttered bed, sitting down on the corner. Despair fell over me as I sat there with one hand propped on my knees and holding my head and the other hanging between my legs, holding the Earth book. What was I going to do? What will happen when they suddenly decide that they want me? I can't fight Divan. His darkness is too strong. I would end up falling into it rather than fighting it off. And this master? Who is he? and what does he want me to do?

So many questions... so little answers.

My eyes slid over to the Earth book in my hand. Curious, I flipped open the book to find out which chapter Divan tore out. When I reached the empty spot, I gently ran my fingers over the torn edges of the missing papers stuck in the binding, trying to sense the information Divan thought that I shouldn't know. There were twenty-four pages missing between chapters twenty-seven and twenty-nine. I flipped to the table of contents and searched for the chapter title.

Chapter 28: The Lost Kingdom of Hearts

The Kingdom of Hearts?, I thought bewildered. What is that? What does it mean? And it's lost? Annoyed, I threw the book across the room at the wall.

That worm!

He knew something about whatever was in that chapter and tore it out! Now I'll never know what it said!

I cursed his name up and down as I paced across the room, irritated. I was so absorbed in my ranting that I didn't even notice Kaity exit the bathroom, fully dressed in her other outfit. She stopped in the doorway and watched me pacing briskly between the wall and my bed, spouting out dark profanities.

"If I ask, are you going to hurt me?" She piped up nervously.

Unattractively squeaking, I spun around with my hand over my heart. "God, Kaity!" I breathed as my heart raced. "You scared the crap out of me!"

Flashing a brief smile, she gestured to me. "So, what's up? You were okay ten minutes ago."

Has it really only been ten minutes? It's felt more like ten years since she got in the shower. At her words though, the dark cloud rolled back across my face. "Divan is what's up."

"Divan?!" Kaity exclaimed.

"The arrogant prick just waltzed in here and strutted about the room in his holier-than-thou attitude, man-handling my stuff!" I exclaimed, gesturing wildly. "I mean, really! If he thinks that he can just-"

"Wait, Sam," Kaity interrupted as she walked up to me. "What did he want?"

I crossed my arms. "He wanted to give me a warning." I sneered. "He said that they aren't going to try and take me yet. They want to observe me like I'm some kind of bug."

"Why? and who's they?"

"Divan and his master." I said as I turned around and picked up the Earth book. "Whoever that is. He said that his master wants my abilities to be totally developed and discovered before they kidnap me and force me to do whatever it is they want."

Kaity was quiet. I glanced at her face to see the same silent fear I was beginning to feel as the reality of Divan's words finally registered. What was I going to do? Everyone feels uncomfortable and scared when they know that someone is watching them, but this was different. They didn't want to hurt me. They want to use me. For some reason, I can't help the feeling that death would be so much better.

Opening the Earth book to the chapter contents, I turned it around and pointed at the title of the missing chapter. "Look," I said quietly. "When he was here, he picked up the book and had a freak out when he saw this chapter." Kaity took the book and started turning to the indicated page. "Don't bother, he tore it out and burned the pages." I said bitterly.

Kaity flipped back to the chapter index. "Do you think Riku or Sora might know about this? The Lost Kingdom of Hearts?"

"I don't know." I said as I sat on the corner of my bed. "They don't even know that I took that book."

Kaity sighed, defeated. She sat across from me on her bed and watched me pick up my sketchbook and flip through it. It's a good thing that he didn't get his hands on this or else we would have been totally screwed. As I turned the pages and briefly glimpsed each drawing, I started to become suspicious of the simple book. I began wondering if it was charmed because I never ran out of paper. I must have used about thirty pages by now, it didn't even look like a fourth of the book was used up, much less, half of it.

The last page was a portrait of a dark haired boy with no eyes. I had drawn it while I was on my way to rescue Kaity. A jolt of surprise went up my spine as I realized that it was a picture of Divan. Almost mechanically, I picked up a pencil and drew in the sharp roundness of his eyes. Making them as cold and piercing as I seemed to always see them. Although the finished drawing was in gray scale, I picked up the blue color pencil and shaded in his iris's. I imaged his eyes gentle and laughing. He must be about seventeen or eighteen-years-old. I wonder how he got mixed up in all of this...

"Sam, we have to leave..."

I looked up at Kaity, her words pulling me from my thoughts. She had her eyes closed, leaning forward with her arms resting on her knees. "Leave?" I questioned.

"This universe." She said quietly, opening her eyes. "Before something happens to us... to you. Before you're gone and I can't get you back."

A shared fear washed over me. She was right. We had to get out of here before we were caught up in this too much. Not that we already aren't...

"Yeah..." I sighed. "But for the moment, we're okay. We can use the time to figure something out. I mean, how do you even travel across different universe's?"

"I don't know." She groaned, falling back onto her mattress. "I'm too tired to think about sci-fi space travel."

"Then get up and help me wash our clothes so that we can go to bed." I said tiredly as I stood and went to get my clothes. The day's events started to hit me as my body settled down. Yesterday felt so far away. Have we really only been here less than four days? It's felt like years.

In the laundry room, Kaity and I shoved our damp clothes into a washer and slammed the top shut. Then we proceeded to stare stupidly at the coin slot next to the start button.

How typical.

I turned my eyes to Kaity who narrowed her own and turned on her heel to stalk out the door. Hopping up onto an empty washer, I waited patiently for her to return with some munny. I felt like a child, humming and swinging my legs back and forth as I drummed my fingers on the machine underneath me. Waves of electricity played across my fingers as I moved them in a concentrated rhythm. I closed my eyes and imagined the energy as it moved through my body and to my hand.

I know, it's weird, but I thought of myself as some sort of battery. The thought made me chuckle.

"What's so funny?"

My eyes snapped open to see Roxas walking toward another empty washer with his arms full of clothes. My heart was hammering in my chest again. I let out the breath I was holding and continued to swing my legs and drum my fingers. I'm so sick of people sneaking up on me.

"Nothing." I said as he stuffed the bundle into the washer.

"Sure it was." He muttered as he pushed some munny into the machine and started it. Satisfied, he went to sit on the table in the center of the room.

I noticed that his hair was a shade darker then it usually was. Still wet from his shower. Since his regular clothes were being tossed about in water, he had on a pair of baggy white sleep pants and a red shirt.

"So, do you do everyone's laundry often or are Riku and Sora just too lazy?" I asked as I lifted my hand and began rolling bolts of energy across my fingers.

"They're lazy bums." He smirked. "What about you?"

"We forgot munny." I explained, pointing to the silent washer next to his. "Kaity went to get some."

As if I had summoned her, Kaity turned around the corner of the doorway with some gold piece's in her hands. She slouched to the washer and fed it. When it began pouring water, she turned around and jumped about a foot in the air.

"Jeez, Roxas!" She snapped. "You scared the hell out of me!"

"I've been known to do that every now and then." He remarked with a laugh.

"Speak next time." She retorted. "What are you doing down here, anyways?"

"Laundry, obviously." He said slowly.

"Shut up, I'm tired. " She sneered.

"I kind of guessed." He grinned. I laughed and pulled my legs up to sit Indian style.

We sat in a silence with few spoken words, waiting. I think I might have fallen asleep at some point because I almost face planted on the floor when a loud beep pierced the air. Kaity laughed at me as she switched our clothes to a dryer. Roxas was moving his load as well. Yawning, I slid off the washer and blinked furious, trying to make my eyes focus. I yelped as I ran nose first into a dryer set above another washer.

Laughter burst from the two behind me as I covered my sore nose. "That's it!" I grumbled. "I'm going to bed. I'll get my clothes in the morning. Goodnight!"

I shuffled out of the room and made my way to the stairs. I wonder what time it is... and why there are no clocks around to tell me so. God knows what time we have to start our day tomorrow.

Reaching the room, I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth again (Yes, I'm a freak about my teeth being clean) and to brush and twist my hair into a tight braid. I kicked off my shoes at the foot of my bed and went to triple check that the balcony door was locked. For good measure, I drug over a chair and propped it under the handle. Maybe I'll be able to sleep now.

I threw all of the clutter on the bed into my bag carelessly. I'd deal with it in the morning. Satisfied, I slipped off my jacket, hanging it on the head board, and tucked under the covers, slipping into a heavy sleep.

It felt like only minutes had passed when a rude banging sound entered my unconscious mind, pulling me back to reality. Grumbling unpleasant threats of mutilation, I pulled my pillow over my head. It didn't help any. I could have sworn I heard a low growl from the bed just a couple feet from me.

"Time to get up, girls!" A way to bright voice said from the other side of the door. "Lots to do and no time to waste!"

I'm going to kill him.

I watched as Kaity reached to the bedside table between us and picked up the Earth book. Propping herself up slightly, she chucked it at the door.

"Go away!" She yelled.

There was a low rumble of voice's. "We need to get going."Another voice said, this one deeper. "Don't make us break in and make you get up."

Kaity was already pulling on her gloves. She activated them and created a bunch of small, very sharp, knifes. With another growl, she chucked them at the door too. They each hit and slid through the wood to the hilt of the blade. A chorus of muffled yelps came from the closed door.

There was silence for a moment. "That's it. We're coming in."

Irritated, I threw my blankets off and stomped to the door. I yanked it open and glared coldly at Riku, Sora, and Roxas. Electric waves flashed over my skin and made my hair stand up on end. For the first time, I saw actual fear flash through their eyes.

Good. They should be afraid.

"We're up." I seethed. "Now go the hell away!" I slammed the door on their stunned face's.

No, I'm not a morning person.

Silence was all that could be heard as I stalked into the bathroom. A muffled voice said that they'd be waiting downstairs.

Blinking away the tiredness from my eyes, I turned on the water and splashed my face to wake me up. I gasped in shock as the water hit my skin. I forgot to focus the static waves away. Cursing myself, I made the buzz disappear and restarted my morning rituals.

A few minutes later, I came out refreshed and awake. My hair was pulled back today in a high pony tail that waved and gently curled down my back. I brought my dried boots out with me and hit the side of Kaity's legs with them as I passed her bed.

"Get up, Kai."

She grumbled and rolled over.

I watched her. "If you get up and get ready, there will be food in your near future."

This seemed to get her attention. We both were starving. Kaity staggered to her feet and dragged herself away into the bathroom.

When I got up, I had seen the folded pile of clothes at the edge of my bed. Now, I went over to them and changed my clothes. Kaity must have stayed downstairs and brought them back up. Grabbing my bag from where I had thrown it last night, I placed my other clothes inside. I was just putting the Earth book in my bag when Kaity came out and gave me her clothes.

When everything was packed away, I grabbed my bow and put it comfortably across my back along with my bag. Kaity was ready as well. Double checking that we hadn't missed anything, I gave the sign and we left.

We arrived downstairs in the small lobby where the guys were standing by the door talking amongst themselves. They saw us coming and immediately stopped their conversation. My eyes tightened suspiciously. "We're here, we're starving, and ya'll are buying. Let's go." I said, not bothering to stop.

There was a cute little restaurant not far from the hotel, so we stopped there. It turns out that it's actually later then I thought it was. We had missed the breakfast rush and we entered the small building just as the lunch rush was finishing up. We only had to wait a few minutes before we were seated at a corner booth. Kaity and I ordered immediately, picking the first thing we saw on the menus our server handed us.

Finishing my third glass of water, I settled back against the soft fabric of the booth. The guys had just ordered and were now silently debating something between themselves. Quickly growing tired of their reluctance to tell us anything, I folded my hands in my lap and opened the can of worms. "So, I had a little surprise visit last night." I piped in, just loud enough to not be over heard by the other tables around us.

That got their attention. Kaity had her arms folded on the table with her chin resting on top of them. Her eyes were closed and I would have thought she had dozed off, except at my words her body visibly tensed up.

"What?" Roxas asked shocked.

"When?" Sora asked, rising a bit from his seat.

"Who?" Riku asked darkly.

"Last night when we got back to the hotel after I was done showering, Divan broke into our room." I told them, watching their expressions range from outrage to horror. "He was following me from the moment Kaity and I returned, waiting for me to be alone."

"Why didn't you yell for us?" Sora asked, upset.

"I didn't really have time too." I said, keeping my voice low. "It happened so fast...and I had it under control anyways." Yeah, the last part is a lie, but whatever. No need to worry them more. Kaity shot me a narrowed look. She knew I lied. She knew that even if something had happened, I wouldn't have called for them anyways.

Riku sat back in his seat. "What did he want?"

"To talk." I said quietly. "To tell me that he and his master aren't hunting me down anymore. That his master, whoever it is, wants to watch me... to wait until I've reached my full potential."

"That's good, right?" Roxas said, glancing at Riku. "It will give us some time?"

"It should give us some time, yes." Riku said, closing his eyes. I couldn't read his face.

Sora hadn't said anything. I watched him as his face twisted into different emotions as he thought about something. He seemed to be debating something. Trying to decide on what the right thing to do was.

Our food came out, finally, and our conversation was stopped for the moment. I picked through my food, the thought of Divan's visit making me lose my appetite. But I had to eat, so I ate.

"I'm going to tell them."

I looked up at Sora. The spiky haired brunette was staring at Riku with a hard expression. Riku matched that look, ten-fold. After a moment of silently staring the other down, Riku turned to glare at his food, stabbing at it with more force than necessary. A brief flash of triumph went through Sora's eyes. Sora pulled a small, folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to me.

I took it warily. Glancing at Kaity, who inched closer to read what it said, I gently unfolded the cream colored page. Is this what they've been arguing about since we got here? On whether to let us read this paper? Taking a breath, I began to read:

I wanted to tell you immediately.

There are memories asleep inside you.

Those memory fragments connect to the future.

Sora, Riku, Kairi,

the truth surrounding the Keyblade,

passes through numerous connections,

which are inside you hearts.

Sora,

it all leads to you, and everyone is waiting for you.

The only one who can heal their sadness is you.

It's possible that the travels up until now,

compared to the next trip, may have been easy.

Everything thought to be accidental was really connected,

and the door to a new departure already seems to be opening.

My mouth dropped open in shock. At the foot of the letter was Mickey's seal. This is...

"Oh my... This is the letter from the king! The one you received when you returned to Destiny Islands!" I exclaimed snapping my eyes up to the guys. It didn't seem to surprise them that I knew about it. I looked back at the letter and read through it again. Ever since the ending of the second Kingdom Hearts game, I'd been dying to read the letter. Who would have guessed that I'd read it first hand?

"What does it mean?" Kaity asked, turning to stare at the guys.

"We didn't know what it meant at first." Sora said, leaning back. "That's why Riku and I decided to go see the king."

"Hold on, how long did it take for you to decide to let us read this?" I asked. "When Kaity and I woke up it seemed like you were just about to leave, but in our world you received this letter ages ago." Did time pass faster on Earth? My face paled.

"Well, we would have left weeks ago, but we got held up." Riku said, still hunched over his food.

"The day that we got the letter, I decided to leave again." Sora explained. "But we needed some time to prepare. To collect supplies and leave behind rumors of why we were disappearing again. The morning we had planned on heading out, Roxas just appeared out of nowhere, fast asleep on my bedroom floor."

"That stalled our departure for another couple days because Namine had also appeared as well." Riku put in.

"Then when we had decided that we were finally leaving, Riku found Kaity washed up on the shore." Sora said, after a bite from his food, looking at Kaity. "We stayed to be sure that you were okay before heading out, but then we stumbled across Sam."

"After that, we figured we should stick around until we found out who you two were and what was going on." Riku pushed his plate away and crossed his arms. "When we found out that you were lost, the only option was to take you with us to see the king."

I pulled my legs up to sit Indian style on the seat. I listened intently, taking small sips from my refilled glass of water. Roxas was silent. Huddled in his seat, staring at something no one else could see.

Kaity was a bundle of impatience waiting to explode. "Okay, so, what did the king want? What does this letter mean?"

"The king told us that our journey wasn't over yet. That there were still people that needed help." Sora started. "He told us about something that happened a long time ago, when we were young. There were three students, training to become keyblade masters. One of them received the Mark of Mastery and the other two ran away. One of them, Terra, was being taken by the darkness. Ventus, the youngest, went to try and save him. Aqua, the new keyblade master, was sent to bring back Ventus."

"To make a long story short," Riku cut in. "Their journey was long and hard. The king couldn't tell us much because he wasn't with them for most of the journey, but at the end, they were battling in the Keyblade Graveyard. A desolate world where a long ago battle was fought between keyblade masters for the power of Kingdom Hearts. He said that what happened during that time was what started this whole mess."

I felt dazed. I remembered reading about the new Kingdom Hearts game that came out just a few weeks before I went on the cruise. It was a game telling of the past... ten years in the past. A story of three keybladers. I don't know the whole story line or even the ending, but I know the characters and some of their relations to the present. I knew of the antagonist, but not of what happened to him. The game had just come out. Not enough time had passed for anyone to post walkthrough videos of the games online.

Well, crap.

"The king told us that we needed to go to Yen Sid." Sora said. "That everything will be explained there."

"Okay," Kaity said, looking overwhelmed. "So when did you learn about who Sam and I really were?"

Sora looked to Riku. "That was later," Riku said. "After we had eaten, I went to find Mickey. I wanted to know why he wanted you two to come with us. He told me that you two might be a part of this more then he thought. Then he told me who you two really were and where you were from. Shortly after that, I ran into Sam wondering around the castle."

And now that conversation makes so much more sense. Or at least his emotions behind it.

"I told Sora and Roxas the night Kaity went missing." Riku said.

"So, why do you have to go see Yen Sid?" I asked.

"To receive our Mark of Mastery," Sora said cheerfully. "To become true keyblade masters and fight against this new threat that Yen Sid is supposed to tell us about."

"And to stop the coming war." Riku said solemnly.

You are the one who will end this war...

The words startled me. I stared wide eyed at the four people around me. The visions and conversations from the past few days flooded into my mind. I was mentally drowning.

They fight for control.

"In you, these powers are stronger, untamed, erratic, and you haven't even realized that you posses such power..."

They fight for balance.

"Although, as these hearts battle through their path, not even Kingdom Hearts can see how this war will end or where their destinies may lead them..."

They will rise where many have fallen.

"Just remember, my dear. There are something's that just cannot be changed..."

They fight for the Kingdom of Kingdoms.

"He believes that there might be more to you then he previously thought..."

They fight for the Key to the Door.

"... there is a light in her heart. It's blinding... brighter than even Sora's..."

They fight for you.

Realization dawned on me. A revelation. I stood up abruptly, knocking the table in the sudden movement. I looked at the others and saw their faces take on the confusion I'm sure that my own face of horror brought.

"We have to go see Yen Sid, now," I said, my voice strained. "I think that Kaity and I are more involved in this then anyone thinks."