*I don't any of the Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy VII characters, I only own Katie.

Katie groaned loudly as she opened her eyes, she felt like she got hit by a truck. "Good Lord!" Katie exclaimed as she looked at her hand; her hand looked like it was in 3-D and she wasn't wearing her normal glasses or her 3-D ones. "What's going on…?" She asked herself as she slowly got up. As soon Katie got on her feet, she stumbled back down to the stone-cold floor. "Well this sucks…" Katie grumbled. Katie lifted her head up and looked around, from she could make out from the blurry shapes, she was in some kind of cell. Squinting, Katie looked through the bars, trying to see what the outside looked like. She thought she was going to have a heart-attack from what she saw on the wall facing her, it was the Nobody symbol.

"Crap…Castle That Never Was…" Katie let her head hit hard on the stone floor and let out a big angry sigh, "Why am I here? I'm no use for the Organization…I think." Katie drummed her fingers on the stone floor as she tried to figure out any reason why she would be in Castle That Never Was. 'Got a dark heart? …Nope. Got a Keyblade? I wish! Somehow became a Nobody?...Ha! That's funny! So…what is it?!' Katie asked herself. 'Okay…I saw old fart Xehanort. So…this Xehanort Organization…and they need one more vessel to get thirteen dark hearts.' Her mind clicked with an answer, "I'm here to be a vessel!" Katie shot up and willed herself to get on her feet. "Oh no! I'm SOO not gonna be another puppet of Xehanort's!" She grabbed the cell bars and shook them, "Let me out, stupid heads!"

"Oh, as if!" A dark portal formed outside the cell and a man dressed in black with an eye patch walked out of the portal.

"Xigbar!" Katie growled. "So I was right! You guys are gonna use me as the thirteenth vessel!"

"Bingo! You're a smart one, kid. It took forever for that other kid to figure it out." Xigbar laughed, "I see you got that angry look down, too!"

"Trust me, if I wasn't in this cage, I'd punch you in the nose…" Katie looked at Xigbar angrily, "So, why haven't you guys turned me into a host yet? Too scared to or something?"

Xigbar smirked, "You aren't very easy to pull into sleep. It's like your heart refuses to!"

" 'Sleep'? Like you did to Sora? Is that why my vision is so…messed up?"

"Right again, kid! Every tactic we tried, you just didn't fall for it! You're a little too smart, if you ask me." Xigbar smirked, "You're vision is messed up, huh? That's good! That means we're getting closer!"

Katie sighed then smiled mischievously, "I did graduate from high school early." Katie said a-matter-of-factly. "Tell me. Why did the old coot chose me? I'm a girl! That's a little weird, a guy taking over a girl's body."

Xigbar laughed when Katie said 'old coot', "Glad I'm not the only one who calls him that." He shrugged, "Don't ask me why. I just assumed you had a strong heart like Sora's; maybe even stronger."

"Okay, you and I BOTH know no one's heart is stronger than Sora's."

"I guess that's true…" Xigbar smirked, "You be a good girl now!" He disappeared into the darkness.

"Hey, wait! Xigbar!" Katie slammed her head on the bars, "Great…I'm on host-row." Katie mumbled under breath. She turned around and sat in the middle of the cell. She crossed her legs and folded her arms across her chest. "I hope Terra's alright…" Katie sighed. Her eyes widened and quickly put her hands into her pockets, she was relieved when she felt a star-shaped object. "Phew…glad I still got his Wayfinder…wait…" Katie pulled out the charm and looked at it. "I wonder if…I can make D-Links." Katie whispered to herself. With sluggish movement, she looked around. No one was watching. She smirked weakly and thought of the list of people connected to the Wayfinder. 'I doubt he'll be able to lend me something. But it's worth a shot.' Katie thought as she closed her eyes. With hard concentration, and willing herself not to go to sleep, she imagined the person she was trying to contact. 'Black, spikey hair. Blue eyes. Black sweater-like thing with armor on the shoulders and black pants stuffed into combat boots. BIG sword strapped onto his back…' Katie listed to herself. She waited for a few minutes, nothing happened. She tried again…still no result. Katie opened her eyes slowly and growled. "Thanks for nothing, Puppy…"

"Did someone call for me?" asked an energetic voice behind her.

Katie froze and slowly turned her head to look behind her, oddly, no one was there. "Hello?" she asked cautiously.

"You can only see me if you close your eyes!" the voice spoke again.

"And how do I know this isn't a trick from old fart Xehanort?" Katie growled. She felt crazy, talking to thin air.

"Who's Xehanort?"

Katie sighed, "Never mind." She closed her eyes like the voice told her to do.

"Good! Now open them!"

"What? I just closed them!" Katie complained.

"It's okay! I'm not playing any games with you!" the voice chirped.

Katie groaned and opened her eyes. A transparent man was kneeling next to her and smiled at her like he was thinking about pulling a prank on her. Katie raised an eyebrow, "Zack?"

"You know my name, huh? I must be more popular than I thought!" Zack grinned. "So, what'cha need?" Katie pointed at the cell bars and told Zack how she got here and where she was from. Zack gave her a look every once and awhile but believed every single word. "So you need to escape?" He asked.

"Yes. I need help doing so. I don't have a weapon or magic spells, so I'm pretty much defenseless." Katie said. She yawned and rubbed her eyes, "And I'm not in the best condition to escape, if you know what I mean."

Zack pounded his fist on his chest, "Sounds like you need a hero!" He grinned. "And I've got just the thing…" Zack mumbled as he dug in his pockets. "Ah-ha! There it is!" He pulled out a small green orb and tossed it to Katie, who snatched the orb from the air without breaking eye contact with the former SOLDIER.

Katie looked at the orb, she smirked. "Materia. Sweet." She commented as she shoved the orb into her arm. "So which element is this one?"

"That is for you to figure out. But to give ya hint, I'd use it on the cell bars." Zack waved goodbye as he faded away, "Let me know if you need some more help!"

Katie smiled as she watched Zack fade away. She slowly got up to her feet and stumbled over to the cell bars. "Here goes…" She mumbled as she raised her hand newly equipped with Materia. Katie's palm started to feel hot and a small red orb started to form around her hand. With the jerk of her arm, a huge fireball flew towards the cell bars, melting them on contact. "Sweet…!" Katie commented as she stepped over a puddle of liquid medal and through the clean hole the Firaga melted for her to escape. "I need to find Terra fast. As soon as Old Fart figured out I flew out of the nest, all hell's gonna break loose…" She broke into a run down the white hallway, hoping to find her friend.

"I gotta be close…I can feel it in my bones!" Katie grumbled as she ran up a large spiraling staircase. She lost track of how long she's been searching for Terra and she didn't really care at the moment, she won't leave the castle unless Terra was next to her. Katie got to the top of the staircase and almost turned a corner until she heard voices. As fast as she could, she hid behind a column and got her Materia hand ready. The voices got louder as they got closer, Katie was about to jump them until she heard their conversation.

"…I just don't understand why Master Xehanort chose the female, that's all." Said a young-sounding voice.

"From what he said, her heart is equally made of darkness and light. She's strong willed, too. For being able to stay awake with our most powerful Sleep spell, that is." Answered a deep, dark voice.

Katie heard the young one scoff. "You mean 'barely' awake. She has to be close to falling for the spell by now. Her heart has to give up at some point…" 'You wish!' Katie retorted in her head.

The deep-voice sighed. "We may not know. Hearts are unpredictable, after all." Katie heard their footsteps stop.

"What is it?" asked the young one.

"There is someone else here…" 'Oh, shit…' Katie thought. With sluggish movement, Katie moved into the shadows, out of sight. Right before one the owner of the voices looked behind the column Katie was formally hiding behind.

"I think your senses fooled you once again. There is no one here besides you and me." Said the young voice cockily. Katie heard footsteps again. "Let's go. We need to see the progress of Number XIII…"

Katie waited for a few moments to get out of her hiding place. She walked cautiously into the open with her Materia hand slightly raised, ready to attack if she had to. With a sigh of relief, she lowered to hand; happy that the two people left. She scratched her head. 'Number XIII? Was that referred to me…? Or someone else…?' Katie asked herself. Either way, she was running out of time. If that was any of Xehanort's, she's going to be in big trouble. She burst into sprint, worrying about the time she had left. As she ran, she heard sounds of battle. Katie followed the grunts to a wide space with a great view of the fake Kingdom Hearts. "I know this place…this is where Sora fought against Xigbar." She walked over to a railing and looked down. She gasped at what she saw. A swarm of Neoshadow and Shadow Heartless were surrounding around a person in a black coat with the hood up and holding a sword that looked like Soul Eater. From Katie's point of view, this person was losing big time. 'Organization or not, this person needs help.' Katie told herself. She quickly raised her Materia hand and launched a powerful Firaga at the Heartless.

WOW. That was a long chapter...^-^'

So! Who do you think the hooded figure is? (Honestly, I don't know myself at the moment O_O) Tell me in a review-thingy! xD