*I don't own ANY of the Kingdom Hearts characters or Disney characters. I only own Katie.

"What's a matter, Riku?" Sora asked his best friend.

Riku shook his head, "I don't know..."

"Sure you know! C'mon, you can tell me Riku!" Sora urged. He slowly made a small grin. "...Is it about Katie?"

Riku's face turned bright red. "Of course it's about Katie!" He let out a long sigh, "I just can't believe everything she has been through in such little time. The way she acted at Radiant Garden made me worry...remember when we went to Earth?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Her eyes. They were gold back then."

"What?" Sora gasped. "But that was-"

"About a month ago?" Riku finished for him. "It makes me wonder what else she has hidden from us. Why doesn't she understand that we could have helped her?"

Sora shrugged. "She has been alone for a long time before we met her, Riku. Maybe she isn't used to others still."

"I know, but Repliku knows more about her than we do. So why she tell him everything and not us?"

Sora thought for a second then let out a sigh. "I got no idea. Maybe something happened to make her not trust very easily anymore or something."

"All I know is that I just want to get her back as fast as we can. From what I saw, she doesn't have very much time left." Riku told Sora. Sora nodded in understanding and looked back up ahead.

Aqua stopped, making the rest of the group stop also. "We're here." The group walked around Aqua and stood beside her. In front of them was a dark cost line, surrounded by large and spikey rocks, making them look like thorn vines. In the night-like sky was an eerie glowing moon. The water looked black and didn't reflect the moon's light. "Dark Margin."

Lea shuddered, "Yikes…I forgot that this place was so creepy…"

"You've been here before?" Aqua asked with an eyebrow raised.

Lea nodded. "Yeah. But I was a Nobody back then." He explained when confusion sparked in Aqua's eyes at the word 'Nobody', "A Nobody is what remains of those who have lost their hearts to Darkness, or become a Heartless. Those with the strongest wills manage to retain human forms while the rest possess malformed, barely humanoid appearances, like the Nobody Dusk. When defeated, Nobodies return to nothingness; however, when a person's Heartless and Nobody both are defeated, that person is restored to their original, complete form, with their memories from their time as a Nobody intact. That's how I'm still around…and Xehanort."

Aqua nodded in understanding and turned to Sora and Riku. "How does this Door to Light appear?"

"To be honest with you Aqua, it just showed up when Riku and I were stuck down here." Sora confessed. "It appeared when I read that letter Kairi sent me."

"You got my letter?" Kairi asked with a surprised tone. "Down here? In the Realm of Darkness? I sent that letter from Destiny Islands!"

"How's that possible?" Repliku inquired. "Destiny Islands is not even close to Dark Margin! Are you saying that Sora's Light opened the door when he finished your letter?"

The group fell into silence. Sora broke the silence by saying, "My Light…my Light! That's it! My Light opened the door! All I need to do is let it out." He waded into the shallow black bay and closed his eyes to concentrate. The Keyblade Wielders and Masters eyes widened when Light slowly bloomed out of the brunettes chest and expanded with bright vines of light. The Light gathered in front of Sora into a large white sphere, the sphere transformed into a ten feet tall rectangle. The Light faded to reveal a large white door. By itself, the door opened. Everyone shielded their eyes from the sudden blinding light exploding from the door. Slowly returning their gaze to the door and Sora. Sora waved at the group and hollered. "C'mon! Let's get out of here!" With that said he ran into the warm white light of the Door to Light. One after another, the group followed Sora's example. Aqua looked over her shoulder to glance at the dark corridors that she called home for twelve years, taking a deep breath; she walked in the welcoming Door to Light. As soon as she walked in, the Door to Light shrank into nothingness.

"Hey, you guys alright?" The groups eyes shot open at the high-pitched voice. They looked up to see King Mickey and Mysterious Tower. Slowly, the Keyblade Wielders and Masters slowly got up to their feet. "You guys had quite a fall. Are you—" His eyes widened at the sight of Aqua. "Gosh, Aqua! You're alright!"

Aqua smiled. "It's good to see a familiar face, Your Majesty." Behind King Mickey came Yen Sid, Aqua automatically straightened up. "Master Yen Sid."

"It has been a long time, Master Aqua…" Yen Sid told her. A brief smile showed under the sorcerer long grey beard. "It is good to see you all again unharmed."

King Mickey looked around with a puzzled look. "Where's Katie?"

"She's not with us, Your Majesty." Riku answered. "We were separated at Radiant Garden, the Darkness took her somewhere…" Worry edged his voice.

"Oh, gosh…how long ago was this?" King Mickey asked.

"What's the date?" Sora returned the question.

"Well, it's the beginning of March."

Repliku's eyes widened. "What? When we left Radiant Garden, it was in the middle of February! We've been the Realm of Darkness for two weeks?"

It was Aqua that said, "The Realm of Darkness' time zone is very confusing. I've learned that the lowers levels are slower than most worlds, the middle levels are about the same time, and upper levels are faster than normal time. We were on the upper level. So it would be very possible for two weeks to pass with it feeling like a couple of hours."

Lea shook his head. "I still can't believe that we missed two weeks in two hours…man, I wonder how long Katie has been down there…"

"She won't be that much longer. We have to find—" Riku was interrupted when a dark portal suddenly formed in the center of the group. The Keyblade Wielders and Masters jumped back and wielded their Keyblades, ready to attack. What came out of the portal was a limp form of a boy with spikey blonde hair that wore a jacket that was white one side and black on the other, the collar of the jacket was red and pleated. Underneath this, he wore what appears to be a grey vest with a single button and several white, angular patterns on it. He wore a third layer under this, in the form of a plain, high-necked, black shirt. He also has a chunk of dull green and grey armor on his midsection that appears to be under his vest, and another piece of armor on his left shoulder. His pants balloon outward slightly before closing up about halfway down his legs, similar to caprice pants. These pants were colored in shades of grey, black, and white. He also wore an ornate, dull green and grey piece of armor on his upper-left arm, along with a black and white checkered wristband with black trimming. Like Aqua, he had two crisscrossing straps on his chest but was black instead of pink, and had the Keyblade Master emblem. His shoes resembled armored version of normal street shoes in shades of dull green and grey. He crashed onto the ground.

Aqua's eyes widened and ran over to the comatose boy. "Ven!"

"Ven?!"