Still on break woot! :) Hope everyone had a good X-mas and a Happy New Year..for some reason it felt wierd for me...I don't know. Maybe because I'm older...I don't know..but yeah enjoy guys !

The group walked through what seemed like a colorful portal sort of similar to what they went through from the False Twilight Town to The World That Never Was."It should be down there." Aqua said pointing to the end of the glimmering light at the end. They walked through and suddenly found themselves in a dark place with a negative energy. "Looks like were here...the Realm of Darkness." It was full of dark cliffs and what seemed to be dark orbs floating around.

"This..is nothing when me and Mickey were here." Riku said. Aqua turned to look at him.

"Well the realm of darkness is a big place...I'm not sure were the two of you were at but all I remember is darkness...darkness everywhere and fighting...that creature..."

"The creature?"

"Yes..I'm positive it was the Keeper of darkness here.. or at least the guardian." Sora eyes widen, was it the same heartless he fought? "We shouldn't stay here we should keep moving."

"Where exactly are we going?"

"Just follow me, I'm been here for too long." Aqua said smiling."I hope you guys are prepared because there will be some fighting."

Riku smirked."I think we can handle ourselves." Aqua smiled again and giggled.

"Ohkay, then." How he reminded her of Terra was unbelievable. They followed Aqua who was walking up what seemed to be stairs. The dark orbs around them began to form slowly into heartless.

"Looks like we got company!" Mickey said while calling forth his keyblade along with the rest of them. The heartless began to growl and form into darkballs and invisibles. Sora began to attack first before the darkball was able to charge at him with his mighty chomps. They began to multiple along with the invisibles. Riku blocked the inivisibles sword and did a counterattack. Mickey and Aqua on the other hand combined their magic together to form a huge light towards both the darkball and the invisibles. The light formed bigger and bigger, dissolving all the heartless before they could multiple again.

"Woah..what was that?" Sora asked.

"Hmm, something me and Mickey dished up a while ago...of course we never actually tried it before."

"Phew...!" Mickey dropped to the floor."But it sure does a number on ya!" He said exhausted.

XxXxxXx

It seemed like forever, all they did was walk, run and fight. It was like a cycle. "Looks like were getting low on potions..."

"We still have enough ethers."

"For now."

"Sora, how you holding up?" Riku asked his friend.

"I'm..okay." He asked walking far in the back, looking as if he was struggling.

"You don't look like it."

"I'm fine." He lied.

Mickey whispered to Aqua."Maybe we should hurry...Sora's not looking good and he's not as strong as us."

"I'm trying but were almost there...just a little more."

They had to jump from platform to platform, go through several heartless again. It seemed like things were turning for the worse for them. Everyone breathed heavily from fighting so much.

"There is no point.."

"What was that?" Sora asked.

"What was what?"

"That voice.."

The three of them looked at each other."We didn't hear anything.."

"Which path have you chosen?"

It was that voice again..from before..Sora looked around confused to see who was talking to him...Riku, Aqua and Mickey looked concerned. Sora was sweaty and looked sick. Aqua placed her hand on Sora's forehead and shrieked back.

"Sora your head is burning."

"You guys don't hear that?!"

"No one is talking, Sora." Riku said shaking his head with worry.

"Don't be afraid.."

Sora looked behind him slowly and felt a present and saw forms of darkness form. It took the shape of himself. But his eyes were red glowing."Watch out!" Riku screamed. Sora being caught off guard was blown back from the impact of the creatures "keyblade".

"What is it?!"

"Whosoever heart is weak it takes the form of the darkness they possess." Aqua explained. "In this case Sora's." The creature looked at Sora's body while he began to get up. Sora breathed heavily...

"Don't be afraid..." The voice was breaking up but those words kept echoing through Sora's mind. Sora was trying to concentrate on who that was from the longest and trying to avoid the rage of his darker self. The heartless was bring his keyblade above Sora's head when Riku threw a dark firagra at it's head making it scream.

"Hey! Over here ugly! Your gonna have to deal with us first!"

XxXxXxX

The shadow heartless turned its attention to Riku and the other two, as it growled very loudly. Making everyone cover their ears. It then began to walk towards them."Here it comes, ugh..!" Sora slowly looked up to see his friends fighting his "shadow".

"Just...Just like before...?" He muttered to himself. He got up and then suddenly felt a dark presence.

"Its a sign that you must embrace.." It wasn't the same voice he heard before but it was Vanitas. He appeared next to Sora..only he could see. Vanitas smirked and rested his body on Sora's."Why fight? It's just going to make things difficult." Sora eyes twitched."Come on, now your only make things worse on your end."

"S-Shut..up..." Sora mumbled. Vanitas stared blankly at Sora and began to laugh.

"Sooner or later...Sooner or later...ha-ha...your just a vessel and always will be." Vanitas said before vanishing back into Sora's mind. Sora was dumbfounded but he couldn't think of that right now, he had to help his friends one way or another. Sora rushed over not sure if his friends were winning or not. But before he could go into battle...It then looked like it was "Retreating" it then sinked into the ground.

"What was that..about?" Riku asked.

"Not sure...but were okay for now..." Aqua said.

"You okay, Sora?" Mickey asked.

"Uh..yeah.." Sora nodded slowly.

"You looked like you were in a daze there...just standing there." His best friend said.

"I'm sorry, about that..I don't know what came over me.."

"It's fine...we should keep moving..."

XxXxX

*Back in the castle*

"Gawersh, Kairi are ya sure you okay?" Goofy asked. Kairi had worry written all over her. She was pacing back and forth in the castle.

"It's been too long...its 3 days...and nothing..."

"You have to remember Kairi, different worlds have different times." Donald smiled."While it's 3 days here...it could be a few hours there." Goofy nodded patting Kairi on the shoulder.

"Donald, is right!"

Kairi smiled weakly and held her arm behind her back."I guess your right...I'm just really worried...I don't know what to do."

"You know Sora! He always comes out in the end..he won't give up just like that, and he's got his friends with him to support him."

"Oh..I didn't say Sora..I meant..." Her eyes wandered with embarrassment.

"Hyuck, it's not that hard to tell Kairi, we know your worried about them all but your specially worried about, Sora aren't ya?"

"Well..." Kairi whispered looking to the ground.

"You two are so cute! Awww just like back in Halloween Town, you both are making the same facial expressions!" Donald laughed.

"Wait..what?!" Kairi yelled. "Halloween Town, what happened there?"

Donald laughed some more and looked at Goofy who also made a chuckled. Kairi looked at them confused."Hyuck, the two of you are such worry warts it's unbelievable ." They laughed some more thinking about Sora being worried about Kairi the whole past 2 years. Kairi was still confused and smiled to herself. She put her red rosy medium hair behind her ear.

"I guess."

XxXxXx

"We made it." Aqua breathed. They were in the middle of nowhere..literally.

"Uh...I don't see it.." Riku said placing his hand on his forehead, stressed.

"Be patience.." Aqua said.

"Huh?" Aqua rose her keyblade and then a keyhole was shown glowing. She put closed her eyes and remembered what it was before it was Castle Oblivion...her home. She thrust her keyblade in the keyhole and then suddenly the darkness began to form into a white familiar castle.

"Here we are." She said.

"Woah..That's amazing..." Sora muttered. She walked opened the door and looked around it was the same as how she left it.. the others followed.

"Do you remember what room he's in?" Riku asked. Aqua stared at her with an obvious look.

"Okay, Okay just asking." She walked ahead and waved.

"Come on." She ordered. They followed her in the rooms, the rooms of emptiness. Riku's feelings towards this castle were unexplainable...his struggle with Xehanort's heartless were unbearable..he almost won.

"It's been a while, hasn't it Riku?" Mickey asked reading his thoughts.

"It sure has.."

Sora looked around having mixed feelings about this..the thought of being here made his stomach turn. Him almost losing his memories of those important to him and becoming a puppet for somebody's else's needs..again...maybe that's all he ever will be is a puppet. He suddenly felt a strong sense of pain in his chest, he groaned in pain clutching his heart.

"Sora? Are you okay?" Riku asked rushing to his side.

"Yeah...I suddenly have this pain in my chest...not good nor bad..but its just there.."

"We might be getting close to Ven, then." They keyblade master said.

XxXXx

Back at the Castle, Kairi to put her mind at ease began to practice her magic skills with Donald and Minnie Mouse. Minnie smiled."Your having process."

"You think so?"

Minnie nodded. Kairi smiled to herself. Suddenly an abruption was heard and the room started to shake. "What's...? What's happening?" Kairi asked trying to get her balance.

"Your majesty! There is something strange happening!" Goofy screamed running in the throne room."Come outside quickly." Everyone immediately rushed outside to see what happened and gasped. As they looked outside their castle the lawn was no longer green but in fact covered in shadows of darkness..

"Whaat?! But the cornerstone...and the castle...its protected!" Minnie shrieked.

"Not quite." A voice said. They turned around to see Xemnas there smiling.

"I...Impossible! You can't be here!"

"I can't?" He smiled.

"But how?!"

"How you ask...?" He said rather slowly."Well..you see Master Xehanort knew from the beginning that you would go off to find Ventus."

"He had this planned..?" Minnie glared.

"He is 10 times further than you will ever know." Xemnas chuckled evilly.

"What are you going to do with us?" Kairi glared. She hated this man...everything he done..to her..to Sora..Riku..everyone.

"Hmm, well I could just collect your hearts to make things easier." Donald and Goofy stepped infront of Minnie and Kairi, with their weapons infront of them."But..." Xemnas laughed to himself."I will just drive what makes Sora angry...and that is to hurt his beloved loved ones." He smirked.

"Your not going to do anything!" Donald yelled. Xemans made a noise.

"We shall see...once he gets back..I can't wait until the darkness drives him to insanity to watch his friends suffer."

"Your wrong! Once he gets Ven! Vanitas will no longer be apart of him!" Kairi screamed.

"That's were your wrong." Xemnas said pacing towards them as they stepped back from each step he took."Vanitas is part of him now...how many years has it been since Ventus and Vanitas became part of Sora? Just because Ven's heart will be restored doesn't mean Vanitas will disappear. Vanitas his him and he is Vanitas. Its not long now until he becomes Vanitas himself. " He explained. "When Ventus's heart is restored, that will be another vessel for Master Xehanort to obtain."

"No..."

"Foolish, humans ."

XxXxX

Aqua placed her hand infront of a wall, the wall then turned into a doorway. They walked in to see nothing but a white chair. "This is it." Aqua said rushing towards the front of the chair. She bent down and looked at Ven's body. It was in the same position as she left it years ago. Riku and Mickey looked at him. Mickey made a sad face, remembering those days. Sora slowly walked over to where they were standing to see Ven's body. He was sitting there motionless...just like how he had witness Kairi with out a heart. Sora frowned.

"So...?"

"Nothing's happening.."

Aqua stood up."Move closer to him, Sora". Sora blinked quickly and walked over to Ven's body. He didn't know what to do or what was going to happen. He looked confused nothing was happening..He suddenly felt a wierd sensation in his chest.

(Sora's mind)

Sora opened his eyes and saw Ventus infront of him. He was fading."What's happening..? Are you...?"

"Yes..I'm reverting back to my body." Sora placed his hands on his chest. He could feel a lot of weight lifted from himself...it felt kind of wierd..

"Don't worry, I'll see you in real life now." Ven smiled."And, Sora...thanks."

(Out of Sora's mind)

Sora suddenly dropped to his knees and clutched his chest some more."Sora?!" Riku yelled. There was a small glimpse of light that came out of Sora's body as it began to float in mid air.

"Is that...?"

"Yes.."

The ball of light made a heart visible, it slowly went back into Ventus's body. Returning his face to normal color. Riku put his hand on Sora."You okay?"

"Yeah...I think so...I just fell wierd.."

"Welp, Sora that's because hes no longer inside you..."

"I know..and I feel like something's missing now.." Ventus began to moan softly. He opened his eyes and looked around.

"Where...Aqua...?"

"Ven!"

Aqua smiled softly, seeing her dear friend begin to wake up. By the looks of it he was completely weak. He tried to get up but was stopped by Mickey."You should be careful."

"Mickey...?" Ven questioned.

"It's great to see you too, old friend!" Mickey grinned. Ven struggled to get up and finally stood up."You must be really weak."

"Yeah...everything just feels...different.." He muttered. Sora stared at him as he stared back at him. Riku looked at the two, as they gave both an awkward stare.

"Um..I really think we should start heading back."

"Your right." Aqua said."This will take some time." Aqua took out her keyblade and walked far towards the door. Her keyblade glowing with an intense light.

"So, Sora how does it feel?" Ven asked.

"How does...what feel?"

"Well..without me there.." Sora blinked a few times.

"Kind of..I don't know...I can't really explain it." And he couldn't...he felt almost kind of weak..not physcially but mentally...sort of...it was like half of him was gone...almost.

"I sort of feel the same way." Ven said. He looked at his hands and looked at his body. Observing himself."I almost forgot how my body feels like."

"Um..." Riku said not understanding what that meant..

"Oh..Ven..this is Riku."

"I know..." Ventus grinned."Sora's thought alot about you." (Yaoi fans XD? Lol)

Riku crossed his arms."I wonder what?"

"Hehehe...nothing bad.." Sora said nervously.

"There's so much you need to see, Ven!" Mickey said.

"I be there is...I've seen most of everything through Sora...but it would be great to see it for myself and to actually experience it."

"Got it!" Aqua yelled.

XxXxXx

"I just need to someone to make a portal back.." Aqua said.

"Yeah, of course, that's when Namine comes in." Sora said. Sora went into his red pocket and took out the device that was given to him."Kairi, it's me Sora? We got Ven..you can make the portal now." They waited a few seconds and no respond. Sora looked up at his friends then back at the device."Kairi? Can you hear me?" Still nothing.

"Something is wrong.." Riku said.

"How are we going to get back..?" Mickey asked. Sora closed his eyes if something was wrong with Kairi and they were unable to get in contact with them...then there was no other way.

"I can alw-No!" Riku interrupted."That's the last thing we want you to do."

Sora squinted his eyes."But if Kairi and the others are in trouble how else are we going to get back?" Sora asked serious.

"Calm down, Sora."

"I am, calm!" Sora yelled. Everyone stared at him. He sighed and calmed down."Sorry..." He mumbled. Ven crossed his arms.

"Well if we don't want Sora to use his "powers" what about Roxas?"

"That's a good idea, Roxas has done it various times..and it should be no problem, right?"

"Right."

Sora placed his hand on his chest."I...I don't feel him.." He muttered sadly.

"What?" Everyone asked.

"I don't...I feel empty..."

"That..that doesn't make any sense..." Riku said."If you can't respond to him...then what about Namine..him and Namine are very similar to Kairi and Sora...they are sort of connected in a way...if something is wrong with the other than someone would know.."

"Then something is wrong with Kairi "

Mickey shook his head. He had a bad feeling something was defiantly wrong in the castle. Sora knew this was a bad idea but it was the only way."We have no choice..."

School begins Tuesday so...I'm going to be working extra hard so I might not be able to write as much as I do. Unless I bring my laptop with me to school on some occasions and brainstorm of boredom lol. Hope you enjoy. I still have other stories to finish..-_- But I really want to do one at a time, because I get sidetrack easily. So be patient -0- What are some good ideas for the next chapter? Give me some ideas! Guys...glad you guys like it! I shall cont. soon! Click that review button! XD