[A/N: Another short chapter, but a new character is introduced. As always Kingdom Hearts belongs to Disney and Square Enix.]

When Juliet came too she found that she was lying on her stomach in a very strange black and blue world. She got to her knees and looked around. "Where did I land? I wonder if maybe I'm in the computer." Getting up Juliet looked down to see that she was wearing a black one piece skin tight outfit with blue bands of light on it. "This is bizarre. How did I get in the computer and what happened to my clothes?" Now on her feet Juliet was still unable to figure out where she was, but it looked like she was in a hanger of some kind. "I guess the only thing I can do is take a look around."

As Juliet walked around the strange computerized world she saw nobody, but it sounded like someone was following her. She let the Keyblade form in her hand and without looking back called out "whoever you are I know you're following me." This time Juliet turned quickly on her heel and thrust the Keyblade into the face of the person who'd been following her.

The person who'd been following Juliet was wearing clothes similar to her, but where hers was blue the other person's was red and they wore a helmet. The person went to take a step forward when they found Juliet's Keyblade in their face.

"Don't come any closer. I'm warning you I'm armed." She took a couple steps back still with the Keyblade outstretched. Juliet began to back away from the person while making sure that her Keyblade didn't leave the vicinity of his face. "That's right….don't follow me." She lowered the Keyblade ever so slightly. "Why don't you take that goofy helmet off?"

"My helmet?" This was the first time the person had spoken. "I can't take my helmet off. Can't you tell that I'm a guard?"

"What kind of guard?"

"One of Clu's guards of course." The person could see the confused look on Juliet's face through the helmet. "Don't tell me you don't know who Clu is."

Juliet let the Keyblade leave the person's face. "I don't even know where I am. I was in this place called Radiant Garden in Ansem the Wise's castle. Then there was this beam of light and I woke up here."

The person took a step towards Juliet prompting her to take a step back and raise the Keyblade again. "This is The Grid. How do you not know about The Grid?"

"I'm not from around here. Like I said I was in this place called Radiant Garden and then I came here to…The Grid you call it. Now, are you going to take that helmet off?"

"Fine, fine if it will make you feel more comfortable." The person reached up and removed their helmet. The person under the helmet was a boy with short dark hair; a bit fell right in his face. He looked about sixteen or seventeen years old; too young to be a guard to anything. "Do you feel better now?"

Juliet instead thrust the Keyblade back in the boy's face. "All right I can see your face now and I'm expecting you to show me the way out of this place. "

The boy backed away from the Keyblade not really feeling comfortable with having it thrust in his face. "Would you please stop doing that? Besides if I'm going to take you anywhere it would be to Clu. So, if you don't mind could you please come with me?" When the boy reached out to take Juliet by the wrist he was smacked on the top of the head by the Keyblade.

Maybe I'm going about this all the wrong way. He could know something about the seven lights. It would probably be a good idea to butter him up a little. Juliet had the Keyblade disappear and she tucked the keychain back into her pocket. "I'm sorry about that. You just startled me." She held her hand out to the boy. "My name's Juliet. What's yours?"

The boy hesitantly took Juliet's hand and shook it. "My name is Akio. I'm curious about something Juliet. Are you a program or a user?"

"I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but since I'm not from here I think I'm a user."

Akio suddenly looked excited. "If you're a user then maybe you know my user." His smile slipped a notch. "Oh, but this is going to be difficult. You see I don't know who my user is and-"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Juliet began to walk away when the thought came to her that she didn't know where she was, but the boy did. "Look I don't know where I am, but I do know you so do you know what this world is called?"

"Oh, the name of our world?" Akio didn't look at all puzzled at hearing such a question. "This is The Grid. We're actually neighbors with another computer world called Space Paranoids, but I've never been there." All though he looked a little nervous about whatever idea had come to him Akio still looked determined. "I could take you there if you like. Since you're a user you have no use to Clu. What are you doing here anyway?"

Juliet hadn't heard of anyone with such a strange name, but brushed it off. "Akio, is there something that you've always wanted to do?"

Akio crossed his arms and was silent in thought for a few seconds. "I'd like to meet my user even though I don't know who they are. Why do you ask?"

"Well, the reason I'm here is because I'm trying to get back to my home world."

"How is being in The Grid going to help you get back to your home world? You said you weren't from here."

"I don't think this is going to help me directly, but…." Juliet bit her lip while trying to figure out if she should tell Akio about her mission to find the seven lights. "Can I tell you something? Mind you this is probably going to sound crazy, but you might be able to help me. You know if you willing that is."

Akio quirked an eyebrow. "What do you need help with?"

Juliet whistled under her breath and kicked at the ground with the toe of her shoe. "So, as you know I'm not from here, but I'm also not from the world that I lived in either. I met this man in the world that I was living in and he told me that if I helped him that he'd get me back to my home world."

"Well that sounds fine, but what does he need you to do?"

"You see that's the problem. He needs me to find these seven pure lights that are scattered among the worlds. I think I found one of them already in the Radiant Garden, but I don't even know where to start to find the rest of them; and I was wondering if you could help me."

There was a little glimmer of interest in Akio's eyes at the mention of leaving The Grid. He'd never been out of the computer world and had been longing to see something that wasn't blue and black for the longest time although he'd never admit it. "Sure….yeah I think I could help you out. To be honest I'm actually really interested in seeing other worlds I just haven't gotten the opportunity to leave The Grid."

Juliet was feeling so excited that she was bouncing on the balls of her feet. "You mean it?" She Akio nod his head and had to hold in a squeal. "Oh, you don't know how relieved I am. I thought I'd have to go on this journey all by myself. This is going to be so much easier. So, how do we get out of here?"

Akio began to walk over to the hanger were a control panel sat. "If you come with me I can take you to another world where we could start looking for those lights." He walked over to the control panel and pressed a few buttons which ushered in two beams of light.

Peering over Akio's shoulder Juliet found that this was another one of the moments where she wished she knew more about technology. "So all you did was press a couple of those buttons and….." She saw something moving in the darkness on the other side of the hanger. "You stay here I'll be right back." Making sure that Akio was distracted with the control panel Juliet walked over to the other side of the hanger and she wasn't surprised to see a jeweled Greed Parrot accompanied by a monstrous Pride Elephant with long sloping tusks that glistened in the faint electronic light of The Grid. Looking up at the elephant Juliet readied her Keyblade. "Never seen one of you before."

The Pride Elephant saw Juliet from the corner of one of its beady little eyes and swung its long trunk at her in a blind rage. When it missed the elephant swerved around and flung its trunk out again this time catching her in the stomach.

As she fell off the elephant's trunk Juliet fell hard on her back; the Keyblade clattering out of her hand. Juliet scrambled backwards as the elephant began to stamp towards her and was just barely able to beat the Greed Parrot away as it began pecking at her head. She saw the elephant's foot above her and held the Keyblade up to stab it when she saw a disk flying through the air and striking the elephant in the eye. Juliet turned around in time to see the disk return to Akio's hand.

Akio walked over to Juliet and offered his hand to her. "You need help up?" He took her hand and pulled her up. "You all right? What were those things anyway?"

"I'm fine." Juliet tucked the keychain back into her pocket. "Those are called Wraiths. The man who sent me to look for the lights told me that Wraiths will be lurking in every world that I visit. I'm not sure what they are exactly, but they're pretty nasty so you will want to watch out for them."

"That's good to know. Well, I got the portal open whenever you're ready."