The Dark One walked along with the first mysterious figure that remembered his past along the unforgettable landscape where a great battle took place a year ago. The Dark One kept his hands behind his back as he looked to the figure. "Is this place still fresh in your memories?" He asked.

"I could never forget this place; in fact, I am not sure how anyone of us managed to forget our pasts now that I look at it." The figure replied, staring at the barren horizon like it was his old home.

"Losing your memories is not a challenging thing to let happen to yourself, it happens so occasionally it doesn't even surprise me often."

"But there is still one thing I don't understand: we all lost our memories, but how did you not lose a single one? That is the only thing that I couldn't manage to figure out." The figure said.

Even though the figure couldn't hear it, the Dark One snickered under his breath. "There is still more that needs to be revealed to you, why I kept my memories is one I will have to reveal to all of you once all of your memories return."

"You're kidding, right? It took way to long for me to remember my memories, based on how pathetic some of those losers are, it will take centuries for them to remember!" The figure replied angrily.

"I do agree, it will take time, but once they recover their memories most of them will prove to be useful to us." The Dark One said, "Anyway, I never told you why I brought you here in the first place."

"Well then tell me." The figure spat.

"I am going to send you on a little; I guess you could call it, mission." The Dark One began to pace, "There are certain people that will be arriving on this world soon, people from your memories…"

The figure looked up at the Dark One, tilting his head slightly. It was almost as if he could the Dark One's mind and knew who these 'certain people' were. "And?"

"Simple: I need you to kidnap the princess."

Kairi, Sora and Ven continued to ride through the sky, looking for a world that could be in trouble from the darkness. The only problem was, just as Lea, Roxas and Namine were before; they were having a hard time finding a world in trouble from the darkness.

"Do you think maybe we scared the people responsible for Destiny Island's fall off?" Ven asked the young man that kept his heart safe for twelve years.

"I hope not, if we did, we could have lost our only way of getting Destiny Islands back…" Sora said worriedly.

As Sora and Ven rode ahead of the group of three, Kairi trailed behind, trying to look for any worlds in trouble that they might have past. Kairi then rode a little farther and she immediately halted as she felt a sudden surge of weakness travel through her body. Kairi suddenly began to get dizzy and very weak for some reason, and she felt sick, almost like the time Destiny Islands sunk into darkness for the first time.

Despite her weakness however, Kairi managed to say one word, "So—ra…"

Sora turned around just in time to see Kairi slowly but surely letting go of her keyblader rider. He then quickly called out her name and rode over to her just in time to make her stay on her rider with Ven right behind him. "Kairi, what's wrong?" Sora asked worriedly.

Kairi did not respond and first and she only moved her eyes hidden by her helmet. She knew what had made her feel so sick at that moment: there was a world filled with darkness somewhere close by.

When Kairi's eyes stopped moving, she pointed her finger at the world filled with darkness, which was all too familiar to the three of them. "That world… has so much darkness."

Sora and Ven then looked over to the world Kairi was talking about…

The Keyblade Graveyard.

"No, no, no, we are not going there!" Ven said.

"Well it's the only world we have seen that has had darkness in a long time so why don't we give it a shot?" Sora asked.

"Because that world belongs in the darkness! We don't even need to bother going there!" Ven said back.

"I agree with you there Ven, but the darkness there is feels so strong that I think we kind of have to go there," Kairi said, "Who knows: those people that sent Destiny Islands into darkness could be there."

Ven only sighed. "I really don't think this is a good idea…" He paused, "But if you two insist, let's just get it over with."

Sora then looked to Kairi and said, "Are you going to be alright going there?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine as long as I keep my light going stronger than usual, let's just go so we can get out of there faster." She replied as Sora and Ven nodded and all three of them rode over to the Keyblade Graveyard.

Moments later when all three of them landed on the world, they all looked around when unforgettable memories passed through their minds. It was hard to believe that this was the place they had the fight of their lives a little over a year ago. So many thing had happened on this very battleground: they won the battle of light and darkness, received help from so many friends from the other worlds, lost the life of one they all loved before they rescued her…

The first thing Sora look at was the huge castle that Xehanort had created, which was now barely standing, and he then looked at the hundreds to thousands of keyblades that have lost their power. "You know, no matter how hard I try I can't get this place off my mind…" Sora said.

"I think it's hard for any of us to get this place out of our heads Sora." Ven replied before asking, "Where should we look first?"

"We should just try and stay by each other but spread out, and if one of us finds something, we can just call each other." Kairi said as Ven and Sora nodded before they spread out.

Sora began to walk a little farther distance then he should have had in the graveyard, walking towards some large plateaus that still happened to be standing with some large rocks in front of it. Since Sora figured he was already far away enough from Ven and Kairi, he briefly looked over at the area before looking away.

But something caused Sora to take a double take.

(Keyblade Graveyard Horizon – Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep) Sora turned his head, looking back over at the large boulders that sat in front of the plateaus. On one of the rocks, Sora saw something out of place, something that looked like a little black portal on the rock. Sora then turned around, seeing that Ven and Kairi had walked a little bit closer to him now, so he figured it would be alright to go and check whatever it was out.

It was funny, Sora could have sworn he heard a voice persuading him to go over there saying, "Go on Sora, see what awaits you…" But he quickly dismissed it, thinking it must have been his imagination.

Sora then slowly began to walk over to the boulder, finally making to it and standing a mere few inches from it. Sora then squinted his eyes, seeing there was a small portal of darkness that couldn't have been larger than his hand on its surface.

"Let your friends see what you found Sora…"

Sora turned around quickly: that time he knew he did not imagine the voice. It was funny, Sora could have sworn he heard a voice like that before, and it was a voice he did not like. But Sora felt like he actually needed to listen to the voice, and called out, "Kairi, Ven! Come check this out!"

After hearing their friend's cry, Kairi and Ven ran over to Sora, and when they made it to him, Sora pointed his finger at the portal of darkness. "What is that?" Kairi said. When the Princess of Heart first saw the portal, she began to feel weaker then she already did, but dismissed it and only began to focus in more of her light to make the darkness more bearable.

"Do you think we should check it out?" Ven asked.

"Say yes Sora…"

"I think it is our best shot, I mean we haven't found anything else right?" Sora replied.

"That's it…"

Sora then looked at the portal, ever so slowly bring his hand closer to it, hoping that when he touched it, it would bring them to the place they needed to look.

"Bring your friends too… They need to be touching you to bring them with…"

Sora almost found it odd that he was listening to this voice, but it was weird, the voice had such a perfect temptation touch to it he almost felt like he needed to listen to it.

Sora then took Kairi's hand, which confused her, before Sora said, "Ven hold on to Kairi's hand."

"What?" Ven said shocked.

"If we want to check this thing out together, we need to be holding on to each other." Sora replied. Ventus only shrugged at this, but he decided to listen to Sora and grab a hold of Kairi's hand.

When Sora saw that they were holding on to each other in a chain, he touched the black portal, and almost immediately a blinding darkness caused them to cover their eyes. (End Keyblade Graveyard Horizon)

As soon as the three reopened their eyes, they looked around, seeing that they were in another part of the Keyblade Graveyard, but it was more open and had less plateaus and keyblades. Acting on his gut, Sora began to walk forward, with Ven and Kairi behind him, looking around.

When they made it towards the center of the area the three halted upon seeing a huge sphere of darkness appear in front of them. The three felt almost like they needed to summon their keyblades upon seeing it, but for some reason they didn't. When the sphere began to glow with a brighter darkness, the three noticed what looked to be a figure in the center of the darkness, cradling in a fetal position. At first, the keyblade bearers thought this person was in trouble and were about to help whoever it was.

But then the darkness vanished and the person stretched out to become visible.

(Enter the Void – Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep) The keybladers hearts stopped when they saw who or what it was.

The body suit was the same except it was white and black.

"Is that…" Ven trailed off.

The helmet was the same but it had an unversed symbol printed over it.

"No…" Kairi worriedly said.

And when he landed on the ground reality struck the three.

"It can't be…" But then reality struck Sora...

It was Vanitas's lingering will.


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