Kairi sat in the corner of her cell with her head on her knees, trying to think of a way to get out of this castle, but nothing came to her. The princess had already tried to get the bracelet off but that only caused her pain, and the fact that it already had healed into her skin didn't help much.

As she continued to sit there, the only thing that went through her mind was Sora. The red head knew that he was probably panicking right now looking for her. The problem was however that whenever he panicked about losing her, something would go wrong: it happened the first time when she was fourteen, the second time at this very castle, and who could forget the time she became one with the X-Blade and Sora nearly died because of it?

Kairi was about to worry more about her boyfriend but the door opened again, this time being the one Kairi believed to be Isa, since he had a huge red X on the front of his white coat. At the sight of him, Kairi stood up, knowing from past experiences that whenever he walked into the room, he always had something to say.

"It looks like you will be allowed outside your cell for now," Kairi knew for sure now that it was Isa, due to his unforgiving voice.

"So what, you are going to let me go roaming the castle Willy nilly?" Kairi spat.

"I am afraid not, that risks too much," Isa continued, "The only reason why you are being let out is because our master wants to have a word with you…"

Kairi froze as if Isa's words dipped her in ice cold water. Was she finally about to meet the mastermind behind these wills, finally meet the one that probably sprung the idea to sink her home world into darkness?

The princess did not have time to ask questions however because Isa quickly unlocked the door to her cell and grabbed her by her red hair, throwing her one the ground outside of her cell. At first, Kairi was overjoyed to finally be outside that confined cell, but then she soon began to feel the pain surging though her hair roots, and in the hands that had rubbed so hard against the ground.

Isa didn't stop there however and forced Kairi to stand, grabbing her by her hair once again. Isa then grabbed Kairi's hands and put them behind her back, and the princess could tell that he was tying ropes to them as soon as she felt the first ache of pain in her wrists. The lingering will then place a black blindfold over her eyes and forced her to walk. Even though the princess could not see anything and didn't know where Isa was taking her, she knew that where ever it was it couldn't be good.

After walking for what seemed like a long time, Kairi finally felt Isa's will force her to sit in what felt like a chair with her hands still tied behind her back. She admitted to herself it was not a very comfortable way to sit, but she did not show any signs of fear. The will then took off her blindfold, and was shocked by what she saw:

In front of her was a table, a huge, long, white table with nothing on it what so ever. The room she was in was different from the others she had seen, having the white walls but it seemed almost darker in here than in the other rooms. But what scared Kairi the most was that there were many lined weapons on the walls; all seeming to be on display but that did not make the princess feel very safe. Many of the weapons she actually recognized as keyblades from the Keyblade Graveyard, but it also had several creepy looking tools of war like swords stained with blood and She was especially scared of one that had a long golden handle with a glowing blue gem in between two encircled silver blades …

Kairi decided silently to take her eyes off of the weapons and instead looked towards the door to get out of here, thinking that she just might be able to get out of here. But when she looked over she saw Arlene and Vanitas's lingering will standing next to the door, which was clearly locked. The princess then decided to look in front of her at the other end of the table, but all she saw was a chair that had its back turned to her.

There was a long period of time when it was just silent, until whoever was sitting in the chair across the table spoke. "It has been a long time, Kairi."

Kairi froze when she heard the voice. She knew who the voice belonged to, and it was her worse nightmare. Awestruck, the only word the red head could say was,

"You."

The person at the other end of the table chuckled, which only proved to Kairi even more that this was who she thought it was, who everyone thought it was.

"My name is not 'you' Kairi, maybe if you actually saw me for yourself you will be wiser with your words."

Kairi looked away and stared at the ground, afraid to look at the person as he turned his chair around to look at the princess from across the table. Don't show fear, she thought, it will only make them feel satisfied…

As much as she didn't want to, Kairi finally brought her head up and looked across the long table. She tried to keep a straight face when she saw the all too familiar armor that looked identical to Xemnas's when Sora and Riku fought him in the world that never was but it was pitch black and dark silver. She tried to find the eyes underneath the helmet, but as she predicted, they were nowhere to be found.

This was Xehanort's lingering will.

Kairi looked away again, back down at the ground as the will let out a deep laugh. "I am finding your reaction to this quiet hilarious Kairi, you truly are terrified."

So much for trying to not show fear… "Well if you saw the most powerful enemy you have ever faced alive after you thought he was dead I am sure you would have the same reaction."

"You should know by now that I am not alive, at least not fully," Xehanort started, "This is just my will taking the form of my armor. And unfortunately the most powerful enemy I have ever faced is still alive now."

Great now he was basically threatening Sora. "Why are you doing this? Actually, how were your wills brought back after a year?"

"I would not be lying if I said we didn't have a little help…" Xehanort trailed off, "But you do not need to know that information until we are done with you."

Kairi looked at Xehanort from across the table, trying to read his expressions to see where he was going with this, but he was just a lingering will, he didn't show emotions. "So I take it you have a new plan to bring the worlds into darkness like always?"

"Not necessarily…" The will continued, "Bringing the worlds into darkness will always be the final part of the plans we make, but things different now; we have turned over a new leaf."

"You aren't making any sense…"

"It doesn't need to make sense to you now."

Kairi growled under her breath. "Well whatever your plan is, I hope you do understand that no matter what you plan to do, Sora and the others will defeat you, just like last time."

Xehanort stood from his seat and began to laugh even harder as he walked over to Kairi, traveling along the side of the long table. "I am afraid if everything goes according to plan, Sora will not be saving anyone ever again."

Xehanort was now right next to Kairi's chair, or at least he was until he pulled the chair out so that Kairi was facing him. "And even if he does manage to survive what we have planned for him, he will not live through the horrors that will come to these worlds once we have Kingdom Hearts." Xehanort leaned in close to Kairi's face, intimidating her. "What do you say to that?"

Kairi knew she was going to regret to words as soon as they left her mouth. "I say that you should get a new hobby instead of trying to conquer Kingdom Hearts and sink the worlds into darkness."

As soon as the words left her mouth, Xehanort took his hand and grabbed a handful of Kairi's hair in it, literally lifting her from her seat. She tried to fight back, but since her hands were still behind her back, she was helpless. "You might be a princess Kairi but that does not mean you have what it takes to defeat us this time."

Xehanort gripped on to Kairi's hair harder as he flung her across the room, causing her to crash into a wall and land on the floor, losing her breath for a moment. "In the end you will always kneel; all of you keybladers will kneel to me!"

Xehanort then teleported right next to Kairi, leaning over her as he kicked her violently in the chest. Kairi heard the monster take several deep breaths to calm down, before he turned to Vanitas and Arlene's wills. "Do whatever you want with her, but do not kill her… not yet."

And with that, Xehanort left the room and all that could be heard was Arlene's evil laughter. Out of the corner of her eyes, Kairi saw Arlene's will walk over to her, one of her knives in hand. The will then forced Kairi into a sitting position against the wall as she began to run her fingers through the red head's hair.

"I remember what it was like to have hair…" She began to say, "I sure do miss it, maybe you wouldn't mind giving me some of yours?"

No, Kairi thought. She had been growing out her hair ever since she was fifteen, and it took a long time to get this long. But Arlene did not care to listen as she grabbed Kairi by a handful of her hair and took her knife, slowly cutting the hair painfully. Kairi cried out in pain at certain parts of the process, since the will carelessly 'slipped' her hand and 'accidentally' cut Kairi's head open.

Once Arlene let go of Kairi's hair, the princess fell to the ground, seeing that her hair was now just above her shoulders and Arlene was holding the several inches of red hair in her hand. Kairi felt the blood slowly start to drip down the cuts in her head as she looked over at Vanitas's will, who had surprisingly did not do anything yet. The will just stood there, watching Kairi the whole time as Arlene laughed and played with the princess's hair…

And the several more beatings the princess received from the will afterwards.


I apologize now that this chapter was just so... dark. I mean I told you guys in the first chapter that this story would be dark but this was kind of bad...

So to make it up to you guys I am going to try to make the next chapter funnier! Honestly, humor is probably the hardest thing for me to write but I am going to try!

Also, we will be meeting Even's former master in the next chapter, so be prepared for that. I am not sure if you guys will like this characters appearance, but I am also shocked that more of you haven't guessed who the master was... I make it kind of obvious...

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