Jacob looked up from the ground at the hooded figures black face. It looked back into his soul with the shadows that filled the hood, and it was terrifying. Its weapon manifested on its back, and Jacob's in his hand. As it was unsheathed, Jacob realized this wasn't the same figure that struck Cloud down. The weapon was Cloud's. The exact same sword, wrapped in bandages, as long as him, and as sharp as a lions fang.

"Cloud?!" Jacob yelled, hopeful the figure would stop, and it did. It curiously looked at the weapon, as if it was trying to remember. The weapon then evaporated, the figure pulled down its hood, and the shadows were lifted. Cloud's hair flourished out, he looked at Jacob, then down at himself. Almost in a hurry, he faded away. Jacob sat up confused about what just happened. He put away the Keyblade and stood back up. The sounds of people came back to Traverse Town, which were comforting after what he just witnessed.

He followed the sounds of people to the Market district of Traverse Town. To him it was exhilarating. The lights, the stalls, the shops, the crowds, it was all very new to him. Whilst all this was going on, he was still trying to fathom what happened with him and Cloud. Who were the hooded figures and why did he keep seeing them. He took refuge in a nearby library and immediately consulted the notebook.

Ellie, Yuffie, and Leon now sat in their Gummi looking out to the Tower, and around at all the worlds, beginning to look dark. "We should get going" Ellie said.

"Decided where yet?" Leon asked. Ellie looked in the book again, scrolling her finger down the page before quickly picking out.

"Twilight Town. We'll go there." She entered the co-ordinates into the navigation computer, taking them to Twilight Town. They arrived and walked into town, relatively filled with people shopping and walking around. There was a clock tower, a few shops, many different posters around.

"Doesn't look like there's any Heartless here" Yuffie said. Then a few people ran past time, looking scared from something.

"What's got them in such a hurry?" Ellie said, confused. They followed the people to a courtyard, where they stopped and all sat down for a break.

"What are you running from?" Leon asked. A guy wearing a long white coat, and short blue vest stood up. He held out his hand to Leon.

"I'm Seifer. this is Fuu, Rai, and Vivi." Leon ignored Seifer's hand and Seifer lowered his after not getting a response. Ellie stepped up and took over from Leon.

"You all look like you've seen something unexplainable." Ellie said, in an attempt to pry information from them. They all sat there, looking more focused on withholding information rather than sharing it. Seifer then spoke up.

"You wouldn't believe us if we told yo-" He was interrupted by Fuu. She stood up, and pushed Seifer out of the way.

"Seifer, Rai, Vivi, and I were looking for Hayner when we suddenly ran past this random kid who came out of nowhere. Seifer decided to-"

"I decided to greet the new kid and welcome him to Twilight Town..." Seifer said, in an attempt to cover up his shady personality. Fuu then carried on.

"Yes. And when he - 'greeted' the new kid, these black creatures came out of the blue." Ellie, Yuffie and Leon got intrigued and Yuffie stepped in.

"Where was this? How can we get there?" Yuffie questioned, putting the group on the spot. They all thought for a second and remembered where.

"The station! It was at Twilight Station. You can follow the signs there. It's not too far, you should be able to get there in time. Don't know why you'd want to though, those things could still be there." Seifer said, but little did he know that they were counting on the Heartless still being there. Without as little as a goodbye, Ellie, Yuffie, and Leon went to Twilight station in the hope of finding clues.

When they arrived, they heard the clock tower bell ring. They saw the time was six in the afternoon, and realised how early it still looked around. "Weird, the sun is at midday position." Yuffie said. They all looked up at the sun and the clock, confused. They were then disrupted by the sound of crashing coming from a nearby alleyway. They quickly walked toward it and looked around the corner to see knocked over crates. They then saw something white, thin, and flexible run out of the alleyway and chased it.

Ellie ran ahead, but as soon as she got out of the alleyway, Yuffie and Leon were barricaded by a wall. They could only see it when hit, and it made a purple wave which quickly faded. "Ellie, we'll find another way around!" Leon said, then him and Yuffie ran off to find another way to the courtyard Ellie was in. Ellie turned to the courtyard and out jumped the white, flexible creature with a zip for its mouth.

Ellie took the basic routine, and struck at it with her Keyblade, just like she would with any Heartless. When it suddenly dodged out of the way and dashed behind her, she knew she wasn't dealing with a Heartless. There was a sign on its forehead, one that she'd seen in the bookcase back at the tower. "What are you?" she rhetorically asked. it then dashed at her and she realized she could use the momentum of the Keyblade to swing around behind it. "Oh, guess you wanna play rough" she said, whilst striking at it from behind with a fire ball.

The creature was hit but once again dodged the second attack. Ellie realized how to defeat, and so she kept swinging around, striking, and swinging around, and striking until the creature burst into flames. Leon and Yuffie finally found there way around, and saw Ellie had defeated it. "What was that thing?" Yuffie asked. Ellie put away the Keyblade and turned to Yuffie and Leon.

"It wasn't a Heartless." She said. "It was fast, agile, and there was a symbol on its head. One that I'd seen in the tower."

"We'll have to deal with that later." Leon said.

"I concur. Lets continue to Twilight Station." Ellie then led the way to Twilight Station eager to find out what had happened there with Heartless, which she most assuredly knew were once there.

Jacob found a corner in the library where he sat quietly looking through the notebook. He found a section on the hooded figures, who were known as Nobodies. These were created whenever a heart was swallowed by darkness to become a Heartless, and the remaining parts were left behind to create a 'Nobody form.' At first he was confused, because he didn't see cloud turn to a Heartless.

He thought about the possibilities, that maybe Cloud could've been in the process of being consumed. Of course, Jacob didn't know much about Cloud, so he couldn't really say much, only theorize. The description matched Cloud, so there was no doubt he was a nobody, but there was still the case of how. "Cloud, what happened to you?" Jacob said, hushed.

He decided it was time to leave and look around the Town some more. He stood up, put the notebook away, and walked out. The Market was quieter now that it was nighttime and he felt obliged to look around the stalls. He then saw the Gummi stall, which Cid ran. This opened up a window of opportunity to find out more about his Gummi, due to the notebook being vague apart from how to use it.

"Um hello!" Jacob said at the stall.

"Hello young man. I haven't seen you here before. Where you from?" Cid asked.

"I came here in a Gummi. I was wondering if you could tell me anything about it?"

Cid paused, and wondered how Jacob had a Gummi. "What's your name?"

"I'm Jacob."

"I'm Cid, nice to meet you Jacob." Cid shook his hand.

"Nice to meet you too, Cid. So about my Gummi-"

"How and where did you get your Gummi?"

Jacob wasn't sure what to tell Cid, due to him not being sure himself where it was he got the Gummi. "I think you better come look for youself..."