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(age 21 until further notice)-

It's been 4 years since that horrific day.

Hope Daniels was never the same after the destruction of her home and the loss of her two best friends. She stopped talking to her other friends that she had come with to the town known as Traverse Town, a world where people would sometimes end up when their world was destroyed by the Heartless. She would smile sometimes, but it wasn't a genuine smile. It was one that held pain, grief, and most of all, guilt. She had lost everyone and everything most precious to her. But, amongst all these negative feelings and hatred, her heart still held light inside of it. It's what kept her out of the darkness. She had nightmares every night about the accident. It was painful to even sleep at times, and sometimes, she went without it, in fear of having to watch everything happen all over again. She blamed herself for not being able to save her friends, and for being weak, something that the general had taught her when he was training her.

She had failed her loved ones. She had failed her grandfather, Lea and Isa, and Ienzo…..Ienzo. She missed the child she had adored so very much. He may have not been her child, but he was her baby, and she loved him a great deal. She had promised she wouldn't let anything ever happen to him, and she had broken that promise, because now, he was gone too. How she missed Lea and Isa and their daily activities of eating sea-salt ice-cream. Lea…she blamed herself for his death. She hadn't been fast enough to get him, and he was gone because of her too.

But…somehow, through all of this, she still had something that felt like it shouldn't have been there. She had hope. There had always been possibilities in her mind that maybe…just maybe her lost ones had lived. Even though she had once spoken of the possibility to Squall, who now called himself Leon, he had told her that she had to move on and try to live. After that, she had stopped speaking to him and everyone else, except for Merlin, the man that had taught her how to use magic, and he liked how she still had that small bit of hope inside her. But, she hated the feeling of it. She knew that there was no one left. They were all gone, and she would never see them again.

And it was all because she wasn't strong enough.

I twirled the flame symbol on my necklace around as I walked home from the accessory shop. Everyone was still inside their houses because of the Heartless raid from earlier. More lives were taken away because of them, and more people grieved. The only sound that was made was the heel of my boots clicking against the ground as I walked home. I stopped to look at myself in the glass of a window. I looked a bit thinner, and I had cut my hair to my shoulders. My face seemed a bit paler, and my eyes seemed dull. Things had changed an awful lot. I sighed, closing my eyes for a minute as I took in a deep breath before opening them again. When I did, someone in a black hood was behind me, causing me to turn around. The person stood there.

"Can I help you?" I asked, taking a few steps back from the person.

"Actually, you can! And I know you can, because you've always cooperated your entire life!" That voice…why does it sound familiar?

"Who are you, and what do you want?" I demanded, watching him closely.

"Aw, I'm hurt that you don't remember me! Well, I guess if you wont cooperate, I'll have to take you by force!" What the hell is this guy talking about?

"Wha-" I was cut off by something connecting with the back of my head. Groaning softly, I felt myself fall forward as I drifted off into unconsciousness.

The man lifted his hood as he looked down at the unconscious girl lying on the ground. He sighed, heaving her up and over his shoulders, opening up a dark portal. As he walked through he mumbled, "Sorry princess."

He had only been following his orders: Find the girl and bring her back to the castle. He had at least hoped that she would remember him, but then again, it had been four years since she had last seen him, and she had probably assumed him dead. Well, in a way he was dead. But why the superior had wanted her, he had no idea.

"Yo, boss man! I brought the item you requested!" He said as he portaled into a room with thirteen chairs.

The superior looked down and smirked when he saw the girl that was lying limp in the others arms. "Very good, number two. Portal her into the isolation room."

I woke up with a headache. I sat up and surveyed the area, noticing that I was in some sort of room. I stood up and looked around, and I realized I was alone. I looked over and saw a door. I ran over to it and pulled on the knob, only to find that it was locked. Frustrated, I stared to beat on the door.

"HEY! OPEN THE DOOR!" I kicked it, and it still wouldn't open. Finally, I summoned Hopes Sky and slashed it, and this time, it worked. I walked out into a very vast and white hallway.

'I have to get out of here…' And I ran. I ran as fast as I could until I reached a room that seemed unoccupied, and had an open window. I ran for the window, only I tripped and fell as I got into the room.

"Argh, let me go!" Whoever tripped me pinned my arms behind my back.

"Why are you here in my room?"

"Urgh! I don't have to tell you anything!" I grabbed his legs with mine and flipped him over, standing up and heading back to the open window, only I was stopped when I was pinned to the wall by some type of weapon that had caught my jacket. I wasn't able to see who my captor was, due to my hair being in my face and covering my eyes. I heard him approach me.

"Now listen; I'm gonna ask you why you're in here one more time and you're gonna tell me. Got it memorized?" I felt my heart stop as that line was said. Only one person used to say that.

"…."

He grabbed my chin and pulled it up. My eyes were closed because I was afraid to open them to what I would find. I felt hair being brushed away by gloved hands that were warm. "Open your eyes."

I don't know why, but I slowly let them flutter open and settle on the person who had me pinned. I gasped when I saw who it was. "L-Lea?" I cried out. In all his glory, Lea was standing there, right in front of me, his red spikes the same, only a deeper shade of red, and his hair was longer than before. His eyes were a piercing green, just like before, with two teardrop tattoos under them, something that hadn't been there before.

He looked at me for minute before his eyes grew wide like saucers from realization. He pulled the weapon that had me pinned against the wall out, releasing my jacket and me. Except for standing up, I fell to the ground on my knees. This…this couldn't be real. I had watched him give in to the darkness. I watched him die in front of me because I wasn't fast enough to save him. I knew I was still sad and all, but I had no idea that I was so upset that I would start seeing things. He shouldn't have been standing here. I saw him die right in front of my eyes. It was my fault that he was gone, because I hadn't been fast enough. He's dead because of me.

"How…how are you alive?" I asked, bewildered by everything going on. He didn't answer, and I became frustrated. "ANSWER ME!"

"….." He remained silent, his gaze off of me and on the wall.

I laughed bitterly. "This…this is just another nightmare, isn't it? You're not real, are you? You've just come back to haunt me, haven't you?" I felt my eyes begin to sting with tears that were threatening to fall.

He turned back around to stare at me with confusion as I remained on the ground. He knelt down next to me, poking me in the shoulder. And…it felt real. He didn't disappear when he did, and I didn't wake up. Slowly, I turned my gaze to look into his vibrant green eyes. I gently touched his cheek, and my hand didn't go through him. It remained on his cheek. He…was real!

"This…this is real…?" I mumbled under my breath. I blinked a few more times, before I suddenly felt dizzy. I fell forward, and felt myself drifting into darkness.

I fainted.

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