Yume felt her body being metamorphosed into another form, it change from her loving young dad to a pretty young girl. The girl who was named Azumi, a girl who is infected with darkness. Her innocent heart in need of pure light, someone like her who has commonly issue with someone Yume knows very well: Taision. The spikes of her father changed into short brown hair, she wore the same clothes the Azumi wore, the white and black dress under the gray jacket, a pretty hair clip, lovely pink and white shoes, and white wristbands.

Her body was completely transform into Azumi's. Her eye color change from blue to purple, her mind was filled with Azum's thought. She woke up in the middle of a bright and beautiful town. Her eye's flutter as she awaken, this place was so gorgeous, but how could a person have misery in this fine place. Compare to the other worlds it was like a dream. She got up from the cold hard floor and stood up on her feet. She looked at her appearance, she saw that she had become Azumi, now that she was in her body she need to find out what to do?

"In order to help the poor girl, you must know her story." a voice said.

Yume looked around her surroundings, no one was really talking to her. But where did the voice come from?

"You have now become Azumi, you need to see her past. So you'll fully understand what she needs." the voice said again.

"Who are you?" Yume asked.

"I am the spirit of Azumi, I am the one who you are now." the Spirit said.

"You mean, your Azumi?" Yume asked.

"Yes, I've been waiting for this time to come. I know that your here to help me and my heart." Spirit said.

"How'd you know?" Yume asked the spirit in her head.

"I've been waiting for years to be free from the darkness, ever since I was young I learn that I had to morph with someone in order to be release from my tortured sorrows."

"How do I look into your story, Azumi?" Yume asked the spirit.

"I'll show you, just close your eyes, and look deep within my heart."

Yume nodded, and closed her eyes as she concentrated on Azumi's heart which was now inside her. Her vision change to where she was Azumi as she view into her past.

Azumi was only 5 years old when she discovered darkness inside, it all started when she was playing with her friends, she went for a walk down an empty forest; following a dark path. It was luring her to a dead end. When she turn around she saw a dark aura floating, thinking it was a floating toy. She wondered if it was ok to touch it, she hesitated a little hoping not to get hurt. But then again she wanted to know how it feels like, Azumi slowly put her hand by the dark mist. It felt warm and relaxed. It felt pretty harmless, she pulled back from the dark fog. Then herd a voice in her head. "Don't be afraid, let it in. The darkness is nothing to be afraid of." She quickly agreed with the unknown voice. She felt the darkness absorbing in her body, it felt warm and smooth like nothing could be wrong with her. Then she wondered what the darkness could do her. It didn't seem so bad that she would have to run away it...or so she thought.

The next day, Azumi woke up feeling very ill. It was like she had a flu, her skin her pale, her eyes were filled hurt. She had a terrible headache, she went up to her parents crying. She was in so much pain, herparents were extremely worried. They took her to the hospital, where the doctor was in a white suit. He looked like a buisness man, he examined Azumi the check her heart. The grew in shock of what he saw, he walked up to Azumi's parents in sadness. He didn't know how to say in the nicest of ways. All he could say was...

"Your daughter is in terrible danger."

"What do you mean she's in danger?" her mother asked with worried eyes.

"She has something corrupting her heart, something so awful, it may eventually perish her."

"Is there anything you could do to help her?" Azumi's father asked.

"I'm sorry, but there's nothing I could do." The doctor said saddly.

Azumi's parents were in terrible consernation. They were afraid that their daughter will eventually died from this illness that's killing her.

"But there is a cure for this illness."

"Really? What is it?!" Azumi's mother asked desprately.

"The only way, for your daughter to be healed by the awful darkness that's torturing her. Is to go to the Valley of Life, there's a beautiful lake filled with light. The antidote is the light, it's the only thing that can vanish the darkness that's stuck in her heart. But don't worry, I will give you a map to where the it is. I'll keep Azumi safe in my hospital, you won't have to worry about her."

"No! She's our daughter! She has to come with us!" Azumi's mother was in deep anger now.

Her father put his hand on her mother's shoulder, saying 'It's our job as parents to do what's best for her."

Azumi's mother understood and nodded with tears in her eyes.

The doctor gave her father the map to the Valley of Life. He looked at it very carefully, then he nodded.

"Promise us that you'll take care of her." he told the doctor.

The doctor nodded.

Azumi's parents left the hospital, they traveled to the Valley of Life by train. Unfortunately, the trip didn't end happily. The train crashed into a hard bolder, as the tracks were disorganized. Sadly, Azumi's parents died. Their bodies were found the next day, they were sent to a wonderful funeral as a peaceful funeral, as there bodies were put into their own coffins. When the doctor found out about Azumi's parent's death, he had no choice but to take care of the poor orphan girl who still remained sick. But he couldn't afford to go out and get the light medicine that can cure her dark illness.

One day, as the doctor was trying to create an antidote to cure Azumi, he herd a knock coming from the door. He walked over and open it to see who was the customer or the new patient in need to be cured. When he revealed the person, it was in a black cloak with it's face hidden with his hood. The doctor looked suspicious about this strangely client, but who know? Maybe he got a disfigured face. But why was he here in the first place?

"Hello sir, how may I help you?" the doctor asked the hooded figure.

"I'm here to pick up the girl." the cloak person said.

The jumped a little, 'pick the girl up?' the doctor never herd of this stranger from Azumi's parents. This was too confusing.

"What do you mean? Her parents are gone now, they never told me about you." the doctor said.

"I've come to help her, I herd she is intensively sick. That awful darkness is torturing her delicate heart. You see, I'm the founder of a medical center where we help children who terribly ill. We gather up all the sick children and give them a special treatment we came up with. A positive antidote that can heal their hearts from the painful darkness. But in order for me do the treatment for her, she must come with me to my center." the cloak explained.

The doctor wasn't too sure about this, but if this 'treatment' would cure Azumi from her long suffering. Then it's worth a try.

"All right then, take the girl with you." the doctor move out of the way so the cloak could reach the ill girl resting in her white bed. He picked her up and carried her bridal-style. He left the hospital without turning back, with Azumi in his arms.

The cloak brought Azumi to a weird place, where other sick children like her were resting. In their own beds, it seems like their heads were covered in helmets with wires. And their mouths were covered in a mask were oxygen was being transported from air tanks to their mouths. At lest the center was suppose to be supportive like any other hospital.

"So this is the child, she looks good enough." another cloak figure said.

"Let me send me to her room." the nurse said.

She gently took Azumi from the arms of the unknown cloak figure, and then brought her over to a room with a bed, a dresser, and a window to allow her to see the outside from her room. The nurse place Azumi on her bed and placed the helmet on her head, then put on her mask for her to breath air. Then she turn on the air tank and it started to activate, letting air flow through the tubes and into her mouth.

Later that day, several cloaks surrounded Azumi with the leader aside her. He examine her with dark aura, as the aura within Azumi started to respond with his causes her to cry a little in pain. The cloak slowly removed his hood, revealing his face. Yume gasped from the vision, he was wearing sliver hair that went down above his shoulder, his eyes were golden like cat eyes. his bangs were evenly aside eachother.

"It's just as I expected." the sliver haired guy said.

"Is she the one we need?" another cloak asked.

"There's no doubt, only a deep darkness would respond to any other." he said.

"Azumi, is that her name?" a cloak said in a woman's voice.

"Yes, the poor orphan who lost her parents. Now she shall spend her moments in our layer, for as long as we need."

"Finally, she'll joining the rest of the sick kids, yet I got to admit I feel kinda sad of her losing her parents." another cloak removed his hood, revealing his face he had a eye-patch on his right eye, his left eye was gold too, and had a scar on his left cheek.

"Ah yes, the group of children; just like her: their hearts are infected with darkness." sliver-haired cloak said.

"We basiclly, need to gather up their sorry hearts, and use them as a insensitive power of darkness." another hooden cloak, who's voice sound like a typical teenage girl.

"But this girl, she has strong aura within her i can tell."

"What's makes you think?" eye-patch guy said.

"Her story is sad, filled with so much sorrows. It's like an a beautiful flower, but then becomes droopy with a lot of gloom afterwards."

"Hmmm, I like the sound of that. Hey! Maybe with that much depression, her darkness will grow even stronger than now."

"Exactly,"

"Quickly, let's put her to the examiner, we have her heart in the most powerful and deepest darkness ever." a woman in a cloak said.

Every cloak brought the girl to the examiner machine, they laid her body down on the examiner. The layers rays flashed through her body, estimating every inch, every detail, every part of her body. Even the inside of her body, the d-tector was able to see through the darkness into Azumi's heart. It send all the info and data to the computer, right next to the machine.

"So Xehanort, this is the darkness you wanted?" the eye-patch guy, who was known as Xigbar asked his master.

"Indeed. Comparing to Riku's and Terra's, she has a extreme power of the darkness." Xehanort said.

"Perfect! So we could succeed in our plan and everyone will kiss their happy bright lives." the teenage girl in a cloak said in a happy, yet annoying tone.

"No, not quit." Xehanort said.

"What?! What are you talking about?! We need a strong source of darkness, right?" the girl asked.

"True, but there still another power. We need something as strong as the darkness. It is the light." Xehanort said.

"Why would we need the light?!"

"Well let me explain it like this, the seven princesses of hearts have the purest light within their hearts. A light so powerful, it can even open up the seal to kingdom hearts. Basicly light can even make the darkness powerful when their together. It's like what they say about this world, it can't live with light nor darkness, so the neither of them could be destroyed. But depending on who uses them, can lead ether good or bad." Xigbar explain.

"True but there's a new light that has been born, according to the sources of lights. I've sense a new light joining in." Xehanort said.

"Whoa, hold up there master. Your saying there's a new purest light?" Xigbar asked

"Yes, I sense the eighth purest light, she is now here. But is out there somewhere, her light it's so powerful. I feel her energy myself, her light is the one that can complete our collection." Xehanort explain.

"Do you know who that eighth princess is?" Xigbar asked.

"According to my sensing, she's...someone...related to Sora." Xehanort said.

"Oh, so it's a blood relative of that dopey kid." Xigbar said in mischievous.

"Do you know who she is?" another cloak asked.

"Her name is...

*****Black out*****

The vision started clashing, with flinches and digital scratches. She blink a couple times, and saw that the flashback went away. But how?

"Huh? What happen?" Yume asked.

"Unfortunately, that's all I was able to show you for now." Azumi's spirit said.

"But, he said something about a eight princess of hearts. I need to know who she is, they say she's the most powerful."

"I'm sorry Yume, but I can't give you anymore of my memories. I'm just a spirit after all, you are now in my body. You need to focus on getting back to your real body."

Yume knew that Azumi was right, she need to concentrate on getting light to Azumi's heart. Besides she didn't wanted be trap in Azumi's body forever. Why would anyone wanted to be wondering around the worlds being someone their really not. Really, nobody wants to be mistaken for someone else. Especially not wanted to be in hooden cloak for for the rest of eternity, just because you don't want people to see you in another's form.

"Ok then. Do you know where I could find a light to cure your heart?" Yume asked the spirit in her head.

Yume herd Azumi chuckled, what was so funny?

"Don't you remember what the doctor said? There's a lake filled with brightful light, it's in the Valley of Life."

Yume felt stupid for forgetting so soon. But then again, she remember that Azumi's parents died in the train accident. It made her worried if she would end like them if the train's track were still disorganized.

"Umm, I'm not so sure about it. Your parents died because of the train tracks, they were disorganized."

"Oh, you don't need to worried about that. Twilight Town's train mechanics fixed the tracks long ago. The tracks are well organized now, there's no need to be afraid. You could take the train."

Phew! What a relief.

"Oh, thank god. Alright let's go." Yume said.

Rhian wandered around Traverse Town in the third district, he needed to know where he could travel from this world to another. Sure he cam use magic, but he dosen't know how to summon portals. Maybe he could find a transportation, like a train or something. Just walking by alleys, there's still nothing he find around here. He went up to a lady in some casual-waitress uniform, he asked her if there was any transportation around. The lady said no unfortunately, but she did mention about a Gummi ship that can take you anywhere.

"A Gummi Ship?" Rhian said raising an eyebrow.

"It's a ship made out of Gummi blocks." the lady said.

"Do you know where I can on those ships?" Rhian asked.

"I afraid not, all I know is that the last Gummi Ship I saw was driven by a magician duck and knightly dog. They seem to had a girl with them too."

"Aw, well. Thanks anywhere." Rhian said with a frown.

He continued to find a way to leave this world. Man, he should've asked the Moogle about this, now he has to walk around like a lost puppy with nowhere to go. Right when he was about to go ask for help, he herd a high-pitch scream coming from somewhere. It sounded like someone in need of help. He couldn't just ignored the scream of someone in trouble. It could be a little girl, or maybe an elder lady. Whoever it was, he needed to go search for that someone. He rushed to the voice that was crying for help. As soon as he came to the area where the scream came from. He saw a mouse, wearing some casual clothes, like he had on a gray and red short-sleeve jacket, and red pants with yellow pockets and out lines, and had zippers. He wore yellow shoes, and white gloves.

He was battle a group of heartless that look like knights with the sliver armor, it had a strange heart mark on it's helmet. The seem to be battling them on his own.

"Get back, you fiends!" the mouse said.

He tried fighting the weird yellow eyed creatures. But once after he dodge one of their attacks, he got smack real hard by on them. He fell to the hard ground, Rhian gasped at the scene. The poor mouse needs help, he couldn't just stood their watching the fight himself, he had to defend the little mouse. Rhian ran in front the mouse, just before a heartless came up to attack him, he created a reflection spell as it form into a large shield protecting Rhian and the defenseless mouse.

The heartless were pushed back with a force that come from Rhian's reflection spell. The mouse got up from the floor as he groan from his terrible hit. He looked up to see a young boy who was protecting him with magic. The little black widen his eyes in awe. 'Was this boy a magician?' he though. Several heartless continued to attack them, Rhian raise both his hands in front of his hands.

"Stopra!" he shouted.

The heartless suddenly stop in froze position, the mouse took advantage of the moment and spring into action, he picked up his keyblade and swap each and every heartless that was froze up in the spell.

Rhian looked closely at the weapon the mouse was holding, it look like a key in the form of a sword. 'Could that be the weapon, that stuffy told me?' Rhian asked in his thought, referring to his chat with the Moogle. All the heartless vanish as they turn into black dust, they were all gone into the air. Wow, this mouse was good with that keyblade was he? Once the battle was over, the mouse turn to Rhian with bright smile on his face.

"Thanks for lending a hand." he said.

"No prob," Rhian said.

"I don't think I would ever defeat those pest without your help, you clearly are a good magician." the mouse said.

"Thanks, I've started to use magic when I was young."

"So I see, you been practicing." the mouse said.

"Who are you anyway?" Rhian asked the little mouse.

"I'm Mickey, I came here looking for someone." Mickey said.

"I'm Rhian, I've been trying found a out of here in search for my friends." Rhian said.

"Well, Rhian. I happen to have a ship that can take us anywhere beyond this world. If you need help finding your friends, I'd be glad to help you." Mickey assured.

"Great! Thanks a lot." Rhian said.

Rhian was so glad, now he finally had a transportation to go find Yume and the others. Thought he wonder about that keyblade Mickey was holding, he wanted to know how he got and why.

"Excuse me for minute, but that thing you have their, is that what they call a keyblade?" Rhian pointed at the keyblade Mickey was holding in his hand.

"Why yes, it a very well-known weapon. It's been a very capable weapon for anyone who's in need of it. Although it can only choose those who are worthy to be it's wielder. I was chosen by it a long time ago, and I've been using it ever since. Don't you have one of your own?" Mickey asked the young, maybe Rhian should be having a keyblade since he's good at using magic.

Rhian just shook his head, he never even herd of the keyblade at first. But come to think of it, he should have of his own in order to be more defensive. But how could he even possess one now, sure he's good with magic, but how can the keyblade even see his worth of it's possession?

"Oh dear, that's not a good sign. An export of magic, should defiantly have a keyblade." Mickey said.

"If only the keyblade would think of that, I should probably just stick to magic." Rhian said kinda sad in his eyes.

"Now, now. Don't show me any of that negativity. You have to believe in yourself, faith is what give the keyblade it's total thrust in you. When those who are empower with faith, they can be worthy of becoming a true keyblade wielder." that explanation made sense.

"I could use a good weapon like that. But i'm so use to magic, how could I even use a pro weapon like that."

"That's not a problem, the keyblade can even use magic. Depending on the type orbs you use for it. And with you also using magic as well, you'll be even stronger! Sounds incredible huh?" indeed it did, Rhian was impressed how much this mouse knew about the keyblade, he even knew more than the Moogle.

"Wow, I guess i could use that handy key." Rhian said.

"That's what's I like to hear!" Mickey said.

"But when would the keyblade come?" Rhian asked.

"It'll come at the right time." Mickey said positive. " In the mean time, you should come along with me. You could some associate help anyway." Mickey said putting his hands on his hips.

Rhian chuckled a little, rubbing the back of his head. It serves the mouse right, he could need more help since magic won't be good enough, he could use a little fighter to help him out with battles.

"Where's the Gummi Ship?" Rhian asked.

"Follow me." Mickey said leading the way.

A/N: Well, looks like Rhian is teaming with Mickey. But will Yume be able to bring light to Azumi's heart?

God! This chapter took me so long, and i hope your not disappointing for waiting, i had to focus on school and everything. But hey, I'm finally on winter vacation! Now I have more time to type :)

Although I do have homework to do during the break, but i will able to balance both.

So tell me what you think, please review!