"Seifer; thanks." I said as I picked Namine up off the ground and began to walk back towards the train station. "If you guys want the other Keyblade wielders and I could use some help."

I opened a balanced gateway and was about to walk through it when everything went black around me.

I was sitting down, not entirely aware of where I was when a booming voice entered my ears. I couldn't make out everything it was saying, but looking down at Saïx and someone else in the traditional organization coat made me think of when I first entered the round room. "…Number XIV, Xion." The voice finished, suddenly making me aware of where I was.

"This is the day I met her, the day my life truly began." I said, standing up, the entire room around me disappearing. "Her name is Xion, we're best friends, her Axel and I, we have ice-cream together on top of the clock tower, we go on missions together, but, what does she look like, what did we talk about?"

"That doesn't matter right now." A sweet innocent voice said to me as the girl in the organization cloak appeared before me. "All that matters is that you remember me."

The girl, Xion, flung her arms around my neck and I instinctually picked her up in a hug before I put her back onto the ground.

"I finally remember you, but where are we?" I asked, looking around at the black expanse of nothingness.

"This is just how I communicate with you and Ven." She said, her arms still wrapped around my neck. "I'm actually in the realm between with Sora, but I have no idea where you are, maybe you should try, waking up."

I snapped back to reality, realizing I was on the green couch in the usual spot Hayner, Pence, and Olete hung out at as kids, and then I realized I was surrounded by Seifers gang, Hayners gang, and Namine.

"Thank goodness you're awake." Namine said, wrapping her arms around my neck in a hug that seemed extremely familiar now, so I hugged her back. "I thought you were going to die."

"Like a few measly Dusks could take me out." I said, holding Namine out at arm's length as I stood up off the couch. "Now could someone explain why we're here and not at someone's house?"

"A few seconds after you passed out a giant castle landed behind your house and a bunch of dusks and other white things started attacking everyone." Hayner answered, looking at the gate. "Luckily they don't seem smart enough to open doors."

"Yeah that's all great, but how exactly are we going to get rid of these things?" Seifer asked, standing up from where he'd been sitting.

"I can open another Balanced Gate, we could all get back to the Keyblade wielders base of operation and get them to help us." I said, raising my hand to open the gate but it wasn't working. "Or maybe not."

"Well that's just great, what's your next plan leader?" Seifer asked before punching the wall, denting the sheet metal.

"The only option we have left is to fight the Dusks and drive them back to the castle, wait a second did you say a castle fell out of the sky?" I asked, finally realizing what Hayner had said. "You mean a full sized castle."

"Yeah, it's this big white castle that all the dusks are coming from." Pence said from his seat on an old crate.

"Namine, is it the castle that I'm thinking about?" I asked, looking back at her. "Because if it is than this problem is bigger than I thought."

"It is."

?

We ran down the long white hall, slashing down the Heartless in our way before we reached the large white door. We through it open and saw an infinite white expanse with Oni sitting at a grand piano, and Ventus now wearing a cloaked version of his old shirt standing next to her with a smile on his face, but a frown in his eyes.

Oni began to pluck at the keys of the piano and then she started singing. "Forgotten days, a fading memory. Lost and no longer seeking one another. Desperately still, you're reaching toward him. Hopelessly certain, you can mend the broken. Longing for a light lost in time, so distant. Pleading with fate, to be forgiving. Allow the shattered Hearts to be regathered. Fighting for love, to have a meaning. Without a promise, to embrace the Darkness. Hoping for a Dream lost in Light, so distant. Reasons ignored, no longer caring. How long it may take, just to mend the heart break. Lost and unsure the boy is fading a distant fragment of nobody important. Wishing for a day lost in memories distant." She stops, her hands moving away from the piano, and she looks up with a big smile on her face. "It's good to see you again."

AN: sorry this one was so much shorter, I just need to think of how to get the other characters into the same place.