A/N: Talk about suicide. Who would be dumb enough to jump into the Realm of Darkness...Wait a minute.

I am now in the Realm of Darkness, in search for Aqua. Only what I won't be able to realize is that I'm about to walk into a trap. Wither I realize there's a trap or there isn't one, I wouldn't care. All I care about is Aqua.

Okay, I'm starting to feel weird narrating about myself. MY SIS! TAKE OVER THE NARRATING WILL YEA?

World: Realm of Darkness

I start walking on the path of Faithless Abyss. (Which is the area we see Aqua walking in when she encounters those Darkside's) As I walk, I take a look at the scenery of the dark realm.

"So...this is the Realm of Darkness...Feels like a lifetime since I was last here." It should be. After all, I was here for mere seconds before Aqua took my place. Now I wonder, where could Aqua possible be? I look up, slightly gasp as I grab my Wayfinder. It glows slightly in light. I feel something...or someone...Yes, I know this feeling. "Aqua...she's here."

I look at the path ahead of me and run towards it.

Meanwhile, Riku is using all of his strength to keep open the dark portal in the Dark Depths. Enemies are still coming out of it. Cloud, Noel and Tifa are taking care of them, protecting Riku, while Leon and the others are having a group meeting.

"Why would he dive into the darkness like that?" Terra asks.

"He's going after Aqua. He's risking to dive into the darkness just to save her." Serah says.

"I don't know what the hell he's thinking, but he's crazy." Leon sighs. "All right. We need a place. Your majesty, you have some experience in the dark realm, right?" Mickey nods. "All right." Leon looks at Sora. "Sora. Can you find Patrick and bring him back?"

"You can count on me." Sora says with pride.

Donald and Goofy bumps in, giving Sora a hug. "We're coming too!" Donald says.

"Uh-huh. Wherever Sora goes, we go!" Goofy says.

Terra and Ventus steps in. "We're in as well. Patrick saved our lives once. It's time we turn in a favor."

Serah steps up. "Me too. I'm really worried about Patrick. I can't let anything bad happen to him."

"Fair enough." Leon says. "You all go in while we hold of the darkness."

"Better hurry!" Everyone turns to look at Riku. "I can't keep this portal open forever! Get moving!"

Without any further hesitation, Sora and the rest of the rescue team enters the dark realm.

The path I take leads me all the way to the Middle Zone of the Realm of Darkness. The presence I feel is just cold and dark. I can't feel Aqua's warm light, but I can still feel her soul through my Wayfinder. I know she's here, but I can't tell where she's at. I'm on my own in the dark.

I start exploring the Middle Zone. So far, the Realm of Darkness is filled with nothing but Shadows and Neoshadows. Even though there's only those two types, their numbers are pretty large. That's to be expected since the Realm of Darkness is their home.

The Middle Zone isn't much, I only encountered two groups of Heartless. All that's left is the edge of a cliff. I look down to see a further path, in the Lower Zone. I decide to jump and move on ahead.

The Lower Zone is quite a height maze. I barely see much ways to go around here. I encounter some dark hole in the middle of the end of the path. When I approach, Heartless constantly appears right out of it. I use my Terra Charm, activating the D-link. I am coated in darkness and my right arm is armed, much like that part of armor Terra wears.

I attack with brutal, dark force. The Heartless goes down nearly instantly from my attacks. When more then seven Neosahdow's appears, I do Chaos Blade. It's similar to Sonic Blade, only instead, when I make the next rush, I vanish and reappear behind the next target, and I do it with the power of darkness.

At the final blast, I destroy the last of the Heartless. The dark hole disappears, then some dark mist orb appears right in front of the cliff. With caution, I approach to the dark orb. "What the..." I give it a slight, gentle touch, next thing I know I'm blasted in the air, screaming, then I crash land on the higher ground. "Ouch!" I sit up. "Dark orbs launches me...good to know."

I get back on my feet and continue on. This whole area is complicated. There are dead ends, and in order to unlock a hidden path, wither it's moving forward or climbing to higher ground, I have to take out all the Heartless each of the dark holes releases.

On my next group of Heartless, I do Ars Solum, which is similar to the Arc Arcanum, only the attacks are heavy, and the extra strikes are only three. I keep attacking until the Heartless are defeated.

I start climbing to higher ground, encountering more and more Heartless. I cast Dark Firaga at the Darkballs. I reach my full power and unleash Dark Impulse. I attack viciously, ending my combos with a large dark hand grab, then I sink into the ground, rush underneath the Neoshadow, and raise unleashing a giant dark hand. There are still a few Darkballs and Neoshadow's left, but I finish them off.

After defeating the Heartless, I move on.

I arrive at the Upper Zone. The moment I arrive, I stop. The scenery is purple, red and dark silver, and the ground is nothing but floating islands right above the Lower Zone.

I put a hand on my Wayfinder. "Just how close am I to her?"

I look around this zone. There's still no sight of Aqua. But what I do see is a large purple barrier, and on each of the islands, dark swirls. I wonder if the two are connected somehow. I approach to the first swirl, which is on the very island I stand on, and Neoshadows, Darkballs and Ghouls appear. Ghouls are similar to the Neoshadow's, only without the antennas, with mouths with crooked teeth, they're elbows and knees exposed in bones.

It's a pureblood just like the others I have encountered here. I gather them with Magnega, then do Shadow Dash. More heartless appears in their place, only to be shortly captured in the magnet. I enter Spell Weaver, then continue attacking.

When I defeated the Heartless, the dark swirl vanishes, and I see the barrier ahead is weakening, only a bit. Man, everything in the Realm of Darkness is very...puzzling.

I hop from island to island, taking care of the Heartless that appears. Each dark swirl I defeat, the barrier weakens. On the third Swirl, I cast Shining Prism, channeling powerful light magic. The Heartless within ten yards and I are surrounded by walls of light with dozens of light beams bouncing all around. When that was done, I enter Heaven's Light.

My holy attacks taking out the Heartless fast, mostly the Shadows, the Neoshadow's and Darkballs take two strikes. I am untouchable to the Heartless. On the sixth dark swirl, I unleash Heaven's Light, defeating all the Heartless, even the next wave the second they appear.

I defeat all of the Heartless, then the dark barrier vanishes. I can still see it, but it's see through, and passable. I have a bad feeling about this.

I walk into the zone the barrier was blocking. The second I step it, the dark barrier reappears. I'm sealed right inside. "Oh great. Could this get any worse?" Just my luck, dozens of Shadow's appears right in front of me. "I had to jinx it..."

I start of fighting them with Magnega. When they're all gathered, I use Strike Raid on them. I enter Critical Impact, then attack with full force. Everytime the Heartless are defeated, more appears. Instead of just Shadows, Neoshadows starts appearing. Almost instantly, I reach my full power and unleash the Critical Impact.

After that, I use my Rapunzel Charm for the D-linking. I few a couple of attacks, then do Cauterize Radiance. It's similar to the Mega Flare, only does light-fire damage and it also heals me. The Cauterize Radiance instantly kills all the Heartless in the battle, then the very next two waves, destroyed the very second they appear.

More over two dozen Heartless's, Darkballs and Neoshadow's and Ghouls, appears. The Cauterize Radiance makes me reach my full power and I unleash Entanglement. The roots grabs two Neoshadow's and a Darkball, and the golden magic unleashed destroys all the Heartless.

Their numbers are endless. I have defeated hundreds of the Heartless and they're still coming at me. At the tenth wave, the Invisibles starts appearing. I never like them, they're annoying when you take a long time to kill them. I gather them with Magnega, do Ragnarok, enter Spell Weaver.

Heartless dies. More appears. Cast Mega Flare, destroys three waves, enter Elemental Mastery. The fifteenth wave is Invisibles, a Smasher, a pureblood Heartless that's a mix of a Ghoul and a Darkside, only half the size of Darkside. I attack the Heartless viciously, The Invisibles attacks me with their Dark Ritual move, where they vanish leaving their blades behind and the dark circles around me hurts me.

When the damaging is done, I heal myself with Curaga, then continue attacking until I unleash Elemental Mastery. That destroys the Heartless.

The good thing is that no more appears, and the dark barrier vanishes, completely. I'm guessing that's the last wave.

I collapse on one knee then let out an exhausted sigh. "Light! That was crazy." I take the moment to rest and recover my strength, then I move on ahead, into the Valley of Darkness.

The Valley of Darkness looks a lot like a white forest, with eerie stream fogs, purple, red skies. In the darkness, I am being targeted in red vision. The creature in the darkness growls as it stalks me.

I walk to the center of the area. I stop getting a bad feeling. Out of instinct, I turn, Keyblade held out, thinking something was gonna ambush me. But all there was is a small shadow critter. I just look down at it until it leaves, disappearing into the darkness.

I exhale to relax myself. "Stay sharp, Patrick. Got a bad feeling we're being watched."

I move ahead, and that's when I hear it. Growling. I stop, looking around. I see nothing, but I catch the sight of two red eyes. At first, I wonder what it could be, then those red eyes moves around. It's a creature.

The red eyes leaps out of the darkness, revealing nothing but a large shadowy mist. It's charging towards me. I cast a large fireball at it, but it leaps right over me. As it does, I look upon it.

"What the heck is this thing?" I ask.

The mysterious creature lands, then turns to face me.

I charge at the creature then give it Shadow Dash. The creature swipes at me, it knocks me back, but once I recover I cast Ruinja at it.

It roars in agony, then unleashes shadow power. The shadowy mist clears from the red eyed creature, revealing itself to be Dark Hide.

The Dark Hide does claw swipes on me. I block with Holy Shield then do Counter Aura. I enter Star Surge then continue attacking the heartless. Dark Hide leaps side to side to avoid my attacks, then strikes me with its tail whip. I was able to avoid it by doing Dark Roll, melting into the shadows to avoid being hit.

When the Dark Hide is standing still, I do Explosion on it. The Dark Hide leaps around after the Explosion. I chase after it, attacking the creature. I do Falling Stars, leap high in the air, aim head first to the ground, spin while coated in twilight energy, shooting bolts of stars to the ground.

The Dark Hide roars in pain from the attack, then empowers itself. Dark Hide does Illusion Spin, spinning around at high speed, all I see is a magic line of red, blue and green. I stand trapped in the ring of Hunter of the Darkness. It's afterimages charges towards me, but I avoid them in several dark rolls. After the third afterimage, Dark Hide leaps onto me. I block with Dark Shield and then use Counter Aura.

I reach my full power and unleash Star Surge. Dark Hide is pretty feral. I use my Lightning Charm and even the scales. I start with Lightning Strike, then Thunderfall. Dark Hide does its claw swipes on me, I dodge then then do Petal Storm. The creature leaps away from me as I'm spinning in the swirl of rose petals.

Once I'm close, it attacks me with Illusion Slash. The creature and it's afterimages slashes me. I suffer damage on the second half of the attack, then I cast Cura. I attack the Dark Hide before it does another Illusion Spin. I just dark roll the whole time until it unleashes the final leap.

I cast Thundaja on the Heartless, then I reach my full power and defeat it with Zantetsuken.

Dark Hide roars in agony, stumbling around. It's pretty weak and dizzy. It lets out it's final roar, then collapses it's dead body. The Dark Hide shimmers and fades into shadow mists, until it completely vanishes.

I stand in fighting position, panting. Dark Hide was a tough fight. I let out a relief sigh, then my Keyblade vanishes. "Damn...If a creature like that exists in the Realm of Darkness, I can only imagine what Aqua has faced in the last fifteen years."

I stand for a moment, trying to imagine the battles. But I shake that thought out of my head, I remember how Aqua looked when Vanitas showed me Aqua back in the Keyblade Graveyard. Torn. Wounded. Exhausted.

I now look at the path up ahead. "I better hurry up and find her."

The next area beyond the Valley of Darkness is the Dark Margin.

When I arrive at the dark shores, I stop right in front of the waters waving on the sand. I look side to side, disappointed in sorrow. "I...I don't...understand." I look at the shores ahead. "A dead end? ...This can't be."

I sit down on the sand, knees bent, sighing in depression.

I don't get it. I have looked everywhere. The Dark Margin, here, is the very last zone in the Realm of Darkness. Aqua is no where else to be found in the dark realm. Have I really come all this way for nothing? No...it can't be. I felt it. Her soul. All the way from my Wayfinder.

She's in here...I know it.

I sit here for minutes, thinking. I have no idea what else to do. Where else to go. Where to look.

Out of opinions, I take out the recorded message Aqua made from the Christmas present. I turn it on, it glows and floats in my hand. At first, the message starts, then I command it to skip all the way to the part where Aqua sings for me.

I feel sadden hearing the song. This is all I have left of Aqua. Hearing her voice. Receiving her love.

All wrapped up in a small device.

When the message ends, I put it away, looking down with a deep sigh. Just then, my Wayfinder gives a single, quick glow. That's when I felt it. I look up, then stand up looking all around.

"Aqua?" I don't see her. There's no response either. "Aqua!?"

When I look ahead in the shores, that's when I saw it. A small glimmer of light in the water. It drifts towards me. The closer it gets, the more I can make out what the small piece of light is.

By my feet, I bent down to pick up the Wayfinder. I hold it in front of me, shocked at seeing the blue glass star charm with the Mark of Mastery logo in the center.

It's Aqua's Wayfinder.

"Mother..." I look ahead. "Could it be..." If the Wayfinder is drifting at sea, it could only mean one thing.

I summon my Keyblade, aim it right in front of me. The tip glows and shoots a beam of light, that's when a path is created. A path made of the Wayfinders like back in the Keyblade Graveyard. Once it's made, I run across the sea on this path.

I walk on the path until some mountain is within my sight. There's no land, but a path that swirls around it, going up until it's reaches to the top. The top of the mountain looks like a mount, a large hole with spikes forming as teeth. The purple, red skies curves and swirls into the mountains mouth, like they're being sucked in at extreme slow speed.

This zone is the Chaos Mountain.

I look at the top of this mountain, speechless. "Aqua...is she...in there?"

When I'm done staring, I make my way up the mountain, taking the uphill path that goes around the mountain. I encounter some Heartless on the way. Neoshadow's Invisibles, and Bit Snipers. I attack the Heartless. The Neoshadows and Bit Snipers, I kill them with only one swing each. The Invisibles are a hard fight by comparison.

I grab one of the invisibles, draw my Keyblade back. "Down!" I stab it right in the head, but it's still standing, or floating I should say. "I! Said! DOWN!" I shout with rage, as I toss the Invisible to the other one. When they're both clashed, I leap high and impale my Keyblade on them, destroying the Invisibles.

When they're done, I continue running. as I run, Harpy's appears in the air. They're Pureblood Heartless. They look like Shadow's, but female and with wings for arms and talons for feet.

I don't stop running. I draw my Keyblade back and give them a Wind Raid. While my Keyblade is taking them out, Darkballs and Neoshadows appears on the path in front of me. I create a giant ball of fire and launch it at them, it explodes unleashing Mega Flare.

The Mega Flare destroys the Heartless, but more of them appears further ahead. I jump high, flipping. The Keyblade flies back towards me. I catch it, then dive down in a burst of speed. I crash onto the ground, unleashing Quakeja. That kills the Darkballs and Shadows.

I am halfway up the mountain. I'm getting closer to Aqua.

An Invisible floats right in front of me from the distance. "Out of my way!" I rush towards it and kill it with a single swing.

I run as fast as I can. Bit Snipers now block my path. As I run towards them, I cast a wind orb in my hands. "Don't test me!" I throw the wind spell. It hits the ground beneath the creatures, then forms into a large Tornado. Aeroja. All the Bit Snipers get caught in the vortex, until the forces of the wind destroys them. I run right through the Tornado like I'm immune to it.

I finally reach to the top of the mountain. I stand on the cliff, looking down into the darkness within the mountain. I'm cautious, but brave.

I jump into the mountain until the darkness within shallows me whole. I land on the ground. I can barely see much. The darkness is pretty dense, I can only see five feet all around. A cast a small glimmer of light and hold it out. It shines the darkness within this area.

This place is some kind of battle arena that's 100 yards in diameter. "What...what is this place?" I ask.

I look around, this is a very strange place to be within the Realm of Darkness. As I look around, I am completely caught by surprise. Within my sights, at the other end of the arena, is a certain out cold, wounded, bluenette women.