Author's Note: This is just a little "preview" of what's coming in the next story (which will be seperate from Thoughts of Zexion, though it is a continuation of it). Kinda like those weird little "random scenes with floating text" things that the KH games have as previews of the next game, like Deep Dive was (and probably the KH2:Final Mix secret ending will be, as well).

So don't expect to really "get" anything out of this... it's all bits and pieces. Look at it as one of those weird trailer things, because, well, that's kinda what it is.

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow... but no shadow can withstand our light."

Sora, now in his mid-twenties, walks down a hallway alongside Kairi. The two of them are dressed very differently, with white clothes covered in various strange symbols in gold and silver. Kairi's hair now hangs halfway down her back, and she's wearing a dress rather than her usual clothing.

"Ah... Michiko, Child of the Pathway. So one of you did survive after all."

"My Darkness is my own, just like my Light."

A tall young man wearing a tattered brown coat and a wide-brimmed black hat stands on a cliff, overlooking Radiant Garden. One of his hands is inside the coat, apparently holding onto something.

"Xehanort! But... that's impossible!"

"We have seen all of this before."

"I remember when I lost my mind..."

A small Shadow Heartless pounces on a strange, glowing-white creature, but is thrown off easily. Hundreds more of the glowing creatures come over a hill, tearing the Heartless apart.

"None but the purest of heart can look into the Queen's eyes..."

Several people stand in front of an enormous crystal statue, kneeling down and chanting something over and over. The statue glows brightly for a second, then dims again.

"Don't you remember him?"

"Your heart is soaked in Darkness..."

"If all hearts are purified..."

Vexen hurriedly writes something down in a notebook, then turns toward a green-haired girl who is standing a few feet away.

Xehanort, wearing what appears to be a black tuxedo, walks up a grassy hill and swings open the door to an old, abandoned mansion, which looks like a haunted house. The tall buildings of the World that Never Was can be seen on the horizon, not too far away.

"History repeats itself."

A sandstorm blows across a vast desert as hundreds of armored soldiers march through, each carrying a Keyblade. A tower can be seen in the distance.

"Gil-Neithev..."

"A paradise of Light, untainted by even the slightest bit of Darkness..."

"Our sleep in death has ended."

A green-haired girl swings at an armored knight with her Keyblade, but misses as the knight disappears in a blur. Within a second, he has pinned the girl to the ground.

"You are not him... only a pawn of the Darkness!"

Kairi's eyes flicker for a second, seeming to show a terrible anger even as she smiles and giggles happily.

"I cannot simply abandon the cause of Light to help you, my old friends."

"The temple... they've..."

An enormous snake-like being, with a body made up of some sort of bright, flickering energy, rises up in a spiraling pattern. It appears to be emerging from someone's body, but the light is too bright to see who.

The ground shakes, and a red-and-black axe-like weapon comes flying into view, slamming into Sora and knocking him backward, flat on the ground.

"What was once nine is now reduced to one."

"How can you fools hope to face the wrath of Light itself?"

"So long as even the tiniest shred of Darkness remains, we won't give in to you."

There is an explosion, and Heartless are scattered everywhere, most of them injured or dead due to the blast. As the black smoke from dying Heartless clears, Pete can be seen running away from the direction the explosion came from.

"My Light and my Darkness, the two of them..."

"I'll protect this place with my life, as they did for me!"

An older Roxas stands in a street of Twilight Town, with two unfamiliar Keyblades strapped across his back, crossing over each other in an "X" shape. An armored knight approaches from the other end of the street, and Roxas draws the two Keyblades at once, causing a flash of flame to erupt from one and a warm glow from the other.

Xehanort and the man in the brown coat stand next to each other inside the old mansion, with the other man's hat lowered so his face can't be seen clearly. The man gasps as hundreds of small Heartless emerge from every crack in the walls and floors.

A burst of Darkness and one of Light collide in midair, causing a strange, silvery light to wash over the ground for a few seconds before the two blasts cancel each other out.

"The disappearances are increasing lately..."

"Hide down there! None of them know of this place."

King Mickey, wielding his Keyblade, looks around in a panic, noticing that he is surrounded by the strange, glowing creatures.

"If this isn't stopped..."

One of the armored knights fires a beam of light toward a building in the World That Never Was, causing the entire skyscraper to collapse and sending dust and debris flying everywhere.

"...it will be the end of the world as we know it."