I am back with yet another story! Okay, this one happens three years after the epilogue in Deathly Hallows and during Kingdom Hearts I. Enjoy!

A couple of things before you start reading this, though: This is the sequel series to my Harry Potter one, Unexpected. All you need to know about it is that in that series, Harry has a twin sister named Danielle, who lived in the future. She's changed several things, intentionally and otherwise. She's now married to Cedric Diggory and has three children.

Chapter 1: Dive

[Cue music: Destati by Backer Ruth, Kingdom Hearts Destiny]

What would you call it? I had no idea. Was I floating through air or water? I may never know. Darkness was all around me. How long was I floating through the inky blackness? It could have been seconds, days, or even years.

My feet settled on firm ground. I opened my eyes and looked around. Suddenly, white birds, like doves, swirled around me and flew out of sight. I looked down and gaped. I was standing on a platform that looked like a pink stained-glass window with a young woman with blond hair and a purple dress depicted on it. She held a red rose, and her eyes were closed, as if she were asleep. Thorns decorated the outer rim of the window-platform.

I stared at the platform for a few moments in wonder. Suddenly, three gray pedestals appeared. The one directly in front of me held a green staff topped with a bright blue circle and two, smaller circles sticking out of opposite sides, close to the top. To my right was a black shield with the same three circles printed on it in red. There were red markings on the outer part of it. On the pedestal to my left was a sword with a blue and yellow hilt with the three circles on it. The blade was white.

A voice echoed in my head: A certain power sleeps within you. If you give it form, it will give you strength.

After the voice faded, I walked to the pedestal with the black shield. I picked it up. The voice whispered: The power of the guardian. Kindness to aid friends. A shield to repel all. Is this what you choose?

I nodded. The shield turned into a ball of light on my hand and phased into it.

Your path is set. Now what will you give up in exchange?

I walked to the sword and picked it up. The power of the warrior. Invincible courage. A sword of terrible destruction. You give up this power?

I nodded. The sword turned into a ball of light as well and vanished. You've chosen the path of a guardian. You've given up the power of the warrior. Is this the form you choose? Again, I nodded.

The gray pedestals started to fall apart. What was going on? The platform I was standing on started to crumble, pieces of the pink glass falling into oblivion. I backed away until I could no more. I fell, and the shards of pink glass vanished.

I saw another stained-glass window appear in the darkness. This one was pink and had hearts all over it. I righted myself so that I was feet first and landed softly on the platform.

A ball of light appeared in my hand. The black shield I had picked up before appeared. I grasped it firmly.

Suddenly, dark creatures rose up from the platform. They were small and black with bug-like antennae and yellow, pupil-less eyes. It didn't look like they had mouths.

I grasped the black shield. As one bug jumped at me, I blocked it and bashed it away. I rammed into another one, which mad it disappear in black mist. The third bug slashed at me with its claws while my back was turned to it. I whacked it with the shield, the bug turning into black mist. It left behind a yellow and blue cube and a green ball. I picked them both up and pressed the ball to my injury. It instantly alleviated the pain.

The last bug lunged at me. I knocked it aside and rammed into it. It disappeared as well.

Darkness spread on the platform. I looked down and saw nothing except for the inky blackness and some swirling dark purple. The mixture sucked me in.

The next thing I knew, I was on my back. I sat up and looked around. I was on yet another platform. This one was green and had a young woman with short, black hair on it and a yellow and blue dress with a high, white collar. She seemed to be sleeping, as well. I stood up. This platform had a set of gray double-doors. I walked to the doors. As I looked at them, they opened, bright, white light behind them. How was that possible?

The light spread everywhere and engulfed me. I opened my eyes. This was a place I knew well: It was the Great Hall at Hogwarts. At one table, the Slytherin one, I saw my best friend, Angelique Malfoy, sitting there. At the Ravenclaw table, my brother and sister, Orion and Hazel (twins) sat there, side by side.

I walked to Angelique, her light blue eyes mysteriously blank.

"What's most important to you?" she asked.

"My friends," I answered.

"Is friendship really that important?"

I walked to Hazel and Orion. Their gray eyes were blank, too.

"What are you afraid of?" Orion asked.

"Of losing the people important to me," I answered.

"Is that really scary?"

I looked at Hazel.

"What do you want out of life?" Hazel asked.

"To be the best person I can be," I answered.

"Really?"

The next thing I knew, I was standing on yet another stained-glass platform, this one blue and with a woman with a blue dress and blonde hair on it. Her eyes were closed, too. What was going on? This one was much larger than the others.

Eight black bugs suddenly appeared around me. I pulled out my shield and waited for them to come near. Once they did, I spun around in a circle, the black shield in front of me. They all got batted a way. One even dissipated into black mist, leaving another yellow and blue cube. I then ran into two more bugs and made them disappear as well.

I spun around in another circle, getting rid of the last five. I picked up the cubes and spheres, which I pressed against my wounds.

Stairs appeared in flashes of light. They looked like little stained-glass windows, except not as elaborate like the one I was standing on.

I could see the top of a great pillar at the end of those stairs. The pillar had stained-glass windows like those in a church. I ran up the stairs and to the top of the pillar.

At the top of this one, it had a circular stained-glass platform that was yellow. It depicted a young woman in a yellow dress with long brown hair. She seemed to be sleeping. Something must have been wrong. I didn't know what it was, but something was wrong with these images.

I looked behind me and saw a long, dark shadow. There wasn't enough light to make that long or dark of a shadow. Suddenly, it rose up off the floor and gained form. It got larger. While it was doing that, I backed away.

My shadow turned into a giant, navy blue being with something like tentacles growing out of its head. Its eyes were yellow and seemed to glow. In the middle of its chest was a large, heart-shaped hole.

I grasped my shield tightly. The monster balled up its right hand and slammed it into the ground. I jumped up as a swirling vortex of black and purple appeared. I rammed its fist several times before it had a chance to pick it up. Once it did, I tried something. Since its hand was too high up for me, I threw my shield at its hand and whacked it. I did this several more times.

The monster got on its knees. The heart-shaped hole started to glow with purple energy. This was my chance to hit its hand! I bashed at it with my shield until its heart-shaped hole started to glow with white light.

The monster stumbled. My shield disappeared in ball of light. No! The monster pounded its fist. I jumped away and landed on my back. Another black and purple hole opened beneath me. I struggled to get out, but to no avail.

[End music]

A/N – So, tell me what you think!