"Kairi"

Landing with a thump on the hard floor, the brunette kept his eyes shut waiting for the world to stop spinning. Kairi. She was there, and then the world dropped and everything was gone. What had happened? Finally opening his eyes, the boy tried to take in his surroundings. A dog was barking, licking his cheek. There hadn't been a dog there before... Frowning, Sora stood up and lightly patted Pluto on the head. Donald and Goofy were lying several feet away, a small red head next to them. It was stupid, but the brunette's immediate thoughts were of Kairi. That she was the one lying there, and he rushed over to embrace her. Only there were several things wrong. The redhead wasn't Kairi, and she wasn't moving.

"Tane?" he spoke, though didn't expect an answer. He'd seen what had happened. Tane was a heartless now, one of those black small creatures that kept trying to attack him. But Kairi and himself had come back. That meant there was still hope for Tane. Keeping that in mind, Sora bent down and picked up the little redhead, rather glad at how light she appeared.

"Donald? Goofy?" He called, turning on the spot to check his friends were alright. A grin spread over his features as both stood up, Donald complaining about being dumped on a hard floor, and Goofy, well just being goofy.

Barking pulled his attention from his friends though, as Pluto ran around his legs, a letter held firmly in his mouth. The only problem came when he tried to reach for it after carefully balancing Tane, and Pluto ran off down the yellow road. Not being one to mind physical activity however, Sora took off after him, Donald and Goofy trailing behind.

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The three- four including Tane's body, only stopped at night, when the two behind could no longer keep up and Sora's arms were starting to ache from carrying the younger girl. He'd placed her down carefully, on the floor beside his other two friends who fell asleep almost immediately. The teenager couldn't sleep though. The road seemed to go on forever, and with Tane there- who looked so much like her sister, his thoughts were never far from Kairi.

Standing, Sora took several steps further down the road, wondering where the end of it was. But before he could dwell on that, a voice he didn't recognise spoke up behind him.

"Along the road ahead lies something you need" Sora turned to face him, but he vanished, only to hear the voice reappear behind him again. "However, in order to claim it, you must lose something that is dear to you". This time he managed to see the owner of the voice, but the black cloak he wore revealed nothing, and as the younger boy moved closer, the person vanished again.

Baring in mind what had just happened, Sora made his way back to the others. His mind kept going over the words, something he needed was ahead, but he'd have to also something dear. Maybe Kairi was head! That was the only thought he needed to pick Tane back up and wake the others, going through a quick explanation of what had just happened, before continuing on down the never ending road.

Zxzxzxzx

Nothing changed for several more hours as they walked, non having the energy to run again yet, until finally something came into view. A giant gold looking castle, with light blue linings around the many doors and windows. Small matching blue turrets were stuck out at odd angles, and as they stopped in front of the huge door, Sora had the strangest feeling of dejavu.

That feeling stayed with him as the other two pushed the door open, his hands still full with the redhead. The inside of the castle was completely different, everything inside, from the walls to the small staircase was a brilliant white. There was a door at the far side, and they all began to make their way towards it.

"Something tells me the King will be here" Donald said, causing the others to stop walking.

"Really? Now that you mention it, I was thinking the same thing" replied Goofy, a small frown flickering across Sora's face at that, maybe that was the strange feeling he'd gotten.

"One look at this castle and I knew our friends were here" the spiky haired boy said aloud, feeling more confident about it now.

"No, something's screwy" the duck said after several seconds, though Sora didn't want to believe it.

"Alright, we'll go look around" He decided once he'd seen the room again, and began to walk towards the far door with Donald. The only thing that stopped them was Goofy's cry of his name. Turning back around, Sora frowned as he saw the mysterious person from earlier.

"That's it! Who are you?" he almost shouted, anger flaring up inside him. Had they done something to Kairi? Shaking his head at the thought, he summoned the keyblade, thought waited to let Donald use his magic first. The downside came however, when it didn't work.

"Come on! Thunder!" the duck started to shout, but to no avail. "Why isn't it working?"

"I should think it's obvious" Said the cloaked man, moving forward towards them. "The moment you set foot in this castle, you forgot every spell and every ability you ever learnt. In this place is to find is to lose, and to lose is to find. That is the way in Castle Oblivion". Sora's frown deepened as the cloaked man spoke, he didn't want to lose anything!

"Castle Oblivion?" he questioned instead, but the person disappeared into what looked like a portal.

"Here you will meet people that you have known in the past-" the voice said again, appearing through a portal behind them. "And you will meet people you miss"

"I...Miss..." Sora said, trying to make sense of it all. "Riku? You mean Riku's here?"

"If what you want... is to find him..." the voice trailed off, before causing what looked like a gust of wind and flowers that the brunette tried to shield Tane from, but failed as the cloaked man somehow went through him and reappeared by the door.

"What did you do?" he demanded, starting to take a real distaste to the cloaked man.

"I merely sampled your memories" he said, before holding up a blue card with a castle on it. "And made this." He threw the card at Sora, who had to juggle Tane to one arm then hand her to Goofy just in time to catch it. "Hold the card to open the door, and beyond it a new world" He instructed, giving a sideways bow to the door. "Proceed Sora, to lose and claim a new, or to claim a new and lose" and with that he vanished through another portal again.

A/N: Oh wow. It's been a while eh? Sorry about that. I just had a real struggle writing this chapter, i think it was because it wasn't in my characters P.O.V and more Sora's. Anyway, it's up now! Are you guys still reading it? I can only tell if you review, so please do. If it's not getting read then it'll be very low on my list of things to update and do. So just let me know you're still out there and wanting to know what happens. I'll probably write the next chapter more from Axel's P.O.V as i don't want to do the fight scenes from the game here. I'm not sure yet. What do you think? Z-Nugget xx