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"Speech"

"Mental Speech"

Nobody's Heartless

Chapter 5

One step into the dark, two steps for the light

A small group of five arrived at the gates for the castle of Hollow Bastion, they all ranged into varying heights the shortest of the group only coming up to the waist of the tallest who stood at a height of 5"4, an inch taller than two of the figures and 4 inches taller than that of the second shortest. All five were dressed in black cloaks with a silver zipper, clip chain and hood tassels.

The five quickly made their way through the hordes of heartless towards the Grand Hall. Upon arriving at the Keyhole, there stood six of the seven princesses of light. "You are here to close the gate, aren't you?" spoke a sandy blonde-haired teenager in a blue ball gown.

The group of five nodded and pulled out their keyblades. The group managed to close the keyhole but not before they were sucked into the Dark World it guarded.

The six princesses watched as the keyhole closed before one of them sighed. "How are we to get home?" spoke the sunny blonde-haired child, brushing a small amount of dirt off her dress. Her blue eyes looking between the five teenagers.

Four of the teenagers sighed. "Our worlds were destroyed by the darkness, I would assume that once those five release the worlds that got sent to the Dark World, we would be sent home." Spoke the brunette-haired seventeen-year-old, her green eyes turning towards the door as a beast came in.

"I have checked, and there are no more heartless running around." His gruff voice spoke as his warm honey eyes looked at the six princesses. "And the keyhole?"

"Five cloaked figures shut it. We should get no more problems from that end." The oldest of the princesses spoke, her blonde hair pulled into a bun on her head.

"Cinderella is correct. We should be fine for now. Bell also has a point. We will just have to wait and see."

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The five figures stood together as they surveyed their surroundings. "We best be going if we want to find Aqua" spoke the shortest, worry clear in his tone.

"Mickey is correct. We best get moving boys." The second shortest figure assured, her tone almost urgent as blue eyes that were visible underneath the coat darted in paranoia.

The taller three nodded and the group moved off in a random direction, following the tallest as it seemed as he knew which way to go.

For what felt like hours or maybe even days, the group walked stopping only to ward off a few groups of shadow heartless along their way to where they assumed, they would find Aqua.

After what felt like months, they came across a female figure in blue fighting a huge tower of heartless. The female wearing a black and blue, high-collared halter top, two pink, intersecting belts over her chest, and black shorts. She wears a silver badge that almost looks like a heart on an upside down cross. On her arms are white bell-sleeves and tan, fingerless gloves. She also wearing a small, segmented piece of armour on each of her upper arms, and what appeared to be black stockings or socks on her legs which reach to about halfway up her thighs, leaving a small area of bare skin on her upper thighs. She also has two strips of blue cloth that drape over either side of her hips, along with a smaller, white strip of cloth tied around her waist, draped in the same manner. Finally, she was wearing pointed, armoured, silver boots with a sharp "hook" on the outer side of each.

The group of five quickly joined the fight and dispersed the demon tide. The female turned to the group of five holding the Master's Defender keyblade tightly in her grip.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" she demanded, blue eyes bright with suspicion. Her short steel blue hair almost blowing in a non-existent wind.

"Hey Aqua..." the tallest spoke, pulling his hood down revealing Ven.

"Ven…" Aqua whispered almost in tears.

Ven was quickly pulled into an embrace with Aqua. The two hugged for a while before one of the others spoke. "Ven, we need to get out of here quick." One of the boys spoke before the other perked up. "I don't know about you, but I am sensing a rather large mass of heartless heading our way."

"Right. We better move so we can get out of here." Ven spoke. "Sora, Keyne, help Aqua. Mickey, Alya, Take rear. Take out anything that comes close. I have a feeling I know how to get out of here."

"Mickey?" Aqua muttered turning towards the cloaked Mouse.

The mouse in question nodded. "It's good to see you Aqua. But as Ven said, we need to get moving."

The group of six moved quickly, following Ven as he led them away from the encroaching hoard towards a way out of the Dark World. It took a while but the group of five somehow arrived on the shore of the play island in the Destiny Island world.

"How? This place was destroyed by the darkness?" Sora asked pulling his hood down, Keyne, Alya and Mickey following soon after.

Keyne and Sora carefully placed Aqua down on the beach.

"Sora?" a voice asked. "Is that you?"

Sora spun round to see a sight that he was not expecting to see.

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Riku looked around at the space of blackness that was slowly driving him insane. A violent silver light burst into being in front of him, sending his sight into a nova of colours. Once his sight cleared, his gaze set upon a figure in a silver cloak. Silver eyes shining through the darkness that covered the figures face. Neither of the two spoke before Riku moved to grab hold of the cloaked persons hand before the two vanished in a nova created by a silver flash.

Xx KH xX

Fran: For those of you who are wondering. Sora was confirmed to be 5"3 by Nomura. The height for the others was made by guesswork by someone else. I can not confirm if that is the true height for everyone as the heights were based off cutscene guessing. And if you are asking about the Princesses, I am taking their ages from the original stories. So that would make Alice seven. I am tempted to hit Xehanort for that.

Also, I have started adding some of my fics to my AO3 account. I am going to be more than likely adding this onto there. And as for the long wait for this chapter… my old computer died, and I had to wait to get a new one.