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Chapter 1: The Photo Thief

Day 1.

Twilight Town. A town that exists in the lanes between light and darkness, much like Traverse Town. However, unlike Traverse Town that was eternal night, Twilight Town had a sunset vibe to it.

Inside Twilight Town was a young boy with blond spiky hair named Roxas. He wore a white coat over a black shirt and tan pants. Currently he was sitting with three other kids in a small hideout that had a sofa, some tires, posters and a dart board

One was a boy with messy blond hair. He wore a black shirt under a green small jacket with camouflage pants and shoes. He was currently pacing around the room looking angry. He was Hayner.

The other boy was rather chubby. He wore a red poncho that said 'Dog Street' on it and blue jeans. He had black hair and a headband on. This was Pence.

The last one was a girl with brown hair. She wore an orange tank top with flowers on it and khaki pants. Her name was Olette.

"This is ridiculous! I can't believe Seifier!" Hayner growled before turning to Roxas who was rather spaced out. "Are you listening Roxas?"

"Huh?" Roxas asked snapping out of his day dream. He's been having some strange dreams lately about some brown spiky-haired kid around his age, and he didn't know why.

"We have to find a way to clear our names!" Hayner said

"Clear our names?" Roxas asked

"Are you for real?" Hayner asked annoyed

"Do you remember all that stuff that's been stolen lately?" Olette asked and Roxas nodded. "Seifier and his gang are going around telling people that we are the thieves."

"I guess that explains why a lot of the shop owners were glaring at me this morning." Roxas said remembering his walk here.

"It's the same with us too." Pence said

"This can't go on any longer! Seifier is only saying that because of our rivalry. Therefore, we'll beat some sense into him. Who's ready for a rumble?" Hayner demanded as he grabbed a bat.

"Or, we could just go looking for the real thieves. We catch them, get back all the stolen stuff, and everyone will get off our backs." Roxas suggested before his friend made their situation worse.

"I…guess that will work." Hayner relented as he dropped the bat. "Let's go catch us a criminal."

"Sounds like fun. I'll get my camera." Pence said as he got up and went through his stuff.

"Thanks, Roxas. If Hayner went through with his idea, we would be in even more hot water." Olette whispered to Roxas.

"Tell me about it." Roxas sighed. He liked Hayner, but the boy doesn't always think.

"Guys! We've been robbed! The ( ) are gone!" Pence shouted

The other three just looked at him strangely.

"What?" Hayner asked

"Our ( ) are gone!" Pence said as he started to realize what got the others shocked.

"Quite trying to mess with us Pence." Hayner said

"I'm not! Take a look!" Pence said giving Hayner the empty picture frame. The three looked to see that indeed the photo of them that was once inside the frame was gone.

"Where did our ( ) go?" Roxas asked as everyone looked in shock.

"See! You can't even say the word ( )" Pence said

"That is ridiculous!" Hayner shouted as he tried to say the word photo but no word came out.

"This is not your ordinary thief." Pence said a bit excited. He was really into the super natural, and this just screams it.

"Don't get too excited. Let's just get to the bottom of this." Hayner said as the four headed out.

The four headed out of their Usual Spot and towards the Sandlot where Seifier's gang hangs out.

"Remind me again why we are going to see Seifier?" Olette asked

"He's the one spreading all that false information that we are the thieves. So maybe he knows something about it." Hayner said.

"Makes sense?" Roxas asked confused

"Now then, where are they?" Hayner asked looking around for his 'rival'

"Sneaking around huh? Pretty fitting for a group of thieves." A voice said causing the four friends to turn around.

Before them was the town's Disciplinary Committee leader Seifer with his two lackeys Rai and Fuu, and a small boy in a blue coat and a large yellow hat named Vivi.

Seifer himself was dressed in a small blue tank top with a large white coat over it. He had brown pants and a black tuque with the Ore kanji written on it.

Next to him was Rai who was a rather muscular boy that had tan skin, an orange sleeveless shirt with a black and white tribal design and a thunderbolt neck-less around his neck. He also had dark baggy pants with an orange stripe on the sides and an 8 on the right hip.

Fuu was the only girl of the group. She had a sleeveless navy-blue jacket, with khaki pants. She had light blue hair that covered her left eye.

"Thieves." Fuu said pointing at Roxas's group.

"That was low y'know!" Rai said.

"We're not thieves! Stop accusing us!" Hayner shouted.

"Roxas." Seifer said ignoring Hayner. "Where did you hide my ( )? That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers."

"You're the only ones that would take it." Rai added

"Did you hide it? Or did you destroy it?" Seifer asked

"I'm innocent until proven guilty. Besides, we were robbed too." Roxas said.

"Is that so? A likely story. Though it's not like I need the ( ) to prove that I totally crushed you, but it was still my property." Seifer said.

"Replay." Fuu said

"Now you're talking. We can just replay the glorious memory if you want." Seifer said as he grabbed two bats from a nearby bin and tossed one two Roxas that landed by his feet.

Unlike the wooden swords from Destiny Island, these were a blue bat-like objects on a yellow handle.

"Pick it up Roxas!" Seifer ordered.

Roxas picked up the bat and got into a fighting position. Seifer got ready as well.

Seifer charged at Roxas unleashing a barrage of attacks at Roxas who was able to block all of them much to Seifer's shock.

'That's weird. When did this punk get so much better at fighting? And in such a short time?' Seifer thought as he attacked, but Roxas easily blocked each move. "Come one and attack you wimp!" Seifer taunted hoping to make an opening for him to exploit.

"Fine then!" Roxas said as he gave a fast yet powerful swing of the bat knocking Seifer right out of his hand much to everyone's surprise.

"H-How?" Seifer asked shocked.

Roxas pointed the bat at him right in the chest singling his victory.

"S-Seifer is just saving his strength for the tournament y'know!" Rai said immediately to his leader's defense.

"Tournament decides." Fuu said.

"Excuses!" Hayner shouted out but laughed. "Whatever. Pence, please document this glorious moment for us."

Pence took out his camera and snapped a photo of Roxas's victory over Seifer much to the disciplinary committee's irritation. Though the moment the picture was printed, it was stolen by a white figure that quickly flew off.

"Was that the thief?" Olette asked shocked.

"After it!" Hayner shouted.

"Which way did it go Pence?" Roxas asked.

"Uh…I don't know. It just happened." Pence said.

"Split up!" Hayner said and the four headed in different directions.

As Roxas searched around town, he spotted something white sliver in the sky and into the hole in the wall of Twilight Town. Roxas gave chase through the forest to an old mansion guarded by a locked gate.

"The Haunted Old Mansion? I guess this would be a good place for a thief to hide, but where is the thief?" Roxas muttered to himself as he looked around for the culprit.

Suddenly the figure appeared before him.

The White creature with a flat head and a strange symbol on its forehead. Its slender body with sharp claws tied together, and its mouth that was unzipping.

"What is this thing?" Roxas asked in shock

"We have come for you my liege." A voice said to Roxas.

"It talks?" Roxas asked freaking out. Composing himself, Roxas swung his bat at the creature right in the face, but the bat seemed to have no effect.

"What the heck? Is this thing a Ghost or something?" Roxas asked shocked as more creatures appeared and surrounded Roxas. The creatures then joined together around Roxas with their bodies making a cage around the boy preventing him from fleeing. A black corridor appeared nearby and the creatures started to drag Roxas towards it.

"Wh-What is that? Where are you taking me? Let me go!" Roxas shouted as he tried to break free but to no avail.

Suddenly, Roxas's bat started to glow and change form. The Dusks broke free from each other and jumped back from the light. When the light died down, a Keyblade was in his hand.

"What the heck is this thing?" Roxas asked in awe as he examined the weapon in his hands. For some reason, this weapon felt incredibly familiar to him, but he didn't know why.

One of the Creatures charged at Roxas. Instinctively, Roxas swung the Key at it which not only hit the creature this time, but destroyed it as well.

"What the heck?" Roxas asked himself before shacking his head. "I don't understand it, but now I at least have a means of beating these creeps!"

The other creatures charged at Roxas, but they all ended up meeting the same fate as the one before.

When the last creature was slain, multiple photos dropped all around Roxas as the Keyblade vanished from his hand.

"That was weird." Roxas said as he started to collect the photos.

In the Usual Spot:

"There we go." Olette smiled as she put the photo of the four of them at the beach from last year in the frame once again.

"Well, now that all the photos are back, the people will no longer think we're thieves again." Pence smiled before he realized what he said. "Hey, I just said photo!"

"Talk about wacky. Everything that was stolen was just photos." Hayner said looking though the photos that no one claimed. "Even more weird, Roxas, you're in every one of these."

"Seriously?" Roxas asked

"Yeah, check it out." Hayner said showing Roxas the photos. Sure enough, Roxas was in each of them. With the Ice Cream Lady, the accessory shop owner, with Seifer's gang and him on the ground beaten, each one of them had Roxas in it.

"I guess that's why Seifer accused us in the first place." Pence said looking through the photos.

"That's pretty creepy. You should keep your doors and windows locked at night." Olette said concerned

"What can you tell us about the thief?" Pence asked

"It was white and didn't look human. My bat had no effect and I was moments away from being dragged into a portal to who knows where when…Hayner? Are you okay?" Roxas asked as he noticed Hayner starting to shiver.

"C-Come on dude. Lay off the G-Ghost stories already…" Hayner said trying and failing to keep his cool.

"That wasn't a Ghost story!" Roxas retorted.

"You know Roxas, when you tell a ghost story, you should always…" Pence began but Roxas just facepalmed as he drowned him out.

'Do these guys even care about the photo thief anymore?' Roxas thought annoyed.

BONG! BONG!

"Guess it's getting late." Olette said hearing the giant Clock tower issuing the end of the day.

"Hard to believe that we only have a week left before summer vacation is over." Roxas said

"Tomorrow, we need to get our summer homework done!" Olette said

"Yeah, yeah." Hayner dismissed.

"You could stand to be a little more worried Hayner. it's due the moment we get back and we haven't even started it yet." Olette scolded.

"We'll get it done mom! Chill out!" Hayner said annoyed.

After a short argument between the two, the three headed off to go home, waving goodbye and to see each other tomorrow.

Roxas waved goodbye and was about to leave, but he suddenly felt dizzy and collapsed.

"It is almost time." A voice called out

'Almost time? For what?' Roxas thought as he lost conscious.

In the Real Twilight Town in the Old Mansion:

"Those Organization Miscreants. They found us already!" DIZ growled from his computer.

"But why did the Nobodies go around stealing Photos?" Riku asked his voice still sounding like Ansem since his fight with Roxas back at the World that Never Was not too long ago.

"To them, both are nothing but mere data. Those fools could never tell the difference. I scattered those photos of Roxas to help fool them." DIZ explained.

"I see…" Riku said.

DIZ looked at the computer screen that showed the clock tower in the real world, with Axel standing on top of it with multiple Dusks flying around.

"Sora will awaken soon. But we still need a little more time." DIZ said.

"What about the memories of Sora and Corrin?" Riku asked remembering that with the exception of himself and Silas, everyone else forgot about his two friends thanks to Namine messing with Sora's memories for the Organization.

"They should be starting to return now. As Sora's restoration continues, the memories of him, his brother, and his companions will return to those who forgot them thanks to Namine. The Organization is likely already aware of that and is desperately making their move to reclaim Roxas. Keep a close eye on him." DIZ said

Riku simply nodded. "I will."

"That coat is becoming of you." DIZ said

"I'm not wearing this because I want to." Riku growled

"Of course." DIZ nodded as he continued his work.

At the Clock-tower:

Axel looked annoyed as the Dusks dropped more photos of Roxas in his hands.

"WHY THE HELL DO YOU IDIOTS KEEP BRINGING ME PHOTOS?! FIND THE REAL ROXAS!" Axel shouted as the Dusks scattered and the photos were burned to a crisp.

Axel just sighed. "Where is the real Roxas hiding?"

As Roxas drifted through his sleep, visions came before him. Of a brown spiky haired boy, and white-haired kid with pointy ears, a bunch of dark creatures, and a familiar Key in the Boy's hand.

"Keyblade."

Restoration at 12%

And that's a wrap!

Well folks, it is finally time to start an arc that I've been waiting for ever since I wrote the first chapter of this entire fanfiction. Right after we get through the 2 hour long tutorial part.

All jokes aside, I should probably address the whole Riku thing. Why am I not keeping him a secret?

Why should I? A lot of us already know of the big reveal, and even if you never played Kingdom Hearts, if you've been reading my Of Key and Sword series, you would know that I did show Riku's transformation, so it's kind of pointless to keep it hidden. He will still be referring to himself as Ansem though, so don't worry, but I can use this to show some more of his thoughts for later scenes.

But enough about that, let's talk about what to expect in this arc.

First of all, as I said before, there will be original worlds in this arc. I have three planned. One Disney world that hasn't been in Kingdom Hearts, and two Nintendo based worlds. There will be more in Kingdom Hearts 3.

Atlantica, and Pride Lands will NOT be in this arc. The former is pointless, and the latter is...I'll explain that at a later date. I also probably won't do a Winny the Pooh world, and if I did, it would probably be a bonus chapter like last time. I haven't decided.

On the note of Nintendo worlds, I am NOT taking suggestions.

As for the Fates world, you will see later.

With all that said, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I will see you all next time.

Next chapter, Roxas and the crew round up some money and try to hit the beach. Stay tuned.