~~~~EARLIER~~~~~
Alsce and Sora sat on the horizontal palm, alone.
"I wonder what other worlds will be like." said Sora.
Alsce looked down and shrugged.
"What's the matter?" asked Sora.
"Well...I'd love to explore, it's just....."
"We'll gget your sister back, Alsce. promise!" said Sora.
"Sora.....Let's take the raft and go! Just the two of us!"
"What?!"
"Only kidding,"
They laughed.
"You've changed, Alsce."
"How?"
"Less shy. Stronger, too."
"Oh. That's good. Sora?"
"We'll always be there for each other, right?"
"Of course."
"Good."
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-------------On the way----------------
Sora held Alsce back a bit.
"Alsce, do you remember the first thing we did when you got here?"
"Um...........We had a pillow fight."
"After that."
"We went swimming."
"After that."
"We went into that little cav-" Alsce stopped.
"Come with me." said Sora. He took Alsce's hand and they left Ichigo.
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They ended up at the spring, outside the cavern.
"I'll go in fisrt if you want." said Alsce.
"Ok." said Sora.
They got on their knees and went through the tunnel into the cavern.
It seemed to be lit up by some unsourcable glow.
"It's beautiful." said Alsce.
"No, look." said Sora. He pointed at one of the carvings.
There was a drawing of two faces facing each other. One was a girl and the other was a boy.
"Do you remember when we did these?" asked Sora.

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Sora sat, a look of corncerntration etched on his face.
There was the sound of scraping as he made lines over the wall with a stone.
"Hello?" called a voice.
Sora turned.
"Go away! This place is a secret!" he said.
Alsce walked into the room.
"You can come in, Alsce," said Sora, "You're special."
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The two of them sat next to each other, carving pictures in the wall. When they stopped, Sora had done Alsce's face and Alsce had drawn Sora's.
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"I remember." said Alsce, stroking the drawings.
Sora laughed.A wind blew thorught their hair.
But it hadn't come from the entrance.
The both whipped their heads.
There was a figure in a black cloak.
"Who are you?" asked Alsce.
"This world has been connected." It said.
"Huh?" asked Sora.
But Alsce knew all to well what it meant. She didn't speak as he continued..
"Tied to the darkness....soon to be completely eclipsed."
"Stop freaking us out!" said Sora.
"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door."
"You're from another world." whispered Alsce.
"There is so very much to learn. You understand so little."
"Oh, yeah? Well, you'll see. Were gonna learn what's out there!" said a voice, as Ichigo rushed in. Both Sora and Alsce felt more comfortable when she came.
"A meaningless effort. Those who know nothing can understand nothing." it said. Then it pointed at Alsce. "Even she knows nothing. And yet, in her heart, she knows so much. Like her poor sister-"
"SHUT UP!" screamed Alsce. She jumped at the figure and brought her fists down on it. But it had disappeared.
Alsce felt fresh tears running down her face.
"C'mon." said Ichigo, and helped her friend up.
"Why did you two go away, anyway?" asked Ichigo.
"To look at these." said Sora, gesturing to the drawings. Ichigo nodded as Alsce left.
Sora hesitated towards the door, the stopped, turned, and quickly carved something between his and Alsce's face. It was a hand passing a Paupo fruit from him to her.
Then he exited.
Ichigo looked at the carving.
"You will tell her, won't you?" she asked.
"Yeh. One day." Said Sora, then left.
Ichigo smiled at Sora's crush, then left after them.
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Alsce sat in Ichigo's room. There was a storm brewing outside and Ichigo had fallen asleep under her covers in the bed (She had hid under there when the strom had started and consequently nodded off), and Alsce was idly flicking through her blood sister's Digimon comics.
She heard lightning outside and ran to the window.
The storm was pretty bad, and the waves were high.
Good thing Alsce han't left anything precious on the beach-
"The raft!" screamed Alsce.
She ran out of Ichigo's room, straight into Sora.
"The raft-" he said.
"I know." replied Alsce. They took hands and ran out of the house.
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"Its dark and cold!" said Alsce, the breeze off the sea hitting her like a slap.
"I know. Be brave!" he said.
The two of them walked up the pier, where all the little boats were kept.
There were two empty spaces.
"They were Riku and Kairi's boats." said Sora.
"I wonder where they are." said Alsce.
They went back, heading towards the island with the horizontal palm.
They didn't notice shadows rising behind them.
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One the island, they saw Riku facing away from them.
"Riku!" said Sora.
Riku turned.
"Is Kairi with you? Ri-"
Then he noticed the evil look on his friend's face. Shadows swelled round his ankles.
"Riku!" said The two, togther.
"Come with me." He siad, holding ot his hand.
Alsce's mouth fell open.
"No! What about Kairi and Ichigo?"
"They'll come too," He said, "Don't fear the darkness. It may take. But it gives back. Alsce, come with me and we can get her back. All of them."
Alsce looked at Riku. He meant her sister.
"You...can?" she muttered.
"Yes."
But suddenly, the shadows rose up around Riku and swallowed him.
"RIKU!" the screamed, jumping out to him.
But the darkness spread round both Sora and Alsce, and then went back. They were in the secret cavern.
Kairi was standing in front og a brown door.
"Kairi?!" asked Sora.
"So....ra..." she said, turning.
Then a powerful blast pushed her forward forcefully.
Sora held out his arms but she went through him.
"KAIRI!"
Only then he noticed she was gone.
And the darkness swallowed them again.
Alsce felt her strength drain away.
There was more silence.
They were falling.
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Alsce felt Sora's arms tight around her.
"Alsce...I won't let you go....I won't lose you." she heard him whisper.
"Sora..." she whispered.
Suddenly, her feet touched solid ground.
Sora let her go and she fell to the floor.
As she opened her eyes a little she saw a key appear in his hand....like the one she had.
"A key?!" said Sora, the, "Or is it a sword?"
...
"Keyblade."
The ground crumbled beneath them again, and Alsce felt herself grow even weaker when she hit the floor again.
"Ow!" said Sora, getting up beside her.
"Alsce!"
He ran to her and picked her up.
"Alsce?! Talk to me!" he siad.
"I'm....ok." she said, sitting up. She noticed they were back on the island with the horizontal palm...but the rest of Destiny islands had gone.
Behind them their shadows grew taller and taller, then stood up.
Sora's was huge and strong with two bright yellow eyes, Alsce's was thin and wrapped itself round Sora's like a snake.
"Oh no." they said together as more shadows appeared.
Then, suddenly, as Sora's keyblade appeared in his hand, the blue crystal from Wakka's gil pouch rose and went into the keycuff.
The Brotherhood Keyblade appeared.
"We have no choice!" said Alsce, getting up as more shadows appeared.
So they duo got up and started fighting off the shadows.
But there were far too many, and they began swarming all over the children.
"Oh no!" said Alsce as a shadow landed on her head. Other jumped on her limbs and brought her to the floor. Sora was having similar problems.
And as shadows clouded her eyes, she saw a figure with black hair fly up to her......a figure with black hair who had huge angel wings and a keyblade.
"Keep away from my sister." She said, and brought the keyblade down on the shadows. The exploded and Alsce got up.
"Ichigo!?" said Alsce.
Ichigo nodded. There she was, a keyblade in her hand.
"What happened to your wings?" asked Alsce as Ichigo held Sora.
"What wings?"
An anime vein appeared on Alsce.
"Nows not the time!" she decided and started thrashing heartless again.
The three made short work of them.
"Now we've beaten the small fry, let's go onto the big ones!" said Sora, looking at the shadows. The three of them started hitting the shadow, but it ust brushed them off.
"THIS IS HOPELESS!" screamed Alsce.
"Wait....aim for the eyes!" said Ichigo.
"Oh yeah!" said Alsce.
Ichigo put her keyblade on her back and took Alsce and Sora's hands.
"This will hurt!" she siad. She jumped up, very very high, then let go of Sora and Alsce when they were above the shadows.
"You left your face wide open!" said Sora, hitting his shadow as Alsce hit hers.
They exploded.
The children were throw to different sides, and Ichigo (Who now had wings again) Grabbed Them under her arms and held them as underneath the last piece of the island cracked into nothing.
But Alsce and Sora were pulled out her grasp.
"NO!" screamed Ichigo, darting after them.
Sora grabbed a piece of rock that went by him and held on, but started to slip.
Ichigo soared after Alsce, but Alsce disappeared into the darkness. Knowing she couldn't continue, she went back up to Sora....
But he had slipped and fallen after Alsce.
Ichigo sighed and folded in her wings.
"Forgive me Roxas." she whispered, and fell after them.
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Alsce fell and fell, and out of Wakka's gil pouch came five crystals- orange, red, dark blue, purple and green.
The white one followed, but, out of it came The top half of Yuna.
She took her unconciuoss sisters hands.
"I know it will be hard. And in the other worlds, you'll find us. It will be like we are locked away till then. But Lesca....don't be afraid..." she whispered, letting her sisters hand go and disappearing.
".....And don't forget...."
The crystal flew after the others and Alsce sank deeper and deeper into the darkness.
"....You are the one who will open the door."