I slightly opened my eyes and slowly started falling. What was happening? Most of me was falling... I could feel myself slipping away slowly into oblivion. Then I heard a male's voice.

Hello? Is anyone here?

"Who's... There?" I asked into the darkness a half broken platform of light was underneath me and I landed on it. I stared down at it with half lidded eyes. What was this?

Who are you? Is there anyway to help you?

"I... Don't know... What you can do...?" I felt my heartbeat in my chest. It's pace was eerily slow, abnormally slow.

Well, I want to help you!

"Huh?" The platform began to grow and develop into a full one. The light cleared and showed a stain glass platform of me. I was surrounded by black and white crystal in the picture as well as golden sigils.

You can stay here as long as you need to.

"Thank you... young man..." I closed my eyes and light surrounded me.

(AN the young man isn't Sora)

~

I woke in a strange place. A little room with a delicate atmosphere and design, to be accurate. The girl that caught my eye had a blue pixie cut and eyes to match the color of her hair color. She wore a dark green halter top and black jeans.

"Serah, she's waking up!" The bluette said and I held my head and my my eyes were half lidded. "Piri, are you okay? Vanitas did a number on you..."

" 'Piri'?" I asked her with a blank expression; Was that my name?

she widened her eyes. "You... you don't-"

"Piri!" Another girl came in with pink hair in a side ponytail. She was hugging me tightly and I didn't even feel like I knew her. This made me feel bad.

"Piri... Do..." The girl with the pixie cut gulped, "Do you remember me or her?"

The pinkette gasped and pulled away, glancing at the other female, "What?" Her cerulean eyes met with my crystal blues. However, I looked away from her, not wanting to look. "What do you mean?"

"Serah, her heart..." She sighed and looked away. "It was damaged pretty bad. I saw Piri's memories and thought he was different... But..."

Serah turned to me again, "Piri, do you...?"

"I... I'm sorry..." She shook her head.

When they peered upon each other and the bluette girl sighed, "It's as I feared. Vanitas took away your darkness and some of your memories with it. Piri, I'm Irix and this is your cousin, Serah."

"Serah... Irix..." I meakly spoke.

"Amara and Kiyoko are fine; they're with Donald and Goofy. Do you want to see them?" Irix asked.

"Donald and Goofy... Amara and Kiyoko..." Those names I had a face with. Donald was a duck, Goofy was a dog, Amara had black hair and brown eyes at the age of five, and Kiyoko had my color of hair and cyan green eyes nearly at the age of one. I smiled, "Sure."

I pushed myself up and followed Irix to another room. There was those faces. They made my heart feel light, relieved, and happy to see them... though I could barely remember what they're like.

"Mommy!" Amara ran up to me. Mommy? She hugged my legs and looked up at me with those chocolate brown hues. She blinked. "Are you okay? Auntie Irix told us what happened in the dream realm."

"You gave us quite a scare!" Donald said, seemingly worried about me.

"I'm sorry, guys." The shame in my body just was growing; I couldn't recall what they were like.

"A-yhuck! At least you're okay now!" Goofy said. "Irix told us what happened to ya."

"We're sorry, Piri..." Donald looked down at the little girl in his arms, who looked at me worriedly. "But... We almost Kiyo to walk." I blinked before tears welled up in my eyes. They felt warm as did my heart. Why was that? Donald put her down and held her hands. "Remember what we did?" He asked her and she nodded. She put a foot in front of the other and glanced up at me determination.

"Mama..." She walked towards me and let go of Donald's hands. She was walking on her own! She was about to fall over but I picked her up.

"Wow, you are very brave." I smiled, rustling her hair. "Keep practicing, okay?"

"Mama! Mama!" She giggled and clapped her hands, which made me giggle. "Wuv you!"

I couldn't help but 'aww'. "I wuv you too, baby girl."

"You ready to go back to Master Yen Sid's Tower?" Goofy asked.

"Maybe I should come, too. I should explain what happened to her." What happened to me? Who was Master Yen Sid and why was everyone so anxious?

"I think that would be the reasonable thing to do. He'll be able to help us restore Piri." Donald said and Irix nodded.

"Serah, can you watch the kids?" She asked and she nodded.

~

Irix and the guys lead me up these stairs when we got to this huge tower. Was I here before? Goofy knocked on a door that was at the top of the stairs.

"We're back!" Goofy said and he opened the door. I noticed Irix dragged me into the room. I noticed a mouse and a wizard, both seemed similar.

"So, since Irix is here, Master Yen Sid was right..." The mouse said having a sad look on his face. "Do you remember anything?" He asked me.

"I remember Irix, Amara, Donald, Goofy, GranGran, Serah, and Kiyoko... That's it..." I looked at the wizard who stroked his beard.

"You are to make sure she does not enter the Realm of Sleep again, Irix. She could be in grave danger if she does... She may not wake up..." He warned and Irix gasped and looked at me, worried.

My heart worried too. What was I doing in the Realm of Sleep? It fills it was important...

"Well, what should we do now, master?" The mouse asked him

"First, I must know who separated her heart?" He asked.

"Irix told us it was a boy named Vanitas." Donald said and the moused gasped.

"Vanitas is alive?" He asked.

"You know him, your majesty?" Irix asked

"Gosh, he was the darkness is Ventus' heart. I thought he disappeared after the fight with Master Xehanort, Aqua, him, Ven, Terra, and Vanitas."

"What should we do now? Should we track him down?" I asked and Irix summoned a dark corridor.

"I'm going to get Lea. You guys know his Nobody! It's Axel." She sadly smiled, "But... Maybe he can help dodge some of Piri's memories! He was her first crush after all..." She disappeared along with the dark corridor.

"So what shall we do til she gets back?" I asked and they all went quiet. "Well, if this Lea was my first crush, then who was my second?"

"Oh! You must be talking about-" he was interupted when we all heard a crow's call. A crow came and put a crown on the desk. It also had a note. He gave it to the king and he read it.

"Minnie's in danger!"