The red haired girl opened her green eyes and gulped. She sat upright and saw Roxas next to her, covered with sweat. He turned to her and his eyes widened. She was shivering and sweating more than him. Her eyes were half closed and she looked very weak.

"Max…" He placed his hand onto her cheek and it was boiling. "You're really hot." She leaned her head onto his shoulder and sighed. He got a nearby thermometer and stuck it into her mouth. They waited a few moments and Roxas took it out of her mouth. When his blue eyes fell on the number, they widened.

"You've got a high temperature, it's 40˚C! You're not going out today." She frowned at this and pouted.

"But I don't want to stay here all alone!" Maximum whined.

"Please, stay here."

"Roxy, please." She fluttered her eyelashes and her green eyes sparkled. He sighed with defeat and shook his head.

"You're too much to handle. But I love you." He mumbled and leaned closer to her. He placed his cool hand onto her face and captured her lips. She closed her eyes and melted into the kiss. He pulled away and nuzzled her neck.

"But you're resting here." She groaned at this and lied down onto the bed.

"You're so mean!" She mumbled.

"You'll thank me one day." He joked and she rolled her eyes at this.

"Whatever." He leaned down and kissed her forehead.

"Love you."

"Love you too, champ." She giggled and he winked. Shortly he left after placing a cold towel onto her forehead and he pecked her lips. Max sighed and closed her eyes.

"I might as well sleep." She whispered and fell into her dreams.

"Mai, what's wrong?" She looked away and sniffed as a tear fell down her cheeks.

"You can talk to me about anything." She looked up into his blue eyes.

"It's been so long since you've said that." She whispered and sniffed. "You never used to notice me as much back on the island and I feel as if we have moved away from our friendship." She made the lie look real, it was about Kairi. He frowned at this and held her hands.

"I'm sorry Mai." Sora wrapped his arms around Mai and hugged her tight.

She hugged back and cried on his shoulder. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"Sora... I..." Max mumbled and opened her eyes. She sat upright and felt a tear fall down her cheek. The red haired girl touched her wet cheek and raised an eyebrow.

"Huh? Where…did that come from?" She wiped the tear and sighed deeply. She ran a hand through her hair and realised that she felt a bit better. Max checked her temperature again and it was now 37°C.

"Alright, I'm gonna go and get some ice cream and find Roxy!" She giggled and got changed into her usual attire.

She got out the house and went to the Usual Spot to see a note. It said that they were investigating a few things for the project for Independent Studies. Maximum sighed and rolled her eyes at this. Her worst nightmare was Independent Studies, it was so awful! There was list and a few ticks next to it. She knew where they would be at next.

The red haired girl bought some ice cream and ate it. After, she ran all the way to Sunset Terrance and found Pence, Roxas and a dog.

"Woof!" The dog barked and ran to Max. He jumped onto her and she giggled. The red haired girl kneeled down.

"Hey there boy!" She rustled the dog's head.

"Maximum!" Pence exclaimed.

"You're okay!" Roxas smiled and she looked at them with a bright grin.

"Hey Pence, hey champ! Yup, I'm okay now." She stood up and gave the dog another rustle on the head. She walked up to her friends.

"Did you let him out of the sack Roxas?" The dark haired boy asked and the blonde haired teen nodded. Max smiled at this.

"Aw, that was so sweet." She said and Hayner and Olette came running.

"Oh hey Max, how you feelin'?" The brown haired girl asked.

"Yeah I'm fine now thanks." Maximum replied.

"Just when things were getting quiet." She heard Hayner mutter.

"You're so mean!" She growled and Olette and Max punched him in the stomach.

"OUCH!" He groaned.

"That didn't hurt you wuss!" The two girls said in unison. They all decided to go to Sunset Hill to see the Ghost Train and went.

"If the rumours are true, it will be here any minute." Hayner said and they looked down to see a tunnel.

"For they say that the train is empty, no driver, no passengers, no conductor, NO RETURN!" Maximum pale went pale at this and she gulped at this.

"What are you afraid?" Hayner asked with a smirk. The red haired girl rubbed the back of her neck and laughed nervously.

"Of course not." She said.

They sat down and Max sat down next to Roxas, holding his hand.

"Whatever you say Max." Hayner mumbled.

"At least I'm not scared of the…" She closed her eyes and heard someone; Riku.

"We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!"

"Earth to Maximum!" Roxas said as he touched her face. She snapped out of daze and smiled.

"I just zoned out there, sorry." He kissed her cheek at this and she blushed at this. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she was lying flat on the ground. Roxas snuggled his face into her neck. Hayner's face twisted with disgust and he rolled his eyes.

"Oh just great! Again with this romance. Please not in public!" They pulled away from each other and Max sat up. She smirked at Hayner.

"Just live with it Hayner. You're just jealous 'cuz Roxas has a girlfriend."

"And a very annoying one." He mumbled quietly.

"I heard that!"

"Good afternoon slackers." They heard that annoying voice and Max's eyebrow twitched; the jerk. "What are you doing out here?"

"What do you care?" Hayner asked.

"Go die somewhere other than here, jerk." The redhead murderously mumbled and they snickered at this.

"Aw cutie, that's so sweet. I'll do it if you go out on a date with me." She flinched at the thought of this and thought she was about to puke.

"I know you want to." Seifer winked.

"That's gross and vile you perverted jerk and you know it. I have a boyfriend and I am very, very, very happy with him!" She said.

"Whatever, but what are you guys doing here?" Seifer asked.

"We're waiting for the ghost train." Pence said.

"The ghost train?!" The jerk blurted and laughed. Roxas stood up and glared at up at him.

"Why does looking at you always tick me off?" Seifer growled and Max walked up to Roxas side. She stood by him and placed her hand onto a hip with a glare at Seifer.

"I dunno, probably its destiny." Roxas said.

"Destiny…In that case, let's be friends."

He looked at Max with a sick smirk. Quickly he grabbed her wrist and pulled her closer to him. "And let's kiss."

She knee'd him in the groin and throat chopped him. He went to hold his throat and she punched him in the jaw, striking blood. Seifer groaned with pain and spat out some blood. Max pointed her finger at him and growled.

"No let me warn you, bastard. Don't ever touch me or talk about kissing me. Don't do it again." She turned around and smirked.

"Oh yeah. If you do it again, this time I won't hesitate to crack your skull open, rip off your little buddy, and shove it up your sorry little butt. 'Kay?" She giggled ever so sweetly and he ran off. They gasped at this and gulped with shivers going up and down their spines.

Max and Roxas ran to the edge of the hill where a barrier was and looked down. They waited and there it was the ghost train. The main colours were purple and yellow with stars on them. Went it left they turned around to their friends.

"It's really true…And there's really no one aboard!" Roxas said.

"It's freaky, but there really isn't anybody aboard!" She agreed.

"What's the catch? There's gotta be a catch, right?" The blue eyed boy asked and Olette, Pence and Hayner looked at each other.

"Let's go to the station." Max flustered at this and blushed.

'Damn, Roxas is seriously more attractive when he's determined.'

Max and Roxas ran to the station and saw the train in front of them.

"Let's go in." The golden haired boy said and the green eyed girl held his hand. They were about to enter, but Hayner stopped them. They turned to the boy with a confused glance.

"Um, you'll get hurt." He said and they turned around to the train but it wasn't there.

"The train will be arriving shortly." The speaker said and Max stood there gobsmacked. Her hair danced in the wind and she blinked. She did see that train, it was right in front of her and Roxas. This was weird.

"C'mon." Pence mumbled.

"A train came from the beach." Roxas muttered and Hayner pushed him into the train that arrived. Max just stood there still staring.

"What's wrong?" Olette asked.

"The train was right there, in front of us." Olette sighed at this and took her friend by the arm. They both got onto the train. Max fell asleep during the train ride home and then she woke up when the train stopped.

The red haired girl didn't concentrate on what was going on around her but she decided to follow Roxas to The Old Mansion. They stood in front of it and looked up.

"You know something…" Roxas shrieked and Max jumped onto him with her arms wrapped around him. They turned to see Pence.

"We were going to check the mansion out tomorrow." Max sighed with relief and got off Roxas. The golden haired teen smirked at her and she pouted at him. "It IS the most suspicious place."

"Right…" Roxas looked up and Max looked up too.

"So what's so suspicious about it?" She asked.

"Well, they say there's a girl who appears at the second floor window…even though no one's lived there for years." A chilly breeze blew and made Max gulped. Roxas held her hand and they both closed their eyes.

~

They ended up in this white simple room with a table, three chairs (one at an end and two at the other). There were white flowers in a vase on the table and drawings with pencils. Roxas walked up to a picture on the wall of an island with trees and a mountain on it. Max touched a picture with a castle on it, with flowers and waterfalls. Somehow there was something about that place; there was really something about that place.

They walked up to another picture, this time; Roxas looked at a picture of a younger Kairi and a Paopu fruit.

Max turned her attention to a 3 year old girl with short curly hair and green eyes giggling with a teenage boy with white spiky hair and sapphire blue eyes. He wasn't laughing but was smiling. The red haired teen felt a tear fall down her cheek for an unknown reason.

"Roxas, Maximum." They heard Naminé's soft voice and turned around but didn't see her.

"Naminé?" Roxas asked.

"Where are you?" Max looked around confused.

"This is…me and Max." They looked at a picture with three figures, two with red hair, but one was a girl and another had blonde hair. They stood together with Max in the middle.

"And Axel's here too." Max mumbled.

"You ARE best friends and Max, Axel IS your brother."

"Very funny." Roxas smiled but Max sniffed. She touched the figure of Axel and sighed.

"Axel…"

"Don't you both want to know the truth about who you really are?" Naminé asked.

"No one knows me better than me." Roxas said.

"But, I want to know the truth. So many things have been happening lately. It's freaking me out." Max explained and they started walking to the other side of the room.

"Me too, strange things have happening." The blonde haired boy agreed.

"Do you know who these four are?" Naminé asked.

"Yeah, Sora, Mai, Donald and Goofy." Roxas answered and Mai looked at a picture. With a young 5 year old Mai, a teenage boy with red hair and green eyes, an older teenage woman with red straight hair and blue eyes and two older ladies. One with curly hair with faded red hair and violet eyes, the other with straight dark hair and blue eyes.

"How about you Max?"

"I think the little girl is Mai. But I'm not so sure about the others." She mumbled sheepishly.

"The boy with red hair is Mai's brother Lea, the girl with blue eyes is Gemma, Mai's older sister. The two elder women are their grandmothers."

"Max and Roxas, some things happened a year ago and I had to take apart the memories chained to Sora's heart. Mai wanted the memories of her past. Now I'm putting them all back exactly the way they were. It's taken me a long time, but pretty soon Sora will be his old self again."

"What about Mai?" Roxas asked.

"Mai …she probably will never wake up again."

"Why's that?" Max snapped.

"The condition she was in, when she was brought to me was really bad. She was…dead." Max frowned at this.

"The process has been affecting you both, Roxas and Maximum." Naminé said.

"You mean…the dreams?" Roxas asked.

"Yes, you and Sora are connected and Maximum, you are connected to Maitoo. And in order for Sora to become complete again…he needs you Roxas."

"Me? What for?"

"You hold half of what he is, same to you and Mai, Maximum. You are half of her. Max, you have Mai's recent memories of after her childhood in you. If she doesn't get that back, it will go out of control and Mai can never remember again, she needs you."

"Naminé?" They asked and something flashed.

Roxas and Max were sitting next to each other and Naminé sat on the other side of the table.

"Who are you really?" Maximum asked.

"I'm a witch with power over Sora's memories and those around him. That's what DiZ called me. But I don't know why I have this power…I just do. I'm not sure if there's a right way for me to use it." She said.

"Hm, I can't help you there." Roxas smiled.

"I can't either, but I bet there is a right way for you to use it, you just need to find it." Max mumbled.

"What do you know about us that we don't?" Roxas asked and Naminé took a deep breath. She looked up at them. The blonde haired boy held onto Maximum's hand tightly.

"You…you both…were never to exist." Max's eyes widened and she felt the tears filling into her eyes. It was very silent between the three until Roxas broke the silence.

"What…? How could you even say such a thing…even if it were true?" A tear fell down Max's cheek and her breathing came out shaky.

"I'm sorry. I guess some things…really are better left unsaid. Maximum…I'm so sorry." Then there was another flash.

~

"Roxas! Roxas!" Pence tapped his shoulder and he snapped out of daze.

"Huh?"

"Did you see her?" The dark haired boy asked.

"Yeah, watch the window closely." Roxas pointed.

"Oh, lame, that's just the curtains moving. There must be a draft somewhere. I'm surprised this old place even has curtains."

"Yeah…" Roxas sighed.

"Well, let's get back to the Usual Spot. Hayner and Olette are waiting." Pence said and Roxas turned to Max. Her green eyes were on the ground and she had a sad frown on her face. She looked like a zombie and she seemed weak. The blue eyed boy walked up to her and touched her arm.

"Hey…" He whispered and she looked up at him with a tear falling down her cheek. Max, she was broken by the truth