"Are you sure about this?" Chaos asked Cross. The Oreo had decided that they needed to have a little bit of fun, after he had to cut his visit short last week because of Dream, so, the moment that he entered his Soulmate's Dreamscape, he insisted on teaching her how to dance. "I already told you, I know how to dance Cross."

"Well, you haven't actually danced with a partner for a century if I am right." Cross said, as he gently traced the new scar on his Soulmate's arm. The scar was something new, and despite it's origin, it was nice to see something new. "And there is a bit of news that I need to share with you."

"Cross?"

"Something's wrong, two AUs collapsed yesterday and nobody knows why, it wasn't normal. Nightmare said that he felt something wrong coming from those AUs before they collapsed and he wasn't the only one. Dream actually managed to save a monster from one of them. We snuck into where he was keeping them but they couldn't hold on. They Dusted, right in the middle of Dream trying to get answers. The only one that he got was to be afraid of the shadows with the golden eyes."

Chaos gasped, shadows with golden eyes, it couldn't be...

"Chaos?" Cross asked her. "Are you okay? What's wrong?"

"I've seen them, the shadows with the golden eyes, they appeared in that dream that I told you about, they gave me the scar. They're not human or a monster, they're something else, something new."

"That dream, the one with the stained glass windows and the blade?" Cross asked as Chaos nodded her head, before she held her right hand out and she summoned Starcrossed Wish.

Cross looked at the blade. "Do you know the meaning of the flowers and the leaves on the blade?" He asked.

"Well, the Apple blossoms are easy to figure out. I grew up with them, they can be considered a symbol of hope."

"The leaves on the blade are Fern fronds and Mint leaves." Cross said, pointing them out. "Ferns are associated with Magic and protection while Mint is also affiliated with protection as well but it has been linked to cursebreaking as well. The blossoms and the leaves together can mean that you are a very protective person who doesn't give up hope, who will not let any curses stop them from doing what is right.

This blade is you, your thoughts and your feelings, your hopes and your dreams, your doubts and your fears. It is a physical declaration of who you really are."

Chaos blushed, before she desummoned Starcrossed Wish so that she could hide her face in her hands. Cross laughed and he gently pulled her hands away from her face, only to freeze when her eyes turned the same colour as the stars above them.

"Chaos...."

"The Darkness is coming, the barrier that kept them away for so long has been broken, it's balance destroyed, all because of a foolish dreamer that believes in a false light."

"What do you mean by that?! Chaos?!"

"Your world is coming to an end, the nightmare is not strong enough to fix what has been broken, his darkness is not enough to protect him from the creatures that wait for the barrier to be truly broken. Your world will fall, shattered, into the Darkness."

"Chaos?! Wake up!" Cross started to shake Chaos. "Chaos, come on! Snap out of it! Chaos!"

"But all is not lost, the door must be opened, no matter what has to be paid to open it. Hope is not dead, to open the door means the rebirth of your world. Those chosen by the Keyblade must live."

He had never seen her eyes so empty or dead before. This was wrong, this was not the Chaos that he knew...

"The door must be opened."

Cross caught Chaos as she collapsed, her eyes closing as that colour left them. He watched her face for a few minutes before her eyelids twitched and they opened, revealing her usual blue eyes. "Chaos... Are you okay?" He asked her.

"Cross? What happened to me?"

"I don't know, your eyes suddenly changed colour and you started to talk about a Darkness that was coming, a barrier that was broken, a foolish dreamer that believes in a false light, a nightmare not strong enough to fix what has been broken and the door that must be opened."

"Oh, I think that this is the second time that this has happened to me..."

"Second?"

"Something similar happened when I first met you as a baby, before you woke up, I actually had an basic idea of what I was seeing during that one, I saw myself waking up and you was there, I had the feeling that you were the one responsible for it but this time, I saw nothing apart from feathers."

"Feathers? Like the ones on Dream's wings?"

"Yeah, but they didn't belong to Dream, and some of them were covered in something that I couldn't recognise... I'm worried Cross, the creatures that I saw in that dream, Starcrossed Wish, the AUs collapsing, I have the feeling that they are connected somehow... Like everything is coming to an end and a new chapter is about to begin..."

"Well, in that case, let's make the most of our time together." Cross said, helping her to stand up, before he took one of her hands and he gently brought it to his mouth, kissing the back of it. "Shall we dance, my dearly beloved?"

Those words, brought back a memory of a warning given to her, something that she hadn't told Cross about.

"My light was destined to open the door too. But now he's lost, a terrible darkness stole him from me.

Miss Chaos... Don't let it hurt your dearly beloved! Keep him safe!"

'Ruin....'

Chaos smiled, there wasn't much that she could do right now, but the only thing that she could do, was to make sure that Cross had some happy memories to hold onto and to help him get through what was going to happen. "Of course, I would love to Cross." She said, putting her other hand on one of Cross's shoulders while he wrapped his other arm around her waist and guided the hand that he was currently holding to his other shoulder, before he wrapped that arm around her waist too.

The two of them gently swayed together, dancing to an invisible song as they touched their foreheads together. Chaos eventually moved her arms so that she was hugging him as they swayed together.

She had the feeling that their time together was coming to an end, there was something that she hadn't told Cross about her vision of the feathers.

It was who they were coming from, it wasn't Dream, because the feathers were coming from a slowly dusting Cross with Dream's claymore shoved through his Soul.

'Please, don't let that be the future, it can't be the future, I won't let it be the future, but trying to prevent a certain future can be the reason that it comes true...' She thought as her grip tightened on Cross. 'I can't lose him, my dearly beloved, my light and hope in this life of mine. I can't let this Darkness steal him away from me, I made a promise to Ruin that I would do my best to keep him safe. I just want everything to be okay, because, well, the brightest light can hide the Darkness that lives within it from the world.'

They swayed together for several more minutes before Cross frowned. "Someone is trying to wake me up." He said. "I'll go and see what they want, I'll be back, soon."

"Be careful." Chaos said. "And I'll see you soon, my Knight."

"I will be." Cross said, before he let her go and he knelt down in front of her, taking one of her hands to lightly press a kiss on the back of it. "My Princess."

Chaos blushed.

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Cross woke up to see a worried Error. "What happened?!" He asked. He and Nightmare had told Cross that they would do some grocery shopping while he was sleeping.

"It's Dream! He's got Night!" Error yelled. "We have to get him back! Blue called me and he said that Dream has given the scientists permission to experiment on Night!"

"Where is he?!"

"He's in their main base! The one in Dreamtale!"

"Then, let's get him back!" Cross said as he jumped out of his bed, shoving his feet into his boots. "Let's get both of them back! Dream has gone too far! This is the day that his empire comes to an end and crashes down around him!"

Error nodded his head, before Cross finished getting dressed and the two of them ran out of their house and through a portal that Cross created, heading for JR's main base in Dreamtale.

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They knew that it was time, this pitiful world wouldn't be able to hide from them for much longer. The barrier protecting this world from them had been broken. The darkness within that foolish dreamer's light had been growing for so long, it was almost ready.

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A small star flickered, it had been hidden from the Darkness coming by the actions of the foolish dreamer, without him knowing about it. He had unintentionally protected the one hope that would save them from the Darkness.

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The nightmare sensed the star and it wrapped itself around it, he had to protect this star, their hope, it sensed the Darkness within the foolish dreamer and it mourned for the loss of it's brother, that Darkness would take them eventually, it had to find a way to protect what it cared about before that happened....

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Chaos looked up at the stars in her Dreamscape and she gasped, as one by one, they started to disappear.

It had begun, the beginning of the end.