Chapter 1

"I told you he was a loser!  I told you all!  But did anyone listen to-?!"

"Elrena, shut up!" Ephemer shouted standing up from his chair.

"Oh, I am so-" Elrena tried saying before a hand was put in front of her. 

The hand belonged to the mysterious pink haired Laurium.  He glanced at the blonde haired girl with disapproval.  Elrena rolled her eyes and plopped back down into her chair.  Ephemer glared at Elrena and sat back down in his chair.  Their eyes locked onto each other, disdain and irritation.  Laurium cleared his throat before speaking, "Many of our keyblade wielders have gone missing as of late.  I say we must search each and every of the reconstructed worlds for comrades."

"We can't do that," a quiet voice spoke.

"Why not?" Brain questioned with his ten gallon hat still concealing what could be assumed as a suspicion, all the Dandelions glanced towards the owner of the voice.

Ventus sighed, "The worlds aren't the same as they were under the Foretellers."

"What?!"

"Yeah, he's right!"

"Pipe down!"

"Oh please, going after them would be a farce!"

"I don't want to end up like them!"

A raven haired girl with long hair jumped onto the table and shot her keyblade off to the ceiling.  Everyone quieted down and then stared at her with questioning and fearful stares.  The girl, Skuld now commented, "We should do something about our MIA compadres.  But, we shouldn't be reckless.  I disagree with Lauriam's advice parti-"

"Why?" someone in the crowd demanded.

Skuld gave them a mean look and the voice piped down, "Partially because the worlds are blocked now.  If we are to access the worlds then we need to find new and creative ways of getting to them because there are barriers blocking them now."

"Barriers blocking the worlds?"

"Why can't we just use the Book of Prophecy?"

"That went missing, idiot!"

"Huh?!"

Skuld sighed, she then looked into Ventus's direction.

Ventus helped Skuld down and then stood from his seat, "I did some investigation when one of the first teams went missing.  I was able to track him down." 

Ventus's blue orbs darted towards a young boy in a cream colored mouse like thing that seemed way to be for his puny head.  The boy made his way through the thousands of keyblade wielders that survived the Keyblade War and stood steps away from the table where the new leaders of the Dandelions sat at.  The boy's head hung in shame.  Murmurs went on in the crowd, the boy's head shot up.  He went red, "IT WAS TERRIBLE!" He stammered.

Ventus went to the boy's side and placed a hand on his shoulder.  The boy in the over sized Moogle mask took a breath and then went on, "I did find him...I tried to bring them back but...something-no someone stopped me!"

Murmurs kept going on, "They looked so differently from the Heartless we're so used to fighting.  Something cat-like but human at the same time."

"You mean, like Chirithy?" Skuld asked, standing from her position at the table.

The Moogle clad boy just kept wheezing up.  Tears coming down his face like a fountain.  "She called them El Katib.  Said my friends would great minions.  Said her name was Mirage...I have to go back!"

"Don't be ridiculous," Elrena huffed, stepping to the boy and about to slam her fist into the back of his upper back.  Ventus grabbed her hand, stunning the blonde haired keyblade wielder. 

"Don't be reckless!" Ventus commanded.

The moogle headed keyblade wielder sniffled and went back into the crowd.  Skuld called off the meeting.

***

Meanwhile in another world, a dark olive skinned boy with wavy white hair laid on his back in a light brown yellow sand dune.  A figure took off the cloth hiding his scaly lips, revealing a snake-like face.  The figure got off its horned ostrich-like companion, which served as its transportation.  The figure approached the boy, studying him with his narrow dark reptilian like pupils.  The boy opened his eyes and instantly tensed up.  "Wh-what...w-who are...you...?  W-where am I?!" he stammered.

The figure shook its head and went back to its means of transportation.  The boy rose to his feet and grabbed the figure by its rough and scaly brownish green hand.  "Do you know of a place called Agrabah?" the boy questioned.  "Can you take me there?"

The figure stared at the boy with irritation, it got onto the saddle.  "I know of no such place," the figure retorted before getting the creature to move. 

"Well, can you at least take me to somewhere that is out of this unbearably hot sun," the boy demanded.

The figure sighed and got the creature to lower down to the boy's height.  The boy hopped on.

***

Into the boy's travel, he asked the creature it's name.  The figure just replied, "Mukhtar."

"That's a cool name," the boy acknowledged.  "My name is Reclaim and-"

"That's not my name, that's the name of my tribe.  I didn't ask to know your name.  Pipe down, so I can find some settlement," the figure responded.

"Uh okay," Reclaim shrugged.  He then looked at the Mukhtar's companion and was about to ask about it.

The Mukhtar just glared at Reclaim.  Reclaim gave the most innocent chuckle he could give at the moment.  He glanced into the blue cloudless sky and the endless light brown sand dunes, thoughts went back to a vibrant little town with vibrant colors of purples, blues and reds.  The boy smiled and muttered the town's name "Daybreak Town".

 

Nice! I thought reclaim was going to be xehanort lol. Skuld's entrance to the scene tho

Chapter 2

Elrena paced back and forth of a narrow, decrepit hallway.  She kept lamenting about the meeting.  A dark figure crept out from behind her.  Elrena was about to attack when a pair of hands stopped her.  She looked at the darkness, the fading sunlight from outside the window shined upon the figure; light creamy white skin and short fluffs of wavy pink hair.  "Don't sneak up on me, you creep!" she exclaimed pulling her hands from his palms and back to her side.

Lauriam glanced at the slight flicker of electricity that came from between her fingers.  Elrena got his glance and him putting the side of his side between his index finger and thumb.  She scowled at him.  "What do you want?!" she demanded.

Lauriam merely smirked and then turned his back towards her.  "I am just curious about what happened at that meeting," he said plainly.

Elrena huffed, "Don't bother!"

Lauriam then put a hand up in the air and went on speaking much to Elrena's irritation, "I've been meaning to speak with you about what was mentioned at our meeting."

"Yeah, what of it?  Nothing but a bunch of sniveling crybabies and know-it-alls!" Elrena exclaimed.

"Not quite so, Elrena," Lauriam replied.

Elrena rolled her eyes at the aristocratic, pink haired boy.

Lauriam continued, "The worlds are different...the Book went missing along with the Master of Masters...strange creatures...and mysterious barriers that nobody can get through yet some of our own are landing behind them.  Aren't you at all fascinated?"

"NO!" Elrena retorted.

"Why not?  Don't you care that you might be gone from here tomorrow?" Lauriam questioned.

"No, I'd be glad to be out of this place be-"

"Because of Strelitzia, right?" Lauriam finished.

Elrena went cold.

Lauriam pivoted on his left heel and smiled starkly at her, "Yes, I am quite aware of your relationship with my younger sister."

Elrena just stared at him like he had read her diary.  She remained silent.

"I was there when she died in my arms," Lauriam's annoying demeanor soon turned serious. 

Elrena tried to run pass him, but he grabbed her arm.  Elrena caught sight of his eyes, they were a shade of amber yellow.  "She told me that you were responsible."

Elrena pulled away and shoved her free hand at Lauriam.  Lauriam just gave her a toothy grin and blew her further down the hallway.  Elrena scowled at him as her fingers were engulfed in electricity once more.  "She would not dare rat me out," Elrena declared.

"Of course, you wouldn't!  You two were "so" close..."so" close that you couldn't bear to see her become one of us know-it-alls, huh?" Lauriam countered.

"She wanted to recruit that loser to the Dandelions.  I couldn't let her backstab me and our party like that.  He was our rival and we never compromise with weaklings," Elrena confessed.

"Oh, so you think you're better than us, eh?" Lauriam pressed.

Elrena noticed that Lauriam's eyes were getting brighter and that the color of the yellow was widening from his pupils to almost consume his entire eye.  "What the heck is up with you?" She challenged.

Lauriam picked her up by her shirt, amber boring into her green orbs.  "My sister looked up to you, why?"

"I didn't do anything to her, moron!"

"Then why did you tell me that you betrayed her for that loser," Lauriam pressed harder.

Elrena sent an electric zap from one of the knives in between her fingers causing Lauriam to throw her to the floor.  The yellow in Lauriam's eyes faded, returning to their usual blue.  "I'm really impressed, Elrena," Lauriam said, his annoying nature once again returning.

Elrena was confused.  How could this guy go from asking her, to attacking her, to just now complimenting her?  Elrena got up, shoving pass Lauriam.  "Be sure not to tell Ventus and the others about our chatter, okay?" Lauriam called out.

***

Elrena stormed off to her residence.  She stared up at the fading blue sky before marching back into her house.  "Strelitzia, what happened to you?" she thought to herself before plopping down on her bed.

***

Reclaim slept against the Mukhtar's back, slobber dripping from his mouth onto the Mukhtar's woolly cape.  He detested picking up hitchhikers for this very reason but he couldn't leave this kid out in this endless dessert.  So many creatures were out combing for prey.  There was also the cat goddess herself, Mirage; she scoured the seven seas just to find more goons to do her dirty work.  The Mukhtar kept his eyes on the sand, he eventually came across some tents.

 

Chapter 3

"Are you sure he's okay here?" a round, pudgy olive skinned gray bearded man asked.

"I don't care," the bluish-gray cloaked figure that came to be known as the Mukhtar answered turning his back to the entrance of the cave.

"Wait," the round man commanded, grabbing a hold of the Mukhtar's furry cape.

"What," the Mukhtar hissed.  Reptilian eyes meeting the unconscious boy laying on a blue cot and barely visible through all the woolen brown blankets.  The Mukhtar's eyes turned from the boy and focused on the man, "He can't come with me.  I have business to attend to.  He is bad news."

"W...what?" the man gasped.  "How can a boy as young as him be trouble?" He asked but the Mukhtar had already exited from the tent.

The man went to side of the boy and looked down at him with a worried expression.  He covered the blankets closer to the boy's chin.  "I don't know what he means.  I am glad that he brought you here.  We'll find some way to help you."

"Hey Hamed," a voice came from outside the tent.

The man known as Hamed said to the boy before exciting the camp, "I got to go.  I hope you wake up soon."

***

Reclaim opened his eyes, a shadowy figure ran pass him in what appeared to be some place in Agrabah.  There were some dingy buildings that look they were about to fall apart and a small well.  "Amal, Amal, Amal...where are you?!" a high pitched voice yelled.

Reclaim noticed a boy about his age, eleven run by.  The boy was familiar..."Aladdin"!  Reclaim gasped.

The boy stopped and turned in Reclaim's direction, he hid behind a wall.  The sounds of footsteps kept running.  Reclaim looked back and noticed that Aladdin had gone off.  Reclaim gave chase in the direction that the foot prints he ran off to.  The boy managed to find Aladdin but he was with someone, a large pudgy woman in a brown dress.  She had her hands on the eleven year old boy's shoulders.  Reclaim heard a little bit of what they said.

"I tried chasing after him.  I didn't mean to be a jerk."

"Well, he'll show up again.  Don't beat yourself, Aladdin!"

"I'd figure you be here," a feminine voice said.

Reclaim watched as a mother and preteen Aladdin disappear from his sight.  A woman appeared, no a cat...a cat woman?  Reclaim could only guess.  The woman cat dressed in a sleeveless red dress trimmed with gold around the neck line and around where the arms came out.  She had on gold bracelets and golden tiara.  Her fur was a grayish dark brown color and she wore what could be seen as a black wig. 

"You really don't recall, do you, eh?" the woman asked with an evil smirk played on her lips.

Her green eyes glowed and Reclaim could only think of one question.  As quick as the thought came, it soon escaped his lips.  "W-why...did you bring me back?"

The woman cat could only snicker at the boy's bewildered and hurt expression.  "I brought you back because all good things come to an end," the woman gloated.

"I-I didn't want to come back...I didn't want to," Reclaim's pupils narrowed and ran to the woman cat, keyblade materializing out of nowhere.  "What about them?  You brought them here!"

The cat woman stopped the keyblade mid swing and sent Reclaim flying into the decrepit yellowing wall that had served as Aladdin and his mother's house.  Reclaim picked up the keyblade laying next to him and ran at the feline.  "W...why?  They're my-"

"Friends!" the cat woman finished.  "Hahahaha, that's a new one!  You never wanted friends.  You just wanted an escape from this place and your miserable parents.  You always either came home hungry or in trouble.  Your parents always reminded of how much a burden you were to them and how they could barely feed you and your three siblings.  You never could amount to anything so when the El Khatib showed up, you went with them; disregarding your family's-"

"I...I had to leave...I didn't want to stay here...I couldn't!" Reclaim countered, tears forming in his eyes.

The cat woman showed him an image, people no dark shadows were calling his name.  All of them were either crying, one of them a feminine one that was plump fell to its knees; hands reaching up to where its eyes should have been.  "How could he leave us?  I didn't mean to be too harsh!  Please, come back!" the shadowy feminine figure screamed.

"I didn't...they don't care!" Reclaim's expression went from distraught to angry.  Memories flashed through his mind.  Memories he didn't want to remember. 

The cat woman could only smirk as Reclaim's keyblade went straight through her.  "Funny that you remember them but aren't at all concerned about your friends, eh?"

The cat woman vanished into a fog.  Reclaim was left coughing, he went wandering through the fog and saw several gargoyle-like creatures surrounded several children.  One had puffy lavender white hair with a bandana on and a loose fitting dress, she was the one that seemed to be in charge.  The others were next to her, keyblades in hand.  Reclaim thought he could hear a name but his vision was soon clogged by more fog.

***

Reclaim opened his eyes and looked around.  He was in a tent.  He got up, expecting to see Chirithy appear but no one was there to greet him.  He walked out of the tent.  Eyes slowly adjusting to the sunlight.