Chapter One:

Embrace Nothingness

A girl around the age of sixteen sat at her kitchen table waiting for her fourteen year old brother, Sora, to come down for dinner. Their mother had called him three minutes ago; usually it only took Sora a few seconds to race down the stairs and to his food… but three minutes! Something must be up.

Her mother took a deep breath and glanced at the empty chair. The woman had ocean blue eyes and long chestnut brown hair pulled back into a messy bun. "Risa will you go get your brother."

Risa looked up from her pasta and smoothed a few strands of her chocolate brown hair behind her ear, her steel blue eyes clearly telling her mother that she did not want to step foot in Sora's room.

"Risa Junko Tenshi," She heard her father say her full name in a demanding tone. "Do what your mother tells you."

Her father was quite a handsome man with wavy black hair and sparkling steel blue eyes. Risa and Sora always looked more like their mother (only Risa had her fathers eyes), but their older brother Haru (who had moved into his own apartment because he's nineteen) was the spitting image of their father, the only difference was that Haru had his mothers eyes.

"Risa, did you hear me?"

"Yea, yea I'm going." Risa put down her fork and got up from the table. "But don't blame me if that dimwit has a few scratches when he gets down here." She said with a chuckle as she left the kitchen and went up the stairs.

"He had better be in one piece, young lady!" Her father called back as Risa climbed the stairs.

Risa knew that her little brother and his two best friends Riku and Kairi were always talking about different worlds. She didn't believe in that fact; however, she did think that there was a little more to their small island home than the people thought. Maybe there was a main land out there in the ocean somewhere filled with more technical inhabitants. Sure there were a few other islands in the Destiny Islands that their little town traded with, but that wasn't the point! The point was that the navel engineers were too lazy to make the trading ships more efficient for longer voyages, to go explore the vast ocean for more people to trade with. But no, the lazy ass's who built the ships said that they already tried ages ago! That was just a bunch of bull shit to Risa Tenshi.

Risa knocked on Sora's bed room door. "C'mon dimwit dinners ready!"

No answer.

"Sora did you hear me?" Risa opened the door to be greeted by a very messy room with dirty cloths lying all over the dark space.

She looked around her brothers' room, but Sora was nowhere to be found. Risa noticed that the window was wide open! No, he couldn't have jumped out. She thought as she inspected the open window. It was then that she saw a nasty storm in the distance!

"Oh hell no!!"

Risa raced down the stairs and to the kitchen table; her parents gave her a strange look.

"Risa?" She heard her mother ask. "Sweetheart what's wrong?" the woman's tone turned to concern when she saw her daughters panic.

Risa's words came out in a panicked whisper. "It's Sora, he-he's not in his room… and there's a bad storm coming!" Risa's mother put a hand to her heart and her mouth fell open in a mixture of shock, panic and fear.

Her father got to his feet and pulled out his cell phone, then dialed Haru's home number.

The phone rang and rang but no one answered.

"Damn." The man cursed under his breath. "I forgot Haru's working late tonight!"

Risa closed her eyes and aimed her head toward the floor. She knew what she had to do: she had to go search for her precious little brother before he got hurt.

Upon this thought, Risa took one look at her parents before running out the front door. She ignored her parents' objections and kept running toward the docks. When she neared the dock Risa didn't see Sora's boat. Risa charged for her boat when she was stopped mid-way to the waters edge by small black creatures with beady yellow eyes that made Risa's heart grow cold. She backed away in fear. What were these things?

One of the creatures lunged for her heart; Risa dodged the assault only to have the creature graze her shoulder with its sharp claws.

Risa gasped in pain and clutched her wound as she fell to her knees.

"What do you want!?" She screamed.

The wounded girl didn't notice a Shadow sneak up from behind her and plunge its black claws deep into her being.

Risa screamed in agony. The black creature pulled its claws out of her body and in its grasp was a glowing pink heart. Risa's heart. The essence of her being.

Risa's captured heart was engulfed by darkness, the creatures, too, disappeared leaving their pray to fade into darkness alone and cold.

Risa collapsed to the soft white sand and curled her bleeding body into a fetal position as darkness consumed her. Her blood dyed the pure sand a deep scarlet as Risa put her trembling hand to her now heartless chest. She felt so cold… so empty. The only thought that crossed her fading mind was that she had failed in protecting her little brother, and she would forever regret it.

All her emotions were destroyed when her body and soul faded into non-existence. Risa no longer dwelled in light or darkness, but embraced nothingness…

Authors Note: Okay, here's the first chapter. Hope you all liked it.

Just so we're all clear: this story is a prequel to my other story "The Keys Guardian" but it's not really all that important to the plot of TKG, but it does follow the events of my OC Risa's Nobody who'll be introduced next chapter. Also this story takes place during "Kingdom Hearts I". Just thought I should tell you incase any readers didn't catch that. Well, please REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!