"Why does a little kid like you want to go to Hollow Bastion ?! It's pretty dangerous there, you even know that ?!" Cid asked, getting upset.
"I'm not a little kid !!!" shouted Katari in anger.
"Yes, yes ... okay ... calm down again." Cid said calmly.
"So the reason I want to go to Hollow Bastion is because I think your friend Sora is there." said the blue-haired child with serious eyes.
"Sora in Hollow Bastion? If that's true, then that's for sure the headquarters of this organization!" Riku said loudly.
"What are we waiting for then ?!" asked Kairi excitedly and ran to the world gate. The others all followed her.

Arrived at the world gate, Cid said: "Katari ... you should better stay here. In Hollow Bastion it is really too dangerous for you, you are better off here."
"Out of the question! I'll come with you!" said Katari loudly.
"But ... Cid is right ... that's why you two should stay here." said Kairi.Cid agreed, after all, he had a shop to take care of, but Katari didn't agree at all.
Why should she stay here too? The blue-haired woman had nothing to do in Traverse, in Hollow Bastion she would surely uncover a secret.
After a very long discussion, Katari was allowed to come to Hollow Bastion. She just had too big a thick head.
Everyone except Cid, Aerith, Yuffie, and Leon went through the world gate. When they disappeared, Cid went back to his shop and reopened it. Aerith, Yuffie and Leon also went into Cid's shop and sat on the chairs.

Riku, Kairi and Katari were the only ones who went to Hollow Bastion. But everyone found that it was very quiet there. As if nobody was there anymore.
"And ... are you sure about Katari?" Riku asked incredulously.
But he got no answer, because Katari just went for it and Kairi followed her. That's how Riku had to go.All three went into the castle, it was not as dark as Katari had experienced, you could see the outlines fully.
"Can anyone turn on the light?" Kairi asked hesitantly.
"If we see a light switch, please," replied Riku.
"The question is ... IF there is one here ..." said Katari on the subject.
Then no one said a word anymore, everything was so quiet when no one uttered a sound. It was kind of ... scary. Kairi was getting goose bumps.
Suddenly small shadow amphibians appeared from everywhere and it became increasingly lighter in the room.

"Heartless!" Riku called and shrugged his sword, Kairi also took out her staff.
Only Katari was standing there without a weapon. It was thus a very easy target for the heartless.
"Don't you have a gun ?!" Riku shouted somewhat questioningly.
"No! Where from ?!" answered Katari.
"You're from MagicTown ... aren't you? Can you use magic then?" asked Kairi.
"Yes ... something at least ..." Katari said a little more quietly."Well please! Then defend yourself with it!" Riku said loudly and flattened a few heartless people.
Kairi only nodded and attacked a few of these critters and destroyed them with one blow.
Only Katari stopped and closed her eyes, she concentrated on her strength to defend herself. She even succeeded in destroying many heartless people in one fell swoop.
The fight didn't last too long and not a single one of these shadow creatures was left.
Katari sank to his knees, exhausted. At that moment Riku looked at her and said: "You are already tired? You will face many more such fights here, better turn around before it is still too late for you."
"No ... definitely not!" said the blue-haired woman and got up again immediately.
"You are really brave." Kairi said with a smile.
Katari smiled slightly at her and then walked on, the gray-haired and red-haired following her once more.

~ ** ~~ ** ~ Because somewhere else in Hollow Bastion ~ ** ~~ ** ~"Oh man ... why do I always have to take care of everyone ...?" the one guy who brought Katari complained.
"You don't always have to do that!" said another type of hat, but you could see his face. He had long, light brown hair and didn't look quite as young as Axel.
"But that is seldom that I am allowed to do something else. You know that Vexen ..."
"Yeah yeah ... okay Ruy. But I can't do anything about it if Diz says you should do that, then you should stop doing it."
"And we all know why ..." Ruy sighed.
"Yep ... he just doesn't trust you yet." said Vexen.
Ruy just nodded and then looked at the bed. There was a brown-haired boy lying there, he had a spiky hairstyle. He also wore a short top that was together with the trousers, the color was red. He had a short, light-colored jacket over the suit.

"Tell me Vexen ... what are you going to do with him?" Ruy asked curiously.
"Diz wants him to switch to our side ... The little one will certainly not do that voluntarily.So we need something that will change his mind. The first thing I would have thought of a potion. "Vexen replied and was already working on it.
"And ... if that doesn't work?" Ruy asked again.
"Then I'll think of something else. It shouldn't be that difficult to make friends with the enemy." Vexen said for sure.
"Vexen ... you forget he's not a normal enemy. He's the key holder." said Ruy.
"It doesn't make a difference ..." Vexen said once again "He's a child, and children are easier to manipulate than adults."
"That could work ..." said Ruy.
"Well then! And when I'm done with the potion, you wake him up and give him that to drink, understand?"
"Why me ?!"
"Because I can get it for you? And you have to carry out my orders too!"
"I understand ..." said Ruy, annoyed.
"Okay, I'll go get some more ingredients, you know what to do if he wakes up too early." Vexen said and was already leaving the room."Yes yes ... all right ..." said Ruy and looked to see if Vexen was already outside and far away, then he mumbled: "Fool ..."
Ruy lowered his hood once, now you could see his face too.
He had longer blue hair tied back in a horse tail. It was exactly the same hair color as Katari has.
"All idiots here ... and Diz is the Oberdepp ..." he mumbled on while he took care of the boy.

Many minutes passed, if not hours. The boy slept and slept and slept ... he just didn't wake up.
Ruy was already thinking about waking him, but he wasn't allowed to do that yet. But after a while the blue-haired man did. He shook the boy slightly.
"Hm ...?" The boy slowly opened his eyes. He looked at Ruy questioningly, the boy didn't know him yet.
"Did you sleep well?" Ruy asked with a slight smile on his face.
"Who ... who are you?" the boy asked, slightly confused. "And ... where am I here?"
"I'm Ruy and you're here in Hollow Bastion.And soon, when Vexen comes, you will have to have a drink ... "said the blue-haired man once before.
"Drinking something?" he asked again and sat up. Then he looked around slowly.
Ruy nodded and said: "Exactly, and that will change everything, at least it should."

"How do you mean?" he asked and looked questioningly at Ruy.
"That ... I am not allowed to tell you ... Sora ..." said Ruy and looked at the floor.
"How ... how do you know my name ?!" he asked with rather shocking eyes.
"Well ... the organization knows everything." said Ruy with a smile.
"Organization?"
"Exactly! And Diz is our leader, soon yours too."
"No way!" Sora screamed at once.
"Now don't scream like that ... you get a headache ..." said Ruy and held his forehead with one hand.
Sora jumped up from the bed and wanted to run out the door. But before he could do that, Ruy grabbed his arms.
"Let me go!" shouted the prisoner as loudly as he could.But Ruy, who was holding him prisoner, didn't say a word, but tied Sora to the bed, now he could no longer run away. But it wasn't easy to tie him up because Sora was weaving around the whole time.
"If you keep screaming like this, I'll tape your mouth shut." Ruy said rather coldly.

"Why are you doing this?" Sora asked more calmly.
"I have my reasons ..." answered Ruy and turned away from Sora.
"And ... what reasons?" Sora asked who was extremely curious now.
Ruy was silent for a short while, then he replied: "I ... want to protect someone ... that's why I'm here."
"Protect? And who?"
"Is none of your business…!" Ruy almost yelled.
"It's okay ..." Sora said and turned his head to the side.

At that moment Vexen came back in, he had a small bottle in his hand.
"How long has he been awake?" Vexen asked sternly.
"Recently ..." said Ruy.
Vexen went up to Ruy and pressed the bottle into his hand and said: "You give it to him now, I have to talk to Diz again with him.""I understand ..." when Ruy said this, Vexen left the room again and disappeared.
The blue-haired man turned back to Sora, who was still tied up.
"If you think now that I'll drink this, then you've cut yourself tremendously!" Sora said sternly and scowled at Ruy.
"I already thought of something like that ..." said the cowl type with a slight smile.
"What are you planning now…?"
"You will see." he grinned slightly nasty.
Sora tried the whole time to free herself, but he couldn't. He didn't really know what to do now, after all, he was tied to the bed. He couldn't get up now.
"Are you good at acting?" asked Ruy Sora, but he didn't quite understand what the question was about.
"Why do you ask?"
"You should come to our side with this potion." Ruy explained and pointed to the bottle.
"So ... do you want to disobey orders?"
"Only if you pretend you're on our side."
"Um ... okay ... if I'm just supposed to pretend ..." Sora nodded, "But ... what if you find out that I'm just pretending?""Then you could say that the potion has waned." Ruy said with a smile on his face.
"But I have no clue whether he'll be a puppet or not ..." thought Ruy.

~ ** ~~ ** ~ After this event at the others in HB ~ ** ~~ ** ~

Katari, Riku and Kairi walked all over Hollow Bastion and had to fight in almost every new room. Now they went through the chapel and through the