A New Journey

"Are you sure about this, Sora?" Kairi asked. Sora smiled. Ever since they had returned from their fight with Xemnas, Kairi was afraid that they would be separated again.

"Don't worry, Kairi. We'll be fine," the brunette assured her, "Ready, Riku?"

A boy with silver hair nodded, "His Majesty is waiting for us. It's not polite to keep a king waiting."

"Come on, come on, come on!" quacked a duck.

"Just chill, Donald," Sora laughed, "We're almost ready."

"He's right, Donald. A-hyuck!" Goofy joined in Sora's laughter.

~Meanwhile~

"Huff, huff," a boy was running through the dark streets of another world. He had on a black coat and his face was hidden under the shadows of his hood.

"Quick! Don't let him get away!" said a voice well behind him. The boy rounded a corner, just in time to see five creatures blocking his path. They looked like black bloodhounds with spiked collars on their necks and legs. They had yellow eyes, tails that feel like whips, and a symbol on their chest. Toxic gas hissed out of their mouths and venom dripped from their fangs.

"Do you think you were going to get away that easily?" the boy looked from the dogs to see another hooded figure coming.

"You can't stop me!"

The other figure smiled, "I might not, but they can." He gestured to the dogs, "Bite!" One of the dogs jumped on the boy. He knocked the creature away, heard it whimper, and ran the other way.

"Come on, you dumb hounds! After him!" shouted the figure. The hounds howled and started the chase. The boy twisted and turned with the streets, losing the hunters. The hounds whined, trying to get some sort of stench from the boy.

"Snaps!" the figure thought as the hounds sniffed the ground, "We lost him!"

"Come," he said to the dogs, "we need to tell the Superior that the traitor has escaped." As the figure went away with the bloodhounds, the first boy was breathing heavily behind a corner. After he caught his breath, he opened a dark corridor and made his getaway.

"Sora, I think you took the wrong direction!" Donald shouted.

"Yeah," Goofy agreed, "isn't Disney Castle that way?" he pointed in the opposite direction that the gummi ship was driving in.

Sora smiled, "I just want to visit Leon and the others for a little bit."

Riku frowned, "What about King Mickey? He's waiting for us."

"Remember, Sora," Donald teased, "it's not polite keeping a king waiting."

"Fine!" Sora turned the gummi ship around and headed to the Disney Castle.

"I hope Sora and the others are all right," Kairi sighed. She was sitting on the crooked papou fruit tree watching the sunset when she saw something unfold on the beach. A hooded figure was running away from another hooded figure and four hawks. She noticed that the hawks had a symbol on their wings and their feathers were razor-sharp. The creatures also had yellow eyes and metallic talons. Then Kairi noticed that the coats the two were wearing looked exactly like Organization XIII's! The first boy tripped and fell on the sand. Before he tried to get up, two of the hawks swooped down and grabbed his wrist with their talons. They power-flapped and then the boy was in the air. The second figure walked towards the first figure with the two other hawks at her side.

"What are you doing?" Kairi yelled as she ran towards them. The second figure looked at her.

"It's best if you stay out of this," she said to Kairi.

"Why?" she demanded.

"Because," she continued, "this boy is a traitor and threat to the worlds. I was sent by my leader to capture him and bring him back."

"Even if he is a traitor," Kairi argued, "you should at least give him a chance to redeem himself."

"I'm getting very annoyed with you," she sounded impatient and gestured to the two hawks beside her, "Attack!" the hawks swooped down to Kairi. She would have been in serious injury if a mouse didn't destroy the birds first.

"Your Majesty!" Kairi smiled. King Mickey smiled back.

"Forget about the boy for now," the figure said to the hawks holding the boy, "Attack!" The two birds dropped the boy and swooped towards King Mickey. He dodged each one and destroyed both of them.

"Now it's your turn," Mickey pointed his Keyblade at the figure.

"Now," she said as she walked into a dark corridor, "is not my time."

"Kairi, are you all right?" King Mickey asked.

"I'm fine," she smiled. Her smile disappeared, "Where's the other hooded figure?" They looked around, not seeing anything along the beach.

"I'm sorry, Kairi, but I have to go back to my castle to tell the others about this new threat," Mickey said.

"I don't have any strength left to smile!" Sora complained.

"You do have the strength to walk though," Riku pointed out. Sora looked at his best friend.

"Ha-ha, very funny," he said as the group continued to walk down the hall to Mickey's office. They opened the door and something jumped on Sora!

"Pluto!" Sora said cheerfully. The dog barked and started to lick Sora.

"Pluto! Come back here!" Pluto stopped and ran back to his master. "Nice of you to come, Sora, Riku," King Mickey said.

"It's nothing, your Majesty," Riku said. "What's the problem?"

"Well…" Mickey didn't know how to start. "There's this new threat that, like the other threats, want to open Kingdom Hearts."

"At least we're still alive to stop!" Sora joked.

Mickey nodded, "Donald, Goofy. I want you to go with Sora. Riku, you come with me."

"Yes your Majesty!" they salute and the three went to the gummi ship while Riku stayed back with Mickey.

"Riku?" the boy looked at the king. "I need to tell you something that happened to Kairi. I didn't want to worry Sora…" the king continued.

"Holl-I mean Radiant Garden doesn't look very different," Sora said to his companions.

"Gawrsh! Did you want something to happen here, Sora?" Goofy asked. Sora shook his head.

"No. It's just that the king set us to stop another threat, but there doesn't seem to be any danger," he replied.

"Kill two birds with one stone. Let's visit Leon and the others," Donald suggested. They started to walk towards Merlin's place. As Sora was about to open the door, five creatures appeared. They looked like Utahraptors. They had a symbol along their spiky backs, two horns on their heads, and sneering yellow eyes. They had a gray and black pattern that made it difficult to notice them.

"What are these?" Sora made his Keyblade appear.

"So sorry!" they turned to see a hooded figure wearing a black coat walking towards them. An Organization XIII coat!

"The Organization is still alive?" Goofy asked Donald.

"Of course not, you big palooka!" Donald whispered back.

"Who are you?" Sora demanded. The figure looked at Sora.

"Can't tell you my name," he answered. He turned to the creatures, "Go back." They obeyed and disappeared.

"Say," the figure turned to Sora, Donald, and Goofy, "have you seen a boy your height wearing a coat like mine?" They shook their heads. The boy shrugged, "Worth a shot. Tell me if you see him, 'kay?" He disappeared into a dark corridor.

"That was weird," Sora muttered as Donald opened the door to Merlin's house.