Authors Note:

This is semi-game style. I have a bulk of the middle material and the end planned out, but I decided to write this as a pick-me-up to finish something, even if a lot is summarized and I'm leaving the fights to your imagination. In other words instead of not finishing this story even though I know the ending, I'm just going to breeze through parts that "I can't think of the next line" that have plagued me from finishing all my other grandioso works.
{NOTE I'm open to collaboration}

Also, another game, Tales of Symphonia, I admire for choices you make in the game having an effect in the end, so on a small scale, the ending is varied like if you were to make a choice playing a game. It really just changes the subtle shipping hints and so it's not that much extra if you read them all, so I hope that's acceptable. *worried about the 'no choose your own adventure' rule*

Yes there are a couple of OCs, but the only self insertion is occasionally in me narrating XP Their views are not my views (example, I think Aqua is super-awesome even though one of the characters wants to kill her) If anything, Riku gets to be the Mary Sue...er...Larry Stew in this, not the OCs lol

*sigh* Okay, if you're still interested in reading despite all the...unconventional-ness... I do hope you enjoy ^^'

{By suggestion of my roommate, I'll be releasing chapters on a weekly basis (give and take a few days this first month as some life-changing events are occurring) but I'll start out with two chapters since the beginning synopsis is rather short (just pretend you're visiting all the Disney and Square Enix worlds you want to with mini-missions that take up the bulk of the game before getting to the plot lol) and the later chapters are longer.}

A NEW ADVENTURE

Sora was off on a new quest. It didn't seem that long since he was able to return to the islands with his friends before finding a letter from Mickey, The King. It revealed findings from Jiminy's Journal that there were others that were tied to him that needed his help to be reconnected.

"We must return
to free them
from their torment"

was the message uncovered. Who 'they' were and where they would find them was still a mystery. All they had to go on was there were three of them, and they were tied to Sora. Sora was the key that connects everything.

Now Sora sat in a Gummi Ship with his best friend, Riku, searching for clues about the mysterious trio. Sora insisted he could drive, but he had lost the rock-paper-scissors match over it, so he sat and watched the stars go by as they traveled the worlds.

"Hey Sora, ya gotta keep smiling," Riku said, pointing to the near empty fuel gage, reminding Sora how the ship literally runs on happy faces.

"Well, I don't see you helping out much in that department," said Sora, "I can't smile for the both of us this whole trip, you know!"

Riku laughed in response, "Fair enough."

They searched from planet to planet, asking all their friends if they knew anything about who they were searching for. Still, no one could recall such a 'trio.' The only thing left would be to try and discover new worlds.

While insisting he should have a turn to drive, the Gummi Ship steered into a meteor shower. Riku tried to regain control as rocks kept hitting the ship, but it was too late. The ship had taken too much damage and broke apart. Practically impossible to fly in pieces, they scattered, leaving Sora and Riku to fall deep, deep, into darkness.