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Home Coming

Its been a week since Sora, Kairi, and Riku returned from their journey, Sora's mom had covered for them by saying that she had surprised them with a trip to a boarding school in the north and conveniently forgot to tell the other parents. She had also said that Kairi came home early because she was home sick. She didn't know what had really transpired on their journey but she new that it was very important and secret.

Sora, Kairi, and Riku were greeted with open, if not confused arms, they wondered what kind of school it was that Sora's mother had sent them two when they saw the scars and bruises all over the boys bodies. Also both boys had completely changed, Riku had always been subdued but now he was more distant, only speaking when spoken to. He also had a strange calm wisdom about him and eyes that seemed to look right through you.

Sora had always been an exited, happy, hot tempered young boy who quickly got into fights that Riku was always baling him out of, but now he was more calm and seemed to think before he acted instead of diving head first into things. When ever asked about their trip they would look oddly nervous and say how it was an awesome school with a ski slope right on campus and active fun classes.

Up until that night Sora had been afraid to ask his mother how she had known to make up an excuse for them, but that night he was determined to finally find the answer. He was pacing in his cluttered mess of a room, it was exactly the same as how me left it; clothes and toys everywhere. He was deciding how to ask his mom about their "vacation" when she called him down to dinner. His mom wasn't much of a cook but she had made all of Sora's favorites since he had gotten home. Tonight it was pizza with black olives and mushrooms on it. After they had both taken a slice he went for it.

"Hey mom," he started.

"Yes, Sora?" She said pouring ranch dressing onto both of their plates.

"H-how did you-"

"How did I know to make up an excuse for you three?" she asked looking up.

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Would you believe mothers' intuition?" she looked him in the eyes for a moment. "Sigh, I guess not. When I was young I went on vacation with a small group of my friends to some small tropical islands a little ways from here. My friends and I all took turns getting our fortunes told, obviously we each had to go in alone but when each of my friends came out the told us of how the fortune teller tolled them they would fall deeply in love with a handsome man, or that they would travel the world or get rich doing something they love, but when I went in the fortune teller told me I would have a happy but troubled life and that one day I would have a son that would be more important than i ever dreamed. That he would be the key to saving many lives and keeping peace amongst the worlds. At first I thought she was messing with me or that she was crazy. So for a time I forgot about her prophesy. But then I had you and I always had a feeling that you would be great, and then every once in a while I would think about what that old woman said, that you would be the "key". So when you and your friends went off and disappeared I knew what she said was true, and that I needed to make up an excuse for why you all of a sudden vanished besides I didn't know how long you were going to been gone."

"Mom, I-"

"I don't want to know what really happened to you three." she told him with a stern look in her eye.

"Y-you don't?" he repeated confused.

"I don't need to know what kind of dangerous adventure would have given you those scare," she nodded at his folded arms. "All I need to know is that your off doing something great, but tell me before you run off again, Riku's dad and Kairi's aunt and uncle weren't very happy to find out I sent their kids of to some far away school without telling them."

Sora nodded and they finished their dinner in silence.

Sora lives alone with his mom in a small two story two bedroom house. His father left them when he was only four and he has the faintest memories of him and some one else living with them, though his mother always denied that he had any siblings. Riku lives with his father who is like an older more biter version of him, his father has short sliver hair and they often get into fights about the length of Riku's hair among other things. Kairi parents died when she was very little so she came to Destiny Islands with her aunt Carry and uncle John. Carry is a very easy going, free spirited woman while as her husband is a bit more tense and uptight.

After dinner Sora went up to his room, inside there was a small envelope laying on his bed. He just saw a small black cloak at his open windows, he rushed over and leaned out to look for the small cloaked king but only caught a glimpse of some black cloth swish around the corner of a building. He pulled back into his room and closed his windows.

He picked up the small white envelope and read the short letter inside, his eyes widened with shock. Kairi and Riku are going to need to see this. He thought to himself. He took the letter and envelope with the small green seal of the little mouse king on it and set it on his bed side table, which was overflowing with CD's, magazines and photos from the summer before they had left the island. He undressed and got in his bed and tried to fall asleep, eventually sleep took him and he fell into that most secret world of dreams.

It was a normal night in Oak Vally, Alex was playing with her black lab Luna in her large back yard. Her dad had been to busy to mow the yard for some weeks so the grass was up to her knees and there were large patches of wild flowers. Alex's dad was the chef of police and some strange things had been happening in their small town lately. A few people had diapered from the outskirts of town. Alex and her father were the only family that lives outside of the town that haven't diapered yet. They lived in a small three bedroom house right next to the forest that surrounded the town, they also owned the large field that surrounded the house. The town had gotten it's name from the enormous oak tree's in the forest.

Alex was playing Luna's favorite game; fetch, with an old chewed up rubber bone. At one point it was a bright white, but now it was more of a light tan from being left outside accidentally various nights over the last four years. And at one point it had gotten lost for about two weeks and then mysteriously appeared again when a strong storm had blown over one of the trees in their yard. The now brown rubber bone had been wedged in between two of the crisscrossed roots. Luna had been overjoyed to find it and spent the next three days lying in the living room gnawing on it.

It had gotten late and Alex had planed on going in when it got dark but it was one of the warmer nights they had had lately and she could see some lightning bugs coming out. Luna was having a blast chasing one around trying to bite it, it landed on her tail and she started to chase it, even after the bug had flown off again, and didn't stop until she had half her tail stuck in her mouth. When she notices Alex watching her she looked up stuck her tongue out of her mouth and tried to wag her tail which was a pretty odd sight seeing as it was still jammed in her mouth.

"You big duffus." she said affectionately scratching her behind the ears. Luna finally disentangled herself and proceeded to wag her tail and lean into Alex's had until she was afraid she would fall over.

"Aw, how touching." said a sarcastic feminine voice behind her.

Alex whirled around automatically putting herself in front of Luna. Before her stood a tall girl that looked about 18. The right half of her hair was short and spiked out to the sided in a bright red, the other half was strait raven black and fell down to her upper back. She wore a strange asymmetric shirt, the right sleeve was long and the left was short. the collar started to form a V on the right but at the center went strait back up to a crew neck on the left. The right side was black and the left was crimson. She also wore skinny jeans but the right leg was cut off like short shorts. She had on black boots up to the middle of her calf. She had these strange purple tendril like scars* going up her right leg up to just above the knee, but you couldn't see were they started because of the boot. They were also on her left arm up to the elbow and they covered half of her hand, they also came up her neck and covered the left half of her face. Her left eye was completely violet, even the pupil.

"Wh-who are you." Alex manged to stutter out.

"You'll find out soon enough. Just know this; you, and your friends aren't safe." Just then Alex felt something in her hand, in a flash of black light a giant key appeared in her hand. It was black with lots of intricate designs involving fire on the very tip and the key part of it. A thick chain was raped around the length of the key. The large cross guard was also made to look like fire. At the base there was a long key chain attached and a the very end there was once again a flame. Somehow she already knew the name of this strange key-blade, even though she knew she had never seen it before in her life.

"Deceit." She whispered.

"Ah, and so it begins." breathed the strange older girl as she diapered into darkness.

Alex just stood there staring at Deceit. After a while her dad came out looking for her, she didn't look up when he put his hand on her shoulder.

"Alex, are you alright? I called you inside hours...Wh-what is that?"

She looked at him with a distant look in her eyes. "This, dad, is my Keyblade."

Back on Destiny Islands Sora was running to the docks. He was meeting Riku and Kairi there, that morning he had called them both and told them he had something important to tell them both. He had refused to tell ether of them what until they had gotten safely to the play island and they were alone. The letter was in the pocket of his black, blue, red and yellow battle outfit.

When they reached the play island Kairi started to pelt him with questions. He had to wait for her to realize that he couldn't tell them what they wanted him to until she stopped yelling at him so eventual she stopped and started to glare at him instead, the whole time Riku had just stood there with his arms crossed and watched the both of them.

"So," he started. "If your sure you're done screaming at me." he said looking at Kairi with a huge smirk on his face, she blushed and looked at her shoes, he pulled the envelope out of his pocket. "I can show you what the king dropped off in my room last night."

Kairi stared at him with utter shock plastered all over her face, and Riku's eyes widened slightly as he took the envelope. "So you talked to the king." he said quietly.

"Well, no." Sora took a step back and put his hands behind his head in his signature posture. "I didn't talk to him, but I saw him jump out my windows and run around the corner, and that has the king's seal on it."

"Who cares if the king actually gave the letter to Sora himself, as long as it's really from him then lets see what it says." said Kairi impatiently.

Dear Sora, Riku and Kairi,

I've been keeping a close eye on all of the world and noticed a world we over looked. It's a fairly small world and it's farther off than the others, I'm worried that now that I have noticed it some of our enemies will also take notice. I want you three to go there and check it for heartless or nobody activity, if you find anything I want you to lock the heart and come notify me immediately at Disney Castle. I'm afraid that Donald and Goofy can not accompany you on this journey for they are busy on a mission for me at the moment. I've sent the gummi ship for you, it should reach Destiny Islands in two days.

His Majesty The King, Mickey Mouse

"So that means the gummi ship will be here for us tomorrow." said Sora when they were done reading the letter.

"I guess it's time for us to tell our parents we're going back to boarding school." sighed Kairi.

"Shit, my dads gonna freak." Riku said quietly.

They headed back to the main island in silence brooding over how they were going to tell their parents.

That night at dinner Sora told his mom that they would have to leave again.

"I thought you would." she sighed.

"You did?" he repeated surprised.

"Of course," she almost laughed." Why do you think I came up with the boarding school excuse? I could have just said that you were going on a vacation but I figured that if you ever came back you would have to leave again. So when are you going?"

"Tomorrow." he said quietly.

"Oh, well that's okay." she said in a defeated tone.

"I'm really sorry mom, but we're needed... else where."

"So Riku and Kairi are both going with you."

"Of course, we're a team."

"Well, that's good I guess. How are they going to tell their parents?"

"I don't know, they're doing it tonight."

"So, you're all leaving tomorrow. Do you need anything? I could make you some food for your trip or..."

"No, mom, I think we're all good. We'll have food, we'll have munny to buy anything that we need, we've got cloths. We'll be fine."

"Alright, just come say good by before you go okay?'

"Alright, I'm going to bed. Good night." he said heading up the stairs.

"Good night." she called after him. She looked around and busied herself by washing the dishes. I can't believe he's leaving again, and so soon. I wonder if he'll run into her, I don't even know where she is. Sigh, she's probably far away with her father.

Sorry if this chapter was a little slow, the next chapter will have a lot more excitement.

* if you've ever seen Princes Mononoke like Ashitaka's scars, only less...rounded? Is that the right term...