Several months have now past since Sora and Riku's mark of mastery exam, and in this time Riku, Kairi, and Lea have been training together at Master Yin Sid's.
"Take this!" said Lea as he shot a ball of fire at Kairi.
"No you don't!" said Kairi as she used her keyblade to bounce the ball toward Riku. All of a sudden, Sora appeared in the path of the attack but dodged it by jumping to his left.
"Hey, I know it's been a while but you don't have to attack me," said Sora as he stud up with a smile.
"So you have come back, Sora," said Yen Sid as he and the king walked out of the tower.
"It's good to see you, Sora," said Donald as he and Goofy ran toward him. But right when they wore about to jump on him, Sora vanished in a dark blur and reappeared behind them.
"What do you guys think of my new spell?" asked Sora as he placed his arms around their shoulders.
"How could you use that power, Sora?" asked Riku who was a little bit terrified.
"What's so bad about that power, Riku?" asked Kairi with a confused voice.
"It's a power from the realm of darkness, only a person with darkness can use it," said Yen Sid who was just as terrified as Riku.
"It's true that only a person of darkness can use the Shadow Step, but this Dream Eater changes that," said Sora as a tiny colorful Spirit appeared on his left shoulder in the shape of a lizard.
"You have a new Spirit?" asked Riku.
"Yep, his names Heartro, he allows his partner to use all sides of their heart in order to make them stronger," said Sora with a smile.
"Wait, how is a Dream Eater on an awoken world?" asked Yen Sid.
"I don't know, but I'm finding them all over, I'm even finding a new type of enemy that I've never seen before," said Sora.
"Did the symbol on them look like this?" asked Yen Sid as he used a spell to make the Unversed symbol appear above his right hand.
"That's it, that's the symbol," said Sora.
"Then Xehanort must be getting close to his revival point," said King Mickey with a worried expression.
"And besides you your highness, we only have four keyblade wielders out of the seven we wanted," said Yen Sid.
"Then we will have to see about getting those three back," said King Mickey.
"You can't be series, we don't even know what will happen if we bring them back," said Yen Sid.
"Excuse me, but who are you talking about?" asked Kairi.
"We're talking about the keyblade wilders Ventus, Aqua, and Terra, the ones that you inherited your keyblades from," said King Mickey. Sora, Riku, and Kairi just looked at him with shocked expressions.