Welcome to my first ever fanfic, "Mental"

Hey there, I'm Kupo3.0, I used to be known as Kupo3 but I changed my name to make an account. This is my first fic, so please bear with me on the writing. Saying that, I'd appreciate reviews to motivate and help improve my skills. I'm not looking to buddy up with people or talk online, but if you have questions I may answer them occasionally at the top of the chapter. But, yeah… I need to get a posse like the amazing Sora53 (who helped me with my first edit of this)…. I suppose I have to wait for people to show up first XD Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I am regretful to say that I do not own any of the Kingdom Hearts games.

The light opened across the top of the dark sea, crying out as a symbol of hope, even though they'd already found it in each other.

"Light."

"The door to light."

Sora stood up and extended his hand down to Riku. "We'll go together," he said.

Riku looked up at him, and finally, after the longest time, a smile broke out across his face. Happiness and home were coming. "Yeah."

And they stepped forward together.

The two boys shot through the sky like meteors on fire, racing one another to be dunked into the ocean. Sora and Riku hit the water, plunging into refreshment, and bursting outward from it with grins across their face. With all their vivaciousness and excitement, they paddle back to shore to see the redhead in the distance. Due to his lack of poofy floaty pants, Riku trailed behind Sora. Or perhaps Sora's passion fueled him to reach the shore, cause Kairi was there after all. …maybe Riku knew that all along too. Stumbling onto shore, Sora was spitting out water while trying to call her name, the one name he's been waiting to say. Too bad sea-salt has a tendency to cause excessive dryness. Before he could cough everything up, Kairi had already beaten him to the greetings.

"Sora! Riku!"

"We..We're back"

Something within them, beyond themselves, another part of their spirit, almost seemed to smile and reach out to each other as well.

"Your home"

Three days back. Three whole days of peace and relaxation, just for them to enjoy. But being dynamic intergalactic heroes, they weren't really used to this though, the whole idea of sitting back and…. not beating things.

"What do you want to do?", Sora asked, lazily lounging on the sand, looking at Kairi wading in the ocean farther down the beach.

"I don't know…drink coconut?", Riku responded on the paupu tree.

"Okay…coconut…gosh, it's so high up…I guess I'll have to knock it down. HYAH!"

Bolting upward with a high jump, two coconuts were mercilessly butchered and fell to ground, milk pouring out, the sweet contents of his effort gone.

Riku sneered, "Way to go Sora, now there's no coconut milk left… and I thought I could at least drink coconut milk." "Shut up, I forgot how soft they were." Walking away, Sora was sweating and whispered to himself, "Coconuts…soft…right…" Yelling back at a sniggering Riku, Sora asserted himself by claiming, "Okay, I get it, just can it. I wouldn't have all this pent up energy if we could still beat little black demons to a pulp."

Plopping next to Riku on the tree, Sora looked up at the sky. He wondered out loud, "Do you ever think we'll see the others again? I mean, are we really supposed to just play with coconuts for the rest of our lives?" Peeling back the husk on a shattered fragment, Riku replied, "Who really knows? Our part, our story… it could just be over." Staring across the ocean, Sora answered "I can't imagine that…I can't."

Suddenly, Kairi appeared and raced over to the tree with a bottle in her hands. "Guys, look, look at this! A message!" Jumping off the tree and snatching the bottle from the breathless girl, Sora popped the bottle open at read the contents with his two friends surrounding him. He quickly scanned over a letter with a small symbol on the bottom…three connected circles, almost like in a formation of…

"THE KING!" they all shouted simultaneously.

Standing over by the hut at the end of the bridge, a slender woman let her brunette locks blow across her face. "Well that's interesting…"