Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters associated with it and I don't own the name Balamb Garden, SquareEnix owns it all does. The plot, however is mine.

Chapter 1

Sora, Donald and Goofy were on their gummi ship for another journey. Sora hated leaving Kairi again, but he didn't want to put her in the danger he faced daily on these journeys. Riku couldn't come for the single reason that his girlfriend demanded he stayed and helped her take care of their son. Who would've thought that Riku would be a father at 18?

Sora and Kairi didn't part on good basis. Donald and Goofy had shown up and they didn't look well. Kairi had looked at Sora with wide eyes and shook her head. Sora looked between his girlfriend and his friends before saying "I have to," Kairi had rushed from the room and to her home upset.

Just before Sora was about to leave, he went to Kairi's house and tried to enter her room, but Kairi had locked it and he could hear her sobbing on the other side. Sora had leaned against the door and said, "I promise to come back to you, Kairi."

Sora wasn't piloting for the fact that he was discouraged about his new situation with Kairi. Sora looked around before holding his hand out and letting the Keyblade materialize in it. It was the Ultima Weapon. Sora narrowed his eyes at it before making it disappear and slumping back down in his chair.

Kairi sat on her windowsill looking up into the sky. She had stopped crying hours ago and was miserable for not wishing Sora luck on this journey. In her hands was the Othkeeper keychain. She wished she could give it to him to use on his journey but he was gone already.

"I'm sorry, Sora…" Kairi whispered, clutching the keychain close to her heart and closing her eyes.

The gummi ship jolted, waking Sora up from his sleep. He didn't even realize that he had fallen asleep. Sora looked around and noticed Donald and Goofy doing the same. The ship jolted again and this time, the source appeared. It was a black ship the same size as their gummi ship. The other ship turned around and took aim again.

Donald let out a cry fright, making Sora undo his buckle and take over the pilot's chair.

"What is this? This isn't a heartless ship!" Sora shouted as he steered clear of the other ship's line of fire.

Donald had buckled himself in Sora's previous seat.

"Radio them, Sora! Find out why they are attacking us!" Donald shouted.

Sora punched the radio while barely dodging cannon fire from the other ship.

"Who are you and why are you attacking us!" Sora shouted.

The other ship didn't respond and fired again, striking the gummi ship.

"Oh no! The shields are down to 40!" Goofy shouted while monitoring the display screen.

Sora growled at the other ships strength to be able to take over 60 of the shields.

"Sora! Try and escape to that world down there!" Donald shouted while checking the navigational screen.

Sora spotted the world that Donald was talking about and quickly steered for it.

"Goofy, route all the shield power to the rear, hopefully we'll make it to that planet there before shields are gone."

Goofy did as he was told and Sora made the gummi speed forward with every ounce of power it had.

"It's following us!" Donald shouted.

"We're not going to make!" Goofy shouted.

Sora growled as he urged the ship forward. Then he felt the ship rocked and everything started to spark. Sora pulled his hands back because of the electric shock and the ship plummeted to the world.

"I'm sorry… Kairi…"

Sora's eyes fluttered open and regained focus. He wasn't in the gummi ship but in another room. He felt too drained to move from his spot to see where he was.

He heard a door slide open and looked over to see a woman with a doctor's jacket on.

"I see your finally awake. I'm Dr. Loss, and you are?" she asked kindly.

"… S-Sora," Sora said with difficulty.

"You need something to drink since you haven't spoken in well over three weeks."

Three weeks? Had it really been that long?

"Your friends woke up the other day but are in no condition to move anytime soon. All of your wounds have healed though and I was just waiting for you wake up. You'll probably be let out in a few days.

"And what were you thinking, piloting your ship to Atlantis of all places, didn't you know that world is completely covered by water?"

Sora weakly shook his head.

"So you're new in this region of space? Well, that explains why your ship is different and not equipped correctly."

Sora looked at her puzzled as she brought him a glass of water. He took it and started drinking it.

"Well, we're all guessing you were attacked by a Despair Ship?"

Sora looked even more confused.

"A pure black ship with amazing fire power."

Sora nodded his head and went back to drinking.

"Well, because of the Despair Ships, it is very necessary to have strong ships to withstand the fire power. Those ships are mostly mother ships, like this one."

"W-We're on a mother ship?"

"Why yes, The Balamb Garden is a mother ship."

Dr. Loss took the glass from Sora and laughed when she saw him yawn.

"Like you haven't slept enough… Ah well, sleep is all you need right now. Goodnight, Sora."

"'ight…" Sora said as he dozed off again."

Kairi was sitting on the dock on the play island, staring out at the water. She could hear Riku on the sand with Kate, his girlfriend, and their baby boy, Shawn. Further down the beach were Tidus and Wakka, tossing the blitzball back and forth.

Kairi heard someone walking up beside her and looked up to see Selphie sit down beside her. The teens had a long time habit of going to the island staying on the island till after dark. It was mostly a silent time for them, to think and watch the sunset. For the past month, Kairi thought about Sora and wondered where he was. She clutched the Oathkeeper charm in her hands as the sun began to set. Tidus and Wakka had stopped tossing the ball and sat down to watch the sun go down.

After the sun was down, everyone got up and trekked to the boats. They all had their own boats except Kate and Shawn, who rode with Riku.

When they all got to the main island beach, they all began to break apart and go home. Kairi and Riku remained on the beach after everyone had left.

"Hey, Kairi. I'm… well… going to ask Kate to marry me. Do you think she'll say yes?" Riku nervously asked.

Kairi smiled. "She loves you, Riku. You would make the perfect family together."

"Thanks, Kairi. I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Same time, same place," Kairi laughed, motioning to the island they just came from."

"Well, night," Riku said as he trekked down the beach to go home.

"Night!" Kairi called after him before walking up the beach and onto the road that would take her home.

It was always quiet this time of night. The island was bigger then the play island, but small enough that everyone on it would eat, sleep and work at the same time.

Kairi stopped and looked around. She felt a shiver go up here spine and felt suddenly cold on the tropical island. She wrapped her arms around herself and started walking again. She was wearing beige short pants, a white shirt tank top, white wristbands and black and white shoes.

She heard something behind her and stopped before turning around. Her hand unconsciously went to the Oathkeeper charm that hung from the belt of her pants.

"Goodnight, Princess Kairi."

A figure appeared in front of Kairi and knocked her out without a peep out of her. He easily picked her up and disappeared again.

Sora opened his eyes and sat up. He felt ten times better than he did last time he woke up. He swung his legs over the edge of the bed and hopped off to stretch. He noticed he was wearing white hospital pants and t-shirt. He looked around to find his clothes and didn't see them anywhere. He walked over to the door and opened his by pressing the button on the side. He stepped out in his bare feet and looked around, trying to find Dr. Loss.

"Excuse me. Can I help you?" someone asked from the opposite direction he was looking.

"Oh, I was wondering where my friends are," Sora asked the strange girl.

The girl appeared to he younger than him, she had ear length black hair and bright green eyes. She was wearing black pants and a dark blue t-shirt under her black jacket. There was a patch that read "Balamb Garden" over her heart.

"Oh your that guy we found on Atlantis. I'm Cassidy, and I believe your friends are in ICU down the hall."

"I'm Sora, and could you show me there?" Sora asked.

"Sure," Cassidy smiled.

Cassidy lead Sora down the hall. They stopped at a door and she opened it. Sora walked inside to she another hall, but with windows all down the side. Sora walked forward and saw Donald laying on a bed with an oxygen mask covering his beak, he was sleeping.

"Doc said that his ribs were broken and they punctured his lungs. But he has been waking up and he's going to make a full recovery," Cassidy said.

"And Goofy?" Sora asked.

"He's going to be okay too. Doc doesn't expect them to be up anytime soon though," said Cassidy as she lead Sora to the next window.

Goofy was lying there with casts on his left arm and both of the legs. He didn't have an oxygen mask like Donald, but he was sleeping too.

"So they're going to be okay?" Sora asked.

"Don't worry, they're going to be fine. Just give them a while, 'kay?"

Sora nodded and followed Cassidy outside to see Dr. Loss standing there with a clipboard.

"Well, your certainly alright if you're up and checking on your friends."

"Yeah…" Sora started.

"Well, I'm going to check on Donald and Goofy. Cassidy, I want you to make sure Sora gets back to that room, and tell your older brother that he's awake and can be moved to his quarters."

"Roger, Ma'am," Cassidy said as she lead Sora back to his hospital room.

"My quarters?" Sora asked.

"You're ship isn't going anywhere and I doubt you'll leave your friends here. And we don't have time to take you all back to where you came from because of the increased hostility from the despairs."

"The despairs… What are they?" Sora asked as they got back to his room.

"Well, you've heard of heartless and nobodies… right?"

"Yeah," Sora said.

"Well, despairs are like them. When a person becomes a heartless, a nobody is formed, right?" Cassidy said.

Sora nodded.

"And you've heard of Organization XIII?"

"Yeah!"

"Well, the human-like nobodies, have human-like despairs, which are bodiless souls that are full of sadness of losing their heart and body and anger towards the people that still have theirs."

"How come I've never seen them before?"

"Well, its hard to say for sure, but my guess is its because there are only around 13 and they just never reached your region of space."

Sora thought about that for a moment and remembered something.

"I was turned into a heartless for a while, and I was turned back again, and I got to meet my nobody too, who is now inside of me. So do I have a despair running around out there too?"

"It's very likely."

Sora flopped back onto the bed, "I have a soul thought… And that must mean that Kairi has a despair too, even if she has a soul."

"Kairi… as in Princess Kairi?"

Sora sat up, "Yeah…"

"Wow, I can't believe you know Princess Kairi! Aunt Georgia is going to flip!"

"Aunt Georgia?"

"She's my father's brother's wife! Her husband's sister was Princess Kairi's mother! Aunt Georgia has been wondering where she was for years!" Cassidy said while jumping up and heading for the door.

"Hey, where are you going?" Sora asked.

"To tell Mitch that you're awake and to tell Aunt Georgia about you and Princess Kairi. Bye!"

"Bye," Sora said as the door closed.

Author's Note: Please don't get made at me! Lot's of new people, but it's still going to focus on Sora and Kairi. Donald and Goofy will get better before the end, I promise! So what do you think? Review!