Chapter 1: Awakening
A black portal had opened up across the room mysteriously. The two looked at it, glanced at each other, then started moving towards the dark opening to who knows what.
Sora was holding Riku up as they headed for it warily, still beaten up from their battle with Xemnas.
"Think there will be anything on the other side?" Riku asked begrudgingly.
"I have no idea, but we have no other choice unless you want to be stuck in this white room for all eternity," Sora chuckled under his breath. "A room that isn't supposed to exist, I might add."
"Is now really the time for jokes, Sora?" Riku glared at Sora.
"Lighten up, grump! Now try carrying some of your own weight, we're almost there."
They hastily jumped through the portal as they could hear Dusks advancing on them, slowly, but still threatening.
Darkness…the two boys were falling through darkness, not knowing where it would end. Riku had embraced the darkness for so long that none of this was unnatural for him. He started believing that the darkness was consuming him…again. For a moment, Sora felt a hand graze his back, but only for a quick second. He held on to the hope that someone would catch him, right until he felt cold sand creeping into his shoes and noticed the moon shining down on him. He looked over and saw Riku lifting himself up and seeing the shocked look on his face.
Sora shot up as he saw an arch made of what seemed like black rock and the moon shining in the dark, ominous black and blue sky.
"Riku! Are you okay?" Sora asked alarmingly.
"I'm fine. I'm more worried about you. Are you okay? I've spent a lot of time in darkness, but you haven't." Riku hadn't really seen Sora a lot since they were separated on the Destiny Islands.
"Don't worry about me! Taking on a thousand Heartless kind of makes you accustom to darkness." Sora couldn't help let out a little smile.
For some reason, when Sora looked out at the dark ocean and the sheer gloominess surrounding him, he felt a resounding sense of déjà vu, as if this place was a darker version of his memory. He drifted off to the memory of Kairi smiling and snapped back to reality when Riku was giggling at Sora's rosy red cheeks.
"Shut up!" Sora responded bashfully.
"Well…we should probably figure out where we are and hope that there is something here besides this shore that looks a lot like the inner workings of an Organization member's mind, if they have inner workings." Riku glanced around hoping for some noticeable landmark.
Sora jumped up with his usual spry attitude and said, "Let's head away from the coast and see if there is somewhere I can get something to eat! I'm starving!"
"Do you ever stop thinking about food?"
"I haven't eaten since Goofy, Donald and I…Oh no! Goofy and Donald…and Kairi!"
"The King! They went in that portal that the blonde girl summoned!"
"Namine….They should be okay." Sora said with a little more confidence.
"What makes you say that?! Neither of us knows who she is!" Riku shouted.
"We do know her, or at least who she really is, but I doubt we will see her again. Now let's get going before I starve to death!"
The two boys walked away from the blackened ocean and started walking inland. As they left the coast, a bottle with a rolled up letter inside washed upon the shore, but they were long gone before they noticed.