Prologue
Beginning of the Journey
It had been almost a year since Nira had last seen her brother Sora or her friend Riku. She and Sora had been separated when Kingdom Hearts closed all that time ago. Nira knew that the reason she went with Kairi back to Destiny Island was to keep her safe but the fact that she wanted to help her brother overpowered that. Also, the fact that all the people of their home world remembered who Riku was but they had no clue who Sora was. People thought Nira had just made him up and even Kairi didn't remember him and Sora had been the closest to her.
Nira thought this was a cruel joke being played on her by the Darkness. She thought that she was never going to see her brother again and that this was also her punishment for searching for who she truly was. But now she was alone thinking of the people she had lost over the past year and the possibility that she was never going to see them again. But she didn't know was that soon she was going to have most of her unanswered questions answered and also was going to see people she hadn't seen since she was very small.
One night, Nira heard the sound of her brother calling her name. She shot up in bed and looked around the room. "Nira," she heard her brother call her name like he was in the room. Her heart began to jump up and down in her chest as she thought he had finally come home and that what she had been going through for the past year was nothing but a dream. Nira turned the light on by her bed and realized that her brother was not in her room but she could still hear his voice.
She heard the voice again and realized it was coming from outside her house. "Nira," It seemed to be taunting her. She got dressed in some clothes and then walked out of her house, trying all the while not to wake her parents. As she walked towards the beach she heard the sound of her brother in her ear over and over. When she was on the beach was when she heard the voice even louder, like it was calling to her. "Sora, where are you?" Nira asked as she looked around the darkened beach. Tears started to form in her eyes.
"Nira,"
Nira turned her head and realized the voice was coming from the island that she hadn't set foot on in a year. She hadn't been near that island since her brother and Riku had disappeared. Not even Kairi would go there because she felt there was something missing and until she found that missing something; she wouldn't go to the island. Nira ran down to the docks at the other end of the beach and got into one of the boats. The whole way to the island she thought of what she would find when she got there. She didn't know if her brother was going to be there or if she would find nothing. She looked up at the sky and could tell there was something going on.
When Nira docked at the island; she got off the boat and walked along the beach. She then looked up and saw there was a portal on the islet where the Paopu tree was. Nira ran up the stairs and across the bridge, when she was near the portal she heard. "Nira," It was louder than ever before and she thought he was screaming her name. Nira needed to help her brother and she needed to go through the portal in order to be where she needed to be. She felt the force wrap around her and felt like she was falling into another universe; she was away from all she knew and going to a place where she had been a long time ago.
"I'm coming Sora, don't worry."