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Chapter One: New Friends, New Enemies
Riku looked around the large, crowded room as he leaned against the wall. He wondered why he even came to this party at all.
Then he remembered. Axel had been bored that morning and decided to sneak into his apartment while he was sleeping and tied him to the bed.
"Wake up Riku!"
"What are you doing Axel? I'm trying to sleep."
"There's a party tonight at Xemnas' house (mansion). Do you want to come?"
"No, Axel. Now untie me."
"But it'll be fun!" Axel put on the saddest expression he could make as he stared at Riku who was struggling to free himself.
'I don't go to parties, Axel. You should know that by now."
"If you don't, I'll bring Larxene in here."
Riku was not happy to here that. Larxene was a masochistic sadist and wouldn't mind coming to torture him at Axel's request. Actually, she would be excited.
Riku started to pale and Axel knew he had won.
Axel really would call Larxene over if he refused, and Riku knew that very well.
"Alright, I'll go."
"Yes! We'll have a lot of fun. Everyone will be there. You won't regret it."
Then, Axel put a pocket knife on the bed next to the still tied Riku and ran from the room.
Riku almost silently mumbled, "Bastard." as his 'friend' left.
It had taken hours for Riku to free himself, but when he did, he had no time to relax as there was only about an hour until the party according to a laughing Roxas who had come to tell him the details, at Axel's request of course.
And, there he was. Standing by the wall of Xemnas' mansion, which seemed more like a castle, avoiding people like the plague. Especially Axel.
Riku then heard something next to him and snapped out of his thoughts of revenge on Axel.
"Hi. What are you doing over here?" Riku didn't recognize the voice.
There was a boy standing next to him, most likely around his age, seventeen. He had spiky caramel colored hair and bright blue eyes staring at him expectantly.
"Hey. I'm not really into parties. What's up?"
"Not much. I just wanted to know why you weren't having fun with everyone else."
Riku laughed leaving his visitor thoroughly confused.
"Clouds are like shadows in the sky."
The boy only blinked obviously waiting for him to explain his random statement.
"They eat away at the light preventing it from reaching the ground. I've always wondered where clouds go after they are out of sight. I wonder if maybe they travel to other worlds creating their shadows in other strange places."
The boy waited a few moments for a sign that Riku was finished.
"I guess it's possible."
Riku was just a bit surprised by the fact that someone actually didn't think he was crazy for thinking about other worlds, and a person he didn't even know, no less. Riku decided to continue his thoughts since his visitor had accepted them.
"If there are other worlds, I want to see them. I want to know what they would be like."
"That would be nice, to see all the other worlds, if there are any that is."
"Well then, if I find a way to travel to other worlds, I'll bring you with me, and if you find a way to get to other worlds, you'll bring me with you. Deal?"
Riku waited for a response from his visitor. He could hardly believe he was making such a deal with a complete stranger.
"Deal."
The boy extended his hand to shake Riku's.
The handshake was short and afterwards, Riku's visitor grinned widely, and Riku couldn't help but smile.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the room, Axel was staring in disbelief as he saw his antisocial friend, Riku, shake hands with a complete stranger and, did he just smile?
Roxas walked up behind the tall boy with fire-engine- red hair asking, "What are you staring at Axel?"
"Riku just smiled at a stranger."
"Yeah right, Axel. You're just seeing things."
"I'm not kidding, Rox!"
Axel was slightly annoyed that his spiky blonde haired, shorter boyfriend didn't believe him.
"Whatever you say."
After his visitor left, Riku left the wall to join Axel since his anger had been lost after he met his new, friend? He was glad to know someone believed him. When he reached Axel though, he was not happy.
His friend was giving him a strange look like he was suspicious of something. What was he thinking?
"Axel? What's up?"
"Who's you're new friend?"
"Just some guy."
"Oh really? He made you smile though. What were you talking about?"
"Other worlds."
"Riku, you're crazy, and apparently your friend is too. What's his name? Is he new here?"
Riku had to think for a while. He hadn't even thought to ask his visitor for a name or anything involving him personally for that matter.
"You didn't ask, did you?"
"No."
"Well he looked pretty cute. I bet you'd like to see him strapped to your bed."
"Only you, Axel."
As if on queue, Roxas came up and punched Axel in the face.
"What was that for, Rox?"
"Stop being a pervert."
Riku couldn't help but laugh at this. Roxas always knew how to handle his perverted, temperamental boyfriend.
"What are you laughing at? You seemed very happy talking to a complete stranger about other worlds. You're obviously insane."
Then again, Roxas was also very blunt and got on his nerves.
Riku decided to go for a walk.
Axel told Roxas he was going to go home and that he would see him later. He certainly had no intention of going home just yet.
Two hours later, Riku walked into his apartment and heard a strange muffled noise. He carefully followed the noise to his bedroom hoping that Axel hadn't done what he thought he did… or worse.
He opened the door and, tied up, blindfolded, and gagged in the corner was a small figure. As he got closer, he realized that it was his visitor from earlier. He had to remember to beat Axel up next time he saw him.
Riku untied the ropes and removed the blindfold and gag.
The boy seemed very grateful to be freed.
"Hi. It's you again. It's nice to see someone who isn't completely insane!"
"Strangely, people call me insane a lot."
"Why?"
"I talk about other worlds. People find the concept highly unbelievable and crazy."
"At least you don't have bright red hair or kidnap people you don't even know."
"By the way, what's your name?"
"Shouldn't you tell me your name first?"
This boy was strange, but Riku went along with it anyway.
"My name's Riku."
"Sora. It's nice to meet you, Riku."
"Yeah."
Okay, Sora was definitely strange, but he had to admit, his strangeness didn't really bother him. Not even a little.
"Where exactly are we?"
"We're in my apartment. The guy with the red hair is my friend he can be crazy sometimes, but he's not as bad as some other people I know." Like Larxene. Riku shivered just thinking about her.
"Why did he tie me up in your apartment?"
"My best guess would be, he wanted to know how I'd react. Axel can be a little… perverted."
"…"
"Yeah, well. Where do you live?"
"I'm staying in an apartment."
"Well we're in the only apartment complex in Twilight Town, so it's somewhere in here."
"Room 803."
"You're in luck that's just down the hall to the right."
"Wow. That's a coincidence. I'll see you around then."
"See you around Sora. By the way, there's a festival tomorrow night. I'm going with a few of my friends. Everyone's allowed to attend you should go too. It's in the sandlot. If you don't know where that is, ask anyone on the street or follow the music and the smell of food."
"Sounds fun. I'll be there."
"See you there, then.
"See you there."
With that, Sora left the apartment and turned right to go to his own. Riku stared after him for a few minutes before getting up and getting ready to sleep.
The next day, Axel was nowhere to be found, and when he knocked on Sora's apartment door, nobody answered. He did hear something coming from inside though.
That night, Riku met Zexion, Demyx, and Xemnas waiting in Station heights.
"Where are Axel and Roxas?"
Xemnas, a tall eighteen year old boy with long silver hair answered, "They said they'd be a little late."
Riku was afraid of that. Usually when Axel was late, he was up to something, but Roxas was late too so it couldn't be that bad. Hopefully. Riku was more concerned that he wasn't able to find Sora and hoped that he was already in the sandlot. He wanted to talk to him again.
"Hey, Riku? What are you thinking about?" The hyperactive blonde Demyx brought him back to face his friends. Axel and Roxas had now joined them.
"So, Riku… what did you do with my present last night?"
Axel had just barely finished the sentence when he was sent flying backwards by Riku's fist.
"You're insane. You kidnap a stranger and tie him up in my bedroom. I released him as soon as I found him and he left. That's all. His name's Sora though."
"What are you talking about?" This time the other silver haired boy, this one seventeen, Zexion had beaten Demyx, Xemnas, and Roxas to the question they all wanted to ask.
"Our friend Riku had a talk with a stranger yesterday at the party about other worlds. He seemed happy with him, so I brought the boy to his room. No harm done."
This time, it was Roxas who punched Axel sending him flying.
Axel seemed to be getting punched a lot lately.
Xemnas spoke up again, "I think we should go to the festival unless we want someone to end up in the hospital."
"Good idea." Axel had chimed in from the ground against a wall about 20 feet away.
Riku scanned the sandlot for Sora, but couldn't find him anywhere.
About a half an hour later, the festival was in full swing, but still there was no Sora in sight. Maybe he decided not to come. It's not that Riku didn't want to hang out with his friends. He just wanted to talk to someone who actually believed in the possibility of there being other worlds. Either his friends hadn't noticed him occasionally spacing out, or they just ignored it as one of the strange things that Riku did.
Suddenly, there was screaming and running. Riku looked toward the source of the screams and saw some strange creatures attacking people. Suddenly Sora came out of nowhere with some huge key and began fighting the creatures. He could here two voices screaming to each other. A male and female. The male voice was quickly identified as Sora.
"Kairi, why are they here?"
"You tell me, Sora. You opened the path to this world. You should know more than me about this."
"I'm not good at figuring those things out Kairi. You're usually the one piecing together the puzzles."
"I would be able to think a lot more clearly if I wasn't being ATTACKED by over FIVE THOUSAND HEARTLESS!!"
"Okay I get it. We'll figure it out later. Right now, we have to get rid of these heartless."
Riku was confused. What were heartless? The girl mentioned Sora making a path to this world. That means they know there are other worlds. And they've been to others too. He would have to confront Sora about it as well as the girl, Kari or whatever. What else was he hiding?
Riku heard cheering and brought his attention back to the battle. It was amazing the way Sora and the girl fought.
Sora seemed to effortlessly fight off the many heartless attacking with his huge, there were two keys now? As he watched the girl, he was also amazed. She fought with two short, thin swords, but huge gusts of wind emanated from the blades with every swipe slicing through the opponents killing them immediately.
Although the scene in front of him was amazing, he couldn't help but notice that the creatures just kept coming. It seemed that no matter how many were killed, more came. He then heard the voices again.
"Sora, there are too many. We can't go on like this forever! There must be tens of thousands of heartless lining up to get here. We have to get out of here and fast!"
"But Kairi, we can't just leave these people to turn into heartless!"
"Well, we can't risk becoming heartless ourselves! You're the Keyblade Master! What would happen to all the worlds if you became a heartless and I couldn't bring you back?!"
"But…"
"No buts! If we aren't around, who's going to stop this from happening to other worlds?!"
"Kairi! Please!"
"We have to go Sora. Go get the gummi ship. I'll hold them off as long as I can and meet you there! Go!"
"Can I at least bring a few people with us?"
"We've interfered enough in this world Sora. Go!"
"Please."
"Fine, but hurry!"
Riku was stunned. Sora and the girl were so strong, yet even they had trouble handling the creatures. Twilight Town was doomed, and him and his friends were going to go down with it.
"Demyx, Zexion, Axel, Roxas, Xemnas!!"
He suddenly heard someone scream from behind him, "Riku!" It was Sora.
"What is it Sora?" Riku wasn't sure what was going on until he remembered.
"Well then, if I find a way to travel to other worlds, I'll bring you with me, and if you find a way to get to other worlds, you'll bring me with you. Deal?"
Riku waited for a response from his visitor. He could hardly believe he was making such a deal with a complete stranger.
"Deal."
The boy extended his hand to shake Riku's.
The handshake was short and afterwards, Riku's visitor grinned widely, and Riku couldn't help but smile.
"Riku, gather a few friends you want to take with you. We're leaving this world."
"Why?"
"It's dangerous here and I'm leaving. I'm not going to forget our deal either."
Riku was happy to hear that him and at least a few of his friends would live through this.
Again He called out to his friends, "Demyx, Zexion, Axel, Roxas, Xemnas!!"
Roxas and Axel came running to him, "What's up Riku?"
"You'll never believe me until we get there, but we're going to another world!"
Axel looked over at the boy he now knew was Sora who looked worried and excited at the same time. Although he wasn't really sure he believed in other worlds, he followed his friend.
Roxas told Riku that Xemnas was attacked by one of the creatures. He looked at Sora who just shook his head. Riku took that as a sign that Xemnas was gone.
"What about Demyx and Zexion?"
"We're over here."
Demyx was unconscious, but Zexion assured Riku that he was still alive and well. He had just fainted from shock.
Riku nodded at Sora, signaling that he was done.
Sora finally spoke for the first time since Riku's hunt for his friends.
"We have to go now! Kairi seems to be at her limit. If we want to leave, we have to get to the gummi ship now, so follow me!"
The group of five hesitantly followed the stranger to a strange vehicle which they guessed was what Sora had referred to as a 'gummi ship'.
Riku was excited and spoke in awe, "So this is how we'll get to another world, huh?"
Out of nowhere a girl with dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes wearing a silver t-shirt and jeans appeared.
"Kairi, how is the situation?"
"Sora, there were thousand of heartless, though I was able to hold them off for a while. I couldn't handle it any longer. They're on their way here, so we better hurry."
Everyone gathered into the gummi ship, and Sora took the controls. The ship lifted into the air, and before they could even think, Twilight Town was out of sight.
Sora controlled lasers on the ship to fight heartless all around them. Three of the five who had never been off land were getting motion sickness, Demyx was still unconscious, and Riku was too excited to notice the fact that he was getting sick before he passed out.
When he awoke, they were on land again. Everything looked different though. They had done it. They were in another world.
Axel was the one to speak up first.
"Who the fuck are you two?!"