Chapter 1: The start of a new journey

(Traverse Town)

A lone boy was standing in the middle of an old fashioned town. He was a teenager with spiky, brown hair and blue eyes. He wore a blue shirt under his black vest, black, baggy shorts with red pouches on the sides, black shoes, and had black fingerless gloves. He had a sliver crown necklace around his neck, and in his right hand was a giant silver key with a yellow handle and a crown keychain. This was Sora, the wielder of the Keyblade and vanquisher of the Heartless. He was training with the Dream Eaters in Traverse Town for a month and now he was about to head back to the Mysterious Tower to resume his training with Master Yen Sid.

"Guess it's time to go back home," he told the Meow Wow standing next to him. It looked up at Sora with its eyes and rubbed against his leg like a real cat. Sora smiled and pet it while saying, "Don't worry. I'll come back and visit one day." He then started to walk to the gate leading to the other worlds. He went outside and entered the Gummi Ship that King Mickey lent him. He set the coordinates for Yen Sid's tower and the Gummi Ship took off into the cosmos.

(Mysterious Tower)

A small, red haired girl in a pink outfit with a white undershirt, and pink shoes raced across the grassy field towards a silver haired teen wearing a black shirt under a yellow and white vest, purple pants, and grey shoes. The girl swung at the boy with a Keyblade that looked like an arrangement of flowers. The boy parried the girl with his Keyblade, a dragon's wing with a small angel wing acting as the tooth. The handle was a dragon and angel wing, the keychain was a Heartless symbol. The boy locked blades with her and tripped her making her fall. When she tried to get back up she found the boy's blade pointed toward her neck.

"I win." The boy victoriously stated while stretching out his hand.

The girl smiled, took his hand, lifted herself up and said,"But you have to admit, I am getting better."

The boy nodded and said, "True, but you still have a long way to go, Kairi."

Kairi smiled and said, "Don't worry Riku. One day you, Sora, and I will be even in terms of strength."

Riku laughed and said, "The day that happens will also be the day you tell Sora that you lo-OW!"

Riku was now tending to a bump on top of his head while Kairi pointed the Destiny's Embrace at him and said in an eerily sweet tone while smiling, "One-You and I know that I'll catch up to you two eventually, and Two-If you even think of telling anyone about 'that' then you and I will have a problem. OK?"

Riku weakly looked at her wide eyed and replied, while slightly afraid, "Y-yeah. I got it."

(The World That Never Was)

In the dark city that was overshadowed by the Nobodies Castle there were several Pureblood Heartless crawling around the alleys searching for some form of food. A Neoshadow was napping under an awning while the other Heartless were wandering the city in their search.

A small orb of darkness slowly approached the Neoshadow and quickly entered it before the Heartless could sense its presence. The Neoshadow's eyes quickly opened and it squirmed around before it relaxed and its eyes changed from yellow to a sky blue. It looked around at everything and at itself as if noticing everything for the first time. It then looked towards the castle and started to race towards it.

The Neoshadow entered a small passage that led to an area underneath the castle. It ran through the corridor until it reached a small room. The room was dusty and falling apart, but surprisingly the seven pods that were inside were intact and only dusty. There were three pods on each side of the room with one pod resting in the back. The Neoshadow then approached a small control panel on the side of the room and pulled down a small lever. Almost immediately the pods opened up and a white smoke filled the room. The Neoshadow knelt down to the floor like it was bowing while it waited patiently for whatever was in the pods to come out.

"Ugh, how long were we asleep?" a gruff voice said.

"To put it bluntly," a smooth voice replied, "a really long time."

A deep voice went next saying, "Now's not the time for your sarcasm. We just woke up."

"It's been 10,000 years since we went to sleep," a cybernetic voice stated.

A snake-like voice complained saying, "That long? Man, I'm really out of shape."

"Quiet," a dark voice commanded, "The Emperor has awoken."

Immediately all the voices were silenced and the sound of moving feet was heard. From the back of the room purple eyes opened up and a figure with a voice darker than the first spoke, "Arise my Dark Lords, it is time to take our revenge against the Realm of Light." Dark and malicious laughter echoed out of the passage and into the eternal night of the dark city.