I had often wondered, is this reality? Am I trapped in a continuous dream? I listened to my father's stories about leaving the island and exploring different worlds. My friends say their parents tell different sides of the same story. I always thought they were just to stir our imaginations. The imaginary battles with the creatures called the Heartless. The imaginary worlds with keyholes. The only thing that seemed real to me… was the Keyblade.
On one particular day, I was lounging on one of Destiny Island's many beaches with my friends Ray, Zell, Zidane, Quistis and Kera. We liked to pick fights with each other. Ray and I used wooden Daggers. Zidane used a wooden dagger and sword. Zell used his fist and Quistis used a rope whip. Kera never fought so it was usually between the five of us. We had all considered maybe leaving the island and going out on our own. That was what we were doing that day, planning our leave.
The day had started like any other day. We all came to the little private island we clamed as our own. I had practice battles with Zell, Zidane and Quistis both one on one and three on one. Then I went to find Ray and did our little practice battle taking a potion from who ever lost. We then caught up Kera. We were trying to build a raft like our parents had done so long ago. Kera had sent Ray to gather the supplies we need and I had to get the food. I had collected two mushrooms, three fish, a seagull egg and fresh water, but I need more mushrooms. I headed over to a little tunnel by the waterfall. Within I had seen mushrooms.
When I got there, I saw something out of place. There was a door made of wood right in the cave wall. There was no handle, window or anything to indicate a way to open or look within the door. The only thing I took notice to was a sentence carved in the middle. "You are the who will reopen the door." When I left, I tried to forget about the door but something about it seemed familiar to me, but I didn't know what. When the day was coming to a close, Ray, Kera and I sat on the little island connected by a bridge to the main island. We discussed what we were going to do once we were on our own.
At Disney Castle, Goofy's son Max was listening to the three head wizards Huwy, Dewey, and Louie say that Donald, Goofy and the King had all disappeared. They had left only one clue to there whereabouts. "Kingdom Hearts" written on a small sheet of parchment held by Pluto. Queen Minnie sent Max, Huwy, Dewey and Louie to find Sora and to have him locate the king. Jiminy Cricket was sent along to record their quest. They went to the Gummi bay and got their special Gummi ship and set off for Destiny Island.
That night, I lied awake in bed thinking. Suddenly I heard a loud crack of thunder. I looked out to the little island and saw a storm rising from there. I snuck out of my house and grabbed my boat and paddled as fast as I could to the dock. When I reached the island, I spotted Ray and Kera's boats there too. As I hoped on to the wooden dock, strange small creatures with glowing yellow eyes started swarming out from everywhere. I tried attacking one with my wooden daggers, but they just went through them. Convinced that fighting was hopeless, I ran. I saw Ray on the little island that was connected by the bridge. I ran to the island, dodging the creature from every direction. Once I reached Ray, the creatures looked like they covered the whole island. Ray started to say that this was our chance to leave the island forever and that we could take Kera with us.
At that moment, a black pool of darkness started to envelope Ray. I tried to reach for him but found the same darkness trying to swallow me. Eventually the darkness over took me. As I starred in to a black abyss, I saw a bright light shine. I found my self at the same spot but I was holding key shaped daggers instead of my wooden daggers. Just then, the creatures started to come to me. As one jumped, I swung my new weapon in hope of deflecting the creature back. The creature instead dissipated along with another creature close by.
I then ran for the small tunnel in hopes to have a place to hold me ground. I found a large marble door that opened when I had reached it. As I reached the center of the cave, I saw Kera standing at the wooden door. When she turned around to face me, the door burst open with the same darkness that took Ray. Just before I could grab Kera, she disappeared and the darkness through me back in to the tunnel and back to the outside. When I was full outside, most of the island had been destroyed. All that was left was the floating land I was standing on.
In front of me stood what seemed like a giant version of what had attacked me before, but this one looked more human. He reached out a hand to try and grab me. I dodged out of the way but the hand kept going to the ground. The giant hand stuck to the ground and formed a pool of darkness around its arm. More of the smaller creatures emerged from the pool and jumped at me. As I hit the creatures I hit the giant's arm and it flinched in pain.
I continued to hit the creatures and the giant with the key shaped daggers. After attack for five minutes, the giant started to glow than dissipate. As I started to faint from exhaustion, I felt the hands of four figures. They carried me to what looked like a colorful spaceship. I than realized what was familiar about the door. I was about to live what my father had with the Keyblade, so many years ago.