wherever you are.
We pray for our sorrows to end,
and hope that our hearts will blend.
Now I will step forward to realize this wish.
And who knows:
starting a new journey may not be so hard
or maybe it has already begun.
There are many worlds,
but they share the same sky—
one sky, one destiny.
I never thought much of those words. They were sung by Mom as part of a lullaby. That's all they were to me. Little did I know that those exact words would affect my life.
"Sora. Wake up Sora… SORA!" The young boy sat up and rammed his head into the bunk above him.
"God damn it Yuffie, you don't need to scare me like that!" Sora yelled as he rubbed his throbbing head.
"Well," she said all huffy, "you can't sleep in on your sixteenth birthday!"
Yuffie ran out of the room as Sora tried to comprehend what she had just said.
Jeez, sixteen? I'm sixteen now? Sora sighed and went to wash up in the bathroom. As he looked in the mirror, he saw himself staring back at him. I don't look any different from that day two years ago. Same brown haircut, same blue eyes. Two years ago, Riku disappeared behind that door. I wish Riku was here, I wonder what he would look like. He'd be seventeen today.
That's what had made Riku and Sora's friendship so special. They were born one the same day a year apart and it was said that a meteor shower fell when they were born. They used to look at the stars and wonder if other worlds were out there. Then the heartless came. Kairi disappeared and Riku was devoured by the darkness. Sora traveled to the other worlds with the help of his now friends Goofy and Donald. He had to fight Riku or Ansem, whatever one it was. Then Ansem almost destroyed Sora and then Riku and Sora closed the door to the darkness, but Riku was locked in on the other side of the door. Kairi went back to Destiny Islands and Sora had stayed with Donald and Goofy for a while, but he grew restless. He wanted to find Riku. After talking to Donald and Goofy, they gave him a gummi ship and Sora flew to Traverse Town. He found Leon and asked for his help to find Riku. Leon agreed and Yuffie and Aerith came along too. For one year and six months, they searched all the worlds they could find. Six months ago, they stopped at Destiny Islands and never returned to searching.
Now the story will continue…
