A lone spaceship was into space, the pilot, a spiky haired boy that wore a red and blue shirt underneath the black jacket that had lots of pockets, was sitting on the captain's seat.

That boy was the Keybearer, Sora.

After failing the Mark of Mastery exam, he decided to go off on a training cruise on his own for a while, he's also going to many different worlds to seal the keyholes, avoiding the demise of said place.

Noticing something different popping up at the monitor, he zoomed in, it was some kind of space station floating near a planet.

''Lord Nova, an unknown vessel is approaching."

"Oh?"

A purple haired teenager checked the screen that showed the Gummiship in curiosity.

"What is this?A spaceship?"

"Seems to be, sir, looks like the course is right towards here."

"Bring it over, I'm curious of the technology in that ship."

"Yes sir!"

The soldier pressed some buttons and a purple beam shot out of the space station and struck the ship, making it ricochet a bit before it stopped completely.

"Whoa?!" Sora felt the hit and then the ship's light died, he looked around and tried running a system check, it would not respond, it seems someone made the ship out of energy, then it began to move by itself towards the space station, Sora ripped his seatbelt apart and looked at the window to see the place coming near.

"Why did they attack me out of the blue?!"

The Keybearer couldn't do much as the mysterious attackers made everything in the ship useless, he followed the lights from the windows to find a hiding place.

A few minutes later the Gummiship successfully docked at the space station, Sora could hear the door opening and saw people that were dressed as soldiers, they were also armed with guns, he counted six of them as they walked between the ship and started analyzing some of the parts.

The Keybearer debated into his mind if he should attack now, these people attacked him first and they also brought guns...

His thoughts were interrupted when one of them stepped right in front of him, however the soldier was with his back at him. If Sora wanted to attack, it was now or never. He nodded to himself and raised his hand, summoning his Keyblade with the usual metal sound, the soldiers, alarmed by the noise, turned towards him but he already struck the nearest one down, the rest raised their guns and fired lasers at him, in response, the Keybearer jumped to the ship's ceiling to dodge and gained impulse to fly down to them, he bashed the Keyblade at Soldier 2 and then ducked to avoid more lasers, he then launched a small Blizzard spell against Soldier 3 that froze his body, Sora heard yet another laser firing and he used Quick-Run to nimbly slide behind Soldier 4, grabbing and throwing him at Soldier 5 and 6, finally he froze their guns and pointed his Keyblade at them.

"Now, why did you attack me first?"

The soldiers couldn't answer as they were interrupted by a clapping sound, Sora turned to where it was coming from and saw a purple haired teenager at the entrance of the ship clapping his hands like he just finished watching a show.
"Impressive, most impressive."

Sora turned to him and looked angry.
"Are you the boss? Why did you attack me?!"

" Why, I'm sorry, I didn't know there were Adepts in other planets, I was merely curious of your vessel...I just couldn't resist."

"A...depts? What do you mean?"

"You don't know? I saw you using ice against my soldiers, you mean to say you are not one of us?"

"That was magic! And what do you mean one of you?!"

"...It seems we have much to talk about."

Sora took a battle stance and glared at him.
"Well sorry! I don't like to sit down and talk with people that attacked me!"

The purple haired Adept sighed.
"What a shame...it seems we're doing this the hard way..."

Sora rushed at him and attempted a slash, but the Adept dodged and put his hand on Sora's forehead, the hand sparkled with some purple energy and the Keyblade Wielder felt himself become very sleepy.

"Sweet dreams, Keyboy."

The spiky Keybearer drifted off into sleep.

"Now, let's find out more about you, shall we?" Nova smirked, his hand sparkling once more, he put it on Sora's forehead again and closed his eyes.

The Adept found himself on an island of all places, waves gently crashing at the sand, the sun reflecting its light at the sea, many treehouses could be spotted as well.

Looking around, Nova saw a trio of kids running through the beach. One that looked like a younger version of the mysterious Keyboy, another that had silver hair and wore yellow and a red haired girl that dressed in white save for her purple shorts. The Adept followed them until the trio arrived at their usual spot, an islet in the left part of the island.

Nova saw some kind of star-shaped fruit as well, but he didn't pay much attention to it because the two kids started fighting using wooden swords while the girl served as a referee, the silver haired boy easily overpowered his opponent and soon disarmed him, his 'blade' mere inches of his foe's neck, after a few seconds he retracted the toy weapon and lent him a hand, the spiky haired boy took it and could be heard complaining.

"Maan! Now the score's 15 to 50!" Nova raised his eyebrow at the score count before turning his attention to the girl who started talking:

"Alright Sora! You get the food for our trip."

The brown haired boy, Sora, sighed."Darn..."

The girl continued."Meet me at the cottage when you have everything!"

Grumbling something about unfairness, Sora went to it, Nova following behind. Soon coconuts, fishes and the like filled up the bag the boy brought, noticing he was nearing the waterfall, he smiled and ducked through the hole into the cave, Nova debated into going in, he then felt an ominous presence into the cave, sighing and hoping the memory-sands don't dirty his clothes, he followed Sora in.

It was a small dark cave with multiple drawings on the rocks, a mysterious door rested on the end of it, looking down he saw the spiky boy drawing something on a rock, once he was done he looked at his work with a smile, his face carved on the rock and the girl's face next to it, his additional touch to the drawing was an arm giving the girl some kind of star, Sora sighed and began to get up, only to stop as he heard a noise, startled, the boy turned to where the noise came, a hooded man had suddenly appeared in the cave, Nova felt a dark power come from him.

"W-Who's there?" Sora asked.

"I've come to see the door to this world."

"Huh?"

"This world has been connected."

Sora was weirded out at this guy.

"Wh-what are you talking about?"
"Tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed." The stranger continued, ignoring him.

Annoyed, Sora said: "Well, whoever you are, stop freaking me out like this." Sora then took in his appearance, he never saw this man before in the islands.
"Wh-where did you come from?"

"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door."

Eyes widening, Sora realized it.
"So you're from another world!"

"There is still very much to learn."
Hooded Guy spoke. "You understand so little."

Sora's hands clenched into fists as he looked at the stranger, angry that he belittled him.

"Oh, yeah? Well you'll see. I'm gonna get out and learn what's out there!"

"A meaningless effort." Was his response. "One who knows nothing can understand nothing."

The hooded man turned to the mysterious door, both Sora and Nova looked at it, there wasn't anything different or special about it, when Sora looked back at the stranger, he was gone.

Silence reigned in the cave as Sora tried to figure out what just happened, Nova was also skeptical and curious, who was that man?

A hand suddenly grabbed Sora's shoulder and he jumped in fear, when he turned to see who it was, it was the auburn haired girl with her hands on her hips.

"What are you doing here, Sora? You left your bag outside! You were supposed to be looking for supplies!"

"I-I-I am! Look! " He gave his surroundings a quick look and made a happy expression as he bent down and picked up three mushrooms from the ground.

"See? C'mon let's go!" Sora pushed her out of the cave, Nova stayed and tried to open the door, only to see it had no handle and it didn't look like pushing was going to cut it. With no other options he also left the cave, it was sunset by now, Sora and the girl were on the bridge watching the sun descend into the sea and once the moon rised up in the sky, they left the island on wooden boats.

Nova walked around the place for a few minutes before noticing the same ominous energy the mysterious man emanated had surfaced once more, attempting to locate it, he reached the same islet Sora and the silver haired boy fought, in the sky, a big dark dome appeared.

Feeling the energy growing into multiple places, he turned to the bridge to see the boy who defeated Sora on the duel, the silver haired boy walked to the middle of the islet and closed his eyes.

Suddenly a crash could be heard and Nova turned to the direction it came from, Sora got back and almost crashed his boat at how fast he rowed, as the spiky boy jumped on the island black beetle like creatures suddenly appeared from the ground, Sora widened his eyes and picked up his wooden sword to protect himself, he tried to strike the shadowy creature but his weapon went through it, not hurting it a bit, in response, the beetle slashed Sora's arm with its sharp claws, it wasn't bleeding but it left a nasty gash. Sora, holding his injured arm, tried to run to safety, but as he did that multiple creatures appeared in every corner, with no exit, he spotted his friend at the islet and rushed there.

"Riku!" he called out to him. "Where's Kairi? I thought she was with you!"

For a few seconds, Riku said nothing, finally opening his eyes, he stared upwards.
"The door...has opened."

"What?"

"The door has opened, Sora!" Riku turned to him, excitement in his voice. "Now we can go to the outside world!"

"What are you talking about?! We gotta find Kairi!"

"Kairi's coming with us!"

Sora was taken aback by Riku's tone and odd attitude, the silver haired boy looked upwards to the ball of darkness.

"Once we step through, we might not be able to come back."

"We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back. " A sinister smile appeared in the boy's face.

" But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us! I'm not afraid of the darkness!"

Riku looked back at Sora and held out his hand.

"Come with me, Sora."

"Rik-" Sora widened his eyes as he saw a pool of darkness suddenly appearing below his friend, the silver haired boy already sinking, ignoring the pain in his arm, Sora jumped in to try and save him, but the darkness made it difficult to move, he tried his best to grasp Riku's hand, he was sure he grabbed something before he sunk into the dark void, there was a flash of light and he suddenly was holding a giant key, the same key he used to defeat Nova's soldiers.

"What...is this thing? A key? Or is it a sword?" Sora asked himself, wondering how it did appear. "A Keyblade...?"

At the second he said that, the black creatures appeared again, surrounding him, taking a battle stance he struck the nearest one with his new weapon, this time it did some damage, a bit more confident, he defeated all the ones that surrounded him, but soon more came from the ground, thinking they have no end, he retreated once more, Nova went after him and they both stopped at the entrance to the cave, a mysterious silver door appeared in front of it, Sora managed to get it open and went into the cave, the Adept following behind him.

Rushing into the cave, Sora finally found his other friend, in front of the door inside.

"Kairi!" He called out, she turned to him slowly, her eyes looked empty.

"So...ra..."

Suddenly the door opened and darkness came out of it, Kairi was launched in Sora's direction and he tried to catch her, only for the girl disappear completely. The darkness kept growing and it launched both Sora and Nova out of the cave.

Or in Nova's case, out of his head.

The Psychic Adept suddenly opened his eyes and almost dropped to the cold floor of the space station.

"What...was...that...?!" He panted while holding his head, islands, darkness, and what was with those creatures?

Taking a deep breath, he regained his composture and stood up, he then fished a communicator from his pocket and called soldiers, ordering them to put the spiky Keybearer into the memory machine, to make him forget about their...rough meeting.

Tommorow, he'll talk to him, right now he was mentally exausted, but a smirk still made its way to his face, using his communicator again, he ordered his researchers down at the planet to gather intel about the mysterious weapon, the Keyblade, Sora's memories piqued his interest quite a lot.

He hopes they can have a decent conversation the next time they meet, preferably one that doesn't involve killing each other.

I

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FINALLY

DONE!

Darn, I had this sitting in my cellphone for MONTHS. I'm so glad I managed to finish it...finally I can write the parts I actually want to write and not just a boring flashback! Woo!

But well, all that aside, I do hope you've enjoyed reading the first chapter of Lighting Key, I'll try my best not to take long on the other chapters, thanks for reading!

Oh, and if you could leave a review, it would be great, constructive criticism is welcomed and encouraged, after all I'm still a novice writer, and this is my first definitive story in this site. I've read the KH1 manga and watched walkthroughs of 1.5 to help write this, so I do hope it's kinda good, if a bit too big...

Well, enough about me. Once again thanks for reading and see you next chapter!

Oh btw, ZealousSiren, here it is! As promised! ^_^

_Dario