Chapter 1: And So It Begins

{Disney Castle: September 6th 2013, 6:20am}

A single week had passed since Sora, Riku, and Kairi had returned to Disney Castle with the two newest members of the castle's residency, Roxas Lyster and Namine Olamayne. The two blondes had, for the most part, had a very interesting first week; however, between adapting to the singing wardrobes, the strange brooms and mops, the residents of the castle itself, and the training that Sora had begun to implement, they were just starting to adapt. Roxas was sound asleep in his bed in the early morning, not expecting to begin their training schedule until after eight; therefore, he was snuggled into the comforter and fluffy pillows of his bed, his room having been set up and clothing unpacked into the wardrobe and dresser. The birds were just beginning to sing, the sun barely up in the sky, when his door cracked open and a pair of sky-blue eyes glanced into the room to see the blonde boy asleep.

A faint smirk upon his features, the sixteen-year-old Keyblade Master crept into the room and up to the bed, before summoning an orb of water; another smirk, and Sora held it directly over Roxas's head with a thoughtful look before he waved his fingers in a downward swipe and promptly dropped the small orb atop his head. Roxas shot up in a surprised gasp as the cold water drenched him, and he looked at the sight of Sora standing before him in a pair of rather normal clothes that he hadn't actually seen him in, up until that day. Still sputtering slightly, Roxas leapt from the bed, shaking his head furiously as he tried to dispel the water while looking to Sora.

"Dammit, Sora! What the hell was that for?" he asked with a snap. The boy laughed faintly.

"Just getting you up and alert for training."

"Did you have to drown me?" he questioned.

"No, but I just felt like it..." Sora put his arms behind his head.

"Uhuh; well, I think I'd prefer not to go swimming in my room," Roxas said piteously as he began to wring out his shirt.

"Better get used to it...starting today, you, Namine, Kairi, and even Riku have some lovely, extensive, in-depth, grueling training to look forward to." Roxas gave him a long look of pure displeasure and faint fear as he eyed the chestnut-haired teenager before him.

Sora was dressed in a pair of dark pants, a dark gray tank-top with a Celtic red cross on it and wore his crown pendant, but lacked his gloves, jacket, and shoes. He seemed calm, but his hair was a bit messy, hinting that he had only just gotten up a bit ago. However, Roxas had other things on his mind at the moment.

"What kind of training is this?" Sora tilted his head, giving him a calm look.

"Keyblade training, spell training, summons, endurance, all of that...why else would I begin waking you up in the early hours of the morning if I wasn't going to begin giving you more training that will be further applicable to combat?" he explained. Roxas frowned.

"Okay...um...I reserve my question session for when we're at breakfast with everyone else." Sora nodded to him.

"Get dressed; Kairi's up and getting Namine up, I'm going to get Riku, and we'll meet you downstairs for breakfast in twenty minutes," he said with a smile. Roxas sighed as Sora walked towards the door.

"Alright, see you there." The boy waved and walked out with the click of the door.

Roxas took in a deep breath as he went over to his dresser and got out his clothes for the day. Admittedly, Roxas should have expected Sora to do what he had, only because the boy had a remarkable sense of humor and wit about him; however, he also was a bit different than Roxas had perceived him to be during the earlier part of knowing him, when he and Namine still lived in Twilight Town. Sora was witty, sweet, hyper, comical, and an honest, brave, kind, and true person – but he was also not all smiles and kindness. Since they had begun training, Roxas had taken note that Sora could be tough, even brutal, when it came to teaching them how to become apt Keyblade Wielders. Sora had never quite told them all the complexities of being a Keyblade Bearer, but both he and Namine had gathered that Sora hadn't told them about the Mark of Mastery Exam, the things that had to be done in order to reach the requirements, let alone what those requirements would be or what Sora and Riku had done to become Masters.

Kairi and Riku had told him and Namine about the Dream Drop; however, it wasn't much to go by, unfortunately. They were told about what happened to Sora, that he'd died because someone named Xemnas had shattered his heart and caused his mind to break because of the trauma inflicted upon him, but they were never told the whole story that started their adventures. Roxas frowned as he pulled on his shoes and a simple black t-shirt over a pair of comfortable pants before looking to his room – this was their lives now, but even if the castle had become a home to them in such a short time, it still was a great deal to take in everything, and so the two newest Keyblade Bearers still found themselves incredibly unadapted to their new environment and life styles.

"Okay, let's see what that psychopath has come up with this time..." Roxas said to himself as he considered the fact that he did think of Sora has a genuine friend and comrade, but he also knew that the boy was a Keyblade Master and he was also his and Namine's Master, which meant that Sora would take his priorities as such over mere friendship – and he would be rough on them for it. Sighing once more, Roxas left his room and went down to breakfast, where he knew they would be further informed of what would be happening.

{Downstairs: 6:58am}

Roxas entered the room where they typically had breakfast and found the others sitting there with slightly tired expressions. Riku was a bit more lively than Namine or Kairi, who were sitting there in tank-tops and shorts with sneakers on, with their hair in braids. Kairi stretched a bit and took a sip of tea as Namine did the same, while he went to settled next to his girlfriend and took into account that the only person who seemed to be missing was Sora. Roxas looked around the room and saw the door where the kitchen was happened to be slightly ajar, and he raised an eyebrow.

"Where is Sora?" he asked. Riku smiled.

"Cooking." Namine and Roxas looked soundly surprised.

"I thought he was just running behind," Namine admitted as Riku shook his head and Kairi smirked ever-so-slightly.

"Nope, Sora is making breakfast for us." Roxas promptly slumped slightly in his chair while his mind tried to fathom what was happening.

"Um...can I ask why in the hell he's cooking?" Kairi smiled as she looked at him.

"Well, he is a really good cook and knows how to make protein-based meals that can keep our energy up. He got a few tips from Aerith and Yuffie recently," she stated. Namine raised an eyebrow.

"Aerith? Yuffie? Who are they?" Riku hummed as he looked up from the documents he was looking through.

"Oh, those are friends of ours in Hollow Bastion...well...last we checked, Aerith lived in Hollow Bastion, she has a husband, so..." Roxas sighed as they heard a faint clink of dishes in the kitchen, before a familiar head of chestnut hair poked out from behind the door.

"So..." Riku eyed the boy.

"Did you blow something up?" sky-blue narrowed in annoyance.

"The fuck, Riku! At least I don't burn water!" Riku sighed.

"We were ten, Sora," he stated.

"Your point is?" Riku rubbed his forehead.

"I can cook just fine now!" he said. Sora smirked.

"Yea, I know...I was actually just going to ask if you guys are hungry." They nodded.

"Um, yea, we are," Roxas told him as the sixteen-year-old pulled out a cart and Kairi stood before helping him put the things onto the table, which sufficiently stumped the two blondes, while Riku watched with a smirk upon his features, as they took in the fact that the meals looked remarkably good and smelled fantastic. Namine looked to Sora, who smiled as he sat down a pot of green tea in front of her, and she took it to fill up her cup with a smile upon her features. Roxas looked to him as he finished with the dishes, gave Kairi a kiss on the cheek, and sat down next to her.

"What the hell are you, exactly?" he questioned as Sora looked to him in questioning.

"What are you talking about?" Roxas cleared his throat.

"You cannot be human...you're a Keyblade Master and you're sixteen years old, you're a cook, you have a Princess for a girlfriend, you have saved the entire universe, what...three times already? And you're one of the nicest people I've ever met; plus, you're freakishly strong...what the hell?" Roxas stated as he pointed out several factors, and Sora flushed a bit and looked to the side in what was clear embarrassment.

"Well...I was kinda picked on as a kid, so I did a lot of things to occupy my time...my mom taught me how to cook...and she just tried to make sure I was a good person with the right kind of skillset to where I could do what I wished to when I got older...the Keyblade Master factor didn't event cross my mind until April this year, honestly." Namine put a few pieces of a type of meet, rice with a sunny-side egg atop it, and a small bowl of pale yellow-green soup with leaves and small junks of white floating in it on her plate, before she took a piece of the meat and tried a bite. The girl smiled and took another bite before looking to Roxas.

"I think you're an amazing cook! Your mom taught you really well!" she said happily.

"And remember, you and Namine are fairly good cooks yourselves." Roxas swallowed and looked at the meal in front of him.

"What kind of food is this, anyways?" Riku shifted the documents in his hands and grabbed what he wanted from the items laid out on the table.

"The kind of foods we grew up with on the Destiny Islands," he replied. Sora nodded as Kairi grabbed one of the small bowls of soup and some of the rice and meat.

"What about just eggs and bacon?" the three teenagers looked at Roxas for a moment.

"Well...we do make pancakes and things like that...but...well...we lived on an Island, so fish, fresh fruits, and seafood are more abundant than pigs...not that we don't have farms in the Eastern Island that raise livestock or things like that...but we're from the Northern Island, so it's a lot more tropical and modernized, unlike the Southern Island, which is more like a resort..." Roxas slumped in his seat as he got his things and sat them down in front of him before getting a cup of green tea.

"So is this why I hear about your disgustingly perfect health?" he questioned as Sora glanced to him.

"Well...I've never given it much thought..." Riku laughed.

"Never...no, you really haven't, because your health has always been excellent. When most of us have a fever, you're jumping around like a five-year-old on a sugar high, and when the rest of us have a stomach flu, you're just a little nauseated...it sucks..." Sora frowned as he took the fork he'd brought and broke the yolk of the egg before he mixed it up with the meat and grabbed a spoon for the soup.

"My mother is a nurse...so what do you expect?" Namine looked to Sora, who took a bite of the contents of the bowl in front of him, and kept her eyes on him momentarily.

"Your mom is a nurse?" she questioned. Sora nodded as he swallowed a mouthful of the soup.

"Yes, back on the Islands, she's one of the head nurses of the local hospital on the Western Island." Roxas frowned.

"So, what was it like? Growing up around hospitals?" he questioned while taking a bite of the meal in front of him. Namine had been right – Sora was a very good cook. The sky-blue-eyed sixteen-year-old was focused on chewing the rice and meat in his mouth right then, but he clearly was thinking on what was being asked.

"I don't really like doctors all that much, but I'm fine with hospitals...I'm a big reader, so I ended up reading a lot of medical textbooks growing up..." Riku laughed.

"Yep, he'd make a great doctor. Anyways, Sora, I have some documents from Master Yen Sid for you to read over. Oswald set them up, too," he stated. Sora nodded and took the offered documents before reading them.

"What's with the documents?" sky-blue glanced up.

"Well, as Keyblade Masters, we have to monitor influxes of Heartless and darkness in the Worlds, atop that, we have other major requirements on our part, including acting as the vanguard in case of war breaking out...hey, Riku? What's this about the Nobodies appearing in Hollow Bastion three days ago?" he inquired. Riku looked up.

"Squall and Yuffie reported that in only because it was Dancer Nobodies, but other than that, there's been nothing else, and the Dancer Nobodies are gone now..." Sora hummed a bit.

"Isn't that a good thing?" asked Roxas. The two Keyblade Masters shook their heads.

"No, this is actually why I'm starting to boost training up, and we're going to start doing more Drive Form sessions..." Kairi bit her lip at the thought of what it meant.

Everyone remained silent for the time being, eating while Sora read through the reports, documents with what seemed like a series of numbers upon them and other details, as they remained quiet. Roxas and Namine both felt a bit tense at the prospect of what had Sora and Riku so concerned, and while they supposed they, too, could look at the documents that the two had been pouring over during that time frame, they knew it was probably for a Master's eyes only, and therefore did not question them on the matter. However, Roxas, Namine, and Kairi had an insistent nagging in their stomachs that told them something was very wrong with the fact that activity with the Heartless and Nobodies had gotten so low, and while most would rejoice, the fact that Sora and Riku were tense and viewing the information on the papers as if their lives depended upon it worried them to no end.

{Training Hall: 7:45am}

Sora stood in front of the others, a paper in hand that seemed highly important. It was yellowed parchment, thick, and carrying a distinct scent of a strong ink with magic imbued into it. The designs on the front of the paper was a set of ornate, curving scroll-like tendrils that connected in black to a crescent moon at the left top corner and a star at the right top corner. Typically, such ornate stationery was never used when it came to Master Yen Sid; however, he knew that, if it was this or something highly urgent where no ornate paper would be used, something needed to be payed attention to. Looking at the others, Sora looked the letter over once more before sighing.

"Alright, look; Riku and I both have read this letter back and forth for quite a bit, picking it apart to be safe, and Master Yen Sid has some very important orders for all of us," he stated. Riku nodded a bit towards the three other's gaped expressions.

"We're not going to war, are we?" Riku looked at them again.

"Roxas, we've been in war for a long time now...even before any of us were brought into this kind of life..." the blonde looked stunned, but remained silent.

"Regardless, he's requested that I step up your training and have Riku assist me. Master Yen Sid wants us to expand upon combative techniques and toughen the three of you up...so I'll be initiating a system starting today, and we'll all have to abide by it..." Namine bit her lip.

"If we do that...what's going to be changing?" she inquired.

"I've not been very tough on the three of you, out of the sake that Roxas and yourself aren't used to this at all, and while Kairi is a bit more experienced, she's still learning basic spells. So, we'll have to rise early and go to bed a bit late, extend the training into the forests and beach...I'm going to be entering sparring sessions with you alongside Riku...I'm also going to be using more of the effects of my Drive Forms." The group, including the silver-haired Keyblade Master beside him, froze in surprise by the statement.

"More effects? What are you talking about?" questioned Riku. Sora glanced to him and sighed.

"Master Yen Sid is aware that I've been using Limit Form to do some base training with all of you, but because I have five Drive Forms, I need to start using them in controlled environments, and also let you guys face off with them when I use their Elemental bases..." Roxas tensed.

"Elemental bases?" he asked in faint shock. Sora huffed.

"Yes! Each drive form has an element that works with it, but we're off topic!" The four of them went still. Sky-blue eyes narrowed momentarily as he looked back at the letter.

"Please continue," Kairi said. Sora looked to her with a faint smile.

"Master Yen Sid also wants me to take you three to see the Good Fairies...they're going to fit you for some of the magic gear, similar to what myself and Riku have. They'll make quite a few outfits for you to wear during missions, whether they're ones that are just more durable or if they are legitimate combat attire is debatable, depending on what they throw at us, but that's something we're supposed to do in two weeks, so we have a lot of training to get underway..." Namine looked to the letter.

"What else?" Sora rolled his eyes and then looked to the letter once more.

"He also requests that I start summon and spell training with you...you're not ready for it, but we'll see what we can do," he said. Riku smirked.

"Says the guy who summons teacups." sky-blue narrowed.

"I'm frying you alive when I get to my third Drive Form, Riku Hirigaya," he said snappily. Riku smirked.

"Looking forward to a real challenge." Sora rolled his eyes and went to read the letter over once more.

"That's it; so, we're going to begin training, we're going to focus on seeing how you guys handle it when I use Limit's Elemental base...and then we'll be moving to its stasis, where we'll see how you fare with an attack backed up by magic," Sora explained.

"Alright..." the boy nodded, and put the letter away with the rest of the documents and got the group to line up.

"So, let's get to work!"

{…..}

I can see every tear you've cried, like an ocean in your eyes. All the pain and the scars have left you cold...

{…...}

Author's Note: So, here's the first chapter of Kingdom Hearts: Revive. Now, this story is mostly showing some of Roxas and Namine learning some skills as Keyblade Wielders, and a few comical mishaps. I recommend you do not skip any of these stories, as there will be something in each of them that tie into the one after it and connect it to future events.

Here's an explanation for what Stasis in this story means:

Stasis: an activation of magical properties in a Form or Weapon that is wielded in a combative or defensive manner.

That is what Stasis means when it comes to Sora's Drive Forms.

Love all my readers, you guys are incredible!

Preview:

"Let's see how you handle this; ready?"

"Xehanort has gone quiet...something is coming..."

"What are you thinking about?"

Chapter 2: Limit