In Hallow Bastion, Sora, Chii, and Tron had successfully defeated the MCP and got to learn a little about Ansem and his research. Sora and Chii were by the window sill looking down at the town. They could hear noises down stair from Hollow Bastion Restoration Group. The duo didn't mind, they were too busy in their own thoughts to mind. Even when Aerith came up to ask if they wanted anything they said they were fine and were left to themselves.

Sora was looking out the window from the bed while Chii sat on the window sill and did the same.

"Sora?"

"Hmmm" Sora didn't bother to look at Chi, he just crossed his arms and laid his head on top of them.

"What was it like?"

"What do you mean?" Sora didn't understand her question. What was it like to fight heartless, battle bosses, to have these powers.

"What was it like…before you met me?" Chii waited for Sora to take her question in. Not sure if she would get an answer from him, but she wanted to know. What was Sora's story in all this?

"Different…"

"Like what Mickey said?"

Mickey had told Sora that he had changed a lot since they last saw each other. Sora was much more cheerful and …happy.

"I was to carefree at first but then…." Sora took a deep breath and started telling his story…

Of how it all began…..

Chapter 1

"My world was attacked by heartless when I was only six years old.

It was just an ordinary day on the island.

The fishermen were bringing in their catch.

Kids were out playing as their parents chatted with one another.

Riku, Kairi, and I were on the island when it happened.

The Island was called Destiny,

I fitting name for what was about to happen.

It was just a playground that kids could play on while their parents were busy.

A place to escape….

We didn't even know it was happening, until the heartless showed up. "

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Riku stopped chasing Sora as they both looked up at the sky. A dark, black orb stretched its dark branches into the world. They plummeted into the grounds causing it to crack. Heartless began to pop out of the ground and started attacking. Sora and Kairi stood behind Riku and saw a neo shadow look around until it saw the trio. Riku shouted for them to run to the small island. They ran across the bridge as their world tore itself apart.

Apparently their world couldn't adapt itself to the foreign object. They got onto the island as the bridge began to be torn apart and shot up to the sky. They felt the sky sucking everything up into the orb. Riku and Sora tried to hold onto the tree but Kairi lost her grip and was sucked up into the sky. A few seconds later, the same fate happened to Riku. Sora tried his best to hold on but a small plank of wood smacked into Sora causing him to lose consciousness.

"All I could remember was waking up on a sand doom with Arise standing over me"

A young knight was patrolling the area when he saw an unknown object on one of the dooms. He walked closer to it and saw an unconsciousness boy. He tried to shake the boy awake and it only worked for a while.

"Who are you?" The knight looked into the child's eye and saw emptiness.

The boy only as he fell back into a peaceful slumber. The knight carefully picked up the child and walked back to Seletria.

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Sora was awakened by the yelling from outside his door.

"I can't believe you could be so irresponsible"

"The child was hurt, What did you want me to do, leave him there to die?"

"How on end did he get here?"

"The only way to get here… would mean that he must have a very strong power."

They were yelling very loudly until he heard someone telling them to hush. The door was opened to a beautiful white hair and tan skinned female mage. She had a bowl filled with herbs to help Sora's injuries. She slowly walked over to him, asking him if he was okay. Sora didn't understand at first until he felt a bandage wrapped around his head.

"Sora. This might sting a little" The mage took off the bandage and dabbed a cloth over his wound. After she finished she put a new bandage on.

"Who's….who's Sora? " The young boy didn't understand who this Sora was.

"That's your name, correct?" She handed him what looked like to be a silver crown necklace. On the front side of the crown was the named engraved 'Sora'. "It was on you when Arise found you"

"Ar…ise?" Sora cocked his head to the side as he looked at her confused.

The woman let out a chuckle at the boy's cuteness. "You'll meet him soon" She clean up the rest of her supplies, but in the process she sliced her finger on one of the Scalpel. She clutched her hand on instinct and her finger began to bleed.

Sora got a closer look at the woman's hand and asked if she was okay. He gently took a hold of her hand as a light glowed of both their hands. The light slowly dimmed as the mage softly pulled her hand away she saw that the wound had healed. The mage examined her hand then looked back at Sora and saw that the spell had knocked him out. She tucked the boy in and left the room to tell the others.

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That night, Sora heard the sounds of a crying voice from outside his window. He got up from the bed and opened the window to see if there was someone there. He just saw an empty town that had not a single living thing in it. When the crying stopped Sora decided to close the window until he heard something.

"Help me"

Sora got off the bed and decided to investigate the town himself. Opening the door he could hear throughout the halls the sounds of voices of people moaning, screams, and crying. He followed the sounds until he reached the front door. He had to go on his tippy toes to be able to reach the handle. Once e grabbed it, he pulled it opened and walked outside.

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Through the streets, he walked and the sounds grew louder. He also saw shadow figures standing, walking, and even holding themselves as they shaded with fear.

"Mommy! Where are you?" A little girl was walking in circles looking like she was lost,

"IT BURNS! IT BURNS!" A man was in a fetal position, rocking back and forth.

"STOP IT! STOP IT!"

"Why can't you leave us alone"

"I didn't do anything"

"Make the pain go away"

The voices got louder and sadder as Sora clutched his head to make it stop. Tears streamed down his face as he pleaded for them to stop. He didn't know why this was happening. He felt useless and that he needed to stop this.

Then…it all stopped when he felt a hand on is shoulder. Sora turned around to see a tall silver haired man.

"Are you okay?" the man asked.

Sora saw that the man looked concerned for a second but vanished as he continued walking down the street. Sora got onto his feet and followed after him.

"Wait" Sora walked alongside the man and he asked "Didn't you hear it?"

"Hear what?" The man looked at Sora confused.

"The crying…..the voices" Sora looked around and saw that the shadow figures had disappeared.

"No one it here" The man stopped and looked at Sora "They all vanished"

"Vanished?" Sora asked.

"Yes" The man kneeled down to Sora's level. "Someone is abusing our people and using them as a weapon of destruction"

"Why?"

"Because our people are special. We've been punished, so we can never leave our world. And when we do leave, we turn into the creatures called heartless"

"Heart..less?" Sora saw a brief image in his head. "Those black creatures"

"Yes" The man then took out his blade and held it out to Sora. "Touch it"

Sora grabbed the handle on the blade as the man didn't let go off the weapon just in case. A glow formed around Sora and the blade.

"You have a very strong power" The man put his blade away and got up. "If you had that power and ours, maybe you can help us"

"Not can..will" Sora looked at his hands. He didn't know why he said that, but he felt something inside of him telling this was right.

The man stared at the boy before walking off "Sleep on it"

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Sora did sleep on it, but the dream he had seemed to be more affective in his decision. He was back in town but it was more filled with people. They were all happy and livelier. Sora was about to ask what was going on when his hand went through a woman's body. Sora stared at his hand before realizing that they weren't real. But…it didn't take long for the happiness to fade.

The people's body began to form into those black creatures that Sora saw from his vision. What was going on, Sora wish he knew.

After a while, he was alone on the streets until he saw a girl about his girl in a blue Lolita dress, crying "Mommy, Daddy, Where'd you go?"

Sora walked up to the girl as her tears fell onto the ground. Her body had had pieces of darkness flowing out of her. Sora sat down in front of her as he put his arms around her, pulling her close. For some reason, Sora could touch her, but didn't think twice of it.

"Everything is going to be alright"

His eyes fluttered open as the clock read '9:00 am'. Sora realized what he had to do.

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Two men were standing on top of one of the cliffs on the outskirts of the town. They were on patrol and saw nothing out of the ordinary.

"Serphise!"

The silver hair, named Serphise, and the pirate look alike looked behind to see Sora, out of breath, coming over to them. Serphise didn't turn around like he didn't hear anything.

"I want you to make me a neon knight"

The pirate raised an eyebrow at this and looked back and forth between the two.

"Why?"

"Because….. like you said. If I combine my power with the neon knight's power….I can save them"

"I asked why?" Serphise's voice was more demanding.

"Because…I'm the only one who can"

Serphise smiled at the answer. "What about the burden. You can never leave our world except five times according to these markings" Serphise raised his arm and showed that there are only three of his marking lefts. "It's a big burden."

"I don't care….They need my help" Sora looked down at the ground then back at Serphise. "And I'll take whatever price you give me"

Serphise knew now that Sora was taking this seriously. If Sora ever got his memory back and remembered his friends and family, he would have to leave them behind. That was the price, and he saw that Sora was willing to take it.

"Sig!"

The pirate turned to Serphise with curiosity.

"You're on portal duty" He walked past the mouth dropped pirate and, with Sora, walked back to the castle.

"What the Fuck!" Sig Screamed.

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After a few days of getting the ritual set up, the six knights formed a circle around Sora. The room was stoned and the only things that were lit up were the candles. On the floor was six side pentagram, along with other symbols.

Angel began to explain the ritual "This ritual will grant Sora the power of a knight. Our blood and power with flow through him but….."

"How many?" Asked Serphise

"He will be in a coma for about a year" Angel's face fell at her conclusion.

"You sure about this Sora?" Helios wanted to make sure that Sora wanted to go through with this after hearing how long it would take him to absorb the power.

"Yes" Sora nodded his head as he felt the need to hold it hand out. All the sudden a keyblade appeared in Sora's hand.

The group was not shocked since they knew that Sora had to be one of them. One of the chosen Keybladers. Sora placed the keyblade tip on the ground then the group did the same with their weapons. Energy flowed through the pentagram as the symbols began to glow.

The only thing Sora remembered was a lot of pain before blacking out.

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Sora woke up to see Angel sitting next to him, reading one of her book. He thought she said it would take a year for him to be complete. It felt like it was only one day since he lost conscious.

Angel rushed to his side, when he tried to open his mouth a raspy sound came out. "Don't try to talk. You haven't used your voice in a year and your body is coming to turn with your new power."

Sora felt that he could only move certain parts of his body, but could not sit up. Angel told him that it would take another year to retain full control over his body as well waking.

A year it took indeed. After many months of learning how to walk, exercise, and getting his muscles used to moving, he could start his training. Most times he felt embarrassed when he could even lift a spoon to his face, but Angel told his that was to be expected. He got to meet Leo, Arise's friend/pet lion. The lion was albino and a fully grown male. Leo and Sora became great friends and inseparable except when Leo had to go with Arise.

Helios thought it would be good, since Sora was stuck in bed, to read and have lessons to give him some education. Like every kid, there were subjects that Sora detested. Math and Science was two of them. He liked History since it was interesting to know the past and legends. English was fin since he liked reading stories and creative thinking.

Sig was like the world funniest Uncle who came to visit. He told Sora stories about ghosts, pirates, and the time at sea. Serphise often came dragged the pirate out of the room because he wasn't doing his frikin job.

Zel visited and tried to teach Sora how to use a computer. Sora was able to learn the basic and key strokes, but falter sometimes to play games.

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1st Training:

Sora was eight years old and was able to move and jump like a normal kid. Arise was the first to train Sora since they wanted him to take it easy.

"First thing is to get yourself used to a weapon" Arise tossed a wooden sword to Sora.

Sora caught the sword but dropped it when they keyblade appeared in his hands. It was different from the first time they saw it. It had gold woven around a blade (Ultimate sword from the first game). Sora held out blade and looked at Arise confused.

"It seems your blade doesn't want you to use any other blade besides it" Arise to out his blade "Kind a like mine" Arise circled around Sora as fabric like dummies on sticks rose from the ground "We'll start practicing your swing, Twenty times a day or until I see fit. Then you will attack these dummies until you get used to it." Arise swung his sword, showing Sora how it was done.

Sora swung his blade twenty times and saw how sloppy it was compare to Arise's. This continued for twenty days. His hands became blistered from not used to using a sword. He was on fifteen when he saw fingered gloves come at him. They keyblade vanished when he let go and caught them.

"They'll help protect your hands" Arise went back to watching.

Sora slipped on the gloves and started over even though Arise said he didn't have to. He felt his strikes become straighter and not loose. Arise dubbed them worthy to continue to the next practice.

Fighting the dummies was a lot different from just swinging his sword. Try hitting a stick on a large hard rock. Arise yelled at him to stop loosening his grip or he would hurt himself. It felt like pins and needles from inside his hands to the rest of his arm. It continued until the tenth day.

It continued like this until Sora was able to break on dummy's arms. Sora thought he was in trouble but Arise just laugh when he saw Sora worried face. Sora decided to carry on with swinging his sword against the stiff body. He was noticing that his body was growing little muscles.

Arise decided to challenge Sora's ability by having him fight Leo. He whistled as Leo came bounding down the path to them. He sat in front of Arise like he was saying 'you called?'. Arise explained to Leo that he would like to see Sora fight a moving target.

Sora was frightened at first, afraid he would hurt Leo. Arise assured him that Leo was tougher than he looked. Leo got into a pouncing position as Sora got into his stance. Leo jumped, making sure his claws weren't out, and he swiped at Sora. Sora blocked his paw, but didn't understand how he knew how to do that.

"You knew how to fight before this. Your form is still sloppy though. Probably because you were sword fighting a friend" Arise explained.

"Did you use to do that?" Sora asked.

"Back in knight school" Arise remembered how he first started out as a squire until he was dubbed a knight.

"Are you happy?"

Arise looked at Sora confused.

"Are you happy being a knight and living here?"

Arise thought about it when he smiled. "Yes. Yes I am. Back when that person was in control. I felt awful about hurting people."

"So you're trying to find forgiveness?" Sora remembered in some story, heroes sometimes try to find redemption by saving others.

"At first, but now… it's different. I don't know how to describe it…I just feel happy. These people are my family. Even if I don't age"

"Will I not age when my power fully come it?" Sora looked up at Arise.

"Probably"

After a few days, Sora was able to pin Leo down and have his blade up against him. Arise was very proud of him, but knew that he was only one of Sora's teachers.

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2nd Training

Serphise wanted to train Sora in sword to sword combat. Sora was ten years old and knew that Serphise wasn't the kind of person to let his opponent have a handicap, even if it was a child.

Serphise binded his katana and Sora looked at him curiously. "To make sure I don't hurt you" Sora realized that he was going to fight him for real. Realizing now what Arise meant when he said…..

(Sora and Leo were playing while Arise watched in the courtyard when Serphise came walking in. He saw Sora playing with Leo and walked towards them.

"It's time for training Sora" Serphise told him.

"Serphise, let him play. He's still a child" Arise was upset that all Serphise wanted Sora to do was train. Sora was a child; he needed to have at least some fun.

"Sora, come"

Sora got off Leo and walked over to Serphise

"Serphise…. Don't break him" Arise looked at the man with pleading eyes.

"Never" Serphise whispered and it sounded as if he only wanted Sora to hear him)

After a few days, Sora' and Serphise's blades clashed together. Serphise was thinking of unbinding his blade since Sora became more experienced and could hold his own against him but didn't want to risk it plus Angel would have his hide if he actually killed him.

They fought each other until Sora got tired. Sora may have a lot of energy since he was still a kid but that doesn't mean he has the same stamina of a master swordsman. Serphise told him to rest and Sora plopped himself on the ground.

"Serphise?"

"Hmmm?" Serphise was looking over the edge of the cliff, down at the town.

"Are you happy with your life?"

"….Yes"

"Why?" Sora knew that Serphise would only answer if you asked the proper question. "Why are you happy with your life here?"

"At first was a punishment, but soon grew on me. I felted needed, loved. My childhood was ruff since I was from a house of samurai. Children now look at me as a friend, not a monster."

"Is that why you have four and Arise have three….."

"Marks, yes" Serphise continued. "We went to the outside worlds to find out what happened. Only to be rendered useless."

"I won't"

Serphise turned his head a little to Sora.

"I won't stop until I help them all"

"I hope your burden doesn't become too heavy" In the back of his mind, Serphise begged whatever universe that they wouldn't let it happen.

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3rd Training:

Sora was eleven years old and training with Helios. The librarian had a different training method for Sora.

"You won't be needing your sword today" Helios clapped his hands as the libraries bookshelves began to change. "You to learn how to solve puzzle"

"Puzzles?" Sora looked at Helios confused.

"Not everything can be solved with violence" Helios explains "I want you to figure out a way out of this maze, without jumping or climbing over them." With that Helios vanished and Sora could hear his voice from across the room. "I want you to navigate yourself to me"

Helios must have made this maze hard on purpose because it took Sora at least eight hours to get out of the maze. Every turn he took made him end up in a dead end. He couldn't go by book section because they changed. It was like a Halloween corn maze that you did with your finds and family. You can never find the way out, you cheat by cutting through the corn, and you have to get someone to search for you or exit through the entrance because you passed it like seventeen times.

It was the same for Sora, if he saw that stupid head piece one more time…well it would be worth getting yelled at to see it in pieces. When Sora made it out of the repeating section and into a new section, Sora was happy. He walked out to see Helios in a chair, reading a book.

He looked up at Sora and asked "Did you have fun?"

Sora fell to his knees in exhaustion from walking and thinking too hard. He felt the bookshelves revert back into their original positions

"That's it for today" Helios closed his book and walked past Sora "Will do this again tomorrow." By the time Helios walked out the door, he could hear Sora groan.

This puzzles solving kept going on for a few months. The maze did get easier, even though they were different each day. Sora also had to solve new puzzles, riddles, and do scavenger hunts. He at first hated them, but once he got the handle on them, it became easy. Helios thought it would better if Sora had a time limit. Twenty minutes in his toughest maze to see Sora's process. He made it out in ten.

"You seem to be getting better" Helios checked his timer.

"Would you have rather been a teacher or a Librarian than a knight?"

Helios looked back at Sora and raised an eyebrow "I thought I already was?"

"I mean…..if you would rather be happy being one of those instead of a knight" He titled his head as he rubbed his foot against his other leg.

Helios thought about it for a minute. "No" Helios picked up his book and walked over to Sora. "I'm happy being both a teacher and a knight. Helping people…. It's worth it"

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4th training:

Sora is twelve's years old and both he and Zel were standing in an empty computer/lab room.

"Today were going to try out my new virtual reality system" Zel typed some on his miniature laptop and the room became completely white with scale like patterns on the walls.

Sora saw something black form out of the ground. The creature started to form into a heartless.

"This is a shadow heartless. You will fight it and then we'll see what will happen after that" Zel stepped back and watched.

Sora wasn't sure about fighting it. The heartless were people…right?

"The heartless are mindless beings. Even if our people are inside them, they will not be hurt by your attacks since they have no idea what's going on nor will they remember" Zel explained.

"They won't remember?" Sora was confused.

"We were never supposed to leave or remember the outside world. Once they are free and returned to our world they will forget"

Sora stared from Zel to the heartless, Sora got into his fighting stance and charged at it. He slashed the heartless as it disappeared into dark mist. Sora felt some kind of weight was being placed on him, like he should be afraid. Was he still afraid because were still people, or of something much worse.

Sora forgot about it when he jumped back just in time to miss an attack from a much larger heartless.

"These are neo shadow, don't forget that you still in battle"

Zel trained Sora to fight different kinds of heartless. From shadows all the way up to defenders. Sora even had to do an exercise where he had to help a person from point A to point B without getting attacked. Zel was happy with Sora's progress and decided to up the ante a little today.

Up on the far wall was a black orb with branches and chains forming into the wall.

"This is the black orb. Your job is to destroy it and set the heartless free" Zel pushed another key on the keyboard and a giant Darkside appeared. "This is a boss heartless. They will be guarding the black orb. You will have to defeat the boss to get to the orb"

Sora eyes widened as he looked at Zel like he was nuts.

"Yes, I know it tall, but I wanted it to start easy" Zel must have been crazy to think this Darkside would be easy.

Sora thought 'oh well' since he knew he didn't have a choice. He did what Serphise had taught him first. Look for a weakness and attack it. Sora saw it raise its arm and he moved out of the way just in time before it slammed it into the ground. Black ooze surrounded the hand as shadows formed. Sora attacked the shadows until they were all gone but saw that more were coming from the ooze. Sora slammed his keyblade onto the hand and saw the Darkside flinch. Sora figured that the hands must have been its weak spot. Sora slashed his keyblade multiple times until the Darkside withdrew its hand. Sora saw the Darkside retrieve it hand very slowly and decided to take this chance to dash up his arm and slam his keyblade into the heartless's face. The creature fell back in pain and landed on the ground with a thud. Sora thought it was out and started walking to Zel.

Sora saw Zel raise his bow and shot an arrow He heard a sizzle of Zel's lightning arrow then something heavy fall to the ground. "Don't! EVER! Turn your back on it until it's out!"

Sora looked behind him to see the Darkside on the ground. Words appeared in Sora's head as he lifted his keyblade and recited

Oh poor creature who has taken this form…

From now you shall be free….

I take ways your curse…..

Go back to which you came….

As of now you are free!"

A light shot out of Sora's keyblade and struck the creature in the chest. Instead of the heartless becoming human it broke apart since it wasn't real.

Zel stared at Sora until he saw Sora's eyes go deep blue and he lift up his blade once more. Zel couldn't understand the words that were coming out of his mouth, but saw another light shot out of the blade and hit the orb this time. The orb shattered into piece in addition to Sora coming too.

"How did you do that?" Asked Zel

"I don't know. I just saw it in my head and my body moved on its own" Sora looked at his keyblade, nit sure what happen.

"Interesting" Zel looked at his laptop as he ran through the data.

"Thank you"

"Hmmm?" Zel looked at Sora confused.

"For saving me"

"If you don't pay attention you'll hurt more than just yourself" Zel sighed as he didn't want to ell Sora the horrible news. "Sora, you can't tell the outside world about us"

"Why?"

"Because they will get hurt. I left once and found out the hard way. Sora, we and the other worlds aren't suppose to know that each other exist. Remember that is our curse and we must endure it"

"Yes," Sora looked at the ground as Zel's words rang in his head.

"Don't get me wrong. I love my job, that's why I'm going to make a system that will protect us and make sure this will never happen again" Zel looked up triumph.

"Sig says you're losing it" Sora smirked

"Sig get drunk five times a day. Now why should I be worried about what he says" Zel turned to Sora and smiled.

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5th Training:

Sora was thirteen years old and training with magic with Angel. Sora like training with Angel, she was one of the first teachers that didn't try to kill him or make his head hurt. The only thing he didn't like was when they tried to mix a potion and it exploded. Angel told him it was his mess and handed him a mop. Angel told him to go collect some items for the next mixtures. In every world there are recipes and items he could finds to make all kinds of ether or potions. To do this you would have to find a moogle.

"Moogle?" Sora asked while grinding some herbs.

"Yes, they are very helpful creatures" Angel poured the last ingredient and the mixture made a popped of smoke. She then poured it into a vial and told Sora that they had made a potion.

The next day, Angel wanted Sora to practice using magic. She took out her staff and out of the ground were different targets. The targets were placed in different spots; some were on the ground while some where high in the air.

"I want you to use fire on those targets." Sora was about to walk over to them when Angel said. "Without moving!"

Sora stopped and looked at the targets she was talking about. There were five of them on different ledges of the Gorge.

Sora aimed his blade at the target and shot fire at it. Since it was Sora's first time using fire, he fell backwards from the force and missed the target by an inch.

"Try planting your feet on the ground" Angel showed him an example. She positioned her staff and aimed at the target. Her fire was much more powerful and blew up the target. "That's a much stronger fire called 'Firigga'. You will learn it once you learn different and stronger magic"

They continued doing this and Sora was able to use fire, blizzard, cure, aero, gravity, stoop, magnet, reflect, confused, and thunder. A few of the spells got a little messy, when they guys started watching Sora practice. Sora almost electrocuted Sig. Was not allowed to do magic inside the castle, thanks to the big hole in the wall from thunder, and had to replant some trees thanks fire.

Sora and Angel were in the kitchen making food when Sora asked her if she was happy being a knight.

She smiled and said 'yes.' It made her feel wanted. She felt bad when she wouldn't stand up to the king and feels forgiveness when helping them. They were her friends and family.

Sora smiled as he continued peeling the potatoes.

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6th Training:

Sora is fourteen now and had been training with Sig on how to combine magic with his weapon. Sig demonstrated by firing on his bullets. When it hit the target the blast was much more powerful.

"Using magic with your weapon and also cause more damage to your opponent." Sig put his gun away and stood back to watch.

Sora practiced using magic on his blade until Sig came up with an idea. He asked Zel if Sora could practice in the VW. Zel said it was okay, but HE is the only one who can use the keypad.

Sora used fire all around him as three heartless disappeared. Sora formed an ice shard in front of him and he hit it with his blade. The shard smashed into the heartless causing it to vanish. Sig was right about one thing combining magic with your weapon does make it powerful. When sword gave his keyblade an electric charge, the neo shadow went down pretty fast. Sig was happy with his progress; he told Sora that they should go on is ship to celebrate. When actually wasn't that special since they did that every day.

Sig was steering the boat, he told Sora that he should try and beat his shooting score. Sig loved to practice his shooting on the targets whey passed by on his boat. Sora thought it would be fun. Sora found some of it difficult when the current went faster and Sora had missed a few. He also almost lost his balance a couple when the boat turned, but he managed to hit a lot of targets.

Sig laughed at him as they came to an opening. "Not bad kid, a little iffy, but still…"

"Hey Sig! Do you ever miss being a pirate?" Sora was sitting on the floor as he looked up at Sig.

"What do you mean miss? I am a pirate" Sig looked at Sora funny "I have a ship, drink rum, know how to fight….."

"But you're a knight?"

"Serphise got ya thinking?" Sig smiled as Sora nodded. "I love my job. Hey, I do it. Everyone knew it, I just love messing with Serphise. He and I are kind of like siblings. He is the responsible brother and I'm the annoying brother who pisses him off." Sig put a piece of rope on the wheel and made sure it wouldn't turn. He sat down net to Sora and they looked at the horizon. "I wish I could have done something to save them. This should have never been repeated. They don't deserve that"

"I'll save them"

Sig pulled smirked at Sora as he gave him a nogi.

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In few days, it would be time for Sora to leave for his mission. Angel had prepared him with traveling clothes, chainmail with a white vest over it. Black pants with straps over them, a slip cover over his wrist and fingerless hand gloves. Angel finished it off by tying a scarf around his neck. Sora looked in the mirror and saw a different person that had change in eight years.

"Ready?" Angel asked.

"Ya" Angel left but Sora stopped and looked at himself one more time. "Time to face the universe."

They were all outside waiting for Sora. They told him to remember his training and to be safe. Sora told them not to worry but even he was scared.

"Take care kid" Sig gave Sora a pat on the back,

"Don't forget about us" Angel gave Sora a hug.

"…" Serphise shook Sora's hand, but they all knew Seph was sad to see him go too.

"Don't forget to learn on your travels" Helios handed Sora a journal to write about his travels.

"Remember to contact us if there's any trouble" Zel waved.

"Sora….goodbye" Sora got a hug from Arise and a lick from Leo.

Sora stood back as he felt energy flow through him. The group watched as Sora's eyes grew dark and wing spread out of his back. The wings engulfed him and his last worlds were

"Dwarf Woodlands"

He was off…