Disclaimer: I own nothing of the Kingdom Hearts franchise. The only thing I changed was adding myself into the story. ^_^ I hope you all enjoy!


The egg shell like bed opened after Donald and Goofy tapped it a couple of times. The air whooshed out, and I blinked, trying to clear out the sleepiness. I saw them giggle, and I smiled, jumping out of the shell. "Oh my gawsh! It's been too long." I commented, wrapping them up into a group hug.
"And you've grown." Goofy said, putting his hand on my head.
I smiled and put my hands out in a bragging way. "Well I don't like to toot my own horn."
We turned around in the long hallway, to see a giant room at the end. My heart locket started glowing as we stepped closer. There was a bigger, more giant egg shell, and my heart locket floated. It shone brightly on the shell.
"Sora's here, I can feel him. Sora!"
"Sora!"
"Sora!"
The egg just stood silently for a moment, then it burst out with light. Sora smiled down at us, and gave a big yawn. This time I understood why Goofy and Donald had giggled. Sora had grown too, and his clothes had gotten too small for him.
"Lara, Donald, Goofy!" He took my hand, then Goofy's and we span in a circle together happily reuniting.
I placed a hand on Sora's shoulder after our dance. "I missed you a lot, Sora."
Sora gave me a hug, "I missed you too."
I hugged him back. It felt good to have him back in my life. Then I smiled and hugged everyone. We all giggled again, then heard another familiar voice.
"Looks like we all fell asleep!"
"Jiminy!" I giggled happily as he jumped into my hands.
"My, my! It looks as if Sora and you have grown."
I put a hand behind my head and blushed, smiling.
"We had better make a move on, team." Donald said.
"He's right. The last thing I remember is us running after Pluto. Then it all goes blank from there."
"You're right. But all my journal says is, 'Thank Namine'."
"Some journal that is." Donald snorted, tapping his webbed foot against the ground.
Jiminy looked taken aback, and looked at the floor pitifully. I cocked my head and frowned. Then I kissed him on his little head.
"Ah, it's okay little buddy. I distinctly remember that we were on our way to find Riku and the King."
"By golly, you're right!" Jiminy said cheerfully, and he jumped onto Goofy's hat.
"Good, now we have a plan." Sora said.
We all headed towards the door. The start of a new journey.


First Visit: Twilight Town

We stepped out of a mansion. We arrived in a place called Twilight Town. We walked around a lot because we didn't know where to go. But it felt a lot like Traverse Town. A warm sensation feeling, I guess. We walked around for a little while longer, until we found an alley way with a hanging curtain. Being curious, we decided to check it out. We walked in to see three other kids around our age.
"Hey, this hangout spot is ours!" The blonde guy said.
"Oh sorry. We're new in town and we just wanted to see what was back here." Sora replied, about to leave. But I spoke up.
"I think my grandma lives here, so could you show us around?" I tried.
"Sorry, we've got better things to do." The blonde kid walked off, expecting the other two to follow.
"What are your names?" The red headed girl asked.
Goofy pointed to each of us as he gave an introduction. "Oh sorry. We're Sora, Lara, Donald, and Goofy."
"We're Olette, Pence, and that other kid was Hayner." Pence, the kid with funky brunette hair said.
Olette held up a hand. "Sora, Lara, Donald, Goofy. We just met someone who was looking for you."
I was mildly shocked. Especially about the 'Lara' part. I wasn't really supposed to be here.
"He had a black coat on." Pence started, and my heart skipped a beat as I thought of Riku. "I couldn't see his face. But he had big ears." Pence put circles behind his head.
"The King!" I exclaimed.
"Did you see which way he went?" Sora asked, with excitement.
"Towards the station. Up on the hill to your left."
We all looked at each other with excitement and anticipation.
"Well we have to get working on the homework assignment. Catch ya later!" Pence and Olette walked off. And after we waved goodbye, we all huddled in a group.
"The king is looking for us!" Donald said, hugging me.
"Yeah, and Riku might be with him." Sora said happily.
"Well c'mon gang! The train station is where they are!" I said, grabbing Goofy's arm.
We ran out of the hang out and down the alley way that went left.

"Look the train station!" I yelled, as we came up the hill.
We all started running towards the lot when dark power formed in front of us. My locket flew up into the air.
"Heartless." whispered both Sora and I.
Donald got out his staff and fought off the grey skinny looking heartless. The more I fought off the heartless, the more I felt like they were something more. When one waited for me to attack, it danced up and down, as if made of jelly material. I kept fighting, and my arm started to hurt. I saved Goofy a couple times by throwing him a potion. But it wasn't doing any good. We were losing stamina to fight. And as Sora fought the last one, five more popped up in its place. Both Donald and Goofy fell to the ground. Sora fell back behind me and I leaned on one knee, breathing hard.
"We cannot give up!" The heartless, for I didn't know what else to call them, swarmed towards us. "We won't give up!" I yelled.
Just as I was about to hit blade to heartless, I heard another clink of a key blade. I looked to see Sora behind me, but his key blade not up. A black figure jumped from heartless to heartless, and landed with a soft thud in front of the gang. A golden key blade shone in the sunlight. I went to take a closer look, but Donald and Goofy landed on top of my head.
"Your majesty?" They both exclaimed in surprise.
"Shh!" The black figure spoke, raising a gloved finger to his covered face. "You gotta board the train and leave town! The train knows the way." He handed Sora a small bag. "Here."
We all focused our attention on the little bag, when Donald yelled for the King to come back.
"The King…Was that really him?" Sora asked, watching as the black figure ran away.
"It could've been." I said, pondering.
Goofy said proudly, "Yep, I know it was!"
"Now we know he's okay!"

Sora spoke up, bringing a flashback, "The King was locked in the realm of darkness, right?"
"Yes." I assured Sora.
"But we just saw him now."
"Yep." Donald nodded.
"Then that means Riku is here!" Sora yelled.
I took Sora's hands happily and danced in a tiny circle.
"Well, I'm going to go look for Riku. What are you guys going to do?" Sora asked.
I punched his arm lightly, laughing. "Of course I'm coming with you!"
Sora and I looked at each other, smiling, then looked back at Donald and Goofy. And they weren't happy at all.
"Gawrsh, Sora, do you have to ask?" Goofy replied sadly.
Sora and I looked at each other again and started laughing.
"Hey, what's so funny?" Donald growled.
"Your faces!" Sora pointed out.
Both Donald and Goofy looked at each other, then they too began to laugh.
"C'mon, let's go for one more adventure!" Sora said. We all nodded our heads. "To, where again?"
"We have to board the train!" I took their hands and raced into the station.

We heard footsteps behind us as we went to the ticket booth.
"Sora!" Pence called out.
Turning around, we saw Pence, Olette, and Hayner coming up towards us.
"What did you need?" I asked.
"Nothing." Hayner replied, folding his arms.
"We just wanted to see you off. Felt like something we had to do." Pence said, smiling.
I smiled back, placing my hands behind my back. Sora went to the booth, holding up four fingers.
"Four tickets please!" Sora asked.
He pulled out the bag from his pocket and Olette gasped. She pulled out the same exact bag from her pocket.
"They are the same!" Donald said, reflecting my thoughts out loud.
"Yeah." Olette nodded.
"That is so strange." I placed a finger to my lip.
After each grabbing our own tickets, we went walking forward with the rest of Hayner's gang, but Sora slipped behind me slowly. I looked back to see him stare at the platforms sadly.
"I can't help feeling like we won't see this town again."
"Why not?" Donald asked.
"You're thinking too much." Goofy replied, smiling.
Sora simply smiled back. "Yeah, you're right."

When we stepped up to the train platform, we looked for our train. There were two sitting there. One was orange and colored like most of the town we had saw. When I went to board it, Olette stopped me.
"That train just takes you throughout town. I believe you want this blue one."
I looked at the blue train closely. It was decorated with star symbols and was blue all around. The chimney of the train was shaped like a wizard's hat.
"Okay let's go." I said, jumping around. After all, I was excited to be awake and on my way to seeing Riku again. Donald and Goofy boarded the train, I stepped on halfway, looking back at Sora.
"Well bye." Sora said, giving a small wave to Hayner, Pence, and Olette.
"Hey Sora. You sure we haven't met before?" Hayner asked.
Sora looked back at me and I shrugged my shoulders. I couldn't remember them, from neither Disney film nor being in the video game world.
"Positive. Why do you ask?" Sora lowered his hand from his head.
Hayner dropped his hand from his chin and smiled. "I dunno."
I smiled back at them and looked at Sora. We all gasped gently. Sora had a tear falling down his cheek. He touched it gently, then rubbed his eye. I took his hand carefully, lacing our fingers together.
"Sora?"
"You okay?" Pence asked.
"Yeah," Sora chuckled. "I don't know where it came from."
"Pull it together." Hayner teased.
Sora nodded, smiling. "See ya!" We both replied, and we stepped on the train still holding hands.
I let go after the door shut, and made my way over to Donald and Goofy. I figured Sora would want time to himself. We watched Twilight Town go by. For a while, Sora just stared out the door window, looking very sad. He pulled out a blue orb from the munny bag we received from the King.
"You know." He started. Donald sat down on the seat to look at Sora politely. "I'm sad."
I got up from my spot and took his hand again. "It's okay Sora."
"We'll come back!" Donald assured.
Goofy tried to cheer him up. "We can visit Hayner and those other guys again."
Then there was a bright flash of light outside our windows. We were traveling to another world via train instead of Gummi Ship. I secretly wished we were going to Hollow Bastion. That's where I left Riku last.