The next day...

I woke up and heard the seagulls down by the beach. God I'm tired. I looked over to my bedside table and checked my alarm which read 7am.

"Must. Sleep. More," I whispered to myself.

As I was sleeping, I thought I could hear scratching and tapping and noises. I opened my eyes and found Kairi staring straight at me, smiling. I screamed and jumped in surprise as she started laughing at me.

"Come on Sora! Today's the day!" she said happily as she climbed out my window and ran down the beach. Sometimes I wonder why no one can use the front door.

I got myself dressed and walked out of the house, trying not to wake anyone as I closed the door. I walked down the beach and saw Riku and Kairi taking the sturdy looking raft down to the water.

"Sora!" yelled Riku.

I stared at him, not knowing what he wanted until he rolled his eyes and said, "Wanna help us?"

"Oh, sorry. Sure," I mumbled as I ran towards the raft and helped them move the raft down to the water. Does Riku even remember what he did yesterday? I continued staring at him, searching for a sign. He looked up at me and showed me one of his rare Riku smiles. I smiled back at him as we finally placed the raft in the water with Kairi still having no idea what was going on.

"C'mon Sora, hop on," Kairi said as she got on the raft, followed by Riku. I followed them and we pushed away from the shore, watching our beautiful island disappear into the horizon. I couldn't help but start crying. Everyone who I knew and loved are back on that island. Who knows if I'll ever see them again. Hell, I didn't even say goodbye. I kept my head down, trying to look away from the island as we sailed away.

I felt a warm embrace behind me and found Riku giving me a comfort hug. He whispered in my ear, "Don't worry Sora. We'll be back in no time," before giving me a peck on the cheek and wiping the tears from my face. He continued hugging me as I quickly fell asleep, still tired and depressed.

I woke up and heard Riku and Kairi whispering behind me.

"When are we going to tell him?" said Kairi.

"When we're close enough to the ship!" exclaimed Riku in a hushed tone.

Kairi grumbled as I kept trying to hear more pieces of their conversation but hearing nothing.

"Let's just knock him out now, while he's asleep. That way by the time we get to the ship, he'll just be coming around," said Kairi.

"Fine, if it'll stop your complaining," said Riku.

They want to knock me out? What's going on?

"Where's the chloroform?" asked Kairi?

"In my yellow backpack," said Riku.

They both looked around the 20x20 raft before Kairi froze and said, "You mean the backpack under Sora's head?"

I looked down without moving a muscle and saw that the yellow backpack was under my head. I had to get rid of it so I can figure out what's going on. I felt Riku's hands carefully touch my head while Kairi's hands tried to move the backpack from under my head. I swung my fist around, punching Riku in the jaw and I pushed Kairi away as I threw the backpack off the side of the raft.

"What the hell Sora! What was that for?!" yelled Riku, still clutching his jaw.

"You were going to knock me out! What for?! Why?!" I screamed at him.

He looked over at Kairi as she looked back at him. Riku winked at her as she reached behind her to grab something. Riku continued to stare at me and talk to me but I wasn't buying it. Kairi swung a wooden plank at my head but I grabbed the end of it and pulled it out of her hands, also pulling her along with it. I stood up and held a fighting stance in the corner of the raft, not knowing what to do.

"What's going on guys? Just tell me!" I exclaimed.

Riku ran for the centre of the raft as Kairi ran towards me to keep me from moving towards Riku. Using as much strength as he could muster, Riku turned the heavy sail, making me lose my balance as Kairi quickly pulled me towards her so I wouldn't fall off the raft and in the meantime, taking the wooden plank from me. Now they were both staring at me, waiting for me to make a move.

I can't fight them... they're my best friends. We all just stared at each other before I heard a loud foghorn behind me. I screamed in surprise as I jumped and turned around to see a huge ship anchoring right front of us.

Ow! What was that... I felt the back of my head and could feel blood and realised that Kairi had hit me across the head with the wooden plank to try and knock me out. She squeaked when she realised what she had done and said, "I'm sorry, Sora!" before sitting down and crying with her head in her palms.

Everything had started to go blurry before it just went black...