Narrator's POV

It was just an ordinary day on the beaches of Destiny Islands for the three boys, one blonde, one with brown hair and the last with long white hair. They ran through the sand as usual, trying to see who was the fastest out of the three of them. Sora, the brown-haired one of the trio, stopped running, exhausted.

"Giving up already?" the white-haired boy teased him.

"Shut…up…Riku…" Sora managed to pant.

"Yeah, cut him some slack, man," the blonde chimed in.

"Is that because he's your little brother, Roxas?" Riku asked.

"Nah," Roxas replied. "It's because he's a weakling."

"Hey!" Sora yelled as the two others laughed at him. He continued to try to get his breath back, when he spotted something on the nearby road. It was a truck, all white, with a logo on its side that read "Radiant Removalists".

"Look at that!" Sora alerted his best friend and older brother.

"You're not gonna fool us with that one, Sora," Riku chuckled.

"Hold up, Riku," Roxas said, poking Riku's arm. "There actually is something to look at over there."

Riku turned, not believing either of them. He stared at the truck for a short time, then said, "Newbies, eh? Wanna go check it out?" Then he ran off, not waiting for an answer.

"Riku!" Sora and Roxas said in unison, running after him.

"Just try and keep up, you two!" Riku shouted back at them as they neared the truck. Then he stopped as a man stepped out of the back of the truck. Roxas and Sora didn't notice that he'd stopped, so they rammed straight into him. The man looked down at them, a slight smile on his face.

He was huge, that was obvious to Sora as soon as he looked up at him. He had long brown hair, and deep blue eyes. He continued to look down at the three, his arms crossed over his chest, the smile still on his face.

"Try to pay more attention to where you're going next time, OK?" he said in a deep voice.

The three boys got up sheepishly. "We…were a bit too excited about the fact that someone new had moved to the islands," Sora replied lamely.

The man chuckled shortly. "I'm Terra," he said then, holding his hand out, "Terra Shoreline."

Riku shook Terra's hand. "Riku Dawnlight. Nice to meet you."

Roxas pushed in front of Sora to shake the new man's hand first, with only a slight protest from his little brother. "I'm Roxas Stormer, and this is my brother Sora."

"Hi!" Sora said behind his older brother.

"Stormer?" Terra asked. "I've heard that name before. Any relation to Ventus Stormer?"

"Terra? Is that you?" a new voice said. The voice was similar to Roxas', but deeper. The man came closer. He looked a lot like Roxas, only taller. "It is! Terra!"

"Ven!" Terra laughed, walking over to Roxas and Sora's father and hugging him heartily. "I haven't seen you for years! You or Aqua! How have you two been?"

"Good, good. But I didn't expect to see you here, old friend," Ventus replied.

"You know this guy, Dad?" Sora asked.

"Dad?" Terra said, amused. "You have been busy, haven't you?"

Ventus coughed uncomfortably. "Boys, this is Terra Shoreline, an old friend of mine. He and I grew up together in the Land of Departure, along with your mother."

"You called?" a woman's voice chimed in from behind them. It was Aqua, Ventus' wife and Sora & Roxas' mother. She had short-cropped blue hair with a fringe over her face. Trailing behind her was the youngest member of the Stormer family, Xion. She looked a bit like Aqua, which was weird, since she was adopted and not physically related to Aqua at all. She had black hair in a similar style to her adoptive mother. Both Xion and Aqua had blue eyes, much like everyone else in the conversation.

"Honey, you remember Terra?" Ventus asked his wife.

"How could I forget?" she chuckled, hugging her friend. "It's been too long, Terra."

Terra just laughed.

Ventus looked at the truck. "Are you moving in here?"

"Yeah," Terra replied. "We just moved here from Radiant Garden."

"We?"

From inside the house, a girl's voice yelled. "Daaaad! What's taking so long?"

"Oh boy," Terra sighed. "Does parenting ever get any easier?"

"No," Ventus and Aqua said together.

"Hey!" Sora, Roxas and Xion protested.

They all laughed.

"What's so funny?" two voices said from the front of the house.

They all turned. Sora and Roxas stopped breathing.