Chapter One: The Unexpected Trio

Sora sat on the on the tree, where Riku, Kairi, and himself used to sit and hang around, remembering the time when Riku had joked about the paupu fruit, and other memories that came to his mind. But he wasn't with anybody at the time; no one was in sight, only Sora who sat there watching the sun sinking into the sea. After all he went through, oh how he missed just watching it. Then a peaceful smirk appeared on his face, and he lied on the tree branch crossing his feet and resting his hands behind his head closing his eyes. Being back home was a bliss.

It was only a few days after his fight with Xemnas, and he had been exhausted after those few battles. He remembered exactly what happened during that brawl, every word and blow. Though a question would come to his mind often...

"How did I make it through all that?"

It wasn't weird enough that he was chosen the Keyblade Master from the start, but he also questioned if it could have been someone else instead. That one question lead to a huge chain of many other questions, all the way to the beginning of when had that 'bizarre' dream. Knowing how Riku had accepted the darkness at first and had become a slave to it…what if that could have been him? The thought troubled him greatly. He pondered on more for awhile longer...

"Was it luck that I made here safe without dying…or is it that there was something with me throughout my entire journey?"

In each battle he felt a presence as if something were there or if someone were watching over him. Could that be even possible? No one was there besides Goofy and Donald. Even in a battle when it seems that there was no hope in fighting anymore, there was a sweet voice that would whisper in his ear "Keep fighting! Don't give up!" The voice would say. Even more questions that needed answers. So Sora just ignored the questions and just rested on the branch while the calm, coolness, and gentleness of the wind swept pass his hair. Then eventually he fell fast asleep, as the sun sets and the night began its shift.

"Is he awake?" A girl spoke.

"Well, his eyes are closed!" Another girl spoke after.

"You have to get him up!" Shouted yet another girl. "We have no time to play around!"

The three girls floated around Sora wondering how to wake up the Keyblade Master. Yet two out of the three girls were afraid to disturb him. They continue to watch him sleep. One of the three became inpatient and frustrated.

"This is taking too long!" She shouted. "Yuna, you wake him up!"

Yuna heart skipped a beat, "Wha-a, why me? I don't want to do it!" She turned to look at him, "He so peaceful when he sleeps." Yuna commented with a smile.

One of the girls snickered, "Yunie is fallen for a boy! Ha-ha!" She teased.

Yuna blushed a bit, "No, I'm not Rikku!" She shouted.

"Shut up, both of you!" The other girl said. "If one of you don't wake him up then I will!"

"You don't have to, Paine." Rikku said, "Look! He's waking up!"

The three flew close to Sora's face, while he slowly opened his eyes. He saw three small figures floating closer and closer toward him in unison with their eyes wide open. That moment Sora quickly jumped up in fear.

"AAAAAAHHH!" He shouted aloud as he fell off the tree branch and down into the water head first.

Yuna and Rikku laughed, while Paine stood there with her fingers rubbing between her eyes in frustration.

While in the water Sora, swam quickly to shore. When he reached the shore, drenched in his black clothes, he held his chest, coughing up water.

"Hey you!" Yuna appeared in front of him. "Are you Sora?"

"Huh?" Sora quickly looked up and jumped back. "Who are you?"

Rikku crossed her arms, "You don't remember us?"

Sora had to think for a second until he realized that he was talking to the three fairy girls he meet at the Radiant Garden. Relieved, Sora calmed himself and said, "Yeah, I remember you three..." Then he quickly called forth his Keyblade and held it up in his stance and pointed the blade up at Yuna. Yuna eyes widened as the blade pointed at her. "You three are helping Maleficent!" He shouted, "What do you want?"

Rikku flew between the Keyblade and Yuna. "No! It's not like that anymore!"

"It's Maleficent..." Paine flew by Yuna and Rikku. "She lied to us and us about a deal!"

"What?...Maleficent?" He thought for a second and lowered his blade, "…Deal? What deal?" He gave an open ear to listen out of interest.

With assurance that Sora wasn't going to be violent and listen to what they have to say, Yuna spoke up, "Have you ever wondered why we're small and flying around like this?" she asked, posing like a fairy.

Sora looked at the tiny person. They were tiny and floating around in mid-air which gave away the fact that they were fairies! Though, he always wondered why they were a bit small, though he always thought they were just…unique! "No I haven't. If you were working with Maleficent then you brought this on yourself!"

Rikku was offended by the comment, and flew in front of his face, and looked at him eye to eye, "How can you say that?" She yelled.

Sora stared at Rikku, small and aloft in the air, who was nose and nose with him. He still didn't understand why.

Then Paine spoke out. "We weren't always like this. We were once human Y'know!"

Sora's eyes widened, "Human?" It was indeed a hard thing to comprehend.

The Yuna continued for her. "It was long before we met you, that we turned into these… fairies! Maleficent told us that if we lead you to her that she will turn us back to normal!"

Sora put on a serious face, "Then why are you coming to me? You three worked with Maleficent to try to kill me! Why don't you get help somewhere else?"

Yuna shook her head in disagreement. "B-But we didn't know! When we were with Maleficent, we think we would hurt anybody! We just did what we were told, just to find you. After awhile of searching, we gave Maleficent a bad report that we couldn't find you…So she didn't hold her end of the bargain!"

Paine then spoke right after, "Then it wasn't long after, that we had overheard that Maleficent trying to get rid of a boy name Sora…we figured it was you and we try looking for you again."

"Maleficent didn't tell you my name?" Sora asked with a questionable look on his face.

Rikku shook her head. "She only told us to find a boy in a black uniform, with spiky hair that had the title of the Keyblade Master and that was all she said."

It didn't make sense to Sora at all. What was the purpose for them coming to him in the first place? Yet, another set of question appeared in his mind? He hated thinking too much! "You need me…Why?"

Yuna flew in front of him, "We need you to get us back to normal!" she said in a sad tone..

Rikku spoke up, "Which shouldn't be a problem because we heard that you battled Maleficent!" Yuna and Paine quickly turned to Rikku,interested in what she had to say. Then Rikku continued with excitement and enthusiasm. "The way I heard it was so crazy! But the best part was fought her when see turned into a dragon!"

Then there was silence, "…I never knew that." Paine said coolly, breaking the silence.

Sora remembered that battle. It was dreadful and bloody fight, he wondered how he managed to leave the fight alive. That Dragon was enormous and would put fear into anyone who stood against her…but not Sora. It was his courage and the support of his friends that he was able to slay her. But he would be on his own if he decided to help them.

Yuna and Paine never knew that Sora had battled Maleficent as a dragon! The two looked at Sora in amazement and full of hope. Now that they have found out the Sora had taken on their worst enemy and survived. They knew that he was the one to be able to regain their bodies.

Sora shook his head. "I had help with Donald and Goofy around, but they're back with King Mickey and I don't want to disturb them. They are the reason why I stll stand and I couldn't have done it without them!" He said. He never wanted Donald and Goofy to tire them of another adventure, even Sora himself didn't want to go through this adventure.

"If that's the case...we'll help you!" Yuna said, "I mean…we may be defenseless without weapons but we have a full load of magic."

"Yeah! Great idea, Yunie!" Rikku said in excitement, "We can keep you company too."

Sora lowered his head, crossing his arms with one hand rubbing between his eyes, pondering on whether to accept the request or not. He really was hoping to just relax back at his home and he longed to see everyone again.

Then Yuna flew toward him and placed her tiny hand on his shoulder, "Please help us." she begged, "I…we don't want to be like this forever." She said, choking in her words with a single tear rolling down her cheek.

Sora kept his head down, "I don't know…"

"...SORA!"

He quickly turned and saw Kairi and Riku running to them. But when he looked back at the three fairies…they were gone.

"We heard a scream and we came rushing down here to see if everything is okay." Kairi said in worry.

"It sounded like you were talking to someone just now." Riku spoke up, "Who were you talking to?"

From all that he heard, he had decided to keep it to himself to not cause any worry. What was important was that he was home and that he would not have to worry about anything else. Though the thought was in the back of his mind and it disturbed already, "Nobody, I was just reflecting back on the past, that's it!" He bluffed and then smiled.

"Well its getting late, so let's head back." Riku said as he threw his arm over Sora and continued talking as the three walked back to their homes.

The three fairies hid in a bush watching Sora and his friends leave the island.