A/N: Apparently I had missed a rule or two on the guidelines, as I went to read them again and it's against rules to write in second person o.o whoops! aha.


Pant.. Pant.. Sora awoke from another one of his nightmares. It's only been a year since he and Riku came back. These nightmares have been going on for almost a week now. Pop, pop, his back goes as he stands up and stretches. This nightmare consists of darkness.. Darkness greater than what he's faced. But that can't be possible. He, Donald, Goofy, Riku and King Mickey made sure that it wouldn't come back any time soon.. But.. He shake his head, puts his clothes on, then goes outside for a walk.

Things have pretty much gone normal since returning to Destiny Islands, and honestly it was kind of boring. Sigh. The memories of his previous travels return to his mind again, and he wishes he could see everyone else. But since then, the worlds had to go back into their original alignment, and had all memories erased. His were retained, though. Probably cause he held the keyblade. Nonetheless, no one remembered a thing. Whenever he asked Riku or Kairi if they remembered anything, they always said something sounded familiar, but they just dismissed these ideas.

His mind picks a moment before Mickey and the others left, he and Sora were alone. "Sora, these memories must be erased. Everything about the darkness. We must preserve the balance of the worlds. Everyone will forget their adventures including the darkness. But you and me will not. Riku will also retain certain memories aswell, because he wields a keyblade. You, because you also weild several keyblades. And me?" He chuckled. "That's for another time. But, Their memories WILL come back if the darkness happens to come back.. Well, when. We can't keep it under forever, so I'll keep an eye out. Hopefully nothing too bad comes.. But if I happen to fall, you must be the one to realign the balance of light and dark."

Sora shudders at the words. Mickey is a king, no? And he is powerful.. So there's no way he could fall. Right?

He shakes his head again, dismissing his thoughts and staring up at the sky as he walks by the shores he played around when he was younger. He smiles, remembering those simple times, sparring with Tidus, Wakka and Riku. Often he'd lose, but he had fun all the time. Now he sits in the sand, thinking about his life since he's returned.

He goes to school with his childhood friends, and is in a relationship with Kairi. Finally. It's not like he had to save several worlds, and her, ya know. But he asked her out a month after getting back. Why'd it take him that long? Well why is that tree staring at him? No freaking reason.

Waittaminute.. That tree is staring at him? He looks closer at it. He could have sworn he saw round yellow eyes. He shudders, remembering the heartless. He shakes his head and lays back, staring at the stars. "Hey, you're out late." a familiar voice calls out to him.

"Yeah, yeah, I know, You've got school in the morning and all that junk." he replies, smiling up at Riku. Riku just sits next to him and looks up at the stars. "You know, Sora.. Those stories you're always telling.. Did I really give in to the darkness, or whatever?"

Sora looks at him with curiosity. "I wouldn't make those up.. It left me heartbroken. But you're here, so you joined our side. Do you finally believe me?"

He stares up at the sky. "I really don't know.. But bits and pieces of thoughts similar to those you tell me about have popped up. Not sure if they're memories, or just what I think of your stories." he says, playfully punching Sora on the arm.

Sora sticks his tongue out at Riku then he lifts his hand and shakes sand at Sora. He sits up and try spitting out the sand and rubbing his tongue free of sand. "Gahhhh!" is the sound he makes.

Riku busts out laughing. "Well, I'm gonna go back home.." Sora tells him, ruffling his hair.

He nods at him. "Alright, but be careful. I can't help but feel there's something watching us.." he looks around uncomfortably.

"Then freaking go home, ya scarredy cat!" Sora jeers.

He stands up and smiles. "Ha, ha, ha. But seriously, have you noticed anything.. odd?"

Sora looks around. Everything normal. Except that feeling he's being watched by several thousand eyes. "Nope not a damn thing." he says.

He snickers and rubs his head. "Right, I'm probably just imagining things.. Well, I'll see you tomorrow." he says, walking back towards his home.

Sora walks home, too, trying to shake off this uneasy feeling. He walks into his house and plops down on his bed. He lays there for a while, yawning, trying to sleep. He finally starts to drift off when he hears a sucking of sorts outside his window. "Niehhhhhh." he says, getting up and looking through his window. Nothing. He turns back then hear it again. This time when he turns around, there's a Darkball right behind it. The keyblade automatically appears, as sweat drips off his chin. He feels the atmosphere shift around him. Shadows. So many of them. He opens his window and jumps out, slashing the Darkball in half, and running back to the shore.

"Crap!" he shouts, staring at the sea of shadows before him. He hear slashing and grunting from across them. "Thundaga!" he yell as a large electric force shoots from the Kingdom Key, decimating half of the Shadows in front of him. He slashes and rushes through them, to find Riku fighting them off aswell. "Riku!" he yells, slashing another Darkball.

"I remember, Sora! Everything!" He says, slashing his Soul Eater through many Shadows.

Both stand back to back now, panting and fending off the Heartless. There's a loud screech and both look toward the ocean. A gigantic black hole has opened. "This seems vaguely familiar, no?" Sora says.

He hears a quack and a lightning bolt from the other side of the heartless. "Sora!" he hears Donald yell.

He stares wide eyed at Donald and Goofy as they make their ways towards him. The black hole seems to swell, and an abundance of heartless floods out of it. "What the hell's going on?" Riku yells to them.

"Gawrsh, it's King Mi-" Goofy stops as there's a great rumbling, shaking everything around them. "Riku, go get Kairi and get her to safety!" Sora yells to him, switching to Valor form, swinging his Kingdom Key and Oathkeeper at the heartless, cutting their numbers down exponentially.

"Donald, get him and Kairi onto the ship and get out of here! Me and Goofy will hold them off!" Donald hesitates then Goofy throws him at Riku, who is already running. Riku catches him and hastily takes off. Sora unleashes his Ragnarok combo, cutting the heartless number in half, but it is quickly filled again.

The rumbling is heard again, but this time the ground opens up to complete darkness. "Goofy, come on!" Sora says, quickly grabbing his arm and following the direction Riku headed off in.