It's been a year and a half since Sora and his group of friends vanquish the darkness and saved the outcome of the worlds. And right now, everyone is living in a life of peace and tranquility.

Or so it seems...

Sora got up from bed with a huge smile on his face. Today, he, Riku, Tidus and Wakka are going to play the game Tidus and Wakka invented, Blitzball. He may not know a thing about it, at least Tidus is going to teach him.

To boost up his energy, he went up to his desk and look at a picture taken four months ago in the King's Castle.

I miss you guys already...I hope I get to see you soon again...

"Chocolate chip cookies are just so fun to make. Do you think the oys would like them?" Sephie asked as she was glancing at the delicacies in the oven.

"Oh, they better. We'd been working hard to bake these things." Kairi replied, peering from the counter. "They sure smell lovely." She giggled.

"I'll go to the washroom first. You guard the cookies while they're still being heated, okay?"

"Sure!"

At the same time, King Mickey was in his study, looking out to his window. The kingdom and the worlds were living in a life of peace and tranquility. Right next to him was Goofy. The king smiled at him. Goofy, in return, smiled back in his goofy yet loveable style.

BOOM.

The two let out a jolt.

"Donald must be experimenting again." The king said before he let out a chuckle.

"Ahyuck." Goofy all could say.

Indeed, the duck was busy in his laboratory. Finding new and better ways to make potions.

Donald was steaming up, as usual, when the experiment he was working on exploded suddenly.

Sora was indeed on his way, tightening his grip the bliztball Wakka let him borrow.

"Riku's so gonna beat me into a pulp if I won't go." He muttered to himself.

Out of nowhere, a gust of wind seemed to emerge and soon started to swarm him. This startled the Keyblader. It was strange for the wind to be so clingy. He tried to shove it away, as bizarre as it sounds.

"What on earth—?!"

King Mickey let out a gasp as the same wind started to go around him.

"Goofy!" He shouted as he realized that he wasn't the only one disappearing as well.

The captain of the guards was startled and tried to reach for the king, but failed.

"Oh Donald! Are you in there? I'm coming in with your snack!" Daisy, his long-time girlfriend and duchess of the castle, said happily. But when she entered the laboratory, Donald was nowhere in sight. The potion he left was still fuming out smoke.

"Kairi! I smell smoke! Take the cookies out! They must be sooooooo burnt already!" Selphie said, panicking as she ran down the stairs to save the cookies.

To her shock, Kairi wasn't there.

"Betcha Sora's still asleep on his bed, ya?" Wakka alledged. Tidus grinned.

"I tripped on a rock...delightful. Good thing no one saw it." "I did, ya." "Whatever, Wakka. Stipid rock. You made me trip." He muffled as he got up. To his surprise it wasn't a rock. It was a blitzball! "Hey Wakka, isn't this yours?" He asked as he picked the object up.

"That's mine, ya." Wakka told him. "Sora borrowed it."

"Speaking of, where is that guy?" Tidus brought up.

Riku got up abruptly from his disturbing sleep. He was all sweaty. He exhaled very deeply.

"It was only a dream. No, a nightmare is a better way to describe it..."

Riku couldn't see anything at first. Pitch black. And then it faded in to the abandoned Castle Oblivion. Suprisingly, it wasn't abandoned but became a resident to unfamiliar people. He then saw about his age.

He had a short unkept, black hair and a pair of brown eyes.

The boy looked up to the dark night sky. The midnight breeze comforted him. He exhaled deeply and started to feel nostalgic about something.

He started to mutter about Organization XIII and the desire to join the said group.

At that moment, the boy felt a cold prescence on his shoulders. He jerked away. Riku felt it as well.

"Who's there?!" The boy said. A snicker was the reply. He stuttered a figure appeared before him. Both boys sensed a familiar essence from the figure.

The figure removed his hood to reveal his identity. Riku's eyes widened at the sight of him.

"Impossible." The boy uttered. "How did you survive?"

"Aren't you happy to see me, Xian?" The figure paused. "Or should I say...Ian."

"Don't call me that."

And it stopped right there.

"Ian..." He mouthed. "Who is he?" He rubbed his temples. "Ugh..."

But what he can't figure out is why he dreamed of that guy. And how could the incident be describe it. A dream or nightmare? But he knew that he was too sure to describe it with another word.

Xemnas.