When a person's heart sides with the darkness, a nobody and a heartless are created.

And the person is... no more?

The keyblade served as a good flashlight. Sora trotted along, looking every which way he could. He let the Keyblade guide him.

Who knew the Realm of darkness was so...dark.

"Riku? Kairi! Donald! Goofy!" He yelled.

"Anyone?" Sora grunted.

At that very moment, a door poofed out of nowhere, and that made Sora leap back with surprise. Tumbling out of the door came Donald, and Goofy!

"Donald! Goofy!"

"SORA!"

Sora hugged his two friends. At least they would never turn their backs on him. Just kidding. Riku and Kairi have good intentions, really, they do. Right?

Donald, Sora, and Goofy laughed like they haven't seen in other in years.

It's only been a day.

Goofy arranged his tall orange hat. "What'cha doing here in the realm of darkness, Sora?"

"Yeah," Donald agreed. "Alone?"

"We came looking for you!"

"We?"

Sora's smile vanished. "Yeah. Riku, Kairi and me. Soon after you left the island, we got a letter from the king, and that's when something happened to Riku..."

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"So you really think going back to Castle Oblivion will solve this?" Sora had his arms folded behind his back. It's not like he was going to refuse to go; he just needed to know why.

"Maybe, Maybe not." Riku started down at his dark tan hands and arms, and then looked up at the mirror into his own newly orange eyes; and scowled. Ansem.

"Okay," Sora said, snapping Riku back to reality."Then I'm in. Kairi would wanna come too, I'll go tell her." Sora turned on his heel, dropped his arms, and began to walk out.

"Perfect."

"Wha?"

"I said...good, she'll be furious if you ask her to stay here and wait again."

Sora laughed and continued on his way out. "Not funny."

He blinked. Riku never took his eyes off the mirror.

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Sora looked at his friends, watching and listening patiently. "So we came down here to see if we could help Riku, and saw you two come here. We called you, but you didn't hear us."

Enough with the pity chat. Sora had his friends by his side, once again. He smiled, then put his hands on his hips and asked suspisiously, "What are you two doing here?"

"Uh," Goofy stratched his head.

Donald covered up super-quick, as he hopped in front of Goofy. "We came to see you guys again at the island; and we were told you were here!" Goofy was nodding his head off.

Sora stratched the back of his neck. "You've really must have missed us," -anime sweat drop- "It's only been a day!"

"You bet!"

"A-hyuck!"

There was an akward silence.

"Well, now that we're together, we can go find Kairi and Riku!" Goofy announced.

And the three were off.

...To remake forgotten promises and meet you at roads end.

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breathes in smoke pipe Ah, yes, and yet another chapter. blows out bubbles Even the drama in my Sly cooper series of stories cannot compare to this. Read and review, if you may.