I hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter. ^^ First, I would like to thank my very first reviewers DarkAngel555 and caitlinkeitorin who's reviews made me smile and I'm so happy to have replied to them.

I really do hope you two enjoy this new chapter, and anyone else who may read it. Once again, thank you for taking the time to read my story. ^_^

Disclaimer: Once again, I do not own any characters, locations, etc to do with the Kingdom Hearts Universe. All Original characters are owned by their respective creators, and have allowed me permission to use them.

Thank you, and please enjoy the story. ^_^

Chapter One - A New Nightmare

Four Years Later

The sun continued to shine down its radiate light onto the small collection of islands, that were dotted around the crystal blue ocean. From so far above in the air, one could make out the largest of the islands was also clearly the center of everything else. Large buildings, some of important places of business, even schools, were full of people going through their daily island lives.

Today, while simply a normal day for most people, was in fact quite a special day for a certain collection of students in the largest school on the island. This school wasn't able to repel the sweltering heat brought on by the sun, and so for the classroom full of students, it was yet another challenge they had to deal with. Even if it was only for a few moments longer.

The dull ticking of the large clock on the wall before them all, counted down like a timer on a bomb for the students, who's gazes were firmly held to the device. The teacher smiled as she sat at her large desk knowing full well the sense of excitement that was running through her students, having gone through it herself when she was in those seats.

The minute hand on the clock suddenly ticked into its second last position, only one more minute now and everything would change. One such student, with exceptionally spiky brown hair, seemed just about ready to explode out of his seat. His hands closed into excited fists of emotion, as his blue eyes watched the very movement of the seconds hand on the clock.

Ten seconds left...the boy's eyes grew as wide as saucers as the time was coming so close...Five seconds left...to everyone all around him, it would appear the brown haired student's head would simply explode if anything more exciting was about to happen to him...and then it did. The moment the seconds hand reached the length of its run, the minute hand moved in motion with it causing the large bell above it to ring, not only in the classroom, but throughout the entire school itself.

A chorus of cheers exploded within the school, to which the brown haired boy could only add as he jumped out of his seat with his arms shooting up in the air.

"WOOHOO!" the boy yelled, causing most of the students in the room to laugh, but in a sort of understanding, as he was displaying what they all wanted to really do right now and to simply shout out in happiness.

As the initial sense of excitement left their bodies, the various boys and girls stood up from their desks and began to file out into the hallways of the school, to which the entire building was full of different voices all speaking at once. Still standing with his arms in the air, the brown haired boy seemed to have been lost in his own world, not realising that nearly the entire classroom was empty.

Standing up from her desk, the teacher smiled and shook her head as she made her way towards the door. However before leaving, she soon turned to look at the only other student who had stayed behind with the brown haired boy.

"See that he doesn't get himself locked in, again, would you Kairi?" the teacher asked as she directed her question to the dark red haired girl, the student's violet eyes shinned back with her soft smile as she nodded to her teacher.

"I'll make sure he's ok." Kairi said as her smile grew more.

As the teacher finally left the room just as Kairi stood up, the young woman first brushed her blue and white school skirt, before turning to face the brown haired boy who had apparently blown a fuse in his excitement.

Suddenly, the only thing the boy could do was hold his head in light pain, after Kairi 'gently' knocked her fist on it.

"Come on now, we've got to get going or else we'll be late Sora!" the girl said in a rather mocking tone of annoyance, her face clearly betraying the way she tried to act as she looked ready to burst out laughing.

"Aw come on Kairi. You know Riku will be ok if he's kept waiting a little." Sora said, his brown spiky hair moving with the motions of his head, as he rested his arms behind the back of his neck and showed his signature grin to the girl.

Shaking her head with another smile, Kairi soon got Sora's attention again as the boy felt one of his spikes immediately get tugged on, while the red haired girl led the boy out of the classroom and through the hallways of the school with their bags.

"OwOwOw, O-Ok Kairi, you can let go now, OwOw!" Sora yelled playfully, as Kairi continued to drag the lazy boy out of the school, and into its grounds where everyone was busy talking or leaving the school with friends for the summer.

Finally releasing her grip on his hair, the red haired girl smiled as she began to almost skip away from Sora, acting so innocently as the boy rubbed the spike of his hair that had been tugged on so much. After once again losing himself in something so simple, Sora's attention soon came back only to notice that Kairi was reaching the school gates far ahead of him. Grabbing his bag, the brown haired boy took off running behind her, trying his best to catch up to his friend as she walked further away, with a very large grin on her face.

Four years. To think it was four years ago that everything changed, not only for himself, but for everyone around him. His home, the islands he grew up during his entire life, destroyed in a single night. His friends, lost for so long, and while returning them to the way they were seemed impossible, he still continued on to find a way. So much harm, sadness, evil, darkness, he faced all of these and more, and always survived only with those of the light that stood by him in his heart.

Such confusion, heart ache, things he believed were true and right, soon were flipped for the master of the key as the purpose he once believed he figured out, became nothing more then helping those who would use him. Yet, he had forced his way to go through so much. So much pain and suffering. The battles he still remembers receiving scars from. The near death experiences brought on by those impossible odds. Even after going through all of them, his cheerful smile never let up, his blue eyes shined through even the densest of darkness, and his heart, his strong unwavering heart, continued to hold all of those that meant everything to him.

Since returning from their defeat of Xemnas and his Organization, Sora had led a rather happy life with those of his two closest friends back on their islands. Happy to be back, all three continued to live their normal life's. Attending school and spending time with each other, it was almost as if their entire time away never happened.

However, all three knew perfectly well what they had lived through, while also knowing that something greater would possibly rise for them to deal with. In preparation for anything, Sora and Riku continued their rigorous training, their skills with weapons rising to such heights that the two best friends could parry blows of their key like weapons with deadly accuracy.

Even Kairi herself was getting better with her own inner strength and power. As she grew older, the young woman learned to wield her own key like weapon, the one that Riku presented her with during their last great journey. While her own natural powers, were quickly increased as Sora was able to pass on what he was taught by the great magicians and magic users he had met during his travels.

While for him, this display of magic took time to properly learn, Sora, as well as Riku, were quite amazed in how adept Kairi was able to grasp the concept of magic. It was this adaption, that made the young wielder such a quick learner then any one of them could imagine. Over the three years since all returning home, each of the friends powers greatly increased. Their confidence that they could better protect not only themselves, but also those they cared about, rising with their new found levels of strength.

Upon reaching the age of eighteen, Riku finally finished school, and while it was sad not to have him around, both Sora and Kairi understood. For a short time, their silver haired friend did a series of odd jobs, one in which he actually worked in something resembling a workshop for different styles of furniture. All of these jobs lasted only for short amount of times for the young man. That was until, he came across the local gym, something he never thought of joining due in fact that his impressive training was spurred on with his two friends.

Taking his chance, and earning himself a small place within the gym, Riku soon found himself enlisted to that of the kendo portion of the building. His practise with Sora and Kairi on the small island, as well as training by himself, earned the young man a sort of reputation that seemed to boast as a reference to the management.

Whatever this reputation might have been, Riku quite frankly didn't pay any attention to it. His role as assistant to the then kendo master, was something that the young man felt quite happy to do. And now, almost a year since first starting, the once assistant soon rose to the status of junior master, teaching basic swordsmanship to people willing to learn.

This was the reason as to why both Sora and Kairi, were now walking through some of the busiest streets on the island. The large looming gym at the far end of the road, only caused the two to start running in excitement towards it.

The cracking of wood striking another larger piece, filled the mat covered room inside the large gym with the booming sound. Facing the row of wooden posts, the tall silver haired young man was busy swinging the large wooden sword, slowly moving his posture to deliver more precise strikes to the post. As he struck the head of the object, the man smiled before turning around, blocking a strike from Sora who also held one of the wooden swords from the room.

"You're late." the man said, smiling as he swung his wooden weapon and causing Sora to back away as he held the wooden sword in both of his hands.

"Aww come on Riku! Its our last day of school, can't you cut us a little slack?" Sora said, his wide smile matching Kairi's light giggle of a laugh while she watched her two best friends in their training.

"Excuses again?" Riku responded with a soft chuckle, while his eyes glanced to Kairi with a small smile.

"And here I thought you would be able to keep him on time?" The silver haired man said to his friend, her laughing coming to a stop as she placed her hands on her hips in mock annoyance again.

"Hey, I tried! Pulling brown spikes is really hard you know!" said Kairi, her smile returning to her face as all three of them began to laugh together just like always.

While the three life long friends laughed and trained within the safe confines of the large building, dark clouds soon began to envelope the entire sky. Blocking out the blistering heat and light the sun previously shined down, a powerfully strong barrage of gusts covered the entire collection of islands. The darkness brought with the sky covering clouds along with the strong winds, caused violent waves to strike against the coastlines of the islands. One in particular already flooding most of the beach, while a single figure stood watching the severe change in weather happening before him.

"They're here….They're here somewhere. Calling….they keep calling me…..why won't they stop calling me…" the extremely tall man said to himself, his large tanned hand holding his head seemingly as if he was having a rather painful headache. His eyes closed tightly as the strong winds and waves grew wilder and wilder, as if amplifying with his growing pain .

As his posture was slightly doubled over with that of a man feeling immense pain, the darkness caused by the huge clouds blocking out any source of light, soon were filled with dozens of different sized yellow orbs. Staring completely at the man who soon recomposed himself as he stood up to his full towering height, the bright eyes never once searched for anything else. Lowering the hand that held his head, the figure slowly opened his eyes, his right showing a bright blood red colour, while his left was that of a glaring yellow.

"Rip this world apart...make them stop calling us!" the man ordered, his gaze staring towards the ocean. While the dozens of eyes behind him slowly faded back into their darkness, the man continued to stare forward. As even with the violent waves crashing against each other, the large main island stood firmly in the middle of what was to occur, causing a slight smirk to spread across the figure's face.

Oh no, just what is going to happen to Sora and everyone. ^_^ I guess you'll just have to wait till the next chapter to find out. ^^ I do hope I will be able to keep these updates relatively quick, and also quite interesting to read. ^-^

Once again, the Mysterious Figure at the end is an original character created by me. I would like to add for anyone that might be confused on the setting for the story, the previous chapter was set close to the end of the original Kingdom Hearts, to which Sora was 14 years old, with along with the main and true story here being four years after that, sets our three characters in the ages of Eighteen for Sora and Kairi, while Riku is Nineteen years old.