After a long night of sleep onboard the Going Merry, the Straw Hat crew was up and about early in the morning. While Zoro was lifting weights on the deck, a few kids rowed their dinghies up to the dock. He didn't recognize either of them from the day before and he looked at them with a blank look.

The first boy to get off his boat had tan skin and was even more muscular than that other child from the day before. He was holding a blue and white striped ball under his left armpit as he climbed up on the dock and looked straight at Zoro. His orange hair was pulled up in a spike and he had a blue bandanna that the swordsman smirked at, it was similar to his own green one. The boy looked around the same age as the other fourteen year olds from yesterday. He had yellow baggy pants on and a white tank top showing off his muscles.

The kid behind him jumped up on the dock with a red staff in his hands, tossing it back and forth between them as he looked up at the swordsman. What's up with these kids? All of them have more muscles than Usopp... though that's not saying much. This new kid was a head shorter than his tanner friend, but his yellow and white t-shirt was cut down the middle showing off his defined abs. He was wearing blue shorts with one pant leg slightly lower than the other and smiled cautiously up at the green haired pirate.

"My mom said to be careful around the visitors Wakka," the shorter kid warned his friend. Both were wearing sandals and looked up at the man on deck and then Tidus smiled wider, "But I think Sora's probably right. He looks like a chill dude."

"Yeah, I guess," the one called Wakka agreed while spinning the ball on one of his fingers.

"Hey I'm Tidus," the shorter kid called up to Zoro who figured if he had to introduce himself it would be better to do it from the dock. He dropped down to the wood and nodded at the boys, giving them his name.

They each looked up and down at the muscular swordsman and smirked. At the same time they both called out, "Fight me!" Zoro's expression changed to one of shock before the two kids started fighting each other to decide who got to fight him first.

He walked to the end of the dock and Chopper and Sanji dropped down hearing a commotion outside. A few of the others watched from the deck as the two boys ran onto the sand and started fighting. It was weird, really weird, both kids were fighting with ease, and were much stronger than their small bodies looked, even with their muscles.

The one called Wakka tossed the ball up a few times before chucking it at Tidus, slamming it off the smaller kid with such speed that the whole Straw Hat crew heard the slap of ball on skin. They thought it was over when Tidus flew back and hit the sand, but the kid lifted both his legs up in the air from his laying down position and the rest of his body followed him up as he brought his staff in the air and started swinging it at the larger boy.

Tidus sprinted around Wakka who was dodging his attacks and he spun the red staff at his head. The more muscular boy ducked, but Tidus was feigning and he brought the staff in a swipe across Wakka's feet. The larger kid flipped as his legs were taken out and landed on one hand before chucking the ball at Tidus who leapt backwards to avoid it. The ball ricocheted off thin air and bounced back to the boy who threw it, causing all of the pirates watching to stare in awe.

The smaller boy sprinted forward again, but Wakka wound up for another fast throw. Tidus dove to the right, only for Wakka to have anticipated it and nailed him square in the face, knocking him into the wooden wall leading up to an elevated section of the beach closer to the forest. The smaller kid struggled to pick himself up, and then dropped to the ground in exhaustion.

"Nice!" Wakka shouted and then was greeted by a round of applause by a few of the Straw Hats watching him. He turned around and gave a dramatic bow as Nami whistled at them.

So far the weather had been nice, and the locals were friendly enough. At least the kids were. It's about time I get a vacation. Even with the looming possibility of us never leaving over my head, I'm going to enjoy it.

Luffy was the last one to finish his breakfast so he finally got out of the cabin, just as four more boats were arriving at the island. Three of the dinghies had the kids they met yesterday, but the fourth had a girl around Kairi's age with brown hair going back before splitting to either side and wearing a yellow dress. "Hey Luffy," Kairi called up to the rubber man looking down at her, "this is my friend Selphie!"

The new girl turned a little red as she finished paddling to the dock and got out behind her friend. She was holding a jump rope behind her and looked nervous at the sight of the new people. "My parents said to watch out for the pirates. Though they were pretty interested in you guys and asked where you came from."

The others looked over and as Robin tried to answer the girl's question the best she could, Sora, Riku, and Kairi ran off towards the shack dividing the island. "Don't you guys want to talk to the pirates more?" Sora asked, a little disappointed.

"We'll have plenty of time for that later." Riku told him, "We promised that we'd work hard on the raft again today, we could even finish it!" He held Sora back for a second and then pulled out the fruit he'd been holding since yesterday.

"A paopu fruit?" Sora asked, recognizing the yellow star shape.

The older boy handed it to him with a smirk since Kairi was running pretty far in front of them now. "You wanted one didn't you?" He asked seriously. "If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what." He jogged a little faster than his friend and looked back with a grin, "Come on, I know you want to try it."

"What are you talking..." Sora kept jogging when he saw Kairi look back and smile at him. Riku laughed harder at this and the brown haired boy blushed, throwing the fruit aside and catching up to his friends.

They got to the other side of the island and there was a little way further to get to the raft they were building. Kairi was standing next to them as a referee and they were getting ready for a race. The captain of the pirate ship followed them to this side of the island along with the little reindeer guy when they saw the kids running away and wanted to see where they were going.

"If I win, I'm the captain!" Sora stated. Luffy just got through the door and looked ahead before smiling wide. It's like the bet me Sabo and Ace made! Winner gets to be captain. I'll have to tell Ace about this when I see him again. "And if you win..." Sora looked stumped so Riku helped him out.

"I get to share the paopu with Kairi," he finished.

"Huh?" Sora asked and the two spectators were just as confused after hearing the bet.

"Deal?" Riku asked and turned to his friend at the starting line, "The winner gets to share a paopu with Kairi."

"Wha... Wait a minute," Sora said but Kairi couldn't hear him from where she was and called out to them.

"Okay! On my count. Three, two, one, GO!" The two boys started sprinting forward and Chopper and Luffy both stared with impressed, amazed looks. While Riku sprinted straight forward and scaled a rock wall, Sora climbed a ladder to the zipline Luffy used yesterday. He slid across it and the others were chasing after them, making their own paths as they wanted to see the race. Both kids stunned them by instead of dropping to the sand and running to the finish, they hopped on the tops of trees and leapt across to a star shape where Riku touched it a few seconds before Sora.

"Darn," Sora snapped as he held his knees and panted. "I was so close too." He looked up at Riku, wondering what the boy was going to do now.

"Oh the paopu?" Riku asked before smirking, "I was just joking about that," he laughed and ran back down the slope towards their raft.

Sora grunted and followed him before meeting up with Kairi who told them they were both getting faster. Chopper also said they were good, making them grin that they could impress a pirate, while Luffy was just staring at the raft.

"What's this?" he asked, pointing at the logs they had tied together.

"It's our raft, pretty cool huh?" Sora asked with his arms behind his head.

Riku looked out over the water, "Now that we know there are other worlds out there, it only makes me want to go out to find them even more."

Chopper looked shocked as he stared at the children, "What?! You can't travel the Grand Line in that, it'll fall apart! You'll die!"

"We've decided," Kairi told him with a smile.

Riku nodded stoicly as he looked out. "If it's for our dream, then I'm willing to take any risk. Who knows how many worlds are out there for us to explore?"

Chopper looked to Luffy for help, but the pirate captain was looking up and down the smiling kids with interest. "If it's for your dream, then no one will stop you," he said, "but Chopper's right. That raft won't get you anywhere."

"We're not finished with it yet," Sora explained.

"But we're going to be after today," Riku added, not caring about what the pirates were telling them about the dangers. He left to go get some supplies while Kairi handed Sora a list of things to get before sitting on the boat and working on something.

Sora looked up and down at all the items and sighed. He turned to the two pirates standing next to him and smiled, "You guys want to help?!" The way he said it made it sound like an adventure and the other two cheered in agreement. "Okay, first, we need some coconuts. Hit the trees and a coconut will usually fall."

"Really?" Luffy asked. "Alright then," he turned around towards the littered palm trees all around them and grinned. "Gum Gum," Kairi looked up from where she was working and Sora looked confused before both kids dropped their jaws in shock, "Gattling Gun!" Luffy's arms stretched out and he started punching all the trees rapidly.

When he finally stopped, all the trees shook for a few seconds. Then they stopped. "Hmm," Luffy mumbled with a frown, "maybe I didn't hit them hard enough." Just then, every coconut in the trees dropped down at the same time making the beach shake.

"Cool," Sora said before looking at Luffy, "How'd you do that?"

"I ate the Gum Gum Fruit, it made me a rubber man," he told them. Both kids looked confused so Chopper showed them his transformations, one of which they saw on the ship yesterday. He told them that there were a lot of Devil Fruits and they gave all sorts of crazy powers.

Sora looked over at Kairi, "Maybe we'll find one when we go to another world!" The girl looked excited as well and Chopper finally had to ask.

"Why do you guys keep saying other worlds?"

The two of them blinked at him for a few seconds and then at each other. "Well," Sora started and then looked back, "no one has ever come to the island before. We always thought this was it for our world." A large grin spread across his face again before he continued, "But even though you guys say you're from somewhere else in this world, I think we're still going somewhere else."

"Riku always says there can be infinite worlds out there," Kairi started and the Straw Hat pirates looked at her, "so ours is just one small piece, of something much greater. Right?" She said and the other two looked at each other in surprise.

"I-I've never really thought about it," Chopper said, trying to think about it for the first time. Luffy was imagining a world made entirely of meat: meat trees, meat seas, meat boats, meat coats. He started drooling before Chopper asked, "What's the next thing on the list?"

"We have to find two mushrooms," Sora said and handed the reindeer the list. Kairi went back to what she was doing while the other three split up to look for mushrooms. Chopper made a point of it to make sure they came to him and showed what type of mushrooms they found in case they were poisonous.

Sora got to the other side of the island and saw Tidus having a staff fight with the navigator named Nami. Near her, the guy with the long nose was trying to fight Wakka from a distance. He started watching the two fights for a few seconds, amazed at the mirages that Nami was creating and the accuracy that Usopp showed while fighting his friends. Tidus and Wakka weren't wimps though, they were putting up good fights.

Oh yeah, he turned towards the secret cave, the one he played in with Kairi when she first got to their island. Even then, we already knew we'd be close friends, he thought as he entered the cave.

One woman saw him go in and she decided to check it out, she'd wanted to explore the island and that was a great place to start.

Sora walked over and put his hand against the drawing he made of Kairi's face when he was younger. His head was right next to hers where she carved it in with a rock, and he had to admit, hers was better drawn. He didn't notice the black haired woman walk into the cave behind him as he was too involved with the pictures. They brought back memories and he sat down, picking up a rock and carving something new in the wall.

When he was just about to be finished with the paopu fruit he was drawing in front of Kairi's mouth, Robin accidentally kicked a rock while trying to sneak away. It looked like this was a private cave for the boy, but now that she was found out she turned back around at the kid staring at her. "Sorry, I was just exploring a little."

"It's okay," he replied, looking back at his drawing again. Robin smiled at the kid and he opened his mouth to talk again, but he felt something weird, "What, who's there?" He shot to his feet and Robin was startled that she didn't notice it sooner. A tall figure in a black cloak was standing in front of a wooden door at the edge of the cave.

"Who are you?" she asked and the person gazed over at her. The cloak was covering his face, but he seemed to appear out of nowhere, freaking her out.

He turned back to Sora like the woman wasn't even there and the kid was staring at him intensely. "I've come to see the door to this world," the figure said in a low voice that sent chills down Robin's spine. She'd worked for some hard-bitten criminals in her day, but not even Crocodile gave her chills like this man did.

"Huh?" Sora turned towards him completely and looked over at Robin for a second but she was just as startled by the man's entrance as he was. The door? It's always been there, what about it?

"This world has been connected."

Robin was freaking out now. She was a calm and composed person, but she was at the only entrance of the cave, and no one was in here except for Sora when she arrived. Did he come through that door when I wasn't looking? No, I definitely would have saw him.

"W-What are you talking about?" Sora asked. Robin was surprised the boy had the nerve to ask this man anything, she was just staring at him in awe, wondering what he could be.

"Tied to the darkness..." the man continued in an ominous tone, causing both the boy and woman to start sweating. "Soon to be completely eclipsed."

"Well whoever you are," Sora shouted at him with a wave of his fist, "stop freaking me out like this. Huh?" Robin was about to yell at the kid to run since the man before them was talking about the end of the world, but Sora noticed what she was already thinking. "Where did you come from?"

"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door," the man replied in a dark tone.

"Sora," Robin called to him, "We should go," she urged in a calm voice that masked how scared she really was. Both the kid and the man ignored her and kept staring at each other.

"So, you're from another world!" Sora shouted at him excitedly. He was not taking this the same way as Robin, and was far too calm when talking to a stranger in a dark dank cave.

"There is so very much to learn," the man said to the child in the bright red clothing. "You understand so little," he cast a glance in Robin's direction, "as do you." Now she was surprised. She thought the man was just talking about how the island they were on never got any visitors, but now she was thinking maybe the term 'world' was being used in a much more literal sense.

The person gazed back at Sora who was angrily yelling at him. "Oh yeah? Well you'll see. I'm gonna get out and learn what's out there!" His blue eyes were full of determination and Robin had to admire his resolve and ability to yell at this scary figure without fear.

"A meaningless effort," the shadowy figure said in a condescending tone. "One who knows nothing can understand nothing." Just then a loud whooshing sound came from the wooden door with a yellow outline on the wall. The figure to the left of it turned and the others looked at the door as well.

Sora snapped his head back away from the door and Robin looked back too to see that the man was no longer there. She spun her head around a few times, but he was nowhere in sight. "That was weird," Sora said as he looked to the older woman, "I bet he was from another world."

All this talk of other worlds is very unsettling, Robin thought as she nodded to the boy and then turned around, leaving him to his cave. I should mention this to the others. We may be in danger here. The world is about to be 'eclipsed'? Does he mean the whole world or just this island? With her mind clouded with thoughts of worry, Robin left to walk back outside into the calm beach area where the rest of the crew were hanging out.

Sora followed after her after grabbing a mushroom he found in there. When he got outside, Chopper ran over to him holding rope while Luffy was holding a large piece of cloth and the guy with the long nose had the fish they needed. "Sora! We got Usopp to help us out, and we found everything else on the list, but we couldn't find a second mushroom."

The little reindeer sounded upset, but his spirits rose as Sora held up the last thing they needed and they ran back across the island to drop it off. At one point they passed Zoro who was holding off Wakka, Tidus, and the girl Selphie who used her jump rope as a weapon, all at the same time.

He had a wooden sword in his hand, and despite dodging most of their attacks with ease, he found the kids were each pretty durable, even the girl who he tried not to hit as hard. Also, they were really good at dodging and he smirked, surprised the kids could actually give him a challenge when fighting together, since one by one he finished them quickly.

The group ran past them and across the island to the raft where they put everything down and Riku walked over with a surprised look. "Wow, we're finished already, nice!" He turned away from the pirates helping them and looked at the other two, "How about it guys, tomorrow sound like a good day to head off on our adventure?"

"Yeah!" Kairi and Sora said simultaneously and held their hands out. All three of them locked pinkies and Usopp was shocked, he didn't know that was what he was helping them with. Luffy then told him they were putting their lives on the line, so it wasn't their place to tell them not to go.

The group split up, the pirates exploring the jungle or challenging the other kids to fights, while Riku went off to challenge some pirates of his own. All the kids on Children's Island were enjoying themselves and Sora and Kairi were no exception. The day went by and it really was turning into a vacation for the Straw Hats who were forgetting about their worries and just enjoying themselves.

Sora and Kairi hung out after eating some food at the treehouse with their friends. The two of them walked down the dock near the Straw Hats' ship where the chef was making dinner. Nami walked inside and put a finger to her lips before motioning for Sanji to come outside as well. She brought him to the side of the deck and crouched down, both of them peeking over at the two kids watching the sunset.

Lucky little brat, Sanji thought as the spiky haired boy was sitting next to the cutie with the pink shorts. Then he realized that he was doing pretty much the same thing with Nami and blood dripped out of his left nostril.

"You know, Riku has changed," Kairi said out of the blue as they looked over the water.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked.

"Well..." she thought for a second.

"You okay?" Sora questioned, wondering what was up with her.

"Sora, let's take the raft and go, just the two of us!" She called out and the boy seemed surprised. Nami smiled, seeing that the girl liked the kid she was sitting next to, but Sanji was frowning at the lucky boy below them.

"Huh?"

Oh he better not say no, Sanji thought while clenching his toes, ready to kick something. If I was given a chance like this I would go to the ends of the planet and back!

She giggled at his confused face, "Just kidding." Nami was relieved, she thought the girl was actually considering leaving their other friend behind who helped work on the raft Usopp told them about at lunch.

"What's gotten into you?" he chuckled as the sun kept setting. Nami had to cover her mouth to prevent herself from saying 'Awwww'. "You're the one that's changed Kairi."

Her tone suddenly shift to a more thoughtful one, "Maybe..." She leaned forward on her knees so she was almost off the dock. "You know, I was a little afraid at first, but now I'm ready. No matter where I go or what I see, I know I can always come back here."

Both Nami and Sanji thought about Cocoyashi village and Baratie respectively. They remembered the families they left behind and smiled knowing that they could do the same thing one day, if they ever wanted to.

"Right?" she asked Sora for confirmation.

"Yeah, of course! If pirates could find their way here, then of course we can find our way back. We've been here the whole time!" The boy seemed so energetic, even after his fights with his friends and the pirates.

"That's good," Kairi said in relief. "Sora, don't ever change."

This time Nami couldn't prevent herself from letting slip, "Awww," she clamped her mouth shut and was relieved that neither kid heard her, though Sanji almost passed out from how beautiful she was when she saw something cute.

"Huh?" Sora responded. It was really turning out to be his favorite word today.

The girl next to him stood up, the same look of determination in her eyes that Riku had when he stared out at the broad ocean. "I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great."

The two of them got in their dinghies and left, continuing their conversation as they did. One by one, the other children on the island went back to the dock and bailed while the pirates went back to their ship to get some needed rest after a whole day of fun.

Riku and Zoro were the last ones going back to the ship. The silver haired boy was sporting a red bump on his left cheek and a scrape on his right elbow, while the pirate was annoyed that he even had a scratch, no matter how small, under his left eye. Sanji immediately teased him for it when he got to the dock but ran away when he heard Nami calling for him in the cabin.

Zoro was about to climb up his ship when he turned around and saw Riku not getting in his little wooden boat, but instead staring out over the water with clenched fists. "Soon," he said. The swordsman heard about their journey and nodded at the kid's resolve before hearing him speak again, "I'm going to go to every world, and my name will be known all over. There could be thousands out there, and each one will make me stronger," he brought his left fist back and smiled before backflipping and then hopping in his dinghey.

Zoro watched as the teenage boy paddled away, at one point raising his right hand a waving it around without turning. There was no point in waving back, but Zoro got the message and nodded before climbing back on the Going Merry.

It was about an hour later, after everyone was on the ship and hanging out in the common room, that Robin stepped forward and said she had something to talk about. Being the new member, the crew calmed down quickly since she didn't often make requests like this. "Earlier today, I saw a man on the island."

A few of them looked at each other, wondering if they knew what she was talking about. The twenty-eight year old woman continued, "He appeared out of nowhere, and said that this world was now connected, tied to the darkness." Shivers ran up some of the members' spines and Sanji lit up a smoke. Only Zoro and Luffy were unphased by this, thought Luffy seemed more interested until Robin continued, "He wore a black cloak so I couldn't see his face, but he said the world was about to be eclipsed."

"That doesn't sound good," Sanji commented and Usopp and Chopper nodded furiously.

"I vote for leaving the island now," Usopp said, already in panic mode.

"Aren't you forgetting something?" Nami asked him in an annoyed voice. She wasn't in the mood for his cowardice, "We haven't stocked up on food yet, we wouldn't last a few days out there before running out completely."

"Oh, yeah," Usopp said and slouched before remembering what Robin said and shaking again. "This isn't good."

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Sora was lying down in his bed on the other island, thinking about all the fun he had with the pirates. He told his mom about them and she agreed that they really sounded like nice people and maybe she'd see if they wanted to come to the main island and talk to some adults instead of kids all day. He responded that they acted a lot more like kids than most of his friends did and his mother just laughed at this.

Now his mind wandered to someplace else though, 'I just can't wait. Once we set sail, it'll be great.' Kairi, he thought and smiled up at his ceiling before hearing thunder in the distance. "A storm?" He looked outside and saw the beginning of a storm brewing near the island. Hmm, that's weird, "Oh no! The raft!" He realized and shot out of bed.

He climbed out his window, not too worried about his mom freaking out about it. He was leaving the next day anyway, so he wouldn't have to bear the consequences of sneaking out.

Sora paddled as fast as he could and arrived at the island where he saw Riku and Kairi's boats tied up alongside the dock. The pirate ship was still tied to it as well, and the pirates were all on deck staring up at the sky. He followed their gazes as he hopped out of his ship and looked up, "What is that?!" He shouted.

The crew looked away from the massive ball of darkness floating in the sky. It was surrounded by lightning bolts and this didn't feel like any storm they'd ever seen before. Robin's words echoed in their mind, "Ah! The world's being eclipsed!" Usopp panicked and ran around the ship.

"We'll go check out things on shore," Luffy said with a smile towards Zoro who nodded back at him.

"I think I'll come as well," Robin said.

"Sanji-kun, stay here and protect me," Nami said and the man obeyed. The two others who were scared also asked for protection after which the chef told them he'd only save Nami-san if it came to it.

Zoro, Luffy, and Robin started jogging down the dock as Sora walked far behind them. They were surprised to see the boy and Luffy called back, "Come on Sora, we're going on an..."

"Luffy look out!" The boy shouted up at him. Luffy stopped in his tracks and his hat almost came flying off as his eyes went wide. The other two were staring in shock as well, as a small black blob formed out of the ground with yellow eyes. Sora caught up to them now and he stared at the creatures in shock. They had weird black legs that squiggled and two antennae that twisted the same way. "Those are the things from my dream!" He shouted, confusing Robin who turned to him in surprise.

"Let's kick their asses," Luffy called out and punched one, but his fist kind of slid off without doing much damage. Zoro tried cutting one, but his sword slashed it backwards and it jumped at him, scratching his arm with a claw. Sora ran up and tried batting one away with his sword, but it did very little and his eyes went wide.

"It's not working," he muttered and started running down the beach. He had to get to his raft. Zoro pulled out his other sword and tried again, this time slashing through the monster in front of him, but only with a powerful attack. Luffy used a Gum Gum Bazooka and also knocked one of the things away, but they were too hard to damage to waste time on all of them and they gave chase to the kid running in a set direction.

Robin looked at them and then snuck off towards the secret cave. If I'm right, the answer to what's going on should be in there.

Zoro didn't know why he was following Sora, but the kid seemed to know what he was doing. The kid with brown spiky hair froze as he was about to run under the bridge to the tiny island. Luffy and Zoro followed his gaze towards the island and saw Riku standing up there with his back to them.

"Come on," Sora told them as he ran past for the warehouse. The other two followed him inside where he ran up a staircase and got to the second floor before getting to the bridge. Luffy realized now that he could have just pulled them up, but it was too late and they started sprinting across the bridge to the kid who was just ignoring all the darkness falling on the island around them.

Sora was the first one there since he was leading and called out to his friend, "Where's Kairi? I thought she was with you!"

"The door, has opened," Riku said without turning around. Zoro had a bad feeling about this and stared at the two kids, looking back and forth between them.

"What?" Sora and Luffy said at the same time, confused at what the other boy was talking about.

"The door has opened Sora!" Riku turned around and had a wide grin on his face, "Now we can go to the outside world!"

Outside world? Zoro looked up at the ominous dark clouds and hole above him. Wait, hole? What the hell is that?!

Luffy stared at the two of them, going back to when he was next to the raft that morning with Chopper, Kairi, and Sora. The idea of other worlds interested him for a few moments, but back then he was distracted and started thinking about other things.

Sora wasn't having any of this talk, "What are you talking about? We've gotta find Kairi!"

"Kairi's coming with us!" The boy shouted and looked up at the sky where the huge dark ball was glowing blue with a firey core. The orange burning center was scaring the members of the crew on the deck of the pirate ship, but they were more focused on the little black monsters that kept attacking them no matter where they hid. Riku continued talking to his best friend, "Once we step through, we might not be able to come back."

"Luffy, something seriously wrong is happening here," Zoro told his captain who was again staring up at the Mystery Darkness. "We might actually have to leave without the extra food if things go south here."

"What? But I want to see the other world," Luffy complained while pressing his lips together.

Riku continued talking to Sora, "We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back."

That's some resolve, Zoro thought as he kept advising his captain. "We should leave before whatever is happening here happens. The crew could be separated, we might never get back here, our dreams don't exist in these other worlds. You'll never be King of the Pirates."

This seemed to get Luffy's attention as he realized he didn't want that to happen.

"But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us!" The fearless boy with silver hair shouted out as he stared up at the sky. "I'm not afraid of the darkness!" All three of the others stared at him as he seemed to know something was about to happen.

"Riku..." Sora started. Suddenly the ground before the boy in the yellow shirt shattered from the normal stone to complete darkness. Small purple blobs floated around the black wisps of black that formed beneath him.

"Ah! What is that?" Luffy shouted.

The black tendrills climbed up Riku's body like snakes and wrapped themselves around him. Zoro started running forward just like Sora, but unlike the brown haired kid, he sensed the ground breaking beneath him and leapt up in the air. Sora wasn't so lucky and got trapped by another black circle forming beneath him. Luffy who was watching in shock, suddenly realized the same thing was happening to him as the ground opened up and darkness appeared.

He was more focused on the other two kids who were getting sucked further and further into the darkness. "Zoro, get Riku!" The captain called out as he extended and arm to try and pry Sora out of the hole.

Both of the boys were shaking as the darkness pulled them in. It's exactly like my dream, Sora thought as he held out a hand, trying to grab Riku's. Their fingers were so close, but the darkness enveloped them and they were lost in the darkness.

Sanji was injured but holding off the dark monsters on the ship while he told the other three to flee. The ship was overrun with the things and nowhere on board was safe anymore. The things could flatten themselves out and slip under the doors like it was nothing.

The three others running scared across the beach froze as all the heartless stopped moving and turned towards the small island connected by a bridge. Usopp pointed, "Look," the others saw what he was pointing at and watched as Riku and Sora began to get surrounded by darkness.

"We have to help them," Chopper exclaimed as they watched Zoro drop out of the sky next to the silver haired kid. The swordsman was instantly surrounded in darkness and pulled in while Luffy reached out an arm and wrapped it around Sora. Then in the blink of an eye, all four of them were gone.

"L-Luffy?" Usopp said as he fell on his butt. The monsters around them faded away into black circles that appeared on the ground. The three of them started calling out their friends' names, including the kids who just disappeared too.

Luffy had his eyes open, but everything around him was dark. All he knew was that he was still holding a stretched arm around Sora, and they were together. Suddenly a bright light flashed in the distance and got brighter and brighter until it surrounded them completely. Then, they were back on that island and Luffy heard his crew shouting his name from the shore.

He turned around and saw three of them staring up at him, calling Zoro's name as well. "Zoro? Zoro!" he turned around and shouted before noticing something. As his arm unraveled around Sora and snapped back to his side, he realized the kid was staring at something in his hand, and at the same time Luffy felt something heavy in his own right hand.

Sora looked down at the yellow hilt of the giant silver key he was holding. "What the..." one word reverberated in both of their heads, "Keyblade." Sora looked at Luffy, "Did you hear that?"

The rubber man nodded before spinning around again, calling out Zoro's name.

"It's no use," Sora said. "He's not here anymore. Riku was going to another world, so that must be where Zoro is now."

"Another world huh?" Luffy said while looking down. He had a keyblade of his own with a black metal on the key part, and a white hilt. Just like Sora's, his had a little keychain hanging off of it, and for some reason, the weapon felt nice in his hand. "Guess that settles it," he looked off the island at where his crew was standing, slowly getting surrounded by monsters again, "Hey guys! We're heading to a new world!"

"What?!" All three of them shouted back in fear.

"Don't worry," Sora said to them as he and Luffy started running on the bridge. "No matter where you go, you'll always find each other if you keep your friends in your heart." The two of them jumped off the bridge onto the sand.

"That sounds so cute and cheesy and WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" Nami shouted.

"Alright everyone," Luffy called to his friends as Sora went running towards the cave entrance. "Go get Sanji and meet back here, we're heading on a new adventure." Robin went towards that cave, I have to get her before we leave.

The three scared members gulped and nodded, running away towards the ship. Little did they know, a darkness just like the one that took Riku and Sora already got their chef who was protecting the ship on his own.

Sora kept running towards the cave and he felt Luffy running next to him. Good. He can help me find Kairi. They started hitting the black enemies in their yellow eyes and antennae with the keyblades in their hands. He smiled at the guy in the Straw Hat after they destroyed a batch of creatures much faster than they did before with their special new weapons. The man held up a thumb and sprinted into the dark cave, hoping to find their friends and get out of there.

A/N The plot thickens! Sanji, Zoro, and Riku are gone, and the island is surrounded in darkness. Hope you enjoyed the latest chapter, leave a review telling me what you think or if you have any ideas for me. Next time Donald and Goofy show up! Can't wait!

avatoa

This...is gonna be both epic and awesome!

Hope you liked Wakka and Tidus's fight scene there in the beginning. Next time all shit's gonna break loose on Destiny Islands!

Guest

Super fantastic awesome I can't wait for the next chapter

Well you don't even have to wait a whole day, here's the next chapter! Thanks!