Riku's first true love…

Part 3.

Riku was quite for a whole day, not one word passed his lips…

"Oh come on Riku! You have to talk at some time!" said Wakka trying to cheer Riku up.

"Wakka, leave him alone!" said Selphie noticing how upset Riku was.

"But he hasn't said a word all day!" Sora said pointing out the obvious.

"Just. Leave. Him. Alone." Selphie said slowly and clearly to make her point.

"GUY'S!!" yelled a voice. Everyone turned to see Kairi running up towards them with something in her hands.

"Hey Kai, what's wrong?" asked Sora after Kairi stopped right in-front of him.

"Look. It's a letter from the King. I've just found it." She said handing out the bottle with the letter inside. King Mickey's royal seal printed on the front. Sora took the bottle and shook the letter out, as he started to read Riku finally began to get himself involved with his friends.

"No way! From King Mickey?" asked Wakka.

"Yeah. And the letter say's: that there is a world in trouble, it's got Heartless! Big, strong Heartless to could destroy the world in seconds!" Sora gasped. Kairi gasped too.

"Oh no! That's just terrible!" Selphie cried.

"So… which world is in danger?" asked Riku, finally talking.

"Some place called… Hybrid Heaven..." said Sora still reading the letter.

"Odd… why does that name ring a bell in the back of my mind?" asked Riku, the words seem to stick in somewhere in his head and his heart.

"You've been there?" asked Kairi.

"No. I don't think so…" Riku said shaking his head.

"What about your lover? Maybe she said the name before-!" Selphie started but Kairi cut her off near the end by covering Selphie's mouth with her hand. But then Riku remembered were he did hear the name Hybrid Heaven.

"Angel's home world…"

"What?" Sora asked.

"You mean your lover was from a never world? And it just so happens to be the one in danger?" asked Wakka. Riku nodded his answer.

"We have to go help, if anything would happen to that place… I don't think I could live with myself…" Riku said more to himself then his friends.

"Because you don't want the same thing to happen to anyone there that happened to Angel, right?" asked Kairi. Riku went all quite again but nodded.

"Well that settles it then. We're going to save Hybrid Heaven in the name of Angel!" said Sora summoning the keyblade to his hand. Riku smiled and thanked Sora in the back of his mind.

'Angel… I promised you that I will take care of any trouble at Hybrid Heaven… and I shall keep my word…' Riku followed his friends as they awaited for the Gummi ship to pick them up not knowing what the journey may have for them…