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Yeahhhh, not as long as the previous chapters, but I think it's good enough for now, so...enjoy.

Chapter 4: Deja Vu?

Traverse Town. A quaint and calm town, with most of its districts lit up with a variety of lanterns and street poles all around, as it sits underneath a sky of eternal night. In the darkened sky, numerous stars can be clearly seen. A world like this had been constructed from the fragments of destroyed worlds and served as a home to those whose worlds have been destroyed. Despite its tragic origins, however, Traverse Town had been recognized as a wonderful place for shopping various items and equipment.

Coming through the large set of double-doors, which serve as the entrance to the town, were a duck and two dogs; Donald, Goofy and Pluto. Donald and Goofy, however, were dressed in completely different outfits.

Donald was wearing a blue beret that sported a zipper that spanned the length of his beret. He wore a navy blue high-collared jacket with sky blue lining and cuffs, along with several pouches that were colored blue with yellow lining. Two silver zippers that span from the top of the collar to the bottom of the jacket were framing the middle pouch on his jacket. He had a short, blue cape with yellow lining that was draped over his shoulders, kept in place by a silver strap. Donald was also wearing a thick, gold bangle on each of his wrists.

Goofy had an orange hat, with the top resembling a teardrop placed on its side. A small pair of red goggles was placed around the bottom of his hat. He wore a green turtleneck sweater with sleeves that bell out slightly, along with a blue arrow-shaped strap on each cuff. Over the sweater was a sleeveless, black combat vest with gray lining and four pockets of the same color. Goofy wore yellow pants, which were secured by a thick, black belt. The pants had large pockets and a pouch on each leg with a silver zipper. The bottom rims of his pants had been pulled upward in the front by a brown strap. Goofy also wore large brown shoes with steel toes on the outside.

As the two royal assistants walked across the First District, Goofy halted himself as something above him caught his eyes. Donald, who quacked irritably, stopped to see Goofy looking upward. The dog quickly pointed up at the starry night sky, with Donald's eyes following the direction. They looked up in shock and horror to what was happening.

"Look!" Goofy shouted. "A star's goin' out!"

Just as Goofy said, one of the many stars in the night sky had blinked out from existence. Whatever was happening out there, it seemed to happen faster than the two initially thought. Donald quickly looked at Goofy with in seriousness.

"Come on! Let's hurry!" Donald said.

Donald and Goofy continued to walk straight ahead and up the concrete stairs, with Pluto following them. Donald crossed his arms with impatience and irritation as he looked around the District.

"Where's that 'key'?!" Donald quacked.

Goofy looked at Donald as they walked up the concrete stairs.

"Hey, ya know, maybe we ought to go find Leon." Goofy suggested.

As they reached the upper end of the stairs and to the front of bright, large shop, Pluto was sniffing across the ground as he headed to the left side of the building. Goofy took notice of this and then saw Donald heading to the opposite side of the shop. He looked at the duck with uncertainty as he scratched the side of his head with one finger.

"Uh, Donald. Ya know, I betcha that uh…"

Donald, already irritated by Goofy's simple-mindedness, waves him off as he continues to walk ahead.

"Aw, what do you know, ya big palooka?"

Goofy looks back at where Pluto headed, still unsure of things.

"What do I know?" Goofy muttered loudly.

Deciding to head to where Donald went, Goofy shouted across the alley to call Pluto.

"Come on, Pluto!" Goofy called.

Goofy walked away to catch up with Donald. Unbeknownst to them, however, Pluto had stumbled across something peculiar. The yellow-furred dog walked to the back end of an alley, only to find a couple of young teenagers sitting beside each other against a brick wall on his left. He took a closer look at the two teenagers, who happened to be Sora and Kairi. Their eyes were closed and were unconsciously laying their heads over one another, as they did not notice the dog staring at them.

Deciding to wake them up, Pluto started to lick Sora and Kairi's cheeks. After a couple of licks, both Sora and Kairi groaned as they flickered their eyes open. Sora was the first to speak.

"Huh…?" Sora said.

"What…?" Kairi followed.

Sora and Kairi's visions cleared, which let them see the yellow dog sitting in front of them with his tongue sticking out. Sora sighed as he and Kairi slowly closed their eyes.

"What a dream…" Sora muttered.

Suddenly, Pluto quickly shoved the two teens, causing them to yelp in surprise. Sora and Kairi, now fully awake, widened their eyes in shock.

"This isn't a dream!" Sora shouted.

Slowly, Sora and Kairi got up from the concrete floor and let their eyes wander around the area they were in. To them, everything was completely different. This hadn't looked like any place that was within the Islands.

"What is this place?" Kairi asked.

Sora sighed with worry.

"Oh boy…" Sora muttered.

Remembering the dog that woke up them up, Sora and Kairi knelt down to Pluto's height, their hands being placed over their knees.

"Do you know where we are?" Kairi asked the dog.

Suddenly, Pluto's right droopy ear rose up, hearing something from the distance. He rushed off to the open as Kairi reaches her hand out to the dog.

"Hey…!" Kairi called out.

Sora looked at Kairi.

"Let's see where he went to." Sora suggested.

Kairi looked at Sora and quickly nodded in agreement before heading out of the alley.

Heading out to the open, Sora and Kairi find themselves in another unfamiliar area. It was a bright district filled with a couple of shops and several civilians wandering around. There were two large doors at the end of the district, leading to who-knows-where.

Sora furrowed his eyebrows.

"This isn't Destiny Islands…" Sora said.

Kairi then realized something and widened her eyes in shock.

"I think we're in another world…" Kairi pointed out.

Sora, realizing this as well, nodded in agreement.

"Yeah…Argh!"

Sora quickly held his head and grunted in pain as he saw flashes of himself and the orange-haired boy again. He saw himself talking to the boy before following him into another area of the town using Flowmotion.

Kairi noticed this immediately and looked at Sora with concern.

"Sora?!"

The pain was starting to numb down. Sora slowly returned to reality as he let go of his head and closed his eyes with relief.

"I'm…fine." Sora sighed. "I'm fine."

As Kairi stared with worry, Sora looked back up with an expression of uncertainty. His eyes blinked several times.

"I think…I remember this place…I think I've…been here before." Sora said slowly, still unsure of what was going on with him.

Kairi looked at Sora in surprise.

"Really? You have?" Kairi asked.

The brunette nodded slowly, not looking at Kairi.

"Then…does that mean this could be the world you came from?"

Sora blinked.

Now that question was something he couldn't answer confidently. Sure, he had some flashbacks regarding this place, but that was just it. There was nothing else that could confirm that he originated from this world. If anything, he might've just visited world before instead.

"I don't know, but…a part of me says otherwise…" Sora says softly.

Kairi looked down with both concern and disappointment, unable to find out more about Sora's whereabouts.

"Oh…" Kairi replied quietly.

Sora shook his head and smiled at Kairi. To him, now wasn't a time to be so down in the dumps. Now was the time to think positive, and probably figure out where they were.

"Come on, Kairi! Cheer up! We shouldn't be so negative!" Sora answered.

Kairi looked up at Sora before smiling back at him, affected by his sheer optimism.

"You're right." Kairi agreed. "Come on, let's see if there's someone who can tell us where we are."

Sora nodded in agreement.

"Right."

At the center of the First District of Traverse Town was a semi-large accessory shop. Inside the shop was filled with all kinds of colorful and twinkly trinkets, such as earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, etc. Couple of furniture was sitting by one of the corners of the store to make the customers feel comfortable. Sitting across the furniture was a large, red fireplace.

Lying over the green countertop was a middle-aged man chewing on a toothpick in his mouth. He had short blond hair, blue eyes, and some stubble on his chin. He wore a simple white T-shirt and baggy blue pants that reached up to the lower half of his torso, along with black shoes.

He let out a heavy sigh. Business was pretty slow as of now in the shop. Ever since more people showed up in this town, he was expecting more and more people to enter this shop and buy some of these trinkets lying around the shop. However, it seemed things had turned out to be the opposite of what he was initially expecting. Every day, only a couple of people had entered the shop, but most of them so far just looked around and not buy something. It was getting bothersome, all of these accessories and trinkets just sitting and collecting dust; they were beginning to lose their shine.

Then suddenly, the man heard the door opening, letting in a couple of people inside. Hoping that these people would buy something for once, he quickly looked at them and started to greet them.

"Hey there, how can I—"

Unfortunately for him, the people who had entered were only two teenagers; a brunette and a redhead. The man's small smile had fallen.

"Aw hell…" the man groaned. "It's only a couple of kids…"

Sora looked at him with an irritably, feeling upset that the man had used the term kids to describe them.

"Hey, we're not kids." Sora retorted. "We have names you know. The names are Sora and Kairi."

Sora pointed at himself and then Kairi, who then waved slightly at the man.

"Okay, okay, simmer down." The man flicked his toothpick again. "So, Sora, what're you and your friend doing here? You two lost or somethin'?"

"No…" Sora said.

"Well…" Kairi said simultaneously.

Sora and Kairi stopped and shared a glance. The man raised an eyebrow, waiting for an answer. Sora and Kairi looked back at the man.

"Maybe…" Sora answered.

The man squinted an eye at them.

"Maybe?" he repeated.

"Well…do you know where we are?" Kairi asked.

"Huh? You tellin' me you two don't know where you're at?"

"Well, we're actually from somewhere else. Destiny Islands." Kairi answered.

"You heard of it?" Sora asked.

"Destiny Islands? Not a clue. This here is Traverse Town." The man answered.

Kairi raised an eyebrow.

"Traverse Town?" she repeated.

"That's right." he answered.

Sora and Kairi shared another glance before looking back at the middle-aged man.

"Huh. So, gramps, is this really another world?" Sora asked.

Kairi looked at Sora with shock.

"Sora!" she whispered harshly.

The man's eyes began to narrow and he started to grit his teeth so hard that his toothpick nearly split into two.

"Don't call me gramps! The name's Cid!" Cid shouted.

Unlike Kairi, who flinched at Cid's yelling, Sora remained unflinched by the man's wrath and playfully smirked at him.

"Now you know how I feel, huh?" Sora remarked.

"Shaddap!" Cid yelled before drawing breath and calming down. "Not sure what you're on about, but this sure ain't your island."

Kairi wasn't sure at first, but what Cid just said pretty much confirmed her suspicions. It really was true that they were in a different world. It seemed that Kairi's wish was granted after all, albeit under unfortunate circumstances. But nonetheless, she'd managed to cross over into another world like in those tales she had heard before. She then snapped back to reality as Sora spoke again.

"Hmm…well, I guess we'd better find a way back home then, right Kairi?" Sora asked the redhead.

Kairi, however, had something else in mind.

"Actually, I was thinking we could go and look around some more." Kairi answered. "Since we're in another world, you know?"

Sora raised his eyebrows. Not the kind of response he was expecting from Kairi.

"Huh? But, what about your home? Don't you want to head back?" he asked.

Kairi looked at the trinkets underneath the countertop.

"Sora, back at the island, before we met, I've heard stories about people who actually managed to leave for good and crossed over to different worlds like this one." she explained. "And because of those stories, I always wanted to leave the island too, and see those worlds with my own eyes. Like I am, right now."

While Cid chuckled in amusement, Sora only looked at Kairi with a small frown. As much as he wanted to be happy for the redhead and allow her to travel around the town, he couldn't help but worry about the folks back at the Islands. The black creatures that they encountered—what if they showed up in the small town as well? He couldn't help but worry about Kairi's home world, believing that if the creatures had gotten the Islands' residents, there might no home to go back to at all.

"Kairi…" Sora said, "we have to go back. We just came here by accident. You dad could be worried sick about you. And what if those…black monsters are still at the island? We need to see if the guys back home made it out okay."

Kairi looked at Sora with disbelief, but with understanding at the same time. She frowned.

"But…" Kairi began to sigh sadly. "Maybe you're right…maybe we should find a way back."

Cid sighed disappointedly before looking at Sora.

"Sora," Cid whispered, "just do your friend a favor and let her look around the place, would ya? I don't got a clue about what happened back at your island, but I'm sure your folks back there are doin' just fine right now. Besides, the least you could do…is to make everyone happy."

"Make everyone happy…?" Sora muttered.

Those words began to ring in Sora's head. Make everyone happy? They sounded familiar to him, but why? Where did he hear them, though? Did he say it? Or did someone else say those words? Sora started to squint his eyes, as he felt that he was beginning to see something flash into his line of vision. Quickly shaking it off, he looked at Cid with a smile.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Sora answered.

The brunette looked at the redhead with a smile.

"Come on, Kairi. We can go check out the rest of the town if you want."

A surprised Kairi looked up at Sora.

"Are you sure? What about…?"

Sora still smiled at Kairi.

"I'm sure the guys back home are doing fine right now. Besides, you said you always wanted to see another world with your own eyes, right?" Sora asked.

Kairi nodded before Sora grinned.

"Might as well get started then!" he then said.

Kairi couldn't help but smile at Sora, feeling happy that the brunette is helping her wish come true.

"Okay!"

Sorry, no Leon right now. But hey, there's Cid! That's good enough, right? Right? Meh, yeah I know.

Anyways, more flashbacks for Sora! Wonder what these could mean? I'm not going to say anything. I've already planned almost everything out and I'm not going to ruin the surprises.

Anyways, I hoped you enjoy and PLEASE review. I'd like to hear opinions. Thank you and goodbye.