Katie ran into Riku, who was surprised to see her in such a hurry. "Katie, what's wrong?"
Katie breathed. "Xemnas was here. He wants me and John."
Riku's eyes widened. "Go to Merlin's house. Now." He grabbed her shoulders and shoved her in the direction to the old wizard's house. The two ran and busted through the door. John and Sora just came down from the stairs. They jumped in surprise as Riku and Katie burst in.
Merlin started. "What's with the entire ruckus?"
"Xemnas has been spotted! He's after John and Katie."
"Xemnas?" John and Sora gasped in unison.
"Xemnas?" Merlin questioned. "But didn't you and Sora defeat Organization XIII?"
"Well…" Riku stared at Katie expectantly.
"What?" Katie spoke with naiveté. "I saw Xemnas. He talked to me."
Cid, who was typing at the computer and unnoticed until now, chose that now was a great time to speak. "Do any of you know a world called Earth?"
Katie and John exchanged worried glances. "That's our world."
Cid puffed on his cigarette. "Seems that this world is in trouble."
John was shocked. "Oh no."
Sora lowered his eyes, but put a hand on John's shoulder reassuringly. "Don't worry. Let's go back and take care of it."
Katie and John beamed.
"We better hurry." Riku opened the door and checked outside to see if it was safe to leave.
"Wait," Katie paused. "Cid, how can you check our world outside the Gummiship?"
Cid smirked friendly. "Donald and Goofy were kind enough to hook me up so I can help keep track while you four are gone."
"You guys are staying here?" Sora asked a bit disappointed. John and Katie silently cheered in their heads.
"Yep. We figured we'd be more useful here." Goofy grinned.
"Promise to be good, okay?" Donald added.
Sora shrugged. "See ya. Alright, let's go."
The four boarded the ship and sped off to Earth. John's thoughts muddled him with ill images and Katie couldn't stop fidgeting due to the nervousness.
"I wonder what's going on at Earth." John asked turning to Katie.
Katie gave him an uneasy smile. "I don't know. Hopefully nothing bad."
John nodded pondering the thoughts of what could be going on. He highly hoped his family and friends were safe from whatever bad event was happening.
"There seems to be Nobodies appearing throughout the place we picked you guys up at. They aren't hurting anybody… Maybe the organization is up to something," Riku announced as he read a planet transmission from the ship's space map. John remembered when he first met Sora and Riku for 'real'. He quickly dismissed the memory. Suddenly the ship made a rumble noise and shook.
"Woah! What was that?" Katie asked looking around the ship.
"Don't worry, nothing's wrong. Just having some issues on the route to Earth, so it's going to be a while." Riku said leaning back in his chair.
"What are you doing, Riku? Aren't you going to man the controls?" Katie asked standing up stretching.
"It's on auto-pilot. I'm taking a short nap." Riku replied yawning widely. Riku closed his eyes and appeared to be falling asleep. Katie went over to sit next to a window. She looked outside the window at the stars passing by.
"I love the stars," Katie said softly to herself. She rested her elbow on the chair's armrest and leaned her chin on her palm. An amused expression played across her face, the stars shown in her eyes as they passed.
John leaned back in his chair staring up at the ship's ceiling. Sora was sitting in the chair next to him. John glanced at Sora from the corner of his eye. Sora turned his head and looked at him. John averted his eyes away. Sora got out of his chair and kneeled down next to John's chair. John quickly turned his face to look at Sora. He practically was breathless when he looked in Sora's blue eyes. To John they seemed deep and soulful. Well John knew Sora's been through a lot so his eyes have seen many good and horrible things.
"Are you okay?" Sora asked smiling.
"Yeah just a little confused," John said still looking in Sora's eyes.
"Confused? About what?" Sora asked.
"Back at Merlin's house when you were showing me stances to use my magic, were you oblivious to what you were doing, this is going to sound weird, but the way you were touching me," John asked looking deep into Sora's eyes.
Sora couldn't hide the pink blush on his sun kissed cheeks. "D-Did I make you uncomfortable."
"Uh, no, just-"
Sora stood up and bowed his head. "Sorry if I seemed forward or anything. Not that that's supposed to mean anything! Um," Sora stuttered and shuffled his feet. "I'm going to see what Riku's up to."
Sora was about to leave when he felt a hand tug on his own. "Wait, Sora," John whispered. Sora gave John the cutest pout and John couldn't help but smile wider. "I didn't mind."
Sora stared at disbelieve. "What?"
Riku! We're about to crash! Wake up!" John shouted over Sora's shoulder at the snoozing Riku, as he noticed the ground coming closer.
