Cutting the introduction short. I'll try harder in the future to make better ones.

Kh A Light in the Dark Chapter 13: Emptiness

(11 years ago)

Sora was sitting on the couch waiting for Rei. He didn't know how he felt about him. To Sora he seemed friendly enough to him, and he didn't mean any harm. He was still in the same clothes Rei dressed him in the night before. The same sweat clothes he slept in throughout the night before. He still felt the warmth of comfort Rei gave him. Sora felt lost, no parents, no friends, it was just him and him alone. Now with Rei next to him and someone his age he didn't feel alone anymore, assuming he felt anything at all. So many thoughts he didn't know he had raced through his mind as he sat there mindlessly.

"Sora. Are you ready?" Sora snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at Rei who gave him a beaming smile. Sora shook his head in a nod saying 'yes'. He hopped off the couch and grabbed Rei's hand as they left out the door. The sun took some use of Sora getting use to. After a while it felt nice and the wind blowing on his face bought some nice feelings as it touched him from his forehead to his feet.

"Hi Ms. Rei!," Rei turned around and saw Selphie running up to her in her yellow dress. She was about the same age as Sora. Selphie ran up and hugged Rei tightly completely being oblivious that Sora was holding Rei's other hand.

"Hi Selphie," Rei bought her other arm around Selphie. "How are you doing this morning?"

"Happy!," she cried. All Rei did was smile.

Selphie turned to look at Sora who just stared at mindlessly. "Who is he?"

Rei bought Sora in front of Selphie and put her hands on Sora's shoulders. "Selphie meet Sora. Sora meet Selphie." Sora gave a small wave to her.

"Hi."

"Selphie why don't you come with us to Tidus'. I'm sure he'll want to play and not be near his father. "You three can play on the island together." Rei use to play on the same island that Sora and his friends play on today. Rei knelt down in front of Sora "This will give you a chance to get to know them. Tidus and Selphie are kind. Ok?" Rei said and smiled at the young brunette who just stared at her aimlessly as if he had wandered far off. The walk to Tidus' was silent, but when they got there… well…

"Damn it boy! Your mother is going to freak when she sees this. I keep telling you not to play ball in here!." screamed Jecht.

"Dad you told me I should be practicing," said Tidus who picked up his blitzball.

"OUTSIDE!," Jecht yelled. Jecht heard the door open to see Rei and the children standing there as the scene looked like it was in the middle of rolling.

"Good you're here. Can you take Tidus to the island, so he could…. I don't know learn where to and not play!?" Rei sighed as Tidus walked up to her. This was very commonplace in Tidus' household. Sora was just as confused as the rest of them. Tidus really wanted to get out of there.

"I came here for him anyway so he could play with Selphie and Sora,"Rei said. "Tidus has already met him." Jecht looked at Sora and the little boy just stood there looking at him. Sora did eventually wave to him. Tidus waved to Sora and he remembered him pretty well from the other day.

"See ya!," Tidus said running out the door past everyone.

"That boy," Jecht growled.

"You brought him into this world. Remember that," Rei said turning around and exiting the house. "Good morning by the way," she put on a gleeful smile then shutting the door.

Jecht exhaled out of grief.

Rei took the three kids to the boat and rowed them towards the island. Sora just sat in the boat looking out into the horizon mindlessly wondering if there was anything beyond.

'Sora,' he thought back to himself. 'That's my name?' He put his hand in the water waving it back and forth with and against the tides. It felt refreshing to him, his first time feeling water consensually. The air, warmth, water, having a name, and unknowingly making friends. Who or what else was he going to experience. Whatever it was he wanted to experience more of it.

Rei looked back at Sora with a worried look. He looked as if he had been born yesterday. She doesn't know why but that is what it feels like to her. No named parents, home, not even a name made Rei feel sorry for him. She looked at him and the look in his eyes look so distant. Was Sora ill, did he have amnesia, was he depressed? She put those questions aside She turned around and docked the boat when they reached the island. Selphie jumped out and Tidus followed with her. Sora was the last to get out and Rei looked him in the eyes "I got some errands I need to run. You can play with Selphie and Tidus here ok."

Sora nodded in understandment. Rei pulled Sora in for a hug and Sora remembered the warmth she provided for him when she nursed him back to health yesterday. On some kind of instinct Sora bought his arms around Rei returning the embrace, not as tight as her but it was a start. Sora felt kind of weird. A good kind of weird. Rei left leaving Sora to play with his new friends. Sora looked down at his feet real quick. 'What is this?' it was soft and Sora wiggled the sand in between his toes, it felt like a blanket. He actually decided to lie down in the sand on his back and take in everything around him. He drifted to sleep.

(Present Day)

Kairi began to wake up. She was the first to do so. She found her friends following suit. She and the others tried to shake off their minor injuries. Surprisingly they had minor injuries. "Everyone ok?," she asked.

"I'm good," Riku said.

"Yup all good. Uhhh has anyone seen Donald?" Goofy asked.

"Get off of me," Donald muffled. Goofy landed right on top of him. Goofy got off of his fellow companion. "Does anyone know where we are?"

"If I had to guess we landed on some kind of world." Goofy said.

"What happened to the ship? Did anyone see it?" They searched in the bushes around them and found their ship tangled up in a clearing. It burned up in the worlds atmosphere. "Well this is just great!," Donald yelled "Now we're stuck here with no ship!"

"Well it could be worse," Kairi said. She jinxed it and several Heartless appeared around them.

"Kai did you really have to jinx it!," Riku said summoning Ward of Dawn and slashed a neo shadow that tried to jump him.

"Wasn't intentional," Kairi drew Destiny's Embrace and got into her stance. Donald and Goofy drew their weapons and went to town on the attacking heartless. This time these heartless looked different, but it did not matter all the same. Kairi spun around and slashed a rapid thruster that charged at her and there were several more where that came from. Donald casted Thunder around them and it destroyed several more of them. Riku was busy dealing with the biggest one, the Assault Raider, that tried to hack his head off, but Riku jumped back and slashed a rapid thruster in the process. The Assault Rider then charged forward in a fury to pierce Riku's chest, but Goofy tossed his shield knocking the lance out of it's hands. The Assault Rider stubbornly continued to charge at Riku and Riku dodge rolled out of the way causing the horse heartless to hit the ship. The ship got knocked out of the foliage and a piece of it fell off.

"Hey watch the ship!," Donald yelled.

"Sorry," Riku said sheepishly with a grin of guilty innocence. The Assault Rider recovered so Riku acted right away before it could make it's next move Riku charged forward in an attempt to slash it, causing it to fade. Riku rushed over to help him and the others. There were so many Rapid Thrusters, and to them it seems never ending. Kairi kept hacking away from them as Donald kept casting magic spells, and Goofy blocked their attacks and knocked them away. Riku rushed to them and slashed a heartless that was about to strike Kairi in the back. The auburn turned around and appreciate his help. Then for some reason they all retreated back into darkness. Every single one of them. All four of them were left confused as to what just happened.

"They're gone," Donald said.

"Do you think they got scared and ran away?" Kairi asked but doubted the possibility.

"Don't know, and really do not care. I just hope they don't come back any time soon," Riku said. They all turned their attention to the very damaged gummi ship. "So what now? We don't have a ship."

"Let's head inside and see what we can find. Maybe we can salvage somethin," Goofy said. They all nodded to each other and headed inside. They had to pull the ramp down together, but it wasn't budging. "Well not gettin in that way." Goofy scratched the side of his head.

"Well we'll have to improvise," Kairi said heading over to pick up a rock. "The windshield is already cracked. So we'll have to get in the ship that way." Kairi said seeing as there was no other way in. Kairi threw the rock at the windshield of the ship, but it had little effect. So Donald had conjured up a giant ice ball and slammed it into the ships window. It worked so they all climbed the bamboo shoots and made their way into the ship. Once they were in what they came across was a mess. The panels were fried and small parts were scattered everywhere. There was no way to contact for help either.

"What the hell would cause the ship to malfunction like this?," Riku asked.

"Whatever caused it did a number on it. Let's see if we can scavenge anything." Donald said. If they could the ship was literally the definition of a ship wreck. Most things looked liked they burned up as the ship sped through the atmosphere. They went into the rooms where they moved all of the equipment and luckily for them they had the essentials but that was it. But the gummis were enough to ensure that the ship would be optimized for competent space travel.

"Well this is all we have. But it will be enough to get us back into the air and out of here," Donald said.

"Where is 'here'?" Kairi asked.

"Do you think we should go have a look around?" Riku asked.

"I suppose that would be ok. Just make sure that you and Kairi stay safe. The Heartless may still be prowling around. Meanwhile Donald and I will stay here and fix the ship," Goofy said.

"You too! We'll be back as soon as we can," Kairi yelled.

As Kairi and Riku left, they were not aware that someone was watching them. It wasn't a heartless, but he was acting as some sort of scout. The scout continued to watch as Kairi and Riku left. The scout left to report back to his leader.

A considerable walk away the scout entered the tent and gave his report.

"Interesting. Bring me my advisor," he said and Pete entered the tent. "My scouts have identified some interesting figures. I hope that you can be of some importance," the leader said.

"Well what seems to be the problem. Shan-Yu?" Shan grinned darkly and his eyes turned yellow.

Well here it is the first world! Sorry if I haven't uploaded anything in over a month.

If this chapter feels like it is all over the place that's because there is a lot of information within the first half that if you would like me to explain to you guys individually so as to not spoil it for anyone else. Like always please feel free to Private Message me and leave a review. I have been very busy with finals coming up, and my brain and creative process have not been working with me so I apologize for the long wait. As always thank you guys for hanging around.

Important question for you guys: What was in your opinion the best Final Fantasy game?

For me it was Final Fantasy 8 personally.

Cya :)