(A/N: Hey! Chapter 21 is here and it's a pretty long chapter. BUT, I have to explain some things. This chapter is, when it comes to the timeline of this story, before chapter 20. I decided to make this Chapter 21 is because I didn't want to unexpectedly throw him in, without a proper introduction or debut in the story. So in short, this Chapter is basically just a "catch up" chapter. But anyways, if you've never played Kingdom Hearts Union X; I suggest that you do. Because, in this chapter, there is a part of KH Union X's story tied up to it, and I decided to incorporate it into the rest of this story. But if you've played KHUx, then I must warn you; this is a very sad chapter. This chapter made my proofreader tear up, lol. You should know whom I am bringing into the story, if you know the story of KHUx. Anyways, enjoy the chapter. Oh! I almost forgot! I left an asterisk. When you see it, play any version of Dearly Beloved. I would recommend versions KH2FM and KH2.5. But if you have Spotify, there's a version of Dearly Beloved that comes from an album called "A Yoko Shimomura Christmas" which is perfect for that section. Annyways, enjoy.)
Sam
His conscious was dipping in and out, as he fell asleep every few minutes or so. He tried so hard to keep himself awake but his extreme case of heat stroke made him keep on fainting. All he knew was that he was being carried.
He woke up as soon as his body hit the chair, and his vision started to clear up, but could not focus correctly. Although he woke up, his mind was extremely hazy and his body felt extremely cold to himself. He started to sneeze wildly as his body was being affected by the refreshingly cool atmosphere of the dining room/kitchen. After sneezing about 10 times, in the last minute, he gained a tiny bit of mental power back as sees a glass of water on a countertop.
He drank the coldest water that he ever had in his life as he didn't go into shock. He could feel the water run down his throat as he finished his cup, and his mind began to clear up as he near went back to normal. But before he could begin to feel better and clear his mind completely, his entire body had pulsated from within himself.
He began to throw up the water as his body had to release the intense heat he was suffering from. As he finished throwing up, his quickly conscious slipped away.
Within seconds of him fainting, he woke up again. He felt the nauseous from his body as his body had rejected the water that he drank. Although, he felt better than he did before; he decided to drink more water in order to get his own body into the correct internal body temperature.
He grabbed the cup and filled it up with more water from the sink, and then he began to gulp it down. After a few seconds, he regurgitated the water again and had fainted.
As he regained consciousness once more, his body and mind was nearly back to normal as he was able to think a little, and his body had regained a little bit of its strength back. He was still had a bit of a fever as his body temperature was slowly going back to normal, but he still needed more water. He grabbed the cup once again as he filled it up with water. He drank the water in a normal pace as the water began to clear his mind up.
He stretched his body upwards to the ceiling. Although he lost the urge to regurgitate the water, his body was hit with a sense of heavy fatigue as he began to yawn loudly.
He finally noticed his surroundings as he realized that he was in a room that has a dining room and a kitchen as one room, and he was standing in the kitchen portion of the room.
Out of nowhere, he was surprised with an unexpected male voice, "今気分がいい？"
He looked behind him as he finally noticed a man with red crimson spikey hair and jade green eyes. He was wearing a black coat that had metallic chains coming out of the bud pockets and the coat reached all the way down to his ankles.
Confused of what the man said, he replied, "Ummm, huh?"
"体調はよくなりましたか？" The man asked.
(Japanese? Great. While I was out, my jutsu must have automatically stopped running.), He thought.
(You should restart it again.), Mangetsu replied.
(Way ahead of you…), He replied in return as he secretly started to form one-handed hand signs.
Suddenly, the man's language changed, "うーん, -maybe you don't understand me at all?"
"There we go," He said with a tone of satisfaction.
"'There we go' what?" asked the man.
"Huh, oh nothing," Sam chucked in embarrassment, "My head is a bit groggy still."
"Well it should be. You threw up three times in the sink," the man responded.
Sam fell to his knees as he pretended to nearly faint, "Do you have a place that I can get some sleep?"
"Sure," the man replied as he picked Sam up and walked with him as Sam leaned on his body.
They left the dining room as the man took Sam up a flight of stairs and into a room that was filled with five beds and wardrobe closets.
The man sat Sam onto a bed, "For now, you'll be using Sora's bed."
"Thanks," Sam replied, "What's your name?"
"Lea. And what is-," Lea began to as in return.
But before he could, Sam let himself fall onto the bed as he pretended to faint from exhaustion.
"Uhhh, I guess I'll ask you when you wake up again," Lea mutter in disappointment as he placed Sam's dead weight body into bed and left the room.
(Sorry, Lea but I can't give out my name just yet. It's against my rules to reveal who I am. Although, I've got this grave feeling that I need to, soon…), Sam thought in his mind.
(This is a tricky situation we are in. We can easily escape from this place, but it would be very rude especially when this group saved you.) Mangetsu replied.
(Yeah I know that, but we desperately need to reunite with him, before destruction and chaos remains in this world. I hate the fact that we might need to break some of our rules but I don't think that I can accomplish this alone the way I am right now.)
(If I can, I suggest that we ask these people for help.), presented Michael as a solution to the problem.
(What makes you say that?), Sam responded to Michael.
(Hey, I know that you just recently joined us but, we can't go off and telling people from other universe's our secrets, you know? It's a rule we have here.), Mangetsu warned Michael.
(Relax, Mangetsu. Besides you know how things usually play out in the end of our little "adventures". But besides that, back to you Michael. Why do you say that?), Sam questions Michael.
(Well. I'm not sure why. But I have a feeling that these people can be trusted. There is something about this place that says "Light" about it. And how things are right now, I think that these people will really help you along our journey. You need to grow stronger since you only have the weaker part of your-)
(I know Michael; the situation is very dire and I agree with you 100 percent. We will follow you, since this is your world.), Sam says to Michael with a warmth faith.
(If this is what you think is best, then I will follow suit.), Mangetsu seconds the notion.
Sam relaxes as he sits up on the bed he is laying on. He realizes that he was wearing his first design of his armor.
He had metallic chest plate, but it was covered by his white renaissance clothing. His wrist gauntlets, which would normally hold hidden blades but the blades were gone, had THE symbol on them.
Sam looks at the symbol with disappointment and with sorrow eyes, but he still kept a smile on his face, (The Assassin's mark. I wish that I never joined. That was the darkest period of my adventures. But if I never joined then I never would've been able to survive without those skills that I learned, so I use it to good use. It does give me a sense of nostalgia, but…)
Sam clamped his hands together with both his index and middle fingers on both of his hands stood sticking out as he created a hand sign. His clothes began to change as his armor changed into a more fashionable reinforced hoodie and pair of jeans. His right leg cam strapped with a medium-sized shuriken case.
(I need something less flashy and preferably more in the "right now" when it comes to fashion.), Sam thought to himself.
He took off his armored hoodie and unstrapped Mangetsu off of him and placed them both on the side of the bed, but kept the shuriken case on. He laid in bed wearing his jeans and a plain, white, short-sleeved T-shirt as he felt his fatigue finally caught up to him.
(Good night.), He muttered as he fell asleep.
Sam woke up finding himself in a bright, lovely, large town. To be honest, the town was too big to be considered one, but, to him, it felt like one. The town's buildings were mainly made out of bricks and floors had stone slabs, and the place was decorated with other ginormous buildings that reminded himself of England but they were mainly colored blue. He was standing in, what looks to be, the center of the town. The center was a medium, well-sized circle that had a water fountain in the middle. The fountain had a circle on the ground with a star inside of the circle. The sky had a gorgeous shade of orange to it which made the clouds in the sky a dark shade of blue, his favorite type of weather and atmosphere.
The dream changed. The scenery stayed the same but now there were people in the scene. People he felt like he had seen at least once, but had not personally talked to them. They were talking and looked to be having a good time in this place as if it was their home. Two people walked by him as they were carrying the same type of swords that Michael was, but in different versions. Three people were at the water fountain as two others were at the perimeter of the center as they were having a conversation. He heard one of the conversations mentioned that this place was called "Daybreak Town". He walked towards the fountain as he sat down and looked upwards to the sky trying to mentally digest this vision he is having.
He takes a deep breath and exhales it out along with all of the stress he is having, "The sky is beautiful here. I feel like I can sleep here for forever…"
As he began to look downwards and away from the sky, he saw a young woman, around his age, on top of the roof of one of the buildings. She has long red hair that frames her face, with her bangs falling over her forehead down past her eyebrows while the rest of her hair is tied back in two long pigtails that reach past her waist on either side of her head. She has fair skin and bright light blue eyes, and wears a white dress with black straps that fall over her shoulders and tie together in a bow on the front. She additionally has matching sleeves on both of her arms, and wears white pants with grey boots.
This young woman stuck him as odd, because Sam this strange feeling that he knew everything and anything about this place, although he can't recall them clearly, but, he cannot recall that young woman at all.
(Something must be special about her…), he thought to himself.
She was holding an animal of some kind in her lap as she was watching a view of the sunset. All of a sudden the animal hopped off of her lap and looked back at her. She looked back at the animal as if they were the greatest of friends, a deep connection.
Suddenly, the woman looked over the animal and straight towards him. Her eyes widened at the sight of his presence as a tear had escaped from her face. She began to stand up and run away.
"Hey! WAIT!" He yelled to her as she began to vanish.
The dream changed as there was nobody in the center anymore, but just one man sitting on the fountain, as if he was waiting for someone. He was wearing the same coat that Lea was wearing, had blue headphones on his head, and had wavy brown hair, similar to his.
(Maybe this isn't a dream, but a telepathic communication…), he thought to himself.
We began to walk over to man, "Hello?"
As soon as Sam made his way in front of the man, his eyebrows raised. In front of him was a man identical to him as if he was looking into a mirror in front of him. This caught Sam off-guard and intrigued.
He tried to poke at this man, but his hand went through as the man fazed and distorted like it was a hologram projection.
"Ok. So this IS a dream," Sam concluded, "But then, how did that woman recognize me? Maybe I'm connected to a different person?"
All of a sudden, the man looked instinctively to the left as he sees the same girl from earlier come out of an alleyway and walked to another that had a gate. Looking disappointed, the man looked away and waited patiently. The woman stopped in her tracks to look at the man. She looked at him, but, in a spit second, looked at Sam and then back at the man next to him.
Sam caught that and immediately began to try to catch her before she could leave, but the man suddenly looked back at the woman and immediately ran off.
"Ah, dang it," Sam said to himself with an expressionless face.
The dream changed again as Sam was still in the center of Daybreak town, but this time there were two people right behind him. They were both males with, what seemed to be casual in Sam's memory, casual clothing. They were about a few feet away from each other and away from the fountain. They were facing each other, but they had protruding angry expressions on their faces as they had a conversation.
"Why are you guys stealing our Lux?!" The man to Sam's left accused to the man on Sam's right.
"What?! What are you talking about? We didn't steal any Lux from you guys!" The man on Sam's right responded.
"Oh, yeah? Then how come you guys are stealing our Lux from the heartless that we destroy?" The man on Sam's left questioned.
"What are you talking about? It's a Lux free-for-all for our Unions! Our Union is protecting the light from the from the darkness. And who's to say that your Union has fallen into the darkness…" The man to Sam's right replied.
That hit a nerve as, out of nowhere, both guys materialized their Keyblades and stood in their fighting stances getting ready to strike against each other.
Sam wanted to stop them but he knew that this was a dream and couldn't do much about this since he had no presence in this.
They jumped at each other and both swung their first strike at each other. Before the blades could connect against each other, a man showed up, with his Keyblade in his hand, and blocked the both strikes before the fight could ensue any further.
The guard of his Keyblade is a closed square that connects from the guard to the hilt of the Keyblade. The guard has a pastel, indigo-blue color which bears a five-pointed star with three layers: golden at the perimeter, indigo-blue in the inner, and pale-gold at the center, and with gold and blue shooting star trails coming out of both left and right bottom sides of the star, and two four-pointed pale-golden stars on the two bottom corners of the guard while the handle itself is black. A black rainguard that begins thin from the guard of the Keyblade and then thickens towards the shaft, with a golden segmentation is at the top of the bar that connects a black shaft, which has an hourglass arc in its shape, with a golden line that spirals about four times on the shaft and is decorated with three four-pointed, pale-golden stars. Near the tip of the shaft is a black segment, with a golden cage, that connects to a golden fanning trail and golden teeth. The golden teeth connect to a five-pointed star which has three layers: golden as the perimeter, indigo-blue as the inner, and pale-golden as the center. It invokes an image of a shooting star. The tip of the Keyblade has a golden sun with seven golden ray points. The token of the keychain is a ten-pointed gold shooting star with the center being indigo-blue and the perimeter being a five-pointed golden star but with five other small points coming out at the rest of the corners of the star. Behind the star, is a cyan-blue trail that makes the token look like a shooting star as it is attached to the hilt of the Keyblade with an alternating pattern of silver and golden links of the chain with a gold clip.
Sam recognized the man. It was the same man from the last part of the dream, the man that looked spot-on identical to himself.
All of a sudden a small animal walked close to the man on Sam's left, "Wait! We're all on the same side!"
"Wait, did that Chirithy just talk?!" Sam said out loud to himself in a surprised tone, but then he stopped and questioned himself, "Wait, Chirithy?"
The three Keyblade wielders all lowered their Keyblades as they all looked towards Chirithy.
"Are we? Then why did they steal our Lux?" The man on Sam's left questioned the Chirithy.
The Sam look-alike looked at the man to his right as he began to move next to him.
"What are you talking about? We're just trying to protect the light. I'll bet good munny that it's your Union that's fallen into the darkness. Traitors!" The man on the right retaliated.
The Sam look-alike looked at the other man as he moved closer to him.
"What did you say!? How can you prove YOU'RE not the traitor!?" The other man replied back in an offended tone.
The two men had enough of each other's accusations against as they got ready to fight again. But before they got the chance to fight again to, the Sam look-alike got in the middle of their paths.
"Hold on! We're all on the same side! Why are you fighting!?" Chirithy questioned again trying to divert their attention again.
"Mind your own business!" the man on the Sam look-a-like's right quieted the Chirithy.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a girl with black hair came running in to stop the fight, "Stop it!"
The girl was the same age as Sam, and she seemed very familiar.
Sam tried very hard to remember her name, "Skuld?"
"Skuld!" Chirithy cried out.
"Well, that confirmed my answer," Sam told himself out of irony as he looked to the side as if he was suppressing a chuckle and had his arms crossed .
Both fighters lowered their Keyblades for a second time as everyone's attention was on Skuld.
The man behind the Sam look-alike questioned her with annoyance, "Who are you? Which Union do YOU belong to?"
Skuld walks towards that man, "It doesn't matter. Our only enemy is darkness. Our Keyblades aren't meant to harm one another!"
The man behind Skuld walked a few steps closer to her, "Anyone who tries to steal the light is no different than a monster of darkness!"
Both Skuld and the Sam look-alike turned around in astonishment and Skuld replied in disbelief, "What!?"
Four other Keyblade warriors surrounded the crowd as one of the females that had just shown up out of nowhere told Skuld, "The war's already begun."
Sam felt a shiver run down his spine as he questioned in confusion, "War? What war?"
Skuld took a step back as the people around them became frightening.
All of a sudden, a man with a deep voice spoke out of nowhere as that man had confirmed the war, "That's right."
Everybody stood up in surprise as if everyone had just gotten into authority trouble.
Everybody's attention was turned towards a tall muscular man in a tan robe, tan hood that was decorated with gold tassels, and a bear mask that had only covered his upper half of his face as he continued, "We can only trust in out Unions. We cannot tell who has fallen into darkness with a mere glance. Why do you fight over Lux? Light is not proof of strength. Victory is proof of strength. And a strong Union is proof of justice."
Skuld walked towards the man in confusion, "What?"
The man had thrown his questions at Skuld, "Do you disagree? Aren't you one of Ava's chosen wielders? One of the Dandelions?"
The man continued to speak in order to prove his point, "You, of all people, should be able to see that she's using her special Union to demonstrate her power."
Skuld was silent with defeat; she couldn't respond with anything.
All of a sudden, the Sam look-a-like walked towards the front and confronted the man.
The Sam look-a-like announced, "I don't belong to the Dandelions."
The man questioned to him unfazed, "Which Union do you belong to?"
The Sam look-a-like replied in return, "Unicornis."
The man had materialized his enourmous Keyblade, "Stand ready."
The Sam look-alike looked stunned as the man got into a fighting stance, then he snapped back into reality as he got into a fighting stance as well.
Sam wanted to watch the fight, but he sensed an abnormal presence. He looked around and noticed that way in the corner there was THAT girl. She was near the gate that she had escaped from in the last dream.
(It seems that she hasn't noticed me.), Sam thought to himself.
Sam flashstepped right behind the girl as she didn't noticed him since she was caught up in the chaos that was happening in the dream.
Finally, Sam decided to do reveal his presence as he tapped her shoulder.
*The woman turned around and jumped backwards in fright as Sam had nearly scared the life out of her.
"Ok. So, who are you? If this is a dream or maybe a memory, then how am I able to touch you, and how you are able to notice my presence?" Sam asked her as he blocked her exit.
The girl looked over to her right as she was too nervous to make eye contact with him. She began to blush and grip the edge of her dress.
Sam easily recognized her uneasiness and tried to be friendlier.
With a soft smile and eyes and with a gentle voice, Sam tried to calm her a bit as he scratched the back of his head, "I'm sorry about the startle. I promise, I 'm not a bad or mean person; I just want to get some answers. Since I'm very confused on what's going on."
"Maybe I should start with introductions," Sam stuck out his hand and closed his eyes as he gave one of the warmest smiles he had ever given in a long time, "Hi my name is Sam. It's a pleasure to meet you."
As soon as he opened his eyes to see why she didn't give a hand shake, he saw the woman blush so much; he almost mistaken her for a tomato. For a moment, she didn't say anything, but, finally, she got the courage to finally say something.
With one of the softest and gentlest feminine voices Sam had ever heard in his life, she finally spoke to him, "H-H-Hi…"
When he heard her silky smooth voice for the first time, his cheeks immediately began to blush as his heartbeat began to move faster, but as well, parts of his body began to twitch and spasm as well.
(God, damn it. She's cute and adorable.), Sam thought as he looked over to his side with nervousness and embarrassment as his cheeks began to turn red.
He tried to keep himself composed as his chest started to become discomforting from his heart pounding for the first time since a very long time.
Suddenly, she began to speak again, "My name is—"
Suddenly, the whole dream began to shake as the dream began to become unstable.
The woman quickly reacted of this, "Quickly, I don't have much time but I need to get through you, or else you could become trapped like me."
Sam was confused, "Wait! What do you mean? Who are you?!"
The woman quickly went around him, while Sam's guard was down, and headed for the gate.
But just as she was about to leave, she looked back at him, "I'm sorry, but I've got to go."
She opened the gate, but hesitated on leaving. She gave a sad and depressed sigh.
She looked back at Sam, "Please… Save me from this never-ending Darkness… Save me…"
Tears began to show up on her face just before she turned and ran off.
The dream began to stop shaking and stabilized, and within seconds, the dream began to change.
The venue wasn't the same though. It changed into a dark cloudy desert-type environment.
Sam looked around as he saw nothing but abandoned and broken Keyblades everywhere, except for four strait paths that were nothing but desert. Sam stood in the middle of what seemed to be the center of a "+" sign or an "x" (it depends on how you look at it) on the ground. As he continued to look around, a bright light began to shine from the sky and aim towards someone that was a few feet away from him.
"Well, this took a turn for the worse…," Sam said out loud to himself with a sad, cold sweat smile.
There was a body on the ground, and along with that body was a Chirithy. But before Sam could identify the body, the bright light began to shine intensely.
Sam sluggishly woke up on the bed, which he slept on, as he drowsily sits up in the bed. He loudly yawned as he hadn't had a sleep like that in long time, and he begins to look around. He finds Lea standing against the closet next to him, waiting for him to wake up.
"Well took you long enough. Nice bed hair dude," Lea told him as he pushed himself off of the wall.
As soon as Lea mentioned his hair, Sam fixed his bed hair as he flattened it as best as he could. Sam got out of bed as he was still wearing his blue jeans and plain white shirt.
"You should take a shower," Lea told Sam.
"Yeah. Where is it?" Sam asked Lea.
Lea pointed to a door that was next to his bed, Sam face palmed, "How did I miss that? Whatever…"
Sam took his armored sweater, Mangetsu (his Zanpakto), and a towel and walked inside the bathroom. He took off all of his clothes and jumped into the shower.
Sam saw nothing that he can use for shampoo and soap, (I guess I'll just use water.)
Sam showered like normal and after he was done he checked his body to see if it was clean. To his surprise, his body was abnormally clean than usual, which surprised him. No smell and a small bit of body oil, but, other than that, his body was squeaky clean. When he got out of the shower, he noticed that his clothes were nice, tidy, and clean.
Sam was surprised by all of these odd phenomenons as he tried figure out what was going on, he soft talked to himself, "Is… Is this magic?"
All of a sudden, there was a knock on the door, and Lea's voice voiced through the door, "Hey are you done in there? We have to go see the old man."
Sam, surprised from the knock, responded, "Yeah, give me a minute. I'm almost done!"
Sam got quickly dried himself up, put on his clothes, grabbed his Zanpkto, and went outside to meet a nearly impatience Lea leaned against the wall next to the doorway of the bathroom. Sam quickly put on his hood as he got outside.
"Sorry about that. It's been some time since I've taken a proper shower," Sam replied with an embarrassed smile as he scratched the back of his head.
"Nah, it's all good. Heh, you remind me of Sora but with poufy hair," Lea said as Sam's poufy hair was sticking out of his hood.
"Sora? Who is he?" Sam said inquisitively.
"Eh, don't worry about it,"
"Come on, we need to go meet the old man," Lea told Sam as he began to walk towards the exit.
Sam followed suit as both Lea and Sam began to go down the stairs and towards the office of Master Yen Sid.
Lea knocked on the door, and a deep dark wooden voice had replied to the knock, "Enter."
The two men entered the office.
Sam saw this old man behind a wooden desk; he wore a cone-shaped hat that bore shapes of stars and a moon; along with a blue magical wizard coat.
As soon as they reached the center of the room, Sam saw that there were two others behind them that stood parallel with the walls that connected the entrance corridor.
A boy with spikey blonde hair as he wore an assortment of clothing that reminded Sam of armor; he wears a shoulder brace on his left shoulder and a black and white plaid wrist band on his left wrist. As well, a small tiny mouse that stands and acts like a human; he wore a sweater that had a ton of plaid.
The old man behind the desk had the deep wooden voice as he talked to Sam, "Young man, you have a deepest gratitude for saving Riku. He is important to our cause; without him, so many worlds would've been plunged into darkness. Or worse…"
Sam smiled and returned the gratitude, "Thank you as well. Without your hospitality, I would've dried up and shriveled. If it isn't too much, may I ask for a favor?"
"What is it young man?" Master Yen Sid asked.
Sam clenches his stomach, "I'm rather famished; I would like to make breakfast. Then we can talk as much as you want."
Master Yen Sid, surprised from what Sam said, as he replied with a smile, "As you wish, this is the least that we can do."
"But I don't think you have the ingredients that I need," Sam replied in disappoint, but then spoke to Master Yen Sid with cheerful tone, "But hey, since you're a wizard, Ha— Mr. Yen Sid, maybe you could help me conjure up the ingredients for the meal that I'm about to create. I'll also create more of my meal so that I can share with you guys! How about that?"
Master Yen Sid looked towards the others for approval, and the other three shrugged in approval.
"Alright, I shall assist you in creating food. But you do know, that I can magically create the food right?" Master Yen Sid confusingly questioned Sam.
"Yeah, I am aware, but when you cook the food; it makes the time to eat more savory!" Sam replied with content and excitement in his voice, "And besides your hospitality saved me when I needed it the most, THIS is the least that I can do for you, as thanks."
Sam turns towards the door, "Well let's get started."
"Wait!" the master called out to Sam.
Sam responded to the master as he froze on the spot.
"I shall teleport us there," Master Yen Sid.
"Are you sure about that, sir? We can just easily climb up the stairs, you know," Sam questioned the Master.
"Yes, I'm sure," Master Yen Sid replied.
The Master lifted up his right hand and snapped his fingers; all of the people in the office were immediately teleported into the dining room in a blink of an eye.
(Huh, very similar to Instant Transmission.), Sam thought to himself.
"All right! Let's get started!" Sam said excitingly.
Sam began to make eggs with ham spiced up with pepper and a bit of salt. He told the Master about what he needed in order to make the breakfast. The Master prepared everything that Sam needed, from equipment to the ingredients, in order to make the meal that everyone was going to eat. The smell of heavenly eggs and juicy ham had spread throughout the room as everybody's mouths began to drool.
As soon as Sam finished making the food and had served the others, a blonde girl had entered the room.
"Sorry I'm late!" She says out of breath.
She then notices the tantalizing aroma, "Mmmm, what's that smell!"
"Ah, it's you Naminé ," Master Yen Sid said, "Come sit down and eat with us."
"Uh…," Namine replied unassured, but then her stomach made the decision for her, "Okay then."
Namine sits down in the dining table as she awaits for her food.
"Sorry," Sam informs her, "but you are going to have to wait for your food. I only made enough for the people present; I wasn't expecting you."
"It's ok, and can you make enough for two people, including myself?" Naminé asked.
"Three," Master Yen Sid added on, "We almost forgot about her. And I am sorry for forgetting about the both of you."
"It's alright," Naminé replied to the Master.
Sam finished making the food for three others as he ate his food. As they all finished their food, they all teleported back into the Master's office. Immediately, Naminé went into the door on the left side of the Master's desk.
"As we talked about, I am sincerely greatful to you for saving Riku's life. But I must ask you, where did you come from and how did end up in Agrabah?"
"So that's what that desert was called? Well it was hotter than any desert I've traveled in."
"I take it that you aren't from this world? Well… that should be said none the less, since you wield a Keyblade. Who did you study under?"
"A Key-what-now?"
"So you don't even know what a Keyblade is? You aren't even trained… most peculiar…," the Master's face turned serious.
"Well, I get attacked by these creatures called 'Heartless', and I just swing away at them."
"So you know what a Heartless is, huh?"
"No. I don't."
But then how do you know what they are called in the first place?"
Sam hesitated.
(Hey, Micheal. Are you sure that we should trust them?), Sam asks him.
(Yeah. They are good people, trust me. They just don't know you. I'm pretty sure if you just be honest about yourself, that they will accept you.), Micheal replies.
(Man, you're making me break a bunch of rules. But this is your world and I trust you.), Sam responded back.
As soon as Sam was about to introduce himself to everyone, the door that Naminé went through suddenly opened up and out came a teen with spikey, round, blonde hair.
The Master looked at Roxas as his facial expression quickly changed into a smile, " Ah, Roxas! I'm glad that you have woken up. You look better."
Roxas felt awkward about the treatment the Master is giving him, "Yeah. Thanks."
Roxas shifted his attention towards Sam, "So, um, who is he?"
Master Yen Sid looked back at Sam, "That's what we want to we want to find out. But he won't tell us. Not even a name…"
Sam suddenly began to move as he reached his hood. The Keyblade wielders behind him quickly materialized their Keyblades in an instinctive reaction to his sudden movement. Sam stopped as the tip of each Keyblade was pointed at his head, but after a second's worth of hesitation he took off his hoodie.
He finally introduced himself, "My name is Sam."
"Naturally, I wouldn't tell you who and/what I am. But, this isn't a "naturally" situation anymore," Sam explained with a soft smile, "I am an outsider as you suspect Master Yen Sid, but I am not from any world that you know of. I am much further than that. I come from another universe. There are many universes other than this one."
Master Yen Sid understood very well, "Ah, I see. It is similar to our guidelines of being a Keyblade Wielder. We do not reveal ourselves to other universes, but we complete our business in other worlds as discretely as possible."
"Yes. But sometimes I make a few exceptions, for example—," Sam was explaining but was unexpectedly cut off by a door swinging open all of a sudden.
A blunette came running in a hurry as she was very tardy to meet with the Master.
"Sorry, Master! I woke up late and I quickly had to get dressed and—," Aqua suddenly stopped when she noticed what was going on in the room.
She became overjoyed when she saw Sam standing in the middle. She walked over to him and poked him to see if he was real, and when she knew that he was, she hugged him tightly.
"It is you!" Aqua told him in a surprised tone.
"Yep," Sam had a sad and nervous smile on him, "it's me.'
"But how did you escape from the Realm of Darkness?" Aqua questioned Sam with a surprised tone.
Everybody's, except Sam's and Aqua's, eyebrows raised to high as they were hit with the surprising fact.
Sam held a disappointing smile as he closed his and gave out a sigh of disappointment.
"That… that is a bit of a story to tell…," Sam replied.