A/N: This chapter brings us directly into the Reconnect: Kingdom Hearts universe. This chapter takes place two days after the last chapter of "The Second Darkness".
It was dawn on the Destiny Islands. Riku was walking to Sora's front door when it opened, revealing a spiky haired blond boy about Sora's age at the door.
"Hey, Ven, have you seen Sora?" Riku asked curiously.
"Yeah he's in his room. He's acting a little…strange." Ven said, concerning Riku.
"Strange, how?" He asked.
"He said he had a weird dream last night but he can only remember a few parts of it. Something about seven people. It's kinda left him weirded out." Ven replied.
"Odd." Terra said as he approached with Aqua and Kairi.
"What do you think Aqua?" Ven asked.
"You guys want me to check on him?" Aqua asked.
"You're the only other Master here besides Sora." Riku said as Aqua nodded.
"Alright, I'll talk to him." Aqua said as she walked inside. She climbed the stairs to the second floor of the house, and then approached the door to Sora's room before knocking gently.
"Sora, are you alright?" Aqua asked.
"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine. Come on in if you don't mind a messy room." Sora replied through the door as Aqua opened the door and slowly entered. Sora was sitting at his desk writing on some notebook paper. Aqua glanced at one paper curiously and saw it was some form of list and her name was on it but she ignored it, respecting Sora's privacy.
"Ven says you're acting strange this morning. Something about a weird dream?" Aqua asked as she sat down on the edge of Sora's bed.
"It's the strangest thing. I don't remember all of it but there are some things I do remember of it. Take a look for yourself." Sora said as he handed Aqua the paper she had glanced at when she first entered. It was a list of titles, all numbered one through thirteen, and next to them were names or question marks. The first on the list was...
"The Wandering Master. Why is my name written next to it?" Aqua asked.
"Because you wandered in darkness for over ten years and you're a Keyblade Master." Sora replied, focusing on the paper he was writing on, scratching his head as he wrote. Aqua bobbed her head slightly, seeing the logic and how it fit in his reasoning. She then moved onto the second.
"The Fractured Heart. I suppose that means Ven, considering his Heart was fractured in two and attached to yours for over ten years." Aqua said as Sora mumbled a partially absent "uh-huh" and continued focusing on the paper in front of him. Aqua then moved onto the third.
"The Lingering Sentiment as Terra and the Key of Destiny as Roxas I can see, along with Xion as the Replica and Axel as the Nobody. But who are these others? The Forgotten Master, the Lost King, the Witch?" She asked curiously. Sora then turned in his seat to look towards her.
"I thought at first the Forgotten Master was either Xehanort or maybe Master Eraqus, but the more I thought about either of them, the more I felt like they didn't fit. The Lost King…I have no idea. The Witch, at first I thought was Namine, but I'm still not sure about her." Sora said as Aqua looked at the other words. She saw Eraqus and Xehanort's names had been written next to "The Forgotten Master" but had been scratched out with question marks next to them. Namine's was still next to "the Witch" but also with a question mark. The Emptiness, Assassin, Hero, Lost King, and Apprentice, only had question marks next to them.
"Why are you writing these down? If it was just a dream, then why worry about this?" Aqua asked.
"Because it's just hanging on my mind, you know? It's one of those, I tried ignoring it but I just…can't." Sora said, turning back to the paper in front of him. Aqua was now curious as to what he was writing now. She assumed that it was more of the same list but as she got up and looked over his shoulder, she noticed it was something completely different. Written at the top of the paper was what appeared to be a name followed by numerous attempts of Sora's at trying to reorganize the letters.
"Mognid K. Threas?" Aqua asked curiously.
"I don't really know. It's the last thing from the dream I remember. The name Mognid K. Threas. I have no idea who this Mognid guy is, or if he even exists." Sora said as Terra stepped into the doorway, a half-eaten banana in hand.
"Mognid K. Threas?" Terra asked while chewing.
"Terra, don't talk with your mouth full." Aqua said with a smirk.
"Yes mom." Terra grumbled as he swallowed.
"Okay if that's the way you're gonna be about it, you can stop slouching too." Aqua retorted.
"Anyway, who's this Mognid guy?" Terra asked, ignoring Aqua's comment and slouching intentionally.
"No clue. See if you can take a crack at it?" Sora said, handing Terra the paper. Terra leaned against the doorframe, taking another bite of the banana as he looked at the paper.
"It's an anagram that's for sure." Terra said, again while chewing.
"Are you sure?" Aqua asked curiously.
"I've still got some memories of Xemnas and Xehanort. Remember, Xemnas named all the members of Organization XIII by giving them all anagrams of their original selves only adding the letter X to it before rearranging the letters. So I think I have some experience. The thing with this one is, I don't think there are extra letters. Also, I'd remove the punctuation. Sometimes that middle initial is part of one of the words." Terra said, holding the paper in the same hand as the banana and picking up a pen off Sora's desk, rewriting the name as "Mognidk Threas" then handing the paper back to Sora.
"I'm beginning to think it's nothing. I can't even remember what it has to do with my dreams." Sora said as he looked at the rewritten name for a second before writing something beneath Terra's entry then pausing, looking at it curiously.
"Huh. Will you look at that?" Sora said as he showed Aqua and Terra the paper. They both seemed mildly surprised by what Sora had written.
"Looks right to me. I can't think of any other words that could be spelled with those letters." Terra said as Sora looked at the paper again.
"And as for what it has to do with your dreams, I can easily see how it relates. You're a Keyblade Master and that's just one of the things you've sworn to protect. The fact you dreamt about it just goes with the territory." Aqua said as Sora nodded.
"Yeah, maybe my brain just came up with some kinda fun little puzzle for me to solve. I still have no idea about that other list though." Sora said as Aqua shrugged but Terra was confused.
"List, what list?" Terra asked.
"Nothing important, really. Probably another of those puzzles, like this one." Sora said, putting both papers back on the desk next to each other.
"If you don't think it's important, then it probably isn't." Aqua said as Sora nodded and stood up from his desk.
"Yeah, maybe you're right. Come on, we're wasting daylight and there's a beach waiting for us!" Sora said as he, Aqua, and Terra ran out the door. A few minutes later however, a Corridor of Darkness opened in the middle of his room, depositing a lone hooded figure dressed in a solid white variation of the Organization XIII robes but with a single yellow eye peering out from the left side of the hood. The figure looked at the papers on Sora's desk curiously for a moment before picking up the paper with the anagram.
"Mognid K. Threas…hmm." The figure said, a woman's voice coming from within as she scanned down the page until she reached Sora's final attempt.
"Clever boy. Perhaps, too clever." The figure said as she placed the anagram paper back where it was, taking care to put it back exactly the way it was before she noticed the strange list. She looked at it carefully, glaring disdainfully at the lines marked "the Forgotten Master" and "the Apprentice," before noticing "the Witch" and Sora's marking Namine next to it but with a question mark.
"On the other hand, he might be useful…and I know just how to use him." The figure said as she opened a Corridor of Darkness and disappeared. Written at the bottom of the anagram paper were a number of lines drawn from Terra's attempt of "Mognidk Threas", the lines denoting where the letters went when rearranged, spelling out two simple words which, on their own meant nothing, but together meant a lot more…
"Mognidk Threas."
"Kingdom Hearts."
End Chapter 34.
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