"So Isa, what will you do now?" Lea asked him.
"What do you mean?"
"Well now that we've cleaned Twilight Town up, we're gonna be heading off to a new world. But it's not like you can help us with this restoring business."
"So soon. I was hoping to hang out some more."
"Aw come on. Back in the day it was always like 'hurry up Lea,' 'we need to go, Lea,' 'quit wasting time, Lea.' Always so impatient."
"Don't forget 'Lea, we don't have time for this,'" Ventus added. "I'm pretty sure that's verbatim." Isa laughed. It was a shocking experience for Sora, who had never seen an actual laugh from him before. He'd seen Saix laugh, but that had been cruel and meant to spite.
"If you must move on, I do have a place I ought to go."
"Then go. Sheesh get out of here." Lea flapped a hand. Isa turned to go.
"And Isa, don't go becoming a darkness again, okay? I like my friends when they're not all possessed and crazy."
Lea turned away so that if Isa looked back, he wouldn't see Lea's face. However this meant Lea had a perfectly good view of Sora and Ventus, who were both grinning at him.
"Oh come on you two," he grumbled. As Isa went one way, they headed off in the other direction. Once away from people, they exited the world. Even though they were right outside the world, Isa was nowhere in sight. No matter how many times they looked back at the world as they left it behind, he did not appear.
After a while, Lea heaved a big sigh.
"Ahhhhhh. Feels good to be alone again, doesn't it?"
"Lea, he's your friend. It's okay to admit you missed him," Ventus said.
"Yeah Lea."
"But that's just it. I didn't. He had become so… different. Like he wasn't even him anymore. Heh. I guess that's because he wasn't. But I had Roxas and Xion. And Namine. You know? And now I've got you guys, and I guess… I don't know. It's like I don't know how to be friends with him anymore."
"You'll figure it out. You've got plenty of time," Ventus told him. Sora, meanwhile, had stopped in his tracks and looked like he was thinking hard.
"What? Something wrong kiddo?"
"Well, I was thinking I'd heard you say we were your friends now. But we all know that can't be right."
"Oh you. Besides, I never said anything about being friends with you. I just said I've got you guys. And boy what an unfortunate person I am. All alone, lost in an emptiness devoid of worlds, and all I've got is you two goofballs. What a nightmare this has been."
"Well, Isa may have forgotten how to translate Lea-an, but I think I'm getting the hang of it," Ventus said. "Sora, he just told us that we're some of his best friends after Roxas, and that he's really glad to have met us. And he would have been really lonely by himself, so he's really glad we're around, and he feels really lucky to have friends like us. Am I right?"
"No!" Lea said emphatically.
"I got the same thing!" Sora exclaimed. "Man, are our translators spot on or what?"
"I think I'm going to get an ulcer hanging out with you two," Lea said. "Though I suppose you guys are good for tickling…"
Sora and Ventus exchanged a look and took off running. Lea chased after them, yelling for them to stop, to come back, to just let him tickle them already. Nothing slowed them down.
"Hey guys, I found another world heart!"
Nuh-uh. They weren't falling for that trick.
"No really! Guuuuuuuys!"
Sora and Ventus ran on, until Lea was just a speck in the distance. Which didn't mean he was far at all in this place.
"What do you think?" Ventus panted. "Was he telling the truth?"
"You find out."
Ventus cautiously approached Lea. Sora remained a few steps behind him, ready to book it again at the drop of a hat. But there was no trickery involved. Lea really had found another world.