Sora woke up again. But not in his bed, nor in the black abyss with the glowing stained glass platform. He woke up in an alley way. Sora stood up to his feet and next to him was a large yellow dog with a green collar. Sora smiled at the dog while it pounced and licked Sora's face.

"Hi there. Who are you?" asked Sora to the dog. He looked at the dog's collar and read out his name. "Pluto."

"Pluto. Well nice to meet you." said Sora.

The dog seemed to smile and he ran quickly. He then stopped, as if he wanted Sora to follow him. Sora decided to do just that, and he followed him into a small quiet looking town. There were neon signs all over, and people with frowns on their faces. Sora looked around and felt scared. Really scared. This was not the island. This was not his village. He was in a different world totally.

Pluto sensed Sora's uneasyness and walked around him in circles trying to help him relax. Sora patted Pluto on the head and sat down on the stone steps.

"What happened to the island. My home, my friends, my family. What happened..." said Sora. And then, in a moment, he began to cry. He felt as if something was taken from him. Something special. He remembered how Kairi was struck down by that old man in the goatee. The look of hatred on that man's face. Sora has never seen such a horrible face. Then Riku who vanished into thin air, his fate unknown. And his parents. He ran away without even saying goodbye or anything like that. Sora felt as if he was crushed. But the question here was how did he arrive on this town? How and when? While Sora was questioning all that, he then saw Pluto walk up to someone walking towards them.

"Pluto! How many times do we have to tell you?! Don't run off without warning us!" cried the "duck" that was walking up to them. Sora was taken aback by the feathery creature that was wearing a weird blue outfit and he waddled his way to Pluto, who licked him.

"Down boy! Down." said the duck with a terrible voice. One could understand him if one would pay attention. Sora just sat there staring at the duck and he looked at Sora.

"What are you looking at kid?" asked the duck.

"Your a duck." said Sora.

"Yes, I'm a duck. What's it to you?" asked the duck.

"Your talking and your actually wearing clothes! That's sort of cool!" said Sora.

"Cool? I'm glad you think that." said the duck happily.

"I'm Sora."

"I"m Donald Duck."

"Donald. Nice to meet you." said Sora.

"So, why are you crying?" asked Donald as he sat next to Sora. He then pulled out a small bag of potato chips from his poket.

"I lost my island. I don't know how it happened." said Sora.

"Oh. Then you lost your world." said Donald.

"What?" asked Sora.

"It's been happening a lot lately. Traverse Town is a place where people go to after their worlds disapeear. You see, all this was supposed to be a secret. The worlds had to be seperated from each other but when the Heartless arrived, everything changed." said Donald.

"The what?"asked Sora.

"They are monsters that steal people's hearts. They have been going world after world taking away the light of the worlds, and sending folks to different places." said Donald.

"Then that means... my family and friends are alive?!" cried Sora.

"I don't want to get your hopes up, but perhaps. They could be in town, but I am not so sure." said Donald.

"You lost your world?"asked Sora.

"Me? Oh no, not yet. That is why I'm here. You see, don't tell anyone. I'm actually a magician. I may not look like it, but I'm studying the ancient magical arts." said Donald.

"Really?" asked Sora.

Donald nodded. "I'm here with a friend doing something. We are looking for a key you see. It's supposed to be an ancient weapon that is supposed to help us with our Heartless problem." said Donald.

"Like this one?" asked Sora as he pulled out his hand and then, the Keyblade appeared. Sora remembered how it appeared, and he wondered if it was all true. And yet, there it was in his hand. Donald watched with his eyes bugging out.

"You!? Your the one!?" cried Donald.

"The one?" asked Sora.

"We don't have time boy! We need to find Goofy and we need to act fast!" cried Donald.