A foul smell blew through his nose. Pain surging through the boy's body as he was tortured, tortured by the painful memories of the night . . . The night he came from the stars. A voice came, distant at first but coming close with every calling. It called his name, trying to bring him back from his slumber, but he knew he couldn't have been sleeping.

"Riku! Riku, wake up! NOW! They're attacking again!" The voice screamed from his left, a familiar voice. He slowly opened his eyes, pain surging through his eyelids. As he looked around, it slowly began to all come back to him.

"K. . . Kin. . . King Mickey?" The boy asked solemnly, looking up at the proud standing mouse, slashing with some kind of a sword at shadowy creatures. Keyblade. . .Keyblade. . . That word rushed through his mind, anger rising every time it was heard. "Ah! They just don't know when to stop!" He shouted, hopping to his feet and grabbing the sword near him, holding it out in front in a guarded position.

"Stand strong, we've just got to hope my message reached the others. . ." The mouse said, his voice was full of hope, it could lift the saddest spirit. The boy nodded, looking to the sky.

"Please hurry Sora. . . for our sake" Then, the creatures attacked.

Elsewhere. . .

The crash was costly. Pluto was nowhere in sight, seemed the pooch had disappeared once again. The trio was all in great pain. The first one to awaken was Donald, who found the other two knocked out, each about 50 feet away from the crash site. Each was clinging onto their weaponry like babies.

"We've been to some weird worlds, but this one takes the cake. Even Kingdom Hearts wasn't like this. . ." Donald thought to himself, looking at the completely white plains, the only structure being the large door they saw earlier. He could barely see the person which had shot them down, but he knew the guy was there.

"Sora. . . Come on! Wake up! We need to go check out that door, and I'm not going over there alone! No way am I going to meet up with that, that, CREATURE alone!"

"Uh. . . . . .wha, what? Where am I?" Sora shook his head slowly, Goofy was recovering 100 feet away as they spoke, and began walking towards them. "Oh yeah! Did we land ok?" His question was answered by the falling of debris from the ship.

"Gawrsh, I say we don't waste anymore time and go open that there "Door to the Light," Goofy barely made out, stumbling over to the other to two. Sora tried to get up, but to no avail

"Wait a second. Ack! I can't get up! This oughta help! Curaga!" Sora shouted. Suddenly, a feeling of relief and strength ran through them all. Donald shivered a bit, the feeling was still new to him. The duck then raises his staff high.

"Slicing powers of wind! Hear my cry! Protect us with your power! Aeroga!" Goofy laughed as Donald said this, a barrier of spinning white wind covered each of them. Sora now easily jumped up from his position on the ground. He nodded to the other two.

"Let's go get him guys!" Sora said, his expression becoming serious now, "It's time to get to business!" Donald and Goofy nodded at the same time, then followed him at a hard run across the white plains towards the large door.

He stood there, face to the ground, spiky hair swaying in the wind along with the bottom of his trench coat. The key chain on his Keyblade blew slowly, the blade looked like it had come from the darkness. The boy lifted his head to face the approaching gang.

"Finally, I've been waiting for you fellow Keyblade wielder. Now, I may finally get to have some fun. . ." An evil laugh escaped his throat.

"Who are you?! And why did you shoot down our Gummi Ship?!" Sora demanded, Goofy and Donald backing him up.

"I. . . Am the Gatekeeper! And this. . . is where you meet your demise! Draw arms!"