I walk around the streets of this odd town. So far, I've seen nobody... not even lights from those lamps... It just feels like this is a ghost town. But of course, there's no such thing as ghosts. Whatever if they exist or not, I don't give any care to that matter. WHERE am I?

"So, there you are!"

I turn myself fast, surprised. It was that mouse again... he ended here, too?

"Where is this place?...It feels out of any life," I ask him. "And how did we ended here?"

He turns himself and looks around the place. "This has to be Traverse Town. I'm positive about that. The town of lost souls, where people from destroyed worlds ends up here, if they survive." The city of lost souls? If their worlds are destroyed?...Wait...I remember, now! I once came to this town!...I met Sora there, while he was with those two guys... How come I wasn't able to remember that before?...That's where Maleficent crapped this idea in my mind... she convinced me that I was now lacking any true friends... Tch... Sure, I was, thanks to her... and me.

"Well, I gotta find a way to my island now...know any way or two?" He didn't answered. Is he even listening to me? "Uh... ..."

"Call me Mickey," he said, noticing I didn't even knew what to call him. "What's your name?"

"Riku," I answered. "Well, now that we're introduced, care to tell me how to get back to my island? My friends are waiting for me there."

"Well, no...got no idea, we don't have a Gummi Ship," he answered. A gummi ship?...Now what kind of name is that for a ship? That sounds pretty kiddish...well, looking at the mouse, can make the link. "Then we're stuck here forever or something?"

He turns and said, "Not exactly. There's some other ways to get to my castle." He lifts his thumb. "Just leave it to me!"

Riiight... my entire chances of finding my home depends on a mouse. Heck am I done for.

"Riku, do you have a weapon?" A weapon?... "Yeah...I think....what for?" With a serious look on his face, he answers, "'Cause the only way we're goin' home's gonna include some fighting." Fighting? Against what?...

"Who would we ever fight anyway?" He says a word familiar, a word that haunts my memories ever since I broke free of the control of darkness... a word of something I both manipulated, AND got manipulated by...

The Heartless...