It was the crack of dawn. The lights of Traverse Town had dimmed and died. The six companions had waked up early for them to get ready for there adventure.
"Sora, where is the portal?" Riku asked while putting his boots on.
"Its in a small alley at the back of the street where we were attacked by Behemoth." Sora said waiting for everyone.
"Ohh, I see then that would be easy then to get there. There would be much interruptions from the heartless since there is now sunlight." Lex said swinging his oathkeeper blade.
"What do you mean?" King Mickey asked.
"Well, people said that heartless don't like the light and prefer the darkness." Riku explained and opened the door.
"Lets go."
"Right" They all muttered and slipped outside.
There was much chatter outside and there were many people around. They continued to move on through the crowds.
"Riku, I need to ask you something." Sora said looking at his best friend beside him.
"What is it, Sora?" Riku said not even glancing at Sora but looking straight ahead.
"I was wondering where did you get the keyblade from?" Sora asked.
"Why do you ask?" Riku said still not looking at Sora.
"Just curious…" Sora trailed looking at his Ultima weapon.
"I got it from Lex. He lend it to me." Riku said.
They continued to walk to the crowds of people and finally arrived at the street. The street was now full of people browsing around streets and parlors.
"Where was it? The alley?" Lex asked.
"Its around here somewhere…" Sora browsed at every open passage that he had walked passed.
Finally, with the help of his friends, they had found the small alley.
"So, were is this portal?" Riku asked. Sora and the others (except Lex) moved forward at least a meter and Sora pointed.
"Its over there, Riku." Donald said turning his head back to Riku.
"But all I see is a Trinity Mark and I know it's not a portal." Riku said shaking his head.
"No Riku, inside the trinity mark is a portal. A portal to the World Terminus." Mickey said.
"Okay… But how can we access the portal?" Lex asked as he emerged behind them, leaning against a wall.
"Well gawrsh, tell them Sora. In fact you were the one who access the portal." Goofy said matter-of-factly.
"Yeah, well all I have to do is…" Sora started as he moved a bit more closer to the mark and then suddenly his keyblade glowed and raised it self. The blade was being pulled forcefully to the trinity mark. It flew quickly dragging Sora with it. There was big thud. Sora let go of the blade and it dropped down.
"Well… that's all. That's what happens to access the portal." Sora said and picked his fallen keyblade. A crack was developed after the thud.
"So where is the portal?" Riku asked.
"Umm… wait." Sora grabbed his hands and put his hand into the cracked and pushed. As he pushed, debris from the wall dropped off, revealing a glittering keyhole.
"There you go… the portal lock and all it needs is…" He picked his keyblade and slit it in the keyhole.
"My keyblade." He finished and turned the keyblade.
The ground started to shake, the wall shook lively and pieces of concrete fell down from the walls. It seemed that the shaking only happened inside the alley because the passers behind them never felt the small earthquake. Sora abruptly retrieves his key blade from the keyhole and backed off. The glittering keyhole morphed into an oval shaped portal. The surface swirled a watery wave inside. Lex and Riku looked at the portal, amazed.
"Lex, Riku, are you ready?" King Mickey asked.
"Err… alright." Riku moved forward and so did Lex.
"Riku, why don't you go in first" Sora said gesturing Riku first. Riku nodded his head and ran into the portal then he disappeared.
"Lex, your next." Donald muttered and Lex jumped into the portal.
After Lex went, Mickey then Donald and Goofy and finally Sora jumped in. The watery surface touched his skin it made him shiver and fidget. He arrived under the mini volcano that was shooting particles above him.
"So this is the World Terminus… Looks alright…" Lex wondered around observing.
"Guys, I think to get to the Hollow Bastion we have to go through that portal over there" Sora pointed to the green portal which was swirling in the air.
"That's what I can remember." Sora said and walked to the portal.
"I remember that too. And I remember that we have to go through 9 portals just to get to the Hollow Bastion portal." Donald said scratching under his beak.
"Alright, then since you too can remember we should follow you." Mickey stated.
"Okay… then we should get a move on." Riku said, going towards Sora.
"Sora, lead the way." Riku said and Sora nodded.
"So just follow me…" Sora said and jumped into the green portal.
They went across the 9 platforms and into the 9 portals which teleported them to the 9 platforms.
"This is it guys, this is the Hollow Bastion portal." Sora said standing in front of a mini volcano that erupted pink particles and floated around them.
"Now to get to Hollow Bastion, we have to jump into the volcano." Goofy said and approached the volcano. The others followed him, they gathered around in a circle.
"On three, one… two…" Mickey said and the others prepared to jump. "Three!" The six males pushed themselves up and jumped into the volcano and disappeared.