Chapter 5: Riku's Story
I've been here, locked in another cage, for a few weeks. If you receive this letter, please give it to Sora, the Keyblade Master.
"I've made a few mistakes, mainly opening myself to darkness just out of my curiosity to view other worlds. But this is an oversight that has claimed my life.
"When I entered Kingdom Hearts, my shell didn't come with me, because Ansem stole it to become a living, breathing, and humanlike creature again. I stayed in this Kingdom for a while, waiting for someone to find me, when Ansem came again to open it, and receive horrible darkness. Instead, he received a blinding flash of light, and somehow disappeared. I don't even know how it happened, but anyways, I finally understood that my shell was destroyed when Ansem 'died', and that this whole mess was my fault. I gave up, and then you came to save the day.
"The Door was opened, and the millions of Heartless inside were free to come out. When we closed it, I was assured that you would find the Door to the Light, and lock it. After that it'd be all over, and everything would be fixed, but I thought about all of this stuff before he came.
"He found the Door before you, and opened it. I tried my hardest to get out, expecting you to be on the other side, but He was there. Now I'm prisoner to this guy. He believes I am the greatest Heartless of them all, because I still have m heart, only it's poisoned and very weak. The only reason I haven't become a Heartless is that you and Kairi still know me, still believe in me. And you're keeping me from totally loosing it all.
"If you find this letter, know that I'm not in the Dark anymore. I'm in a prison at Hollow Bastion. Get over here, this guy is trouble. He might be in your way if you want to seal the Door to the Light!"
With that, Riku threw his letter in a bottle he got from for breakfast, and tossed it out his window. He wasn't that high, but he knew if he tried to jump, he'd defiantly get caught. Anyways, it landed on some sort of Gummi Ship, which was aimed to Sora's whereabouts. This spacecraft had some sort of power to break through the walls that closed off every planet. Riku watched as his letter was taken by a Defender Heartless, Riku had to think quickly,
"Hey! Heartless! Whatever you do, don't give that to Sora! It might kill him!" the stupid entity scratched his head, and tossed the bottle into the spacecraft.