Chapter 6: First Enemy

Sora, Donald, and Pluto strolled on a road that never seemed to end. They had a funeral for their good friend, and they felt horrible. If you were to get near the three, you would feel the sadness flowing everywhere. Sora felt the worst too. He was strong enough, he could have saved Goofy.

My Keyblade is powerful enough to get rid of those Heartless who killed him. I could have gotten rid of them, I mean, isn't that what it's made for? Isn't it the Keyblade's destiny to save and destroy all evil? Donald didn't feel any better, he too had lost a friend, and his staff,

"Maybe, maybe our journey meant nothing at all?" Donald muttered sadly,

"Aw, don't say that. Goofy wouldn't want us to think that way. He'd want us to try our hardest to lock the Door to the Light. We have to go on, get rid of this enemy, save Riku, and close the door. That's on our to-do-list." Sora said counting his fingers. He looked up, "Then, won't Goofy come back to life? If the door locked away forever, won't everything the Heartless destroyed come back?" Donald's eye's widened, and smiled, which is a big thing, for him,

"Of course! Goofy will wake up, in his gra-" suddenly, stopped, and turned around, "We gotta save Goofy!" Donald began to run, but Sora stopped him,

"We've been walking for 2 days from the gravesite. We'd waste time going back. He'll awake, and then find his way out. Ok, here's my promise: When all of this is settled, instead of going back home automatically, we'll go here and get him."

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Sora went into his sleeping bag, and was about to fall asleep, when Kairi began talking,

"Sora! I'm so glad you're ok, but, you brought your friends, and one died. I'm so sorry about Goofy. Sora,"

"Kairi, I know I made a mistake. I should have stayed with my friends, not go alone. They aren't going home like I thought before, and now I have to protect the two that are left."

"Ok. I miss you at home. Everyone's there, and they think that they just woke up from the storm. Tidus got his dad to buy him a real sword! Last time you saw him he was 12, but now he's 14. Hey, when's your 16th Birthday?" Sora shook his head,

"I remember, I was 14 when I left. When I got to Neverland, I turned 15, but I was so busy, I forgot! I'll be 16 in a few months." Kairi smiled, turned around, and dissolved away.

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Sora woke with a start, he was laying below a loud plane! Quickly, he grabbed Donald who was still sleeping, and pulled him out of the way before the spaceship hit him,

"HEY! Who are you?!" Sora said taking out his Keyblade, he looked at it, seeing that it was still on Oathkeeper mode. Before the door opened, he decided to switch to Oblivion, since it was stronger. Out came a Defender, "Finally! More Heartless! Say you're prayers!" He lifted Oblivion, "Graviga!!" He quickly hit the Defender, but it blocked the move easily,

"Auraghaugh!" it yelled, and pulled out a Mage Staff,

"Hey! Donald's staff!" he was cut off,

"STOPAGA!" it chanted, and Sora was frozen in time instantly, "HARHAHRHARA!" it yelled loudly, loudly enough to wake up a duck…

"My Staff!!" He yelled, staring at his 'Save the Queen' beauty, "Oh…you're gonna get it! That's MY Staff!" he jumped onto the Heartless, and quickly started hitting it's weak spot, it's back, "AAAARHG!" he screamed, and finally punched through the shell, and inside, was an ugly black ghost, "AAARRGH!" Donald screamed to it, as he grabbed it, pulled it out, and began stamping on it with all his power, when he was done, he looked at the dead Heartless, and took the staff from the limp hands, and smiled in victory,

"Wow, remind me not to make you angry!" Sora said wakening from his frozenness, "Hey, what's that thing in the Defender's Lion Shield mouth? It's a bottle!"

"You take care of that, I think I have an idea with this thing…look! This ship is loaded with symbols used in Hollow Bastion! This came from there, so it came from another world! We can take it there!" he looked at Sora with pride, but he saw that Sora was deeply engulfed in this letter.