Chapter 3

The gummi ship is seen flying through space. Sora, Donald, and Goofy spot the black meteor shower.

"What is that?" Sora asked.

"I don't know, but we better watch out for it!" Donald steered the gummi ship away from on coming stars.

It's so similar to the storm before I came to Traverse Town. Could it some how be connected? Sora thought to himself.

His thoughts were broken as Donald yelled in irritation. "We were hit!" He called.

Goofy attempted to streer the ship away from the stars, both failed and the gummi ship was shot down.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" The group yelled in unison.

The gummi ship kept falling and falling.

"Steer it up Donald! C'mon!" Goofy hit off walls and bounced off another.

Donald was still holding on to the steering wheel, while Sora was being shifted around. "What do you think I'm trying to do? It's not working!"

Donald spotted the heartless ship. "Oh no! Here come heartless ships!"

The heartless ships began to shoot at the gummi ship, damaging it even more.

"There's nothing we can do, let's just crash some where." Sora was still shifting all around when he made a suggestion. "With enough luck, King Mickey might be there."

It was around evening now, and Kairi still was staring up at the sky. She spotted a black star falling. A small gasp released her mouth, she ran to find Tidus.

Tidus was just coming around the corner. "Kairi! What's wrong?"

"The heartless! The worlds have been unlocked again. Hurry, this is our only chance to escape."

Tidus gave her a puzzling look. "Let me go get Wakka."

Kairi stopped him from running. "There's no time, if we want to see Riku and Sora, we'll have to leave now."

"And leave with Wakka?"

Kairi nodded. "Now let's go."

Both children ran toward the raft they Tidus and Wakka made. Tidus pulled the sail up, and began to paddle with his hand. "Where to?"

Kairi bit her lip, she wasn't sure where to go. She decided it was best to act like she knew. "That way."

Tidus fixed the sail to go in the direction Kairi commanded. Tidus turned to look at her. "Are you sure it's that way?"

When he turned his attention away from in front of them, a black portal- like ball appeared. Kairi's jaw dropped, and she pointed at it.

"Huh?" Tidus turned toward it. "What the?" He desperately tried to turn away from it, but it was too late. The portal had consumed them.

"Where am I?" Sora opened up one eye to see a city, with many citzens walking around him. "What is this place?"

A man walked past him and grunted. "Hey, watch were you're sleeping you lousy bum."

Sora sat up and began to observe the place. "This place looks familiar." Sora recognized the structure of the buildings.

A funny looking man with spiky crazy hair walked up to him Sora. He grabbed his cheeks and pulled them out. "Yep, he's human alright!"

The man was talking to a little goat-like man. The goat man stepped up and observed Sora carefully. "Hey, wait a minute. I know you! You're that kid!"

Sora fully opened his eyes and recognized the goat man. "I know you too! You're Phil, from the Cloliseum."

"Yeah, and you're that kid. Sore or whatever? What brings you here?" The little pudgey man backed up.

Sora got to his feet. "My friends and I were going to Hollow Bastion, when our ship was hit by stars."

The crazy looking man looked around. "Let me introduce myself, I'm Icarus. Hercules' best friend I may add."

"Shut your pie hole! Anyway, look kid, we can't do anything about it." Phil scolded.

"Have you seen my friends?"

"The 2 clowns that were always with you? No, and quite frankly I don't CARE!"

Icarus pushed over Phil, "Don't listen to him. We'll see what we can do. We were just on our way to meet Hercules and the sweet, sweet, sweet, Cassandra." The man began to smack his lips. "You do know Hercules, correct?"

Sora nodded.

"Anyway, kid, welcome to Thebes. Let's go meet up with Hercules, he said he'd be at home." Icarus, Phil, and Sora began to trek over to Hercules' house.

Along the way Icarus tripped over something. "What the heck is that THING!"

Sora verified it as Donald's staff. "I know this staff, maybe Donald and Goofy are around here. Let's go over there!"

Icarus stared at Sora. "You're insane. No way! That's where the scorpion pit is. I think we should go get Hercules first."

Sora gave in. "Fine, but let's hurry."

The man atop the rooftop is still in the same position. His chin up high, looking at the shower of black stars. His arms folded in front of him. He quickly does a spin and drops down into the place below.