Later in the evening Sora and Kairi arrived at their apartment and where forced to sneak into their beds as Goofy, Donald and Daisy where already asleep. That night Sora had a dream. He was standing alone on a stain glass platform like the one from to haunting vision he had had three years back on Destiny Islands. A thick dark mist lapped violently at his feet like a hideous wave. He felt very lonely, standing there like an empty shell. Yet he wasn't alone, Huddling in the centre of the floor, in the foetal position sat an old friend from Sora's past. The boy had puffy blue pants, a yellow shirt and silvery white hair, 'Riku?' Sora asked him. Riku looked up at Sora with a terrified look on his face. It was obvious he had been crying, 'Riku what's wrong? Where are we?' Riku shuddered and whimpered to his old buddy, '...Nowhere' he said, 'Huh?' '...This is it Sora- Nowhere and nothing. This; is the future!' He began to sway back and forth, 'Riku! What do you mean? What future?' 'Our future Sora! THE future, all futures! The future of all worlds!' Suddenly there was a blood curdling scream from the darkness and Riku leapt and grabbed Sora by the leg, 'Don't let them take me Sora! Please!' Sora, confused stumbled back and Riku let go, 'I shall see you again my friend' Riku gave a glum smile as Sora began to fade from sight. Riku turned to face whatever had given the scream and drew his sword into attack position. Sora spotted something coming towards the teen but could not work out what. It was if the thing wasn't even there, it was like a rift in time, an invisible beast. Riku yelled at the thing and charged into it, he was knocked back and landed close to Sora, 'Riku!' Riku turned and looked in Sora's direction and smiled before his skin and muscle flaked away and his grey skeleton collapsed into dust, 'Riku! NOOO!' 'I will see you again Sora, I shall see you again...'

Sora woke with a start, Keyblade in hand; sweat dribbling over his tense body. He took a deep breath to calm down, 'Riku' he moaned. His best friend was gone for good now! Last he had seen of Riku, Riku had helped him and King Mickey seal Kingdom Hearts, with Riku inside. And now it seemed all hope was lost in bringing him back. Sora got up out of his bed and went to get a glass of water. Out in the kitchen he poured himself one and quickly gulped it down, 'Can't sleep either Sora?' came Kairi's voice. Sora jumped and turned to see his girl sitting in her pyjamas on the couch. He sat down next to her and hugged her tight, 'What's keeping you awake?' he asked her, 'I'm not sure... There's something not quite right about tonight' 'Tell me about it!' Sora exclaimed showing her that the Keyblade had thought that evil was near enough for it to appear in Sora's hands. They sat together for a few minutes before they both dozed off. BOOM! Sora was awoken by a huge blast extremely early that morning, 'What the?' he leat up and soon found Kairi at his side, 'What was that?' she asked and then stopped. Staring out he window the two teens gasped in horror. Traverse town was being destroyed! Huge red meteors were crashing down and colliding with the city. People were screaming and dieing in the street as strange glowing red creatures chased after them with cruel looking scimitars!