Okay people. This is my first story on Fanfiction, so don't flame me! I am including this prologue for those idiots (no offense; you'll find I'm a very sarcastic person) who have no idea what Kingdom Hearts is about and/or have never played it. For those geniuses who have played it, this prologue just summarizes the game. You have no idea how long it took me to write down the quotes at the end! You may choose to read the prologue or you may choose not to. I can't make you do anything.
Prologue
Thousands of years ago, all worlds were separate. Nobody knew of any world but their own, nor did anybody want to know of any others. After a few centuries had passed, a young ruler of a world called Hollow Bastion began to wonder why he was put on that world and not another. The ruler, Ansem, also came to believe that darkness could consume any heart, and began multiple experiments to discover how this could be stopped before his world fell to darkness.
As part of his experiment, Ansem took the darkness from a person's heart and placed it in a pure one. He then suppressed and amplified the darkness, only to find that the hearts collapsed. He placed the people who had lost their hearts in the bottom of his castle. After a long while, he discovered creatures there that had been born of darkness. He began to wonder how these 'shadows' came to be and if they were sentient.
Ansem soon discovered that the shadows were indeed born from those who lost their hearts. They showed no emotion whatsoever. As he experimented, Ansem kept a detailed, thirteen page report of his findings. As he wrote, the shadows multiplied under the castle. He decided to name them. Ansem called those without hearts the Heartless.
The Heartless seemed to appear in groups, and when presented with living and dead organisms, they only responded to the living. Ansem found that the Heartless multiplied faster after they had taken the hearts of the living. The prey vanished after the Heartless had taken their hearts. Ansem concluded that the Heartless were born from those who lost their hearts, thrived on the hearts taken from others, and in turn those hearts became Heartless themselves. The Heartless were discovered to have intelligence, if not emotions. Ansem began to wonder how to communicate with them, and came to the conclusion that they were the darkness he had sought in people's hearts.
Ansem selected a particular Heartless for observation and it led him to the deepest, darkest place in the castle. There he discovered a door he had never noticed before. The Heartless twitched its antennae excitedly. Though the door had a keyhole, it was unlocked. Ansem eased the door open slowly and found a great mass of energy. Later that night, as he lie in bed, he witnessed a strange meteor shower and began to wonder if the door he had opened had anything to do with it.
Ansem's thoughts turned to those of the energy mass. He concluded that, because the Heartless fed on hearts and seemed to yearn for the mass, then the mass must be the core of the world- the heart of Hollow Bastion. He also concluded that the Heartless wanted that heart for something, but could not figure out why.
After some more time, he turned his attention to the meteor pieces. He had never seen anything like them. They felt elastic and bonded together easily. He could find no information in his vast library on any substance like it. He wondered, as he did a lot those days, if the pieces had anything to do with the mysterious door and the heart of Hollow Bastion.
Ansem already knew that Heartless were deeply involved with hearts. To begin to discover the mysteries of the heart, he invented a machine, which, with the right 'ingredients', successfully created a Heartless. The characteristics of the artificial and natural Heartless were almost exactly the same. Ansem marked the artificially created ones so as not to confuse them.
After he had been experimenting with the material for some time, Ansem was astonished to have a visitor from another world come to Hollow Bastion. He was king of another world. Ansem talked with the king for hours. The king's vessel was made of the material from the meteors, which he called gummi blocks. A particular story caught Ansem's interest. The visiting king told a story of a key named Keyblade. It had the power to unlock or lock any door. He had two versions of the tale, one of which had its wielder save the world, but the other tale told of how the wielder destroyed the world. Ansem was soon consumed. He had to find this Keyblade.
Ansem finally concluded that the Heartless, as they were born from the darkness in hearts, wanted to return to the heart of worlds. He suspected that the heart of a world was also the world of the Heartless. He decided to set off in search of the Keyblade wielder and the seven princesses that would unlock the Final World. As his body was now too frail to complete the journey, he cast it away and opened his heart to the darkness.
He soon came to find that when the door that led to the heart of a world was opened, the walls around it collapsed, causing what looked like a meteor shower, thus allowing the ability to travel between worlds. He concluded that once the Keyblade closed a door, the world was no longer accessible to outsiders. He had to do something about it. He wondered how close of a bond the princesses and Keyblade had. He chose a special young girl, not knowing if she possessed the same power as the princesses. He hoped that she would direct him to the wielder of the Keyblade. He kidnapped her and cast her off to another world.
When his body perished, Ansem became merely a heart. He had expected to come back as a Heartless, but he sensed no sign of any such changes. He still had memories, unlike the Heartless. He learned of a world that was connected to all hearts. This world was called Kingdom Hearts. It was connected to the world of darkness. This was where all hearts were born. He found four kinds of worlds- the present world, the world of darkness, the world of light and the world in-between. Ansem wondered which one contained true paradise.
Ansem wondered where the body went after being cast from the heart. Did the body and soul perish? Did all worlds spawn Heartless? There must have been another equivalent of every person in each world. Not of light, not of dark, but an in-between existence. He called these people the non-existent ones. His obsession with these ideas led to the fall of Hollow Bastion to the Heartless, causing his people to flee for their lives.
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After Ansem began his journey, another world was about to fall to the same darkness. On a world called Destiny Islands, three friends began to wonder as Ansem had- why had they been put on this world? If other worlds existed, they could have easily ended up on another, right? Riku and Sora had been born and raised on the island, but their friend Kairi had appeared following a strange meteor shower. Kairi could remember nothing about where she came from. The trio decided to build a raft and travel to another world, maybe even Kairi's.
Before the raft was built, Sora had been having strange thoughts. Thoughts like "is any of this for real or not". He thought of seeing Riku, hand offered for Sora to follow him, both of them being engulfed by water, Sora trying to swim to Riku, only to be swept away. He thought of emerging from the sea, Kairi standing on the beach calling and waving to him, him approaching her, a strange look appearing on her face, both of them looking up to the sky, seeing Sora falling from the sky into the ocean, Kairi grabbing for the Sora on the beach as he fell into the water, him sinking into darkness, and finally landing on a platform. As he landed, doves began flying up from the ground, revealing a picture of a woman in a yellow dress with black hair. He was offered a choice of three powers: The power of the guardian presented in the form of a shield, the power of the mystic in the form of a staff, and the power of the warrior in the form of a sword. He selected the sword, but was forced to surrender another power. He surrendered the power of the guardian. The floor fell away around him, and he fell to another platform with a picture of a woman with brown hair and a blue gown. He looked around. His new sword suddenly appeared in his hands. After giving it a swipe, a Heartless appeared in front of him. Sora stared at it for a few seconds, and more appeared. He attacked one, destroying it in three hits. The others left in fear, except one, which snuck behind him. Sora destroyed it and those that appeared afterwards easily. The last Heartless turned into a pool of black, which spread, swallowing Sora. He was on another pink and white platform, a door on one side. He stood up, since he landed on his back. He couldn't open the door since it was transparent, so he went to investigate a chest that had suddenly appeared. After opening that, he broke open a crate that had appeared, causing the doorframe to become solid. He picked up and tossed a barrel, causing the door to become fully solid. He went through the door and was suddenly back on Destiny Islands. Sora looked around at his friends Wakka, Tidus, and Selphie. They each asked a question about his personality and after he answered was once again swept off the island on to a platform with a blonde woman in a blue dress printed on it. Sora walked to the middle of the platform and was instantly surrounded by Heartless. He destroyed them, one after the other. A green circle appeared on the floor, allowing him to heal himself. Sora then followed a long staircase to another platform. Halfway up, he looked back only to discover that the steps he had already stepped off of disappeared. As he walked to the
middle of the other platform, a brunette woman in a yellow dress printed on the floor, he gazed at a light high above him. As he did, a voice told him, "The closer you get to light the greater your shadow becomes." Sora quickly looked behind him, and was shocked to see his shadow become three-dimensional and grow. As it grew Sora ran to where the stairs had been, only to find that they had all disappeared. He turned to face the threat, and was amazed to find a hole in its torso shaped like a heart. The voice spoke to him again, saying "But don't be afraid. And don't forget…" Sora then attacked the monsters hand continuously. After his defeat, the giant Heartless began pounding the ground, causing Sora to fall over and black pools to form where the monster hit. As he was consumed by shadow, Sora heard the voice once more. It said "- But don't be afraid. You hold the mightiest weapon of all. So don't forget: You are the one who will open the door." Sora awoke to find Kairi standing over him on the beach.
Sora did not know whether he had been dreaming or not. Anyway, the trio spent the rest of the day building the raft. The day after that, Sora looked for food for the trip. He looked for mushrooms in a cave that he and his friends called Secret Cave. He was surprised to meet a shadowy figure in there. It said, "This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness…soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little." When Sora replied that he was going out to learn everything he could and asked who the stranger was, the figure replied "A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing," and vanished. That night, a storm suddenly formed over the islands. Sora rushed to check on the raft, only to find that Riku and Kairi beat him to it. Shadows began popping up around Sora. He ran to find Riku on the mini island nearby. A red and black orb had formed over it. Riku said something about the door now being open, being able to go to another world, but maybe never seeing their parents again. Riku extended his hand in invitation, just like in the 'dream', but Sora refused, and in doing so, resulted in Riku being consumed by shadow and leaving without him. A huge key suddenly appeared in Sora's hands. He slashed at a shadow that had appeared, destroying as he had done in the 'dream'. He was amazed. Sora left to look for Kairi, destroying any shadows that crossed his path. He found Kairi in Secret Cave, the entrance to which had been replaced by doors. She looked faint, whispered "Sora…" and went through him like a phantom. He was blown back outside by a strong wind to the mini island, but Riku had been replaced by the giant Heartless, named Darkside, and the orb high above the island. Sora easily defeated him, only to be sucked up into the orb, off to another world, called Traverse Town.
Sora awoke to find a large dog washing his face. The dog ran away and Sora was left alone. He went into the Accessory Shop where he met Cid, one of the people who had fled from Hollow Bastion. Sora explained what had happened and Cid told him that he'd look after Sora if he didn't find Riku and Kairi. Sora left to explore Traverse Town. When he went into the Second District, Sora was frightened to see a man run out of a shop. He fell onto the ground and, with a gasp and a shocked look on his face, had his heart pulled from his chest. A Soldier Heartless popped up in front of him and disappeared. Sora found more Heartless as he explored. Eventually Sora returned to the Accessory Shop to heal himself and talk to Cid. When he left, a man in black clothes approached him. He said something about the Keyblade, wondered aloud why it would choose a kid like Sora, and demanded to see it. Sora told him there was no way he would get it, and in doing so was challenged. The man, named Squall Leonheart, preferably called Leon, was one of Cid's friends. Leon defeated Sora quickly. Leon's friend Yuffie came and helped take Sora to the hotel they were staying at. Leon told Yuffie that things seemed much worse than they had thought. When Sora regained consciousness, Yuffie and Leon explained about the Heartless and the Keyblade. Next door, Aerith, yet another Hollow Bastion escapee, told the same story to a mage named Donald and a knight named Goofy. They had been sent by King Mickey, who had left his kingdom to investigate why stars were going out at the rate they were and coincidentally was the same king who went to Hollow Bastion. They were to find the Keyblade and its wielder and to protect him on his or her journey. Sora opened a chest on the table with the Keyblade. A Soldier Heartless suddenly appeared in the room and Leon told Yuffie to run. As she charged through the door that connected the two rooms, she squashed Donald between the door and wall, as he was about to go through. Aerith exclaimed "Yuffie?" and followed. Leon threw the Heartless out the window and he and Sora jumped out after it. Leon told Sora to find the leader, whatever that meant, and left Sora to fend for himself. He went to the Third District. Goofy and Donald came out of a store one level above Sora and were greeted by Heartless. When they tried to fight them, the Heartless threw Goofy and Donald over the edge and they landed on top of Sora. They immediately recognized the Keyblade and the threesome were engaged in battle with Soldier Heartless. After the defeat of the Soldier Heartless, a huge Heartless made of armor challenged them. The trio fought the Heartless and decided they would stick together until they had sealed all the keyholes and rid the worlds of Heartless.
Their adventures took them to: Wonderland, where they met the first princess, Alice, and proved her innocence for attempting to steal the Queen of Hearts' heart, although Ansem kidnapped her during the fight that broke out after the trial; the Deep Jungle, where they met a man named Tarzan who was raised by gorillas and they saved the gorillas from both Heartless and a poacher named Clayton who had opened his heart to the darkness; the Coliseum, where they competed in multiple tournaments, fighting Heartless, Leon, Yuffie, Hercules, Hades (who was in league with Ansem), Cerberus (Hades' three-headed dog), two titans, another Hollow Bastion escapee named Cloud Strife, and Cloud's enemy Sephiroth who was the strongest opponent in all the worlds, even stronger than Ansem; Agrabah, where they met another princess named Jasmine, but she was taken by Jafar who was another helper of Ansem and later fought Kurt Zisa, a robotic Heartless which spun blades, switched back and forth between disabling Sora's magic and disabling his physical attacks, and had a head which looked like a cobra; they were swallowed by Monstro, the whale, and found a puppet with a heart, Pinocchio, his 'father' Geppetto, and Riku, but he refused to join Sora, Donald, and Goofy; Halloween Town, where the trio met Jack Skellington, who wanted to use the Heartless for a Halloween festival, found the instructions for the machine Ansem had invented to create Heartless artificially, and battled Oogie Boogie (yet another assistant of Ansem); they went to Atlantica, an underwater world of mermaids and fish, and met a mermaid princess named Ariel and her father, King Triton, who knew of the Heartless, Keyblade and even who Sora and his friends were, and did battle with Ursula, a fourth assistant of Ansem; they went to Neverland, where they met Peter Pan and his pixie friend Tinkerbell who taught the trio to fly and glide, found Kairi, and fought Captain Hook, the fifth villain, but lost Kairi again; and finally they went to Hollow Bastion itself.
Sora met a prince there, who was turned into a monster named Beast, but Sora lost the Keyblade to Riku, the true wielder, and Donald and Goofy abandoned Sora. Sora and Beast found Riku again and the Keyblade, Donald and Goofy returned to Sora since Riku had turned to darkness. After climbing to the top of Hollow Bastion, Sora and company then had to fight Maleficent, Ansem's right-hand assistant. After that battle, Riku unlocked the darkness in her heart with a special Keyblade, and Maleficent was turned into a dragon, which Sora, Goofy, and Donald had to slay. After the final battle, a heal point appeared where the first battle with Maleficent occurred as well as a pathway leading to another battle with Riku. When the trio got there, they found the Princesses of Heart- Belle, Snow White, Aurora, Alice, Cinderella, Jasmine, and Kairi, much to Sora's surprise. Sora found Riku on a platform with Kairi. Riku told Sora that Kairi's heart was in Sora's and Riku tried to unlock it. Sora refused to let him and had to battle him alone since a wall prevented Goofy and Donald from helping. The battle allowed the princesses to go free. After the battle, Sora picked up Riku's Keyblade and unlocked his heart. Kairi awoke and Sora disappeared in a shower of stars. Ansem then came to Kairi, Goofy and Donald and was about to destroy them, but Riku, whose body was being possessed by Ansem, resurfaced and prevented Ansem from attacking until Kairi and the others got away. After Ansem left, a Shadow Heartless emerged. This Heartless was Sora, and he followed his friends' path. He reunited with them in the entrance hall of Hollow Bastion. Donald bopped Sora on the head with his staff and told him to leave them alone, but Kairi knew it was Sora. Real Heartless attacked and Kairi protected Sora, who then remerged as himself, clutching Kairi close to him.
Sora and company took Kairi back to Traverse Town, where they found out that Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Cid, Kairi, and Ansem were all from Hollow Bastion. Kairi was left with Leon and the others while Sora, Donald and Goofy returned to Hollow Bastion to seal the world. Afterwards they went back to Traverse Town to prepare for their final battle.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy went to The End of the World. They went through multiple portals to get to the final battle. They found a door and a heal space in the last room. When they examined the door, Sora heard the voice he heard in his 'dreams'. It said, "Careful. This is the last haven you'll find here. Beyond, there is no light to protect you. But don't be afraid. Your heart is the mightiest weapon of all. Remember, you are the one who will open the door to the light." Sora was the only one who could hear the voice. Sora, Donald, and Goofy went through the door together. They ran out into the light. Sora was astonished to find that they had come to Destiny Islands. Sora knew that something was wrong. Wakka, Tidus, and Selphie were nowhere to be seen, the bridge leading to the mini-island, ladders, and trees all disappeared, and Sora could not go through any doors, into the shack, or into the water. Their footsteps also made squishing sounds instead of thumps as they walked and kicked up purple dust instead of yellow sand. When they went to see the Secret Cave, something stopped them from going in. They heard Ansem speaking somewhere. He said exactly what he had said to Sora when he went to investigate the island: "This World has been connected."
"What was that?" Goofy cried as the mini island disappeared behind him.
"Tied to the darkness… soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little." Ansem paused, almost as if Sora were uttering his reply. "A meaningless effort." The island shook and more pieces of it started disappearing. "One who knows nothing can understand nothing." When Sora and his friends turned around, Riku was standing at the edge of the island, which was now in midair, and he looked out over the ocean now under the island.
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Sora, Goofy and Donald ran down to the beach where Riku stood. They stopped just before they reached the ledge.
"Take a look at this tiny place. To the heart seeking freedom, this island is a prison surrounded by water. And so this boy sought to escape from his prison. He sought a way to cross over into other worlds. And he opened his heart to darkness," Riku said, although he sounded suspiciously like Ansem. As Riku turned, he did indeed turn into Ansem.
"Riku!" Sora cried.
"Don't bother," Ansem told Sora. "Your voice can no longer reach him where he is. His heart belongs again to darkness. All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, grows, consumes it. Such is its nature," Ansem disappeared. Sora, Donald, and Goofy looked around frantically as Ansem continued. "In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came," Sora jumped back when they turned to find Ansem standing behind them. "You see, darkness is the heart's true essence."
"That's not true!" Sora exclaimed. "The heart may be weak. And sometimes it may even give in. But I've learned that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!"
Ansem raised his arms, crossed them, and rose into the air.
"So, you have come this far and still you understand nothing. Every light must fade, every heart return to darkness!" Ansem yelled ferociously, and a Heartless appeared behind him, holding him in the air and attacking for him.
Sora, Donald and Goofy vigorously fought Ansem. They defeated him easily. After his defeat, a large crater was formed in the middle of the island and Ansem and his Heartless floated to the middle of the crater. Sora healed himself with an elixir and followed in hot pursuit, Goofy and Donald obediently behind him. Sora jumped into the crater, but an invisible wall blocked Donald and Goofy.
A Darkside rose from the ground, Ansem nowhere to be found. Sora slashed at its hand, easily killing it. After the defeat, Ansem and the Support Heartless challenged Sora alone. Sora nearly passed out, he was so tired, but he managed to defeat Ansem with his Ragnorak ability.
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Everything became so dark that he could barely see Goofy and Donald.
"Wha…?" Sora cried.
"Behold the endless abyss! Within it lies the heart of all worlds: Kingdom Hearts!" Ansem yelled triumphantly. Sora looked around quickly, but could not find Ansem. "Look as hard as you are able. You'll not find even the smallest glimmer of light. From those dark depths are all hearts born. Even yours,"
Sora gazed down and was shocked to find that he, Donald, and Goofy were suspended in midair. He let out a loud gasp.
"Darkness conquers all worlds!" Ansem screamed triumphantly. A large ship made up of what looked like muscle, a head on the front and a large Heartless on the back, flew under them. Ansem was connected to it, shirtless with tendon-like cables connecting him to the ship. Sora, Donald, and Goofy fell through the air, screaming. Donald and Goofy were sucked into the depths of the ship, but Sora missed it completely and continued to fall.
"Whoa!" he screamed when he realized he missed the ship. As he fell, he thought he heard Riku talking to him.
"Giving up already? Come on, Sora. I thought you were stronger than that."
Sora fell a few more yards, and then flew back up using the glide ability he learned in Neverland. He flew right up to Ansem and drew his Keyblade. Ansem drew a double ended, double edge sword. They hacked away at each other for what seemed like hours. When Ansem could not take anymore, he withdrew into the ship, a shield covering him. A large, rainbow colored spot of plasma formed and Sora flew into it, only to appear in a dark room inside the ship with the blue Heartless symbol on the floor and filled with Shadow Heartless. He destroyed them, and a blue orb that was attached to the ship by a tendon appeared. Sora hit it three times and was amazed to find himself outside the ship again. He attacked some tentacle things attached to the outside of the ship and went through another plasma portal.
"Sora!" Goofy cried. A crowd of Darkball Heartless stood between Sora and Goofy, but the duo defeated them easily. They destroyed another orb, this time yellow, and shot out of the ship. They attacked the head (which bit at them and sent lightning bolts after them) and more tentacles that guarded it. The head settled after hundreds of hits and a portal formed in its mouth. Sora and Goofy shot through like rockets.
"Sora!" came Donald's cry. A crowd of Invisible Heartless appeared, but they were easily destroyed by Sora, Donald, and Goofy. They sliced and diced at a third red orb and shot out of the mouth just in time. They had barely cleared it when the head exploded. The main part of the ship under Ansem, which had been sealed off by an invisible wall, now opened up revealing four tentacles and a large, jelly-like thing. After defeating the tentacles and jelly monster, Ansem reemerged, and the final battle began. Sora, Donald, and Goofy slashed, cast spells, and charged Ansem for what seemed like forever, leaving only to heal themselves. Donald, Goofy, and Sora were all about to give up, when, with one spinning blow, Sora defeated Ansem.
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The ship began trembling, and then began exploding. Sora, Donald, and Goofy flew away as fast as they could towards the door to Kingdom Hearts, but Ansem was already between them and the door. He was obviously pissed off, as he was shaking and glaring at them, orange eyes glowing with hate.
"It is futile. The Keyblade alone cannot seal the door to darkness," he said quietly. He turned towards the doorway, extended his hand, and yelled to it. "Kingdom Hearts! Fill me with the power of darkness…" the doors opened slowly, shadow pouring from them. "Supreme darkness…"
"You're wrong," Sora called to Ansem. "I know now, without a doubt. Kingdom Hearts… is light!" The doors burst fully open and brought forth a brilliant light at these words. Ansem recoiled as if in pain.
"Huh… So…light! Guh… B-but why?" he said slowly. The light seemed to rip through him like a sword and he disappeared in a flash.
Sora, Donald, and Goofy landed on the ground in front of the door and ran to it.
"Come on!" Sora cried, pushing one of the doors as hard as he could. Donald and Goofy pushed the other one. Goofy took a quick glance inside and let out a terrified and surprised gasp.
"Stop staring and keep pushing!" Donald told him. He turned to look, too. "Huh?!"
"THE HEARTLESS!" Donald and Goofy screamed. They immediately began pushing harder.
"Hurry!" Donald yelled.
"I can't…" Sora gasped weakly.
"Don't give up!" Riku had appeared on the other side of the door. "Come on, Sora! Together, we can do it!"
"Okay!"
Riku began pulling the door, while Sora, Donald, and Goofy pushed. The doors were closing too slowly. Darksides had begun emerging and were making their way towards the door.
"It's hopeless!" Donald cried in despair. Suddenly, the Heartless began to explode. It was as if the Keyblade had hit them, but Sora hadn't gone near them.
"Oh?" Goofy stared into the room.
"Huh?" Donald said. A figure jumped into sight from a lower level.
"Your Majesty!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed joyously. They had finally found King Mickey.
"Now, Sora!" King Mickey called in a squeaky voice, drawing another Keyblade. "Let's close this door for good!"
"Close it, quick!" Donald urged.
"But…" Sora didn't want to leave Riku and King Mickey in Kingdom Hearts. He especially didn't want to lose Riku again.
"Don't worry," Mickey said. "There will always be a door to the light."
"Sora, you can trust King Mickey," Goofy told him reassuringly. Somehow, Sora knew that Goofy was right.
"Now! They're coming!" Riku screamed.
"Donald, Goofy, thank you." Mickey told them, looking back one last time. Sora, Donald and Goofy pushed at the door.
Just as the doors were about to close, Riku looked back at Sora, right into his eyes, and said so quietly Sora could barely hear, "Take care of her…" Sora stiffened, and finally nodded. Riku and Sora looked at each other as the door closed, and in the clunk of the doors closing, Riku and King Mickey were gone. Tears filled his eyes as Sora drew the Keyblade and locked the door. On the other side, Mickey did the same. The door disappeared as lights surrounded it. Donald, Goofy and Sora stared up after the door. Sora turned to see Kairi in the distance. She was gazing around, looking confused. Sora ran to her. Donald tried to follow, but was stopped by Goofy, who laid a hand on his shoulder as if to say "let him go…" and the two of them stared after Sora sadly as a light began to glow behind them as if calling them home.
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"Kairi!" Sora called.
"Sora!" Kairi replied. They stood by each other, when the ground began to tremble between them.
"Whoa!" Kairi screamed. Sora grabbed her hand to keep her from falling as the two of them began drifting apart.
"Kairi," Sora told her. "Remember what you said before? I'm always with you, too! I'll come back to you! I promise!" Kairi looked at him, tears welling up in her eyes.
"I know you will!" Their hands were separated, and they watched each other as they drifted farther and farther apart.
Kairi held her hands together. A spot of light landed in them, and she looked towards the sky. Lights were falling from it. Destiny Islands began popping up around Kairi. Sora was barely visible. He called something to her, but she could not hear the words. He vanished, and a bright light shone in the distance where Sora had vanished. Meteors began to fly up from the light in the water towards the sky. They formed the stars. Kairi looked out to where Sora had been a minute ago. She closed her eyes, Sora's last words echoing in her mind - I'll come back to you! I promise! And, as she opened her eyes, she knew that Sora had told her the truth.
The next day, she walked around Destiny Islands. She went into Secret Cave and gazed at the pictures she, Sora, and Riku had carved on the walls when they were little. She approached the ones that she and Sora had drawn of each other. Her heart sank as she saw what Sora had added.
A special star-shaped fruit, called a paopu fruit, had a strange power. According to legend, if two people shared one, their destinies became intertwined. Kairi could see Sora carving a hand coming out from below his head, reaching towards Kairi's head, a paopu offered to her. Kairi laid her hand on it and laughed. Tears began flowing down her face. When she left, another arm with a paopu was present, only this one extended towards Sora.
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Shortly after, Sora, Donald and Goofy were walking along a dirt road on some distant world.
"Well, now what do we do?" Donald looked at Sora, whose hands were behind his head.
"We've gotta find Riku and King Mickey," he said simply.
"But, uh, where do we start looking for that there door to the light?" Goofy asked. The trio stopped and sighed, dropping there heads and hands in despair. Sora heard something and looked up.
"Huh?" The large dog that had woken him up in Traverse Town walked out of the bushes.
"Hey, there Pluto. Where have you been?" Goofy asked. Pluto was King Mickey's dog. The pooch had left with Goofy and Donald, but had not been seen since running from Sora. He had an envelope in his mouth. "Hey, that's the king's seal."
"Can you Find King Mickey?" Sora asked slowly. Pluto went bounding in the other direction. Goofy and Donald looked at each other happily. Sora began chasing after Pluto. "Guys, let's go!"
The trio ran after the loyal pet, laughing and yelling. Sora thought he heard the voice calling him as he ran.
"Remember Sora. You are the one who will open the door to the light."
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After this incident, Sora, Kairi, and Riku went on to have other adventures fighting the Heartless and Ansem. They defeated him for what they thought was the last time in the year 2025 A.D.
But what they didn't know was that he had left traces of himself among the worlds that Sora never went to. Somebody could revive him, if they had they right equipment. If that ever happened, he would reemerge stronger, more powerful, smarter and more determined than before. They learned this after a couple of decades, when someone came dangerously close to reviving him. Sora, Kairi and Riku hid all traces of Ansem somewhere no one would find them.
But what if somebody did find the traces and revived him? What if the descendents of Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy, Leon, Yuffie, Aerith, Cid, and Cloud had to rise up to face him? This is where our story unfolds…