Author's note: Here I am, after a looooooong and very busy weekend! I barely had any time to write this chapter up, even. But, I got it done for you guys :)
Adventure of Dreams
Chap. 4 Key to Darkness
Sora's POV
We landed and began to walk to the door, the one place I dreaded to come upon again. But, something was strange. No heartless were in our midst.
"This is odd…" Donald said silently.
Goofy questioned, "Yeah, where's the heartless?"
"We'll just have to find out," I told them.
Soon, the door was right in front of us.
"Well, it's open," Goofy stated obviously.
Inside, we saw something we didn't expect to see.
"There's no heartless in here, either…" I was concerned for a moment, "Where could they've gone?"
"Isn't this where the heartless are created?" Donald pondered.
"Yeah, that means all the heartless left are in other worlds, but it's gonna be hard to defeat all of them."
Goofy and Donald agreed with me.
"So where should we go?" Goofy asked us.
"Maybe we should go to your island first, Sora," suggested Donald.
I didn't want to, "No, we can't."
"But…" Goofy paused.
"I can't go back."
"Why?"
"I just…I just can't."
"Sora, we should," said Donald, "We could ask Kairi and Riku for help."
"But, I'm not supposed to go back…" I had remembered another part of my dream.
"Did you leave out a part of the dream you told us about?"
"No…"
They wouldn't believe me.
I sighed, "…Yes…Although, I don't think I should tell you about it."
"But, Sora…" Goofy started.
"Just trust me…Let's go somewhere else."
"Ok…Let's go," said Donald reluctantly.
I thought about my dream as we walked to the gummi ship. If what happened in it would come true, I could never go back to the island again…ever.
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Since they knew the heartless would be there soon, Kairi and Riku took shelter in the island shack, of course with their weapons ready.
"I can't believe Sora was right," Kairi was surprised, "And, how are we going to get rid of all these heartless alone?"
"We can't…We have to find a way to get off the island."
"But, how?"
The shack door rattled, and the heartless shrieked.
"They're trying to get in! What do we do, Riku?"
"We can only do one thing…fight," he regretted saying that.
"I was afraid you'd say that."
Soon, the door busted open and countless numbers of heartless were outside.
"Oh, my goodness," Kairi's mouth gaped open.
"How'd there get to be so many of them?"
The creatures came in and Riku and Kairi attacked. They fought for what seemed like hours.
"They're too numerous!"
"You're right, Kairi. How could we possibly fight all of them off?"
Suddenly, a swarm of heartless jumped on Kairi, and she screamed.
"Kairi!" Riku ran over.
Just then there was a bright light that filled the room. Riku stopped in his tracks. The heartless were terrified and scampered away. Then, the light dimmed. It was coming from the ground.
"What is that?" Kairi stood up.
"Not sure…let's check it out."
They knelt down and began pushing the sand away. The light soon grew brighter and they stood back. A key came out of the earth, floating in mid-air.
"What would this unlock?" Riku pondered.
"I might have an idea. C'mon!"
Riku grabbed the key and followed Kairi, who was headed toward the waterfall. She pushed away some leaves, revealing a secret place. When they were inside, a door was in front of them.
"Look, it's here again. Give me the key, Riku."
Riku handed it to her and she placed it in the keyhole.
"Here it goes…" she turned it, and the door slowly opened. Inside was pitch black, "Should we go in?"
"Why not?"
They both walked in and the door closed behind them. Nothing was anywhere to be found…black space surrounded them.
"Riku, should we keep going?"
He didn't speak for a moment, then said, "C'mon."
After a long time, they could see a tunnel ahead of them.
"I wonder where it leads…Let's go, Kairi."
Author's note: The next chapter is when Sora and the others team up with some familiar people. Who, you ask? You'll find out in chapter 5!