Thanks for the reviews people! I'm sorry it took so long to start this chapter but as I said in A Tale of Two Worlds my computer crashed and I had to re-write the whole thing.

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Kingdom Hearts: A Story Retold

Ch.4 And So It Begins

"Your dad?" Seth asked his nervousness leaking into his voice. "He does know I live here right?"

"I think so…. Yeah he has to remember my mom called him when you first got here and decided that you would stay." Riku smiled reassuringly at Seth who smiled back a little less nervous. Riku placed his hands on Seth's shoulders, "Just relax its just my dad he's not going to like throw you out or anything 'cause you like books." Seth nodded and Riku opened the door. He gently nudged Seth inside the house and closed the door behind him.

A tall man, who Seth took to be Mr. Brave, was seated on the couch in the den. As the two boys entered he turned his head and stood up seeing that it was Riku. The first thing Seth noticed about Riku's father was that he was tall, very tall. Seth stood there nervously as Mr. Brave walked over to Riku. Mr. Brave was wearing a blue suit and seemed as if he had just gotten to the house a few minutes earlier then Seth and Riku. Riku hadn't spoken about his father much but Seth knew that he worked for some big company. He had the same hair and eyes as Riku though slightly duller from either age or work.

"Riku! You've grown since the last time I was here." Mr. Brave boomed in a loud voice.

"Daaaaaaaad!" Riku groaned as his father ruffled his hair. Annoyed, Riku fixed his hair. Then, as if noticing Seth for the first time, Mr. Brave turned to him.

"Riku is this your girlfriend? She's cute," Mr. Brave asked Riku slyly. Seth blushed a deep red at this and Riku a lighter shade.

"U-uh I'm… I'm not a girl," the still red, Seth said.

"Dad this is Seth remember? Mom told you he was staying with us,"

"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't realize it's just well you know…" Mr. Brave said flustered.

"It's alright," Seth's blush was finally subduing.

"Well um I'm Ben Brave it's very nice to meet you," Mr. Brave said re-gaining his composure.

"Seth Wright," Seth said as he introduced himself.

"Hello boys," Mrs. Brave said as she entered from the kitchen. "I see you two have met," she said pointing to Mr. Brave and Seth. "Dinner will be ready at five," she wiped her hands on the towel she was holding. Riku turned to look at the clock and noted that it was quarter till five. He hadn't realized it was so late. That means we won't be able to train tonight…

"Shall we eat out front today?" Mr. Brave asked.

"Yes I think that would be nice," Mrs. Brave said thoughtfully. "Riku, Seth, would you set the table?" The two boys nodded. "The plates and everything are on the counter."

"I'll put the books away 'kay?" Seth said and grabbed the book from Riku. He quickly ran to their room and put them on the desk. He ran back to find that Riku had already brought everything outside onto the front porch. He grabbed some plates and forks and began to help Riku set the table. It was then that Mr. Brave came out of the house onto the porch. He sat down in one of the six chairs.

"Hi Riku!" a loud voice called from in front of the porch. Seth turned and groaned there was Kairi.

"Oh hi Kairi"

"Kairi you've grown into a fine young lady," Mr. Brave said as she walked onto the porch.

"Thank you Mr. Brave," Kairi said blushing.

"Why don't you join us for dinner? I'm sure Gloria made enough pasta," Mr. Brave said warmly.

"I'll go ask my parents but I'm sure it'll be ok," Kairi happily said and bounced back to her house.

"So is Kairi you girlfriend yet Riku?" Mr. Brave asked slyly.

"Da-," but Riku was cut off.

"No!" Seth said forcefully. The other two stared at him and Seth blushed furiously. "I-I have to get another set of stuff," he rose from his seat next to Riku and hurried of to the kitchen.

"Dad Kairi is like a sister to me nothing more," Riku said annoyed.

"Well I know you like someone and I think I know who," Mr. Brave whispered to himself as Seth came out with a set of utensils for Kairi. He had just finished placing them when Kairi came back.

"My parents said it was ok! Thank you so much for having me," she smiled warmly. She quickly took the seat that was Seth's and the only remaining seat next to Riku. Seth pouted and sat across from Riku which was, unfortunately for him, next to Kairi. He didn't think it was polite to sit between Mr. and Mrs. Brave.

"Hello Kairi it's nice to see you," Mrs. Brave said as she came out of the house with a pot of pasta. Seth had already told her that Kairi was coming.

"It's nice to see you too Mrs. Brave," Kairi said warmly. Mrs. Brave began to ladle the spaghetti into everyone's plates. Pleasant talk started to take place. It was when Kairi bumped her hand against Riku's for the tenth time that Seth got really annoyed. He did hide it well though. At least to everyone but Riku but he thought nothing of it because he thought Seth was just a bit tired.

And so dinner ended and Kairi finally left. The family talked late into the night and finally after Seth fell asleep on the couch they all went to bed, Riku carrying Seth to bed.

Riku's father only stayed until Friday night. He said he had to get back to work on some distant island. Seth and the rest of the Brave family saw him off at the boat that would take him to the island.

(a/n OK now Sora and Riku and all the others are wearing what they wear in the game but I don't know how to describe them which is why I put it here.) Days turned to weeks which in turn turned to months and soon summer was upon them. Seth had become good friends with all of them, well except Kairi though she was a friend, especially Sora but none of his friends came even close to being what Riku was. Riku and Seth had trained sword fighting almost everyday and Seth had become excellent as Riku said. He thought he wasn't that good though.

Several days earlier Riku had an idea. They could make a raft and could get to Seth's home. Seth made it seem like he loved the idea but he dreaded it more and more as the day to completing it cam closer and closer. Today is the day it was completed. They had it planned Seth, Riku, Sora, and Kairi were all going to come. The raft was at Playa Island resting by the small dock. The others had all gone home by now, seeing as it was dinner time, except for Seth and Riku. They were standing on the dock.

"Tomorrow we can find your family Seth!" Riku said a bit excitedly.

"Yeah," Seth said sadly looking at the ground.

"You don't seem happy is something wrong," a worried Riku asked.

"It's just that I saw them die and it's pointless going back," tears started to well up in his eyes. This was a lie though it wasn't the real reason he wanted to stay.

"But I'm sure not all of your family died right? I mean there has to be an aunt or uncle that didn't die,"

"Y-yeah but," he lifted his head and looked at Riku. Tears started to leave trails down his face. "Oh Riku I don't want to go!" He ran forward and wrapped his arms around Riku. "Riku I don't want to go. I want to stay here with you. Don't make me stay there," Seth's tears began leaving stains in Riku's yellow shirt.

Riku wrapped his arms around Seth and held him tightly and began gently whispering into his ear, "Good 'cause I don't want you to go. But we can go and visit ok so please stop crying." Seth pulled away and nodded his head. He sniffed and wiped his tears away with his arm.

"Thank you," Riku smiled warmly at Seth and the two got into the boat and headed back to their home.

Several hours later in the den Seth was reading The Hobbit on the couch. Riku was watching television. A storm was now approaching which Seth, being absorbed in his book, didn't notice. Riku however did and realized it could damage the raft. Without a word to Seth he ran out told him mom where he was going and took one of the boats to Playa Island. As Seth finished the chapter he looked around and didn't see Riku.

He put his bookmark in his book and placed the book down. Seth stood up and walked into the kitchen. There he found Mrs. Brave sitting at the table.

"Mrs. Brave-,"

"How many times do I have to tell you its Gloria," she said playfully.

"Sorry but um have you seen Riku?"

"Oh yes he went out to Playa Island. He said something about a raft," she said thoughtfully. Seth looked out the window at the storm that had already started rain pelted the roof in a torrent.

"I'm going to go find him," Seth told Mrs. Brave.

"Ok be careful,"

Seth ran out of the house to his boat. By the time he got there his blue t-shirt with a black dragon on it was soaked along with his blue over shirt and jean shorts. The chilling rain seemed to freeze his bones. Lightning flashed across the sky as he got to the dock on Playa Island. The raft was missing from the dock and he saw Sora standing at the edge of the dock.

"Have you seen Riku?" Seth called to him. Sora turned around to face him.

"No have you seen Kairi?"

"No," Seth was really worried know, "We have to go find them."

"Ok let's go," The first place they went was the small island connected to Playa Island by a bridge. There was Riku.

"Riku are you ok?" Seth asked and ran up to him.

"I'm fine," he replied. Something was wrong with him. Seth could tell.

"Have you seen Kairi Riku?" Sora asked.

"No but she will be there,"

"Where, what are you talking about Riku?" Seth was really worried now.

"Just follow the darkness,"

"Wh-what are-," Sora stopped and gasped. What looked like tendrils of pure darkness were creeping up the three boys' legs.

"Don't fight the darkness. Seth it could bring back your family,"

"No I don't care about that. Riku don't give in to it its evil!" Seth pleaded. But the tendrils had all but consumed them. The tendrils finally consumed Riku and he was gone. There was no trace of him. "No Riku!"

The darkness covered Seth's eyes and then a bright light like the one which brought him his blades blinded his eyes and the darkness disappeared. And he was standing there with his blades at his belt. "No Riku!" he ran over to the spot Riku was standing at tears at his eyes.

"Seth what is this!" Seth turned around and Sora was holding what looked like a giant key.

"I-I don't know," Seth said standing up.

"Hey you have your swords,"

"Y-yeah I do…," Suddenly shadow creatures like those from when Seth first got his blades erupted from the ground.

"Ack what do we do?" Sora exclaimed scared.

Seth wiped his eyes. "Attack them," he pulled out his blades and slashed at the nearest one. The shadow creature was cut in half and disappeared in a poof of black smoke. The giant key Sora had was very much like a sword the hand had a large guard for his hands which was a little annoying but he could get used to it. He smacked one of the shadows and it was sliced in two. Which he thought was slightly odd since the key had a flat edge.

"Maybe we should find some shelter," Seth suggested as he killed another of the shadows. Sora nodded and pointed to the secret place. This was a small hole in the cliff that leaded to a cave with a mysterious door and many pictures carved into the rocks by the children of the islands.

"We can hide there," Sora called over the booming of the thunder. Seth nodded his head and the two friends ran to the cave slashing at the shadows that stood in there way. Sora crawled through the cave first followed quickly by Seth. The tunnel leading to the cave was free of the shadows and large enough to walk in. As they entered the cave they saw Kairi standing facing the door.

"Kairi you're alright!" Sora said excitedly. He was standing directly behind her and she turned her head to look at him. Then the door opened and a large gust of wind blew through the door and blew Kairi back. Sora opened his arms in order to catch her but she flew right through him.

"Wh-what?" Sora turned around to find just a dumbfounded Seth. Seth opened his mouth to say something but yet another bright flash of light flashed across there eyes blinding them for a few seconds.

The first thing Seth noticed were strong winds whipping in a large circle around him. He opened his eyes and saw Sora staring up at something. He followed the other boys gaze and saw a large shadow creature. This one however was humanlike and giant. It's had had long locks of what looked like hair in a crazy mess. There was a gaping hole in his chest that lead to the other side of it which was shaped like heart.

Seth then realized they were on an island in the sky, what he assumed was at the heart of the storm.

"What are we supposed to do its giant!" Sora asked scared.

"U-um attack it," Seth called back to him. Sora ran quickly over to the creature and leapt up running his weapon through the monster leg. The leg sliced in half and the bottom fell off and was blown into the storm. The creature groaned in pain and fell onto what was left of its knee. It took a swipe and Seth who jumped out of the way. Then the monster raised his arms to his side to they were perpendicular to his body. A ball of darkness appeared at the gaping heart. The ball shot out smaller balls of darkness out at the two boys.

Sora managed to distract the creature's fire while Seth climbed up a tree near the monster. He took a great leap and stabbed the monster's head with both of his blades. The monster screamed in pain and Seth fell back onto his back with a thud blades in his hands. "Augh," He looked up eyes full of fear as he saw the shadow creature take a final swipe and both boys. The swipe hit knocking the two unconscious and sending them flying into the storm.

Sorry it's such a short chapter. But I though this was a good spot to end. I'm also sorry it took so long to get into the actual plot of the game. I hope you guys like the raft scene (after the first dashed line). I've been thinking about it in my head for ages, though not nearly as long as the big love scene. But I won't say any more about that.