Chapter 1: The New Keyblade Master

Sora Donald and Goofy have just awakened from their sleep and have all their memories back. They walked forth from castle oblivion and got onto their gummi ship and headed to Twilight Town, where Namine had suggested looking. The gummi ship landed and the heroes got out and started walking though the town. It wasn't long before they met up with heartless. They started fighting, but these heartless were the strongest common heartless they've ever fought, and they weren't doing very well.

A man dropped form a rooftop and killed three of these heartless in one swing of his gunblade. And in a matter of moments all the heartless were dead.

"Thanks, what kind of heartless were those?" asked Sora.

"My name is Razelquin, and they were called NEOshadows," said the man.

"Where are they from?" asked Goofy.

"They are one of the few natural heartless," said Razelquin.

"What do you mean?" asked Donald.

"We will soon be joined by two others who will need to know this as well, we should wait for them then find a place secure for me to tell you all you need to know," said Razelquin.

"Who are these two others?" asked a voice.

"And why is this place not secure?" asked another voice.

They turned to see two figures in black robes standing in the street.

"You are the two others," said Razelquin.

"Us?" asked the first voice.

"How did you know we were coming?" asked the second voice.

"I saw you from the rooftops, I followed the keyblade master since he entered the city and could see you from the roofs," said Razelquin.

"Oh, I thought you had magical powers," said the first voice.

"I do, your majesty, just not those," said Razelquin.

"Majesty? The king!" yelled Donald.

The owner of the first voice removed his hood showing himself to be King Mickey.

"If you're the king, then you're…" said Sora.

The owner of the second voice removed his hood showing himself to be Riku, "It's been a while Sora," he said.

"Riku! How'd you get out from behind the door?" asked Sora.

"I don't entirely know, but I think the Organization has something to do with it," said Riku.

"Who are they?" asked Donald as he and Goofy got up from bowing to Mickey.

"They're a group of men and women that I believe is against the heartless," said Mickey.

"Believe?" asked Jiminy as he hopped onto Sora's shoulder.

"They're hard to figure out," said Riku.

"Well, now that we're all here, allow me to properly introduce myself. I am Razelquin, last of the Dark Hunters and first on the path of twilight," said Razelquin.

"Dark Hunters?" asked Sora.

"You were the first to walk twilight?" asked Riku stepping forward.

"Long ago, when each world dealt with the heartless alone a small group of men came together and went from world to world extermination heartless. This was before my time, but when they came to my world me and my two best friends Keznint and Seaver wanted to join. They told us we needed special abilities no other man had. They said they'd be back, and if we were well on our way we could join.

"We were about your age and saw the powers of the heartless. Keznint said he would master those powers and became the first to walk the path of darkness. Seaver said there must be power on the opposite and was the first to walk the path of light. I chose the path between and was first of twilight. When the Dark Hunters returned there were fewer of the old ones, and they had another boy about our age at the time, his name was Renct and he was the first keyblade master. Me and my friends also joined and worked on the power we chose.

"To master the dark path much pain is required, and when it's over you have dark bat wings on your back. To master the light much strength is required and when its over you have light angel wings on you back. The bat wings aren't retractable, while the angel ones are. Twilight has one of each, the angel wing is darker but they are retractable.

"The world that was the home of the Dark Hunters wasn't the home of any of us four, and slowly we became the last. I was the only one who hadn't mastered their powers at that time. Their home world was Hollow Bastion, and they answered to a prince with good judgment in the matter. He said he was tired of the heartless dangers and sent us to End of the World to stop them for good. He said we had to open the door and close it, but when we opened the door the heartless we found weren't like the ones we were used to killing. It was a massacre and only I walked away, but I was wounded, the heartless took my hand.

"I returned to Hollow Bastion and told prince Ansem," told Razelquin.

"Ansem?" yelled Sora.

"Yes Ansem, when the Dark Hunters started he was a sane and fair man. It was slow and gradual that he went mad with darkness. He had sanity enough only to appear that way when he sent us. It was a trap, he wanted us to die and open the doors. They were open from that day until you sealed them Sora.

"But I had returned to Ansem alive, and he locked me in his basement with the poor souls he tested on. There was also a machine that produced the marked heartless. True heartless are all black and, aside from shadows, stronger than the fakes. It was in that cell that I became a master of the twilight path. But I had chosen to know some dark things the twilight doesn't have, and for that my arm, as you can see, is taken by the darkness. I was in that cell for a very long time, I couldn't even dare an escape until the time Ansem met Maleficent. But soon after that they moved the machine, and when I finally did escape, I searched the entire world and couldn't find it.

"The world was overrun with heartless, and I didn't know how many people escaped from it. But the gummi ship that the Dark Hunters used was still where it was when I left it. It was still locked and everything inside was as I left it. I left the world and came here, my home world," said Razelquin.

"Wow, I don't know what to say to that," said Sora.

"Why are you telling us this?" asked Riku.

"Well, partly because you, Sora, as the new keyblade master need to know. And partly because I need your help and you need to know why," said Razelquin.

"What do you need our help with?" asked Goofy.

"First I need to know what the biggest heartless you ever defeated was," said Razelquin.

Jiminy took out his journal and started flipping the pages, "it was the World of Chaos," he said.

"Did Ansem summon it, or did it come on its own?" asked Razelquin.

"Ansem summoned it," said Jiminy.

"Damn, that's more I have to do. Sora have you mastered the keyblade yet?" asked Razelquin.

"What, I'm the keyblade master, of course I have," said Sora putting his arms behind his head.

"Can you unlock the world's hearts?" asked Razelquin.

"Hu?" asked Sora his arms dropping.

"That's a no," said Riku.

"I'll help you in that, but before we need to do it we must find the machine that makes heartless. We must also find Ansem, for I can guarantee he survived your last encounter Sora," said Razelquin.

"As long as there is a World of Chaos, Ansem will live," said Razelquin.

"Why must Sora unlock all those worlds?" asked Mickey.

"Every world that has heartless has a World of Chaos sleeping in its heart. The one you defeated was the one Ansem found, in Hollow Bastion, every last world besides that we must visit, unlock, then relock once we have captured the World of Chaos," said Razelquin.

"Captured?" asked Donald.

"We need the machine for that, and once all the Worlds of Chaos have been captured, we will be able to finish everything at End of the World, where the first and strongest World of Chaos lives," said Razelquin.

"And what do we need Ansem for?" asked Riku.

"Besides the part that he must die, he is the key, somehow, once we get to End of the World," said Razelquin.

"How do you know all this?" asked Mickey.

"The hearts of my friends spoke to me in my cell. Once the World of Chaos is removed form the world's heart all natural heartless on that world will vanish, and the false ones will no longer be able to arrive," said Razelquin.

"How do we find the machine?" asked Riku.

"And how do I unlock the worlds?" asked Sora.

"Thank you, I could not accomplish this alone," said Razelquin.

"This seems like something you must do alone, just you three," said Mickey.

"But, your majesty," said Riku.

"Riku, your are a good friend of mine, but I have no place going with you now, nor do Goofy or Donald, we must do other things, and this is for the keyblade master, and the first and second people of twilight, not us," said Mickey.

"If you say so," said Riku.

"It's okay, I'll be in your heart, and we'll see each other again when you're done, don't worry," said Mickey.

Mickey Goofy and Donald walked away to their gummi ship and Razelquin led Sora and Riku to his.