"Apparently, you did die." said Joel.

"Of what?" asked Sora.

"You fell into cardiac arrest. Your heart stopped beating. You had a heart condition that your doctor never found." explained Joel as he went to a white desk and sat down in the white chair.

"If this is heaven, then how come I'm not living in a fantasy world?" asked Sora. "They're doing everything they've dreamed of, what they consider heaven!"

"Not in your life!" said Joel as he took out a deck of playing cards and shuffled them. "Well, you have no life anymore. Besides, if heaven was like that, then I'd be drinking my head off right now and gambling, but I'm not, because I'm serving as the receptionist guy."

"How did you die, anyway?" asked Sora as he pulled out a chair and sat down.

Joel sighed and stared at the sky above him. "Well, I got drunk one night, just two years ago, and someone poisoned me. The last receptionist guy told me it was my time anyway to die. It was either that or get hit by a train. I'm just glad I have three more years at this job, then I'll be off to somewhere more fun here in heaven." he said as he put down the cards and put his hand on a computer mouse and began to type. "Speaking of whether it's your time to die or not, I have to check that for you."

"Wow, you sure like to get drunk!" said Sora.

"I was only 27 when I died!" said Joel. "I liked to party."

Sora sat and looked above his head and noticed his halo and looked at his back. He had medium sized wings on them. Suddenly, Joel's computer made a sound that was of a bell jingling.

"What was that?" asked Sora.

"The computer found me something." replied Joel as he took the mouse and clicked on things. "here we go. Says here that it wasn't your time to die yet."

"So, then can you send me back?" asked Sora.

"Oh, I wish I can do that," said Joel, "but you have to grant three holiday wishes to people you know. One for a friend, one for an enemy, and the last is just for anyone you want."

"Awesome!" said Sora. "except for the wish for a bad guy. That's totally not awesome."

"But!" said Joel, looking right at Sora, "you have approximately one week to grant these wishes. Just in time for Christmas. But if you don't all the wishes granted by then, you will have to remain in heaven for the rest of eternity and you won't be able to communicate with your friends until they all die. And that could take at least 50 or sixty years!"

"I don't want that!" cried Sora. "I don't want to hang out with people who have to be hooked to dialysis machines and walking with walkers! That's it! I'm granting the wishes!"

"Good choice." said Joel. "you can start doing that right now."

"But how will I grant the wish?" asked Sora.

"When you decide to grant the wish, just say, 'I grant you this wish!'" answered Joel. "then, you report to me at midnight, on Christmas morning. Your family plans to bury you that day. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to play some computer games until you get back. Hey, it's the only fun I get around here."

Joel released a lever next to his desk and Sora fell down to Destiny Islands.

"AHHHH!" echoed Sora as he fell.

"Ha ha, I love doing that!" laughed Joel as he let go of the lever. Then, he turned to his computer games.

Sora landed at his school, in the counselor's office, where Riku, Hurky, Ryo, and Alexa were sitting in a circle, grieving for the loss of Sora. On the table was a picture of Sora, with flowers and lit candles around it and it said, In loving memory of Sora Christopher Hart, 1990-2005. Riku was crying, Alexa and Ryo had tears in their eyes, though Ryo didn't like Sora that much since he interfered with Riku, and Hurky had no tears at all, but she was stiff as a statue.

(When Sora talks in ghost form, he talks in italics)

"Why are you guys so sad?" asked Sora, even though they couldn't hear him, "I'm going to grant three wishes and I'll come back to life!"

"You know," said Hurky. "I think if Sora's ghost was standing here right now, he'd tell us to cheer up."

"How can we?" asked Alexa. "Sora was what brightened our days."

"Really?" asked Sora.

Riku snickered.

"What's so funny?" asked Hurky.

"Remember when Sora used to do his celebrity impersonations? Or he's play pranks on everyone? How he threw spitballs and paper airplanes at the teachers and managed to look innocent when they turned around?" asked Riku. "come on, guys! Hurky's right! Remember the good things about Sora! He may not be alive, but he will always be in our memories!"

"I don't think Kairi's able to do that." said Alexa.

"That's right." Sora said to himself. "Kairi's not here..."

Right then, Sora got into the air, thanks to his wings, and flew to Kairi's house, where she was lying in her bed with the covers over her head. She wasn't crying. She spent the whole night crying. That's why she was asleep now. Then, Sora got an idea. He saw on Yu Yu Hakusho (awesome show!) that Yusuke talked to Keiko in her sleep and she heard him. Why not try that on Kairi?

Sora sat in the chair next to Kairi's bed and began to talk.

"Kairi?" asked Sora. "It's me, Sora." he sighed. "Listen, I'm sorry if I died just unexpectedly. Even I didn't know that was coming. But it's not my time to die, yet. I'm supposed to grant three wishes by the time the clock strikes midnight on Christmas morning. Then I'll come back to life! And I'll make snow come to the islands! I don't know how that'll work, but I'll try! I'm sure I can ask them to make snow fall!"

Kairi stirred in her sleep, not waking up.

Sora stood up. "Now if you excuse me, I've got three wishes to grant and my life to save!" he said.

He flew out of Kairi's room and right when he left, Kairi woke up and sat up.

"Sora?" she asked.

But her room was empty...as if nobody was there but Kairi...

Hurky: OK, I better stop here. I will try to update in a few days, but I have other stories to update.

Sora: You still pick on me way too much...

Riku: Shut up, Sora!

Kairi: Don't tell Sora to shut up! Hurky killed him off!

Hurky: And he might not be killed off for good! Find out in the coming chapters!