Okay this one is going to be a bit shorter than the others are but I will try different POV's in this chapter to better explain what's going on.

I don't own KH.

Chapter 7

"What a long strange trip this is turning out to be, huh Mera", Riku looked at me smirking at his own joke and I laughed. Once again we were walking through the endless purple and yellow tunnel.

Soon what appeared to be a town came into focus and in a few minutes we were standing in what was some kind of town square. A big neon sign above our heads read "traverse town: first district". I read it out loud as we walked past the streetlamps, The people, wearing the memories of their destroyed worlds on their grim faces.

Sora's POV

The door with the fire emblem on it shut behind me. The memories of how easy cid made it sound to get the book to some old wizard dude echoed through my head. If I had known that it would take me over THREE HOURS to find the stupid door then another hour to figure out HOW TO OPEN IT I wouldn't have told cid I would help him. Well at least I got to learn some cool magic tricks and learn that something in the water here is causing me to hallucinate being in a dark place alone with kairi.

Needless to say that I was tired and desperate to meet up with everyone then crash at the hotel then set off for another fantastic adventure of killing heartless tomorrow. I heard myself let out an exhausted sigh as a solider heartless appeared in front of him. I raised my keyblade to destroy the heartless before it could attack.

Before I could move, forward a slashing sound rang through the air, the solider disappeared into a black mist. All I could do was stand there with a shocked look on my face and my head slightly tilted to the side in confusion. I felt my blue eyes grow wide with disbelief at what had just happened and who was standing in front of me wearing a cocky grin on his face.

"So Sora you miss me?"

Riku's POV

I was expecting a high pitched scream of joy, a tackle or maybe even a hug or something. What I wasn't expecting was for Sora to run up and pull at both sides of my face.

"Hey quit that!", I quickly jerked my face away with utter confusion as to why he just randomly did that. I heard Mera laugh from where she was standing behind me and I watched as Sora's eyes went from me to her then were filled with a look of sheer happiness.

"I can't believe this you guys are really here", When Sora said this I partly understood why he ran up and grabbed my face like he did.

"Yep here we are", Mera said cheerfully and he looked over at her and nodded but then there was a sort of panicked look. It was then that I noticed kairi wasn't with them and Mera's cheerfulness was gone when she looked back at me.

"Where's kairi", he asked his voice a bit worried.

"We thought she was with you", Mera replied solemnly Her eyes on something behind Sora, following her gaze I saw the two people who were with Sora when we saw him in the crystal ball. Sora must have seen us both staring at those guys because he turned around and said "That's Donald and goofy" he motioned back to us "and this is Riku and Mera". Mera bowed in greeting just like she does whenever she meets people like she's done since she came to the island a probably before that, while I waved. "I've been getting around with their help", sora said.

"Yep cuz Sora's the keybearer", goofy said while putting his hand on sora's shoulder.

"So this is the keyblade", Everyone turned to stare at mera as she held the keyblade. Then turned and tossed it to me. I held it up and looked at it before tossing it back to Sora, who gave me a very confused stare.

Sora's face went back to cheery "well now that we are all together we can look for kairi now, you can come with us we've got this awesome ship and everything". I never knew that a voice so annoying could crush all three of our happiness all at the same time just by three little words.

"THEY CAN'T COME"

He turned to his new friends and began to argue with Donald. That annoying duck was not giving in he kept repeating "it's the world order" and stuff like that.

I turned to find Mera walking away her face hidden behind her long hair. She ran as I tried to catch up to her, maybe comfort her. She disappeared through the doors to the second district then through a portal of darkness, I tried to bite down the urge to chase her through it grab her and hold her until she felt better... wait did I just have a romantic thought about my friend. I tried to shake the image of the two of us embracing from my mind.

I reentered the third district to see if I could maybe reason with that duck while staving off the urge to kill him and roast him over an open fire. I heard laughter coming from a house and my anger rose.

Sora was standing there with some people laughing and cheering about something, not at all sad about that stupid duck crushing Mera's and me heart. I felt an icy chill at the back of my neck before maleficent spoke.

"Look Riku it seems that this boy has went and replaced you after you worked so hard to find him", I felt her freezing hand on my shoulder, "come with me I shall help you find what you're looking for".

That's the end of the chapter folks. R&R