Chapter#3

Memories of the True

As he rode it began to rain, "it's raining again. The weather's been weird lately…oh well I like the rain any way," he thought. He arrived at the park to see his friends at one of the picnic tables talking. He chained up his bike then walked over to them. " Hey guys what's up?" he asked. " Nothing really we were messing around until it started to rain," said Josh. He smiled and looked at them with his new eyes, " So what its rain, it can't hurt you," he said laughing. They looked at him strangely, " Hey Mark weren't your eye's brown?" asked Sara. He looked at her " Yeah but things have been changing lately," he said smiling. They all looked at him again but with smiles. He ran out into the sand and looked at the lake.

His eyes glowed with the reflection of the breaching sun. He looked up into the sky; he then turned around and looked at his friends. They were all walking towards him, "Mark sometimes I think your crazy you know that," said Josh. " Hey sometimes I think I'm crazy…I mean was last night just a dream?" he asked. The three that witnessed it looked at each other. And the others who hadn't wondered what he meant. " No it wasn't a dream it really happened it's on the front page of the paper," said Delaney.

He looked down at the ground, " I was hoping know body would remember, " he said quietly.

" Not remember it…I mean how could we forget that man!" yelled Josh. He turned around, " Yeah thought so," he said. They all looked at him with concern. " Oh well…whatever happens, happens for a reason," he said smiling. He then turned around and looked at the lake again. " You feel it don't you…you feel the cracking don't you…Sora?" asked a someone behind him he turned around to see his friends looking at the guy in the cloak. " You feel it breaking slowly," he said again. His eyes grew fierce and angry, " For the last time my name's not Sora okay!" he yelled. The being seemed to look right past him at something behind him, he then pointed. He turned around to see a body of light with the form of a girl looking towards the lake. She then started to turn around and as she did she whispered the words, " Mirai wa" she then disappeared. At that moment thousands of images flew through his head. He then whispered a name, " Kairi." " Do you see Sora this world is collapsing…it's falling apart and colliding with other world's memories," said the being. Everyone else saw it and couldn't believe their eyes.

" What was that?" they all asked. The boy looked at the being " What do you mean cracking?" he yelled. The being then faded away again, " You'll find out in due time Sora…You are so close to finding the door and unlocking your true self," said the being voice.

It then started to rain even harder then before, everyone ran for cover except him. He began to think about the beings words, " What could this "door" be and what does he mean by my "true self" but the thing that I'm mostly interested in right now is this "cracking" and "breaking" he's been telling me about," he thought. He then walked over to his friends, " I'm going to leave okay," he said as he walked to his bike and unchained it. He waved to his friends as he rode up towards his house. " Why is this happening…why?" he asked himself. As he rode it got darker and darker. As he rode up Cisco he started to see the shadows moving. The sky started to get this eerie purple and dark blue glow to it. The tiny shadows jumped out of the ground towards him. He swerved dodging as he rode up the slippery street. Then one popped up in front of him and he swerved right into the middle of the street and fell off the bike and started to tumble down the street. As he slid he got some grip on the ground and flipped up in a handstand position and landed on his feet. The hundreds of shadows looked at him with their yellow eyes. He lifted his right hand and the keyblade appeared. He ran at them slashing, dodging, evading, and countering ever move they made.

He was half to his house when he saw him. It was the being standing in his way again, " Don't you ever give up!" he yelled. The being walked towards him and patted hi shoulder, and left him these words " You're so close to finding it." The voice was familiar to him; he quickly turned around to see the being was gone.

When he reached his driveway he got the feeling that he was being watched. He looked around to see someone on top of the hill on the side of his house. The figure seemed to motion him to follow so he did but when he got to the top of the hill the figure was gone. He looked around and saw the figure at the edge of the next hill about fifty feet away. He ran towards the figure but when he reached the end of this hill it was again gone. He looked down the steep drop; he then saw the figure down in front of the huge palo verde tree. He ran down to the tree, when he what was inside his old club house he was amazed and little frightened at the same time.

Right in front of his eyes was a black door with a golden frame and a keyhole in the center. He stared at the door for the longest amount of time just standing there staring. " So you've found the door…will you unlock it?" said someone behind him. He knew whom it was, " So this is the door…where does it lead?"

" You have find that out on your own," said the being. He looked at the door then the keyhole in the center.

" I have to unlock it to find out where it goes…right?" he asked. The being walked over to him, "You must use the key to unlock the door but when you do…everything will change," said the being. He grew silent, " What do you mean everything will change?" Then being walked over to the door and touched the surface of it, " This world will begin to collapse once the door is opened…and everything will be lost." His eyes grew wide, " What do you mean everything will be lost?" " This place will begin to collapse faster than it already is and it will be lost to the darkness," said the being. " Is there anyway to slow down the corruption?" asked the boy. The being crossed his arms, " There is one way but you must unlock the door to do it." He looked at the being, " What but you said if I unlock the door it'll make this place collapse!"" I know but it will take a complete hour for that to happen after the door has been opened," said the being. " Okay then how do I slow it down?" asked the boy. " When you enter through the door you will find yourself with two more doors, if you pick the one on the left you will never be able to return to this place again…but if you pick the one on the right you will enter the heart of this world, that is where you will find the cause of this world's destruction," said the being. " Okay I'm going in," he said. The being stood in his way, " If you do this I will allow to stay here for two more days…and after those days are up you must come back here and leave through the door on left," said the being. " How long will it take for this place to completely collapse after I'm gone?" asked the boy. " It will take at least four days," said the being. " To save this place is to only delay it's destruction…but even delaying is saving," said the boy. He lifted his right hand and pointed it at the keyhole, the keyblade appeared and a beam of light came from its tip and hit the keyhole. The only sound that was heard was the clicking of the door unlocking and the creaking of it opening.