A glimmer of light shone on Kairi's face, waking her from her confused sleep. She opened her eyes and was forced to shade them with her hands because the blue sky was too bright. She was faintly aware of shallow water washing against her body. After a moment she stretched her bruised muscles and sat up,

'What the…?' she said as she looked at her surroundings. Sora lay in water beside her about an inch or two submerged so his nose peeked just above the water. Her first impression was that they had washed ashore of some beach as the sand under her feet was golden white. Then she looked around. For as far as the eye could see it was a blank canvas. The same shallow water covered the same sand for thousands of miles, it didn't get any deeper- the place was flat. A flat watery desert. That wasn't the strangest thing about the place. There were Bubbles perfectly formed spheres of water, falling from the plain blue sky. It sparked a peculiar feeling inside of her heart. A sense of belonging- familiarity as well as complete and utter shock at the randomness of this place. Sora moaned beside her and she helped him up so he didn't have to put pressure on his wounded leg, 'where are we?' Sora asked and rubbed his eyes,

'I'm not sure' Kairi told him.

Sora held out his hand and caught one of the rainbow shine spheres, 'Where are these bubbles coming from?' he looked around and spotted the source, 'oh… kay…?' High in the distant sky was a gigantic bottle of dishwashing liquid, '…um…gee…' Kairi whispered as she spotted it as well,' so… were do we go now Sora?' she looked around and saw nothing- no landmarks nothing, 'HOW THE HECK DID WE GET HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!' Kairi cried out in frustration,

'Let's not get into that right now because I've got no clue' Sora said,

'Well what can we do now? Stand still and wait for something to happen?' Kairi suggested,

'I suggest we head towards the big… BOTTLE' Sora said looking at it and gesturing its size with his arms,

'Let's go than'

The two trooped through the warm water which strangely refused to ripple. For hours they walked in the hot sun, which never set. Never had Sora experienced a place like this.

The thing that annoyed Kairi was that the bottle always seemed the same distance away no matter how long or how fast they walked,

'It's no use!' grumped Kairi and sat down in the water defeated,

'You're right' Sora sat beside her and they stared out to a flat sea,' this place is screwed- not even a decent wave!'

'THIS WHOLE ADVENTURE IS SCREWED!' Kairi screamed to no one in particular. She bowed her head in exhaustion.

Suddenly Sora spied something bobbing in the distance, 'What's that?' Sora asked pointing,

'I'm not sure' Kairi said squinting at it. The two stood up and jogged, well Sora limped over to it. It too like the bottle seemed to get further away from them,

'STUPID OCEAN!' Sora roared and kicked the water in anguish all to clutch his side in pain. Then he looked up and the thing was gone, 'Where…?' Something bumped hardly into his leg. He looked down and saw a wooden boat with two oars attached to it, 'Hey Kairi' he nudged her, 'We can dry our feet'

Riku was drifting. Drifting through a thick dark mist. He had no idea where he was and really had no desire to know. A glowing green emitted from his body and he felt true power, the power to give life, the power to take life, the power to deceive, the power to change the universe. It all zoomed at his mind and he accepted it with a warm welcome. And then, once he had taken his fill of the secrets of life he was thrown from the bosom of darkness and found himself back, alive and in water…