A/N:Kinda had to think of this chapter a bit and when I kept typing kept getting longer and longer! XD

I do not own Kingdom Hearts series or Square Enix gah!

Author: ValorPrincess-1991


.:.:.Chapter III: Inside the Heart: Station of Serenity.:.:.

Sora awoke to the sound of his crown shaped clock beeping uncontrollably. He turned it off and mumbled how stupid alarm clocks should be destroyed. It was early in the morning around 6:00 a.m. and he laid back down to fall asleep. Sora kept his window opened a lot and Kairi would complain about him getting sick and Riku thought Sora was just crazy for leaving it opened in the winter. Sora was still alseep and it was 12:23 now. Riku called for Sora but he didn't see his brunette spikey haired friend poke his head out the window. He called louder and Sora was still asleep and snoring now.

"I don't see how he can sleep through anything..." Riku paused, "I wonder how Donald and Goofy had to handle his sleeping habit..." Riku chuckled to himself.

Riku then climbed up a tree that aligned perfectly with Sora's window. He reached Sora's window and carefully stepped into Sora's room. Riku looked over towards his sleeping friend and a smirk formed it's way upon his lips. He slowly crept towards Sora and had a plan in mind to scare him. He was now standing directly above Sora and tried to hold back the laughter he was choking on. Right before Riku was about to pull the pillow out from under Sora's head and throw it at his face which he did a lot to his naive friend before they left the islands last year; Sora instanlty got up and hit Riku with his pillow. Riku was really surprised by this and tried to dodge the pillow but failed.

"Hey, no fair!" Riku glared and laughed at Sora.

"Well that's payback, so it's not unfair!" Sora pouted.

"At least you woke up..."

"I remember no matter how Kairi and I tried you never would wake up until you smelled pancakes or something..." Riku continued.

"Oh, so that's why I always found pancakes or waffles in my room after I woke up sometimes!" Sora exclaimed.

"You're such a weirdo, Sora," Riku laughed.

Then there was an awkward silence between the two best friends. Riku couldn't help but think about how much he and Sora has been through espicially Sora. Riku always thought he could do things better then Sora. Truth is to Riku it seems Sora is really better. Riku wanted to push those thoughts of the adventure behind for a while and then ended the silence among the two.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Riku asked his spikey haired friend.

"Hmm..." Sora pondered.

"Let's go to the other side of the island and play volley ball!" Sora shouted while throwing his fist in the air.

"First, let's go met up with Kairi and find the rest of the gang," Sora added.

"Ok, sounds cool," Riku nodded.

They both left his house and started to walk towards Kairi's when they saw Wakka and Tidus running to them. Sora put his hand over his eyes to block the sun's rays to get a better view at the people running behind Tidus and Wakka and noticed it was Selphie and Kairi.

"Hey guys!" Tidus greeted them.

"Hey, what are you all doing?" Sora asked while giving a questioning look.

"We're going to play volley ball, ya," Wakka said holding the volleyball behind his head.

"We were coming to get you and Riku, but I see he's with you now," Selphie said.

"So now we are all set and guess what we can have a picnic also!" Kairi shouted happily while showing the picnic basket to Sora and Riku.

"As long as Selphie didn't cook the stuff then I'm ok..." Riku sighed.

"Hey!" Selphie glared at Riku and nudged him in the shoulder.

"I cooked the food-

"Oh and Kairi's going to teach me to cook better!" Selphie interrupted.

The guys all thought about some of Selphie's food she would force them to eat and they had a sour look on thier faces.

"Come on let's go already!" Selphie stomped her foot in the sand.

"Alright," Riku said.

They all started to walk off to the other side of the island. They were laughing and sharing some funny but also embarrassing memories. It was just like old times and they wouldn't trade it for anything...

"Whenever school starts up, you two can be on the blitzball team, ya!" Wakka said smiling and twirling the ball on his finger.

"Ugh, don't make us think of school, you'll give me an ulcer!" Sora complained rubbing his cheek.

"Just be glad you three came back right when summer started!" Selphie said.

"Hey we're here!" Tidus yelled to the group.

Kairi spread out a pink and white blanket on the sand and Selphie helped her while the boys ran over to the volley ball net and began their game. Wakka was serving the ball first and it was hit to Riku's direction. (A/N: The teams are Wakka and Tidus vs. Sora and Riku to clear that up XD) Riku punched the ball back over the net and Tidus quickly jumped into the air to hit the ball back over and it now headed for the middle. Sora quickly ran over and hit the ball back over while landing in the sand.

"Hey guys?" Selphie called out.

The ball landed in the sand while Selphie interrupted and Sora picked himself up shaking the sand out of his hair.

"What is it?" Tidus asked.

"You guys going to eat or not?" Kairi asked them.

"I wouldn't miss Kairi's food for anything!" Sora said while rubbing his stomach.

While they were walking over Sora noticed the wind stopped blowing and his friends stopped moving. Sora raised an eyebrow and wondered what was going on.

"Riku...?" Sora asked.

He walked closer to him and tapped his shoulder but it was as cold as ice. He looked over to Kairi and Selphie they were frozen in place. Time came to a halt completely...but why was Sora not effected?

"What is going on?" Sora shouted loudly as if to be answered by someone.

He looked around and saw a figure in armor walking towards him. Sora was surprised to see the figure. He thought it was maybe just his imagination that was playing with him yesterday but the armored figure was really there...Sora backed up a little and tensed up while the armored person stopped only a few feet away from Sora. The person wore golden and silver armor and it gleamed brightly in the sun. Sora could not the person's face because the helmet hid the face with a black tinted glass.

"Who are you?" Sora asked fimrly.

The intruder did not speak and Sora's temper was rising.

"Why are you here?" Sora asked.

The figure did not respond and Sora was getting impatient.

"Don't you have a voice?" Sora asked.

"Only for those...I choose to fight."

The voice was deep and sent shivers up Sora's spine. Just who was this guy?

The whole atmosphere changed and they both disappeared into an explosion of light. Sora slowly opened his eyes and noticed they were in Sation of Serenity where it all started...Sora was already holding his keyblade but he didn't summon it at his will it was just there when he opened his eyes. He looked at the platform he was on and it showed three keyblades. The Way to Dawn on the left, King Mickey's Key on the right, and Kingdom Key in the middle. They were all stuck in the ground and Sora wondered why. Then, the armored figure appeared in front of Sora. The armored figure summoned his weapon and Sora observed it. It was a keyblade, yet it was distorted looking towards the end.

"Why can you weild a keyblade?" Sora asked and the armored person pushed the question aside.

"Fight..."

Sora gripped his keyblade harder and listened to the mysterious person. If he fought this guy maybe he could figure out answers.

Light shone down on and Sora and the figure and it was time to begin their fight...


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