As they flew in the Gummi, Sora, Donald and Goofy, stopped at a strange new world. The land of Wonder Land showed them things they'd never seen. It also showed them that the heartless were there. As the Hero, Sora fought his way through them all, and found the leader of the Heartless, the Trickmaster. They won the battle and sealed the keyhole, their work done, though Alice was missing they moved on.

Sora now knew the spells of fire and blizzard. Guarded by these spells and his strength growing, Sora thought none would beat him. Sora knew little though if only those two spells. And he was still very weak, not knowing where to look for hints to where Alice had disappeared to. If only he had looked to the bottom of the cage, moments after the fight. There he would have seen a small disappearing black light.


Riku's Story

Riku had been sleeping soundly for the most part. That was until Yume jumped into the room.

"Riku get up and out of bed!" Yume's voice cried as she jumped on him. She sat there on top of him with a smile on her face. "I get to teach you first! Yipee! My and my handsome Riku!"

Riku pushed her off of him and on to the ground, and sat up. He didn't want to get up. Not now. He had a long day yesterday. He let himself fall back onto the bed and pillows, and shut his eyes. He was tired; maybe he'd get up in an hour or so. But not now.

"Nope! You have to get up! I'm supposed to teach you some neat-o moves!" Yume cried pushing him off the bed.

Riku hit the ground with a hard thunk. He looked up at her and realized she would never let him go back to sleep, so why even fight it?

"Fine fine I'm going." Riku moaned as he sat up.

He was already wearing his normal clothes. He didn't change the night before because he didn't have any other clothes to wear. He stood up on his feet and brushed off his long shorts. At least he'd look a little nicer after that, even though it didn't help much.

"YIPEE!" Yume screamed as she tackled him to the ground. "Let's get started!"

Yume grabbed his arm and began pulling him away quickly. Riku stared at all the things around him. He had no idea what half of them were. Some were pictures, or stones, others things that could only be described as unknown.

"Where are we going?" Riku said as they continued rushing through the halls.

Yume smiled back at him. "To my room." She continued running them both through the halls dodging guards left and right.

Finally they stopped in front of a waterfall with a lake underneath it.

"You have a waterfall in… whatever we're in?" Riku asked. "And where's room?" Riku couldn't find any doors but the one they had entered by.

"Gosh Silly!" Yume told him with a slap on his arm. "We're in a HUGE moving Gummi! It's kind of like the kings Gummi Ships but, not really cause this is more like a moving Castle!" Yume giggled at him. "This is the door to my room! All you have to do is dive under the water and come up in an area inside the waterfall and get through those obstacles and your there!" Yume told him. "Now, have fun, and remember you will be graded on this!"

"What are you…?" Riku began until he was cut off.

"Buh-bye honey bunny!" Yume said with a smile as she pushed him into the deep ice cold water the waterfall fell into.

Riku quickly began swimming to the top, hopping to make it before he ran out of air. Yume looked into the water and smiled. She held up her pointer finger and shook it left and right. She mouthed the words 'No No' As she put a finger on the water.

At that moment, the top became a thick layer of ice. Slowly spreading from the point her finger touched the water. Though it was slowly happening Riku knew he wouldn't have enough time to get out of here. No matter how good of a swimmer he was. Riku closed his eyes and began to think.

Is she trying to kill me? Did I do something wrong. Now Now, don't be stupid Who are you? Who the hell do you think I am? I don't know that's why I'm asking! Oh… hehe, I'm your subconshince here to save your butt Okay… but your really not helping… Well what did she say about getting in… She said that we had to swim down… What? Why aren't you swimming down then? I'm going! I'm going!

Riku began swimming down, deeper and deeper into the water. Eventually he saw a tunnel under the water. As his lungs began to explode, he swam up into the tunnel. As he hit the 'top' of the tunnel, he thought it was all over. But it wasn't. Not be a long shot. Air filled the tunnel. At least, most of it.

He was in the back of some tunnel. There was a small pool of water in it, which connected it to the outside. How did he know that, you may be wondering. Because he had just swam through it and was now floating on his back.

By the side of the pool he was in he saw a sword, and an envelope right next to it. He got up and sat down by the sword. On the front of the envelope Riku saw his name, so… he opened it.

Hey Riku baby! What's up? If your reading this, good job! You made it out of the water! And if not, and I'm stuck pulling your body out of the pool, I know someone who's gonna be pretty pissed off… other then me of course! Your such a cutie! Or should I say HOTTIE? Anyway, This sword is sooo totally for you! I totally left it here, so you could get out of this place with a little knowledge. Just to let you know, this is a test honey! I know seriously, what teacher gives tests on the first day? Oh well! Maybe when your done we can kiss and make up! And no cheek kisses either; I want a kiss on the lips honey. I wonder what you taste like… probably good… probably really good.

Anyway (again) Fight your way through if you have to! If not just make sure you get to the top of this waterfall by the time I have to hand ya over to Konnor. In case you wanna know this will test how well you move! I wanna see what I can teach you, and what you already know! So if ya finish early maybe we can play wink wink a little before Konnor comes, if ya know what I mean. See ya later honey bunny! (I hope)

Hugs, and Kisses, Love forever, Lover to Lover, LOVE,

Yume, your one and only

Riku stared at the letter in his hand and then dropped it. His eye twitched a couple times before he decided to continue. He was more then a little freaked out by what Yume had said in her message. Freaked out didn't even cover it actually.

He didn't really want to kiss her. I mean, she did kind of, PUSH HIM INTO COLD WATER THAT COULD HAVE KILLED HIM! Riku picked up the sword and ran a fingertip along the blade. He'd never actually used a real sword. He'd only used a wooden sword before, and this was much heavier. Not that it mattered much to him. He'd always been on the stronger side. (A/N; His arms are ripped! drools)

Slowly he began walking forward, leaving the note behind him, hopefully, he'd never have to see one again… It had become pitch dark in the cave in no time. Riku stopped dead in his tracks.

This is bad. I mean, if I'm attacked, I'm in big trouble… I wonder why the other room was so bright. Maybe it had a torch Well… why didn't we notice it then…? Maybe cause we were too freaked out from that letter… Good point…

Riku turned around and began walking back. Finally when he came back to the front or back… or whatever you called this side of the cave, he found a torch. It burned brightly and strongly. It didn't seem like it would go out anytime soon. Then a small smile came to his lips.

Picking up the letter that Yume had left him, he held it over the fire, and then noticed some writing on the back.

PS: By the way, there's a torch for you to grab, because it gets super dark ahead! I know your hands will be kinda full. Oh! And you totally have to have this letter to pass! No burning it now! Wink Wink See ya once your out of the caves, sweetie!

Riku shuddered, as he read the 'PS' from Yume. It had almost scared him as much as the first part and that had almost sent him to the grave. Riku put the note in his back pocket and continued walking. In one hand he held his sword; in another hand he held a torch. He hoped he wasn't attacked because who knew what would happen when they torch went out.

Riku continued down the path slowly, it was so boring that he finally started watching the ceiling, instead of the floor as he walked. Not really safe, but he didn't care. He was exactly on the 'careful' side any more. Not after all of 2 minutes had gone by without anything happening. He really didn't think any thing would… Oh how wrong could you be.

Suddenly Riku began falling forward. Luckily all that time racing Sora had helped him out. He was able to jump so much better then before. Quickly jumping, with only one foot to help him, he barely made it over the pit, which would have meant his death had he fallen in. Spikes stuck up from the ground within the pit, some of those spikes were almost as big as him. And he wasn't exactly small.

Inside the pit where skeleton's of unknown creatures. Some looked human, some didn't. Inside he could hear rats squeaking, and being their annoying little selves. Riku had never liked rats. They were kind of like Seagulls to most people. He couldn't stand them. He wasn't scared of them; he just… didn't like them.

Riku continued walking, this time watching the ground as he went. Every now and then he would come across another spike pit. He had to be careful jumping over those, one wrong move and it was bye-bye sword, bye-bye torch, or maybe even bye-bye life. None of those sounded good to him. Especially not the last one, he was not ready to die by any means!

Soon enough he came to the 'end' of the tunnel.

"That wasn't much of a challenge…" Riku mumbled under his breathe, hoping Yume didn't hear him.

Suddenly an explosion was heard. Riku started running ahead, checking every few minutes for deadly pits. As soon as he got to where he though the explosion had been, he found a deep creator.

"Why 'ello." A voice called. " Vat a pleasure to meet you. You are Riku, correct?" The voice said, it's voice heavily accented.

"Um… yeah, who are you?" Riku asked it, very confused at this point.

"Mine name ist Eiri Von Ume. I ist Yume's guard'in. I protect her chambers, from… ah… villainous people or things…" The creature said.

Slowly a thing started walking out. That thing happened to be a male. He had beautiful sliver eyes, and midnight black hair. He had on all black clothing and a long sliver sword on his back.

"Time ist to fight, no?" Eiri asked him with a smile on his face, tilting his head to the side.

"Your on!" Riku told him with a competitive face on.

Eiri smiled and drew his sword. "vell then… ist vas a pleasure to meet you, Riku, I hope to see you in 'de under vorld."

At that moment Eiri lunged to attack Riku… and a clash could be heard from, metal meeting metal. No, it wasn't Riku, Eiri had been to far to fast for Riku, but there stood Yume, a sliver staff, with only the finest blue gems on it, defended Riku from a certain death.

"Eiri! Riku is supposed to live through this! He can't fight you now! Not until he's like… 10 billion times faster!" She said with a bright smile, ignoring the fact that Riku almost died.

"Riku you were suppose to show him the letter, he would have let you in if you had." Yume told him with a smile.

Riku glared at her for a minute before saying, "You didn't tell me that."

Yume smiled and turned a bright red, "Whoopise!" She cried with a smile on her face. "Maybe we should kiss and make up." Yume told him, getting very close to him. Riku was about to take a step AWAY from her when yet another voice was heard.

"Not on my watch." Konnor said as he walked in. "He's mine as of 10 minutes ago."

Yume giggled and smiled at Konnor, "He's all your now, but be sure not to kill him! Kage hasn't gotten to teach him anything yet!"

"I have a feeling you didn't teach him anything either." Konnor said, his arms crossed.

"I had to test him to…" Yume said trying to defend herself.

"I call it lazy. I'm surprised Kage even let you train him. Even one of the heartless could have done better." Konnor told her with a glare.

Yume began pouting and her eyes tearing up, when Riku spoke up.

"Who's the heartless?"

"None of you business." (Konnor said this)

"Um… I'm not supposed to tell you…" (Yume said this)

"Let me guess… Kage's orders." Riku said, he already had a feeling Kage was the leader of this threesome.

"Yep!" Yume said with a smile.

"Come on. Let's just go get started." Konnor told him leading him to the door.

Riku followed behind him, hoping this teacher wouldn't be as weird as Yume. Little did he know that Konnor wasn't weird… just… tough.

End of Chapter 3

Preview for Chapter 4: Thank God that's over! No more Yume! But what… Konnor's going to do what? Torture Riku? Make him a bloody mess? Beat him up? Konnor's tougher then though. The toughest trainer you'll ever have. Riku's going to be stuck fighting until its Kage's turn to train him, if he lives that long that is… End of Preview for Chapter 4.

Well there's my chapter! smiles I hope you love it! Keep with the reviews everybody!

Here's my thank yous!

BlackMag1ck: Sounds like a cool book. And for everyone, I do know about Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories. I beat the game! I love Riku's story way more then Sora's! I can't wait for Kingdome Hearts 2 to come out!

I love CHEESECAKE: Wow… my friend loves cheesecake too! I hope to keep it funny too! I hope it's funny enough for everybody! Yume's great isn't she…

hikarienzeru: he he he, I didn't really up-date fast, but here it is! I hope you loved it! I'm gonna try and up date this story more! The next chapters gonna be fun!

Inu-yasha Fan: Your awesome! You must be reading like… at least three of my stories! Yeah, I love both Inu-yasha, and Kingdom Hearts! Cloud is way HOTT! drool I own Chain of Memories too! Wasn't it fun? I figured, forget Sora! I didn't even TRY to collect all the cards! I just wanted to get MY Riku!

Thanks for reading everybody! I really hope you liked this chapter! My next one will come out… hopefully faster, but it turns out I'm busier in the summer then during the school year! If you guys have anytime please read some of my other stories! If you don't have time… well… I forgive, as long as you review!

Love always and forever (not really but that's okay…)

Reioko