Chapter Twenty-Two: Graveyard of Light

After the shining light faded, I found myself on a one-way path. The ground was bare dirt, and there were a lot of boulders just sitting around. A bit of a sandstorm was kicked up, but even so, it was a nice change of scenery from the realm of darkness.

I split apart my Soubasune, then began walking. I could only guess where I was, and if I was there, I felt a great foreboding. I remembered only one place like this in Kingdom Hearts games… the place where all those Keyblades laid, unused by their masters.

A place of death.

Eventually, after a couple of hours of walking through a sandstorm, I came to two very large rocks jutting out of the ground. I walked past them to see a four-way intersection. There, in the intersection, rested three Keyblades: Sora's Kingdom Key, Riku's Road to the Dawn, and Mickey's inverse Kingdom Key. And there, surrounding them, were hundreds… maybe thousands… of Keyblades. "So much death…" I muttered as I walked forth into the Keyblade Graveyard. "So this is where Keyblades goes when their users die or don't need them any longer."

I walked up to the three Keyblades of the heroes: Sora's, Riku's, and Mickey's. I tried to grab Sora's, but something stopped me. A flash of light, and something weird made me stop.

Then I wandered around the Graveyard, searching for Jason's Keyblade. I grabbed it. Then I started having these strange visions.

I was standing in front of a cave. There Serenity stood, just inside the cave. I ran after her, hand outstretched, her back to me. I reached out to her as he turned around. Then she held her hand out to me, but I was blown back by a gust of wind from the cave. I sat up, looking at Serenity. Her hand was still outstretched. I reached out for her hand, but was again blown back, this time to regions unknown.

When I woke up, I was a bit distanced from the cave. Amy stood there in front of me, laughing, and helped me up. She laughed a couple more times, then looked to the sky with wonder. I turned around to see… myself…. falling into the cloudy sky. When I did, I stumbled backwards, then felt myself falling… into the sky. Amy held her hand out to me, but I just kept falling. Eventually I fell into a cloud, and then everything got even weirder.