Hey there everyone! I'm back again with Chapter 2! I hope you guys are enjoying this series as much as I am. I can't to show you more of what's to come! Now as I stated in my first chapter, I'll try to make others longer than the first.

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Chapter 2: A Summer Vacation

11 years later

Sora got up and looked at the curtain, just another normal morning in the Zavadoski Corp, he smiles his casual bright smile, looking around the room filled with sleeping Dream Eaters, some of them were just waking up like he was. He looked around his room, filled with first place trophies and gold medals for fencing and one first place trophy for an international music competition for with a most emotional and amazing violin playing.

He looks over at his desk, his black and red backpack hanging on the back of his chair, some of his drawings he made were of him when he was young through until now, at the age of fifteen. He also has a collection of action figures of his favorite super hero team, Featherman. From left to right he has green, blue, yellow, red, pink, indigo and violet. He is missing three more figures, white, black and silver.

Not that it matters for the moment. He scratches the back of his now spiky brown haired head, throwing the blanket off of his body, starting to strip off his silk silver pj shirt, folding it and putting it into a tote that labels "Laundry." He then took off his silk pj pants of the same color, fold i neatly and places it into the tote. He was a 2'4" eleven years ago, now he stood a 5'3"

He then went to his closet, grabbed his red hoodie, his same jacket he had when he welcomed into the family, but now updated to fit him, as well his black shorts, but now with a light gray check board pattern on the sides and a strip of red around the knee high sleeves, he also has black and red sneakers.

He put his outfit on for the day and then he remembers to put on his watch Hideo gave him. The numbers were Roman Numerals and was a shiny silver, the rim and bezel were also silver. The strap was made of the finest reddish brown leather. He made sure it was secure and tight, so it won't come loose.

He look at the view of Tokyo from his window, sighing of relaxation, this view always makes him feel calm and at ease, letting go of tension with every breathe he exhales, letting out every stress and anxiety exiting his mouth.

He looks at the other Dream Eaters and smiles. "Thanks everyone," he said to them, "It's been long waiting for you to wait, but I think it's finally today's the day! We're gonna show the world that there is light into the world!" Every Dream Eater cheers, some nuzzles him, others gone for a bear hug.

As soon as Sora left the elevator, he started to walk casually and then he looked around with other employees of the Corp. There's Troy and Danielle, the couple who is expecting a baby to be on the way. There's Holly, the girl working behind the counter. There's Ray, the good ol' stock boy from country side of America. And then there's Dr. Dominic.

"Heya Doc!" Sora greets, the scientist turns and sees him.

"Oh good, the Zavadoski Corporation's new rising star." He said sarcastically.

"You don't seem like you're in a good mood today Doc."

"No? Look at me, I'm just so happy and giddy as you are, I could just shit!"

"... Is that sarcasm?"

The look on the doctor's face seemed to answer his question, but that just left the boy clueless, but he didn't mind it as puts his hand on the back of his head and tilts to the right, in a relaxed and chilled posture. "Anyway, I was looking for Dad. You seen him?"

"Out in front of the courtyard, he wants to talk to you." The doctor explains, pointing at the doors.

Sora nods and went out to the courtyard, watching his father sitting on the edge of the white marble water fountain, smoking a cigarette. "You wanted to see me Dad?" Sora asked him, sitting next to him.

"Ah, yes, Sora, come, I have some exciting news to share." Hideo said, Sora was all ears, curious as to what he has in store for him. "So, I've been looking closer at what school you should role into, since that incident with Unanika Shinto, someone I'd wish haven't bullied you. I believe I've found the perfect one for you."

"Really? What school is it?"

"Shujin Academy." Hideo answers him, puffing out smoke and coughed.

"You know shouldn't smoke Dad, it's going to damage your lungs." Sora said, being cautious for him.

"I know son, I promise this'll be the last time I'm gonna smoke." Hideo promises. "Also, I know this is only day you're going to school, but I've enrolled your for your next year at the school."

"Okay, that's great!" Sora exclaims happily, unbeknownst to them, Dr. Dominic was eves dropping on their conversation. "So, where's Shujin Academy?"

"It's at an Aoyama-Itchome neighborhood." He said, then he wanted to make sure he has everything for heading to the school. "You got your journal?"

"Check." Sora said with his cheery smile, Hideo loved his smile.

"Pencils?"

"Check."

"Erasers?"

"Check."

"Binders, folders and application forms?"

"Check, check and double check."

Hideo smiles and then he remembers something. "Oh, that reminds me, you remember Zenkichi Hasegawa, yes?"

How couldn't he? Zenkichi Hasegawa was the man he named him his Godfather of the Zavadoski Corp, at least Sora wished he would. He was a part of his life ever since he saved his life after a near tragic accident. He and Hideo were close friends too and they had a lot in common, they both lost their wives from tragic accidents, they've been working their asses off in the same amount of years and they have a kid of their own.

"Yeah, Mr Hasegawa, the investigator of the Kyoto Police Force. What about him?" Sora asked him.

"Well, he's going to take both you and Akane, his daughter, to the school and this is both of your first time to go to Shujin Academy." The CEO explains, Sora's eyes lit up and blushes at the same time.

Akane Hasegawa has been his crush ever since they were both seven years old. Even though they have their differences as they got older, there was one thing they loved: Superheroes. Sora in love with Featherman and Akane in love with the Phantom Thieves, a group set out to change the hearts of people, they became best friends.

"A-Akane's going to be there?" He asked him, stuttering. They haven't seen each other since they were twelve.

"Yes. Why?"

"I-It's nothing sir, I'm just happy that she's coming too."

"And you should be happier than hyena laughing halfway across the god damn savanna." Hideo said, he then checked his watch and looked at the front way. "Speaking of which, where is he?"

A sudden honk from a car answered Hideo's question. A black Chevrolet Camero and a window rolled down to reveal Zenkichi Hasegawa.

Zenkichi has black shoulder-length hair and a goatee. He wears a set of rimless glasses with a square narrow frame and a black suit with a tie. Underneath he has a light turquoise long-sleeves shirt with golden buttons in each end of it and black buttons in each side of the collar. He also wore white sneakers.

"Hey there kiddo!" Zenkichi greeted with a wave.

Sora got ecstatic to see his godfather. "God Zen!" He greets running towards the car. Zenkichi chuckles at the nickname he was given as he got out of the car went around it hugged his Godson.

"How've you been?" Zenkichi asked him, seeing how tall he was getting, he was a his chest height. "Hey, something's changed about you Sora."

"I'm just the same me God-Zen." Sora reassures him.

"Are you sure, because I swear you were here." He gesture his had to his hip and the moves up to his chest. "Now you're this tall. Good God, if this keeps up, you might be tall enough and hit the top of the doorframe!"

Sora chuckles, Hideo went to shake Zenkichi's hand.

"Hasegawa, how've you been?" Hideo asked him.

"Zavadoski, it's been a long time." Zenkichi said to him, a comforting smile forms across his lips. "Hey Sora, why don't you head into the car while your father and I talk."

Sora nods and went to the Camero and opened the door, Akane greeted him with her beautiful smile. Akane has brown eyes and short dark brown hair. She wears a red hair clip and wore the Shujin Academy uniform, knee high white sock and black shoes.

"Kun-Sora!" She greets, hugging him, Sora returning the same. "You look amazing!"

"Same to you, Akane!" Sora exclaims, breaking their embrace with each other. "How's everything back in the household?"

"Everything's great! I got awesome news for you!"

"Really? What's that?" He opened his bottle of water and took a sip.

"My Dad joined the Phantom Thieves!"

Sora spat out the water on the back of the front passenger seatlike the stone cupid on the water fountain. He coughs and looked at her in shock. "You're Dad joined the Phantom Thieves?!"

"Honestly Kun-Sora, don't you pay attention to the website anymore?" Akane teases him.

"Akane, you know I don't own a computer." Sora shook his head.

Akane giggles, she never usually get himself distracted with electronically equipment, other than machines and robots. No, he usually get distracted if it was her, helping with his father, or the view in his room.

"Oh, you got to meet the Phantom Thieves, Sora! They're as real they can get!" She insists to him, "They're an amazing group. No worries about the law, nobody telling them what to do, or where to go. They take treasure and change the hearts of people from another world."

"That sounds ridiculous, Akane." Sora said to her, Zenkichi got in the car. "There's no way that's there's another world, or realm that exist in our world."

Zenkichi chuckles, shaking his head, knowing that his daughter told him about his participation in the Phantom Thieves. Oh, if only he knew.

"Believe me kiddo, I use to think the same thing." He said to him. "When I took part of their crusade of clearing their name, I thought of it just kids trying to get viewed, but boy, how surprised and wrong I was."

Sora sighs and shook his head and looks at out the window.

At the Shujin Academy, there are six other students that were waiting out front of the courtyard.

Sitting on a bench, looking through his phone is Ren Amamiya. He has wavy unkempt black hair and dark gray eyes. He also has black framed glasses. Not really much of a talker, but he can speak with a sentence or two, other than that, he doesn't really talk. As leader of the Phantom Thieves, he takes command and helps out any of his teammates in any way he can.

Leaning on the wall, looking across the street and then sighing is Ryuji Sakamoto. He has short spiky dyed blond hair and dark brown eyes. The tough shot of the group, but he can be clumsy and over energetic as hell when it comes to what he might call it, "The Other Tense Situations." As the muscle of the Phantom Thieves, he'll take on any obstacle, thanks to his training and track star status.

"Thank God that summer vacation's coming. I can't wait to get out of Japan and see the world." Ryuji says, placing his hands on the back of his head.

"You're not the only one Ryuji," The chin-length curly light auburn hair and brown eyed girl, Haru Okumura agrees.

She being shy, but encouraging girl, she was a wealthy and only daughter of Kunikazu Okumura, original owner of Okumura Foods, which unfortunately had suffered a heart attack. As one of the members of Phantom Thieves, she's a little sadistic and angry during a fight against shadows.

"I'm more than excited about what we'll see the when we do go on this trip!" She continues, expressing her happiness and excitement. "You excited Mako-Chan?"

The brown hair, bob cut and reddish brown eyed girl jumped and looked Haru. Despite being student council president, she makes it up for being a strategist in the Phantom Thieves. She could try to make a plan in battle and turn the tables against the opponent in a blink of an eye. In short, she has a memory of an elephant.

"O-oh, yes, summer..." she says, before looking across the street, "Where is he? Didn't Zenkichi said that he was bring his daughter to Academy?"

"He did?" Ann Takamaki asked her, a little confused.

She has bright blue eyes and wavy platinum blonde hair styled in bushy pigtails, with parted side bangs on the right side of her face. She accessorizes with a single yellow hair clip above her left ear, as well as small circular earrings on both ears. Ann is a typical kind and compassionate girl, as noted from her teammates and not to mention lively and energetic in battle. If anyone crosses her, she could lash you out.

"He said he would be here... what's causing him to be late?" Makoto asks.

"Traffic?" Ren guessed, shrugging his shoulders.

Ryuji chuckles a little and gave Ren a pat on the shoulder. "Traffic? You kiddin'? In case you didn't notice, there's not another vehicle for miles!"

As would any student of the Academy, they all wore the uniform to represent the school. For the men they wore a red-buttoned black blazer with Shujin's emblem on the pocket, a white turtleneck shirt with chevron detailing on the collar and red plaid trousers. The women on the other hand wore the same blazer, but with red plaid skirt.

They then suddenly see a car coming, a black Camero. It pulls to a stop in front of the five Thieves and Akane got out the door and went around the car. Sora was asleep during their drive their.

Sora then opens his eyes and looks around, blackness was surrounded his vision. Then he sees someone and then he calls the person out. "Hey!"

The person turns around and looks at him. Sora then walks towards him and rubs the back of his neck.

"U-um, could you tell me where I am?" He asked him.

The figure gave him no response and Sora looked at the figure, wearing a black coat, shadows covering his face.

"You're at the station of awakening." He black hooded figure answered him, he sounds like Sora... was he the one who told him to don't be afraid, nor to forget?

This made Sora question him more, who is this figure? What does he want?

"I know you have questions," he said to him, "But the worlds, they need your help."

What worlds? The stars that his father's partner was talking about? All of a sudden, he heard groans and moans. He turns around and was horrified by what he sees, yellowish white creatures withered with long claws, knee bent back legs, elongated jaw with jagged and razor sharp teeth, black dead slit eyes and jagged antennas.

Sora could then see more wither in, right in front of him. "Soulless," the figure warns him, "Creatures from the Realm in Between, without a heart, they become creatures of pure rage and hatred. Rare to see and find, highly dangerous to fight against as well. Only the power of a special Keyblade can stop them."

Sora looks at the figure confused and watches him wave his hand and in Sora's hand was a key shaped sword. It's appearance took as a classic skeleton key approximately 3.5' long, with a long silver Keychain extending from the hilt, The blade and teeth of the Keyblade are silver, the rainguard is blue, and the guard is bright gold. The teeth of the Keyblade form the outline of a crown.

"The Keyblade," the figure continues, "A weapon that shines against the darkness. Never abuse it for domination and power."

Sora looks back at the creatures and got into his fencing battle stance, wielding the Keyblade backwards, pointing back of the guard toward the Soulless, his left forearm resting on the pole of the key, left foot pointed forward, right foot pointed to the side, his right arm sent back to ensure he won't get injured.

The figure seemed interested in his fighting stance and spectates the fight.

Sora then charges at them, first going for a left swing strike, knocking back the creature, they saw their threat went after him. Sora saw the attack, so he jumps back, making them missed the attack and he goes for a slide lunge, with enough force, he swung upwards and the to the right, flinging them across.

The three Soulless he took out then evaporates, Sora looks around and the relaxes his body as the fight was already over. He then heard clapping behind him, it was the figure. He walks to him and congratulates him.

"I'm impressed Sora." He said to him, "You now have the ability to fight. To fight against the darkness."

Sora is getting hopelessly confused. "I don't understand, why am I here? Why do those worlds need my help? And why do I have the ability to wield this Keysword?"

"Keyblade."

"Whatever, just... what's going on?!"

The figure chuckles, "That's something you're going to have to figure out on your own." He walks back, closer and closer to the edge. "Time to wake up now, Sora." He jumps off and into the darkness.

"Wait!" He runs towards the figure, only he was too little, too late. He stares at the black abyss. So many questions ran through his mind. He closes his eyes, pondering as to figure them out.

Reopening them, he finds himself back in the Camero, he looked around, Akane wasn't in vehicle with him and realized that he was asleep.

"Good morning Sleeping Beauty." Zenkichi said, reaching over from the driver seat, rubbing his head, "You're gonna be late if you're stay in the car."

"Oh, Shoot! " Sora shouts as he grabs his backpack and opened the car door. "Thanks for taking me there God-Zen! See you after school!" He waves goodbye, Zenkichi does the same, raised up the window and drove off.

The Phantom Thieves were curious as to who this boy is. Sora turns around and sees Akane with the Thieves, he tilted his head in confusion. "Sora, meet the Phantom Thieves! Oh, uh... well, half of them." She introduces him to them. "Ren Amamiya, the leader! Ryuji Sakamoto, the muscle! Ann Takamaki, the actress! Makoto Niijima, the advisor! And lastly, but not least, Haru Okumura, the noble daughter!"

Then she introduces the Thieves to Sora. "Phantom Thieves, meet Sora Zavadoski, the new architect of the Zavadoski Corp!" Sora blushes from the introduction.

"Akane, you don't need to give me that title." Sora said, shaking his head.

The Thieves had already taken an interest of the boy, as already Sora becoming friends with them. Ryuji and Ann were an absolute riot with Sora, being talkative and jokingly with each other. Haru also has taking a liking to him, as they both are part of a corporate business, and thankfully, they don't have to talk business. Makoto has also been looking at Sora carefully, she could already has been a talented and energetic young man. As for Ren, even though not really talkative, he does sometimes answer some of Sora's questions, so it makes them good friends at the least.

During some of the classes, like math, he tries to make some of the mathematics and algebraic problems solvable that to some people would believe wouldn't make sense. Ms. Usami took a notice of Sora's work and she was surprised as to some other students would take about from fifteen minutes to thirty minutes. For Sora, it only took at a shocking seven minutes.

Gym felt more like a workout of strength and speed for many others, Ryuji included, which he had a limp leg, tripping on some occasions, but at least he gets back up and to thanks to Sora, showing sportsmanship and friendship to Ryuji.

After a couple of classes, lunch came. Sora sat alone at one table, having his lunch while drawing some of his pictures, while the Thieves and Akane talked to each other, planning for their summer vacation. Ren and Akane noticed that Sora was sitting by himself.

Akane got up and went to get him. She tapped on his shoulder, causing him to look over his shoulder. "Why don't you come and sit next to us?" Akane asked him, "The others really want to get know you better."

Sora smiles, so he picks up his drawing supplies and his journal and went to with Akane. The Thieves greeted him as he sat down, Haru noticed his drawings and was amazed.

"Wow! Are those your drawings Sora?" Haru asked him, he nods and continues working on a new one, "They're amazing! I bet Yusuke would've been amazed by these!"

Ryuji and Ann had a look at one, seeing a drawing of himself and his Dream Eaters, asleep on his bed.

"Aww, this one's cute," Ann admires as she looks at the drawing, she then looks at the sleeping little boy in the drawing, "Sora, who's that boy in this picture?"

"Oh, that's me. That's the first day I slept with my friends." He explains and then he points out each Dream Eater by name, a couple of which made Ryuji chortled, but also amazed by some of the creatures he drew.

"Man, it must've taken a steady hand, if this was done without any sleep." Ryuji said, examining the picture, "Hell, If I stood up all night working on this, this wouldn't be me!"

Everyone, excluding Sora laughed, Akane then looks at his current work in progress drawing and was immediately confused as to what he's drawing. He's drawing himself, standing far away, face to face with someone in a black cloak.

"Sora? Who's that in black?" She asked, pointing to him.

Sora looked at the figure and said, "I don't know, but it's strange... it's like he knew me and had my voice, but I couldn't see his face. It's from a Dream I had when we were on our way here."

Akane nods as she tries to put two and two together, is it possible that the black cloaked figure is him, but he just want to show his face? She also noticed in the drawing was holding the Keyblade.

"A weapon that shines through the darkness..." Sora repeated the words the figure told him, "But what darkness?"

"Are you okay Sora?" Akane asked him. He jumps a little and notices her concern for him.

"Yeah... it's just that... none of this... makes any sense." Sora said, he stops drawing completely, putting his pencil down.

"What doesn't make any sense?" Ryuji asked him, the Thieves looked at Sora, Akane hasn't stopped looking at him.

"Well, this dream I had," Sora explained, "I was in the Station of Awakening, and that guy in the black coat was telling me that some worlds and the Metaverse were in danger."

The Thieves were in shock, they haven't even told him about it! How did he know about the Metaverse? But they made sure to keep themselves calm about this as to not make this as a scene.

Sora then continues, "Then, I asked him what he was talking about and then these... these... freaky creatures came out of nowhere. The guy told me they were called the Soulless, beings without hearts and filled with rage. Then he gave me a Keyblade, something that the Soulless were afraid of."

Everyone was now filled with questions, not to Sora, but to his dream in particular. But Ryuji shrugs it off. "My dude, it's just a dream, it's just a coincidence that this guy wanted your help for some reason."

"I highly doubt it." Sora said, gathering his art supplies and left the table, he felt like there's a lot of weight on his shoulders, weights that just won't seem to come off.

Akane went to follow him. "Sora? Are you alright?" She asked him, taking his hand.

Sora looks behind him and saw her hand, holding his. He then looks at her eyes, a show of worry and concern on display. Sora then suddenly see in her place was someone he never seen before, a girl with dark red hair, violet-blue eyes and a pale complexion.

His mouth was wide open, a single tear fell from one of his eyes.

"Sora!" She exclaims, Akane's voice overlapping with another girl's voice, assuming that belongs to that girl.

Sora snaps out of it and he sees Akane again, wiping the tear away from his cheek. "Sora, are you okay?" She asked him, she's getting extremely concerned for her friend now, he never cries at all, at least not when he's around her.

Sora notices that she's wiping his cheek, so he used his forearm to wipe it away. "Y-Yeah... don't know we're that came from." He says, smiling to her, "Sorry, if I'm worrying you... I guess the dream's just been a problem for me."

She smiles and hugs his side, reassuring him, "Sora, everything is going to be okay. I'm here for you if you need any help, so are the Phantom Thieves and my Dad."

He smiles, feeling better by her kind words, she's always encourages her to follow his goals and she always make him laugh.

So, as classes went on, studying through history and social studies. He's been really focused on the work he was assigned to. Straight A's to A+'s. Not many students have those kinds of grades. Even the Phantom Thieves were surprised.

After the last bell rang, signaling school's over, every student went outside, either walking home, waiting for a car, or a bus to pick them up, or waiting on a group of friends to travel with them.

For the Thieves they walked home with Akane, Haru and Ryuji couldn't wait to get their summer vacation started. Sora soon followed after them, hearing them talk about it, got him intrigued.

"So, where are you guys going for your vacation?" Sora asked them, readjusting the strap of his backpack.

"Oh, we're going places," Ryuji answered him, "I'm talking about Germany, Italy, France, Britain, America and man, oh man, it's gonna be awesome!"

Sora tilted his head, he did studied much of other places in history, but he was curious as to why those places in particular.

"Oh! Sora, the rest of the Phantom Thieves Are going to meet up at Cafe Leblanc, you wanna come?" Akane asked him, reaching out for his hand. He looks at her hand and seemed to agreed, but...

"I... wish I could, but I need to get permission from my father." He said to her, Akane nods as she then pulls out her phone and hands him it.

"Go and call him." She encourages him, she understands his choice, knowing Sora, he always had to ask for permission from namely, his father, Zenkichi, Akane and other people.

So, he enters his father's phone number and waits for him to answer and thankfully, Hideo does take the call.

"Hey Dad, how's work?" He asked him, the others wait during Sora's call with his father, he then chuckles, "Yeah, school's great... uh-huh... yeah... oh, yeah, made a lot of new friends... heh, yeah... oh, sure! Oh, yeah! Dad, my friends wanted to take me to Cafe Leblanc, is it okay that I could go? ... Yes sir, I did... uh-huh... okay, I will... okay Dad, thanks... okay see you at nine... love you too, bye."

He gave the phone back to Akane and said, "Alright, I'll go." The other were exclaiming excitingly, Akane hugs him. "Hold on, hold on, there's something that might be important. Firstly, I'm highly allergic to nuts."

Akane nods, last time he had a peanut allergic reaction, he was nine at the time. His cheeks on his face puffs up almost to the size of chipmunk cheeks, after he took the medication, he went woozy and told her somethings that he was quite embarrassed, even though Akane herself wouldn't tell him, but he seemed fine by it.

"Okay, peanut allergies, we'll definitely have to let Mr. Sakura know." Ann told her teammates, letting them to an agreement. "Anything else we should know Sora?"

"Yeah, I also can't have too much sugar based eatables." He explains, "Last time I had too much sugar, I ended up with my head in a toilet bowl for almost half an hour." He rubbed the back of his head, blushing as he said that.

Ryuji made a face of disgust hearing about it, Ren shook his head and Ann, Haru and Makoto felt bad for him. Akane rubbed his shoulder, she knows a lot about Sora at the same amount as she knows about the Phantom Thieves.

"Okay, cool, so peanut allergy and sugar problem." Ryuji said in relaxed posture. "So then, we're in the clear. Let's get to Cafe Leblanc, I'm starvin' for some ramen."

They laughed and they went on their way. Sora and the group were having a chat. Sora felt more comfortable with friends has, he never had people who were kind to him. In most of the schools, he would be constantly bullied by other students, teasing him with his drawings, mocking his pain and his father.

The Phantom Thieves were different, they loved his creativity, his drawings, sometimes asking for help with some of the problems. He felt like he so much of Hideo's blood in him.

Once they reached to Yongen-Jaya, they came across the sign for Cafe Leblanc. Once inside, they discovered that the rest of the Thieves Are there as well.

The first person they saw is a boy with dark blue hair with parted bangs slightly covering his left eye and gray eyes. Yusuke Kitagawa is a calm and considerate person, fascinated with art and is an intelligent and wise of the Phantom Thieves.

Next is a is a young, bespectacled girl with hip length black hair dyed bright orange with straight-cut bangs and two long strands in the front along with a single small, thin ahoge strand at the top. Her brown eyes also seem to have some faint purple tones in them, appearing mauve. She wears large black circular glasses, and she is always seen wearing a set of AKG K845BT headphones with red earpads. Futaba Sakura is the youngest member of the group, childish and constantly teasing her friends, particularly Ryuji, Yusuke and Ren's cat, Morgana.

Speaking of Morgana, he is an adult house cat. His fur's predominantly black, with the exception of his limbs and tail, which also appear white, including his muzzle. His eyes were blue, hiding his sclera. He also wears a yellow color with a silver tag with his name on it. Though of course, this isn't what he really looks like. Morgana's initial belief that he's human is the main source that preserves his self-assured character intact, though it's magnified the height of his own worth significantly, making him feel important and useful for the world and those around him. However, his appearance of a cat prevents him from being seen for who he is, ergo his irritation to being called and thought of as nothing more than a cat.

"Heya guys, thought you could start your planning on our vacay without us?" Ryuji calls out to them.

Yusuke turned around and sees the others and then looked at Sora. "I can see that you arrived in time, but whom is that along with you?" Yusuke asked him, his eyes were staring at Sora.

"Oh! Yusuke Kitagawa, Futaba Sakura and Morgana, this is my friend Sora, we were friends ever since at the same age of seven." Akane introduces them to Sora. He gave them a wave hello, a little nervous on meeting them, knowing that Yusuke has passion of art.

Yusuke smiles and walks up to Sora and extends out his hand for a handshake. "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Sora." He greeted, smiling warmly to him.

Sora shook his hand, smiling sheepishly. "Oh! Yusuke! You need to look at the drawings Sora made!" Haru cut in, then she turns to him, "Go on Sora!"

He laughs a little, he love Haru's enthusiasm, so he got out the pictures he drew, first showing him his first drawing of his younger self and the Dream Eaters. Yusuke examines it, looking at every detail on the drawing and he looked at him surprised.

"You drew this?" Yusuke asked him, Sora nods as the artist looked at the drawing again, he was amazed by the drawing, in fact he almost mistook it as a photograph. No white of the paper was shown through, no missed areas, it looked like a real photo. "This is... surprisingly good, how long have you been working on this?"

"Ever since I was eleven." Sora answered him, feeling appreciated by him, "I don't have a TV at home, but I made up with that time for drawing and art."

"I see, you had much experience and talent with this drawing." Yusuke then looks at his second drawing, it was when Sora and Akane first met. Again, the photo almost looked realistic. "Even with colored pencils, paint, or marker, each each line isn't visible, it's impressive."

They sat down and looked through some more of the drawings, then curiosity struck Yusuke. It was Station of Awakening drawing Sora's currently finishing up filling in with color, seeing first hand of Sora's drawing and coloring styles. What Sora does is that he seems to take his time, finding different shades of colors and blend in with the surroundings he saw.

Futaba looks at some of the drawings and she was surprised that he wasn't afraid of every attention to detail. She then looks at the drawing of one of the Soulless creatures, almost make her jumped out of her chair and shrieked.

Sora saw the expression on Futaba's face when she looked at the picture. "Oh, sorry..." he said sincerely, "I was going to put that one away."

"What even is that?!" She asked him, "It looked like one of those creatures that would come out of the mosh pit in a horror theme music video!"

Sora explains the rest of them about his dream, the Keyblade, the guy in black, everything. This left Futaba and Morgana having their heads tilted in confusion, Yusuke on the other hand hand his left hand on his chin, pondering.

"I see... so this figure in the black coat. Did he ever told you his name?"

Sora shook his head no, "He never did, but it's weird. It's like as if I know him somehow. But why would he tell me some of those strange things and why me in particular?"

Futaba then ponders too and then she came up with a theory. "Well, I think I know why, but I don't know if it could be of some help."

"What is it Futaba?" Haru asked her.

"While it is a fairly common experience, meeting yourself in a dream can be disconcerting. To start with, it might be the first sign that you are actually dreaming. In addition, it feels like there has to be a deeper meaning to the experience."

Sora tilted his head in confusion as Futaba continues.

"Depending on the set of circumstances, situation and location, it could mean many different things."

"Like what?" Sora asked.

"Well, dream researchers think that seeing yourself is a reflection of your waking life." She explains to him, "It may be a reflection of the way you act in reality or how you behave in your waking world. To really figure out what this type of dream means, you may need to look at what you are doing in the dream. For example, if the "you" that you see in the dream is running on an endless treadmill, it may signify that you feel like all of your work in your waking life is not getting you anywhere."

Sora gave a look of disbelief. "But, what about the Soulless? The Keyblade?"

Ryuji pats his shoulder and tries to reassure him. "Sora, it's only just a dream that you had when you got to school, it's not that big of a deal."

Sora ponders a little, maybe he's right, it does seem preposterous that some guy, trying to scare him and tell him to save the other worlds was just probably something he came up in his mind.

Sora chuckles and agrees, "Yeah, you're probably right, besides, there's only one of me to run about."

Everyone chuckles, plus he's right, how could there be two of him? Unless he has a twin he hasn't known about, that could explain it.

After a long while it was eight-thirty and there's an event Sora won't forget, as he continues to talk with Akane and Yusuke, Morgana surprised him by hopping on top of Sora's shoulder, causing him to nearly scream like a little girl.

He then slapped Morgana off, on accident, the cat lands on the floor with a thud, thankfully he was unharmed as he got back up on his feet and began to curse the ever dickens out of Sora.

"What the hell?!" He shouts at him, "I was just trying to give you some affection and the first thing you did is slapped the shit out of me?!"

Sora's eyes went wide, Akane started to giggle when he discovered Morgana talking. "Wh-What the- Ren! Your cat's talking!" Sora screams, freaking out.

Morgana frowns and got irritated. "Excuse me, but I am not a cat!" He exclaims at him, unsheathed his claws. "Call me that again, your eyes are gonna get scratched out!"

Sora got freaked out even more as grabbed cup of water, poured salt in it and shouted, "Back! Back you feline demon! The power of Christ compels you!" He tossed the water at the second-in-command of the Phantom Thieves.

Morgana shrieks, getting his fur wet, combined with water and baths got him to get freaked out more than Sora. "AAGGHH! WATER! GET IT OFF MY FUR! REN!" Morgana shouted at the top of his lungs.

Ren came running downstairs from his room upstairs and into the dining area and to see Morgana pounce onto Ren's hip and under his shirt, his head popped out of his neck hole, shivering.

"Ren! Your cat! It just talked!" Sora shouted, pointing at Morgana.

"I told you, I'm not a cat!" The feline reminded him angrily.

"But you're a feline aren't you?!"

"Am not!"

"Yeah, you are! If you're a feline, you're a cat! So technically, you are a cat!"

"I am not a cat." Morgana said through his teeth.

"Yes, you are!"

"I am not!"

"Are to!"

"Are not!"

"Are to!"

"Are not!"

"To!"

"Not!"

"To!"

"Not!"

"To!"

"Not!"

The Thieves and Akane has there heads going side to side hearing Sora and Morgana's argument. Akane finally decides to break it up. "Okay kids, there's more than one cookie for both you."

Sora looks at his friend and then asked her, "Akane, why the hell is the cat talking?!"

"Am not!"

"Shut up!"

"Sora, I can explain everything." Akane reassures him, patting him on his left shoulder. "This isn't what Morgana looks like, he's much cooler than the form you see him in now. He's so cool! He wields a cutlass sword and acrobatic!"

Sora looked at Morgana, then at Akane. "Y-you mean to tell me that he is that small bandit and the important member of the Phantom Thieves?"

"Yep!"

"No, that, that can't be him."

Akane raised her brow and placed her left hand on her hip.

"I mean look at him! He stands on two legs! And he wears a utility belt! Do you see him be like any of those?" Sora asked her, gesturing his arms to Morgana, whom was offended by the gestures.

"That's because in the Metaverse, he could take change form." Ren explains.

"Hold on, I thought this was made up for that broadcast you made against Shido a couple months ago?" Sora asked him.

The Thieves could just cringe at the thought of that man. Ren couldn't shake the thought of his son, Goro Akechi, a former member of the Phantom Thieves.

"If it haven't been him pulling the string, Goro wouldn't have gone insane." Ren said. The others looked at Ren, they could tell something's wrong, true it's been months since Goro had admitted about the murders and he'd plead guilty for it, but there hasn't been a verdict... until now.

"Goro and Shido are going to be executed." Ren said, placing his left hand on the arm of his glasses, taking them off, using right to cover his eyes.

They were shocked to hear about it, but Akane thought it was a good thing. "Oh, come on," Akane says, "You guys are just going to mope? Just be glad that he's gonna be gone!"

"You're missing the point Akane!" Ryuji shouts, "Goro was manipulated to kill. He deserves a better life then executions."

The Thieves agreed, even though he was the traitor, they know that he has a good heart.

Morgana then started to brighten the room. "Hey come on guys! Let's not mope about that. Sure we might miss him, but it's nearly our summer vacation! Let's not get into sadness and let's think happy thoughts!"

"Yeah! Like this!" Sora joins in, Akane knew what was coming next and he made a funny face. They looked at him, Akane and the Thieves except Morgana and Ryuji were laughing.

"Uhh, that wasn't what I was meaning, but I'll take it!" Morgana chuckles. "Besides! Get excited for it! Oh, I just wait to see the Eiffel Tower in Italy!"

Yusuke nearly held back his laughter and corrects him, "That would be in France."

Morgana realizes that and blushes in embarrassment. "Y-Yeah, right, heh, I guess I must've forgot!" He said to everyone, trying to be confident.

They laughed, then Sora looks at the time and it was past nine. "Oh shoot! I need to get home!" Sora shouts, he quickly grabbed all of his stuff.

"Do you want any accompaniment with you?" Yusuke asked him. "I'm sure it'll be easier if we come with just to-"

"NO!" Sora blurts out, catching everyone by surprise, he then begins to stutter, "I-I mean, uh, thank you for the offer, but I-"

"Sora, you keep up with us not allowing me to go into your room" Akane said to him, crossing her arms, "And followed that up with skeptical excuses like, "No, my room's really messy," or, "No, it's being repainted," or, here's my favorite one, "No, I had some guys that are being stripped down for trying bathing suits." You even hate looking at people naked."

Sora blushes, she has a point, but there's a reason why, even he's really excited to show the world to the Dream Eaters, he's also been secretive and scared as to how they would react to them.

"Sora, what is in your room that you don't want us to see?"

Sora clenches his fists nervously, then he sighs, wished he didn't want to tell them, but he needs to get this off his chest. "Okay, you really want to know what goes on in my room?" He asked her, she nods with a serious frown, he too nods as he understands. "Okay, but promise me that you won't freak out?"

She tilted her head, a little confused, but she promises.

"We can come with you, if you want to Sora." Haru said to him.

"Thanks, a nice walk with you guys would be nice... did you... brought your pajamas with you just in case?" Sora asked, they were a little confused when he asked them that.

After a long walk back to Zavadoski Tower, the group, except Akane, whom visited their so many times, was amazed at the size of the place.

"Wow! This almost like the Okumura Foods building, but bigger!" Haru compliments.

"And I thought Kamoshida's palace was big." Ryuji said, "Boy, am I wrong?"

"Follow me." Sora said. The Phantom Thieves looked around the tower as they were following Sora, taking them to the elevator, while listening to elevator music of course as many elevators would do. As they got to the top floor, they went through several corridors and went to a hallway, leading to a lone door that was labeled with Sora's full name.

The boy took a deep breath as he grabs the door handle, he looked behind him to his friends and asked, "Are you guys sure you wanna see? Because if you do-"

"Sora, don't stall!" Akane interrupts as she shoves him out of the way and opens the door to what she and the others weren't expecting at all.

The Dream Eaters stops and looks at the dark brown haired girl, she looks surprised and scared, mostly attracting the Aura Lion, which growled softly, sensing her as a threat.

She screams loudly as the Lion lunges at her, tackling and pinning her arms down against the floor, the Thieves and Sora moves out of the way.

The Lion looks down at Akane, which once had a face of shock was now replaced with fear and terror, breathing heavily, her heart was pound out of her chest.

Sora went to the beast and tries to calm it. "Whoa, whoa! Aura Lion, stop! She's a friend!" He exclaims to it, the Lion looks at the boy, then looking at the Thieves, growling at them too. "No, no, it's okay, they're friends of mine too, they all are." The Aura Lion looked at Sora again, then at Akane. He releases her to allow her to get up.

"Sora, what in the hell is that!?" She asked, yelling at him.

"It's okay Akane." He reassures her.

"It's okay?! That thing nearly clawed my face!"

"The Aura Lion doesn't kill anyone!"

"Well It sure as hell it looked like it was!"

"He was only trying to protect me!"

"Protecting you? It looked like I was lunch!"

"It didn't know you were a threat!"

The two were arguing and the Lion couldn't stand it. So it unleashed a loud roar, so loud that the Phantom Thieves and the two bickering ninnies had to cover their ears. The Lion then stops and looked at Sora, gesturing his head to come inside.

Sora nodded and looks at the others. "Wanna come inside?" He asked them, the group looked a little conflicted about going in his room, after the accidental attack, they're not so sure anymore. "It's okay, they won't hurt you. Come on."

He took Akane's hand and they went in, Sora closes the door behind them and everyone saw the Dream Eaters, some cower and hide, while others looked at the Thieves and Akane curiously.

Sora then sees the Me Me Bunny was about to hide, but then trips over and looked at the dark brown haired girl, just as terrified as her. Akane his behind Sora, clutching onto his hand. He knows that she's scared, but he wanted them to know that they meant no harm, so this gave him an idea.

"Me Me Bunny? Can you come here please?" He asked the floppy eared creature, it peaked it's head to the side, seeing brown spiky haired boy, crouching down, left hand on his left knee, his right arm extending out.

The bunny came out of it's hiding spot and carefully and slowly walked to him. The Spirit Me Me Bunny is primarily colored in yellow and green. The dots on its ears, stripes on the collar and its lower legs are colored purple. The collar's primary color and lines on its cheeks are yellow. It has yellow heart shaped eye in the black eye space. The Spirit Dream Eater symbol is located on its chest.

"That's it, nice and slow." He encourages quietly, Akane looks at the little Dream Eater, backing away a little. He looks at her. "Akane, give me your hand."

She looked at him as if he went insane, there's no way she going to let him take her hand and make her touch the weird bunny, in her mind anyway.

"It's alright, she's not gonna harm you." He reassures, he gently took her wrist and she crouched down as well. "You can close your eyes if you're that scared Akane."

She does so, her face turned away to the right, not wanting to know what happens next. The Me Me Bunny looks at Akane's hand, she took a couple of sniffs of the human girl's hand, sensing there's no threat to her, only to know she was scared, so it gestured her head into Akane's palm, nuzzling while cooing.

Akane helps a squeak as she could feel the bunny's head onto her palm of her hand, she was shaking like a leaf as she opens her left eye and looks at the little bunny, happily cooing and nuzzling her hand.

She then looks at her and the bunny looked into Akane's eyes. She doesn't know why but felt a sudden burst of happiness in her as she rubbed Me Me Bunny's head a little, cooing loudly.

"Hehe, aww... you're really cute!" Akane said to the little Dream Eater, cooing in glee in response. She then turns to Sora. "I'm sorry for being scared. I guess I was assuming that they mean to hurt me."

Sora chuckles and responded, "Heh, it's okay, I had the same thing happen to me when I first met them. Plus, as it turns out..." He and Akane both stood up, the boy took his jacket and his hoodie off, revealing everyone the same Dream Eater symbol on his chest, they were in shock, girls gasped, Haru covered her mouth.

"Wh-What?! You're one of them!?" Ryuji asked him, placing his hands on the top of his head.

"Well..." Sora trails off, "To be honest I don't know, I mean I might have the gift of summoning Dream Eaters, But I highly doubt I'm one of them as a whole."

"Well still, it's interesting that you could control every one of those creatures." Morgana says to him, "What even are they anyway?"

"Dream Eaters," The boy explained to them, "Dr. Dominic explained that they're two different versions of them. Nightmares, which devour happy dreams and are an embodiment of darkness and there are Spirits, which consumes bad dreams and resembles light. The ones you're looking at are Spirit Dream Eaters."

"So, they don't hurt people with good dreams?" Makoto asked him.

"No, but they will attack if either provoked, or if they see me harmed." He goes on further, "Just like you saw, but instead of killing them, they merely just knock them out."

"But what about the Nightmares?" Futaba asked him, "You did said that they would consume the dark versions of them. Do they kill them?"

"Well, more than likely, no, they only released the good dreams that were corrupted by dark forces."

Ryuji then looked at Spirit Tyranto Rex. The Spirit Tyranto Rex's red face is complemented by a large school bus yellow jaw filled with many teeth, while its Spirit Dream Eater emblem can be seen on top of its head. Two large orange horn-like projections stick out from the top of its head while the tips fades to purple. The Spirit Tyranto Rex has a large red body with an turquoise streak going down the side of it. It has a green belly which fades to lime green, and on its shoulders it has orange purple ridges. On its legs are four dots, going from orange to red-brown, and it has large turquoise and purple claws at the end of its feet and hands, which are red at the top and a dual fading color of light red and orange. Its large tail has school bus yellow and orange, blade-like ridges.

"Whoa! This big guy looked awesome!" Ryuji complimented, Sora looked at Ryuji walking slowly to the Tyranto Rex.

"That's a Tyranto Rex, a Dino inspired Dream Eater." He explains, "Though, I steer clear away from his sharp teeth.

"Whoa... Dude, you look so cool!" Ryuji exclaims to the T-Rex Dream Eater, "I think I'll call ya Rexy!"

"Really?" Ann asked him. "Rexy?"

"Yeah! From..." He got into his action pose and shouted, "Zyuden Sentai... Kyooooryuger!" The Tyranto Rex roars in as he finished the roll call.

Sora and Akane laughs at Ryuji's attempt to be the Kyoryuger Ranger. Ryuji looked at the two giggling friends.

"What? What's so funny?" Ryuji asked them.

"Y-you, hahaha, you look so funny Ryuji!" Akane said, clutching her stomach from laughing so much, "You'd be one hell of a role model for them!" She laughed harder and the others joined in, Ryuji blushed and he placed his hands on the back of his head and leaned to the right.

After a while, playing with the Dream Eaters, grooming them, it was getting late, so some had to sleep in sleeping bags that they packed, while others chose to slept on the bed.

Sora couldn't sleep at all, so instead he stood up all night and worked on his drawing, a new drawing that took a new turn for him for his love of his friends and his Dream Eaters. He even added in one detail, Sora sleeping with Akane, holding her hand.

Tomorrow the Phantom Thieves are going to head out for their vacation, going on for a week and a half trip in other foreign countries Sora too wanted to go, but tomorrow would be a different turn for everyone.

Whew! Man that was a long one, but it was absolutely worth it! Now, you were also wondering what I did to Sora. Well, you're just going to have to keep reading and theorize as to why Sora's like this, why he has the power to control Dream Eaters and why he hasn't used the power of the Keyblade yet (Except in the dream sequence, that doesn't count.) But other than that, what did you guys think? What do you think the first world will be in the fourth chapter? Write a review and let me what you guys think! Until then, see you later for Chapter Three!