After being slightly ill from the non cooked fish, Soriku returned from the bushes, no longer green in the face. He looked left and right, but could see no sight of Kenai and Koda, or any of the bears for that matter.
"Kenai? Koda?" he called out but got now response. He started to feel a bit uneasy but slowly started walking round the Salmon Run until he saw Koda sitting behind a bush, sniffing sadly. Soriku slowly walked up to him and Koda spun round in fear, but relaxed when he saw who it was.
"Oh hey Soriku…" he said softly, his voice was filled with sorrow and Soriku could only feel sad as well, bending down to Koda's level.
"What's wrong Koda? You were all happy this morning, what's changed?"
Koda looked down sadly and a deadly silence fell over the pair until Koda looked up again and said slowly.
"Your going to go away aren't you?"
The question surprised Soriku, and he opened his mouth to reply but could find no words. He paused and you could see in his eyes he was thinking deeply before he replied.
"Yes I will have to eventually, I have to find my friends and stop those creatures…"
Koda looked down, his worst nightmare coming true.
"Then this is good-bye…" replied the cub, his eyes on the verge of tears.
"I never said that Koda, I'll come back and visit you, and besides I'm always here with you, you just have to look here" he replied softly and tapped Koda's chest where his heart was. Koda looked up at Soriku with hopeful eyes.
"Promise?"
"Pinkie Promise" smiled Soriku as he held out his pinkie to Koda, who smiled happily and held out his own as they made a pact.
Slowly Kenai, Koda and Soriku walked down a small pathway, the area had beautiful flowers blooming everywhere, and tall trees. Soriku smiled hands behind his head as he watched the beautiful scenery, hands behind his head, this world was so different to his own. He was snapped back to reality when he saw what appeared to be a village ahead of them. Soriku gave a confused look at Kenai, why would they go to a human's village? But Kenai just smiled and nudged him forward with his nose, and reluctantly Soriku kept walking. As they got closer, he could see some of the villagers cheering loudly and some shook Soriku's hand, who out of confusion and slight fear, grinned nervously and shook them back. Kenai slowly walked up to Soriku and whispered into his ear.
"This is my old village, they were attacked by those creatures you call heartless but they disappeared once you defeated the ones on the mountain top"
"Oh that makes sense…wait! If this was your village that means you were once huma-"
Soriku was cut off when a hand pulled him off, he looked at the figure about to lash out, but was surprised when the figure was smiling and laughing softly and he came to a halt and let go of Soriku.
"Sorry about having to drag you from the crowd, but the char-women wishes to speak with you" he smiled
"Char-what?" asked Soriku, but the man just laughed and pointed to a large hut with a cloth in the front for a door.
"She waits for you, by the way the name is Denahi" he smiled and walked off back towards the local villagers who were busy hugging and petting Kenai. Soriku who was totally freaked out by this walked quickly into the hut.
Sora slowly opened his eyes, as the sun glinted through the window, warming his face. Slowly he pulled himself up, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He yawned loudly and stretched before slowly pulling himself out of the bed and pulling his top off his head he quickly changed and walked into the bathroom, looking at himself in the mirror. His outfit had not really changed since the defeat of Xemnas. He mindlessly picked up the toothbrush and toothpaste and slowly started to brush. He then washed his face, finally waking up properly. Walking out of the bathroom he opened the door to his bedroom and slowly walked out and down the hall, knocking on all the doors as he passed, making sure to wake everyone up, though Sora was a "lazy-bum", Kairi's beauty sleep seemed to take up most of the day.
Slowly opening the main door into the control room he saw Riku was already up, as well as Donald and Goofy, and by the sounds of the shower running, Kairi was getting ready, probably to her dislike. Sora took his seat next to Riku and looked over at him, he seemed to have got some sleep but most likely less then anybody else, Riku always seemed to be determined to show that he was committed to be being on their side, Sora knew it would take a while for him to realise that they trusted him till the end of the world.
Feeling a tap on the shoulder turned round to see Riku pointing to the window, Sora's eyes followed to were he was pointing, he grinned suddenly at what he saw, Twilight Town. He was going to see Hayner and the gang again.
"Its going to be weird seeing them again…" said a voice, it echoed through the ship, and slowly out of his body, Roxas appeared, Sora had gotten used to this by now and found it perfectly natural. While others still jumped and nearly screamed as they saw it.
"Yeah…you okay with us going?" asked Riku, he and Roxas never spoke a lot; it was a bit awkward after Riku had smashed a keyblade in Roxas head and had helped brainwashing him and sending him to a digital Twilight Town.
But Roxas looked over at him and smiled softly before nodding.
"Yeah, I would regret it if I did not see them again…It's nice to pretend that they are my friends…"
Sora winced at this, and by the looks of the others, they were feeling just as sad for Roxas as he was.
"Roxas…" said Sora sadly
Roxas turned round and smiled sadly at Sora.
"It's okay, who knows maybe one day they will remember me…it's a dream isn't it? A dream that I can at least imagine coming true" he said softly.
Everyone felt even worse, but Roxas just smiled and slowly disappeared back into Sora. Sora closed his eyes for a second before looking back at the window, Twilight Town getting closer ever second.
"Let's share that dream Roxas…" whispered Sora.
