Note from ME… Hey ya'll, it's December Sky here. This chapter is putting everybody into their adventure so enjoy please.

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Thunderous Encounter

The gang was on a small island dubbed Paopu Island watching the sunset. Kairi and Sora took their places on the tree that bent over, perfect for sitting. Riku leaned against the base while Ledah sat on the ground.

"I wonder if we'll find any other worlds, once we set sail." Kairi wondered.

"I hope we do." Ledah said with hopefulness. "I want to learn about my past and where I came from."

"We'll all help find your home, along with Kairi's too." Sora stated surely.

"I still don't get how Ledah washes up here and a year later we have Kairi. Anybody find that fishy?" Riku insisted.

"Maybe it's just a coincidence." Ledah said.

Riku went wide eyed and threw his arms in front of him exasperatedly. "How many times have we had someone wash up on the beach?"

"Twice." the whole group responded in unison.

"It's just weird." Riku stated.

"How far do you think it'll take us?" Ledah's voice chirped in. "The raft I mean."

Riku simply shrugged. "Who knows? All I know is there has to be some other worlds out there. Thanks to you two we all have some hope of finding new worlds. Thanks you guys."

"No problem."

"You're welcome."

"Where would we go first?" Kairi asked.

"Wherever it takes us." Sora chirped.

"I'd like to thank my friend over here for having the brightest mind." Ledah said sarcastically.

Everyone cracked up at Sora then continued watching the sun. The sun finished setting and Kairi yawned loudly and stretched her arms.

"I'm turning in for the night." Kairi yawned. "It looks like it's going to rain."

"Me too." Sora said.

"You can stay over at my house tonight, since your houses are on the other side of the island." Kairi offered.

"Thanks Kairi. Let's get going."

"Yeah really. You're a lifesaver!"

"I try." Kairi giggled her girly laugh.

The boys followed the girls at their own pace, which meant they were very far behind.

"Hey Sora! Catch!" Riku called over. Sora turned around in time to get hold of a star shaped fruit.

"It's a paopu fruit. Legend has it if you share it with someone, your destinies become intertwined." Riku laughed. "Come on I know you want to try it."

"What are you talking about?" Sora said in a confused tone.

Riku had started running off laughing leaving Sora stranded there. Sora threw the fruit off the bridge and went into pursuit after Riku.

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Meanwhile at Disney Castle, all was well. It was quiet... unusually quite. A regally dressed duck walked casually down a large hall towards the King's throne.

"Good Morning your majesty!" he quacked. "It's nice to see you this morn--WHAT!" The throne was empty.

Pluto the dog came out from behind the throne with a letter in mouth. The duck retrieved the letter and read through it quickly. He processed the letter through his brain then blinked a couple times.

"WAHH!" he cried running out of the throne room.

He ran into the castle garden to find an unusually large dog dressed as a knight taking a nap in the flower beds.

"Wake up Goofy! Wake up this is serious!" he urged his friend.

Goofy continued to sleep.

"Thunder!"

"Waahhhhhoooieee!" Goofy cried. He sat up rubbing his eyes then gave his friend a wave. "G'morning Donald."

"Goofy this is serious." Donald scolded. "You can't tell anyone!"

"Daisy?"

"No!"

"Queen Minnie?"

"NO! It's top secret!"

"Ahyuk! G'morning ladies." Goofy said politely.

"What?" Donald said surprised turning around.

He came face to face with an unhappy Queen Minnie and Daisy. He scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

"Eheheheh..."

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Ledah was lying on Kairi's sofa listening to her favorite CD. Loud thunder echoed throughout the entire island. She jumped a little bit and shrieked quietly. Her eyes widened as she realized what a mistake they all made.

"The raft!" she said sitting up in a rush.

She ran up to Kairi's room and knocked twice and stood there waiting but there was no answer. Ledah opened her door to find no sign of Kairi except an open window. "Oh no. This can't be good."

She made her way through the room careful not to step on anything and eased herself through the window. Running toward the docks she found that Riku, Sora, and Kairi's boats were all missing. She jumped in her boat and started paddling away from the main island. She arrived at the play island and tied her boat to the docks along with the others. She ran off in search of her friends throughout the island. She got to Paopu Island and found Riku there. Ledah ran towards Riku hoping he knew where everyone was.

"Riku!" she called out.

He slowly turned around with his arm extended, his gloved hand free to grasp. He was getting surrounded by a dark abyss. "Ledah. I'm not afraid of the darkness." he said with his arm extended still and no expression on his face. "Come with me." Ledah was scared of Riku and ran away from him.

She started towards the Secret Place when little black monsters that had venomous yellow eyes started popping out of the ground in front of the branch leading into their secret cave. She picked up a jump rope on the ground and tried to fight the black demons with it, but it was useless. The ground around her turned black and she saw a meteor falling from the sky directly towards her. The darkness absorbed her as she kept falling, and falling. Everything around her turned black and her mind shut down as she went unconscious.

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"Goofy. We need to hurry up and find the king." Donald said clearly ticked off from his companion's laziness.

A star flashed brightly before disappearing. Queen Minnie gasped loudly and she worriedly said. "Be sure to bring him home along with this key too."

"Good luck on your mission boys." Daisy said supporting and gave Donald a kiss on the cheek.

"Eheheheheheh. Thank you." Donald blushed. "Let's go Goofy."

The two of them opened a door that lead to a spiral staircase that descended. At the bottom of the stairs was a launching pad for their gummi ship.

"Coming in to launch crew. Do you read me?" Donald said into a microphone that leads to a small control center.

In the control center two small chipmunks appeared into view as they gave the thumbs up and switched on a couple gears. A revolving belt picked them up and brought them into their space ship. They fastened their seat buckles and turned on all their computers.

"Ready! Set! Launch!" Donald yelled as their engines turned on high ready to blast away. "AHHHHHH!" A hatch below them opened and they unexpectedly fell downward into space

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I hope you enjoyed reading that as much as I enjoyed writing it, next chapter is the where we start finding out where people have landed… or not landed… buhahah. Guess you'll have to find out.

- December Sky