Everything around them seemed to blur. At the count of three they both jumped slashing effortlessly threw the core. Almost instantly the ground around them began to crack and crumble, and the buildings around them began to collapse sending showers of glass and rubble flying in different directions. Despite all the confusion and chaos Sora managed to pull a small disk like object from one of his pockets, but just as he was about to activate it a violent trimmer shook the ground beneath them sending the disk flying opening the portal a few feet away.
"I guess we'll have to run for it." Sora said. Not even waiting for a reply they took off not wanting to waste any of the little time they had. Another trimmer shook the earth, Riku gave a cry of surprise as the ground gave way beneath his feet. He clung to the edge looking down at the swirling core below.
"Run Sora ! Leave me behind." he shouted knowing that time was short. Instead of turning and running to the portal Sora ran to were Riku dangled grabbing his wrist, and with strength that surprised even himself he flung Riku toward the portal pressing something cold into his hand he did so. Riku only caught a glimpse of Sora sad smile before he flew into the portal and everything went black.
Awareness came back slowly. He could barely make out muffled voices in the background."Do you think he is alright?" one of them said.
"He is in a state of shock." another one said.
'Both of them sound so familiar' he thought vaguely.
"But he's been out could for a while." the first one continued.
"He has gone threw a great deal of stress in the past few hours let his mind heal itself." the second replied firmly.
He groaned as his eyelids fluttered opened revealing to worried faces hovering above him. The one closest to him was a girl with long red hair her anxious violet eyes on his face. Beside her stood a mouse like creature his kind face was lined with worry and something else, sorrow maybe?
"Kairi your majesty?" he muttered struggling to sit up.
"Riku your alright!" Kairi exclaimed throwing herself into his arms toppling them over backwards again.
"Sorry" She muttered helping him sit up again.
"What happened?" he muttered looking around. He was no longer in the streets of The World That Never Was, but laying on a cot in the gummi ship. Then something else struck him, "Where is Sora?" he said looking from Kairi to the king. His began to grow more pleading as he asked again, "Where is he."
Kairi broke down into tears and turned away as the king spoke his voice gentle, "I'm sorry Riku, but I'm afraid Sora is no longer with as." Riku paused his brain unable to comprehend what the king was saying.
"What you mean." riku said in voice cracking.
"You were the only one that came back." Kairi replied this time, "You were holding this." she continued holding out a long silver chain with a crown shaped pendant hanging from it.
Riku held his hand for it and she dropped it into his palm. He stared at before he finally spoke, "He gave his life for me. I-I told him to run but he didn't listen. He didn't listen!" Riku cried clutching the necklace to his chest.
Kairi wanted so much to comfort him, but she knew that no words could ease the pain in his heart. Riku loved Sora more than a best friend should, and she knew for a fact that Sora felt the same way. Neither one of them had expressed these feelings to each other yet though, and now it was far to late for nothing could ever bring Sora back to them.