Chapter II
Ready for the Trip
Dawn of the next day. The gang met up at the tree house.
"Now to get the rest of the stuff, then tomorrow we can leave!" Riku smiled.
"I'd beaten you once I can beat you again!" Sora grinned.
"You were just lucky that I couldn't find any pocketknives or matches."
"Ha ha!"
Kairi rolled her eyes and told the two "Well instead of arguing about it, just go and get the stuff. You two have the other half of the list to get."
Riku looked at Sora and said to him, "She's right. If we really want to see other places and meet other people, we better get going."
Sora looked out of the window and up at the sky and wondered to himself "I wonder what people in other worlds are like? Maybe we'll meet up with them someday."
"I'm beating you!" Riku taunted while climbing down the ladder and then jumped off to the soft grass.
Sora turned around "HEY!" he cried as he dashed after Riku.
Riku just laughed at Sora's feeble attempt to catch up. Sora looked like a bug that gotten swatted to many times trying to clime down the ladder as fast as he could. Riku couldn't help but to laugh.
"I'm gonna to show you!" Sora shouted down to Riku.
"In a million years Sora!" Riku called back doing taunting runs to irritate Sora.
"Har har, very funny Riku. Once I get down I'm going to…" Sora grumbled.
"What? Tickle me to death?" Riku taunted and ran off laughing.
Sora gave a growl and jumped off the ladder and ran after Riku yelling insults at him. Riku just blew a razz berry and then dashed off to get the rest of the things needed. Sora dashed the opposite direction after yelling that if he won once he could win again.
"Boys," Kairi said once the two were out of sight "I bet people in other worlds are more normal then those two."
Meanwhile in another world at a palace called Disney Castle, the royal mage Donald Duck was walking to the throne room. His friend, the king, told him to come to the throne room at this day around this time. Donald walked to the giant entrance to the throne room, knocked, and then entered through a smaller door.
"Your majesty!" he called out in the large, long room, but the room was empty except for the king's pet dog Pluto with a letter in his mouth behind the throne.
"Pluto?" Donald said in a shocked tone, and then he noticed the letter.
"What's this?" he pondered as he took the note and read it.
"QUACK!" he shouted and ran to the royal garden where the chief of the guard force Goofy was napping.
"GOOFY! WAKE UP!! IT'S IMPORTANT!!! GOOFY!!!"
But despite all the noise that Donald was making Goofy remained asleep. Donald rolled his eyes as he pointed in the sky and cased a spell. A lightning bolt came down and shocked Goofy awake. Goofy looked around, looked at Donald, and greeted him in his usual, pleasant, moronic way.
"Gwarsh, Donald. Good morning! A-yuk!"
Donald once again rolled his eyes. "Goofy! The king left the palace and left me a note for us to follow. Now we can't let anyone else know about this. Absolutely no one must find out about this at all."
"Gwarsh, No one?" questioned Goofy
"Yes Goofy I said that already, No one. Not even the queen." Donald said.
Goofy looked beyond Donald and then said "Oh, Good Morning you highness and Daisy!!"
Donald's face read "Oh, Crap" as he turned and saw the queen and Daisy staring at him. "No one must find out about what Donald?" Daisy asked with a sly look.
"I'm dead." Donald muttered to himself and laughed nervously.
"A-yuk." Goofy went.
Back with Sora. After running around and collecting some of the gear, he ran into Riku and the two took a break by "wood sword fighting". This was also a moment where they would share thoughts with each other and to get even.
"You know what? Would it be cool to go to Kairi's home place? She doesn't remember much about it but it would be so cool to see it and meet the people there." said Riku dodging Sora's attack.
"Yeah but you know that she really ain't that curious about it." Sora said while striking another blow, "She's quite happy with us."
"I know." Riku smiled blocking it, "But still, it would be cool to see it! Don't you think so?"
Sora grinned and did an attack that caught Riku off guard, "Yeah, it would be cool to see it!"
"You know, if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have thought about outside worlds. I really have to thank her for that." Riku said while backing away from Sora's blow.
Sora just looked kinda clueless while dodging Riku's attack.
It took awhile till they where done fighting and talking and ran off to grab the rest of the stuff before the other. Now about who had won… you can decide.
Sora walked around and then decided to walk into a cave. Now this cave is not that far from the tree house. The walls inside the cave were filled with pictures of sorts and has this door that never seems to open at the end of it. Sora felt the walls, stroking the pictures. Most of the pictures were there when he and Riku found it as little seven-year olds. They didn't make much sense. They always thought that some older kids drew them when they were little. The other pictures were ones that he, Riku, and Kairi drew long ago.
Then he saw a picture that he and Kairi drew. It was a picture was him and Kairi looking at each other. Sore smiled and added himself giving Kairi a paopu fruit.
Then a voice came from behind. "I've come to see the door to this world."
Sora turned around and saw a hooded man. "Huh? Are you feeling alright?"
The hooded dude acted like Sora hadn't said a thing. "This world has been connected." Sora looked confused at this guy and asked. "Did you hear me and what are you talking about?"
The hooded guy then said to him "Tied to the darkness… soon to be completely eclipsed."
In his head Sora was thinking "This guy rambles more nonsense then my math teacher." But he said "Well, I give up. Who ever you are, stop saying really stupid stuff, you know it's very annoying and… Wh-where did you come from?"
The hooded guy said something that had nothing to do with the question. "You do not yet know what lies beyond the door."
Sora looked even more confused and raised his eyebrow. "I said. Are you from another world?" Sora was now very annoyed.
"There is so much to learn. You understand so little." Said the hooded dude.
Now Sora hates it when he is told he knows nothing and boasted to the guy. "Oh, yeah? I'm gonna get out of here and learn what's beyond… Then we'll see who's clueless."
The hooded guy laughed and said to Sora. "A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing."
Sora raised his eyebrow "What is that supposed to mean? First you talk about doors…" He went on and turn at the door at the end of the cave, "And then…" he turned around and saw that the hooded guy was gone.
"That was weird… And rude of the guy to leave like that after rambling about pure nonsense. SEESH!"
After gathering everything that was needed; if you needed to know it was a tie, Riku said they'll meet up at the tree house like always and leave first thing in the morning into the woods, following the creek. He then said that he has to go home and left Sora and Kairi after giving a sly wink at Sora and saying "Good bye and good luck!"
Sora just pouted knowing what Riku meant. "I'm not in love with Kairi. She's just a VERY good friend that's all."
"Hey Sora?" Kairi asked him once they could no longer see Riku.
"Yeah Kairi?" Sora responded.
"You know, I think Riku has changed." Kairi told him looking down at the bleeding-hearts swaying in the breeze.
Sora being somewhat clueless responded "What did you say?"
Kairi then gave a big smile and looked at Sora. "Hey let's leave! Just the two of us!"
"Huh?" Sora asked looking confused and clueless as ever.
Kairi then burst into laughter. "Just kidding!"
"You're the one who changed Kairi!"
"Yeah, you know, at first I was afraid, but now I know that no matter where I go or what I see, I can always come back here. Right Sora?"
Sora looked at Kairi and said to her, "Um… Of course!"
Kairi smiled, "That's good. Um... Sora? Don't you ever change."
"What?" asked clueless Sora
"I just can't wait till we set off on our very own journey!" Kairi laughed