Chapter III

The Night of Destiny

At Disney castle, the letter written to Donald was written something like this.

Donald,

I am sorry to rush off without sayin' goodbye, but there's trouble brewin'. Not sure why, but the stars have been blinkin' out, one by one. And that means disaster can't be far behind. I hate to leave you all but I've gotta go check into it. There's someone with a "key"-the key to our survival. So I need you and Goofy to find him, and stick with him. Got it? We need that key or we're doomed! So go to Traverse Town and find a guy who calls himself "Leon". He'll point you in the right direction.

P.S. Would ya apologize to Minnie for me? Thanks, pal.

After the letter was read out loud, Daisy gasped "What can this mean?"

Queen Minnie looked at Daisy and told her "It means that we'll trust the king."

"Gawrsh, I hope he is alrighty!" Goofy said.

Donald looked bold and told the queen. "Don't worry your highness. We'll find the king and this "key" he talked about."

Minnie smiled slightly at him and said. "Thank you, both of you."

Donald turned to Daisy and said to her "Daisy? Can you take care of…"

Daisy looked at him. "Of course. You be careful, now, both of you. Especially you Donald." Donald blushed

Minnie then all of the sudden said to Donald and Goofy. "Oh, Jiminy Cricket will accompany you to chronicle your travels."

Donald and Goofy then saw the small cricket hop to them. "I'm right here!"

"We hope for your safe return. Please help the king." Minnie told them, "Now go."

The now journeymen saluted to her in agreement… well except Goofy who is standing next to the queen and Daisy.

"You're coming to!" Donald yelled as he dragged Goofy away.

Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy were walking down a dark spiral hallway.

"Gwarsh Jiminy, your world vanished to? A-yuk." Goofy asked the cricket.

Jiminy nodded. "Yeap and it was terrible. All of us were scattered. Far as I know, I'm the only one that made it here."

Donald looked at Goofy and said to him, "Goofy?"

Goofy looked back at Donald and then said "Oh, right… While we're in other worlds, we can't let on where we're from. We've gotta protect the world border!"

"Order." Donald sighed.

Goofy then went "Riiight. World order. A-yuk!"

They proceed into the next room. "I guess we need new duds when we get there." Goofy asked Donald.

"Yes we do, so people don't laugh at us that much when they see us." Donald muttered.

The hallway led to the "Gummi Room". Inside were several different machines. In the center was the "Gummi Ship". Donald walked up to a pipe and called, "Testing, testing, 1-2-3? Hello? Hello up there? Donald Duck to launch crew! Anytime you're ready!"

The two launch crew, Chip and Dale the chipmunks, ran to a leaver to make the hand carry Donald and Goofy to the gummi ship. The ship started up.

"Blast off!" cried Donald.

Then the ship fell down a hole that leads into space and the ship took off towards its destination.

Back with Sora. He was lying in bed, looking up at the ceiling at a little pirate model dangling off of it. His folks had to go to a town meeting despite that it was stormy out. Sora was thinking all about the adventures they will have till his cel-phone ranged it's "Simple and Clean" ring-tone.

"Hello? Who is this?" He answered.

"Sora, it's me Kairi. Please can you come to the tree house? It's urgent."

"What is it?" Sora said all panic like. "And what are you doing out on a night like this?"

Then the phone line broke. Sora dashed outside, into the rain and ran as fast as he can to the tree house. When he hot there he saw Kairi all huddled on the ground holding something wrapped up in a brown blanket.

"Kairi! I've gotten your call! What is it?" Sora panted.

Kairi looked up at Sora and replied "Oh it's a good thing that you are here. You see I was at home looking at this storm hoping that it wouldn't knock over the tree house with some of our stuff. Then I all of the sudden gotten this urge to go to the tree house and found this small child lying here, all wrapped up in this cloth."

Sora looked at what Kairi was holding. He saw a small childish face all knocked out. He could see the child's purple bangs sticking out of the cloth, covering most of his face. The child was breathing quietly and occasionally would hiccup and groan.

"He looks kinda blue Kairi. We gotta get him warm. Who knows how long he has been out here."

"Right." She said right back.

Then the storm had gotten worse. Sora looked around franticly. It might be too late for the child if they headed to Kairi's house, which was the closer then his, but then like he said who knew how long this kid had been in the rain. The tree house won't do, it's in a tree and he knows all those safety things about never go near a tree in a thunder storm. There has to be some kind of shelter. Then he remembered the cave not to far off.

"Kairi! Head for the cave! I'll see if I can get help!" Sora cried out to her and then dashed off.

"Just be careful Sora!" Kairi called out rushing toward the cave.

"I will" He called back.

Kairi ran into the cave. She looked down at the child, still out cold. Then she remembered being told the wet clothes makes you more colder then warm. So she decided to take the cloth off of the child and warm him up with her body heat since the cloth was soaking wet. She pulled down the part of the cloth. Kairi gasped, when she pulled the cloth down enough to see the child's head. She can see that this child had three strange looking antennas. The antennas being a darker purple then the child's hair. Then she noticed that the shape of the eyes was shaped differently.

"What?" Kairi thought to herself, "How…"

She then removed the cloth completely. This "child" also had a tail shaped the same way as the antennas and had batwings connected to his arms. After looking at this "child" thing, and noticing that his skin was pale blue by nature, Kairi all of the sudden thought "Could this be some one… from out there… the outside world? If it is, what is this thing doing here… and why?"

Then the eyes of the "child" shot open. Kairi could see that what would be the whites of the eyes where yellow, the iris orange, and the pupils a dark blue and are shaped like a cat's eye. She gasped.

Sora ran as fast as he could. Where could he find help? Sora looked around and all of the sudden saw Riku just standing there.

"Riku! It is a good thing I've found you! You see Kairi called me and then I went to her and she found this kid knocked out in front of the tree house and… What are you staring at?" Sora asked.

Riku then looked at Sora and said to him. "Finally, The door is opened."

Sora looked confused. "What? You're talking about doors too?"

Riku rolled his eyes then said to his friend. "The door, Sora! Now we can go to the outside world!"

"What are you talking about? We gotta help Kairi and the…!"

Riku looked stern and interrupted. "She's coming with us! Once we step through, we might not able to come back. We may never see our parents again. But there's no turning back! This is our only chance Sora. We can't let fear stop us! I don't know about you but I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE DARKNESS!!!"

"Riku!" Sora cried out.

Then some black shadowy circles engulf Sora and Riku.

"The black thingy from my dream!" Sora shouted with his eyes bugged out.

Sora turned to Riku. Riku was holding out his hand to Sora. Sora tried to grab it but then his fear of the black stuff kicked in. After a bit of struggling and screaming, Sora escaped from the black circle. Don't ask how. Then some black creatures with yellow eyes came out of the ground.

"The creatures from my dream!" gasped Sora.

Then a light came and a giant key appeared in Sora's hand. Then the mysterious voice from his dream called out "Keyblade… Keyblade…"

Sora looked confused, but not for long for the creatures charged at him. Sora swung the Keyblade till the creatures where defeated.

"Whoo. That was a close one. But all of this… It doesn't make much sense." Then a though struck Sora. "What if those creatures attacked Kairi and the child?!" Sora knew that he couldn't let that happen, so he ran back to the cave fighting any of those black creatures that came in his way. When he made it there he saw Kairi looking at the door, the child nowhere to be seen.

"Kairi!" Sora cried out then said, "What happen and where is the child?"

Kairi turned around and said "Sora…" in a scared voice.

Suddenly the door swung open wide and a black wind came out of it. Kairi got blown off of her feet and flew strait towards Sora. Sora tried to grab her but she disappeared right through him. Then Sora was blown right out of the cave.

Sora found himself in an open field. He looked around and then he saw the giant creature from his dream.

"THIS TOO?" Sora cried out, "MY DREAM IS TURNING INTO REALITY! AAAA!"

The giant creature looked down at him. Then Sora saw a small "cloaked" figure. The figure looked at him and then told him. "What are you staring at? Attack the Darkside!" The voice sounded too different to be that voice in his dream.

Sora looked confused. "Who are you?!"

"Don't ask such stupid questions and attack the Darkside. That is what that thing is called! Kill it! You did it before!" the figure told.

"But that was in a dream." Sora cried.

"It makes no difference." said the figure before disappearing.

"What's up with people vanishing? First that rambling hooded weirdo, then Riku, Kairi, that child and now that person. I'm all alone fighting this… Darkside… thingy!" said Sora to himself looking up at the Darkside.

The Darkside looked down at Sora and attacked him. Sora dodged it and swung at Darkside. It didn't even feel the attack.

"How am I supposed to beat this thing?!" Sora cried.

"Hit it's wrists like you did in your dream. DUH!" The voice of the small figure said.

Sora looked around. "Where are you?"

No reply came. Sora looked around to see if he could see the cloaked figure but all he could see was rubble of what was his home and the Darkside. Then the Darkside swung its fist to attack him again; Sora dodged the attack and took a swing at its wrist. Now he was doing damage. The more he battled the Darkside the more he remembered how to dodge its attacks.

It took a long time but Sora found a way to get on its head and defeated it. Sora grinned his victory grin then looked up and saw a vortex and before he knew it he was sucked right up. Then every thing went black.

Somewhere else the cloaked figure stood staring at the destruction that was happening and said to himself "I would have never guess… that BOTH the holder of the Keyblade and the seventh heart would be in this world. How ironic. But soon… 'It' will open… Soon…"