Chapter 3

Night time comes. Kairi and Sora have returned to the main island. Riku and the girl come to a small cave just embedded in the side of some rocks just next to the waterfall.

"Yeah, this is the place" said Riku. "I remember seeing what looked like a door here but didn't know what it meant, not to mention it being impossible to open."

The girl thinks to herself. "Okay then" said the girl. She enters the cave and Riku follows after. They go down the long path until they get to an opening. In this small room were drawings of various random things including one of Kairi and Sora.

"That's it" said Riku pointing to the door like object in the back of the cave. The girl approaches the door touching it softly. She frowns.

"This'll be harder than I thought" she said. "Give me a minute." She closes her eyes and bows her head. A dark aura forms around her. "Mother" said the girl in her head. "I found the keyhole however I ran into a problem."

"What is it Aimala" said a female voice in her head.

"It seems that my current abilities won't be enough to open it."

"That's unfortunate, what about the princess of heart?"

"I have indeed found her though getting her out without raising suspicions will be difficult."

"Suspicion? Aimala, you're not there to be discreet you're there to bring the princess of heart in, no matter what."

"I know but—"

"No excuses Aimala, bring her in now."

The dark Aura around Aimala disappears.

"You okay?" asked Riku

"Yeah, just give a second, I need some fresh air" Aimala exits the cave coming outside under to moonlit night. "Dammit, now I have to bring Kairi in by force, and it would have been so simple to trick them into coming.

"Maybe I can be of some help" said a voice behind Aimala. She turns and see a brown cloaked figure.

"Who are you!" said Aimala, she summons a staff to her hand. It was black with a snake head and a green orb in the mouth part of the snake.

"No need for violence. I'm merely here to help out a fellow seeker of darkness. I can open the door for you though it requires you to surrender yourself to me, temporarily of course."

"Surrender?" said Aimala.

"Yes, all you have to do is open up your heart to the darkness and accept me inside."

Aimala turns away. "Why should I trust you?"

"You wish to cause this world to fall into darkness to cover up the fact that you kidnapped the princess of heart correct? I wish for this world to fall to darkness but lack the body necessariy to allow that. However, you have the body I need and I have the power and once this is over, I leave your body. Deal?"

Aimala thinks for a second and turns to the figure. "Temporarily, Okay!"

"Okay"

Aimala closes her eyes and stands up straight. The figure enters her body and she is enveloped with dark energy. She slowly opens her eyes and cracks a smile. She returns back to the cave Riku is sitting on the ground waiting. He stands up as soon as he sees her.

"You okay?" asked Riku.

"Swell" said Aimala in a distorted voice. "Now, I think I've found a way for this to work."

"You have?"

"It requires me to unleash the darkness in your heart. When that happens, you'll be able to open the door here and we can leave this world."

"Unleash the darkness in my heart?"

"It's another word for power. Perfectly safe."

Riku turns away. "I don't know, I still don't fully trust you."

"Come on Riku, you want to leave this world with your friends don't you?"

Riku thinks for a second and turns back to Aimala. "Okay, I accept."

.Aimala gently places her hand on his chest. A dark aura emits from her hand. It envelopes Riku as he feels a sudden surge of power swelling up inside him. The keyhole suddenly appears on the door. Aimala smiles as it shows up. Then a bright light shines from Riku's right hand forming what appeared to be a giant key. This shocks Aimala so much that she backs away from Riku.

"What? No way, A keyblade?!" said Aimala. Riku sees the shocked look on her face then notices the giant key in his hand.

"What is this?" asked Riku

The keyblade forces Riku to aim at the keyhole. "No" said Aimala. She aims the staff at the keyhole and fires dark energy at the hole. The keyblade at the same time shoots a beam of light into the keyhole. Aimala struggles as the light from the keyblade seems to start to win over her darkness. Then Aimala feels a sudden surge of darkness envelopes her causing the dark energy to overshadow the keyblade's light and shatter the keyhole. The keyblade disappears and Aimala collapses on the ground. Riku walks over to Aimala.

"Hey, are you okay?" asked Riku. He picks her up, putting her are around his shoulder and his hand around her waist.

"Ri…ku?" said a voice behind him. He turns and sees Kairi in what appears to be some kind of trance.

"Kairi?" said Riku. A gust of wind suddenly blows Riku and Aimala out the cave. The two of them land on the beach. Riku slowly gets up and sees Aimala face first in the sand. He slowly picks her up. The cloaked figure then leaves her body as she slowly wakes up. "Hey, you okay?" asked Riku.

"I think so" said Aimala.

Riku then spots Kairi unconscious a few feet away. "Kairi!" he said. Kairi is then swallowed up by a dark portal. "What just happened?"

"Kairi left this world" said Aimala. "That means we can as well, we can leave this place with her and travel to the world outside. This is your chance Riku. This is the moment where you can leave with Kairi right now!"

A large black hole starts to show up above them. Sora suddenly arrives to see Riku holding Aimala up as the island slowly starts to get sucked into the black hole.

"Riku" yelled Sora. "What's going on?"

Riku turns, still holding on to Aimala. He smiles. "Sora, this is our chance, to escape to the other world. All we have to do is walk into the darkness and it will take us there." He extends his left hand while the right hand holds Aimala up. "Come Sora, let's leave this place together."

"But what about Kairi?"

"Kairi's already left, we're following her. You'll see." Riku and Aimala begin to get swallowed up by the darkness that forms on the ground. Sora reaches towards them but doesn't quite reach. Darkness begins to swallow up Sora as well and then, everything goes black.

Kids of the Destiny Islands END