Sora had sneaked back into his home just seconds before his mother had entered his room to check on him. She said goodnight to him since it was almost midnight. Sora yawned, he was exhausted since he had ran for what seemed like miles. He fell into his bed after he changed into his pajamas and knocked out.

Sora was standing ankle deep in the clear blue water of destiny island. he could smell the familiar scent of salt-water and he could feel the cool waves as they crashed lightly on the beach. Feeling an odd presence behind him, he turned around only to find a silver haired girl staring at him with beautiful crimson red eyes. Her silver hair reached the bottom of her waist in length. She was fairly slender and rather pale but she had to be the most attractive girl sora had ever seen. It was like the sun itself was kissing her skin as the light bounced off her, making her shine brightly in his eyes. Sora felt strangely attracted to this mystery girl. He began to walk closer to her until he was face to face with her, his body preventing the sun from kissing her skin. He looked deeply into those hypnotic red eyes but all he could see in them was a deep sadness.

"who are you" he said. She didn't speak.

He reached out to touch her but his hand only seemed to go through her when his fingers came into contact with her cheek. She began to fade away into darkness as sora desperately tried to get grip on her, his hands passing through her every time. "please don't leave!" he shouted but she just stood there, as the darkness began to consume her. and then...

she was gone.

Sora fell to his knee's as soon as she vanished "come back" he said softly as the world faded around him.

Sora jerked out of bed as soon as his odd dream ended, sweat dripping down his brow. That was the weirdest dream he ever had. He felt so drawn to that girl, almost as if she was tugging on an invisible rope that was tied to sora's waist.

And those eyes, those big beautiful eyes. She was like a... like a... like a female riku.

"whoa where did that come from?" sora heard the familiar voice of roxas deep in his mind. His nobody would often talk to him since the two shared the same mind. Sora did enjoy talking with roxas and he would have really liked to actually hangout with roxas in real life.

"nowhere I was just thinking"

"like a female riku?, what does that mean?"

"nothing, its just... that's just what she reminded me of"

"sure dude" roxas said sarcastically.

"whatever" sora thought.

"but did you see her? She was beautiful"

"she was. but you need to remember, you love kairi"

"I know. I was going to tell her that, that was why I was on the island, I was trying to gain confidence"

"remember dude... sokai" roxas said, reminding sora of the stupid name tidus had given to the soon-to-be couple.

Sora laid back down on his bed and tried to go to sleep so he could see the dream girl again. He had mastered the ability of lucid dreaming so he could hangout with roxas deep inside the privacy of his mind.

Sadly his attempts to recreate the dream girl failed and he just dreamed of himself on the clock tower of twilight town instead, eating sea-salt ice cream with roxas.

Riku was in his bathroom brushing his teeth before he made himself ready for bed.

He climbed the ladder that helped him get to his loft bed and drifted off into sleep.

Riku was having another one of those dreams that felt like a flashback only it wasn't his flashback. It was the memories of a keyblade user by the name of terra. He had been dreaming of terra ever since he returned to the islands. The flashbacks began to race though his sleeping mind.

"i know. you me and ven all share the same dream."

"the darkness. Where did it come from?"

"you were spying on me? Is that what he said to do? The masters orders?"

"don't worry ven, when I need you, you will know"

"you saw the masked boy?"

"vanitas"

"has the darkness taken you, terra?!"

"you will not heed your master?!" "i won't!"

"he's an abomination beyond hope of salvation" "right this wrong that I have wrought"

"master eraqus!"

"you will pay Xehanort. Was my master, no my father, not enough for you?!"

"yes boy! Feel that rage! Let it IMPOWER YOU!" "XEHANORT!"

"and now it shall be your darkness that shall be the arc that SUSTAINS ME!"

"THIS WILL TEACH YOU! GET OUT OF MY HEART!" (AN:birth by sleep quotes for the win!)

riku hit his head on the roof after he jolted out of his sleep. That flashback was longer than usual.

Who was that bald guy? Why did ven look like roxas? And what did he mean when he said get out of my heart?.

Riku saw the sun rising oven the roofs of the houses, he was awake anyway, no sense in going to bed now.

He walked over to his dresser and opened the top drawer. Pulling out his dream journal which was divided into three sections. Dreams, nightmares, terra's memory's. He began to write down the latest memory's of terra until he was interrupted by the sounds of knocking on his bedroom door. "riku are you okay?" "yeah dad, I'm fine" riku shouted at his father who was on the other side of his bedroom door. "i have to leave for work early riku, i'll be back later" riku's father said.

Riku's family was divorced, he never knew his mother, though he wished he did. He was also told that he had a sister.

This was where his desire to see other worlds came from, he wanted to search all over for his mother and sister, but now maybe he should just give up, maybe his mother didn't even want him. Besides, how was he going to find her, search every world for his lost family members who may not even like him?, but he still wanted to see them.

He wanted to meet his mother, he wanted to hold his sister in his arms. After he got dressed he walked out of his house and headed for the islands.