Riku had walked through the streets of his home village on the way to the docks.

It was very early in the morning so nobody was actually awake yet.

He would do this often, at first it was for exercise, then it became a good way for him to clear his head when certain things troubled him. He thought about many things, his family, his friends,

his deep desire to see other worlds and his reasons for trying to escape this one.

He didn't really hate it here, it just wasn't a place he wanted to be in. It was too quite here, barely anything interesting would happen.

Riku felt trapped in this tiny place, for the heart seeking freedom, this was a prison, surrounded by water. The only thing there was to do, (besides school) was to just hang around on the island that was a small boat ride away from the mainland.

When he was a child, he loved that place. but now he was bigger, it was time for him to move on.

He sighed "this world is just..."

"too small?"

Sora finished his sentence for him.

"sora? What are you doing up so early?"

"i couldn't sleep" he said. That was very unlike sora, he was always the laziest bum on the island,

so hearing the words 'I can't sleep' coming from sora was not something riku was use to hearing

"so what are ya thinking about?" sora asked.

"nothing, just walking" "what are you thinking about?" riku asked back.

"well.. no, nevermind"

"what?"

"nothing, if I told you, you'd think I was silly"

"i already think your silly"

"well.. I had this dream last night"

"about what?"

"about this... girl"

"really" riku said. "that means its time, sora" he laughed a little bit.

"no not that kinda dream, riku" "and before you ask, It wasn't about kairi"

"then who was it about?"

"some girl I never met before" "you should have seen her riku, she had long silver hair and these beautiful red eyes" "...and she looked so sad... like someone had just died right in front of her"

"did she say anything to you?"

"no... she just looked at me with those eyes... those big sad eyes... it's like she was looking right into my soul"

"maybe she's important"

"what do you mean?" sora asked,

"they say that when a person you've never met before appears in your dreams, it means their about to play an important role in your life."

"really?"

"yeah. You might meet them now, you might meet them later, or you might not even meet them at all,

but their actions can change the way you see the world around you, for better or for worst."

"really? I dunno riku you say some weird stuff sometimes."

sora said as the two best friends stood on the docks, watching the sun rise.

"oh, one more thing I forgot to mention about her, she looks a lot like you, riku"

"really? Then she must be sexy" "if she's real of course"

"it was like, if you had a sister, that's what she would look like"

riku was surprised to hear sora describe this dream girl that way, what if this girl was real, did she look so much like him that the two would have been seen as siblings?. Maybe... no It couldn't be.

Riku and sora had been siting on the docks for sometime, just making idle conversations, half of them would be forgotten once the conversation was interrupted by kairi.

"hey guys"

"hey kairi" they both said to her as she joined them on the docks.

"so when is that portal coming" kairi said to sora.

"soon"

"oh sora, here this is for you" she handed him a note book that had the title "The Keyblade Chronicles" written in red marker on the front cover.

"thanks kairi, but what is it?"

"its a book" "well its my book. I've decided to become an author and the first book i'm going to publish is going to be about your journeys" she said proudly, kairi had always loved books and now she was going to make them, she could see it now, siting in a popular book store while a bunch of people line up just to see you write your name. She would love that, kairi always told the best campfire story's, so maybe she could write the best books too, maybe not the best books, but they would probably be pretty entertaining for some people, right?.

"promise me you'll read it while your traveling, then when you get to the ending, I want you to come right back here and tell me if you liked it"

"okay kairi, I promise" sora said as he put the small book into one of his pockets.

"what, I don't get one?" riku said.

"if you want one then you have to wait until it gets published, then you can buy a copy"

"are we in it?" sora said to her.

"none of you are in it, the characters are just based off you guys"

"so im the hero?" sora said.

"so im the bad guy who steals the princess's heart?" riku said.

"i just told you, your not in it"

"but im the hero, right?"

kairi sighed "why don't you read it and find out?"

"okay I will" in truth, he preferred books that had pictures, but at least this would give him something to do if he got bored.

The portal to yen-sid's tower soon appeared before them, sora stared at it closely, it looked a lot like the corridors of darkness that organization XII would use, only instead of being all black, this one was all white.

Sora breathed deeply and took a step through the portal, once he fully passed through, he found himself inside yen-sid's study, with the old wizard siting I his chair.

"come sora, we have much to discuss" yen-sid said

"whats up?"

"something has been tampering with the worlds"

"tampering?"

"yes, do you remember your first journey? The one where you locked the keyholes of the worlds, and prevented the heartless from entering them?"

"yeah, why?"

"someone or something has sabotaged your work, the worlds have been unlocked and the heartless are free to roam them ass much as they like."

"what?!" sora couldn't believe what he was hearing. Someone was just going around unlocking all the worlds he had worked so hard to save, who was doing this?

"but wait, you need a keyblade to lock and unlock keyholes"

"correct. and as you know, keyblades have minds of their own, they chose when to show themselves and they also chose who they belong to. This trouble maker may not know what they are doing, if fact I suspect this new wielded is being manipulated by a greater evil.

"maleficent?" that seemed to make sense to sora, She did say she would have her revenge.

"perhaps" "your mission is to journey into these worlds and lock them again, and if possible, find this trouble maker and put a stop to them."

"should be simple, right?"

"before you set out on your quest, visit radiant garden, there is something important that requires your attention."

"okay, wheres the gummi ship?"

"you will not be needing it" yen-sid said, he placed an odd blue star shaped crystal on the table, one of the points was missing.

"what is this?" sora asked.

"it is a star shard, it is one of the many ways to travel between worlds. simply hold it into the air and picture the world you wish to visit inside your mind."

"got it"

"good luck, boy"

sora held the star shard in the air and in a flash of light he found himself standing in the marketplace of radiant garden.

AN: i wanted to make this chapter a lot longer but i didn't find a good way to switch between the characters.

let me know your thoughts and if theirs anyway you think this story can improve. let me know

i'm new at writing storys so i need all the help i can get.