Sora had been looking out of the window of the train as it drove to its destination, the view wasn't anything to envy, but it was either this or he could be one of those creeps who watched girls while they sleep.

Ria was taking a nap on one of the seats of the train, sora had been watching her for just awhile but he soon took his eyes away from her when he realized how long he had gazed at her.

He chanced a second glance at her, she looked so peaceful while she slept, sora could kind of understand why people would watch each other sleep, she just looked so relaxed, so calm. He wondered what she was dreaming about.

She felt like she was under water, but she could breath. She just kept sinking deeper, until her feet eventually touched what felt like solid ground, she opened her eyes only to she nothing but darkness, pitch black. She looked down at her feet and saw that she was indeed standing on something. It was a small white pillar that was incredibly narrow, if she took a step then she would fall off.

"do you know what this is, my dear?"

she heard a voice, it made no noise but it could still be heard, it was like a thought, but it wasn't her thought. The voice repeated itself.

"do you know what this is, my dear? Do you know where you are?"

"no, where am I?" Ria said. She spoke but her voice was silent, like she was just mouthing the words and not actually saying them.

"this is your heart"

"my heart?"

"yes, rather small, isn't it?" "this is common for a heart that has not developed"

"not developed?"

"yes, your heart is new, it has not reached it's true potential. But it can, with my guidance"

"what must I do?"

three weapons appeared around her. A sword, a staff, and a shield.

"you're heart is the source of your power, so you must give it a form" "choose wisely"

she looked at the three weapons around her. Her first choice, a sword.

"the power of the warrior. Invincible courage. A sword of terrible destruction. Is this the form you choose?"

"yes"

the dream sword disappeared from her hands in a flash of light.

"your path is set. Now choose another form for your power."

she took the shield and held it in her hands

"the power of the guardian. Kindness to aid friends. A shield to repel all"

the shield, (like the sword) disappeared from her hands in a flash of light.

"your form has been chosen and now your heart shall be reborn"

the narrow pillar she was standing on had begun glowing vibrantly and began expanding in size, it was now incredibly huge, as she took a step, the white floor began to tear like fabric, and fly away into the darkness. And her hearts true form was relieved.

She was now standing on a red stained glass floor that had a portrait of her laying against the right side, keyblade in hand. The left side held smaller portraits of two people, one on the bottom and one at the top, the one on the bottom was sora, looking towards the portrait ria, and the portrait on top was one of a boy she had never seen before, one with silver hair just like her.

"your heart is the source of your power, follow it and it will lead you to what you seek"

"right, thanks"

a bright light began to shine in her eyes as her dive into her heart came to its end.

Sora saw Ria begin to wake up, so he quickly turned his head towards the window so she wouldn't know he was watching her.

She stretched and gave out a little yawn.

"man, that was a nice cat nap" she said. She looked out the window and was surprised to see that the little town underneath the train tracks was no longer visible, whatever was under the tracks was hidden beneath a thick orange mist. The only things that she could see were the massive green mountains that the train passes on its way to the destination.

"we're here!" she heard sora exclaim, the train began to slowdown and stop at the end of it's voyage.

"this is it, lets go" sora said. The two exited through the door and onto what must have been the top of a mountain, in the distance ria could see a tower that looked rather large. "that's master yen-sid's tower, he's a powerful wizard, he'll know what to do" sora said as he began to walk towards the tower.

Ria looked back at the train, as soon as she had second thoughts, the train disappeared in a flash of light, making Ria giggle nervously "there goes our ride" she said nervously. It was a good thing she didn't leave anything in there, she did that with trains, always lost something when she rode those things.

She soon caught up with sora who was chancing glances at her every once and awhile.

"sora? Is something wrong?"

"uhh... well, you remember that thing I said to seifer, about me being your boyfriend?"

"yeah, why?"

"you didn't think I meant that, did you?"

she turned her eyes away from him and just tried to look ahead, she was about to say something but he spoke first.

"not... not that I don't think your pretty and I wouldn't want to date you I mean... well what I meant to say was that... I think your really..."

"i get it, its alright sora" she just walked ahead of him at a faster pace, almost as if she wanted to get as much distance between them as possible.

Sora facepalmed himself, 'idiot!' his mind shouted at him. Riku was right, sora really was bad at talking to girls, why did he even bring up that topic?. Right now he was having thoughts of sowing his mouth shut, just to make sure he'd never say anything stupid again.

They had been walking up the spiral staircase of yen-sid's tower for awhile, Ria wasn't saying anything to sora.

They soon entered master yen-sid's study, Ria saw a rather old yet healthy looking man sitting on a large chair near the desk in the center of the room. The wizard opened his eyes and looked at the two keyblade wielders.

"so you are the one who has been unlocking the worlds" the wizard said as he stroked his incredibly long beard. Ria was about to explain but he interrupted her.

"no need to explain yourself, my dear. I know of what the organization has done to you. I am master yen-sid, welcome to my tower."

she bowed in respect of the elderly wizard.

"i know the organization is behind the unlocking of the worlds, and that they are all alive" yen-sid said.

"yeah, xigbar said you can't kill what dosen't exist" sora said.

"well the organization does not exist, it never has."

wait, how can they not exist?" Ria said.

"organization XIII are not people, they are Nobodys, people with strong willpower that have lost their hearts to darkness. When the heart is stolen by the heartless, the body learns to live without it, develops a personality of its own. the organization want to use the hearts of others, so that they may forge kingdom hearts."

"so what do we do now?" sora said.

"now you must journey to the other worlds, lock their keyholes, and stop organization XIII again."

"how can you stop something that doesn't truly exist?" ria asked.

"the organization were not always nobodys, they had hearts once."

"thats it!" sora said. Yen-sid and ria seemed surprised by sora. "if the organization had hearts once that also means their hearts are still here. If we find their heartless then the hearts might go back to their body's"

"and then the organization wouldn't need to use kingdom hearts to gain hearts" yen-sid said. "then you know what you must do."

"re-lock the worlds and slay the organization's heartless." sora said firmly. Yen-sid nodded at sora.

"yes, but before you set out on your mission, you must return my star shard"

"why?" sora said.

"the star shard takes you where you are needed not where you are wanted. It would take you a rather long time to travel to all the worlds if you used that." "certain worlds may be unlocked but are in no need of saving. The star shard is not a proper way to travel between worlds."

sora returned the star shard to yen-sid, who thanked him.

"but without that, how will we go to other worlds?" ria asked.

"the gummi ship!" sora said. Yen-sid nodded. He pointed to the corner of the room, and a portal of light opened. Sora looked inside the portal and he could see disney town, donald and goofy's world.

Sora nodded and walked through the portal, ria was about to follow but she was stopped.

"a word, my dear" the wizard said to her, she turned her head towards him and looked himin the eyes.

"i sense a powerful darkness inside you, child"

"is the darkness bad?" she asked.

"not quite, but it is not good either, many others who have used the darkness have suffered from it's corruption, however, the darkness I sense in you is different, most forces of darkness house a vile and terrible aura, however, yours is more peaceful, calm. You may be able to gain full control over your darkness, without taking the risk of damaging your heart."

"so the darkness isn't bad?"

"you must choose, will you accept and embrace the darkness inside you, or will you repel it away and seek redemption in the light, a choice, one you must make in due time." "now go, ff with you"

"thank you, master yen-sid" ria said. Yen-sid nodded and ria decided it was time to rejoin with sora. She stepped through the portal and left the mysterious tower.