Sorry it took me a while to update. I hate writers block.

Sora felt a bubble of fear lodge in his throat. This thing was like a human, but something told him it wasn't.

"OOF!" Riku yelled as 'it' charged into him, knocking all the wind from his stomach.

"THUNDER!!!" Donald yelled, causing lightening to fall on top of 'it'. Kairi ran forward to attack.

"Kairi! Look ou-"Sora's words of warning fell short of his mouth, as the thing summoned what seemed to be a keyblade.

And it looked lethal.

Kairi swung her own keyblade, only to have her move blocked. 'It' then lashed out with its foot, knocking Kairi backwards.

"LEAVE HER ALONE!!" Sora rushed forwards, leapt into the air, and brought the keyblade crashing onto its head. 'It' brought its own keyblade around, knocking Sora side to side.

Sora fell to the floor, winded and hurt. This 'thing' was tough. 'It' glared at them, before disappearing.

"Heal!" Sora raised his keyblade above his head, casting cureagra.

"Thanks."

"What was that?" Riku pushed himself upright.

"Welp, that's a long story." The king stepped out of the shadows. "I never thought I'd see one of those again."

"What exactly is it?" Sora asked helping Kairi up.

"It's a long story. And I'd rather not discuss it out here. Let's head to the castle."

Riku felt awkward, walking through the castle hallways. Damm Maleficient… You may not be here, but your still haunting me…

"LEON!!!!"

Thanks for the yank back to reality, Sora. Riku smiled to himself as Sora yelled out all of his friends names at an incredibly high pitch.

"It's great to see you too Sora. We missed you." Aerith smiled at each of them in turn. "Nice too see you too, Riku and Kairi."

"We got your letter." Leon muttered, leaving it at that.

"You better work on that handwriting of yours Sora." Cid chuckled, making Sora frown.

"I used my best handwriting."

"And it was very nice. It's just that Cid is going blind."

"Hey!"

"I could read it, Cid."

"Could'ya call up that data we were working on Leon?" Mickey interrupted.

"Sure."

"I'll help!"

"NO!!" Sora wrinkled his nose up.

"I only asked."

"Sora, last time you 'helped' you got arrested in a computer by cyber heartless."

"How is Tron anyway?"

"I'm fine, thanks for asking." Tron's voice came over the speakers.

"YAAH!!" Kairi leapt slightly. "Sorry. I can never get used to hearing someone but not seeing them."

"No problem. Here's your data!" Some information came up on the screen.

"It's time for me to explain what happened ten years ago…"

The first picture that came up was of an old balding man. He was wearing the same clothes as Xehanort's heartless, and looking at the picture filled them with the same sense of dread.

"This is Master Xehanort." Mickey explained. "He was a keyblade master, one of the greatest of all time. But one day, he vanished, along with his apprentice, Hibiki. Yen Sid sent three keyblade apprentices to find them, Terra, Aqua, and Ven." Mickey sighed, and clicked a few buttons on the computer.

Three pictures came up, one of a male with dark brown hair and blue eyes.

The second picture was of a young female, who had light blue hair and blue eyes.

The third was a teenager, who looked a lot like Roxas, with ruffled blond hair and blue eyes. He was probably the youngest of the group.

"It turned out that Xehanort had turned to darkness, along with Hibiki. I was sent to try and stop a large battle. But I was too late. Aqua and Ven were killed. I never found out what happened to Terra." Mickey paused. He gave a shaky breath.

"Xehanort vanished, along with his apprentice. Around that time, Ansem the wise took in an apprentice, called—"

"Xehanort." Sora finished, realising what was going on. "He was a keyblade master?"

"Yes. That's where he got his high knowledge of other worlds from, making him useful to Ansem the wise."

"But." Kairi frowned. "His heartless and his nobody are gone. What's this got to do with anything that's happening now?"

"We're not sure. But there have been reported sightings of Xehanort in the past few weeks. We have to be sure." Mickey sighed. "Leon, could ya open up the data with the sighting in it."

"Sure."

"I'm not so sure we should do that." Tron's voice crackled. "That file has been opened lately. But not by any of the Radiant Garden restoration committee."

"Well, who else could it have been?"

"I have no idea." Tron gave a cyber shrug. "They used a tempory account that they deleted right after getting the data."

"Could it have been…?"

"I doubt it." Mickey shook his head at Yuffie's question. "He already knows everything in this data."

"But who…?"

"I don't know." Mickey sighed. "First things first: We need to secure the World that Never Was."

"Why?" Everyone frowned.

"The World that Never Was is a perfect hiding place. If Xehanort is back, he could well go there, and use it as his headquarters."

"But the World that Never Was is a new world. How would he know about it?" Leon frowned.

"Xehanort is Xemnas and his heartless combined, except even more powerful." Mickey explained. "Since Xemnas found the World That Never Was, he would know about it."

"I see."

"G'yuck, we'd better get moving then!" Goofy smiled.

Riku stared out of the window of the Gummi ship. Something was bothering him, niggling away. The fact that Xehanort is probably back was one, but the other was the voice.

It was familiar.

Yet…

He couldn't recognize it.

"Riku? Are you okay? You seem kind of… distracted." Kairi watched him, her violet eyes were worried.

"I'm fine. Just thinking."

"Mmm…" Kairi's eyes said, quite bluntly, I don't believe you. But she didn't push the point.

What is she so worried about…? Riku yawned, and felt his eyes flicker shut.

"God, you can be so fricken DUMB sometimes!"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, you've fallen to darkness, you can do it again."

"I'm not goi—"

"Better people than you have fallen to darkness numerous times." Her voice was angry, bitter.

"There's no need to get so angry!"

"I'm just worried about you." She sighed. "Talk about stubborn!"

They laughed, and everything was fine again.

In less than 3 months, he would take Ansem's form.

"WAKE UP RIKU!!!"

"YAH!!" Riku bolted upright.

"We're here." Sora grinned. "You slept all the way through the journey. Did you know you snore?"

"No I don't!" Riku sighed, still trying to place that memory.

"Aw, come on you big Palokas!" Donald yelled from the doorway. Everyone ran out into the streets of the world that never was.

"Let's head to the Castle." Sora decided, before running in the direction of the Castle, followed by everyone else.

No-one noticed the piercing green eyes following them.

Dun dun duuuun! Don'tcha love a cliffhanger? I sure do! I know I'm a bit mad when it comes to eyes, but I think that eyes are like gateways to a persons soul; you can tell a lot about a person with their eyes. Well, that's what I think anyway.

Disclamier: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. Commit it to memory.