T: Here's the next chapter, not very long but still good.
11 years later, after the fall of Xemnas and Organization XIII, our heroes were back on Destiny Islands 11 years later, after the fall of Xemnas and Organization XIII, our heroes were back on Destiny Islands. It had been 3 months since Sora and Riku had defeated Xemnas and his lackeys, everything was slowly settling down. There was no Heartless and Nobodies, just peace amongst the worlds.
As for our heroes, when they returned home were greeted with giant hugs from their friends and family. When Rufus asked where they had been, they told them everything from the night of the storm to when Sora and Riku were fighting Xemnas by themselves. Rufus intended to give them a banquet and announce them as heroes of Destiny Islands, but they declined his offer saying they didn't want that sort of attention.
Riku was sitting on the small islands where he, Sora and Kairi would play when they were younger. It felt strange to him, before he always talked about getting off of the islands and discovering other worlds with his friends, but now he was kind of happy to be back. After all that happened during his adventure, he realised just how much he missed this place, just the calm water and the wind, no Heartless, and no Maleficent.
Sora had just arrived on the islands; he too wanted to see if anything was different here. He saw Riku on the small tree where the paopu fruits were, he looked like he was in deep thought, Sora decided he would leave him be for now. He then saw the small opening to the secret place; he felt a sudden urge to go in to see if anything was different. He crawled through the opening to the small cave; it was a lot harder now that he was taller.
He walked down the small tunnel to the main cave. The door was still there, untouched; he gave it a small glare before turning his attention to the drawings. These were drawn by him and Kairi, some by Riku but mainly with Kairi, a smile appeared on his face as he recalled drawing these when they were four.
Hmm, it's been years since we drew these. She was always the better artist.
Sora continued to run his hand along the drawings until he came to a certain drawing he couldn't forget. It was of him and Kairi, they had drawn themselves, this was one of their last drawings before they turned five. Sora recalled the addition he made to it, he had drawn himself giving Kairi a paopu fruit. He really liked her when he was younger and now that he was older, it had turned into something stronger, although he wouldn't admit. But then he saw something that wasn't there a year ago, Kairi was giving him a paopu back, his eyebrows raised in shock.
D-did Kairi draw this? I...I...
He was rather surprised, he was never good at telling if girls liked him more than a friend. A big grin made its way across Sora's face, he felt like the happiest guy on earth.
Kairi was walking along the beach on the other side of the island they used to play on. It turned out that the raft had been destroyed when the Heartless came. The main reason she was on the island was that she was practicing her fighting technique, she had managed to kill several Heartless in The World That Never Was but she wasn't as experienced as Sora and Riku with it. She had considered asking Sora to teach her how to use it correctly.
She decided to take a rest and let her feet cool off in the water, she was about to take her shoes off when she saw a bottle of all things in the water. She went over to it and picked it up; when she did she saw what looked like Mickey's symbol on the letter.
Could this be from the king? I better show this to the others.
Kairi then ran off to the other side of the island where she thought Sora and Riku would be.
Riku was sitting on the paopu tree he and the others used to sit on every day when the sun was setting, it was the best place on the islands to see the sunset, nothing to ruin the view at all, no buildings or noise. Sora was running along the wooden bridge that lead from the shack to the small little island, when he got to the tree, he hopped over it and rested against it with his arms behind his head. He too came to watch the sunset.
"Nothing's changed, huh?" Riku said to Sora.
"Nope. Nothing will."
"What a small world." Riku replied. Sora felt like singing 'it's a small world after all' but resisted that urge.
"But, part of one that's much bigger."
"Yeah." The two remained silent for a few seconds before Sora thought about something.
"Hey Riku, what do you think it was? The door to the Light?" It had been bothering him since he came back.
Riku hopped off the tree chuckling lightly, he then pointed at Sora's chest.
"This."
"...This?" Sora looked down toward the spot where Riku pointed at, his heart.
"Yeah, it's always closer than you think." Sora smiled realising what he meant.
"Sora! Riku!" Sora turned to see Kairi running along the bridge towards them.
"What is it?" He saw Kairi holding something in her hands. Once Kairi caught her breath she held out what it was.
"Look!" In her hand was the bottle she found on the beach, it had the kings symbol on it.
"From the king!" Sora took the bottle from her hand and emptied its contents.
The letter landed in Sora's hands and began reading it to himself, Riku and Kairi looked at the letter as well, Kairi was worried that the king might need Sora to go on another adventure, she couldn't bear the idea of being left alone again.
Hiya fellas!
It's me Mickey, it's been a few months since you've been home and I must say, you thoroughly deserve a holiday. So, I'd like to invite you to come to Disney Castle where we can all see each other again. Donald and Goofy have missed you Sora, also there's something I would like to discuss with you three, it's really important so get here as soon as you can.
Your friend, Mickey Mouse.
The trio looked at each other with smiles on their faces, a holiday at Disney Castle. This really sounded good, but Kairi couldn't help but wonder what the king wanted to discuss with them.
"Cool! We get to go to Disney Castle!" Sora was jumping up and down like a child.
"Typical of you Sora, always getting easily excited about nothing." Riku couldn't help but laugh at his hyper friend.
"I wonder what the king wants to speak with us about?"
"Don't worry Kairi. I'm sure it's nothing bad." The moment Sora said that a dark wind blew across the islands, lightning was raining down from the heavens.
This got everyone on their toes, Kairi grabbed onto Sora's arm which caused him to blush slightly before looking at the clouds. One of the lightning bolts hit the beach below them. In the place of the lighting stood an armoured figure, he looked right at Sora, Riku and Kairi. His armour looked ancient and radiated a light that helped him stand out in the dark, his cloak blew in the wind. Sora and Riku summoned forth their Keyblade's and took battle stances.
"Who are you!?" Sora yelled at the armoured figure.
"...At last. I have found you princess." The knight looked directly at Kairi.
T: A cliff hanger, anyone care to guess who it is?
T: Next update pretty soon.