Radiant Garden

"Hey! It's Sora, Donald, and Goofy!" Yuffie cried as they walked through the door.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?" Aerith offered them lemonades. They accepted it and started to drink.

"The king said that a new threat is rising," Donald explained their visit.

"Are there any weird going-ons lately?" Goofy asked Leon.

"There were reports of people in black coats wondering the streets, looking for someone," Leon replied. "I'm getting suspicious of this." Sora nodded to his friends.

"I say we check this out." Sora, Donald, and Goofy went out of the house and were heading to the bailey when they heard noises.

"Did you find him yet?" said a voice.

"No, Superior," another voice said. "He ran off somewhere again."

"Make sure you find him," said the first voice. "We don't need him to spill our plans to the worlds."

"Yes, Superior," and the voices disappeared.

"They're probably looking for the same guy the other one was looking for," Goofy reasoned.

"Come on," Sora said to his friends, "we should try to find this person, too. He might give us valuable information!" The three headed off to the bailey. The bailey was still in harsh condition from the last battle. They headed back, just in time to see a hooded figure wearing a black coat cornered by a huge beast. It was a silver tiger with stripes of the golden sun. Its tail ended with a ball of spike and had five pike claws on each four paws.

"I think that's the guy we're looking for!" Sora charged at the beast. He whacked it with the Keyblade. The beast roared in pain and turned its gaze on Sora.

"Thunder!" Donald cried out. A jolt of thunder zapped the tiger. It shook off the shock and batted Donald with a paw. Goofy blocked the blow with his shield.

"Here's the final blow!" Sora was about to slice the beast when he caught its eye. The Kingdom Key dropped from Sora's hand as he continued to stare at the tiger's eye.

"Sora!" Donald and Goofy cried. Sora didn't seem to hear them. The tiger used its tail to deliver the final blow. Then another Keyblade flew through the air and hit the tiger square in the eye. The tiger roared in pain and turned into a pile of rusted chains. The pile soon disappeared.

"Sora!" Donald and Goofy rushed over to their dazed friend.

"What happened, Sora?" Donald asked with concern. Sora shook his head.

"I forgot what I was going to do when I stared into its eyes."

"Do you two know where the other Keyblade came from?" Goofy asked. Sora and Donald shook their heads. They looked over to the hooded boy. He was staring at them. Then he started to walk away.

"Wait!" Sora cried out. The boy stopped and looked back at them. "Why are those guys chasing after you?" Sora demanded.

"You don't need to know," he stated.

"You have valuable information we need to know," Sora said.

"Why do you have to play hero all the time?" he demanded suddenly.

Sora shrugged, "I don't know…"

"What's your name?" Goofy asked.

"I'm Skyxar," he replied.

"I'm Sora," the other boy said, "That's Donald and Goofy." He pointed to his friends.

"Can you tell us what those guys are up to?" Donald asked. The hooded boy looked at the duck.

"I can…" his voice trailed off. Then he piped up cheerfully, "How about some sea-salt ice cream?"

"Sure, I can use a break," Sora answered.

"Sora!" Donald yelled, "We need to find out what those guys are up to!"

"I'll tell you afterwards," the boy tempted. Donald tapped his foot impatiently. "Great! Let's go!" The four got four ice creams Scrooge McDuck.

"Sure reminds me of the times I had ice cream with Roxas and all…" Skyxar muttered.

"What was that?" Sora asked. The other boy looked from his ice cream to Sora.

"Oh… nothing," he replied.

"I think you said something about having ice cream with Roxas and someone else," Goofy said.

"Roxas?" Sora frowned, "How do you know Roxas?"

"It's nothing," Skyxar said.

"Can you take off your hood?" Donald asked Skyxar.

"I can… if I wanted to," Skyxar replied.

"Come on, Skyxar," Sora asked.

"Nope!" Skyxar finished his ice cream. Sora, Donald, and Goofy also finished their ice creams. "If you want to know about those guys' plans, we need to go somewhere else. There are too many people."

"Let's head over to the bailey," Sora suggested.

"Did you notice that Skyxar acts a lot like Sora?" Goofy whispered to Donald.

"Yeah…it's a bit weird," Donald whispered back.

"Well… I guess I have to tell you the plans of Organization XV," Skyxar said once they got to the bailey.

"Organization XV?" Goofy asked.

"It's the group that's after me," Skyxar explained quickly. "They got the coats of Organization XIII by somebody in their group."

"Oh dear, Skyxar. You're not going to tell them our plans, are you?" a new voice cut in.

"Who's there?" Sora asked, getting into his battle stance. Donald and Goofy did likewise.

"It's just us," seven figures appeared on top of a building. They all had on the black coats and hoods.

"You know, Skyxar," the leader said, "you shouldn't tell them about us. You are betraying your own group."

"What?" Sora looked over at the boy.

"You mean you were with those guys?" Donald asked.

Skyxar ignored their questions, "Shut up! You are betraying me! I'm your Superior!" he heard the gasps of the other three.

The figure to the right of the first shook her head, "Our Superior wouldn't try to erase us from history."

"Skyxar," Sora whispered, "what are they talking about?"

"Umm…," Skyxar held the back of his head with both of his hands and started to sway from side to side, "something that happened a while ago…"

"Can't we just des-s-stroy him right here, right now?" one of them whined to her leader.

The leader nodded, "Why not? It would teach him not to betray his own group."

"Alright!" one of the other figures pumped his fist in the air. At once, Skyxar was trapped in a cage. Sora then realized that the cage was actually a turtle; the bars are the "teeth" of the creature's shell.

"Let's help him! Fire!" Donald cried out. A fire ball shot out of his wand and engulfed the creature.

"Playing rough, are you?" asked another figure, "Dinner time!" he snapped his fingers and five Utahraptors appeared.

"Gwarsh!" Goofy blocked a bite from one of the creatures.

"Blizzard!" Donald cried out. The Utahraptor in front of him turned into a pile of rusted chains and disappeared.

"Their weakness is blizzard magic!" Sora blasted more blizzards and the dinosaurs all disappeared.

"Yippee!" the one who snapped his fingers said, "You found out the weakness of my guys! Perfect…" he looked of to one side.

Another figure just shook his head, "Shut up, Dweyad…"

"Hey look, Cekey," Dweyad started angrily to the other figure, "I'm not the one that chases after yarn balls that go pass me."

"Both of you, jus-s-st shut up!" the hooded person held back Dweyad.

"Skyxar," the leader continued, "be a dear and come back with us. We can open Kingdom Hearts and become the people we are supposed to be. Not the memories of another inside of us." She held out her hand. Sora looked at Skyxar.

"You're wrong, Lyciae!" he ran into a dark corridor. The leader shook her head.

"That's too bad. You're going to go back, whether you like it or not. As for you, Keyblade Master," she turned to Sora and his friends, "Say good-bye to your loved one." With that, the seven figures disappeared.

"What did she mean 'good-bye to my loved one'?" Sora asked his friends.

"Maybe we should check on Kairi!" Goofy suggested. Sora and Donald nodded.

"You know you should do something about this place first," a voice said behind them. The three turned around. It was a hooded figure in the coat.

"Skyxar?" Sora asked.

"No, name's Yaxz," he introduced himself, "you should find the Keyhole to this place's most precious memories. It is in somebody's heart or in something (not that I'm going to tell you). Lock it and we can't make everyone forget."

"Why are you telling us this?" Donald asked, suspicious.

"Let's just say, it's boring to play with someone who is clueless at what's going on. Ciao!" he disappeared in a dark corridor.

"What did he say again?" Sora asked.

"He said that we had to lock somebody's heart or something that's here to prevent Organization XV from making everyone forget," Goofy answered.

"Great!" Donald said, "but whose heart and what thing?"

"Leon? Yuffie? Aerith? Cid?" Sora started to name all the people he knows.

"Maybe it's something one of the Organization members had some connection with," Goofy suggested.

"How did you get an idea like that, you big palooka?" Donald asked.

"Hold on, Donald, I think he has a point," Sora calmed down his friend, "let's think for a while." Silence…more…even more…

"I got it!" Goofy cried out triumphantly, "Sea-salt ice cream. We ate it with Skyxar!"

"Come on!" Sora went and bought an ice cream. It started to shine and turned into a keyhole. Sora pointed his Kingdom Key at the keyhole and locked it. The keyhole disappeared and in its place was the ice cream.

"Can I eat it?" Sora asked his friends.