Chapter 1: Hearts

"Who are you?!" Sora yelled at the mystery man who was attacking us.

"In a minute here it's not going to matter." He laughed as he stood over Sora with his keyblade raised.

With Riku and Roxas nowhere in sight and with me and Sora in this condition, we we're in trouble.

One week earlier…

"King Mickey said you were the key, Sora, but there's more to you in this than just being the keyblade master." I said when we got back to his house after meeting with the king.

"Yeah, I'm the main part of it, but if you remember we're all connected to these keyblade masters, even you Kairi." Sora said while reviewing the reports the king had given him.

"I guess this means thee nobodies are involved in all this as well." Riku simply stated as he went through reports of his own. The king was giving him lots of help to control the darkness within him.

"They would be, they're us." I said. "So it would make sense that they are involved in this as well." I nodded.

"So, this guy is apparently trying to bring his dead friend back, what do you think he's after?" Riku asked

"A heart more than likely," Sora simply stated.

"Huh?" both Riku and I asked in unison.

"What? It should be obvious; Ven lost his heart so…he needs to find his heart or a heart close to his to bring him back."

"I guess that makes sense." Riku agreed.

"But what are the chances of this guy finding us, or any of us having a link to Ven?" I asked.

"That's what we don't know." Sora nodded as he got up. "C'mon you two, we're going to get Roxas and Namine and talk to the king about this."

"Don't you think we're taking this to far?" I asked as they ran out the door.

"No." they both said in unison. I just rolled my eyes and ran after them.

"C'mon Roxas, open up!" Sora shouted as he pounded on his door.

"Damn, how many times do I have to say I'm coming?" Roxas asked as he opened the door.

"Good, Namine's here too." Sora smiled.

"What's going on?" Namine asked.

"Do any of you remember how to make dark portals?" Sora asked as he jumped off the porch.

"Yeah, why? What's going on?" Roxas asked as he and Namine walked down the stairs.

"We need to go see the king, you guys are involved too." Sora answered.

Roxas and Namine looked at each other and shrugged as Roxas made a dark portal. We all ran in quickly and ended up inside the kings palace.

"I was expecting you guys." We heard a voice call from behind us. We all turned around to see King Mickey standing behind us.

"Your majesty." We all said as we bowed. He laughed a little and we all got back up.

"Go to the library, I'll meet you there in five minutes." He told us as he walked off. And without hesitation, Sora lead the way to the library.

"So do you know what's going on, your majesty?" I asked.

"I do, and please Kairi, call me Mickey." He said to me.

"So what exactly do we have to do with this Terra guy or something like that?" Roxas asked.

"Every choice you have made in the past is affecting what's going on know. Somehow one of your choices brought Terra back to life." Mickey answered.

"There's no way anything we did brought anyone back from the dead." Riku said as he put his feet on the desk and leaned back.

"Normally your choices wouldn't affect anything that happened in the past, but for some reason something happened in one of your journeys to make all this happen." Mickey said.

"So, this Terra person wants to bring his friend back?" Namine asked.

"Yes, and one of you guys are the key to brining him back and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish his goal." Mickey answered seriously.

"How will he be able to find us?" Sora asked.

"Again it is about the choices you made. It's about time I told you all the truth and the secrets behind kingdom hearts." Mickey said as he looked down.

We all looked at each other surprised and leaned in to listen to what the king had to say.

In a hidden world somewhere…

"I will you bring you back." A man said as he watched his friend float in a deep sleep inside of an experiment pod.

The man turned away from the boy as he walked off in search of the person who would bring his friend back to life.