Sora arrived at the dock and he quickly jumped out of his boat, tying it up
so that the restless tide wouldn't carry it away to see while he dealt with the raft. As the boy
finished doing this he noticed two other boats also moored to the dock.
"Riku? Kairi?" the boy whispered, realizing the two boats could only belong to his friends, but
what were they doing here?
Sora then happened to look up and notice the dark orb with its center pulsing with a energy
hovering above the Island.
"What is that thing?" the boy whispered to himself, suddenly strange creatures began springing
up from the wooden boards of the dock, creatures that appeared to be made from shadow with
glowing yellow orb like eyes.
"No, the creatures from the dream?!" Sora cried out in disbelief, but the boy did not have time to
ponder the strange appearance of the dream monsters. One of the creature's sprang at him and the
boy barely managed to smack the beast away with the crude wooden blade he carried with him.
"I don't have time for this, the raft" Sora reminded himself, rushing through the throng of
creatures and defending himself best he could with the wooden blade.
Sora made his way to the door that led onto the other side of the Island that housed the raft, but he
found the entrance barred against any entry.
"Come on, let me in!" demanded the boy in frustration, but the door remained locked.
The boy then heard the shadows crawling up behind him and knew that he could not leave his
back exposed to attack.
"Bring it on!" the boy shouted, deja vu of the strange dream sequence coming back to his mind.
"Only thing missing is that weird voice in my thoughts" the boy whispered to himself, suddenly
Sora sighted a familiar figure upon the Island linked bridge.
"Riku!" Sora shouted, but the older boy seemed to have his back turned toward the events
happening just behind him only feet away.
"Get away!" Sora shouted in anger, knocking away a few of the shadow creatures as he rushed
into the waves and swam toward the small Island, a glance back relieving him to see that the
creatures remained on the beach, mot daring to enter the waters.
Sora finally reached the Island and he using a ladder he managed to climb up to meet the other
boy, who stood like a marble statue, ignoring the winds and rains that whipped his pale thin body.
"Riku, where is Kairi. You both need to get out of here, the shadows will destroy you both if you
don't!" Sora warned the boy, but the boy ignored the other's haste.
"The door is open..." Riku said with simplicity.
"What?!" Sora said, not understanding what the boy was talking about.
"The door is open, Sora! Now we can go to the outside world!" the boy said with excitement,
now turned to face his friend with a madness in the smile he wore and the glint that lit his eyes
against the darkened skies.
"What are you talking about? Did you not here me? I said we got to find Kairi!" Sora shouted
at the boy, but Riku only shook his head.
"Do not worry, Kairi is coming with us" Riku said calmly and cooly.
Sora then realized that Kairi had been right about Riku, he had changed after all! The boy was
now obsessed with leaving the Island so much, that he no longer regarded anything else...even the
safety of his closest friends.
"Once we step through, Sora. We may never return to these islands. We may never see our parents
again, but there is no turning back now" the boy began with sadness, but the sadness soon evaporated with the smug grin that came over the face of Riku.
"Can't you guys see that this is our only chance of escape from this prison. Destiny has opened its
path for us and we must accept her. We cannot let fear stop us now, Sora!" Riku continued to
ramble.
"Riku?" Sora said with confusion and fear, what had come over his childhood friend?
"I am not afraid of the darkness!" Riku shouted, and as he did Sora noticed the clinging well of
shadows that had sprung beneath Riku's feet.
"Riku!" Sora cried in warning, running to help the boy escape the grip of the shadow's, but he
then found himself entangled by it. Meanwhile Riku reached out his hand to Sora, a calm
smile plastered to his face.
Sora tried to reach out for the boy's hand, but the shadows held him back and slowly began to fill
his vision as they swallowed him just like in his dreams.
Everything then went dark before Sora's eyes. Both Riku and the shadows had dissapeared.
You are the one who will open the door the voice muttered, returning to his thoughts as a light
suddenly shined forth and dispelled of the darkness that surrounded him.
Sora felt his vision return as his eyes found himself back on the small Island, only now he held a
strange object in his hands.
As Sora brought the object close he realized it to be a large key that he held gripped in his
hands like the blade from his dreams.
Around him Sora could here voices like that which helped to guide him shout:
Keyblade! In unison in his thoughts.
"Keyblade" the boy mused, feeling a strange power come from the strange weapon he now held.