Sora awoke slowly, feeling as though his entire body had been beaten with a hammer. The boy then began to recall memories of Kairi, the door, and the
figure in the brown robes. Sora then remembered the figure leading the girl through the door and the gust of wind that had emerged from the entryway,
sending the boy back down the tunnel.
"Kairi, I got to --" the boy began telling himself as he arose from the sand, but the boy felt his words lost in mid translation as he took in the scene before his unbelieving eyes.
The boy stood upon a great floating chunk of the Island that sat suspended in the center of a whirlwind of sand and debris, below Sora could see only the distant blue of the sea.
"The Island!" Sora cried, reconizing the wreckage around him as the remains of the tree house.
Suddenly a large figure began to descend from the sparking dark orb that filled the sky above the floating chunk of rock. It was as the creature landed that Sora instantly reconized
it as the large shadow from his dream.
"You, your the one who did this to my Island!" Sora shouted at the creature, who only stared back at him with its glowing orb like eyes beneath the dark writhing tentacles of hair.
Then without another word Sora began to attack the creature in his hatred and frustration, depleting the darkness that made up the clawed hands of the towering beast.
As Sora attacked with the Keyblade he felt the creature actually lose a bit of its power, and as usual the greater shadow attacked the boy with his slamming fists and bursts of energy
from the hole that marked its heaving chest.
Then the creature surprised Sora with a new attack, this time it formed a dark orb (like that in the sky above the Island) in the palm of both claws. Sora immediatly was careful not to
come into contact with the strange orb, somehow knowing that the orb was dangerous enough to eliminate him with just a touch. The greater shadow then heaved up the orb and
allowed it to burst, raining down a deadly hail onto the boy, who took careful measure to avoid it.
Finally after what seemed an age of fighting the beast, the shadow seemed to submit to defeat. However instead of disappearing like the smaller of its kind, the creature instead
arose away from the Island carried upon stingin winds toward the orb above.
"Wait! whats happening?!" Sora cried as the winds began to lift him toward the orb as well. The boy made a grab for some bit of wreckage, but fell short and found himself rising
toward the dark orb above.
Upon the streets of a nearby world walked the wizard, Donald and the Captain of the royal guard, Goofy. Both had just arrived upon the world of Traverse Town as the King had ordered
in his letter and both planned to find this Leon the King had spoken of.
Suddenly Jiminy cried out from his place upon the top of the Captain's hat (both had changed moments before landing upon the world).
"Look at that!" the little creature said with awe, one finger pointing toward the clear star filled night above the little town.
"It looks like what the King spoke of in his letter, a star is going out" Goofy said with worry in his usually carefree voice.
The star the two were viewing then let out a final bright shining light before blinking out of existence.
"That is even more reason why we must hurry, come on" the duck ordered, rushing off down the cobbled streets of Traverse Town.
"I wonder where that key the King spoke of could be" Donald voiced his thought aloud to the Captain, beside them padded the King's royal mutt, Pluto. The dog seemed to
be intent on sniffing each bit of cobblestone upon the twisting streets.
"Perhaps that Leon fella knows, maybe that is why the King sent us to speak with him" Goofy suggested to his frustrated companion, but the duck only crossed his arms
and looked off with a stern expression as Pluto suddenly went rushing off into a garbage choked alley, barking up a storm as he went.
"Where is that dog going now, we don't have time for these shananigans!" the wizard said in a huff.
"Don't worry, ill get him for ya Donald" Goofy said, turning to follow the dog down the alley.
"Oh forget the dog you big palooka, we got to find Leon" Donald said, turning to face the Captain with one foot tapping away a taboo of impatience into the cobblestone.
"Come on, Pluto!" Goofy shouted to the mutt, before joining back up with his companion.
Meanwhile Pluto had found a boy lying with his back pressed against the cold brick of a building. The dog cautiously approached the boy, at first barking at him before it decided the
boy was no threat. The creature then licked the boy's face with its long red tongue, waking the boy from his troubled dreams.
"Not another dream, I just want to get back to my Island" the boy muttered sleepily, his eyes beginning to slowly fall close.
Pluto however punced against the boy to fully awake him, and it worked as the boy sat up fully with eyes wide.
"This isn't a dream!" Sora cried, gazing around the alley in a new light.
"Where am I?" the boy questioned to himself, standing up to get a better view of the surrounding area. Sora then turned to the dog and felt a smile come to his face.
"Do you know where we are, boy?" Sora asked the dog, who suddenly perked up its ears and took off down the alley with a round of barking.
"Hey, come back!" Sora cried, chasing after the dog, but he stopped in his tracks when he foudn himself in the plaza of the strange town.
"I can't believe it, I am on another world!" the boy said with a laugh, but he then felt a sudden longing.
"If only Riku and Kairi could be here to see this, I wonder if they might be here!" the boy said with a rekindling of hope. Sora then descended onto the streets of Traverse Town.