It was a shiny and bright wonderful day at the islands. The sea was calm and the air silent. Only a few little winds stroke the leaves of the palms. And there, at one palm was a boy sitting in age sixteen.

He had bright grey hair which glowed at the morning sun and had sparkle green eyes. He wore a black T-Shirt which was decorated with a white jacked which had yellow stripes and purple trousers.

He looked out into the ocean, saying no word. Then, suddenly a boy jumped behind him and leaned against the palm. He had dark brown hair which also seemed to be lighter in the sun and sparkle blue eyes which looked like diamonds. He wore a T-Shirt together with a black jacket. Also, he had big yellow and black shoes which remembered the ones, Mickey wore and black, blue and yellow colored trousers. It was Sora.

Both said nothing for a while. Then, the silver haired boy broke the silence. "Nothing hasn't change, eh?", he asked still looking out at the sea. "Yeah.", the younger boy replied. "And it won't." "Such a small world.", the silver haired boy continued. "Yes, but it's part of a much bigger one.", the brunette joined and both went silence for a while, again. This time, it was the brown haired boy who decided to break the silence. "Hey, Riku. What do you think it was – The Door to Light?", he then asked and looked at the boy called Riku. To his answer, Riku jumped down from his palm and pointed with his hand at the boy's heart. "This.", Riku said short. "This?", the boy asked stunned and touched his heart. "Yeah, she's always closer than you might think.", Riku replied. "He's right.", the brunette thought. Kairi – his light and secret love – that was the answer and he knew that he liked very much. Maybe even more than just as a friend.

And with that knowledge, the brown haired boy smiled. Then, suddenly someone called "Sora! Riku!", and a red haired girl, wearing a pink and white dress and purple sneakers ran across them. It was Kairi! "What's up?", the boy called Sora asked and a sighing Kairi hold a bottle up which contained a piece of paper in it. "Look.", she said and indeed Sora now detected the signature of King Mickey. "From the King?", Sora said amazed and took out the letter. And so, the three began to read.

"Dear friends,

I hope, you're doing as fine as us. I wanted to thank you once more that you defeated Xemnas and rescued our world once more from his evil kind.

The Heartless are still active, but their number decreased once more, so we still can take care of them ourselves. But still, you've to lock the Keyhole at the Secret Place at your Islands.

I hope, we're hearing from you soon!

King Mickey"

"I see, then let's do it!", Sora said and gave Riku the letter. "But hurry, we want to leave the islands!", Riku called at Sora when he ran to the Secret Place of the Destiny Islands. There, Sora walked into the cave which looked cold and dark. He walked to the door, ignoring the countless, he and his friends did when they still were kids.

He only stopped when he saw the drawing of him and Kairi, sharing each other a Papu-Fruit. "Tomorrow, I'll share a one with Kairi.", Sora thought happily and smiled before he took his attention back to the drastic looking door. He raised his hand and with a shining light, his Keyblade – The Kingdom Key appeared. At the same moment, when Sora raised his Keyblade against the door, suddenly a green colored Keyhole appeared. He then pointed the Kingdom Key against it. Sora felt the energy through his whole body, although the energy just collected itself at the end of the Kingdom Key.

A inner Holy Hymn began to sing inside Sora and then, the whole built up energy at the end of the Keyblade released itself into a beam of light which went through the door and the Keyhole disappeared with a bright light as it went off, the place where the door was, was now replaced with lots of stones.

Now with the knowledge that this world was save from any attack now, Sora went out of the Secret Place and left with Riku and Kairi the Islands.

Little did he know that this all would change soon…

- The Next Day -

„Concentrate more, Roxas!", Riku said while he blocked another attack. "If you think that you can make an easy game with me, you're wrong!", Roxas replied and continued his fight. "Yeah, that's the spirit!", Sora said while he nearly hit Riku.

All were at the islands. While Roxas and Sora fought Riku, Namine and Kairi sat at a palm and watched how the boys fought each other. "Hey, put them down, Riku!", Tidus called at his favorite while Selphie called "Come on, you can do it, Roxas!" .

You know, at the first days after Sora and Riku defeated Xemnas, headmaster and founder of Organization XIII, Roxas and Namine were able to return. They even were able to have their own bodies. Especially Roxas was happy about that – with that way, he was finally able to become a real close friend to Hayner, Pence and Olette.

At first, all were shocked when they saw Roxas and Namine appearing from nothing just like that. But they meanwhile got used to that and even became deep friends to them.

Soon, the fight ended and all fighters were out of strength. No one was able to beat his foe. "You two became really strong.", Riku said and let his wooden sword fall down to the ground. "Yeah, but you too.", Sora replied while he put down his sword, too and looked at Kairi – she smiled. That's what Sora liked the most.

But then, there was a suddenly a big earthquake and everything began to rumble. "What's going on here?", Sora brought out in shock. He really could feel the vibrations of the earth. "How should I know?", Riku replied and looked at the point where he guessed to be the source of this mess.

Then, at the same place, something big went out of it. It was black and had many stripes which covered his face, except for the evil yellow eyes which covered its appearance, next to a missing heart where its heart should be. It was a Darkside. Just a few seconds after that, another Darkside appeared and then another one.

At the same time, lots of holes appeared everywhere and similar creatures with antennas at their heads appeared. Shadows and Neoshadows – The Heartless were at the Islands once again!

"These could be a little bit too much!", Riku said and let with a dark light his Keyblade called "Way to Dawn" appear. "We'll defeat them together!", Sora said and he and Roxas let their Keyblades appear. "Right!", Roxas replied and he and Riku went against the drastic closer coming darkness.

As Sora wanted to follow them, he stopped at half of the way, because he sensed that something was wrong. Sora turned around and gasped.

At the other side of the island was standing a man in a dark brown rope which was decored with many red stripes. His face was covered by his hood which only showed a few contours of his face. "Who – who are you?", Sora asked angered. The man didn't say a word and continued watching Sora. "Alright, that's it!", Sora shouted and ran against the man, his sword prepared.

But at the same moment, Sora was prepared for his attack, the man in brown just teleported himself as fast as Sora was able to see and appeared behind him.

"You shouldn't judge anyone by appearance.", the man finally said and looked at Sora. His voice sounded calm, heartless and cold, but sweet and inviting at the same time. "And now, it's time for us to go." "What are you talking about?", Sora asked confused, but still angered.

"You've forgot what you've forgotten and it's time that you learn the truth in order to claim a new and to lose or to lose only to claim a new.", the man replied and raised his right hand. A dark energy ball appeared in it which he smashed at the still confused Sora.

He was able to dodge that , but was too slow for the second round and got hit by the second ball which smashed him to the ground. "Ice!", Sora shouted and a big clump of ice built up itself at the end of the Keyblade. Sora could feel the coldness of the stone of ice before he fired it against his enemy. But he just teleported himself in time again and appeared behind Sora. Then, he smashed another energy ball at Sora, forcing him to the ground once more.

As Sora raised his head, he saw a pair of feet standing in front of him. "Now, he got me.", Sora thought, while he looked around.

In shock, he had to see that meanwhile three other persons similar to the first had appeared and joined their counterpart. All their faces were covered by their hoods, so Sora wasn't able to recognize their faces.

Sora was ready to give up when he suddenly heard something which sounded like a hymn. "It's alright. Everything will be fine.", the voice inside him said and Sora calmed down. He felt warm ,save and secure. Also, he was feeling empty and calm, not really noticing what went outside. The Storm, the Heartless or Riku and Roxas how they thought the Darksides, he wasn't able to hear anything anymore. The only thing he heard last was a big "NOOO!° before everything went black….

Meanwhile, Riku and Roxas were still fighting the Heartless on the islands. They already defeated one of them and were still fighting the second one. "This one's really hard!", Riku said while he fired some dark balls at the Heartless. "Yeah, but we still are stronger than him!", Roxas said and moved aside when the Darkside smashed his fist to the ground, letting a portal of darkness appear in which lots of heartless were able to enter this world.

"Thunder!", Roxas shouted and let the energy at his Keyblade built up, before he smashed the bolt at the creature. This attack let the Darkside sun for a short time. Riku used that moment and smashed his sword from the low part of the Darkside to the upper part, causing him to fall apart into two parts which melted away into darkness, releasing a big heart which flew to the sky and disappeared.

"We did it!", Roxas called and jumped to the sky. "Yeah, but where's Sora?", Riku asked and looked around. Now Roxas began to look, too. The only thing the two were at the end able to see was a man fully in black at the opposite of them. He wore a black armor and a well fitting cloak. His whole face was covered by a dark helmet. His appearance told them that he was up to something bad…

Note: The Part with King Mickey's letter was written before the truth about the letter's true message was revealed to KH: Coded - that's why. But it'll be tied up to the end of the story why I left it this way.