Meeting

Sora, Kairi and Riku watched as the gummi ship floated down from the sky. They had already said good by to their parents and friends and faked getting on a boat. Now they were off on another adventure to a new world. When the gummi ship landed Riku and Kairi boarded, but Sora hesitated. We just got back and now we're leaving again. I wonder if we'll ever not be needed some where in some world. With a last look around his childhood home he too boarded the gummi ship.

The inside of the gummi ship was just as he remembered; there were two small bedrooms and a bunk bed out in the main part of the ship. There was a fairly good sized bathroom with a shower, and a small kitchen. The upper level of the ship was the cockpit and below was the engine. They each went off to put away their few belongings that they had taken on the trip. Sora and Riku took the bunk bed and Kairi took one of the rooms. The bunk bed was built into the wall and there was a large alcove in the wall behind each bed for them to put their belongings.

Riku immediately jumped up to the top bunk and started to put away his things, he had a small thin knife he slid under his mattress, a couple of old books and an old folded picture of his mother from before she died. He looked at the photo for a moment and slid it under his pillow. Then he jumped down an headed toward the engine room.

Sora had brought a framed picture of him and his mother from before he left, a small book and the charm Kairi had given him the year before. He had tried to give it back to her when they reached the island but she had refused and said

"Look at it this way, now if we're ever separated again you'll still have a part of me with you." she smiled at him. He looked at her and smiled too, then he reached into his pocket and pulled out the key chain to the Kingdom Key and handed it to her."

Fine but I want you to keep this, it helped me out of a lot of tough spots when I was just starting out, and I want you to have it so that if we get separated you always have a peace of me with you too." She looked at him tears coming into her eyes She hugged him and started crying into his chest. Startled and confused Sora held her while she cried and started to rub her back. "You don't have to keep it if you don't want it." he said quietly trying to hide his hurt. This made her sob harder but eventually the tears slowed enough for him to realize that she was laughing now.

When the tears stopped she looked up at him. "Not want it? Of course I want it." she said a bit breathlessly.

"Then why were you crying?" he asked confused but a little relived.

She laughed again, "I was crying at the thought of being separated from you again." and they both started to laugh.

As the memory faded Sora smiled looking at the charm this girl he loves so much had given to him. In the room across the hall Kairi was remembering that same day and looking at the key chain that this boy that she loves more than anything gave her. Both wondering if the other felt the same way they put the charms in their pockets and Kairi left her room and bumped into Sora in the hall. They both sprawled out on the floor laughing and somehow Kairi ended up on top of Sora, they both stopped laughing and looked into each others' eyes. Then they were kissing, after a moment they broke away and hurriedly got up, they both blushed and looked away from the other after a few minuets passed the both reached for the others' hand. Still holding hands they silently headed up to the cock pit.

Riku was waiting for them, he had seen what had happened in the hall and had a small smirk of his face. When they reached the cock pit he laughed quietly. "So are you to finally together, or are you going to keep hanging around each other awkwardly a little bit longer." They both blushed and looked away, but still held on to the others' hand. Silently Riku thought I'm gonna need a girlfriend soon if I'm going to be able to put up with these two.

Sora was the only one who knew how to drive the gummi ship so he drove, Riku controlled the lasers and cannons and Kairi just had to hang on to something. They only ran into a few heartless ships and a couple of nobody ships and after a while they left the majority of the worlds. It took a while for them to find the world the king had told them about, it was much smaller than most of the worlds. As Sora approached it a nobody ship hit them from behind and they spun out of control into the world. Riku was thrown out of his seat and Sora had to hang on to the controls for dear life. Kairi had tied herself down so much after Sora almost crashed them into an asteroid that she could barely moves at all. The gummi ship crashed into an open field and carved a huge gash in the earth dropping gummies all the way. After the Ship ground to a halt Sora let go of the controls and dropped to the floor, Kairi unbuckled herself and got up somewhat dizzily. Sora stood and steadied himself with the controls.

"Hey, where's Riku." He asked looking around

"Here," said a very quiet pained voice from the floor. "Sora get your god damn foot off of me."

Sora looked down and lifted his foot, there was Riku lying on the floor in between the seats where he fell. "Sorry man." he said helping him up.

"Yeah, just watch where you step from now on." Riku said rubbing his head. Kairi giggled quietly behind them, she reached out and grabbed Sora's free hand and they both blushed.

Sora cleared his throat. "Right, um, we'd better get going if we want to check this world for heartless and nobodys and lock its heart." Riku rolled his eyes at his friends commanding tone.

They exited the gummi ship and looked around; Sora winced when he saw the condition of the ship. Most of the shield gummies had been ripped off and so had all of the weapons, it was going to take days if not weeks for Riku and him to put it back together. The sun was just beginning to set and the three of them were standing in a large open field next to a large expanse of forest. A little ways off was an old house. They headed towards the house and as they got nearer they noticed a girl outside of the house playing half heartedly with a large black dog. When the dog noticed them it came running up to them barking and wagging it's tail. When it reached them it all but tackled Kairi and started to lick her furiously. The girl ran over and pulled the dog of her.

"Sorry about that, she really likes people." After she had secured her dog she stood up. "I'm Alex, and this is Luna." She scratched the large black dog behind the ear. She was wearing a Lime green tank top that only just covered her ribs and exposed the rest of her abs, it had a black trim with white sleeveless zip up sweatshirt over it. She wore dark ripped jeans cut off just above the knee and black skater shoes with bright green laces. At her neck was a lock with a large key hole on a chain, she wore a long wristband like Riku's on her left forearm and on her right hand was a short fingerless black glove. Her hair was a little darker than Sora's and fell just past her jaw and she had bright green eyes.

"This is Kairi, Riku, and I'm Sora." He replied pointing at each of his friends in turn. "So you live here?" he asked gesturing at the old grey house behind them.

"Yeah, just me, my dad and Luna. So, not to be rude or anything, but why are you here?" She asked giving them a suspicious look.

Riku answered this question, "We were passing through and our...ride broke down."

"You can stay here until you fix you're...ride. I could probably help too, I'm pretty good with mechanical stuff." She turned around and started to head back to the house. "Come on I''l show you around."

They followed her to the house and she led them in, inside there was a large old fashioned kitchen. Standing in front of the sink washing dishes was a tall man. he had the same eye and hair color as Alex but his hair had streaks of silver in it. He was wearing a somewhat raged pair of jeans and a grease covered t-shirt. He finished drying a bowl and looked over at them, he looked a little startled when he saw the three people standing behind Alex but that look was quickly replaced with what seemed to be a look of regret and pain. After a moment he cleared his throat and composed his face.

"Alex, are you going to introduce me to your friends?" he gave her a strange look and then started to look the group over.

"Right... Dad this is Sora, Kairi and Riku. Their ride broke down and they need a place to stay, so I told them they could stay here."

"Right, well of course they can stay here. And if you need any help with your...ride just ask." he looked back at Alex," Why don't you show them around, I'm going back to the garage." They all watched him go, Alex's eyes continued to follow him even when he was out of view.

Kairi was the first to break the silence. "Um, are you okay?"

"Wha- oh, yeah. I'm just worried about him is all, he's been spending a lot of time in the garage and he only dose that when somethings bothering him." She paused and looked back at them. "Anyway, come on, I'll show you around." The next room she showed them was the living room which was small with a to big couch and a medium sized TV. Then she showed them the bathroom up stairs and the guest room down the hall. "So, Kairi, you can stay here, the guys are going to stay in the living room, my room is across the hall, and my dad's is down the hall if you need anything just ask."

"Okay, thank you, your being very hospitable." She said smiling.

Alex left her to get settled, She passed the living room where Sora was trying to get Luna off the couch, what he didn't know was that this was one of her favorite games and the only way to get her off was to give her something she wanted more than to lay on the couch and watch you yell at her. She laughed quietly and headed to the garage, all the lights were on but it was dead quiet which usually meant that her dad had fallen asleep on the couch he had put in there. She walked in and sure enough there he was snoring quite loudly on the old beaten up leather couch. It wasn't even really a couch it was a bench seat from an old hot rod he had failed to fix. She found and old blanked and laid it over him and turned out the lights on her way out. She headed back through the house and saw Kairi fast asleep in the guest room, Luna was asleep at the foot of her bed in her room and she saw Sora sprawled out on his half of the couch snoring quietly. She saw Riku on the porch and went outside.

"Can't sleep?" She asked quietly. He looked up and shook his head. The full moon bleached him completely white except his hair that was a brilliant silver. They stood for a few moments, leaning against the railing in silence.

Alex was the first to break it. "What's it like?"

After a moment he turned to look at her. "What's what like." The moon light made his turquoise eyes look even brighter, like the sea.

She blinked, silently scolding herself for getting lost in his eyes. "What's it like to be able to travel to other worlds? Don't play dumb with me, I saw your ship. I know what gummies are. My dad used to have a ship, he always said my mom was from another world. So, what's it like to see other worlds?"

He looked at her for a moment, then turned away and sighed. "It's...tiring. We never get a chance to rest, we're always fighting or playing peace keeper. You never get a chance to breath." He knew he was probably telling her more than he should, but he could tell she knew more than she let on. There was just something about her.

After a few more minuets of silence she heard him muter "If only Sora hadn't gotten the keyblade." Her eyes widened. If Sora had a keyblade maybe he could tell her about hers, maybe he could tell her about that strange woman who showed up only day before.

"You should try and get some sleep." He nodded and gave her a small smile, and they headed back into the house.

End of Chapter two!

If you can't already tell something will probably happen between Alex and Riku soon. ; D