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Well, Leon would never admit it but with so much unversed around, he was almost at his limit. Those creatures were with many and they were more powerful than the heartless or the nobody's ever were. At a time like this, it would really come in handy to have Sora at his side. A keyblade wielder is always welcome in these situations. He took out three unversed in one swing when he spotted a sudden light in the sky. Was it a light? More like a lightning! And it was getting much closer with an amazing speed! Leon hit another unversed and rolled to the other side, in hope that the lightning wouldn't strike him. The moment it hit ground, someone yelled and the flash of light faded away.

A female voice said: "Sora you idiot! You never get a hold on that star shard again!"
As the light had faded, Leon saw three teenagers crashed on the ground and a familiar face grinned and took his hand through his hair while saying: "Woops, think I need a little practice..."
"Try to land next time instead of crashing..." said Riku as the three of them got up from the ground.
Kairi looked at Riku as if he had just told her that she had to jump in a river full of hungry piranhas.
"Do you mean that he gets to travel with that again? He needs a miracle to control that shard!"
"I'm sorry Kai, at least we didn't land on a roof. I just thought about Leon and..." Sora looked around and he saw the smile on the face of his older friend, "Leon!"
"I'm glad to see you didn't change, and by the way, you made it right on time."

The three travellers looked around and finally saw all the unversed that had backed down from the bright light of their crash-landing. The three instantly summoned their keyblades.

"Just leave them to us," Sora said.

Flashes of blades let the unversed disappear and after several attacks the unversed were gone. Sora turned to Leon with his thumb up: "There you go, Sora, Riku and Kairi, at your service!"
"You three make it look so simple..."

Sora took another look around and saw a black coat watching them from a distance. Didn't they defeat the organization already? Then why was that guy wearing a black coat? But this was probably the one who summoned all these unversed, no doubt about it!

Sora turned to the figure and yelled: "Hey you there! Do you still want to fight?"

The black coat didn't move one step but Sora could clearly hear an old male voice:
Choose your questions better, boy...
The voice was very calm and determined. Was this real? How could he hear a voice from such a distance? Was that voice inside his head? Maybe it was just his imagination...

Confused by the black coat's answer, Sora said: "Well, come here if you want to settle this!"

Leon, Riku and Kairi also looked at the direction where Sora was speaking to and saw the black coat.
No need to rush... See you soon, Sora.
With those words, he disappeared in a black portal and let Sora confused behind.

"Who was that guy?" Kairi asked. "Didn't you two deal with the organization?"
"Guess not..." Sora said, "I don't quite get what's happening here..."
"Well, whatever's going on, we need to do something about it. Did the king sent you guys?" asked Leon, "Because we really could use your help, you see, those unversed are terrorizing the whole town. We tried to defeat them, but they keep coming back."
Kairi smiled at Leon: "Let's go say hi to the others first!"
"They're all waiting at Merlin's house."
"Let's go then," Riku turned to Sora, "Hey Sora, ready to go?"

Sora was still looking at the spot where that guy disappeared a moment ago. That guy knew his name! What did that mean? Did he meet him before? And what had he meant with 'Soon'?

"Sora? Hello! Sora, wake up!" Riku said as he laid a hand on his friend's shoulder.
Like waking up from a daze, Sora turned to Riku, asking him: "Did you hear that voice too?"
"What voice?" asked Kairi, a bit concerned about her friend.
"Well, you know, the voice of that guy from before... Did you hear it too?"
Riku looked at his friend and said dead-serious: "Sora, there was no voice, that guy was too far away so we wouldn't hear it if he had said anything..."
"Right... That's what I thought..." said Sora before putting up a smile, "Must've just imagined it."
"Silly you, well what are we waiting for? Let's go see the restoration committee!"
"Kairi's right, everyone's waiting," said Leon and he began walking with Kairi towards Merlin's house.
"Let's go then!" said Sora and he looked at the concerned look of his friend, "I'm fine, really!"
"If you say so..." said Riku before he turned around to follow Leon. Sora looked once more at the spot: "Nah, that couldn't have been real... What am I worrying about?"

And he turned around, following after his friends.

Leon didn't exaggerate; there really were a lot of those unversed. After every corner there were more of them. And stronger ones too. So when they reached Merlin's house, it was really welcome that they could finally take a break. Especially Kairi, this was her first time on a big journey and she had to deal with a lot in a really short amount of time. Sora looked at her and if she was tired or scared, then she didn't show it at all. It looked like she was just having fun! They went in the house and Sora was glad to see all those familiar faces again.

"Hi everyone, I heard you could use some help."
"Sora! Finally you got here! And who did you bring with you? Oh, are those your friends that you were looking for?" Yuffie turned her attention to Kairi and Riku, "Well, I must say that he really talked a lot about you guys, really annoying actually.."
"Yuffie!" Sora exclaimed.
"Oh, did I say too much? I'm sorry, I'm just glad to see you guys finally in person."
"Yes, it's very nice to meet you. I'm glad Sora finally found you," said a girl in the corner. She had a big pink ribbon in her hair that matched her pink dress. Aerith looked elegant as always.
"So, we're really that important?" Riku smiled at Sora. "Nice to know that."
Sora glanced at Riku: "Could we get to the point now? We were sent by the King and he wanted that we found out what or who was responsible for all these unversed. Do you guys have any leads?"
Cid turned to Sora: "Thought you would never ask, mate. The unversed were first spotted in this town, so we're definitely going to check every corner. The problem is that those unversed are everywhere, but there are a lot more at the postern..."
Sora looked at Riku in understanding and then nodded at Kairi: "We're on our way then. There has to be a clue at the postern. Thanks for the help guys! "Before they left, Leon said: "No problem, just be careful. Those unversed are no heartless, that's for sure..."
Sora turned to Leon with his thumb up: "Don't worry about us! We're back in no time!"
Leon smiled: "Guess I forgot who I was talking to..."

And so they left the committee behind on their way to the postern.