In The Lanes Between
Sora, Riku and Kairi were riding their gliders and the Gummi ship was flying next to them.
"So looking forward to see your home world?" Sora asked Kairi.
"I only remember parts of it but I am looking forward to see it restored." Kairi said.
"Well it looks like you don't have to wait any longer." Riku said pointing.
Sora and Kairi looked at where Riku was pointing. It was Radiant Garden but it was different from last time this time the castle wasn't in ruins and the town was completely restored.
"It so beautifully." Kairi said.
"Then let's get a better look." Riku said.
They nodded and began to land.
Radiant Garden: Central Square
Once they landed they found themselves in the town square. But they don't have time to admire the surrounding because then guns were pointing at them by some armoured guards.
"Who are you and state your business." A voice ordered.
They looked and in front of them was a young woman with long, light pink hair, and pale aqua-coloured eyes. She was wearing some kind of uniform which has a green metallic pauldron over her left shoulder bearing yellow stripes. She was also carrying a weapon that was a sword and a gun mixed together in a black case which hangs off her belt and had a necklace with a lightning bolt pendant around her neck.
"Easy Lightening there friends." A voice said. They looked up and saw walking down the staircase was Leon.
"Fine everyone back to your duties." Lighting said.
With that the armoured guards lowered their weapons and walked away. Leon then walked up to them with a smile on his face.
"Welcome back and I'm sorry about the welcoming community." Leon said.
"Yeah who is she and why did she have us at gun point?" Sora asked.
"That was our charming Lightening head of security as for the why after we heard about Master Xehanort from Lea people are getting a bit nervous." Leon said.
"So these are the warrior's I've heard you talk about." Lightening said looking at them. "They don't look that taught to me."
"Trust me there stronger than they look." Leon said.
"I'll take your word for it. But I have to ask why are you here?" Lightening asked.
"We came to see if the data from Ansem has been decoded." King Mickey said.
"You came at the right time we've just finished decoding the data." Leon said.
"Then let go and have a look." Sora said.
"There also something else you need to know." Lightening said.
"What's that?" Kairi asked.
"We'll tell you once we get to Ansem's Lab." Leon said.
They then began to walk towards the castle.
Radiant Garden: Ansem's Study
Once they entered they saw that Ansem's study had been cleared up and Dilan and Aeleus were guarding the entrance to the computer room.
"I see we have guests." Dilan said.
"There here to look at the data." Leon said.
"Good I believe that Even, Ienzo, Cid and Tron have decoded it Lea is guarding them." Aeleus said.
They walked in to the computer room and saw Even, Ienzo and Cid hitting keys on the terminal while Lea was lazily leaning against the wall looking bored. Once he saw them walking in he stood up straight and smiled at them.
"Well look what the cat dragged in." Lea said.
"Nice to see you to." Sora said.
"So are you going to tell us what the code says or leave us in suspense?" Riku asked.
"At the moment we're going to keep you in suspense because we've got to tell you something Kairi." Ienzo said.
"And what is that?" Kairi asked.
"Tron you better show her the picture." Cid said.
"You got it." Tron said.
Then a picture popped up on the screen and on it was Ansem sitting on a chair and standing next to him was an old lady that Sora recognised as Kairi's grandmother. But the thing that caught Sora's eye was the little girl that Sora knew to be Kairi sitting on Ansem's knee.
"Kairi Ansem the Wise was your uncle." Even said.
"Wait are you saying that Kairi is-." Sora was saying.
"Next in timeline for the throne indeed." Leon said.
"This is a lot to take in." Kairi said.
"Don't worry your coronation won't be until your eighteenth birthday." Lightening said.
"That is unless Xehanort wins this war." Riku said.
"Which brings us to the code Ansem gave you." Even said.
"It turns out we can create digital body's for your Nobody's and place their minds into them." Inezo said.
"But don't our minds and our Nobody's mind one and the same?" Sora said.
"Not exactly both you and your Nobody's are two sides of the same coin." Tron said.
"What do you mean?" Sora asked.
"Deep in your subconscious lies the minds of your Nobody's. So we are going extract them and form digital bodies for them. Then we transport them here through the laser and hopefully making them flesh and blood." Even said.
"I still don't understand where the dark haired girl who I saw in the Realm of Dreams comes in." Sora said.
"Ansem has explained it here. According to this she was an imperfect Replica of Roxas created from your leaked memories Sora as a fail-safe in case either you or Roxas proved to be useless to Organization XIII's plans which enables her to use the Keyblade." Ienzo said.
"Then that means she's apart of me." Sora said.
"Indeed and that's way she resembles Kairi because those were your strongest memory at the time of her birth." Even said. This made Sora turn blush when Kairi gave him smile.
"Then how come we have never heard of her?" Riku asked.
"Well once Xion returns to Sora everyone's memories of her disappeared." Ienzo said.
"Then are going to bring her back?" Sora asked.
"Of course but it's going to take time." Cid said.
"But first we need to transport your Nobody's and Xion's minds into Space Paranoids." Even said.
Moments later Sora and Kairi were laying down on operating table with some kind of machine attached to their heads. To say that Sora and Kairi were a bit nervous would be an understatement.
"Your shore this is safe?" Sora asked.
"Don't worry you won't feel a thing." Even said who was monitoring a computer screen.
"Somehow that doesn't feel me with confidence." Kairi said.
"Well you can relax now because were done." Ienzo said.
In less than a second both Sora and Kairi jumped off the operating table. Then King Mickey entered the room.
"Hey guys Merlin needs you at his house." King Mickey said.
"Right we'll head there right away." Sora said.
"The rest of us will stay here in case we are need." King Mickey said.
Radiant Garden: Merlin's House
Sora and Kairi entered Merlin's House to find he wasn't in so they stood around waiting. While they were waiting Sora noticed Kairi was a bit depressed.
"What's the matter?" Sora asked.
"It's just a lot to take in me bring the ruler of this world next year." Kairi said.
"Which means that you'll have to stay here." Sora said.
"Yeah but you guys can come and visit me." Kairi said.
"Kairi we maybe worlds apart but we'll still be contacted." Sora said.
"But I think we should make it official." Kairi said. Kairi then pulled out a Paopu fruit from her bag. Sora stared at her not knowing what to say.
"How long were you holding that for?" Sora asked.
"Since I left Destiny Island I just could find the courage to show you it." Kairi said.
"Kairi are you sure?" Sora asked.
"Sora I think this is what we both want." Kairi said.
Sora nodded and Kairi broke the Paopu fruit in half and gave one of the broke half's to Sora. At the exact same time Sora and Kairi took a bite of the fruit. Once they finished they looked at each other and their face started to head towards each other. They then kissed the feeling was amazing they didn't want to stop. But then there was a big bang of white smoke and Merlin appeared out of it. At that moment Sora and Kairi broke apart and began to blush.
"Oh was I interrupting something?" Merlin asked.
"No everything is fine quite fine." Sora said rubbing the back of his head.
"Yeah we were just talking." Kairi said.
"To me it looked more than talking. But let's get to the reason why I need you here." Merlin said walking to one of his bookshelves. Merlin looked through it for a while and then pulled a book out. "I believe you recognise this book Sora." Sora looked at the book and knew whose book it was.
"Pooh's story book." Sora said.
"Indeed as you might know every time you enterer it there is no sign of any Heartless." Merlin said.
"Yeah why is that?" Sora asked.
"It could be that Pooh and his friends have very little darkness within them. But it could same the Heartless have a great fear about this book which is probably why they tried to destroy it." Merlin said.
"So what do you want us to do?" Kairi asked.
"Both you and Sora must enter the book in order to stop the fear that is exiting the book." Merlin said.
"Wait are you saying that something is scaring them." Sora said.
"Indeed and fear is one of the first stages to uncontrollable darkness." Merlin said.
"Then let's do it and help Pooh and the other." Sora said.
Merlin nodded and opened the book. Then there was blinding white light and both Sora and Kairi were sucked in.