My Pov

Tomorrow was the big day. Today, me and Sora were collecting provisions we'd need. Sora was to find four Seagull Eggs and four Coconuts. I needed to fill four bottles full of Drinking Water and find four Mushrooms. Riku had already caught the four Fish we needed. I filled up the bottles and found 3 of the 4 Mushrooms needed. I knew I'd find the last one in the Secret Place. I crawled through the opening and walked through the tunnel. I found the last Mushroom, but didn't leave right away.

"Vee?" Eve asked.

"I want to see the drawing one more times." I said. It was a picture of me and Riku's faces. I remember when he had taken me in there.

Flashback[8 1/2 years]

Riku took me somewhere special today. It was the 'Secret Place' he and Sora had. It was amazing! You wouldn't think to look at it, but it was actually a large cavern-like place on the inside. Eve was amazed by the largest of the cave.

"Wow! This place is so neat Riku!" I said, excited.

"Vee!" Riku got flustered since the place made my voice echo. His Eevee placed a paw on Eve's mouth.

"Hikari, shh!" he said, panicked. I looked at him confused. "No one, except me and Sora have ever been in here! I brought you in here because you're special." he told me. I blushed a little.

"Well, thank you for thinking I'm special enough to bring in here." I said, flattered. We both sat down in a spot and started drawing on the wall. Riku drew a picture of me and Eve while I drew a picture of him and Eevee. We both observed the other's drawing.

"Don't tell Sora I brought you in here." Riku pleaded.

"Well, I think you'd be even since he's brought Kairi in here already." I told him, pointing to the opposite wall to the drawings of Kairi and Sora. Riku and me both smiled at the picture.

"You're right."

End of Flashback

I walked over to the wall, but I saw Riku sitting down and doing something. Eevee was sitting right next to him. I could hear the crackling sound of a rock hitting the surface of the wall. I quietly walked up from behind him to see what he was doing. I must have shift the ground too much, because Riku snapped his head and looked at me.

"Hikari! What... uhh... what are you doing in here?" he asked, flustered. He was blocking the wall that our drawings were on.

"I wanted to look at our drawings one more time. Once we sent sail, who knows when I'll be able to look at them again." I told him. I gently pushed him out of the way and knelt down. I saw what Riku had been doing. He had drawn a hand, leading from my drawing of him to his drawing of me, and it was holding a Paopu Fruit. I looked at Riku, slightly shocked. "Riku... why did...?" I didn't know what to think.

"I lied when I said no one interested me. I was afraid that if I said there was a person I liked and it was you, you would've thought I was a creep or something." he said, blushing. I simply smiled at him and picked up a sharp rock.

"Well, I kinda lied too. I actually came here to do something before we left." I told him. I did the exact thing Riku had done. I drew a hand from my head, led it to Riku's head and drew it holding a Paopu Fruit.

"Hikari..." I lifted myself up off the ground.

"I feel the same way." Riku grabbed me and pulled into tight hug. I wrapped my arms around his waist. "I love you Riku. I always have." I said with sincerity in my voice.

"I love you too." he said. He pulled a small white box the was tied with a sky blue ribbon out of his pocket. "I got this for you. You know, since we've been so busy that we didn't really celebrate your birthday yesterday." I took the small box and opened it. Inside was a hair clip with three silver hearts. Riku took it out of the box. "Here." He took the strand of my hair that always got in my face and pinned it back with the hair clip. "Beautiful..."

"It is lovely Riku. Thank you." I said, smiling.

"I wasn't talking about the hair clip." he said. I blushed as he brought his face closer to mine. It seemed like an eternity until our lips touched. The kiss was soft and gentle. The kiss lasted for about a minute when we had to break for air. My face was completely red at this point. Eevee and Eve were both blushing and staring at us. "Hikari, can you promise me something?"

"Anything." I said, still feeling a little light-headed from the kiss.

"Promise that even if you find your home, you'll never forget us." he said, almost begging. I looked at him funny.

"Riku, even if I found my home, I wouldn't stay there. I happy here with you, Mom, Dad, Sora and Kairi. Sure I'd want to go and visit it now and again, but the islands are my home now." I said. He smiled at me.

"That's good to know. Get your share of the supplies to Kairi once you got everything." He said as he and Eevee walked out of the Secret Place. Suddenly, I felt there was someone behind me. I turned to see someone wearing a cloak that covered their entire body, including their face. Eve started growling and hissing. She's never done that before.

"I've some to see the door to this world."

"What? Who are you?" I asked.

"This world is connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed."

"What are you talking about?" That's when I realized something. "Where did you come from? How did you get in here?" I was freaking out.

"You do not yet know what lies beyond the door."

"Are you from a different world?!"

"There is so much to learn. You understand so little."

"Really? You just watch. Me and my friends are gonna go out and learn about all of the other worlds that are out there!" Now I was getting ticked off.

"One who knows nothing can understand nothing." I heard a small noise behind me. I turned to see nothing then turned back to see the cloaked figure had disappeared. I wondered who that was, but decided to ignore it. I went to the Cove to where Kairi was. She was leaning up against the beam doing something. Nene was sitting next to her. Nene saw Eve and the two started chasing each other.

"Hey Kai. What'cha doing? I asked her.

"This? I'm making a necklace from thalassa shells. In the old days, sailors always wore thalassa shells. They were supposed to ensure a safe voyage. See this?" She held up the half finished necklace. "It's a charm to help us find each other if we ever get separated. The four of us will always be together." she explained. I smiled at Kairi. I didn't know why, but I felt as though me and Kairi had a relation to each other. Riku and Sora had told us there was some resemblance, but not enough to where we'd be sisters. Once the sun started going down, we headed home. I placed all of our Pokémon's food down. Me and Riku sat down for dinner, but something was off. Mom and Dad were acting all secretive.

"Mom? Dad? Is something wrong?" I asked, a little worried.

"Nothing's wrong. What makes you think that?" Mom said, trying not to seem suspect.

"Mom, we both know when something's bothering you and Dad." Riku pointed out.

"Well, Hikari. Did you ever have anything with you that might be a clue where you came from?" Dad asked. I thought about it and shook my head.

"Not that I can remember." I said. Mom got up and walk into the living room. She came back and handed me something. It was kinda like the thalassa shell charm Kairi had, but not exactly. It was made of off-white stained glass with a silver frame, had brown stitches, a brown cord was tied to the topmost shell and the tips were light silver. In the middle was a strange emblem. "What is it?" I asked.

"We don't know. You had it with you when you came to the islands." she says.

"Why didn't you guys show her this before?" asked Riku.

"We were going to a few days after she came to stay with us. But when we brought it up, she started getting upset and we didn't want to bother her every time we mentioned it." said Dad.

"It's okay. I can understand why you didn't show me this until now." I said. I put the strange necklace around my neck. I just felt that's where it should be.

"Well, you two rest up. Tomorrow's a new day. Never know what might happen." Mom said. Me and Riku looked at each other for a quick second.

'Oh, we know.' I think to myself.

"One more thing." Dad said. He left the room and came back with an oval container. He took off the lid to reveal a white Egg with a blue floral pattern.

"This is your birthday present from your Dad and I." Mom said. She and Dad were the best Pokémon Breeders on the island and actually ran the Daycare and Nursery. If anyone wanted a certain Pokémon, they'd come to our parents for an Egg.

"I never saw this Egg anywhere in the Nursery." Riku said.

"We recently got it. A Trainer left a pair of Pokémon with us. Two Eggs appeared by the time the Trainer came back, they only want one and left the other with us. We noticed the color and pattern and thought of Hikari." Dad said.

"Something else about the Egg..." Mom said, pointing out the lone blue heart on the Egg.

"That's strange how there's a heart pattern when the whole Egg has a floral pattern." I said. Mom handed me the Egg.

"Take care of it." Dad said.

"I will." I promised. Me and Riku headed up to our rooms and got into to bed.

"Just think. Tomorrow morning we head out." he tells me.

"Yeah." I said, closed my eyes and dreaming of the possible worlds we were going to see.