Chapter 1: The Last Day of Paradise

For the past year, Sora was working on a Gummi Ship, but with the lack of pieces, he needed to find good substitutes. But today was the last day, and tomorrow they will travel to the Disney Castle. Tomorrow’s the big day. This made Sora remember the first time they wanted to travel to other worlds, but the islands fell into darkness. At least this time it will start off on a good note. Sora has grown a lot since he learned about the Keyblade both in wisdom and looks, and he hasn’t seen a single Heartless or Nobody on the islands. He was happy to be home, but still liked the idea of another adventure, especially to get away from school.

“Sora, come on, the fish aren’t going to catch themselves you know!” Riku said as he walked towards the beach. “Yeah. I was just thinking about when this all started. It’s basically the same thing over again, but now its much worse. The king said it was urgent that we build another Gummi Ship and travel to his castle, but what’s going on?”

Riku looked towards the sea. “Something big, that’s all I can say for sure. Hey Sora, remember when we were kids? We were always sword fighting, pretending to have huge adventures. I guess we did get what we want. We were like the best of friends, and then Kairi came, and we both would fight over her.”

“Yeah, you pretended to drown so she would save you. It was funny.”

Riku grew red, “Well you did some embarrassing things too you know. But hey, good times!

Sora looked back at Riku and smiled. But then something strange happened. “Sora, are you ok?” But Sora didn’t answer. What’s happening to me? He felt sick, and soon enough fainted…

“Ven, are you ok?” Ven, a boy in his mid teens, probably 16, woke up. He looked very similar to Roxas, yet seemed different. He stood up to find himself on top of Sunset Horizon in Twilight Town. “Yeah, what happened?” A girl, who seemed eight or nine, with long, brown hair and green eyes said, “You fell asleep silly! I started to get worried.”

“I’m sorry Olette. You want to head home?” Ven saw Olette shake her head. They walked down the hill to get to their apartment. Ven had no parents, and besides Olette, he had no family. They lived in Sunset Horizon, for it just seemed less crowded than the main part of town.

Sora was their, observing everything, but didn’t understand how. He saw Olette, but it seemed as if he was watching everything through Ven’s eyes. Wow, this is totally strange! Is that the Olette in Hayner’s gang?

It couldn’t be though; she looked no older than four. Olette turned to look at two boys; one had light blond hair and rather skinny compared to the other boy with brown hair that was a little chunky. Ven asked, “Aren’t they your friends Hayner and Pence? Go talk to him.” Olette smiled, “Do you mind?” Ven smiled and said, “Not at all. Come home in an hour though.” Olette ran to Hayner and Pence, “Hey guys what’s up?”

Sora had no clue as to what was going on. That can’t be Hayner’s gang! If that is, I wonder where Seifer’s gang was. But he didn’t see Seifer.

Ven turned around and saw a beautiful girl who was probably from out of town. Her hair was light blue, matching her eyes. She turned, making a rather peculiar facial expression, and ran towards the train station. Ven followed, but she was gone. But as he left to go back to his house, he heard a girl scream. Ven turned around, and cried “OLETTE!” He ran to her…

“Hey Sora, are you ok?” Kairi was kneeling down at Sora who just woke up. “Wow, this is starting out just like last time!” Sora was sweating. “You won’t believe what just happened!” Sora told Riku and Kairi what has happened. “Yeah right Sora, sure it happened.” Riku said with sarcasm. Kairi hit Riku on the head.

“Well whatever it is, its kind of strange, but it probably nothing more than a dream.” Sora agreed and they decided to call their last full day working on the ship a break. They were all anxious for another adventure, but Sora couldn’t help but think about Ven. Didn’t I meet a Ven before? Who was Ven, and what did happen. Sora just couldn’t understand. He came home, and went straight to his room, avoiding his parents. Because Sora was gone for a long time, he made an excuse, but it was hard for them to buy it. I guess I’ll ask the King tomorrow. And slowly he drifted to sleep…