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The Heart's Balance

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The copyrights for Final Fantasy characters also belong to SquareEnix.

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Chapter 4: The World Between Worlds

Riku looked around. He'd figure a world such as Kingdom Hearts would be much brighter.

"Why are there so many heartless here?" Riku questioned.

"Because, unlike Kingdom Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts has no Keyblade hero."

"Kingdom Fantasy?" Riku looked down at the mouse. "That's where we're from right?"

Mickey nodded. "That's right. You catch on quick."

"So what world in Kingdom Hearts are we in, anyway?"

"Well, I don't think that this is a world at all," Mickey replied. "It looks more like half of a world."

"Kind of like End World." Riku looked around. "Is that.....is that a forest?"

Mickey turned his head the way Riku was looking. "It sure is!" They looked at each other and nodded. Mickey knew what he had to do in theory. There was no guarantee that Evan's records were correct. However, it was all they had to go by. And, possibly their only way home.

They reached the tree line of the forest. All of the trees were the same height, and there were four groups of them. By each tree there was a small pool of water.

"This place," Riku said in awe, "it's so still. It's as if time had never stopped."

"That is does," Mickey agreed. He walked over to one of the pools. To his surprise, it showed no reflection. "How strange." He bent down and touched the water. However, it did not cause a ripple to from nor did his finger become wet.

"I think...I think Evan's writings mentions this place," he stated.

"Well?" Riku questioned. "What does it say?"

"He wrote about a world between worlds," Mickey replied. "A place where allj worlds are connected, and can be reached. I think this is that place."

"How are you sure?"

"Well, this forest is separated into four sections."

"Like the universe," Riku realized. "So each of these pools, they must be the connection to each world."

Mickey nodded, "I do believe so."

"But," Riku looked one way, "that one had only one pool."

Mickey stood up. "That must be Kingdom Earth."

"Why only one world?"

"We'll know once we get there," he replied. "right now we have to concentrate on clearing out Kingdom Hearts." He looked up at Riku. "Hopefully, Sora and the others are taking care of the other worlds as well.

"Well, let's hope so," Riku commented. He walked over to the pool Mickey was standing next to. He looked down at it. "So where does this one lead to?"

"Who knows," Mickey replied. "Evan didn't leave anything to show how you can tell which world is which."

"Then it's as good as a place to start than any of the others," he stated. He looked at Mickey. "Let's go." Without warning he dived into the pool.

"Riku wait!" Mickey called. How could that kid be so reckless? There was no turning back now however. Mickey took a deep breath and dived in.

He didn't realize that it wasn't necessary to take a breath because once he was under the surface he didn't seem to be underwater at all. This is just like the portal back home.

Without warning his entire body became cold. His large feet hit a surface and then slumped down into something. "Oof!" He looked down at his feet and noticed he had landed in snow. "Riku!" he looked around. He spotted him.

Riku wasn't far away. He was standing next to a lamp post. A lamppost in the middle of a snow covered forest. "What kind of place is this?" he questioned. He looked to the side when he heard Mickey trudging through the snow next to him. It was hard for the three foot mouse to move through it. Being that the snow was nearly a foot and a half deep.

"Well, Mickey?" Riku questioned. "Do you know anything about this place?"

Mickey shook his head. "Evan wrote about worlds in Kingdom Hearts, but never had he wrote about one that was covered in snow."

Riku nodded and gave a look around. He couldn't help but be amazed. After all, he had seen a lot of things sense he left Destiny Island. But, even after all of that, this was his first time seeing snow.

"It's very cold," Mickey said, pointing out the obvious. "I think we should find some place to build a fire, and perhaps something warmer to wear."

Riku snapped out of his day dream. "Of course. You still have your Keyblade right? We don't want to be caught by Heartless unarmed."

"No worries, pal," Mickey replied. "I have it right here." He held up the white Kingdom Key.

Riku nodded and they both looked around. They knew they had to go somewhere, but where? Other than the lamp post, they were surrounded by forest. The something caught Riku's eyes. "Something's over there!" He pointed into the brush.

The furry critter ducked.

"Hey hold up!" Riku jogged over to it. It jumped into the air.

"Ah please do not hurt me!" It covered it's head.

"What the?" Riku stared at the little beast. Was is human, or was it a goat?

"It's a Faun," Mickey stated, as if he read Riku's mind. "Don't worry Mr. Faun, we won't hurt you we just need some directions."

The little Faun looked up at Riku in awe. "Excuse me, if you do not mind me asking, but are you a Son of Adam?"

"A what?" Riku questioned.

"Oh terribly sorry," he apologized. "Are you a human?"

Riku cocked his head to the side. Had this thing really never seen a human before? I guess it wasn't too weird, afterall he had never seen a faun before either. "Yes, I am a human."

The faun's eyes seemed to light up with joy. "Yes, that you are! Please M'Lord it is very cold here! You must come back to my home. I will set you near a fire and serve you warm tea."

Riku looked down at Mickey. It was very odd that the faun all of a sudden decided to serve them once he found out that Riku was a human. However it really wasn't a time to be suspicious. Afterall, it was very cold.

"Alright, I suppose it is alright," Riku said.

"Very good!" the faun gleed. "This way, this way."

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Sora rolled around in his sleep. It wasn't like he wasn't comfortable in this palace bed. It was what he was seeing in his sleep that made him uncomfortable.

"Riku!" Sora sat up. His breath was heavy. He held his head a moaned when he realized it was only a dream.

It didn't feel like one though. Deep down inside, Sora knew, that something bad was about to happen.

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There...a short chapter. I'm at a lost right now where to bring it, lol. Artist block and writers block is positively evil.

But there you go DLiD. You're lovely Riku. The story is gonna do a lot of jumping around as you can see.