Sora let out a sigh as he gently put back the book he was reading. It had been a year sense him and Riku, Donald, and Goofy had beaten Organization XIII and nothing had happened. Upon arriving on Destiny Island after exiting the Dark Beach he had finally returned home to see his family. It had been great to relax, for the first two weeks.

Then as time went on, he had started feeling restless which those around him could see. So, at first, he had started to catch up on the school he missed during his time away but that didn't help much seeing as, what did his mom say? 'All work no play makes a dull boy,' or something like that. Anyway, with that in mind his mom had surprised him with a VRMMO game, BraveStar Online or something like that. It had been fun to play on and off but he really couldn't get into it.

As he walked out of the library he looked up to the sky as his mind went back to the days were, he would run around space having grand journeys with his friend. While he missed his friends more, he knew that they were connected by their hearts and no distance or time could separate them. It was just sad how it had to end.

"Sora!" Looking down the street Sora saw a blonde teenager with blue eyes running up to him.

"Tidus!" He shouted back as the teen ran up to him with a black-haired teen with blue eyes walked not far behind him. "Who's your friend there?"

"Oh, this is Ren Amaki, met him not that long ago." Sora's friend said while pulling the obviously unconfutable teen up to them. "We met on one of the BraveStar community pages and decided to meet up." The blitzball player said happily as he seemed to have a bulb go off. "Oh, we were about to head out for lunch, my treat. You should come with us!"

Looking he saw Ren give a blank look so he let out a sigh and gave Tidus a soft smile. "Nah I'm going to meet up with Wakka, he said he wanted some help cleaning the blitzball arena." Tidus seemed to think for a moment before nodding his head.

"Alright maybe next time?" Tidus asked to witch Sora responded in the positive. "Well see you around!" With that the two of them headed out only for Tidus to stop, "Oh hey be on the lookout, they say a murderer is on the loose." Tidus said before walking off.

This news caused Sora to stop before walking away. He felt a need to go after the possible criminal, but with no leads there was nothing he could do. But with that in mind he took a brief pause before feeling energy in his body start to flow. Without pause he ran toward a building and with no resistance started running up the building. Keeping the flowmotion going he launched up arrived at the top where he landed on the roof.

Flowmotion was an ability he had learned during a trip to Shibuya. Continuing his motion, he continued flying from roof to roof while feeling his heart raced. When he finally slowed down, he noticed that he was near the shopping district where he spotted Tidus and Ren hanging out, one of them more enjoying it more than the other. As he was about to leave when he noticed someone hanging around in an ally with a shining weapon. Darkness slowly rose off this person while he passed back and forth twitching occasionally, but most concerning was the way he was eyeing Ren. Jumping down Sora slowly approached the man. "Hey you doing okay."

Taking one look at the teen in front of him the man charged forward with his knife pointed to impale the kid in front of him. What he didn't expect was for the kid to grab his arm blocking the hit or for him to be knocked into a dumpster. The man spasmed as the darkness grabbed the knife and forced it back in his hand. The keyblade wielder could only stare in shock as this happened allowing the man to get up but his instincts saved him in time to deflect the blade away.

"No, no, running out of time. Need to get the chosen one, I don't, can't, won't fail!" The man yelled before spinning and trying to run out of the ally toward the now leaving Ren and Tidus.

"Sorry I'm not letting that happen." Sora stated firmly and with a quick wall jump landed in front of the man blocking another hit but this time Sora felt more force behind the blow. With a burst of strength, he knocked the knife away and delivered a kick to the side of the man. "Now let's go see the police and do something about that darkness." Walking forward Sora stumbled as he felt lightheaded.

"No, no, why are you being taken? You are weak, HE was chosen you weren't." The man curled up as Sora tried to stay awake. He dropped his keyblade causing it to vanish in light. With his last moments he saw the darkness leave the man and vanish.

XXXXXXXX

Slowly opening his eyes with a groan Sora held his head in pain while slowly opening his eyes. What greeted him was the sight of a wide room looking like a church or sanctum. The room was white with men in robes standing around the circle which he found himself him. As Sora made his way to stand a weight made itself known. Looking down he saw an intricate blade with a white hilt, a black blade with a gold stripe but the most noticeable thing was the shining blue gem where the hilt meets the blade. As the islander stood up the blade, like a magnet, stuck to his hand.

Unfortunately, for him, he didn't get a chance to study the blade for much longer as he heard the men in robes talking. "Oh, great heroes will you save our world from the catastrophe!"

"What!" Sora heard multiple voices ask in shock causing him to turn to see three other people standing near him. The first holding a bow with an orange gem in it. The boy holding it was very pretty with light brown hair and golden looking eyes. Second was an older looking blonde haired and orange eyed man holding a spear with a red gem inside of it. The last was a black haired and green-eyed man with a small silver shield attached to his arm, the shield had a green gem in the center. The shield person looked like he was freaking out about something but Sora's attention was drawn back as the robed man wearing some type of headpiece kept talking.

"Please listen to me heroes," The man continued talking. "I know you have many questions, but time is short. You are the chosen Heroes, summoned by an ancient ritual." Sora felt his mind rattle a bit when he heard that. Yeah, he had summoned others before, but to be summoned himself was interesting. "Currently the world is teetering on the edge of destruction. We pray of you, please lend us your power!" Excitement flowed through the young keyblader at the promise of another adventure, yet he quickly tempered it. After all he need to get the full story first, then he would swing his blade and save this world!

"Man, what a pain." " What a pain." Sora heard from the bow and spear user causing him to blink. Why were they complaining? Weren't they supposed to be heroes too? Turning he saw the shield user confused look giving him so that gave him some comfort.

"Even if you send us home when the job is done, that's basically just using us as slave labor, you know?" The guy with the bow voiced with a glare. "You get where we're coming from, right? Keep in mind that depending on your answer we might have to become your enemies." WHAT! Sora's mind jumbled at that. What was going on!

"P-Please, at least have an audience with the king before you do anything rash. You can discuss the details of your compensation there." One of the robed men opened a heavy-looking door and gestured us inside.

"Well, I guess that's that." "Seems like it." With that the spear and bow walked off while the shield hesitated before following, so having his mind put back in place he ran after catching up. As he caught up he saw the breathtaking scenery outside the window.

Letting out a content sigh Sora felt his mind wander back to the other scenes like this he had seen. Stopping he saw the shield guy looking to, "Amazing isn't it?" Sora asked him with a bright smile.

"Ah, yeah, I guess it is." The man awkwardly said rubbing the back of his head giving a weak smile.

"Come on we got a king to meet!" The spear user said with a smirk. The bow user whispered something to him causing the two to laugh to each other. With a shrug Sora continued on his way up the castle followed by the shield user. As they approached what he assumed was the main room they were greeted to the site of a king sitting comfortably in a throne. The man was aged with greying hair and beard while he wore purple silk clothes.

"So these are the Heroes of old?" The king asked when they entered. Sora looked at him and felt something was off about this man. While admirably he had not met much in the way of royalty he could already tell that this man wasn't a king at all like Mickey. "I am the king of this country, Aultcray Melromarc the 32nd. Raise your heads, Heroes." Huh, did one of them lower their head? Was he supposed to, well Donald and Goofy always bow when they encounter Mickey… "Now, I shall explain the current situation. This country - nay, the very world - is on the path to ruin."

Basically, it was like this: A prophecy existed which predicted the end of days. It spoke of wave after wave of calamity which would beset the lands. If nothing was done, the world itself would fall into ruin. And, the year of the prophecy had finally come. The sands of the ancient Dragon's Hourglass had begun to run once more. According to legend, the Dragon's Hourglass was supposed to serve as a monthly warning system for the Wave of Calamity. At first the people had written it off as mere superstition. However, disaster struck the instant the final grain of sand fell, just as the legend said.

A dimensional fissure appeared over Melromarc, and a vast horde of monsters spilled out from within. Though the country's knights and adventurers just barely managed to subdue them, the next wave was expected to be even stronger. There was no way they would be able to stop the calamity a second time. And so, the leaders of the country decided to enact the ancient summoning of Heroes, in hopes that they might be saved.

...By the way, our ability to communicate with the people of this world was apparently a boon granted by the legendary weapons we all held. Wait did the keyblade also give this ability? That could explain a bit now that he thought about.

"Uh-huh. So, you expect us to just work for free, then?" The spear user said with a wave of his hand.

"...It really is selfish, you know. Dragging us into a problem that doesn't have anything to do with us." Bow user backed him up quickly.

"Well, it's true we have no obligation to help you. And suppose we do save the world, only to get sent home empty-handed after all our hard work? Nobody would take a risk like that unrewarded." Spear continued on picking up where he left off.

"Urk..." The king shot a glance toward one of his retainers. "Of course, it goes without saying that we were planning to richly compensate you for your efforts." The king said before Sora could say anything. While he was okay being paid but as a Hero, in training, he was fine doing it for free and to help people out. Wait he really hadn't spoken much since he got here? Hey maybe he was maturing! Turning back he noticed that the king had explained payment with the others, meaning he had missed it… "Now then, Heroes. Tell me your names."

"Oh, I'm Sora!" He said quickly causing the others to look at him. "What he asked, oh sorry did you want to go first?" Well now this was awkward...

"Well is that all you're going to give?" The spear asked before looking forward and giving a small smile. "Like this, Kitamura Motoyasu age 21, University Student. See something like that."

Bow was next, "My name is Kawasumi Itsuki. I'm a 17-year-old high-school student."

The king nodded before speaking again. "It is my pleasure-"

"Uh your highness? You forgot him." Sora said interrupting him and pointing toward the shield who looked like he was about to speak. The king flinched before nodding toward the shield holder and not saying something.

"The name's Iwatani Naofumi, and I'm a 20-year-old college student." The now identified Naofumi said with a bit of irritation.

"Now, if everybody could please confirm their statuses?"

"Huh?" Sora heard the others say while his eyes trailed down to the question mark in the corner of his vision he saw.

"Umm... how do we do that, exactly?"

Itsuki timidly asked the king for help. "I believe he's talking about that weird symbol, icon thing in the corner of your vision." Sora tried to explain, what he never played many VRMMOs, or video games. "If you just focus on it for a bit it should bring up a screen for you." They all seemed to take his advice sense they seemed to be looking at something now. Following them Sora looked at his status and felt his mind freeze at the beginning.

He, Sora the keyblade wielder who took down Xemnas and his Organization, was Level One. Did he slack off that much! Man if Riku or Donald ever heard of this he would never hear the end of it. "What the heck is this?" Itsuki asked breaking Sora from his downward spiral.

"Do you not have status magic in your world, Heroes? Here, it is something that anybody can use." The King said sounding intrigued.

"No kidding?"

Huh so people in this world could look at this information whenever they wanted? This would have made his adventure a bit easier.

"Anyway, what should we do from here on out? Being such a low level is making me uneasy." Motoyasu asked while stepping forward.

"Ah, about that. We would like you to go on a journey to polish your skills and strengthen your legendary weapons."

"Strengthen our weapons? They're legendary, right? Shouldn't they be strong from the start?" Itsuki asked while taking a chance to reexamine his bow. Sora really didn't care, even if his new sword was weak he still had his keyblades and magic.

"I am simply relating the contents of the legend. It is written that 'the summoned Heroes will grow and strengthen their legendary weapons.'"

"Again with the legends. So can we at least use something else until these things are strong enough to be useful?" Motoyasu spoke up, twirling his spear absentmindedly.

"We can worry about that later. For now, we should just focus on getting stronger like they asked."

"Well then I guess the four of us should head out now." Sora said with a smile. "Wonder where we should start?"

"We should head outside the castle. In games you can always find weak enemies hanging around there." Motoyasu said like he was explaining something obvious while Itsuki nodded and Naofumi just scratched the back of his head.

"Wait just a moment, Heroes." The minister stopped them as they were preparing to head out.

"The four of you are to gather companions individually, then set off on your own separate journeys."

"Oh? And why is that?"

"It's quite simple. According to legend, the weapons you carry naturally repel each other. Should you operate together as a group, you will do nothing but impede each other's growth."

"I'm not sure I get it, but basically you're saying we can't get strong unless we work alone?" Sora was about to contest when he saw a message pop up from his sword and fly into his face.

Caution!

Working together with your fellow legendary weapon holders will be detrimental to your progress.

Please try to operate separately as much as possible.

"Looks like it's the real deal..." Sora absently mumbled. So if couldn't work with the other Heroes then would he need to find someone else to work with. Oh, maybe he could find some way to get Donald and Goofy here to help him!

"So then, we need to gather companions, I guess?" Sora mumbled while his mind was trying to figure out how to get his friends here.

"On the contrary, we will gather companions for you - the best of the best, have no worries. However, the day grows late. For now, rest yourselves and gather your strength. Your journey begins tomorrow." The king said as a guard appeared to lead them away.

Leaving behind words of gratitude the four walked toward where they would be resting for a while.

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The Sacred Sword slowly integrated itself with its new wielder, or was he the first? Either way it didn't matter, it had a job to do. It's job was its purpose, and its purpose was to integrate itself with the very heart of the new Sword Hero. As it was finishing getting into place it prepared to attach to the soul when it ran into something.

The something it ran into looked like a glass platform depicting the Sword Hero, its holder, sleeping peacefully though he looked younger and held a large key weapon. Was this his heart? It had never encountered something like this before, or had it? "What are you?" A voice asked from beside it shocking the essence of the legendary weapon.

'Spinning' it now saw a young man with spiky blonde hair wearing a black overcoat staring at. The weapon floated backwards away from the man near its holders heart. "It looks like a blue gem." Another voice said near it again causing it to now sway to a different side. The new voice belonged to another person in a long black overcoat but she had blue eyes and black hair.

"Yeah but what is it doing here?" The blonde asked not getting closer but still in the way of its objective.

"Yeah how did it get to Sora's heart? Do you think it has anything to do with the changes?" Black haired asked gesturing around to the light blue air currents surrounding the platform. Did it cause those? It felt some of its energy in the currents so maybe?

"I think your right Xion, we found the culprit." Blonde said to the now identified Xion before turning to it.

"So what should we do Roxas?" Xion asked while putting her fist underneath her chin, a thinking pose.

"Well it would help if it could talk…" Roxas said taking a slow step forward but the Legendary Sword was busy. Could it talk ? It had never needed to really talk before. Give out hints like it was right now with its current wielder, sure easy. Use a voice to communicate with the ones in front of it? Well it had no way of defending itself so if a fight broke out it wouldn't have a way to defend itself.

"Talk?" It 'said' using it's weak connection to the holder's heart, the connection letting it use some of the ambient energy to 'talk'.

"Huh, so you can at least talk." Roxas said nodding, "So what are you here for?"

What should it say? Be honest or tell a half truth? "Here to help current holder. Well connect with heart to strengthen both self and wielder."

"So you would be like a friend?" Xion asked causing the orb to shift. Friend? Was its wielder a friend? What was a friends? "Friends are people you can rely on when you need help." Well that sounded similar to what it would do so it 'nodded'.

"Well hope you don't mind if we stay around." Roxas said while watching the orb as the gem floated forward toward the center. As it did so it noticed a blank circle appear next to its holder. As it arrived it expected to be sucked in but was shocked when a podium rose up and drew him to it. Once on top it felt a small draw on its power as it was connected to the Sword Hero. Was this normal? Why did it feel like it now knew all about the Hero, Sora.

Why did it now want to help the two who were now watching it with fascination. With a pull a window flew down from above as they now saw Sora laying on a bed going over a status screen. "Whoa how did you do that?" Roxas asked shocked.

"Watching from my eye." The gem explained while Sora rose from the bed moving the blade they watched from. Well loosely watched from. It could move the 'eye' to stay behind the Hero.

"Could you let us hear to?" Xion asked with hope in her question. Could it? Why did it feel like it should give it its best shot? Do its best to help to help a new friend? As it started to hear the talk about Japan and Games it tuned both out along with the thanks from the two. It was focused on the feeling of having a friend and being connected.

AN: A THIRD story cause I'm insane! Now this takes place right after KH2 so no DDD but I had him go TWEWY so he still has Flowmotion. Also, Sword-san is very confused.

Now as for the reason… I just thought it would be interesting to have a Hero of Light in the series. So, who better than Sora? Plus, just imagine Naofumi on one of the Attraction Flows?