An unexpected visitor first.

Walking into the 3rd district, heartless suddenly popped out of nowhere. You readied your weapons, but surprisingly a shadow slipped by and dealt with the threat quickly. When the dust cleared, you saw the shadow was no other than Riku! “Hey, John! So here you were.” he said with a cool demeanor. Riku? Is that really you?” you said walking around him, touching and inspecting him. “Hey, cut it out! Yes, it’s me! What have you been doing?” he yells. You replied “We’ve been searching for you and Kairi all over the place!” at which Riku asked “Ain’t she with you? Well, at least she’d have made it off the island just like us.” Goofy walked up to you and said to Riku “John is the keybearer and has been locking all kinds of holes.” making Donald retort “Bah, while we did all the fighting…” You turned to him and asked “And what does that mean?” While you focused on Donald, you heard Riku say “So you used this staff to lock those holes? Feels very...powerful.” while standing there with your staff in his hand and a semi hard boner in his pants. “Hey, give that back!” you yell, a bit confused that Riku can hold the staff too. He throws it back at you, as you asked him “So, you are coming with us, right, Riku?” Donald quickly reacted and said “No! He can’t come!” after which you asked “Why not? He’s my friend!” Though Donald didn’t budge “I don’t care!”

Goofy interrupted you two, saying “Guys, he just disappeared!” You looked up and said to Donald “Nice going… Ah well, at least we know he’s alright.” Then you suddenly heard a loud whistle and saw Leon at the top of a flight of stairs, motioning you. “John, over here.” You followed Leon into a small house, where Yuffie and Aerith were too, both girls instantly looked a little sweaty and flustered as you stepped inside. There, Leon introduced you to Cid. He greeted you and got right to the subject “Do you know Malificent? She is a witch and she’s in town now, I heard. She is the reason the heart run rampant through the worlds and destroying them one after the other. There was this Ansem guy that studied the heartless. If we would be able to get a hold of his report. But no one knows where it is…”

“By the way, have you checked out the bell tower in the second district?” Leon asked. “It rang 3 times earlier today.” Yuffie quickly said “Leon….!”, looking a bit scared. He looked at her questioningly, after which she looked away shyly, grabbed her right arm with her left and said “N-n-never mind…” Leon looked at her for a sec and then pulled up his shoulders and said “You better head up to the belltower and try ringing it 3 times in succession too.” So you greeted everybody and followed Donald and Goofy to the 2nd district and climbed up the toy factory where the bell tower was located.