In the meantime in Quadratum, Leon was sitting on a park bench waiting for someone to arrive. A man wearing a similar coat sits down beside him and Leon smiles at him.
"Do you think I don't recognize you, Master of Masters or should I call you, Demyx," says Leon as Demyx removes his hood revealing his face.
"How comes you never need to change your appearance like everyone else does," says Demyx as Leon looks at the night sky.
"That must be because of my family. I finally met them," says Leon as Demyx was confused about why Leon was telling him that.
"I just wanted to warn my student since he seems to have plans for Sora who is traveling in their company. They even began his training already," says Leon as Demyx seemed to not be interested in the matter.
"I am waiting for the other six Crown of Light to reveal themselves. Sora might be one but he could be something entirely different as well," says Demyx as he leaned himself back.
"Luxu doesn't know?" asks Leon as Demyx shakes his head.
"I am quite low profile and he goes by Xigbar now," says Demyx as he sighs seeing his student walk on a dangerous path.
Soon a teen walked towards them while shouting, "Master, you are back!"
"I am, Yozora," says Leon as he turns around finding Demyx not being there any longer.
"How did your training progress while I was away?" asks Leon as he stands up from the bench.
"It should be progressing slowly since you have reached a bottleneck," says Leon as he gestures Yozora to follow him.
"I was having those weird dreams lately again," says Yozora as he recounts them to Leon who smiles at his student.
"What if I tell you they aren't dreams but real," says Leon as Yozora was confused and looked at Leon for answers.
"One day you will understand what I mean but until then we should spar so I can see how good you are," says Leon as he pulled out a sword that has a red glowing edge.
Yozora goes into position and pulls out his sword which had an orange glowing edge and a weapon that looked like a crossbow as well.
Yozora rushes at Leon who parries his attack with his sword while staying calm as Yozora seemed to start to get serious. The spar went on for a small time until Yozora was breathing heavily on the ground while Leon was holding his sword at Yozora.
"You have improved a lot but you still have a long way to go if you want to save your world from Karma," says Leon as Yozora lifts his upper body up making him now sit on the ground.
"The adults are doing their best to hold it back but everything is progressing too fast," says Yozora as Leon knew what Yozora was saying.
The people are doing the best to resolve the catastrophes that happen when Kingdom Hearts appears on the other side. Leon was sitting on the bench again while looking at the sky.
"I know but soon more catastrophes will happen," says Leon as Yozora looked at him confused.
"That is bad," says Yozora in a worrying tone as Leon nods.
"It is, but you will be there to safe the day," says Leon as he suddenly was engulfed in Darkness and disappears.
"And he is gone like always," says Yozora who met Leon by coincidence when he was a child.
Leon was sitting on the same bench looking at the sky as he did before he left. He looked sad about something and Yozora wanted to cheer him up. That happened every week until Leon decided to teach the boy because of his stubbornness of not letting him in peace.
In the meantime in Traverse Town, Sora and the others landed and were walking through the town as Sora went with Donald and Goofy to the Dalmatian Mansion while John went to get Cid to begin their work on the ship again.
Nesiara was roaming around with Yuffie and Aerith when she says, "We met Cloud."
"Really, where is he?" asks Yuffie excited.
"He is participating in the Olympus Coliseum in some tournaments trying to get strong. He was looking for someone," says Nesiara as both turned pale after hearing Nesiara.
"He isn't looking for him right?" asks Yuffie to Aerith who nods.
"Most likely, we don't know why they have this deep connection to each other," says Aerith and Nesiara could already think who they are talking about.
"He is looking for Sephiroth," says Nesiara as they nod.
"Yes, did your world?" asks Aerith as Nesiara nods.
"Yes, he was the main antagonist in that world. He almost killed you, Aerith. If Kieron hadn't woken up that night, your other you would have been dead now," says Nesiara as she told them about their Sephiroth.
"They sound the same but ours isn't really that crazy. He is just a maniac that loves to fight and loves quiet places to think. He also used to be a hero before he became what he is now," says Aerith making light of Sephiroth's situation since he wasn't harming anyone as long as he isn't bordered by someone.
"But let's talk about your adventures with the trio," says Yuffie wanting to know more about what they were up to since they left.
"Well, we trained them on the world where we met with Cloud...," says Nesiara as she starts recounting their adventure with the trio which made Yuffie laugh from hearing that Sora and the others were imprisoned because of such a silly reason.
"Maybe we should let Sora close the keyhole of Traverse Town as well," says Aerith seriously when Nesiara nods.
"We should it will relieve some of your burdens as the Heartless won't be that aggressive any longer," says Nesiara as she had to fight three groups of Heartless only to get to them.
In the meantime outside the Dalmatian Mansion, the trio was leaving the mansion as they walked through the empty streets of Traverse Town because they still aren't safe when Sora sees a glimpse of someone he knew.
"Is that Riku?" asks Sora as he sees a teen with silver hair enter a side street that would lead to where the trio fought against the Knight Armor before.
Sora rushed after the teen thinking it was Riku while Donald and Goofy were confused why Sora ran after the teen. They followed him quickly as they didn't want to be separated from Sora.
They soon arrived at the place they fought against Knight Armor Heartless and Sora asks, "Riku, is that you?"
The teen turns around and looks at Sora and says, "Who else should I be."
"Riku!" says Sora jumping at Riku when suddenly a group of Heartless attacks them.
"Riku stand behind us. They are dangerous," says Sora worried that Riku could turn into a Heartless.
"Don't worry, I fought some of them before," says Riku when suddenly a dark blade with a blue eye on its guard.
The trio and Riku fought against the Heartless when suddenly three more people joined the fight and they hear one say, "You really manage to cause trouble every time."
"It isn't really my fault," says Sora as he killed one of the Heartless.
"Less talking and more killing, Yuffie. We can talk once this is over," says Nesiara as it was her group that heard the tumult outside the shelter.
Yuffie concentrated on fighting while Nesiara noticed that one person was missing as she stroke the last Heartless down.
"Riku! Riku, where are you?" shouts Sora around as Nesiara places her hand on his shoulder.
"He isn't around any longer. Have you forgotten your training," says Nesiara as Sora smiles apologetically before closing his eyes and feeling the Ki of the people around him finding only five instead of six.
"But he was here just a second ago," says Sora as Nesiara smiles at him.
"I know, I felt four people and not three when we came here," says Nesiara as Sora looked at her expecting something.
"*sighs* Fine, I will see what I can do, but in the meantime, you should help Aerith and Yuffie with closing the keyhole of Traverse Town," says Nesiara as Sora smiled brightly at Nesiara.
"Thank you," says Sora as he hugs Nesiara before looking at Yuffie and Aerith for instruction.
"You need to sound the bell three times that is over the Dalmatian Mansion. The picture in the fountain across of it should change and reveal the keyhole that is protected by an extra barrier that we made so the Shadows couldn't enter it while they are flat," says Aerith as Sora nods and looks at Donald and Goofy.
"Let us close the Keyhole while Nesiara looks for Riku," says Sora excited as the trio moved out while Nesiara was already investigating the surrounding.
She followed a trail that leads her into a dead-end and she thinks, 'Either he can pass through the gateway of darkness like Organization XIII or he had help. I shouldn't have skipped this part of the story.'
Nesiara regretted that she skipped through many things in the book and only read about the important things and not about Sora's first meeting with Riku after leaving the island. But the timeline was already out of hands with Merlin returning way earlier than expected and the Heartless unable to rip the pages of the book out.
So this made Nesiara question if he learned how to use the passages already. Nesiara stood up and wanted to walk to the shelter when she changed her mind and went towards the door with the flame on it.
She went to visit Merlin since she was hoarding some Gems that the Fairy Godmother could look at and see if there are souls trapped in them.
In the meantime on the Highwind, John and Cid were putting the missing piece into the Highwind while Leon was taking care of their backs so they could work fast and without them worrying that they get attacked.