So for those of you out there who actually read my other story, here's a new one. It's going to be kinda short, so enjoy it for what it is. (Well actually, this chapter is kinda long, but the story won't have many chapters. That's what I mean.)

Disclaimer: Of course I don't own Kingdom Hearts. If I did do you think I'd be here right now?

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I wonder what it would be like if I actually beat Seifer this time, thought Roxas. It was the annual struggle tournament in Twilight Town once again. Hayner and Roxas had entered together, but Hayner had been beaten in his second match. Roxas was up against Seifer, just like last year and the year before that. He had suffered a humiliating defeat, both times. Roxas hoped that this year wouldn't be a repeat. Suddenly, he was jarred out his reverie by the unexpected blow his opponent had dealt him.

"Whatcha thinking about loser?" sneered Seifer. "How much longer till this is over?"

Roxas refused to respond and instead struck back with his struggle weapon. Seifer was caught off guard, so he teetered unbalanced for a moment. This was Roxas's chance. He lashed out at Seifer, and almost made contact. Seifer however, had managed to see the attack before it came, and moved swiftly out of the way. He rammed his struggle weapon against Roxas's and tried to push Roxas down. Roxas leaned against the two interlocked weapons and pushed right back at Seifer. Both teens pushed and heaved, but neither one of them was able to knock the other down. When Seifer saw that Roxas wasn't going to back down, he tried to trip him. Roxas didn't see it coming, so he fell to the ground, arms and legs flailing.

Seifer laughed and raised his arms in victory, but his face soon turned to one of surprise, because Roxas had swung at his legs, causing him to fall down. Roxas stood up wearily and looked over to see if Seifer would do the same. He was extremely surprised however, when Seifer remained on the ground.

Roxas's eyes widened, as the referee counted down the last few seconds and declared him winner.

"And here's our winner! Roxas!" shouted the ref as he raised Roxas's arm.

"Roxas! Roxas! Roxas!" the crowd cheered. He could distinctly hear Hayner, Pence and Olette's voices, and he smiled. He scanned the crowd, looking for his friends' faces. He spotted Pence and Hayner grinning and waving at him. Then he saw Olette's beautiful smile, her pretty face beaming up at him.

The world faded away when their eyes met. Her emerald green ones melting into his sapphire blue eyes. They stared at each other for a few seconds, but then Olette blushed and looked away as Roxas wondered what that meant.

"Roxas? Roxas!" The referee shook Roxas a few times.

"Huh? What?" asked Roxas, confused.

"As I was saying, here's this year's Struggle Trophy!" the ref announced as he handed a large trophy to Roxas. There were many golden branches to the trophy, and off a few of them were four different colored orbs. There was a blue one, a yellow one, a red one and a green. They all sparkled in the evening light.

The crowd roared, clapped and cheered for Roxas, as he stood there smiling. A photographer took a few pictures then Roxas was allowed to leave. He walked off the struggle platform, still amazed that he had actually beaten Seifer.

"You did great!" shouted Olette as she ran up to Roxas and gave him a hug.

"Yeah buddy," said Hayner, as he caught up to Olette. "You creamed him!"

"Good job Roxas!" said Pence, as he too caught up to the group. "You actually beat him this year."

"Thanks a lot for your support Pence," Roxas replied sarcastically. The group laughed.

"Let's head home," said Roxas. "I'm kinda tired."

"Of course you are," replied Hayner as he playfully punched Roxas in the arm. "You took on Seifer!"

The group of friends began walking home, chatting about the tournament and the competitors.

"So what are you going to do with that trophy?" asked Olette curiously.

"Hmmm," Roxas thought for a moment. "This." He broke off the four different colored orbs and handed them to his friends; the yellow for Olette, red for Hayner, green for Pence and blue for himself.

"Wow, thanks Roxas," said Olette, as she examined her perfect yellow orb.

"Yeah, thanks," murmured Hayner and Pence.

"No problem guys, I always share stuff with you," replied Roxas casually. He looked at his own blue orb and squinted. Slowly, he raised it up to the setting sun, and looked through the orb. His friends paused and did the same.

"Wow," murmured Olette. "It's so beautiful." The others could only nod their heads.

"Wait, weren't we supposed to be going home?" asked Pence, as he snapped out of it.

"Oh, yeah, right," answered Roxas, as they continued on their way.

"Oh, I almost forgot!" cried Olette, as she slapped a hand to her forehead. "I have to stop by the library and pick up a book I have reserved there."

"You read…during the summer?" Hayner asked in disbelief.

"Yes, I do," Olette replied confidently.

"What a nerd," whispered Hayner to Roxas and Pence.

"What did you call me?" asked Olette, a warning evident in her tone of voice.

"Uh, um, nothing mistress," replied Hayner, his eyes flickering around as he pretended to cower.

"Hayner!" exclaimed Olette in frustration, as Roxas and Pence began to laugh. Though she couldn't help cracking a grin.

"I'll walk you over to the library, then home," Roxas offered.

Olette blushed and struggled to form words. "Well, um, I, uh, don't really need help, but, uh-"

"Ew, going to the library during the summer?" interrupted Hayner. "Are you crazy man? You don't like going to the library!"

"I know, but she can't go by-" Roxas tried to explain.

"Roxas don't worry about it! She's a big girl, she doesn't need you. Besides, we haven't finished talking about the tournament!" Hayner argued.

Roxas was going to open his mouth and continue arguing with Hayner, but Olette cut in.

"No Roxas, Hayner is right. You don't have to come with me, I'll be fine." She seemed to say this a little sadly.

"Are you sure?" asked Roxas with a concerned look on his face.

Olette felt her heart sink, when she reluctantly said yes.

"Look Olette, I'll go with you," said Pence kindly.

"I told you, I don't need anyone's help!" Olette shouted, as she stormed off, suddenly angry. The boys stood behind, with surprised looks on their faces.

"Well that was weird," said Hayner eventually. Olette almost never gets angry, and when she does, she rarely yells.

"You're telling me," Roxas responded.

"Hey, Roxas!" exclaimed Hayner as he changed the subject and they all continued walking. "You should've seen Seifer's face when he stalked off the struggle platform. He looked furious! Haha serves him right! He's such a jerk, he deserved to lose. Anyway," Hayner continued and he got a bit more serious, "he mumbled something about getting back at you then he began to whisper with Rai. We'll have to keep an eye on them."

"Hey where's Fuu?" questioned Pence. "I didn't see her today, and she always hangs out with them."

"Vacation I think," answered Roxas. "Okay, thanks for the warning," he said he turned towards Hayner.

"No problem man. Hey, here's my house, I'll see you guys tomorrow."

"Bye Hayner."

"See ya Hayner."

Roxas and Pence walked on towards Pence's house. They talked about the most random things, and both laughed a lot, but Roxas was glad when Pence had gone home. He needed some time to think.

Why did Olette stalk off like that before, thought Roxas. She did say that she didn't need anyone to walk her home. Roxas sighed. Girls are so complicated.

Roxas then got home and went to bed.

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Roxas woke up refreshed, but a little sore from yesterday's tournament. He got out of bed, got dressed, and walked over to the usual spot. When he arrived there, Hayner and Pence were already waiting.

"Hey, where's Olette?" asked Roxas as he stifled a yawn.

"We don't know," replied Pence. "The last time we saw her was last night."

"She's probably off getting sea-salt ice cream," said Hayner. "Let's go meet her at the ice cream stand."

So the three boys set off towards the stand. When they got there however, Olette was nowhere to be found.

"Hey, uh, Ms. Brown? Have you seen Olette?" inquired Roxas.

"Nope," replied the ice cream owner. "Haven't seen her since yesterday."

"Oh, okay. Well, thanks anyway," mumbled Roxas.

"Where could she be?" Roxas asked, turning to his friends. He was starting to get worried.

"I don't know," Hayner murmured, as he too began to feel jittery. Olette was always on time, and if she did happen to be late, she always let someone else know beforehand. This was completely out of character for Olette.

"Why don't we head back to the usual spot, in case she showed up while we were gone?" suggested Pence.

"Sounds good to me," answered Hayner. Roxas nodded his head in agreement, and they walked back to the usual spot.

"She's not here!" cried Roxas when they walked in.

"Hey, what's this?" asked Pence curiously. He walked over to the couch that he and Olette liked to sit on, and in Olette's seat, was an envelope.

"It has your name on it Roxas," said Pence as he brought the envelope back over to Hayner and Roxas. Roxas took the envelope from Pence, and examined it. It was just a plain, ordinary envelope.

"Well open it Roxas!" Hayner ordered.

"Okay, okay," said Roxas. Slowly, he opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of paper.

We have Olette. If you want to see her again, you'll come the haunted mansion at seven tonight. Come alone.

"Someone kidnapped Olette," whispered Roxas, as he looked up from the note.

"WHAT!" shouted Hayner and Pence. They crowded around Roxas to look at the paper.

"Bastards," muttered Hayner as he turned away from his friends and began to pace the floor.

"Why would someone want to kidnap Olette?" Hayner demanded. "Who would?" No one answered.

"This doesn't make any sense!" Hayner shouted angrily.

"What are we going to do?" asked Pence.

"I'm going to the haunted mansion tonight, and I'm going alone," Roxas said quietly, but firmly.

"Well of course you're going to the…wait, did you say that you're going alone?" Hayner whirled around to stare at Roxas. He walked up to the blonde and poked him in the chest.

"You're going tonight, but you are not going alone. Nuh uh. We're sticking together and Pence and I are going to back you up," Hayner said with determination.

"But the note said-" began Roxas.

"I don't care what that note said," interrupted Hayner. "We're coming with you." His eyes softened at bit as he said, "C'mon Roxas, we're gonna save Olette together."

Roxas relented. "Well, alright. We'll do it together."

Don't worry Olette, wherever you are. We'll save you, thought Roxas.

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Olette woke up tied to a tall pillar. She was in a large entrance hall that had two majestic staircases leading upwards. The whole place was covered in years of dust and looked quite old.

Where am I, Olette thought as she looked around her. I've never been here before.

"Finally, the little princess has woken up," sneered a familiar voice. Olette racked her mind as to who the owner of that voice was.

"Who are you? And what do you want with me?" she demanded, as her eyes struggled to find a face in the semi-darkness.

"You'll find out very soon what your purpose here is," spoke the familiar voice, "and I'm surprised that you didn't recognize me."

Someone walked out from behind another pillar, and as the person drew nearer, Olette could barely make out the face. She opened her eyes wide when she realized how it was, and said, "Seifer. Let me go!"

"The one and only," replied Seifer as his face came into view, "and you're not going anywhere."

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