A/N An update so soon? My, what's the occassion? Nothing in partulicular, I Just decided to update early rather than wait two weeks like I planned. That itch just needed to be scratched god damn it!

So enjoy, and thank you for reading! I'll see you all again this saturday!

Warnings: OOC moment for Sora, if you'd like to take it that way. The title of this chapter is there for a reason...

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The day goes on like normal, with Lea asking Sora to spar with him and Sora agreeing to it, if just for the sake of getting his mind off the dark thoughts that slowly began plaguing his mind.

Sora acts like he always does: all smiles, encouragement and optimistic attitude, but every once in a while, a dark voice would hiss in the back of his mind, dampening his mood that much more until the smiles become a mask, the upbeat demeanor an act. It feels, without means of a better word, like a shadow is hanging over him. Telling him to enjoy this while it lasts, that soon they would look at him with fear and hatred like the heartless that he fought with such vigor. Sora would shake it off and tell the voice that it was wrong, but it was getting to be hard sometimes.

As Sora spars, he and Lea lock blades and begin a contest of wills. Sora focuses on pushing Lea back when that same sibilate voice enters his head again.

"He may be holding back, but soon he will come at you with force. He will destroy you without batting an eye."

'You're wrong. Lea's my friend; he would never do that to me.'

"Oh?" The voice snickers, "But weren't you the one who took his precious Roxas away?" Sora falters, "Do you really think that just because he got his heart back that he's forgiven you? He kidnapped you're dear friend, he tried to kill you before to get him back. What makes you think he isn't still trying to now?"

With that thought swimming through his head, Sora is unprepared when Lea unleashes a surprise attack, flames dancing along his keyblade and at his feet. Sora screams in terror and leaps away, dropping his keyblade in his fright. Lea releases his own keyblade in surprise, the flames diminishing.

"Sora! Are you-" He takes a step closer, trying to help his friend. Sora lashes at him without thinking, his fingernails raking Lea's face and leaving red marks.

The two keyblade wielders stare at each other; Lea in shock that Sora scratched him, Sora in horror for doing it. Sora jumps to his feet, hands clapping together as he begins apologizing. Lea waved him off.

"It's cool, you obviously got something on your mind. I didn't really help with trying to sneak that move in on you like that."

"No it's not cool, I just scratched you! I-I don't even know why-!"

"No harm done." Lea interrupts shrugging Sora's hurried excuses off with a smirk, "Just means I'm allowed to get you back; got it memorized?"

Before Sora can reply to that, Donald, Goofy and Riku run up to the training grounds.

"Sora! Master Yen Sid wants us to go to a new world!" Donald shouts.

"A new world?" Sora echoes, "What's it supposed to be like?" He asks, deciding to get down to business.

We don't know exactly," Goofy says rubbing his chin thoughtfully, "Master Yen Sid just told us to check it out an' see if there are any heartless there."

Sora agrees and they head towards the gummy ship. As they fly off to the new world, Sora can't help but think about what that voice said. It was right, in a way. Since Sora accepted Roxas back into his heart, Lea had tried to get him back by any means when he was still Axel.

Sora wasn't blind, he had seen the looks Lea would give him. Those green eyes swimming with pain and shoulders slumped, it is one of the reasons why Sora wants to find a way to get Roxas to have his own body again. From the memories the blond had given him, Sora knew Roxas deserved it. Roxas and Axel were really close and Sora felt like he was an obstacle for their happiness.

He would do anything to remedy that.

"Anything huh?" Sora groaned when the voice came back. He felt Riku looking at him and gave the silveret a reassuring smile before turning to look out the window of the gummi ship.

"Fine words given to those who don't deserve it."

"Roxas and Lea deserve happiness, Organization XIII put them through enough." Sora retorts, keeping his voice low so the others wouldn't hear him talking to himself.

"Really," The voice says mockingly, "When both have tried to destroy you just so they can be together? If it were me, I would have given them both a proper ending. One that involves me feasting on what organs they have left."

A shiver went through Sora and his hands draw into fists on his knees. He tries so hard to think that shiver was from disgust. "I'm not you." He whispers.

The voice chuckles, "You may believe as you wish, for now..." The voice purrs before it goes silent. Sora keeps his eyes fixated on the window, trying to shake off the feeling of foreboding.

Somewhere in the universe, a skinny woman with grey skin dressed in a lab coat cackles as she holds up a vile of pink liquid, "at last! I've done it! A potion to release the darkness from hearts!"

"Are you sure this will work?" A woman with green skin dressed in all black with horns steps out of the shadows, narrow yellow eyes gazing at the bottle in mild curiosity.

"Of coarse it will! All I have to do is test it and you will see that it does!" The woman grins evilly, "and, I have the perfect test subject! HAHAHA!!! It's brrrrrilliant!"

"Just so long as it gets me what I want, it matters not to me what you do with it," the cloaked woman says coldly causing the other to glare at her.

"It will work! I've done my calculations perfectly! Anyone who takes this will become the very definition of darkness! Trust my work Maleficent."

"As you say, Yzma." And with that, Maleficent vanishes.

"You know, I don't think that we should-"

"Oh, shut it Krunk."

"Okay."