Sorry for being late on my updates, because school has been a pain in the ass. Well, here we go.

Sora POV

"Sora, get up! We need to get out of here!" I was awoken to find Roxas shaking me awake, with the sound of gunfire and bombs rolling in the distance. He was pulling me out of the car when we realized where we are. The destination we had to be at; the school. "Roxas, we're here?" I shakily asked him as he helped me to my feet. My ears were slightly deafened and my vision was a little impaired. "Come on you two, we need to find them!" It was Kairi, who was calling out from a nearby alley way that lead into the school. "Move it!" I quickly got myself orientated and retrieved my M$ and joined up with the group. "Everyone here?" The Captain, Calest asked us. "Affirmative. We just need to open this door." Jayden said. "Damn it!" He exclaimed, but Kairi had a small grin on her face as she pushed him over. "Step aside and let the sister of a master do this, okay?" She shot the lock and kicked the door down, like in face down. "See, was that so hard." Jayden was cursing when we all gathered in. The school lights were off and the place seemed deserted, but from the hallway were the class we were going to go to, we could hear kids crying. We ran into the room and they started to yell and scream even more, but one little girl went," that's my daddy!" And Celest ran up to her dad, and even given the situation, he hugged her back. She looked more like her father than her mother, her hair dark and her eyes emitting a reddish glow from her eyes, but had the body, I guess for a 4 yr. old, of her mom. "Don't worry sweetie, were going to get all of you guys out of here." We gathered up all the of kids, but found out something disturbing.

"Sora, come over here." Roxas whispered to me. I walked over to a broken window and found out that a dead body was there, and that dead body was their… "Holy crap, it's their teacher." She had been shot in the chest, but must have crawled away from the kids so they wouldn't freak everyone out. I said a quick prayer for her. "Come on you guys, I can hear enemy footsteps getting closer. We have to get ahead of them so the kids won't scatter." Kairi called out from the door. "Yeah, we outta go." Roxas said as we hustled to the door. We kept the kids in a close line as we got to the hallway, and as we led them throughout the alley, I got up to the head of the pack to ask Calest something. "Hey, what do we do now?" He was on a speaker giving his men orders, and turned it off so he could talk to me. There was a sad look on his face, and it looked like I was going to be the receiver of bad news. "Sora, I-nevermind…" He trailed off as he looked forward. "I'll tell you when we go somewhere safer." I was puzzled at what he said. "What do you mean?" I asked as we turned on to a new street. We ducked low as we were led into a subway station. People were either hiding or dead from the immediate bombings. "Come on, a mile from here is a checkpoint." Akiri said. The lights gave out on the top, so we turned on the flashlights on our guns so the kids wouldn't get scared. The sound of gunfire was everywhere. "Hey Cal, I have an update from command. It's about-" Cal cut him off by saying," It's about the enemy being gathered through the middle streets and going outward to the suburbs. I know. We're playing a losing war." And he even walked faster. This made me very suspicious, and I had my hunch on what it was, but I was too scared to ask so I wouldn't have to deal with the bad news. Yet, I should know.

"It's about Namine isn't it."

Namine's POV

"Sora, where are you."

"Am I dead?"

"I feel it closing on me, and my heart feels fast."

"The first time I met you was when?" I was trying to remember as I felt someone pulling at me. But exhaustion from the impact would bring me to a dream. When we first met…

"Namine, can you see who it is!" Aqua called out from my room .I was playing video games with at the time 16 yr. old brother Ventus. We were winning and I didn't want to be disturbed. "Come on Aqua, why can't you do it?" Even back then, they were in love, but in secret obviously. "I'm really… busy, just open the door!" The match had just ended, and since we lost, on my way to the door, I was really pissed. "Okay, who is-…it?" Because at the door, I saw both you and Roxas, at the time 20 and 19, and thought you two were super-hot. "Hey, my name's Sora and he's Roxas, and we just moved in and all. Just wanted to see who our neighbors are, that's it." I didn't want you two to go away, but sorry Sora, yet at the time, Roxas was cuter. I just had to say something that you wouldn't go away. "I think you're cute." I said, timidly pointing at Roxas. He looked at me, not wanting to say anything and I felt like I did something wrong. "It's okay uh…, I don't know your name. But he's not mad at you, he's gay." It made a lot of the sense then. "I'm Namine." I said before shutting the door and going back to my room. "Well, what was it? And why are you blushing?" Ventus asked me.

"Neighbors. New, hot, neigh-" My flashback was cut short as Kim was dragging me away from the burning vehicle. My heart was burning, but I looked down and my arm was stomach was… bleeding… pain…

Sora's POV

"Sora, what are you talking about. She's fine. Let's keep moving, okay?" Calest told me, and we started moving again. I wouldn't let him lie about my fiancé, so I cocked my assault rifle and aimed it at his head. "Tell me what happened to her." Roxas and Kairi looked back, and Kairi held Sky away from me. Calest turned his head a little to see if I was holding my weapon at him, and the group seemed to stop. "Sora, I would tell you, but not now, because it wouldn't be right." He looked back and took a step forward, but I fired a shot at him, barely missing his head. The kids stopped, and were scared.

"Tell me!" I yelled at him.

"Sora, listen to me! She could be dead!" Cal blurted out. My face went pale. "Her car, along with some of my best people, went down near a friendly site by two bombs. She could be gone. There, satisfied!?" He said, but I wasn't satisfied. So out of pure instinct, I rushed him and tackled him to the ground. We were scuffling, and even with the fact that Calest was 30 and I was much younger, he was very more experienced and much stronger and agile, and soon, I was the one on the ground, pinned.

"I told you that you shouldn't hear what had happened, and when I did, is this what I get? Learn this, this is a war Sora. Let's move on." He got of me, and my nerves were brought back to me when the bombs rolled in from above. We kept pressing on, everyone silent. Until we heard voices, unfriendly ones. "Find them, they musn't be so far!" What could be their commander shouted. We could stand our ground, as it sounded like there weren't too many of them, but we couldn't risk getting the children caught in the crossfire, so we opted to hide in a nearby tunnel away from the main path, but we decided to also ambush them. So I, Roxas, Kairi, and Akiri were in the back along with the kids, while Cal, Jayde, and Mira were up front, flashlights off, and guns loaded. So when a band of four to five enemy soldiers walked through the area, guns were fired, and even though it was a real skirmish, we came out victorious. He checked the bodies to find an IDs, but the dissent on his face sensed that he was unsuccessful. "Come on, the checkpoint is only a few blocks from our current position. Soon, daylight and our war will be in view." I was quiet, either out of fear that Namine was dead, or anxiety that I wouldn't make it to see her. So as the shining light appeared before my eyes as we got out and up to the outskirts of the downtown sector of Radiant, we appeared at a checkpoint, and it was hell. The base had been quickly set up, and most of the buildings were just abandoned houses with friendly markers in them. Parts of the place had been bombed out, and the only borderline distinguishing friendly and foe was a small placement line of barrels and barbwire. "There, that's where the crash site."

I looked to the left, and saw a burning hummer, and realized that that must have been Namine's vehicle. It was owned by Calest, and the markings were from the IFA. My stomach was sick, and it was slowly hurting more and more, and I fell to the ground, tears welling in my eyes. It was too much to even bear the fact that Namine is gone. "She's dead…" Roxas brought me up, sad as well, and we were lead inside, since the enemy was surrounding our position. However, as I passed through the medical ward, Kim confronted in a hallway. "Sora, you're okay!" She came up to me and then pulled me over to a room that said special patients are welcome here. "Kim, why are you pulling me…here-" I froze when I saw Namine in a hospital-style bed, a bunch of IVs going through her, her chest covered in bandages and her eyes closed. But, I wasn't entirely focused on just Namine, even though she was on my main concerns. My second notice was Rhyme right beside her, probably even in worse condition, and Zack and Cloud, Cloud in an arm stretch, passed out in some chairs nearby. However, Tifa, who also was present, was the only one coherent and even conscious. "Hey Sora, I brought her to you as safe as I could, but I guessed I failed, huh?" she almost stumbled down, but I caught her, and propped her up.

"No Tifa, it's fine, and thank you for taking care for her, and everyone else. But, where's Xion and Fuu?" Being Tifa's employees, the must have been with her at hour zero, which is what is now being referred to the happenings at Radiant. "Hey Sora, we need you in the main situation room." Jayden called over. "You can come back later, okay?" I didn't want to leave Namine, fearing we maybe ambushed and losing her, but I pushed that thought away from my head as I followed him through a network of tunnels and hallways. Some of the were dugouts in the ground or improvised craters. Soon, I reached a big room. Inside though, I was met with not only Kairi and Roxas and the rest, but…

"Riku…" He, along with beat, Neku and Shiki, were standing by a long table with maps and graphs sprawled all over it. "Sora, where's Xion?" Was his first question. "I don't know." I said, but then I turned to the captain who was talking to Mira, who he probably was still angry at me, but I had to find her, for my best friend's sake. "Yeah, where is she?" I said, loud and implied at him. He stopped his conversation to turn around, his red eye glaring at me. "She and Fuu have joined the IFA in the immediate response and are being outfitted to fight with Wallace's team. Look for them in the houses marked IFA." He then turned back to Mira, and I looked at my brother with a 'WTF, he's pissed!' look. "Hey man, where's my sis?" Beat asked me, but I didn't want to be the bearer of really bad news, but thankfully, Jayden was my saving grace. "I can take you to her, she's in the infirmary." He probably knew he was going to be furious with him, but I was very glad he took the bullet for me. "Why don't we help Riku find his sister Sora." Kairi suggested. And we then went off to look for her, but then I relized something.

"WTF I just relized where's VEN!"

I'm so sorry for it being really short, but this is how chapter length is going to be because it is taking me too long to put out those big 4k updates from summer vacation. I promise at the same time that the story won't be short and rushed, but it will maybe have many more chapters.

I'm so sorry cookies.

Oh, by the way my awesome people who view… which is so little… *sobs*, who likes ADVENTURE TIME!