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Chapter 3

Darkness Rising

The twins took the boat and rowed as fast as they could to the Play Island. When they got to the island, they saw that Riku's and Kairi's boats were also there. They must've seen the storm approaching and had the same idea as them. They decided to try and find them. All of a sudden, these strange yellow-eyed, black creatures popped out of the ground. Sora recognized them as the creatures from his dream.

"What are these things?" Seve asked, bringing out her hockey stick.

"I don't know, but I don't think they're friendly." Sora answered as he brought out his wooden sword. He'd tell her about the dream latter.

"So, you think we should hit them?" Seve asked as she slowly crouched into a battle stance.

Sora was considering that option, but then more of the shadow creatures popped up and Sora said "I think we should just run."

"Agreed." Seve replied and they both dashed to try and find either Riku or Kairi. Both if they could.

Sometime after, they got a few feet near the bridge leading up to the little island. Seve could see a person standing on the island, facing the ocean. Even if it was dark, Seve could tell perfectly who it was.

"Sora! Look!" She called as she pointed in the direction of the little island.

Sora looked and when he saw what Seve was pointing at, his eyes widened. "Riku…" He muttered.

They then changed courses and headed for the bridge leading to the small island.

"Where's Kairi? We thought she was with you!" Sora asked immediately when they reached the little island.

Riku, ignoring the question, said "The door has opened…"

"What?" They both questioned.

"The door has opened, guys!" Riku stated, "Now we can go to the outside world!"

"What're you talking about? We've gotta find Kairi!" Seve exclaimed. Yes, she does sometimes think the girl was annoying, but she was her friend and she cares for her.

"Kairi's coming with us!" Riku shot back, startling the twins. OK, seeing him snap like that was not a regular thing.

"Once we step through, we might not be able to come back." He continued, "We may never see our parents again. There's no turning back."

The twins noticed that he had a rather crazed look in his eyes, and it made them nervous. "But this may be our only chance. We can't let fear stop us!" Riku stated. Then in a rather loud voice, he stated "I'm not afraid of the darkness!"

He then held his hand out to them. As if beckoning for them to come with him.

"Riku…" Sora muttered.

Then the weirdest thing happened. A pool of darkness appeared under Riku's feet. Soon, tendrils of darkness began surrounding him. The twins ran to him, only to be stopped when they found something holding their feet. They looked and saw the similar pools bellow their feet and the tendrils were already starting to surround them. The tendrils then started to cover them. Seve and Sora were beginning to panic, though Riku still had a straight face. Sora then began to try and grasp Riku's outstretched hand. But to no avail as the dark tendrils completely incased them.

All Seve could see was black, black and more black. To be honest, it was rather terrifying. She was beginning to panic even more. She had no idea where she was or where Sora was. She searched all around the area (or at least the area near her) for him, but couldn't find anything. Heck, she couldn't even find the ground!

"SORA!" She screamed. She was really loosing her cool now.

Then, she saw a light pierce through the darkness. She moved her hand over her eyes to shield them from the blinding rays. But it proved to be useless as the light grew brighter and brighter. Seve was then forced to close her eyes, unless she wanted to go blind. When she felt the light fade, and she slowly cracked an eye opened. She found herself lying on the exact same place when the pools of darkness surrounded her.

"Ouch… what happened?" She groggily thought as she lifted herself to a sitting position. She scratched the back of her head in order to try and relieve her grogginess. She then slowly stood up and picked up her fallen hockey stick. This was officially the weirdest thing that has ever happened to her in her life.

"What just happened?" She thought.

Seve was knocked out of her thoughts when she felt the ground shake beneath her, causing her to fall again. She scrambled to her feet, just as a large gust of wind literally blew her away. When she could open her eyes again, she found herself on what appeared to be the "remains" of the islands and there was a giant red and black orb floating in the sky. She then spotted something brown, spiky and red.

"Sora!" She cried.

"Huh? Seve?" Said boy questioned.

"What the heck is happening here?!" Seve asked. Then she spotted a key-like sword in his hand and asked "And what is that?!"

"My guess is as good as yours, sis." Sora answered.

Then the ground rumbled again and a massive black creature rose up from the ground. It was huge, muscular and had a large heart-shaped hole on its chest with hair-like tentacles covering its face, save for its glowing yellow eyes.

"Hey Sora," Seve began.

"Yeah, sis?"

"Is this that thing from your dream?"

"Eh? H-how'd you figure it out?!"

"Easy. It's hard to forget even the most stupidest things you say."

"That doesn't explain anything!"

The two siblings' bickering was cut short when the giant creature slammed its fist on the ground and nearly flattened them. The connected fist then created a pool of darkness, and from it appeared more of the smaller creatures.

"OK, talk later, fight now!" Sora said.

"Agreed." Seve replied, "I'll handle the small-fry, you go get the big one."

Sora nodded and they then lunged at the giant. Sora was brandishing his key-sword and was scrambling up the giant's arm. Seve was keeping the smaller creatures occupied with hitting them with her hockey stick. Though she was having some trouble.

"WHY. WON'T. THEY. DIE!?" She thought angrily as she crushed another creature. Soon, all the small creatures had been dealt with.

"hmm… wonder how Sora's doing?" She thought. As soon as she thought that though, said boy came plummeting down and landed beside her. She sweat-dropped. Well, that answered that question.

"Sora, you OK?" Seve asked as she crouched beside him.

"Ouch…" He muttered as he got up.

They didn't have time to chat around, since orbs of dark energy began heading towards them at high speed. Seve managed to dodge them, though she had some trouble. Sora wasn't doing so hot. He was still rather dazed from his fall. So instead of becoming a siting duck, Sora decided to just block them.

"Seve!" Sora called, "Aim for the head!"

"Got it!" Seve nodded.

Seve ran up to the giant and managed to latch herself on the giant's arm. The giant, taking notice of the unwanted passenger, began to shake the arm Seve had latched herself to. The attempts proved futile as Seve still managed to hold on, though she was only down to four fingers that were still firmly digging themselves into the giant's arm. Catching her chance, She then quickly scrambled up its arm and onto its shoulders. Seve latched herself onto the giant's "hair", and did the most logical thing.

She began whacking it with her hockey stick.

The giant had enough of it and tried to shake her off, though Seve had managed to latch herself firmly in the giant's "hair". Though she still looked like she was going to fall. So to make sure that didn't happen, Sora (who had finally snapped out of his daze) was distracting the giant by hitting its legs. The giant was occupied with Sora, which meant that Seve was safe for the time being. Deciding to finish the job before her brother got flattened, Seve raised her hockey stick high into the air and swung it down with such force that it could've split someone's head wide open.

The giant began to topple down. Seve just barely managed to untangle herself and hop off as the giant fell limp. The wind then picked up considerably and sucked the body of the giant into the large black and red orb floating in the sky. Sora and Seve were also trying hard to latch themselves on the island, but it was futile as they both lost their grip and were being pulled into the vortex.

"SORA!" Seve screamed as the winds pulled her way from her brother.

"SEVE!" Sora cried in return as he tried to reach out and grab his twin.

Then the world blacked out for the both of them as they were continuously tossed and turned in the vortex.

A/N: OK, this chap's a little shorter than the last ones, but I just thought it would be better to cut it then and there. Nuff said, please R&R!