The only way out

Chapter 3: Never Letting Go

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Disclaimer: Definitely I still don't own Kingdom Hearts...damn...

A/N: Sorry if last chapter was confusing, it was a bit anti climactic but yeah IM TRYING. And thanks reviewers, or should I say reviewer :P..but yeah its definitely very encouraging me to write, thanks...oh and this chapter gets real bloody...

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The cool gray moon light shone dimly before Sora and Kairi. They had positioned themselves lying down in such a way so that they were out of the dark shadows that were cast from the dead body of Riku who was still on the other side of the glass ceiling.

"So thats what happened eh? You weren't even able to get up and fight him?"Kairi asked. She was lying down parallel to Sora while she talked to him.

It had been another hour since the "Dreams" and Sora was trying to explain what had happened in in them.

"Yep I think I was knocked out or something..." Sora answered, "but thats not what worries me. The voice sounded familiar... too familiar though I can't recall who's..."

"Ah we'll figure it out, I think we have time." She said glancing around the room.

"Hehe...I guess..," he added.

"So did anything happen after that?" Kairi asked a few moments later.

Sora had dreaded that question. While Kairi spoke, Sora could feel Riku's un-dead stare on the back of his head. Lost in a trance he could still remember the haunting words of Riku. "WhY DiDn'T YoU sAvE Me," kept repeating in his head hauntingly.

"You okay?"Kairi asked as Sora stared into nothing yet again.

"Huh...what..."Sora broke out of the trance.

"You know you've been blanking out on me like that a lot since you woke up..."she said.

"Ya I know..."he said in a soft voice, "Its just what happened after that first memory thats haunting me right now..."

"Why...what happened?" she asked again.

Sora took a deep breath of the humid air into his dry lungs. "When the first memory was over I felt my self awaken here in the train. Something was on top of me. I thought it was you at first."

Kairi blushed. "But I was," she ended with a laugh.

Sora smacked himself in the head. "Not done..."he stated bluntly.

"Oh sorry...continue then,"she apologetically said.

"I thought it was you, but when I opened my eyes it was... Riku. And he was bleeding a lot all over me, it seemed he was already in that state," he said while he pointed roughly behind his back to where he thought Riku's corpse was currently laying. He couldn't seem to keep his voice steady either.

Kairi was looking at him opened eyed, raising an eyebrow, "That can't be one of your memories though, more like a dream or some kind of nightmare, from the dread of this place..."

Sora wanted to believe that, he truly did, but it still seemed all to real as if it had happened some time ago... It defied even logic as he clearly knew that Riku's body was outside of the train when he was "murdered" and he was still even there now.

With a shrug he continued, "And the freakiest part of it all was he looked up at me and told me two things, "Why didn't you save me", and "She killed me"...what the heck does that mean?"

After a while Kairi answered, "Maybe he was trying to contact you, from the dead that is...And he was just trying to warn you about the person who killed him. Maybe I dunno...Just my thoughts"

Sora looked at her and thought. I think she's seen one to many ghost movies..but after all she could be right, anything seems like its possible. Sora then thought of all of the times that he had done amazing things like when he defeated Xemnas...with Riku...

Continuing with a frown on his face, "Maybe...But I know one things for sure...I'm gonna destroy who ever was behind this," he ended vengefully. He had not even known why he had said it, it just came out...

"And," he added, "you'll have to find a way to get off of this train when we find a way out of this room, I might not even come back from where I'm going."

With a shock of rage Kairi started slow, "You'll need my help, I know you know that I can fight..."

"Yeah but remember last time?"Sora stumbled. Wait he thought where the heck am I even going with this...

"Last time what, huh, there was never a last time, the last time I fought was because Riku had given me a keyblade To Fight WITH,"her voice elevating with every word.

Before Sora could think of a random excuse, with the mention of Riku's name there was a loud clunking sound behind them. By the time either of them could get into a sitting position and face the sound, it stopped. They didn't notice anything until they saw something missing.

Riku's body as it seemed had rolled of off the edge of the train, as only pools of blood were left at where he once was. Kairi had grasped and clung onto Sora when the clunking noises had previously begun. Her face was buried deep within his black pyjama shirt, tears and all. Kairi was scared, she had her share of bravery, but this was to much, way to much...

Sora looked at her in surprise, he knew she was afraid but not this afraid. He only assumed that it was because he himself was afraid that it was affecting her. Maybe I should just let her come with me, I don't need her to fight...I'll just bring her to protect her...to keep her safe,he thought up in his head. He held her tight.

"Kairi...What I said earlier...forget about it... you can come with me, when the time comes," he said slowly, and added, "I need someone to help me..."he lied about the last part, but maybe, he thought, just maybe he might need her help in the future...

Kairi looked up at him and asked, "Really?"

"Really, really!"he tried to say in a heightened voice.

Kairi's expression was priceless, a wide bloody grin from his previous punch, and tears streaming down her face, it was one of those Kodak moments. Sora begin to grin to.

Seconds stood still and seemed if time had frozen. Moments like these don't last forever... Sora remembered.

Honestly Sora had no idea why he did what he did next. Gently caressing Kairi's back with one hand and holding her tight with the other, seizing the moment that he knew would never come again, he closed his eyes and gently kissed her on the lips.

(A/N: yes I do feel awkward writing this...no joke...)

Kairi was shocked at first and went wide eyed, it was a completely unexpected move, but she didn't object and returned the kiss while embracing his neck to make it deeper...

When both were dazed from the feeling and out of air around the one minute mark, they pulled away gasping for breaths. Saying nothing they held each other with grins still wide with glee.

"I'm never letting go of you, I promise," Sora stated awkwardly after a long silence.

"Don't worry neither will I," Kairi said with a cheeky grin.

"I love you..." Sora said finally. He had wanted to say that for a very long time...

"I l------" Kairi's affectionate statement was forever cut off by the loud speaker that had turned on once again.

"Hope you're not too comfortable down there..." the voice from the speaker said ruining their moment.

"WHAT HELL DO YOU WANT!" Kairi yelled devastated that the moment was now gone.

"Calm yourself princess..."He said curtly put it, "I was just about to notify you... THE GAMES, HAVE BEGUN," he ended with a loud voice. And with that the speaker had shut off as fast as it had turned on.

Confounded Sora began to yell.

"WHAT DO HELL DO YOU ME--" Sora was cut off. In the darkness of the train car they could hear some movement... breathing... heavy breathing, like a wolf when it stalks its prey...

Moving as fast as he thought, Sora let go of Kairi and grabbed the nearest weapon on the floor...A double edged machete, bigger than an average one, with a lot of cold wet blood all over it. His other arm held Kairi close, for if anything happened here... Sora shuddered at the thought...

Clouds began to cover the moon. Their light...

The breathing had seemed to be getting closer, and clunking sounds could be heard when it moved.

clunk...clunk...clunk.

Out of the darkness a pair of glowing green eyes could be seen. Kairi held in her scream. In the instant they both saw the eyes they had vanished.

There was no sound after that. Sora loosened his grip on the machete.

"WhY DiDn'T YoU sAvE Me," a deep voice boomed behind the two of them. With a cold sweat, pictures of Sora's dead best friend having no heart flashed though his mind. He couldn't turn around, the voice had seemed to paralyse him on the spot. Kairi on the other hand had slowly but surely turned around and started screaming.

"OH MY GOSH...TURN AROUND SORAAA!" Kairi yelled at the top of her lungs.

Still Sora's body refused to move. He could feel his heart thumping as if it were trying to beat its way out of his chest.

"SORAAAA!" She was screaming his name over and over again.

With his arms shaking thorough the memories of his wounded friend, suddenly his own voice played, through the horrid memories, in the back of his head.

...Protect her...keep her safe...

Sora filled with adrenaline wheeled around at that. When he turned around the bright green eyes greeted his sight. Less than a meter from his face, he still remained and could not identify who or what it was, as it was shrouded still in the dank darkness of the train room. While lifting the machete to attack, its hot humid breath licked Sora's face.

Then there was a small sign of movement. What Sora could make out travelling at him were ...CLAWS. Slashing him straight in the arm that was holding the machete, blood splurting everywhere, he was surprised his arm hadn't come off. Dropping the machete, he flew backwards yelling in pain. As he got up he saw it ready to strike again, only not at him...

Sora yelled to her even though she was in front of him though she was hiding her head behind her arms, "KAIRI GET DOW--" but it was to late, the claws were inches away travelling straight at her.

Screaming, Kairi tensed for the fatal blow.

Sora jumped in front of her in the nick of time and took the bloody slash. He screamed from the heavy stinging sensation of the Claws digging its way through his flesh. It would have easily have been absorbed by his battle uniform but that obviously was at his house, currently he was still in his pj's.

"SORA!"Kairi fumblingly said after she noticed the claws had hit him instead.

"Kairi I'm okay... j..just...run," Sora tried to say in a steady voice, then he yelled, "RUN," again after she hadn't moved. After looking at him with teary eyes, for what she thought would be the last time, she crawled desperately to the other side of the room as fast as she could.

Scraping against the sandpaper like floor, she bled from both her ams and her legs, leaving a red trail.

Surprised he wasn't dead yet Sora noticed the fiend like creature wasn't about to kill him. Sora desperately thought to himself wait a minute... in fact it isn't even there...OH CRAP. He turned to his side and saw it was heading straight at Kairi.

Suddenly as if matters were not already worse Kairi, while crawling, felt the floor shake hard a few times. The surface of the room open like a trap door, breaking in half revealing a deep dark hole for the majority of the room. Kairi who was edge of the trap door fell in but with a quick rough movement grasped the sharp ledge with her fingers before she had completely fallen. Slowly the fiend approached at where she hung on to her life.

From what Sora could see was the fiend crouching right at the edge of the pit, slowly it put a claw down which was slowly but surely cutting into Kairi's fingers. She screamed continuously, figuring that Sora was already dead and had began wished her self a quick painless death.

Sora still bleeding heavily grasped the nearest weapon he could find with great difficulty. The machete. Clasping the handle, he threw it as hard as he could at the fiend. Being a good through it landed through and through its leg. While it was still dazed Sora pushed himself up with what little life he had with in him and dashed toward the creature and rammed it into the pit. Falling, it glared at Sora before it fell completely into the dark pit without a sound...

Sora quickly Grabbed Kairi's wrists, as her hands were too bloody to be grasped, he was sure to drop her. if he had tried it. He slowly pulled her up. "See, I never am gonna let go," he said with his trademarked grin. As Kairi grinned to and was about to laugh, a sound came from the darkness behind him.

"SORA LOOK OUT," Kairi yelled but it was to late. Somehow appearing behind him, the creature's eyes glinted as it plunged its long claws into Sora's arms, the same pair of arms that were pulling Kairi up. Through the burning pain Sora let go of her clutching hands by mistake.

She shrieked as she fell.

"KAIRIIIIII,"he yelled down the dark pit. There was no answer. He turned around; his rage had begun overcoming his fear. It was the first time he'd gotten a real good look at the deformed creature.

He gasped. How the hell could this be?!?! He thought in frustration.

"RIKU!?!?"

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A/N: Well it doesn't get more strange than that... oh yeah and ended it on a cliff yet again (with Riku..again), seems like you guys like me doing that (hahahahah). I only finished this by luck as I had time, it might be a while before I update again sadly...Hope you liked this chapter now REVIEW PLEASE lol (just j/ks you don't have to but I enjoy em.) And if anyone doesn't get anything pm me.