Finally! The characters are moving along and there are no more questions! That last chapter had a lot of questions. Oo

here is chapter 4 of Kokoro, more to come in a little bit!

The sound of water dripping was the only noise in the waterway. Aki stood there, broadsword ready. Opposite of her stood Kokoro, Keyblade daggers ready. She had named the daggers Yin and Yang, one of light and one of dark. It made sense because one blue key had a black round gem by the handle while the other had a white. So opposite they stood. Sora was with Momo, who also had her glasses now removed, and looked at the two. "Ready?" He rose his hand into the air. Aki gripped her sword with both hands and Kokoro took a deep breath. "Go!" He dropped his hand, beginning the battle. Kokoro went running to Aki, but her opponent used her wind powers to jump out of the way. The twin blader landed where her competition once stood and looked up. Aki was a step ahead with a wind blast aimed at Kokoro. She rose the earth under her feet to create a shield from the blast, then moved to the side. Aki came down and both went head to head. The weapons clashing and clanging at every flash of sparked light. Kokoro took a step back, the fight getting intense. Aki tried to take the opportunity to attack Kokoro, but the elementist knew what was happening. She created a small orb of fire and tossed it at Aki, making her move out of the way. When she did Kokoro jumped on her back from behind and knocked her down, having the blades cross in front of Aki's neck. Sora raised his hand up with a smile. "Game point. Kokoro wins."

"Oh yeah!" Kokoro let the blades vanish and stood up, helping Aki up as well. "That was great! Only what... a month or so and we're this good? It's in our blood!"

Momo laughed, her version of the Hiraikotsu hanging on her back. It was a bit smaller then the real thing, but it was still a giant boomerang. "Yeah, I lost pretty bad in the last duel with you Kokoro, you're getting better quick."

"I lost by fluke." Aki said, dusting herself off and placing the sword in the case on her back. "So... dinner time?"

Kokoro smiled and pointed. "You're paying! You lost so it's only fair!" She started to the elevator that went up to Merlin's house. "C'mon! We have to leave soon! Imagine all of the worlds there are to see out there!" Momo and Aki ran to catch up, waiting on the elevator. Sora looked at the three of them. They had grown a lot more then he thought they would. In a month they were more fit, better fighters, and they weren't shy anymore. But there was still something missing, he had to tell Kokoro before they all left. "Sora! Hurry up!" Kokoro waved to him. He decided to wait until later to tell her and ran to the elevator as well. They went up, told Merlin about the winner of the short but fun duel, then left to the Moogle restaurant with the magic candles. Sora and Kokoro always tried to blow them out with ice while the others ate, but they were un-burn-out-able. The times were fun and exciting, but it all had to end sometime.

When they got back to the inn everyone went to their rooms. Aki took the blue room, Momo took the newly renovated yellow room, and Sora stayed in the green room as Kokoro took the red room. Before Sora and Kokoro went to bed he walked up to her door from the hallway, knocking and coming in. "Kokoro?"

"Yeah?" She looked up, Kokoro was taking off her boots and accessories at the time. She never slept with the necklace on but she still kept it safely under her pillow. When he came over to the bed she placed it under there and looked up at him. "What's up?"

Sora looked down at her hands, then up to her face. "You're elemental powers are nothing."

"Gee thanks!" She tried to joke, but found that this wasn't a laughing matter. Her smile faded away while she again tilted her head in question. "What's up? Is there something wrong with what Merlin taught me?"

"No, it's not like that. He did teach you the basics but... you also have to get the artifacts." Sora looked down again. He should have told her earlier, he knew that he would have to pay for the tardiess. "You're powers are doing great, but in order to fully understand and use them you have to visit the shrines and get the artifacts. It goes into your body and you get to use the element to it's fullest ability. Then you can learn the forbiddens and-"

Kokoro lay down at this, letting her head hit the pillow and rolled away from him, ready for bed. "Night."

"Hey!" Sora yelled at her, then he went to the side of her bed and sat down while she still lay there. "We have to talk about this!"

"I don't know anything." She said quickly. Sora piped down and stood up, ready to leave. "I never wrote that in depth about the elementist, so I don't really know about it. If I need it then fine, they are on other worlds right? While we do that let's look for the gems and Archangel king. Not hard right?"

Sora looked at her in silence. Kokoro lifted the covers and curled herself in them, messing up the bed in a flash. He then walked out, closing the door gently behind him. Sora started down the hallway, but felt a pain in his chest. He wobbled to the side, placing one hand on the wall for support and one over his heart. He breathed heavy, but then got back on track. Sora looked at his hand that was over his heart, as if to find something, then looked back at the red room. Kokoro had already turned off the light. "I hope it's not hard. We don't have much time left..."

Kokoro walked out to the center of town, in front of the doors that lead to the vast Gummi space. After stretching she looked back to find Aki running at her. "Hiya!" Kokoro waved as Aki came by. She then put her hands behind her back and leaned forward a bit. "So... ready to go out? I've always wanted to see Gummi space!"

"Same here... just with the little time that I played the game Gummi space seemed really fun. I just hope you're not driving." Aki crossed her arms. She gave up her jacket for a vampire looking cloak that covered her body and the sword, making it looked like she was unarmed. Kokoro was ready for travel as well. She now wore fingerless grip gloves to help with her weapons and exchanged her mini heeled boots for another pair of black boots that didn't heel and only went to her ankle. Both looked back as Momo came running up to them. She was the final one to change a bit. She didn't wear her black pants outfit anymore with the chinese shirt, but an outfit almost identical to the Demon Slayer Sango's. It was all black from the turtle neck top to the bottom of her boots. She had pink leg guards and one pink arm guard that also served as a shield on her left arm. A kitana rested on her pink lace belt while her version of the hiraikotsu, she called hers Reiki, on her back. She also wore her hair tied up to get it out of the way. "Hey Momo, isn't that thing heavy?"

Momo stopped in front of them and looked back to her Reiki. "Huh? This? No, it was when I first had it made but I got used to the weight fast. It's only about two thirds the size of Sango's so I think I'm okay."

"But... where is Sora?" Kokoro looked around like a little kitten, he wasn't in sight.

"Don't worry. I met him on my way here, he said that he had to get something and meet up with some people, but told me to tell you to just wait here until he comes back." Momo waved her hand around as she spoke, just like a mother lecturing her children, which made the others laugh. "So, then we wait!"

Kokoro looked back out to town again, having a bad feeling about something. "Okay then... we'll wait." She leaned against the wall next to the door while Momo and Aki chatted. After about ten minutes Sora came down the steps followed by Goofy and Donald, whom they had already met in the month and a half they've lived in Traverse Town. "Hi guys. I guess Donald is driving?"

"You bet cha'!" Goofy chuckled. "He won't let anyone else do it."

The little duck shook his head. "It's a newer larger model and I don't want it to crash like the last one."

"Last one?" Aki asked, she was interested into this case. Donald and Goofy both looked at Sora, who rubbed the back of his head, silently admitting to the cause of the last ship's disappearance. "Okay then, let's head out." She went up to the right door while Kokoro stood in front of the left. Both looked at each other and nodded, then pushed open the doors. Outside lay the vast area only known as gummi space. They all headed out to the ship that lay on the docking bay and started up the engines, heading out into the colorful cosmos.

"Amazing!" Kokoro sat like a cat on the seat, looking out the window at the vast unknown. There were three chairs in the back, where the girls sat, two in the middle where Goofy and Sora sat, and one in front where Donald drove the ship. Momo also looked around, but Aki just sat down. Kokoro turned around to her and saw that she was a little pale. "Hey, you're not flight sick are you?"

Aki looked up and shook her head. "No... I just..." The ship jerked, making her stop mid sentence. "Hey duck! Can't you fly this damn thing?"

"It wasn't me!" Donald yelled back. Sora stood up and went forward to Donald's seat, looking out. "It was that!" He pointed with one hand while keeping the other hand to steady the ship. Sora looked out and found the cause, it was another ship of some kind.

Sora walked back to his seat, taking a seat and buckling in. "Okay then, battle stations."

"Battle what?" All three girls asked at once. Their seat belts went over their shoulders automatically as a screen came up in front of them, joysticks on their left and right arm rests coming up as well. "Ohh... I get it." Aki took the controllers and was ready to go. "How does it work?"

Sora also took hold of his joysticks. "Left controls your main cannon, right your special cannon. Hit the red button on top of them to fire the cannon, you only have fifty shots per cannon. If you need to use homing hold down the button for at least five seconds to lock on then fire." He started to fight it off, while more ships came.

"Stupid Heartless..." Kokoro took the controls and looked down at her screen, it was the view of her cannon. One Deathguise was in sight for her to take target to. She steadied onto the target and fired three shots out of her main cannon, blowing up the ship. "Oh yeah! Got one!"

"I got two!" Momo yelled out, she smirked. "Better not take my targets..."

Kokoro looked at her screen, then out the windows. There were hundreds of enemy ships and each one of the fighters inside of this ship only had one-hundred shots each. "We'll never get them all!" She yelled out, the ship getting hit by another shot from the enemy. "At this rate we'll blow up!"

"Yeah... unlike the game we won't go back to the last save point..." Aki murmured, but she was heard. She fired and took down some more, same as Sora and Momo. Kokoro started after some again, but knew that this wasn't going to work. Every time they took down one it seemed like three more popped up. She fired her special cannon to take down some, then went back to her main. When she locked on to another Deathguise she fired, but no bullet came out. "No way! I'm out of ammo on my main!" She adjusted all of her focus on the special cannon, making sure not to miss as much as she did before.

Momo started to hit the red button on both, then threw her hands down. "Out on both cannons..."

"I still have some!" Aki said, taking down a ship that was headed right toward them. "Kokoro's right, we don't have the ammo to take down all of them!"

Sora looked at Goofy, who was missing everything and firing with no ammo. He then looked down at his own ammo count, no bullets left. Sora took off his seat belt and went up to Donald. "We need to get out of here, warp out!"

"I can't! They hit the engine..." Donald started to complain, but Sora took the controls. The ship now jerked more then ever and started to crash down.

Kokoro held onto the arm rests and and closed her eyes. "Now we're gonna crash! This is NOT how to take a girl on a first trip into gummi space!"

"Agreed!" Aki yelled out, over the alarms that said "too fast", "engines out", and their favorite "shields at 0". Momo screamed as the ship started to plummet down to an unknown world.