Enjoy chapter 9 in Riku's P.O.V.! Because I just love writing in his P.O.V. Oh, and for those who keep reading every update I make, I have decided there will be another book to this and I'm planning to make this a saga!


I couldn't believe my eyes when Little Sora disappeared and our Sora was standing there, crying like a baby! He had deffinentally grew in the two and a half years he was gone; his hair is wilder than ever, and longer too, it covers his eyes for the most part, and his clothes, again, are too small. Heh, that happens a lot to him, waking up with small clothes.

"Sora!" cries Kairi, immedietly attacking the brunette with a hug and he yelps but then laughs and wraps his arms around her as well. "Kairi!" he laughs. I can't help but to smile at this, this is how it should be. Kairi with Sora. Once the red head had released Sora he looked right at me and smiled. "Riku!" he said, surprisingly, attacking me with a hug himself.

"Sora!" I gasped in surprise, and because he was hugging me so tight I couldn't breathe. Roxas saw this and laughed, pulling his Somebody off of me. "Dude, he couldn't breathe!" he laughs. Sora laughs too and then hug attacks Roxas, also shouting his name. Then in turn, he does the same with Namine. He is glad to be back. Just as we're glad to have him back.


"Okay, Sora!" says Roxas, "It's official! You need new clothes and a hair cut! You look like a bum and we don't roll with bums!" "You rolled with Axel." snickers Sora, who receives a punch in the shoulder from Roxas. "Okay, okay!" I said, getting their attention, "We'll take Sora to get new clothes, so no more bashing on him! He's only been back for about fifteen minutes!"

"Yeah!" laughs Sora, "Give me a break guys!" So new clothes and a hair cut for Sora later we were all hanging on top of the Clock Tower in Twilight Town, wondering what we should do next. Sora suggested sit there and eat sea salt ice cream forever. Thanks a lot for showing that to him, Roxas! We all laughed and he gave us confused looks and that just made us laugh harder.

"But seriously guys," I say, once the laughter has died down, "what are we going to do now?" "Yeah, we saved Sora like we've been trying to do for almost three years." states Kairi, looking around for suggestions. "Maybe we could find Xion and Axel?" suggests Namine. "That sounds good, Nami, but I think we should locate Masters' Ven, Aqua, and Terra." says Roxas.

"That actually sounds like a good idea." says Kairi, "Didn't Mickey say they thought they killed Vanitas? I think finding them will help us figure out how to end Vanitas." I nodded, "Great thinking, Kai. We'll go find them then look for Xion and Axel." Everyone agrees, Sora more confused than them, but still agrees. "Can we have another ice cream first?" asks Sora. Again I say: Thank's a lot for showing that to him, Roxas!


As we were all getting on our armor and gliders I had to teach Sora how to do his, he learned pretty quickly though. His armor is gold and black, sort of like Ventus's and his glider matches. So we all were on our gliders and making our way to the world we thought the three Masters' might be at: Castle Oblivion.

As we landed outside of the castle we noticed the castle was glowing with Darkness. "You don't think...?" Kairi trailed of to me. I shook my head, not knowing what to say. Sora was just staring at the castle. "Sora?" I asked. He didn't answer me, he just walked ahead of us and went inside the castle. Was that my imagination? Or did I just see his eyes turn yellow?

We went into the castle after him, our Keyblades summoned, expecting the worst. We easily got into the castle, the inside looked as the outside did: glowing in Darkness. There were parts of the floor where puddles of Darkness lay. "Watch out for those, you'll fall into Darkness with no way out." I warned, pointing to the puddles before us.

They nodded and we got through the room carefully without any problem what so ever. Until we reached the second floor. Then we ran into Xaldin. "Where do you four think you're going?" he asked in that annoyingly deep voice. "To the next floor to find our friends." Roxas answers smoothly.

"How funny, you think I'm going to let you pass." sneers Xaldin. "Exactly." grins Roxas, summoning both of his Keyblades. "I'll stay with Roxas and fight this guy, you two go on ahead and find the others. The Masters' are deffinentally here if these guys are." says Namine, preparing for the battle. Kairi and I nodded and made a mad dash for the door.

Xaldin moves to stop us but Namine holds out her hand at him and yells, "STOP!" and he's frozen in his tracks it seems. Since when could she do that? I need to pay more attention to her. We made it to the door and went easily through, and we passed the next two floor uninterrupted.

Then as we pass onto the fifth floor we are stopped by none other than Demyx. I would rather not fight him, he seems so harmless anyway. "Sorry to say this, but I'm not allowed to let you pass." pouts Demyx, "I told them I didn't wanna fight but do they listen? No! So now I haveta fight ya." He summons his sitar and gets into a battle stance.

Kairi and I summon our Keyblades and get into our own battle stances, I stand in front of Kairi, our formation never changing. "I don't want to fight you either. Never really had a problem with you. How about you just let us pass and just say you fought us but we didn't kill you?" I asked, hoping he would make this easy for us.

"Sorry, but no can do. I would love to do that, I really would, but Xemnas and Xehanort would have my head!" says Demyx. "Xehanort?" I asked. "Yeah, didn't you know he's the one telling Xemnas how to run things? Who to keep for the New Organization, who to drop? The guy running the show?" asks Demyx, surprised that I hadn't even heard of this man.

"No." Kairi answers. "What? You haven't? I wonder why not? He keeps saying how much of an annoyance you all are." says Demyx. That's the key to distracting him! Keep him talking! I let my Keyblade disappear and said, "Would you tell us about him then? I think that if he knows of us it's only fair that we know of him."

"Yeah sure. Hey wait!" shouts Demyx, "You're trying to distract me so I won't fight you!" Well damn. I sighed and resummoned my Keyblade and got back in formation stance with Kairi right by me. He starts to play on his sitar and says, "Dance Bubbles Dance!" and bubbles come out and actually attack us. What a lame move. We easily evaded and destroyed his pathetic bubbles.

"Dance Water Dance!" he says, as water figures form and start to try and attack us, of course we beat them too and then I head right for him while he tries to control the water, he can't defend himself and control the attacks on Kairi at the same time, this is my chance.

I rush up to him and hit him repeatedly and the water figures disappear and Kairi runs up to us and joins in on the attacks on Demyx. It didn't take much for him to fall back and try to disappear, trying to escape from us. "Oh no you don't!" cries Kairi, shooting light at him, finishing him off.

Once he had disappeared in Darkness we went to the next floor and found Terra there, he was fighting with someone I had never seen before. It was an old man using a Keyblade, and it seemed Terra was losing. But how could Terra, who's stronger than I am, lose to an old man like that?

"Terra?" calls Kairi, clearly not understanding who that man is or how he's losing. Just like me. He looks at her only for a second before he continues his attacks on the old man. When the old man notices us he smiles in a wicked manner and disappears in Darkness. Something about that man wasn't right.

"Terra who was that guy?" I asked, walking up to him, with Kairi right beside me. "That was Xehanort." he sighed, clearly worn out. I gasped. "Xehanort?" asks Kairi, "The guy Demyx was talking about?" She turned towards me, directing her last question at me. I nodded, what else could I do. "Yeah Xehanort. He's the one calling all the shots or so I've heard." says Terra, letting his Keyblade disappear.

"Where are Masters' Aqua and Ventus?" I asked, looking around, even though I knew they weren't in the room. "Yeah why aren't they with you?" asks Kairi, "Aren't they here?" "They're here." sighs Terra, "They just went on ahead of me. I don't know what Aqua's plans are, but Ven wants to talk to Sora. I saw him come by here earlier, don't know where he went, or even why he didn't answer when I called to him. Then Xehanort showed up. Something's not right with Sora."

"What do you mean something's not right with Sora?" demands Kairi, "We were just with him a little while ago, he seemed fine!" I still neglected to tell her about the sudden color change in Sora's eyes. I probably should have told her though. But still I didn't say a word about it.

"I don't know." says Terra, shaking his head, "But something wasn't right about him. He seemed different somehow. Evil even. I'm not sure why but that's how I felt." "That's crazy!" said Kairi. Maybe I should tell them now. "I don't know but that's how it felt!" says Terra, a little frustrated.

I sighed, I have to tell them now. Ventus may be in danger. "I saw something when Sora went inside the castle." I confessed. Both their eyes were on me. "What?" asks Terra. "What did you see?" asks Kairi. "When Sora passed me, I saw his blue eyes turn yellow." I confessed.

"Yellow?" asks Terra in disbelief, "Yellow as in, Vanitas's eye color yellow?" "Afraid so." I said with a nod. Terra and Kairi both gasped. "We have to find and save Ven then!" says Terra, suddenly not looking so worn out. I guess friends being in danger does that to you, makes you full of energy again.

So we rushed through the door, finding no one in the next room we kept running, hoping of finding Masters' Ventus and Aqua soon. We kept running through each room uninterrupted, that part I liked. But when we did get to the room Master Ventus and Sora were in I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Master Ventus was being held against the wall by Unversed and Sora was walking up to him with a sick smile on his face. And the twisted thing about it, was that Sora's eyes were yellow, and his hair was black.