Chapter 9

Sky woke up and saw the boy. He had said his name was Sora. Even though she was half-unconscious, she rolled away and stood up.

"Who are you!" she demanded.

"I already told you my name. It is common courtesy to tell yours," the boy Sora replied.

She simply stood there and said nothing. Then she turned and started to walk away.

"Right. So how do I get this thing to work?" Sky murmured to herself.

"Hello! Aren't you going to answer me?" the boy said, easily catching up with her.

She turned around and stared him right in the eye.

"No! Could you just leave me alone!" she yelled at him.

He stood there for a moment, just staring at her.

"Your eyes. They are just so familiar…" he said, trailing off.

He grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her closer to him. He stared right into her eyes, so close to her face. She noticed again that his eyes were so much like Roxas's eyes. It was the same feel. She hated him for it. She hated him!

"Get away from me!" she screamed at him, struggling to get away.

His grip wasn't painful, but he didn't let her go. She panicked. She balled up her hand and hit him hard in the face. He let her go, and stood there for a moment. Sky stood in front of him, breathing hard. Finally, he spoke.

"You've got a mean right hook there, don't you," he said, bringing his face up in a smile.

Sky stood there, looking at him with disbelief. He had just smiled when she had hit in the face?

He looked at her and said, "I'm sorry. I didn't want to make you upset."

She stood there, and after a moment, turned around. Sora sighed, and turned around to look at the ocean.

Sora sat down, and touched his bleeding nose lightly. He grimaced at the pain, knowing it was broken.

"You really shouldn't have done that," Roxas said, and came and sat beside him, "plus, I notice that you said that 'you weren't Roxas'. You know you are."

"Well, Roxas, maybe I don't want her to think I am crazy! The more important question is how she knows you," Sora said to the nobody.

"Well, how do you know that it isn't some other Roxas she is talking about?" Roxas replied.

Sora stared right at Roxas and raised his eyebrow.

"Fine," Roxas said to him, "but you do realize that it is strange how familiar she is to us. It can't be coincidence."

Sora sighed and said," It never is."

Then Roxas said, just so mock him, "You're talking to yourself," and disappeared.

Sora shook his head, and said, focusing, "Cure." His nose healed and he walked over to the water to wash the blood off of his face. He looked at his reflection in the sea water and noticed how much he did look like Roxas. He splashed some water onto his face and stood up. He forgot something at home, he realized just then. Shoes. He still walked over to the blue haired girl and sat down beside her.

"Could you please tell me your name?" he asked her.

She looked at him for a moment and simply said, "Sky."

"That's different. So, how did you get here?" he asked her.

Sky simply looked at him and said, "I still hate you. Just because I am talking to you doesn't change that."

Sora shook his head and wondered how he was supposed to get through to her. Then he thought of something.

"How about a bet? We fight and whoever wins gets to ask the loser three questions and they have to answer," he said to her.

Sky smirked at him and said, "Sounds good. But don't cry when you lose."

She stood up and summoned a weapon to her hand. Its image was blurry and hard to see, and looked as if it was a sword. But there was a power underneath, a power that could only be one thing.

"So, she must be rather formidable to have a Keyblade," Roxas said, appearing out of nowhere.

Sora nodded and summoned his own blade. It was in the form of Sweet Memory, which was strange because that was not the last keychain he had had on it. The keychain had changed itself. All of a sudden, it changed to Starseeker.

"Well, that's not normal is it," Roxas said.

Sora glanced over at Roxas and turned back to Sky.

"I shouldn't worry about the blade. I have worse things to worry about," he said to himself, thinking about Kairi being taken.

"So, you ready to lose?" Sky called over to Sora.

"Doubt it," he called back with a smile.

He ran over and slashed at her. She side-stepped, but he anticipated her move, and lashed his blade at her as she moved. She couldn't dodge it, and was hit hard on her left arm. She winced but kept moving.

He's fast, she thought to herself.

She dived in to attack, but he brought up his blade to stop it. He threw her blade back, and slashed at her. His attack knocked her back. Sky jumped up and backed away. She pulled power to her mind, and called out, "Stop!" and pointed her blade at Sora.

He slowed, but didn't stop. She rushed in to attack and hit him hard on the side. The spell somehow wore off, and he was able to attack her. She jumped away, but was hit in the gut. She took a few steps back, but cast stop again and rushed in to attack.

Sora realized that she was using time magic.

"Sora, even with your Keyblade to help lessen the spell, it's too powerful. It was cast on you by another Keyblade," Roxas said, appearing beside him.

"So what am I supposed to do about it," Sora grumbled, getting rather irritated.

"Well, maybe notone Keyblade," Roxas finished, smiling.

Sora smirked. "I suppose that would be the idea," he said to his nobody.

Sora closed his eyes and focused his power to his other side. He felt power rush through him and he summoned Oathkeeper and Oblivion to his hands. He prepared for her next onslaught, knowing that the blades and Roxas's speed would let him win.

Sky noticed that Sora had summoned an extra blade to his hand.

"That won't let him win. I have the upper hand," she said to herself, smiling.

She gathered power in her mind and blade and rushed towards he opponent. She cried out stop in her mind, and stopped time. But Sora still moved. He rushed at her, and before she knew anything, he was behind her. Then she noticed a pain in her chest.

"Ow," she whispered as she blacked out.

Sky woke up again, on the sandy beach, with Sora staring her intently in the eyes. She closed them again and he apparently backed off. She sat up and glanced at him.

"I kinda…umm…cut you up. You weren't doing to well," he said as if embarrassed.

"Do I care? Just ask your questions," she said irritably.

He sighed and said, "Right."

She looked over at him as he thought.

He thought of something apparently, and asked, "Who's Roxas?"

She was taken aback. She didn't want to answer him, but she simply said, "Someone who looks a lot like you."

She said nothing else, so Sora asked something else.

"How did you get here?"

She summoned her weapon and said, "This. It's a Keyblade, and it transports me to different places."

Sora said, "I knew it was a Keyblade. What do you think my weapon is?" he said, summoning Starseeker to his hand.

He thought for a little longer and then asked, "Why is your hair so much like the water?"

She looked at him confusedly and said, "What do you mean?"

"It just flows and it's the same color. This sort of aqua, you see," he told her.

"It just is," she said as she stood up.

She felt power coursing through her blade.

"See ya," she said, almost happily.

She blacked out as her blade transported her, probably because she was still weak from the battle. She woke up slightly, and felt a cool hand on her forehead. She woke up from her semi-unconsciousness and saw the same spiky-haired boy.

"You aren't doing so well. You've actually had a fever for a bit now," Sora told her.

"How long was I asleep for?" she asked.

"Just a couple of hours," Sora told her.

She sat up, and floated off of the ground. She noticed it after a moment, and looked down. She was floating a couple of feet off the ground.

"That's not normal, is it?" she said as she noticed that they were in a different world.

Lagua looked at the girl she had locked up.

"So, why exactly do you believe that someone will save you? Like anyone would want to help anyone a useless as you," Lagua said tauntingly.

The girl kept quiet. She summoned her Keyblade and tried to unlock the door.

Lagua laughed and said, "You can't get out. Your blade has barely any power. You should just give up."

The girl responded this time and said, "No. I won't give up. I am Kairi, a Princess of Heart. No darkness can triumph over me!"

"We'll just have to see about that," Lagua answered, fading into the darkness.