Sora rushed towards Riku keyblade at his side ready to attack him, he got to the top of the small ramp when there was flash of darkness around Riku and he was completely engulfed by dark flames, Tidus Wakka and Selphie looked on having absolutely no idea what was happening but Sora and Kairi knew.
Sora turned to the four sitting on the dock and shouted to Kairi "GO GET THEM OUT OF HERE" She nodded and herded the other three into there boats, they asked no questions, they had never seen Sora or Kairi acting this way, so they new that it must be serious Kairi helped Selphie down into the boat with Tidus whilst Wakka untied it, she had her own boat but Tidus and Wakka were excellent rowers and could get her out of the way quicker then she could on her own. Wakka jumped into his own boat then turned to help Kairi into the boat only to get a handful of rope thrown at him, she had untied his boat and pushed it of "what are you doing" Wakka shouted to her. "I have to help them now get out of here" and with that she turned and ran towards Riku and Sora and the three totally confused teenagers started to row towards the mainland. Sora was looking towards Riku, his friend still surrounded by the dark flames, and Kairi stopped next to him out of breath staring wide eyed at the swirling flames. "Why are you here you should of gone with the others" Sora said looking at Kairi out of the corner of his eye never fully looking away from were Riku stood, "I cant leave him to this he needs our help" she said, Sora heard the absolute determination in her voice and knew that nothing he could say would make her leave. He completely turned to her now face to face he looked straight into her eyes "if what I thinks happening in there" he pointed to the mass of black flames that was burning the ground beneath it to charcoal "is what I think then this could get really dangerous really fast and I want you to promise me that you'll run and you'll hide" she looked at Sora she leaned towards him and kissed him "I promise" she said.
The dark flames doubled in size and were moving in a weird way, a dark figure stepped out from the flames it was still Riku's body but his eyes were piercing golden yellow his body was covered in dark armour and the way to dawn was in his hand but instead of being a red and black bat wing with a little angel wing on the end, it was dripping in darkness the colour was fading from it and it was changing shape, the handle turned red changing from two wings into a large heart outline around his hand the shaft became long round and thin coming to heart at the end with a three pronged point which was black and red in the symbol of the heartless darkness was dripping from it and pooling on the ground dying it black as it spread across the floor. Sora looking at the keyblade eyes wide he had never seen a keyblade that felt evil, yeah he had seen them used for evil, but this one wasn't being used for evil it felt like it was born of darkness and all it wanted was to feel the soft caress of skin along the edge of its blade and consume it. It was hungry. Riku noticed this and said "beautiful isn't it" Sora's head snapped up Riku's voice had changed it had the echo of two people talking together and Sora knew who it was "so you've managed to take over his body this time don't get comfortable you wont be here long, Ansem" Kairi gasped that name brought back a flood of memories of the twisted castle at villains vale in hollow bastion "I thought he was gone, you said you beat him" Sora sighed "I thought we had to but it seems that a piece of him stuck around inside Riku" Ansem spoke "it's good to have a few puppets lying around" he chuckled "and this one seems to be more powerful then before I have taken over a little earlier then planned but thanks to you it was so much easier this new keyblade brilliant a touch of the darkness falling from it and you will be turned into a heartless" a smile playing across his "hmm it seems to be called fallen heart how appropriate seeing as someone had to lose their heart for me to use it" Sora readied himself for the attack "your going to leave Riku alone even if I have to beat you out of him" Kairi looked at Sora his face absolute determination "but wont that hurt Riku" Sora sighed again He said to her without looking away from Ansem/Riku "its either that or we loose Riku all together plus Riku can take it" she smiled at him and thought to herself "he'd do anything for his friends that's one of the reasons why I love him" she felt power strength and compassion explode inside her, her keyblade, destiny place, appeared in her hand it started to glow pure white, when the light had faded Kairi was holding a new keyblade the handle was white and light yellow the guard around her hand was purest white and glowing instead of one shaft going down the blade there was three each thinner then normal it was as long as Sora's ultima weapon and they were more flat the tip blossomed out in both direction in similar style to the shaft but they wrapped around each other forming a heart and placed behind one side of the heart sticking out to the side was three golden prongs Kairi rotated the key blade to look at the other side and the prongs were formed by a crown that was exactly like the one Sora wore only about 10 times bigger a huge smile formed on her face Sora looked toward her wondering what the bright light was and saw the new keyblade and was a bit jealous it looked better then his "its called eternal bond" Kairi said, Sora smiled at her "are you ready" he asked she blanched at him "what you want me to fight" "not in the slightest" he said "but it seems your heart does" she looked at him wide eyed, she was surprised that she kept getting surprised by him, and how well he knew her it was true if the only way to save Riku was to beat him then if she could she would help, Ansem cleared his throat Sora and Kairi looked back at him , he was stood tapping his foot in a very Donald duck way arms crossed and everything, Sora and Kairi couldn't help but laugh, "oh you've remembered I'm here can we hurry up and do this I've got worlds to plunge into darkness" both of them stopped laughing at once Sora took one step forward and said "lets do this " he brought his keyblade in front of him and started running at Ansem both hands on the weapon ready to strike, Kairi pointed the tip of her new keyblade towards the ground as she ran a few steps behind Sora her other hand out to the side she was surprised at how light the keyblade was it didn't feel like a weapon it felt like an extension of her arm like it had always been there, Sora was a few feet away from Riku/Ansem and jumped over him the dark being followed him up and over exposing himself to Kairi's attack a slice across his chest as Sora landed behind him he howled in pain as the ultima weapon sliced his back, Kairi cringed at the sound of pain coming from her friend but her face went from worry to shock as the howl of pain changed to roars of laughter, "do you really think that such pitiful attacks would hurt me" Riku/Ansem said after he had finished laughing. Before either could answer he spun on the spot slashing at Sora with his keyblade knocking him back over the edge of the little island he grabbed the edge, Kairi took the opportunity and swung the keyblade at his back, before she was even close to hitting him darkness erupted from his back and grabbed Kairi by the wrist and hoisted her in the air by her wrist the keyblade aimed at the sky she flailed her legs and free arm trying to connect with anything she could but the darkness was holding her just out of reach a big evil grin on his blacker then black face, "hmm I really underestimated this bodies progress I couldn't do that last time his body couldn't hold the darkness, perfect" Riku/Ansem said with a grin to match that of the dark guardian joined to him. Sora had just climbed back up on to the island and his face dropped from indignation to anger and hatred at the sight of Kairi being held in the air "LET HER GO!" he charged at the possessed teenager keyblade ready to strike, he leapt into the air and started his decent towards Riku/Ansem, who started to laugh Sora paid no attention to this as he brought the keyblade closer to Riku/Ansem head, a dark blur appeared in between Sora and Riku/Ansem, the shock on Sora's face mingled with disbelief would have been funny, and Riku/ Ansem was laughing, except for the fact that Sora's keyblade was about to hit Kairi, she was still struggling but now the Guardian had her by her keyblade arm and her left ankle so she was stretched out in front of his attack there was no way he could move he couldn't stop his attack his momentum was to much and with the horror of what was happening he couldn't concentrate on dismissing his keyblade, Riku/ Ansem laughter was that of a crazed madman he was loving it "not really what I had planned but this is much better", there were 2 streaks of blue and white one hit the Guardian's hand that was round Kairi's wrist and the other hit Riku/Ansem's head knocking him of balance and stopping his laughter, Sora's attack caught the guardian across the chest and it recoiled back into Riku/Ansem and dropping Kairi , who through impressive gymnastics, placed one hand on the floor and pushed she sailed a few feet through the air and landed just behind Sora, "I'm sorry Kairi I almost hit you" Sora said to the love of his life "true" she said, his head drooped "But you didn't" she placed a hand on his shoulder and he turned to look at her, she pecked him on the cheek, his smile returned as well as a nice red colour in his cheeks. "Why don't you two get a room" a voice boomed over the sand, the two keybearers looked back across the beach and saw Tidus Wakka and Selphie standing in front of there boats they had turned around and come back to the island, Sora smiled and shouted "thanks for the help but you really should leave its dangerous" "we know its dangerous that's why we came back we couldn't just leave our friends behind" Selphie shouted to the pair on the islet, "how very touching" the sound of Riku/Ansem voice snapped the keybearers attention back to him, "now they shall fall before the darkness for there interference" he swiftly pulled his keyblade back and swung it in a wide arc, a wave of darkness flew towards the trio on the beach "NOO!" Sora and Kairi shouted at the same time and without thought they both rushed of the islet trying to get in front of the wave everything was happening in slow motion, the amazing thing was Kairi was getting ahead of Sora she was faster then he was, something was driving her beyond her limits and Sora knew what it was, it was the love for her friends, the power of her heart, giving power to her body, something he had felt every day since the day he got the keyblade but the speed at which her body seemed to of accepted this astounded him and in turn he pushed himself more the pair passed the dark wave and stopped a few feet in front of their three scared friends, as the beam got closer Sora stepped forward to stop it, to protect everyone but Kairi stepped with him, "Together" she said he nodded "ready" he said "steady" she said the beam closing in fast "NOW" they both said, they swung at the same time but Sora's keyblade being slightly longer hit first but it passed straight through it, the darkness was getting closer and he couldn't stop it, Kairi's keyblade struck it about a second after Sora's where his went straight through it hers cut into it and the light that was emitting from her keyblade engulfed the darkness cancelling it out completely, Riku/Ansem roared with anger darkness started rolling of off him the Guardian got slightly bigger, " if I cant kill you then I will destroy your spirit first" he rushed the five stood at the beach just before getting to them he disappeared and the five looked around trying to find him "no… he cant… he wont… will he" Selphie's voice was a scared and frightened whisper as the others turned and saw what she was looking at the colour drained from there faces Riku/Ansem was headed towards the main island his laughter could be heard echoing back across the ocean.