Gah, I'm trying people. I'm trying to make up for lost time here and eh…who knows what else. I have now…14 fanfics I'm writing at once. Which, wouldn't be so bad, but some of them I just don't know where they're going…I used to eh. I still do actually…at the moment I'm just really tired…::looks at clock:: …12:15 a.m….well than. That's why I have no idea what's going on. I need to update my other fanfics…I did my gravi on…did this kingdom hearts…that leaves…12 other ones to update…so hopefully I'll get started on that tomorrow. I hope…::Prays:: I'd like to update a whole lot and finish up a few lol. Or at least get ahead and than after a few days be able to just throw up a chapter….::laughs:: like that will ever happen. Well okay than. Here's chapter 10 to darkness falls. I hope you all enjoy it.

Disclaimer: I own…only Setsuna, Miyuki, and Tsukikawa thus far. Besides that, everything else belongs to Disney and Square Eniox…..Enix…whatever…::to tired to care::

Chapter 10: Fiesta

"Only a bit longer." Miyuki whispered to Setsuna.

Setsuna nodded moving his hand down to Miyuki's waist.

"Than we can just go home. I hate people." Setsuna muttered pulling himself a bit closer to Miyuki. He really did hate being near anyone besides Miyuki, Sora -sometimes- and King Neptune -also a sometimes-.

"Set!" Miyuki said laughing, the song ended. All attention instantly went back to Satori. Him explaining how he closed the keyhole and tales of his other adventures. The women listened mostly only half heartedly staring more at his well toned chest than anything. The men were listening, but more for ideas they'd attempt themselves to seem brave and noble to get the girls attentions.

Sora was currently on the side with a few kinds his own age. Well, looked his own age. They were talked about different games and how they may be able to one day become strong knights for King Neptune and how lucky Sora was to already be one.

"Hey, Sora." One of the merboys said with a smirk on his face. He had a light blue tail, green eyes, and dark red hair. His name was Tsukikawa. He was 36, but looked Sora's age, maybe a bit younger. He was the leader of this group of kids.

"What?" Sora asked turning to face the boy.

"I dare you to go into the Mist Valley and jump out of the water a few times." The other boys went silent and looked at Sora.

"Why?" Sora asked a bit curiously. What could be so bad about Mist Valley?

"If you're scared to go, you shouldn't be a knight." He said with an even larger smirk on his face now.

Sora thought for a moment. If this had been on destiny island, he'd of taken the dare without a second thought. Sadly, that feeling about being indestructible was slowly coming back.

"Sure, but I don't know where it is."

"I'll show you." Tsukikawa said quickly. "Come on." He swam out of the ball room.

Sora nodded and swam after him.

They swam for a few minutes than finally stopped at an opening in the rocks.

"This is Mist Valley." The merboy explained with a smile. "Now go in there, jump 6 times out and than come back to the party."

"Fine." Sora said smirking.

Tsukikawa swam off, and Sora went into the Mist valley. He had to swim for a few minutes before finally finding an opening in the rock. He got ready and swam and at full speed jumped out of the hole. He flew out and landed back in making a huge splash. Laughing he swam in a few circles and jumped out again. This time he took ins his surroundings.

The sun was starting to set, the sky was purplish looking due to twilight. He landed back down into the water laughing.

:This is so neat.: He thought to himself and wondered why this could possibly be a normal dare.

Grinning he jumped up again this time doing a flip in the air and landed once again back into the water.

:3 more times and I get to go back.: Sora started swimming at the hole again ,but than stopped dead in his tracks. Something was off. A new life force had entered the area, and he wasn't quite sure just what it was.

He looked around quickly trying to get in the details of the Mist Valley, but as he looked he noticed that he could no longer see a few inches from his face. The whole entire valley had started to fill up with mist and now the only thing that could be seen from the already darkening water, were shadows of what laid behind the mist.

He backed up a bit looking around nervously and darted for the hole. He jumped out and this time made sure he landed on the rock ledge just as a shark's mouth opened up near the hole waiting for him to return.

Sora let out a big sigh of relief and laid against a rock laughing.

"I'm gonna kill that guy…" He laughed more and looked around. "Now I'm stuck out here till the shark leaves…oh man." He said frowning and noticed that there was less than 2 minutes of daylight left.

Sighing, he got up or at least tried to only to fall right back down onto his face. Blinking he looked down. He still had fins and a tail. "WHAT THE?!" He screamed out loudly causing the shark to appear at the hole again growling and waiting. Sora ignored it though and tried to pull the tail and fins off as he had so many times before under the water.

"How am I still a merman?!" He screamed out in shock wanting to know what was going on. Miyuki and Setsuna had both clearly stated that if you leave the water, you get your human legs and feet back UNLESS you were born a merperson. Sora blinked after going over the information. "Am I….was I born a merperson…before going to destiny island?" He asked slowly and frowned. "I'M NOT EVEN HUMAN!?" He yelled punching the ground under him. "NO WONDER OUR LOVE WAS DOOMED!"

The ground started to shake though at this and Sora jerked his head up quickly just in time to see a bunch of rocks fall and crash down onto his tail. Instant pain coursed through his whole body causing him to scream out loudly in agonizing pain. He laid backwards onto his back trying to get himself out from under the rocks. Everyone movement or a try at movement cause him great deals of pain though and much energy. He was stuck here, and he knew it.

"Oh man…" He said groaning and tried to hold back the tears that threatened to spill. "I'm only not jinxed in Atlantica…." he muttered closing his eyes. He would just wait for death to take him. It'd be a lot better than trying to fight the pain and get out from under the rock.

"I heard the scream come from over here. I think it was human." Leon stated heading towards the beach.

"Where there's a scream, chances are, the dark Keyblade master is at." Riku added following Leon over the rocks.

"Well that is why we're here." Leon said with a bit of a sigh and kept walking. "It's getting dark though. The closer we get to the water, the more danger we can get in."

"Than ignore the water. Let's head over to that thing of rocks over there."

"Yeah yeah." Leon said rolling his eyes and heading over to the rocks.

After a few minutes of walking they stopped at the large land of rock with a medium size hole in it.

"I think there's someone over there…" Leon said slowly starting to frown. "HEY! ARE YOU OKAY?!"

The only response he got was groan.

"We better go and check on that guy. He may have been the one who screamed.

Riku nodded and they both quickly ran over to the rocks.

"Damnit! The rocks, they're smashing his legs." Leon yelled trying to move some of the rocks off. Riku quickly joined in and in a few minutes they had all the rocks off Sora's tail. "A mermaid?!" Leon asked in utter shock.

"..Merman…"Riku corrected seeing that the boy had no seashells over his chest. "Or a really flat mermaid.." He added starting to laugh a bit.

Leon rolled his eyes and gently started to pick Sora up.

"Go open the door to the cabin. I have a feeling he won't be swimming for awhile." He said sighing and started heading towards their cabin.

"…Wonder what we tell Kairi." Riku said putting his hands behind his head. "She's going to freak out seeing another guy in the house."

"Better another guy, than a girl. Or she might kill herself."

"Think we can trade him in?" Riku asked with a smirk on his face.

Leon rolled his eyes again.

"Go open the door."

Snickering Riku nodded and opened the door. Thankfully Kairi was still asleep as they had left her, and Riku was able to close the door to her room and flip a light on in the main room.

Leon walked into the main room of the house and laid Sora down on a table.

"Man, this guy is tore up. You can see the bones in places on his tail."

"Maybe we should give him…" Riku cut himself off getting a good look for the first time at the merboy.

"What?" Leon asked wondering if this was actually a bad guy they'd just saved. "Is he dangerous? I could--"

"No…" Riku said slowly walking over to Sora's sleeping form. "No it's…it's nothing…" Riku knelt down besides Sora's form and started stroking his hair gently.

"Riku, you shouldn't do that to strangers." Leon said folding his arms across his chest. :No one people think he's weird sometimes.: Leon thought to himself starting to frown at Riku for his actions.

"He's not a stranger…" Riku said slowly, not completely sure he wanted to believe what was going on. "This is…" He looked up at Leon. "Leon, it's Sora…can't you tell?"

Leon blinked a bit and his frown deepened.

"Riku. I think you need some sleep. Sora's human, remember?"

"…If the dark keyblade master could take on the appearance of a merperson…why couldn't Sora?"

"You think Sora is working for Satori than?" He asked, his eyes never leaving Riku's.

Riku shook his head slowly and put his hand on Sora's chest.

"No….Sora's to pure…he…he'd never…"

FLASH

"What's he doing…SORA!" Riku screamed out trying to get Sora to stop his mercilessly onslaught.

"He can't hear you." The cloak man said calmly.

"Why the hell not!?" Riku demanded wanting to glare at the cloaked man, but also not wanting to remove his eyes from the battle. Sora looked so deadly…so pure evil in this fight. Did the fight him and Sora had look this bad? Is that why Kairi had been so badly shaken up after it?

Sora gave one last kick and sent Nuburu slamming into the castle's door. She slid onto the ground groaning, blood trailing from her back.

"No Sora…don't…" Riku said hardly believing this was the same Sora he had been so close to.

FLASH

Sora turned back to Nuburu and shoved his sword through her heart. She let out a small groan and screamed when the lightening came after shocking her whole body until she laid there dead.

"Th, that's not my Sora."

"That's right." The cloaked figure turned to Riku. "It's not. Your Sora is dead. This is merely a Shadow of what used to be." Riku shook his head and took another few steps back not wanting to believe it. "It's time for you to realize the truth Riku. Your innocent friend is gone. And he will never come back."

End Flash backs

"No…I trust in him. I TRUST SORA! JUST BACK OFF!" Riku screamed death glaring Leon as though daring to tell him to say anything else to piss him off.

Leon nodded slowly and took a step back.

"I'll go get some healing potions…Riku, just be careful.." With that he walked out of the cabin.

"Sora would never hurt me…he'd never….that woman…she must of did something to him…,but he'd…"

FLASH

"…I regret being born. Regret is no more a problem." Riku's eyes widen hearing this. How could this be the same Sora he loved so much?

End Flash back

"No I won't believe it…Sora…you can't have gone evil on me. You have to still be good…the heartless couldn't of effected you…please…be okay…"

TBC

Ahh…the power of love to be ripped apart again. Yes, this story is not near over. Lol. And they're together for the moment. Just how long will it last though? Not long I'll tell you that. But of course, you already all knew that. I never let them be near each other much. With that in mind, hope you enjoyed the update!

Yami-Tenchi13: Glad you loved it…please don't drink the eh…y'know …"lemonade" It will taste nasty if you get it from the toilet. Lol. Here's the next chapter though…so back away from bathroom.

Jaz7: Glad you're enjoying yourself than.

Kiharu-sama: O.O DEATH TO KAIRI?! WHERE! YES! SHE MUST DIE! ::growls:: and so should nami…or nagi…whoever it is from chain of memories…she's good with the making Sora forget Kairi….,but not turning Riku and Sora against each other. ::Growls:: Evil bitch.

KH2 Freak: Lol, I tend to make people get addicted to things they don't like. ::sweat drops:: maybe I really am that virus…uh-oh…

Ivin Artemis Draconis: Wow! Goddess of the moon dragon/serpent! That's cool! Lol. I studied like..3 or 4 words of Latin…I want to take both Latin and Japanese in school…,but I go to the wrong school to learn it. So, I'll probably learn both languages through night classes at the other school! YAY! Or I hope anyway. Lol. Glad you're enjoying this story though. I never really thought people would like it this much. I'm glad they do though! YAY!

Well, thanks everyone for all the reviews and the being able to wait and so on. I hope you guys like this chapter and will enjoy the next one when I throw it up. My goal right now…to update at least all of my fanfics once within the next week, and just today. Lol. Cause I have a bit of free time, and well I should be studying for exams…I've never been one to study much. So on with da fanfics! ::laughs evilly walking back to Microsoft works word processor which I hate and want Microsoft word back::