"This is what was set?"

Riku and Skyla stood above the action, observing in discontent. This wasn't how Skyla wanted this to go, nor was it what Riku wanted to see his friends doing upon finding him again.

"No, this is definitely not what I had in mind." Skyla stated in her bland, unimpressed voice as she dodged a flying running shoe that had magically flung itself at her head.

What had happened upon the arrival of everyone who wasn't already there was they looked at Kisatrix and Ray fighting, and Elexi flailing his arms around in the air, and magically decided they were all annoyed with each other.

Now it was a battle royal. Everyone was fighting and no one seemed to care whose hair they were pulling. Or who they were pushing over. Skyla and Riku were far enough away to not be directly involved, but they almost wish they were involved so that it didn't look so weird.

"EVERYBODY STOP!" Riku ducked for cover with how loud Skyla was able to project her voice overtop of the commotion. Despite practically breaking Riku's eardrums, it was effective at making everyone stop in their tracks.

"That includes you Elexi. Get off Kisatrix's hair please." Elexi giggled a little as he got off Kisatrix's hair. No one was even sure how he got started on that while she was fighting with Ray...

"Now, everyone, as much fun as fighting is and how I hope someone's head gets smashed in as long as it's not my own team... we need to get along within our own respective groups in order for my evil plot to work. Kisatrix, you go with Damayon's group. Riku, go to your friends."

Riku sighed and returned to Sora and the rest of them, and Kisatrix scowled at Skyla before joining with Damayon's group for a talk, leaving Elexi and Skyla to wait.

"What are we supposed to be doing, Skyla?" Elexi wondered curiously.

"I don't know," she shrugged, "is there some problem with me that you'd like to talk about?"

"Well... you're really really hard to understand sometimes. Like, when you give Kisatrix orders. It's bad enough that I don't like following plans without cookies, but when you give the orders to her she doesn't entirely care and then I'm confused and need more cookies."

Skyla simply shook her head. She knew that already, but seeing as Elexi was crazy and Kisatrix didn't care she knew it wouldn't even matter if she started giving the direct orders to Elexi.

"I gave you the orders for this first, you know."

"I know." Elexi smiled.

Skyla shook her head once more, and then shifted her weight onto her other foot, watching the groups somehow calmly work out their differences.

"And would you like to explain the man writhing in pain in the middle of Twilight Town with those vines growing out of his eyes?" The question was basically dragged out of nowhere, but seeing as the vines were still growing it wasn't like she couldn't tell that the amount of open space in the world was decreasing.

"Ummm... hehe?" Elexi smiled again and laughed to himself.

"Were you drinking pop in your memories again?"

"Nooo..."

"Of course you weren't."

The two stood in silence for what seemed like a long period of time, watching everyone else.

"Would you like some pop Elexi?"

"YES YESSSS I DOOOO!!"

--

"Judging by how friendly you and Skyla seem to be, I don't think you were in any hurry to come back Riku."

Sora and Kairi were relieved to see Riku, but that didn't make them happy with him. Despite the fight that had broken out they had seen how Skyla and Riku were getting along just fine, and were concerned for which side he was actually on based on his case history with the darkness.

"I was getting information for you guys. You can't seriously believe that I'd make the same mistake twice?"

"Well in my opinion," Kairi's voice to the angry level she was at, making Riku and even Sora back off her a bit, "you should have never left for the darkness in the first place. How are we supposed to completely trust you again based on your history and how long you were actually behind enemy lines?"

"Yea, Riku." Sora finally gained enough courage to stand behind Kairi on this, as scary as she was being about it, "How do we know you're not just coming back to gather information on us for her?"

Riku took a couple steps back in defense. He wanted to have Skyla back him up, but that wouldn't exactly be beneficial to his case. Not that Skyla appeared to be there anymore… she must've gone to get something.

It took a moment before he realized that Skyla didn't even need him to spy on them in the first place. The files she had – they were so complete. The files summed up everyone's personality and fighting styles right down to the angle range Sora's upswing was. He couldn't help but start laughing.

"You guys really think that Skyla needs that? If anything they're at a disadvantage having me around, while you're at a disadvantage to not have me around."

Kairi and Sora looked at each other, and then back at Donald and Goofy for their opinion. Neither of them actually knew Riku that well and therefore couldn't exactly give their opinion on the matter.

"Sora…" Donald decided to at least give his opinion based on Sora's history and what he knew of Riku, "I think that after what you went through to find him that Riku wouldn't betray you. At least not on purpose."

"I have to agree with Donald…" Goofy put out there, "You went to a lot of work and convincing to get him to come back, remember? You really want to push him back towards the darkness if he really is telling the truth about being on your side?"

Kairi was now convinced. Sora had put a lot on the line in order to bring Riku back from the darkness, and she hoped she knew him well enough that he wouldn't do that again. She looked at Sora with a look that signified that she agreed with Donald and Goofy. Sora sighed, figuring that even if he himself weren't convinced he was definitely outnumbered here.

"Welcome back Riku. We missed you."

--

Damayon and his group weren't going to get over stuff that easily. In Ray's own mind, his little sister had betrayed him after he had gone to all that trouble to save her life. Kisatrix, while grateful, was sure that by completing Kingdom Hearts with the nobodies was the best way to regain her own heart. After all, the nobodies knew best about what it was like without a heart and what was necessary to regain one.

The details of the conversation were fairly repetitive. Damayon and Mirra had quickly resolved their differences, but Ray and Kisatrix were arguing the same points over and over again. Ray wanted to protect his little sister, but Kisatrix wanted to do things her own way. Things weren't going to stop anytime soon.

Elexi and Skyla had now returned from getting Elexi some Cream Soda. Elexi had also talked Skyla into letting him have a bag of cotton candy too; it was hard trying to contain his hyperness like Skyla had requested him to upon returning.

However, not long after their return the mansion appeared to have been swallowed by darkness suddenly.

Skyla was shaking; the darkness this time was clearly not of her own doing, as she had lost all sense of space in the middle of it. Elexi, Kisatrix and Riku all noticed this change, but no one else was aware that someone besides the nobodies was controlling the darkness at this point.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING SKYLA?!" Sora screamed at her. Damayon, Mirra and Ray all got up to attack her, but their tune changed when they realized that she wasn't acting normal.

"Leave Skyla alone, there's another problem here."