Trouble
"We can't use the dark corridor here," Skyxar said. "We need a spot where no one is looking." The three started to hurry though the crowd. They suddenly came to an empty spot with no one around.
"This seems like a good spot," Xion suggested. The two boys nodded and Skyxar was about to open a dark corridor when a crisp voice stopped him. The three Nobodies turned and saw that three boys and a girl were walking towards them.
"What do you think you're doing here?" the leader asked. "You don't look like you're from around here. And what's with the black outfit?" Roxas, Xion, and Skyxar looked at each other with puzzled expressions.
"May I ask who you are?" Roxas inquired.
"I'm Seifer, leader of the Twilight Town Disciplinary Committee," the leader answered. "What are you doing here?" he repeated his last question.
"We're just passing through," Skyxar shrugged. "Our home is just through here."
"Seifer, they look too suspicious to let them go, y'know," the other boy said.
"You're right, Rai," Seifer smirked. "What do you think, Fuu?"
"I agree," the girl said. The other boy was silent.
"Look," Xion stepped in, "we're not looking for trouble. We just need to past through here to get home." Seifer considered what she had said.
"No."
"What do you mean?" Roxas asked impatiently.
"I mean that you have to beat me in combat before you can leave," Seifer sneered.
"Seifer won the Struggle Championship three times in a row, y'know," Rai informed them. "You don't stand a chance, y'know."
"I'll fight you," Skyxar was getting ticked off by the boy's manner. Seifer looked at the boy who challenged him.
"Why should I fight a zebra boy?"
"What, ho!" Skyxar looked at his friends. "He scared of fighting me." Xion nodded.
"He should be, if he saw what happened a few days ago," she smiled. "Your injuries still haven't healed properly yet."
"Enough!" Seifer turned to Skyxar, who was grinning triumphantly. "Come on! Let's fight!" The two boys armed themselves with Struggle clubs and got ready. Seifer made the first move, striking from above. Skyxar dodged it and made a wide arc with his weapon. Seifer managed to block it but saw the smile on the other boy's face and realized his mistake. The Nobody flicked his wrist and knocked the other boy's weapon away. The club fell to the ground, making a loud noise that seemed to have magnified in the silence. Skyxar's club was pointed to Seifer's chest. Seifer was panting hard while Skyxar just smiled.
"I win." Seifer's eyes had a look of regret as he walked away with Rai, Fuu, and the other boy, leaving the three Nobodies alone again.
"You went too hard on him, Skyxar," Xion said to her friend.
"Hard? You call that hard?" Roxas joked. "I think the blow he gave you on the back was hard." Skyxar looked at his friends.
"I think it's time to head back, shall we?" the Key to Remembrance opened a dark corridor and the three friends went in.
…
"You're late," Saix said when he saw the three youngest members. Roxas shrugged.
"We had a little trouble getting back," he answered. Saix raised his eyebrow.
"How so?"
"Umm… a fight?" Xion guessed. Saix nodded.
"Thought so."
"What do you mean 'thought so'"? Skyxar asked. Saix looked at the three Nobodies with a hard stare.
"Bed. Now. You have work tomorrow." He strolled down the hallway and into his room.
…
"Flood! Flood! FLOOD!" Skyxar was trying to get out of his door. The water seemed to be pushing on it and won't budge. The water was also to his chin now and he was clutching onto a handle on the ceiling. Skyxar knows how to swim. Problem is, he got a cramp.
"STOP IT, DEMYX! YOU'RE FLOODING THE WHOLE CASTLE!" shouted a distant voice. Fortunately, the door to Skyxar's room was suddenly opened. Unfortunately, the water level was the same on the outside, so the Key to Remembrance was still grasping on the handle.
"Skyxar?" the boy looked and saw Xion and Roxas in the water, swimming.
"What are you doing up there?" Roxas asked. Skyxar was considering the question.
"Umm… hanging on?"
"Why? Can't you swim?"
"I can…"
"Then why aren't you swimming?" Xion could see that her friend was growing tired of holding on to the handle.
"Got a cramp, can't swim," Skyxar replied. "What happened anyway?"
"Oh, you must have overslept. Demyx was playing his sitar. Xigbar threatened him. He panicked and now we have a flood." Roxas said tersely.
"Is you cramp gone?" Xion asked with concern.
"I think so."
"Then jump in!" Skyxar let go of the handle. As he fell into the water, another cramp shot up.
"Roxas! Skyxar's drowning!" Xion yelled. She could see that her friend was losing conscious.
FLASH!
"You must be the Key bearer." King Triton said to me.
"How do you know?" I asked, very much surprised.
"You should know onemust not meddle with the affairs of other worlds," he continued, ignoring my question. "The Keyblade shatters peace and brings ruins."
"That's not true at all!" Donald cried out.
"I thank you for saving my daughter. But there is no room in my sea for you or your Key!" with that, he swam out of Ariel's grotto. He left us pondering if we're doing the right thing, going to other worlds.
FLASH!
"Look, Skyxar's waking up." I heard Xion say. I slowly gained conscious and saw that I was lying on my bed. Xion and Roxas were around my bed.
"You okay?" Roxas asked. I nodded.
"I been in worse," I assured them. "What happened?"
"You were going swimming with us, then you lost conscious," Xion answered.
"I thought you could swim," Roxas teased me.
"I could," I began, "but then I got a cramp on my other foot."
"I see," Roxas stressed.