Author: UPDATED! YEY! :-D . . . Sorry, I had too much sweeties. Well, read and review please.

Chapter eleven: The 'Gambler of faith'.

Ria's pov

We still didn't find Luxord. Even after three hours non-stop searching. This was really testing my patience. Another hour and I would explode. I was sure of it.

"Come on Roxas we looked everywhere. Let's go find Merlin and ask him if we can stay for the night. If we find that card obsessed guy tomorrow I will make him pay for making me search three whole hours and a bit!" I said and started to get moody.

"Ok. Whatever you say." Said Roxas who stopped looking around at once.

We were just about to go back to Merlin's house when man's voice called over to us.

"You ready to play the game?" The voice said. It sounded amused about something.

"Well look what we have here. Roxas! Wow, never thought you'd have the guts to face one of us again. Especially after what you did." The voice said again.

We both turned around. Luxord was standing there, smiling evilly. Roxas hated him so bad that I though, he was going to straggle Luxord if he said anymore.

"What? Too scared to talk?" Luxord said challengingly.

Roxas was on the verge of Explosion. I held Roxas back from running at him.

"Roxas! Don't you see that's all he wants? He wants you to run at him so he can turn you into a card or dice." I whispered.

"I'm waiting" Luxord said in an English accent.

"You know what Luxord? SHUT UP! Any last wishes before you have to say 'Bye bye' to the darkness inside you?! I shouted at him. He was really getting on my nerves.

"What do you mean? Are you telling me you actually want to fight me? Said Luxord and he started laughing.

"Yes, pretty much." I answered back.

I made my Keyblade appear in my hands and told Roxas to get ready. Luxord laughed and got his deck of giant cards.

"Do you know the rules?" He asked us.

"I have a news flash for you . . . THERE ARE NO RULES! I said pointing the Keyblade at him.

With that Roxas and I charged at Luxord. He just laughed and disappeared in one of the cards.

Roxas began hitting cards from the right and I began hitting them from the left till we came to the one Luxord was hiding in. Roxas and I hit the card with as much power as possible. The card disappeared and the gambler fell out of it, clutching his back. We didn't give him a chance to stand up; again the Keyblade gave him another blow to the back. It hit him so hard he laid on the ground motion less for a few moments, and then he moved a little bit and moaned loudly. I let Roxas do the rest. I knew that if we destroyed Luxord it would only be the darkness inside him but I still didn't like the idea of destroying someone.

Roxas gave Luxord the final hit and Luxord looked surprised.

Then he started to desolve and fade into darkness. The fight was won and I wondered why it was so easy. It felt a bit too easy.

'Maybe Luxord was weakened by something before us'I thought. I felt horrible because it felt like we killed him. My Keyblade disappeared as I watched the last of Luxord fade away. He looked sad.

"We did it!" Roxas said smiling broadly and punching the air with his fist.

"Yeah, but it feels horrible." I said sadly.

Roxas saw my face. He didn't understand why I was sad about Luxord.

"Cheer up already! Roxas said giving me a friendly push. "Let's go over to Merlin for a cup of tea or something. We told him we would come again before we left." He said sounding friendly as ever.

"Your right. It would probably cheer me up anyway." I said smiling sadly. I hated feeling sad for Luxord but couldn't stop myself from doing so.

We walked over to Merlin's house. It was already dark and the stars and moon shone brightly from the night sky. The air was cool and refreshing.

'I could really do with something warm right now'I thought as we came to the house. Roxas knocked at the house door once more.

"Roxas, do you think Luxord is going to remember the darkness? Do you think he'll have a heart?" I asked Roxas who looked stuck in his thoughts.

"What? Oh . . . em . . . yeah, he will remember the evil part of his life but he won't return to it. He'll hate it as much as I do. He'll have a heart as well. I got my heart back, didn't I?" He said.

"Yeah bu-." I broke of as the front door opened and Merlin came out.

"Back already?! You sorted out the problem then?" Merlin asked.

We both nodded. Merlin's presences somehow made me feel much better. All I wanted now was a hot cup of tea.

"Marvellous, marvellous!" Merlin said in excitement. He stepped out of the way so we could go inside. I headed straight for the comfy chair I sat on earlier. Roxas did the same. Then I noticed that four other people where in the room. I recognised each of them but didn't say anything.

"Tea?" Merlin asked ripping me out of my exhausted mind.

"Yeah please." I answered.

"Me too!" Roxas said. He looked much happier than he did a few hours ago.

Merlin made two cups appear and tipped the teapot with his wand. The teapot flew into the air and poured tea into the cups. Once full, they flew over to us. I immediately picked it up and gulped it down. It felt so good to have something warm in your stomach. I remembered the chocolate I bought and took a bar out of my bag. I unwrapped it, and began eating it slowly.

"You must be wondering who these four are." Merlin said pointing at the three happy faces smiling at us and the fourth not showing any emotion.

"Well, that over there is Leon." Merlin said pointing his wand at the brown haired man who didn't express any emotion. His blue eyes where fixed on me and Roxas. He wore a white t-shirt, a navy jacket, black trousers and black shoes. He didn't exactly look like what you would call friendly. Leon didn't say anything either.

"And beside him is Aerith." Merlin pointed at a brown haired girl who smiled sweetly at us. Her green eyes looked full of kindness and love. She had a red ribbon in her hair. She wore a pink, red and white dress and brown boots.

"Hello, nice to meet you." She said coming over and shaking our hands.

"And that is Yu-." He was interrupted by the black haired girl.

"I'm Yuffie, best ninja around." Yuffie said coming over to shake hands as well.

She had brown eyes. Her black hair was short. She wore a black top, black shorts and greenish coloured boot which went up to her knees. She looked like she was great fun to be with.

"Then, last but not least is Cid." Merlin pointed at the man who was doing something on the high-tech computer.

Cid had blonde hair and blue eyes. He had goggles around his head. He wore a white t-shirt, blue trousers and black shoes. He briefly turned around again, smiled and then returned to his business.

"They all help keep the town in line. So, do want to stay here tonight or are you two going away again? Merlin asked us stirring his own tea.

"I think we should leave now. We still have twelve other members to get rid of." Roxas said, drinking the last of his tea.

"Yeah, me too." I said finally finishing my chocolate bar.

"Very well then. You better get going before Roxas is too tired of flying." Merlin said getting up and waited till he could open the door.

Roxas got up and grabbed his bag. I did the same. We said our good-byes and left the house.

Now there was the problem of finding the Gummi ship. Roxas got out the keys and examined them.

"Maybe you should try to push that button." I said pointing at the little red button.

"Lets see what it does." Said Roxas and he pushed the bottom.

Then, the Gummi ship appeared out of nowhere right in front of us.

I opened the door and went inside. Everything looked the same. I sat down in my seat. Roxas did the same and closed the side door.

"Where do you want to go next?" Roxas asked looking at a map the King left us.

"Maybe we should try the 'land of Dragons'." I suggested.

"Ok." Roxas said starting the engine.

I looked out of the window wondering which crazy member was next. It didn't take long for me to fall asleep.

Author: Finally finished this chapter. Took a while to write. Hope you liked it. Let's see who's next . . .