"AXEL?" Sora demanded, forgetting to keep his voice down. Although they had retreated to Blythe's room so Blythe could tell what she knew of Rika's past, Rika's room was right next to hers.
"SH!" Blythe hissed, clapping a hand over his mouth. "You forgot that my best friend can massacre an entire planet."
"Sorry." Sorry mumbled through her hand.
"What do you mean by Axel though?" Blythe asked, pulling her colourless hair out of it's usually braid. It waved and fanned around her face.
"I knew him. He was an evilish guy that was in Organization XIII!"
"What?" Blythe demanded, stiffening.
"He died protecting us during our last mission." Sora said softly. Blythe covered her mouth with her hand.
"Don't you dare tell Rika." She hissed. Sora threw his hands up defensively.
"I wasn't planning to!" He protested.
"Good." Blythe stood up.
"Blythe..."
"What?"
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"You've been upset since you discovered your past." Blythe turned to Sora.
"I'm just so confused. Blythe is slipping away and Kaia is replacing her. I don't WANT Kaia to replace her. Kaia was cowardly and weak. She depended on undependable people. I'm not the same person I was before my memories. It scares me, because I'm caught between two different people and I can't decide. If I choose Kaia, then I will lose Rika, but if I choose Blythe, I lose my knowledge of who makes me who I am."
"Like Terra." Sora finished quietly.
"And my parents." Blythe added. "I-I just want to know who they were. Their names. I can remember faces, but, the place I remember, it isn't Destiny Islands. My actual home could be out there Sora! I just...don't know where. That's what's been bugging me to no end."
"Hey." Sora squeezed her shoulder. "We'll check with Tron after the mission." Blythe smiled.
"Thanks Sora."
"Blythe, you can still be Kaia and Blythe at the same time you know." Sora said encouragingly. Blythe shook her head.
"I don't think I can be." She whispered, turning her eyes to the enormous window that lit her room.

****
"Rika?" Blythe said softly, sitting beside her. Rika's head was in her knees still and she was extremely still. "It's Blythe."
"I know you idiot." Rika said, muffled by her knees. Blythe slapped her on the side of her head playfully. Sora breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is everything alright?" Blythe asked quietly. Rika popped her head up and grinned.
"Yup. Did I miss dessert?" Sora and Blythe opened their mouths to condradicte Rika, but realized it was pointless to do so.
"What happened?" Sora asked.
"Just exhausted." Rika said, standing up and stretching, giving Blythe 'I'm going to talk to you later' kind of look.

****

A couple hours later, Sora lay awake in bed, staring at the full moon outside. He couldn't stop thinking about the mission. How would they suceed? They hadn't even gotten to studying the map at-
"MOUSIE!" Sora yelled, sitting up and bolting out the door. He pounded on Donald's room, then Goofy's. They both opened their doors looking extremely disgurntled.
"Sora..." Donald began.
"Guys, where's Mousie?" Sora demanded. Donald and Goofy froze, panic filling their faces. They looked at each other for two seconds before running down the hall screaming 'Mousie!!!'.

****

"So what is it Rika?" Blythe asked approaching Rika.
"Sh." Rika replied quickly. "Come on. Apparently that mouse box is gone." Rika got up and both she and Blythe ran into the hallway not seeing or hearing anyone in sight.
"Beast have you seen Mousie?!" The two girls twirled around seeing shadows of Adam and Sora.
"No, why Sora?" Blythe and Rika ran over to Sora and Adam.
"Where'd the box go?!" Sora yelled in a frustrated tone.
"It probably found where the next attack on this world will be." Blythe said.
"Not that we'll be able to stop it." Rika teased. Everyone looked at her with clearly upset faces.
"Obviously not the right time to say that." Blythe whispered to Rika without losing eye contact with everyone else.
"Whatever, it was a JOKE. Shouldn't we be looking for that box right now?" Sora turned away with Adam and Blythe following. Rika stood where she was and watched as they all walked away searching for the box.
"Come on Rika!" Blythe yelled back at Rika.
"Oh relax; I'll look for it on my own. You'll just slow me down anyways, especially with such a dense kid like Sora." Sora shot a nasty glare back at Rika. Rika chuckled oddly then turned around and entered the nearest room.
"How can you stand that girl!?" Sora fumed.
"Sora, control your anger!" Adam roared.
"You're the one to talk. What happened to you anyways, how could you have changed so much?" Sora continued to stare at Adam filled with inspiration.
"This has always been me. However when you're put in a dark situation you can lose yourself…at that time only someone special can pull you out of that darkness." Adam stared up brightly, you could tell he was thinking of his special person. Blythe looked down at her feet…-someone special- she thought. At first she thought of her best friend, Rika. However she knew Rika all to well. Rika was and had been keeping her from falling into the darkness which Adam was talking about. Both her and Rika knew she couldn't completely save Blythe from herself though, the only one who could save her would have to be.
"Terra…is that your special person?" Sora asked. Blythe blushed.
"N-no! Ew, no way he's just a childhood friend!" The group walked in silence for a while. "And Kairi is your special person?" Blythe asked looking at Sora, hoping he would make a fool of himself just as she embarrassed herself.
"Yeah…that's my special person. I wonder when I'll see her again." Sora looked up at the shining lights, smiling childishly and thinking of all his timed with Kairi. Blythe looked at him in envy, how he could act so normal. She began to think of Terra, what was he to her in the past? She couldn't even remember him clearly. What were her parents like? Her home time? Could all those things make her right again? There were too many questions and she started to get a headache.
"Where's the other girl?" Adam asked looking around.
"She went looking for Mousie on her own." Sora replied, annoyed.
"Why do you dislike her so much?" Adam said looking back at the now foul mood Sora.
"It's not that I dislike her." He said stubbornly. "She's just so…"Sora stopped and thought for his choice of words. "I don't know, she's just always in her own thoughts doing what she wants, when she wants to. She's also so detached from everyone else. How could anyone possibly get along with a girl like that?!" Sora asked to himself mainly.
"A-hem." Blythe said with her hands on her hips, staring at Sora.
"Sorry…" Sora apologized, thinking of saying that Rika wouldn't have apologized and would have instead blamed it on them. He decided to lay off that thought.
"She's not like that." Blythe said matter-of-factly. "You all don't know it, however every time she makes a rude comment she hurts most likely triple times worse than what you felt. She really always had tried to protect everyone she knows." Sora thought this over and couldn't possibly have thought that to be true.
"Yeah…right. Probably she just does that for you or your dragons." Sora nodded to his own logic.
"No, she does it for everyone. Whoever she thinks deserves it at least." Blythe continued looking around and calling every once in a while to Mousie.
"How did she ever protect us?" Sora questioned, he would need proof for him to believe it. Blythe turned around and faced Sora.
"There really isn't any evidence to show you, she does it in a…well her own way and it's always subtle!" Blythe stopped talking, with wide open eyes, yet again she realized something.
"Rika?!" She ran back the way they were coming from and ran towards the room Rika had entered.
"What is it Blythe?" Sora was panting as he ran after the speedy Blythe and Adam trailing behind them silently.
"There's a barrier! I knew it! See this is her stupid way of protecting people! There must be something like a bomb in there! RIKA!" Blythe screamed and attempted to kick the door however an invisible reflected her foot back. A flash of the colours seen in a painted sunset washed over the inside of the barrier. Destroying everything there, all that was left behind when it subsided was Rika. She was sitting in the middle of the empty barrier holding a green box filled with lime green, vibrant symbols floating around Rika. She was smiling to herself as she wiped her face leaving a black oil smudge, smear across her face. It came from what looked like the box she was holding. She was all alone in that room however seemed to be showing the most serene smile she had ever showed.
"Can you guys pretend you never saw her smile like that?" Blythe asked Sora and Adam.
"Why? She actually looks like a proper person there." Sora remarked.
"I know, but don't you think she doesn't show that side of her for a reason?" Blythe had always been scared of Rika's reaction to others knowing her true self. She didn't want Rika to change, she was afraid Rika would lose her inner self if it was exposed to the others. Sora looked at Blythe in the eyes and decided Blythe knew best.
"Oh there's Rika!" Adam boomed, acting as if they had just gotten there.
"Rika, what did you do to this room?" Rika disarmed the barrier and walked towards them.
"Oh, I found this box and it started a countdown until it would explode. I managed to solve it in time so it just destroyed all inanimate objects." Rika smiled. Blythe sighed, Rika had left her explanation filled with holed. Blythe knew the truth. Rika must have known what was in that room and decided to make everyone leave, just in case it was something too dangerous. That was the kind of person Rika was Blythe thought.

"So I guess we didn't fin Mousie anywhere." Sora said.
"Not true." Rika pulled Mousie out of her pocket, releasing it into the air.
"MOUSIE!" Sora yelled happily, dancing around with the little mouse box.
"That's what lead you to that room, wasn't it Rika?" Blythe had a feeling that was how Rika thought there was something dangerous in there.
"Y-yeah. You always find this sort of stuff out." Rika scratched her head and then stopped abruptly. She pulled out the blue liquid from her other pocket and released the liquid. Like always a flash of light almost exploded from the bottle until little bits of white, sparkly lights floated around the room.
"It looks like Maleficent is moving again." Blythe said to Rika.
"We should move again. We can head back to the Radiant Gardens, since I know you want to." Rika looked at Blythe with knowledgeable eyes. Sora stared at the two of them, watching how they both understood each other so well. Donald and Goofy walked up to Sora, standing beside him. Blythe smiled at Rika.

"Rik, I have all the time in the world after the mission to find out the same things that I would during the mission. I want to wait." Rika nodded, a serene comprehension filling her face.
"Man, they're so lucky. It's like they both can read each others mind. You think I'll ever find a friend like that?" Sora leaned back on one foot and raised his arms, with his fingers crossed together on the back of his head.
"What do you mean by that?!" Donald asked furiously.
"Gwarsh Sora, you already have me and Donald!" Goofy placed a hand on his shoulder and smiled. Sora started to laugh.
"Yeah, we're the three musketeers." They all laughed together, this time Blythe and Rika looking at them, however in an un-amused way.
"If you EVER act like that I'm going to have to hit you." Rika said while watching them. Blythe started to laugh like everyone else.
"Yeah, I know." After laughing they all headed back to the front gate of the castle.
"Next time I'm going to venture out to the town." Rika warned.
"Of course we'd be happy to have you a next time." Adam countered. Rika smiled dangerously. She would have picked a fight however instead Blythe started to push her towards the ship.
"Nice to meet you." She waved good bye and then the two of them disappeared onto the ship.
"When will you come next?" Belle asked sadly.
"Soon, real soon." Sora said with a smile.
"Yeah, and if anything happens we'll deal with it!" Donald raised a fist and flexed a scrawny arm muscle. Belle giggled while Adam laughed whole-heartedly.
"I'm sure you will." Adam teased.
"Tell us if anything happens to ya!" Goofy hollered to them as the three of them went on the ship as well. As the ship started to lift off the ground the three guys waved good bye to Belle and Adam, holding hands as the two of them waved back, shielding their eyes from the gust of wind.