Salut! this chapter is going to stress me. I not only have to keep going back and forth between my notes, i want to make this one pretty long...

Int his chapter we will be introduced to yet another new OC. This girl was created by the two minds of Rikulover211 and my own. Hope you like.

Sokari: I am the new character. Lookingatthemoon doesn't own anything except her characters, which includes half of me!

So I get half of you to keep?

Sokari: No, I'm not getting cut in half for you.

I was joking. Seesh.

Chapter 25

"What do you think they'll do to us?" Yuffie whispered to Riku.

"Gut us and use our skin as rugs." he replied sarcastically.

"Oh no!" she cried.

"I was kidding." he regretably took it back.

"Oh, okay." she smiled and then both of them were poked with a spear.

"We get the idea. 'No talking.' Seesh." Riku grunted. They were led into a large sparkling garden made of crystal. Yuffie gasped, Riku raised his eyebrows and Leon squinted from the sudden light. A leader of the men went forward to a old man ditting on a throne. He had a large bluish beard and sat rather cpnfprtably among his crystals.

"Come forth intruders." the man spoke, making the three grimace. "I hear you were sneaking around our cave in an attempt to find us. Were you?" he asked when all of his guards were gone, which made Riku blink a few times. What kind of guy in charge would let his guards leave him with three potentially dangerous strangers?

"No, sir. We truly do not completely understand why we are here." Leon spoke up, trying to cover for them.

"Well..." the man tapped his chin. "That's a relief."

"Huh?" Riku and Yuffie shared a look. "What do you mean?" Riku asked him.

"I am King Kashekim Nedakh. I rule our lost city of Atlantis. Recently we have been under attack by these black things with attenas and yellow eyes." he explained rather quickly. "It started only recently." he stood.

"Heartless." Leon whispered to the two.

"I ask you. Since you look like warriors, please save our long forgotten city." the man bowed to the three and they gasped. What kind of king was this?

"Father!" a girl ran into the room. Her tanned skin, blue eyes, pale hair and white clothing hinted she was in fact related to this man.

"Kida! What the matter?" King Kashekim embraced his worried daughter in a hug.

"There are more foreign people entering the city." she told him. Then there was a large group of people dragged into the room. Coincidently they were the people working on the large drilling machine earlier.

"Milo! I can't believe you got us caught by these cave men!" the female girl from earlier scowled at him.

"I'm sorry Audrey, Doctor, Milo, Vinny, everyone." the man with the glasses sighed and lowered his head. Riku growled.

"Hey! Leave the poor guy alone!" He told them, shooing them away from the pride hurt man. "You okay man?" he helped him fully to his feet.

"Yes, Mister..." the man held his hand towards Riku. Riku shook it.

"Riku. Just Riku. No 'mister' crap." the teen laughed. The man grinned.

"You people. Are you here to destroy our home and take our lives?" the king started again, evidently bored.

"Milo!" Kida yelled. Riku looked up from the work the craftsman was doing. The princess ran to him. Riku smirked.

"Yeah?" the intelligent youth replied.

"I was wondering if could know about the people who came with you." she asked.

"Um, sure. To begin, do you have any questions?" he thought about this for a minuted.

"Cookies are sweet, but yours is not. Sweet is kindly, but that is not his name. Audrey is sweet, but she is not your doctor. And the little digging animal called Mole, he is your pet?" the girl pondered.

"Close enough." Milo nodded.

"Okay." What's it like on the surface?" she cheerily asked. The two walked away as the scholar tried to explain it to her. Riku laughed under his breath.

"Hey kid!" a voice came from behind him. He turned to see the tall doctor called Sweet.

"Oh, hey." Riku greeted in return. He noticed the bag in Sweet's hands. "That's in that?" the man grinned, set it down and pulled out a large saw.

"This is the best saw a doctor can have. It can saw through a femur in 28 seconds." he stated. proud. "I plan on cutting that time in half." Riku gulped.

"That's nice." Riku backed away.

"Hey, by the way, half you seen Comander Lyle?" the tall doctor asked.

"Yeah. He was headed towards the cave over there." Riku poijnted off to where he had seen the comander walk into. Both of them looked to the cave to see a large cloud of darkness appear.

"What's that?" Sweet asked, taking out his saw.

"Heartless!" Riku told him, drawing Way to Dawn. "Get Milo and Kida!" Riku ran to the cave, assaulted by heartless the whole way there.

"Riku?" Yuffie's voice caught his attention. She was backed against the wall, but Leon jumped in and saved her.

"Who's behind the heartless?" Riku asked the two.

"Lyle is!" they both told him. He could see the form of Comander Lyle in the head of heartless, his skin burnt with darkness, his eyes full of greed for power and Atlantian gold.

"You get the heartless, I'll go after the comander!" Riku told them. They nodded and left the teenage boy to do his job.

"Foolish. That's what you are, kid." the Comander told him once he saw him. Riku growled.

"No. You are. Giving your heart to the heartless. They'll eat you alive." the boy told him, blocking a fast punch from the almost invincible Lyle.

"They don't eat the powerful." he taunted. Leon and Yuffie stepped into the fight, but thrown back by a blast of wave magic and were overtaken by a wave of heartless.

"Hey! Looks like the kid needs help!" A voice was heard. A large flying craft blew past the two quarelling men. Milo and Kida hopped off of the machine and faced the comander.

"Comander! What has gotten into you?" Milo tried to reason with the man.

"Power." He treated them with the same curtousy and the warriors and then created a field around him and Riku.

"Boy, how does it feel to be lacking power. I can tell. You were once surrounded by the overwhelming power of darkness." the comander threw punched and Riku dodged quickly, throwing his own hits.

"Yes I was. But I found better power within the heart. And my friends." Riku slashed at his back, but missed, being lashed himself. He was being hit more then he was attacking.

"Hmph." a voice said loudly. "I guess I could help. For a fee." Riku weakly turned to see a a girl almost his height with long wavy hair. Her blue green eyes stared down the comander. She was wearing a skirt that stopped above her knees and a green, tight t-shirt. Her stance was one that was a cross between one Yuffie would have and a cocky stance. She held a fist blade in her right hand.

"Who are you?" Riku gasped as Lyle ignored her and slammed Riku's back again.

"Tsk tsk." she told the comander, shaking a finger. "You shouldn't kick a man while he's down." she hurridley jogged over to him. "The name's Sokari, former guard of the city of Atlantis. I'm here to save your butt." she smiled and vaulted over the comander so quickly that Riku barely saw it. She sliced just as fast. The comander was having a hard time keeping up. Riku lunged out of the way when the comander almost crushed him. He regained his senses and joined the ambush on him. They knocked him down and both smiled.

"Nighty night, comander." Sokari told him, finishing him.

Kida finished the final stoke on the design on the large monument of her father. When she finished it glowed and raised into the air. Joining the rest of the monments to the great leaders. She stepped back, almost crying. They twirled around the city, liek they were guarding. Leon, Yuffie and Riku stood watch, smiling. They turned to leave when they were stopped by a greeting. They turned to see Sokari run to them.

"Take me with you!" she begged, grabbing the front of Riku's shirt. He stepped back in shock, but she gripped. "You owe me!" she told him. He looked at the others.

"It would be useful to have another ally. And Yuffie could hang out with her." Leon replied. Riku considered it.

"Fine." he told the girl. She shrieked and jumped in a circle. Riku laughed, but a glimmer caught his attention. In the middle of the monuments of generations of kings. A keyhole appeared and Riku nodded. Her lifted his keyblade and sealed it.

"Oooh. What was that?!?" Sokari jumped around him, evidently cheerful. Yuffie joined her and they dragged each other onto the ship.

"Great. Another Yuffie." Leon and Riku groaned.

A little rushed, yes. But there's the OC! Please review and tell me what you think!!!!