In case no one knew, they're making a Ghost Rider 2 for the movies. Awesome.

And you get to see Sora snap in this chapter, ironically I was listening to Waking The Demon by Bullet For My Valentine while posting... creepy how it fits no?

Anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 25: Battle in the locker room.

Kairi had just finished gym when Tifa approached her, she just got finished cleaning herself from running around when the brunette walked up to her.

"Kairi, we need to talk," Tifa said, she was still in her running uniform.

"Okay…" Kairi said, surprised by her forwardness, "Talk."

"Kairi…Sora didn't tell the reporters about Namine and Hayner," she said, causing Kairi scoff.

"Tifa enough, look, what Sora did was wrong and he—,"

"It was me," Tifa said, causing her to freeze. "I'm the one who told them, not Sora."

She was in shock, it was Tifa? She shook her head in denial, "What…you? No, no I don't believe—,"

Tifa held out her cell phone which showed a number on speed dial, "I have the reporter on speed dial, want to talk to her?" she asked, holding the phone out.

Kairi lowered the phone and stared at her, "Why did you do it?"

"Because…because I wanted Sora to be with us again, Seifer and the gang. Selfish I know but… he's my only real friend, I love him like a little brother." Tifa said, trying to fight the guilt that began to well up, "And it's clear he wants to be with you… so, I have to help him, it's what a sister does."

Kairi stared at her, a slight blush appeared when she said that about Sora. She may not know what to think of the brunette now, but there was one thing certain: she had been wrong about him this whole time, she had to find him and apologize.

"I have to go, excuse me," she ran past her and out of the locker room.

She looked around the halls for him, but he wasn't there. Was he in class? Then she heard a door open behind him and there he was, coming out of class.

"Sora!" she called out, catching his attention.

Sora stopped and turned around, when he saw Kairi he remained where he was. She ran up to him and remained silent for awhile, he considered walking away when she finally spoke.

"I know you didn't tell the reporters now."

Sora frowned, "Um, yeah, I've been trying to tell you that for some time now…"

"I mean, I believe you now," she explained, "What I'm trying to say is that I'm—,"

Then she heard a click from behind her, Sora saw Hayner right behind her…holding a pistol. Kairi's breath quickened at the sight of the gun and Sora's eyes narrowed.

"How the hell did you get that in here?" he asked.

"I have my ways," Hayner grinned as Jake and his football buddies came out. "Now, please come with us Mr. Shimomura, we have things to discuss with you."

Sora looked around him and frowned, normally he could take them but there was a gun, and Kairi was here too. So he nodded, "Fine."

He was about to step forward when Kairi stopped him, her eyes full of fear, "Are you crazy, he's going to kill you!"

"And if I don't, he'll kill you…or me, both maybe," he shrugged, trying to move forward again but she stopped him.

"No, I can't let you do this!" she pleaded, holding his arm tight.

"Heh, didn't know you cared," he joked.

"Well, I do," she said, her grip tightening on his arm.

He froze for a second as his brain registered the words she said, however the moment he took made Hayner impatient. He growled and wrenched Kairi away from Sora, she yelled out before one of football players clamped his hand over her mouth.

"All right boys, you know the plan: secure the doors to the locker room," he grinned, however the players frowned.

"But…but, there are people in there, there would be witnesses," Jake said.

Figure that one all by yourself? Sora thought, however Hayner grinned, "So? Gents, I manipulated Kairi's dear sister for a long time. If you have fun with the girls, they'll keep their mouths shut."

Kairi went livid and tried to lunge for him, she wanted to tear his eyes out. Sora wasn't too pleased either, he was waiting for the right moment where he could launch a punch at him. However with the way he had his gun on her, he couldn't risk it, and there was not enough darkness to use his powers. And time just ran out, Hayner gave a nod and the players grabbed Sora and led him and Kairi into the girl's locker room. They shoved him in first, he landed on the ground hard, his cheek was cut a bit on the hard flooring. Before the girls could scream at him, Hayner and the others walked in: at the sight of his gun they panicked and tried to run out the other way, but the players had sealed all the exits before entering.

"I'd be quiet if I were you," Hayner threatened, aiming the gun. "Otherwise I'll have to start being violent."

The girls went silent as Hayner approached Sora, placing the gun to the back of his head.

"No!" A voice screamed, Tifa rushed forward but was stopped by Jake.

"Keep her back," Hayner ordered. "I have some business with him."

Sora craned his head and saw to his horror that Tifa was here, so was Aerith and Yuffie, and even worse: Namine. Although she was hidden by the other girls, as long as she didn't move, no one could see her. Hayner was also too busy staring hatefully at him, so he didn't have to worry…except for maybe getting killed.

"You know, it shouldn't have come to this Sora." Hayner laughed, grabbing his hair and forcing him to lift his head, "But, you just had to go and rat out to everyone about me and Namine, did you?"

Sora groaned as Hayner let his hair go and he hit the floor, walking around to his side and kicking him in the ribs. Sora groaned, Kairi screamed, Tifa fought fiercely to try and get to him, Hayner just laughed at it.

"You know, I heard stories about you," he said, kicking Sora again. "About how you're the most feared guy in this school, how everyone is afraid of the powerful Sora Shimomura. And when I heard how you made Kairi's life a living hell, I was overjoyed, I thought I could have someone to relate to. Well, I was WRONG!"

He kicked him again, Sora gasped sharply, yep, a rib may be broken now. Hayner just scowled at the teenager.

"You're just some pathetic kid, whose daddy abandoned you," he grinned as Sora looked up to him. "Oh yes, I know about your father."

Kairi stopped struggling for a minute, "What…? What is he talking about?"

"Oh, you never told them?" Hayner asked, lowering down to his eye level. "Never told them that your daddy left you and your mommy? Never told them that he thought you two were trash? Well, you have one thing in common with him, you hurt those around you for pleasure."

"Shut up," Sora growled.

"Do you know what the funny thing is?" Hayner grinned.

"Shut. up." Sora said angrily.

"You think that by going around, and acting like some sort of hero is going to make you better than him? The truth is…" Hayner whispered this last bit in his ear, "You're just like him."

That did it, that was the final straw. Sora lunged forward, the gun falling out of Hayner's hands, girls screaming as Sora pinned him to a wall and starting punching him.

"YOU SHUT UP! MY FATHER WAS A WORTHLESS BASTARD!" he yelled as he punched him, blood on Hayner's face. "He left us! He left me behind! Don't you ever compare me to him! My life was hell after that, he sold me to that monster, he sold my soul to him! Me, his only son! I don't deserve this: I don't deserve this pain! AND I DON'T DESERVE TO DIE!"

He threw the final punch and the blond slumped against the wall, breathing heavily, his face caked with blood. Sora turned around and faced Jake and his friends, his fists tightened.

"I suggest you get the hell out, before I—,"

Just then the lights went out, the just flashed out. Covering the room in darkness, Sora looked around widely and then felt a familiar evil. Blackout… he thought, he could feel his body beginning to transform, which would be bad right at this minute. Then he heard a scream of pain, followed by screams of terror. First things first… Sora thought, quickly feeling along the back wall for the door. When he found it he summoned his Rider power and punched the door open, letting light pour into the room.

"Everybody out!" he yelled as the throng of girls rushed out, when he looked back he saw Jake and hit football buddies on the floor, pale white with two bite marks.

Damn it, he thought, they may have been bastards, but being drained wasn't what he wanted. He scanned the room to see they missed Hayner (why didn't they bite him? He thought moodily), but it seemed to be everybody. He ran into the room and was about to transform when he saw it, there was a vampire holding someone as a hostage. And that someone was Aerith.

"Aerith!" he yelled, and the vampire tensed, his fangs near her neck.

"Don't move boy," he threatened, "Or I'll drain her, where's Yuffie Kisaragi?"

Yuffie? Sora thought, what could the vamps want with her? He glanced back and forth between Aerith and the vampire, "What do you want with her?"

"Where is she!?" the vampire demanded, making Aerith yelp as he jerked on her.

There was another problem, it was dark, and the vampire was clearly evil, soon he would automatically transform into Ghost Rider. He's been holding it back now, but he can't hold it forever. Sora looked around and saw a pipe above the vampire's head, if he could use his Rider strength and throw something at the pipe, it may fall on the vampire and distract him long enough for Aerith to break free. However, like all plans, they go astray. There was footsteps behind him and Hayner held his gun at Sora, before he could turn away from it the shot fired. Luckily for Sora, it missed anything vital and hit the vampire's head, unlucky for him, the bullet went through his right hand.

He never felt such painful agony, he clutched his hand and screamed in pain, falling to his knees. He heard Aerith scream but his own pain dulled the senses, he felt tears well up as he tried to cope with the sudden pain. He heard another clicking noise and saw Hayner had the gun to his head, he was smiling triumphantly. Not for long… Sora thought, he couldn't hold it back, not any more. His hand shot forward and grabbed the gun and crushed the barrel, Hayner's smile faded as Sora cracked an insane grin. Then his face began to burn away, Hayner was revolted and terrified, he tried to break free but Sora's grip was iron tight. The Ghost Rider stood up to eye level with the blond teenager.

"Dumb. Ass." Sora growled, using his strength and tossing Hayner across the room, he hit the wall and was knocked unconscious.

Sora cracked his knuckles and heard soft gasps behind him, he turned around and felt a sinking feeling in his fiery being. Aerith was still there, wide eyed and terrified.

"It was you…?" Aerith asked softly, "All this time you…you are the Ghost Rider?"

"Aerith…" Sora spoke in his raspy voice, she stepped back a bit, "Aerith I never did anything to hurt anyone, I'm trying to help people. Trying to save them…you have to believe me."

Aerith was torn, she knew something was different about him, but this…? She started to walk up to him, his face didn't seem so frightening or revolting as she stepped closer to him. She stood only a few inches from him and said.

"I— look out!"

Sora whirled behind him just in time to see a vampire lunge for him, he grabbed its throat and slammed him to the ground. However he heard this odd sound, like the slamming of doors and screaming people. This provided the vampire enough time to kick Sora away from him, he slammed against the wall as the vampire got up. He pulled out a dagger from his coat and walked over to him, Aerith ran over and tried to shove the vampire aside but he was stronger than her. She landed on the floor and yelled out in pain.

"Bastard!" Sora growled, trying to stand up.

However the vampire kicked him in the chest and he fell back to the floor, he raised his knife and poised it over his flaming skull.

"Hey!" a voice yelled from behind him.

The vampire turned around just in time to see Roxas swing the fire axe and chop his head off, the vampire's body turned to dust and Roxas helped Sora to his feet.

"Lucky I came here when I did," Roxas chuckled.

"Yeah, thanks," Sora nodded, helping Aerith up. "What was that sound earlier?"

"The doors are locked!" Roxas explained, "I tried everything but they won't open, not even the glass will shatter, it's like some supernatural lockdown!"

"Blackout," Sora growled, "He probably did this, is there anyone else here?"

"Surprisingly no," Roxas frowned, "Most of the students are still out on lunch break, but, I did see that redhead and some of her friends at one of the doors."

Crap! Sora thought, changing back to human form: he couldn't let them see him as Ghost Rider, they would wonder how he got in the school and they would put two and two together.

"Hey whoa!" Roxas waved his arms, gesturing to Aerith.

"It's okay," he assured, "she's cool, Roxas this is Aerith."

"Hello," Aerith said nervously.

"Hey," the blond nodded, "Now come on, we gotta get out of here!"

"We need to find Yuffie," Sora said, "The vampires are after her."

"What?" Aerith asked, "Why?"

"How the hell should I know?" Sora asked, running out of the locker room and to the hall.

As Roxas said, Kairi, Namine, Tifa, and Yuffie were still here. Cursing his lousy luck he ran over to them and tricking open the door, which felt like trying to knock over a sturdy oak tree: very painful. Sora massaged his foot and growled.

"Okay, no getting out that way," he said, looking back down the hall.

"What happened to Hayner?" Namine asked.

"Dead I hope…" he muttered, no one caught it so he sighed. "Dunno, lost track of him. But we have to get out of here."

"Great, how?" Yuffie asked.

"Doesn't this school have a backdoor or something?!" Roxas asked.

"…Actually it does," Kairi said, "By the swimming pool!"

"Wait this school has a pool?" Roxas asked.

"Yes," Kairi and the girls frowned, "Is this a problem?"

"No, no, no problem," the blond assured, looking behind him if any vampires were sneaking up. "Let's go, we're wasting time."

The group nodded and ran down the halls, their footsteps echoing through the hallway as they ran. Each echo made Sora wince, expecting a vampire to jump out at any time. It turns out he wasn't that far off. When Roxas, Yuffie, and Kairi ran through the doors they slammed shut, a click like sound followed, indicating the door was locked.

"Sora!" Roxas yelled.

"Roxas, head for the exit!" Sora ordered, adding quickly, "And watch out for Yuffie okay?"

Yuffie raised an eyebrow and Kairi's eyes echoed disappointment, Roxas turned to the two girls and held the fire axe he still had readily.

"Well, shall we go?"

The two girls nodded and ran down the hall to the gym where the back door was, Roxas peered into the room first and frowned.

"Let me go in first," he said, "I'll give the all clear if it's empty."

Yuffie didn't bother with that, she opened the doors and stepped into the room. The blond's eyes widened as both girls boldly stepped into the room, hurrying in the room he found himself distracted by the room: it looked like a traditional gym with bleachers, but in the middle was a swimming pool, it was long in length and filled with water. It even had a diving board, which made Roxas wonder how much money this school had… however he was brought into reality when he heard the jiggling of a doorknob and the girls yelling.

"It's locked!"

"Damn it," Roxas swore, "All right, let's double back!"

The girls turned around and they're eyes widened, Yuffie gasped and Kairi screamed.

"Look out!"

Roxas looked behind to see a tall silver haired man in a black trenchcoat, the man grabbed his neck and hoisted him off the ground. Roxas struggled and tried to swipe his ax at him, however the man blocked it with his free hand and laughed.

"I remember you," Blackout smirked, throwing Roxas across the room.

He turned to the doors and bent the steel bars so no one could run in, he pulled out his katana and walked up to him. Roxas was reaching for the handle of his ax as the vampire approached him. The girls screamed, Roxas gasped, and the vampire lifted his katana and thrust down for his heart…

…And Roxas died. Or did he? Find out his fate on the next chapter, the Blackout episode is nearing a close, what does Blackout want with Yuffie? What about Vincent? Is this possibly going to be the longest and epic story I ever made!!!??

…Yes. Very much so. But to tell the readers, there are a total of 5 episodes, we are at the 3rd. So, can you guess how close we are to the end? Anyway, please review and comment, ideas are welcome, flames are not.