The Deep Shadow Within

Wow.

I got like 18 PMs telling me what world people wanted.

The world chosen was...

Atlantica (what), second was Halloween Town, and last was Pridelands!

Just a surprise later on...

Oh, and I like a lot of yaoi, so just expect more couples other than Sora and Riku, Roxas and Axel. Just think... what other boy characters did I put in here?

Cloud, Leon, Vanitas, Ventus. Think about it. Maybe some Cleon if I can manage, and you can expect a lot of VanVen.

The POVs in this story are:

(Third Person) ?

Roxas

Cloud

Leon

Sora

Riku

Ventus

Xion

Kairi

Namine

Vanitas

Okay, five teams out for Sora. I'll be organizing Sora's location.

Team Riku: Cloud, Leon, Aerith, Roxas, Riku

Team Kairi: Rikku, Kairi, Tifa, Riliane, Yume

Team Xion: Yakusoku, Xion, Namine, Axel, Ventus, Vanitas

Team Xemnas: Xemnas (obviously), ?, ?, ? (Mystery people yay)

Neutral/Other Team(s):

Team ?: Yami, Akumu, Aishi, Kuru, Kokoro (More heartless?)

Sora is currently within the grasps of Team Xemnas. Save him, Riku!

Random KH Fact:

1. The tattoos under Axel's eyes represent that he committed a murder. It fits perfectly for him, the creators say.

Chapter Twenty Five: Under The Sea

~?~

Riku took a step back as Sora focused an icy glare. "S-sora?"

Sora hissed at the use of his name, flinching when Riku said it. "You... you... I trusted you!" The boy held the Ultima keyblade ready in his hand, and another rested in the other. Double wielding Ultimas? Riku really did it this time.

"Listen, Sora I-"

"I don't want to hear it, you jerk." The smaller boy spat, and Aerith and Roxas flinched, and stood beside Riku, ready to protect him.

Sora raised the keyblades in offense, and charged at the group, Xemnas smirking behind him the whole time.

~Ventus~

"Okay, blondie. Great going. We're here in some bitches' residence, and you don't even fucking know who the hell she is," Vanitas sneered from the shower. I shivered and wiped my face with the hand towel.

"Vanitas, it's just plain wrong when you're speaking to me from the shower," I called, and the water stopped running. "Who says it is?" Vanitas reached out one arm to grab the towel hanging on the shower railing, and he wrapped it around his waist.

"Whatever. When are we leaving?"

I almost coughed in surprise; "Vanitas, we are not leaving, until Xion comes to get us. We don't even know the hell where we are, and we don't know how we are even fucking alive. So just shut up, and listen to me."

"I am listening, I just was."

"Shut up."

"... OK."

"Whatever."

Typical rebellious Vanitas. He seems to be getting less evil everyday, only having the personality of some prankster high schooler that gets sent to the office on a daily basis.

Seems like him.

"Anyway, what's the occasion now?" he continued, drying off his dark hair with another towel (I mean, yeah), and I stepped into the shower. "I have no idea."

I turned the shower knob all the way towards the hot water, and adjusted it to my liking between the middle. "Vanitas was rambling on about something, and I was half listening to him.

"So, did you know I still can create unversed?"

I was pooling water in my throat while he was talking (A/N: I do this all the time, bear with me please) and I almost gagged. "Huh? What!?"

Vanitas sighed and repeated, "I still can create unversed. Get your head out of the gutter, blondie."

I coughed up some of the water that supposedly slid down my throat, and shut the water off. "First of all Vanitas, my name is not blondie. Second, you should not speak of unversed while I am alone with you. You're making me think of Terra and Aqua again."

Vanitas snorted and said, "Still think of your friends?"

"At least I have some."

~Namine~

Xion and I watched as Xion chased Axel out of the house, and I was on the phone, talking with Kairi. Yaku watched contentedly as she made out the figures of Xion and Axel out the window.

"So, Axel took the last ice cream again?" Kairi laughed.

"Yup."

"I bet five hundred munny he broke a leg."

I smiled and placed my bet. "I bet several ruptured organs, and a dislocated shoulder, both knee joints dispatched, and three fingers broken." Kairi whistled from the other line, and I laughed.

"Hey! Wait Tifa-"

"Oi! Namine, I bet three thousand munny he broke at least 5 ribs, one cracked hip, and a dislocated thumb."

Another cheery voice piped up from Tifa's and I could recognize Rikku's voice, and a few others. "Hey! I bet about 100 munny for each finger broken." I laughed; placing bets on what Axel's going to get is really wrong.

But, it's fun.

I heard Rikku call other people. "Oi! Namine, right? Oh, I'm Yume..." I heard shuffling in the background, and Yaku twitched her ear at the mention of someone else's name.

"... and I'm Riliane. Don't you think placing bets on him is..."

"Wrong?" I interrupted. "I know, but it's becoming part of a daily basis." Giggles and laughter can be heard from the other line. "Oh! You should let Ven and Vani join the conversation!"

I almost dropped my phone in surprise; "What?! Ven and Vanitas are there?!" I screeched, and Kairi gasped in surprise. "Oh, yeah. We found them here while I was searching for Sora in Hollow Bastion. Those poor boys, don't even know the basics of technology."

I sighed and brought my voice down to a whisper. "Ok, we'll speak later. I'll be right over."

I hung up, and Yaku laughed. "All those bets... all of you guys were right. It's all of the above."

Just then, Xion came in, a popsicle stick wedged in her mouth, and she was dragging a limp, battered redhead behind her.

"That's what he gets," she triumphantly cried out. We all laughed, and Axel moaned loudly. "Ugh... where am I?" Xion chuckled and kneeled down beside him. "Even all those months we spent together in Organization XIII, you haven't learned your lesson in taking my ice cream."

"What exactly did you do?"

"I pushed him off the clock tower."

Silence erupted suddenly, and I broke it by saying, "Oh yeah. Kairi called, and the two boys are back at Hollow Bastion."

~?~

Sora slashed repeatedly and tirelessly at the silver haired youth, who in turn blocked the oncoming blows with his keyblade. "Sora! Please! Stop it!" Roxas cried out to his somebody, and Sora shot him a compassionate look.

"It's okay Roxas. I'll have to erase my pain, and everything... everything will be fine."

Xemnas was not focusing on the battle between friend and friend, he was summoning a portal of some sort. "Probably for Sora to escape!" Roxas thought to himself.

"Sora! Wait!" Roxas held Oblivion and Oathkeeper in his hands, and Aerith was ordered by Riku to fetch Cloud and Leon.

The blonde boy jumped in front of Riku, and Sora immediately stopped his oncoming blow and growled at Roxas, "Roxas! Move out of the way!" Roxas refused to do so, and held his keyblades in defense.

"Fine, Roxas. If that's what you want," Sora teared up, holding back a sob, a single tear sliding down his cheek. "Then I have no more to give!" Sora thrust his two keyblades easily between Roxas's defense, and Roxas slumped down.

Riku stared at Sora in shock, at what he'd just done.

What happened to Sora, the one he used to know?

Was he really gone?

Xemnas grabbed Sora's shoulder, and said, "You've done enough, pet. Into the portal you go." Sora protested, and hissed icily, "I'm not your pet, you filthy bastard. Get away from me!"

Sora jumped out of Xemnas's reach, and jumped feet first into the black portal.

Xemnas smirked, and his gaze averted onto Riku.

"My my. Want to go after him? Go ahead."

Riku raised an eyebrow at his comment, but hastily slung Roxas over his shoulder, and dived into the portal, and Xemnas murmured to himself, "Soon, Riku. Soon."

~Sora~

The icy sense of water erased my pain and I squinted a single eye open. "Where the hell...?"

Colorful breeds and varieties of coral and fish littered the atmosphere, and the tune of singing voices filled the air. Obviously, this is probably the place I wanted to be in the least, seeing the current situation I was in.

I balanced myself in the tides, my blue dolphin tail swinging up and down.

"Great, just where I wanted to be," I murmured to myself as I swam towards one of the many tunnels covering the area.

~Riku~

The salty smell of the air filled my lungs, and I felt the crush of sand beneath my skin. Was I back, at home? Back at Destiny Islands? Was everything just a dream. "Riku! Get up! It's an emergency!" Roxas shook me awake, and I squinted my eyes open.

"So you healed?" I asked, and Roxas snorted. "We're here in some damn ocean place, and I'm half fish, and that is the first question you ask me? Not, 'Where are we?' or 'Why the hell are you half fish?'"

I looked at Roxas's bottom half in acknowledgement, and his legs were replaced by a sunset orange. "Personally, I think you look great," I commented, and sighed.

"At least you can go swimming, I'm still a damn human."

Roxas smiled, and rubbed the badly bruised area of his stomach, where Sora's keyblades pierced his skin. The blonde winced slightly, and settled in the water. "I guess we'll split for now, I'll go looking for Sora in the water, and you can go looking on land. Also," Roxas tossed me a bottle.

"Found this not o far from here. Apparently, it's a potion for changing forms whenever you please. Use it if I need you under the sea."