Chapter 25: The Monster's Apartment

The three stood in the shadows of the apartment building that they had seen the two monsters with the mysterious package run into. "You sure about this Roxas?" Riku asked.

"We won't know until we find out," Roxas said running up the stairs and entered with Riku and Mickey close behind.

They climbed up a set of stairs, than another taking them to the third floor. Once there, they saw a door quickly slam shut. "That must be them," Mickey whispered.

Riku came close to the door and leaned up against it. "Oh what are we going to do Sully? What are we going to do? You had to show up in the middle of my date to bring that thing in a box and than those dark things started sprouting all over the restaurant!"

"Shh! Mike, keep your voice down. Be quiet!" the other said in a quiet tone.

There was a sound that Riku couldn't quite make out, but the other two screamed in response. "The dark things!" the first voice cried out.

"That does it," Riku said grabbing the doorknob and turned it, but it was locked. He kicked at the door furiously trying to break it down, but it still held. "And now somebody's breaking in!" said the first voice again.

"Move!" Roxas said taking out Oblivion and pointed it at the door.

A brief beam of light emitted from the keyblade as it connected with the doorknob as an unlocking noise was heard. Riku than twisted the knob and opened the door wide open. He screamed in surprise at the sight of an enormous blue, hairy creature with horns on its head roaring at him. The monster than screamed at seeing Riku and fell backwards. Riku than saw what the monster was roaring at. Three Neoshadow heartless stood frozen in fright from the roar. Roxas and Mickey jumped into the room with keyblades out and made short work of the heartless. Riku closed the door behind him as the blue monster began to get to its feet and look at them. "Who are you? How'd you get in here?" it demanded.

Another door in the apartment opened as a green thing walked out, and odd mask over it's face. Roxas and it turned to look at it as Roxas yelped in shock. The green short being had one enormous eyeball that took up most of its entire body leaving a small nose and it's mouth below the eye. "Gah! Who are you?!" The green one exclaimed, a large diving mask covering his one eye.

"Look fellas, I think we might have gotten off on the wrong page," Mickey said stepping between the four.

"But your…Mickey they're monsters!" Roxas said stopping himself from saying majesty.

"Uh, aren't we all?" the large blue one said.

Riku was still stunned at seeing the monster. He couldn't speak. The green one stepped up to Mickey, being as tall as the mouse himself. "Look pal, I don't know who you are, but you just entered our apartment without permission! Not to mention with those odd weapon things you got there."

"Mike," said the blue one in a calm voice. "They just got rid of the creatures that nearly attacked us."

"Oh…they did?" the green one said, his one eyebrow rising up in curiosity.

"Right. We heard screaming and we thought someone was in trouble," Roxas said.

Riku slowly nodded, but didn't say anything. Then there was another noise from the door the green one had just come from. The two monsters ran from the door screaming again as they ran to the other side of the apartment and hid behind a sofa. Roxas brought Oathkeeper out to accompany Oblivion for whatever came from the other room. Than a small human child walked out of the room. A girl in fact. Roxas moved his weapons to the side looking at the child in curiosity. "Mickey, I thought you said this world was a world of monsters, not humans," Roxas said quietly so only The King and Riku could hear him.

"But it is…" Mickey said.

Riku starting to come out of his shocked daze walked towards the child. The green monster than looked over the couch. "DON'T TOUCH IT!!!" he yelled as he ran over, oven mitts now on his small hands. He past them grabbing the small girl with the oven mitts holding her away as far from him while trying to put her in a small waste bin.

Unfortunately, he tripped over a small dumbbell and flew across the room, dropping the girl back onto a rug as he screamed and hit the wall, falling into the waste bin himself. The wall shook the bookshelf next to the waste bin as books on the top fell on top of the green monster comically. The girl saw this and started laughing really loud as all the light is the room began to glow extremely bright in the room until a fuse was broken and all the electricity went out.

The blue one looked over the couch. "What was that?"

"Laughter," Riku said matter of factually as the little girl now giggled.

The small green one climbed out of the waste bin rubbing his head. "Why didn't you attack the human!" it said.

"Attack a little girl? Are you mad?" Riku said.

"It's a human! Are you mad!?" the green monster said.

Mickey stepped between the two, playing peace keeper once again. "Fellas, please! Look, we're new around here and we don't know much about the way things go around here."

"New?" The green one said.

"Look, Mike, they stopped those dark things, and we should be thankful for that," the blue one said walking closer.

"But there is still a child here! A human child Sully! That is a major problem. Not to mention it blew all the electricity out."

The girl continued to giggle on the floor. "Look, perhaps if we knew a bit about each other, maybe we might learn something from each other," Mickey said.

"Mike Wazoski," said the small green one walking in a large circle away from the child to stand next to the blue one again.

"James P. Sullivan," said the blue one, "but Mike and friends call my Sully."

"Well I'm Mickey. This is Roxas and Riku. It sure is nice to meet ya," Mickey said putting away his keyblade.

"I beg to differ," Riku said stepping forward. "Me and this 'Sulivan' have met before."

The blue monster surprised. "We have? I don't recall meeting you before, although you remind me of someone at work."

"Really, I'm guessing the name Riku doesn't ring a bell?" He than brought one of his odd scaled hands to his silver hair. "Especially with silver hair."

"Riku, how could you have ever met him before?" Roxas said.

Riku turned to Roxas, but faced the large blue monster again. "He was the monster in my closet when I was a kid."

James P. Sullivan- Scaer resident of and works for Monsters Inc. Sully first appeared in Monsters Inc.

Mike Wazoski- Sulley's assistant and best friend. Mike first appeared in Monsters Inc.

Yep, Riku had monsters in the closet when he was a kid too. Hard to imagine, but apparently Riku's not to happy to meet Sully again.

In other news...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! I resolve to get chapters up more often. Hopefully I won't break that resolution. I'm going to try to make this world go much faster than the coluseium so the fanfiction can keep flowing. Also when I said about sketches of the monster forms of Riku and Roxas getting put on my DA...yeah, not going to happen because my scanner went wacko. Sorry X_X.

More to come soon!

Dezblade