Author's Note: Okay, so since everyone had such convincing arguments on what I should post, I'm compromising. Plus, I don't think I can finish the battle in one chapter. Anyway, here is the special chapter 50 :) I hope everyone enjoys it. It's just a little random Gummi Ship scene with no plot forwardness or anything-just good fun. Tomorrow, I shall continue posting the battle.


"I was aiming for it to get caught in your hair."

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-On the Gummi Ship, after Neverland-

Riku was driving, Sora and Kairi were playing a card game, Axel was currently throwing darts at a dartboard with particular people's faces on them. He'd hit Larxene three times in a row.

Kairi was beating Sora massively. This was their sixth or seventh game, and Kairi had won every one of them.

"I just don't get it," Sora said, looking at his cards. "How is it that you keep creaming me?"

"She picked up cheating from Luxord," Axel said, closing one eye as he aimed a dart at Marluxia's eye.

"Luxord doesn't cheat," Kairi said. "He just knows how to play cards."

"And apparently," Sora said. "So do you."

"It's the crown," Kairi said, gesturing to the bronze tiara that was still on her head.

"Lemme see that," Sora said, reaching over to grab the tiara.

Kairi swiftly took it off her head and held it just out of Sora's reach. Axel took that opportunity to shoot a dart through it. The dart caught hold of the tiara and somehow managed to carry it all the way to the dartboard. The dart hit right in the middle of Xehanort's forehead, the tiara still dangling off of it.

"Hey!" Kairi exclaimed, getting up to go retrieve the tiara. "No fair!"

"You just happened to hold it in my way!" Axel said, trying to pretend he was innocent.

"It wouldn't have happened if you didn't insist on putting the dartboard practically over our heads!" Sora said, naturally coming to Kairi's defense.

"You were the ones who decided it would be a good idea to sit in the crossfire of my target-practice!"

"Hey! More smiling, less arguing!" Riku called back to them.

Kairi yanked her tiara off the dartboard, taking the dart with it.

"Darn, that was a practically perfect shot," Axel muttered.

Kairi rolled her eyes as she put the tiara back on her head. She sat down once again across from Sora and gathered the cards, getting ready to deal out another game.

"Why make sure your aim is perfect?" Sora asked. "You could just light your enemies on fire."

"Fire isn't everything to me in battle," Axel said, throwing another dart. It got Larxene in the mouth. "I've gotta have good aim. Especially since my targets don't like to stay still."

"So you have a dartboard?" Kairi asked.

"Yup," Axel replied, sending another dart over their heads to the dartboard. It whizzed just over their heads, it probably would have taken out one of Sora's spikes had it been a knife. Then it promptly got Xehanort in the nose.

"Nice shot," Riku said.

"Don't encourage him!" Kairi said, exasperated. "We grew up with you telling me not to encourage Sora in his… weirdness…"

Sora looked up from his cards. "Hey! I am not weird!"

Kairi raised an eyebrow. "Remember the coconut?"

Sora scratched his head. "Uh, which coconut which time?"

"The time where you wanted to keep one as a pet?" Riku asked. "Or perhaps she's referring to the time when you dressed three different coconuts up as each of us and sent them to battle against the three other coconuts you dressed up like Tidus, Wakka and Selphie?"

Kairi laughed. "If I had been referring to that one, I would have said coconuts—plural."

Riku shrugged. "So you were talking about the time where he brought one home as a pet?"

"Yeah."

Axel was practically falling out of his chair he was laughing so hard. "You dressed coconuts as people and sent them to battle against each other? That's hilarious!"

"What's even funnier is that Coconut-Sora was always the last man, er, coconut, standing," Riku said.

"Hey, Sora has gotten a lot better at fighting over the past couple of years," Kairi said.

"Yeah!" Sora agreed.

Riku shrugged.

"I think you're amazing in battle," Kairi whispered to Sora. He grinned.

"I am not amazing at cards though," he admitted, folding his hand.

"Maybe we should play something else?" Kairi suggested. "What about checkers?"

"I don't think we have checkers on this ship anywhere," Sora said.

"You don't," Axel said. "If you did, I would have used them for target practice."

"Would you have been shooting the checkers as if they were targets, or using the checkers as darts?" Sora asked.

"C," Axel replied. "All of the above."

"Maybe I should wear the tiara for a round," Sora said. "Perhaps it's good luck."

Kairi took the tiara off and examined it. "This old thing? I doubt it. Besides, I'm the Princess. I get to wear the tiara."

Sora sighed.

"You do make a nice princess though," he said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kairi asked.

"It was supposed to be a compliment," Sora mumbled.

"Oh!" Kairi exclaimed, blushing slightly. "Thanks."

"Oh please," Axel said, turning away from them. "Wake me when it's over."

Sora and Kairi both looked at him in confusion. Riku tried to control his laughter from the driver's seat.

"We could play something less complicated than Gin Rummy," Kairi suggested, changing the subject. "What about Crazy Eights?"

Sora sighed and flopped back on the floor, setting his cards down.

"Nah, it's no use. I'm just no good at cards, apparently."

"Neither was Roxas," Axel muttered, remembering the few times he'd played cards with Roxas and Luxord and whatever other person they could pull in. If Axel had learned anything from those card-playing sessions, it was never be on a team with Roxas. Though, that could just be because if one was on a team with Roxas, they weren't on a team with Luxord.

Kairi set her cards down as well and lay back on the floor alongside Sora. She looked over at him.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked.

Sora looked over at her, a tad surprised at this question. He had to think for a moment, given the fact that he hadn't really been thinking about all that much prior to her question… just that…

"Well, I'm happy that you got to come along with us this time," he said.

Kairi giggled. "Is that seriously what you were thinking?"

"Well, it's what I'm thinking about now," Sora replied with a lopsided grin.

Axel rolled his eyes and elected not to listen to any more of their conversation. Riku decided to focus on where he was driving in an attempt to give them some privacy.

Kairi smiled, resting her hands on her stomach. "I'm glad I got to come too. It's fun, being with you guys. And I haven't gotten really seriously injured."

"Well, there was that time with the Trinity Armor," Sora said.

Kairi shrugged. "I survived, didn't I?"

"True," Sora said.

"Anyway," Kairi said. "It's great mostly because I get to be with you guys."

Sora grinned.

Riku sighed, wondering if the two of them would ever admit that they liked each other. He had caught the way Kairi said 'you guys.' The 'guys' had been an afterthought. He wasn't jealous or anything, he just wished that the two of them would admit their feelings and move on. Because they were just being ridiculous right now. Absolutely ridiculous.

"I got your tiara," Sora teased as he grabbed the tiara away from Kairi.

She sighed. "It was only a matter of time."

Sora sat up. "Let's try another round of cards."

"Yes, Princess Sora," Kairi replied, sitting up as well.

"Hey! I'm a Prince, not a Princess."

"You're wearing a tiara," Kairi said flatly.

"Hey, at least it's not a dress," Axel said.

"I thought you had tuned out," Sora said.

Axel threw a dart. It got caught in Sora's hair.

"Hey!" he said, pulling the dart out. "That was close! You could have poked an eye out!"

"I have better aim than that," Axel said. "I was aiming for it to get caught in your hair."

Sora growled and started shuffling the cards.