A/n: Well, this is a really short chapter, but I think it just had to end where it did. I'll try and get the next chapter up quickly, but I don't know how fast I'll be… Notes to those who reviewed as usual at the bottom!

What's going on? My eyes snapped open and stared into the dark with a fuzzy surface cushioning my face. I struggled again as I felt the pressure on my back. There's no way they're taking me alive—

            "Sora." The person atop me growled in frustration under his breath. "When did you get so strong?" I laughed silently, for the first time recognizing my position and the voice. This pin, it was a trademark of Riku's. My voice was muffled into the carpet, but he apparently heard me. I was flipped over instantly.

            "What's going--?"

            "Sora!" his eyes were glowing green, unlike the peaceful aquamarine color I was used to. I'd never admit it to anyone else, but I was scared…very scared. "What do you think you were doing? You could have killed someone. You could have killed me. You could have killed..." his voice softened a little, his eye color slowly returning to its natural state. "Yourself." He finished. My mind went blank.  I could have killed…someone?

            I chanced a glance beyond Riku to see Kairi standing in the doorway in her pink nightgown looking worried. And to the right of Riku I could see the Queen, and behind her the King. Oh no. I groaned. This isn't getting any better.

            "Sora…are you alright?" Kairi rushed up to me throwing her arms around my neck. "I was so worried about you are you ok? What happened? Why were you acting like that?" I returned the embrace, very confused.

            I saw Riku shake his head out of the corner of my eye. Why doesn't anything make sense?  Kairi was waiting for an answer, but I had none to supply for her. Her arm resting on my shoulder now cast a blaze around the area which shot down my arm. I winced.

            "Oh, Sora! You're hurt!" Before I knew what was happening, she had removed the night shirt I was using and was inspecting the gash on my shoulder; as I had expected, there were five deep marks—claw wounds.

            Kairi was looking away from me now and I followed her gaze to Riku who had a slight blush on his face. It wasn't noticeable, but I knew after hanging out with him for so long that's what it was.

            "You'll get over it." He told me, nodding towards my shoulder. "There was just no way to keep you still…" I sighed. So he's saying he did this? Argh!

            "Sora," King Mickey piped up for the first time. "We need to talk…but get some sleep, ok?" his cheery voice held a strange note of seriousness in it, but the light heartedness still managed to remain. I nodded. Pain was still screaming in my shoulder. "Curagra!" Mickey laughed, clearing the marks on my shoulder completely, relieving the pain.

            I looked at him, then back at my shoulder, and then returned my gaze once again to the mouse, mouth agape. "How did you--?" The king chuckled again.

            "You'll see tomorrow, now, get some sleep." With that, his majesty left the room with his queen trailing him.

            Kairi hugged me again but started crying into my now-healed shoulder. Warm tears splashed against my bare skin and I rubbed her back in soothing circles. "Hey Kairi, it's going to be alright, don't worry about it." I gave her my cheesy smile.

            My friend's violet eyes looked deep into mine as if searching to see if I really believed what I told her. I nodded to reassure her then she stood up, handing me back the red nightshirt she'd taken.

            The shoulder of the shirt was somewhat bloody, but I slipped back into my beloved shirt, one of the few things I had taken from home when we left on the raft.

            Riku stood and held out a hand to me which I accepted gladly. The night's events were still confusing me, but better to dwell on that later. "Sorry." I mumbled under my breath as I passed him to get into the bed from my side. "Didn't mean to hurt anyone..."

            The bed was unusually cold and hard like stone as I climbed under the covers. I heard my silver haired friend sigh and slip in next to me.

            "Riku, what's going on?" I asked quietly as I turned to look at him. He and I both knew I never had slept walked at night, the worst thing I'd done was talk in my sleep. His aquamarine eyes looked at me and searched my face for something unknown.

            "You dreamt something, you're uneasy about being away from home, that's all." He replied as coolly as ever and rolled to face away from me. I accepted this for the time being, and fell asleep. Other questions would just have to wait till morning.

            I followed the long hallway till I could go no farther and a pair of double doors at least five times my height stood before m. Looking closely, I saw as my summoner said there would be; a smaller door my size which opened with ease.

            Inside seemed as long as some of the hallways; it must have been one of the biggest rooms in the castle. A red carpet flowed under my shoes as I walked along. At the end of the rug, a chair sat with a familiar mouse seated in it, waiting patiently for me. The duck that had competed yesterday with others against Kairi and Riku stood beside the king.

            "Great to see ya, Sora!" His majesty greeted me, and I returned the welcome. "Donald, would ya whip us up another chair? You can leave then, too." Donald nodded and with a wave of his magic wand, a chair appeared just in front of King Mickey's. Donald, with a last goodbye, left the way I had come.

            "Take a seat, Sora," the king smiled warmly as I did as I was told.

            "You wanted to see me?"

            Mickey nodded. "Could ya tell me what happened last night?"

            The scene came flooding back to me and I frowned. "Riku says—"

            "What you think, or from what you'd have thought if you hadn't talked with your friend, Riku."

            "Oh," I paused, "well, I was in this jungle…" I continued to relay what didn't seem so much like a dream now to the king.

            "I see…" His majesty mused as I finished the tale. "And before that you were at the Coliseum?" I nodded.

            "Sora," the king was very serious, "let me show you something." The mouse stood up and I followed suit. He walked behind his chair and revealed on the other side a large keyhole.

            The mouse held his hand out and a large key materialized in his hand. I watched in awe as he pointed the key at the keyhole. It opened. Light bursts from the door that had opened and flowed around our bodies. Mickey stepped through it, beckoning to me to follow.

            "This is a place between all the worlds. Welcome to what I call "The Void.""

A/n: So what'd you think? Please review! That's the only way I'll ever finish this!! Once again thanks to those of you that reviewed, and to any that didn't, shame on you! Help me out and review!!

Dual Keyblade Master: Hmm, yeah, Sora is always out of character, well, I can't seem to figure out what to do with him…was there perhaps an instance in previous chapters that he was fully in character that I could refer to? Or if there was a small scene that you think he would have reacted a little differently to (that wouldn't change how it ended up) could you tell me what should have happened? I'm trying to figure Sora out, but I can't seem to do it. *sigh* You'd think I'd have Sora more in character then all the rest…figures…

Silver Angel: Well, this is a fairly quick update I guess…sorry it's so short, but I'll try to get up the next chapter soon… 

Angel Bliss: Yay! I'm glad to hear from you (as always) and I'm glad to hear you liked it. Tell me what you think of this chapter!

Dark Platypus: Well, it's not really riku/sora, so that makes some happy, but it's also written so it could be (if one is a real yaoi fan) seen that way. But if you don't want to see Riku and Sora's relationship as more than a friendship, that's great ^.^ whatever makes you happy!

Lily: No worries, I won't let anything too bad happen to Sora, I love him too, so no fear there…FFX is great, though I'm trying to not play that much and still update for you guys…Umm I did get your e-mail, and I'll see what I can do on the side to write like a little yaoi ficlet or something, I've never really written anything like that… Umm, if you have an idea or something that would be somewhere to start…otherwise I'll try to come up with something, but that could take a really, really long time, so I would suggest if you have an idea to give it to me and I'll see if I can write something to that effect…

Maxine:  Yeah, Jungle Book is pretty cool…I just had to add them in, I was kind of surprised to find that like no one's fics I've read have used the Jungle Book…maybe I just haven't read them all...  Umm, I don't think that was a cliffhanger at the end of this chapter was it? Maybe….I don't know, hehe.  You can make up as many side stories as you like ^.^ and maybe in time, they will all pay off…(and I won't tell you what I mean by that) ~.^