RikkuFF10- Ok, so it took me,…I dunno, a few months? To update…and if you're reading this now, you probably just started… lyk, gosh, I suck at updating. I wanna make it perfect, so I take ages, and at the end it sucks anyway. Sad person, desu ka?

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With Riku gone, it was all anyone could do to curse in frustration. Nothing was going as planned; it was all wrong! Here they are, trapped in some place on different levels, with no way to get to each other. All they could do was sit…and wait for sumthing to happen…

~ Riku ~

As I fell, my body was focused on falling, while the rest of me…was on Sora. He was my best friend! I had known him since… since forever. There was no way…I could leave this place without him. How can I help but think… where could he be… so many complications…

You are my hikari… and I must…no WE must thwart this fiend of…all that he has planned…together. Even in a place of darkness, there is your light shining on me…I can feel it…

Riku closed his eyes, and Sora's face appeared again, smiling at him with his shimmering sea-blue eyes. White-blue magic, like twinkling fairy lights, swirled around Riku, and gradually he disappeared, into the darkness…

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~ Sora ~

Sora felt like he was living an eternity… he was giving up hope. He was trapped… and just when he was about to burst with anguish…

He felt…Riku's presence! He closed his eyes.

Together. Light. All the things Riku represented. He could see Riku… falling like an angel. And suddenly…he disappeared. Sora concentrated harder… he heard a whisper of wind beside him…

Sora opened his eyes… and there he was! He… the one he'd longed for,… RIKU. He sat still for a moment, staring at the graceful vision before him. Was he an illusion? He crept closer, up to his face.

Riku's chest slowly rose up and down…a sign that he was alive! Sora sighed in relief. His friend slowly opened his green hazy eyes, to meet Sora's cute blue ones, which were wide with curiosity. They stared at each other, their eyes forming invisible threads of webbing, tinged with silver light…

The bond of web slowly weaved together, and they both closed their eyes… growing from nowhere, orbs of slowly growing red coals sprang up from the ground, to surround the two with a pale light. As their minds linked, the orbs grew brighter, and all of a sudden---

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The two opened their eyes simultaneously, staring around in confusion. What was that…so cold…to have broken the bond of magic? The orbs of red were nowhere to be seen- and neither had anything to say, both stunned by the mysterious link that had connected one to the other…

A soft warm wind rustled past the eternity of darkness. What was that? Surprised they stared at each other, each having said…no, thought that at the same time! What was this? How could it be more confusing? The same thoughts intertwined with each other, the figments of reality broken. Magic and the supernatural took over. Black evil swirls, pelting at them, only to find themselves hitting against an invisible shield.

~ far far away, somewhere hidden in the darkness~

Grrrr…a new power! How could this be? Such force within my own domain…that have never before been experienced…a plan must be hatched. To defeat this power will be difficult…I must send out my minions. This calls for…ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION!

~ As the unknown was plotting his evil plans, Riku and Sora sat in the midst of darkness, invisibly linked by magic that seemed unbreakable…~

~ Riku ~

It was so confusing, whatever just happened… so very sudden. I just don't get it… but I'm glad I'm here. With Sora. At last we can get our friends, and get outta here. I don't know how this will work, but I'm certain we can do it. Coz we always have. Me and Sora. With this new gained power, which I'm pretty sure is something called materia, we can defeat whatever is out there. Coz to gain it, we must have been close, and hope must have been somewhere deep in our hearts.

We can definitely do it.

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RikkuFf10- Ok, so that was a chapter which was not only late, but pretty weird. I'm sorry,…but I'm realli running outta ideas! I realli need some help…so if you have any, please tell me. ANY are welcome…. Because I dunno, I'm stuck right now. REALLI STUCK. Thanks ppls.