"A guinea pig tricked you? That's the best excuse you could come up with?" Riku snapped at Katie as they hurried up the stairs away from the dungeons.

"I believe it." Carolyn sighed, "It's happened before…twice actually."

 "One time she got her head stuck in a hamster cage!" Caitlin added, "It took all of us four hours to yank it off!"


 "Don't forget, it was YOUR idea to let them come!" Tidus snapped at Sora.

"Shut up! I was only-," He didn't get to finish. He'd collided with someone who'd been running in the opposite direction. He blinked and looked up at the person he'd collided with. It was Mia.

"Mia! You're okay!" Katie cried in relief.

"Yeah." She said standing up, "I knocked out the guard and broke out of my cell."

 "Wow! Mia, that doesn't sound like you at all!" Rikku said sounding impressed.

"What?" Mia said in shock.

Carolyn laughed and patted her on the back. "Hey no sweat! That was some great shit you pulled! I would've done the same thing…except I would've done it a lot sooner, but still…"

"You're not helping."

"Cell?" Riku said sounding nervous. "You were in the dungeon?"

 "Yeah, in cell 27. Why do you ask?" Mia said frowning slightly.

"Uh…no reason."

 "Hey Riku, weren't we in cell 25?" Katie asked.

"Shut up!" He hissed. But Mia had already heard.

"Riku darling," She hissed. Her voice was so cold it sent shivers down his spine. "Are you saying that you were only two cells away from me and you didn't even bother to check?"

"Well we were…uh…kinda in a rush to beat Cedric and everything…" He gulped.

"But didn't we come here to rescue Mia in the first place?" Katie chimed in.

"Quiet or I'll dribble you around the room a few times." Riku snarled.

"Oh I get it," Mia said putting her hands on her hips in anger, "Some petty fight with Cedric is more important than getting me out of a cramped, dark, dirty prison cell! You always have to play Mr. Macho don't you?! STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!"

"I'M STUPID?! LOOK WHO GOT KIDNAPPED JUST FROM FALLING IN SOME STUPID WATER!"

"Holy Crap!" Wakka cried slapping himself on the forehead, "They're fighting now!"

"How sweet," A cold voice drawled, "A lover's spat."

Everyone turned around. Cedric, (who else?) was standing on the other side of the hall. His arms were folded and he was leaning against the wall.

"Cram it asshole!" Riku snapped, "This has nothing to do with you!"

"Heh. Well I suppose I should've expected this. It was too perfect to last. I shouldn't have bothered trying to break you two up, you're taking care of it yourselves!"

"Who said anything…" Riku growled, "ABOUT BREAKING UP?!"

Mia's eyes widened. She looked at Cedric's forehead. Then line on his forehead had opened. Mia thought she could see a red eye beginning to open under the eyelid.

"So it was an eye…" Mia whispered. "RIKU! HIS FOREHEAD!"

Everyone turned their attention towards Cedric.

"Now that is WEIRD!" Tommy groaned.

"It looks as if it's an opening eye. But it's opening very, very slowly." Yuna said frowning.

"I'll just gouge that eye out of his head!" Riku yelled drawing his keyblade and running at Cedric. Cedric calmly drew the phantom keyblade and held it up. As the two swords collided a burst of red energy blasted him back into the wall.

"That does it!" Sora yelled. He drew his own keyblade and ran at Cedric. Cedric preformed a horizontal swipe before Sora even reached him. Another blast of energy knocked the young keyblade master off his feet.

"Are you okay?" Kairi asked kneeling by him.

"I'm fine." Sora said wiping a fleck of blood away from the corner of his mouth, "But where does he get all that power?"

 "It must be that new keyblade of his!" Carolyn cried frantically.

"So he's got some new moves! Big whoop!" Riku snapped, "I'll slice off his arm along with that sword!" He started running towards Cedric, but Cedric jumped into the air and raised his sword above his head.

"THIS IS FOR MY FATHER!" He roared as his sword began to glow blood-red, "WHATEVER MADE YOU THINK YOU COULD DEFEAT ME?! CEDRIC, KING OF THE HEARTLESS!"

Author's Notes: HAHA! ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER!