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Chapter three

Riku smirked as he drew out his Keyblades. "I know you to be a Keyblade master as well. Draw your sword prepare for death!" Riku said charging forward into battle. He jumped high into the air, rain slightly obstructing his view. He brought the keyblade of destruction slashing down. But his opponent was quick and dodged the attack. This new keyblade master mocked him " Hehehe, you'll have to do better then that," said a delicate voice beneath the darkness of the hood. Though Riku was quite shocked, he did not let it show. "So," he said calmly "you're a keyblade mistress"
The girl giggled, " Why yes I guess I am". Riku grinned evilly, for now he thought this would be a short-lived fight. He ran towards the girl. His keyblades searching for a weak spot in her defense. She dodged all his attacks swiftly not bothering to even try to attack him. As he saw this he started to formulate plans for attacks. "DARK NIGHT!" he shouted. A dark substance poured from his sword and inched toward the girl. She lifted her keyblade to the sky " Stars gift" she said softly. A burst of soft light streamed forth from the clouds that now covered the night sky. It swirled around her keyblade and united with it. She pointed her keyblade toward the dark mass that was approaching her, " STAR'S BEAM!" she shouted. A beam of light reached slowly out and encircled the dark mass, destroying it. She turned to Riku " no more playing" she said harshly. She drew out a small chain and attached it to her keyblade, "Forgotten promises" she said softly. She then brought the sword back and flicked it forward. It extended into something that looked like a sword/whip.
Riku grinned beneath his hooded cloak. He jumped high into the air and started to spin like a tornado. As he spun he pointed his swords out. The tornado laced with swords started for the girl. She pulled her sword/whip back and slashed through the tornado. Riku suddenly felt something wrap around his neck. He was pulled to a sudden stop as the girls sword/whip tightened around his neck cutting into his hood and finally his flesh. The Girl tugged the sword back making Riku lose his balance and fall to the ground grasping his neck. In one swift motion she released the swords grip on Riku's neck . She walked up to where stood. " Come on you can't give up now. I thought I was supposed to prepare for death?" Riku stood up. "Yes, a guess I should quit toying with you." He said going into an attack of rage. He flew at her and slashed open her shoulder. His speed was amazing. He whipped around and continued his assault by delivering a swift kick in her back hitting the spine. The girl went to her knees. Riku approached her smirking under the darkness of his hood. He raised one of his keyblades in preparation for the death strike. But the girl recovered herself quickly, and gave him a heavy kick with her metal-soled shoe knocking him across the garden. She bent down and started to undo her many shoe buckles. Riku got to his feet and again started forwarded. He watched as the girl slowly got to her feet. She started slowly toward him then turned into a black blur streaking towards him. She had become much too quick for him without her heavy shoes. "So." Said Riku "that's why your footsteps sounded so heavy, you wear metal-soled shoes. Interesting". The girl paid no heed, and lashed open his arm her strange sword.
Riku gritted his teeth against the sharp pain it inflicted. His anger rose to a freighting height. He once again ran toward the girl. He raised his sword over her head. She pulled her strange sword back and it turned into a normal sword. Riku brought his own sword down. She blocked the blow with her sword. It is at this time that Riku noticed the fatal flaw in her defense. With her sword blocking one blow it was impossible to block another. Riku lunged his other keyblade through the girl's stomach impaling her.
The girl stumbled backwards clenching her own sword as well as the hilt of sword that was now through her body. A smile of pure victory spread across Riku's hooded face. He had won.
The girl fell to her knees. The hood that had concealed her face slid gently off espousing a mess of long reddish-brown hair. Her eyes clenched as she grimaced with pain. A small trickle of blood escaped her mouth and drifted down to her chin.
Riku's look of victory melted instantly into a look of pure horror. " Kairi?... KAIRI!!!!" He screamed. He ran to her side and pulled the sword from her stomach, and then he laid her down in his arms. She pulled up her own keyblade and pointed it towards the sky. "Cura" she said softly. Green light surrounded her body healing her wounds. Riku looked at the girl "Kairi.." He said. The girl turned her face to him. " I am not Kairi!" she said as she took her keyblade and blasted his jaw with the hilt of it knocking him to the ground. As he got from the ground, his hood also slid off.
The girl's mouth stood agape " Riku.." She lunged at him. At first Riku thought she was going to attack him, but then he felt her arms wrap around him in am embrace. He looked at her. He looked over the red hair and her facial structure. "This has to be Kairi" he thought. But then his gaze wandered to her eyes and for the first time he noticed something. Her eyes were an emerald green, not the deep blue he so clearly remembered Kairi having. The girl pulled him down into a deep kiss. This time Riku could not help but let his surprise be shown. "What the fuck is going on?" he thought to himself wonderingly. A girl, whom he was sure he had never met, was kissing him? He could feel her tongue moving gently on his lips. He also became aware of a cold, wet hand on his neck inching toward his hairline. Rain splattered on his face. It was the first time since putting his hood up he had even noticed it was raining. He pulled away from the kiss looking very confused (which he rarely does). He looked into her eyes as if searching them for some untold secret. "Uh," he said " Who are y==" Riku was cut suddenly off as lighting struck the tree they were currently by. The tree splintered. Riku watched as it slowly came tumbling down. They were right in its path. Riku looked to the girl beside him, a look of horror in his eyes. He forgot everything else. " KAIRI!" he said shoving her aside just in time to take on the full blow of the gigantic Oak tree. Riku's last sight before falling unconscious was the girl trying to remove the Oak tree that had pinned him to the ground so easily.

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