Ah yes, here's chapter 17. Getting close to 20, which I assure you there will be. This fic's turning out to be longer than I had ever thought it would turn out to be. Almost 50 reviews! Just one more! I wonder how many I'll get when I finish this thing...hmm... Oh well. Anyway, enjoy chapter 17.
Claimer: I DO own Falina, Ceres, Narimo, Tetra, Inge, Helios, and the plot.
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Ceres came in with Falina squirming in his grasp and yelling muffled insults at him. Narimo looked up at them, as they walked into the room.
"I see you finally got her." She said.
"Yes, and if you don't mind I need to go tie her up in one of the empty chambers before she bites me again." He pulled up his sleeve to show her the small bleeding wound where Falina had bitten him on their way here. Narimo grinned at him with a closed mouth. He always did look like a bit of a fool to her sometimes.
He took her down into a different room that was empty except for a few misc and unimportant things here and there. He grabbed her by the back of the collar on her shirt and threw her inside. She landed on her side but quickly sat up. He walked in towards her. She scooted back away from him to about a foot away from the wall.
He stopped about a foot before her. He thrust out his hand towards her and she jumped back. He simply smirked. After a couple of seconds a smooth, white collar appeared around her neck, and a white chain came out of it and attached itself to the wall behind her, yanking her head back and causing her to yelp. She looked down at it as she grabbed it with one hand and then looked back up at him.
"What am I a fucking dog?" She spat angrily at him.
"No. Dogs are less foul beings." He smirked, causing her to glare even more hatefully.
Then similar white collars formed around her wrists and ankles. Her wrists were pulled together as a short white chain connected them, not giving her much room to move them. Her ankles were done the same way. Ceres pulled his hand back, his magic done.
"Your friends should be here soon. I don't think your little boyfriend is going to let me take you that easily. I shall simply wait for them, and when they get here...kill them." He grinned down at her. She tried to jump at him but was held back by the collar on her neck.
"I don't see why you don't just kill me now. Aren't I the one you want?" She said.
"Yes, and I would like to kill you now. But I'd rather make you suffer and kill your friends in front of your eyes, then take your necklace and, kill you." He grinned. He turned and left as she glared hatefully after him.
As he shut the door behind him Falina slumped down. The chain was long enough for her to lay down, so she did. She laid there crying to herself in all her misery.
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Sora and the others were close. They had to stop and rest along the way, since they were running all the way. After several minutes they now stood before the castle.
Tetra led them into a back door. She then led them down a quick flight of stairs, leading to lower chambers.
"Uh, Tetra, why are we going down when it's most likely Ceres is up?" Riku asked.
"We should rescue Falina first, and if I know him he has her locked away in a chamber down here. That's what he did with me as soon as he caught me, just threw me into a cell." She replied.
They came to a hall with fours chambers, two on each side. Falina was in one of them. She heard them coming, but only thought it to be Ceres or some other unwelcome being. So she just continued laying there, her face towards the wall.
Sora was looking in the small windows on each door. When he came to the second door on the left he saw Falina laying there, chained up. He quickly turned to the others.
"Guys I found her!" He whispered loudly, so Ceres or anyone wouldn't hear him. They all ran over to him. He tried opening the door, but it was locked.
"Damn it, the door's locked." He said to the others.
"Allow me." Riku said as he smiled. He backed up a little and ran towards the door.
To everyone's surprise he rammed it down with his shoulder. He stood just inside the door grabbing his sore shoulder. "Ow. Wooden doors hurt." Everyone rolled their eyes and smirked.
Falina quickly sat up, accidently hurting her neck in the process since she forgot about the chain. She let out a quick yelp from the pain but just rubbed her sore neck, then looked up.
"Sora, Riku, Tetra, Inge! You guys actually made it in here." She exclaimed.
"Of course we did." Said Inge holding her sword over her shoulder.
Sora ran up to Falina and hugged her tightly, though she couldn't exactly hug him back due to the chains and collars.
"Are you ok? He didn't hurt you did he?" He asked worriedly. He then noticed the white collars.
"I'm fine, but he did put these weird white bands on me." She replied. Sora picked up her hand and looked at the white band.
"Yeah I noticed. I was gonna ask what the heck was up with those. How do we get em off?" He asked.
"I don't know, he put them on with some kind of magic." The others walked up behind Sora. Inge stepped up beside her.
"Maybe we can cut the chains." She said holding up her sword.
"It's worth a try." Sora said. Falina held her wrists apart as far as the chain would allow, and held her hands out away from her, and Inge raised her sword up. "Be careful though!" Sora added.
"I am don't worry." She said. She pulled the sword down right in between her hands and quickly pulled it away from her. It worked. The chain split and she could move her hands independantly, and the collars disappeared.
She moved her hands around and rubbed her sore wrists.
"Ok, now for the chain on your neck." Inge said as she moved back to the side. Falina pulled her head out until she felt the chain pull on her neck.
Inge brought her sword down and broke the chain, and the collar disappeared. It sorta hurt her neck because she brought the chain out a little far and when the sword came down on it, it pulled the chain down, causing it to pull on her neck. She just rubbed it and it felt a little better.
"Ok, now let's get outta here." Riku said as they all started to get up and walk out.
"Uh, I'd love to get out of here guys, but there's one problem you forgot." Falina said. The others turned around to see her pointing to the bands still around her ankles.
"Oh, sorry." Riku smiled. Inge went over and cut the chain on her ankles and the bands disappeared. Falina got up, adjusting her ankles to getting used to moving freely again.
"Ok, now we can go." Sora said as he went back by Falina. They all ran out the door and started running down the halls to the door they came in through.
They got to it only to find out that the door had been blocked. Tetra looked around nervously.
"Ok, so apparently he knows we're here." She said. "This way." She led them a different way, seeming to go deeper and higher into the castle. "The only other door to outside is up another floor. You can think of this as the basement sorta. But going this way will most likely lead us practically right to him, though we haven't much of a choice."
They went up another short flight of stairs and down another hall. After turning another couple of corners, they came to the entrance of a large room.
Tetra stopped them before they went in. She stood quiet as she listened for any sound indicating that Ceres or Narimo was in there.
"Hold up guys. He might be in this room. Besides his own chamber, this is the room he spent the most time in. Be on your guard." She whispered. Riku became a little nervous about her going ahead of them. She peeked around the corner, seeing nothing, led them on.
Only about three seconds passed before, right in front of their oblivious eyes, a dagger was thrown out of nowhere and hit Tetra right in her upper arm, causing her to scream.
They all gasped as she went to her knees, grabbing her arm and cringing in pain.
Riku ran up to her and supported her from falling over, scared out of his mind.
They heard a deep voice laughing, and they averted their gaze to the middle of the room where Ceres appeared, his arms crossed over his chest and grinning at their pathetic attempt to escape.
"You fools thought it would be that easy? Just slip in and get Falina and leave thinking I wouldn't notice. I don't think so." He said.
Sora grit his teeth and held his hand out to the side. The Keyblade suddenly appeared in his hand, and Ceres looked down at it.
"Oh, did I make you mad?" He asked in a fake apologetic voice. "Personally I'm surprised you imbiciles managed to get the chains off of her, though I did make it easy, just to see if you could do it, and it didn't matter if you got her free. None of you are leaving here alive either way."
"You can think again Ceres. Not only will we get outta here with our lives, but we'll kill you as well." Sora said. Ceres was bcoming aggravated with the boy's seeming overconfidence.
Meanwhile, Riku was trying to help Tetra as well as he could. She still grabbed her arm in pain, and he still supported her.
"I'm going to take the dagger out ok?" He said, making sure she was ready. She nodded, her face still cringing.
He gently put his hand around the handle, and slowly eased the blade out, which was covered with her blood. It made her wince a little more, but it did feel a little better.
Blood was now flowing out of her wound and Riku's hand had a lot of her blood on it. Inge ran over to help them. She got down beside them and pulled out a sort of bandage that she carried for the handle of her sword, and handed it to Riku. She stood back up, in case Ceres decided to try anything.
Riku took it and carefully began wrapping it around her arm, surpressing the bleeding. He tied it tightly but gently.
"Is that better?" He asked her still sounding worried. She nodded.
"Yeah it is, thanks." She added and smiled at him. He helped her stand up, and they all averted their attention back to the demon. Riku staring with very cold eyes filled with hate at him.
"Now, let's see, what shall I do next, hmm?" Ceres said to himself while looking at the group in front of him. Falina was becoming annoyed with his arrogance and cruelty.
"What you'll do next, Ceres, is shut the hell up!" She yelled at him. Sora looked down at her a little surprised.
"Falina don't, you're gonna get yourself hurt." He said quietly to her. She continued looking angrily at Ceres.
"Ah, a little brave aren't we Falina?" He said.
He held his arm out towards her, but nothing seemed to happen. Sora stared at him for a couple of seconds wondering what he was going to do, then looked at Falina. He gasped.
Falina's eyes were wide, her mouth open. She grabbed her neck with her hands, and was making a few choking sounds, as though she couldn't breath. Sora started to put a hand on her shoulder when she fell to her knees. He quickly got down beside her.
"Falina, what's wrong?!" He asked her, becoming more scared. She closed her eyes and managed to choke out a few words.
"I-I...can't...breath." Sora became more worried."It's... like...someone's... choking me." She gasped out, a couple of tears going down her red cheeks. Sora quickly looked at Ceres with furious eyes.
"Ceres, stop it right now!" He demanded. Ceres' evil smile became a slight frown.
"Very well then. You're no fun." He replied. He took his hand down back to his side.
Falina suddenly let out a relieving gasp and leaned over, breathing hard. A few more seconds and she felt as though she was going to faint. It seemed to her that everything was trying to hurt or kill her by way of her neck.
"Are you ok now?" Sora asked her.
"Yeah, I'm ok now. I just need to catch my breath." She slowly replied and coughed a little. He nodded and stood up, glaring at Ceres.
"Shall we fight now? Or do I have to kill someone to get you to." He asked.
"If that's what you wanted you shoulda said so, cause I've been ready to wring your neck since I got here!" Sora shouted back, readying his Keyblade.
Inge got her sword ready, in case Ceres decided to go straight for Falina. Tetra looked up at Riku.
"Aren't you going to help them? If I remember correctly you were a Keyblade master too were you not?" She asked. He looked down at her a slight look of worry on his face.
"The keyword being 'were'. I used to be but I don't have the Keyblade anymore, remember?" He trailed off.
"Oh yeah that's right, forgot about that part. Well can't you still help?" She asked.
"Yeah, if I had sword or some kind of weapon." He replied.
"Here!" Inge shouted as she tossed him a sword.
"Where'd you get this?" He asked as he looked at it. It had a black handle and a silver hilt.
She pointed to a sword the hung diagnally on the wall. The sword she took down had it's blade across the other's diagnolly before she took it down.
"I see. Thanks." He said as he flipped the sword's handle into his hand and got it ready.
He walked up beside Sora and got in his fighting stance. Ceres noticed Riku's sword.
"So you're going to fight too. That makes things more interesting. I shall fight you with only my sword, and not use my magic." He said with a slight grin.
They stood there, glaring at each other, ready to kill each other. The big fight was about to begin.
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Author's Notes: Blah, not much to say about this chapter. Not too much happened, but action will most certainly ensue in the next, as I'm sure you all guessed. And now to thank all my wonderful reviewers...and some of my not so wonderful.
Reviewer Credits:
Aniiston: Yes, 16 was a lovely chapter. Actually when I was writing it I hadn't planned on Falina getting kidnapped right after she got her memory back, lol. I just wanted her to get her memory back. Luckily I already had the next chapter written down. I have a lot of the future chapters written down really. I started writing this along time ago and I had written quite a bit before I put it on fanfiction.net, so I've been ahead of what I have posted since it was posted. But thanx so much for your review!
Lori the Little One: Yes I'm trying to cut down a little on the love, lol. I must admit there was a bit more than I had planned on. Yes I know there was a few spelling mistakes. Gah, I try to check my spelling but sometimes I'm tired and miss some things. Glad you think it's good though, and that you can't wait to read the rest of the story. Ha you'll get better at your reviews, dun worry, lol. Thanx for your review!
Dark Angel 13388: Yesh it was a nice twist in the plot in the last chapter. Yes, I told you Riku would be in the chapter. Tell Riku I hope he recovers from that pet store incident, lol. And I don't know why he won't take that Emu food out of his pants, that little idiot. I think it does cover up the bus in there, lol. Anyway, seeya in a week on AIM. Thanx for your review!
chibichibi386: Wow thank you. You think my story's really awesome ^^ Glad to hear it. And don't worry I will most certainly keep writing. I don't like leaving things unfinished. I'm also planning on writing another one after this one's done, and I can't wait til I start on it! Thanx a lot for your review!
Artistlil349: Just to let you know, I have played the game. I have beaten the game and yes I bought the game a long time ago. The disclaimer on the first few chapter meant that I didn't create Kingdom Hearts or anything like that. Yes I know Sora's mom was in the game, but this is a fanfic, in which just about anything can happen, including character deaths. Plus my story is a year after Kingdom Hearts, which I said in a later chapter. But seeing as you reviewed on chapter 1 I guess you didn't see that. And as for Sora and Kairi being totally dedicated to each other, I will once again say this is a fanfic, in which almost anything can happen. There are many other stories out there like this in which there is a new character that falls in love with one of the main characters. At least you think that other than that it's fine and I thank you for that.
Claimer: I DO own Falina, Ceres, Narimo, Tetra, Inge, Helios, and the plot.
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Ceres came in with Falina squirming in his grasp and yelling muffled insults at him. Narimo looked up at them, as they walked into the room.
"I see you finally got her." She said.
"Yes, and if you don't mind I need to go tie her up in one of the empty chambers before she bites me again." He pulled up his sleeve to show her the small bleeding wound where Falina had bitten him on their way here. Narimo grinned at him with a closed mouth. He always did look like a bit of a fool to her sometimes.
He took her down into a different room that was empty except for a few misc and unimportant things here and there. He grabbed her by the back of the collar on her shirt and threw her inside. She landed on her side but quickly sat up. He walked in towards her. She scooted back away from him to about a foot away from the wall.
He stopped about a foot before her. He thrust out his hand towards her and she jumped back. He simply smirked. After a couple of seconds a smooth, white collar appeared around her neck, and a white chain came out of it and attached itself to the wall behind her, yanking her head back and causing her to yelp. She looked down at it as she grabbed it with one hand and then looked back up at him.
"What am I a fucking dog?" She spat angrily at him.
"No. Dogs are less foul beings." He smirked, causing her to glare even more hatefully.
Then similar white collars formed around her wrists and ankles. Her wrists were pulled together as a short white chain connected them, not giving her much room to move them. Her ankles were done the same way. Ceres pulled his hand back, his magic done.
"Your friends should be here soon. I don't think your little boyfriend is going to let me take you that easily. I shall simply wait for them, and when they get here...kill them." He grinned down at her. She tried to jump at him but was held back by the collar on her neck.
"I don't see why you don't just kill me now. Aren't I the one you want?" She said.
"Yes, and I would like to kill you now. But I'd rather make you suffer and kill your friends in front of your eyes, then take your necklace and, kill you." He grinned. He turned and left as she glared hatefully after him.
As he shut the door behind him Falina slumped down. The chain was long enough for her to lay down, so she did. She laid there crying to herself in all her misery.
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Sora and the others were close. They had to stop and rest along the way, since they were running all the way. After several minutes they now stood before the castle.
Tetra led them into a back door. She then led them down a quick flight of stairs, leading to lower chambers.
"Uh, Tetra, why are we going down when it's most likely Ceres is up?" Riku asked.
"We should rescue Falina first, and if I know him he has her locked away in a chamber down here. That's what he did with me as soon as he caught me, just threw me into a cell." She replied.
They came to a hall with fours chambers, two on each side. Falina was in one of them. She heard them coming, but only thought it to be Ceres or some other unwelcome being. So she just continued laying there, her face towards the wall.
Sora was looking in the small windows on each door. When he came to the second door on the left he saw Falina laying there, chained up. He quickly turned to the others.
"Guys I found her!" He whispered loudly, so Ceres or anyone wouldn't hear him. They all ran over to him. He tried opening the door, but it was locked.
"Damn it, the door's locked." He said to the others.
"Allow me." Riku said as he smiled. He backed up a little and ran towards the door.
To everyone's surprise he rammed it down with his shoulder. He stood just inside the door grabbing his sore shoulder. "Ow. Wooden doors hurt." Everyone rolled their eyes and smirked.
Falina quickly sat up, accidently hurting her neck in the process since she forgot about the chain. She let out a quick yelp from the pain but just rubbed her sore neck, then looked up.
"Sora, Riku, Tetra, Inge! You guys actually made it in here." She exclaimed.
"Of course we did." Said Inge holding her sword over her shoulder.
Sora ran up to Falina and hugged her tightly, though she couldn't exactly hug him back due to the chains and collars.
"Are you ok? He didn't hurt you did he?" He asked worriedly. He then noticed the white collars.
"I'm fine, but he did put these weird white bands on me." She replied. Sora picked up her hand and looked at the white band.
"Yeah I noticed. I was gonna ask what the heck was up with those. How do we get em off?" He asked.
"I don't know, he put them on with some kind of magic." The others walked up behind Sora. Inge stepped up beside her.
"Maybe we can cut the chains." She said holding up her sword.
"It's worth a try." Sora said. Falina held her wrists apart as far as the chain would allow, and held her hands out away from her, and Inge raised her sword up. "Be careful though!" Sora added.
"I am don't worry." She said. She pulled the sword down right in between her hands and quickly pulled it away from her. It worked. The chain split and she could move her hands independantly, and the collars disappeared.
She moved her hands around and rubbed her sore wrists.
"Ok, now for the chain on your neck." Inge said as she moved back to the side. Falina pulled her head out until she felt the chain pull on her neck.
Inge brought her sword down and broke the chain, and the collar disappeared. It sorta hurt her neck because she brought the chain out a little far and when the sword came down on it, it pulled the chain down, causing it to pull on her neck. She just rubbed it and it felt a little better.
"Ok, now let's get outta here." Riku said as they all started to get up and walk out.
"Uh, I'd love to get out of here guys, but there's one problem you forgot." Falina said. The others turned around to see her pointing to the bands still around her ankles.
"Oh, sorry." Riku smiled. Inge went over and cut the chain on her ankles and the bands disappeared. Falina got up, adjusting her ankles to getting used to moving freely again.
"Ok, now we can go." Sora said as he went back by Falina. They all ran out the door and started running down the halls to the door they came in through.
They got to it only to find out that the door had been blocked. Tetra looked around nervously.
"Ok, so apparently he knows we're here." She said. "This way." She led them a different way, seeming to go deeper and higher into the castle. "The only other door to outside is up another floor. You can think of this as the basement sorta. But going this way will most likely lead us practically right to him, though we haven't much of a choice."
They went up another short flight of stairs and down another hall. After turning another couple of corners, they came to the entrance of a large room.
Tetra stopped them before they went in. She stood quiet as she listened for any sound indicating that Ceres or Narimo was in there.
"Hold up guys. He might be in this room. Besides his own chamber, this is the room he spent the most time in. Be on your guard." She whispered. Riku became a little nervous about her going ahead of them. She peeked around the corner, seeing nothing, led them on.
Only about three seconds passed before, right in front of their oblivious eyes, a dagger was thrown out of nowhere and hit Tetra right in her upper arm, causing her to scream.
They all gasped as she went to her knees, grabbing her arm and cringing in pain.
Riku ran up to her and supported her from falling over, scared out of his mind.
They heard a deep voice laughing, and they averted their gaze to the middle of the room where Ceres appeared, his arms crossed over his chest and grinning at their pathetic attempt to escape.
"You fools thought it would be that easy? Just slip in and get Falina and leave thinking I wouldn't notice. I don't think so." He said.
Sora grit his teeth and held his hand out to the side. The Keyblade suddenly appeared in his hand, and Ceres looked down at it.
"Oh, did I make you mad?" He asked in a fake apologetic voice. "Personally I'm surprised you imbiciles managed to get the chains off of her, though I did make it easy, just to see if you could do it, and it didn't matter if you got her free. None of you are leaving here alive either way."
"You can think again Ceres. Not only will we get outta here with our lives, but we'll kill you as well." Sora said. Ceres was bcoming aggravated with the boy's seeming overconfidence.
Meanwhile, Riku was trying to help Tetra as well as he could. She still grabbed her arm in pain, and he still supported her.
"I'm going to take the dagger out ok?" He said, making sure she was ready. She nodded, her face still cringing.
He gently put his hand around the handle, and slowly eased the blade out, which was covered with her blood. It made her wince a little more, but it did feel a little better.
Blood was now flowing out of her wound and Riku's hand had a lot of her blood on it. Inge ran over to help them. She got down beside them and pulled out a sort of bandage that she carried for the handle of her sword, and handed it to Riku. She stood back up, in case Ceres decided to try anything.
Riku took it and carefully began wrapping it around her arm, surpressing the bleeding. He tied it tightly but gently.
"Is that better?" He asked her still sounding worried. She nodded.
"Yeah it is, thanks." She added and smiled at him. He helped her stand up, and they all averted their attention back to the demon. Riku staring with very cold eyes filled with hate at him.
"Now, let's see, what shall I do next, hmm?" Ceres said to himself while looking at the group in front of him. Falina was becoming annoyed with his arrogance and cruelty.
"What you'll do next, Ceres, is shut the hell up!" She yelled at him. Sora looked down at her a little surprised.
"Falina don't, you're gonna get yourself hurt." He said quietly to her. She continued looking angrily at Ceres.
"Ah, a little brave aren't we Falina?" He said.
He held his arm out towards her, but nothing seemed to happen. Sora stared at him for a couple of seconds wondering what he was going to do, then looked at Falina. He gasped.
Falina's eyes were wide, her mouth open. She grabbed her neck with her hands, and was making a few choking sounds, as though she couldn't breath. Sora started to put a hand on her shoulder when she fell to her knees. He quickly got down beside her.
"Falina, what's wrong?!" He asked her, becoming more scared. She closed her eyes and managed to choke out a few words.
"I-I...can't...breath." Sora became more worried."It's... like...someone's... choking me." She gasped out, a couple of tears going down her red cheeks. Sora quickly looked at Ceres with furious eyes.
"Ceres, stop it right now!" He demanded. Ceres' evil smile became a slight frown.
"Very well then. You're no fun." He replied. He took his hand down back to his side.
Falina suddenly let out a relieving gasp and leaned over, breathing hard. A few more seconds and she felt as though she was going to faint. It seemed to her that everything was trying to hurt or kill her by way of her neck.
"Are you ok now?" Sora asked her.
"Yeah, I'm ok now. I just need to catch my breath." She slowly replied and coughed a little. He nodded and stood up, glaring at Ceres.
"Shall we fight now? Or do I have to kill someone to get you to." He asked.
"If that's what you wanted you shoulda said so, cause I've been ready to wring your neck since I got here!" Sora shouted back, readying his Keyblade.
Inge got her sword ready, in case Ceres decided to go straight for Falina. Tetra looked up at Riku.
"Aren't you going to help them? If I remember correctly you were a Keyblade master too were you not?" She asked. He looked down at her a slight look of worry on his face.
"The keyword being 'were'. I used to be but I don't have the Keyblade anymore, remember?" He trailed off.
"Oh yeah that's right, forgot about that part. Well can't you still help?" She asked.
"Yeah, if I had sword or some kind of weapon." He replied.
"Here!" Inge shouted as she tossed him a sword.
"Where'd you get this?" He asked as he looked at it. It had a black handle and a silver hilt.
She pointed to a sword the hung diagnally on the wall. The sword she took down had it's blade across the other's diagnolly before she took it down.
"I see. Thanks." He said as he flipped the sword's handle into his hand and got it ready.
He walked up beside Sora and got in his fighting stance. Ceres noticed Riku's sword.
"So you're going to fight too. That makes things more interesting. I shall fight you with only my sword, and not use my magic." He said with a slight grin.
They stood there, glaring at each other, ready to kill each other. The big fight was about to begin.
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Author's Notes: Blah, not much to say about this chapter. Not too much happened, but action will most certainly ensue in the next, as I'm sure you all guessed. And now to thank all my wonderful reviewers...and some of my not so wonderful.
Reviewer Credits:
Aniiston: Yes, 16 was a lovely chapter. Actually when I was writing it I hadn't planned on Falina getting kidnapped right after she got her memory back, lol. I just wanted her to get her memory back. Luckily I already had the next chapter written down. I have a lot of the future chapters written down really. I started writing this along time ago and I had written quite a bit before I put it on fanfiction.net, so I've been ahead of what I have posted since it was posted. But thanx so much for your review!
Lori the Little One: Yes I'm trying to cut down a little on the love, lol. I must admit there was a bit more than I had planned on. Yes I know there was a few spelling mistakes. Gah, I try to check my spelling but sometimes I'm tired and miss some things. Glad you think it's good though, and that you can't wait to read the rest of the story. Ha you'll get better at your reviews, dun worry, lol. Thanx for your review!
Dark Angel 13388: Yesh it was a nice twist in the plot in the last chapter. Yes, I told you Riku would be in the chapter. Tell Riku I hope he recovers from that pet store incident, lol. And I don't know why he won't take that Emu food out of his pants, that little idiot. I think it does cover up the bus in there, lol. Anyway, seeya in a week on AIM. Thanx for your review!
chibichibi386: Wow thank you. You think my story's really awesome ^^ Glad to hear it. And don't worry I will most certainly keep writing. I don't like leaving things unfinished. I'm also planning on writing another one after this one's done, and I can't wait til I start on it! Thanx a lot for your review!
Artistlil349: Just to let you know, I have played the game. I have beaten the game and yes I bought the game a long time ago. The disclaimer on the first few chapter meant that I didn't create Kingdom Hearts or anything like that. Yes I know Sora's mom was in the game, but this is a fanfic, in which just about anything can happen, including character deaths. Plus my story is a year after Kingdom Hearts, which I said in a later chapter. But seeing as you reviewed on chapter 1 I guess you didn't see that. And as for Sora and Kairi being totally dedicated to each other, I will once again say this is a fanfic, in which almost anything can happen. There are many other stories out there like this in which there is a new character that falls in love with one of the main characters. At least you think that other than that it's fine and I thank you for that.