AN: Wow, another 2 chapters in a day! There's a bit more violence in this chapter. I might need to up the rating to PG-13. But, I think there's a bit more with Sora in this chappy too.... although I could be wrong, me and my short attention span *wanders away to buy some ice cream*
Disclaimers: Guess what?! No not that! I get to own something else! ^-^ *Mariha: but u said you don't really own me!* Quiet u! But I don't own anything else... as usual...
Forgive and Forget
Riku lead Mariha out of the darkness. They stepped on to a smooth rock surface that looked like it was really a polished marble floor. The section where they stood broke off from its cliff edge and began floating toward a castle that seemed to have lifted into the air. The little moving platform on which Mariha and Riku stood darted for the castles gates then stopped. The doors opened and Mariha followed Riku inside.
Riku lead Mariha up one winding staircase after another. It kept leading up and up. They climbed and climbed until Mariha thought they'd walk right into the sky. Finally, they reached a pair of large elegant looking double doors.
"Open it," said Riku to Mariha. She obeyed. She pushed against the heavy doors until one swung open to let them through.
Inside was a large room. There was somewhat of a hall that led to two staircases. The stairs lead towards the middle where a platform balcony thing was. It was the place from her vision. Where Riku had tried to take Sora's heart. The only thing that was different was that instead of the giant heartless symbol filled with the swirling colours, there was what seemed to be a mist of the colours clumped in the middle of the floor above.
Riku had seen Mariha and his evil-self walk on to a rock that floated to the castle gates. He watched it from a cliff top on the other side of the castle, but he didn't think they saw him. The high place on which he stood was level with the castle grounds. When it drifted by, he made a running jump on to it. He just barely made it, grabbing onto the very edge of the ground the castle brought with it into the air. He hauled himself up and ran to the entrance.
After going through the main doors, he followed many spinning staircases up. Finally, he reached the top to find two great doors. One had been opened so he guessed that this was the right place. He walked through it and entered a room that looked shockingly familiar. It looked just like the Grand Hall back in Hollow Bastion! He spotted Mariha and his counter part walking up the stairs ahead, then to a mist of swirling colour. He also noticed that the giant door in the shape of a heartless symbol wasn't on the back wall as he had remembered it. It was just a blank wall.
"Mariha!" he called and ran to the foot of the stairs, looking up to where Mariha was.
"Riku," she said looking down at him and began to smile. But then, her face saddened as if remembering something tragic and she looked to the ground.
"Come on!" said Riku, "We've got to get out of here!"
"I'm not going," said Mariha in a whisper.
"What?"
"I'm not going!" she said again looking over at him. There was anger in her voice are Riku could see a fire burning in her normally kind eyes.
"You have to!" Riku pleaded, "You need to get away from him!" He pointed to the evil being who now stood beside Mariha.
"No," said Mariha firmly, "I need to get away from you! You lied to me! Everything was a lie!"
"What are you talking about?" replied Riku.
"So you deny that you betrayed you friend Sora, joined the darkness and attempted to steal his heart so you could rule worlds?" demanded Mariha, "I've now seen the truth! My eyes are open to see you for what you really are! And you tried to throw a blanket over my eye."
"Mariha..."
"So did you do all I just said or not!" yelled Mariha, furious.
"I... I did," said Riku softly and looked away in shame.
"I knew it!" screamed Mariha, "And the worst part is that I bought your lies and... ahh! I can't believe I actually considered you as my friend!"
"Wait Mariha," begged Riku, "It's not like that! I do regret the things I've done in the past, but right now we have to get out of here!"
"I told you I'm not going anywhere," replied Mariha, "You were a very good liar, to trick me like that, why should I trust you now?"
She turned her back to him before he could reply and walked toward the coloured mist.
"Wait!" begged Riku but Mariha ignored him walked straight into the multi-coloured mist that floated in a clump over the ground and disappeared within it.
"No wait! Come back!" called Riku and began to run up the stairs but was stopped by an invisible barrier.
"It's too late!" laughed the evil Riku menacingly, "She's mine!"
The mist in which Mariha had stepped into flashed brightly. Then, its colour was changed to darkness. It began to fade away, revealing its captor.
It was Mariha, there was no doubt about that, but she had two dark wings of a dragon and a devils pointed tail. Her hair had turned black and so had her eyes, making them orbs of endless darkness. She had fingerless gloves that went up to her elbows and hand a metal spike at the end that stuck out even past her elbow. She was wearing a black top and a skirt, long at one end and gradually getting shorter. The bottom was tattered as if it had been ripped instead of cut and the black flame pattern on it licked the grayish background.
"Ma -Mariha?" stammered Riku.
"Nope!" replied the evil Riku, "The one you call Mariha is gone. Her mind is trapped in the darkness, just like yours was once. Say hello to Natia!"
"You," Riku gasped, "Ansem."
"Ha!" he laughed, "So you finally recognized me!"
"What have you done to her?" demanded Riku in fury. Ansem just laughed.
"Since you wouldn't join the darkness I needed a replacement," he said and shrugged as if it were an every day thing, taking over the minds of innocents, "It was easy, almost easier than getting you. I just needed to show her how you joined the darkness."
"I didn't do those things! You made me!" replied Riku.
"Most of them yes," said Ansem, "But you welcomed the darkness into you heart, that's all I needed to get her."
"You're a monster," spat Riku.
"Come now, no harsh names," said Ansem simply, "I didn't lie or anything it's all true, and you know it."
Riku just glared at him.
"Well, I'd love to stay and play but I've got things to attend to," said Ansem as a black wall of darkness appeared behind him. Then he turned to Mariha, or what he now called Natia, "Kill him."
With that, he backed into the dark and disappeared.
"Mariha," Riku said turning to her, "Come on, snap out of it!"
"Silence mortal," she replied, "I am not Mariha, I'm Natia, but you won't know any better when I'm done with you."
She then swooped down to charge at him. She was to fast for Riku now as he hit him across his left cheek. He fell back and she landed to stand over him.
"Pathetic," she said.
Natia picked up Riku but the collar of his shirt and hit him again. He flew back again and hit the floor with a thud. With effort, he slowly got to his feet.
"Mariha," he said, "I don't want to fight you."
"You don't want to fight her," Natia replied, "But I want to fight you! Your not fighting her, so fight me!"
"No."
She charged and kicked him in the stomach. Riku cried out in paid and grasped his stomach, gasping for air. But Natia then got him in the side, knocking him to one knee. She moved so fast that all you could see was a blur of black Riku could barely see her even when she attacked him. Then, she stopped her assault and flew up high above him. She formed a ball of dark energy in her hands and fired it at Riku in a blast of sharp shards.
Riku was tossed back against a wall. His back hit it hard and he cried out. He then slid down it, sitting with his back still against it. Natia charged at him and grabbed him by the neck of his shirt again. She lifted him up so he stood on his toes and pushed him against the wall
"Why won't you fight!" she demanded.
Riku coughed up blood and spat it to the side. His face was bruised and he looked at Natia in exhaustion. His eyes began to close.
"Answer!" yelled Natia and pushed him harder against the wall.
"Because... because you my friend Mariha," he managed to say, "And I don't fight friends."
"Oh really?" she taunted, "You didn't think like that toward you 'friend' Sora did you?"
Without letting go of him, Natia pushed him to the floor.
"Or when you took up the darkness as an ally," she continued.
"Mariha, please listen," said Riku barely as Natia's grip on him started to chock him, "It's not like that!"
"Then what is it like?" she asked.
"I know I messed up and I regret it deeply, but I've seen my mistakes, that's why I'm here, to pay for them. Don't you see? Ansem has turned you into what I used to be."
Natia paused, loosening her grip a bit.
"No," she said but Riku could hear a shake in her voice, "You lied to me about everything! It's can't..."
"Mariha!" called Riku, he knew she could hear him now, "After I met you, I haven't gotten down on myself for all the trouble I've caused. You helped me realize that I needed to accept the past and move on. You're always so cheerful, what happened to that? You're so determined that it makes even me believe anything is possible!"
"Noooo!" screamed Natia and let go of Riku to clutch her head, "You listen to ME now!" Riku realized that she was talking to herself.
"Mariha?" he said, he was getting through, "Mariha can you hear me?"
"Riku, help me," he heard but Natia quickly overpowered her. "I'll finish you off before she stops me!"
She held Riku down again with one hand and raised the other into the air. Darkness gathered in her raised hand and formed a sharp curved knife as long from her hand to her elbow, it's edge dangerously jagged.
"Say goodbye!" she yelled and began to bring the knife down to pierce Riku's heart.
"Mariha! You can fight the darkness!" called Riku, "You know this is wrong!"
Natia faltered.
"I -I can't," said Mariha.
"You can," encouraged Riku, "I believe you can!"
"Ri -Riku?"
Mariha's hair turned to its normal colour and her clothes, wings and tail faded away to her regular attire. Finally, she blinked and her eyes changed back. She looked at Riku for the first time he had seen her with fear in her eyes. She dropped the knife and it clanged to the floor, it turned to ash.
"Wha -what have I done?" she said, terrified looking in disbelief at her hands.
"You're back," said Riku in relief.
"Oh Riku!" said Mariha looking over at him, though it looked more like she was looking right through him. She was shaking all over, "I can't believe I almost..."
"It's ok," he said, propping his soar body up against the wall.
"I don't deserve to be you friend," she said, still staring into nothing, eyes glazed over with fear, "All I've done is put you in danger. And I couldn't stop her, the darkness totally overpowered me."
"It's ok," Riku said again, "I know exactly what it's like."
He had come over to sit right in front of her and he held onto her shoulders so he could look her in the eye. Only then did she seem to see him.
"Mariha?" he said, "Forgive and forget, right?"
He smiled a little and Riku was glad to see that she did the same.
"I'm glad that's over," she said and jumped at Riku to hug him. Riku just blushed and tuned as stiff as stone. Suddenly, an aura of black light formed around Mariha and she pulled back in surprise.
"What?" she said and looked at her hands. Then the aura lifted from her and formed a little ball in front of her face. It then floated down into her hands and disappeared to reveal a necklace with a little blue star pendant.
"What's this?" she said, not really directing the question to anyone.
"It must hold the darkness that took over you," suggested Riku, "I guess it needed somewhere to go."
She shrugged and put it on. Riku suddenly groaned in pain. It had all come back to him the pain from Natia started rushing to his head all at once. It felt like his skin was on fire.
"Oh, we've got to get you help," said Mariha when as he grabbed his soar side, "But there's no one here to help you but me!"
"I'm fine," insisted Riku but he then groaned as a sharp pain when through his side again.
"We need to get out of here," said Mariha.
"No really, I'm alright," said Riku and began to get up. Every bone and muscle resented it but, trying to ignore the pain, he started to walk.
"Riku don't," said Mariha getting up.
"Don't worry," he said, taking a step, "I got it -"
He swayed and collapsed.
"Fine eh?" said Mariha as she helped him up again."
"Thanks," mumbled Riku. She put his arm around her shoulder and together they walked out of the Grand Hall down until Riku told her to open a door to the side of the stairs. She did and inside she found a bedroom.
"How'd you?"
"Let's just say, I've got a good sense of direction," replied Riku with a smile.
He collapsed onto the soft bed. It was so comfortable it seemed like forever since he's slept in a real bed. Mariha sat on a chair beside it and waited as Riku fell asleep. All she could do now was wait...
~*~
Sora and his company had finally fought their way deep into the dark cave at the centre of the Elephant Graveyard. The only light in the cavern came from the lava pools that spotted the sides of the hard rock floor.
"Sora! Over here!" called Simba and disappeared through a tunnel.
Sora followed. Inside the tunnel was dark but Sora followed the light glowing at the end of it. When he came to the end of it, he had to shield his eyes from the bright light that illuminated it.
Once his eyes adjusted, he saw that the light came from a crystal ball as big as his head that was embedded in the top of a short rock pillar. Thought the ball was bursting with light, Sora noticed a large orb of darkness moving around in the very centre.
"What is it?" asked Sora.
"I really don't know," admitted Simba, "But I'm guessing that this is where all the darkness is coming from."
"So it's like a keyhole?" asked Goofy but Simba shrugged.
"Well, lets find out," said Sora. He lifted his Keyblade up to seal the darkness away. They waited a minute or two but nothing happened.
"What?" Sora said confused, "Why didn't it work?"
No one knew the answer. If it wasn't a keyhole, then what was it? They all just stood, looking at it, with puzzled expressions across their faces. Finally, Simba spoke.
"Well, if it's not a keyhole, that would explain why we haven't run into any heartless. But then what could it be?"
"I thinks it's the source of the worlds darkness," said Sora, "See, look there, that's the evil of the world."
"Great," said Donald, "So how are we supposed to get rid of it if the Keyblade doesn't work?"
"We don't," said Sora. Everyone looked at him in surprise, "There will always be darkness and evil in a world, or else the balance of light and dark would be thrown off."
"But it has been thrown off," said Simba.
"Right, so we have to fix it," said Sora. He walked right up to the sphere and held out his hand to touch it.
"Wait!" said Donald, "You don't know what will happen if you touch that thing, you could be sucked in!"
"I have to try," insisted Sora, yea right was Donald going to stop him, "And since the Keyblade didn't do anything, I have to try with my heart."
"Sora..." said Simba uneasily.
"Don't worry," Sora reassured them, "I know what I'm doing."
Then Sora touched it. He was swallowed in darkness. Simba, Donald and Goofy had vanished and he was alone. Though he was surrounded by darkness, his heart was not touched or harmed by it. Then, far in the distance, he saw someone standing in a spot light. They were just standing there, looking around in confusion. Sora ran closer and was shocked at what he saw; the figure looked like Riku.
AN: ok, that was new... this is what happens when I decide to write while listening to Eminem *jks* well, R&R if you must! X_x Do I even have any fans out there? *tear* I'm so alone.... But that's nothing new... Well, till the next chapter then! *turns into a cow*
Disclaimers: Guess what?! No not that! I get to own something else! ^-^ *Mariha: but u said you don't really own me!* Quiet u! But I don't own anything else... as usual...
Forgive and Forget
Riku lead Mariha out of the darkness. They stepped on to a smooth rock surface that looked like it was really a polished marble floor. The section where they stood broke off from its cliff edge and began floating toward a castle that seemed to have lifted into the air. The little moving platform on which Mariha and Riku stood darted for the castles gates then stopped. The doors opened and Mariha followed Riku inside.
Riku lead Mariha up one winding staircase after another. It kept leading up and up. They climbed and climbed until Mariha thought they'd walk right into the sky. Finally, they reached a pair of large elegant looking double doors.
"Open it," said Riku to Mariha. She obeyed. She pushed against the heavy doors until one swung open to let them through.
Inside was a large room. There was somewhat of a hall that led to two staircases. The stairs lead towards the middle where a platform balcony thing was. It was the place from her vision. Where Riku had tried to take Sora's heart. The only thing that was different was that instead of the giant heartless symbol filled with the swirling colours, there was what seemed to be a mist of the colours clumped in the middle of the floor above.
Riku had seen Mariha and his evil-self walk on to a rock that floated to the castle gates. He watched it from a cliff top on the other side of the castle, but he didn't think they saw him. The high place on which he stood was level with the castle grounds. When it drifted by, he made a running jump on to it. He just barely made it, grabbing onto the very edge of the ground the castle brought with it into the air. He hauled himself up and ran to the entrance.
After going through the main doors, he followed many spinning staircases up. Finally, he reached the top to find two great doors. One had been opened so he guessed that this was the right place. He walked through it and entered a room that looked shockingly familiar. It looked just like the Grand Hall back in Hollow Bastion! He spotted Mariha and his counter part walking up the stairs ahead, then to a mist of swirling colour. He also noticed that the giant door in the shape of a heartless symbol wasn't on the back wall as he had remembered it. It was just a blank wall.
"Mariha!" he called and ran to the foot of the stairs, looking up to where Mariha was.
"Riku," she said looking down at him and began to smile. But then, her face saddened as if remembering something tragic and she looked to the ground.
"Come on!" said Riku, "We've got to get out of here!"
"I'm not going," said Mariha in a whisper.
"What?"
"I'm not going!" she said again looking over at him. There was anger in her voice are Riku could see a fire burning in her normally kind eyes.
"You have to!" Riku pleaded, "You need to get away from him!" He pointed to the evil being who now stood beside Mariha.
"No," said Mariha firmly, "I need to get away from you! You lied to me! Everything was a lie!"
"What are you talking about?" replied Riku.
"So you deny that you betrayed you friend Sora, joined the darkness and attempted to steal his heart so you could rule worlds?" demanded Mariha, "I've now seen the truth! My eyes are open to see you for what you really are! And you tried to throw a blanket over my eye."
"Mariha..."
"So did you do all I just said or not!" yelled Mariha, furious.
"I... I did," said Riku softly and looked away in shame.
"I knew it!" screamed Mariha, "And the worst part is that I bought your lies and... ahh! I can't believe I actually considered you as my friend!"
"Wait Mariha," begged Riku, "It's not like that! I do regret the things I've done in the past, but right now we have to get out of here!"
"I told you I'm not going anywhere," replied Mariha, "You were a very good liar, to trick me like that, why should I trust you now?"
She turned her back to him before he could reply and walked toward the coloured mist.
"Wait!" begged Riku but Mariha ignored him walked straight into the multi-coloured mist that floated in a clump over the ground and disappeared within it.
"No wait! Come back!" called Riku and began to run up the stairs but was stopped by an invisible barrier.
"It's too late!" laughed the evil Riku menacingly, "She's mine!"
The mist in which Mariha had stepped into flashed brightly. Then, its colour was changed to darkness. It began to fade away, revealing its captor.
It was Mariha, there was no doubt about that, but she had two dark wings of a dragon and a devils pointed tail. Her hair had turned black and so had her eyes, making them orbs of endless darkness. She had fingerless gloves that went up to her elbows and hand a metal spike at the end that stuck out even past her elbow. She was wearing a black top and a skirt, long at one end and gradually getting shorter. The bottom was tattered as if it had been ripped instead of cut and the black flame pattern on it licked the grayish background.
"Ma -Mariha?" stammered Riku.
"Nope!" replied the evil Riku, "The one you call Mariha is gone. Her mind is trapped in the darkness, just like yours was once. Say hello to Natia!"
"You," Riku gasped, "Ansem."
"Ha!" he laughed, "So you finally recognized me!"
"What have you done to her?" demanded Riku in fury. Ansem just laughed.
"Since you wouldn't join the darkness I needed a replacement," he said and shrugged as if it were an every day thing, taking over the minds of innocents, "It was easy, almost easier than getting you. I just needed to show her how you joined the darkness."
"I didn't do those things! You made me!" replied Riku.
"Most of them yes," said Ansem, "But you welcomed the darkness into you heart, that's all I needed to get her."
"You're a monster," spat Riku.
"Come now, no harsh names," said Ansem simply, "I didn't lie or anything it's all true, and you know it."
Riku just glared at him.
"Well, I'd love to stay and play but I've got things to attend to," said Ansem as a black wall of darkness appeared behind him. Then he turned to Mariha, or what he now called Natia, "Kill him."
With that, he backed into the dark and disappeared.
"Mariha," Riku said turning to her, "Come on, snap out of it!"
"Silence mortal," she replied, "I am not Mariha, I'm Natia, but you won't know any better when I'm done with you."
She then swooped down to charge at him. She was to fast for Riku now as he hit him across his left cheek. He fell back and she landed to stand over him.
"Pathetic," she said.
Natia picked up Riku but the collar of his shirt and hit him again. He flew back again and hit the floor with a thud. With effort, he slowly got to his feet.
"Mariha," he said, "I don't want to fight you."
"You don't want to fight her," Natia replied, "But I want to fight you! Your not fighting her, so fight me!"
"No."
She charged and kicked him in the stomach. Riku cried out in paid and grasped his stomach, gasping for air. But Natia then got him in the side, knocking him to one knee. She moved so fast that all you could see was a blur of black Riku could barely see her even when she attacked him. Then, she stopped her assault and flew up high above him. She formed a ball of dark energy in her hands and fired it at Riku in a blast of sharp shards.
Riku was tossed back against a wall. His back hit it hard and he cried out. He then slid down it, sitting with his back still against it. Natia charged at him and grabbed him by the neck of his shirt again. She lifted him up so he stood on his toes and pushed him against the wall
"Why won't you fight!" she demanded.
Riku coughed up blood and spat it to the side. His face was bruised and he looked at Natia in exhaustion. His eyes began to close.
"Answer!" yelled Natia and pushed him harder against the wall.
"Because... because you my friend Mariha," he managed to say, "And I don't fight friends."
"Oh really?" she taunted, "You didn't think like that toward you 'friend' Sora did you?"
Without letting go of him, Natia pushed him to the floor.
"Or when you took up the darkness as an ally," she continued.
"Mariha, please listen," said Riku barely as Natia's grip on him started to chock him, "It's not like that!"
"Then what is it like?" she asked.
"I know I messed up and I regret it deeply, but I've seen my mistakes, that's why I'm here, to pay for them. Don't you see? Ansem has turned you into what I used to be."
Natia paused, loosening her grip a bit.
"No," she said but Riku could hear a shake in her voice, "You lied to me about everything! It's can't..."
"Mariha!" called Riku, he knew she could hear him now, "After I met you, I haven't gotten down on myself for all the trouble I've caused. You helped me realize that I needed to accept the past and move on. You're always so cheerful, what happened to that? You're so determined that it makes even me believe anything is possible!"
"Noooo!" screamed Natia and let go of Riku to clutch her head, "You listen to ME now!" Riku realized that she was talking to herself.
"Mariha?" he said, he was getting through, "Mariha can you hear me?"
"Riku, help me," he heard but Natia quickly overpowered her. "I'll finish you off before she stops me!"
She held Riku down again with one hand and raised the other into the air. Darkness gathered in her raised hand and formed a sharp curved knife as long from her hand to her elbow, it's edge dangerously jagged.
"Say goodbye!" she yelled and began to bring the knife down to pierce Riku's heart.
"Mariha! You can fight the darkness!" called Riku, "You know this is wrong!"
Natia faltered.
"I -I can't," said Mariha.
"You can," encouraged Riku, "I believe you can!"
"Ri -Riku?"
Mariha's hair turned to its normal colour and her clothes, wings and tail faded away to her regular attire. Finally, she blinked and her eyes changed back. She looked at Riku for the first time he had seen her with fear in her eyes. She dropped the knife and it clanged to the floor, it turned to ash.
"Wha -what have I done?" she said, terrified looking in disbelief at her hands.
"You're back," said Riku in relief.
"Oh Riku!" said Mariha looking over at him, though it looked more like she was looking right through him. She was shaking all over, "I can't believe I almost..."
"It's ok," he said, propping his soar body up against the wall.
"I don't deserve to be you friend," she said, still staring into nothing, eyes glazed over with fear, "All I've done is put you in danger. And I couldn't stop her, the darkness totally overpowered me."
"It's ok," Riku said again, "I know exactly what it's like."
He had come over to sit right in front of her and he held onto her shoulders so he could look her in the eye. Only then did she seem to see him.
"Mariha?" he said, "Forgive and forget, right?"
He smiled a little and Riku was glad to see that she did the same.
"I'm glad that's over," she said and jumped at Riku to hug him. Riku just blushed and tuned as stiff as stone. Suddenly, an aura of black light formed around Mariha and she pulled back in surprise.
"What?" she said and looked at her hands. Then the aura lifted from her and formed a little ball in front of her face. It then floated down into her hands and disappeared to reveal a necklace with a little blue star pendant.
"What's this?" she said, not really directing the question to anyone.
"It must hold the darkness that took over you," suggested Riku, "I guess it needed somewhere to go."
She shrugged and put it on. Riku suddenly groaned in pain. It had all come back to him the pain from Natia started rushing to his head all at once. It felt like his skin was on fire.
"Oh, we've got to get you help," said Mariha when as he grabbed his soar side, "But there's no one here to help you but me!"
"I'm fine," insisted Riku but he then groaned as a sharp pain when through his side again.
"We need to get out of here," said Mariha.
"No really, I'm alright," said Riku and began to get up. Every bone and muscle resented it but, trying to ignore the pain, he started to walk.
"Riku don't," said Mariha getting up.
"Don't worry," he said, taking a step, "I got it -"
He swayed and collapsed.
"Fine eh?" said Mariha as she helped him up again."
"Thanks," mumbled Riku. She put his arm around her shoulder and together they walked out of the Grand Hall down until Riku told her to open a door to the side of the stairs. She did and inside she found a bedroom.
"How'd you?"
"Let's just say, I've got a good sense of direction," replied Riku with a smile.
He collapsed onto the soft bed. It was so comfortable it seemed like forever since he's slept in a real bed. Mariha sat on a chair beside it and waited as Riku fell asleep. All she could do now was wait...
~*~
Sora and his company had finally fought their way deep into the dark cave at the centre of the Elephant Graveyard. The only light in the cavern came from the lava pools that spotted the sides of the hard rock floor.
"Sora! Over here!" called Simba and disappeared through a tunnel.
Sora followed. Inside the tunnel was dark but Sora followed the light glowing at the end of it. When he came to the end of it, he had to shield his eyes from the bright light that illuminated it.
Once his eyes adjusted, he saw that the light came from a crystal ball as big as his head that was embedded in the top of a short rock pillar. Thought the ball was bursting with light, Sora noticed a large orb of darkness moving around in the very centre.
"What is it?" asked Sora.
"I really don't know," admitted Simba, "But I'm guessing that this is where all the darkness is coming from."
"So it's like a keyhole?" asked Goofy but Simba shrugged.
"Well, lets find out," said Sora. He lifted his Keyblade up to seal the darkness away. They waited a minute or two but nothing happened.
"What?" Sora said confused, "Why didn't it work?"
No one knew the answer. If it wasn't a keyhole, then what was it? They all just stood, looking at it, with puzzled expressions across their faces. Finally, Simba spoke.
"Well, if it's not a keyhole, that would explain why we haven't run into any heartless. But then what could it be?"
"I thinks it's the source of the worlds darkness," said Sora, "See, look there, that's the evil of the world."
"Great," said Donald, "So how are we supposed to get rid of it if the Keyblade doesn't work?"
"We don't," said Sora. Everyone looked at him in surprise, "There will always be darkness and evil in a world, or else the balance of light and dark would be thrown off."
"But it has been thrown off," said Simba.
"Right, so we have to fix it," said Sora. He walked right up to the sphere and held out his hand to touch it.
"Wait!" said Donald, "You don't know what will happen if you touch that thing, you could be sucked in!"
"I have to try," insisted Sora, yea right was Donald going to stop him, "And since the Keyblade didn't do anything, I have to try with my heart."
"Sora..." said Simba uneasily.
"Don't worry," Sora reassured them, "I know what I'm doing."
Then Sora touched it. He was swallowed in darkness. Simba, Donald and Goofy had vanished and he was alone. Though he was surrounded by darkness, his heart was not touched or harmed by it. Then, far in the distance, he saw someone standing in a spot light. They were just standing there, looking around in confusion. Sora ran closer and was shocked at what he saw; the figure looked like Riku.
AN: ok, that was new... this is what happens when I decide to write while listening to Eminem *jks* well, R&R if you must! X_x Do I even have any fans out there? *tear* I'm so alone.... But that's nothing new... Well, till the next chapter then! *turns into a cow*