The resistance were in the castle, led by Spike, Hikari and Jones. They took a moment to look around and hated what they saw. Darkness. The walls were dripping with it as Heartless formed from it and began to crawl over the walls toward the troops.
"Get ready." Spike told them,
"For what? These punks? Puh-lease!" Jones retorted to him,
"Do not underestimate them, Jones." Hikari advised,
"Yeah. I know" Jones replied,
"Let's hurry up and get this over with." Spike commanded, "Everybody… CHARGE!!!"
The Resistance ran at the Heartless, swiping their swords and firing their guns at them. Spike led again, with Hikari and Jones following. Hikari was taking a more protective role over Jones now after the Heartless nearly got him, he let Jones do his own thing but he watched his back for him.
"You remember what to do right Hikari?" Spike asked,
"Yeah. I'll find it." Hikari answered,
"Good. Thanks." Spike replied warmly, he and Hikari had grown to become close friends, despite the fact that Hikari was a Heartless, his sworn enemy. They had some kind of connection, they could help each other and clearly recognised this which grew into a strong friendship, though Spike would never admit it. He could never admit it. He was the wielder of the Keyblade, the one chosen to fight against the Heartless, how would anybody ever be able to accept his friendship with one, even Hiroshima wouldn't accept it and he had taught Hikari about what he was and how he could help in the fight against the Heartless. Sometimes Spike thought that Jones was right, "A Heartless is a Heartless, no matter if they have light in them or whatever." but then he remembered how much Hikari had helped him and realised that Hikari was one of the good guys, one of the ones worth something. Spike stopped to watch Hikari, he fought with valour and with pride. Spike could also see that Hikari was fighting for something, but didn't know what that something was. Was it to end the Heartless' reign on this world? Was it to gain some form of redemption? Or was it for some other reason that Spike didn't know about? Spike couldn't be sure, but he thought it was for all those reasons. It sometimes baffled him how Hikari could fight against his own kind, no matter what the cause, but then he remembered that he was here not only to fight the Heartless but also to fight Jirak. Jirak was human, just a very dark human corrupted by the darkness he used and abused. Spike had seen pictures of Jirak from before he changed, he looked so kind and gentle with his long blond hair similar to Spikes and his baby blue eyes. It was hard for Spike to believe that such a man could become the emperor of the Heartless, or "Emperor of Darkness" as Jirak called it. Spikes thoughts were cut short when a Heartless attacked him, but this one was different… similar to Drake.
"Spike. Listen to me." Hiroshima's voice said in Spike's head, "Can you hear me?"
"Yeah", Spike answered, "What is it?"
"That is a new breed of Heartless, Spike. They have only been seen recently" Hiroshima told him,
"And what is that of importance for?" Spike got a little bit testy, "It's still a Heartless, I still have to destroy it."
"Yes, Spike." Hiroshima paused, "But these Heartless are much stronger, they are called 'Neo Shadows' and are thought to be a mutation of the normal Shadows that you have been fighting for all these years."
"Maybe…" Spike replied, "But I'm still gonna tear them apart."
Hikari shot through a horde of Heartless as he tried to reach his goal, a Neo Shadow showed up.
"Oh shit!" Hikari exclaimed, "But… how?"
Hikari shot at the Neo Shadow but it jumped to the ceiling and avoided the bullet, it jumped back to the floor and launched itself at Hikari as he continuously shot at it,
"DIE DIE DIE!!!"
The Neo Shadow kicked Hikari's face and he went flying into a wall, the Neo Shadow landed on the ground and jumped on to Hikari.
"SHI- Wait a minute. You can't hurt me!" Hikari realised, "MOFO!"
He punched the Neo Shadow off him and it bumped into Jones who turned around and put his sword through it. The Neo Shadow disappeared.
"Jones? You helped me?" Hikari asked surprised,
"Yeah, but don't expect it again. Got it?" Jones replied,
"Okay Jones. I won't" Hikari said. Hikari stood back up and that's when he saw it, his goal; the Spiral staircase. He was at the top of it so it led down.
"Spike! I've found it!" Hikari shouted as he looked for Spike, "Spike? Where are you?"
The Neo Shadow Spike was facing had called another 4 Neo Shadows, they all surrounded him as he held his Keyblade at his side.
"Hehe" Spike laughed, "Don't you know who I am?"
Spike jumped high and the Neo Shadow's followed, one reached him from behind and was about to strike but Spike turned around and sliced it in half.
"1-0"
Spike flipped over and held his Keyblade out, destroying another Neo Shadow as he did so.
"2-0"
As Spike landed he placed his Keyblade beneath one of the Neo Shadows as it fell back to the ground, tearing it apart.
"3-0"
As one of the remaining two Neo Shadows fell to the floor Spike spun around and threw his Keyblade at it like a boomerang, the Neo Shadow dodged the Keyblade but as it flew back to Spike it destroyed the Neo Shadow.
"4-0"
The last Neo Shadow jumped at Spike as the Keyblade was returning, Spike ducked and the Neo Shadow landed behind him just as the Keyblade had returned, this sliced the Neo Shadow in two as Spike back flipped and caught the Keyblade.
"5-0" Spike laughed, "Looks like I won again."
"Spike!" Hikari shouted, "There you are!"
"What's up Hikari?" Spike asked,
"I've found it, the spiral staircase!" Hikari answered, "We were right all along."
"Okay. Good! Let's go down there." Spike replied,
"What about Jones?" Hikari asked,
"He'll lead things up here" Spike answered, "Now let's go."
Spike and Hikari ran to the spiral staircase and looked down, "Long way, we'll have to jump it." Spike said as he jumped over the railings,
"Oh… bloody hell" Hikari said, "How does he always drag me in to these things?" Hikari jumped from the railings and followed Spike. Several Heartless followed too and Spike and Hikari were forced to fight them off on the way down. As they reached the bottom Spike landed on his feet and Hikari went into the ground and came back up, one of the Heartless skills he found useful.
"Where is it?" Hikari asked,
"There!" Spike pointed, "Let's go." Spike and Hikari ran through a little gap in the stone wall leading in to a tunnel which appeared to lead on forever.
"Jesus H. Christ!" Hikari exclaimed, "How the-? Spike, what are you doing?"
Spike had already began to run through the tunnel, running on the walls for extra speed.
"Oh for f- Grrrrrr…." Hikari mumbled as he began to run.
Spike couldn't help but notice the lack of Heartless trying to attack them, he thought it could be a trap but he had to continue through the tunnel.
After a long, LONG time they had reached the end of the tunnel and came to a huge room beneath the castle.
"So we were right." Spike said,
"Yeah…" Hikari answered.
Spike lifted his walkie talkie to his mouth and said "Jones, send some troops down the Spiral staircase. We need some good men."
"Sure but… what's going on down there?" Jones asked,
"We have something of a… situation" Spike replied,
The room was huge, it must have been over 1000 kilometres in both length and width.
"A very bad situation"
Scattered all over the walls were cages with girls in, they were aged anywhere between 12 and 23.
"But they can handle it."