Me: Hello my peoples!

Peoples: Hello!

Me: Kay, We have some special guest stars in my story today, it'll be really funny! And one of them will do what I know all of you have been dying to do.

Digitaldreamer: ..eh?

Me: Oh hush, I already told you what I was going to write. Don't pretend like you don't know.

Sora: What?

Me: You'll see.

Riku: You never come straight out and tell somebody something, do you?

Me: Nope.

All: (sweatdrop)

Me: Anywho, I'm typing another chapter while in my little angsty mood; you have been warned. Even though my story is pathetic next to my Beta Reader's 'Broken Rainbow'. She just put up chapter 16 and it ROCKS! So if you haven't read it yet, then get your ass over there and read it, god damn it!

Digitaldreamer: oo;;; I am....scared...

Me: Good. She knows her story is good, she's just too modest to say it.

Kairi: Heh.

Me: NOW READ!

Realm of Trial

The light burned bright but the heavenly rushing sounds that normally came with it were cut off by a scream.

"Menti, turn off the fucking light! We can't see!"

Sora blinked as, once again, his Trial was once again disrupted. Everybody was turning to stare behind him, so he did as well. What he saw made his jaw drop.

There were two teenage girls about his age standing in the doorway. One had straight brown hair with green eyes that reminded him a bit of Riku's. Her eyes seemed to sparkle like she was always in the mood to laugh. She wore black leather pants and a bright red t-shirt that had one sleeve longer then the other. But what made her stand out were the bright red wings on her back (ElegantArrow 64).

The other girl seemed to radiate with energy. She had shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes. She wore dark blue jeans and a white hoodie with light blue sleeves and shoulders. The word "Angel" was written across it. She also had wings, but hers were a dazzling white with tints of purple and blue (Digitaldreamer).

Kentali smiled. "Sora, I'd like you to meet our messengers. There is Crystal, the one with the white wings, and Kim, with the red wings. She, however, prefers to go by the name Fire."

Sora smiled at them. Damn it, if it weren't for Kairi....

Fire and Crystal walked up to the Council, but Fire stopped in front of Sora. She stared at him for a moment, and then smiled. (Elegant Arrow, your wish is granted) Without warning, she yelled "SEXY!" and glomped him.

Some members of the Council laughed, others just shook their heads in sympathy for the being-hugged-to-death boy. "Err.... can someone get her off of me?" Sora asked nervously, trying to pry himself from the girls grasp; nothing was working.

"Heh, sorry about that," the angel named Crystal told him. She walked over and tried to pry her friend off, but it was like she had some sort of vice grip on him. "Damnit Fire, you're making a scene!" She hissed in the brunettes ear.

"He's too cute!" Fire claimed, hugging him harder. Sora was almost to the point where he couldn't breath.

"If you don't mind, can you and your psycho friend please get the hell out of here!" Menti roared.

Crystal twitched. She let Fire go, then turned to face Menti, fires of hell burning in her eyes. "THAT'S IT YOU BITCH!" she yelled, stomping up to Menti. She raised her hand and SLAP!!!! brought it down on her cheek so hard it made her fall out of her seat. "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET YOU FUCKING BITCH!" she roared at the top of her lungs.

There was a moment's pause, and then everybody stood up and cheered. Sora got out of Fire's hold and shook her hand. "Thank you!"

"Heh," Fire said happily. "Yeah, Crys and I have always wanted to do that, she gets on our nerves so much, giving us orders."

Menti sat back up in her chair, rubbing her sore cheek. This time, it was Fire who got her. "LISTEN MENTI, THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF WORLD'S THAT ARE GOING TO GET DESTROYED IF YOU DON'T GIVE SORA BACK LIFE! GET OVER YOU SLUTTY SELF AND LET HIM COME BACK!!!!!!!!"

Sora just stood there, too stunned for words. "How come they can curse her off and I can't?''

"Because they're not on Trial," Kentali said sweetly.

"Thank God for that!" Crystal exclaimed, throwing her hands up in the air. "I've never seen such a biased judge!" Menti glared at her coldly, still rubbing her cheek.

Heshki changed the subject. "Why are you two here?" she asked; Sora noticed that she was talking to Crystal and not so much to Fire. He smirked. Guess Heshki has competition. Not that either of them can win.

Fire looked angrily at Menti. "Because SOMEONE is taking too long with this Trial, the heartless are beginning to take over the worlds!"

Sora gasped. "They're what?" he asked, not sure if he had heard correctly.

Crystal turned towards Sora and nodded, face suddenly solemn. "Yes, Malifecent is controlling them," she said. "The King has sent troops to defend the light, but they can only protect so many worlds. They need the Keyblade Master to locate and seal the second door to darkness..... once and for all."

Sora nodded. "Right, but first, I need to finish this Trial thing."

"Don't worry, we can wait a bit," Fire said as she once again wrapped her arms around Sora's shoulders.

This time, it was Heshki who lost her temper. "Fire, get off of him! HE'S MINE!" she screamed, hugging his middle and pulling her towards him; but Fire kept her hold.

''MINE!''

"MINE!"

''MINE!''

"Oooh, cat fight! Meow!" Crystal said, giggling.

"Both of you, can you please get off of me?" Sora screamed. The only reason he didn't use more force was because they were, well, girls. ( Me: Heh, he doesn't know that girls can kick ass too. Maybe it was just because he thought they were cute. Oh no.... I'm getting confused at my own story. That's never a good sign!)

"Hey, knock it off!" Kenti yelled. "If you don't, you're going to meet one pissed off Princess of Heart!"

"Awwwwww," they both moaned.

"You mean he's taken by a Princess of Heart?" cried Heshki.

"Those girls always get the good looking ones!" pouted Fire.

Sora sighed with relief as they released their hold on him.

"Can we please get back to Trial now?" Menti roared. "If the worlds are in as much danger as you say, then I suggest you leave and let us finished!"

"Fine!" Crystal snapped. "But you'd better hurry it up! We'll be waiting!"

With that they both stalked out, but not before both expressed their opinions even more by Fire spitting on the desk in front of Menti and Crystal flipping her off on their way out.

"Well that was interesting," Sora murmured as he took his seat once more.

Kentali was still standing. "Let's get a move on." She snapped her fingers and the light came.....

Disney Castle

They were all sitting around as the King and Riku came back from outside,both looking as if they had some out of a swimming pool.

Yuffie raised an eyebrow. "You look a bit damp." Riku glared at her as King Mickey spoke a spell to make them dry again.

"Why were you out there, anyway?" Aerith asked.

Riku opened his mouth but was cut off as the door at the end of the hall blasted open. In walked a soaked to the bone man with blonde hair. (I forget the name, but whoever you are, your wish is granted). Cloud was here.

"Cloud!" Aerith gasped. When he reached their group Aerith flung her arms around him, not caring that he was soaking wet. "I'm so glad you're here!" she exclaimed.

"How did you know to come here?" Leon asked as Aerith let him go.

Cloud raised an eyebrow. "I thought that was obvious. When the heartless started showing up in Traverse Town, I went to Cid. He said he just saw you guys leave and I figured that you'd be here."

Kairi's eyes shadowed. "Did you here about Sora?"

Cloud nodded slowly. "Yeah, saw the Magician on my way in. He told me."

"How'd you get here?'' Mickey asked. "I didn't know you had a gummi ship."

"I don't" he replied. "Borrowed one from Cid. So, what about the kid?"

When nobody spoke, Yuffie piped up, "The Realm of Trial!"

Cloud sighed dejectedly, taking a seat beside Aerith. "Isn't Menti still in control of that place?"

"Unfortunately," King Mickey said sadly.

"Damn it," Cloud murmured.

Aerith scowled at him. "No swearing!"

"Get used to it," Leon growled. "You can't stop us."

Yuffie glared at him. "Don't be mean Squall!"

Leon (Squall) was about to yell at her for calling him by his real name but stopped when two shimmering clouds made themselves present.

"What the hell...." Riku murmured as he saw them take the shape of Crystal and Fire.

"Hiya Mickey!" Crystal said.

Donald glared at her. "Show some respect, would you?" he snapped.

Fire scowled. "You're just as uptight as Menti!''

King Mickey rolled his eyes. "Relax, Donald. I told them they could call me that." Crystal and Fire stuck their tongues out at Donald while the duck muttered something about out-of-control teenagers planning on overthrowing the Castle.

"Do you have any good news?" Kairi asked.

"What do we look like, messengers?"

King Mickey rose as eyebrow. "I thought you were."

"We are!" Fire exclaimed happily. "Just wondering whether or not we looked like them!" Cloud and Leon slapped their foreheads. Fire looked closely at Kairi. "Are you a Princess of Heart?"

"Yes...." Kairi said nervously. Crystal could see where this was going and stepped on her foot. Kairi giggled.

"Can you PLEASE tell us what you came here to tell us? The suspense is killing me!" Riku exclaimed.

Crystal opened her mouth to reply but Fire stepped on her foot. "What was that for?" Crystal snapped.

"Payback." Fire replied simply.

Crystal rolled her eyes and continued. "Sora's going in for his fourth Test now."

"Yeah, he's doing pretty well," Fire chipped in. "It's going pretty smoothly, but I think he might have a bit of trouble with the last Test."

"Why's that?" Goofy asked.

"'Cause Menti runs the Test of Strength, which is the last one." Crystal replied.

"How does that work?" Yuffie asked. "If he only has one strike by the end of the Fourth Test, then he will automatically pass because even if he does fail the last one, Menti will still need to bring him back because he only has two strikes!" She said this all in one breath, making them wonder how big her lungs were.

Fire sighed heavily. "That's not entirely true. Menti just may make her Test count for two strikes, and have him fail anyway."

"WHAT?!?" They all roared at the same time, making Crystal and Fire step back cautiously.

"It's true," Crystal said, sounding a bit timid. "She's unfair like that."

Riku groaned, sinking into a chair and putting his head in his hands. "We're so screwed."

"Don't say that!" Kairi cried. "He'll pass, I know he will!"

There was silence following her words, an odd ring echoing through the air. It was broken by the king. "Kairi's right. We can't lose faith in Sora."

Fire smiled meekly. "You guys wanna send him a message? We can tell him, may boost his confidence a bit."

Kairi's face lit up. "Really, can you?" she asked excitedly. Fire and Crystal nodded happily.

"Tell him all of his friends are waiting for him and are getting impatient," Riku said, laughing a bit.

"And if he stays dead, we'll never talk to him again!" Yuffie added, giggling.

Kairi grinned. "And tell him that I miss him and he'd better keep to his promise that he'd come back."

Fire nodded, and Crystal tapped her on the shoulder. "Come on, we'd better go. Ozen'll kill us if he finds out that we came here without his permission."

Fire nodded and they turned back to face the others. "We'll bring him back soon!" Crystal promised.

"Yeah, really soon!" Fire added. And in a wave of sparkles, they were gone.

"Wait a minute....." Riku said, realizing something. "If they use a bunch of sparkles to travel, why do they need wings?"

The worlds may never know.

Test of Friendship

(Heh, I'm going straight to the scene that they're watching. I'm lazy.)

Sora, twelve years old at the time, was laying on a hammock, perfectly content. He was just waiting for Riku to get back from doing his chores and Kairi to finish off her baby-sitting duties. They were all going to paddle off to Soul Island and have a picnic, maybe fitting in a bit of sparring.

Sora sighed, and let his foot hang limply over the side. He looked up at the position of the sun and guessed that it would be another hour before the two were ready. This is taking too long.... wonder what Tidus and them are up to? Sora grinned. Well, I have plenty of time! It wouldn't hurt to go see them, would it? He hopped off of the hammock and walked down the island.

He walked for a good ten minutes before he heard somebody call his name. "SORA! Over here!" Sora whirled around to see a two girls and a guy standing by the water fall, waving for him to come over. Sora frowned deeply. He knew who they were, and luckily they were moving away in a week or two. They were considered pretty cool by the other kids on the island, but what they did to others made them anything but that in Sora's eyes. They were pretty much back stabbers. I remember when they tricked Tidus. Gave him the good old 'I'm your friend' routine, and got him into saying he had a crush on Selphie. Poor kid, wouldn't show his face for weeks after they ratted him out.

Sora just shook his head at them, but stopped when the boy called, "What are you, afraid to come over here? We don't bite, unless you need that Riku boy to back you up if you get into some trouble?" The three teens sniggered. Afraid? Me? I'll show them.... Sora broke off his current route and walked up to them. The boy, Damien, sat cross-legged on the sand and had a mocking smirk on his face. A brunette named Audrey had her feet skimming the water as she looked at him. The other girl was Damien's sister. Her hair was jet black and she was called Andie. She sat on the rock wall with her feet dangling off of it.

"What do you want?" Sora asked them.

"Chill out, dude," Damien said as he stood up, brushing the sand off his pants. "Just called you over to say hi."

Uh huh, like I'd really fall for that, Sora thought, rolling his eyes.

Audrey pouted. "What, are you mad at about the Tidus kid?"

Sora glared at them, crossing is arms. "Yeah, I am! You think you're so cool just because you can humiliate all the people on the island!"

Andie just continued to swing her feet innocently. "What, you honestly think we did that on purpose?"

Sora's hands fell down from their crossed position over his chest. "What, you mean you didn't?"

"Nah, we wouldn't do that," Damien said, waving his hand impatiently. "He asked us to do it."

"I have trouble believing that," Sora informed them crossly.

"Believe what you want," Audrey said with a shrug as she pulled her feet from the water and put her sandals back on. "But he really did ask us to tell everyone so he wouldn't have to do it himself. But I guess it didn't go the way he wanted to he blamed it on us and hid in his room."

"Really?" Sora asked, cocking his head to the side.

"Really really!" Andie said cheerfully. You don't come across an idiot like this every day, she thought evilly.

"Oh," Sora said, still surprised.

"You know, Sora, you're okay," Damien said with a smile. "You wanna hang out with us for a bit?"

"Errrr.... yeah, I guess," Sora said, his mood brightening a bit as he sat down on the wall.

The three teens smiled, and all three thinking the same thing: Sucker.

Half an Hour Later

Sora was laughing along with Audrey and Andie at a joke Damien just said, actually enjoying himself. He had completely forgotten the time.

Sora head turned as he heard his name being called. The four looked down some ways to see Riku and Kairi, evidently looking for him.

"Sorry guys, I gotta go," Sora told them, hopping down.

"Wait, don't go!" Andie said, grabbing his arm. "Stay with us!"

"I can't," Sora told them. "We're gonna have a picnic on Soul Island!"

"You can have some silly old picnic any day!" Audrey told him. "Besides, why would you want to hang out with them anyway?"

"What do you mean?" Sora asked, a bit of anger rising in his voice.

"Why do you want to hang out with them?" Damien said, repeating the question. "Kairi is some freak from only god knows where that won't stop laughing and Riku is always pushing you around, beating you n' everything! He's just a big show-off."

"Don't talk about my friends like that!" Sora snapped.

Andie glowered at him. "Do you really think they'll stay your friends forever? I mean, they practically have 'fake' written all over them!"

"I don't get what...."

"Just hang out with us, and ditch them!" Damien exclaimed. "Come on, you want to hang out with the cool people, right?"

"I- I guess," Sora said nervously.

"Then go tell them!" Audrey said. "Go up to them and tell them that you don't want to hang out with them anymore!"

"I can't do that!" Sora said, startled.

"Yeah you can!" Damien said convincingly. "It's not that hard!"

"Here they come now!" Andie said excitedly. And it was true; Riku and Kairi had spotted Sora and were walking over.

"Go!" Damien said, pushing Sora a bit forward.

Gulping, Sora ran up to his Riku and Kairi, who were around twenty yards away.

"Hey Sora!" Kairi said happily.

"What were you doing hanging out with Damien and crew?" Riku asked. "They're nothing but trouble."

Sora frowned. "They're not so bad."

"That's what Tidus said," Riku pointed out. "They had him in the palm of their hands. Don't let 'em get to you Sora," he added, clapping Sora on the shoulder.

Sora peered behind him to see Audrey, Damien, and Andie waving him on. Sora looked back at his friends to see their curious faces, but he saw something else. What was I thinking? Sora and Kairi are my real friends, not those three. Riku may be a bit of a show-off, but he taught me everything I know and is always helping me get better. Yeah, Kairi came from somewhere new and she does laugh a lot, but being new is interesting and she just thinks we're funny. I can't let them down.

"Is there something you need to tell us Sora?" Kairi asked.

Sora just shook his head to clear his thoughts, and grinned his trademark smile at them. "Yeah, I want to tell you something! If we don't hurry to Soul Island then we'll just have to get dinner, not lunch!"

Riku chuckled. "Let's go then." He and Kairi started to walk off.

Sora began to follow, but turned around once more to see the dumbstruck faces of Damien and the others. Sora smirked and waved them a farewell. He then ran off to the Pier with Kairi and Riku....

Realm of Trial

Sora's eyes had gotten so adjusted to the light that he didn't even flinch this time. When it faded away, he saw Kentali standing there and grinning broadly.

"Well doen Sora!" she exclaimed. "You have exceeded my expectations, and I myself see not reason to put a strike against you. Are there any other opinions..." Menti was about to raise her hand but Kentali said ".... besides Menti?"

Menti pouted as no one raised their hands.

"That's that!" Kentali said cheerfully. "Sora, you have passed the Test of Friendship!"

The members of the council applauded as Sora grinned. Even if I fail the next one, I still pass! he thought.

Menti smirked and stood up. "Do not get too full of yourself just yet, Keybearer," she hissed. "For if you fail the next Test, my Test, then you will not win this Trial!"

Sora gaped at her. "What do you mean? I only have one strike!"

"I can make my Test count as two strikes if I want to!" Menti boomed.

"That's not fair!" Sora shouted.

Menti merely shrugged. "All is fair my by standards. Now shut up and let the beginning of your end start now!" She laughed and clapped loudly. There was a flash of light and.....

To be continued

Me: Finished. Damn, my Beta Reader is gonna kill me. I already got in trouble for making Menti so unfair.

Digitaldreamer: (twitches and sharpens knives)

Me: Notice she's obssessed with knives? Why is she smirking? Why is she walking towards me with sharp, pointy objects?

Sora: You'd better run.

Me: Good idea.... (runs) HELP ME ARROW! MAKE HER STOP!

Riku: Get back here! (Pulls her back).

Me: What did I do?

Riku: I want to see Digital rip out your spine and shove it up your nose!

Me: (gulp) Army, come to my aid!

Army: WOOYAKA! (attacks Riku)

Riku: AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Sora: Ah hah!

Kairi: You two are idiots, you know that?

Yuffie: Yes they are.

Digitaldreamer: All men are idiots.

Me: REVIEW! AND DON"T FLAME! I havn't been getting as much reviews as my other chapters. Did some readers abandon me in my two week break? Please come back! By the way, special thanks to ElegantArrow 64 and Digitaldreamer for letting me put them in my story! Bye-bye. (salutes)

Digitaldreamer: RAWR! YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE WISH!

Me: EEP! (runs)