Me: Another weekend, another chapter. (sigh)

Sora: What's wrong with you?

Me: I'm just not in the mood to write the new chapter right. now.

Kairi: Why not?

Me: (shrug)

Riku: Get writing!

Me: MAKE ME! For all you know, I might just decide to write a crossover between Kingdom Hearts and Pokemon with OCness galore! And there's nothing you can do to stop me! (Is surrounded by her loyal army whom are guarding her with fire-proof outfits so an army of dragons dosn't get them).MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now read!

Digitaldreamer: (standing with Dragon army) You can't hide forever! Don't make me come in there and flame your ass!

Disney Castle

Crystal and Fire were back at the Castle, having replayed their messages to Sora a few mere minutes ago.

"What did he say?" Kairi asked excitedly as soon as they saw the two messengers shimmer back on the ground. "Did you tell him?"

Fire giggled. "We told him!'' she assured them all.

"What did he say?" Goofy asked curiously.

"He started asking us why we couldn't have given him a message earlier; said something about him being screwed on the last Test; saying thank you to you all for the message; and then Menti started yelling at us to get out," Crystal told them, counting each part off on her fingers.

"Wait a sec...." Yuffie said. "What was the part about him saying that he was screwed for the last Test?"

Fire and Crystal's eyes darkened. "Menti is using her power as Judge to make her test count for two strikes," Fire informed him. "If he messes this one up, it's all over."

"You gotta be kidding me!" King Mickey exclaimed.

"Isn't there anything we can do about it, your majesty?" Donald inquired, having grown used to the idea that Mickey could pull a solution form out of nowhere. But the King remained quiet, just as lost as anybody.

"We'll just have to wait," Leon said calmly.

Yuffie turned to him angrily. "How can you be so calm? Our friend may be dead for good up there and all you say it 'wait'?!?"

Leon's eyes sparked for a moment, but his voice remained that of forced calm. "We have nothing more to do. We'll know in a little while."

Nobody spoke for a long time. Fire and Crystal sat on a couch and were talking amongst each other; Leon and Cloud were casually flipping their weapons around; Riku stared moodily at the ceiling, as if daring him to do or say anything to him. Yuffie just lay back on the couch with her feet propped up on the coffee table and Kairi played with the loose seems of her shirt with a lost expression on her face, as if she was close to giving up.

Fire began to hum "When You Wish Upon a Star" very loudly out of shear boredom, causing the rest to glare at her. "What did I do?" she asked innocently. Cloud rolled his eyes.

"I'm hungry!" Yuffie wailed. "C'mon, let's get sumthin to eat. All this stress is bad for you."

Riku raised an eyebrow at her. "You think that we're honestly going to eat something when we're too worried about Sora?"

It was then that they fully understood what it was like to mess with a hungry ninja. She stood up and yelled at the top of her lungs, making the entire Castle shake. The fires of hell erupted behind her as she bellowed, "WE'RE GONNA GET SOMETHING TO EAT RIGHT NOW! I'M HUNGRY AND WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ON AN EMPTY STOMACH! NOW GET MOVING!!!!"

They all gulped nervously and ran towards the kitchens, Yuffie chasing them down. That is.... all of them except Cloud and Crystal. (Digitaldreamer, your wish, however stupid, is granted)

It was then that Cloud noticed Crystal's weapon. It was very large, and not all that fancy. As a matter of fact, it looked exactly like his.

Cloud raised an eyebrow. "Why is your weapon exactly like mine?" He inquired.

There was a moment of silence and then, she cried out, "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU CLOUD!"

She tried to glomp him, but Cloud just side-stepped it, causing her to fall, face down, on the ground, her wings sprawled out.

"Crazy fan girls," Cloud murmured, shaking his head. He then went to join the rest to get some food.

( Digitaldreamer does happy dance XP)

Realm of Trial

Sora blinked nervously to clear the blindness from his eyes. The wind swept through his brown hair, the cries of seagulls reaching his ears. By the looks of things, it was a little before noon. He glanced to his left to see Menti standing there, a serious expression on her face; not mocking, just dead seriousness. This did nothing to sooth his nerves. He wasn't sure if he was just imagining it or not, but she seemed to be even more menacing then before. Sora swallowed back his fear, and looked down at the memory that would, hopefully, prove him worthy of his own life.

The Final Memory (FINALLY!)

Sora was currently 13 years old, and he was kicking at random shells that were scattered across the sandy shores of Destiny Island. Sighing, he looked up at the sky and watched as a seagull flew across the path of the blazing sun, sending out shrill cries as it made it's way across the ocean.

He made his way to Kairi's place and knocked on the door. "Coming!" said a voice that did not belong to Kairi. The door opened and he saw her foster mom standing there with a warm smile on her face and an apron tied around her waist.

"Hello, dear. Are you looking for Kairi?" Sora nodded. "Well, I'm afraid you just missed her. She and Selphie headed off to the market just ten minutes ago. They won't be back for a while."

Sora grinned. Typical, girls and their shopping. "Well, thanks anyway," Sora said as he raised a hand in farewell and trotted off to Riku's house.

He was about halfway there when a coconut came flying out of nowhere and bounced against his head.

"OUCH!" Sora exclaimed, rubbing his head furiously. He looked around to see who had thrown it and saw Riku and Wakka leaning against some trees with smirks on their faces.

"What was that for?" Sora demanded.

"We were bored," was Riku's reply, shrugging. "What's up?"

"Nothing much," Sora said.

"Where's Kairi?" Wakka asked as he threw the blitzball over to Sora.

"Shopping," Sora replied, rolling his eyes as he caught the blitzball thrown at him by the redhead.

"What's with girls and shopping?" Riku asked as he caught the blue and white sphere Sora sent flying at him one-handed.

"Who knows, man?" Wakka said as they continued their game of catch. "Is Selphie with her?"

"Yup."

They all groaned.

"I'm bored," Riku said after a few minutes of silence as they through the ball to random people, trying to catch them off guard.

"I think we all are," Sora told him, send the ball slamming into the top of a tree and making a few seagulls cry out in surprise and scattering in different directions.

"Watch it, Sora!" Riku said angrily as a seagull dived right by his cheek.

"Sorry, Riku," Sora said with a snort of laughter. He was thinking of other people who might be able to give them something to do when he thought of a person he had not seen on the island today. "Wakka, where's Tidus?"

"You know, I've been wondering about that all morning," Wakka said, shaking his head and missing the ball that was thrown at him by Riku. The blitzball landed with a thump on the ground, but he didn't bother to pick it up. "Where did the little spike-head get to?"

"I didn't see him on the island today..." Riku began, scratching his chin thoughtfully.

"Maybe he went to the market to pick up something?" Wakka suggested.

"Do ya thing he could be on Soul Island?" Sora asked.

"Howa bout this....." Riku began. ''Sora, you got to Soul Island to look for him and Wakka, you go to the market to see if Selphie and Kairi saw him. I'll do a quick check of this island. We'll meet at Soul Island in, let's say, half an hour."

"Why do we need to look for him?" Sora asked.

"Because Tidus is always outside on days like these, that's why," Riku pointed out. ''If he's not out here, there's something wrong."

"What if he's at home?"

Wakka just shook his head. "I was just there; his parents said he left already. And he wouldn't have gone somewhere else without dragging us along, so there must be something wrong, ya?"

Sora sighed and nodded. "Okay, we'll meet at Soul Island in half an hour," he said.

He and Wakka waved a farewell to Riku as they made their way to the dock. Sora took the rope off his boat that tied it to the dock, and hopped in, picking up the oars.

"Race you!" Wakka called as they made their way over the waves.

Sora raised an eyebrow. "How can we race if we're going to completely different places?"

"Oh.....yeah...." Wakka murmured. They rowed swiftly through the water as the gentle waves sent soft sprays of sea water onto their clothes, misting their faces; it felt refreshing in the hot weather.

"I'll meet you in a bit!" Sora called as they went their separate ways, Sora heading right and Wakka to the left.

"I'm gonna kill Tidus for making us run all over for him," Wakka kidded.

Sora chuckled as he continued his way to the island.

When he finally reached the dock, he tied up his boat and looked around. Soul Island was more scenic then anything else. Nobody lived here, and it had a few waterfalls and a dense jungle that hardly anyone went into. There was a river that ran through the middle, its flow nice and steady. Sora and his friends usually swam here if they got tired off the saltwater. In the middle was a dormant volcano that rose up high, but hadn't erupted in hundreds of years. It was said that if you went to the top of the volcano and looked down, it would steal your soul and form it into lava, and store enough for a massive explosion that would destroy all the islands. That's how this island got the name 'Soul Island'. But as of now, the volcano was covered in thick layers of moss and shrubs that grew every here and there.

Sora stepped off of the dock and walked down the path that had been made from all of the people who went down it, feet flattening the ground.

''Tidus?" Sora called. "Tidus, where are you?" No answer.

That's when he heard it. Rough voices were coming from a clearing Sora knew of up ahead. There's something familiar about those voices.

Sora walked quickly over. He heard a yelp of pain and he started to run. He swatted at the vines and trees in his way until he finally came to a large flat clearing that was clear of grass and shrubs. It was hard-packed dirt with a bit of gravel mixed in. The clearing didn't worry Sora in the slightest; what scared him was who he saw. Not them again....

It was the gang of islanders again, only older and more tough looking. They looked up when Sora entered and sneered. "Well, what do you know? It's our old punching bag!"

Sora growled in anger. He looked down at the ground ahead of him to see Tidus laying there, bleeding heavily from his nose and a bruise on his cheek. "Sora!" he cried in relief. "I was just hanging out here for a while when they showed up and....."

"Tidus, stand back," Sora said in a serious voice. Tidus, hearing Sora's tone, scrambled out of the way.

Sora could feel anger pulsing through his veins, mixed with a strong sense of justice that screamed out to him to fix this problem..... now!

"Alright...that's enough! I'm sick of you guys picking on us all the time!" Those goons think that they can mess with us like this? Sora thought angrily. It's time to show them I'm not letting them get away this time. Somebody has to stick up for the people on this island; it might as well be me.

One of the boys laughed. "Hear that guys? The punching bag wants to fight back!" He snorted.

"Doesn't he know he'll just get the snot kicked out of him again!?" Another sneered.

Sora's eyes narrowed, sapphire eyes flashing. "I don't care if I get beat up again, I'll hurt you all just as much! You guys pick on us all the time and it's about time someone put a stop to it!" He could feel something pulsing throughout his body, beginning from his heart and spreading through his fingertips as he held up his sword that was made of a very hard wood with a sharp point, making it almost as good as a real sword.

(Okay, if you have some fighting music, like Mortal Combat or Heavy Rock or something, play it now.)

"You really think you can beat us!?" One snickered. Sora's face remained rigid, sliding into his fighting stance.

"Don't tell us you didn't have it coming to you," another said with a smirk, cracking his knuckles in anticipation.

Sora, getting sick of talking, let out a roar as he charged at one of them. He brought his sword over his head, and then down in a powerful blow to the section where shoulder met neck. As the man staggered a bit and started to fall, Sora jumped on his shoulders and launched into the air, and tried to land on one of them. But the man just dodged it, and aimed a punch at Sora's cheek.

Sora moved his head to the right as the gloved fist zoomed past him. Sora grabbed his wrist and twisted it. The man cried out in pain and Sora kicked him in the ribs hard! He felt something snap under his feet and he knew he had broken some ribs.

A blond came at him with a thick metal pole and brought it down on Sora's head. Sora brought his sword up, blocking the blow. Sora sent his blade at the man's stomach, but he side-stepped it and brought the pole down onto Sora's shoulder.

Sora grunted in pain. He grabbed the pole and forced one end into the ground, and put his hands on top of the other end. Before the blond punk knew what happened, Sora had used it to vault himself into the air and behind the thug. He kicked the man in the back, forcing him head first into the pole, knocking him out.

Out of nowhere, a fist got Sora on the back side of his head, causing him to see stars flashing before his eyes. Somebody else hit him on his side with a pole. Sora cried out in pain and staggered backwards to take in his current situation.

One was knocked unconscious and another was too injured to stand. Three more were coming at him now. That's it! I'm tired of this.....they think they can take me?!? Think again!

Trial People

Sora watched as he beat the shit out of the bullies, and he already knew what the results would be; he had lived it. But where he should have seen the white light that meant he was proving himself, there was something else instead. A golden light was coming from his heart, and there was an object in the middle from which the light was coming from. Sora squinted to see what it was. Is that a...a....a crown? Sora thought. And it was.

"It can't be..." Menti said with a look of pure shock on her face.

Back to the Fight....

Sora could feel a surge of power coming inside of him and became only dully aware that the thugs were coming closer. And then, without his command, his body began to move on it's own, and he could feel a heat and strange feeling coming from inside of him as he released a combo of moves that he had never remembered practicing.

Sora launched forward and brought his sword down lightning fast in several slashes as it made contact with flesh every blow. The rest of the gang had never seen somebody move so fast.

Sora then jumped hard off the ground once more and flew several feet above their heads, and landed on one of the men, bouncing off of him to send a punch at another. He stopped on a dime and turned around. Without waiting to catch his breath, he jumped back and ran his elbow into a man's neck, sending him down onto the dirt.

Sora lifted his blade and brought it down in continuous blows until the last two fell to the ground.

Sora came back to reality, only partly aware of the fighting he had just done. He felt the strange power ebb away along with the last of his strength. He sunk down onto his knees, panting heavily. I did it.... I beat them. They won't bother us anymore. They're done; they can't terrorize these islands anymore.

"Sora!" Tidus cried, rushing over to his friend's side. "Oh man, that was awesome! I've seen some pretty good fights, but I've never seen anyone handle a sword like that. It all seemed like just one move you did it so fast! Sora? Are you okay?"

Sora fell down completely now, no more energy left in his body, having used it all in that last mysterious combo. What the hell was that?

Realm of Trial

Sora, still confused as to what had happened, saw the flash of light. But when it cleared, what met him was not that of silence. Everybody was talking urgently to each other, and Menti just sat there with a stunned expression. "What happened?" Sora asked loudly.

Everyone fell quiet. Menti stood up, and on her face she wore.... a smile. (Digitaldreamer: Because everyone knows only "SOOPER MYSTERIOUS POWA'S!!11one" can make a bitch be OOC and smile. Me: Oh shush, you'll see why. Let them get back to reading!)

"Congratulations Sora, you have passed!" she said sweetly.

If Sora was not so stunned at the fact that she was being nice, he would have been jumping up and down in joy for getting back his life. "Why are you being so nice all of a sudden?" Sora asked suspiciously.

"I am sorry for problems I have caused," she said. Sora's jaw dropped. "I did not know who you were. Please forgive me...." she bowed, ".... your majesty."

Done

Me: I love those giant cliffhangers. Don't you?

Digitaldreamer: Indeed my young padawan, you are learning the ways of the force.

Me: You do know that I'm just as old as you are, don't you?

Sora: (is humming 'I just Can't Wait to be King' from the Lion King) Wait a second.... I don't have a clue what you're talking about!

Me: Guess you'll find out later. I think I may leave you on this cliffhanger for a few weeks.

Digitaldreamer: Yes, you are doing excellently in the ways of the force. Now you must "accidentally" have a four-month hiatus...

All: NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Me: REVIEW! And thanks for the idead, Obi-one. I think I will.