*Ok, in the famous words of Mushu...I LIVE! Yes I have returned with the next chapter and now I've found something to do with that useless page of questions, any news of my progress will be typed up there, so watch for changes!*

Chapter six, The Power of Darkness...

"Come on! Let's move!" Leon yelled to Sora as they moved to the core of the heartless attack.

"I'm coming!" Sora yelled as he slashed another heartless into nothing.

"Ok..." Leon said as they moved side by side through the alleyways of Traverse Town.

"Leon, where do we go now?" Sora asked as they stopped to take in there surroundings. They were in what at first look seemed like a sewer. The water moved along one side of the alley, and the hotel on the other wall, with a path going in-between them.

"I'm mot sure, we can either go to the Third District or the First...What do you think?" Leon asked looking at Sora as he bowed his head and thought.

"Well, if I remember right...than there's nothing except people and shops in the First District...Than I suppose that's where the heartless are headed, but we want to find the source...what to do..." Sora thought out loud which startled Leon a bit.

'The boy thinks like a grown man...perhaps he can do this' Leon thought, than looked up to see a black shadow move toward the door all the way at the end of the alleyway.

"Sora, look!" Leon shouted pointing to the shadow in the corner.

"Huh, what is it?" Sora asked. Sora looked just in time to see the shadow run down the path. "Oh, I see it, let's go!"

Leon and Sora ran down the alleyway to where the shadow had moved, as they rounded the corner, the sight they saw sent a chill down Sora's spine. Shadows...everywhere.

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"Usagi! Come on! Faster!" Donald yelled as they moved overtop the roofs of the many houses in the second district. Now, let's backtrack to how they got up there.

*Ten Minutes Ago*

"Ack!" Usagi yelled as something grabbed onto her skirt causing her to fall over. Usagi looked over to see yellow eyes staring back at her. The shadow heartless had, using its pointed incisors, grabbed on to her.

"Donald! Goofy! Help!" She yelled as she tried to pull away from the shadow's grip.

"Usagi!" Goofy yelled as he ran back. Goofy pulled out his shield and ran strait for the heartless. Usagi closed her eyes as Goofy got closer, and then fell over as a result of the heartless letting go. Goofy had hit the heartless strait in the head and kept going until he smashed it against the wall, completely obliterating any trace of the shadow's presence.

"Ahuk, gee, guess I don't know my own strength" Goofy said sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck as he turned to face Usagi.

"Thunder!" Donald's voice rang out. Usagi and Goofy looked to Donald who, just seconds ago had been up to his head in heartless. "Come on! Let's go before more show up!"

But as soon as the words have left his mouth, black shadows began to, as it seemed, pop out of nowhere.

"Um...Donald...I think, you shouldn't have said anything..."Usagi said as she began to slowly move backwards.

"Ruuuuuuun!" Donald yelled as the moved back the way they came, but as they began running, the heartless moved as well, blocking there escape.

"Um Donald? What now?" Goofy asked holding his shield up to protect himself.

"Nowhere to go but..." Donald looked up.

"No! I can't climb!" Goofy said, holding his hands up.

"Well! This time you have to!" Donald said.

"Guys..."

"No! I'm not climbing!" Goofy said folding his arms.

"Yes! You are!" Donald yelled.

"Guys..." Usagi was getting worried now.

"No! I Will Not Do It!" Goofy yelled.

"YES YOU WILL!" Donald yelled back.

"GUYS!" Usagi yelled.

"WHAT?!" The both yelled at the same time.

"Look..." Usagi pointed behind the arguing pair. They turned around to see millions of shadows surrounding them from now all sides except the building wall.

"I think we need to go up now..."Goofy said.

"Oh! Now you think this!" Donald said as the anime sweat drop comes.

"Well, let's go! Usagi yelled as she began to climb up the drain pipe.

"Wait for us!" They yelled as they climbed as well. And here they were, running from the heartless, with Donald stopping at times to shoot a fireball, or something that could hurt the things.

"Hey hold up! Look here!" Usagi said pointing to a large hole in the side of a building that led up.

"We can climb through this hole!" Goofy said as he ran head first though the hole and into the house.

"Jeez, hates climbing on a normal basis but when he's chased by heartless suddenly he's a climbing master..." Donald muttered as he followed Usagi through the hole.

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"Um...Leon, this is bad right...?" Sora asked as he backed away from the heartless's glairing eyes.

"Yeah, Sora, this is really bad..." Leon said as he held his sword protectively in front of himself, "Sora, when I say...I want u to run through the shadows while I keep them busy."

"What!?" Sora asked surprised at what Leon had just said, "What do you mean?!"

"Look I really don't want to explain it, I can't even explain it to myself, just go ok!" Leon yelled as he ran forward. He raised his blade and slammed it on a heartless slicing it in two and then moved onto the next one. "Sora! NOW! GO!"

Sora moved as fast as his legs would take him, but he didn't run to the door.

"What are you doing?!" Leon yelled as he saw Sora attack a heartless.

"I'm-not-letting-you-do-this-alone!" Sora said in-between attacks as he moved from heartless to heartless. Sora began to get into it as he struck another heartless, ending its life. Sora moved over to the next heartless, and the next, and the next, fighting them off with a swing of his Keyblade. Leon was moving in a similar fashion, slashing at the heartless with no mercy as he moved to get through the Shadows to reach the door, moving as fast as he can.

"Sora! Come on!" Leon yelled.

"Right!" As Sora ran to the doorway that led to the Third District, a puff of smoke moved out in front of him and he was stopped from moving any farther by the five forms of the Soldier heartless he first saw in the hotel.

"Get out of the way!" Sora yelled as he razed his Keyblade, ready to strike. But as his blade was to connect with the heartless, he was struck from behind by a clawed hand.

"Rahhhh!" Sora screamed as he felt the hot claws scratch his flesh. Sora fell to his knees, holding himself up with his Keyblade.

"Sora!" Leon yelled looking at the boy, as the soldier heartless crowded around him. Leon's mind began to flash as he thought of this attack, he remembered a raven haired woman...and her sad fate...Leon yelled again as he moved forward to attack the heartless, his mind full of the memory of his list sight of the...of his raven haired woman.

"No, Not Again!" He yelled as he struck a heartless with a quick clean strike. The heartless stopped there assault on Sora and moved, in there dancing sort of way, over to Leon, leavening Sora beaten, bruised, and lying on the ground. The heartless all slashed and clawed at Leon as he moved from side to side slashing at the different heartless. As the heartless began to die down, Leon soon noticed something, no mater how many times he slashed the heartless, they came back...

"Ah!" He yelled as he felt a claw cut into the skin of his arm, "God! These things just keep coming!" Leon kept slashing, but he could feel his arms getting tired from the constant swinging of his gunblade. At last it seemed to be the end for him as he swung once and a soldier heartless knocked the blade out of his hand and to his feet. Leon, being to tired to even cast a fire spell, fell to his knees and bowed his head as he awaited the feeling of the hot, steel claws...they never came. Leon looked up and saw...Sora! Sora stood there, holding the Keyblade, yet, there was something, different about him. Sora looked as though he was a completely different person, his eyes shown with, not his bright blue, but a dark grey, his usually bright face wore a grim look upon it, and the Keyblade had also changed. Though its figure was still the same, the coloring was different. Instead of the light silver blade, it was a deep grey, and the handle, no longer it's bright yellow, was as black as night itself.

"Let my friend go..." Sora spoke in a voice that was too cold, to dark to be his own. Leon looked on as the heartless all moved to Sora, ready to strike, but it seemed, so was Sora. Sora razed his blade above his head; he and the blade began to glow.

"What's...going on..." Leon whispered quietly to himself. Sora looked at the heartless and gave a small smirk, the heartless, sensing something to be amiss, backed away a bit.

"Demon's.....Gate!" Sora yelled as he swung his blade down and created a great tear in the air. The heartless looked on as the slash grew bigger and opened wide. A great wind picked up that pulled all things in its path toward the hole of nothingness that hung in midair. The heartless were pulled up from the ground one by one, and were flung into the hole; each letting out something that sounded like a mix between a scream and nails on a chalkboard. Leon looked on, and saw the look of Sora's face, looking pleased to see the pain of the heartless.

'How can Sora do this, he's far too cold, like I used to be, no...no this isn't Sora' Leon thought.

"No, no this isn't Sora..." Leon said to himself, trying to convince himself of his own thought...he continued watching. The gate, after all the heartless had been absorbed in it, shut closed with a loud slam, silencing any heartless screams that could still be heard. Any trace that there had been a fight, and heartless at all, were gone. Sora then turned his head to look at Leon; another smirk came upon his face as his eyes drooped closed. His body went limp as the color of the Keyblade returned to normal. When Sora opened his eyes, they also had returned to there original color.

"L-Leon...what, what happened..." Sora asked looking at Leon confused. Leon, to say the least, was shocked. How could Sora ask that, did he not know what he had just done.

"Sora! You...You've got to be kidding me?!" Leon asked looking at Sora as if he were a different person, "Sora how can you not know what you just did?!"

"Well...I-I really have no clue what you're talking about..." Sora said backing away from Leon a small bit. Leon looked into Sora's eyes and saw once again the innocence that Sora had held since the first time he had met Sora.

"...Nothing Sora, forget it" Leon said as he picked up his gunblade and attaching it to his belt. 'Perhaps it's better if he doesn't know, who knows what will come of it...but I have a bad feeling'.

"Let's go" Leon said as he walked to the door that led to the Third District, Sora moving quietly behind him.

*Wohaha! I like writing this chapter, I kind of liked making Sora sound evil. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and to tell you, I'm already almost done with the next one, so you may not have to wait long...depends on if I go on vacation of not, well, I'm done for now, over and out! TTFN!*