IT'S THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS! YESSSSSS! AT LONG LAST MY DREAM OF UPDATING (almost) EVERY DAY WILL COME TO FRUITION! And I really am going to try and make the chapters longer since now I actually have TIME!

Riku: After so many times saying that, do you think the fan will believe you?

Meh: Why did you make 'fan' singular! I have more than one fan, you know!

Riku:……..

Meh: Disclaimer: I don't own the all-wonderful Kingdom Hearts 1 or 2 (sadly). But I do own a copy of the game on ps2 and Chain of Memories for the GBA! And, when it comes out a copy of KH2 XD But KH2 is still not out, and so I shall wait in depression, writing evil disclaimers…

And now…on with the fic!

Chapter 8

Sora stood there, frozen with fear. There were just too many of them…too many to fight off. And maybe death wouldn't be so bad…or would they take his heart again? At least it would all be over. No more pain, no more suffering. Maybe it would even be…peaceful. Maybe, just maybe, if he believed that, whatever waited at the end would be okay. Maybe it would really happen.

Just because he told himself that didn't make it automatically true.

It was getting harder and harder to keep running. She had been running for so long and...nothing. Just silence, save for her panting. What's that? A sound like nothing she had ever heard before. A sort of squeaking and scuttling, like cockroaches make if they're trying to walk on top of eachother. And then she saw it. The wave--if you could call it that--towering above a lone figure, who didn't stand a chance. The glowing eyes from the wave all seemed to be focused on him, and his destruction. It wasn't hard to tell who that person was either. Sleet saw that he was going to die. And then...
The wave was almost on top of him. This is it... Sora anticipated the final blow, closing his eyes, unconsciously bracing himself. But the final blow never came. Tentativly he opened one eye. Something had attacked the wave, and continued to attack it, over and over again. Globules of darkness broke off, becoming seperate shadow heartless, but those were all hacked to pieces by the mysterious assailant. As his saviour was destroying the wave, he caught a glimpse of her face. Sleet was attacking the heartless, but something about her was different. As she destroyed more and more of them, she didn't seem at all bothered, angry, happy. Nothing. Her face was a complete blank. It was kind of scary, watching her emotionlessly hacking more and more of them to shreds. But there was something else off. They weren't attacking her back, only trying to get to him. But what does it mean? And why can I barely move? There was something glinting, a needle, or a dart perhaps. He pulled it out quickly and the feeling began to return to his legs. Just as he found the needle/dart 'Sleet' (if he could indeed still call her that) finished off the last of the heartless. It seemed to trigger a reaction of some sort. She began to fall backwards. He caught her before she hit the ground. Gently he laid her down on the ground. It was good that it was dark by now. No one would be able to see him blushing slightly. He was grateful that she had saved him.

Something caught his eye in the darkness. A yellow glint coming from her hand. It looked like an eye, but not the eye of a shadow heartless. More like the eye of a cat, enlarged. Where had he seen that before?

Don't tell me you've forgotten, said a voice in his head. Not Sora's voice either. Riku's voice, coming to him just like when he was fighting Ansem.

That's a sword like Riku's!

But what did it all mean?

--END OF CHAPTER 8--

You see? Once I actually have free time, I can write longer chapters! And the chapters will hopefully be getting constantly longer too! As a celebration, I have decided to get a second co-host. It's debatable if he will stay as a co-host, but I shall have him as such for now all the same XD Kingdom Hearts fans, please welcome Sora!

Sora: Yay XD

Riku: Maybe this will be the time to sneak away...

Meh: Not a chance! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Riku: Why does nothing go my way?

Sora: Because it's funny like that XD

Riku: -punches Sora-

Anyway...Until next time XD

Things to come...

It's over...but is everyone okay? Highly unlikely! What really happened to Sleet? What did Sora see before the cloaked enigma vanshed? And...is that smoke? Did I really ask sensible quiestions only this time (there goes that...)? Maybe it will be revealed next time...you'll just have to wait XD

And since the release of the Harry Potter book is tomorrow, I won't be updating then -sniff-. So instead, how about a preview (although it might be in chapter 10, not 9...)?

Preview

"What did you see then?" Sleet asked him quietly.

"It was a cloaked figure..." Sora trailed off into silence.

"An enigma then?"

"No...It was..."

You'll have to keep reading to find out what it was XD And reviewing...that too. Although I might just end up writing for my own petty amusement. Whatever. Reviews are always apprieciated! Until next time!