Hopefully this time madam authoress won't be quite so lax in producing chapters (ah, we can all hope…)! Maybe this chapter will come out at the right time (as in some time on the 28th of July) but that seems so unlikely...Ah well! I shall try, and that's all I can do :) And I have suddenly been struck with inspiration! After I finish writing this fic (or some time in the middle of writing it. Who knows?) I'll end up doing another fic (probably a one-shot) about the BHK. Not my favorite character, but hey, it's not like I've actually seen him in KH2 (although I have watched the trailers obsessivly). Why did I announce that? I have no idea...

Riku: -sigh-

Sora: -is eating ice-cream-

Riku: GIVE ME THAT! -grabs ice-cream-

Meh: -is too busy crapping on to notice fight for ice-cream-

Riku: -licking ice-cream- Disclaimer: If the authoress of this fanfic owned Kingdom Hearts, it would have Pickles inc. appear in the game instead of Squaresoft. Although...Square owns me too...IS THERE NO SALVATION FOR ME?

Meh: -stops crapping on- Nope XD

Okay...so I was a little tired last time I was updating, but now I've had enough sleep...I think and can actually walk in a straight line!

Riku and Sora: Wow...O.O

That's more than enough random crapping on...so...On with the fic!

Chapter 13

Sora didn't know what the glowing orb had been. Sleet, kneeling on the ground, was more than enough of an indication that something was wrong. The keyblade, always willing to respond to his emotions appeared in his hand.

"What did you do to her?" Sora shouted, whilst trying to hit the hooded figure with the keyblade. She dodged each strike with apparent ease.

"It's only a gift," she replied in mock innocence. "Nothing to get so mad about. If you get this mad someone might try and hurt you." When Sora came in for another blow, not suspecting anything, something struck him in the stomach, driving all the wind out of him.

"And now I bid you farewell. Should we meet again, I might not be quite so lenient." Slowly, she stepped backwards into the shadows, the light she emitted fading as she did so. When Sora went to strike again, there was nothing there to strike, save the insubstantial shadows. Giving the empty shadows one last angry look, he rushed over to Sleet.

She registered that Sora was running towards her, but that was all she did about it. She listened to the steady thumping of the heart. It was strange, but it seemed to calm her.

Sora was panting by the time he had arrived at where Sleet was kneeling. She had managed to run further than he had thought. "Are...you okay?" he asked her between pants.

Sleet looked at the hand that rested over her heart, not replying.

Before Sora could say something else, there was a loud clicking sound that seemed to just go on and on and on. He turned away from Sleet, trying to find the location of the clicking noise but only meeting the almost solid darkness.

The clicking noise had also distracted Sleet and she looked up from her hand. She bit down on her lip to stop herself from crying out. In every direction there they were. Hundreds and hundreds...thousands perhaps. The heartless are coming. And there's no way out.

Sora hadn't seen the heartless yet, and was too busy panting to notice much anyway. But when he had pretty much regained his breath, he began to notice them. Little yellow pinpricks of light that seemed to trace a circle around them. And that circle seemed to be slowly shrinking. The keyblade appeared once again in Sora's hand, emitting enough light to see the army of neo heartless that now surrounded them. This must be a 'parting gift' from that cloaked person.

When the light touched the advancing army of heartless, it must have triggered something. They stopped sneaking and ran head-on at Sora and Sleet, claws outstretched, intent on ripping apart anything and everything in their path.

Sora parried then struck, parried then struck. There was almost a pattern. However, the overwhelming number that were attacking meant that even when one neo heartless was destroyed, there were five to take its place. Slowly Sora attacked less and less, until there was only room for the occasional attack. And Sleet just seemed to be watching. Maybethat was the purpose of the heart. To mesmerise her so that she would watch Sora die.

Sora was moving back now. He was only human, after all, and tired after over-exerting himself. His guard became more and more sloppy. The neo heartless managed to get scratches in now.

Something touched Sleet's knee, and she looked up to see the source. It was Sora, holding the keyblade and fending off attacks from the heartless. Something was dripping onto the ground. A crimson liquid that the bone-dry earth accepted greedily. Blood.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

The continuous dripping slowly brought Sleet out of her trance. "Sora!"

He glanced back at her, but one heartless took advantage of the temporary distraction and slashed at Sora's stomach. There was a cry of pain and he moved one hand slowly towards where it had struck.When his hand came away, it was covered in blood.

Though Sora was clearly suffering, he continued to fight, the life slowly dripping out of him. Sleet could take no more of this. The soul eater was clenched in her hand.

Sora thought he was going to pass out. There were just too many of them. And they weren't the normal shadow heartless either. Stronger...deadlier by far. And he couldn't take much more. One of them launched itself from the shadows. Sora hadn't been expecting it and was fending off about five other heartless anyway. This is the end...

The heartless disappeared and a few little munny balls dropped from the air that it had occupied only a few seconds before. A few seconds later, the heartless that had been pressing down on him were destroyed, the munny dropping slowly onto the ground. There was a flash of red and more neo heartless were destroyed.

Something seems familiar here...

It struck Sora almost at once. Sleet. Something had happened to her before when he had been in danger. The situation was a little different now, but essentially the same. And so, Sora pondered and watched as the once dauntingly large army was being reduced to nothing in front of his very eyes.

The army eventually disappeared, leaving plenty of munny on the ground. However, something was wrong. Sleet didn't seem to be snapping out of whatever sort of trance she was in. In fact...Sora ducked just before the webbed blade struck him. She's attacking me!

--END OF CHAPTER 13--

So...it seems the dream of updating daily was a rather short-lived dream indeed. My mum decided that I needed to get out of the house and said that we should all go to the German countryside. I SPEAK THREE WORDS OF GERMAN! AND THAT'S A MIRACLE ON ITS OWN! I'll show you roughly what happened...

Mum: We can't stay at home all summer. We should go somewhere!

Meh: -muttering- yes, we can stay home all summer.

Mum: -didn't hear or ignored meh- We should go visit all the German people we know!

Meh: -.-;;; You know I speak almost no German, right?

Mum: -ignoring- We should go to the countryside!

Little Sister: Yay! Countryside! We can visit the farm animals!

Mum: And we can drive there! All the way from England!

Meh: No way in hell -.-

Mum: Okay...we'll send you to America!

Meh: Yay!

Mum: But there only seem to be a few tickets and they all have a returning flight at around the end of your holiday...

But by this time I had already left. Actually, I was going to tell my mum that I would rather go to the non-computer countryside of Germany, but when I went to tell her, she had already booked a damn ticket for meh! Oh the pain of not having any computer access for the next...25 days T-T Well, now I certainly can't update T-T But hopefully I'll be able to get computer access somewhere...Hopefully...

And now, depression-induced meh shall reply to the lovely reviews...

icewolf9:Wow...A Riku plushie! Now I can truly be an obsessive Riku fangirl! And yesh, it might have been a slightly more creepy chappie than normal...but I for one like horror XD!

Riku: Not everyone has the same interests as you, you know -.-

Meh: But somewhere there might be someone who does...

Riku: Sure there is. Just keep believing that...

lanablaze92: Well, I hate disappointing, so sorry this chappie is so late. Sadly, lately I've been busy weeping over the idea of no computer...and the whole crap-I-cornered-myself-so-now-I-can't-think-of-anything-to-write thing...

polly pony lauren: Don't worry, there's not as much KHness as I could have put in...So it is understandable to people who haven't played the game :) And you're not lazy, when you updated, you actually had time...a luxury I have been denyed by everyone around meh. Is that fate? (no, it isn't -.-) Good luck to you and your fic writing by the way XD

Mmkay...so that's all from lil ol' meh.

Riku: Yay!

Meh: You don't really mean that...

Riku: Well, mostly I do...

Meh: T-T I'll miss you Riku.

Riku: -blushing slightly- ...

Meh: So bye everyone -waves-

Riku and Sora: -wave-

Things to come...

An unexpected attacker? What will become of Sora if he has to avoid blows from the army-destroying Sleet? Why does Sleet have the Soul Eater? Why do I ask all of these questions? Maybe when I finally update these questions will be revealed...and more XD Next time: Chapter 14: Unexpected Enemy. See you then!

And now...A nice surprise for meh would be if there were 30 lovely reviews waiting for meh when I come back. Am I being too hopeful? (Ironically) I hope not...

America, here I come T-T...Ta!