A/N: I thought the story was beginning to wear down since there has been a constant character number for the majority of the chapters I have submited. So I decided to add four more to the mix, Enjoy, I do except your opinions about the story signed or anonymous.

Chapter Seven: Namine and Riku

The two scurried down the stairs and into the living room where they exited the front door. By the time he realized it was too late, the monstrous heartless army grew. Sora glared at Kairi with fear in his blue eyes, he didn't know what to do. He was going to have to do this by himself, Kairi couldn't fight and he wasn't strong enough to take down every single heartless. He siphoned all his strength into the Keyblade and dashed forward while Kairi followed him. He slashed away the heartless that were in the way, until he encountered multiple Behemoths. The large oversized creatures were too strong to go around nor go through. Sora had met his match. The large creature spotted him and lifted its giant foot to squash them. Luckily Sora and Kairi weren't the only ones in a fight.

Riku bolted to the beach, his Soul Eater sword clutched tightly in his hand. He stopped dead in his tracks when his eyes led him to the other island. The island were people would take residence.

"Come on Namine! We don't have all day. Aros said we have to help Sora." he called toward the small cave behind him, or the secret place if you prefer. A blonde headed girl crawled from the small cave, trying her best to maintain her composure all while giving Riku a rude gesture with her finger. She stood and wiped away the access dirt from the hem of her skirt.

"Um, Riku. How in the world are we going to get over there?" she asked nudging Riku in the arm. He smirked and glared down at her.

"You forget that I have mastered the darkness." he said laughing at her. Namine pouted, she didn't like the sound of that. Without another moment to waste, Riku held out his hand and to Namine's frightened eyes, black smoke slithered out of his hand causing it to wrap around his fist like a snake. It soon unraveled itself from his fist and formed into a desalinate orb of black mist. Riku released a little more from his hand until it grew large enough for him to go through, he grabbed Namine by the wrist and pulled her into the darkened void. Transporting them to the residential island. Not soon after the short journey, heartless formed in front of them making Namine squirm to Riku's side. Although they looked extremely hostile, Riku made no attempt to lift his sword to even defend the two. He frowned and looked at the now frightened Namine who's hands were cupped around her mouth.

"Namine?" he whispered. She looked up at him, "I'm not the only one who could fight, you're going to have to help if you want to end this war."

She thought for a moment and inched herself in front of Riku, arms out in front her preparing for the worse. Riku smirked, maybe bringing her was actually a good idea.

Namine clapped her hands together and let out a small battle cry, which released waves of invisible ripples in the air causing all of the heartless to stumble backwards. She glared at Riku and gave him a quick nod. Riku seemed to disappear from the spot as all the creatures were slashed in half. He reappeared next to her, holding a blood stained sword.

"That's my girl."

Sora laid helplessly on the hard pavement floor, blood trickling slowly down his eye. Not too far away laid Kairi who was unconscious, he tried to reach her but was stopped short when he realized he couldn't move his legs. The Behemoth came towards the fallen King and stomped heavily on his legs making any bone that wasn't broken, broken in a single step. He yelled in agony as he tried to summon his Keyblade. All that came was a few soft sparks but the Keyblade failed to show, a Wyvern appeared in front of him snarling devilishly in his face. It hovered over his numb body and revealed its sharp talons that seemed to shine. Sora tried desperately to get up, but his legs wouldn't allow such a thing. With one motion of its claw, it slashed Sora deep in his chest. Sora felt his flesh rip slowly from his body as he began to cough up blood. His chest felt raw as it continued to deepen the pain. Sora screamed, his arms were being stepped on by two Behemoths. The Wyvern stopped, but Sora wanted it to finish him off, that way he could join Aros. But it seemed like they didn't want to kill him but torture him, he tried his best to get another look at Kairi but yet again she still was face down on the pavement laying motionless. They hadn't attacked her at all. He gritted his teeth.

"Come on already! Kill me! Take me out of this misery." he rasped coughing up blood. They must have heard since the Behemoth released its foot from Sora's arm and held it over his body. Sora smiled, might as well go out with a bang. The Behemoth got ready for the kill.

"STOPAGA!" yelled a voice. Sora ached in pain as he tried to find out who delayed his death. His mind sparked,

"Donald? Goofy?" he managed. With one burst of energy, the giant Behemoth burst into a cloud of smoke. Sora noticed all of the creatures had stopped, he was fairly impressed. Donald stood next to him, his hands at his waist. Goofy walked over, and for the first time wore a angry expression on his face. Sora smiled but recoiled when he felt his legs throb from pain.

"Sora, I'm not going to ask why you ditched us in Traverse Town. I'm not even going to ask why you never bothered to come back but I am going to ask..." Donald paused and looked at Goofy, " Do you need help?" he said smiling. Sora was almost touched by the sincerity considering Donald was always on the negative side on things. Donald extended a hand.

"Donald, you mind healing me first?" he pleaded feeling himself about to enter unconsciousness. Donald frowned and shook his head,

"It's not going to work you're too badly banged upand we ran out of items trying to get here. Furthermore, we need to get rid of these renegade heartless." he quacked. Sora smiled a cheesy grin.

"Alright, get ready for Trinity." he rasped. Donald and Goofy looked at each other in confusion,

"Sora, I don't know if you badly hit your head but you're in no state to do it." he said.

"Then I guess, we'll have to take care of it then." said a voice behind the trio. Donald and Goofy let out a gasp, Sora who tried to best to lift his head dropped it soon when he spotted a tall silver haired figure walking towards him, slashing the occasional heartless that was in his way.

"Riku?" Sora rasped from his dry throat.

"None other," he spoke smoothly "And look who I brought with me..." he pushed a blonde haired girl from behind his back, when she laid eyes on the battered Sora she cupped her hands over her mouth and knelt close to him.

"Oh my... does it hurt a lot?" she said scavenging through her small bag for something. He had enough trouble talking, he gave her a very small smile.

"Hey, Namine. Long time no see. Want to fiddle with my memory again?" he said it, wanting her to hear all his sarcasm. She examined his wounds and sighed deeply to herself. He turned to Riku to find that he was carrying Kairi over his shoulder, apparently helping her to her feet. Namine carefully lifted his black muscle shirt up to his chin to take a better look at the damage, she winced at the sight. She placed a hand up to her chin and thought for a moment, indeed no cure spell would be significant to heal him. Although... she reached into her small bag and pulled out a jar with pearly white liquid, she glanced at it and looked back at his bloody stained chest. She bit off the cork that kept the liquid in and placed some of the mysterious substance into her hand.

"Sora, this might hurt... a lot" she said holding her breath. With one thrust, she smeared the liquid onto her chest. Sora thought the pain couldn't be more unbearable than it already was, he gritted his teeth and held in his agonizing wail. He didn't want to show her how weak he was, she applied more and this time, the pain became hell. He didn't care if everyone heard him, he didn't care anymore. He let out a vivid scream that shook the earth, but as soon the pain came it left. Actually, he felt quite better. He sat upright and eyes his chest which was a regular tan, he looked at Namine who was blushing from the recent skin exposure. He smiled and hugged her tightly, making her almost scream like a little high school cheerleader.

He released her and stood, he inhaled slowly and exhaled. Riku came behind him and literally snatched out of his happy moment with a question he'd hope he would never have the pleasure of answering.

"Where's Aros? Wasn't she here?" he asked. Sora froze as his limbs began to feel numb. Tears welled up in his eyes, Riku noticed the sudden paused and arched his neck.

"Did I say something?"

Kairi who just awoke from unconsciousness, caught the last few syllables from Riku's question and stood up quickly. She snuck up behind Riku and placed a hand on his shoulder which beared the sacred bracelet.

"Don't tell me? You're the queen now? Okay, but that still doesn't answer my question."

He simply didn't get the hint. Before Kairi could hiss a word, Sora spun around quickly and grabbed Riku by the collar and pinned him to the floor.

"Sora!" Kairi and Namine said in unison. Sora ignored them, his rage was completely taking over his reactions. He didn't want to relive those precious moments where Aros died in his hands. He gritted his teeth and tightened his grip on Riku's neck.

"Look... it wasn't my fault. I couldn't save... her..." he growled. Namine sensed the hostility and inched her way to Sora only to have Riku stick a hand out to her, gesturing her to stop where she was.

"Sora, just two things," he said in a rather calm manner, "One, I'm not blaming you for anything and two, get your hands off me now." the last few syllables came out with force. Sora extinguished his rage and released him, but not before giving him one final glare of hatred from his blue eyes. Riku stood, angrily dusting off his dark muscle shirt. Even though he knew no one wanted to say anything, he decided to be brave.

"Sora, just tell me what happened."

"She died," Sora retorted. "She's dead"

Riku sighed as he placed his hand over his temples, he'd been afraid of this.

"Sora, let's go. We have to leave now if we want to get to the bottom of this." Sora remained quiet as Kairi responded differently,

"But wait, don't we have to take care of these heartless first?" she asked him. Riku although was happy to see her, he gave her a very intimidating glare which made her recoil with fear.

"Namine, get going. We'll meet you at the pier" he said without looking directly at her. Namine glanced at Sora and Kairi, she hesitated to follow his orders. Riku noticed. "Namine, I'm not going to tell you again." she jumped and started pass him. Giving him a depressed look. Sora shuffled his feet ad held on to Kairi's hand, what a reunion. The sun was now setting, and slowly but surely the heartless were beginning to awaken from their frozen slumber. Riku walked up to the two, the Soul Eater clutched oddly in his hand. Sora kept his mind focused on his Keyblade just in case the time called for it.

Here's a long for you, sadly enough, the story must come to an ending. There's only about a few chapters left before it ends. The ending is a litte sad. But, someone will make an appearence... from the dead.