Second chapter put up today! Obviously feeling slightly better…. 'Slightly…' Shut UP!

Donald, Sora, and Goofy stared open-mouthed at the figure before them. However, in truth, they were staring harder at the weapon he was wielding. A gold Keyblade.

"That couldn't be…" Sora started. "Impossible!" Donald continued, shaking his head and nodding at the same time.

"Your Majesty?" Goofy asked quietly. The figure half-turned and lowered his hood, revealing the smiling face of King Mickey. "Hiya, fellas! Long time no see huh?"

For a second, the trio was shocked back into silence. Then the questions began to flow. "Where have you been?" Goofy asked first, followed closely by Donald's question of: "How'd you escape?"

But the question that pulled the most at Sora's heart, "Where's Riku?" The King smiled in the face of this onslaught, but all four of them noticed that the Unknown were gathering again.

The King's face took on a serious tone as he raised his Keyblade in front of him. "Look guys, we don't really have too much time to talk. Sora, you need to get out of here ASAP. The energy levels gathered here are slowly tearing the Hollow Bastion apart." The Unknown were approaching.

"Sora, in less than an hour this castle will crumble. You three need to be off this world by then. The Princesses have gathered in the Chapel, go talk to them and then get out as quickly as you can." The King gestured toward the Unknown. "I'll take care of them."

"But where's Riku?" Sora asked again, more firmly this time. Donald nudged him, but he didn't care. He had to know where his friend was. The King sighed. "I can't tell you everything here and now, but he's close don't worry about him Sora. And you guys," He said, pointing at Goofy and Donald, "shouldn't worry about me. Your appointed mission is still to follow the one with the Keyblade. If you do this right, we will meet again."

King Mickey smiled. "Be careful you guys, but go, and be quick about it! The clock's ticking." The trio nodded as one, then ran to find the Princesses. The Unknown seemed of a mind to chase after them.

"Uh, uh, uh…." The King said waving his index finger in the air. "Now you guys have to deal with me." King Mickey smiled and took up a fighter's stance, power rising from his Keyblade.

The Unknown started to back away.

"Kairi! I need you to run a scan of the castle!" BHK called up to the Princess, who was now awake, and back in the Gummi Ship. Yuna was walking around the ship for the third time now, looking at it in awe. Vaguely, BHK wondered if taking her with them would upset the World Order. But he also knew that she had now where else to go. He shrugged it off.

"The castle's in bad shape," Kairi reported, staring at the computer's information. "Even though it doesn't show it, Hollow Bastion won't be standing too much longer. Its been weakened at key structural points by the explosions and stuff going on up there. The computer estimates it'll be up for another 45 minutes or so."

'Great….' BHK's eyes scaled the walls of Hollow Bastion and he wondered how fast he could run up so many stairs.

"What is taking you so long?" BHK whipped around, Yuna stopped pacing, and Kairi looked toward the voice. None of them had noticed the Unknown appear. Kairi squinted at him. This one was tall, with a black blindfold covering his eyes. A black hood covered the rest of his head, save for a few silver-white strands of hair. But what was the strangest part of the picture was that BHK had not even drawn his Keyblades yet.

She gasped as she looked the figure over again. BHK looked sharply up at her. "You…!" Kairi whispered, pointing at the Unknown. BHK shook his head, and the Princess quieted down.

"I'm sorry Princess, but for now, I have no name. We know too little to have such luxury." The man said. He then turned to BHK again. "Time is running out. Neither of you will be able to last too much longer separated. The darkness you face is becoming too strong. If you don't fight together, you will both be devoured by it."

BHK nodded. "I understand. He's in there right?"

"Yes. He's moving to the other Princesses as we speak. You must meet with him as soon as possible. He must make it to the Door."

"Even so, one Keyblade can not do this alone. Each has to play its part. I know that the Key of Light is safely in the King's possession. But what of the third Key? Can the dark blade be retrieved?"

"It can if it must be. No Keyblade can truly be destroyed. Including the Key of Darkness."

"Good. Well then, I'd better be going. Time waits for no one." BHK sighed.

"Hollow Bastion is falling apart."

"I know."

"Yet you still go inside?"

"It has to be done."

The cloaked man grinned. "I no longer doubt you, nor the Keybearer. This story may have a happy ending after all."

"You shouldn't have doubted in the first place." BHK said back, an eyebrow raised.

The man nodded. "My mistake." BHK set off toward the castle Hollow Bastion. "Princess?" Kairi understood.

"37 minutes left."

"You hear that?" The cloaked man asked as BHK passed. The man was straightening his hood and beginning to return to the persona of an Unknown.

The Unknown nodded to both BHK and Kairi, then vanished. Yuna hadn't understood most of the conversation, but she knew one thing by the look on her friends' faces. They had a man on the inside.

Ha! Now no one can say my chapters were too short. I put up two in a row! On the same day! So, together, it avearges out to about four pages. Now, Review.