Chapter 2:

"Hang on Riku!" a voice said inside of him, and his eyes turned normal.

"They didn't mean it, it's not true…" he said turning around from the mirror.

"Think about it Riku! You were alone this whole time, this whole time the darkness has given you strength!" the man continued.

"Are you one of them?" Riku asked remembering his experience with the hooded men.

"Who? Oh, those foolish wannabes? They no nothing about the darkness, they may be able to control the heartless, but deep inside, they're just like you," and he sat down on a huge black chair.

""What makes you any different? You're a human too!"

"Yes, I mean no! You don't know anything about my life. Always known as a freak, everyone hating you! I was never loved, so I lost my heart, but I survived it, I now am the master of the darkness. Not even that fool Ansem can compare to me."

"Who are you anyway?"

"My name? It is simply Shadow, I don't know my true name, but that is what I am referred to, a shadow," and he stood up and walked towards Riku.

"Now you, you have to realize your fate, you are going to love the darkness once again!"

"You can't, how can you?"

"I have my ways," and he snapped his fingers and the room turned pitch black, he disappeared leaving Riku there.

Riku panicked, but told himself to stay calm. But then a thorn came from the ground and tied him up, he was still, attached to the ground.

"What is this?" he asked struggling to get out.

"Nothing really, I just need to keep you put."

"Why?" he asked still struggling.

"Don't worry," he said pulling out a small knife, "This won't hurt a bit!" and he laughed as he ripped off Riku's shirt.

"What the hell? What are you going to do?"

Shadow didn't reply, he sunk the knife into Riku, and Riku replied in a scream of pain. He began to draw something into his chest.

"What are you doing?"

"You will become mine child, I will make my mark, and you will bring yourself closer to the darkness."

Riku just winced in pain and screamed a couple of times. He looked down as the blood spilled all over him, he couldn't make out the scar.

Shadow finished, and said a spell to place water on Riku to wash away the blood.

Riku winced again and let out a small groan. He opened his eyes and looked down at his chest. The symbol was two eyes with a scar over it, a heart was there with swords and arrows through it, and last but not least was a picture of his dark form.

"Well, I'm done," Shadow said smirking.

Sora frantically ran around the area where Riku disappeared. Goofy did the same and Donald just stood there and thought.

"Your majesty, where are we anyways?" Donald finally asked.

"We are in the endless fields, it was created when the door was opened. This is the only way for us to enter other worlds."

Sora's face brightened as the thought of seeing Kairi again came to mind, "Like my island?"

"Yeah."

But then when the picture of Riku flashed in his mind he frowned, "But not without Riku."

The rest nodded in agreement, "Sora, you helped us find King Mickey, and any friend of yours is a friend of ours," Goofy said.

"Yeah, and we are the best of friends," Donald added.

"Riku, he's one of my good friends too, I just can't leave him to suffer," Mickey added.

Sora smiled at the fact that his friends were with him, "Riku, we're coming, I can't go back without you."

So they walked off into one direction not knowing what world it would lead to.

Riku was left alone to change, he couldn't find his regular clothes, but instead found a black cloak like the one the other hooded men gave him. But it wasn't with a hood, it has a creepy feeling to it, and it glowed a dark purple.

"You like?" Shadow asked finally coming into the room.

"It feels creepy," he said staring at it.

"It's good that you remain in my presence and not run away."

"Of course, if I tried, this dark force pushed me back," he yelled waving his arms around.

"I need you boy. You have the power to weild the keyblade, am I right?"

"Yeah…"

"Then take this, " he took out a black and purple kelblade with a sharber shape and a tighter grip.

As Riku grabbed it, a root with thorns tightened the grip, it made his hands bleed which made him wince.

"Don't you feel it? The darkness coursing through your veins?"

"No, just a lot of pain and I feel really cold."

Shadow frowned at this, "Why? You should have succumbed to the power of darkness."

"Nope," Riku beamed with pride, "You can never take full control of me!"

Shadow's frown changed to a wide grin, "Oh yes I can," and Riku was warped back to the area with the mirror, "Look at it, you see that? Your former friends Sora and Kairi."

"They're not former, they still are my friends!" he yelled, but then he fixed his look upon the mirror at the next thing that showed up.

"Sora and Kairi seem to be quite happy together eh?"

Riku continued to look and Sora and Riku turned and they were holding hands, they turned to him and glared, "What do you want Riku? Go away, we want to be alone."

Riku's tears began to fall, "This is unreal, it's all lies, it has to be."

"Face the truth Riku! You belong in the darkness with me!"

Riku fized his stare on the mirror, and when Mickey arrived, he knew that he couldn't say anything bad, but he was wrong.

"I can do this on my own Riku, you're too weak to fend against the heartless. You couldn't even save your friends, and me neither."

Riku continued to sob, trying to reject it all, "LIES, LIES!"

Then Sora appeared again, "You couldn't save Kairi, you didn't help me out. You left me, I had to go to them, I wanted just to save Kari and you. But no, you end up going to the heartless' side. You left the two of us Riku, you left us, why Riku, why?"

Riku placed his hands on his head and screamed, Sora's voice was echoing in his head, "why?" a million times and maybe more.

"It was a mistake, it was just an accident," he continued to scream, but then he finally calmed down breathing in deeply.

"No, the day on your island, you accepted the heartless, you accepted the darkness. And when you met Sora again, you listened to her, you thought he wasn't friends with you. You belonged to the darkness."

"No! I over came that…"

"You were too weak," this made Riku's eyes widen, "You were too weak so you relied on the darkness to help you get strength. It helped didn't it? You became stronger didn't you?"

"Y-yes, I did become stronger. Yes, I will become stronger. I need to be stronger."

Riku's eyes glowed red, and a black streak appeared in his hair.

"And so it begins…"

Sora and co. continued to walk. They walked until they reached a huge doorway. Mickey told him to go in, so they entered not knowing what was beyond the door.