Chapter 4: Shadow and the Organization

A/N: Hello everyone, I present chapter 4.

Shadow smirked as he walked off. He placed the mask on his face and stopped. He muttered some words and a dark portal appeared.

"Long time no see Ansem…" he quietly said going inside the portal.

On the other side there were about ten people in cloaks, and one man sitting in a chair, it was Ansem.

"Why hello Shadow, or should I say, Jake?"

"You know to never call me that!" he yelled taking a step closer to Ansem.

"Ok, by the way, we want him back."

"Who?"

"Riku."

"Why?"

"He is needed in order to destroy Sora and his majesty Mickey. Then there is nothing in our way to take the hearts of everyone in this world!" he started to laugh and so did the others.

Shadow put on a digusted look, "You will never succeed."

"Why not?"

"You can't control the heartless forever," he said standing right in front of Ansem, "You still have a heart!"

"Like that matters, I've been controlling them for three years, nothing has happened."

"The kid and mouse opened the door."

"But we came back right?"

Shadow frowned and looked up to the other people, "These people, I can sense some of them still have fear, and so do you."

Ansem frose, but then he stood up and glared at Shadow, "You know nothing."

"I know more than you."

"Then how come I was chosen to lead the heartless?"

Shadow looked at Ansem and smirked, "Well," he began, "They can sense you have fear, and you were the one to discover them. They're just playing with you, the next thing you know they'll take your heart," he pointed to all the others, "and their too!"

Everyone gasped and Ansem grew even angrier, "How would you know?"

Shadow put down his hood and removed the mask, "You know how much I suffered!" he grabbed Ansem's shirt, "You have no idea how hollow my heart is, I have more control over them than you!"

"He let go, Ansem simply brushed his shirt, "Then how come you don't use it?"

"Because I'm not foolish like you, you think your plan is going to work!"

"And yours is?"

"Of course, I know how to control them properly, I know how to use the darkness. And Riku, will follow in my footsteps and assist me."

"You think that will work? Riku won't follow in the footsteps of a man like you."

"But I'm not a man Ansem," he placed the hood and mask back on, "I'm just a shadow."

There was a long silence, Shadow muttered the same words again and a dark portal emerged, "It was nice to see you again Ansem."

"Jake, I can't believe you still exist…"

Sora and co. continued to walk along the path. Until Sora stopped to turn to his friends, "I've been thinking, how come Riku's always the one being swallowed into darkness?"

They all thought for a while, "Maybe it's because he's the original wielder of the keyblade," Mickey suggested.

"Maybe because he's more mature than you," Donald said laughing.

"We're being serious here Donald!" Goofy said yelling at him.

"Sorry."

"What's so special about that?"

"Well the keyblade, like you've experienced before locks the door that allows heartless to enter it right?"

"Yeah, I remember that."

"Riku was the original one to do that, but they offered him a chance of power through darkness which led to that."

"I guess Riku seeked power, I did too, but I never thought such power through darkness could lead to ruining your relationship with your friends."

"That's right Sora, darkness can give you power. But the wrong kind of power. Darkness makes you realize all your greatest fears, making you hate the people or things that cause it. The rage that you get makes you strong and determined. But it blindsyou from your true beliefs and self. You can become a completely different person, yourself, but opposite."

Sora looked at the king, he couldn't believe it. Darkness was certainly a powerful thing. It has hurt his friends so many times, and has affected the whole world.

"Do you think that the darkness can ever be eliminated?" Sora finally asked after their long silence.

"As long as humans exist, there will always be a darkness."

"Why?" Goofy asked.

"Because, no matter what, every single person has some kind of darkness. A past mistake, present situation, enemies, scarred experience, anything."

"But Kairi and Namine said that there was always a light in the dark."

"Yes, that's why no human has turned into a heartless, but there still is, a dark in light. You can't have just one unless you were a demon or angel or something like that."

They all silenced, the sky became dark and the moon appeared. They sat in the grass and looked up at the starts. Sora plopped down first and sighed. The others did the same looking at the stars.

"Do you think Riku will come back to us?" Sora asked breaking the silence.

"Of course, if we work hard, and if he does too. He's strong, and you're strong. Not in power, but in heart."

They both smiled and turned to their friends who fell asleep.

"If only moments like these could be captured and saved for later."

"Yeah, if only."

They too were going to sleep but a strong wind blew and the stars grew dim.

Sora and Mickey quickly stood up. Donald also did the same, but Goofy just slowly got up.

"What's going on?" he asked yawning.

"Goofy, stand your guard," Mickey instructed signaling Sora to take out his keyblade.

They saw a moving shadow. A heartless suddenly appeared and went for Sora, but he quickly took it out.

"Congratulations, you killed it," said a cold familiar voice.

"Who? It can't…" Sora began to say.

Mickey's eyes grew soft, but then it glared at the dark figure in front of him, "Riku, what happened to you?"

"You like, I have completed more training. Master Shadow will be pleased to know that I've killed you."

"WHAT!" Donald and Goofy both yelled at the same time.

"You're crazy Riku!" Sora yelled, "You've got to snap out of it!" he had small tears flowing out.

"Stop crying, no one likes a cry baby. You can't be brave enough if you cry like that. You'll never be able to defeat me and save her…" he faded into a hole.

'Kairi…' was the first thing that came to mind and he ran to the hole before it closed up.

"Sora!" the others screamed running for the hole. But it was too late.

A/N: Short I know, but whatever. Pls people review!