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Chapter Four

Xemnas stopped as darkness covered Riku in the hallway where he stood, trying to escape. "No!" Xemnas snarled, flinging himself at the spot where Riku had stood seconds before. "How the hell could he have-Aurithia…" The name escaped Xemnas's lips and as he said it, he quickly rushed down to where Ansem was at speaking with Saix. "Ansem! That damn girl helped him escape!" Xemnas snarled, his voice quavering him rage.

Ansem looked at him before swearing loudly and turning to Saix, "Go take some men and find him. He knows too much already, with just a few words, he can give us away. And he must not find Aurithia or his friends!"

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Sora and Kairi snuck outside as everyone began listening to Mickey. Neither knew what was being said, but they didn't really care. Silently they crept out of the door and closed it as quietly as possible. Sora motioned for Kairi to follow him as he headed for the Gummi ship he had used earlier. It was already light outside and Sora knew that Riku had been gone for a whole day.

He opened the Gummi ship and both he and Kairi boarded it rather quickly and started it up. It was loud and he knew that it would alert the others, so he took no time to check everything as he blasted off to the unknown world, a distant voice ringing in his ears, "Sora! Kairi! No!" It was Mickey.

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Riku glanced around him and then at the pitch black sky. The stars could not be seen. Nothing could be seen because of the darkness. Riku forced himself to stumble over to an alley and hide, knowing that if he stayed out in the open, Ansem would find him quickly, very quickly. As he entered the alley that reminded Riku as a death trap, he leaned against the wall, his shoulder pounding with pain as the blood continued to flow out of it.

Riku flinched as he fell and landed beside the wall. He leaned against it again and forced himself to look at his shoulder. It was ripped through pretty deeply and the blade had not been thin. It left a thick cut and Riku had nothing to cover it up with. He shut his eyes, wishing the pain away, but it never happened.

All the cuts and slashes on him hurt and Riku felt like passing out, but tried so hard to stay awake. So instead of shutting his eyes, he opened them. The alley's haunting shadows greeted him and Riku shut his eyes again, but opened them. His vision was blurry and he knew he was going to pass out any second now from the loss of blood and pain.

He gritted his teeth together and tried to relax his tensed muscles. As he did this, the blood on his shoulder slowly began to lessen, but by that time, Riku was already closing his eyes as he drifted off into a welcoming, non-painful darkness.

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Sora and Kairi landed on the unknown world within a matter of forty-five minutes. Sora immediately scrambled out of the Gummi ship with Kairi as it lifted off to go back to Hollow Bastion. Just as it vanished, Sora heard someone shout, "Damn that jerk! Where the hell could one kid be in this small city of ours?"

"I don't know, but we'd better find him quick. If Aurithia or that jackass with the Keyblade finds him, the Superior will have our heads!"

"No shit!"

"Sora, who are they?" Kairi whispered as two men came out, their faces covered by hoods. Sora pushed Kairi into a nearby alley so they could hide. He knew they were part of Organization XIII, but how did they get here? Where was here?

Sora didn't answer as he followed the movements of one person who shouted, "Hey Saix, look what I found!"

Sora tried to see what was on the black asphalt, but he couldn't due to the mere distance between him and the Organization. The man nearest to Sora turned and removed his hood as he walked towards another member who was crouching down. Bluish-silver hair flowed from the man's hood and two scars making an X ran across the middle of his face. Sora's teeth clenched as Saix walked over to his companion who removed his hood.

The second man was none other than Demyx. "What a fool! Xemnas sure did try to follow his orders though. But he may have went a little over board for all this to be here." Saix spat, his eyes following what Sora guessed was a trail. Saix's eyes went to the alley just ten yards away from Sora and Kairi.

"I think they're talking about Riku, Sora!" Kairi whispered urgently as Saix growled, "Let's follow the trail. We'll find him, there's no way he can be conscious by now."

"Yeah, and by the looks of it, he's been injured. They must see blood." Sora stated as he stood up from where he was crouching and swiftly left the alleyway along with Kairi and followed the Organization quietly as Saix and Demyx entered the alley.

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Riku only saw darkness around him. It wasn't calm, but wrathful. He tried to find an escape route, nut there wasn't one. He turned every which way, but no matter where he turned, there was darkness. Every time he called for Aurithia, there was no reply, and before Riku knew it, he was sinking.

He gave the darkness below him a terrified glance yelling, "I'm not going back! I'm not going back into the darkness!"

All at once, everything stopped around Riku. He realized this and gasped, looking around him. Every inch of aggressive darkness had stopped moving, trying to take him back. He moved out the darkness and knew what had happened. Quick as ever, he willed it all away, and it vanished, leaving Riku with only one choice: to wake up, but this time, he controlled darkness once more, but not in the way he had used to.

Riku's eyes opened just as slits. His vision was blurry and everything came back to him. Pain seared through his whole body as he heard people approaching. He groaned, his head rolling to one side, but he found that he could not move. His fingers twitched as he tried to move his arm so he could lift himself up, but it seemed as if the pain prevented all of that. He was stuck.

"Who's there?" he groaned, his voice weak and showing his pain. His eyes were still slits and glazed over. He groaned again as the foot steps stopped in front of him.

He sensed movement, and then there was a pain searing through his cheek. He groaned again, hearing laughter and a voice rang through his ears, "Taking a little nap? Not a very smart thing to do if you're trying to escape from us."

Riku's eyes opened further and his blurred vision prevented him from telling him who was in front of him. He blinked several times before he could see. He looked up into the face of Saix who was smirking at him. "Get away from me you…" his voice faltered again as another wave of pain washed over him. He could still feel the blood coming from all of his wounds, and the freshly made one that Saix had just inflicted on him.

"Demyx, go tell Ansem we've found Riku." Saix ordered.

Riku found anger beneath all of the mind-numbing pain and growled, "I'm not going back with you!" his voice may have been weak, but there was defiantly forceful anger behind it.

"What are you going to do to stop us? Bleed to death?" Saix laughed. Suddenly there was a loud thud. Saix spun around to see Demyx fall to the ground conscious, Sora and Kairi standing there.

"You leave Riku alone!" Kairi shouted as Sora rushed forward.

"Sora…Kairi…" Riku groaned as he tried his best to pick himself up. This time he accomplished to stand up halfway, but he fell forward because he was unable to use his right arm. He grunted as he hit the pavement and was kicked by Saix who slammed his own weapon into Sora.

Riku felt weaker than he ever had before, it was like that fight with the darkness had been real and had sapped all that he had left, out of him. He blinked as he picked himself back up, and leaned back on the wall, just laying there. He didn't noticed Kairi running over to him. He barley took, if any, notice to the battle with Saix and Sora.

Kairi crouched down beside him and whispered, "Riku? Are you alright?"

Riku grunted, "Heh, what does it look like?"

"Oh…what to do…how can I help you?" Kairi looked around her, feeling helpless. She had nothing with her except…her Keyblade Riku had given her…She summoned it to her hand and wondered if she used 'Cure' like Sora could, if it could help Riku any. She would try anyway. Pointing her Keyblade at Riku, she muttered, "Cure," She hoped it would work with all of her heart, and then, the magic came and washed over Riku's injured and beaten body. Some of the cuts were mended and Kairi could tell that Riku had got some energy restored. The cut on his shoulder had mended, but so slightly, that it was hardly noticeable.

"Thanks, Kairi." Riku said before he picked himself up, shaking slightly and leaned on the wall, watching Saix and Sora fight. Sora rushed at Saix, his face revealing every inch of rage that he felt, his Oathkeeper in hand. Sora swung the blade at Saix, who was bashed in the side and slung into the alley wall, but Saix quickly regained his balance and slammed his weapon at Sora. Sora easily dodged it and blasted Saix with a bolt of lightning before slinging him up in the air and out of the alleyway where Saix landed, skidding on the concrete.

Sora took one look at Saix before reaching Riku, who looked at him with a blank expression. His eyes were not distant, but clear, but his face was blank and behind everything, Riku felt troubled about something. He wasn't quite sure what yet, but he knew something was bothering him. Something about the area he was in right now. Despite the fact that Saix and Demyx were there, the whole place reeked of darkness.

"Are you alright Riku?" Sora asked him. Riku blinked and looked away from Sora, wondering if what he sensed was there, was really the truth. Not answering Sora, he forced himself off the wall and turned around to where Kairi was. Then he turned back to Sora. No one was there. He relaxed.

"I've been better." Riku finally responded.

"Come on, we have to get you out of here." Sora said, pressing a button.

Riku looked at him, confused, but nodded, he wanted to leave above all others. "Where are we going to go?" If he had been in his right senses, he would have knew that they had to help Aurithia, but his mind was so screwed up at the moment, that he barley even thought about the room or her.

"To Hollow Bastion of course!" Sora said, helping Riku stand up straight as he was about to lose his balance again. Kairi caught him too, but she was careful not to touch the wound on his shoulder. They could see it was the worst on his body and neither were sure if it would ever heal right again.

"Alright…let's go." Riku said, trying to take a step forward. He gasped as Kairi's grip tightened on him as he went forward, but he didn't fall. How the hell he had managed to get into the alley, he didn't know. Suddenly Riku's head shot up, Demyx and Saix weren't there anymore, but a dark figure was. His ocean-blue eyes hardened as he saw who it was. Sora and Kairi stopped trying to help Riku as they felt him stiffen. They looked at him and followed his gaze to see a hooded man standing there.

"Riku," the man said with a stone-hard voice, "I see you found your friends."

"Go the hell away before I kill you once and for all you jackass!" Riku spat, his voice quavering with every inch of anger in his body.

"Always threatening yet you can do nothing." the man spat, walking up to them. Sora and Kairi tensed this time, both sensed the threat around the hooded man. "You do realize, Riku, that because you left, you sent your friends to their deaths?"

"You won't lay a finger on them!" Riku growled, struggling against Sora and Kairi's grip, but they wouldn't let go, knowing that Riku would only injure himself. "Let go of me!"

The man continued to walk forward until he was only mere feet in front of Riku. "And there's something else you should know," the man raised a hand and snapped his fingers. Demyx, Saix, Luxord, Xaldin, Larexen, and Axel appeared. "The girl," there was another sound of swishing energy before Xemnas appeared, holding a girl who was looking at Riku with saddened eyes.

Riku looked at her as the man removed his hood to reveal Ansem standing there. There was a dagger in his left hand. He raised it and with a flick of his wrist, sent it flying at Aurithia. "No!" Riku gasped as the dagger struck through her heart, killing her instantly.

Xemnas dropped Aurithia's body and she fell to the cold asphalt, her eyes blank.

Hope you guys like it! Please review!

And can you guys tell me somethings about Ansem, from Kingdom Hearts I, I haven't beaten that yet, but I'm working on it. My game was erased fromw here I had been in Hollow Bastion...sigh