Hey guys, I keep apologising for not updating so much, but I will post the next chapter soon, I promise lol. And, I've just realised that there's a missing chapter, so I've added that one as well. I wrote a chapter 6 that was overlooked for some reason. Oh well, it's added now, so enjoy!
"Riku, get Selphie out of here, and watch out for Maleficent!"
"Right," Riku replied. He turned to his new companions, "Selphie, Tidus, Wakka, let's get out of here." Riku turned towards the door.
"But what about Sora?" Wakka asked, "Shouldn't we help him?"
"He can take care of himself, I trust him. If he needed help, he'd ask. Now let's go." And with that they ran out the door and down the street.
"Where are we going?" asked Selphie.
"My house. Sora knows how to get there." Tidus said, leading the way to his house. As they were running, a load of black little imp-like creatures appeared all around.
"Oh great, they're here too…" Riku muttered, as he swung his keyblade through the creature in front of him. As he started to clear a path, he noticed that the creatures weren't fighting back. They were clawing at Selphie. One creature grabbed her leg, pulling her back and away from the rest of the group.
"Tidus, Wakka, go get anything you can use as weapons and get back here. I can't fight them off alone." Riku shouted, running over to help Selphie, who was screaming and lashing out at the little black beings. They grabbed her hands and feet, effectively pinning her down, and one of the creatures stood on her stomach and as it prepared to gouge out her heart, Riku hit it off her.
He then proceeded to lash out at the beings holding Selphie down. The beings hissed as they began to fight Riku, scratching at him with their claws. Selphie, her right arm free, began to hit the creatures holding her left hand, and as soon as it was free, she began on the creatures holding her feet.
Tidus and Wakka then came running up the street armed with wooden swords and a jump rope. They were slashing away at the creatures, and their weapons, though a little unconventional, seemed to be working.
"What the hell is the jump rope for?" Riku shouted, killing any creature who tried to get near Selphie.
"Me." Selphie said, kicking a creature away.
"We don't have time to play, we need to get you out of here."
"It's my weapon."
"What?" Riku wasn't prepared for that answer. He faltered, and a creature managed to scratch his arm quite deep.
"Selphie, catch!" Tidus shouted, throwing the jump rope. Selphie caught it and without pausing she threw one handle out and started to swing it. The wooden handle of the rope went through seven of the creatures, killing them all. She pulled it back to avoid Riku, who was simultaneously trying to fight and stem the flow of blood from the wound in his arm.
"Right, now we can all fight, let's get out of here!" Selphie said, cutting her way through the creatures to join Tidus and Wakka, Riku trying to keep up.
Maleficent watched Sora as he turned the corner and vanished.
"I'm confused, why are we letting him go?"
"We're not. You're going after him."
"Yes ma'am." And with that Maleficent vanished, leaving her henchman to follow Sora.
Sora ran down street after street, each looking the same.
"Riku!... Selphie!... Tidus!... Wakka!..." Sora kept calling them, but he got no response. As he turned the next street he saw the black creatures. The keyblade in his hand pulsed.
"Kill the heartless… destroy them all…"
"Heartless?" Sora questioned the voice. The creatures turned at the sound of Sora's voice. They froze for a minute, and then they turned and started to run off.
"Hey, come back and fight!" Sora shouted, running after them. They turned down one street, then another, with Sora hot on their heels. Then they turned another corner, and Sora turned the corner and stopped. He was at the entrance to a cave. Taking a deep breath, he raised his keyblade and walked in.
The cave wasn't as dark as he'd expected. It was actually quite light, as the entrance wasn't as narrow as it looked. As he was looking around he spotted a huge door. He walked up to it, a little puzzled.
"What the hell is this doing here?" He asked himself out loud. He reached for the handle, and realised that there wasn't one. Weird. He gave the door a little push, it didn't budge. He pushed harder, still nothing. He pushed the door with all his strength, and still it wouldn't open. He slumped against it in frustration. And then he got an idea.
He took a few steps back and raised his keyblade. He cleared his head and focused on the door. A purple ray of light shot out of the keyblade and hit the door, just about where the handle should be. Sora focused harder, and without realising it, he let go of the handle of the keyblade.
"STOP! You're not strong enough…" The normally soft voice in his head was cold and hard.
"I can't stop now!" Sora was shouting, and he was quite unsure why.
"You won't do it!"
Sora was struggling to keep the focus and concentration. His energy was being drained. He looked at the door and saw that nothing had happened. He sank to the floor, and as he did his keyblade fell, his concentration gone.
He wasn't sure how long he spent on the floor of the cave recovering, but he was eventually strong enough to get up and walk over to the door. He looked where the light had been on it and he saw a tiny burn mark. He turned and ran out of the cave, memorising the location so he could bring Riku back here.
"Oi, that hurts!"
"Well it will do if you keep moving." Selphie was trying to clean up Riku's arm, but he kept moving away as it stung the wound. "It's quite deep Riku. Don't move this time. The more you move, the longer this will take."
"Aaaaarrggghhh" Riku cried out in pain as Selphie cleaned his wound, but he didn't move. When Selphie had cleaned it up she bandaged it.
"There." She said, standing up, "that wasn't so bad, was it?"
"It was like a walk in the park." Riku said sarcastically. "Thank you Selphie."
"Riku, do you think we should go look for-" Wakka started to speak, but the doorbell interrupted him.
Tidus got up to answer it and returned a moment later with Sora.
"You took your time." Riku said, as he walked over and hugged Sora. "What kept you?"
"Kairi isn't Kairi anymore." Sora looked a little concerned.
"I thought we'd already gathered that." Riku said flippantly.
"I'm being serious Riku. When I knocked her out I heard her speak to me. She's trapped somewhere, and we have to help her."
"No we do not. She was nothing but a bitch. Why do you want to help her?"
"Because if we don't help her then Maleficent wins!"
Riku paused, thinking.
"He does kinda have a point there." Wakka said, leaning back in his chair.
"Yeah, he does. Riku conceded, sitting down wearily in an armchair. "But how do we help her?"
Sora started to answer but the sound of the front door being blown up interrupted him.
Stood in the doorway was Kairi, or rather Kairi's body, with hordes of black creatures swarming around her feet.
The five were up in an instant, weapons in hand, ready to fight.
"Kill the men, leave the girl to me." The voice coming from Kairi's body was so deep and masculine. "Attack!"
Sora and Riku launched forward, knocking all the furniture to the walls, out of the way, to give themselves more room to fight. Wakka and Tidus fought the creatures that were coming at them, and Selphie turned and ran. Kairi followed Selphie, leaving the others to the mercy of the heartless.
"Selphie, watch out, he's coming after you!" Tidus called, while slashing wildly at the advancing creatures. He glanced around quickly. Wakka seemed to be doing quite well, holding off the creatures. But then Wakka was the stronger dueller. Sora and Riku were back to back, fighting off the heartless closest to them, moving round in a perfect circle. He on the other hand wasn't coping too well. He was being pushed back into a corner, and the creatures' swipes were getting closer. They were starting to rip at his shorts and socks. He went to back up a little more, but his back hit the wall. He was cornered, with the creatures swiping at him.
"Need a hand?" Tidus looked up and saw Wakka cutting a path through the creatures to help him. Tidus started to cut a path through to meet him, and as he and Wakka converged, they saw Riku and Sora backing up to the stairs, where Selphie and Kairi had gone earlier. Tidus and Wakka ran for the stairs, stepping on and around the creatures, not caring where they stepped. They caught up with Riku and Sora, and they wordlessly ran upstairs and down the hall, looking for Selphie. They stopped at the end of the hall, in front of two doors.
"Wakka, Riku, you guys take the door on the right, Tidus and I will take the on the left." And without giving anyone any time to complain, Sora pulled Tidus through the door.
"My room!" Tidus gasped, looking around. The posters were ripped from the walls, the bed was smashed, the pillows were ripped open, feathers strewn all over the floor. "I'm gonna get you, you BITCH!"
Tidus ran through a door on the far side of the room, and into a smaller room, just in time to see Kairi break the spare bed. Tidus ran at her and began to slash angrily with his wooden sword.
"Exactly what are you planning on doing to me with that pathetic little weapon?" Kairi laughed, easily deflecting his attacks.
"I'm gonna ram it so far up your arse I'm gonna have to reach in through your mouth to sharpen it!" Tidus was successfully driving her back, but Sora noticed the wardrobe door move, and realised where Selphie was.
"Tidus, get back!" Sora shouted.
"What?" Tidus lost concentration for a moment, but that was all Kairi needed. She knocked Tidus' weapon out of his hands and thrust her sword towards his stomach. He tried to get out of the way, but he didn't quite manage. Blood started to soak his shirt as he fell to the floor, a deep scratch on his left side.
"TIDUS!" An angry yell came from the direction of the wardrobe, and no one was entirely sure what they saw. Kairi turned to see a yellow blur flying at her, and before she could react she was thrown against the wall, her head leaving a little blood on the white paint.
"Oh my god, Tidus, are you okay?" Selphie was by his side, and Sora heard footsteps, and Wakka ran in, followed by Riku.
"Oh no, Tidus!" Wakka was on Tidus' other side in an instant, and Sora and Riku stood back as Wakka and Selphie pulled Tidus up and sat him on the remains of the bed, and Wakka stayed with him whilst Selphie ran to get bandages, water and a cloth to clean his wound.
"What do we do about that?" Sora asked Riku quietly, motioning to kairi with his keyblade.
"now…"
"What?" Sora asked, surprised.
"I didn't say anything." Riku looked puzzled.
"now… do it now…"
"Do it now?" Sora pondered this for a moment. Then he realised. He turned to face Kairi, lifted his keyblade and focused.
A tiny pink ray shot out of the keyblade and hit Kairi in the chest, where her heart was.
"Sora… stop…"
"But I'm trying to help you."
"You must… stop… NOW!"
"But-" Sora didn't have time to finish his sentence. Thick, black smoke shot out of Kairi's chest and engulfed Sora's hands, making him drop the keyblade, which vanished. The smoke spread around him quickly, trapping his legs and arms.
"Riku, help!" Sora cried, and Riku ran over to him and plunged his hand into the smoke, grabbing Sora's hand.
"Don't worry, I've got you, you're gonna be okay." Riku tried to soothe Sora, as the smoke started to cover them both.
Selphie walked back in with all the things needed to fix up Tidus' wound, but when she saw Riku and Sora shoulder deep in smoke, and Wakka unable to help them as he was supporting Tidus, she dropped the water and ran to Riku.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"I don't have time to explain." Riku started, but then he thought. "Selphie," he started, "Grab Tidus' hand, and grab mine. Wakka, grab Tidus' other hand, and grab Sora's free hand. Hurry!" Riku was now up to his neck in smoke. Selphie and Wakka helped Tidus over to Sora and Riku, and they all grabbed each others hands, and the last words any of them heard was Riku's continuous soothing, "Don't be afraid."