Sora was soon, to be back in the town. Though he left again without much thought. If he had looked around maybe he would have noticed. But then, who does. It was only a girl clad in all black, watching him, with a dark smile. Happy they got the better of the two.

Sora went to the Collseum. There he fought, and there he won. The battles were weak though. Almost as weak as a small Shadow Heartless. Sora beat a monstrous dog and a man named Cloud. Both were strong, but both fell. Thanks to the Hero's sidekicks-Goofy and Donald.

Riku's Story

Riku followed Konnor through out the halls. Konnor was obviously in no rush. He walked, and didn't run. Unlike some people we can mention… Yume. That was one girl who really knew how to bug a guy.

"We are here." Konnor said simply opening a door.

Riku thought that he'd for sure be in some big fancy room or something but no. Not this time. All types of weapons hung from the wall. Books about fighting filling the book cases. Riku gripped the sword Yume gave him tightly. He had a bad feeling this is what she had given it to him for.

"This is my training room. I'm to teach you to fight and to track. First things first. Fight some creatures." Konnor looked extremely board. His whole face read 'I could be doing something about a million times more important then this.'

Riku being the cocky guy he is said, "Why don't you fight me?"

"Fine." Konnor said simply.

He walked down where it seemed an arena stood. Suddenly magic over took all four posts. Invisible walls appeared. "Great…" mumbled Riku.

Riku suddenly charged at Konnor at full speed. That should at least knock him off balance. Konnor simply side stepped the charge, making Riku fall right on his face. Konnor rolled his eyes.

"You can't simply attack blindly."

Konnor waited for Riku to get up. Riku charged the unarmed Konnor for the second time. This time Konnor side-stepped again. This time as Riku went by him, Konnor grabbed his arm and through him against one of the invisible walls.

Riku groaned as he hit the ground. That hurt, in a matter of fact that hurt really bad. Riku wasn't used to be thrown at a wall… Sora wasn't really smart enough to pull that one off…

"This is a waste of time. You're going to fight some of the heartless. You're in no condition to even attempt to face me." Konnor said in a cold tone.

Konnor then stepped out of the ring, not even bothering to take down the invisible walls. Riku attempted to follow but he was hit hard in the face with a wall.

"Hey! Why is it that you can go through and I can't?" Riku yelled at Konnor, wanting to get out of the ring.

"You can't because I don't want you too." Konnor said simply.

Konnor then walked up to what looked like a control panel. Konnor began typing things in, sometimes reading things that would pop up on the screen.

"I think some low class Shadow Heartless will be good enough." He mumbled to himself. Then looking toward Riku he said, "This will work some what like the Coliseum except you don't win anything, and if you die your dead."

Riku glared at Konnor. Great… he wants to kill me now… Riku thought to himself. This was already turning into a worse 'class' then when he was stuck training with Yume. Much worse. Why did this guy hate him?

"You better pay attention." Konnor said as the heartless appeared in the room. "You should use your Keyblade. Not that stupid sword." With a swish of his hand Riku's sword went flying out of the arena.

Riku groaned. He wasn't very good at calling his 'Keyblade' or so they called it, to him. In an instant the Keyblade was in his hand, at the perfect moment too. The heartless all jumped at him at once.

Riku jumped up, as to avoid the attack and landed a bit away from the heartless. It took Riku a minute to remember how to fight. Slashing his Keyblade, at them, and one by one the shadows began disappearing.

As soon as he was done with the four that attacked him he smiled. "Ha, See I beat them!"

"Yes, and now you have to beat more." Konnor said pressing a button.

Many more heartless began popping up every where. Riku stared at all of them for only a second before attacking. Ever time he beat one more would pop up, he was barely given any time to rest.

Crap, crap, crap… Riku thought to himself, trying to avoid attacks while killing heartless.

Meanwhile…

Yume was wandering around the castle. Well, I guess you couldn't really call it wandering, since she knew exactly where she was going. Yume was a humming a tune as she began walking towards her destination.

Where you may be asking. To Kage's room of course. She needed to bother somebody and both of the guys were busy… how depressing was that?

"Knocky, Knocky! Can I come in Kage? It's me!" Yume called into the dark room.

"Me who?" A voice replied from inside.

Yume smiled as she walked in. Kage always said that when she said me instead of Yume. Eventually Yume had just started taking it as a 'yes'. Kage didn't mind, well as far as Yume knew she didn't mind.

"Whatcha doing?" Yume asked in a sing song voice.

"You know the other Keyblader, Sora?" Kage asked her.

"Yeppers!" Yume said as she sat down.

"I'm watching his progress." Kage told her simply.

"How's he doing? What's he doing? Is he a cutie like Riku?" Yume asked with a smile.

"He's doing okay; he's trying to seal the Keyholes, and no." Kage replied with a smile of her own.

"What do you mean okay?" Yume asked, with Kage you would usually hear a horrible, or good.

"He can't fight to save his life… all he does is randomly attack the nearest heartless… only his friends keep him alive." Kage said simply.

"Well… at least we know we got the better of the two then!" Yume yelled.

"I guess your right." Kage said simply. "This Sora really can't bring out the full power of the Keyblade… its kind of sad…"

"Oh well!" Yume yelled, as happy go lucky as ever.

"Hopefully Riku will be able to bring out the full power." Kage said, not noticing Yume by the door.

"Well I gotta go! I'm gonna go bother Eiri!" Yume yelled with a smile.

Kage shook her head, of course she knew of Yume's 'protector' Eiri. Kage didn't understand why she got it or I guess a him. She didn't really care how or why she got him thought. The point is, she has him…

With Yume

"Eiri? Are you in here?" Yume called running through the chambers, knowing exactly where to jump.

"Vhy, Yes, of course I am here." Eiri said to his mistress.

"Hey Eiri, what did you think about Riku?" Yume asked him fiddling with her hair.

"Riku ist, ah, very in need of training. He vasn't very fast vhen I fought him." Eiri told her with a smile.

"Oh, well, do you think he could be better?" Yume asked, a big smile tugging at her lips.

"Anyvne vill get better in time. He ist no different." Eiri told her with a bright smile.

"Well... I bet he's already stronger. Konnor's training him right now…" Yume said a smaller smile playing on her lips now.

"Ah yes. Konnor, he ist very strong that one ist. Though he ist very hard on ze newer students…"

"Yepness to that…" Yume said shaking her head. "But, it'll be good for poor Riku."

"If he survives that is…" Eiri said with a smile to let Yume know he was kidding.

Yume giggled and grabbed her sliver staff. "While we're here, why don't we have a one-on-one spar! It'll be fun!"

"I vould love to spar vith you." Eiri said as he stood up, pulling his sword out of his sheath.

"One, Two, Three… GO!" Yume called as they began the spar.

back to poor poor Riku…

Riku fell to the ground. He was given a five minute break. Thank god, he might have collapsed if he had to keep going like that. Riku's face was black and blue; Yume would've had a fit if she saw that.

Riku groaned as he lay there, gasping for air. Sure at first it was pretty easy, and then Konnor forced him to fight things that were almost 5 times as strong as him. Riku didn't know what to do for the most part…

It was very painful. Very painful in deed. He had a feeling Sora would be laughing at him right now. Especially because Riku was stuck limping around. He had a bad feeling he had sprained his ankle. Not a good thing to happen. Except there was only one fight left. He was going to fight something called a 'Defender'. Two of them actually.

Riku was praying that they were at least a tiny bit weaker then them. Just a tiny, tiny bit at least. Little did Riku know that a defender was way stronger then him. At least two times as strong anyway.

The one thing Riku did know for sure was that class was almost over. Almost being the key word. He was still stuck in one more fight. One more stinking fight and it was over. All over… how happy could one person be?

"Time's up." Konnor told him simply.

Riku groaned as he got up. Konnor was not a nice person, and Riku now knew it. In a matter of fact Konnor was mean, mean person. Meaner then anyone Riku had ever meet.

At that moment two giant 'heartless' appeared. Riku's prayers went un-answered. These things looked strong. Incredibly strong.

At that moment Kage walked in, and completely ignoring Riku, walked straight over to Konnor, where they began talking. Riku ignored them as well. He was in the middle of a fight for goodness sake…

"A defender? Don't you think that's a little… harsh?" Kage asked him as she walked over.

"Not really. He's going to be strong enough to beat them with ease soon enough." Konnor told her with a slight smirk. It was as if he was saying, 'Yes, yes, I know I did better then anyone else'.

"So then, what level is he?" Kage asked Konnor ignoring the gloating look.

"Let's see," Konnor began as he typed some things into the machine before him. "Looks like he's level 15. Not bad for a days work…" Konnor said with a smile.

"Level 15. You must have tortured him…" Kage said with a smile.

"What did you expect me to play nice?" Konnor asked her with a smile of his own.

In the meantime Riku was about to be burned alive by the defender. By some miracle Riku had taken out one of the defenders, but he was too weak to get rid of the other one. It's all over… Riku thought to himself, waiting for the final blow.

"That's enough." A voice called out.

The heartless stopped dead. Not finishing Riku off. Kage walked right through the invisible walls as if they weren't there, which at this point, they weren't. Offering Riku a hand to help Riku up she said,

"Time's up. You're coming with me now." Kage told him as they began walking out of Konnor's torture chamber as Riku called it.

That was the nicest thing anyone had said to him all day. Riku sighed as he began walking after her. Kage walked to a large wooden door and looked at Riku.

"Now you'll be learning magic."

End of Chapter 4

Preview for Chapter 5: Riku is learning magic, Magic that Sora doesn't know yet. Mentioning Sora… when is he going to get to see him again, and why is Yume acting so… strange?

Okay everyone that's it. Chapter 5 is out. I'm really happy with this chapter too. Oh, by the way from now on I'm up-dating every 5-6 days. No matter what. Even if it's doomsday I'll still up-date.

Anyway some people have asked me who Riku will end up with, Yume or Kage. Well now I'm asking you. Who do you think Riku should end up? I'm kind of leaning toward Kage. That way Konnor can be jealous over how much attention Yume gives to Riku resulting in more torture…

Okay well I guess that's all I wanted to say. I hope every one is having a great time, oh and if you have any extra time… could you read some of my other stories? If not I'll forgive… as long as you review : )!

Here are my… Thank You's

Lady Miko: yay for you for reviewing!

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That's everybody! See ya all soon! BTW I got stung by a wasp today! It was my first time even though I'm 14! It hurt sooo bad!

Buh-bye for now!

Reioko