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Chapter Five: The Mysteries of the Hostess

Centered on Riku

Riku yawned. 'That figures. I finally go to sleep, someone decides to play some old pop music.' He stretched, getting out of his bed. Pulling on his famous yellow shirt, he trudged out into the hall. There seemed to be some sort of party going on in the main lobby. Curious, he headed to the railing over-looking the huge, stone floored room.

He frowned. "What in the hell..."

Everyone was dancing. In bare feet, and sometimes out of step. No one seemed to care. Riku put a hand to his forehead. 'Great, this place has gone nuts...'

"Riku! Hey Riku, down here!"

The silver-haired boy looked down. Sora waved.

"Come on! Come dance!" He called.

Riku groaned. 'I don't know him...' He shook his head.

"Aw, come on! Have some fun!"

"No thanks. Not if it makes me look like an idiot." Riku replied.

Ash appeared at Sora's side. "Come on! Nobody's going to tell!"

Riku walked away from the balcony. Nuts. That's what those two were; nuts. There was no way in hell that Riku was going to make a fool of himself. Sora may not have any dignity and might be proud of that, but Riku did, and he was going to defend it.

He decided to look around. Some of the doors on this floor were locked, and there were the towers that needed to be searched. There just had to be something worth sneaking around for. It was a castle, for crying out loud! Wonnykins had to have something private around here. As a matter of fact, so did the other guests.

The question was, where were said other guest's rooms?

Riku mentally slapped himself. How could he have been so stupid? Wonny had given them all a tour! He should know already where the other rooms were!

By now, he had reached the end of the hallway. One, large window allowed him to look out onto the backyard. Outside, rain was still falling. Tiny, pathetic flashes of lightning attempted to scare everyone, but were slowly fading away. Only the rain seemed to show no sign of letting up anytime soon.

Riku sighed, watching the rain hit the glass. There had to be something odd around here...

He turned to go when he spotted a door on his left. Hmm...he hadn't seen that before...

Reaching over, he turned the knob. Open. Inside, he could make out the outline of a staircase. What was a staircase doing behind this door, where nobody could see it? Riku had a feeling he had found something to do for the time. Just a peek. What no one knew wouldn't hurt them.

The silver-haired boy ascended the tiny stairwell. He coughed; dust clogged the passageway, and cobwebs brushed his face. Obviously, this had not been used in a while.

Before he had time to change his mind, Riku went headfirst into a door. Now, Riku and Sora had had unpleasant encounters with doors before. If it had been any other boy, Riku would have backed away and made a complete ass of himself by falling down the stairs. But Riku was not known for being cowardly. Slowly, he reached out and twisted the aged knob.

Immediately, he was enveloped by darkness. At first, he panicked, afraid of another trip to Kingdom Hearts. The green-eyed boy realized, however, that there was simply no lighting in the room. He sighed, feeling dreadfully silly. He reached around the door frame and found a spider-web covered switch. Ignoring the itching on the tips of his fingers, Riku flicked on the light.

He was greeted by blinding light. He blinked, clearing his eyes, and gasped.

"Incredible." The boy breathed.

Inside, glass cases lined the rooms. Movie memorabilia lined the walls, encases by the slightly dusty, glittering glass. Riku wandered into the room, enticed by all the rare items.

'How did she get her hands on some of this? She might be rich, but...' He marveled at a full-size robot Velociraptor, '...no body can be THIS rich...' The robot's eyes studied him, and he looked at the large movie poster behind it. 'Jurassic Park' was written in tribal lettering. The poster itself was worth more then it looked, having the mark of the director penned upon it; the robot Raptor must have cost a small fortune. Riku was a bit partial to Jurassic Park as it was.

He looked to the side. "No way..."

An enormous shark moved its tail through the luminous water of a large tank. The tail was all that moved. It was a diorama. Of Jaws. And Riku had no doubt that the shark robot was none other then Jaws himself. Now that was definitely not something everyone in their household could say that they had. That was most certainly a billionaire's whole savings.

Things got better. Fire helmets from 'Backdraft'; the famous telescope from 'Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Unfortunate Events'; all five golden tickets from the original and new 'Charlie/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory', (Which happened to be one of a certain brunette's favorite movies); and even the sapphire/diamond necklace from the top-ranking movie of all time: 'Titanic'. Riku found himself mesmerized by that one.

He thought the blue stone reminded him of Sora's eyes. Call it coincidence, but Riku was positive that his friend's cheerful eyes and the large blue diamond looked about the same shade of blue. Hell, Sora's eyes were so freaking blue that it hurt to look at them after a while.

'Why is it all up here where no one can see it? Besides that someone might steal it? She could have at least showed us...' Riku thought, frustrated at what he was convinced was a rare act of greed from his host, 'I can't wait to show the others...'

His face lit up. 'Wait, why should I? In fact...' He thought of a certain brunette Keyblade Master he was trying to catch the attention of, 'I should just bring Sora here. He'd love to see this stuff. It'll be our little secret.'

Cackling, Riku promised his new cache of treasures that he would come back, and turned off the lights, rushing downstairs to dance with the others. Had to be inconspicuous. He didn't want anyone to discover his new secret.

Not yet, anyway.