Chapter 2

Sora and Riku walked to the ship, hand in hand. "Riku…there's something I have to tell you. You see…umm, well I think I love you." Riku looked into Sora's eyes and smiled.

"Aw, how sweet. Well there's something that I have to tell you too." Sora's heart started to race. "If we don't leave now, then we will never make it to the clock tower in time."

Sora's heart sunk. He couldn't believe what Riku said. Sora thought for sure Riku was going to tell him the he loved him too. Riku jumped into the ship and motioned to leave. Sora just stood there dumbfounded.

"Is there anything else you want to say? ANYTHING!" Sora smiled sweetly.

"Umm…no. But, oh I do need to stop at Olympus. I've entered you in a competition, so that way you have something to do while I'm doing my business." Riku pulled Sora up into the ship.

"Ok but what do you have to do?" Sora asked as the ship took off.

"I just have to speak to someone." Riku smiled at Sora and fluffed his hair.

Sora and Riku were both silent for the rest of the trip. An hour went by and they finally set foot at Olympus. Sora jumped out and ran to Hercules.

"Oh my gosh, it's been forever since I last saw you. You've gotten taller." Hercules put his hand on Sora's head and messed up his hair.

"Yeah, I guess. So are you in the competition this time?" Sora flexed his muscles and pretended to be Hercules.

"Sure am. It's gonna be a tough one." Hercules smiled kicked the sand and laughed. Sora and Hercules ran into the Coliseum, not noticing the dark, shadowy figure next to the ranking board.

"I see you've made it." the figure said while walking slowly towards Riku.

"Yeah, it was easy to convince the boy to come here. You haven't forgotten the deal have you? Riku's body oozed black shadows, and then transformed into a taller boy with shorter black hair.

"You know it's not safe to transform here Ember. You have to be careful around here." the figure said.

"Yeah I know, but no one is around. Ok I've done my half of the deal Sephrioth, now it's your turn. You have to weaken him, not kill him. Just weaken him so that way his heart will be weak and about to fade away."

"Fine, but you know that I can kill him." Sephrioth put his hand onto his sword handle.

"Yes, but I am the one who has to do it. Now go…do what you're told!" Ember pointed to the gates.

As Sephrioth walked off, Ember changed back into Riku and waited in the ship. "What a fool, that Sora. Thinking that I'm really Riku. But what he doesn't know, is that Riku never came back from the darkness, and that was me." Ember smiled closed his eyes, and waited for Sora. But Sora didn't come. Ember got worried and saw Sora walk out. Sora got into the ship sat ontop of Riku and smiled.

"I had to fight Sephrioth. It was hard but i won, just barely. So are we ready?"

"Yeah, get off me and lets go.Oh but before the Clock TowerI need to go to Hallow Bastion by myself.Just drop me off and i willget ahold ofyou whenI'm done. I have some more business." Riku pushed Sora off and they took off to Hallow Bastion.