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Chapter 11: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

With his new found strength, Sora found it all too easy to get from planet to planet. He merely had to focus his thoughts on a mental image of the place of his choosing and bend the darkness to his will and he could travel to anywhere in the blink of an eye. It felt good. Real good.

"You're becoming accustomed to the darkness quite well Sora," Sephiroth said, his devilish features appearing as an image in Sora's mind. "No one else could've adapted to this power so well. Most would've been overwhelmed and instantly destroyed."

"Well I'm not most people. I am the Keyblade Master. No one in the galaxy can match my strength, not now and not ever," Sora said, smirking at the very thought of facing an opponent with his power so high.

Seymour had no trouble fitting in with Riku and Kairi. He'd outfitted himself with Sora's voice and memories so there was no chance that he would slip up with them. At first he thought that Riku would discover his deception quite easily. But Riku seemed to have entered a state of blind obedience to Sora, almost as if trying to make up for attempting to kill him.

Kairi was laughably easy to control. She clung to his every word and obeyed his every command. But force was not needed, nor was guilt as was the case with Riku. She was blinded by her love and devotion to this angel. Kairi wanted nothing more than to please Sora and to here him tell her that he loved her, a fact that Seymour greatly abused to remain hidden amongst them.

The group traveled from planet to planet, not staying in one town for anymore than a day. Riku seemed to know exactly where they were going and Seymour found no reason to appose this. Sora's memories gave him no reason to suspect deception in Riku.

"Where are we going? We haven't stopped for days," Kairi complained. "Is there anywhere that's safe from Seymour?"

"I'm not sure. There doesn't seem to be a place where Seymour's gaze wouldn't pierce," Riku said. "The best thing to do is to keep moving and hope that we run into someone who can keep us hidden."

Riku then stopped and turned to face Seymour.

"By the way, Sora. You never told us how you escaped from Seymour. When we were heading there you sounded like you were walking into a battle you wouldn't return from. Yet here you are, without a scratch from Seymour, and so unwilling to talk about it. It isn't like you," Riku said. "What really happened there?"

Seymour cursed in his mind and tried to come up with something that wouldn't sound too suspicious. "Seymour wasn't nearly as powerful as I expected. Something seemed to be distracting him as we fought, as though his thoughts were focused on something elsewhere. Needless to say I made sure he was securely locked in the execution chamber before I followed after you guys."

"That's another thing I wanted to ask about," Riku said suddenly. "You said that we weren't going to kill Seymour. That you wanted to find evidence and expose him to the courts. What happened to that plan?"

Damn this Riku. He's very perceptive all of a sudden. I've got to think quickly or else I'll be exposed!

"I know that's what I said before. But when I was standing before him and I was thinking about my mother. Thinking about how she screamed my name before she died. How she begged that he wouldn't kill me and how he showed no mercy to her as he raped-"

"Riku, we shouldn't talk about this anymore," Kairi interrupted, grabbing Seymour's arm tightly. "Sora doesn't want to speak of this anymore. Can't you see how it pains him to talk about this? Is it so wrong to not want to talk about his mother's murderer?"

Riku wanted to object, but he knew that it would only prove to get him on her bad side. Without question he backed down. "Okay. I see that it upsets you Sora. I'm sorry for bringing it up."

But something was nagging in the back of Riku's mind. Something that would definitely serve to only further his suspicions that there was something seriously wrong with Sora.

Who the hell told him that his mother was raped? I definitely left that out when I told Sora about his mother's death...

End of Chapter

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