Chapter 4

The sky was grey and thunderous as Sora sprang into action. He summoned his keyblade and charged. Tentacles creeped up the side of the ship and over the railing. They rose before Sora as he stopped in the middle of the deck, quickly making detail of where everything was and what could become useful.

As the NCIS crew rushed onto deck, Sora hesitated in the door way like he knew what was going to happen. Then he ran out, faster than they had, while the crew stood agape, staring at the humongous heartless before them. Its eyes were yellow and cold. Its body was a blue that camouflaged with the sea and it had black in different places. Its head was the closest. It uses its tentacles to attack, but why not its arms? The NCIS team wondered.

They watched as Sora posed to fight. He dodged to the side as a tentacle crashed down at his right. He slashed at one that came to his left and then ran closer to the head. It roared and reared backward, tensed then leaned down and forward so it could stretch its tentacles further onto the deck.

It reached for Ziva, who acted quickly bringing out her gun and shot three times at it. The tentacle flinched, but kept reaching. Sora saw this in the corner of his eye and ran back, jumping over and dodging the think tentacles.

When he reached Ziva, he spun to face the tentacle. He tensed, legs spread shoulder width apart. He held up his hand, facing the threat, and cast fire. The ball of fire shot out of his hand and strait at the tentacle, it exploded and one tentacle down, countless more to go. Sora coughed cover his mouth, he wiped it and charged back towards the heartless' head.

'Sora stop you can't possibly defeat this thing!' Tony called out. He took a step, hoping to pull the boy to safety, but Gibbs' arm barred the way. 'But Gibbs! He's just a kid, we can't let him do this?' Gibbs just shook his head and they all watched the boy zip around the deck, dodging and slipping under the thick limbs.

Just as fast, Sora leaped into the air and practically flew backwards toward the crew. He looked at them and rushed towards Gibbs. 'Gibbs, when I call you can you please throw this at me, wherever I am.' Sora put his hands over Gibbs' cupped ones and returned to battle. Gibbs looked into his hands and the rest of the crew looked over his shoulders. In his cupped hands there was blue ball pendant, with a black and silver flame inside. Gibbs head shot up as he waited and watched for Sora's command, his eyes squinted with concentration.

Sora blocked a tentacle that attacked him front on, but was tripped from behind. He fell on his back grunting as he tried to hold the weight on the heavy limb. Sora built up his power in his keyblade then sliced across it, completely cutting it off from the rest of the limb, still more to go. Sora's strength was waning and he was weak even before the fight.

A little while later the fight took a turn for the worst. Sora was surrounded in the middle of the deck. Tentacles rose around him then closed in coiling around him as if a giant was covering him with a basket. The heartless roared with triumph, it had him now. Then its arms glowed purple as it raised them high, ready to crush the tiny creature that was in front of him and utterly hopeless.

'GIBBS!', Came a desperate cry from under the thick pile. Gibbs threw the pendant high and it disappeared.

'Gibbs, what happened? It just disappeared. Did you do something wrong? It has to be here somewhere.' McGee asked looking up and around frantically.

The ship went silent. They looked at the bundle of limbs with doomed expressions. The wind whipped at their hair and jackets and thunder boomed over head, it would rain heavily soon.

There was a sound of muffled struggle and then an ear-splitting sound accompanied by a blinding light. When it settled they saw an outline that became clear. It was Sora, his clothes had changed. They were now mainly black and blue and a little silver with light blue flames on the bottom of his pants and on his sleeves. His stance and whole being scream strength.

He took a stance, right foot forward and the left one facing the left. He leaned back slightly as he pointed the keyblade at the forehead of the screaming heartless and with one beam of light and the sound of a silent gun, he shot the heartless.

Its screaming stopped abruptly and it fell backwards like a tree, straight into the sea with a big 'splash'. A pink heart floated upward.

There was a short silence then the NCIS team was rushing forward and cheering. They patted Sora on the back and congratulated him. Sora smiled up at them stupidly and saluted them. Then his drive form ran out and his clothes to normal. The keyblade dispersed and Sora's face paled. He fainted.

Tony caught him. 'Let him have his rest.' said McGee. 'He deserves it.'