Riku stood beside the windowsill seat Kairi was laid on, his attention fully off Tane for once who stood at the other side of the room. Her head was still killing from whatever Hook had done, but she couldn't bear to look at her sister like that.

Riku had returned not long after, and quite honestly, gone mental. He'd knocked out several of the pirates before both sisters had been brought to him, Tane semi conscious and Kairi.. Well… Initially he'd gone straight to Tane, giving her a slight shake of the shoulders in an attempt to get her to focus,

"Are you ok?" He questioned, a mixture of anger and frustration in his voice. Thanks to her head all she could manage was a 'Mhm', which seemed to surfice as he gave her a quick kiss on the forehead before turning his attention to Kairi.

"So, Kairi's like a lifeless puppet now?" He questioned to Maleficent, who was also unfortunately in the room. A lifeless puppet.. that really wasn't a nice way to think of her sister.

"Precisely" Said that stupid green woman that the younger girl was really starting to hate. There was no need to sound smug about this..

"And her heart was…" Riku trailed off, unable to finish the sentence.

"Taken by the heartless no doubt"

"Tell me! What can I do?" Riku asked, but was it really necessary for him to shout, she had one hell of a headache.

"There are seven maidens of the purest heart. We call them the princesses of heart." These people were obvious big on imagination.. "Gather them together, and a door will open to the heart of all worlds. Within lies untold wisdom, then you will surely find a way to recover Kairi's heart." How could someone lose their heart? After everything that had happened, she was still shocked by new developments like that.. especially when it involved Kairi. "Now I'll grant you a marvellous gift," For some reason, Tane didn't think anything Maleficent could do was 'marvellous', and she was already scared for the older boy. "The power to control the heartless" She couldn't help the squeak that parted her lips as a green mist surrounded Riku, and it took all of her strength not to push Maleficent away and go to him. But if it helped Kairi… and it didn't seem to be hurting him either…

"Riku?" She whispered after the mist had disappeared. He didn't appear to hear her at first, his attention still on Kairi, though after a few seconds he turned and walked towards Tane,

"Soon, soon" He repeated as he swept her up into his arms and pressed a hard kiss to her lips. Her head was spinning from the sudden movement and it took her a few seconds to realise what was going on. "Now come on" He said, placing his arm around her waist and pulling her forward towards the doorway. Whether he knew it or not, luckily he was helping to hold her up, and she incredibly grateful.

They walked up to the top of the deck, and it took Tane that long for her to realise one of the pirates was carrying her sister behind them, and placed her down at their feet. She seemed able to sit up by her self, but she didn't seem all there. Whilst she was busy looking at her sister, Riku had spotted whatever he'd come up on the deck for and had began to speak,

"I didn't think you'd come, Sora" Sora? She tore her eyes from Kairi long enough to spoke the spiky haired boy on the lower deck, a look of distaste on his features. Ok, sure enough the last time they'd spoken it hadn't gone too well, but they were best friends. They'd work through this, for Kairi right?

"Where are Donald and Goofy?" Who and who? She frowned as she looked from Sora to the blonde boy, he looked like he knew who they were, so why didn't she?

"Are they that important to you?" So he did know. "More important than old friends?" Wait, were they those people that were with Sora in that town? The duck and dog with weird voices.. "Instead of worrying about them, you should be asking… About her" Riku said as he stepped out from beside Kairi, Tane still joined to his hip.

"Kairi!" Sora shouted, and Tane wasn't sure if she saw her sisters eyes move slightly, she'd probably imagined it. Kairi didn't have a heart, she was a 'puppet' as Riku put it, her eyes couldn't have just moved, no matter how much she might want them to.

"That's right, while you were off goofing around, we finally found her" He said, pulling Tane slightly closer- if that was possible. Luckily her head had stopped spinning, so the movement didn't cause everything to go blurry again.

Another person appearing on the lower deck caught her attention however, and she went from Riku's bright blue eyes down to Hooks and Sora's.

"Not so fast. No shenanigans aboard my vessel, boy" Shenanigans, seriously? Pirate or no pirate he sound silly. And after getting hit over the head by him, Tane really wasn't sure whether she disliked him more than Maleficent. The blonde didn't seem to be pleased with him being their either though, and he once again gave a slight growling sound. Was he turning into a wolf or something? Either way it wasn't a turn on.

"Riku, why are you siding with the heartless?" Sora questioned at his ex best friend, as several heartless pirates that Tane found quite funny started to surround him.

"The heartless obey me now, Sora. Now I have nothing to fear." Oh, that's great so he chose the pirate looking ones rather a set of big scary ones? Sometimes he really wasn't smart… But Sora's next words stopped her thoughts and caught her full attention,

"You're stupid. Sooner or later they'll swallow your heart" That couldn't be right. His heart was fine, Sora was just over exaggerating.. He had to be.

"Not a chance, my hearts too strong" Riku's comment made her smile, she couldn't have put it better herself. But her heart was just as strong, she still couldn't figure out why he wouldn't let her join this darkness and conjure up portals. Maybe he just wanted to keep her trapped.. But his next moves were slightly off putting. "I've picked up a few other tricks aswell" He said, as a shadow of Sora appeared infront of the spiky haired boy. Could he conjure them up of everyone? "You can go see your friends now" And with that the younger boy dropped through a sudden hole in the floor and disappeared. Couldn't anyone ever just walk out of a door normally? It was all portals and trapped doors with these people. Riku had finally taken a step away from Tane however, and was now starring daggers at Hook,

"Let's get under way already, and keep Sora away from Kairi until we're ready to land" He sounded stranger than normal, especially his next words that were directed at the younger girl. "Stay with Kairi, I have other things to take care of" She didn't even get a hug before he walked away. What had that mist done to him? Frowning, Tane shrugged it off and sat beside her sister. And couldn't carry her back to cabin by herself, and neither did she like the idea of letting some random pirate carry Kairi. Unfortunately as soon as Riku was gone everything suddenly went dark again. This was starting to get annoying.

A/N: New chapter up, reviews wanted as always, thankyou to everyone who's keeping up with this Z-Nugget xx