Running after Riku wasn't the greatest thing in the world. Thankfully Tane was one of the fastest runners she knew, and easily beat the older boy when they were younger on Destiny Island, so he wasn't hard to keep up with. Trying to get him to stop however, that was hard. After shouting his name several times she'd given up on that idea, and instead attempted to grab his arm, only to be shaken off. That only left the option of running after him until he decided to stop. Which hopefully would be soon.

"Why? It was mine." Was he talking to himself or wanting an answer? Either way he'd finally slowed down, coming to a halt. And therefore let Tane catch her breath. Yeah, she really needed to become fitter.

"Know this," Who the hell was that? Both teenagers looked around, one looking slightly more frightened than the other. Even with everything that had happened, voices appearing from nowhere was still… strange. "The heart that is strong and true shall win the keyblade" Wasn't Riku's heart strong and true? Considering he was always bragging about how strong it was…

"What? You're saying my heart's weaker than his?" Uh oh, he sounded angry now. Then again who wouldn't after being told you had a weak heart.

"For that instant, it was" Ok, where was that voice coming from? Frowning Tane surveyed the room, there was a slight blur of something from infront of Riku, and she took several steps closer to him to get a better view. "However, you can become stronger" Stronger? Stronger as weird Riku or normal Riku? Honestly, she didn't want weird Riku any stronger.. Not if it made him weirder. "You showed no fear in stepping through the door to darkness," This wasn't sounding good, though the blur was becoming clearer into a hooded figure. "It held no terror for you, plunge deeper into the darkness, and your heart will grow even stronger" But was a stronger heart worth giving into darkness?

"What should I do?" Whether he was actually asking Tane or not this time, she was going to give her opinion,

"Don't. Please Riku, don't do this" Her voice caught his initial attention, and he seemed to waver on what to do. Was there still enough of the old blonde in their? Shaking his head he looked back up at the hooded figure.

"It's really quite simple, open yourself to the darkness" Came his answer, making the younger girl start to really dislike the half invisible person. "Let your heart, your being, become darkness itself" Unfortunately it seemed he was going to listen to this person, as a green mist appeared around the older boy again, brighter than before to the point Tane had to look away covering her eyes.

Once it was gone, along with the hooded person, she unshielded her eyes, finally looking back at Riku. Besides his outfit changing to black again he appeared the same. But there was something different about him… Almost as though it wasn't the boy she'd grown to love anymore.

This time she didn't bother to call his name, and instead just followed him out of the room. She doubted he would even answer to that name anymore. Sora was still somewhere in the castle, is she searched he probably wouldn't be that hard to find, just go towards the heartless attacking. But odds were 'Riku' was going back to the keyhole room, and that meant she'd be back with Kairi. Or to an unknown dungeon to kill her.

Luckily her risk paid off, and she entered the same room as earlier behind the blonde boy. Unfortunately Maleficent was still stood in there, but that didn't stop her running to her sisters side and taking a hold of her hand. She was no longer in the coffin type holder, and instead was lying on the floor. Why had she been down graded?

"So I see the path has emerged at last" That didn't even sound like him anymore… Sighing Tane gripped Kairi's hand tighter. She couldn't feel it anyway.

"Yes, the keyhole to the darkness"

"Unlock it and the darkness will overrun this world" Did that mean just this world, would every other be safe? Would she be safe?

"What do I care? The darkness holds no power over me" She sure looked dark with that sickly green skin and vile voice… "Rather, I will use its power to rule all worlds" Ok, so no world would be safe then.

"Such confidence" That was coming from the guy that was practically cocky with confidence. And for some reason he conjured up his keyblade after saying that, only that too looked different. But nothing else happened. Was something meant to happen?

"Impossible! The princesses of heart are all here!" Something was meant to happen then. "It must be her" Tane looked down at Kairi when the other two in the room did, a frown covering her features again. What must be her sister? She couldn't be held responsible for that keyhole not working, she didn't even have a heart! Unfortunately the attention on her sister meant Maleficent and 'Riku' had also gathered around the older redhead.

"Without her heart, she will never be able release her power." What did 'Riku' mean? What power? Seriously, did everyone have a power except her?

The sound of other people in the castle nearby caught all of their attentions,

"The kings fools are here" Said Maleficent, causing Tane to grip her sisters hand tighter. She wasn't entirely sure who 'the kings fools' were, but taking a guess she'd say it was that dog and duck that were with Sora. "I'll deal with them myself" The green woman muttered before leaving the room and heading into another one. Normally she'd be happy to be rid of that woman and left with Riku, but in normal circumstances Riku would've had his arm around her and not had a civilised conversation with Maleficent. But this wasn't normal circumstances.

Silence encircled the room for what seemed like an eternity, and it really did seem like you could cut the atmosphere with a… keyblade. And she was honestly thankful when the older boy disappeared through a portal for a while. Unfortunately that didn't last very long, and he was soon back through another portal. What was going on with Sora? She wanted to ask, but it was obvious one of the princesses was more likely to give her an answer…

Though within several minutes her thoughts on Sora were answered, as the spiky brunette came running up the stairs case, the 'kings fools' in toe. Only some invisible field thing stopped the fools, causing them to fall over backwards. Tane couldn't help a slight giggle, but soon sobered up as the younger boy ran to her sisters' side,

"Kairi!" He shouted, picking her up into his arms, "Kairi! Kairi! Open your eyes!" Because no one had tried that to make her wake up. Scowling slightly, she gripped her sisters hand tighter, refusing to let Sora take all of her.

"It's no use…" Both looked up to see Riku standing infront of the doorway. Did he always have to state the obvious like that? "That girl has lost her heart. She can not wake up" That girl? Since when did he ever call her that girl. Tane wiped her eyes on the back of her hand quickly, realisation that it really wasn't Riku anymore finally dawning over her. Composing herself quickly, she gave a small nod at Sora's next words,

"What? You… You're not Riku." He said, putting Kairi down and standing up. Wow, wasn't he a genius.

"The keyhole cannot be complete" What was this big deal with the keyhole? As far as Tane could gather it just involved darkness, and that really didn't seem like such a great thing… "So long as the last princess of hearts still sleeps" With that, 'Riku' jumped down from a pipe he'd been sitting on and landed infront of the keyhole.

"The princess… Kairi's a princess?"

"Yes, she's a princess, well done" Tane muttered sarcastically, she couldn't help it. Sure Sora was actually a nice person, and it wasn't his fault he didn't know, but everyone was basically acting like she wasn't there.

"Yes, and without her power the keyhole will remain incomplete" Apparently she was still being ignored. "It is time she awakened" Awakened? Did she hear that right? Kairi could be awakened now?

"Whoever you are, let Riku go! Give him his heart back!" Though Sora seemed to care more about Riku than her sister.

"But first," Said Riku "You must give the princess back her heart"

"What?" Both young teens said, surely he'd just made a mistake. But Tane didn't get long to think it over as Riku pointed his keyblade at Sora causing him to take several steps backwards, a bright light emitting from his chest.

"Don't you see it?" Riku questioned from beside the keyhole, "The princesses heart is responding, it has been there all along" Wait, Kairi's heart was inside Sora? Now that really was going too far, and it took all of her strength not to stand up and demand he give it back.

"Kairi's… Kairi's inside me?" Wow, he really was top of his game today wasn't he, and that really wasn't a sentence Tane ever wanted to hear… "Who are you?" He questioned after a few seconds, standing up properly again.

"It is I, Ansem, the seeker of darkness" Well, considering how happy he was to answer, he could've said sooner. "So, I shall release you now princess" He said, walking over to Sora and pointing his keyblade at him. It wasn't going to harm he was it? How many more people needed to be hurt? "Open the door, lead me into everlasting darkness!" She was really starting to miss the old Riku… Sure he could be an ass at times, but atleast he wasn't obsessed with darkness.

'Riku' or rather Ansem moving to attack Sora's heart with the keyblade was enough to snap Tane's head up from her sister to watch, and it seemed like something had snapped within him too as he suddenly blocked Riku's attack,

"Forget it! There's no way you're taking Kairi's heart!" All hell broke lose after that with both boys fighting. Tane attempted to pick up her sister as best she could and pull her to the edge of the 'rink', the invisible barrier still up and stopping her from getting herself and her sister out the way. On the plus side the fight didn't last long and she only had to dodge a handful of fire and ice, but the bad side was what happened once it had finished. Riku stood with his back to Tane, the sound of his keyblade falling to the floor causing the room to fall into silence again, until he disappeared into a portal in the floor.

"RIKU!" Sora's voice mirrored the younger redheads at the sight of their 'friend' vanishing. She vaguely heard the Duck say something about the keyhole, but her attention was focused on the spot Riku had just gone through. Even if that wasn't him, it was still his body…

"The keyholes not finished yet"

"Who Cares?" Tane stood up finally having enough of that stupid keyhole. What did it matter? It wasn't helping anyone, it wasn't doing anything! All that damn keyhole had done was create chaos. Kairi's heart had been taken and was now inside Sora, Sora had ditched his old friends for two animals, and god only knows what happened to Riku! Everyone had gained powers and become 'superheroes' or 'princesses of hearts' or 'keyblade masters' or-

"Maybe we've gotta wake Kairi up" Great. He wasn't even listening to her. "If we can free her heart… But…But how?" Sora questioned to himself, looking around the room. Kairi, Kairi, Kairi. It was always about Kairi. Tane knew she shouldn't be bitter of her sister, non of this was her fault. Unless she chose her heart to go into Sora's. Then it was definitely her fault! Frowning she moved back to her sisters side, but stayed standing this time as Sora had picked up Riku's fallen keyblade and was moving closer. "A keyblade that unlocks peoples hearts… I wonder…" Only he stopped several spaces away and turned the keyblade to himself, before flashing a grin at his two friends and plunging it into his chest. A light emitted from both Sora and the keyblade again, before it shot backwards several more little round orbs appearing, dispensing down the room to where all the princesses were being held and going into them, until one final orb of light came out and Sora and floated over to Kairi, disappearing into her chest. Was that her heart being put back?

The younger redhead looked from Kairi to Sora in time to see one rise and the other fall to the floor, only when her sister tried to reach her fallen friend he disappeared into hundreds of orbs all floating off into the sky.

"Sora, are you really…" She heard her sister say as she moved beside her, linking her hand into hers. It was nice to feel the older girl squeeze back, but things still weren't right. Now both boys were gone. "No, he can't be. I wont let him go!"

"And I wont let Riku go" She muttered in-between her sisters personal rant. Whether Kairi heard or not she made no comment, and instead turned her attention to a blonde man standing infront of them. Only it wasn't Riku…

"So you have awakened at last princess. The keyhole is now complete, you have served your purpose" Served her purpose? What was she, food that had passed its sellbuy date? Tane frowned gripping her sisters hand tighter. Who the hell did this guy think he was?

"Don't make another move!" Said the duck, who Tane still needed to learn the name of, as the new man several steps towards the girls. That didn't seem to stop him though, something else- or someone else rather, did.

"Impossible" He muttered as a light appeared from his chest, only it quickly changed to an image of Riku.

"No. You won't use me for this!" That was him! That was Riku, it was actually him.

"Riku!" Both girls shouted, only Tane's portrayed a lot more emotion. But he wasn't really there was he? He was more like.. a ghost… No. He was fine, he had to be fine. He'd get fine.

"You've got to run, the heartless are coming!" He shouted back as several little creatures- much like the ones that Tane had seen earlier started to surround them. But she couldn't leave without him,

"Riku-"

"GO" Biting down on her lip Tane took off after her sister and the animals down the steps, not looking back over her shoulder no matter how much she wanted to for fear of what she might see.

All four of them had to pause for breath as they rounded another corner into the main room Sora and Riku had been fighting in earlier. It was clear of those heartless creatures for now, except one had followed them.

"Confounded heartless! Get lost, will ya?" Said the duck that Tane had finally learnt was called Donald as he hit the poor thing over the head with his staff. Considering that was what they were meant to be running from, he didn't seem very threatening.

"Sora?" Kairi question, making Tane give her an are-you-mad? Look. Did she honestly think that heartless was Sora? That didn't even make sense. Though it could explain the subdued nature… Unfortunately several more heartless suddenly appeared, surrounding them tighter than before, so Tane didn't have chance to ponder over the thought. Instead she instinctively moved closer to Kairi, but was stopped as atleast 4 of the heartless all dived at her sister and the Sora heartless.

"Kairi!" She shouted, stumbling backwards out of the way, but once more a bright light appeared only this time a happy site was at the end of it. All the heartless had disappeared, and Kairi was fine. She was also in the arms a normal looking Sora. But before the two could properly talk or embrace, Tane didn't want to think about the latter, heartless started to appear again. All 5 readied themselves, though there was no need as a huge beast looking creature was suddenly on the balcony above them shouting orders at them,

"Go! Now!" Hopefully he was on their side.

"Come with us" Sora said back, only Tane wasn't so sure she wanted a beast coming with them after all this.

"I told you before. I'm not leaving without Belle" On second thoughts, he was there for someone he loved apparently, he should come with them! Once he'd gotten Belle ofcourse. "Now go. The heartless are coming" His words eerily echoed Riku's and Tane took her sisters hand pulling her forward. The five took off again towards a ship Sora explained would take them to another world where he had to talk to someone.

A/N: Ok this was rather long O.o Anyway, so the last chapter for Tane will be the next one =/ I'm Kinda curious on what you think will happen, so leave reviews with that please! (I'll give you a clue, she'll be at the white doorway that gets shut with Riku and Mickey on one side and Sora and whoever on the other.) So do you think it'll be a happy ending, or sad or she'll go with Riku or Sora or what? I really want to know what you guys thinks. I'll upload in roughly a week once I'm completely happy with it. Anything's possible after all ;) Thanks for reading Z-Nugget xx