Alas!! I have decided to type again! (Chris bugged me. Oh poo:3) I'm very hungry. O.o

Onward to victory!!

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"Dammit!" Roxas snarled, slamming Oathkeeper into a tree. Cloud watched him, wishing that he could do the same but at the same time knowing that he needed to keep a level head right now.

"Roxas…" Leon said gentle, trying to calm the enraged blonde, but the Nobody wasn't going to listen. "Dammit!" he repeated, jerking out the white Keyblade and slamming it back. "If I'd just been a little faster…if I'd ignored him and gone after Riku, I might have…shit!"

but what he was saying was also running through their minds, each berating himself on what he could have or should have done instead. What he could have done to save Riku's life…

Leon shook his head. Thoughts like that were not going to help, dammit!

"Look" he said, "right now we need to get everyone in on this. We need all the people we can get on this. We have no idea what we'd be walking into if we chased them just like that."

Roxas whirled, furious.

"They could be killing him right now, you bastard!" he yelled, shoving Leon's hands away from him. "They could be killing him, and you're just going to run away with you tail between your legs! You just want to save your sorry ass, while he…" his voice cracked, and he trailed off, biting his lip.

"I…sorry," he said after a while, closing the bright blue eyes that were slowly brimming with tears. "I didn't mean that…I – I just…"

"I know," Leon said, as gently as he could.

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Sora half-sobbed, half-roared in anger, slamming a fist into the side of the ship furiously. "Shitshitshit!" he snarled, as blood trickled down the wall.

Tifa nodded, her head in her hands and her voice cracked up. "They're long gone by now."

"And we can't follow them, anyways," Yuffie put in sadly. "They outrank us."

Sora glared at her furiously, and the ninja shrank under his glare. "We don't know that!" he yelled. "We don't know that he's better until we fight him, and now we cant!"

"I know but –"

"Would you –"

"Jeez, everyone can we just calm down for a second?" Leon snapped, stepping through the door. Everyone's gazes shot in his direction he was immediately hit with questions, information, and it all came out in a jumble of words that he stopped with two hands held up in front of him as in self-defense.

"Whoa, would you just hold on for a second?" he tried, but all the jargon ground to a screeching half as Roxas entered the room.

"I'm sorry," he said before anyone could say anything. "I…he…"

"Riku's gone," Cloud interrupted almost helpfully, shoving Roxas through the doorway entirely so that he could get in. "Not dead, but they got him."

"B-but how…?" Tifa stammered, letting the partial question hang on the air unfinished.

"We saw them when we were searching," Leon put in, and started telling the story.

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"Well, well, well," the person standing in front of him said amusedly. "Look who's back in the lion's den."

Riku cast his gaze upward, and Sephiroth smiled down at him. The silver hair was petrified by the cats-eye gaze, until another figure stepped up beside him.

"The last time that I saw you," the man said coldly, "you had allowed yourself to be swallowed by darkness. I see you've gotten over that."

Suddenly Riku could breathe again, and he gasped, scrambling backwards. The Nobody's golden gaze burned into him. "S-Saïx?" Riku said in disbelief. "I-I though that…"

"I was dead?" he said icily. "No, not quite. And I don't plan on it for quite some time."

"But we thought that Sora had…"

Saïx should his head, anger flaring up in his ochire gaze.

"A human? Kill me? There's no chance," he snapped. He was about to say more, but a cool voice interrupted him.

"Calm down already, number VI," he said, his one visible eye staring at the Luna Divider. Riku spun. "Zexion?"

"Yes," the Cloaked Schemer said simply. "Your replica did a very had job of trying to kill me. He didn't even come close. Even Axel knew that I was still alive."

"Damn right," the redhead snickered, and Riku's head whipped around. Axel was leaning against a tree, grinning at him. His bright green eyes twinkled happily.

"Jesus, they just keep coming." Riku thought crazily. "I didn't even hear them."

"I saved many of the Organization through the method of making them werewolves," Saïx snapped. As if in answer, or perhaps to give proof, three others dropped from the tree next to the blue-haired Nobody. Only one of them had Riku ever seen in person – Marluxia, the keeper of Castle Oblivion. The other two he'd learned about from DiZ – Xigbar and Demyx, both of whom had supposedly died by Sora's hand. Neither was looking particularly dead right now.

Somehow, Riku managed to smile. "Gang's all here, huh?" he said weakly, earning him a cold chuck from the assembled werewolves, who all looked ready to tear him apart, with the exception of Axel, who was watching him sadly.

"So…what…what are you going to do to me?" Riku asked, looking back at Sephiroth, who seemed to be the leader of the rabble. "Kill me?"

The one-winged angel looked at him thoughtfully, leaning over him. Tilting the silver hair's head up by his chin, he looked pensively into the determined cerulean gaze. "You're not afraid," he said, without a hint of a question in his voice. Just the utmost certainty.

Riku shrugged, ignoring the pain that it brought him. "No…not really," he said, meaning it. "I don't really want to die…at least, not yet…but I don't fear death."

Sephiroth continued staring at him for a few more seconds before finally, without another word, turning away and walking into the darkness. He paused for a second by Saïx, muttering something that Riku didn't hear and Saïx obviously didn't like by the look on his face, before disappearing.

The Nobodies turned to him, and Riku shrank back. Whatever was coming, he guessed he wouldn't enjoy it.

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"If I had just put more effort into chasing down those sons of bitches…" Leon muttered, his head in his hands.

"I should've talked Riku out of going," Sora moaned, eyes brimming with a film of tears.

"I shouldn't have fallen asleep and let him inside," Tifa grieved, biting her lip.

"I should've ignored the other two and gone after the one with Riku," Roxas said, voice muffled as his head was buried on his arms, which were folded on the table.

"If I'd been here," Cid grunted sadly.

"If I'd fought them harder…" Yuffie said, dropping the shuriken into the ground repeatedly.

"If I could just find some way to shut you all up," Cloud snapped through gritted teeth, and they all looked at him. He started back furiously. "Nothing is going to change if we sit around and bitch about what we could've done instead. What's done is done, and whining won't change a goddamn thing. So grow up, all of you."

There was a stunned silence following Cloud's enraged outburst, and no one could find anything to say. Cloud filled the silence. "Look," he said, voice still sharp, but he tried to soften the blow, "all of this is not helping him. We need to get back out there and try and find him before he ends up dead."

Roxas stood, nodding. "Yeah…" he said, his gaze going from sorrowful to determined. "Yeah, you're right."

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Okay, I typed it. Now I'm going to bed. If I made a mistake you can kiss my very very tired ass. curls up on pillow and sleeps