Disclaimer - I do not own Kingdom Hearts. This is made by a fan for fans. No money is being made.

Author's Note - Dear God, that's the second spider I've killed today. Here I am, innocently typing on my computer, and WHAM! (well, technically, not a noise was made, but hey...) a spider crawls up the wall next to me. What, like the one I killed in the sink wasn't enough? Geez. Anyway, I thought the whole situation was ironic with, you know, the whole spider-in-the-story thing. So, um...yeah. This chapter has a dramatically different style, I think. Thank God this is a test fic, or I'd be really mad with myself for throwing you guys around like that. Now I think it's kind of amusing. Be confused, "dear readers," be confused! Muwahaha.

Sora clung to the web on the ceiling and tried not to look down. He had already fallen from this distance once, when he came out of the quicksand, but he wasn't awake to feel it then, and damn it, he wasn't too sad about missing that experience. He carefully inched his way toward the nearest wall, having to yank his hands away just to get them unstuck from the web. It was a small comfort. Somehow, knowing that a sticky spider web was keeping you safely attatched to the ceiling and far from the waiting jaws of the self same spiders that had spun it was little consulation.

He chanced looking down. Yep, there there were, clacking in anger on the floor, waiting for them to fall. A few of them had tried climbing the walls, only to have a well aimed rock hit them back down. There weren't as many as Sora had originally thought. Barely a dozen. Riku, skillfully balancing the rocks in his shirt, sped past Sora like it was the easiest thing in the world. Sora glared at him, though Riku couldn't see it, and continued his snail pace.

It's not the height I'm afraid of, he told himself, It's falling from it.

Now, if Sora had undergone the experiences as told in Kingdom Hearts one and two, the author seriously doubts he'd ever be afraid of heights. The Peter Pan adventure is enough to convince anyone of that. But as it stands in this story, Sora had very different experiences altogether. He wasn't exactly a coward, but you might say certain experiences led up to one very obvious conclusion for him. It was better to avoid danger at all possible costs. Running away was not too low for him. And being afraid of heights was a fear he had no intention of ever facing down. Not willingly at least.

Riku found a perch on the wall and waited. A spider occasionally fell to one of his rocks. The trick was to hit them in the legs, and if he was careful enough he could hit two legs with one stone. Sometimes it took two, and he was running out of rocks.

"Hurry up, Sora."

Sora reached for the next cord. It was farther away than the others. Sweat beaded on his forehead as he stretched his arm out to grab it. "I'm hurrying," he said. He finally grasped the cord.

"There's a spider behind you," Riku lied. Sora's speed increased greatly. In moments he was beside Riku on the wall, looking for a spider that wasn't there. He glared at Riku, who smiled cockily in response. He even had the nerve to bloody laugh.

"Come on," Riku said, the amusement evident in his voice. It faded quickly as he continued, "There's an opening in the wall over there." He pointed to a small and uneven hole in the wall a short distance off. It looked like a broken window, sharp rocks pointed in. Sora couldn't see anything of the room beyond.

Getting there was surprisingly easy. The fact that Riku had run out of rocks had nothing to do with the speed and grace with which the two zipped through the opening. Nothing at all.

There was no web on this side. The jagged rocks of the opening were the only things to hold onto, and holding onto a sharp rock for support isn't exactly the smartest thing to do. Sora surprised Riku and was the first to let go. Riku heard a few muffled curses, Sora style (darn, bloody, tootin' stinkin'...darn), and then, "Come on down, Riku, the ground'll break your fall."

Riku judged the distance and leg go, landing gracefully on his feet. Sora glared at him. He'd been doing that a lot lately.

This chamber was considerably smaller than the last. It looked more like a tunnel, really, a passage to another larger chamber. The ceiling, however, was much higher than the last. Sora couldn't see the top. That same errie light that had lite the last chamber lite this one also, its source still unseen.

The noise of a spider's approach set Riku and Sora on the alert. Riku picked up another rock. Sora considered the logic in just running away before the spider turned the corner and saw them. The surprise was complete when a small girl with blonde hair wearing a white dress ran around the corner, not a huge ugly spider. Riku's rock fell from his hand.

The girl caught sight of them. "Help me!" she screamed and ran behind Riku, the more capable looking of the two, and clung to his shirt like a frightened child. "Don't let them eat me!"

That's when the spider appeared.

Roxas was pissed.

"Shut up, Axel."

Axel was unrelenting. "No, tell me again about how the crazy man in a red cloak kidnapped Namine. I love the part when you describe his glasses. Star shaped, you say? Glittering purple?" Axel burst out laughing. Again.

"I'm serious."

This just seemed to fuel Axel on more. He was rolling in the sand now. "Glittering purple," he said between laughs, "Are you sure you're not gay, Roxas?"

Oh, that did it.

Roxas unleashed what furry he could without his keyblades. Axel still had his weapons, albeit they weren't on fire, but he was laughing too hard to use them. Now he was laughing harder at Roxas's attempts to put him in a headlock. The kid was virtually useless without magic. Why'd Kairi choose to send him to this planet in the first place, anyway?

That was when Axel made the classic mistake. He underesteemated his opponent. Roxas kicked him in between the legs. Axel doubled over. It was pretty easy to put him in a headlock after that.

Roxas said, "Now listen here. Namine really has been kidnapped. YES, that's what the freak looked like, YES that's why I called you here," and here he muttered something about saving himself the humiliation by choosing to call Axel, his friend, and not one of the other members of the Brotherhood, and a bunch of other crap that Axel paid no attention to as he was thinking if it was somehow possible to use this situation as blackmail. Roxas yanked Axel back to reality. "And YES you will listen to what I have to say."

"Alright, alright," Axel said in a pacifying tone. "Namine's been kidnapped. You want her back, I get it. Now get off." Roxas didn't let go. "Get off!"

Suspicious, but somewhat satisfied, Roxas let Axel go. Axel collected himself and rubbed the sand off of his black coat.

"Now," Axel began, "Tell me again what color 'rod' he had, and how fast he 'swung' it at you."

"I'm gonna kick your ass."

Even when he was back in a headlock, Axel couldn't keep from laughing.

Author's Note - Yeah...I'd say the style is quite different. But then, this is the first time I've written a chapter in the morning. What do you guys think, is it better? Worse? What? It's not like this is a ploy for more reviews, or anything. ;P