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Author's Note - Aaaaalirghty. Now to add more detail to make the spidies scare the crap outta ya. Actually, now that I'm on the whole 'detail' train of thought, I think I'll add more detail to the overall chapter. It'll be my 'testing detail abilities' chapter.
Step after step took the humans closer to her hoard of minions. She closed her eyes and invisioned the army that awaited them. The big oafs would be there, the exotic spiders, those boulder sized monstrosities that could nearly swallow a human whole. Well, maybe not whole. The head would be sticking out...or the feet...the fangs of the beasts ripping skin from body, the acidic saliva eating through bone.

Grimna smiled at the beautiful thought.

Riku looked back, catching sight of the odd look on her face, but saying nothing of it, "Hey."

Grimna snapped out of her fantasies. "Oh," she said sweetly, tilting her head to the side for effect, "Yes?"

"Try to keep up, okay?"

Oh. She hadn't even noticed she had stopped. Wait, that's because she hadn't. Riku wasn't talking to her. Sora had, he was behind her, deadly still, listening hard.

They were traveling through an especially large passage, and thought it wise to keep her safely in between them. The reason for Spikey's stopping was a distant dripping noise. He apologized and rubbed the back of his head.

Sora was actually taking things much differently now that a girl had come along. He had never for a moment thought that he'd have to protect someone. He knew Riku could take care of himself, that was for sure. As if answering his thoughts, Riku showed his profile and shrugged at Sora. Come on! I wanna get out of here, don't you? Stop daydreaming, he was saying.

Grimna was looking at him now. She smiled. Sora found that disturbing, and he didn't know why. He smiled to cover the frown that was forcing its way onto his face. He was relieved when she turned back around and followed Riku. He grimaced at the uneasy feeling welling up in his heart.

Something's wrong.

It's not like he didn't have any upper body strength. Heck, swinging a giant key or two around was a lot of work. Those things were heavy!

But he didn't have the luxery of summoning his keyblades at will here, and given the choice between using his own strength or Axel's chakrams, he'd choose the chakrams. It was so nice of Axel to lend them to him.

"Hmm. Maybe the river gods are upset with me," the Red Cloaked man mused, walking in circles around Namine. Roxas nearly fell over and ruined his cover. River gods? They were in the middle of a desert! According to all data they'd gathered about this world, there wasn't one river, let alone any major body of water, on the entire planet. Who was this guy?

That's when he caught sight of Axel across from the cave. He was glaring at him, promising a slow death later. Roxas smiled and waved.

But, hey, death glare aside, at least they were both in position.

"I know! I'll bake cookies for Grandmother Kitty!"

Alright, this guy was just weird. As if that conclusion was hard to come by. Roxas suddenly tensed when he saw what was in the weirdo's hand. A knife. It looked like he had just unsheathed it from his glittering purple rod.

And he was bringing it down on Namine.

Two things happened. One, Namine screamed. Two, Roxas tackled Red Cloak to the ground.

Roxas was rather good with the chakrams, Axel noted with disdain. Damn kid was probably good with any weapon he was given. It was only a matter of seconds until the cloaked man had been pinned to the ground, cut deep in some areas but not bleeding from any of the wounds. Roxas held a chakram to his throat.

Axel walked up casually.

"Hey, Namine."

Namine had hidden her face the moment she saw the shadow of a knife on the ground. Now she looked up. "Axel?"

The red haired man walked pass her without another word. He did, however, dispell her worries by winking at her.

"Done 'borrowing' my weapons?" Axel asked coldly.

Roxas's eyes didn't leave the strang man's. The man shivered involuntarily and prayed to the Queen of Green.

"No," Roxas said simply, "I'm not done yet." He pressed the chakrams in closer, cutting a thin line along the man's neck. There was no blood.

"Roxas."

"Not now, Namine."

Namine frowned. For having just rescued her, he sure was quick to fall back into the habbit of being mean to her again.

"But, Roxas..."

"Not now, Namine!" the chakrams pressed in deeper.

"I think you'd better listen to what she says," Axel said, unexpectedly sticking up for the blonde girl. He had good reason.

Namine didn't wait for the go ahead. "Roxas! There's no one there."

Author's Note - There wasn't any spidery action scene this time, so my awesome describing powers of DOOM had to wait in that respect.