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

Author's Note - Thank you, my reviewers. You doth rocketh. Your critisism and all around goodness doth maketh me feeleth goodeth and encourageth me...eth.
No one there.

Roxas looked down on the man he had just tackled, only there was one problem. The man, for all the absurdity of it, just wasn't there anymore. Roxas's body, now no longer pinning the man down, fell the few inches to the ground. The chakrams burried into the dirt where Red Cloak's neck had been just a second before.

The stunned silence that would normally accompany such a scene was short lived.

"Hahahahaha. Hahahahaha. And again, I say HAHAHAHA, ye barbarian hoards!"

Roxas sprang to his feet at the sound of the familiar voice and threw one of the chakrams in its general direction. Unsurprisingly, it wizzed through the air and hit nothing but sand. Laughter followed the failed attempt.

And then an invisible hand picked up the fallen weapon. It twirled expertly in mid-air without a user.

"That's not good," Axel said, ever one to point out the obvious. Leaning against a wall just inside the cave entrance, examining his hands without interest, he didn't seem too concerned. "You gonna let him get away with that, buddy?"

Roxas was already angry. He didn't need Axel adding to it. "I don't know, you gonna help me out, 'buddy?'"

"Sure, 'pal,' but some idiot thought he'd borrow my weapons. How am I supposed to help - B U D D Y - without a weapon I can work with?"

Roxas didn't miss a beat, "We all know your current 'weapon' isn't functional, Axel, but don't you go begging for my help in that area."

Now Roxas had two people to fight.

Namine's mouth dropped. How could they be fighting each other at a time like this? They were under attack, for Pete's sake!

As if to emphasize her point, the invisible fighter drove his chakram in between the two just as the fight seemed to be shifting in Axel's favor. Yes, Axel definantly would have won that round. Sure, Roxas was on good ground to start with, having the only weapon between the two of them, but it seemed rather useless once Axel kicked Roxas in the groin. He was just moving to put him in a headlock when the invisible man made his move.

Axel jumped back quickly, and even had the decency to yell out a warning to his friend. Roxas, however, had already rolled away. He was having difficulty standing straight, however, and the following insult aimed at Axel, and having something to do with not needing his help, was rather high pitched and pathetic.

The chakram whirled around for another pass with a vocal "whooosh" coming from the madman. Namine could just imagine the man holding it there like a paper airplane, or other similar flying toy. What was more, this man didn't seem to have any problems with flying himself. The chakram often soared high into the air, making loops, but it was easy to tell it was still under the control of a hand. Sometimes, it would stop, twenty feet above the ground, and fan an invisible face.

"For musicians everywhere!" Red Cloak called, and the chakram came soaring down, aimed for Namine.

Roxas intercepted it. His own chakram pushed against his enemy's and the two were at a standstill.

"Namine, get inside!" Roxas ordered. Namine didn't need to be told twice. Roxas couldn't help but smile.

Namine always obeyed.

"Well, what do you think?" Grimna asked. "There are quite a few of them there." Her tone was losing much of its feigned sweetness as anticipation for the first human meal in centuries was finally staring her in the face. It was only waiting to be taken. Grimna held herself back, reminding herself how much sweeter things were with patience. She had set it up this way, after all, she might as well see her own plan through.

Riku didn't notice her change in tone. He was to concerned with the amount of spiders they faced. There were at least twenty, and all of them huge. His sharp sea green eyes appeared blue in the dark as Grimna considered him. He paid no attention to her, though he felt her eyes boring into him.

Off on Riku's other side Sora peaked over the stone slab that served as their cover. It was an unremarkable piece of stone jutting out of the floor. There were plenty of them of lesser size scattered throughout the cavern. The huge spiders on the far end of the room stepped over them easily enough. They clicked and clattered in what Sora had dubbed "spidey talk" and occasionally fought with each other, the scuffle ending quickly and the spiders involved forgetting about it almost as soon as it had started.

"They're big oafs," Grimna commented with obvious disdain.

"Maybe their fighting will give us a chance," Sora offered.

Riku shook his head, "I wouldn't count on it. They'd notice us as soon as we tried for the other side. It wouldn't matter how busy they are fighting each other. We're more interesting to them."

Sora shrugged, "So we don't let ourselves get seen."

Grimna tried not to laugh. "There are other senses than sight," she said, and instantly regretted it. Freely offering information wasn't a trait she waited to nourish.

"That's what I'm afraid of. Spiders always seem to know when people are near."

Sora looked at Riku sceptically. Right, Riku was a spider expert now, huh? Oh, whatever. Riku was right about most everything, so he'd trust him in this. He bit his bottom lip and glanced over the cavern again. It wasn't that far, really. So twenty some spiders with really big teeth and spiney black hairy legs blocked the way. Big deal. Sora was looking beyond that to the moonlight spilling into the cave.

To freedom.

Author's Note - This was typed up pretty quickly. It's fun to see what I come up with, having little to no plot and all. I know the end of the story, sure, and I know I need to get there somehow. It's just the getting there that's the challenge.