Riot

Sora raced through the streets. He could see almost no one in the houses. "Where is everyone?" he asked. But there was no answer. Occasionally, a stray dog or cat would cross his path, but otherwise, there was no one. "Riku! Kairi!" he called. "Where are you guys?" then he saw it. A flash of red hair down the street. Then the person ran down the entrance to the Bialy. "Kairi wait!" Sora called as he ran after his friend. "It's dangerous here!"

But Kairi paid not attention to his calls. She instead ran for the Great Maw. Sora growled in anger and followed. He knew Kairi thought of herself as an Keyblade Master and that was all well and good…but putting herself deliberately in danger? Well, that was something else entirely! He summoned the Follow The Wind Keychain and picked up the pace. They arrived in a ruined area that hadn't been fixed as part of the original castle. It was a massive square of mosaic tiles that were broken and stained with dust. Broken and cracked columns stood in crazy, leaning angles. Kairi was dressed a lot differently than he remembered. She had a white T-shirt and blue jeans, and a…Heartless insignia necklace? Suddenly things became clear to him in a flash. He was chasing Tine and in his haste to find Kairi, his mind had made her into Kairi.

"Tine!" Sora called. Tine looked at him and glared. Then she continued to run. Sora sighed and hurled the Keyblade at her. It hit Tine in the back and she fell in a heap with a snarl of anger.

"What do you want?" she said, getting up. Sora noticed that she didn't look to good right then---definitely not as injured as when she was after their first battle, but still a bit beaten up. "What happened to you?" he asked.

"Why should I tell you?" Tine snapped at him. "I'm in a hurry, so I can't talk right now. How about in fifty years, eh?"

"Why are you in such a bad mood?" Sora demanded. "What did I do to deserve it?"

Tine laughed at him. "What did you do?! You made me cater to a bunch of assholes that treat me like dirt! That's what you did, Sora!"

"I'm sorry!" Sora said. A blue aura had begun to form around Tine, and then it vanished.

"Just shut up and help me" she said. "I have to get off this rock while the Organization is busy."

"Okay" said Sora. "Do you know where the King and Kairi and Riku are?"

"I couldn't give a damn about the King. As for Kairi, I think she's with him. Riku…I was looking for Riku when you interrupted me with your hallucinations."

"You really care about him, huh?" said Sora.

"Shut up, Keyblade Master" said Tine. "Why should you bother yourself with a 'monster's' feelings?" she pushed Sora in the chest, sending him back a few steps. "You and your light dwellers, keep away from me!"

"Look, I---" Sora was about to say, when a Dark Corridor formed along the path to the Great Maw.

"Ah!" said Demyx as he came out. "That looks nasty. Want me to take it off your hands for you?" he said, pointing at Tine.

"You" said Tine, gritting her teeth in anger at once again being called an "it". "You're the one who was after me in Twilight Town."

Sora groaned. "Oh no, not you. I thought Kairi whipped your ass."

Demyx shook a finger at the group. "I don't think so. See, I let her and her friends win, because I felt sorry for them. But now, the Superior is anxious to get his hands on our Kingdom Hearts, so there's no room for mercy."

Sora gasped. "Your Kingdom Hearts?!" he pointed at Tine. "What are you talking about? First of all, Kindgom Hearts is an inanimate object! Second, she's an entity of darkness! She doesn't have a heart!"

Demyx laughed. "How stupid you are, Keyblade Master! She doesn't have a heart. She has thousands! Millions inside her! That's why she is able to control the darkness power! She has too many hearts for the darkness to take!" Suddenly he stopped and put his hands over his mouth. "Maybe I said too much for the Superior's liking" he said in a meek, quiet voice. Then he smiled again. "But it doesn't matter! Because you'll be dead and Tine will be ours."

"I don't think so" Tine said. She tried to summon her sword, but then remembered that Mickey had destroyed it a few hours earlier. She sighed. It looked like she would have to deal with using energy beams. She hated that. It was annoying and she liked physical attacks better. Sora stepped in front of Tine, Follow The Wind raised in attack.

"If she's what you guys are after, then I have to stop you! Tine, run!"

Demyx stuck out his tongue. "This place is sealed. Luxord worked on it earlier to prepare the trap. Now we've got you!" he ran forward, playing his sitar like crazy. "Dance, water, dance!" he called. Immediately they were surrounded by water clones. Sora hacked at the water beings before time ran out. If they did, then Demyx would automatically win. Tine grabbed one of the clones and swung it like a whip and smashed into the others. Soon they were all gone.

Demyx changed tactics quickly. "Oh yeah!" he said as he floated up in the air and flew toward them. Under him, geyser of water smashed all out of its way.

"Blizzard!" Sora yelled. Demyx deflected it with his sitar and smashed Sora out of the way with it. The Keyblade Master was still in midair when a collection of water bubbles smashed into his body, sending it into the columns.

Tine threw a punch, but Demyx avoided it. "Sora!" Tine yelled. "This isn't the time to be taking a nap! We have to fight!" she threw balls of energy at Demyx, but the Melodious Nocturne dodged and they blew up behind him.

"Take this!" Sora yelled. He hit Demyx in the stomach with the Keyblade. Skull shaped stars erupted around Demyx.

"Aggghhhh!" the Organization member staggered back under the blows. Tine went to join him---and they were all knocked back by a barrage of water bubbles!

"Ahhh!" Tine cried out as Demyx hit her over and over with his sitar.

"What's wrong, Kingdom Hearts? Dance to the beat!" he laughed.

"You…you bastard…" Sora said as he picked himself up off the floor and rushed at Demyx. He hit at Demyx's back. "I'll teach you to hit girls!" he cried. Demyx danced out of the way. Then, incredibly, he began to play his sitar. No attacks, just playing!

Sora motioned to Tine to be quiet. She nodded. She hated Sora's guts, but she knew her own existence depended on winning this battle. Sora snuck up behind the water user and smashed him in the back with the Keyblade, so hard that he went flying into the air with a scream. Sora then proceeded to whack and whack him in midair, sending him crashing to earth. Tine took advantage of that to smash him with a few energy balls. Demyx's robes were torn, and his skin singed and he was bleeding----well, darking----from several places, but the bastard wouldn't go down, Tine thought. She cried out in pain as he hit her with a few more water balls. Sora's Keyblade blocked the rest of them. Suddenly, Sora screamed in horror. A ball of water had formed around his head, choking off his air supply.

"See, I can control water like this too" Demyx said smugly.

Demyx, you water wielding, sissy, son of a bitch Roxas said from Sora's mouth. I hope you get run over by a car, and then taken to a dumpster and then buried in it!

"Well, number thirteen, I do kind of smell like trash" said Demyx. "After that girl Kairi knocked me into a dumpster like that. With no warning at all. Nexumair's probably going to be pissed. He's not like you, Roxas. He's cold and cruel…he doesn't think my sitar playing is any good."

Then let Sora go, damn it! Roxas screamed as Sora fell to his knees. If he dies, I die!

"I know" said Demyx. He shrugged. "But that's how it goes." He walked over to where Tine was watching. "Look closely and enjoy" he said. "We know you hate Keyblade Masters. So why don't you just enjoy him dying before I take you back to Headquarters?"

Tine gritted her teeth in rage and indecision. Why was this happening to her? She hadn't asked to be born; she had been created my Maleficent and her twisted sorcery. She had just learned that her powers were not what they seemed; she had a countless number of hearts inside of her, and now she was wondering whether to save a Keyblade Master's life or watch him die. Tine felt her instinctive rage rise again in a great red wave. Not this time she thought. This time I'll control it. I won't go crazy like I did in the Marketplace…this time, I'll channel it. She looked at Demyx's sitar, trying to shut Sora's gurgling, dying screams out of her ears. People say that music playing is a good way to channel anger this had been downloaded as well But I don't have an instrument. I don't have an---and then she did. It was guitar she saw in her hands. It was an electric guitar with two handles. It was blood red and both handles had the Heartless insignia. The word Riot had been inlaid in silver under the strings. "This is Riot" said Tine, awe in her voice. "This is my weapon. Riot, the Guitar of Rage."

"Hah! As if a guitar could best a sitar!" said Demyx. "You want to fight me with that thi---"

Tine slammed Riot's strings and an amazing blast of sound came out. It was tangy and loud, just what an electric guitar should be. A wave of blue energy splashed out, hitting Demyx and sending him flying back about sixteen feet in the air. He landed with a cry of pain. At the same time, Sora's bubble popped.

"T-th-thank you" he gasped.

"I can beat you!" Demyx said. There was a large slash across his chest where he had been hit by the energy wave from the guitar. Dark particles rushed from that injury. The Melodious Nocturne was doubled over in pain. He strummed the sitar. Tine played Riot, gently this time. The energy came back and formed a blue bubble around her and Sora. The rock hard water balls bounced against it harmlessly.

"Damn it!" Demyx cried. He played his sitar again. This time more clones appeared. Instead of being figures of water, these actually looked exactly like the Melodious Nocturne. "Which one is real?" they all teased, readying their sitars.

Tine slammed Riot's strings and an energy circle slashed all of the clones at the same time. They made popping sounds as they disappeared. Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! "Agggggghhhhhhh!" cried the real Demyx as was hurled to the ground by the blasts.

"I'd say you're real, my annoying friend" said Tine calmly.

"N-now it's your turn to be in trouble" Sora gasped, leaning on Tine's shoulder. Tine shrugged him off, and the Keyblade Master fell to the ground.

"Leave, or I'll kill you. I told Pete this in Twilight Town. If anyone tries to capture me, or use me as their property, I will kill them without hesitation."

"But the Superior---" Demyx began.

"Then come to me and die, all of you!!" Tine yelled and slammed the strings again. Darkness particles flowed from tiny cuts on her fingers, but she didn't notice them. The blue energy wave that came this time was huge. It washed over Demyx like a great blue ocean wave.

"Guwaaaaaaaagggghhhhh!" Demyx screamed as he was blasted backwards. He slammed into the columns and slumped to his knees. His sitar cracked and fell in two halves. "Th….wow" he said. "I…don't…think…I'll ever…go…to another…concert…again." Then he fell facedown on the ground. In a matter of minutes, his body had dissolved into a mass of dark particles which were then blown over the Great Maw by the wind.

Sora was on his knees, speechless. He had never seen such a weapon, or that kind of power. He suddenly realized that if Tine had used that kind of power with him, he would have been killed. He crawled over to her and pulled on the leg of her jeans.

"What is it?" Tine asked.

"Please don't kill me!" Sora pleaded.

Tine's emerald eyes regarded Sora for a while…then she laughed. "Ha, ha! Keyblade Master Sora on his knees. That's a sight I'll save for bad day. But get up. I'm not going to kill you. We have to find Riku, and clean up the rest of the rats in this town."

At the entrance to the place where they had fought Demyx, Nexumair watched, dressed in an Organization member's robe. One of his swords was in his hands. He could kill the weakened Sora easily…but Tine he wasn't sure about. A feeling that wasn't exactly fear rose up in the area where his heart should have been. This girl had beaten Demyx. And while being stupid, Demyx wasn't exactly a pushover. For Organization XIII standards he was a bad fighter, but he should have been able to win over them easily. He teleported off to let Xemnas know of these new developments.