A/N: The long awaited next chapter… I know it took forever. So sue me: )

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Revenge to Bloodlust

It all felt like a dream…A blur in a moment in time, the space surrounding him fading into a thin line on the edge of Sora's periphery. As he watched Kairi collapse to the ground in a pool of scarlet he lost all control, his cries blurring into hers harmoniously. Two screams became one as he tore through the shreds of humanity left inside of him, ripping through the veil of reality as Oathkeeper ripped through the foe that he had been battling. Tetsu's friend fell to the arena floor within seconds, almost instantaneously with Kairi.

In no time, Sora had crossed the battle arena, his face etched in intense worry. He kneeled down by her, picking her up in his arms. The bright crimson blood contrasted sharply against her white combat outfit, "Kairi!"

She opened her eyes, Sora's shadowy reflection staring back at him in her violet-blue orbs. "Sora…" her voice was light and airy, her painful wince betraying her innocent façade of a smile as she tried to get up.

"Kairi, you're hurt." Sora started as Shai ran over to his side, sheer panic in her emerald green eyes.

"Kairi! Sora!" she gasped between breaths as she turned to Sora, "We have to get her out of here. She's loosing a lot of blood!"

This is just a dream. This can't be happening. Kairi's fine… she's okay… I'd never let anything happen to her! I promised I'd keep her safe!!

"Sora! Snap out of it!" Shai pleaded. "We've got to get Kairi to the medics!! And Riku needs help with Tetsu! I think that guy finally snapped!"

But Shai's pleas seemed to fall on deaf ears. Sora's expression remained shocked and in a panic.

"Sora!" Shai tried one last time to wake him from his reverie, but when he still did not respond she reached down to Kairi in a huff, deciding that she would have to carry her redheaded friend out of the arena on her own.

Suddenly, Sora's expression changed to that of determination, a pierced brow and clenched fists replacing his wide eyes and distant apprehension. He grabbed Shai by the elbow, stopping her from picking up Kairi. He didn't say anything as he kneeled down and swooped Kairi's lithe form up into his arms, her blood dripping down his side as he carried her across the arena.

Shai stood watching him with bewilderment before she shook her head of her thoughts and retreated to go help Riku with the last contestant on Tetsu's team…

Before he left her with the medics on the far end of the arena, Sora kneeled down and whispered in Kairi's ear, "I love you Kairi… and I promise that Tetsu will not live to regret the day that he hurt you!" He kissed her forehead softly and laid her down on the stretcher.

As he turned back towards the arena, targeting Tetsu's dirty blond locks and chocolate brown eyes, he felt a small hand grasp the back of his elbow. Startled, he turned back towards Kairi as she slowly opened her eyes and focused on him.

He opened his mouth to respond, when suddenly an eerie glow began to encapsulate Kairi's entire body. Panicked, he looked up at the medics only to find them bustling about, unaware and unaffected by the latest development. He reached out a hand to grab one of them, when suddenly Kairi reached up to stop him.

Confused he looked down at her, perplexed, yet awed, at the same time. He had never seen Kairi look so beautiful… her eyes shown with a new vigor and her hair seemed more fiery than ever as it framed her face perfectly. Then she smiled. And Sora felt a familiar warm feeling in the pit of his stomach that spread throughout his entire body. She looked like an angel.

"Sora… Your Shadow… Time is running out…"

She spoke with an unnatural smoothness and phenomenal depth that he had never seen in her before. The medics continued to do their own thing around him; connecting IV lines and injecting Kairi will all sorts of things. Puzzled, Sora looked to one of them before looking back down at Kairi, "What? I… I don't understand Kairi…"

"Hey!!" one of the medics yelled. "Will someone get that kid out of here! We've got to get this girl to the medical tents!"

Sora glanced up at the medic nearest him right as he felt an arm grab the back of his elbow and usher him back into the battle arena. "Come on kid… you've done all you can now. Leave her to us."

"What? No! Kairi!!" Sora struggled against the older man's grip. "Wait!" But it was no use.

He looked one last time in Kairi's direction as she whispered… "I love you Sora…"

She closed her eyes as the glow surrounding her dimmed and the medics rushed to her side to hurry her into the medical tents.

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It was all a dream, right? Only a few seconds in the mass of time that we call life... But it was those few seconds that mattered most to Sora. In those few precious seconds love became revenge, and revenge turned into bloodlust. Hatred burned throughout the depths of Sora's being with new vengeance, and as the medics wheeled Kairi out of his sight he felt a fire light inside of him.

He could spend all day and night blaming himself for what had happened to Kairi. Hell, he could spend the rest of his life blaming himself, however long that ended up being. But, he had finally heard Kairi say the words that he had wanted to hear from her for as long as he could remember. As those words fueled the fire in his heart, he turned back towards the arena, an inexplicable darkness collecting around him.

Before his heartfelt confession to Kairi only the night before, Sora had barricaded his heart from darkness. Walls that he had put up to protect Kairi also protected his light from consumption with the Shadow's darkness. But with his confession, those walls had fallen, leaving his heart and what light was left in it exposed. Sora's Shadow took full advantage of this. And as revenge began to course through Sora's veins, the Shadow used Sora's heart to amplify its own power...

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All around him it oozed, dripped, and seeped into his skin, staining him in a black darkness that left dark sticky footprints in his wake. Revenge boiled his blood and burned in his eyes as he approached Tetsu, obscuring the landscaped arena around him so that Tetsu was the only image reflecting in his darkening glare.

The crowd that filled the arena stands all gasp in unison at the tall brunette that was slowly being consumed by darkness. Tetsu, however, was impassive to Sora's dark presence as he easily blocked Riku's and Shai's barrage of attacks.

As the Shadow's power coursed through his veins, Sora could feel himself drowning in darkness. But the funny thing was that he didn't care… It filled his lungs with oily blackness that clogged his breaths, but as his body morphed, he lost his need for air. All he needed, and all he wanted, was revenge…

"Back again Dipshit?!" Tetsu shouted as he shoved Riku back down the ground with his foot, "I think your girlfriend here is getting tired!" he mocked.

Sora ignored his taunting, not that he could really hear it through the darkness that was slowly filling his ears. The Shadow's manic laughter was all he could take notice of as he summed the dark Keyblade of Hearts in a pool of black swirling mass. He remained silent as he twirled the blade in his fingers, its raw power feeding his hatred.

When Riku noticed Sora's sudden dark change of appearance, he ran to Shai's side and grabbed her by the wrist, "Come on! We've got to get out of here!"

"What the hell are you talking about Riku?" Shai exclaimed excitedly, still unaware of Sora's return to the arena. "We've got this little punk outnumbered! The fight is ours for sure!"

"Trust me," Riku yelled over his shoulder as he drug Shai out of the arena. "This is not going to be pretty."

As Shai turned to see what it was Riku was so worried about, her jaw dropped at the sight before her. Sora… completely shrouded in darkness from head to toe… His clear blue eyes turning sickly yellow as long smoky tendrils trailed off his body. Shai stared in horror as Sora ripped through the battle arena in a blur, the dark Keyblade of Hearts leading his way, his bright yellow eyes fixated on chocolate brown.

But what Shai didn't realize, is that Sora was buried… The real Sora was gone… Unresponsive and silent… A bystander in the depths of his own mind as the Shadow took control of what little light Sora had left in his heart…

Tetsu, still unwilling to give up in a fight, bared his sword and blocked the Keyblade…. …Only to have three long black claws pierce the skin across the bridge of his nose, leaving three thin lines of blood in their path.

Tetsu smirked as he smeared the blood across the back of his hand, "Hey Dipshit. That's going to cost you in the rankings… No drive forms in the tournament battles!!"

Tetsu's threat, however, fell on deaf ears as the Keyblade of Hearts came to life in a series of combos, sickly yellow eyes behind it glaring through the dust that settled around them.

Tetsu did his best to dodge the attacks, blocking as many as he could with his sword. But he was no match, and soon he found himself without his sword and cornered against a wall with the black blade of his opponent's weapon held fast across his throat.

He stared with wide eyes, for the first time fearful of the yellow eyes glaring back at him. But his opponent remained silent and still, keeping his blade in a fixed position across Tetsu's throat.

Suddenly, black cold lips curled into an evil grin and yellow eyes seemed to focus on an unseen target, "Hey Fuck-up! This is just like old times! Only… I remember it a little different. Don't you?"

Tetsu winced at the melodic quality that accompanied his dark opponent's voice… "What the hell are you talking about?" he managed to ask through the lump in throat created by the pressure from the Keyblade of Hearts.

The yellow eyes pierced back at him, as if they had momentarily forgotten that he was there. The glare was enough to send chills down Tetsu's spine. "So the only question now, Fuck-up, is what do we do with Blondie?"

The shadowy opponent smirked distantly as black lips curled once again into an evil grin, "I thought you might say that…"

Tetsu stared with wide brown eyes as the Keyblade of Hearts was lifted to the sky as dark melodic laughter filled the battle arena…

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A/N: Gasp! What happened to Sora? And is Kairi going to be okay?? Who can possibly save them now?!?! Okay… tell the truth. Who saw this coming??? Lmao jk

OMG, I can't tell you how hard this chapter was to write. Obviously! I mean… it took me forever because I kept starting over from scratch! Arg! It's maddening I tell you: )

Anyways… so what I really want is some feedback on this one please! Review and let me know how it went!! ALSO! I have only 2 reviews on my new fic "I'll Be Seeing You". Come on people! What's a little feedback between friends huh?? Please give my new story some love! That is all…