Sora and Ria walked through twilight town, they had to board a train to get to Yen-sid's tower but first sora wanted to say hi to hayner and the others.

"wow this place is beautiful" Ria said as they walked through the marketplace.

"yeah, for some reason, it's always sunset here." no matter how many times sora ever came here, it would always be sunset, no matter how long he stayed, it never seemed to get dark here.

"maybe that's where the name comes from. twilight town, home of the eternal sunset" ria said.

The two walked around the town for awhile, looking for hayner's group, the usual spot was empty so they must have been somewhere else.

"i'm gonna look around for a while, okay?" ria said, she liked this place and wanted to explore a little more before heading to Yen-sid's tower.

"okay, I need to get some items anyway, meet me at the train station." sora said, the two parted ways. Sora headed for downtown, while ria headed for wherever the path was taking her. She came to a street light with signs on it, both pointing in opposite directions, one saying train station while the other saying sandlot. She decided to head to the sandlot.

Once she got there she saw a blonde boy knocked down on the pavement of the sandlot. near what looked to be a scoreboard was a chubby boy holding a camera close to his chest, and a large blonde guy in a white sleeveless jacket, who was shouting at the top of his lungs.

"give me that camera!" "no way, it's mine!"

Ria glared hard, a bully. She always hated seeing others get picked on, it just wasn't right to her, why couldn't this jerk pick on somebody his own size. Ria was about to summon her keyblade. But then she thought, why would she need a weapon to take on this jerk, he didn't look so tough.

A few hours ago, she fought creatures with blades for hands, and the worst thing that happened to her was a little cut on the face, which quickly healed.

She saw a foam toy bat on the ground and decided to take it, in case he was hostile, which he probably was. She also saw a tiny rock which she also decided to pickup to get his attention, of course.

"hey, you don't wanna do that, y'know!" she was stopped by a man in an orange sleeveless tee and sports pants, who was standing in front of her, blocking her path.

"seifer will mess you up, y'know. Your lucky he doesn't hit girls, y'know."

"get out of my way!" she said, who did this guy think he was?, just walking up to her telling her what to do.

"suicide" said a girl in a blue sleeveless jacket and capri pants, who was behind her.

"fuu's right, seifer will wipe the floor with you, y'know."

great, these guys must have been his followers. He must be the kinda person who hides behind them and makes them do all the work.

"I said... MOVE IT!" she yelled as she hit the big guy in the face with the foam weapon, instantly she sent him falling onto the ground, and she was about to hit fuu, until she backed off.

Nothing was stopping Ria now, she threw the rock she held in her hand at the man known as seifer, the rock hit him hard in his cheek staggering him long enough for the chubby kid to escape. Seifer noticed Ria standing there in a confident pose, and she could see the anger clean on his face.

"who do you think you are?!" he shouted.

"why don't you pick on someone who can fight back!" she said, getting into her fighting position.

"your asking for it" he said as he grabbed a similar foam weapon and went into his fighting stance.

His stance seemed very relaxed and calm, he held his weapon all the way out in front of him with one hand, and even started bobbing it back and forth, obviously a trick to provoke opponents. With just a look at his fighting stance, she was able to completely figure out his fighting strategy, he provokes his enemy into attacking head on and most of his hits will probably come from counter-attacks. He plays defensive.

"kneel loser!" he said as she began charging toward him, he jumped high into the air and began his aerial attack.

"isn't this romantic!" she blocked his attacks rather easily, and waited for the perfect time to strike.

The battle went on for a while and she noticed he was starting to get tired. She jumped high into the air and came down on him with a slash, she was like a little whirlwind, swinging this way and that way, swinging so fast that it was hard for pour seifer to keep up.

"BACK OFF!" she said as she delivered the final blow to his face.

He fell onto the ground, sighing in defeat. His two lackys immediately ran to defend him.

"seifer's... just not feelin so hot, y'know" "rematch!" said his little groupies.

"forget it guys, she's not worth it" seifer said as he stood up and began to leave the sandlot, his group followed him out.

"smile!" Ria turned her head to see the chubby kid snap a picture of her.

"hey what was that for?!" she said, ria didn't really like having her photo taken by surprise.

"for the memory, i'm pence by the way, this is my friend hayner"

"i'm ria"

"way to show that jerk who's boss" hayner said

"thanks, what was he fighting you guys for?"

"pence her, can't stop taking photos of everything" hayner said

"hey it wasn't my fault, you challenged seifer" pence said

"who is that seifer guy anyway?" Ria asked

"he's just a jerk, he likes to think he's the tough guy in this town, just cause he's won struggle champion three years in a row"

"struggle? Is that like a fighting tournament?" ria asked

"yeah, we're having another one soon, you should enter, it would be the first time we ever had a girl in the tournament."

"no thanks, I gotta go" ria said, she was reminded that she was supposed to meet with sora soon.

"oh, do you guys know where the train station is?" "yeah, up that ramp" they said pointing her into the right direction

"thanks" she said as she began walking.

At the very top of the building that overlooks the sandlot, xemnas stood, smiling.

The girl was making excellent progress, soon she would be ready.