Chapter 18. Who are you…?

Sora jumped at the mysterious monsters and swung his keyblade. The monster was surprisingly agile. It jumped out of the way, then lunged at Sora. Sora blocked the hit then jumped back.

"What are these things?" asked Sora as he dogged another blow from the creatures?

"Some form of heartless maybe?" suggested Riku as he slashed one of the creatures.

But no matter how many they took down, more just kept coming. If they took down five, fifty would take there place.

"We can't win!" panted Riku as he blocked a hit.

With what energy he had left, Sora unleashed a burst of speed and sprinted towards the figure. He grabbed the figure and flung him over his shoulder. The fact the person was wearing armor didn't make it any better.

"Riku lets go!" cried Sora.

"Right!" called Riku as he ran after him, slashing heartless on the way.

Sora and riku ran deeper and deeper into the canyon. When they had lost the heartless, Sora laid the person on the ground. Sora was breathing heavily. The person slowly started to get to his knees, then fell down. The person sat facing Riku and Sora.

"My name's Sora, and that's Riku," said Sora pointing to riku.

"W-Who are you?" panted Riku.

The person tore off the rest of his cracked helmet. Sora's eye widened. The figure had a Striking resemblance to Roxas. He looked about Sora's age, and had sapphire-blue eyes.

"Thanks for saving my life back there," said the boy, "My name's Ven."