Hey guys, sorry for the long delay, but i've just gotten sooooo lazy sigh again. Yeah, I know that it's not a good thing, but...I forgot what I was going to say. I blame the heartless!!!

Anyway, we last left off where Lexaeus got the boot from team WoJ after team Dominators won the challenge (which I don't remember what said challenge was at the moment) and won the prize of food and hats.

Chapter 7 Hats are Beings of Darkness

-Camp Dominators-

Yuffie and Marluxia were digging through the bag of hats.

"Ooh! I get the pink one! (It matches my hair)!" Marluxia exclaimed pointing at a fluffy pink hat with a flower of it. Kairi's ears perked up at this and yelled,

"Hey! Pink is my color! Get your homosexual hands off of it!" Electricity shot between the two of them as they pounce on each other.

"Cat fight!" Xigbar yelled. He turned to see Xaldin absorbed in the crate of food muttering recipes.

Yuffie then took it upon herself to distribute the hats among the peoples. She walked up to Demyx and gave him a light blue French painter type hat. He thanked her a bit uncertainly as he examined the hat. Larxene ran to the wannabe ninja girl, snatched the bag and started to dig through the hats. She pulled a black witch hat out and said, "I like this one." She put it on and walked away.

Yuffie took the bag back and gave Xigbar a top hat.

"Whee! Top hat!" he exclaimed spinning around like a rusty walrus. Xaldin got an outrageously patriotic cap with glitter and such. He had no response to this. Aerith got a scarf that could turn into a hat! Whoever thought that up is a friggin genius! Yuffie herself got a smushy yellow hat. Saix got a Peter Pan hat - red feather and all.

Marluxia and Kairi's cat fight had finally ended with Marluxia himself as the victor. He smiled to himself and put the hat onto his head and walked away. When Yuffie got to the red headed girl, she grumbled, "Just give me a damn hat." So Kairi got a turban.

"Cloud, it looks like you get the leftovers." Yuffie said fishing the last hat out of the bag... which turned out to be a red sox baseball cap. Cloud glared at the hat. Yuffie reached up to put the hat on Cloud's spiky hair when it suddenly grew and impaled the hat. The ninja girl stared, frozen in shock as Cloud's hair returned to its normal length.

"Oh well, looks like I can't use the hat now." Cloud said in a falsely sad voice.

"W-what?! Did your hair just-"

"You saw nothing." the man said as he walked away to climb a tree.

-Camp Warriors of Justice-

"Awww...I'm sooo hungry!" Sora whined.

"It's your fault we're all starving and hatless!" Xemnas yelled.

"Waaaaaa! Riku! He's being mean to me!" Sora cried tugging on the older teen's sleeve. Riku rolled his eyes and said half heartedly,

"Xemnas, stop bullying Sora."

"No." Was the nobody's haughty reply.
"Okay, I tried." Riku said with a shrug.

"Rikuuu!" Sora cried.

"You actually put up with him every day? No wonder you turned to the dark side." Zexion commented as he watched the Keyblade master's antics.

"Don't remind me." Riku said holding his face in his hands.

-flashback-

Riku ran around a huge gummi ship shouting, "Whee! Darkness is fun! It's even better than chap stick and Disney world combined!" Suddenly, a man in all black with a weird mask stepped out the shadows.

"Her...bert...her...bert..." the figure said.

"Who's Herbert?" Riku asked puzzled.

"No one. I'm just breathing." the enigma replied, "Now draw your weapon!" The man pulled out a lightsaber and charged Riku who pulled out his own lightsaber and they fought a climactic battle. Then, the man pointed over Riku's shoulder and exclaimed, "Is that a kitty?!"

"Where?!" Riku spun around and the masked man cut his hand off. "Ahh! My hand!" the teen wailed holding his arm. "What did you do that for?!" he cried.

The figure was silent then he said, "Riku...I am your father."

"WTF?!?! B-but mom always said that my day was a carpenter who lost his job and joined the circus!" Riku cried, his mind reeling.

"Hehe, that sounds like your mother." the man said, chuckling.

-end flashback-

"You still there?" Zexion asked waving his hand in front of Riku's face.

"Huh? Oh yeah. Anyway, Sora is only like this when he doesn't take his meds. And since we've been on this island, he hasn't taken any so...he's like that." Riku gestured toward Sora who was attempting to break dance on the sand.

"Hey wait - how did you get your hand cut off in the flashback if you still have both hands attached?" Vexen asked, perplexed.

Riku held up his hand and said, "Stitches! Duh!"

"Oh." the scientist replied.

Suddenly, Sora pointed out to sea and exclaimed, "Look! It's a whale!"

"Why is it so close to shore?" Vexen murmured, stroking his chin. The whale shot water out of it's blowhole and onto the castaways. Then it unbleached itself and swam away.

"There was a letter contained in that water." Luxord commented as he picked up a bottle with a message rolled up inside of it. "It looks like this is our next challenge." he said as he read the letter.

"Yay! Let's go!" Sora exclaimed.

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