CHAPTER 3

Sora, Riku, and Kairi all stood in defensive stance on the beach, Keyblades summoned. It had been a week and a half since The King had left Destiny Islands, and this was their first time training together, partly to see what each other could do, and partly to help Kairi get to their level of prowess with The Keyblade. Riku had his sword arm above his head, and the Way to Dawn in his hand. Sora had his Ultima Weapon Keyblade perched on his shoulder like he does when runs. Kairi had her Keyblade loosely held in her hand. Kairi had won rock-paper-scissors (she was beginning to think that the boys let her win so she could have a slight advantage) which meant that the sparring on her say so. "If that's the way they want it, that's how it's gonna be." She got into a stance and yelled "GO!" and ran for Sora... to find he'd disappeared. She looked farther down the beach to see Sora running straight for Riku, and Riku shooting dark aura's like a machine gun at Sora. Sora batted five away with three slashes of The keyblade, jumped over the rest, and through a firaga spell at Riku. Riku threw a volley of dark auras at the giant fireball, but they just seemed to make it bigger. He quickly brought up a dark shield and the firaga bounced off and disappeared. A stray icicle from Sora's missed blizzara spell brought him back to the present, and Riku quickly jumped up and prepared to strike at Sora, who was at this point gliding in circles around Riku and peppering him with spells.

"Your finished!" Riku yelled as he brought down his keyblade. Sora angled his keyblade so Riku's keyblade slid down the shaft, and used the guard like a set of brass knuckles to punch Riku in the gut. Riku dropped to the ground in pain, with Sora right behind him. Sora raised his keyblade, but Riku aimed his hand at Sora's stomach and a projectile that looked a lot like Sora's wisdom form magic bullets shot at Sora, knocking him back a step. "What was that? It looked like those things I shoot in wisdom form... but you weren't even driving..."

"I got the idea from your wisdom form, but these are called Arrows of Darkness. Here's some more so you can see them close up!" Riku shouted as he pelted Sora with Arrows of Darkness. Sora jumped over the first few, aerial dodged a several aimed at his head, suddenly smiled, pointed his keyblade at Riku and yelled "tornado tracer!" eight two-meter tornado's were headed straight for Riku, and sucking in every Arrow of Darkness and Dark aura he threw at them. "Crap." Riku said as he realized none of his darker magic could stop the tornados, then he smiled, brought his keyblade up and yelled, "Wind raid!" and threw his keyblade straight at Sora's gliding form. Sora stopped gliding and mentally forced his tornados to protect him, when he saw The Way to Dawn swerve to the side and take out a tornado on the left, and turn again to take one out on the right, and five seconds later, all Sora's tornadoes were gone. Riku seemingly "phased," out of nowhere and grabbed his keyblade as it still spun, prepared for the winning blow, when suddenly-

"AAAAAAARGGGGGH!" Sora yelled, dropping to the ground, clutching his head in agony. "Sora!"Kairi rushed over to him, cradled his head, speaking softly, "What is it?"

"Riku, can you feel it? That power, it's huge bigger than maleficent, Ansem, and Organization XIII combined... but how..." Sora slowly got up, as if experiencing a massive hangover... "It's far away, but coming to this location quickly. Wait, there's someone else... Mickey, Donald and Goofy?"

"How do you know all this?" Riku asked, incredibly puzzled, when the ground started shaking, and they all fell on their behinds.

"Roxas. After he and I merged he gave me all his combat knowledge and abilities, probably to help fight Xemnas. I guess The Organization learned it and taught it to Roxas."

"Isn't that what scan is for though?"

"Scan only shows their stamina and defence, while this 'Chi sensing' can show you their strength, speed as well as their stamina, health, and whether or not they serve The Darkness, and this guy, Very powerful, very dark,"

"Well then let's go kick his ass then!" Riku said, pounding his fist into his palm.

"no Riku, this guy is way out of our league, this guy could defeat us with the power of his pinkie finger. We have to find Mickey and get out of here. Crap he's so close-"

"KAKKAROT!" a flame-haired man phased into the air a few metres away from them, eyes glowing yellow with a strange device clipped to his ear with a lens coming out to cover his right eye, and whole body seemingly dripping darkness, and an evil smile. "Pitiful, power levels of only fourteen, you make it too easy."

"Watch it or this fourteen power level will five-star your sorry ass!" Riku yelled, summoning The Way to Dawn in a flourish.

The flame-haired man took a step back in shock as his eyepiece made some bleeping noise. "two-hundred and thirty-four! But how... no matter. As Vegeta, the Prince of saiyans, my power level exceeds one-hundred thousand and I'm not even a super saiyan right now."

"Listen campfire-head, I have no idea what the hell a super saiyan is but I'll be damned if I let you kill my friends without a fight, now get ready!" Riku yelled, and ran for Vegeta eyes blazing. He was suddenly flying back towards Sora and Kairi, unconscious, as Vegeta appeared a couple feet away. "that was sad, really as I only used a twentieth of my full power and look, he's sleeping like a baby." Vegeta laughed "but now the fun must end as I am under orders to kill you and your pathetic excuse for a planet. Goodbye, weaklings," he pointed two fingers at them, like a pistol yelling "Galick Gun!" and a giant beam of purple energy shot towards them. Sora closed his eyes, waiting for the inevitable; when he felt a weird feeling, as if something was leaving him... he opened his eyes to see a familiar-faced dual-wielding blonde, holding the attack at bay. "Roxas! How is this-"

"get to the ship!" Roxas yelled, struggling to hold off the attack. "Now!"

Sora looked behind him and to his surprise; there was a portal waiting for them to beam them up to the Highwind. "What about you?"

Roxas gave Sora a sad look, everything he had ever wanted to try before he died was flashing before his eyes "Sora, I'm a Nobody; I was never meant to exist anyway."

"Roxas, no!" Kairi, petrified with fear the entire time, finally gathered the courage to slowly move Riku to the portal, then grabbed Sora's collar, and dragged him to the portal. "Beam us up, Scotty!" she yelled, wondering how she could think about star trek references at a time like this. Looking out the window of the Highwind, she saw Vegeta getting tired of holding up the Galick Gun, and phase behind Roxas and shot a chi beam into his back, and Roxas screaming as he hit the ground. Kairi mentally thanked the fact that Sora was sobbing on the couch, and not at the window.

"Mickey your timing was perfect, but how did you know that that guy was coming?" Kairi asked, trying very hard to block out Namine's anguished sobs for Roxas, and was well on the verge of tears herself.

"Well Kairi, we didn't we were on our way to take you to Master Yen Sid when I felt the Darkness, and thanks to Roxas, we all got out ok."

"What would happen to Roxas if he died?" Sora sniffled, still trying to deny the part of him that was Roxas was gone.

"Gosh Sora, it's difficult to say. Nobodies are supposed to fade into darkness, but Roxas reunited with you, his somebody, so that may have changed the rules, but honestly I think he's most likely to either be reincarnated as an animal of some sort. Or maybe he could be on his way to heaven as we speak."

"by the way, how did Roxas even get a body?" Kairi asked, shaking her head. "Didn't his body disappear when he fused with Sora?"

"well, one, The Keyblade probably anchored his spirit to the physical world, and two, I don't think that they truly became one when they fused, so you can probably talk with Namine, correct?"

"Yea, although there's not much to talk about, seeing as all our memories are shared." Kairi said, mentally telling Namine to calm down, and that everything was going to fine. Yea right.

Sora stood up, with a determined look on his face. "well, now all we can do is make sure that his death wasn't in vain. Lets find out who this guy was, and send him back to hell where he belongs!"

"NO!" Mickey yelled, panicking "we can't hope to defeat him at our current strength, we have to get stronger!"

"how?" Sora yelled in Mickey's face. "how do we beat someone like that? Tell me your master plan!" Kairi rushed over to Sora and enveloped him in a big hug. "Sora, we're going to avenge Roxas, you know we will. You just have to trust in Mickey, and that he has a plan. You do have a plan right?" Kairi asked worryingly.

"you'll all get to know at Master Yen Sid's. There everything will be explained. Hey where's Riku?"

In one of the rooms, Riku was rocking on the floor shuddering. Darkness. So much Darkness.

CHAPTER EPILOGUE

"are you sure you want to do this? I mean, only two people have made it to the end of Snake Way, and its one million miles long! And if you fall, its straight to Hell! Are you sure you don't want to just go peacefully to heaven and forget your earthly troubles?"

The blonde boy nodded, "if this guy can get me more powerful than I'm going for it. Sora will be surprised that his nobody becomes the strongest Keyblader!"

And with a haste spell he was off, zooming into the distance, and the spirit watched him until he was nothing more than a speck on the horizon.

Oh snap Roxas is taking on Snake Way! But will h make it? And what will happen at the Mysterious Tower? Find out next time! Btw please review it gives me inspiration to write faster for you guys.