CHAPTER 5

Sora had been unconscious for a good hour now. Kairi had been letting him used her lap as a pillow. It had been nothing but silence ever since she hid in the closet with Sora. Now the silence had finally been broken. The door knob was beginning to shake and rattle. Someone was trying to get in. Kairi reached for the Oathkeeper in hopes that whatever was trying to open the locked door was small and weak. BAM BAM BAM. Now they were trying to break the door down. The door had been holding for awhile, but it wasn't very strong. With each bang on the door, it made a cracking noise. That door had maybe five or six more hits until it was destroyed. BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM. This was it one more and that door was coming down.

On the other side of the door was a single Berserker, backing up to propel itself towards the door. As quickly it launched itself at the door, it had started going in the other direction. Somehow Kairi had managed to use the Reflect spell well enough to not only stop the Nobody, but she had knocked it back and protected Sora too. "Y-You stay away from Sora," she screamed. Kairi was terrified since her opponent was not only bigger than her, but because she had NO experience with a Keyblade, and that REFLECT spell was a complete fluke. But she had a plan. Maybe she could BLUFF her way out. "Yeah! You want some more of that?!" The Berserker picked itself up and began to moved towards Kairi again. "Oh, I guess so," she said nervously.

The Berserker lifted its gigantic Claymore into the air, and was about to slam it onto his target. Suddenly it was destroyed. A man in a black coat had destroyed it using a weapon that looked oddly familiar to Kairi. A blue and red blade shaped like a demon wing. Wait. That was Soul Eater, Riku's weapon. "Are you alright," asked the mysterious man. Wait, that didn't sound anything like Riku's voice. "Well?"

Kairi straightened up almost immediately. "Yes. I'm fine."

Riku left his hood up. Clearly he wanted his identity to be kept secret. "Where is the person who helped you?"

Kairi suddenly got suspicious. "Why do you want to know that?"

Riku couldn't tell her the entire truth behind the question without revealing his identity. "He's attacking the organization. Enemy of my enemy and all that."

Kairi glared at her suspect. "How do I know I can even trust you? You haven't even shown me your face."

'Dammit Kairi,' Riku thought to himself. 'Why do you gotta make things difficult for me?' "I prefer to keep my identity to myself if that's alright with you." Kairi didn't looked like she was even willing to consider leading him anywhere now. "Look, if I was going to hurt you, then why would I even bother helping you?"

"Duh," she responded cynically. "So you'll get me to lower my guard."

She always had to be difficult. Riku was running out of ideas now. But luckily for him, he caught a glimpse of the Keyblade. It felt weird though. It didn't belong to Kairi, in fact it felt like HIS old Keyblade that chose Sora. 'Wait, that's it. Sora must've caught onto the clues I gave him! He's a lot smarter than I gave him credit for.' "Kairi, where is Sora now?"

Kairi's eyes widened in shock. "How'd you-"

The conversation was cut off by a Dragoon Lance that landed in between them. Before they knew it, practically every type of Nobody was surrounding the two of them.

"Well well," said a voice coming from the entrance. Riku and Kairi looked to see Saix. "So, you're the one who's been running amuck in the castle, imposter." Saix snapped his fingers, and nearly every Nobody began its assault.

Riku slashed at every Nobody that came his way, but he was basically fighting handicapped. Kairi didn't have his experience or any natural talent for magic. She'd only be able to fight these things for so long before they were overrun. And what's more, even IF they managed to defeat them all, they'd still have to deal with Saix. The second in command of the organization. Riku has never gone up against him in the past. Roxas had taken him down once, and Riku had taken Roxas down. Then again, Roxas didn't have to fight an army like this beforehand.

"My orders were to take you in alive," noted Saix. "That is, assuming you would've been of any use to us. But this is even better. You'll refuse to help us no matter what we do to you." Riku did not like where this was going. "So I'll just eliminate you right here and now."

Onslaught after onslaught began to take its toll on not just Kairi, but Riku as well. They had held them off as long as they could. Their limits had been reached. The Nobodies moved in slowly, ready to deliver the final strike to only Riku. They still needed Kairi alive. A Samurai raised its blade to carry out the execution. As it began to slash downwards, it was stopped. The Samurai had been tackled by, a now awakened, Sora. as it hit the ground, Sora took its blade and with it, destroyed the Nobody. When it disappeared, so did the sword. He didn't stop there. As quickly as he could, he jumped to a Berserker so fast that it lost its grip on its claymore, resulting in Sora grabbing it and swinging it so wide that 90 percent of the remaining Nobodies, including the Berserker itself, were gone in mere seconds. Sora roared as loud as he could to make his power and presence known even more. All that remained was 2 Assassins, 6 Creepers, 4 Dusks, 1 Gambler, 2 Dragoons, 1 Berserker, and Saix.

A/N : I take it back. I'll update as often as possible. At the very least I'm gonna try to make this last 10 chapters long. :)