Chapter 13 is here! I don't usually update this quickly but I suddenly got inspired and just had to type this up right away. I have to admit the first part is my personal favorite. Tell me what you think! Review the story and give me your opinion. Special thanks to Sweet Nightmare's Goodbyes for telling me the name of Kairi's blade. I really needed that. I'm now at 15 reviews and thanks to everyone who asked questions! (All 1 of you) So here is the Q&A!

Young gun kid-Are Roxas and Axel going to stay inside Riku and Sora or will they be free to roam around in there own bodies?

Answer(drum roll please!)- They will be free to roam around, Namine too, starting in this chapter! Coincidentally the chapter starts out with Riku and Namine. Ok no more spoilers! Go read the chapter!

*Riku*

For the first time ever everyone except for me was in the gummi ship's kitchen eating dinner. Being 16 years old and incredibly tall I needed to eat a lot and I was usually the first one to the kitchen for dinner. But today I was skipping dinner so I could check out this brand new gummi ship that Lauren had bought. My stomach growled. Much to my stomach's annoyance. The layout was fairly similar: a control room, a kitchen, hallways, bathrooms (although Sora's gummi only had one bathroom whereas this gummi had multiple), a captain's room, and bedrooms. This gummi had 6 freaking bedrooms, not including Sora's 'captain' room!!! Man I was so excited to have my own room! And then this gummi had a freaking training room! The room had everything from weights and treadmills to a virtual heartless initiation system. This was super smart talk for being able to fight fake heartless with the push of a button. I scoped out the rooms for the biggest and best one, which would be mine of course. I had even decided to create something to mark my room so that no one would take it. I checked all the bedrooms and I nominated bedroom #6 as my bedroom. I pulled the post-it note out of my pocket and slapped it on the door: Riku's Room. Enter and I kill you. Slowly. Yes I had a way with words.

"What do you think you're doing?" The girl's voice that came from behind me was more questioning, maybe even a little shy, than forward and accusing. I turned around to see a blond girl with blue eyes, a sketchbook complete with a box of colored pencils, blue sandals, and a petite white dress standing in front of me.

"Holy shit you're Namine!" Oh yes Riku that was such a great reaction. It just screams I'm Riku and I know you're jealous of me because I am fucking amazing. Yeah, no I don't think so. Namine leaped back surprise and let out a small shriek. "Sorry! I just didn't expect to see you there"

"I can tell" she said. I had to strain to hear her though because a.) She had a naturally soft voice and b.) She was so freaked out by my reaction she was still shaking and was probably trying to decide whether to converse (as in conversation, not shoes) with me or run down the hall screaming about a crazy guy named Riku

"Soooo……" I said awkwardly, leaning back against the door to the, sorry I meant my, room. Not the room, my room.

"What's the post-it note for?"

"This is my new room! There are enough rooms for everyone to get their own!" Namine looked confused and counted people with her fingers. One, two, three, four, five, six, etc. She arrived at eleven people. What eleven people?

"Eleven people?! How did you get eleven people?!" my voice got higher.

"Me, you, Roxas, Axel, Sora, Kairi, Lauren, Fury, Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka. 11 people" Namine explained, holding up her hands again. She had me hold up one of my fingers too, since she doesn't have eleven fingers. Does anyone? Oh who cares?! The point is I don't get my own room! Wait….if Sora has his own that's one room, Kairi and Selphie are two, Namine is three, Tidus and Wakka are four, Axel and Roxas are five, then Lauren and Fury are six!! So if I hurry I can get the last room! Yes!!

"Namine there's an extra room-

"If you don't remember to count Fury as getting her own room" Namine interrupted.

"Whaaa…?"

"Fury's getting her own room too. Unless you would like to share with her and give Lauren the spare room"

"Why can't I just have the extra room?!" Why yes Riku, you did sound like a four year old just then.

"Because that wouldn't fair to everyone else. Fury is the only Dark Being so she should get her own room." I sighed with defeat before gesturing to my, sorry, the room behind me.

"So whose room is this?"

"Mine" The world hates me so much. I stepped away from the door.

"Ok fine. Here's your room" I said, motioning to the door. Namine stepped up and pulled out a pencil before writing on the post-it note I had stuck onto the door. When she was done she stepped back so I could read it. It read:Namine's Room. Enter and I kill you. Slowly. I smirked,

"Very believable Namine" She smiled and nodded before heading down the hallway.

"Hey do you know which room is mine?" I called after her

"Lauren already put something up! Go find it!" she yelled back, which sounded like she was just talking normally since her voice was so soft. I walked through the halls before I found the room. The sign read:

Lauren (and Riku's) Room. Enter and I'll send my Dark Being on you.

Oh yes, that was quite threatening.

"Hey there room mate" Lauren said coming up behind me. She said it the same way you would say my whole family just died tragically.

"Nice sign. It would scare me, you know if I wasn't your room mate."

"You're scared anyways, I can tell" she said casually before walking into the room, I followed her. Inside were to twin sized beds, a large closet, which I immediately walked over to and drew a line down the middle of with my handy-dandy sharpie. I could practically hear Lauren roll her eyes, two dressers, and one bathroom. Well it looks like the mornings shall remain interesting.

Oh hell yes.

I smiled; yes morning would most definitely stay interesting.

*(still) Riku*

"Get the hell off of me! Do you want Tidus to get the wrong idea again?!" I yelled at her as she tackled me to the ground.

"The door's locked stupid! And you started that!"

"How was that my fault?!"

"What kind of shitty question is that?! You were checking me out you pervert"

"Checking you out?! Who swooned when they saw me shirtless?!" Yes I'm totally muscular and amazing. I got kicked in the head for that one. Lauren ran into the bathroom and locked the door. A moment later I heard the shower running.

Victory is warm and refreshing.

Ew you better be talking about the shower.

Of course I'm talking about the shower idiot! What else would I be thinking of?!

Eh…

Sick…sick sick sick.

Since the shower was already running I decided that I probably shouldn't break down the door. Yes, the door destroying was definitely a no. I sighed before heading down the hallway for breakfast. I then enjoyed a nice refreshing meal of blueberry pancakes and syrup before heading back to my room to find it clean with my clothes sorted and my bed made with Lauren holding the door to the bathroom open for me so I could go take nice long shower. Haha how long did it take before you realized I was kidding. Hopefully before I told you I was.

I came into the kitchen to find Axel and Roxas arm wrestling over a huge plate of pancakes. Awww no blueberry. Damn. I grabbed a fork, sat down, and began eating the pancakes. Axel and Roxas turned to me in horror.

"We were arm wrestling!" Roxas cried

"Yes I could see that. Were you guys betting on something? That always makes it more interesting"

"Yeah we were betting over those pancakes" Axel said, pointing to my plate of half eaten pancakes.

"Heheh oops?" Roxas' eyes narrowed

"Get him" Then they both lunged at me. It was only when my fist connected with Roxas' face that I realized I wasn't in the mood for beating the crap out of my best friend's Nobody.

"Hey calm down! I'll make you another plate of effing pancakes! Just calm down!" They both looked at me in horror.

"I'd rather just beat you up" Roxas said.

"Yeah you got like a D in Home Ec." Axel said

"Did not!"

"Dude I was there" Oh yeah that's right, stupid Nobody.

"Hey Riku you can go take a shower now!" Lauren said, walking into the kitchen. Her blue eyes quickly scanned over the room before settling on me.

"What?!" she was starting to make me feel really uncomfortable.

"Roxas and Axel were arm wrestling and you ate their pancakes?!" she said disbelievingly. How the hell did she know that?!

"Yeah but I was about to make them more pancakes to make up for it!"

"Your cooking is radioactive" Axel pointed out.

"Well you go take a shower and I'll make them some pancakes" Lauren said, walking past me so she could get all the pancake ingredients.

"Wait what?!" Who are you and what have you done with my bitchy roommate?!

Just go take an effing shower.

I'm gonna go take my effing shower now

Good idea.

Of course my bitchy roommate hadn't vanished; she was just going under the radar again. I realized it when I stepped into the shower that was spraying down ice cold water . Bitchy Roommate had used all the hot water delivered to our room. Dammit.

*Kairi*

I stepped out of the large gummi and into Traverse Town. The faint sound of peaceful music floated in the air and the smell of a restaurant nearby came to me. I looked to my left to see a bunch of chairs and tables next to a small building. There's that restaurant I smelled. I looked around and realized that Traverse Town was very simple. All the shops and houses were small and quaint and a permanent night hung over the world. Luckily all the lights kept everything bright.

"Well we should probably split up now. I think Lauren should go with Roxas, Axel, and Namine to buy some different items. Kairi maybe you could take Selphie, Tidus, and Wakka with you to Merlin's house? He may show up and show you guys some more magic. I would like to go talk to my friend Pinocchio. Riku do you wanna come with me?" Sora handed out orders and I felt a surge of pride. That goofy little kid that used to be my best friend was gone, replaced by the personality of a leader. A true Keyblade Master.

Riku shifted uncomfortably and I remembered how he told me about his run in with Sora in the world of Monstro, which was really just a giant whale that Pinocchio and his father Geppetto had gotten trapped in. Riku had tried to steal Pinocchio's heart.

"Ok on second thought Riku why don't you just go fight some Heartless? We can all meet up in the 3rd district" Sora said. Everyone split into groups and I quickly spoke up.

"Sora I don't know where Merlin's house is..." I really hated to embarrass him in front of everyone but I wasn't going to be able to get him alone it seemed.

"Oh right. Um… go to the 3rd district and then there's a door. If you cast the fire spell on it you will be able to get in." he said. But I can't cast a fire spell and I don't know where the 3rd district is!!

"I'll show you" Riku said before heading towards, what I assumed, was the way to the 3rd district. Everyone went their separate ways and I hurried to catch up with Riku.

"I guess you're better at telepathy than Sora is" I said, trying to catch my breath. Did I mention running isn't one of my strong points? Riku snorted.

"I guess so" We went through a door into what I presumed was the 2nd district.

"Everyone be on your guard! The 2nd and 3rd district both have Heartless." Riku said, sounding sort of like a tour guide. Everyone summoned up their weapons. I summoned Blossoming Strength, the official name of my blade as I had found out from Aerith. Apparently my blade automatically increased the strength of my magic so I was excited for Merlin to teach me. Only a few Heartless popped up in the 2nd district so we moved onto the 3rd district pretty quickly.

When we got there Riku showed us the door that Sora had been talking about. It was a black door with no handle that had a glowing red flame on the front.

"How do we get in?" Selphie asked

"We have to cast a fire spell ya?" Guess who that was. Just guess.

"Can you do a fire spell Riku?" Tidus asked with a hint of competitiveness in his voice. Riku shook his head

"But I can do this" His blade seemed to melt into his arm and his arm glowed. He held his hand out towards the door and some large balls of blue, white, and black fire shot out and hit the door.

"Its not real fire like what Merlin will be teaching you but it should work" he said. Surely enough the door slide open and we headed through. Riku stopped at the entrance.

"Well I better go fight some Heartless. I'd hate to disappoint 'captain Sora' and all" he put finger quotes around captain Sora.

"Well ok then Riku!" I said with a wave. He walked out and the door slide shut behind him. It was really dark. The house looked very old and rundown but I really wasn't sure what most wizards' houses looked like so I couldn't really judge. The house was surrounded by water that looked green. There were four moving platforms floating on the water that led up to the house. We all carefully jumped from platform to platform, nobody wanting to fall into the gross green water.

Once were inside the house there was a poof of smoke and Merlin appeared.

"You guys are late." He said matter-of-factly

"Well you got here after us so wouldn't that make you late too?" Tidus pointed out. Oh boy.

"No I arrived here exactly on time!" Merlin said forcefully

"But you got here after us. If you were on time you would've come here at the same time as us." Tidus argued

"Just drop it!" Selphie shrieked, apparently she was feeling as annoyed as I was. Merlin still looked offended though.

"We were hoping you could maybe teach us a bit more about magic" I explained

"Well of course! None of you can even produce simple flame yet!" Merlin exclaimed. He got offended looks from Selphie, Wakka, and Tidus. Merlin led us up to a colorful room on a floating piece of what had looked like a floor. We spent the next hour burning, freezing, and electrocuting furniture with Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder spells.

"Now we shall work on the more difficult yet highly useful spell Cure" I tried not to moan. Magic was not thing apparently. So far I had had little success with these spells. My lightning bolt was always the smallest, my flame the weakest, my miniature blizzard the miniest. Is that even a word? No I don't think it is. One by one everyone tried their Cure spells. Wakka didn't get anything. Tidus got maybe a glimmer of green. Selphie was able to produce a few small green orbs and was praised by Merlin. I frowned while she beamed at him.

"Kairi your turn" Merlin said, turning towards me. I silently sighed and summoned up Blossoming Strength. I think you would be good at that. After all the more light you have in your heart, the better you are at healing! And that means you'll be the best! Sora's voice echoed in my head. Sora…. That's right I'm a Princess of Heart! I should be able to do this easy. Alright Sora I will be the best you just watch! I put Blossoming Strength out in front of me. I could feel the energy flowing through me

"Cure!" I declared. Green orbs swirled around me, momentarily blocking my view. When it was over everyone looked at me in surprise.

"Kairi that was great!" Selphie explained. And as if a spell of silence had been lifted everyone immediately began complimenting me and congratulating me on the amazing cure spell. I blushed and smiled. See Sora? I told you.

*Namine*

I walked alongside Roxas as he, Axel, Lauren/Fury, and I headed towards the 3rd district. We had just finished buying all kinds of items and were now heading over to meet everyone else.

"Namine you really should learn how to fight!" Axel said. Lauren nodded. They had been discussing how much I needed a weapon and fighting ability for the past 25 minutes.

"What do you want me to do? Hit Heartless with my sketchbook?" I said sarcastically

"And Nobodies!" Lauren reminded me energetically. I rolled my eyes Do you understand sarcasm?!

Why yes I use it quite often actually

I smiled. As strange as it may seem, Lauren and I were actually pretty good friends. No one had ever expected that because it seemed like we were complete opposites but we actually got along pretty well.

"You should learn to fight" Roxas said, entering the conversation. "That way I won't have to protect you everywhere we go!" he said him and Axel cracking up. I hit him in the shoulder with my sketchbook.

"Ow! You know that really could be a good weapon. And you could use your pencils as spears!" Roxas said, adding in the last part with a snap of his fingers.

"Those pencils could be deadly if you aimed them right" Axel said with a wink. Him, Lauren and Roxas all cracked up.

"Awww come on Namine! It's funny, you can laugh!" Lauren said. I just rolled my eyes and looked away. And 'away' coincidentally happened to be Riku.

"Hey Riku!" I yelled waving my hands, momentarily forgetting my shyness around him. I had met him once before and he seemed like he was on the right path. I guess this was that particular path's finished product. An amazing guy who would do anything to protect his friends. Yep that sounded like a finished product to me. Whoa am I talking about people or like, art drawings?

"Back off Namine. We all know Riku is Lauren's future boyfriend not yours!" Roxas joked. Lauren and I both blushed.

"Hey guys what's up?" Riku said when we had reached him.

"We were just talking about future couples. Anyone in mind?" Axel asked slyly.

"I change that 'hey guys' to a 'hey girls'" Riku responded. We all laughed just as Sora showed up.

"What's so funny?"

"The girls over here have some juicy gossip" Riku joked, gesturing to Roxas and Axel who shifted uncomfortably.

"Oh you mean your Nobodies?!" Lauren shot back, defending the two guys.

"Can I see your sketchbook for a second?" Sora asked, holding out his hand

"It's a weapon I swear!" Roxas shouted

Prepare to be surrounded by slap-happy idiots

As if they weren't already idiotic enough.

Haha good point.

Very good point. In that case we are about to be surrounded by slap-happy Super Idiots.

Lauren and I laughed (Fury doesn't laugh. Like ever) and just as we caught our breath Riku pointed out that my pencils could good for, you guessed it, spears. Which just made us all laugh harder. Kairi and her little group showed up too and we all just broke down into fits of laughter for no apparent reason. Everyone was crying through their laughter, including the guys, none of whom I'd ever seen have tears coming out if their eyes.

"Don't worry guys you can stop crying. I promise laughter doesn't make you lose brain cells." I said through my laughter. Lauren already knew what was coming next. We both said it together

"Which is good because you guys don't have any to lose!" We both yelled together. Sure it wasn't that funny but in our current states it was the most hilarious thing anyone had ever said. Eventually we were able to get onto the gummi ship which Sora set on an auto-pilot course for Olympus Coliseum (which was good because none of us were really in a state to drive the gummi ship). I managed to make it to my room before collapsing on my bed and laughing my self to sleep. We are all going to wake up with sore faces from smiling so much. I totally call it.

*sigh* Slap-happiness. What a wonderful thing. Well that's all for this chapter! If you have any more questions go ahead and ask and I'll answer them as soon as I get them! Or at least a chapter or two after I get them…. Well hope you liked the chapter! If you haven't noticed by now it's mainly a Riku and Lauren story but I've been trying to include everyone! If you feel like there's someone you wanna see more of don't hesitate to tell me! Hope you liked the chapter! Review please