Writer's Note:

Okay I'm finally going to do this chapter in story mode, so be ready to read normally because this is going to be a hell of a chapter. I hope I can get some more reviews!

Chapter 18: Forgiven

After Snow White and the others left the dark castle to bring back Grumpy to the dwarves Sora accusingly replied, "I can't believe you said that" while he starting walking to the door to leave the room, not even bothering to look back at Riku. "Why do you even care about him? He's against us, remember?" Riku yelled angrily at his best friend.

Sora turned back to his friend and looked into his eyes, Riku's eyes darted to the ground not wanting to meet Sora's ocean blue ones. "He's a part of my heart, of course I care about him," Sora answered truly telling how he felt about Roxas, that he belonged with him always.

Riku scowled and glared at Sora still not giving up to his stupid friend who thought he knew everything, and that everything he said was always right. He was sick of it as he yelled, "Sora we are talking about a nobody here! We can't trust him! Don't you remember why we wiped out the organization?"

Sora suddenly felt anger burning through him as if it were a reflex, wanting to defend Roxas and support him even if he was a friend with the organization. "HE'S NOT A NOBODY! Maybe killing them was just a big mistake…" Sora yelled at Riku's face his eyebrow's furrowing.

Before Riku could say, do anything or react in any way Sora turned around held out his key blade to leave the world they were at as he disappeared into the bright light, Riku's friend was gone.

Sora then appeared at Princess Aurora's World walking on the bright green grass and looking around at the beautiful surroundings including the many flowers and birds chirping loudly near the outskirts of the forest. He then noticed Prince Phillip running into the woods while saying, "Hey! Get back here!"

Sora then turned to look behind him expecting to see a smiling Riku getting off his motorcycle but he was nowhere to be seen. Sora turned his face back and scowled to himself, "Who needs Riku? He was just slowing me down anyways." Sora looked back one last time before running to follow the Prince into the woods, deep inside his heart regretting that he left his friend all alone.

Sora runs into the woods and stops in his tracks finding Prince Phillip fighting the Knight sword to sword. Prince Phillip seemed to be getting weaker but he didn't want to give up. "Take that!" he yelled angrily while swinging his sword at the Knight's chest area but he blocked his attack as if it were nothing.

Suddenly the Knight used his other arm and punched the Prince in the stomach causing the Prince to fall over unconscious before Sora could do anything to stop it. Sora then yelled, "NO!" looking at the Prince's motionless body on the cold ground. Sora then looked back at the Knight angrily and replied, "I can kill you without anyone helping me any day!"

The Knight turned towards him to face the young boy and said, "Oh, really? Then try me pipsqueak" as he took out his giant sword and got into his battle position. Sora grudgingly pulled out his key blade gripping onto it tightly while remembering Tron's words about how powerful the Knights were.

He tried to get the thought out of his mind by yelling, "Watch me!" as he ran to give him a strike. Their battle continued fairly well but Sora was starting to loose all of his energy just like the Prince had, he started to truly believe he was going to lose. Sora was breathing heavily waiting for him to take the next strike and he uttered, "I…I…"

The Knight then laughed loudly in a weird way, "Ha!" Sora grew even angrier than before by this and yelled, "We aren't done yet!" The Knight's dark red eyes burned fiercely getting fed up with the annoying pest. "Sorry, brat. But this game is over I've got plenty of people to kill…" the monster started swinging his sword around ready to attack, "including you!"

The Knight began to swing his sword and Sora closed his eyes tightly and ducked waiting for the pain to come to him, for him to die like this. To die leaving Kairi crying and Riku alone in a world all by himself regretting what he said…. was this really how it would end? The journey didn't even truly begin…

Sora didn't feel any pain but heard the monster say, "What? Another one? Who are you?" Then he heard a very distinctive voice right after, "I'm the only one who can call him pipsqueak." Sora opened his eyes seeing his best friend standing in front of him blocking the Knight's attack with a huge smirk on his face. Riku then jumped up so fast you could barely even see him move and gave the Knight a strike on its chest, "Just so you know."

The Knight's red eyes faded, it slowly fell back like a tin can and clattered motionless onto the ground as Riku landed steadily on the ground in front of Sora. Riku turned around to Sora giving him a regretful look of sadness and he replied, "I didn't mean what I said before. I…I'm sorry."

Riku was about to say more but got cut off by Sora saying, "Don't worry, the most important thing is that you saved me and that you didn't let me die" with a goofy smile on his face. Riku smiles back and gave Sora a hand to help his friend up onto his feet. When he was standing up Sora said, "Besides, you shouldn't say sorry to me, you should say sorry to the hooded figure."

Riku rolled his eyes and replied, "Yeah, like he would ever let me" as he looked down at the ground thinking of how much the hooded figure hated him right now. Sora put a hand on his friends shoulder causing Riku to be surprised as Sora said, "I'm sure it will be alright."

Riku nodded and walked towards entrance to deeper inside the forest as he replied, "We better go and help Aurora" Sora then suddenly remembered that, "Oh, I almost forgot! The darkness has Aurora!" Riku and Sora started running deeper into the forest until they reached the darkest part of it.

They found the witch shaped Darkness tying up Aurora to a thorny tree that was completely black. The witch looked like she was enjoying herself, until she noticed the two of them standing in her way. She sneered, "My heartless army will stand together and consume your puny little hearts!"

Sora yelled, "Not with me and Riku stopping you!" as Riku and Sora started running to Aurora to protect her. The witch then smirked deviously her red eyes burning madly as she replied, "Ha! You think my heartless army can't handle a couple of little kids that interfere?" Suddenly heartless appeared around Sora and Riku, surrounding them completely, "You will never get through my army!"

Sora and Riku continuously fought against heartless after heartless with the witch watching in delight at how tired they both got after a matter of seconds. Sora complained, "No matter how hard we fight the heartless just keep on appearing!" as he defeated a nearby heartless. Riku defeated one that was about to attack Sora as he said, "If only Prince Phillip were awake maybe if we attack the heartless and he can defeat the Darkness while we distract them."

The two boys were about to lose all hope until suddenly the Prince appeared and was sneaking his way up to the Darkness and hit her from behind causing her to fall. The price gripped his sword tightly ready to fight hearing Sora say, "Prince Phillip destroy her! We will handle the heartless!" It didn't take to long for the Darkness to be killed giving her the last blow as she faded away she said, "You haven't changed a bit Sora, and Riku" but it wasn't a woman's voice it was a man's but the two boys couldn't recognize who…it sounded familiar.

Once the Darkness was destroyed most of heartless disappeared or fled back to their normal worlds or wherever they were supposed to be. Sora put his key blade on his shoulders watching the love from the Prince flow out as he helped his princess up, it reminded him of Kairi so much it hurt.

"You know Sora, if you missed her so much why don't you go back to her crying in her arms. If you want to hug her so badly" someone replied in a teasing way as if they were amused by something. Sora was surprised that they knew what he was thinking about and took this off guard searching for where the voice came from.

The person stepped from the shadows of a huge tree wearing a nobody's organization uniform he could feel Riku's anger and tension from where he was standing. "How did you?"- Sora started to say but then got interrupted by the hooded figure, "I must congratulate you for defeating it so well, you even had to use a Prince to do it."

Riku's eyebrows furrowed and even Sora got a little angry for bringing the others into their conversation. Sora then said, "Aurora, you both should go now. We'll take care of this."

"Oh, is little Sora going to save a poor Princess once again. Wow, I'm so amazed…" the hooded figure continued while smirking. Sora then said rudely, "What do you want, Roxas?" The hooded figure crossed his arms and put one arm upright so that his finger was touching his chin.

"What? You don't think I'm worthy enough to fight? You shoved me away plenty of times already…I'm sure this is no different." The hooded figure teased evilly. "So your admitting your really Roxas?" Riku asked raising an eyebrow. "I wasn't talking to you silver boy but if you wanted to know so badly, I'm actually really close to him but I'm not him" he answered putting his arms down.

Sora thought this was a lie and didn't want to give up on finding Roxas but he shoved that aside and said, "So you wanted to fight us?" The figure didn't answer and didn't even smile in any way. Riku then stated, "Oh, don't tell me your scared?" The figure smirked looking up from the ground and clenching his fists, "I'm afraid not Riku, the only thing I'm scared of is actually killing you. But if you don't mind dying I'm sure I can face my fears" the hooded figure replied in a smart-ass way.

Riku growled and both of them took out their weapons, and the hooded figure brought up his fists. "You don't have a weapon?" Sora asked curiously as he started running towards him about to swing. "Why I don't need a weapon to defeat you two. Lets see if you can handle my fists!" the hooded figure yelled as he jumped up to dodge Sora's attack and grabbed his shirt and punching his face.

After punching him, he kicked him in the knees causing Sora to fall over unexpectedly. Riku was surprised but kept his guard up just in case, "Come at me, with everything you got!" the Hooded Figure yelled clenching his fists tightly.

Riku ran in to hit him but he dodged it easily and then aimed his fist towards Riku's shoulder but he dodged it and made a quick counter attack before he could react. The hooded figure growled angrily disappearing to the other side of him behind Riku but he just blocked it with his sword.

"Aw, I thought you would do better than that. What happened to beating us in a matter of seconds? I can fight you like I fought all the other organization members" Riku said cockily with a smirk on his face as the hooded figure jumped away before Riku could hit him. The hooded figure ran up towards Riku giving a series of punches at him that Riku struggled to keep dodging until he hit him in the face causing him to fall over.

"Hey, you should watch your back!" Sora yelled and casted a ice spell that caused him to be frozen, unable to move. Sora quickly used this chance to attack him but when he was about to hit him with the sword the hooded figure's hand punched through the ice wrapping around Sora's neck.

Sora struggled to grip free from his tight grip as the figure ripped the rest of the ice off himself. The hooded figure smiled clearly enjoying strangling Sora as Sora shook with fear, struggling to breath air. His key blade disappeared as it clattered loudly onto the floor.

"Your alone Sora. And this is how it's going to end. Leaving Kairi crying on at the beach waiting once again for her prince Sora who will never come. Maybe Roxas can be your little replacement. And turns out your best friend is weaker than he looks…goodbye Sora, it was fun talking to you while it lasted" the hooded figure replied darkly while choking Sora even more.

When Sora was about to have his last breath Riku suddenly appeared behind the hooded figure about to strike the figure. "Riku is not weak at all" Sora struggled to say right when Riku hit him on his back causing him to let go of Sora and fall over onto the floor. As soon as he reached the floor he struggled to get up, Riku ran to Sora giving him some potions to cure him from how hurt he got.

He turned angrily back at the hooded figure and said, "What is wrong with you? Don't you have a little decency to not hurt some one like that? Didn't you ever have a friend?" Riku yelled angrily resisting the urge to finish him off. The hooded figure looked up slightly from the ground looking into his eyes but then looked back down again.

He then suddenly replied, "Yeah, but I lost them all…" in a light, whisper barely able for him to hear as a portal appeared where he was lying and darkness formed around him as he whispered, "sometimes I think they still are…" before he disappeared leaving Sora and Riku alone in the deep dark forest.

…That time it wasn't supposed to end that way, but I know I will make everything end right…even if I end up killing them…

Writer's Note:

Okay, that was that chapter, I really love this hooded figure it just is so awesome and mysterious I just can't get enough writing about him. The voice that came from the Darkness was also supposed to be very important, someone they recognized that was taken over by darkness said that. *hint hint* I also put a hint to who the hooded figure is in the wroter's note in the last chapter so if you want you can read that. I really want to know if the story is good in the story format so if you don't want to review just PM me okay? As long as I get to know if its good or not.