RL: I'm back!

Riku: Where'd you go?

RL: -smirk- Wouldn't you like to know…

Riku: O.O You didn't…

RL: -pulls out a stuffed cat-

Riku: MY KIKI!

RL: -insert evil laughter-

Disclaimer: Must I say this… -gets hit by a wad of paper- -glares at lawyers- Fine… I don't own Kingdom Hearts. There happy? –lawyers nod-

Starting a New Battle

Ch. 6. The Chasers

The group was now sitting inside the gummi ship after an hour of searching. They had found the ship in a nearby palm tree. Sora was steering the ship while Kairi was navigating and the King and Goofy were manning (A/N: I think that would fit there) the weapons. And of course, Riku and Donald were in the back still bickering about loosing the ship.

"But, really, how can you loose something this big?!" Riku argued in a pissed off tone. You could tell by the way his voice sounded that he had repeated that question over a million times.

"For the last time, Riku, I don't KNOW!" Donald argued back. The argument had been going on since they boarded the ship. Every time a voice was raised, Sora tensed until he snapped.

"WOULD YOU TWO SHUT UP?!" Sora shouted, face red. Everyone turned their head to see Sora tightly gripping the steering wheel of the ship. You could almost see the smoke come out of his nose.

"Why don't I take over for now…" Mickey said as he took Sora's place while Sora took his. You could tell Sora was steamed because it only took one shot for Sora to kill any Heartless ships that went by. They never had a chance…

Riku and Donald were extremely scared of Sora so they shut up and sat as still as they could, afraid that moving would anger him more. Not once had they seen Sora pissed, and to be steaming was even worse. It was not long 'til they arrived in Radiant Gardens. By then, Sora had cooled off, have taken his anger out on the Heartless ships. It is said you should always taken your anger out by beating on something, but this might be stretching it.

The group entered the Marketplace, walked into the Borough, and headed towards Merlin's house. All the while Riku and Kairi gapped at the city, while Sora was trying to hide from people who wanted his autograph. He wondered if the RGRC had to deal with this kind of fandom.

Riku was amazed at how the place changed from the wasteland known as Hollow Bastion to this beautiful place called Radiant Gardens, though traces of its earlier use were still noticeable. Kairi was just as amazed as Riku was on how it changed but was also amazed at how she thought she knew this place, other then the whole Princess of Heart episode.

The group was soon at Merlin's front door. Just as Sora reached for the door, it was flung open. He was hit square in the face, causing him to fall to the ground and to get a bloody nose. A small whine escaped the brunette as he sat up on his knees.

"Oh, Sora! I'm so sorry!" Aerith exclaimed as she saw who was on the ground. "I thought I heard someone outside and I opened the door to see who it was. I'm really, really…" Sora cut her off by placing a finger over her mouth.

"I get it, you're sorry…" Sora said gently rubbing his nose.

"Aerith, who's at the door?" a voice said from behind the woman. "If it's another salesperson, don't buy… Sora!" A woman came from behind the brunette woman. She had long black hair and was dressed in a black outfit with black fingerless gloves to boot.

"Hi, Tifa." Mickey said this time as Sora was busy trying to stop his nose bleed. Kairi and he were currently looking through, well… more like tearing apart, his bag to find a rag.

"What happened to him?" Tifa motioned towards Sora. Riku was about to answer but a certain hyper ninja came bounding in followed by a grouchy looking old man.

"Aha, I found it!" Kairi exclaimed as she flaunted a rag in the air.

"Give it here," Sora said, snatching the rag and wiping up the blood that was protruding from his nose. Riku just shook his head in the palm of his hand, mumbling about how Sora was too stupid to use a potion to heal his nose.

"What's all the fuss about?" Cid asked (A/N: I'm not good with Cid, so bear with me). Yuffie transported herself to behind the two teens on the ground.

"Yea, what're doin'?" the ninja questioned causing Sora and Kairi to slightly jump.

"H-Hey, Yuffie. How are you?" Sora asked as his heart returned to its normal beating rate. Kairi gave Yuffie a stop-popping-up look.

"Fine," Yuffie gave her signature smile at the two. Sora and Kairi gave her a smile back. Riku stood there shaking his head and give them an oh-please-kill-me look. 'Why is everyone I know strange in some way, shape, or form…?' Sora's nose was still bleeding so Riku took a potion from his pocket and threw it to Sora, who just looked at it. Riku sighed and pointed to his nose. Sora finally got it, used the potion to heal his nose and gave Riku a 'thank you' smile.

A loud noise from inside the house caused everyone to turn. Merlin had appeared, and he… landed on… Cid's computer… "WHAT DID YOU DO, OLD MAN!?!" Cid yelled as he ran to access the damage to his computer (A/N: He does call him old man right?). Soon sparks could be seen coming out of the house, and an explosion soon followed. Cid came out with Merlin following, waving his wand at the mechanic. They were both covered in soot. Cid was on the verge of tears. "My computer…"

Everyone was looking on in either pity or had a look that said, "That's just pathetic…" After a few minutes of people looking on, Sora asked, "Where's Leon?"

"Up in Ansem's computer room," Tifa answered. "He's trying to connect that computer with the computer in the headquarters."

"But… didn't the computer just explode?" Kairi asked.

"Oh, I fixed it. Cid's just upset that I hurt his 'baby'," Merlin said with a frown.

"Well, if you didn't land on it…" Cid argued but was cut short when Merlin aimed his wand, which was sparking, at the man's nose.

"C'mon, let's go inside and see if Squall connected it yet," Yuffie said enthusiastically. So the group entered Merlin's and gathered around the computer. Cid was trying to turn the computer back on but to no avail.

"What'd ya do to my computer, you old fool?" Cid growled at the old wizard. The next ten minuets were spent trying to turn the computer when Riku interjected.

"Let me try," Riku said and everyone looked at him like he had two heads. "What?"

Nobody answered so Riku walked up to the computer. He found the on button and pressed it. Nothing. He held it down. Still nothing. He whacked the side, much to Cid's dismay, and the computer roared to life. Everyone again looked at him.

"What? My computer does that all the time," Riku said.

"I'm gonna ignore the fact that you hit my computer," Cid said, "because that was to only way to turn it on." Cid typed in some numbers and a screen appeared. A figure stood there with what looked to be a digitalized being in the corner. Before anyone could say a thing, Yuffie said, more liked screamed but who's complaining, "Hey, Squall!"

"Yuffie, STOP CALLING ME THAT!" the figure yelled, pissed. "You know I don't like that name…"

"Well, SORRY. God, Leon… There, happy?" The upset Yuffie grunted.

"Very."

Before the two could argue anymore Tifa said, "I see you were able to link the computers together."

"Yea, but not without Tron's help," Leon replied. The digital being waved to the others.

"TRON!" Sora, Donald, and Goofy exclaimed.

"Hey, guys," Tron said but noticed the three get the grin they had when they last saw each other. "Oh, no. You guys stay back there. I'm not getting tickled again." Sora and Donald crossed their arms and gave small frowns. Kairi and Riku laughed at the look on their friend's face. Everyone soon joined in.

A loud bang outside the door made everyone stop laughing and turn. Riku headed towards the door, seeing as no one else was, and opened it only to be knocked on his butt by three treasure hunting faeries. "Ow, what the hell was that for?" Riku growled at the three.

The Gull Wings started to explain all at once. "Yuna, Rikku, Pain, one at a time," Aerith said to the flustered faeries.

"Sorry," Yuna said with a bow. "We-We were being chased."

"They were all covered in armor and-and-and," Rikku continued but soon became frustrated and started circling Sora's head, which caused him to get very dizzy.

Pain soon finished what her friends were saying, "And, they had weapons similar to Sora's Keyblade." She said it with such a strait face that everyone stared at her. Another explosion was heard but this one came from the computer room in the castle.

"Leon, you okay over there?" Tifa asked.

"Yea," Leon replied. "But you guys should head up here to help around the castle postern. I'll be there shortly."

"Right," everyone said and they headed out the door. What they saw stunned them. The Gull Wings had been right about the creatures. They were covered in armor and they stood nearly six feet high. They also held what seemed to be Keyblades but the Keyblades were all the same. They were a dull gray and tarnished. The things turned and faced the group. The group tightened the grip on their weapons and charged.

In about ten minutes, the group was halfway through the Bailey and they were nearing the stairs that headed downward. But when they were only halfway towards the stairway, the group was stopped by a wall of green flames. On the opposite side of the flames, Leon, who was at the bottom of the stairs, stopped to see the flames and ran up to the top of the stairs

Out of the flames came two figures that they hoped to never see again, or thought they never would for that matter. The first figure was very statuette, had on a long, black gown that was jagged at the end, and had on what seemed like a hat with horns. The person also held a staff with a green orb on its end with a raven perched upon it. The second figure was slightly shorter than the first and was very chubby. The group tightened their grip on their weapons as the flames died down. The figures were Pete and Maleficent.

RL: -standing on a chair tying Riku's kiki to the ceiling fan-

Riku: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

RL: -gets off chair- R&R if you want Riku to get his kiki back.

Riku: PLZ!!!!