Wanessa and Sora were still combing through the details of the battle with Oogy. How after they'd defeated him he became one with the tree house and began to attack us. Ness and I had seen this happening and rushed back to find purple spots of darkness everywhere. We destroyed them and sent Oogy into oblivion.

"And that upper slash you did on the spot under the lamp!" Nessa exclaimed, "THAT WAS AMAZING." Sora stood up and bowed. I laughed.

"Look at that," Goofy said from the front of the ship.

"What is it?" Sora asked, after rushing up from the sitting area. Goofy shrugged.

"It's pulling us in!" Donald cried. The entire ship rocked, like we'd been hit with a sonic boom. Then it started to fly towards the ship, all the power went out.

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"Didn't think you'd come Sora. Good to see you again."

"Where are Donald and Goofy?" I started to stir, the first thing I noticed was that the floor seemed unstable and continuously rocked from one side to the other.

"Are they that important to you? More important than old friends? Instead of worrying about them, you should be asking about her." I opened my eyes and saw a red haired girl sitting on the deck above us, next to Riku. I squinted my eyes closed again and tried to get the strength to stand up.

"KAIRI!" Sora yelled.

"That's right. While you were off goofing around, I finally found her," Riku said. Sora jumped up and started to run forward. A very tall man stopped him with long curly black hair in a red coat and a hook for a hand.

"Not so fast! No shenanigans aboard this vessel boy," The man I took to be captain roared.

"Riku, why are you siding with the heartless?" Sora asked from where he stood.

"The heartless obey me now, Sora. Now I have nothing to fear,"

"You're stupid! Sooner or later they'll swallow you're heart!" I pushed up against the restraints. I stood up, wobbling, my legs not used to the rocking of the ship. I looked around, Nessa was still laying on the ground.

"Not a chance, my hearts too strong."

"Riku…" Sora reached forward with his hand, but the captain threatened with his sword again. I eyed him cautiously.

"I've picked up a few other tricks as well. Like this for instance," Riku raised his hand. A shadow, looking exactly like Sora, minus the features rose up from the ground and became a moving heartless. "You can go see your friends now," A hatch opened up beneath Sora and he disappeared into the ship. "Let's get underway already. And keep Sora away from Kairi until we're ready to land." He turned to go.

"HEY YOU!" I yelled, my body finally getting used to the rocking. Riku stopped and turned, "Where is Rachel? You've gotten away without answering me so far," I raised my staff and pointed it directly at him, "but if you don't answer me this time I am going to blow your beautiful silver hair into gray ashes." He smirked at me and I growled, his smile disappeared.

"If you join Sora I'm sure you'll find her, if you actually care enough to be her friend," He turned and walked away. The hatch through which Sora had dropped was still open. I looked at Nessa, who was now sitting up.

"Let's go," I jumped into the hatch and Nessa jumped down after me. We landed in a small room with hammocks on the wall. "What the hell?" I muttered, no one was in here. "Great they've already escaped."

"At least the doors already unlocked then," Nessa said, opening a door. I smiled.

"At least." We walked out into the middle of the ship. There were supports holding it up and several smaller rooms. There was some munny and green health orbs lying on the ground. "Okay… so they already came this way."

"Where do you think Rach would be?" Nessa asked. I looked around. There was a door one level up that was guarded by a heartless that Sora seemed to have missed.

"That one!" I pointed. I pulled down the ladder with Gravira; the heartless didn't even shake when Nessa blasted through him with her shield. "That was too easy," I said suspiciously.

"Then that was a decoy."

"OH STOP COMPLAINING AND FOLLOW ME!" Both of our heads snapped up in the direction of the voice. We saw Rachel walking across one of the platforms. Two heartless dressed as pirates carried the redheaded Kairi we'd seen earlier. Rachel was dragging another girl, who was in a blue nightgown behind her.

"Unhand me at once!" She smacked at Rachel's hand but Rach didn't even flinch. Instead she dragged the girl with her as she jumped down to our level of the ship.

"Shit!" Nessa swore. She grabbed my wrist and dragged me behind a stack of barrels.

"Why are we hiding? We could save those girls and Rachel."

"Don't you see Meg?" Nessa asked me. "Rachel's pretty much possessed. Maybe not in the witch with toads who-ha, but in the sense that she is possessed with power. She wants it so bad she's doing whatever she can to get it and she's not going to listen to us!"

Rachel's procession moved into the room that we had just stood in front of. She slammed the door shut behind her. We raced forward and pressed our ears against the door.

"Sora reached the room," She said. We could still hear Wendy smacking her arm, trying to break free.

"Thank you," Captain Hook said. "Peter-Pan is with them and your partner says that Wendy's not one of the chosen ones, is this true?" We couldn't hear Rachel's answer. "And after all the trouble of capturing her, this is ridiculous!" A chair scrapped on the floor. "Well I'll be on the deck."

The door opened and closed. The struggling girl had gone with the Captain. So it was just Rachel and Riku in there. "Ready?" I mouthed to Nessa, she nodded. Just as we were about to open the door we heard the deck door creak open again.

Riku came in the room. Suddenly Sora was behind us. He pushed open the door and ran in. For a second all we saw was Rachel raising her hand, opening a portal of darkness. Riku was carrying the girl.

"RIKU WAIT!" Sora yelled.

"RACHEL STOP!" I screamed. Lunging into the room. Riku disappeared into the portal. Rachel smirked and I could almost feel the darkness seeping out of her to contaminate the air. She slowly dissipated into the portal, which swirled into itself and was gone. A shadow lifted up from under the door and Sora was faced with his own shadow.