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Info: This is a pretty short chapter not much really happens except out characters meeting up.

Chapter 11: Tipsy Time: A Night out at the Motorhouse?

"Hey Riku you got a call from the boss man" said Cid loudly waking Riku who was half sleeping. Cid handed him over a tablet where he saw Mickey smiling "Howdy Riku, I'm glad to see you're ok! Me and the other have been worried sick!" Riku smiled at his kindness, if ever there was someone he could rely on it was King Mickey.

"I'm fine Mickey, I have recovered some data about the Pirates so it wasn't a complete disaster" he said, Mickey looked more pleased "I look forward to seeing what you've recovered Riku but first make sure your well rested and you should probably visit the nurse for your injuries"

"Sure thing Mickey, by the way do you know when Sora and Kairi will be back?" he asked wanting to see his best friends. Mickey gave him a big grin "Actually Sora got back a few hours ago, he had finished his training with Max and the others, their celebrating right now. Apparently Sora performed so well that the training was cut short"

Riku looked impressed "So he learned how to use Trance did he? I look forward to seeing how much he has improved" Mickey chuckled "He looks very different from before, you'll be pleasantly surprised, also Kairi just came back she has received a full pass mark from the Hall of Justice "

Riku said his goodbyes and returned to the couch were Xion was sleeping, he lay down next to her and rested her head against his chest, and she stirred and moved so she was more comfortable "What was Mickey saying?" she asked in a sleepy voice. "Just that Sora and Kairi are back and we'll see them soon" he replied as they curled up together. She smiled and then went back to sleep, Riku soon followed.

KHROS

Kairi felt more than pleased with herself, she had received a pass mark from the Hall of Justice and recommendation by Judge Dredd to be upgrade to a two star meister. She had to report to King Mickey before she could see Sora again, when he got back from his training. Even though she had only been away for a few hours she had missed her partner, he made her feel safe and after what had happened at Peach Trees she had missed him even more.

She knocked on King Mickeys door, "Come in" she heard from the other side and she entered. Mickey was writing a letter on his desk, sitting on the desk was a tiny cricket who was carrying a journal and wearing a top hat. They both looked up and smiled at Kari as she walked over to his desk "King Mickey, Meister Kairi reporting for duty" she said, saluting.

"Always so formal Kairi, you should know you can always call me Mickey" he chuckled, she blushed with embarrassments, sometimes she forgot how formal she could be "Sorry Mickey, anyway I have completed my objective that you gave me and I'm awaiting further orders"

Mickey waved his hands "Oh don't worry about it Kairi, you can have the rest of the day off for your tremendous performance, perhaps you can go meet Sora and the others, they are in the common room" Kairi gasped and looked surprised "Sora's back already" she said excited. Mickey grinned and nodded "Yep he and the others came back a lot sooner than expected, Sora did very well" Kairi ran out from the room before he finished, Mickey sighed and shook his head "Teenagers" he muttered.

Kairi ran down the halls as fast as she could, she didn't know why she was so excited she just wanted to see Sora again. Ever since they were little she had looked after him whenever they went out to play, she would stop him from doing stupid things and as they got older she kept him in check, sometimes they would argue and he could really annoy her but she knew he cared about her just as much as she did to him.

The common room was fairly empty but she expected that as most students were out on missions. She looked round and she could hear voices from one of the rooms, she quickly walked over and knocked on the door "Who is it" she could hear in a fake womanly voice which she guessed was Sora.

"Sora it's me you idiot open up!" she shouted, the door open and she almost forgot to breath. Standing there was an incredibly handsome young man with styled and caramel spiky hair, his deep blue eyes showed even more and his face was sharp and more adult looking, he was thinner and leaner and he had grown nearly an inch, it took Kairi a couple of seconds to realise this was Sora.

"Hey!" he shouted loudly followed by several other "Hey's" from Zidane, Garnet and Aht. Kairi could see several bottles of different shapes and sizes containing alcohol. "If you can't tell we've already had numerous drinks so we're a wee bit tipsy" said Zidane as he took a shot of rum. Kairi kept staring at Sora; he gave a somewhat awkward hug as she came into the room.

"How was the training Kairi?" asked Garnet who was the only one not drunk, "Did you go off on a tangent?" said Aht, earning a confused look from Kairi before Zidane, Sora and Maximus all replied with "A Tangena?" before they started uncontrollably. "Sorry Kairi they're absolutely smashed" said Garnet apologetically.

Kairi didn't say anything she just sat down next to Sora and continued to just stare at him, he had lost all that baby fat on his face and his hair was less messy and more stylised like an actual human being would do with their hair and his eyes, she had never noticed how blue they were.

"Kairi you ok?" said Garnet, Kairi realised that she had been watching her and she quickly stopped and tried to mask her blush "Yeah, yeah I'm fine, so how did the training go?"

"Sora did fan fucking tastic!" said Zidane with Maximus and Aht nodding "He was on fire!" shouted Maximus. Garnet shook her head and turned to Kairi "Sora did very well, I'm sure you will learn all about his new abilities but maybe not right now"

Zidane stood up as if he had the best idea ever "What do you say we hit the Motorhouse!" he shouted. "Hell fucking yes" shouted Maximus, Kairi was rather surprised by his behaviour, she had always assumed Maximus would be really serious but he wasn't he was a riot. "What's the Motorhouse?" she asked, "Their favourite bar" Garnet explained.

"Where is it" came a familiar voice from behind them "Riku!" Kairi cried out and hugged her friend. "What the hell happened to you?" he said amused as Sora stumbled over to him and gave him some weird half arm hug, "I learnt the quality of intense exercise" said Sora. Riku shook his head as Xion walked in as well "Hey guys" she said before she was grabbed in a bone crushing hug from Sora "Baby sister!" he shouted, she tried to get free "Sora! Get off! Riku please help" she squealed.

Riku laughed loudly as Sora let go of his sister grinning like a maniac, he grabbed her shoulder "Xion, your my sister and I love you" he slurred, Xion laughed weakly. They all left the common room "Wait a minute" said Maximus grabbing Aht by the head as she walked past "Where do you think you're going?"

Aht pouted "What? I'm not allowed to come with you guys? You let me drink before Max!" even though he was drunk Maximus knew better than to let Aht go out "Yeah and remember what happened last time?" he said trying to keep a straight face, Aht's face went bright red and she hid her face in her hands. She left but not without making a huge fuss, "What did she do?" Kairi whispered to Garnet. "Tried to seduce Maximus" replied Garnet, Kairi looked somewhat disgusted "How old is she?"

"Fifteen" replied Garnet as they walked behind the boys who were laughing and chanting "Are they together or something" Kairi quizzed, Garnet shook her head "Nah they've been through a lot together but Maximus seems to only have a sibling relationship with her and she just adores him but I don't think she's actually serious about it, they are killer pair though when it comes to combat, trust me you haven't seen anything when it comes to what those two can do"

KHROS

The Motorhouse was a fairly quiet bar in a place called Alexandria which was where Zidane and Garnet came from, the bar was owned by Zidane's friend Ruby who was loud and spoke with a southern accent. "What can a get ya darling?" she asked Kairi, she wasn't sure what to say when Sora butted in "Four shots of tequila, two rum's and cola and a bottle of Kopparberg please"

"Coming right up cutie" said Ruby, for some reason this really irked Kairi. She turned to Sora to find him looking right at her, she quickly turned back and took both shots of tequila before turning back to him "What?" she said.

He stepped forward and it looked like he was going to say something but he was called over by Maximus, he was with Zidane and another man their age with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail.

"Sora this is my good friend Edgar, he's an engineer" said Maximus, Sora hands with the man "Hi there" he said. Kairi sat down at a table with Garnet and Xion while the boys went off to the bar. "so how long have you and Zidane known each other?" asked Xion, Garnet smiled and looked over to him "He rescued me" she said simply, Xion and Kairi didn't quite understand "Who did he rescue you from?" Kairi asked intrigued "Royalty" replied Garnet as she sipped on some wine.

"You're from royalty?" asked Kairi surprised, Garnet leaned in as did Xion and Kairi "I'm actually the Princess of this world" she whispered, Xion and Kairi both gasped in shock. "You gave up royalty to be with a guy like Zidane?" asked Kairi dumbfounded, Garnet sighed and looked back at Zidane who was chatting to several women at the bar.

"Despite his…raunchy nature Zidane has shown me that my life wasn't ruled by knights and maids and servant and a castle I wasn't even able to explore on my own. I can rule my own life and that's exactly what I did, I became his partner and despite the fact he sometimes acts immature he actually can be very sweet"

Meanwhile the boys were talking about Maximus, Edgar and Zidane's academy adventures "So once the Chitari invaded we teamed with these dudes called the Avengers and we kicked their asses" said Zidane enthusiastically the others laughed "Or how about that incident with the Human Centipede?" said Edgar, Maximus slapped his forehead "Right that parts getting cut out we're not mentioning that time ever again!" he said, Zidane nodded enthusiastically "Yeah please for the love of god I don't ever want to remember that incident, you put me through hell" he said to Edgar who laughed and took another shot. "What happened?" asked Sora amused, they all shook their head "Don't ask, you'll be traumatised" warned Maximus.

"So Riku I heard you teamed up with some elegant fine arsed bitch on Tallon IV" said Zidane interested, Riku chuckled "I wouldn't call her that, if you said something like that to her she'd probably kick your ass" Zidane grinned "I like woman that play hard to get", Maximus slapped him on the back of the head, Zidane shouted in pain "Ow what was that for dude?"

"You need to stop being a gook and ask Garnet out already" he said somewhat seriously. Zidane scoffed "Please she would never settle for a rotten thief like me, she deserves better" he sounded depressed, "But you love her right?" said Maximus, Zidane looked over to her and sighed "Ever since I met her" he said simply, Maximus clapped him on the back "Dude you basically saved her from a boring life of royalty and she's obviously grateful for that besides she became your partner for a reason, maybe she likes you too"

KHROS

A few hours had passed, Sora and Kairi were sitting alone while the others were up dancing on the dance floor, Kairi laughed as Maximus was doing some weird combination of the robot and break dancing. She turned to Sora to find him staring at the floor, he looked puzzled "Sora?" she reached out and touched his had causing him to flinch back "What?" he said annoyed.

"What's wrong? You've been acting weird for the last half an hour" she said concerned, "It's nothing, stop bothering me" he snapped, she looked hurt "Sorry for asking" she muttered she turned back round to watch the others, he stood up suddenly as if he was about to throw up, he dashed into the bathroom ignoring Kairi's cries.

He slammed into the bathroom and checked his eyes in the mirror, they were amber. "I knew I shouldn't have gone out drinking" his reflection grinned at him, his hair became black "Too bad Sora and know that I'm here you know what I can do" said his reflection, Sora grinned "Yeah well that won't be happening" before his reflection could react Sora smashed his head as hard as he could against the mirror.

He collapsed and black out but not before hearing the voice in his head scream out in rage. Maximus ran into the room "Holy shit!" he shouted when he saw Sora lying on the ground his head bleeding badly, "I need an ambulance!" he shouted to Ruby. "What happened?" she said as the others ran over "Sora's head been smashed open by someone that's what!" he shouted back, Kairi looked horrified before running into the bathroom, she knelt down next to Sora and cupped his face "Sora! Wake up! Please!" she cried hysterically. Garnet pulled her off as Zidane and Edgar lifted Sora and carried him out of the room. Kairi felt herself tear up as the ambulance came and took Sora away, she had a feeling things were about to get very wrong.

A/N Filler! Woohoo! And some romance I guess, honestly I'm not good at writing romance unless its super cheesy which it kind of is in this story. Anyway the next chapter will move on with the plot, Chapter 12: Enter Historia: Stocke's the Man in Red?