Riku continued to walk up the mountain side, looking for wherever Gantu and this he was. He had been following the huge tracks that belonged to Gantu that continued to climb up this mountain, but still no luck. Riku was almost considering to head back down the mountain so they could leave and help more worlds, but he decided to climb up the mountain a little bit longer.

After walking for a while longer, Riku made it close to the top of the mountain and he came to a stop when he heard voices higher up. Immediately, Riku hide behind a large bolder he was by so he wouldn't be seen.

"I told you it wasn't my fault! It was those kids with the keyblades!" The voice that belonged to Gantu said. Riku the peered his head a little to the side so he could see Gantu in his view, but not the person he was talking to.

"If you expect the Dark One to forgive you of these events you don't have a clue of what you are talking about." The other person said.

Dark One? Riku mouthed to himself. Who was this Dark One? And this person, who was he?

"Please! I beg you're forgiveness!" Gantu pleaded, Riku watching the alien literally getting down on his knees.

"We do not accept failures into our group, I am afraid you must be disposed of." The other person said as Gantu put his head and hands on the ground like he was praying.

"Please! Have mercy!" Gantu exclaimed as he then went back to kneeling.

"Goodbye," the other person said. Riku then heard the snap of fingers, and instantly Gantu was covered in darkness that was literally exploding from him. The next thing Riku knows Gantu is nothing but a pill of fading darkness that was now disappearing into the ground.

Riku looked at the scene shocked; he could not believe that someone could do that, even if Gantu had failed his mission. At first, Riku felt regret of defeating him, but he did not have time to think about that since he had to go and stop this person so he could not hurt anyone else.

(Disappeared [Dark One's Group Theme] – Kingdom Hearts) "Hey you!" Riku exclaimed as he summoned his keyblade and got out from behind the rock. Riku then looked to see the figure's back was facing him, but it turned to look at him. Riku's eyes widened at the figure, seeing that this figure was someone covered head to toe in a pure white Organization XIII robe. The sight of this figure made Riku chill to the bone.

"Who— Who are you?" Riku said. Silence. The figure only stood there and stared at Riku, who was not able to see who this person was from under his hood. Riku was then shocked when he held out his hand and an all too familiar weapon appeared in his hand.

"A keyblade?!" Riku exclaimed. He then looked at the figure to see it was standing in its battle stance, which made Riku naturally go into his. Riku knew this person had something to do with his world sinking into darkness, he knew he had to get rid of it if he wanted to keep the worlds safe. So Riku knew he had to do whatever he could to defeat this figure, he had to if it was the last thing he did.

So with that information, Riku ran towards the figure with his keyblade raised, trying to bring it down on this figure. But just before it was brought down in it, the figure brought it's keyblade up and blocked the attack. Riku tried to push his keyblade down, but it seemed to him that this figure was not even trying and he was able to hold Riku back. The figure then began to push his keyblade down on Riku, which Riku could not let happen so he jumped back. Riku did not have that much time to think about what to do next however because the figure came running back at Riku with his keyblade glowing with darkness. The figure then tried to swing at Riku, but Riku continued to swiftly dodge the attack. But there was one attack that Riku could not dodge, and the figure's keyblade came and hit him right in the side, sending Riku flying.

Riku flew so far that he fell of the side of the mountain, but he thankfully grabbed on to the side of I and held on for his life. Riku then looked up to see the figure standing on the ledge, looking down at Riku. The figure then brought his foot out from underneath his coat and brought his boot down on Riku's hand, causing the keyblade wielder to yell out in pain. Riku continued to hang on however, and he then took his free hand and impaled his keyblade in the side of the mountain, hanging on for dear life. He then let go of the ledge of the mountain, still holding on to his keyblade so he would not fall off. Riku then swung himself around his keyblade, and let go so he would fly up back on top of the mountain. Riku then summoned his keyblade in midair, ready to attack the figure when he came back down, but to Riku's surprise the figure was not there. But Riku figured that he had found the figure when he felt something hard make contact with his back.

As soon as the keyblade made contact with Riku, he fell to the ground face first. At this point, Riku knew he was greatly outmatched by this person, but that did not mean that he was going to give up. Riku quickly got back up and stood in his battle stance, this time waiting for the figure to come to him. But the figure only pointed his keyblade at Riku and fired many small balls of darkness at the keyblade master. Riku however brought his keyblade up to deflect the balls, and he was succeeding, but none of the balls went back and hit the figure and Riku was getting pushed back by them with every passing second. As Riku was pushed closer and closer to the edge of the mountain once again, he put his keyblade down and quickly summoned a reflect shield. This prevented Riku from falling off the side once again, but Riku was still getting weaker and he hadn't even laid a move on the figure yet.

As soon as Riku created the reflect shield, the figure once again came running towards Riku, its keyblade raised. Riku jumped out of the way of him however and landed in the center of the mountain's peak, instead of trying to bring his keyblade up and block it like last time. The figure quickly turned around though and got a combo hit on Riku, topping it off with a blast of darkness from the palm of his hand. Riku was sent flying back by this and nearly fell off the side of the mountain again, but he was able to push his keyblade down into the ground, slowing him down just enough so that he would not fall off the side again. Riku only looked up at the sky and gripped his keyblade as tightly as he could because he knew at that moment that he lost this battle.

The figure then walked towards Riku and looked down on him before he brought his foot and put it on Riku's chest, pinning the keyblade master to the ground. Riku only squinted his eyes as he looked at the figure holding his keyblade and pointing it towards his own chest. Riku then closed his eyes silently apologizing for every sin he had ever committed since he thought he was going to die.

But after a few moments of waiting, Riku was surprised not to feel he keyblade make contact with his chest. He then opened his eyes, looking up to see the figure was not looking down on him anymore. Riku then moved his head upwards just enough to see the figure on the other side of the mountain peak standing in front of a corridor of darkness. Riku only watched the figure as it looked at him one last time.

"It was great I finally got to see you, Riku." The figure said before it began to walk in the corridor of darkness. Riku knew this was his chance and he quickly shot up and ran towards the corridor, trying to slice that figure in half. But the figure had already walked through the corridor of darkness and was gone. (End Disappeared)

As soon as Riku saw the figure and corridor was gone, he fell to his knees due to being exhaustion. Riku took his hand and he wiped the thin laid or sweat on his forehead. Did he know that figure? He knew for a fact he had never seen him before, but how did the figure know his name? Riku figured that the figure knew him since he was most likely working with his replica, but some things were still not lining up, and Riku wanted answers.

But Riku instead only sighed and used cure on himself as he began to walk back down the mountain, trying to figure out ever possible way of how he could know that figure's identity.

Riku finally made it back to the house as he looked over to see everyone was sitting on the stairs that lead into the house waiting for him. Much to Riku's surprise however, all of them got off the stairs and went over to him as soon as he came into view. "Did you find out who Gantu was working for?" Pleakley asked.

"Was it the person that sunk your world into darkness?" Xion added, figuring that Riku did find out who Gantu was working for.

Riku only shook his head. "No," he lied, "I lost track of Gantu about halfway up the mountain." Riku did not like lying to his friends, especially his girlfriend, but he did not want to worry them. He figured that he would tell them what really happened when the right time came.

"We're sorry Riku." Aqua said. Riku only shook his head once again.

"It's alright, I'll find out who did it eventually." Riku said.

"Does this mean that it is time for you to leave?" Jumba asked as Terra nodded.

"We have a job to do, and the only way we can finish it is if we leave." Terra relied.

"You four come and visit any time you want." Nani said.

"You better come and visit! You are part of our Ohana now!" Lilo said with Stitch nodding in agreement.

"Don't worry, we will come and visit soon." Riku said as the group then all said their final goodbyes and they summoned their riders and flew into the sky, looking for a world to go to next.


Sorry if this chapter was a little dark in nature you know with Gantu exploding into darkness and all that, but hey I warned you that this book would be darker!

Also, that figure that Riku fought is on of the dark one's minions. Hint Hint, he does know who Riku is but I am not going to say if Riku knows him (instert evil laugh here)

Also, dont you gus think that Disappeared is the creepiest music you have ever heard in your life? I know it is for me!

So anyway, please R&R and look out for the next chapter! Roxas, Namine and Lea will be going to a world i know a lot of people are excited about so look out for that!