Chapter 2: The Rescue

RIKU

"This is the place." I said as I hid behind the boulders with Kairi.

She nodded and said, "The King, Donald, and Goofy should be here any minute."

She gave a shiver and said, "Something about this place creeps me out."

I nodded and said, "So I'm not the only one."

We stared over the boulder looking at the two guards. They each held a gun in hand.

I heared a beep on the com-links the king gave me.

I said quitely, "King Mickey we think found where they took Sora, but it guarded heavily."

He said through the com-link, "That not good. You two will have to go in without us, a party 5 would get noticed fast. Plus this place isn't a good spot for sword or should I say key fighting."

Kairi looked down a com-link and said, "Sora has been gone too long, we need him back. Now. I wish we could have found him sooner."

The King replied, "As do I, but these guys cover their tracks good. My question is why take him in the first place?"

He sighed, "Then good luck to you, we will have the gummi parked we you are now. Find Sora, make sure he's alright and get out of there."

I turned the link off.

We looked at each other and nodded.

We both summonded our keyblades to our hands.

Kairi looked at me and said, "Look what I've learn from Sora."

She pointed her keyblade at them and yelled, "Lighting!"

Two bolts of lighting struck down the guards knocking them out.

I looked at her and said, "Nice."

I walked by one of the guards, notice a tattoo on the back of his neck. It was an expiration date, why would a guy get an expiration date as a tattoo?

We quickly made our way into the door of the compound.

Inside there a single hallway leading to an elevator.

We got in and I pressed the button for the basement.

I smirked and said, "If you had to hide something, either the attic of the basement would be the best place to hide it."

When the elvatator door opened we saw thousands of cages, most of them with kids in them.

Kairi said, "What are they doing to these kids? This is horrible. Oh Sora..."

She let a little tear roll down.

"Kairi? Riku? Is that really you?" I heard the fimiuar voice but all scatchy and ruff.

We ran to the cage the voice came from to see Sora badly beaten and in a hospital gown.

Kairi cried, "Sora! Your alive!"

He gave a weak smile. His hair had grown a lot and covered most of his face, he looked taller and thiner too since we seen him last.

"Thank god you come. Get me out of here before the erasers show up."

I raised an eyebrow and asked, "What are erasers?"

He said, "They put me in here. I'll explain later."

Kairi looked at the lock and said, "This is locked. Why didn't you use the keyblade?"

He shook his head and said, "It wouldn't come to me, not while I'm hurt like this."

He showed us the huge burns and cuts on his arms and legs.

Kairi looked at him in horror and asked, "What did they do to you?"

He looked up and said, "I'll explain later, but right now, I would really like out of here."

I busted the lock with the bottom of my boot and the door opened.

Sora stepped out showing that he was nearly a foot taller than me.

Kairi hugged him and he said, "Easy! That kinda hurts."

She smiled and said, "Sorry."

I looked at him and said, "This is so not fair. You get captured for six months and grow insanely tall."

Sora eyes grew big. "Six...months..."

He looked at me and said, "I've been here longer than, I've known."

Sora looked at the cages that were next to him and said, "Flock, time for a break out."

A teen with blonde hair crawled forward and said, "About time. Let leave before we're missed."

I busted off the locks for the six kids that were locked next to him. They all stepped out. Each one was skinny, tall and where different ages.

The darker complected ger hugged Sora and said, "You were right about your friends Sora. They did come!"

Sora looked at the girl as she hugged him and said, "Still hurts! Please stop Nudge."

She smiled and let go.

The little girl went up to me and said, "Can you free Total?"

She pointed to a small dog. I knocked the lock of and the dog ran into her arms.

"Well, well the piggies got out. Looks like I'm gonna have some fun."

We turned around to see a man who's face shifted to look like a wolf. Seriously, Sora and these kids were kidnaped by werewolves?

The blonde teen said, "Ari, you and your eraser pals might as well give up now."

Ari bared his teeth and said, "Max, you know me better than that. I won't stop until one of us lies on the floor."

Max ran up and kicked Ari in the gut. He flew into the wall where Max picked up a needle and stuck it in his arm.

She smiled and said, "It's not going to be me."

She turned to us and said, "That will probolbly last 10 minutes, so we need to get out of here. Now."

The alarms started going off.

The boy with strawberry blonde hair said, "Well there goes the disapear without a trace plan."

We all got in the elevator.

Max hit the roof button and kicked in the controls.

I looked at her and said, "How are we suppose to get down now? We'll be stuck on the roof."

She smiled and said, "That was we want."

Sora looked at Max and asked, "Up, up and away?"

She nodded and the rest of the group seem to smile.

Why were they smiling? We're going to be trapped on the roof.

The elvatator opened to the roof. Max grabbed me and Sora grabbed Kairi.

The two of them ran as fast as they could with us in hand and jumped off the roof.

I closed my eyes and yelled, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

I waited for us to hit the ground.

Kairi yelled out to me, "Riku open your eyes! This is unbelievable..."

I slowly opened my eyes relizing, I wasn't falling.

I was flying.

Kairi was flying.

We were all flying.

We were freakin' flying!

I looked up to see Max with a set of wings 15 feet long, They were like hawk feathers with brown on top and speckled brown going down into the white.

Those kids have wings.

I turned to see who was holding Kairi and Sora.

"Sora..." I said in amazement.

He smiled and said, "This is my first time, I actually got to this. You were right Max, best feeling in the world."

To my suprise Sora was carrying Kairi and flying with his own set of wings.

Kairi smiled and asked, "Sora what happen? Who are these people? And where did you..."

He smiled and said, "I'll tell you when we land, right now we need to get as far away from The School as possible."

He eyes turned to the sky in front of us.

I stared ahead to the world below.

I don't know if we save them, or they saved us but...

I don't want this to end.