Chapter 5: Traverse Town.

Riding through the lanes between our seven heroes travel towards more known space. "I think we should try Traverse Town." Sora suggested to the others who agreed.

In Sora's mind he knew that Traverse Town was safe but they needed to recoup especially Ventus. Over the past couple of days Sora, Mark and XIon had to fight a boss fight on their own. If the trend went on like this the others would too. Vanitas was a test of Sora's strength. MX was a test of Mark's resilience and SS was a test of proving Xion's worth. The fights were mere tests and they were bloody hard. If Ven were to fight one of them anytime soon Sora had no doubt he wouldn't make it through: especially since Ven could hardly lift the Keyblade.

Approaching Traverse Town the gang suddenly found themselves with thousands of unknown enemies. However Ven and Aqua both recognised the enemies easily as proven to the other when they shouted out in unison. "UNVERSED!"

The so called 'unversed' looked like floating jellyfish. When Sora and the others scanned them they found that each individual unversed had 1 HP. Sora couldn't help snorting. "Don't underestimate this mate." Ven warned the spiky haired boy. "They may have low health but they are deadly."

Sora and the others around him were suddenly very nervous of the enemies.

Gathering their courage back together the Keyblade gang left into action continuously attacking their strong adversaries. The amount of spinning Sora did on his glider caused Mark to lose his footing: he tripped and fell headfirst towards the world.

Roxas saw Mark falling and thought to himself.

'Damn man!' and raced after him. When Roxas caught up to Mark he hauled him onto his glider. However with both Mark and Phillipa on the glider Roxas began plummeting downwards. "HOLD ON TIGHT!" He yelled to his passengers.

Mark and Phillipa did as he said without question, and not a moment too soon because they crashed into the accessory shop a few seconds later destroying the shop and trapping them underneath.

Meanwhile back in orbit Sora, Xion, Aqua and Ventus were dealing with the Unversed. Being low on health and having their adversaries moving continuously meant that the Jelly Shades couldn't attack the Keyblades and couldn't survive more than a single hit. It took over an hour to dispatch all of the Unversed. When the battle was over Sora was grinning almost maniacally. However he frowned when he noticed an absence of three individuals. "Where're the others?" Sora asked worriedly to the others.

"They fell down to Traverse Town after Mark fell from your glider and Roxas chased after them. I can only assume that they have crashed." Xion answered biting her nails and with a look of one who is worried.

"Right, let's go find them then!" Ventus offered to Xion who nodded and headed towards what looked like the main part of town.

So landing in the town square the Keybladers gasped in shock at the wreckage before them: The accessory shop, complete with Synthesis Workshop was now just a pile of debris.

Running towards the wreckage they saw three pairs of legs poking out. "Let me." Aqua offered solemnly. "Gather!" while raising her Keyblade in the air causing a Magnega to appear over the shop separating the debris from the three broken and battered bodies of their friends, who slowly but surely climbed away from the destruction site.

Now leaning on the low wall Roxas, Mark and Phillipa fainted. They were bleeding all over their bodies, but nowhere vital. Their legs were broken as well as their arms and they had slight internal bleeding. However their vitals were all good.

"Dismiss!" Aqua said sweeping her Keyblade forwards, breaking the debris into atoms.

Luckily nobody was in the shop at the time of its destruction.

Out of the second district doors came a serious medical team, a police team and a safety team. The medical team went straight to the injured trio but announced they would take some time to recover. The police team asked the others various questions which lead to Roxas, Mark and Phillipa being cleared of any charges due to the crash not being any act of misdeed. And the Safety Team made sure that the area was surrounded to keep anybody falling into the Accessory Shop crater.

The medical team told Sora, Ventus, Aqua and Xion that they would need to keep the others in the hospital until they fully recovered. 'I hope Roxas gets better.' Xion thought to herself as the trio who had crashed was taken to hospital.

~Scene skip~

That night found Xion at Roxas' bedside holding his hand while crying softly. "Come back to me you silly boy." Xion sobbed into the boys chest.

Meanwhile Sora, Aqua and Ventus were walking around the second district casually defeating heartless and racking up experience points. As Sora was defeating a Large Body a voice called out from behind him shouted "HEY SORA!"

Sora turned to see his friend Neku Sakuraba (I think this is how you spell Neku's surname) standing there. "Hey Neku, howya doing?" Sora grinned leaning back with his hands behind his head.

"I'm alright Sora." Neku replied more cheerfully. A far cry from his old baritone voice. In Sora's opinion it was much better then sounding emotionless. "What are you doing here anyway."

And so Sora told Neku about the adventure so far from being named Keyblade Master the battle with the unversed.

After the story had finished Aqua came out from the alleyway that lead to the Dalmatian's House and approached Sora. "You never told me you were a Keyblade Master. And from what I've heard from Roxas you started out as a self-taught Keyblade Wielder. Now that is impressive in itself but to do self-training and take your exam just three years later is just wow!" At the end of rant Aqua was in near-awe.

"That's right Sora." Ventus announced coming out of the alley that lead to the third district. "Never before you has there been a Keyblade Master who was self-taught. Even Master Nomura had had previous training with different weapons and swords."

"Wow." Sora whispered softly. Before fainting due to info overload.

"Well when Sora wakes up tell him the invite to Shibuya still stands." Neku informed the others, who nodded, before leaving.

"C'mon Ven, let's get this lazy bum to that hotel over there." Aqua suggested picking up Sora's shoulders with Ven picking up his feat.

At the top of the Second District stairs outside of the clothing store Sora started to stir. "Ugh." Sora groaned then

realised that he was being carried and yelled. "AH! Put me down!"

Ventus and Aqua dropped Sora in surprise. "Woah!" They both shouted in surprise. "Don't do that Sora." Aqua said severely to Sora slapping his arm.

"Sorry, but wasn't the one carrying an only slightly unconscious person. You should know that the best way for a person who has fainted to recover is to put them in the recovery position. Look, I'm sorry about I am never usually like that." Sora explained to his two new friends.

"Sorry Sora, remember we have been separate from human contact for years now. It's going to take some time to adjust back into society." Aqua apologized. It was true Ventus had been asleep for eleven years so he was tired and therefore his brain was not operating at full capacity. And Aqua, to her had been in the Realm of Darkness for two years, after all time flows differently throughout the worlds.

"Yeah, sorry mate." Ventus apologized.

Deciding that it was high time to lighten the mood Sora grinned and remarked. "You know Xehanort has another twelve of him helping him?"

Ventus and Aqua looked at each other slightly worried about their friends' bi-polar attitude but decided to go along with it anyway. "Yeah?"

"Well it just proves he has triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13 for those who don't know). After all, if he number 13 he wants all his other selves to fear him." Sora joked.

Sora knew it wasn't his best joke, but it was all he could think of to lighten the mood. Well, it obviously worked since Aqua laughed and told Sora. "I haven't heard a joke in ages. It's good to laugh again."

Sora suddenly yawned followed closely by Ventus and Aqua who told the younger boys. "Come on guys, that's enough for today, let's head to hotel."

Inside the hotel Aqua and Ventus got the red Chinese styled room (the hotel was still doing an art exhibition) and Sora went into the blue sea like room.

Over the course of the night Aqua and Ven consummated their new relationship before sleeping for a healthy eight hours.

However Sora was tossing and turning in his comfortable memory foam bed due to a nightmare.

~Sora's Nightmare~

Sora was walking happily down the beach on the play islands when he saw the ghostly apparitions of Mark, Phillipa and Roxas who moaned. "You failed us Sora. You disgrace us. We don't know why we ever trusted you, you got us killed!" Around them the sky had darkened at lightning was flashing around them making them seem scarier than they should have been.

Sora backed away from the ghosts of his friends slowly crying silently. "You're not dead." He repeated over and over again.

"Oh, we are it was you, you killed us and doomed the worlds!" The ghosts moaned as one. "You were my somebody Sora. The one person I looked up to!" Roxas moaned looking at Sora with pure hate. Fire sprouting behind him and raising higher with each word.

"You helped save my world and this is how you repay me? By getting me killed? You are a disappointment to me and of the worlds: I should have joined MX when he offered it to me!" Mark shouted disgust shining in his dull grey eyes. The shadows around him growing with every new word said. (Nightmares don't have to make sense)

"You're not dead" Sora mumbled.

Suddenly, out of nowhere a voice, well two voices shouted. "SORA, WAKE UP!"

~End Nightmare~

Sora jerked up and almost head-butted the yellow and blue orbs in front of him. "WOAH! Thanks guys, that was a terrible nightmare." Sora said thanking his friends.

"You're welcome Sora. You alright?" Ven asked his friend.

"Yeah." Sora mumbled. Next to him Aqua sat down and pulled his head and silently stoking it. Sora had tears streaking down his cheeks.

As Aqua slowly soothed Sora she mumbled. "Don't worry Sora, it wasn't real. Nightmares only reflect our worst fears back at us and make us believe they are real."

The mumbling was enough to soothe Sora and let him fall asleep again. "I'll never know how you do that." Ventus complimented with a grin not unlike Sora's. "You're just brilliant like that." When Ventus finished he pulled Aqua into kiss which went on until they reached their room which was conveniently right next door to Sora's.

The next morning Sora, Aqua and Ven paid an equal share of the bill: 1500 munny, so they each paid 500.

As soon as they left the hotel a whizzing came from above them. Looking up they saw a white, yellow and red Opposite Armour falling from the sky and landing in front of the Dalmatians' house. To their right a dozen Berserkers appeared by the alley leading to the third district and behind them a trinity Armour appeared by the fountain. One thought went through they now level 25 Keybladers as they looked at their huge problem: shit!

End Chapter.

Like Coulsdon I'm going to put the boss fight in the next chapter.

Current Party: Sora, Aqua and Ventus.

I am loving this story so far, it is much better than my Dr Who story. (Whispers) I may delete it. There are nearly 2,000 words in this chapter!