Up, Up, and Away

[Reno]

Roxas secretly agreed. they were different if only in slight ways. the way they held themseleves, the shade of their eyes, the way they smiled, the shade of their hair - little things but to a keen eye obbvious differences.

Roxas was about to retort to his... look alike when he mentioned Axel and blood. His head turned, and then he twtched. He had a sick feeling he knew EXACTLY what Axel was picturing. He punched the red head in the face. "not in your fucking wildest dreams!!"

He crossed his arms, scowling at Ven. "and just because3 you took my keyblades doesn;t mena i can;t wield a fucking keyblade. you do know, Sora has like... 40 of them right? Not just Ultima right? You woulda had to of fought him a gazillion times before you accomplished your goal."

He grinned innocently. "and by then Riku woulda chopped off your fucking head. speaking of which-" He lifted his keyblade. "I don;t know why the fuck your here but i have a little debt to repay you."

Tidus looked down at Minnie then leant down so he didn;t feel so tall. "Uh... queen of the worlds... yeah Kairi sorta explained that to me but... no offense but your a a um... a mouse."

Before the fights could break out or the talks got more awkward, loud chattering and scampering came running down the hall.

"you're majesty we have a problem!" Chip the chipmunk cried, his brother two steps behind. "Twilight Town;s disappeared from the map!!"

Roxas head shot around. "what!?"

Mickey's ears lowered. It was happening already...? "When?"



Seifer bowed his head, feeling the creepy chill as it came upon them. He drew his free arm around Olette, both tow ard of the cold and to offer her a final comfort. This was it for them.


Hayner looked at her, offering her a small reassuring smile. "See you in the afterlife." The cold grip of death washed over him like a bucket of ice water.


Sora switched in the throne, turning over, limbs spasming even in sleep. He was always full of energy, never calm even in times of rest. It was odd behavoir. He did not wake but he was aware of Riku's leaving. Aware of the darkness thsat trailed after him as he played to take another world.


Seifer stirred, his eyes sliding open when he felt the other one stirring beside him. He groaned, sitting up as well. "We're alive?" He looked around, confused.


Hayner groaned a bit, shivering a bit. He sat up taking a deep breath suddenly, his eyes wide. He looked around confused, then turned his eyes, staring at fujin. Damn she looked... wow. "I am in heaven aren't i?

[Rikugurl]

Axel's dream was horribly ended by being almost knocked out. DAMNIT! And it was getting to the good part! He whimpered as he held his face, not carrying much about what was going on around him.

Ventus growled as he was suddenly put down. "Don't fucking talk to me like that you fucking prick!" He held out his hand, his own keyblade appearing once more. His black hand had gone numb again but he could care less, he could mess up this fucker.
"Bring it bitch!"

Kairi had held her poor ears. "Guys guys! Stop fighting!" That didn't work at all.

Minnie blinked, blurring out all the cussing behind her as she looked at Tidus who came down to her level. She only smiled kindly at the remark. "Big things come in small packages."

That was when everything stopped.
Dale panted behind his brother, almost smacking into him.
"Yea! It just disappeared a moment ago! We can't find it at all... but we did notice that another world has come back! Traverse Town!"

Axel blinked, looking down at the little critters. "Twilight Town.... gone?" No... how.... how could that place lose its heart to Darkness!? It.... It was his home world... the world.... he spent so much time with Roxas. The world... where he fell in love. His eyes darkened. Whoever did this... was going to pay.

"Gwarsh! Traverse Town?" Goofy finally interrupted. "Why, that's the world that holds people who's worlds have disappeared from Darkness."


The amber eyes glanced back at Sora who was making tons of noise in his sleep. He frowned but the ball arose again. Destiny was whirling around, making him wonder what was going on there. Another grin. Now... it was his turn to pick.... maybe something smaller this time. Twilight sucked up a lot of his power.... he could tell from feeling sluggish all of a sudden.

He picked up the large ball of The Gardens. There were two mini worlds in these two large ones. The 100 Archer Woods and Space Paranoids...


Olette blinked as she looked at Seifer. That was when she noticed his clothes were missing too. She blushed slightly and looked away. "Yea... I guess so...."


Fujin looked back at Hayner, her silver hair covering her eye patch as she gave him a negative look. "No." Slowly she got out of bed and walked to the window, looking out. It was nighttime and yellow glows came from the houses outside. It seemed very... warm.

[Reno]

Aqua and Terra merely sighed as Ven got into yet another one of his tussles. Aqua was relieved as long as Roxas didn't care about her she was free to go!

Then the chipmunks came...

Twilight Town... gone... the words kept ringing over and over in his head. He lowered his keyblade, not even seeing Ven or Aqua or anyone for that matter. Hayner... Pence... Olette... were they...? He turned away walked a few paces away from the group, just staring at nothingness. He wanted to scream and rave but... "gone...?" he whispered. Who...?

Donald nodded in agreement to Goofy's statement. "It disappeared when there wasn;t any need for it... now there is one."

"Welp the only thing to do is we have to find Riku and Sora as soon as possible and stop them. We have to do whatever it takes." Mickey's voice cut across the crowd. "And that includes... being able to tolerate each other. we can not win this battle didivied. the mroe worlds swallowed by darkness the stronger they will get."

"what do you mean?" Tidus asked tentatively. "what's going ON?"

Mickey sighed, but slowly began to tell the tale again, in slightly more detail for Tidus' sake - full of his theories about the half-soul that made sora follow, to the last moments of when he saw Riku jumping through that portal, amber eyes and all. He told them of their options. Once he was finished, Kairi looked devestated but unsurprisred, Tidus look baffled and sick, Axel looked... angry... and Roxas wasn't facing them, keeping his back turning the entire time.

The words rang through Roxas' head. Riku and... and Sora had... no, that couldn't be. They tried to destroy Disney? they cauised the destructive of... "you're lying." Roxas accused, not facing any of them, still unable to. "Riku wouldn;t... and Sora couldn't..." even if he FELT it in his soul and heart and mind he refused to believe it. it just COULD NOT BE!

"Pff, face it kid that's what the keyblade do-" Aqua stated.

"No!" Roxas spun on his heels suddenly, pointing his keyblade towards Aqua, his face full of pain and anger and a deep, deep sadness. "you don;t know ANYTHING about them! Anything at all! Riku had some fucking issues yeah but he wouldn't... he wouldn;t DESTROY anything! Especally... because he hates the Darkness damnit! He;s SCARED of it. It took him until he was nearly dead at my feet before he used it against me!"

"He tried to destroy us." Terra grumbled.

Wisely Roxas ignored that comment. Riku had grown to be a close friend - even if it was a ltitle awkward and mostly through mail full of blunt insults and light jabs. They were friends on a whole other level and if no one else would stick up for him, he would! "-and Sora has a heart of gold damnit! he... he had friends... OUR friends were on Twilight he'd never... NEVER allow it to happen. he;d rather die then... then... then break a promise." Roxas drew his arms around himself, bowing his head, shaking all over, feeling tears in his eyes and he valiantly fought them back. his own words pained him because each time he said either of the boys' names it sent a chill of darkness through his heart. He was furious and and hurt and... and so god damned confused.

And so god damned guilty. It's my fault. oh shit it;s my fault... the words rang in his head. If he hadn;t of left Sora... none of this would be happening. he was like some... co-murderer to his own friends' deaths! All because... he and Axel...

A memory flashed through his head.

Sora pale and shaking, braced himself against the wall, panting hard. It was already too much.

"S-Sora i can go back... really... you look like shit and-"

"No." Sora gasped, grabbing Roxas by his colalr. "Don;t you fucksing grow a concsence NOW Roxas. Be fucking selfish... you LOVE Axel and he loves you back..." The brunette shut his eyes. "I'd never... ever ask you to tear yourself away from that. EVER. I'll find a way tog et better but please... just stay with him. He needs you. And you need him."

"Sora..." Roxas whispered, before fucking his Other, enar to tears for the second time that day. "thank you..."

Fucking selfless idiot!


sora wasn;t sure what snapped him into wakefulness - maybe Riku;s evil intentions - but he was suddenly awake. there was no slowl waking up period. He had slipped off to rest and like flipping a switch, he was up again - not drowsy or overcome by fatigue. He was awake and ready to battle.

He looked towards Riku. "not that one." Sora whispered as he pointed to 100 Acre Woods. He cowered when Riku;s eyes met his and he looked at the floor, unable to remain eye contact or even speak up for himself.

that world was speacial - his getaway world when he needed to stop feeling like a hero and start feeling like a kid again. It helped balance all the insanity...

But why did he care anymore? He knew he couldn;t even wield a keyblade anymore. The keyblade of light no longer responded to his inner call.

He was not the master anymore. all his promsies were gone and all his duties naught. so why not enjoy killing every last rodent on the universe, gaining all the pwoer his dark heart craved?


"he glanced at her, seeing her wide eyed gaze and blush before she faced away. "Whatsamatter?" He twisted trying to reach for her. Was there a draft...? He looked down -

Then let out the most unmanly shriek ever, falling from the bed in an attempt to hide under it. "where the fuck are my CLOTHES?!" Wait better yet why was he and Olette...? "Shit don;t tell me i got fucking drunk, slept with a wussette and then had fucking dreams about overpowered black bunnies."


Hayner blinked. "Oh." wells hit he was alive. but how? He looked down at his own clothes, noticing how... casual and weird they seemed. just a normal t-shirt with jeans. That was it. Nothing speacial.

He padded across the floorboards, stepping up beside Fujin. "Well we made it... but what happened? did we step into some alternate reality and were really two different people now?" Someone had been watching too much TV.

[Rikugurl]

Kairi blinked, listening to Goofy and Donald. Traverse Town? She never remembered that place... but she remembered Riku and Sora talking about it once.... Their names sent another chill down her spin. She hated this...

Riku.... Riku really was evil... wasn't he? She couldn't stop but feel guilty herself... what if he became evil because of her? Because he was jealous...? She had seen him as Ansem... but knew exactly who he was on the inside. She knew it was Riku... but was that because... she was the Princess of Hearts...? Or because of their bond? No... at first Sora didn't know who it was and their bonds were much more tighter...

She knew that Sora could no longer bring the Light to Riku... perhaps she was the only one now... that could find Riku's heart and pull out the Light.
Her train of thought was thrown off though as she started to hear Roxas.


Axel swallowed, listening to his lover's pain. He slowly walked over, making him put the Keyblade down and wrapped his arms around him.


Vetus growled. "Oh yea!? Well he fucking killed a planet! We saw the evil in his eyes! His amount of power! You weren't there... but if you were, you would of seen the evil all around him! It's those goddamn keyblades! He ate the world right up and showed now mercy at all!" There was tons of anger in his voice.

He hated Raktus as much as the next person... but at one point, it was the Chaser's world... now they were stuck in some tiny aircraft.
"He had a huge demon behind him that was powerful enough to break a barrier! This guy has to be rid of!"


So much for working together...


"Hey hey now!" Goofy finally broke in. "You're friends might not be gone! Just cause Twilight Town lost its heart doesn't mean your friends did. Traverse Town holds the people who lose their world. Maybe they're all there!"

Kairi smiled and nodded. "Yea and once we fix Riku and Sora." She stopped as she felt that chill again. "The world might come back. Destiny lost its heart once but got it back!"


Riku's amber eyes flashed as Sora protested. A frown ran over his face as Sora cowered. This brought some downfalls up. Would Sora protest when it came to fighting the others...?

He looked down at the world, seeing how bright and cheerful it was. There were many pure hearts he would gain from taking it... but the world's heart was very small. It was a book for christ sake.
"Fine." He said coldly as he placed the world back down. He had a better idea...

"Stay here..." He said softly before a black portal appeared. He walked into it and disappeared along with it.

The black portal appeared in the Radiant Castle where the large computer system was. It was empty, which was unusual... but he wasn't complaining. Slowly he walked out and looked back and forth, making sure he was alone. He slowly moved to the main control and looked at all the buttons and gadgets.
A whole world was in there....?

His eyes darkened as he pressed his pale hands against the keyboard. Darkness seeped from his hands and through the computer, finding all the nooks and crannys to bellow into. Slowly the computer started to shut down and became a darker grey.


Olette burst out laughing as she heard the blonde scream like a little girl. She would of never pictured that Seifer could get his voice up that high! She wished she had a camcorder.
"HEY! Stop calling me a wuss! You're the one who has a higher pitch voice here!" She growled as she grew a negative look on her face.

She suddenly blinked and looked over the bed at him, seeing that he was halfway under. "Black bunnies?" He must of been talking about the Neo Shadows... Black bunnies were much more cuter than those things... She easily got up and stepped on Seifer with no worry. He had been a jerk!

"So... where are we anyways?" She happened to still have all her clothes... only they were a different... and more casual. She walked over to the window, seeing the same sight that Fuu had seen. "Oh! It's pretty!"


Fujin blinked as she heard the outlandish conversation Hayner was having with himself. She looked at him again. "How old are you again??"

[Reno]

Roxas melted into Axel's embrace, Bond of flames shimmering out of sight as he drew his arms around the other. He looked at Ven over the other;s shoulder. "do you know how much it would kill sora to lsoe Riku? could you ghonestly do that to your own brother?" he said. "Riku;s fucked up but it wasn't his fault ansem fucked up his life." His eyes narrowed, senseing the darkness that still surrronded the three chases.

Aqua frowned suddenly, before putting her hand on Ven;s shoulder, yanking him back slightly. "Ven stop." she was sick of the fighting already. If anything, as Chasers and former expirments, they should be the most synpathtic. they kenw what Xehanort was capable of - look at what he did to them.

That man was a monster. And he fucked up so many lives. Hers, Ven;s Terra, Riku's and Sora's... Axel's and Roxas'... and countless upon countless people who lost their hearts to darkness. Where did it all end?

Terra was silent, almost contemplative. What if they had been the ones to help speed the progress of Riku turning to darkness on? what if they had triggered it? Riku had shown signs of darkness back on Destiny - and then on Raktas it only got worse. Maybe... they were a bit to blame here.

the group turned to Goofy and Kairi as they spoke. Roxas looked down, deep in thought, then nodded slowly. Yeah maybe they were okay. In fact he knew they were - safe and sound somewhere. they had a job to do.

Mickey smield. "thats the spirit!" It was much harder to keep control with them all without Sora here. "We need to keep hope. If we can believe it will happen."

The others trailed into silence, nodding to the wise King's word.

Donald frowned, speaking up. "but what do we do now?"

"What we NEED to do is figure out where they'll be striking next and hopefully be able to save the next world." Terra stated slowly, "and maybe even be able to catch them in the act."

"Pff, well that'll be nearly impossible." Aqua said.

"We should go to Traverse Town - ask the survivors what they know." Mickey said. "We might be able to pick up some clues."

"Um..." Tidus started. "All of us?" He looked from one person to the enxt - they were suddenly a very BIG group. how would they all get from one world to the next together? those little gummi ships wouldn;t hold them.


In the back of the mainframe, a program woke up, feeling a virus invading the computer. Tron worked quickly, throwing up firewalls and protection - making new codecs and binariries - but whatever this virus was it was killer. It broke throw every defense he had crashing the mainframe.

Tron didn;t understand he was world - all he knew was he was a computer meant to process things and sparingly speak with a brunette hero and his dog and duck companions.

All he knew know was this virus was going him down forever and there was nothing he could do.


Sora flinched as the other left, before he threw on his discarded clothes, tugging at the collar uncomfortably. He then scampered forward on all fours, coming up to the collection of worlds. Pridelands, Disney Castle, Port Royal, Delshad, Tra- Traverse? He looked at the world confused. That one shouldn;t exist.

In the corner of his eye he could see the ball with space Paranoids in it turning to gray. Riku was killing it from the inside out. He ignroed it, reaching for the little shimmering ball that held Traverse. He touched it -

It was like he fell forward, tumbling out onto the ground, chain rattlign noisely as he stared up at the stars. Instinivetly he knew he was no longer on the world Riku had taken him too. He was in traverse town.

The brunette stood, walking slowly - not noticing the globs of darkness his footprints left behind like rain leaving puddles. He didn;t notice as that dsarkness grew into shapes of heartless nor did he see them scampering off to invade the newborn world, tearing away it;s innocence.

He saw nothing but the sights around him. All dark lights and pretty candles. He was in the Third district where no one visited.


"Ow!" Seifer complantely as Olette cruelly stepped on his back like he was some sort of staircase! Argh that little...

He watched her wander over to the window, rolling his eyes. "girls think anything is pretty." He tugged the sheet of the bed down and over the other half of his body. Why wasn;t she naked too? why was it ALWAYS HIM?!

"Hey... where's my gunblade?!" He suddenly cried looking around frantically. Without his weapon... Hell where was Raj?


Hayner glared at Fujin before walking towards the door. "i'm going to figure out where we are." He stated. He wodnered... were there heartless on this world too? God and he still didn't have a weapon!!

[Rikugurl]

Ven growled. Quite honestly... Ventus was always worried about his brother... but after the expirments, he couldn't feel the bond between them anymore. He was about to protest when he felt Aqua's hand on his shoulder. He look up at her with those big blue eyese and frowned. He then looked up at Terra, seeing that he was deep in thought. "Terra...?"

The worry went away when the black haired man spoke up. He nodded and listened to everyone... including Tidus.
"No! I have a good idea!" He grinned as his keyblade finally disappeared.

"As Chasers, we chase down Keyblade. Keyblades are evil and have a very powerful and dark force to them. Aqua, Terra and I can go to our headquarters and see if we can track down where Riku and Sora are... or at least track where they go. That way, we'll know what world they're in or what worlds are being eaten and we can confront them!"
Yea! That was a great idea!


Goofy blinked as he heard him, scratching his head. "Ya can really do that?"


Kairi nodded and looked back at Tidus, a smile on her face. "You can come with me like before."


"Well... since the Darkness is up and running, Roxas and I can travel that way..." Axel stated softly as he continued to hold his firecracker.


Oddly shaped Heartless started to bite at all the wires and fixtures of the computer inside. The world was falling into Darkness quickly and without warning.


Riku's hands lifted as he saw how easy it was for the computer to shut down. You'd think that Leon and the group would of made the computer more... powerful and well protected. His curiosity took him though as he walked out of the room and into a main lobby. It was still quiet... He looked around, seeing the picture of Ansem the Wise.

With a growl, he ripped it down. Ansem... pathetic...
With the crash, it must of awaken someone because a squeak came from the other room and someone hyper started bouncing down the hallway. Riku moved quickly to a nearby room and hid in the shadows easily. His amber eyes moved around the room. It looked like a small library of some sort. Reports...

But something else caught his eye.
100 Acre Woods
An evil grin arose as he reached out an grabbed it, a dark seal wrapping around it. He quickly found leave in another portal and returned to his throne.

"Sora... I brought someth--" He stopped. The throne was empty. Sora was gone. The book dropped into the water as he walked to the pillar, the black water already knowing what to do. It quickly found Sora and showed the image to Riku. "Traverse Town...?" He could only come up with a small evil laugh, watching his pet wonder around aimlessly as the Heartless started to form behind him.


Olette's eyes darkened as she looked back at Seifer. "You're not pretty." She said abruptly. She ignored his gunblade remark and slowly opened the door, walking out into the night air. She hoped everyone else was ok... but they had to be! She was here right... maybe the others would be here too.

She could only hope.

She blinked as she looked down, seeing a treasure chest right next to the door. She moved around it and opened it. "Hey! I found it!" She called as she picked up the gunblade that was inside.


Fujin's eye widened as she watched the other go. "Hey wait!" She frowned as her skirt shifted as she moved next to him. This was going to be weird to walk in. "I'm coming to." She said softly as she left the little house with the blonde. The air was chilly but just right. It was very... welcoming. She looked down, seeing a treasure chest and blinked.

Opening it, she found her Chakrams. Why were they out here? She frowned as she handed one to the blonde... even if she didn't trust him very much with it... he needed something to protect him.

[Reno]

Terra nodded in agreement to Ven;s words. "We were able to find them before it won;t be hard to do it again."

Aqua grinned. "And of coruse we'll be sure to tell all of you." she kenw that when it came time for the fight she Terra and Ven would not be enough to take down the two former keybladers. How they were even going to manage living through the fight as another thing altogether. She glanced at Terra, then at Ven.

Mickey looked at the three Chasers quietly. In a way they had always had pure intentions at heart they just carried out their plans in a very messed up sense. He nodded slowly. "If it is what you wish to do i will not stop you. We;re grateful for any help you feel you can offer."

Roxas rolled his eyes, but at Axel's words he looked up. He grinned. the darkness was theirs again! "Then we;ll go to Traverse town." He said, secretly because he wanted to see if his friends were alright - but he;s ask around anyways.

Tidus looked at Kairi and grinned uncertainly. "More lights?" He looked around nervously. what could he honestly do to help...?

Donald frowned, glancing at Goofy then at his king. He;d follow whatever his majesty said to do.


Sora felt a shiver run down his spine, feeling as if he was being watched. He shook his head, then started to run, jumping at a wall. He was easily able to scale it using his claws. He pounced ontop of the roof, darkness flooding the land behind him at his every move.

He raced across the rooftop,s, whooping excitedly as he jumped across alleys. He paused on one, eharing the dinging of a bell. He growled, the noise sending uncomfortable reverbrations through his soul.

"Mmm..." A little dark ball of energy began to form in his hand, and then he pointed it at the tower that held the bell above the gizmo shop. He yanked his hand back then threw it like a bseball.

The darkness sdmacked into the old bell, expolding on impact.

The dings stopped and Sora smiled contently. He wlaked to the edge of the rooftops, looked at the people below. He licked his lips, sensing their hearts and a hunger built within him.


Seifer looked up, then carefully extracted himself from the bed, wrapping himself in the sheet so it covered his dignity. He walked over. "Really?" He looked at the treasure chest that held his blade. "well thats... conviently odd."

His ehad shot up suddenly, hearing a loud boom like a mini-explosion. "what wasd that?!"


Hayner smiled grateflly, holding the chakram. "thanks." He looked around at the town, noticing how dark it was. did this world ever see the sun? His ehad turned suddenly eharing the noise as well. "that... was ominous."

[Rikugurl]

Ventus nodded and grinned, his keyblade appearing and quickly slash it at nothing. A ripple ran through the world before a computerized portal appeared. He grinned as he jumped into it. He took a deep sigh. Finally back home...

He went to the computer and sat down. He flipped a switch on, making death metal blare throughout the whole ship. Time to get things going! He grinned as he was about to nail Riku's and Sora's ass when...

"WHAT THE FUCK!? I CAN'T FEEL MY ARM!"


Axel nodded and smiled. A dark portal started to form around them and the redhead grabbed Roxas by the collar, bring him in. Xio yipped and jumped in too before the portal closed.

Kairi nodded. "We'll go too... just to make sure everything is ok." She looked back at Tidus... who seemed a bit out of place. "Since I don't have any weapons, you can be my body guard."


When the bell exploded, Hook bats came from it, flying throughout the town.

Riku frowned as he watched his pet. He really was acting like one... wasn't he? He must of turned into his Anti-form. He frowned, keeping an eye on Sora as he tried to figure out what world to take next. Traverse would of been easy... if it actually had a heart. It was just a haven and not much could be done with it.


Olette blinked as she heard the sound too. This wasn't good. Especially with Seifer naked! How was he suppose to fight. "We need to find you some clothes." She stated. There should be a place around here that se--

She stopped as a crazy looking thing flew in front of her. The Heartless symbol on its chest gave it away on what it was.
"HEARTLESS!!"


Fujin nodded and stood again but blinked as well as she heard the noise. That didn't sou--
HEARTLESS!!"
She heard the faint cry and quickly rushed to find the owner.

[Reno]

Aqua gave them all a wave before jumping in after Ven. Terra just shook his head, two steps behind her. the portal snapped closed.

When they enterwed the room, Ven was already b;asting his music getting ready to type when he exploded.

Aqua and Terra shared a look, remembering the fact that Ven didn;t have a second arm. It was slow coming but some the two began to smile and then laugh at their poor third member.


Roxas blinked as he was tugged away but smiled, hurrying after the other. The minutes they stepped out onto Traverse he could already feel it. Darkness was already seeping onto the new grounds of this world. He heard a scream suddenly that made his head turn. That scream... familar. "Come on." He said, hurrying towards the source - going as fast as he could with that large sewed up gash in his stomach.

Tidus blushed a bit, but nodded to Kairi;s statement. "Okay." At least that was a job.


Mickey looked at his wife. "Come on minnie we have some letters to send!" The worlds had to be notified of the danger they were in. they needed to start preparing. A whole new war was starting.


Sora crouched down, watching the little group - a girl and a guy wearing only a sheet, fight off some heartless. from the corner of his eye he was two running figures. Another girl and guy. His heartless were already surronding the two.

He licked his lips. He;d let his minions weaken them before he went for their hearts.


Seifer jumped at Olette;s sudden scream, looking at the little bat with disgust. He scoffed, grbabing her arm and yanking here back. He grabbed onto his gunblade, holding the sheet with one hand as he swiped at the heartless.


Hayner;s heart stopped. "Olette..." He raced after Fujin, holding the chakram tightly. He'd.. he;d destroy anyone who tried to hurt his friend!!

[Rikugurl]

Ventus growled as he heard the two laughing at him. "What the fuck is so funny!?" He pointed at his badly burned arm and frowned. "You think that is fucking funny!? YOU FUCKS! Get the fuck over here and start up the reactor! We need to hurry!"

All this yelling was because of... well... his nature and because he had to scream it over the music.


A scream was heard the moment they stepped onto the new world. The portal didn't close, the Darkness in the world keeping it open. That wasn't very safe....
Axel frowned but had no time to tell Roxas about it before he saw the blonde rush down the street.

Axel looked down at Xio and shrugged, rushing after his lover. When they rounded the corner, they saw four people and a swarm of... bats? His own Chakrams formed at his side as he was ready to fight. Good idea they came here!


Olette yelped again when she was yanked back. She wasn't some damn doll! She huffed as she watched the bat easily explode into darkness. She rolled her eyes, ready for him to start boasting about how amazing he was and that she was a wussette when she turned around again, and...
"HEARTLESS!!"
But this time... there was a lot more than one.


Fujin turned the corner and blinked as she saw Seifer and Olette getting swarmed with batlike heartless. She growled as she came to their side, throwing her chakram at some of them. Again, good thing they were all airborn.

She growled as she saw more come from the clock tower from the next district. She tossed her chakram at another but it hit nothing as a large, red lion grabbed hold of the hook at the bottom and banged it around.

[Reno]

"Alright alright!" Aqua grumbled, walking over to him and huitting him over the head. "Stop whining Bitch!" She yelled over the music.

Terra just shook his head, smirking. "Ah nothing like home sweet home!" he laughed manically, even as he and Aqua busied themseleves with Ven;s instructions. He led them through each process and as it went they already knew they;d have to help in the locating process. Ven couldn;t type with one hand - or well not quickly.


Seifer turned. "do you have to yell that every time?!" He looked at the minature army that was behind them and cursed. "ah fuck."

He blinked through, the corner of his eye catching sight of, "Fuu?" he glanced at the women, then watched her as she flung the her weapon at the bats. "Glad to see your alright." he mumbled sincerely.

His eyes narrowed at the blonde who stepped up next to her. "Pff chicken wuss."

Hayner bristled. "Shut your fat mouth Seifer-ass!" The three were facing all the hookbats. They noticed the lion first. Then the red blade that came tearing through the masses only seconds later.

Roxas rushed, Bond apeparing in his hands, the light it burst from warm like a flame. It was even sparking a bit as if ready to alight. He watched Xio take down a heartless, smirking before he was upon the fray, slicing with a strong upward stroke. Hearts flew into the air as he tore through the bats mercilessly. He hissed as the sitches were pulled. "Fuck that hurt."

[Rikugurl]

Ven growled as he got his head slapped. "YO!" After that, he decided to turn off the music so he could tell the two what to do. He monitored everything, making sure everything was right. They were looking for something more powerful than the keyblade... and all they could do was wait till the computer searched the universe.


Olette hid behind Seifer but blinked when she saw the blonde. "Hayner!" She smiled happily. He was ok!

Fujin nodded at her partner before she watch a nicer chakram pass her. What the... She stopped when she saw the two men come crashing in and taking care of all the heartless in one go.

Axel grinned "WOO!!" He caught his chakram and did a little dance before hearing Roxas. He blinked, looking back at him. "You ok?"

Before Roxas could answer though, a horrible bunch of growls came from behind them. A small army of Defenders sat there, their shields ready to throw out fire.


Riku grinned, his fangs showing as he watched Axel and Roxas destroy Sora's small Heartless. Time for him to interfere. He took Traverse Town in his hand, a darkness wrapping around it.

Back on Traverse, more Darkness poured out of Sora and onto the floor where the Destroyers came from.

[Reno]

Waiting was going to be the hardest thing. the longer they waited, the worse it became. Terra wanted them to do this quickly... to find Riku and Sora and stop them before any other worlds went up in smoke.


Hayner looked across the... sheet clad Seifer to grin at Olette. "Hey!" She was alright. thank god.

That was about the time Axel jumped in as well. Seifer blinked a bit, watching the red head and the blonde tear up the ehartless as if they were playthings. "Well damn."

Roxas, rubbing his stomach tentatively, feeling the rough edges of badnages, opened his motuh to answer when a growl made everyone freeze. He spun on his anjd cursed. "Fuck." He couldn;t jump that much - running around these bastards just bacame ten times harder. He growled - then he felt it. a new sweep of darkness was overcoming the world.


Sora shut his eyes, feeling the cold bite of the darkness kiss his body, and smiled. "Master..." Riku was watch was he? He'd make him proud. He watched the darkness flow to the ground like thick black syrup. He jumped from the roof, landing with a loud thump, crouched low. He wasn;t far from the battle but no one's eyes were on him. they were on the defender's before them.

He stepped from the darkness, feeling it as it collected, knowing it would bring form to a more terrifiyiing beast then the ones the others were facing at current. He licked his lips. He wanted their hearts...

[Rikugurl]

A hour passes, Ventus almost fell asleep in his comfy chair as the others leaned over it. It wasn't that Ven was lazy... his arm still took a lot of energy out of him for trying to heal.

There was a sudden beep, and the screen focused. Ven jumped out of his seat and looked up, seeing that the computer had found something.

And ironically... it was right behind the Disney Castle.

Ventus slowly started to type the best he could, not really able to give out orders since he was fascinated.
"The Realm of Darkness. This is where Kingdom Hearts and The World That Never Was is."
The computer focused more, showing a small location. He read it, squinting a bit.

"Thorning World Throne...?"
He never heard of it... but that was where Riku and Sora were located. He quickly sent the information to the Disney Castle computers as he quickly looked up what this place was from all the reports.

"Thorning World Throne is a small space in The Realm of Darkness that is to hold Requiem, the Darkness's ultimate weapon." He stopped. "Ultimate weapon....?"


The Defenders were a piece of cake to Axel and Fujin who could easily get to the things back from long distance... they all just had to watch out for the fire balls.

Axel panted as they were gone, only to suddenly see more darkness bellow out from a certain source. They were white and...
"GHOST!?"
Axel could feel sweatdrops run down his back and he was quite sure he wasn't having sex with Roxas. He redhead ran behind Roxas and ducked, seeing the Search Ghost come in closer.

Xio yipped at the weird looking things and jumped, trying to attack it but went flying into it... and into something bigger.
He looked up only to whimper and run off as a huge roar covered the town.


Olette looked at the huge blue creature with huge fangs. She ducked behind Seifer and started to shiver. What was that thing?

[Reno]

Terra was enarly passed otu across the controls, Ven;s soft breathing nearly sending him into la-la land himself.

Aqua was perched back against the computers, listening to them whirr and moan as they processed the request.

When it beeped, the two's head shot up, jumping up to stare at what the screen was telling them. They watched Ven painstakingly enter in a few keys, too shocked to ask for help.

"Requiem...?" Aqua repeated. "what the fuck is that?"

Terra frowned deeply, his eyes narrowing. this was not good. Riku was at some sort of crossroads - steepled in darkness while kingdom hearts hovered between Thoring World Throne and Disney castle - acting like twilight. "Well shit."


Seifer helped out fujin and Axel by shooting at some of the heartless, but he didn;t dare gwet closer. He still needed some damn clothes.

Hayner stayed back mostly unless some of the weaker heartless approached, slicing at them. he didn;t dare throw his chakran - he was pretty sure he couldn;t catch it, nor did he was to throw himself into the frsay of these dangerous and stronger heartless.

Roxas enarly burst out laughing. "Acel you baby!" He watch xio go for the ghost, not a bit surprised when he went through it. but the beast that had formed behind the ghost... that surprised him. "Shit... a behemoth." He swiped his leyblade up, easily disptaching the ghost.

"Well shit..." Seifer said, looking up at the large purple... monster in slight horror. It was a heartless?!

Roxas looked up towards the head of the monster - knowing it;s weak spot would be the horn and gasped at what he saw perched on it;s head. "S-Sora?" The brunette had climbed atop the hesartless, curling around the horn of the beast like a contently cat, a smirk on his face that was so disturbing it sent shivers down Roxas' spine. But even worse was his eyes. bright yellow and completely merciless. His heasd tilted to the side, as if to say 'come' grinning.

Sora was playing with them. He thought this was a game!