"Not gonna happen... We're gonna find a way to get you back to normal and make sure this never happens again. Right Riku?"Sora smiled. "Of course...."Riku pulled Sora down next to him, causing Sora to yelp. "Riku! No fair..."Sora whined.
"Hmph...I wonder who would be able to change me back if I became a Heartless...."Riku thought out loud, unintentionally. "Sora."Valerie said. "what? why me?"Sora asked. "Because you two have basicly known eachother since you were babies."Valerie said. "True..."Sora blushed a bit.
"Its nothing serious. Nothing a band-aid can't fix."Riku chuckled. He looked over to Sora and Valerie as the two argued a bit. "Heh, he's so much like a puppy...."he smirked. "I heard that!"Sora whined, pouting. Riku just chuckled at the pout. "I have to admit that pout is cute..."he said. Sora couldn't help but turn a light shade of red. "well its true."Valerie said.
Sora looked over to Riku and Eden, wondering why Riku was so concerned. Sure they were on the same boat, having trouble with the darkness....but... "You're not getting jealous, are you?"Valerie asked with a small smirk. "What? Why would I be jealous that someones talking to my best friend?"Sora asked. "You wouldn't....unless you see Riku as more than a friend...."Valerie chuckled. Sora looked at Valerie with a suprised look. "Of course not!"he said, blushing from embarassment. "I think your friend is trying to tease my friend."Riku chuckled, watching the duo.
"I've never seen anything like this....Riku hasn't-"Sora looked over to Riku. Riku was off in his own corner, trying to stay away from the others. The stress of the situation was causing the darkness inside him to stir. He could hear the darkness whispering to him, trying to lure him back into submission with its sweet tone. "Shut up...."Riku groaned, trying to soothe his migraine. "Um...who's Riku talking to?"Valerie asked.
"Riku....you okay?"Valerie asked, looking at Riku. Riku was still scared of the situation. He only knew of the ability to control the Heartless...but absorbing darkness was a different story. Who knew how his body would react, seeing how it reacted to Edens body. He was too deep in thought of the situation, mumbling to himself. "Riku...."Valerie was alittle confused. Sora frowned, looking over to Riku. "Hey, calm down.... Ri...."Sora sighed, wrapping his arms around Riku in a friendly embrace. Riku looked over to Sora, snapping out of his fear-induced trance at the sight of his concerned best friend. "I...I'm sorry..."Riku said, shaking his head. "Don't scare us like that..."Sora frowned, not letting go. "Um... Sora, you can let go now..."Riku was alittle nervous that Sora didn't let go. Sora pulled away, alittle embarassed. "ah...sorry..."he coughed to try and hide his embarassment. Valerie giggled a bit.
"Right...past the rest area, first door to the left."Sora said. The three of them of were very concerned, mainly Riku. He's seen what the darkness does, but nothing like this. It honestly terrified him, wondering if the same would happen to him. Valerie noticed that Riku was starting to tremble at his thoughts.
Riku didn't mind the cut-but he was very concerned. "Eden, calm down...."Sora frowned in concern. Valerie was very concerned for Eden.
"E-chan!"Valerie gasped, going over to Eden. "Oh my gosh, you poor thing...."she said. Sora set the gummi ship on auto-pilot and joined Valerie, Riku doing the same. "Poor girl..."Sora frowned. Riku wrapped his arms around Eden in comfort.
"E-chan...."Valerie was alittle worried. Riku frowned, really concerned on what would happen. We have to find out whats happening before it gets out of control... She's really getting scared....
"Eden...."Riku was very concerned about Eden and what was going on. "Is everything okay back there?"Sora asked.
Riku fell back from the blast. "Ow..."he looked at Eden and gasped. "Thats not good....it's getting worse...."He frowned, noticing the blackness spreading.
Sora didn't really like being told what to do, but followed orders. Valerie gave a small look to Wesley, but got back to her game.
"I don't think its a good idea to use it at all... you lose control once and this happened...."Riku examined the claw. He gasped in suprise as he could feel some of the darkness emitting from the claw suddenly flowed into his body. He shuddered at the feeling, trying to figure out what happened.
"Fine..."Sora sighed. Riku looked at Edens hand. "Of course....I honestly have to say that I've never seen something like this happen with the darkness...."He said. "I don't know if it'll go away or if it'll get worse...."he frowned.
There was a bit of a silence. "We're being attacked by Heartless and Nobodies. The military is the least of our problems."Valerie said simply.
Valerie pulled her PSP out of her bag, pulling out a game to play. Sora went to fly the gummi ship. "Alright. In private...."Riku left to what looked like a rest area with beds and everything, waiting for Eden.
Riku went to get the weapons. "We should go...We need to find exactly where the keyhole is. Stop the Heartless.. Then we take care of the nobodies. Sure they're alittle harder to beat than the Heartless.... But with a group like us it shouldn't be that much of a problem."Sora said. "I wonder where the keyhole would be anyway...."Valerie sighed.
Riku was trying to ignore the sense of darkness,wincing a bit. "So...we should find out where the heartless are coming form and stop any more from coming here....right?"Valerie asked. "Its not that easy..."Sora said.
"You can trust all of us. we won't hurt anything but the heartless and the nobodies..."Riku said. Sora nodded.
