Sora's POV

Sora leapt from branch to branch, trying desperately to keep up with Tarzan, who it couldn't be clearer had done this all too often.

"So what's this trouble you were talking about?" Sora gasped as he stopped and leaned against a particularly thick tree-trunk.

"Heartless" Tarzan said, jumping down and pulling Sora onto his shoulders, "Sora must help, must go now!", and with that he launched himself further into the trees and began to rocket through the jungle, running, leaping, swinging from branches and vines, and even sliding on mossy branches and angles of vine, all while carrying Sora on his back.

They reached a clearing and Sora saw that it was filled with Heartless, just Shadows, nothing to worry about. He summoned his key blade, ready to strike. He stood on Tarzan's thick, broad shoulders and threw himself into the clearing, swinging the keyblade into the nearest shadow and making quick work of all the rest. He finally landed in the exact centre of the clearing, the key blade vanishing upon landing.

"There you go!" Sora smirked, "That wasn't so bad"

Tarzan looked grim, "Wrong heartless" he said, "Big heartless have Jane…"

Sora gasped, "Where have they taken her?" he demanded, to which Tarzan simply pointed out into the trees. "That way…" he muttered, "But they too strong. I couldn't fight…"

Hmm, too strong for Tarzan… Sora thought to himself, They must be pretty tough Heartless. He knew Tarzan wouldn't be joining him, and that the mighty ape-man was ashamed of his failure, so he ran into the trees, jumping onto a branch a few inches from the ground and vanished into the trees without looking back.

Riku's POV

Riku crawled through the tunnel to the secret place, My God! I can't believe we were small enough to fit through here! he thought as he struggled towards the light at the end of the tunnel… A light which surely couldn't be there, the secret place was, after all secret, so surely empty too?

He finally reached the secret place and found that the source of the light was the mysterious door that had at last opened on that fateful day, what seemed like a lifetime ago. Suddenly he froze, he felt an odd sort of pain as his shadow suddenly retracted into his body. It then projected outwards until a man stood before him.

Taller, only slightly, a more malicious look in the eyes and face, unmistakable, but still it was definitely him, before Riku stood another Riku, a darker, far more dangerous Riku… "The door…" spoke the new him, in a dark, ominous voice which filled the room and made it unclear where exactly it was coming from "…will take you to your hearts purest desire…. However. Your heart is divided"

"What do you mean?" asked the first Riku, worried by this new presence.

"I represent the darkness within you" the other Riku explained, "and I feel that I can defeat, or take charge of, any threat without Sora's help. So I'll be going on to not save the worlds, but conquer them myself" he smiled an evil smile and the first Riku drew out his weapon.

"Never!" he shouted, "The good in my heart will persevere! And what I truly want is to be reunited with Sora, so we can stop this threat… Together!"

"Have it your way" spoke the second Riku, the choice retracting so it now came only from him… "In that case.." he drew and identical weapon, "We shall see whether the light in your heart is strong enough, or whether the darkness will devour it!"

And with that, the two Riku's launched at each other and struck with identical attacks. How can I possibly win… or lose? Riku thought, We are the same, I need to work out what makes us different so I can defeat him!

Sora's POV

Sora perched himself upon the top of the tallest tree in reach and gazed out in the direction the muscular ape-man had pointed. He waited, feeling that soon he would recieve a sign leading him to his target...

His expectations were correct, as a moment or two later, he heard a deep, throaty roar and saw a cloud of dust rise in yet another clearing. He leapt in that direction, getting ever lower throught the foliage and at last seeing his target, a large, mosteerous creature at which he threw his keyblade, landing a solid strike into the enemies ribcage. He then re-summoned the keyblade, and with all his might jumped high in the air and bought the mighty blade down upon the beasts head. The creature scattered into darkness and Sora wiped away the single drop of sweat on his brow.

He saw Jane in the clearing's centre, and ran to her. "Come on!" he exclaimed, "Let's get you back home"

"No!" she shouted, "Look out behind you!"

He turned just as another, even larger monster smashed into him with the side of a large horn protruding from it's snout, throwing him into a nearby tree trunk.

"Ow!" he shouted, then looked at Jane, "Get out of here!" he screamed, try and get back to Tarzan, I'll catch up when I've finished this"

As soon as she vanished, four more of these Heartless emerged from the shadows...

"Okay" Sora muttered to himself, "This could take a while..."

Riku's POV

The two Riku's were evenly matched, but the firsts strength seemed to be waning faster then the newer, more vicious Riku.

How can I beat ME! We're the same he thought, then it hit him... He's the same as the Darkness within me...

And with that Riku realised that the only reason he couldn't win was because he was letting his anger and frustration take over, and that he was evenly matched because he was fighting with the same agression as his opponent.

He then ducked back, and began to defend himself rather than launch his own assault... I sure hope this works!

As the more evil Riku launched a pwerful strike, the first Riku ducked below him, he had realised that his best weapon was his opponents own agression. He made use of the opening that in a better frame of mind he would never have left open to attack, and swung his weapon swiftly upwards into his opponenets stomach.

The second Riku fell the the floor on his knees, and faded into darkness when struck to the head in this moment of weakness. He slowly rerouped and returned to his place, spread across the floor beneath the real Riku's feet.

Riku stepped through the door, eyes closed. He fell through the light, muttering a single word as he went...

"... Sora"

Sora's POV

Sora continued to defend himself against the five enormous Heartless, landing an attack of his own from time to time.

Oh crap! he thought, How am I supposed to beat all five!

Suddenly a flash of light broke into the clearing. The Heartless were struck by massive lightning strikes that destroyed them on contact. Relieved, Sora looked out into the trees to see his savour.

"Riku!" he exclaimed, launching at his friend and the two embraced eachother, each beginning to cry a little at the previous events.

After a few moments Sora pushed himself away uncomfortably, blushing slightly at his own overexcitement.

"... Err, soooo..." he said, "We'd better get back to the camp and le Tarzan know things are okay now..." He pointed the way

Riku smirked, "The usual?" he asked.

Sora grinned broadly, "Let's do it!", he answered with a wink.

And with that they ran off into the trees, each glad to be reuniited, and each determined to defeat the other...