"Remember, Sora: cut Naminé down, but bring me Marluxia alive. I wish to deal with that traitor, before he is eliminated. That is all." Xemnas gazed down at the Keyblade bearer imperiously, smirking at the half-lidded eyes and drugged demeanor. The brunet nodded once, but stood there for a moment longer than called for. Saïx frowned at him.
"You have your orders. Go." Sora nodded once more, mouthing a silent apology, before reaching out to summon a Corridor of Darkness, and portaling away to the ordered destination.
Castle Oblivion. A place that brings back so many memories; and takes away even more in return.
I'd hoped never to come back to this place...
Sora opened the pale gold door once more (though the carvings seemed more blurred than before in his drugged haze) and walked into the white castle, climbing cardless through empty rooms and hollow corridors, until he reached the twelfth floor.
There, standing with a determined yet hopeless gaze in her eyes, was Naminé.
"Sora..." she attempted to plead, "Don't do this. Don't listen to Xemnas; he's just controlling you! Remember your friends? Remember Kairi? Riku? Donald? Goofy?"
"No," he said softly, sadly. "You erased them."
With a yell of vengeance, Sora struck her with his corrupted Keyblade, and watched as she vanished into nothingness, only wisps of darkness tendrils.
Eliminate the traitors. Always follow orders.
Shaking his head to clear it, Sora ascended the stairs to the thirteenth floor, ready to fight Marluxia once more, and take him down, but froze in shock.
Marluxia lay dying, already, on the white tile floor, and was already beginning to fade.
What? Why-?
Marluxia refused to turn around and face Sora one last time, as his body slowly dissipated into smoke.
"You killed Naminé, and now you've killed me. You must feel so proud of yourself..." he sneered as he vanished into darkness for good.
For without a heart, it only ever belonged to the darkness.
A/N: It sucks. I know. I'll rewrite it, but I had to finish for 11/11/11. It was rushed, and I apologize! But it is, after all, a drabble.
