Roxas had left Xion and her children that morning with a promise that he would be back as soon as The Four Demons were dead, Xion hated that she couldn't help Roxas, Malik, and Minato, but ever since Shi Jiu attacked her and forged his Chaos Sword from her memories, she wasn't at her top game, no matter how hard she trained. She looked out of the living room window of her home in Twilight Town into the rain with a prayer that her family would be safe after that day.
Hours past and the Memory and her children were sitting down for dinner when she got the feeling that something wasn't quite right. "Kyo.. Daisuke.. I need you to go to my room and lock the door behind you.. Don't open it for anyone but me or Roxas.." Xion ordered her children. "If either one of us aren't back in an hour, or if someone tries to break in, get your brother and yourself to Radiant Garden and find Aerith or Leon immediately, understood?" She asked her 16 year-old daughter, Kyo, who nodded. "But why?" Her 10 year-old son asked. "Because, Dai.. I don't want anything to happen to you or your sister.." She said as her eyes flicked towards the front door. Her son nodded and hugged her as did Kyo. "Be careful, Mom.." Kyo whispered before taking her brother upstairs.
Xion grabbed her old Organization XIII coat and slipped it on before heading out into the pouring rain and summoning her keyblade, True Light's Flight. "Shi Jiu or Shadow?" She asked out loud, looking around. "Oh, just me..~" A feminine voice called out as a shadowy replica of herself stepped out into the open while Xion growled. "Lovely family you have.. Two children, cowering inside.. Loving boyfriend, brother, and nephew, fighting to protect what matters most.. Unknowingly leaving it unprotected and defenseless.." Shadow smirked as she summoned her keyblade, Darker Than Dark.
Before the dark reflection could set up an attack, Xion launched a Ragnarok at her. Shadow flipped out of the way and countered the light ribbons with a dark Ragnarok of her own that slowly overpowered the light. "You really think that you have a chance at beating me with a weakened body?" Shadow taunted. Teleporting behind her, Xion thrust her Keyblade into the right shoulder of the Demoness. "Eh.. I just need to hold you off for a while..." The Memory admitted while twisting her Keyblade.
Shadow hissed in pain and blasted Xion back with waves of darkness, before yanking the keyblade out of her back. The Memory skid back and summoned True Light's Flight back to her hand and cast a blizzaga at the shadow being. The dark reflection rolled out of the way and created a black orb in front of her. Xion recognized the attack as either Trick Room or Magic Seeker, both attacks that she had created before her Shadow had been set free. Believing that it was the first, Number XIV once again teleported behind her reflection to slash at her back, hopefully before Shadow's attack took effect.
The dark reflection had anticipated the attack and expanded the black orb in time to engulf both her and Xion, whom took the damage from her own attack. Xion shouted in surprise and pain, her back felt like it was on fire after feeling her own blade cut across it. She jumped back and thought about how she would escape the Trick Room. The Memory didn't have the advantage that Malik and Minato had with their Dragon World, and she couldn't touch Shadow without taking the damage from it.
"What's wrong~? Don't like your own creations to be used against you~?" The Demoness asked as she started walking towards her prey. An idea then hit Xion. All the Trick Room was, was just manipulation of darkness and space, so why not try using light instead of darkness to reverse the effects? Yes, just trying this could kill her, but not doing anything would do the same thing. The Memory sighed and pointed her keyblade at Shadow and formed a ball of light at the end of it. Thinking that it was the beginning of a Ragnarok, Shadow stopped and opened her arms, daring Xion to attack. Rather than the light launch out ribbons, the orb expanded quickly to engulf Xion and her dark reflection, canceling the Trick Room.
Xion panted, exhausted after using so much energy, but grinned when she realized that her idea had worked. Shadow, standing yards away from the Memory, looked around in shock that quickly turned into anger. She glared at her beat-up counterpart and launched Hell's Fire, a dark Megaflare, at her. Xion quickly stabbed her keyblade into the ground, pulling up a wall of light to block, but struggled to hold it up against the powerful attack. The wall started to crack, and immediately she 'borrowed' energy from her other forms, careful not to change into one of them.
Suddenly, Shadow crashed through the wall of light and slashed at Xion, whom barely blocked in time. "Getting slow..~" She growled at her light counterpart before slashing again. Xion once again blocked, and this time, kicked Shadow back before using Thunder Raid. The Demoness didn't have time to dodge the lightning covered keyblade, and because of the pouring rain, she took more damage than originally anticipated. "Who's slow now?" Xion smirked as she caught True Light's Flight and rushed at her shadow.
Quickly shaking off the shock of the attack, Shadow rushed at Xion, clashing keyblades with her. Each pushed against the other, trying to force the other back. Slowly, the dark reflection began overpowering the Memory, and blasted her back with a wave of darkness. Xion was taken by surprise, and lost her grip on her keyblade as she was thrown back.
The wind was knocked out of her as she hit a tree and she fell to the wet ground with a soft thud. Coughing and trying to regain her breath, Xion slowly stood up, using the tree for support. A gasp of shock and pain escaped the Memory's lips as Darker Than Dark was thrust into her left shoulder, where a heart should be. "Even though my 'allies' will fall after today.. I still got my revenge.." Shadow smirked as she twisted her keyblade before pulling it out of her light counterpart. Her cold eyes sparkled with a dark glee at the small, pain filled noises Xion was making, "I'm lucky that you don't have a heart.." The Demoness remarked as Xion collapsed, her breathing unsteady. "It means that you'll get to suffer like I did..."
"Mom!" Two young voices cried out before two surprisingly powerful Ragnaroks, one light and one dark, slammed into Shadow, knocking her away from the fallen Memory being. Xion looked up to see Kyo and Daisuke running towards her, their keyblades in hand. "N~no! G~get out of here!" She called out before coughing up blood. Her children paused at her warning as Shadow pulled herself up and turned around towards the young key wielders, smirking. "Well look what we have here..."
To be continued...