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Roxas walked in a numb haze through the dark streets of the World That Never Was. Xion's dying words echoed through the young nobodies head as he moved towards the castle. 'Roxas... all those hearts that we captured... Kingdom Hearts... set them free... Please... Roxas.'

His chest hurt. He felt like something was caught in his throat. His eyes were moist. His mind played images of Xion in his mind, an endless slide-show that made the walk feel like it was dragging on forever. "I promise, I will put a stop to this. Xemnas will not have his way. Just you wait." Roxas mumbled as he looked up into the dark sky to see the incomplete Kingdom Hearts flouting over head, like a fake moon, as fake as all the hopes it represented to the beings who were entirely hopeless.

Turning a corner he tensed up as he saw a familiar face standing there, waiting for him. Axel stood, leaning against a wall his head down. His long dark red hair seemed even more of a mess than usual. With his eye closed, it almost looked as if the tattoos underneath his eyes were real tears.

Roxas stared at his friend. The friend who had hid the truth from him. The friend who had kept him in the dark so that he would continue to do the Organization's dirty work. Roxas felt sick just looking at him. Turning his head away he just kept walking.

"Where do you think your going?" Axel said as Roxas passed him. Roxas bit the inside of his cheek.

"I'm going to put a stop to this. Once and for all." Roxas responded, glancing up meaningfully at Kingdom Hearts.

"You can't turn on the Organization!" Axel shouted angrily. "If you get on their bad side then they will destroy you!" The red haired Nobody moved away from the wall, almost as if he was going to grab onto Roxas, but his hand fell short. There was a pained expression on Axel's face. As if he was as conflicted as Roxas himself.

"No one would miss me." Roxas said before continuing on, trying his hardest to ignore the thing he heard in Axel's voice. It was too late. He had already promised Xion he would see this through to the end. He wasn't about to back out now. In his entire 368 days, he had never backed out.

But even so, he heard Axel's last words. "That's not true!.. I would."

Roxas hardly even hesitated in his steps, he just pulled up his black hood over his spiky blond hair, and continued on. He had chosen his path. He would put a stop to Organization XIII. He didn't care what happened to him.

Axel watched him go, a feeling of pure hate bubbling up inside of him. He had never known true hatred until now. He thought he had. He was so sure that he had hated before, but he had been wrong. He had thought he hated the traitors before for undermining his work. He had thought he had hated Sora for being the reason why Roxas and Xion had to exist the way they did. He had thought he hated the worlds for denying him is own existence.

But now, he knew what true hatred was. He felt it burning so hot as to melt away his skin. He hated... himself.

He hated himself for not telling the kids the truth. He hated himself for spying on them for Xemnas. He hated himself for bringing Xion back, not simply letting her get away. And most of all, he hated himself for not being strong enough... good enough to save her.

"Dammit... Dammit!" Axel shouted to the blank sky, this purple and dark blue lights giving him no comfort at all. "Why did it have to end like this!? Why couldn't the worlds just let us be happy!? Huh!? Was that to much to ask!?" Axel's cries started to become historical as he broke down. He looked helplessly up towards where he had seen Roxas just disappear, seeing the castle in the distance. "They are going to destroy you..." He said quietly, his head dipping low.

The quiet crushed down around him. It was like a dark blanked, heavy and unmoving. Threatening to smoother him completely. Taking in a sharp breath, he clenched his fists and started off after Roxas.

"They won't take you from me too."

He noticed them following him long before they actually tried to bar his path. The dusks were everywhere, their thin silver forms snaking around the corners of the dark buildings that lead towards the Nobodies' castle fortress. But Roxas didn't hesitate, he keep walking at his brisk pace. His eyes only focused on the heart like moon that hoovered in the sky, partially hidden behind the castle. He would have to fight his way through it if he wanted to get to Kingdom Hearts.

He made it all the way to the bridge connecting the castle to the dark city before the lesser Nobodies descended, the first group guarding the bridge while the others quickly surrounded him. Roxas paused in his step, taking his time to evaluate his position. One hundred fifty seven, that was his personal record. Fighting off one hundred fifty seven of the silver monsters before being overwhelmed. Sadly, the Castle had far more than that number, and it housed stronger beings than these doormen. But Roxas had gone too far already, his life had been forfeited a long time ago, and after what happened with Xion, he didn't want to stop. The pain in his chest drove him forward, the weigh of his promise pushing at his back.

"Out of my way!" Roxas commanded the lesser Nobodies, seeing if they would still respond to his authority even now, but the creatures merely swayed back and forth rhythmically, the zippers that held their mouths closed parted as they gave a short hiss.

The first attack came from behind. The serpent like strike aimed to skewer Roxas through the back as the Nobody twisted its arms together into a spear. Roxas felt the creature's approach, as it gave the characteristic whine of its lowly kind. He did a quick pirouette, shifting out of the way of the attack and bringing down his right arm.

A dark fluid formed around his fingers, twisting and turning, growing outwards into a long shaft before solidifying into a long black blade the rune of oblivion forming at the end looking like the tooth of a key. Roxas brought up his keyblade in one swift movement, bisecting the Nobody which gave a solitary wail before falling to the ground, blood dripping from its wound before its body started to fade away, small black fragments flaking away from the corpse faster and faster until nothing remained.

The tension broke and the silver beasts throw themselves at the former thirteenth seat, their shill cries seemed to shake the world as they moved as one, like a tsunami. Roxas didn't wait for them to reach him, swing up his keyblade, he focused his magic. "Blizzard!" The massive shards of ice erupted for the tip of his sword, smashing into the lesser Nobodies in front of him, knocking them out of their charge.

While they were still dazed, Roxas pressed forward, cutting his way through the wall of bodies with several wide slashes until he managed to break the circle and making for the stairs.

Nearly every step he needed to strike down one or more of the silver figures but he didn't slow down, to hesitate was to fail. He had to keep moving or else he would be completely overwhelmed. The lesser Nobodies weren't smart, but there sure were a lot of them.

Nearing the top of the long flight of stairs, he came upon the first barrier, a crystal-like shield designed to keep out the Heartless as the World That Never Was drifted closer and closer to the darkness. But the seal put up no resistance at all to Roxas's Keyblade which sliced straight through the wall shattering the crystals as the Keyblade undid the seal.

Kingdom Hearts looked bigger than ever, sitting right behind the Castle, its light throwing out strange shadows over the surrounding. He was close, he couldn't stop. Nobody after Nobody fell before him as he kept his legs moving. His breaths were becoming harder. How many had he killed so far? Only fifty or so, but the added run made the battle even more exhausting to when he was simply holding them off in training.

A shadow in the corner of his eye caught his attention and he heard a whistling sound. The shot got him in the leg, causing him to lose his footing and fall to the ground. He had to roll out of the way to avoid being pieced by the Nobodies that had been on his heels as his eyes scanned his surroundings. A sniper up in the windows, the end of its gun glowing white hot as it prepared another shot. Roxas slashed the bullet out of the air, redirecting it into a nearby Nobody before he pointed his sword towards the sniper. "Fire!"

The ball of fire zoomed out towards it intended target, erupting into a miniature explosion that knocked a fair sized hole into the stone work. An opening into the building where he might be able to lose the hord in the tight turns of the halls, or at least it would be harder to surround him completely.

"Cure." He murmured, fixing up his leg before running towards the wall at full speed. Right before he smashed into it completely he added another spell; Gravity. His body gave a lurch as a new direction was assigned to down, but he didn't even stumble as his feet touched the wall and he began to run up the side of the building, the hundreds of lesser Nobodies slamming into the wall before they figured out that they needed to snake their way up it.

Quickly getting his bearings, Roxas took the nearest stairs, moving ever closer to his goal. The corridors were crawling with various Nobodies, but Roxas rushed through them, taking routes to make it difficult to keep track of him and using his greater speed to his advantage.

He reached the finally set of stairs that would lean towards the roof top from which he would be able to approach Kingdom Hearts. He was going to make it. It wasn't until he opened the door and a pair of spikes shout down out of the sky, nearly driving themselves into his face that he realized just how far way he still was.

"Well if it isn't little Roxas. We've been looking for you." The sarcastic voice of Xigbar drowned. Roxas looked up to see the eyepatched Nobody staring down at him, his skunk like black and gray hair pulled back in its usual ponytail, a look of disgust literally burned onto his face as half of it was covered in a long scar from an old battle burn. The twin hand guns held up, daring Roxas to try to make a move.

"Shit." Roxas cursed as he saw just how screwed he was. Standing behind Xigbar were three other figures; Demyx, Xaldin, Saix. Only Axel, Luxord, and Xemnas himself were missing, all the other remaining members of Orginization XIII were there, standing between Roxas and Kingdom Hearts.

Roxas's eyes gazed past them to the giant heart. It was only a half a mile away, but it might as well been on the other side of a massive canyon for all it matter.

"I'm glad to see you got this far kid. You see, I never liked you. It's your face, it reminds me to much of when the old me got this scar." Xigbar said, tapping one of his guns to the eyepatch while keeping the other trained on Roxas. "So I would like to put a few holes in that pretty little face of yours."

"Careful Xigbar, we were to try to convince him to stop this foolishness." Xaldin said, though he himself already had out his six spears. The dreadlocked man was taller than any of the others present and had a savage air about him. He might have spoken of restraint, but he was rearing to go.

"Come on little buddy, I know you don't want to go down this route. It would have made everything up to know a waste." Demyx said, strumming a few notes on his guitar, a nervous expression on his face. "I really don't want to have to do this Roxas, you know how much I hate violence."

Roxas didn't listen to any of them. He was taking this time to caught his breath. His fingers gripped his Keyblade so hard that he could feel the cool metal through his black gloves.

"Roxas, you have a choice to make." Saix said, stepping out of the group, his wild blue hair reaching down past his shoulder blades and the 'x' shaped scar over his face drew attention to his pale golden eyes. "Return to your duties, or be destroyed."

"Go to hell." Roxas growled, raising up his keyblade.

"Roxas, don't do this! Just comeback and we can pretend it never happened!" Demyx shouted.

"Pretend it never happened? You want to just pretend that Xion never happened!?" Roxas shouted back. "You want me to just go back to being your dog after everything that has happened!? She was my friend! My friend dammit!" Roxas ran forward, trying to push down the stinging feeling in his eyes as they began to water.

He tried a lunging attack for Saix first, not because of any particular plan, just because he happened to be closest. Saix quickly brought out his massive steel slab of a weapon which he seemed to be under the impression was a one hand sword even though the blade itself was larger than his body and the hilt was even longer.

The metal of the two weapons rang as Roxas's blade glanced off of the much larger weapon, but he didn't stop, quickly taking a series of quick steps to get around Saix's guard and aiming a slash for his right side. The scarfaced Nobody had to dodge to the side, but the tip of Roxas's key still grazed his black coat leaving a short tear in the fabric.

He could beat Saix, he had done it before. The key was to keep your mobility up and not letting him push you into a corner. Unfortunately, Saix wasn't alone, and Nobodies rarely cared about fair play.

Roxas saw the small bend in space appearing to his right and ducked just as a silver needle like bullet shout out of the portal, passing straight through the spot where his head used to be. Four more portals appeared and Roxas was made to dance about, dodging and deflecting the incoming missiles. Xigbar was laughing as he used his spacial magic to play around with the youngest of the High Nobodies, firing more and more bullets.

Roxas couldn't just dodge forever, his opponents were already taking this time to surround him, he had to make a move on the offensive and fast. Jumping up into the air he pointed his keyblade to the sky. "Lighting!"

Bolts of energy came from the key, striking down onto the ground around him, pushing his enemies back a few steps as the spell kicked up dust. Then, using his improvised smoke screen, he moved in on Xigbar. There were four steps between the edge of the smoke and the gunner, but Roxas made them in a instant, his black keyblade swinging around. Roxas was only half surprised when his attack connected with nothing but air. The sniper had vanished, using his space magic to jump away before Roxas's blade could reach him.

Xigbar's magic was taxing on the older Nobody, and he couldn't keep it up for long. If it wasn't for the fact that he had allies, Roxas might have had a chance against him.

The spear gave no warning, coming in a sweep from Roxas's side, it slammed into his rib cage, throwing him to roll across the ground. Before he could even take a breath, two more spears shout out towards him, forcing him to try to get out of the way. One of the blade heads grazed against his side, but he managed to get back to his feet in time to guard against the full front of the remaining three attacks, though he didn't have a moment to collect himself before a surge of water from Demyx hit him back down to the ground.

Saix's large blade crashed into Roxas's body and the young Nobody gave a gasp of pain as the metal slab cracked bones. He was sent flying across the ground till he smacked into a wall where three of Xigbar's dart like bullets nailed him to the wall. Roxas's gave a scream of pain as the bullets pushed into his shoulders and side. Not fatal wounds, but that only meant that it would last a little longer.

"You cocky little shit. You really thought you would take us all on by yourself? What made you do it? Couldn't be love for that worthless doll. You'd have to have a heart for that." Xigbar chuckled as the four Nobodies surrounded him in a semicircle.

"She wasn't... a doll... She was my friend, you asshole." Roxas spat angrily, reaching up and pulling one of the darts from his shoulder. It hurt like hell, but he couldn't stop. He could still see the said smile on Xion's face as her body turned to dust. 'Please Roxas...'

"Hahaha... stupid kid." Xigbar said, shaking his head as he pointed his gun between Roxas's eyes. "Once your died, Sora will wake up, and then he will continue where you left off. So go night and good..." Xigbar's words were cut short and his body stiffened. A short gasp leaving his parted lips.

"Xigbar?" Saix said, not understanding why the oldest of them had stopped, but all of their eyes widened as Xigbar's body began to fall, as it turned they saw a steel grey and red chakram embedded in his back.

"What the..." Demyx started, his mind numbed by shock, but that was as far as he got. The chakram glowed red hot before exploding, turning Xigbar into a cloud of red and black mist and blinding the rest with heat and smoke. Before they could recover Axel dashed in, his second weapon sliding neatly across Xaldin's throat before he threw it into Demyx's face, both dropped dead before they smoke managed to clear, leaving Axel standing between Roxas and Saix.

"A...Axel." Roxas said in surprise as his friend summoned up one of the Chakrams into his hand, holding it in a defensive position as the other hand moved back, holding an elixir out to Roxas.

"Did you really think I was going to let you do this alone?" Axel said smugly before dropping the item into Roxas's lap. "Take that, we've still got work to do." Roxas nodded, pulling the other spikes out of his body before drinking the magic potion, feeling his energy returning as the holes knitted themselves closed.

"What is the meaning of this, Axel?" Saix said, his cold voice not betraying any of his thoughts, even though he had just watched three of his allies being slaughtered in front of him.

"Simply, I'm with the kid. Xion was my friend too." Axel said, summoning up another Chakram. "Now how's this going to go down, Saix? I'm willing to let you walk away for old times sake, but if you try to stop us, I won't go easy on you. Got it memorized?"

"Tough talk, coming from someone who had to ambush his enemies to have the upper hand." A large playing card appeared in the air before spinning around, revealing Luxord. The card throwing Nobody rubbed a hand over his short blond hair. "Man though, I was hanging back in order so that we wouldn't have all our eggs in one basket. Looks like that little gamble payed off, wouldn't you say."

"Shit." Axel spat, though Roxas was back up on his feet.

"I see know that you were right to hold back." Saix agreed raising up his own weapon. "Axel, if you have betrayed the organization, then you will die as well."

"You can forget that! We won't be the one's losing here!" Roxas shouted tightening his grip on his keyblade.

"Then lets us see who has the higher pair!" Luxord shouted, a glowing card appearing in his hand, the attack was released and the battle reset.

This is eventually going to turn into the beginning of a crossover(undecided as to what though, leaning towards Campione), but for know it only has Kingdom Hearts elements. No I don't care for canon, so don't ask about it. Both Axel and Roxas are going to stick around as the MCs.

I decided I was going to write something for Kingdom Hearts after reading 'Rekindled Assassin' and liking the manipulative assassin Axel.