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THUNK!

"Nice block Kairi!"

A Zero Shinzaki creation.

THWACK!

A brunette boy let loose a hiss of pain as the wooden sword crashed into his weapon-hand, before a blur of red swept his legs out from beneath him.

Kingdom Hearts RE: Order

Chapter I

The Last Nobody

A soft breeze. A young brunette teenage boy with spiked hair was absently rubbing his right hand. Next to him sat a girl, similarly aged, with red hair down to her shoulders, panting slightly. Off to the side, leaning against a palmtree, was another teenage boy with definable muscles, and long grey-silver hair. The two boys, were Sora and Riku, the girl, Kairi. All three of them were special…

Not in the way the word is used as a term to denote those lacking certain mental functions, but to denote one who is "abnormal" in the sense that they can do something beyond that of mortal men and women. These three were capable of manifesting weaponry based upon an essence known as "The Light of the Heart". The weapon had a name, and it was called a "Keyblade". These "Keyblades" were strange, oversized key-like objects that could be wielded the same way one would wield a sword. Strangely enough, however, though they all shared the same name of "Keyblade" some did slicing damage, and others, blunt.

Much like a normal key, the Keyblades came in various shapes, sizes and makes, depending on not only the form that the wielder's heart manifested them in, but also due to the presence of objects known as "Keychains". Unlike a normal keychain, however, these "Keychains" were formed from the connections of people's hearts, and sometimes the powers of concept from entire Worlds. These Keychains were physical manifestations of a person or world's essence, granting the wielder of the Keychain some level of power similar to that of the person the Keychain was based off of.

Like the object the name came from, though a Keyblade can be used as a weapon, it is also a catch-all unlocking tool. Any form of lock, and some magical barriers, can be undone by a keyblade wielder. Even metaphorical or imaginary locks, such as ones on memories or abilities, can be undone. The Keyblade however isn't just a weapon or a master key. It - being a strange semi-spiritual and definitely magical weapon, formed from the Heart of a person, and sometimes a world, or entire universe- can be used to "unlock" a person or world's Heart, or even, subsequently, "lock" it. The "Heart" of a World, being it's spiritual core, the very essence of every collective existence that lies within its surface.

However, the process of "unlocking" a person's heart, can actually remove it. Now, by heart, it isn't meant the physical beating vessel of blood that most living creatures have, but more the emotional core of a living being. The "Heart" from which we feel emotions such as love, hate, pain, pleasure, joy, sadness and others. If a person's "heart" is removed, their body disintegrates into particles, as their concept of existence is essentially shattered, and from the shadow of their existence, forms what is known as a "Heartless". Heartless are drawn to, but subsequently potentially defeated by, the light of the Heart.

Therefore, a Keyblade wielder, is capable of slaying heartless and releasing the captured hearts within, thus allowing for the possibility of revival, but also, is a target for the Heartless. When 'sheathed' the Keyblade is hidden from the senses of Heartless, though they are still attracted to the stronger than normal essence of the bearer. However when it is exposed to the world, its continuous energies draw them, like lambs to a slaughter, or like wolves to a hunt, depending on the Heartless, and the state of the Keybearer.

Much like Light exists, however, there is also Darkness. The Darkness within people's hearts call forth the Heartless, creatures formed from the negative emotions of those who lost their hearts, or possibly even those whose hearts were consumed by their own negativity. These creatures seem to be the natural answer to the Light of Existence, though there are many that have been falsely created through unknown and improper means.

Yet…there is another state of existence.

Those with strong enough wills, will retain a semblance of their original body, and become what is, for some reason, known as a "Nobody". Like with the Heartless, a Nobody is formed from the loss of a heart, but is basically the unliving shell of the original life. Those among the Nobodies with particularly powerful wills, can be re-born, in forms resembling their original selves, though without their heart, and lacking emotion. They hold memories of their former time as true living beings, and though supposedly they have no hearts to hold emotion, they channel a form of emotion through their memories of it. In essence, they know what it is like to have felt emotion at one point, and can go through the actions, but cannot, supposedly, create new emotions.

This lack of a heart pulls at them, it strains them, thus they seek their missing hearts. Unlike the heartless, however, they do not wander around consuming whatever heart they can find, they want theirs back. Not anyone else's. Nobodies are capable of supernatural powers, much like the Heartless. Only where the Heartless wield things like Fire or Ice in natural and instinctive forms, such as throwing a fireball or calling down a bolt of lightning, a Nobody with a particularly powerful will, can get creative, for they have higher levels of thought, exactly similar to those of humans.

Nobodies, lacking hearts, are shunned by the Dark and the Light both, for they are beings that should not exist. Yet they do. They are what would be called, an impossible possibility made real.

Unknown to them…the three teens relaxing on the beach…one particularly powerful Nobody was heading right for them. And would change their lives…forever.

"So…how am I doing you two?" the redhead, Kairi, asked.

The question was born from the past few months of training. The two were teaching her –at her behest- how to fight, how to survive, how to not die. Originally, they abstained, due to their belief that with Xemnas gone, the biggest threats were over. She refuted them, stating that though he was gone, others could still come, on top of which, she wanted to know for herself.

They couldn't challenge her desire for self-improvement, thus, they began training her.

For her, it was brutal. Waking up early in the morning, running before breakfast, random exercises to loosen and build her muscles, learning how to handle a sword (if only a wooden one) and learning how to call her personal Keyblade from the depths of her impossibly bright heart. She didn't know why she was able to wield the magical weapon, but it was Sora who pointed out a possible answer.

"Chalk it up to you being a Princess of Heart. I mean, we don't know what that really entails other than a fancy title."

Thus, after a week of learning how to summon it, she learned, over the next few months, how to use it. Sora and Riku taught her everything they knew about the functions of the magical weapon, what little they knew of its origin, and its modular nature.

"The Keyblade seems to match the user perfectly, so it will always be the right weight for you. You'll always be able to summon it back to you, and if someone you don't trust takes it, or tries to keep it from you, you can bring it back to your side."

"Riku you're forgetting something though. Sometimes, if your heart is weak enough, or rather I guess your will, it won't come. It takes an odd kind of balance to be able to call it under serious stress."

"ahh, right…forgot about that…"

"You're doing pretty good Kai." Sora responded. Riku nodded softly.

"Yeah, you're progressing pretty quickly for someone with no combat experience."

"I guess watching you guys fight with these wooden swords all the time paid off."

"I still wish we had a girl to train you though." Riku spoke.

"Why?"

"Cause they tend to fight differently than we guys do. For the most part."

Sora nodded slowly. "Yeah, he's got a point. I remember Mulan didn't so much…hit things as she did kinda…flow…like water. Watching her pretend to fight like a man, and then seeing her fight like herself…she was a lot better as herself. Faster, smoother."

"Larxene too. That girl was flexible." Riku quipped.

"Hell yeah she was. She was dancing around me like I was nothing! I mean, yeah she had a really weird weapon and her lightning bolts hurt like hell but jeez. I'd think I land a hit and she just, bent out of the way…"

"Fought like a wild animal…but a really weird twisty wild animal."

Kairi cleared her throat, a vague irritated look on her face. "If you're done fantasizing about getting some girl in bed."

"You can't really blame them Kairi. She was really flexible. A bitch too, but still…" Kairi blinked. Normally Naminé didn't call people out like that. You didn't like her I take it?

Her response was a snort. "That's an understatement. Really out of all of them she was the one I was happy to see die. …again. I think. I mean, Marluxia was bad enough but he at least had a plan for me. Larxene? Ugh. Shrill as all get-out and stupidly tall too. Made me hate being blonde…"

"Kairi…Kairi!"

"Eh?" The redhead snapped her head to Sora.

"Let me guess…Naminé?" he asked, to which Kairi nodded.

None of them knew why, but for some reason, after a month into her training, Naminé started speaking to Kairi again. It wasn't constant, more like, she was a second occupant in a room, and would occasionally pipe up with a comment or observation. At least, at first. As the months went on, Naminé began to have a stronger awareness, capable of sensing people that were close to Kairi's heart, their proximity, and their general mood. Not long after Naminé began speaking, Roxas began piping up too.

"I think she might be talking about Larxene." You knew her too? "Yeah. Kinda flighty but really fast on her feet. Sarcastic as all hell though. I can see why Naminé wouldn't like her, she was kinda obnoxious. But definitely hot."

Sora snorted. Kairi looked at him oddly. "Roxas thinks Larxene was hot."

"Ugh! He would!" That just means he's into blondes though, right? Naminé had no response to that. Kairi was going to respond when suddenly Riku stiffened, his head whirling around, as if hunting for something.

"Riku?" she pressed.

"Something's wrong."

"Huh? What are you talking ab-

Suddenly, Sora's Keyblade flashed into existence. He stared at the magical weapon in confusion. O…kay…it doesn't normally do that… "Only when something really powerful is nearby…oh crap."

"Oh crap." Riku spoke, unknowingly right when Roxas did.

A swirling vortex of black, midnight blues and murky purples formed in front of them.

"Uhh…guys…? Isn't that a-

"Dark Corridor." Riku spat. This couldn't be good.

It wasn't.

From the murky gateway stepped an unfortunately familiar figure, one that had Sora staring in shock, and Riku simply tensing, ready for battle. "Xemnas…" The grey-haired teen bit out.

"Indeed. It is good to see you all, my friends."

"Wuh…buh…WHAT?! How are you not dead! We deaded you! You should be deader than dead! Like, ultra mega super dead!" Sora exclaimed wildly.

The tanned man gave a dark smirk. "Indeed I should…and I would be…were it not for a few…specific factors."

"Such as…" Riku pressed. If we can figure out how he survived, we can figure out how to make him not survive a second time.

"Your final act was to destroy a heart that I did not possess. You see, while your Keyblades may be capable of destroying a heartless, and a nobody, your last act wasn't to use the actual Keyblade but instead a function of it. Thus, through my own will, I was able to survive…if barely."

"That's…bad…isn't it Sora…?" Kairi asked timidly. She was scared, and for good reason. She was doing alright in her training but…this guy…

She could feel the power coming off of him.

"A third? Interesting." Xemnas muttered.

"You said 'a few'. Care to finish?" Riku pushed.

"Ahh yes, the next was thanks to a mysterious boy I found floating in the depths of a Dark Corridor. The light of his heart was simply astounding, possibly as great as even yours, Sora. Yes…but he was barely conscious when I found him, such a waste of a powerful existence…so I took it from him."

"You killed him?!" Kairi yelped.

"In a sense. Truthfully I do not know what will become of his remains. I simply…exchanged his soul, for mine."

"So you hijacked his body? You can do that?!" Sora, ever the confused one, asked.

"Due to the circumstances, yes. You see, as you know we Nobodies are mere shadows, echoes of our former selves, lacking the hearts we once held, but retaining our soul and will. Considering we are little more than loose concepts inhabiting a barely existing form, it would be no surprise that we can potentially 'hijack' someone else's form, should our wills be stronger than theirs."

…like when I started tearing up when we were leaving Twilight Town the first time…your emotions were leaking through. "I don't think it's exactly the same bro, but I'd say it's close enough."

Still worried, but alert, Kairi was pondering something. Ok…hear me out. I know he's full of himself and all that, but…why is he telling us all this? It doesn't make sense. Like, aren't the badguys supposed to be smart with this? "I dunno Kairi…maybe he's stalling for time?" Time for what though?

"So that's not even your real body anymore. You're just a parasite now!"

Xemnas frowned. "Yes I suppose you could call me that. But it will not matter for much longer."

Riku became very wary. "Why's that?"

"Because you will not exist." And suddenly, he was enveloped in a field of shadows, before being whisked away.

They all blinked. He didn't attack…he just…talked. And then left.

And then Riku 'saw' the trail. "DAMMIT! He's heading for the keyhole!"

"Wait what?!" Sora jumped.

"We have to go after him! He's going after the world's heart!"

They took off towards the 'secret place' that the door to the world's core existed. In their haste, they didn't notice a small glowing grey sphere appear behind them all.

So…I see Keyblades still exist here. Looks like that guy wasn't talking out of his ass. Can't say I understand what he was going on about with that whole heartless and nobody crap but…he said a spirit can jump a body if the will is strong enough? Hmph. Asshole's lucky I was barely awake when he showed up. Dick. I can't remember how I got there, but I know one thing, I do not want some shitlord like him running around in my body.

Ugh, I'm gonna need a lot of showers after this.

The trio reached the door to the World's Heart just in time to see Xemnas disappear in a wall of light, pulled towards the core.

"Dammit! We're too late!" Riku exclaimed.

He was about to rush after when Kairi called out.

"WAIT!"

The two stopped, turning to the female.

"Are you sure this is such a good idea? I mean, have either of you been inside the Heart of a World? What if…what if just going there kills us? We don't know anything about this except the Keyholes act as barriers."

The two paused. Unfortunately it was a valid concern. The closest any of them got was when Sora fought Xehanort's Heartless back at the End of the World, the dark collaboration of the many worlds consumed by the Heartless. But there was little time. If they waited too long…

"…Believe in the Keyblade." Sora said, firmly.

The two looked at him.

"The Keyblade is the manifestation of our hearts, right? Well, we just have to believe in that. And in ourselves."

He rushed forward.

"Sora!" Kairi yelled, to no avail. He'd vanished in a flare of light.

"Ha…there he goes again…rushing off to save the world."

"Did he do this a lot while you two were gone?"

"From what I saw when Ansem was fixing his memories, yeah. But you know how he is. Once he gets an idea in his head he's gonna see it through."

Kairi nodded. "I know. It worries me sometimes, but in the end that's just another thing I lo-aaaahh like…about him."

Riku snorted. "Don't deny it. You love him. He feels the same way, he's just too dense to say it."

Kairi flushed. "Don't tell him…? Please? I want to be the one to say it."

Riku shook his head. "only if you do it after this."

"But…what if we-

"Then think of it as your reason to live." Riku said, before he walked forward into the light.

"My reason to live…" Kairi whispered to herself. After a moment, she nodded, and stepped forward as well.

The silver glow appeared once again.

So the redhead's got a thing for the brunette. Interesting. He's got good taste. She's got a decent head on her shoulders too. And they both obviously value her opinion if they actually stopped in their charge. Hmm… I'd like to help out but…kinda need my body back before I can do anything. Hah…Elle'd be on my case something fierce if she knew I was thinking of playing matchmaker…

The glow too, entered the light.

Heart of the World: Destiny Islands

"Welcome…chosen wielders of the Keyblade."

Blackness. Blackness surrounded them. The only light came from a brilliant sphere glowing a pale red. White wisps of energy swirled around it like a vortex as the sphere pulsed slowly, like a beating heart. It was a mysterious realm, devoid of all color, all sense of direction, save for the massive glowing 'heart' that gently pulsed with life and power. Just being near it put a heavy pressure on their hearts…but it wasn't one of discomfort.

Perhaps the world knew, they were there to protect it.

"This is…the heart of a world?" Kairi asked, awe in her voice. Even though the other two were tense and ready for battle, they too appreciated the beauty of the strange realm.

"Beautiful isn't it? The heart of a world is a glorious thing that few ever see. You should be honored to fall here." Xemnas quipped.

"Fall? Us? No. It's you who's going to fall Xemnas. We'll make sure of it." Sora spoke, confident.

Xemnas gave a soft chuckle. "Indeed…? Very well, show me the strength of your hearts, wielders of the Keyblade!"

Before they could react, Xemnas had fired tendrils of spiraling black and white energy at them. The three of them leapt to the side, dodging the manifested Twilight Thorns. Sora and Riku grasped the currents of energy and to Kairi's amazement, phased their way to Xemnas, who disappeared in a flicker of movement before they could land a proper strike. The tan skinned man appeared in front of Kairi and with a small crackle and a snap-hiss, engaged weapon, the Ethereal Blade, and swung it at her. She barely ducked out of the way – He's fast! - and tried to make an overhead swing as a counterattack, but was easily deflected by the much more experienced fighter's weapon. He spun with the deflection and kicked her in the back of the head, knocking her away.

Slipping behind the man, Sora brought Fenrir down upon Xemnas' head, causing the nobody to wince. Using the brief moment of stun-time, he followed up with a series of horizontal swings, twirling his blade around his hand while repeatedly twisting his body on each swing. Finally he jumped back and thrust forward with a finishing strike of the combo that held enough force to send Xemnas –who was hovering, as he does- flying back. Riku pushed heavily off of what he believed to be 'ground' and unleashed a flurry of slashes upon Xemnas, before ending with a forward flip with his blade extended. Xemnas quickly recovered and with an irritated huff, he flickered away again, this time sending out a clone to attack Riku with a series of backward flipping movements with both blades extended.

Spotting Kairi racing up from Xemnas' blind spot, Riku weathered the attack, giving her the opening she needed to perform a club swing with her own Keyblade into Xemnas' face, and follow up with a pivot on her foot and slamming it into his chest. Clearly he wasn't happy about being smashed with a powerful blunt object right in his nose, for he responded by launching another wave of Thorns. Riku, having long since gotten used to using his connections to someone's heart to grasp them and somehow 'ride' them to their side, flickered in front of Kairi and threw his hands forward, summoning a wide curved wall of energy, comprised of many smaller octagonal shapes that forced the attack to splinter out along the sides of the barrier.

Xemnas flickered away again, only to reappear near Sora, throwing a handful of small red orbs in a circle around the boy. Sora twirled his blade around in his hand and called up a transparent glowing orb of light just as the orbs turned into raging streaks and all attempted to crash into him. The protective field then splintered and then shattered creating a number of small explosions around the Keyblade Master. Xemnas, forgetting about the spells' annoying after-effect, was on a speedy approach when the energy field collapsed, and found himself mentally cursing as he was caught in the multiple energy detonations.

Riku saw an opening and blinked to Sora's side, lashing his left hand forward, five modest sized pale blue rockets of flame ripping from a distortion in front of his palm. Due to the close range of the attack, Xemnas could do nothing but eat fire, before he felt a number of pressures on his back and legs as Kairi ran up and started wailing away. Being shifted forward, he coughed as Sora jumped in and punched him in the gut, before pulling back and once again slamming his grey, bandaged weapon on the man's head, while Riku darted around in between Kairi's wild swings and delivered pinpoint slices to the man's midsection.

Pissed, in pain, and very burnt, Xemnas loosed a yell of irritation and lashed his arms out while forcing himself to twirl. The force of the movement, and the small wall of power he unleashed, threw the three Keybearers backward, each one giving a yelp of surprise.

Kairi was the first to her feet. She ran at Xemnas, holding her Keyblade to the side, mimicking Sora's stance. Xemnas threw his hand in front of him and a wall of light composed of transparent white rectangular boxes slammed into place. Her swing was deflected, and Xemnas took that opening to slam the red beams being emanated from his palms into her side, knocking her away rather painfully. Sora and Riku approached from both sides, trying to flank him and draw his attention away from Kairi, but the Nobody anticipated that maneuver and thrust his palms out sending tendrils of Thorns at them. Forgetting that they could just ride the energy currents, he twitched as they both appeared at his sides, only to be blown backward as he decided to just launch a couple damn spheres.

Coughing, Kairi tried to rise, only to see Xemnas standing before her, arm crackling with energy as a small black and white vortex began to form around his hand.

"It would seem…you are their weakest link."

Her eyes widened. She cried out in pain as he kicked her right in the face. She hit the 'ground' heavily, only to yell out again as his now launched Thorns pierced her shoulders and hips, lifting her into the air. Still dazed, Sora and Riku could do nothing but try to stumble towards Xemnas, as he yanked his hand back, pulling her towards him, before the Thorns vanished. He engaged his Blades again, and made to swipe at her, only for her to thrust both feet forward, catching him in the chest with a makeshift dropkick, shunting him backwards.

Surprised, none of them saw, against the light of the World's Heart, the small glowing grey sphere slip through the space Xemnas once occupied, into Kairi's body.

The tan man recovered quickly, and angrily flew towards her position, only to be blown back by an invisible force that ripped from her form.

Sora and Riku looked at each other in surprise, as Kairi slowly got to her feet. She seemed to look down at her hands in surprise.

"EHHH?!" she suddenly exclaimed. Xemnas shook his head to re-align himself, only to blink in surprise as the red haired girl before him did something…strange.

Kairi seemed to look suddenly at her arms, feeling them, then feeling her wrists. Then, completely unexpectedly, she slapped her hands onto her chest.

Twice.

And then squeezed.

They saw her eyebrows raise, as if surprised, before she looked down at herself, pulling her top forward, as if trying to look down it. Then, she seemed to get a…strange, almost impressed look, before nodding. And then she froze.

Wh-what the, HEY! What-PERVERT! Stop touching me! Stop it stop it stop it!

"…I MISSED?!" She suddenly yelled, surprising all three males.

"How the shitting fuck did I MISS?! How is missing a fucking thing?! Who coded fucking invincibility frames? Did someone fucking Clock Up before I got here? That was a perfectly timed shot and somehow I missed?! WHY AM I A GIRL?!"

Who are you?! Quiet woman! I need to think!

The ferocity in the reply made her pause.

Ok…I missed. I don't know how I missed but I missed…fuck it must have been that dropkick. Nice job with that by the way, even if it made me miss. Alright…ok…just need to swap from here to there…fuuuuuck I'm gonna have to get in close for this aren't I? shit that was my one shot at a ranged grab and it missed. I'm not letting you live this down by the way. Who are you? Why can't I move myself?! Because I'm in control of your body right now. Dammit this is gonna suck… In control of-WHAT?! No get out! Get out get out get out! Why were you touching me like that you pervert?!

Because I wasn't expecting to have a pair of tits suddenly! I thought I was seeing shit!THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHY YOU SQUEEZED! You have nice tits. And technically, this is currently my body so the correct verbage would be I have nice tits. ...I never thought I'd say that. I…you…oh my god I can't think right now what the fuck. Look, if it makes you feel any better, think of it like this, I didn't touch you, you touched you. I just…made you do it. Y'know like whenever you're lying in bed thinking abou-

OH MY GOD SHUT UP RIGHT NOW!

The mysterious male voice in her head chuckled. Nothing wrong with doing it Red. It's perfectly normal for someone your age. Maybe if I was doing it but I wasn't it was you and I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE! Consider me a friend, right now. I don't HAVE friends who just show up out of NOWHERE AND MOLEST ME! Selphie. Y-…that doesn't count. Of course it does. No because I KNOW her! I DON'T know YOU! Aww give it time, we'll be the best of friends…we might have to be if I can't get my own body back.

Wait…you're the guy he was talking about? Yeah. Shitlord over there popped up while I was groggy from…I'm gonna call it 'space cryo' and next thing I know he's fucking my chest with his entire arm, and then I'm outside and he's inside and yes it's supposed to sound like some sick yaoi fanfic. I'm gonna puke. No you're not because I'm in control and I don't throw up at thinking of a guy chest-fucking another guy with his arm. I'm gonna puke after you leave then. Yeah that might happen.

"Kairi…?" Sora asked hesitantly, wondering why her face was constantly twisting in random emotions, and she was tilting her head and pivoting her hips randomly as if she were having a conversation with someone.

"I can't say I know what strange power you have used, girl…but it will be of no use!" Xemnas charged forward.

"KAIRI!"

Ok…what can you do? What? Your skills, list them, fast. Uhh, uhh…I can sing. And I can cook, and I can kinda dance- COMBAT skills! I don't have any! I just started training three months ago! Fuck. Ok, do you have a weapon? Uhh…well I have my Keyblade- I can't use that. Why not? You're in my body aren't you? She seemed to huff at this.

I don't know how to call it. I never had one. You don't have anything else? A knife…or a rope even? Nope. …fuck. Punchyfist it is then. By the way, because you suck, I'm sending any pain from hitting this guy to you. What?! Hey! Screw you pal! Gladly, but let me get my body back first ok? Oh eww eww EWW I did not need that mental image, why would you DO that? Cause I haven't gotten laid since Tia knows when and you just suggested- I WASN'T SUGGESTING ANYTHING!

"Um…guys? I hate to break up your little lover's spat but Xemnas is kiiinda flying towards us with that glowing death laser hand of his."

Holy shit there's two of you?! You spirit whore! Who the HELL are you calling a whore?! She's my Other! You're into that sort of thing? SHE WAS MY NOBODY YOU ASS!

Xemnas swung horizontally, only to watch as Kairi carelessly ducked underneath the swing. Blinking in surprise, he pivoted and brought his blade down in a vertical chop, where she gave a low hop backward, before stretching out and slamming her palm into his nose. He twitched back, left hand rising to stem the flow of sudden blood, only to jerk and coil forward as she'd just punted him in the crotch, and then kicked him away with a counter-clockwise fan-kick with her right leg.

You realize I don't know what that means right? Oh…wait…now I do. What? How-HEY! Stop looking at my memories! Oh GOD! Stop it! Those are private! Wow…I did not expect you to be into that. I swear to god if you tell anyone about this- I'm currently a disembodied spirit inhabiting your form. Who am I gonna tell? ANYONE! Or did you miss your own statement about INHABITING MY BODY?! Hey, other girl. Is she always this loud?

"Only in bed." NAMINÉ!

Sora and Riku stared at Kairi in shock. "…wait…since when can she do that?" Riku asked. Sora just shrugged.

Xemnas shook his head fixing his nose, and huffed. How unusual. She suddenly displays a combat prowess unseen before.

He flickered away.

Agh shit, he can Shunpo. He can what-po? Shunpo. Flash Step. Kinda like teleporting only it's basically really fast movement. Almost impossible to track. This is gonna be-THERE! GAH Don't yell suddenly like that!

Kairi suddenly ducked, dodging the horizontal swing, then fell forward kicking both legs out like a donkey. Xemnas re-appeared, wind knocked out of him, only to see Kairi roll forward and then jump at him, left leg pulled back. He rose an arm to block, which he did, and then he winced and clutched at his face as Kairi had just spit into his eyes. She ducked low and elbowed him in the gut, followed by a knee to his chest, before lashing her bent right leg outward and kicking him in the face, finishing by throwing her weight backward to use her left leg to kick him in the chin, and force him to rise.

From there she let out a kiai as she twirled on her right heel, gathering momentum for her to hop into the air, swinging her left leg outward, catching Xemnas in the side of the head with her left heel, where he was launched flying backward.

"…Kairi doesn't know how to do that." Riku muttered.

Sora frowned. "That's not Kairi."

"Xemnas said something about a boy…" Riku's eyes widened. "Wait, that's it! Kairi's being possessed by that guy! That's why she was yelling about 'missing'!"

Sora gaped. "…wait that means-

"He was touching her. Improperly."

"We kick his ass after this?"

"We kick his ass after this."

Xemnas was not having fun. The girl had stopped using her Keyblade, but now was pulling all sorts of unexpected maneuvers. Like just now. She poked the hell out of him with her fingers acting like sharp knives while coiling around like a snake. And now she was literally slapping him around, whirling her arms like a fan. What in the name of the many Hells was going on here?!

But there was something else going on. Something that nobody was noticing. The heart of the world was beginning to pulse wildly, unlike the original calm, patterned beats. Unknown to them, the energies that were being released were beginning to…infect…the Heart. Causing it to become unstable. The pulses were growing stronger, wilder, and the core was beginning to grow.

Thrown bodily onto the now growing Core, Xemnas felt his grip on the body weakening. Suddenly Kairi got a very deranged glint in her eyes.

Yesss…this is it. Well girl, it's been fun. Try to do me a favor and go get laid for me seeing as I probably won't be in any condition to for a while? What the hell are you on about now?

She was just…tired. Today had literally been a mindfuck. Hell she was lucky this random guy had satisfied himself just touching her chest…if he'd gone any lower…as it was she'd probably have nightmares about this. At that thought, she actually felt him frown.

Look, I'm sorry, ok? I got caught up in the moment. Not a good excuse but still. Better I know exactly how your body feels and looks in case I'm stuck in it, y'know? Right, there was no perversion involved at all. Yeah there was some. I'm not gonna bullshit you. But knowing your body means I know how I can work it. You have no weapon, and I can fight barehanded, as you obviously know, but I needed to know how far I could push it before it started pushing back. A lot of these things I've been doing, I've never done before because these are moves used by women.

Seriously…? Now she was actually kinda interested. She felt a mental 'nod'.

Yeah. These girls are kick ass as hell. So I was just emulating them. But the majority of them have pretty big tits so knowing where yours stood in comparison would help me know if I had to compensate for bounce. You're not wearing proper clothing for serious combat, let alone a giant rack, which thankfully you don't have – here, he felt her mental glare – hey they're nice regardless, really. You would know. Yes. I would. Which is why I'm telling you you're in a good frame to be pulling this stuff off. Just keep doing what you've been doing, and you'll be good to go. Hell, who knows, maybe some day after I'm back in my own skin again, we'll run into each other and you can try to kick my ass for it.

You serious? Are you telling me you'd let me beat you up for touching me like that? Well I wouldn't let you. You'd have to work for it. But considering I was technically, and ONLY technically in the wrong, morally, I'd let you have as many shots as you wanted till you either succeeded or called it quits. Why? Cause that's how I do things. I can't deny there wasn't any perverted intent in me feeling you up, but I also can't deny that it didn't help me know what I could and couldn't do in your body, to keep both of us from dying to this bastard.

And if I lost too many times? If I asked you to train me?

I get my body back? Any time, any place. I knew enough girls who could kick my ass that I could teach you a couple things.

Deal. I'm Kairi.

Seth. You're a good girl, Kairi. I like you. And that's saying something cause I usually hate people. Thanks…I think.

Suddenly she felt…strange. An unusual distortion was forming around her right hand, as her face stared deep into the eyes of Xemnas, who was being eaten away by the unstable energies of the core.

By the way…this might feel weird. Huh?

"EAT SHIT AND DIE, FUCKER!" Kairi suddenly yelled, lashing her hand into Xemnas' chest, where an unusual vortex of grey and violet wisps spiraled around. Xemnas thrashed in futility, roaring in agony as Kairi's arm seemed to vibrate, as she pulled it back, a glowing sphere coming with it. She threw the sphere away, into the raging energy storm in front of them, before grabbing Xemnas' shoulders.

Later Kairi, Other Kairi. It's been real. Wait wha-

She felt an odd sensation, like suddenly all her senses were 'waking up' as a pale grey humanoid echo seemed to rip from her body, into that of Xemnas. The raging storm of the World's Heart pulsed violently, throwing them backward, where she crashed into Sora and Riku, who had jumped up to catch her. The lifeless body of Xemnas was thrown far away, where a distortion of black and violet energy engulfed it.

"Kairi!" Sora called to her face. Her eyes were blank, bringing him back to the days of her heart being lost, but suddenly she blinked, her eyes focusing, before she shook her head.

"S-Sora…?" She croaked, as if not used to using her voice. Which she wasn't. Hell, her body felt sore all over.

A brilliant flare of light stopped any of the three from speaking, as suddenly a wave of pain washed over all of them, before the light engulfed them.

Beams of light erupted from the ground. The ocean waves warped and twisted, the ground cracked as huge fissures appeared with glowing silver energy erupting from them. Pillars of white and red reached for the heavens. People screamed, buildings collapsed as huge chunks of rock launched into the sky, and then fell from the air.

From space, all you could see were beams of light suddenly appearing on the planet's surface, almost as if the hand of a God were scribbling upon it…and suddenly, the planet became one big sphere of white…

Rings of force emanated from the sphere, shockwaves of power that not even the vacuum of space could silence. Energy lanced around the sphere as it burned itself to extinction. The links of both light and shadow that tied that world to the collective were overloaded, and the shockwaves traveled through them, echoed on every world that was connected to that one. Sudden gusts of wind would appear, a strange unsettling feeling that something terrible just happened washed over their inhabitants as the final cries of the dying planet reached the cores of those it was bound to. The boundaries between light and dark weakened and cracked…

Destiny Islands…

The world that housed the Keyblade Bearers…

The world where it all began…

Was completely…

Utterly…

Entirely…

Destroyed…

A/N: Welcome to the remake of The Thirteenth Order. As you can no doubt tell by this, this is a rewrite, with hopefully a more coherent plot. The same general plotline will occur as in the original, however with the unleashing of Days and BBS, i will be adding in information and character plotlines from those stories as well. There is a reason this is located under Kairi and Xion. though those of you hoping that they would be in a lesbian romantic or sexual relationship with one another, i'm sorry but you will be dissapointed.

i currently plan on making this my primary focus, considering that Xion has infiltrated my head and heart for the time being, as well as with this being a general rewrite, i dont have as much new to do. alter some sequences, remove some things, compress other events...but generally will retain the same plotline. Though this will slightly explore, at least in the first few chapters, more of the connection between Seth and Kairi, as well as the consequences of him basically having his first impression be that of a massive perverted asshole. Those of you who know the many incarnations of Zero "Seth" Shinzaki, know that he isnt one, though he will freely admit he is indeed a massive pervert, but these characters do not.

there are many things that will change, during this rewrite, though many will remain the same, and some will have only minor alterations. my inspiration is both Xion herself, as well as the fact that i consider it a failed project, if i only want to bother reading it from the middle, on. Compared to my NiGHTS into Dreams story: Inception, where even if i just want to start at a particular chapter, i find myself compelled to read it from start to finish. I consider this difference in quality a problem, and this rewrite will rectify it as such. Due to this, i implore anyone reading this who was a fan of my original, to change this to your favorites instead, for once this is fully posted, i will most likely delete the original, though i do like some of the scenes.

i will not spoil exactly what will be different, other than Xion will make multiple appearances and eventually become a permanent member of the cast. and before anyone speaks up, not only does my research into DreamDropDistance (research because i own not a 3DS nor can i afford to purchase one in the forseeable future) claim that Roxas remembers her during a specific scene, but also i've puzzled out my own reasonings as to how it to be possible for her to continue to exist. one you will learn in the next two chapters.

Well, i suppose my report has gone long enough. Welcome, to all new readers, and welcome back to old fans. I hope you enjoy the ride.