Enter the upper level of the Hall of Empty Melodies, Roxas was on guard due to what just transpire before Xaldin, he needed to be ready to any specific member having an advantage with the room he was in. After making it half way thought the upper level, a portal opened behind him and quickly tunred the see the foe.
"Hello Roxas." The figure was none other than Luxord who, aside from Axel and Xion was probably the only other members of the Organization he could trust. Why he did not know but he felt something similar between the two and as such, they got along well. "You have been doing quite well for yourself so far."
"Do not stand in my way Luxord, you have seen what happens to those who do so."
"Indeed, you have shown a great deal of improvement in your fighting skill in your absence, such so I think few members of our order can stand up to you." Luxord pulled out a desk of thirteen cards and began to move them around.
"Do you still intend to stand in my way?"
"No, that is a bet I am not willing to take, I am here to tell you the road ahead will be full of danger and recommend you leave before it ends you for good."
"So instead of fighting me to stop me, you are trying to talk me out of this…" Roxas said getting slightly annoyed by the stalling which the gambler caught sight of immediately.
"Very well, I will not hold you up any longer."
"But I will." A voice echoed through the air as a shot went in the direction of Luxord who used a card to block the projectile. A corridor of darkness opened and out came the last man who Roxas wanted to see, Xigbar. "You disappoint me Luxord, I would have thought your loyalty would have gotten the better of you."
"Even a loyal servant must know when a player if bluffing, I shall leave this dance." Luxord said and left through his own corridor and the two nobodies stared at each other, Roxas doing so that would send chills down the man's spine, if that could be possible though.
"Oh don't look at me like that puppy, are you angry at me?" Xigbar taunted the boy who sent a pillar of light at the marksmen who jumped of the top level. Roxas ran to the scene and didn't see him down on the bottom level. "Psst, behind you." Xigbar whispered and Roxas tried to summon Oblivion and slash the trickster behind him but got a kick to the jaw changed that plan and he went sailing to the ground level of the hall. Throwing himself back to his feet, he stared at the nobody and summon Oathkeeper and began to think of any way to be the number two.
"Jerk thinks I'm going to go down so easily, I'll just have to show him a thing or two before I finish him off." Roxas' thoughts were silenced by a large projectile closing the distance to him as he rolled to the side and the shot ricocheted around the room as Roxas saw he was trapped in a box.
"Gotta now, you really shouldn't have betrayed us Roxas." Xigbar said with a smiled and shot another laser shot at his target and began to run around the box like a trapped animal. "Will you stop running around like a chicken that lost its head and take the shot like a man?" Xigbar shouted and continued to shot laser after laser as Roxas began to take a beating from the shots become more and more in the room. Roxas hit one laser shot and saw it hit the box he was trapped inside as an idea entered into the mind of the boy who began to glide around and hit each shot against the room until either they disappeared or the box broke. "See ya Roxas!" Xigbar taunted and charged up his strongest projectile yet and released it at the boy who smiled and kicked it right back and such a shot destroyed the box the keyblade wielder was trapped in. "Ugh… what the hell is that about!?" Xigbar shouted and asked at the same time.
"Doesn't, matter your mine!" Roxas exclaimed and jumped up to the top floor and took a lunge at the sniper.
"Sorry, I'm not ready to fight you for real yet kid, maybe another time." Xigbar taunted and summoned a corridor underneath him and slipped though it and avoided the lunge from Oathkeeper. Roxas turned and slammed Oblivion at the portal on the ground which did nothing at all. Up above the anger keyblade wielder were Luxord and Axel who were discussing what will happen in the near future.
"Do you think he can make it all the way?" Axel asked the man who spoke with the keyblade wielder a moment ago.
"Maybe, either Saix will stop him if he fights Roxas in Addled Impasse since he needed to get through the gate to get to Kingdom Hearts or Xigbar if he really tries against the boy. I must say though, he has impressed me since returning back here." Luxord said interested in why the boy got so strong in such a short time. Axel knew full well why he was doing so well since a girl who he thought he memorized her name told him.
"What about if he beats both and gets to Xemnas, think he has a chance?" Axel asked as the two looked each other in the eyes and back at the boy who was about to leave the room.
"Honestly, I would bet on Xemnas winning but Roxas will definitely give our leader a fight I assume." Luxord put his claim on the final battle if Roxas gets to it but to him, the chances were very slime at best. Axel looked down on his bestfriend and began to wonder if he could do it as Roxas entered the Proof of Existence.
"-iku…" A voice echoed through the head of the fallen boy who was laying in a crater in the Dark City "Wake up Riku…" the voice became loud until at last Riku realized it was Namine's voice speaking to him. Hearing said voice, Riku rose us as if from the grave and looked over the situation he was sitting in.
"I lost it seems… which means, oh no, Roxas!" Riku shouted and sprinted towards the castle's laser walkway with Soul Eater in hand. Running up said bridge, he comes into contract with legion upon legion of heartless but since Riku has given up the element of surprise in favor of having Soul Eater out, this did not intimidate the keyblade wielder at all. "Dark Firaga Storm!" Riku shouted and shot a dark variant of Firara out of his keyblade into the sky but suddenly separated into million of smaller ones and rained down on the heartless. After the fireworks settled, Riku dashed forwards one more to try and catch the missing nobody he was sent to capture and bring back alive.
Author's Notes – Riku is alive and well people, do you really think I would have the guts to kill off one of the most loved characters in the series so early and in my first KH fanfic? I can just see the Riku fangirls right now, they would kill me on sight if I killed him off.