Chapter 4! Yay, woot woot lol another big thanks to Gingersnapsback for reviewing the last chapter and thank you all for reading. I hope you enjoy this one

Chapter 4: The Lady of Darkness

Yumi desperately struggled against the dark tendrils around her.

She tugged, pulled, and twisted but the darkness didn't yield. She tried to scream but her mouth was bound. She was speechless. Again. Eventually she gave up and allowed the darkness to begin dragging her out of the den.

"No!" yelled Terra from across the room. Yumi watched him ripping violently at his own net of darkness. Terra slipped out of the tentacles' grasp and summoned his keyblade. He smirked now that he was armed; Terra began rapidly slashing through each wisp of darkness. The black spindles relented and worked on a tighter net around Yumi.

Terra jumped into the fray of black lace, cutting a path towards her.

Slash, Yumi could move her right arm.

Slash, now one leg was free.

Slash, her mouth was uncovered. Yumi tugged at the remaining tendrils and, aided by Terra, finally wriggled free.

Yumi jumped across the den over to the fireplace, Terra following close behind. She watched as he continued lashing at the darkness trying to grasp another body. The tentacles were relentless, attacking one after the other in one long assembly line, Terra barely had time to think let alone retaliate.

The brown-haired man turned and slung Yumi over his shoulder then sprinted out of the room.

The darkness followed quickly behind them. Yumi was frightened; she dug her face into Terra's brawny neck, a death grip on his shirt.

Terra was afraid too. Yumi could tell by the sporadic beat of his heart, his neck and face were blazing hot and gathering sweat. Yumi willed a glance at his face; he was staring down the hall with a slightly vacant look, strategizing his next move. They quickly came upon a T in the hall; Terra set her down from her perch on his shoulder.

"We have to find Master Eraqus, he can protect you so that I can look for Aqua and Ven," Terra stated, "Go to the left and search his study, I'll go this way," he turned and without another word burst down the hall.

Yumi followed his instructions and ran as fast as she could to the carved oak door just a few yards away.

Sanctuary, she thought. When she reached the door she didn't delay herself to stop but thudded onto it and pushed herself inside.

From the marble floor of Eraqus's study Yumi took one look back and was slightly relieved to see that the darkness had gone after Terra instead of her.

"Yumi what's wrong?" Master Eraqus questioned from his desk.

Yumi stood, "Darkness…here," she managed to choke out between pants.

"What?" Eraqus asked alarmed. He glided from his chair and over to the still open door. He saw Terra battling the blackness down the hallway, the keyblade master began to look woozy.

For a moment he seemed completely bewildered and unsure. He kept glancing between Yumi then Terra then Yumi again. Finally it appeared he had made some subconscious decision.

"I'm sorry, Terra," He yelled to his apprentice struggling to push back the tendrils. Terra paused to stare at his master. They said not a word but after a moment Terra got an understanding from Master Eraqus.

"No! You can't do this!" Terra screeched and frantically ran towards the study. Master Eraqus swiftly shut the door and locked it. Now Yumi was petrified.

Master Eraqus summoned his keyblade.

"What are you doing? What's going on?" Yumi chirped, she was shaking now. Outside Yumi could hear Terra edging ever closer to the door.

"Touch my keyblade," Master Eraqus held out his keyblade to Yumi. Terra hit the door, hard. He hit it again, then again, continuously ramming it.

"What?" Yumi questioned. Now the darkness was seeping in through the cracks of the door. Terra hit the door again, his bravado act abandoned.

"Don't think just act!" Master Eraqus ordered. Terra thrust himself to the door again, nearly wringing it from its hinges.

"It wants her! Don't you see that?" Terra yelled and rammed the door another time.

"Hurry!" Eraqus pleaded.

Yumi reached out and touched the keyblade just as the darkness enveloped her and pulled her down.

Silence.

Yumi didn't know how long she had been here, wherever here was.

She was floating in darkness, all alone.

All she could think about was the others. Were they sucked into the darkness as well?

"She's finally going to be ready," an eager voice spoke through the black velvet around Yumi.

Yumi looked around trying to get a glimpse of who it was, but she found herself oddly restrained, frozen in a lying position. From the restricted movement, though, she saw no one. Yumi then tried to ask who the voice was but the darkness did not carry out the sound. She stayed quiet.

"Sometimes I question your judgment on this," another voice said, it sounded feminine rather than the first one.

"She will be ready soon, we can do nothing more with her here," the first voice, the man's voice, stated.

"Then what's next?" the woman questioned. Her echo rang through Yumi's ears and nothing replied.

What is going to happen next? Yumi thought to herself. The question lingered for a while but Yumi couldn't judge how long, then all of a sudden she was released from her floating place in the darkness. She fell for only a second and hit some invisible floor that held her up.

Yumi stood and looked for any indicator of which way to go. Somewhere off in the distance one glimmer of light flickered in the darkness.

Yumi didn't know where it led but she knew it was somewhere. As she got closer the light expanded and turned into a door. It was light blue and had a strange upside-down heart with a cross on top of it engraved into the sleek surface. Yumi tentatively opened it.

Behind it was more blackness, Yumi was a little disappointed but continued on.

We waited for you, my liege. Now it's your turn to awaken, the soundless voice from The Land of Departure called out. Yumi didn't have time to register the words before the invisible floor shattered beneath her and she was falling through darkness once more.

A dull light trickled in under Axel's eyelids.

He was so tired yet the light from the heart shaped moon was too great to give him darkness.

"Huh, we're in the realm of darkness and it's still not dark enough. What does a nobody have to do to get some shut eye?" Axel lulled. He lazily ran a hand through his fiery red hair.

"Just shut up Axel," Luxord remarked from where he leaned against the wall.

Axel sighed, "I'm just stating the obvious."

"Do you want Saïx to hurt you?" Luxord asked sardonically.

That shut him up. Axel was not about to cross paths with Saïx, not with the moon so exposed from the large window on the side of the room.

"Why did he call us to the Addled Impasse anyways?" Axel finally asked after a minute.

"I don't know," Luxord answered, exasperated by all of the youngling's questioning.

"Well all I know is he better hurry up," Axel commented sourly. Suddenly a blue and yellow claymore was at Axel's neck.

"What was that?" Saïx declared in a voice vacant of emotion from behind the red haired man.

"Nothing….Saïx," Axel yelped. He wasn't scared, he couldn't, and a nobody can't feel anything regardless. Still he knew what the emotion was like, what he should be feeling was fear at that moment.

Slowly the claymore was lowered and Axel could turn to face his superior. Saïx stood with Xigbar, who was carrying what appeared to be a teenage girl in his arms.

"Why did you call us?" Luxord asked in a slightly more respectable tone.

"I need you here when she wakes up, we have a lot of explaining to do and she must understand it in our favor," Saïx explained in monotone. Xigbar bluntly dropped the blonde-haired girl on the ground.

Yumi touched down on something cold and probably metal. Her cheek rested lightly on the surface, trying to right herself from the sensation of falling.

After an uncounted pass of time Yumi opened her eyes, but not to darkness like she'd presumed. She found herself in an immense room, with light blue and white metal forming the walls and floor. There was a huge window some feet in front of her that left a heart shaped moon unexposed.

"She's awake?" a red-headed man called somewhat startled from where he stood near one of the stone cold walls.

"Finally," another man, with an eye-patch and gray hair added dryly.

"Why did you kidnap her anyways?" the red head asked.

Kidnapped? Yumi cried in her brain. She tried to move, to run away, anything to get away from her captors but found her legs to be limp and useless.

"Is she trying to escape?" a man with short white hair asked and walked over to the two others eyeing her carefully.

"She's doing a lousy job of it," the man with the eye-patch said then let out a hearty laugh.

"Enough," a fourth man, with blue hair spoke, Yumi couldn't see his face though. His back was turned to her and was gazing at the huge moon. "We need to speak with her now. Xigbar, sit her up."

The man with the eye patch, apparently Xigbar, stalked closer to Yumi. He held out a black gloved hand and summoned a chair from nothing it seemed. Next he picked her up and, with little resistance from Yumi, set her in the chair.

Yumi's neck drooped, she had no strength in her body anymore. Yumi then noticed the red dress she was still wearing since the day she was taken from The Land of Departure, although now it barely covered her legs. Somehow it had shrunk.

"Here's something that might help you cover up, well unless you don't want to," the red head smirked.

"Just give her the cloak, Axel," the blue haired man commanded.

Axel stepped forward trying to be playfully disappointed with his stride and dropped a black coat that looked just like the ones the four men were wearing in Yumi's lap. Yumi willed her dead arms to move. She slowly tugged on the coat, gloves, boots then rested back in her seat.

She felt a little more comfortable now that she was dressed, her mind a little more at ease.

"Now," The blue haired man turned to face her, revealing amber colored eyes near two crisscrossing scars on his face. "Yumi, do you know where you are?"

"Somewhere I've never been before," Yumi spoke carefully, how did they know her name?

The man's face did not change when she said this, his expression a constant seriousness, "You're in The Castle That Never Was, conveniently nestled in the realm of darkness and the in-between," he stated.

"In-between? Realm of Darkness?" Yumi inquired.

"Yes, whatever sorry little world you came from was in the realm of light, but there are other places hidden in the darkness, the realm of in-between being one of them. It is a line dividing the light from dark, there are no worlds just…nothing," The man explained. He inched one step closer to Yumi.

"Why did you bring me here?" Yumi shrieked, petrified of the mysterious man sidling towards her.

"We only use nobodies, but Xemnas made an exception," the man stated.

"Who's Xemnas? What are nobodies? What do you use them for?" Yumi's mind was whirling with questions.

"Oy," Axel sighed.

The blue haired man showed no notice to Axel's sarcasm, "Luxord care to explain?"

"Certainly, Saïx," the man with white hair replied and stepped forward. "Nobodies are beings of an empty shell, they have nothing and are nothing. They come about when humans of strong hearts become heartless, the body left behind begins to move on its own." Luxord spoke with the slight hint of an accent slurring his tone.

"What are heartless?" Yumi asked.

"They are creatures from the darkness that live to steal human hearts," Luxord continued.

"Oh, you mean the unversed?" Yumi guessed. Something Yumi said hit home with Xigbar, he jumped and almost lost his footing when she mentioned the unversed.

"All the unversed were exterminated a long time ago," Luxord stated with a half-smile on his lips.

"What? But I saw them, they destroyed my home!" Yumi yelled, she was extremely confused, she tried to move her arms again but they still were exhausted.

"She has been wandering the darkness that long? Did you know that?" Xigbar questioned Saïx.

"How long? What's going on? I was only in the darkness for a few hours or days, right?" Yumi asked, afraid of the answer.

"Yes, Xigbar, I knew I've searched for her almost that long," he replied.

"How was she not consumed by it? Ten years is a long time," Xigbar stated further.

"Ten years? I've been gone for ten years?" Yumi felt faint, what happened to her?

"Because she controls all darkness," Saïx answered.

"What? I've never used darkness," Yumi argued trying to get their attention.

"You've been asleep, how could you?" Saïx spoke his rhetoric towards Yumi but kept a dull stare on Xigbar.

The words of the two voices, the man and woman, were brought back to her mind.

"Welcome to our side, cupcake," Axel shot a devil's grin to her. Yumi couldn't believe what was happening. Every fiber of her being told her no, she wasn't evil, she wasn't a part of the darkness, but these men were convinced she was.

A hidden power Yumi had never felt before stirred inside of her. It grew and flowed out of her, Yumi welcomed the strength. Rings of light burst from her hands that knocked over the four men, with them handicapped for the moment Yumi ran. She planned to find a way out of the castle and use the power that had caused those rings of light against anyone and everyone that stood in her way.

But the power ceased within a moment and Yumi swooned, just barely after she had escaped.

A man sat in front of five computer screens blinking with code on the subject's progress. He was so focused it took him a while to notice a silver-haired boy enter the room.

"I know you don't like coming to see me anymore, but you're the only one I can ask to do this. But, I won't turn to look at you," the man said, he heard the boy inch forward a few steps confirming he would carry out this favor. Suddenly sweat dribbled underneath the red gauze he wore over his face, it took everything in him to not turn around and see what he caused on this teenager.

"There is a girl, a girl that the Organization wants for themselves. And they're going to do anything to get her to join them. I need you to "liberate" her from their Castle, bring her here and then I'll find some way to send her to a safe-place," he finished, his voice tight.

The boy finally spoke then, "How will this help Sora?"

"There is nothing more we can do for Sora at the moment, his progress is slow but when the time comes I will have more for you to do. This is to keep the Organization setback for a little while," the man answered.

"I'll leave now to rescue her." The boy turned and ran from the dark room.

"Riku…" the man mumbled then resumed his task.

It only took a moment for Yumi to recover from the sudden drainage of energy. She sat up on the metal floor but did not have the strength to run anymore. She searched for the power that had surged only seconds ago but it had disappeared from within her.

"Axel bring in Roxas for me, when he gets here Xigbar I want you to help him take her down to the dungeon. And Luxord, go inform Xemnas that our guest refused the offer to join the Organization," Saïx commanded, trying to compose his bewildered subordinates.

Axel and Luxord nodded and trekked out of the room. Once their backs were turned to the man Yumi saw the slightest hint of relief cross their faces. They burst from the room, away from their sinister superior.

"How are you so evil?" Yumi screeched, she had never encountered such uncapped darkness before, even when she had met the unversed.

Saïx looked to her with a serious expression, "Because, I'm a nobody. And because of that I have no emotion, no remorse, no heart. But, I'm living." He stood and dusted himself off, pleased with what he said.

"But I've seen the unversed, they look nothing like humans, I had assumed nobodies were the same," Yumi added bluntly. Saïx smirked a little, Yumi wondered how that was not counted as emotion.

"Most don't look like us. They only poorly resemble humans. But, my heart was very strong, as was Xigbar's, Luxord's, and Axel's. However, we all got mixed up in the darkness and our human selves were lost. Somehow our leader, Xemnas, found us and gave us new names than the ones our somebodies held. He brought us here, initiated us into his Organization of powerful nobodies. There are thirteen of us now." Saïx explained sparingly. Yumi knew there was more to the story but knew better than to ask this man.

"What do you need Saïx?" someone entered the room behind Yumi. She turned to see…

…Ven…

Time stopped around her. Ven was alive, he'd found her even in this dark realm.

"Ventus!" Yumi squealed, she forced herself to jump up and pulled him into a grappling hug. She was so elated to see her friend all right.

"Who is Ventus?" he said into her ear.

Yumi immediately pulled back, "But you look just like him, don't you remember me Ven?" Yumi was seriously baffled that he didn't remember her.

Suddenly Xigbar's hand was pulled tightly over Yumi's mouth, "Don't listen to her, this girl has been babbling on since she awoke, that's why we need to take her down to the dungeon before Xemnas decides what he wants to do. I'll need your help taking her down there, Roxas, she's already tried to escape twice."

"All right," the Ven look alike answered then lead the way from the room.

Who's Roxas? Yumi asked inside her head.

Not another word was spoken as the group walked through white metal hallways, passing an endless amount of doors while they meandered through. Finally Roxas brought them to a black metal area with cells lining the walls.

He unlocked one of them, the metal shrieking from years of unused hinges. Xigbar pushed Yumi inside it and slammed the door behind her.

"Enjoy your stay at the Castle That Never Was. We'll be back eventually for you, in the meantime," Xigbar turned his eyes to look into the dark cage next to Yumi's, "You have a prison mate to play with," He smirked then sauntered away.

Roxas didn't turn to leave, though, he lingered in the dungeon.

"There's something about you," Roxas stared intently on her. Yumi was about to burst into tears, she hated this boy for appearing so much like Ven, "that I recognize." He kept his gaze for one more moment then left.

Suddenly the loss she felt for her friend was too much for Yumi to handle, she lay her head down and sobbed.

What felt like hours later, Yumi finally stopped crying. Her face felt swollen and she was tired, but she had let out the emotion she needed to. There was something almost noble about the act since this place was filled with beings that couldn't feel.

"You shouldn't cry like that, especially not here," a voice called from the cell next to her.

"What? Who's there?" Yumi yelped, suddenly frightened.

"My name is Riku. I'm here to save you," the voice sounded male, Yumi looked intently into the dark trying to see Riku.

"I'm not sure if you noticed, but you're stuck in here just like me. The Organization caught you, how could you think you could save me from them," Yumi replied, suddenly angry, she turned her back on the invisible boy.

Riku let out a soft laugh, "Trust me if I was really trying to sneak in here the Organization would never catch me. I wanted them to find me."

"But why?" Yumi asked.

"Because I knew you'd be here," the boy replied curtly.

Yumi turned around again, "How do you know who I am?"

"I was sent to come save you, does it matter by who? I'd take the opportunity to escape if I were you regardless of who it was," Riku answered sardonically.

"Being defenseless doesn't give me much leeway to be careless," Yumi said just as dryly.

"True, but trust me on this," Riku asked.

Someone entered the prison, which cut the dialogue short. Yumi watched the cloaked form tread over to Yumi's cell and open it.

"C'mon," Roxas said. He held out a hand and helped Yumi out of the cell.

"So there still are gentlemen in the Organization, I thought that trait was discarded when your kind's hearts were stolen," Riku spoke from his cage.

"I wouldn't be so smug if I were you," Roxas replied, though the words were meant to be harsh there was little fire behind them. Roxas didn't have much to object with.

He was still holding Yumi's hand when he led her away from Riku and back into the metal halls. They climbed a few levels and came to a completely white room. Roxas led her to a chair then left the room without a word.

Yumi sighed trying to calm her nerves, the longer she was in this castle the more scared she got.

The quiet didn't last long, though, before a menacing looking man with white hair strode into the room. Yumi looked into the man's caramel-colored eyes, she knew this man. Somehow she had met him somewhere, the name escaped her but he was so familiar.

"We need to reach an agreement," he said and regally sat in a chair on the other side of the room, "But let's begin with my name. Xemnas."

Maybe Yumi had been mistaken, at least she thought she had met this man before.

"What is it that we need to agree on, Xemnas?" Yumi asked, trying to sound friendly. At least for now.

"I want to offer you a membership in our humble Organization. I see you've already dressed in our uniform, hopefully you find it to your liking," Xemnas began, speaking eloquently, but his words boiled up some energy in Yumi, a revulsion to the darkness within him.

"I apologize but I am not interested in your humble organization," Yumi addressed the leader with a cold tone, a slight twinge of anger flickered through his eyes but for only a moment, the nobody recomposed himself and stood.

"No, I apologize to you Miss Yumi, for resistance is not permitted against the Organization," Xemnas stated simply. He took a step forward and reached a hand into his cloak.

"Then it's not much of an invitation is it?" Yumi commented with acid on her tongue.

Xemnas let out a sigh, then elegantly pulled a syringe from its hiding place in his clothing. Yumi gusted out a gasp, apprehensive as to what was going to happen next. Xemnas continued on toward her, restrained her arms and thrust the syringe into her neck.

I hope Yumi returns soon so I can leave this place, Riku thought as he began to doze off. The cell wall was cold on his back, but calming in a way he couldn't explain.

He closed his eyes for a moment but then heard the jangling of keys in the distance, the sound came closer and put itself in the lock on his cell. The door opened while Riku's eyes were still tightly shut.

"Wake up," a familiar voice said to him. Riku opened his eyes in an instant to see Roxas standing at the now open cell door.

"What do you want?" Riku asked sourly.

"Yumi is speaking with Xemnas now, but that won't last long. If she refuses to join the Organization he is planning on drugging her so that she will agree to anything," Roxas said, his face grim. Riku jumped onto his feet.

"She's in trouble? So you're letting me out to save her?" Riku inquired.

"Well nobody has to know you were let out, and I can't rescue her from Xemnas, he's got her alone in one of our white rooms three levels up," Roxas added. Riku was already heading out of the dungeon.

On his way out he paused for a second and asked one more question, "Why are you helping her?"

"I'm not sure, but there's just something about her," Roxas said losing his thought in a daze. Riku didn't wait for him to figure out what that something was, he summoned his keyblade and sprinted through the castle. He ran up the stairs and miraculously found the room Yumi was in with Xemnas.

He hesitated outside the door, his hand wavering on the handle. Riku heard Xemnas whispering something.

"You have control over all darkness, you will wield this gift," Xemnas was repeating that over and over, and Yumi wasn't replying.

She must be drugged now, but what is he talking about her control over darkness? Riku thought. He shook off his hesitation then jumped into the room.

Xemnas certainly wasn't expecting Riku to enter, he looked up in bewilderment from where he stood next to Yumi, who was barely conscious in her seat. She stagnantly moved her head, somehow knew that she was being rescued and began thrashing at Xemnas. That gave Riku plenty of time to unleash some devastating blows on the nobody.

The man recovered quickly but didn't counterattack, instead he opened a corridor of darkness and fizzled away. Only his commanded last words stayed.

"Xigbar, finish off the boy and bring the girl to me," Xemnas's voice said then his presence was replaced by the Organization's number two.

"Well, well, well. The little boy escaped his cage, we can fix that," Xigbar stated when he entered from another corridor of darkness. Riku grasped tightly on his keyblade and charged at his opponent.

Although her vision was blurred Yumi could see Xigbar battling a silver-haired boy with a blindfold concealing his eyes, Xigbar shot some blurry darts of pulsating light at the adversary. Yumi didn't know if that was Riku or whoever, but if they were strong enough to fight the Organization Yumi was going to help.

She pushed her body up from the chair, nearly passing out when doing so, and looked for something to use as a weapon.

Yumi's neck throbbed from the syringe wound. Her body felt fluid, but somehow she kept herself level. Suddenly a sharp pain reverberated through her leg. Yumi looked down, through the black patches clouding her vision Yumi saw one of the light darts embedded in her calf.

Yumi reached down and pulled it out, grimacing at the horrible pain it caused. She inspected the object closer, it was an oversized bullet.

"Huh, maybe I should just end this now," Xigbar yelled from across the room and ran towards Yumi. He pointed one purple shooter on Yumi's stomach.

Yumi almost passed out, her stomach churned from fear. The tip of one of the metal bullets pushed on her stomach.

Riku dropped his stance, "Don't."

Xigbar smiled an angry grin, his finger firmly pressed on the trigger. Yumi clenched her fists, she was so sick of these people forcing her to do what they wished. She was tired of them telling her who she was.

"If I have control of all darkness, so be it," Yumi clenched her teeth as she spat the words to Xigbar, "But I will never follow your Organization, and I will do everything in my power to destroy it!"

Power rose in Yumi again, her senses sprang to life, light sparks danced around her gloved hands.

And a glowing gold keyblade burst into them.

"Now she's a keyblader?" Xigbar shrieked and jumped away from the reach of her blade. Yumi was startled as well, but the moment passed and she took a fighting stance.

Yumi lunged forward, dodging bullets, and crashed her keyblade on Xigbar's shoulder. The nobody veered back in pain from the blow, Yumi hit his side. Again the man was falling backwards.

He grasped at his rib cage, breathing deeply, trying to recover. Yumi hit him with a combo of attacks, Xigbar finally fell over.

"You…you're…you were supposed to be drugged," Xigbar said from his limp position on the floor.

Yumi let her keyblade disappear in a flash of light and stood over the dark man, "I was." Then Yumi turned to face the boy.

"Who are you?" Yumi asked.

For a moment he said nothing, he just looked at Yumi, well she hoped he was looking at her, she couldn't tell where his eyes were looking behind the blindfold. The boy stayed silent as he burst around Yumi and hit Xigbar's back, the man fell unconscious.

"My name is Riku," he said from over his shoulder. Yumi smiled, she recognized the voice from the cell. "We have to leave now," Riku said but didn't leave the room, he picked up the now empty syringe from the floor and put it into his own Organization cloak.

Yumi nodded her consent and followed Riku out of the Castle.

Riku brought her to a blue glowing bridge at the bottom level of the Castle that Never Was.

"This thing is floating?" Yumi cried in astonishment. Riku said not a word but continued down the bridge. Yumi followed in silence. They were heading to a shadowed town of black skyscrapers, neon lights coated the buildings but released little illumination to the overshadowing darkness.

"The World That Never Was," Riku remarked and ran faster through the winding streets. Eventually, though, he thudded to a stop.

"Why is it so dark in this place? It's sickening," Yumi stated as her pulse finally began to slow.

Riku turned his back to her, still breathing hard, "It's the realm of Darkness, what would you expect?" his words were dull, a strange tension pulled at his tone.

Yumi didn't know how to object to that she closed her mouth. Yumi pulled off the gloves to inspect her hands when something moving flatly on the ground caught her eye, it was black and moving quickly towards Riku.

"Look out!" Yumi yelled as the form sprung up from the ground and lunged at Riku. Riku gave it little notice, he slashed his keyblade through its tiny body, it disappeared in a wisp of black smoke and a heart floated up to the heart-shaped moon.

Others of the same kind rose up from the ground, their blank yellow eyes glowing.

"All right, talk. Now," Yumi said to Riku as she summoned her golden keyblade.

Riku kept his guard on the defensive, waiting for one of the creatures to begin the battle, "All right, I'll talk," he said not looking towards Yumi, "Once you tell me why you have the Ultima Weapon."

Xigbar's muscles shook as he tried to find the strength to stand.

That girl battered me up good, Xigbar thought coldly. He pushed himself harder and was able to stand and limp his way through a corridor of darkness.

When he reentered, he was standing on the Altar of Naught. One lonely figure stood alone watching Kingdom Hearts being fed one more heart from somewhere in the World That Never Was.

"Xemnas," Xigbar bowed in reverence. The figure turned.

"Yes?" Xemnas asked.

"The girl has escaped, with Riku. And she has a keyblade now," Xigbar stated when he raised his head. Xemnas's countenance did not change, although the news was unpleasant he could not feel anything.

"We must get her back," Xemnas stated plainly.

"May I ask why? I mean if she controls all darkness she will lose herself to it someday, why must we have her now?" Xigbar asked.

"Come over here," Xemnas said then motioned for Xigbar to stand next to him on the tower. "Look into the ravine under the castle."

Xigbar did what his leader asked, he looked down and saw an entire army of nobodies kneeling at the bottom of the ravine, a sea of white in a dark world.

"Where did they come from?" Xigbar asked.

"I don't know but they won't follow me, they continue sitting there. They are nothing like the others," Xemnas replied, "But we could do so much with them, I thought the Lady of Darkness could force them to follow me, that's why we need her."

Xigbar and Xemnas looked on to the army.

We are waiting, my liege. A dusk kneeling at the front of the horde said soundlessly.

We'll always be waiting…

And that is the end of the fourth chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. There was so much I had to explain in this chapter, it's my longest yet. 23 pages on a Microsoft word document! Anyways, I would love to hear from you so please review. Thanks so much for reading. Until next time…