Heart'sgem: I'm sorry that this chapter was late. It took some time to type it up, because this chapter is pretty long compared to what I usually do.
Roxas: I know! And I have to do a lot in this chapter. It's not fair!
Heart'sgem: Just because it is in your P.O.V. doesn't mean that you have to do the most. I haven't even introduced the character that does the most in this chapter.
Xeninam: And I'm not even in this chapter! Why did you even create me if you don't use me!
Heart'sgem: Why is eveyone so mean at me today? Just deal with it, okay? I do not own any of the characters in Kingdom Hearts-
Sora: Why didn't you let me do the disclaimer?
Heart'sgem: It is easier to just say it myself. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
"Where to?"
I didn't feel like answering Axel's stupid question. In the realm of darkness, it didn't matter what direction you went; the darkness decided where you would go.
"I don't know. Let's go forward." I started walking in a random direction. I bet that Axel was annoyed, now, but I was too. I don't believe that he left behind Namine! Axel and I had an argument earlier, but Axel refused to get her. I wanted to get some revenge.
I heard footsteps behind me, so I assumed that they had followed me, but when I turned around, they weren't there. I started to panic and I tried to summon a portal, but of course, it didn't come. Sometimes I actually missed my dark powers, but at least I had my powers of light. I summoned an orb of light in order to look at my surroundings. I was glad that I did, because I saw that I was on the edge of a cliff. I took a few quick steps back and sighed. I guess that I wasn't a part of the darkness anymore, since it was trying to kill me. I looked around, but Axel and Ven were nowhere in sight.
"Looking for something?"
The question had come from behind me, which was where the cliff was. I turned around and I saw a dark feminine figure standing above the gap. She was standing on thin air, and she seemed to be levitating. She walked closer, and I saw that she was in an Organization cloak, but her face was concealed by her hood. I felt a dull ache in the back of my head, and it grew more intense as she approached. She stopped a foot away from me, but she was still over the cliff. I took a step back and summoned my keyblades, Oathkeeper and Oblivion.
"Who are you?"
She smiled and held out her hand. I clasped my hand where Oblivion should have been, and it appeared in the stranger's hand. I was speechless with shock. "H-how did you do that?"
She looked at Oblivion carefully. "Well, it is mine, so I should be able to retrieve my own keyblade." She held up the keyblade and made it disappear, and it came to me as soon as I summoned it again. But I was confused; how could a keyblade belong to two people? I made both of my keyblades disappear and I looked at her for a moment.
"Can I see your face?"
She hesitated, but after a moment, she pulled back her hood. As soon as she did, my head started to feel like a pin cushion. I grabbed my head and fell to one knee. Memories came flooding back into me; memories about my time with Axel and her.
I felt better after a minute, but I still felt light-headed. Yet, I was mentally much better. The final part of my mind was explained, but…
"How can you be here, Xion?
She bent down and scooped up a handful of darkness. "Everything returns from where it came from. Somebodies return to the earth, while Nobodies are able to return to their Somebody, or to oblivion, since that is where they should have been in the first place. But I am not a Nobody. I am merely something that was created from darkness itself, so I returned to the darkness after my death. But now I am forced to walk alone in the darkness until the people that have met me die as well. Fortunately, I will not have to wait longer than a life-span until I can go to a place where I can be forgotten, and I don't have to bring anyone more suffering." She clenched her hand and the darkness seeped into her.
"But I thought that you went into Sora. You are a part of his memory."
She smiled sadly. "Sora is not alive, so he doesn't need us and we are free to do what we want. But if he comes back, we will have to return from where we came from. You know this, Roxas."
Sadly, I did. That is why I wanted to be with Namine so much. I knew that I wouldn't see her again after we brought back Sora. Everyone else knew this too, but they were too afraid to tell me; too afraid that I would refuse. I wanted to with a fiery passion, but I couldn't. I understood Xion; I didn't want to cause more pain by merely existing. Only a Nobody could understand.
I looked her in the eye. "Come with us. We need you and your keyblade to break the barrier for Sora." I summoned Oblivion and held it out to her.
She shook her head sadly. "That keyblade no longer belongs to me even though I said that it did earlier. When I held it, the keyblade resisted. You know who your keyblades belong to.
I smiled lightly, because she was right again. Oathkeeper was always drawn towards Namine more than me, but Oblivion came to me naturally. I had more light within me than before, but everyone has darkness, except for a chosen few.
I made Oblivion disappear. "But you should still come with us. We need you."
She stepped gracefully on to the ground and grabbed my hand, and she smiled as darkness surrounded us.
After a minute of being in the portal, we arrived next to Axel and Ven. We were no longer holding hands, and Xion had put her hood up. Axel ran up to me as soon as we got out of the portal and stopped a foot away from us.
His eyes turned a striking green color as he turned towards me. "Why did you storm off like that? You are lucky that you found someone with a portal. Or maybe not so lucky." He looked warily at Xion and summoned his chackrams. He pointed one of them at her and asked, "Who are you?"
I smiled as I saw his wary expression. "She always showed me her face before she showed you."
He looked at me oddly. "Always? But I don't know-"
He stopped as Xion threw back her hood and smiled. Axel took a sharp breath in from the pain caused by the shock of the memories while Ven looked at the scene in confusion. Axel was fine after a couple of seconds, though. I guess that the memories of Xion were not as strong in Axel as they were in me.
He squinted his eye for a second as he looked at Xion. "But how are you here?"
"And who are you?" I guess that was a fair question, because Ven had never seen Xion before.
Axel, Xion, and I explained what happened during my time in the Organization. It felt nice to finally get my feelings out. Ven listened intently the whole time, and after we told that story, Xion explained to them how she was here by telling them what we talked about earlier. She left out some parts, and I was relieved. Some words are not meant to be said twice.
Axel looked at Xion. "But can you leave the realm of darkness? It sounds like you are stuck here."
She lowered her head. "Unfortunately, I have to stay here, so I can't help you find all of the people that you are looking for." She raised her head. "But I know that Sora and Kairi are somewhere in the realm of darkness. But you have to find Terra and Aqua first. I can help you find Aqua, but you must find Terra without me. After you find Terra, you can return here, and I will join you again."
I smiled gratefully. "That is more than we were aiming for. Thank you, Xion."
She smiled and summoned a portal. "Aqua is this way. I can have as many people as I want in my portal, so you can all come in one trip."
Axel went in first with Ven following him. I smiled sadly at Xion as I recalled our conversation and I grabbed her hand lightly. "I really like you, Xion, but only as a friend. I am sorry, but I don't think that we can be anything more than that. I already found someone for me, and I don't think that I would be truly happy loving anyone else and you will not be happy with me, because I am not the right person for you; there is someone else for you. I am sure that you will be able to find someone; you are a good person."
She glanced down. "How could anyone learn to love me? I am a being of darkness; I'm not even considered a Nobody."
I let go of her hand and her head jerked up. Her eyes sparkled with an unbearable sadness, and her hair shone. My face became serious. "You will find someone."
She smiled lightly and gestured to the portal. "After you."
As I walked past her into the portal, she whispered to me. "Thank you."
As the darkness consumed me, I realized that with those last words, any hope that I had of being more than a friend with her was gone. I blinked out a tear, and with the tear, my hopeless desire was released as well.
Xion: So... long.. Did you really have to put this all in one chapter?
Heart'sgem: I had a writing inspiration, okay? Deal with it.
Sora: And I want a story in my P.O.V! I am bored down here!
Heart'sgem: Okay, you heard him, readers. If you want me to have a part in my next chapter where it is in Sora's P.O.V, I need three requests in a review, or else I won't do it in the next one, and you will have to wait until near the end of the story.
Sora: Please? I feel really unloved down here!
Heart'sgem: How do you think I feel? You guys are so whiney today. Anyway, I hoped that you liked this longer chapter, and please review!
Sora: With requests!
