What? A new chapter already? Don't these things usually take an eternity?

Not today, my friends!

When I write a chapter, I get SUPER INSPIRED to write the next one, but usually my family comes and is all like "WHAT ARE DOING THAT INVOLVES SO MUCH TYPING?" but this time I'm like "I WANNA WRITE IT! GO AWAY!" and they're like "whoa... you can't speak to us like that!" And I'm like "I think I just did"- and this could go on forever... I'm hyper...

SO ANYWAYS song... song... I used up like, all of my songs in the last chapter so...

GOT IT! "Post-blue" by Placebo. Warning, it's got swearing...

But then again... so does this story...

And then if that finishes early try "Serious" by Scars on Broadway. Enjoy!

"Oh you do, do you!" Anti-Sora asked. He was really pissed by this point. That stupid bastard Hitsugaya had gone and taken Namine, and then Namine, the one person Anti-Sora liked, went and pushed him through a god damn Corridor of Darkness. He was NOT a happy camper.

Mayuri chuckled.

"The answer is quite simple, really. All you have to do is work for me and do whatever I say, all for the small price of letting me dissect your body. I won't completely destroy it. You'll be in top notch afterwards, believe me. I'm just curious-"

"Whoa whoa back up! You just phrased like I'm ASKING to work for you! Where the nut-sack did you get the idea I wanted to work for you?"

"Mayuri-sama-"

Mayuri turned on Nemu.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT, YOU STUPID GIT!"

She stood there emotionlessly.

"I have two things I would like to ask. First, why did that man just say 'where the nut-sack'? That makes no sense. Secondly, why did you call me a git? You aren't English."

"SHUT UP! Sometimes I bother why I keep you alive."

"You didn't answer me."

Mayuri turned back to Anti-Sora and chuckled once more. He pointed a long-nailed middle finger at him.

"Because I'm giving you a once in a lifetime offer! You can either join me when I rule all the worlds, or you can be ruled."

"You're trying to rule all the worlds? And what about that whole dissecting thing?"

"Yes, I am trying to rule them all. You see, I obtained the DNA of an arrancar and a nobody, even though the nobody was a female... beside the point. I used their DNA and infused it with my own, giving me the special abilities that each race of creature had. As for the dissection, well, that's just for my own entertainment. I assume, judging by the way you look, you possess the abilities of a heartless, making you unimportant for my evolution."

"I'll show you god damn fucking unimportant!"

Anti-Sora pulled out his keyblade and swung at Mayuri. Nemu interfered. Mayuri let out a short guh-fawh.

"I see I HAVE stumbled upon something useful! A keyblade wielder! You look different than any description I've ever gotten... however I've decided to keep you around. Come."

Mayuri turned around and opened a CoD.

Wait, CoD?

No, not Call of Duty.

"I still don't like or trust you."

Mayuri sighed.

"I don't think you realize the great opportunities my offer holds. You will do some dirty work for me, yes. A small operation, of course. However, you will be completely unscathed, and I will help you accomplish what it is you desire most."

Anti-Sora put his keyblade away.

"... Will there be lots of mayhem in the process?"

"I wouldn't have it any other way."

"Can I bang that chick that's been following you?"

"No."

"It was a stretch. I'll come with you, but as soon as you've helped me out, I'm quitting."

"Then I suppose I can't ever help you out."

"Then I suppose your face."

Mayuri started walking through the Corridor of Darkness. Anti-Sora was about to follow, but was stopped by Nemu.

"What?"

She stared into his non-existent soul.

"You're comebacks suck balls."

She walked through the Corridor of Darkness, and left Anti-Sora utterly confused, and then following, in a daze.

(Song: "I Whip My Hair" by Willow Smith- NO I'M JUST KIDDING I'd never do that to you. Psh nah something to fit the next part: "How Could This Happen to Me [Untitled]" by Simple Plan... Then "What hurts the Most" by Rascal Flatts if you finish early... these things are getting to long.)

Toshiro and Namine hurried back to the island using a Corridor of Darkness (They figured Anti-Sora must have left somewhere else if he didn't come back). Toshiro's heart hurt more and more every time they walked through it, but he thought it was worth it. He and Namine couldn't really be alone for long on the island, so they went away to the clock tower a lot.

However, now was not the time to be alone. When they arrived at Destiny Islands, they found Riku, Kenpachi and Yachiru in a circle. They hustled over...

And stopped, seeing what lay before them.

Kairi lay motionless in Riku's arms, the blood no longer spilling out. His eyes never left Kairi. Yachiru was letting all the liquids in her body pour out, silently. Kenpachi looked solemnly into the distance.

Namine's eyes started watering, and she covered her mouth as she fell to her knees. Toshiro kneeled down beside her, his face gone pale. There was a very long silence. Finally, Toshiro spoke up:

"It was Anti-Sora, wasn't it?" he asked.

Riku barely managed to take his eyes away from Kairi to face Toshiro.

"How did you know about Anti-Sora?"

Toshiro turned and looked dramatically into the distance.

"He visited us, just now, Namine and I, when we were on top of the clock tower."

Riku turned back to Kairi. Yachiru sniffled and wiped at her nose.

For the next few hours, they all mourned her death. They all said what they loved most about her (It was mostly Riku and Namine, everyone else didn't really know her) and then Riku carried her body to her mother. The others sat quietly, staring out into the sunset. Namine fell sleep on Toshiros shoulder, and he put his arm around her, holding her in close. That was when Toshiro realized...

"Hey, where's Matsumoto?"

(Song: "Milkshake" by Kelis. Done early? "For the Girls" by The Fratellis)

Matsumoto wandered the halls for about an hour before she realized...

She didn't have anywhere to go.

And apparently no one else was in this giant castle. She eventually just stopped and stared at the giant heart-shaped moon outside the building.

I wonder what Captain's doing right now...she thought. She gave out a huge sigh. At one point, she thought she saw something move out of the corner of her eye, but it turned out to be nothing.

Eventually, Matsumoto got bored (and sober) and decided to go search for alcho- other people once more. She turned down many, MANY hallways before she finally heard a voice and footsteps. However, it was slowly fading.

NO! she yelled in her head, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE IN HOURS!

She sprinted after the voice, DESPERATE to see someone. She turned a corner and-

BLAM!

Bumped right into a person.

"Oh sorry! I'm such a klutz! I just-"

She looked down at the person under her. There lay an unconscious man (nose bleeding, for some apparent reason), with shoulder length, shaggy brown hair, dressed in all white. Those were the first things she noticed. The second thing she noticed was the hole in his chest and bottom half of a jaw- no, a hollow mask, under his chin. The third thing she noticed was the three other people around her, two in white, and one in black. hollow masks attached to them, staring at her with disbelief. One was another girl, blonde hair tied back in three ponytails, wearing a shirt revealing about as much as Matsumotos shirt was. The second one in white had pink hair and glasses, and appeared almost... angry at Matsumoto (jealousy, perhaps?). The last one also had pink hair, but it was much longer, and he wore a black cloak. Once she finished examining how everyone looked, she got off the man- no, ARRANCAR, she was on top of.

She tried to think of something to say, but everything she though of was either awkward or sounded threatening. They were all staring at her. Finally, the man in the black spoke up:

"You're here because of Xigbar aren't you?"

"Yeah..."

Everyone gave out a huge sigh of relief (except for the man on the floor, who was still unconscious).

"Welcome to The Castle That Never Was-"

"Yes it was."

The man in black was taken aback in surprise.

"...What?"

"The Castle WAS."

"No it's called The Castle-"

"How can it be called The Castle That Never Was if it IS?"

"...is what?"

"IS A CASTLE!"

"...Okay."

"Umm..." Matsumoto said awkwardly, "This is strange to ask, but can you please show me how to get to Destiny Islands?"

They all looked at each other awkwardly.

"Umm..." the man with the glasses said, "The only one who can really get there is Marluxia here-"

He waved his hand to the man in black.

"- But no one is actually allowed to leave right now."

"...Oh."

They all stood awkwardly. Suddenly, the man on the floor started to stir.

"Starrk!" The woman said. She knelt beside him and lifted his head. Marluxia and the man with the glasses all knelt around him, like it was his dying moment.

"Starrk! Starrk, speak to us!"

Starrk gave out a hoarse cough. His eyes started to flutter open, and he turned and looked at the woman.

"H...Halibel? Is... is that you?"

Tears slowly started to fall from her eyes.

"Yes... yes it's me, Starrk. Stay with us... we're all here for you..."

Starrk moved his head to look at the others, and winced from the... pain.

"Szayel... Marluxia..."

"We're here for you," Szayel said, his eyes watering, a slight lift in the corners of his mouth, seeing his friend was okay.

"I'm sorry," Halibel said, turning towards Matsumoto, "but can you please leave? We'd like to be alone with him right now."

Matsumoto nodded her head, turned around, and walked away, not quite sure what just happened.

(Song: "The Happy Song" by Liam Lynch, then "Moonshield" by In Flames [I think I did that for another chapter...])

Axel roamed the halls of The Castle That Never Was. He had been doing so for the past few hours. He'd bumped into a couple of people, and almost into this woman he had never seen before in his life. He thought about going up to her and asking why the hell she was there, but truthfully, he didn't give a fuck.

After several hours, he finally found someone who would understand his problem.

"ULQUIORRA!"

Ulquiorra, sitting on the floor, looked up from the book he was reading (Lord of the Flies, of course) and the small sense of happiness that had somehow crawled it's way into his body left in half a second, when he saw who had called his name.

"Axel," he said, turning back to his book. Axel sprinted halfway there, then slid on his feet until he was only a few dozen of inches away, then he fell to his bottom and slid the last amount of space on his butt, until he bumped against Ulquiorra, his arm going around his shoulder.

"Ulq- ow... Ulquiorra, your a good guy, you know that?"

"Is there any chance that you're drunk?"

Axel did some strange flicking movement with his free hand.

"Puh-shaw! I'm as sober as a rock! The thing is, Ulquiorra, I've been having a lot of problems lately, and I need to tell someone."

"Why not... that short blonde kid."

"Because he's part of the problem! I ran up and tackled him to the ground like usual, but he kept yelling at me to get off him!"

"From what I have observed, he does that whenever you... 'tackle' him."

"But that's not all that's wrong! I went to The Room That Was Never Sober, and they were all out of alcohol! Everything! Beer, wine, whiskey, rum, sake, rubbing, ALL GONE!"

"A tragedy, truly-"

"AND! AND! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH! XEMNAS HAS CUT BACK ON OUR HAIR SUPPLY BUDGETS! My hair is drooping as we speak!"

Ulquiorra put his bookmark in its place in the book, stood up, and started walking away.

"Wait!" Axel said, scrambling after him. "Aren't you going to give me some advice?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"You aren't the only one with problems."

"Man, you're emo."

Ulquiorra stopped in place. Axel stopped behind him.

"What did I say?" Axel questioned, scratching his head. He stopped immediately (and so did his supposedly non-existent heart) when he saw Ulquiorra looking at him from the corner of his eye.

"DO. NOT. CALL. ME. THAT. WORD."

"oh... okay."

Ulquiorra continued to walk.

"Hey," Axel said, awkwardly, "If... if you want to... TALK... about your problems... you know... I'm usually free..."

"Are you hitting on me?"

"WHAT THE HELL GAVE YOU THAT IMPRESSION?"

Ulquiorra was about to say a comeback he had always wanted to use (ever since that day with Zommari...) when a strange whooshing sound came behind him. He turned around, Axel looking over his shoulder. A corridor of darkness opened. Ulquiorra, still not used to them yet, grabbed Axel, covering his mouth, and pulled him around a random corner that happened to be there.

"It's okay, Ulquiorra! It's just-"

"This place hasn't changed at all since I was last here!"

Axel shut up, not recognizing the voice. He turned to Ulquiorra, who, showing the most emotion he ever had EVER, shrugged his shoulders. They peered around the corner. They saw a young woman with black hair, dressed in some type of Shinigami-themed dress, an older man with a... toilet on his head, with a-

Ulquiorra's eyes widened.

A Captain Haori.

And one last person, completely black from head to toe, bearing something like a... keyblade...

"He looks familiar..." Axel whispered.

OH SNAP! INTENSE!

...yep. I don't have any big rant for here...

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