Update for my own sake since no one seems to care.

The girl continued to struggle even as Saïx drug her through the front entrance to the Castle That Never Was and to the grand staircase that lead to the streets. Xemnas and I followed. I was furious at Saïx for going through with this but with the Superior here, I was powerless to stop him. I contemplated sneaking off through the dark corridor and going down to help her when no one was looking but Xemnas was watching me like a hawk.

"You can't do this." I tried again to persuade the second in command into seeing reason. It was a long shot, but I had to try. "She's injured and weak. She'll die if you throw her to those creatures!"

"You have brought this upon yourself, Axel." Saïx said haughtily. "In refusing to cooperate, you sealed her fate. It's in her hands now. She can reveal her powers and live or die and keep them secret."

"You're a monster." I growled.

Saïx chuckled. "Aren't we all?"

Xemnas' deep voice cut through the air before I could speak. "Enough of this chatter." He strode to his second in command. "If you plan on going through with this plan, you better do it now before we are overrun."

Saïx nodded. "Yes, sire."

Panic -or at least the knowledge of how to and when- was rising inside me as the girl was dragged to the edge of the stairs. She was struggling with what little energy she had left, but that was no match for the thirty-some year old man. If she couldn't even fend off one Nobody, how was she going to survive in the sea of heartless?

If I told them what had happened yesterday, I knew Xemnas would strike her down where she stood. But if I let them throw her to the heartless she would be overwhelmed. If I told she was dead. If I kept quiet, she was dead. I couldn't see a way out of this.

I was forced to decide how to kill her.

Before I could even choose, Saïx pushed the girl off the stairs and into the black mass of heartless. Her gut-wrenching scream pierced the air as she fell.

I yelled and ran to the edge of the steps so I could see her.

She lay on the ground, dazed but conscious as she attempted to sit up. The heartless around her –primarily Shadows- watched her intently but did not attack. They must have been surprised by her fall and wondered if she was some sort of strange creature that flew. But the ones in behind were restless and moved this way and that, anxious to get to their prey.

"Common you idiot…" I muttered under my breath, then yelled down to the girl, "RUN!"

She looked up at me, confused yet somehow relieved to see me. The motion of heartless around her brought her back to her situation and she became all too aware of the danger she was in. The Shadows began to inch closer and she scooted back on the stone ground. They continued to advance. Scared and nervous, the girl got to her feet slowly and backed away from the creatures. They followed.

She kept backing up until a set of claws ripped into her back. She cried out and stumbled away from the heartless that lurked behind her but came to face the ones flanking her front. She was totally surrounded.

I watched in horror as they closed in. There was nowhere to run. She was doomed.

The girl was even more terrified than I was. She turned this way and that, hoping to find a gap she could dash through, something that could save her. She found nothing. The heartless were mere feet away, some reaching out to slash at her only to have her dodge their claws. She wouldn't be able to do that for long. Soon the Shadows were so close that if she got away from one set of claws, she was met with another.

In a matter of seconds the girl was crying, her body even more cut and bloody than when I had first seen her. My would-be-heart ached as she continued to scream and cry as the heartless tore into her flesh. She fell to her knees in exhaustion, trying to shield her face with her hands as she sobbed. The heartless continued their onslaught.

I turned my head away, not being able to bear anymore. Until…

"W-what in-?" I heard Saïx say, stunned.

Xemnas was equally flummoxed. "What's going on?"

I whipped my head back to the scene bellow. The girl was still there, crying and bloody but the heartless had backed off and were skittish as if they were nervous. And I knew why.

The girl was glowing again.

That same radiant, soft, green glow that would have made me relieved if not for the two most powerful Nobodies in Organization XIII standing beside me, seeing what I was. CRAP! What was I supposed to do? They were going to see! Xemnas was going to kill her if exhaustion or bleeding didn't first!

The glow was intensifying and we had to shield our eyes. Here it comes! I grimaced, looking away from the light as it became blinding. A few seconds too late, I thought of attacking Xemnas and Saïx while neither could see but there was a flash and the light went away as soon as it had started. The heartless were gone, nothing but the hundreds of hearts they stole filled the streets. The girl lay face down and still on the ground.

I cleared my throat and attempted to distract the two. "Ugh, what a waste of hearts." I sighed in fake disappointment. "Oh well. What are we supposed to do? We don't have a keyblade wielder anymore. What d'ya say we go hand out some reconnaissance missions to the others, huh? We're sure to find someone out there in one of these worl-"

"Axel, shut up!" Saïx snapped, his eyes still fixed on the girl. "Xemnas, are you seeing this?"

"Yes. It's extraordinary." The leader said in awe.

I turned back to the ledge. The hearts had begun to seep into the girl's chest. Damn!

There was nothing I could do. They'd seen her absorb the hearts. They would run tests, they would find out what she was and what she was capable of (I would too since I didn't even know that much) and Xemnas would "dispose" of her because she was too much of a threat to his rule or whatever. It wasn't fair that that man's hunger for power would end an innocent girl's life.

Once all the hearts had vanished into the girl, everything was quiet. After a while Xemnas turned to me. "You knew she could do that?"

I ran a hand through my hair. "Uh… well…"

"Yes or no, Axel." He said, his eyes piercing mine.

I mustered up all the courage I had and sent him a glare as I growled. "It doesn't matter. You have your answers." I walked to the edge of the stairs, pausing to see if I'd be stopped- not that I cared- and flew down the steps to tend to the girl.

No one yelled at me. Xemnas didn't smite me. Saïx didn't scold. I looked up at them as I knelt by the girl's unmoving body. They simply watched me and continued to do so as I lifted her into my arms. I felt a sense of foreboding as I sent them a final glare before deciding that the stairs were not my best option and opened a dark corridor to the infirmary.

They didn't stop me.

I think that was what unnerved me the most.

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