Okay as usual I don't own Kingdom Hearts or anything associated with it.

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Chapter 10

Time To Face Your Inner Fears

Roxas glared at him.

"Don't you dare call me that!' He snapped. 'And what the do you mean to late?!"

Xehanort smiled at him and pulled a small device out of his pocket and held it up for all to see, and then he pushed a red button.

"AHHHHHH! Not the red button, bad things always happen when you press that." Riku screamed.

The King turned to him, and gave him a sheepish look and sighed.

Meanwhile the affect of Xehanort's red button was taking affect, and a large machine arose behind him. Inside this machine was a glass dome, and inside that, was Sora and Naminé who turned to the others and began banging on the glass and yelled at them not that anyone heard their desperate cries of help.

Kairi stepped forward as if wanting to run straight over.

"Sora! Naminé!" She yelped.

The King stared in horror at Xehanort.

"Don't tell me you plan to sacrifice them to open the gate?!" He asked gaping at him in disbelief.

Xehanort smirked.

"Oh no my friend not just them there's a key ingredient missing." He explained to The King. He turned his evil smirk to Ven. "I thought that the old hag had wiped your memories when she took your heart Ven? But it appears that you some how regained them, no matter, you still hold half of Sora all the same, and that's what I need. Lucky for me I don't need you alive, so, I'm going to take the pleasure of killing you first." He cackled.

"Oh goody, the guys insane just like Xemnes. Do you think he has a catchphrase like Xemnes too, cause Xemnes always said 'I am eternal' blah blah blah" Riku said while he summoned his Keyblade to his hand and got ready to beat the crap out of him.

The King turned to him and threw him a look of annoyance.

"Idiot" He muttered.

Cloud glared at Xehanort.

"Your not gonna get a chance to touch him cause your gonna be six foot under in a minute!" He yelled.

Xehanort gave him a look of disgust, and asked him how he was gonna stop him, but before Cloud or anyone could answer him he raised his hands high in the air and out of nowhere 5 huge black heartless emerged from the ground. (Just think of that big Heartless you have to beat after you take on Ansem in kingdom hearts 1, but then think of that having the power of Xemnes).

"Oh great, when Xehanort throws a party he goes a crazy on the entertainment, but there again he's crazy anyway right?" Riku said while dodging out the way of one of the Heartless. "I'm going to name this one Bruce after my maths teacher because I really hate him!" Riku said a huge grin on his face.

The King sighed. "I don't care what you call it; just fight it before it kills you!" He yelled at Riku who was currently flying in the air trying to hit its head which appeared to be the weak spot.

But no luck the Heatless (Bruce) raised its hand and smacked Riku sending him hurtling down towards the floor.

Riku sat up and looked over at The King.

"Well as my grandma's uncle's cousin's nephew's aunt always said 'didn't see that coming'" Riku grinned and ran back into the fight again.

The King smacked his head with a hand and went back to his own fight.

Meanwhile over with Cloud and Leon…

"Oh Jesus these things don't give up do they?" Leon yelled.

"Seems not" Cloud yelled back to him, while dodging a black energy blast that had been sent his way by his own Heartless.

He and Leon were fighting one each, while Kairi, Donald and Goofy took one, so The King and Riku the last 2.

"So" Cloud started. "Riku's called his Bruce after his maths teacher." He told him and they stood back to back waiting for the Heartless to make their moves. "What you gonna call yours?" He asked.

"Tiny." Leon replied.

Cloud turned to him and gave him a funny look.

"That thing is no where near tiny, it's the size of 5 of our houses stacked on top of each other." Cloud told him.

"Yeah, but, when I'm finished with it it's gonna be the size of a mushroom." Leon yelled as he leapt into the air to dodge one of 'Tiny's' attacks, and smacked it in the head repeatedly until the Heatless raised it's hand, which Leon saw it do, it threatened to knock him down again, before it could he back flipped in midair to escape the hand of death that was heading straight towards him, after regaining his balance he dropped down to the floor.

He looked around himself quickly and saw Cloud who already appeared to have boxed the Heatless head in, and was now running down its arm trying to escape a shower of black energy blasts that where coming at him, his plan had worked and instead of them hitting Cloud they had all hit the floor, so Cloud was now running back up it's arm for round 2.

Leon smiled. "Smart move Cloud, what you gonna call yours?" He called to him; Cloud seemed to have heard him and turned for a moment a huge smirk on his face.

"Margret." He replied.

Leon gave a puzzled look for a moment, until Cloud came flying towards him after beating up his Heartless again.

"Margret." He said again. "After my Bitch of a babysitter." He said smiling.

Leon smirked and sped off again toward the large black Heartless (Tiny) its golden eyes looking straight at him.

"Well Tiny ma man time to show you what happens when I get really mad!" He screamed at it.

Back with Ven things weren't going so well either.

He looked around himself; everyone else was fighting huge Heartless that seemed to pack quite a punch.

Xehanort raised his hand again and the bubble that poor Aqua and Terra were being held in began to levitate and move over to the machine where Sora and Naminé where being held captive. Aqua seemed to being trying to tell him something, she was banging on the wall of the cage and yelling something.

"Wait!" He yelled at Xehanort, who turned to him. "What are you going to do with them?" He asked him.

He smirked at him.

"Well, I might add them to the sacrifice too." He cackled.

Ven stared at him in horror. There was no way he would let him do that.

"Leave them the hell out of this; you know that this is only between you and me so leave them alone." He yelled.

Xehanort smirked.

"As you wish, Ven." He then threw the bubble to the side of the room and raised his hand once again, all around them a ring of black energy this prevented anyone from escaping or entering the battle. "This time Ven we settle this once and for all." He cackled for some reason or other he looked to be enjoying this. "One of us we die while the other survives and I can assure you it won't be me who is going to die." He rambled while a large smirk played on his face.

He then drew out the Keyblade that he always used in battle the 'Soul Eater' blade.

Ven drew his own blades to hand and they both locked eyes with each other.

Ven smirked. "I and can assure you I'm not going anywhere either."

Xehanort just grinned. "I'll soon change that for you."

He then lunged at Ven, who flung himself out of the way of the incoming blade.

Xehanort continued to hurl himself and the blade at Ven for quite sometime before Ven could find a chance to strike him, but sure enough an opening soon came and Ven took it. Xehanort had twisted to the side after Ven had dodged out the way; his blade had gone off the side and left himself unprotected for a split moment so Ven sent his Keyblades crashing into him. The sheer force of that had sent Xehanort slamming up against the barrier, but his precious barrier acted like a force field because of this he rickashade off of it and was sent straight back into Ven Keyblades again, which repeatedly showed him with vicious attacks.

By this point Xehanort was officially mad. Once Ven's rampage of attacks were over he stood back up again, heavily breathing, a small sigh escaped him remembering that neither one of them had any potions on them, and that Ven was using his own magic to sustain himself, and he has just used all of it up with a cura spell, so he would be out of magic for a while, he smirked at the thought.

Ven looked at him and pointed the Oathkeeper blade at him.

"Your not gonna give up are you?" He said a small hint of eagerness in his voice.

"Of course not" Xehanort scoffed.

Ven rolled his eyes.

Xehanort had noticed that he was off guard and as fast as he could he grabbed his Keyblade and swung it out, and grabbed Ven's shoulder and twisted the poor boys body round so that his back was against his chest.

Ven's blades dropped from his grasp both hit the floor and vanished in their own funny way. Ven realised he was now completely defenceless against him.

Xehanort held his own blade against Ven's throat and he drew a small amount of ruby red liquid that trickled down his neck.

Ven gave a small yelp of pain.

Xehanort laughed, he thought that it was so funny that he was in pain and was simply enjoying it a much as he could.

"Now prepare to die!" He cackled. "Oh how long I've waited to say that to you Ven. You knew you never stood a chance and that's what makes it so funny you simply knew but you still tried anyway."

By this time Cloud had already sliced and diced Margret and was helping out Leon with Tiny, he turned for a moment to check on Ven even though he knew he couldn't help him.

Upon seeing the site in front of him he dashed towards the barrier screaming his younger brothers name at the top of his voice.

Xehanort rolled his eyes and shot his blade into Ven's body.

After that all Cloud saw this was red liquid, a LOT of red liquid, Ven's body fell to the ground and a scream rang in his ears, his scream. And…then…Nothing.

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So Vens died, Clouds lost his little brother again, Xehanort's going to rule the world and open that funny gate thing, and Riku well I don't know about him he'll most likely go skiing somewhere.