We are entering the second half of this challenge! Thanks for reading until there, and please bear with me for another 10 songfics!

Warning: Deathfic

Song : Nightmare - Arshad

The fight was over. Finally. After all these years, it was over. Sora closed his eyes, lifting his face to feel the sun. It was over.

Everything is going to change
Nothing's going to be the same
What we know is good and gone
The life we lived has come undone
He let go of his keyblade and fell to his knees. He couldn't believe it. He was out of breath. The world he had known would never be the same. Ever. And even the warmth of the sun was a meagre comfort to what happened. They had lost.

So wake me from this terrible nightmare
This wicked little game I never wanted to play
An answers gotta be somewhere out there
Equations need solutions and we'll solved it today
He heard a scream behind him. He turned his head, even if he didn't want to. Even if he already knew what he would see. Aqua was holding Terra's motionless body in her arms. He was still alive, but that was just a matter of time, and she knew it. That didn't stop her to cast Curaga after Curaga. He had taken a slash meant for her. Courtesy of Master Xehanort himself. They had lost Ventus in the fight, too. He had lethally wounded Xigbar - but even while dying, the sharpshooter never missed his target. Losing Terra too would probably be too much for her to handle. The young man vanished into a cloud of light, and she yelled at the top of her lungs. Sora looked elsewhere. He wasn't ready for that.

When the sun disappears and the knights have fallen
And the clouds all departs
I won't hear you calling
In my head
Maybe looking somewhere else wasn't the best decision. Over there, Roxas was sitting on the ground, stunned. He was holding Lea's keyblade, but his hands were shaking so much the weapon slipped and fell. Xion was standing behind him, silent, probably as shocked as Roxas. Her saphir eyes met Sora's, and all he could read in them was hate. Lea had died because he chose to protect Sora. He had used his own body to block the attacks from the enemy lines on the teenager. And he died for nothing.

We push and bleed to catch a breath
To float above the stiff of death
Yet nothing making sense in my mind
No matter how much Sora tried to block what was happening on his left side, he could still see it. Sense it. He could hear the silence of the fallen ones. Those who would not turn into light, their bodies following the rules of another world. A mouse, a dog and a duck, put to sleep forever. How could it be? Sora's mind refused to explain that. Explain how they could have lost so much in so little time.

A soldier falls in to the dark
And only forced to hit his mark
And nothings left to clam but defeat
How long could he pretend not to see it? How long? How long before his brain will finally admit it?

That floral keyblade, once so colourful, which flowers were now monochrome. That puddle, that could have been water, except it was too thick and too red. That lingering light, refusing to vanish, wanting to be acknowledged. Riku, his face now scarred with a deep gash, looking at him, broken.
Denial time was over.

And it hurts
Like a broken promise
Stings like a grieving sadness
He had promised to save them. Promised they would win. Promised he owed them that much. He would give them their life back. He would take down the one who took so much.

And now Ventus was dead.

And now Terra was dead.

And now Axel was dead.

And now Goofy was dead.

And now Donald was dead.

And now Mickey was dead.

And now, Kairi-

Kairi was-

No. No. NO.

Truth hit him with violence. He couldn't pretend anymore he'd just lost a fight.
He'd lost so much more.
He'd lost everything.
Hurts
And it hurts
And it hurts.

I'm living in a terrible nightmare
I'm living in a terrible nightmare
Just wake me from this terrible nightmare
But there was nothing to be woken up from. This was reality. Xehanort had not even bothered to finish him off, because he knew.

Deep down, Aqua was already dead.

Deep down, Xion was already dead.

Deep down, Roxas was already dead.

Deep down, Riku was already dead.

Deep down, Sora was already dead.

Broken, for he had failed to save the world from the darkness.

Lying defeated.

Ha. Haha. Hahaha. I must be fun at parties, right? (truth is I don't know I don't often go to parties. I'm too much of an old woman for that. Give me my tea and my plaid back.)

I really wanted a 'mirror' fic, two successive chapters telling the same story... But with different outcomes. I think the more you enjoyed the 9th song the worst this chapter will be x')

Good thing is, I don't think there can be a sadder prompt later. I mean, I just killed at least 8 characters. I can't do much worse (actually I think I did).

Next song : Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day.