"Du drehst Dich im schwarzen Licht
Dein Schatten explodiert wie ein Vulkan
Du bist wie ein Stern der spricht
verfallen bin ich Dir in meinem Wahn
in deinem Bann du mich ertränkst
unsterblich dann mir Leben schenkst
öffne das Tor den schwarzen Legionen
schließe den Kreis des Bösen, das Omen"

English Translation (translated by JCD from Anime music turn around in black light
Your shadow explodes like a volcano
You are like a star that speaks
I'm obliged to you in my insanity
In your ban you are drowning me
Immortal then giving me life
Open the door for the black legions
Close the circle of evil, the omen"

"Das Omen"

E Nomine

Door Number 10—Das Omen

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Hallow Bastion

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"Merlin, is there something you want to tell us about?" Sora asked as he rushed through the door without knocking. He and his friends had just arrived in Hallow Bastion from Traverse Town. He saw Merlin turn around and Sora saw the grave look in his eyes. Riku walked next to Sora as he put a hand on Sora's shoulder. His aqua eyes traveled over to the small, old wizard's.

"Kairi has left Hallow Bastion for a few days now with the King, Reno, Rude and Rufus, and arrived here heartbroken. I don't know from what and she left with a smile I couldn't read, on her face," Merlin spoke up. "This journey is hers now. Not yours. You should know so you won't get in her way."

Sora looked down. 'What have I done to her?' he thought, sadly.

"What you should've done earlier," Merlin said, who seemed to have read Sora's mind. "A new organization of Heartless has been created. A new Thirteenth Order was created too, but by the subordinates of the original."

"Wait, they had subordinates?!" Sora exclaimed.

Merlin nodded. "I ask that you find Kairi and help her complete what she must do," he said. "Remember, Riku, Sora, this is a journey that Kairi was destined to walk on. Donot fight for her. Fight with her as she did with you. She only stood by the sidelines unsure about fighting. But she would have liked to. I want you two to see to Yen Sid quickly. That's who Kairi saw next with the King."

'Thank the stars Mickey's there with Kairi,' Riku thought as he looked over at Sora. "Sooner the better, Sora," he said to his boy friend. "Thank you, Merlin."

Meanwhile, Sora nodded as he waved to Merlin and went with the others. 'So, this is how she felt when I went after Riku,' he thought. "Riku, hold up."

Riku looked in back of him. "Yeah?"

"I want to ask some people if they want to come with us."

Riku, Donald, and Goofy looked at him confused.

Sora opened the doors.

"Do you think they'll fit in the gummi?" Donald asked.

"Garsh, I don't know," Goofy said.

Cid, Yuffie, and Aerith looked up.

Sora's grave face looked at them. "It's now or never… need us to find Kairi and give her back up."

"Aerith, Barret, Red XIII, and Cid will stay here. Merlin will stay here too. Tifa, Cloud, and Yuffie, let's go get Tseng and Elena with Sora and the others," Leon said as he pushed off the wall and walked over to the brunette.

"WHA—T? They're coming with us?" Yuffie shouted. She blinked.

"And I'll come too," said a voice as a brown haired male came in carrying a boomstick in his right hand.

"I'll help Cid and Barret, Squall," said a familiar voice as a raven haired female walked in. She smiled at Leon as he immediately turned blue.

"Renoa?" Leon exclaimed. 'Oh God…' he thought as he looked for the nearest escape.

Renoa smirked. "Well, this time, I'll only get in your way so why not tell you what's going on back here… while you're out there? Plus, I get to show off what new skills I got!" she said, happily as she twirled around in her new outfit.

'Don't tell me Tifa taught you anything… well, did she?' Leon thought as he felt himself start to sweat in fear.

Renoa pushed Leon and the others outside. "Do your best!" she said.

"Dude, Leon, your girl is scary," Yuffie spoke up as she looked at Leon's blues state.

"For once, Yuffie, I agree with you," Leon said.

Renoa put her hands on her hips. "Okay, let's start patrolling!" she said as she looked over at Tifa and did a thumb up. Tifa smiled as Leon noticed to his greatest despair—Renoa had learned from Tifa.

For once Cait Sith did not use his megaphone.

Cid beamed happily in the silence. "I think I like Renoa already," he said as he went back to his work on the computer. He earned shocked stares from the others and especially Leon.

Sora and Riku sweatdropped.

"Shall we get going?" Sora asked.

Leon nodded.

"Elena? Yeah… we need you and Tseng over here… yeah… the others can take care of his work. Yeah… we'll be in front of Merlin's," Rod, the brunette and the other boomstick wielder said into his cellphone. He waited a bit getting Elena's answer and flipped the cellphone shut. He looked over at Sora.

"I think we'll need to enlarge the gummi ship," Sora said.

"Yep," Riku replied.

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The Land of Dragons

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"I am the new Number Eight," the dark blue haired male said as he grinned. "Nice to finally meet you, Kairi, Princess of Kingdom Hearts…" he grabbed Kairi's hand and kissed it.

'Ewww….'Kairi thought.

'Ewww….. is right,' Namine agreed.

Reno glared at Number Eight. ( Me: (sings "Keep your hands off my girl"—Good Charlotte)). "Keep your hands off my—off Kairi," he said as he grabbed Eight's wrist. He glared at him, threateningly.

Eight smirked.

Kairi glared at Eight. 'Disgusting,' she thought, as she slapped Eight's hand away. Reno lowered his hand to the side, keeping his glare on Number Eight.

"Why so mean, Kairi?" Eight taunted, dangerously. He grinned. "So, you think the Keyblade in that form is going to kill me? Haha" Number Eight continued as he watched Kairi summoning her Keyblade in her hand.

"Xiel, what do you think you're doing?" the blue haired Kalxin said, crossing her arms over chest. "We were supposed to spy on them from a distance."

"Xiel, your actions are as of now, not wise," said a blonde male behind Kalxin. His golden eyes narrowed at Xiel's golden eyes.

"Xiekien? When did you show up?" Xiel blinked looking at the blonde man.

"The beginning of your journey started with trying to find Axel. Your Nobody went on that mission, while Reno saw you. You two quickly became friends, but the paths are closed. You no longer had those memories of one another," the blonde spoke up, ignoring Xiel. He looked down at Kairi. "Namine worried for you."

Kairi looked over at an apparition of Namine to her left. "Namine…." Kairi asked as she looked at the blonde girl.

Namine looked down.

"She, even, tried to save you the duty of defeating us," Kalxin spoke up.

"Namine…" Kairi looked at her Nobody.

Namine clenched her fist as she brought it to her chest. Kairi put a hand to Namine's shoulder. "It's okay," she said. "As long as we defeat them now…."

Xiel started laughing. Kairi and Namine glared at the three along with Rufus, Rude, Reno, Mulan and Mickey.

"You don't even know, and your Nobody doesn't even remember because we made her control those memories," he said. "I remember the look on Reno's face when Namine"—

Kalxin hit him over the head. "Novice…" she accused as she glared at him.

"I don't get any of this," Kairi said.

"You won't, but you will in the end," Kalxin said. "It's for the pleasure of us watching you figure it out."

"What out?" Mulan asked.

"Our riddles," Xiekien said. His golden eyes shined a feral shade of gold. He looked at Kairi. "The beginning of all of this, the very beginning has to do with the beginning of Sora's journey as well… you need to regain memories from Sora's memories…."

"How will we figure that out?" Reno asked, angrily, still glaring at Xiel.

A sadistic smile appeared on Xiekien's face.

"That's for us to know and for you to figure it out," Kalxin replied. "Time waits for no man or no heartless beings…."

"That's pretty vague," Axel pointed out, appearing as an apparition next to Reno. "At least the original Organization had riddles that had tiny hints in them…. Yours just fails in regard to completely confusing the enemy."

Xiel, Xiekien and Kalxin looked at Axel with a glare. Kalxin crossed her arms over chest, while Xiel and Xiekien kept their hands to the sides. Xiel put an impatient look on his face. Xiekien just stayed silent and calm.

Axel grinned. "You're up to using Kairi and Namine as a tool aren't you guys? Your intentions are nothing as what they should be. You'll see in the future that all of you will eventually get independent thoughts about your goal. Some of you may even question authority. That's what happened to all groups in the future… that's what happened to mine…." Axel said, as he made his usual posture. "Got it memorized?"

Kalxin glared at him, her fingertips glowing bright light blue light.

Xiel smirked.

Xiekien closed his eyes. 'Not bad for a veteran,' he thought.

"A nice exchange of semi-riddles, ne," Xiel commented. He smirked. "We'll commit to memory."

Axel's eyes narrowed. "You better…. Your group was made to be destroyed," he said.

"Whatever," Kalxin said. "So, was yours…."

"The Organization XIII's name stays the same however, there are different members…." Axel said, glaring at the light blue haired female. "Think of what happened to the first one. That may be proof of destruction of an Organization who can or will take…." Axel continued, fading near the end of the sentence.

Kalxin's eyes widened but narrowed.

Axel smirked at her.

"A Somebody will never understand a Nobody's pain. The exact reasons for such pain within their hallow chests," Kalxin said towards Kairi. "We always feel emotions that to you are 'envy', 'jealousy' and something called 'hatred'…. Do be careful. The same goes to Reno…."

"We did enough damage," the new Number Seven, Xiekien, said.

"I want to caused even more, but that would be too risqué…." Xiel, the new Number Eight, grinned.

Kalxin put up a portal.

Kairi looked down.

"Kairi…" Namine's soft voice spoke up.

Mulan's fists clenched.

Reno glared as the new Organization XIII members left. He turned to find Kairi had dropped to her knees. She started shaking. He watched as Namine turned opaque and knelt down besides Kairi.

"Kairi…. Kairi…. Kairi…. Snap out of it…. We'll defeat all of them together…. I know we will," Namine said, near to tears. "Kairi!"

Silence.

Namine's tears spilled down her cheeks. "Kairi…." She called. "Don't give up! You only met three!"

Kairi looked down.

"The beginning?" Kairi asked as she looked at Namine with dull dark eyes.

Namine helped Kairi up.

Axel walked over to a piece of paper and picked it up. "This is Demyx's…. why is it here?" he asked himself as he looked over at the piece of paper. "He was always weird…. Wrote songs in something called a journal. It might have some to little clues about the new organization…." He turned to Kairi. "I want you to keep this with you."

Kairi nodded.

"Demyx…." Namine simply said, sadly as she looked down. "A dear friend…."

"I think we should head to another world," Kairi said. "We'll come back Mulan."

She turned to Mulan.

"I'll tell you if any Nobody or Organization XIII attacks or does something here," Mulan said.

"Good luck with Shang," Rufus said.

Mulan blushed.

Kairi and Reno, to Namine and Axel's amusement, stepped on Rufus' feet.

"Ow!" Rufus said in pain.

"I hope things go well, we'll come visit again," Kairi said.

Mulan smiled. Her eyes widened as Demyx's entry flew out. It glowed as Kairi's keyblade appeared. She pointed to it with her blade. Kairi watched as single jet line of bright light ventured off to the entry. Magic surrounded her as it fell to the gorund and created symbols around her that had meanings to Kingdom Hearts and Sora's Drive forms. A crown appeared at Kairi's feet as the light formed another keyblade that floated over to Kairi. Kairi picked it up in her other hand. She looked down at it as Mickey's eyes widened in recognition.

"That is the princess version of 'Clash of the Dragons'," Mickey whispered.

Kairi concentrated on the light as the other hand holding her original keyblade glowed. Namine put a hand on her shoulder as Kairi fidgeted with the lock of the locked path.

Axel watched. "Never saw this before, this is pretty cool," he said.

Reno grinned. "Yeah, Kairi's cool too," he said.

Axel smirked over at Reno. "Go get her… She's one to get admirers," he said as he patted Reno on the shoulder. "You're getting a c-r-u-s-h on her if you know what I mean…"

Reno turned a faint pink. "Eheh…"

Axel and Namine disappeared inside their respected Somebodies.

Kairi propped the new Keyblade on her shoulder as she dismissed the original keyblade. She was still looking up at the sky.

"Let's go," she said. She watched the trees as the wind picked up to make her outfit and waist-length hair wave in the wind.

Reno looked over at her. For a moment there, he thought of her as a Nymph of Dimensions, not to mention—of Nostalgia. He admitted Kairi was indeed good-looking and to really be specific. He thought she had a nice figure too. He found himself admitting Sora was wrong for letting her go, but at the same time, he was fretting over looking at what was supposed to be another guy's girl. That's right, the guy liked other guys. So, Kairi wasn't Sora's anymore. Still, the thoughts that fit in Reno's head was making his stomach turn, so he dismissed them with an unease and walked over to her.

"Yeah, let's go," Reno said. The group left the bamboo grove.

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The Coliseum in Heracules' World

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"I think I know a way out of this mess…" said a dark haired male.

A silent male stood there looking at him with crimson eyes. " Do what you like…" he said as he turned to leave. The other male looked at the other.

"Oh come on, Vincient. We need to get out of this place! I have a bad feeling about it," said the dark haired male.

"Then what do you suppose we should do, Zack?"

"I don't know."

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To be continued…

Author Notes:

I have come with another addiction for poor Reno's KH counterpart. Yes, it's mine actually. It's Snaple ice tea addiction. I had tons and tons of bottles on the floor the other time I had Snaple. I'm quite happy I've been better about my obsession with the rich taste of Peach-flavored Iced tea. I'm thinking of making Rod an oreo-addict. I don't know why with Roxas being obsessed with sea-salt ice cream pops, Axel's Roxas-addiction (no paddles allowed, yaoi fangirls, I meant it both ways; friendship and love), and for Demyx, I'll make him turn into a Dr. Bombay-addict since I listen to the song "My Sitar" a lot.

And Vinny and Yuffie will have this affinity to playing videogames. Yes, Rude will have his crush on Tifa…. And Reno ends the day with obsessing over Kairi and vice-versa. And we all live happily ever after.

I love you all. See you all next chapter. Ooooooo, nine reviews so far! 8D Beta readers are highly appreciated.