Ch.10-I'm sorry, Demyx

I do not own the story line in here, as these are the words from KH: CoM, so yeah. But I have put in my own things. See if you can figure out what's from the game and what's from me. ^^ If you can, Demyx and Zexy get a cookie. R and R.

"Lexaeus is gone as well…" I murmured before glancing up as a Dark Portal abruptly appeared and Axel emerged from the vortex.

"Vexen, Larxene, Lexaeus…" Axel smirked. "I wonder who will be next in line?"

"I thought perhaps it might be you." I said.

"Me?" Axel chuckled as he turned his back to me. "No way. I already took my pounding from Sora, he thinks I'm done for good."

The pyro paused.

"No. I think it'll be Marluxia next." Axel turned his head to look at me. "For defying the Organization and targeting Sora."The red-head glanced away as he muttered, "I hope he moves exactly as his heart commands him to."

I sighed, lowering my arms as Axel turned to face me, running a hand through his spiked hair.

"So, what about you?" He questioned. "I thought you guys had plans for Riku."

"Yes." I said with a nod. "We were going to set him off against the traitors, but with Marluxia gone, there is no need." I shrugged. "He is nothing but a nuisance now."

"And he's dangerous as well." Axel reminded. "After all, he took down Lexaeus."

"You know that is not how I do things." I said before I remembered something. "Tell me, did you obtain the data on Riku's home?"

Axel held up a card and tossed it to me. "Just as you requested, Superior."

I caught the card in one hand and inspected it.

Destiny Islands.

Both Axel and I glanced up when the castle trembled.

The pyro chuckled. "And another one bites the dust."

I ignored Axel and vanished into a Dark Portal.

I appeared before Riku as the castle settled after the silver-haired boy had questioned why the building shook in the first place. Riku was surprised to see me, but also cautious and suspicious.

"The keeper of this castle, Marluxia, has just been felled by the Keyblade Master." I explained and Riku's eyes widened.

"Keyblade…?" He asked. "You mean Sora? Sora is here?"

Did Riku not really know that his best friend was here as well?

"Yes." I replied. "Want to see him? But, can you face him?"

"What's that mean?" Riku questioned, taking a step toward me.

"The world of darkness and Ansem's shadow still nest within your heart." I said. "Do you plan to face Sora like that? Are you not ashamed?"

Riku grunted as he avoided my gaze and I smirked slightly.

Of course he was ashamed.

"Sora's fate is to battle the darkness. He must oppose anyone who hosts the dark. In other words, it's you. If you don't believe the words I say," I held up the card Axel had given me and tossed it to Riku, who caught it and looked at it. "Then you had best see the truth with your own eyes."

"This card…" Riku whispered. "This is our…."

"Yes." I said. "It is your home."

I disappeared into a Dark Portal to await Riku's arrival.

I took Sora's form, complete with a Keyblade, and waited patiently at the tip of a small island with three paopu fruit trees.

I debated on whether I should grab a paopu fruit to give to Demyx when I returned to the castle when I smelled a strong scent of darkness and heard footsteps coming toward me.

"Sora?" Riku's voice questioned as he stepped closer to me and I gave a small smile. "Sora, it's me-"

I instantly turned around before Riku could finish, swiping my mimic Keyblade at the boy, who leaped backward to evade the attack.

"What? !" Riku questioned, obviously confused at my actions.

I once again attacked the silver-haired boy, Riku blocking my assault with Soul Eater.

"Stop it, Sora!" Riku pleaded. "Don't you recognize me?"

"Yeah, I recognize you." I growled. "I can see exactly what you've become!"

I jumped backward, pointing my Keyblade at Riku as a light formed at the tip, before releasing the radiance which struck Riku and knocked him to the ground.

"How can the light hurt you?" I asked. "Riku…have you really become a creature of the dark? You're not Riku anymore…you're just a pawn of the darkness."

Riku slowly sat up with a grunt.

"So be it." I said. "It's time for you to face the light!"

I raised my Keyblade above my head, a light converging at the tip before expanding.

Riku groaned, shielding his eyes with his left hand.

I watched him as he struggled not to be consumed by the light enveloping him and smiled.

There was no way he could survive without either being destroyed by the light or losing his heart to the darkness.

I gasped when there was a sharp pain across my chest.

"Impossible!" I growled as I dropped to my knees from the pain and reverted back to my true form.

I glanced at Riku, who was in his transformed self, as I slowly stood up and faced him.

"How is it that you found me when you were there in the light?"

"You reek of darkness." Riku said as he gazed at me coldly. "Even the light can't block out the smell. I guess I just followed the darkness right to you."

"This is absurd…." I narrowed my eye at Riku, frustrated that he had so easily seen through my deception. "Then I shall make you see…that your hopes are nothing-"

I pointed at the teen.

"Noting but a mere illusion!"

I summoned my Lexicon and it opened by itself to a page full of spells that I could use.

Riku glared at me, already gripping Soul Eater, before he charged at me with a yell.

I jumped back, evading his sword's slice, and swiped my right arm to the side, a spell already forming in my mind.

Several illusions of myself surrounded Riku, who paused in his charge and glanced around, trying to find me.

"See if you can discover truth from deception." I said, my clones copying me and making my voice echo, confusing Riku even more.

"Stop hiding!" Riku yelled, cutting into one of my clones, defeating him. "And fight me one on one!"

"We both have fights, Riku." I said as the teen destroyed another one of my clones. "Both of our battles are to protect the people we love."

"How would you know that?" Riku panted as he destroyed a third clone. "Nobodies do not have hearts!"

"I'll agree that's true." I relented. "But that doesn't mean we don't fall in love. Your battle is to protect Sora, who's your cherished friend. And my battle is to return home to the one that I care about the most."

I put my hand against my chest, which still ached slightly from my healing wound, and felt the necklace beneath my cloak.

"You can't trick me into coming to join the Organization or whatever!" Riku growled as he continued slashing at my clones; I quickly made new ones and jumped back, dodging Riku's attack, and blended in with my copies. "I'm not like you!"

"Then why do you live in the darkness?" I questioned as I watched Riku furiously attack my clones in an attempt to reach me. "If you are not a creature of the dark like us Nobodies, then what side are you on?"

I chuckled.

"The side of the light? Don't make me laugh. You're using dark power right now and expect me to believe that you still have some light within that dark heart of yours? It's just as you said,"

I smirked.

"We reek of darkness."

Riku's eyes scanned the five clones that he had not yet defeated and myself as he searched for me. His eyes suddenly zeroed in on me and he charged.

"Shut up!"

I dodged Soul Eater, my clones disappearing as I lost my concentration, and I moved away from Riku, distancing myself.

Riku watched me warily, waiting for me to make a move.

But I had no moves to make. I was already out of power and the first wound he had inflicted on me was slowing me down. But I was not giving up that easily.

"After all your protests, you're still like us," I said as I backed up slightly. "On the side of darkness."

"I know who I am." Riku replied indifferently.

I frowned.

Why wasn't he changing back? Wasn't he scared of the darkness within him?

"When did that happen?" I questioned. "You were always terrified of the dark before-"

"Not anymore!" Riku growled as he charged toward me.

I gave an uncharacteristic yell as biting pain cut deep into my chest and vanished into a Dark Portal, feigning my defeat.

I came out into an empty hall, holding my chest with my right hand as darkness seeped through my fingers and onto the floor.

I stumbled forward a few steps before placing my left hand against the wall beside me for support.

"What is he? !" I whispered fiercely to myself, frustrated for a reason I didn't understand. "No one's ever worn the darkness the way that he does!"

I slammed my first into the wall in irritation.

"It's impossible!"

I glanced up when I smelled two scents coming toward me and looked to my right as two Dark Portals appeared and Riku and Axel emerged from them. I gave a horrified gasp as I pressed my back against he wall as far away from Riku as I could.

Weak darkness and a hint of frozen ice.

I relaxed when I detected the scent and realized that it wasn't the real Riku I was looking at.

"Oh….oh, yes. The replica, of course."

I straightened as a new idea came into my mind.

"We can use this Riku to defeat the real one."

I stared at Axel standing behind the Riku replica, wondering why he was here in the first place.

"Axel?"

Axel glanced at the replica and questioned in a low voice, "Wouldn't you like to be real?"

The fake Riku gradually nodded at the pyro's inquiry.

"All you need is the kind of power that the real Riku doesn't have."

I stared at Axel, wondering what he was telling the replica.

"If you can get that, you can be a new person-not Riku, nor anybody else. You won't just be a copy of someone. You will be unique, your own self."

Riku replica glanced at Axel blankly and the pyro smiled, giving a nod.

"Axel!" I said, taking a step closer to the red-head. "What are you saying to him?"

"You know," Axel murmured as he gazed at me with indifferent eyes.

My eye widened in surprise.

Axel had never looked at anyone with such cold eyes before.

Axel…? I thought, wondering why the pyro was acting so strange.

"He's as good a place to start as any."

I gasped, realizing Axel's plan, and immediately became furious at the red-head.

"You can't do this!" I protested.

Before I could continue reprimanding Axel, Riku replica grabbed my right shoulder in a vice grip.

I winced in pain from the replica's tight grasp and struggled as I was lifted off the ground.

A burning sensation worked its way up from my feet and traveled all the way to my right shoulder.

The replica was draining me of my darkness!

I stared at Axel, who was watching my death with no emotion whatsoever, as I felt my strength and consciousness fading.

Why…?

Axel sensed my silent question and he looked away.

"So sorry, Zexion." He said as he looked back at me. "You just found out way too much."

I won't be returning home…I thought as the darkness fully engulfed me. I'm sorry, Demyx.

Yes. Zexy died. But this is not the end of the story. Not by a long shot. R and R, please.