(-CHAPTER-XI-)

I Dare You to Move

-nOte-

Yay, chapter eleven! Just a few more to go. I'll have to figure out how to wrap things up in this chapter. Well, not really wrap things up, but get started doing so. That probably makes no sense whatsoever. Ah- and I should mention, Lenovo got rid of my Wordperfect with the new software, so I'm using a normal Wordpad document. This will be strange; no more annoying red squiggly lines telling me that I spelled my own characters' names wrong. Actually, I might like this. xDD Actual chapter coming up now. Heh. Ranting over.

-/nOte-

"No luck." Amali shrugged her shoulders apologetically. The salty air of Destiny Islands was filling her nose to the point of having to sneeze. She also couldn't help but to feel like something horrible was happening that she should be there for.

"I guess they're not here." June decided.

"We only checked one island." Adum mentioned, determined. "How many are there?"

"There's one other that they ever went to." Leander scratched his head. "But I don't think that had anything to do with Namine or Roxas."

June shook her head and put her hand on her brother's arm, "We'll just have to check Twilight Town. That's... technically where dad grew up." She smiled at the other three of them.

"Okay." Leander smiled.

"Hang on," Amali urged. Her cell phone had begun to ring. It was probably her mother wondering 'where the hell she is' and 'why she hasn't been home for over a week'. To her surprise, the caller ID said that it was Trevor. "Hullo?" she asked dumbly as she urgently picked up the phone. There was nervous chatter happening in the background.

"Hey, Amali," Trevor paused for a second. "You should get over here. We're at Agrabah."

"Agrabah?" asked Amali, and looked at June and Adum. They both shrugged. "Where's that?" Amali paused for a second. "Did something happen?"

"No," Trevor said a little too soon, but then corrected himself, "Yes, just... get over here, okay? We're right in front of the city... town... whatever's gates." Trevor hung up, and Amali gave a sad smirk as she flipped the phone down and shoved it in the small pocket she had.

"We have to get over to Agrabah." she told them, still trying to take in everything that happened, "Something's going on. I don't know, though."

Adum nodded. "The search can wait." he said, frantically.

June smiled and twirled a lock of blonde hair between her fingers, "Ooh la la, said that a bit soon, did we?" she joked around. Just as she finished her sentence, three Heartless, all Shadows appeared at the ground. She looked up at Leander, "I told you I wasn't hallucinating!"

"We gotta go, then." Leander nodded. "If they keep comin' back, there's no point in fightin' them. Let's get to the Gummi Ship."

They all ran to the big, red and blue mass, and hastily made their way inside.

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"There it is." Sora said, his mind running through a state of nostalgia as he stared upon the great, beautiful city of Agrabah. The palace poked out above all other buildings, and memories flew past his eyes of riding on the magical carpet with Goofy and Donald, both of whom he had not seen in fourteen years, trying to keep his and Kairi's Jaiden away from all things Keyblade, Heartless, Nobody, and other worlds. A lot good that did them.

"Hey...!" Charity called out between the group.

"What's up?" asked Nessa, rubbing her eye.

"Trevor..." she murmured. She sprinted ahead of the group.

Roxas shook his head. "She always had the best sight out of all of us."

"Trevor?" asked Riku, his voice cracking from under the pressure of the blistering sun above them. He sprinted close behind her, and due to years of racing Kairi and Sora in the Islands, soon caught up with Charity. By then, they had arrived right outside of the city's gates, right in front of four boys, one of them lying dead on the floor with a black feather resting gently on his mouth.

"Trevor..." Charity repeated, looking up at her son, who had now grown to surpass her and meet his father in height. He had quite a number of scars from fighting since they had last seen each other, and his keyblade had just disappeared from his hand.

"Mom... I... he was killed... we didn't do anything. That's the problem, I guess, that we didn't do anything..." he laughed nervously, "He was Amali's best friend... he had a fake memory of her and then he was... mom..."

The touching moment sent a tear down Charity's face. "You called me 'mom'."

At this, Trevor crashed into his mother's arms, much like he did when he was younger and was almost killed by a pack of Heartless. Riku joined in on the hug, both him and Charity saying comforting words to Trevor, trying to get him to calm down.

"What's going on?" came Sora. Him, Namine, Roxas, Axel, Nessa, and Broden all arrived to see Charity, Riku, and Trevor locked in an embrace, Q and Anty standing in the background, and Jaiden lying motionless on the ground.

"Jaiden..." Sora murmured, and got down on his knees. He touched his son's face. It was as cold as rock. How was this possible? The desert was burning hot. If anything, he would have melted under the sun.

"Jaiden!" Came a girl's voice. Amali had jumped out of a Gummi Ship and ran up to Jaiden and Sora. "What's happening?! He can't be dead!" she screamed at them.

"He's dead." Q reassured her. For once, he didn't seem like he had a terrible intention behind his voice.

Amali's head fell to Jaiden's chest, and she began to whimper softly there. Sora simply stayed on his knees in disbelief, looking down at his dead, adopted son. Adopted or not, he had been his and Kairi's son for fourteen years. What was Kairi going to say? His nose and lips were getting red and puffy as tears were rolling down his cheeks.

"Why are you crying?" asked June. She had seen and heard exactly what happened. Receiving no answer, she smiled sadly down at them. "Jaiden dying is no reason to cry. People glorify the end to be this horrible thing, when the truth is that it's just a beginning in disguise. 'The End' doesn't really ever exist. I think it's the same with death; I don't think this is the end for Jaiden."

Amali smiled. "Thank you."

Trevor thought deeply to himself as Charity and Riku went to go hug their daughter; he would never, ever tell Amali that Jaiden thought Amali to be his enemy before he died. That would be too much to deal with.

"Why are you all here?" asked Amali once everything had settled down.

"We've been looking for the one who's trying to use all of the Princesses of Heart to open the Door to Darkness." Namine answered.

"We are, too." Adum nodded, "And we're also trying to find June and my Almost Somebodies."

Namine and Roxas gave each other a look of understanding, and then transferred it over to June and Adum. "You know," Roxas started, "you were born a human, just with Nobody genes. Still, if you really are a Nobody, you have human hearts. It wouldn't do any good to find your Almost Somebodies."

"What about... loveless?" asked June to Adum.

"The King of Radiant Garden said that we were loveless. That you lack one emotion if you were born a Nobody with a Somebody's heart." Adum clarified to his parents.

"You don't seem very loveless to me." Namine smiled.

"I guess not." responded Adum.

"I knew it would bring you here." came a familiar voice. Once again, the Master appeared before them, along with a boy of around Trevor's age. He had a similar look to Adum and June, except his heart was almost completely plunged in darkness.

"I'm not going with you!" Amali said for what seemed like the hundredth time as she pointed her Keyblade at the Master.

"Shut up," said the other one, whose name embroidered on his jacket read: Caspian. "We need every existing Princess of Heart to open the Door to Darkness and a little girl isn't going to stop us."

"Every existing..." Amali looked down at her keyblade.

"Yes." was all the master said.

"Then... I have a way..." Amali smirked at what she was thinking. Without hesitating, she ripped off her keychain from her neck, and latched it on to the end of her keyblade. In one swift motion, the keyblade had changed to the familiar, airy look of Savior of Balance.

The keyblade began to try and struggle out of her hands.

"Hold on to it!" Charity shouted, apparently understanding what was happening.

"What's she doing?" Trevor asked his father off-handedly.

"For someone with only light in their hearts to hold a keyblade of balance, something has to change. Either the keyblade can't be held or the Princess has to have dark in her heart. If she refuses to let go of the keyblade, the darkness will have to come back." Riku smiled.

"Sma-art." Nessa said with glee as she sat back to watch.

"Caspian, get the keyblade!" The Master snarled, trying to hold in Amali's darkness, which still layed inside of him.

"No way!" Leander shouted. Nessa smiled at the sight; Leander. It was him again. She joined in, her sword in one hand and Blue Hour, changed back to a normal Kingdom Key, in her other. Fighting swiftly against Caspian and side-by-side with Leander, it left only the Master's struggle with himself and Amali's struggle with the keyblade.

After a long-lasting battle, The Master managed to let a small stream of darkness leak out and find its way back to Amali. After just the small stream had settled, the rest burst out and found its way back into her heart. It balanced itself out and the keyblade ended its struggle in her hands. The Master only seemed weaker.

"It's no matter," Caspian hissed back at them after he managed to knock Leander around pretty well and shake off Nessa, "Now we have ever Princess of Heart that we need to complete the keyhole to the Door to Darkness! Thanks for making our lives easier."

"Come, Caspian, we must go!" The Master shouted, his voice quivering, "The Door to Darkness is only so far past the Palace!" About to disappear, the both of them held hands.

"Kevalan!" Namine shouted.

Sporting a similar face as to when Namine had crushed the fake Riku's heart many years ago, Caspian went still and fell to the ground as The Master stood there before him.

He shook his head and ground his shoe into the sand next to him. "Pity." he mumbled, and licked some salt off of his lips, "He made an excellent lover, but a terrible apprentice." He disappeared into nothing.

"Come on!" Amali urged, still tired from her own little showdown with the Savior of Balance, "He said that the Princesses are only a little ways past the Palace! If we can get past there, we can find them and stop him!"

"And we can get Kairi back!" Sora said excitedly. His hopes then drowned as he very quickly remembered; their son had died. How was he supposed to tell his wife that their only, adopted son had died?

"We have to rest first," Charity tried to calmly explain to Amali.

"I want to avenge Jaiden!" Amali shouted louder than she ever had before at her mother. Tears then started to travel down her face again, wetting the ones that had already dried to her cheeks.

"Just give 'er a few potions," Trevor said, his usual disposition back, "we have to go find aunt Kairi and avenge Jaiden."

Amali looked up at Trevor, eyes sparkling, and she nodded. Standing up, she reached her hand down and picked up the feather that had not budged from Jaiden's mouth. The body sunk into the sand, leaving no trace, and the feather burned up in her hand.

She suddenly felt a huge, hard bulk knock her slightly backwards as she was embraced in a hug of a familiar blond; it was Adum. "It'll be okay."

Somehow, those words seemed like enough.