Authors note: Ohmygoodness! Look who has risen from the dead! I'm so terribly sorry that I haven't updated this thing so long. I got caught up in other things and I slowly began to lose my love for Mr. Stabbity. But now I'm back and ready for action because I have something major planned in store for this. (evil face) I love it if all my old fans came back as well. ;3; I miss them.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Faith.


Those words… They just seemed to fly through her mind as she slowly looked up, 'Could it be?' Her mind questioned. Could he really be back?

"X-xaldin?" Her voice stuttered, unsure of herself. It could only be a mere though of him, cursing her mind of the thought of him never returning, "Is it really you?" She continued, letting the bow and the wooden instrument mindlessly drop from her petite hands.

A cloaked figure stepped down from the windowsill and slowly walked towards her as Faith took a few simple steps towards him as well. Silent still, the figure pulled down his hood to reveal the ever-so-familiar Whirlwind Lancer.

Without saying a word, Faith merely gazed at him, raised her hand and gently touched his cheek with her left hand. "It must be real." She muttered under her breath, a weak smile forming upon her lips as her thumb lightly rubbed his sideburns.

"Why wouldn't it be?" He merely replied in a soft tone of voice.

Faith smiled as some tears began to form within her eyes, "It is you." She smiled as she quickly put herself within his arms and just held him within her own. "Xaldin, it's been so long." She spoke softly, she could feel him nod against the side of her head. "I was afraid you had forgotten about me… Or worse." She whispered the last part, trying to push that horrible thought from her mind.

Xaldin shook his head, "I would never forget about you, Faith." He muttered calmly. "The years have changed you."

"As they have you." Faith muttered back to him.

"Has Sora come back yet?" He quickly questioned.

"He always visits. I'm sure he'll be back soon."

With Belle and the others +

"Beast!" Belle exclaimed as she ran down the West Hall towards princes' room, "Beast, please, let me in!" She said, her voice was frantic. Of course, she ran into his room.

"What's the matter?" He asked, not moving from his place by the rose; though, he tossed a simple glanced towards Belle as she ran in.

"It's Faith." She began,

"And?" Beast quickly interjected, wanting to know the point to this.

"The wind--!" Belle went to continued, but Beast let out a rather loud roar.

"Xaldin!" He growled; he could already tell the Nobody had returned.

With Faith and Xaldin +

"This is only a brief visit." Xaldin told her, barely above a whisper. Faith pulled away from the embrace,

"You're leaving me again, already?" She asked, her voice completely saddened by that. Xaldin shook his head,

"No, I've been sent on official orders here." The Nobody's voice was completely calm, as it always was. He glanced away from the female, "I'm so sorry, Faith." He muttered.

Faith shook her head and stepped back, "No. You're not." She muttered, "You're a Nobody. You can't feel." She said, trying to keep her voice calm, but it was truly a failure on her part. His violet-hued eyes gazed down towards her.

"I am and, sadly, I don't feel." He merely replied, "But, while I was gone for so long, not near you, I felt… Emptier." He told her, clutching his cloak material above his heart and gently took hold of her wrist. "But when I'm here, with you, I feel--." He was cut off as Beast, along with Belle and the other servants, stormed into the room.

"Xaldin! Let go of her!" Beast quickly ordered. Xaldin merely smirked in returned as he pulled young Faith close to himself. Faith tried to push herself from the stronger being but was unsuccessful.

She continued to struggle against him, "Let go of me, you… You… You, Nobody!" She told him with quite the amount of force behind her usually quiet toned voice.

Hearing her call him that… Xaldin froze and said nothing. But it did strike near where his heart should have been. But, the black-haired Nobody pulled himself back together and let go of her. Did her heart not feel the same as it did so long ago? Unknowingly, both Faith and Xaldin sighed inwardly,

'It's… Just not the same anymore.'

Her eyes stared at him with such a glare that could burn holes through him.

He kept a sour look upon his face as he formed a dark portal around himself and disappeared.

Faith remained silent as he left her. Her mind just seemed to tune out everything else as her eyes only caught sight of the others asking questions, which she only nodded in return. Soon, they all had left Faith's room, leaving all by herself.

She sighed deeply as she slowly walked over towards the violin and carefully picked up the violin then it's bow. Her eyes only seemed to study the wooden instrument as her lips began to curl up in the corners of her lips. It, somehow, brought back some of the fond memories that she and Xaldin had shared together the years prior to now. There was an odd feeling inside of her that she hadn't felt since his last visits the years before.

'He still makes my heart flutter every time he touches my hand. Every time he smiles, or even holds me close.' She thought, she could feel her cheeks lightly burning up and she shook the thought from her mind. But truth be told, she missed his touch. She sighed softly and carefully placed the instrument by her jaw line and positioned the bow within her hand properly. From there, she began to play. Just like she would have when ever he would listen to her. Smiling weakly, she closed her eyes and mindlessly began to add a few steps to her movement as she played.

While she was inside, Xaldin stood outside upon the highest balcony facing the bridge that led to the other outside worlds. He remained silent as the countless of thoughts just continued to buzz around in his head. He couldn't keep focused on one thing. But, just because, the one thought he dreaded the most was the first thing that would pop into his head. Why he came back.

Clinging close unto the walls was Demyx, after getting his beating for letting out such heinous matters that belonged to him. Walking in the shiny, white hallways of the World That Never Was, his dark, appealing eyes rolled about the plain scheme that they were in. For him, it could have some more color in it but this was what their boss had wanted and now, it was time a for a meeting. Heading there just out of pure timing, he would meet up with some more of the most obnoxious and most undeserving people in life; nobodies is the race they tend to be. Nothing else can change them unless they gain strong hearts from other people that exist to be real. Really, they were to never exist in the first place but they do and revenge is about to take place on those that live with feelings, emotions, and actual reality. Coming into the appropriate room, Xaldin placed his hood over his head before vanishing from his position and appearing in his accorded seat. Barely, no one had come until seconds later. Only half of them wee left.

Others died due to the keyblader but that was of no matter to them. Besides, they had no real hearts anyway. The second one to appeal to Xaldin was no other than the redhead himself, Axel. "Hmm, why hello there, Xaldy!" Again with the nickname. How he despised that name. Only part of his attention was given to the hot shot addressing him with a cheery greeting. "How is attaining that girl, eh? Hope all is well. It seems like you'll be the only one making progress. Oh yeah, what went on with Demyx? He's looking quite oddly today and he won't say why that's is. . ." Easily, his eyes focused on Xaldin, knowing that Demyx must have had a connection between someone wanting to beat up an excessively happy guy. Flushing in between the flames and down in his seat that wasn't exactly close to Xaldin, Axel's green psychedelics stared at Xaldin continuously, wanting to know a reason to why Demyx was messed up, kind of. "Even if you decide not to tell me, it still seems funny to me anyhow. I think he'll be fine."

Xaldin, tapping his elongated fingers along the seat's arms, he was going to ignore Axel at first but it seemed like he didn't want to know anything too serious so it'd be fine to tell him something about it. "Demyx wasn't fulfilling his job at the Coliseum so I had to put him in place. Besides, he was telling too much information to which the keyblader could have heard." That was all he was going to say about the matter, though, it wasn't all that serious to him. What he was really thinking about was attaining the heart that they needed for Kingdom Hearts. For being a nobody, he was just evil by making a connection with Faith and by stealing her heart, it'd just be cruel but this was how it was suppose to be. Being trusted was how it went but betrayal would surely go on and fall behind it. "I'm just surprised that the idiot didn't get mixed up with those that left this place for Castle Oblivion." Surprised wasn't really something he could feel but it was an expression he could use to describe how he saw it. Nothing too big or anything. Now, everyone else had come and it was now time to initiate the meeting and for their boss to tell them where they stand at this point, time, and place.

From there, the lancer was told he was to finally put an end to this mission and finally collect the pure heart of Faith. Silently, he rubbed his temples, trying to think of some sort of a plan.

The keyblade wielder was getting stronger.

It had only been a few hours prior that the lancer had received word of the nocturne's death. Did he feel bad for beating up Demyx before he died? No. Of course not. But nonetheless, if the kid could defeat of others… Obviously, he began to realize that he could be beaten as well. Xaldin merely blinked as he just stared off into the pure silence…

No, there wasn't a silence. The Nobody heard music. He smiled softly, it must have been Faith and her violin. His chest grew heavy, again. Xaldin sighed and shook his head, he knew he would never be able to take her heart. Why? Not even he knew.

But those words she had used before when she struggled against him to be free. Usually, she would have never fought against him, but yet, she called him a Nobody, 'That boy must be filling her head with that nonsense.' He thought sourly.

There was a flash in the distance that caught the corner of his eye and he quickly looked towards the source.

It was a gummi ship. Sora's gummi ship. He grunted softly as he crossed his arms over his chest. A plan suddenly formed within his head and he smirked weakly. Carefully, he covered his head once more and summoned a dark portal around himself.

It was time to end this. Once and for all.