Chapter 9: The power of the brothers

Dante and Dejin focused on fighting Meque while Terra and Goofy fought Xen. Meque's Keyblade was a very unique Keyblade. The handle was identical to the handle of the buster sword, with no outer trim surrounding it. The blade itself was silver, quite long, and the pins on the end were thin, but the whole blade was very sharp.

Dante twirled Ultima and Bond of Flame both at the same time, and rushed towards Meque like a raging tornado. Meque's Keyblade shined a dark, black color, and then Meque swung the keyblade, sending Dante flying backward. Dante could not believe the power of Meque. Dejin then took his turn. He quickly dashed at Meque with the Star Seeker and was prepared to take a powerful swing, but then Meque formed a large ball of energy, and deflected Dejin's power.

Meanwhile, Goofy and Terra were in their own little bit of trouble. Goofy had been knocked uncouncious from one strike of Xen's keyblade, the Darkness of Destiny. Terra was having a very difficult time fighting Xen on his own. Terra held the Key that never was and pointed it towards the air. A keyhole seemingly unlocked in the air, and a tornado came flying towards Xen, but Xen repeated the same and a large gust of wind blew the Tornado towards Terra, thus backfiring on Terra himself.

"I told you Lord Meque, the order will be easy to deal with." said Xen, now joining Meque to help fight Dante and Dejin.

"I suppose you were correct, but we will have to save discussion for later." said Meque, blocking yet another strike from Dante.

Xen focused most of his power on Dejin. Dejin was more on the defensive then the offensive. Xen posessed too much power and was too fast. Dejin dashed backwards, to prepare a magic attack, but then Xen pointed the Darkness of Destiny at Dejin, sooting out a big ray of fire, which shot back Dejin, knocking him out on impact.

"Looks like the Fearless Hero is the only one that remains. I must admit, Dante, you are far more skilled than I thought. However, if you are suppost to be the most skilled Keyblader in the Order, then The rest of the Order will be a piece of cake." Said Meque.

As Dante was defending himself from Meque and Xen, a dark portal opened, and an Organization member stepped through.

"I suppose you can't fight them both on your own... I guess I should probably help."

The figure summoned the Oathkeeper and Oblivion Keyblades.

"The Organization and the Order of the Keyblade...two sworn enemies...working together...interesting. It doesn't matter though. You will both die in the end." said Xen.

"I wouldn't count on that just yet." said Roxas.

Roxas then jumped in the air and suddenly the whole world became enshrouded in darkness. A heart shaped moon approached the Endless Wastelands. It was not Kingdom Hearts, however. It was a yellow color. It got closer and closer until you could practically touch it. A white ray of light emitted from the moon, and within a few minutes, millions of Nobodies filled the world.

"Interesting...this should be quite a challenge." said Xen.

"Or..maybe not." said Meque.

With that, Meque held his Keyblade in the air, and pointed towards the heart shaped moon. Within only a few minutes, the nobodies were destroyed, and the moon's energy had been absorbed by Meque's Keyblade.

"What the hell...?" Roxas wondered to himself, "I suppose I'll have to do this he hard way!"

Roxas quickly dashed towards Meque and struck him. The strike was quickly blocked but then Roxas knocked him to the ground with brute strength. He then used his keyblade stealing ability to steal Meque's keyblade, he quickly threw it towards Dante, who caught it, and then Roxas cut off Meque's right hand. Meque screamed in pain. The blood was spurting out.

Xen showed no anger. He quickly opened up a portal, dragged Meque in with him, and both escaped.

"Well, got that over with..." said Roxas, opening up a dark portal.

"Wait! Why the hell did you help me?" asked Dante.

"I wasn't helping you...I was helping myself. If I want myself, or the Organization to survive, then I need to challenge these guys whenever possible. I talked with your King a few minutes ago. He denied an alliance request, so I guess I gotta--" Roxas was quickly interrupted.

"The king?! You saw him? Where? Is he ok? Take me to him now!" demanded Dante.

"Calm down. Your King is alright. Sora's with him and they've already had an encounter with those two guys back there. I'm pretty sure they can tell you everything. You see those cliffs over there? Just head there, then go about 2 miles west, and thats the path I saw them on. If you want I could open a portal to take you there." said Roxas.

"Not so fast."

Terra had awoken from being knocked out.

"Never trust a nobody, Dante. Maybe hes telling the truth about where the King is but never go into their portals." said Terra.

Everyone else was also waking too, including Goofy.

"Well, fine, don't believe me. That is completely your choice. I will keep this portal open for a maximum of five minutes to let you all decide. "

With that, Roxas opened a portal, stepped through, and the portal still remained.

"I'm sorry Terra but I'm gonna have to go with my gut feeling here. We need to find the King. I doubt that Roxas would try to trick us at a time like this. These two men are obviously a threat to him, too." said Dante.

"I know, Dante, but people like Roxas will look to manipulate you wh--"

Terra was interrupted when he was shoved to the ground.

"Move aside fellas!" demanded Goofy.

Goofy quickly leaped into the dark portal.

"Your majesty...is that who I think it is?" asked Sora.

"Well, you know, Sora, I was thinkin the same thing." said the King.

Both quickly rushed over to the figure, lying on the ground.

"YOUR MAJESTY!!" hollered Goofy happily. He quickly jumped up and tackled the King to the ground and hugged him.

"Dante! Here they are!"

Terra, Dante, and Dejin quickly ran up and also toppled on top of the King.

"Ok fellas! Its nice to see everyone but we gotta get to YOUR half of the Gummi Ship!" said the King.

"Erm...Why?" asked Dejin curiously.

"Cause we gotta contact Disney Castle and thats the only way to do it!" Answered the King.

So, without hesitation, the group followed the King. Luckily, the Gummi Ship was only a few miles off, and Dejin, Dante, Terra, and Goofy knew exactly where to go.

"So, Sora, how have things gone since we have been seperated?" asked Terra.

"Well...Not very well." answered Sora. Sora then went on to tell the group the story of the Brothers of the Blade and Roas asking for a temporary Alliance.

"Gwarsh...Kind of a coincidence, Sora. We met a couple guys on the Road named Meque and Xen. They sure were strong." said Goofy.

"Well, I'm not surprised. I only met Xen, but it seemed that he was exploring this world." said Sora.

Suddenly, three dark portals opened, and Axel, Lexaeus, and Lixedo stepped through.

"We aren't here to fight." said Lixedo.

"We're here to warn you of the war to come." said Lexaeus.

"Right now, Roxas is busy with our own problems. Because you guys wouldn't cooperate with us...this is going to be a lot harder than it could of been. The Brothers of the blade, as I'm sure Sora has told you at this point, seek to destroy all living beings besides Humans of the darkness. Even the Organization doesn't want death of all life. Roxas, along with Vintine, Senten, Luxord, Saix, and the rest of the Organization travel together, with an army of nobodies. They are headed to find the expected homeworld of the brothers of the blade. Now, your majesty. We have come here to represent you with one last chance. We are giving you an opportunity to fight with us in this battle. It's your choice but we could use the help. We need an answer now, though, because we need to get going to this battle." said Axel.

King Mickey plopped down to the ground. He started tapping his head with his finger, thinking seriously about this choice.

"You could help us to eliminate the threat to the universe quickly." said Axel.

Hmm... King Mickey thought to himself.

Meanwhile, in a random spot in the Universe...

"Are we set to land?" Roxas asked the Dusk.

"Yes, sir, but we are going to have to land quickly and stealthily or we will be discovered. If we want this to be an ambush,then we must proceed with caution. These 'brothers' have placed scans all throughout the world, and if we are caught, then they will have hundreds of thousands of their very skilled Keybladers and armies there within half a minute." said the Dusk.

"Ok then. Take as long as you need to land. Direct the other ships in the landing too. When we land, transport us off the ships and we will start the attack as soon as possible." said Roxas.

Roxas then left the command bridge and went to the transportation room, which was a very large room, with good reasons. The army was to be placed here, to be transported onto the world.

Roxas picked up a communicator and contacted Senten, who was on another ship, commanding his own army.

"Senten. As I am sure you have heard by now, my ship is going to direct the landing onto this world. Listen careully, because what I am going to tell you is very important. Your army has the job of getting into the fortress, while mine must focus on supporting you while your doing this. We will fight their army, you just focus on getting you and your army into their castle. Once you have made a way, help my army with the enemy, and then we will make a joint effort to enter the castle, kill the brothers, and destroy the castle." explained Roxas.

"Okay then." said Senten through the communicator.

Roxas disconnected.

Suddenly, the voice of the Dusk pilot shouted through the intercom of the ship.

"Sir, if your in there, we will be landing soon. Prepare for transport."

Roxas got onto the transport with the rest of the army.

"I would you give you all motivation, but we don't have hearts, so we don't need motivation. Lets go and kick some ass." said Roxas.

The nobodies didn't respond. They prepared to fight. Soon they were all transported to the homeworld of the brothers of the blade. The world was dark, fit to the group that resided there. Roxas' army alone was made up of half a million Nobodies, plus Saix, Marluxia, Vintine, and Xasten. Senten had an equal half a million, along with Lakane, Luxord, and Zexion.

Roxas' army landed first. They charged towards the fortress, only to be bombarded by the army of the brothers. The brother's army was outnumbered, but had far more skill. There was about five hundred thousand of their army, so Senten and Roxas outnumbered them 2-1.

However, because Senten needed to focus on getting into the castle, the numbers of Roxas and the Brother's armies matched. Roxas had about ten soldiers on him at all times. They knew who the leader was, and they had the full intent of killing him. Roxas outmatched them however, slaughtering them by the dozen with one strike from each keyblade. Most of the army that he was fighting had swords and there were archers off in the distance, but none of those archers could really get a strike on Roxas.

Overall, however, the battle was not going well for Nobodies. The army of the brothers outmatched them and they were getting slaughtered. Roxas was doing well, but his army was not. Things were only getting worse. Xen had arrived to the battle, and was slaughtering nobodies with ease. Soon, he found Roxas. All the nobodies and the enemy gave 25 feet of space. A duel was about to take place between two army leaders.

"Ah, Roxas. The new leader of Organization XIII. Even to us, your motives are unknown, but it will be revealed eventually. Let me make you a deal. You can prevent your own death for now...by accepting my gift. I will give you a heart, on two conditions. The first is that you withdraw your armies from our world, not that it matters, you will be destroyed anyway. The second condition is that you ally Organization XIII with The brothers." said Xen.

"..A sign of desperation. You realize our power, and would rather use it to your advantage then have to deal with it offensively. I deny your offer. I will get a heart on MY conditions, and I will get billions of hearts, for my friends. Even if I did accept a heart from the likes of you, I would die in the end, as you already know. I'd much rather fight you to the death than live without violence, and even then, only prolong my life for a little while longer. We will fight." said Roxas.

"You are smarter than I had first perceived. Very well then, we will fight. Prepare to die." said Xen, keyblade summoned.

Xen charged towards Roxas, with his Keyblade, the Darkness of Destiny, held
above his head. He wanted to attempt to strike Roxas with as much force as possible,
but Roxas reacted quickly. He jumped out of the way, and Xen struck the Darkness of
Destiny into the ground. Roxas used this to his advantage. He went to strike Xen with
the Oathkeeper, but Xen quickly held his hand out, and summoned the darkness of
destiny into his hands in order to get it out of the ground quickly, and blocked the strike
of the Keyblade.

"You...are stronger than most people I have faced." uttered Xen.

Roxas didn't reply. He held both the Oathkeeper and the Oblivion in an X-like shape
and a great black light entombed the whole battlefield. It seemed as if there was a huge
explosion that had the potential to kill thousands during the span of this black light, but
when the light cleared, everyone remained, including Roxas and Xen.

"Fool..Don't you realize by now? I too am dark. You cannot kill darkness with more
darkness. This fight was meant to be fought key against key." Said Xen.

Xen then vanished. Roxas was confused, but then he turned around to see him. Too
little, too late. Xen stabbed Roxas directly in the chest.

"More challenging than most...but yet, another dead body. What a shame. If you had
stayed alive, then maybe I would of had an actual challenge."

Xen then walked off to destroy the rest of the Nobodies, Leaving Roxas' body for dead.

Meanwhile, in the Endless Wastelands...

"What do you say, your majesty? We need an answer." said Axel.

"I say...No. It is against the law of the worlds for Light to ally with the Darkness, and I
will never help the Organization anyway."

"Okay then. Suit yourself. We can do just fine on our own. It would of been easier with
the Order of the Keyblade, but nonetheless, we do not need your aid." said Axel.

The three organization members opened up dark portals, and stepped through them.

"Good choice, your majesty. We can’t trust the Organization, no matter what
circumstances." said Terra.

"I know...but right now, we gotta get to the front half of the Gummi Ship." said the King.

"Uh...Your majesty." said Goofy, looking excited about something.

"Goofy, don't object me on this. If we want to get out of this world, then we gotta get to
that Gummi Ship."

"B-but, your majesty!" said Goofy again.

"No!" fumed the King.

"Look up, your majesty!" exclaimed Goofy.

The whole group looked up to see Ten gummi ships in the sky. The ships flew down to
meet the King and the rest of the group. The pilot of the flag ship stepped out.

"We got a call from some guy, he didn't tell us his name but he said you needed a ride,
your majesty?" asked the pilot.

"I sure do! Along with my friends here, of course." confirmed the King.

"Okay, get on in then!" said the pilot.

So the group got in the Gummi Ship.

"Where to, your majesty?" asked the pilot.

"I think we need to go to the Kingdom of Disney. I need yet another Gummi Ship, and I
would like to see how the castle is doing, and most of all, Queen Minnie." said the King.

"Very well then, I'll plot a course." said the pilot.

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Hey guys, for those of you that read this from KHU, you will know I haven't been working on it for quite some time, but at the moment I am in the process of working on chapter 10.