Author's note: I'm so sorry it's taken a while for me to edit my stories! Especially this one! I hope you enjoy! Sorry that it's not very long, but it's heartfelt.


Sora was staring off at the last fragments of Ventus as he faded. Roxas's head was down, taking in all of what he had witnessed.

"How could...how could he just leave us without any help?" Roxas's blue orbs were watery. He didn't understand what importance him and Sora had for Xemnas. Why did he want them again?

Sora put his arms behind his head, his eyes sad. "I dunno..but this Ventus character..he's a part of us. He's...our past. He's relying on us to end this for him. For Aqua."

Roxas threw his Oblivion keyblade to the ground in anger. "But what can we do, Sora?! We have no more options! Namine could be withering away into a heartless herself and we know nothing about finishing this!"

Sora set Roxas's Oathkeeper down gently. "You don't think I want to end this and save Namine as well? Roxas...if she dies, everything will be ruined. You might not even exist. Kairi...Kairi would be forever incomplete. Namine is her second life line practically."

Roxas's eyes were still watery, a few tears spilling over. "Sora..Xemnas will take her for himself. God knows what nasty things he could be doing to her. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about it."

Sora looked at Roxas with curiosity. "You...happen to like Namine?"

Roxas's cheeks turned red, rethinking the events him and Namine had experienced. But he was quick to anger again. "That's not the damn issue. The issue is that we don't know how to stop Xemnas for sure. He'll just return with bigger and better power."

Just then, the two boys heard distant screams ringing out. They sounded to be that of a young girl's.

Roxas felt his stomach do a flip. "Namine?"

In the distant white room, Namine was whimpering from mental and physical pain.

"No, don't make me do it!" Namine was trying to scream, her voice already hoarse. "I don't wanna take him away!" Namine was clutching her pencil in her white knuckled fist.

Xemnas's hood was pulled over his face as he approached the back of Namine's chair. He outstretched his hand, causing Namine to scream in pain. The black darkness of what seemed to be a giant heartless vine had entangled itself around her, strapping her to her chair. Xemnas's hand movements tightened the grip on her body.

"Namine...I called you here to serve a purpose for me. I didn't call you here for a waste. Now...proceed with your orders." Xemnas's menacing voice was projected into her ear.

Namine struggled against the grasp of the darkness surrounding her. "Xemnas...no..take me, don't take him..he can't have anymore damage to him, his heart can't take it."

Xemnas outstretched his hand, making a tightening motion. The vines surrounding Namine pulled themselves inwards as she let out a hoarse scream. She could feel it starting to cut into her abdomen.

"X...Xemnas..." Namine gripped her pencil tighter as an arm of the vine threatened to entangle itself around the pencil gripped in her hand.

Xemnas slammed his fist on the glass table. "Namine! You are to follow your orders or suffer the consequences!"

Namine's blood-shot eyes were casting down fresh tears on her cheeks. "There's nothing more to take from him." She croaked as her voice faltered.

"His companions. You understand that Namine, stop the bullshit about having nothing more to take from him. He still has his companions." Xemnas had his hands folded behind his back as he waited for Namine to continue.

"Already too much is gone. We can't...it'll kill him.." Namine's hand was shaking as the heartless vine snaked around her fingers, intertwining around the pencil like a second hand.

"Then so be it. There is nothing more from him that we could need."

Namine could feel sweat beading her forehead. She was struggling to keep from drawing the form that she knew would take away Sora. The vine threatened to mimic her drawing skills around the pencil. "Xemnas..no...please I don't want to!" Namine was screaming.

"Little witch..there is nothing we can do about that now."

Namine's hand was turning white from strain as she tried to stall the drawing pencil. "X...Xemnas...no...please..."

Her hand was drawing against it's will, making out the form of shadow Sora. It was the only thing they had left that they could take from Sora. It would break him.

Roxas made his way up the stairs towards the familiar white room. He was going to try and fix Xemnas once and for all. There was no turning back.

Roxas busted open the door of the white room, coming almost face to face with the hooded figure he could only make out as Xemnas.

"Roxas...you've finally made your arrival." Xemnas had his hands behind his back, looking disappointed at Namine. It seemed like she was being forced to draw something on her sketchbook. A huge dark form was taking over her.

"Namine!" Roxas ran forward, but Xemnas stopped him.

"You stupid child. You fail to see what importance Namine is to me. I'm not about to let you ruin my plans this time. You are your spikey-haired friend are not getting away with this. Sora's heart is weak and vulnerable. So we're going to take away the most important thing. His soul." Xemnas gave a final look at Namine.

"Roxas...y..you have to leave..." tears were falling down her face as she was unwillingly finishing the touches up on Sora's shadow form. It would be the end of his heart.

"Sora?" Roxas looked around behind him for the familiar brunette.

"Your precious friend is beyond help now. And now, he'll kill you." Xemnas smiled menacingly under his hood.

Namime gave one last final cry as the darkness entangled against her swallowed up her entire form. The picture of Sora's shadow form was glowing on the parchment. The darkness that remained in Namine's chair whisked itself away, taking the pale blonde with it.

"No! Damn you Xemnas! HOW COULD YOU?" Roxas felt like he was seeing red. He summoned his keyblades, finding that only one appeared in his hand. The Oblivion keyblade.

"Be careful child. What shines in the darkness could catch up to you." Xemnas stepped behind him into his portal of darkness, disappearing away.

Roxas scowled, wanting to head after the silver-haired man. Before he could make any movements, his vision shifted. The room was turning hazy and wavy, making Roxas's head spin. He collapsed on some type of flooring, looking up.

"S...Sora?" Roxas stood, squinting his eyes. The room around them shone a brilliant white. Sora was faced away from Roxas.

"Sora!" Roxas ran to him, but stopped. Sora's form was completely different. He was no longer the bright and happy brunette, but now he was clothed all black. Even his flesh was dark.

"S...Sora...what did he do to you?" Roxas reached his hand forward. Sora turned around, both of his eyes a dull, hollow yellow. Heartless yellow.

Roxas's eyes widened as he backed away. Now he had seen Xemnas's purpose. Roxas's eyes filled with tears as he now saw the fate that was at hand. Xemnas had taken away the last innocence left within Sora. His very soul.

Heartless Sora walked forward, it's mere presence making the air around Roxas cold. An array of light and shining appeared in Sora's hand, revealing the Oathkeeper keyblade.

Roxas stared at Sora in amazement, unable to think or move. "Sora...you wouldn't. It's me, Roxas."

The heartless form of Sora seemed to ignore him as it made it's way closer, breaking into a run. Roxas hurried and used his keyblade, blocking the oncoming swing. "Sora...you have to understand me." Roxas was begging, tears falling down his face.

Sora's new form seemed to have no emotion as it made it's advances on Roxas. The shadow form's abilities were much greater than Roxas's, costing him a blow to the arm as Roxas tried his best to dodge. Roxas's arm was searing with pain.

"Sora.." Roxas breathed his best friend's name pitifully. He knew the task at hand would no doubt cause a troubling end to the situation if he were to defeat Sora.

"I won't let you stop me Sora. Even if I have to kill you myself." Roxas's tears grew as he put up his keyblade, ready to fight.

The heartless form showed no mercy as it advanced on Roxas again, able to disappear into it's own shadows. Roxas pushed his strength against the shadow as they met keyblades again, causing the heartless to retreat back.

The shadow moved once again, but Roxas pushed it back and managed a single strike to it's stomach. The eerie sound of a strong gust of wind could be heard as the blow penetrated into the shadow. It retreated back, sensing the danger momentarily.

"Sora...I'm so sorry." Roxas's tears were stronger than before as he advanced for the final time, striking the off-guard shadow right in the heart. Roxas knew this was the devastating blow that would end the short fight.

The heartless clutched it's heart, sinking to it's knees, falling on it's back. Roxas rushed over, ignoring the searing pain he felt in his injured arm. He out his hand behind Sora's heartless head, lifting it up gently. It felt like pure wind and cold darkness as he touched the form.

"Sora..I thought we had been through all of this..I thought we had stopped it..I'm...I'm so sorry." Roxas's lower lip trembled as he felt familiar heat rushing to his face, causing fresh tears to erupt.

For a moment, it looked as though Sora's complexion on his face had come back, his bright blue orbs filled with tears. Blood was seen dripping from his mouth. "Roxas.." Sora breathed the blonde's name.

"Sora..I'm so sorry...will you be okay?" Roxas pleaded with his best friend, feeling Sora's form turn colder and colder by the minute.

Sora moved his mouth delicately, his blue orbs turning glassy. "My...my fears and lies..are melting away.." Sora's eyes seemed to relax as he welcomed death into his expression.

Roxas shook him as if to wake him out of a trance. "Sora...Sora..SORA!" The anguished blonde shook his friend furiously as Sora's pale complexion evened out against the shadow's dark form.

Roxas bit his lip, not wanting to see what was to come next. He knew what it was, and he knew it all too well. He could feel the coldness creeping up Sora's body as patches of ice started to form at his shoes, traveling upwards. In one day, Roxas had lost so many, and had seen so many go this way.

"Sora..." Roxas brushed his fingers against the brunette's hair as the final traces of ice made their way up, coating his spikes that always stood in his hair.

Roxas closed his eyes, getting up carefully. He didn't want to witness Sora's body disappear off into fragments in the air. He had seen it too many times to bear it.

As Roxas searched for a way to leave, what he didn't notice was the fact that Sora's body remained motionless on the floor. Sora's body still remained, instead of disappearing into the fragments of the sanctuary of Roxas's mind.


And I will end that right there. Please don't kill me, fans of Sora! I'm sorry that I took so long to only bring you devastation and depression. This story is really getting off to a start! Leave me a review! Stay kawaii! :3