Chapter 10
The nine young fighters were quiet as they walked up the ramp to the top of the tower and the last survivor of the Organisation, excluding Roxas. They were all mentally preparing themselves for the battle to come, taking in Roxas' warnings of Xemnas' power, their own depleting energy levels and the simple fact that, though the others were too cocky to do so, Xemnas could quite easily call in an army within a few seconds. None of them were foolish enough to think that it would be an easy fight, despite all of them being together. Xemnas was powerful and intelligent. Even if they were at full strength, it would be difficult.
One more fight, then hopefully I'll be back home. Kim thought, glaring at the approaching landing.
Just hang on a little longer Gramps. Jake thought.
I never thought that I'd be charging at Xemnas, more like running away. Roxas bit his lip.
I hope I'm able to help. Namine looked up with a frown.
I wonder what the power of nothingness does to ghosts. Danny furrowed his brow.
I'm tired as hell, but I'm going to make it through this. Kimiko's waiting for me. Rai's hands tightened around the Crest of the Condor.
Grampa, Kevin, hold on, this should be over soon. Gwen took a deep, calming breath, ridding herself of doubt.
The Omnitrix is at full power. I can do this. Ben fiddled with the Omnitrix, preparing for his transformation.
Looking up at the cluster of hearts, Gohan stepped onto the top of the tower, glaring at the back of the figure across the other side of the large, round landing.
"It's over Xemnas."
Xemnas didn't even bother to face them as they made it onto the landing, stopping half way across and preparing themselves. Instead, he just looked up at the pink and gold heart shaped moon in the sky.
"Beautiful, is it not?" He asked, raising his arms. "An enormous source of power, only surpassable by that which it unlocks. It is amazing that something as small as a heart could be used to tap such amazing power. Great things a can be done with their power. Almost anything is possible."
"But that power is not meant for you." Roxas retorted aggressively, his Keyblades appearing in his hands. "We won't allow you to use it."
"Says the one who helped gather the hearts, even after you discovered that one was somehow beating in your chest." Xemnas shot back coldly, finally facing his opponents. "Who would have thought that an extra heart was hidden inside Sora's chest? But enough on the traitor." Xemnas' sharp, unusually coloured eyes left Roxas' face and scanned the others. "Why do you fight me? I'm doing exactly what heroes desire to see. I'm creating a new world, perfect world, free of all the faults and imperfections the current ones possess.
"Wiping out all that is and is meant to be will never be a hero's desire, no matter what the result may be." Gohan growled animalistically. Though free of his tail, full exposure to the full moon's rays still had an affect on him. "We only kill as a last resort and encourage people to find the better qualities of themselves. Total annihilation goes against everything we stand for."
"No one ever was or ever will be perfect, no matter what you do." Danny nodded. "But no one should have to be anyway. The world only asks that they be the best that they can be."
"And being the best that we can be," Kim added, setting herself into an offensive position. "we'll do whatever it takes to protect the worlds. Even if that means destroying you."
"You claim to accept imperfections and hate me for removing them, yet you are willing to destroy me." Xemnas stated in that same, emotionless tone. "Why are you willing to destroy me if that is the very thing about me that you cannot stand?"
"Because you destroy every life you touch and deliberately bring chaos to every world you find." Jake answered, wisps of fire flaring from his nose.
"Enough talking, I say we get to the part where we smash his head." Rai shouted. A second later, the others' hair and clothes flapped in the wind as Raimundo shot forward, his armoured fist ready.
However, a force field appeared around Xemnas just as Rai launch his punch, effectively neutralising the attack.
"Hardly impressive." Xemnas said. Simply raising his hand, he had the force field explode outward, knocking Raimundo back with a pained grunt as if a solid wall had collided with him. "It will take a lot more then that to defeat me."
"Then try this. Light!" raising his Keyblades into the air, Roxas shot up a beam of light that split into nine pillars that spun around and descended towards Xemnas.
Xemnas created two red energy sabres from his hands in response before jumping up and spinning himself, deflecting all of the light pillars with his own attack.
"You disappoint me Roxas. You should have known that lousy move would be useless." Xemnas exclaimed, preparing his own attack.
"Oh, I don't think it was so useless." Roxas grinned, relaxing himself. At that second, Xemnas growled in pain as twin flamethrowers from behind him, one from Swampfire on the left, the other from the American Dragon on the right, hit him right in between the shoulder blades.
Before he could hit the ground, Kim appeared right in front of him, black flipped and kicked upward with both feet, propelling him into the air and knocking the air out of him.
As he continued to gain altitude, Gohan appeared right beside him and lashed out with a kick of his own, sending him rocketing down to the right side of the roof where Danny floated, his hands glowing.
However, just as Danny fired his ecto-blast, Xemnas created a red ball of energy around himself. Not dropping in speed, Xemnas flew straight through the beam as if it wasn't even there and collided with Danny.
"AAARRRGGGHHH!" Danny's body felt as if a thousand volts of electricity was surging through him as he fell to the ground, the energy dome keeping it's position on his chest and stomach from the point of collision to after they hit the roof. Having landed safely, Xemnas let go of the energy dome and stood up without issue while Danny flailed in pain on the ground, covered in a red glow.
"Danny!" Gwen cried worriedly, charging towards him and Xemnas. "Reducto!"
Xemnas countered the assaulting burst of energy with a red one of his own, resulting in a bit of dust, but no damaged to the Nobody or his opponents. However, it served it's purpose as the blast left Xemnas distracted long enough for Gwen to grab the no longer glowing Danny and get bring him back to where the others had regathered and away from Xemnas' reach.
"Awe man! We had him." Jake whined, clearly frustrated as he watched Xemnas dust himself off. "We perform a display of teamwork that shows skill beyond what our nearly non-existent time together should be capable of and he still turns it around."
"That dome was a lot more advanced then the force field he used to block me." Raimundo frowned, watching Danny get back up painfully at his side through the corner of his eye.
"And you haven't seen anything yet." Roxas said grimly, causing the others' worry to increase.
"I thought fighting the nine of you would be a challenge." Xemnas stated, his uncaring voice not doing anything to increase the team's optimism. "It appears that you aren't even worth my time. So," Raising his hand, he clicked his fingers and an army of Nobodies instantly teleported in, causing the teens to gasp and jump back from the flexing husks. "I'll have them destroy you."
As if under a silent command, the Nobodies charged, their lances, scythes and everything else ready to attack.
"Octem Montitus!" Gwen immediately jumped into the fray, her magical beam blasting a small group of Nobodies away before she grabbed the lance of an attacking dragonish husk and used it to flip it into the air before impaling it.
Kim and Raimundo weren't far behind, fighting back to back, much like they had when they first met, and lashing out with all of their limbs. Rai would block an attack while Kim would lash out with a powerful punch or kick before switching moves. When they appeared too crowded, Kim would activate her shield, protecting her while Raimundo created gales and blew their enemies away.
"Jetray!" Transforming, Ben followed Jake into the sky. The pair soared over the entire battlefield, either shooting fire and green beams down at the masses of Nobodies or launch punches and kicks to those airborne.
Creating a duplicate of himself, Danny met his opponents head on, phasing through their attacks while landing solid punches with his ecto-charged hands. Meanwhile, his duplicate took to the sky, joining Ben and Jake in blasting at the ground forces and aerial ones alike.
Gohan constantly appeared and disappeared all over the battle zone, the white flashes of Nobodies being destroyed left in his wake. Dodging around a nobody with energy shots similar to Xigbar's, he gathered a ball of energy and tossed it at the annoying Nobody from behind, destroying it before back fisting the one his flight path lead him too. He kept trying to get to Xemnas, but no matter how fast he moved, or where he moved to, more Nobodies showed up to block his way.
However, Roxas had no interest in fighting those he'd once thought of as minions. Clicking himself, he summoned Samurai Nobodies every few feet, using them to block and destroy the opposing army while he jumped and weaved through them with ease. With the help of the Samurais, the enemy's numbers dropped quickly and boosted he group's morale, causing them to fight harder and destroy the Nobodies quicker while Roxas flipped over the last husk between him and Xemnas.
Growling, Roxas thrust one glowing blade forward, only for Xemnas to parry it with ease and lash out with an attack of his own. Quick on his feet, Roxas spun to his side and out of the way before swinging with his other blade, forcing Xemnas back on the defensive.
Flashes or red and white lit up the battle field as the last two members of Organisation 13 clashed fiercely, their movements a blur. Neither had managed a hit yet, but instead of being discouraged, they just fought harder.
Dodging a stab to the chest, Roxas spun and lowered himself close to the ground and swept at Xemnas' legs with Oblivion. However, Xemnas leapt into the air at the last second. Flipping over Roxas, he used the opening in the constant assault to create a red ball of energy and shot threw it right at Roxas as the blond turned to face him.
"AAHHH!" The energy ball landed a direct hit on his chest and exploded, forcing him off his feet. A cold smile crossed Xemnas' face as the force of the blow sent Roxas careening towards the edge of the landing, past it and began the long decent to the ground.
"ROXAS!" Gohan shout, panic taking over as he let out a burst of raw energy to blow away the Nobodies and dived towards the falling blond. However, Xemnas shot multiple energy balls in his direction, hitting Gohan painfully with one and forcing him to dodge the others, once again unable to get to his desired destination.
"We gotta move." Jake cried, just as panicked as Gohan as he made a rescue attempt of his own, followed by Jetray and duplicate Danny. Unfortunately, it proved futile as a group of laser darts from a score of Nobodies caught them off guard, destroying the duplicate in a puff of green smoke and knocking the others off course with cries of pain.
"NO! ROXAS, NO!" Namine screamed in anguish, her eyes filling with tears and her body shaking as dropped to her knees, weak with grief. She couldn't take it. The closest thing she had to a family was gone.
Seeing the poor blond was incapable of seeing the danger around her, Kim jumped back and elbowed a Nobody in the face before following it up with a bicycle kick and setting herself into a defensive position as her last target disintegrated, determined to protect Namine.
"It appears that I have rid myself of the traitor." Xemnas stated, looking around coldly at the looks of grief and rage being directed at him as Gwen and Raimundo took care of the last of the enemy Nobodies. "Now, which one of you will fall-"
"YAA!"
"LIGHT!"
Xemnas had just enough time to turn halfway around before a green beam surrounded by nine columns of light crashed into him, blowing him hard off his feet with more then a little bit of pain and into the ground.
"Gotta love invisibility." Scowling, marking the first time his face didn't look unnaturally neutral, Xemnas looked up to a sight that had left all the complete beings in shock and relief. Just above and beyond the ledge hovered Danny with one of his hands smoking and pointing at Xemnas, while the other supported an injured, glaring Roxas.
"Clever. You made me think that I'd shot you down while you went and saved my little traitor. It looks like I will have to ensure that you are destroyed before I move on to another fighter." Xemnas said as he got back up, his hands glowing with red energy.
"You won't get a chance like that again." Gohan appeared right in front of him, throwing an energy encased fist straight at Xemnas' head. In response, Xemnas threw his own hand out and let loose a blast, neutralising the punch, and jumped back, away from Gohan and slashing with an energy blade to prevent the boy from following.
"Permoveo res!" spikes coming up from the edges of the landing glowed blue and broke off as they followed Gwen's command and soared towards Xemnas. However, Xemnas just created a red energy sphere around himself again, causing the spikes to disintegrate upon impact.
Charging a red blast in his hand, Xemnas turned to fire at Gwen, but a roundhouse kick from Kim knocked him off balance and he blasted the ground beside him, getting both himself and Kim caught in the shockwave of the blow.
"Whoa!" Kim cried, a little panicky as she and the grunting Nobody flew back. Xemnas however, recovered a little more quickly. Creating another energy blade, he spun around and swung at Kim. Unable to alter her aerial path, Kim could do nothing more then watch as the blade moved to behead her.
"Don't think so." Raimundo exclaimed, grabbing Kim from behind with one hand, thrusting the other towards Xemnas. "Wudai Star Wind!"
A powerful gale surged from his free hand, blowing Xemnas into the ground hard while Rai used it to push him and Kim into the air.
In retaliation, Xemnas placed his hands together and shot a large, red beam right at them before back flipping at the last second of his decent, allowing him to land on his feet, albeit damaging his leg muscles.
Unperturbed, Rai, easily dodged the beam before tossing Kim towards Xemnas as Jake and Ben dived in for their own attacks.
Xemnas was hard pressed, barely avoiding Kim's kick before having to jump away from Jake's flame, only to be blasted in the gut by a green beam from Jetray.
"Urgh!" Xemnas grunted, scrunching his eyes in pain as he stumbled back, only just managing to restore his balance. His orange eyes zeroed in on Ben flying back into the air as a red ball of energy gathered in his hands and steadily grew bigger.
"YAH!" Before he could use it, two cries heralded two beams, one green and one gold, simultaneously shooting down at him from the sky. Releasing the energy in his hands, Xemnas jumped back, avoiding being hit, but was still caught in the explosion.
Smoke and debris covered half the landing, making it impossible for Gohan and Danny to see the results of their work. Panting heavily, due to the large amount of energy they'd both put into their shots, they, along with the rest of their allies, watched and waited as the dust settled, keeping themselves ready to move for if any sign of aggression should appear. When their line of sight did finally clear, it was frustrated scowls and looks of disbelief that covered everyone's faces as they saw Xemnas standing on the rubble that had once been part of the castle roof. Though he definitely looked more then a little hurt, it was still clear to all that he could fight.
"This is Michael Turner with an update of the castle." The light shows and explosions had quickly caught the attention of all those still in the vicinity of the castle, the people made up entirely of reporters and wannabe heroes, and the media had quickly gotten into the helicopters, getting as close as they could without being blown up by stray fire. As a result, people from all around the world that had managed to get away from the invading armies had their eyes glued to TVs.
"As you can see behind me, several teenagers, including teen hero Kim Possible and the ghost hybrid Danny Phantom, have managed to enter the castle and are currently fighting the leader of the invaders, the white haired, orange eyed man who called himself Xemnas. It is unclear who currently has the advantage."
"Be careful Kimmy-cup." Timothy Possible muttered worriedly in front of the TV in a closed off lab room, the others beside him, as the screen showed Kim barely managing to jump out of the way of two energy balls.
"Many are pessimistic about leaving a bunch of kids to fight such a foe, but as no one else has managed to infiltrate the castle, it appears these young ones are our only hope."
"No, Gohan! Please don't die." Chichi screamed as the screen changed to show Gohan and Danny scattering as multiple, red beams were shot their way.
"Be careful Jake." Muttered a battered and bruised Spud as he and Trixie watched Jake and Raimundo swoop in with their fist or claw pulled back, only for Xemnas to counter and knock them away.
"The eight of you are harder to exterminate then cockroaches." Xemnas stated as he blasted the nine columns of light Roxas shot at him. The blast didn't even slow down after the collision and would have obliterated Roxas had Raimundo not grabbed him when he swooped by.
"Humus Erumpo!" The ground beneath Xemnas' feet flashed blue and exploded upward, knocking Xemnas off balance and into the air. In his current position, he was almost completely defenceless. "Quickly, blast him now." Gwen cried.
"With pleasure." Danny growled, letting loose an ecto-beam.
"Masenko, HA!" Gohan's golden beam shot out from the far left of the battlefield.
"Eye of Dashi!" Raimundo held out the magical necklace, releasing a bolt of lightning.
The three attacks all hit their mark, bringing forth the first scream to ever leave Xemnas' lips as the powers tore at his body and flung him back, before a green beam, nine columns of light and a flamethrower collided with him and altered his flight path into another direction before he finally landed, the impact creating another crater on the roof and creating another small cloud of smoke from the fire and debris.
Xemnas gasped desperately, his body screaming for air as the assault ended. His coat had been completely destroyed, leaving him only in his pants and bruises and gashes covered his entire being, blood pouring from wounds all over his body. Even his hair was matted with blood. The only part of him not damaged was his eyes.
Shakily, he pulled himself to his feet, stumbling more then once on the way up and still gasping painfully as he frowned at the eight heroes' smug faces.
"You have significantly weakened me." Xemnas gasped, his voice coming out slightly wheezy. "But you still have not one." Quickly, before any of them could react, Xemnas created a giant all of red energy and tossed it right at them.
"AARRGGHH!" The strike proved successful as the ball exploded upon impact, blasting all eight of the young warriors back and into the ground, groaning as their eyes squeezed shut and hands covered more the serious wounds on their chests or arms.
Xemnas set his face back to neutral, despite the immense pain coursing through his being, as he slow approached the group, limping with every step. His eyes scanned each and every one of them, assessing their injuries as e approached, to insure that they wouldn't be able to hurt him. When he appeared satisfied with their inability to strike him down, he ended his stroll with a foot placed firmly on Roxas' stomach, causing the blond release a choked scream as the wind was knocked out of him. It appeared to be the last straw Roxas as his eyes shut and his head slumped a moment later, completely unconscious.
"What a waste of unique power." Xemnas stated, staring down at Roxas' still form as an energy blade shot up from his hand again, pointed straight at Roxas. "Farewell, Key of Destiny." Saying no more, he pulled his arm back, ensuring that the blade was in a direct line with the blond's unexplainable heart.
But just as he was about to plunge downward, he screamed as excruciating pain exploded from his back and all the way into his right kidney.
"Forget I was here?" Looking over his shoulder, the superior of Organisation 13 found Namine standing behind him with purple handled daggers in her hands, one of which was planted in his back.
Pulling the dagger out, Namine swung her body around Xemnas and lashed out with a kick into his gut, causing him to stumble backwards before falling to his knees, wisps of darkness dancing around his skin.
"It's done." Danny groaned, slowly lifting his head in order to see what was happening.
"Thank God." Kim sighed, not even bothering to look as she relaxed her aching body.
Ben, Jake and Raimundo had similar responses, the latter two even starting to nod off while Ben simply changed back to his natural form. Namine didn't even pay attention to him. She was already kneeling before Roxas, checking his injuries.
Gohan however, looked on worriedly as he sat up. Though the wisps of darkness were still there, the body wasn't deteriorating. Gwen appeared to have noticed it too as her eyes flash blue. Sensing Xemnas' essence, she gasped in fear before he stood up.
"He's connecting to the hearts in the sky." She cried, bringing shocked and panicked gasps from the others as Xemnas rose to his feet, his arms outstretched again.
The gold glow in the sky increased tenfold, completely consuming the pink one as Xemnas closed his eyes and levitated himself into the air. Completing his once he was ten feet above the others, the golden glow shot down and covered his being.
"Hearts of anger. Hearts of hate. Lend me your power."
"This is really bad." Gohan grunted, pulling himself painfully to his feet as. "He's absorbing more power from the hearts than I've ever seen in one body. If he keeps this up, either his body will be destroyed due to overload or he'll become completely unstoppable."
"He'll know when to stop." Namine replied, looking up fearfully as Xemnas soaked in even more power. "But he'll do it just under his limit. He'll be far too powerful for any of us."
"Correction!" The sound of a small explosion punctuated the word as the group of still conscious teens all turned their terrified faces to Xemnas. "I am too powerful for any of you."
A red aura, similar to Gohan's white one, fluxuated around Xemnas' form, within the golden energy still connecting him to the moon of hearts. You wouldn't even know that he'd been injured if he still had his cloak as his posture suggested that he was in perfect condition, not even show the slightest bit of pain. But what really sent chills through the group's spines was the raw, cold, near lifeless power that emanated from his being in waves.
"It would appear that it would be impossible to hold you long enough for the next group of Heartless to arrive to this world. As such, I will simply have to destroy you all." Raising his hands above his head, Xemnas gathered an enormous amount of power, creating a sphere of red and gold energy before thrusting his hands down at the teenage heroes and releasing an energy beam large enough to destroy half of the battlefield.
"NO!" Gohan screamed as he leapt into the air, cupping his hands together. "KA MA HA MA HAA!" Gathering every last drop of energy coursing through his body, he thrust his hands upward and let loose the biggest energy wave he'd ever created. The blast collided dead on with Xemnas', but unfortunately, it barely even slowed it down.
"He needs help. Everyone!" Danny cried, pulling himself to his feet. Joining Gohan in the air, he too thrust both of his hands out, shooting a bigger blast then any he'd used before, the intense amount of power being pushed into it dramatically increasing it's brightness and intensity.
"Xemnas mustn't win." Gwen growled, raising herself to her feet as she followed the others' example. "Octem Montitus!" Another blue beam, though a shade or two darker then Gohan's, joined the combined, countering effort.
Unable to pull himself off the ground, Raimundo twisted his body as he pulled the magical necklace back out of his pocket and aimed it into the sky. "Crest of the Condor! Eye of Dashi, Wind!" An enormous amount of lightning mixed with wind erupted from the necklace, aimed right at the oncoming assault.
"Chromastone!" Transforming, Ben released the most powerful blast of rainbow energy from his hands while Jake joined in, taking the deepest breath he could and launching a flamethrower into the mix of attacks.
Unable to shoot any type of blast like the others, Kim gathered all of the remaining power in her suit into her hands and grabbed hold of Ben, releasing all of the energy into his crystalline body and increasing the power of his attack.
The six powers united and did slow the beam down significantly, but it was clear to all that they were only delaying the inevitable. Their power just couldn't measure up to the strength of Xemnas the hearts and what made it worse, Gohan and Gwen noted, was that as soon as Xemnas released the power from his being into his beam, he would immediately draw it back from the hearts. As such, he would never run out of power while their reserves were almost gone. It didn't help either that every minute of so, Jake had to stop and take in another breath, giving them opposing blast a chance to cover more ground sooner. At the rate that they were going, the blast could hit them a any moment and all seven of them knew it.
"Keep going, don't let up." Gohan grunted as his muscles burned, begging for release from the strain.
"Easier said then done." Danny gasped, looking ready to just drop dead where he floated.
"Roxas, come on, you have to wake up." Namine cried in panic, shaking the blond in question roughly. When she got no response, she sighed and put her hands over his chest as they once again started to glow, releasing her healing power into his body. She had hoped to hold back her power, both because of her own exhaustion and because she knew that Roxas would need it when he awoke, but now there no way around it. Roxas was too injured to awaken without it.
"Mmm." Namine stopped as soon as Roxas' eyes opened. "Namine, what's going on?" He asked groggily, still half asleep and distracted by the pain still coursing through his body.
"Xemnas is using the hearts and become all-powerful and we're all going to die if you and I can't turn the tide." She responded, her voice and expression somehow managing to show exactly how tired and panicked she was at the same time.
That woke Roxas up properly. Ignoring the sharp pain shooting through his neck, his eyes went wide with awe at the clashing powers above him. The gathering of raw power Xemnas was using was beyond anything he'd ever imagined and was clearly the superior power involved in the clash, especially since the band of super powered, pubescent heroes were visibly weakening, allowing the enemy beam to increase in speed.
"Roxas, come on. I'll amplify your blast." Namine said hastily, placing her hand on his. "The others need our power to join their's now."
"No, it won't help anything." Roxas shook his head before looking at a very scared Namine in the eye. "Our shot will have a different target." With that he raised his hand into the air, grunting as his muscles protested. Following his hand to his target, all fear left Namine and she nodded firmly, placing one of her hands with his while she placed the other on Roxas' shoulder, to help support him. Closing their eyes in concentration, their power gathered, revealing itself as a brilliant, white light shined in their palms, growing bigger and bigger until both sets of ocean blue eyes snapped open, looking fiercely up into the sky.
"LIGHT!" Twin voices screamed, commanding the startled attention of everyone there, even carrying out to the media's audio systems, as the waves of pure, white light erupted from their hands once again.
Unlike last time, the power was more focused as it surged into the air, the waves just wide enough to encase a full-grown man, but that wasn't to say it was weaker. In retrospect, with the amount of power the blonds were shoving into the blast, it was far stronger.
The group gasped in dread as the blast missed the beam by a hair, ridding them of the hope for help. However…
"Look, the beam!" Danny cried in delighted disbelief. Being the closest to it and at the right angle, he had the best view, excluding it's creators', to watch it as it continued on it's course; straight at Xemnas.
Xemnas' eyes widened in shocked disbelief before the light waves crashed right into him a moment later.
"AAAHHH!" Completely unguarded from the attack, and being naturally vulnerable to the powers of light and darkness as all Nobodies are, Xemnas was blown back and was desperately trying to hold his being together throughout the insurmountable pain coursing through his entire being, forcing him to cut off his attack as a result, leaving the allies' joint effort completely unopposed.
"Everyone, give it everything you have left right NOW!" Gohan roared, his aura flaring bigger, along with his blast as he exhausted himself of all his remaining energy.
"HHAAAAAAA!" The others were quick to follow suit and their remaining power quickly joined the light waves blowing away at Xemnas' already shredded body, ploughing him into the air. When the blast made it half way to the hearts, one final agonised scream left Xemnas' mouth before a burst of darkness imploded, scattering in the air along with the combined blast of the seven heroes before fading from existence.
However, the light waves continued on, unperturbed by the explosion, and soared on a beeline right toward the heart moon.
The group of sagging heroes looked up with looks of amazement as the light waves hit, but instead of destroying the hearts, it encased the entire moon in a white glow before turning pink and following Xemnas' body and imploding.
Smiles of happiness and wonder crossed the teenagers' faces as millions upon millions of small pink spheres flew off in all directions, lighting up the sky.
All around the world pink streaks lit the sky, catching everyone's attention before they streaked to the ground and collided with the chests of Nobodies. Again, people would watch in amazement as the Nobodies would glow pink and transform before the people's very eyes, back into their usual forms, usually human, before the glow would increase, hiding the person's relieved and happy appearance from view and flew upward, through what looked like portals or warps in space.
"WOOHOO! Rai did it!" Clay cheered excitedly, despite the exhaustion he felt. The other monks could only smile and cheer as well, jumping up and down ecstatically. Exhaustion could wait.
Master Fung stood a little being, breathing deeply as he stared at the streaks coursing through the sky, like a meteor shower. Though he was calm and quiet, unlike his young pupils and their dragon, a look of great pride was clear in his eyes.
"It's beautiful." Mrs Possible sighed in awe as she set down the broom that she'd been using as a staff.
"Yes honey, it is. It's the perfect thing to celebrate our daughter's victory." Mr Possible stated, wrapping a loving arm around his wife, his sons resting happily nearby.
"Yeah, way to go KP!" Ron exclaimed, jumping around happily, like a kid in a toy store. Wade and Monique, though acting more maturely, smiled in complete agreement and relief.
"It's over." Piccolo stated calmly, hiding his exhaustion. "The hearts are restoring the nobodies. Gohan must have won." The pride in his voice, though subtle to those who didn't know Piccolo, could not be more obvious to the weary Z Fighters.
"That's my boy." Goku stated lovingly, chuckling from his place on the ground until what remained of his energy left him and he fell asleep right where he was, followed quickly by the tired and relieved Vegeta and Videl.
In Bellwood, Max watched the sky from his motor home, where his young team were dead to the world. The battle had been too much for them, even Kevin. As he watched the flashes of pink light bath the city and the sky above, only one thought, filled with love and pride crossed his mind.
"You did it kids. We're all finally safe again, thanks to you."
The Longs and Jake's friends, though all in need of a paramedic, ignored their aches and pains as they stared out in wonder at the sky, happiness, wonder and relief filling their hearts.
"Once again, you have made your dragon master proud, young one." Lao Shi stated softly, a warm smile crossing his face. However, it was replaced with a slight frown as he looked around at all the magical creatures out in the open and the image of Jake on the TV in his shop window. "Though this might be a problem." He stated dryly. Their world had been exposed.
"And with the end of the battle at the castle, the second, heart shaped moon scattered, sending pink streaks all over the world. Many of these streaks have collided with the Nobodies and turned them into true people, or animals in some cases, before they disappear while others are simply going skyward, into what looks like black holes. It appears that our world has been saved by our two world famous teen heroes and their allies. It is still unclear as to who these other seven saviours are, but with the world now saved and the threat gone, stay turned as we land and try to answer that and more in an interview."
"Jack, we've got to move!" Maddie yelled persistently, shutting off the TV in the Opts jet. "Those poor kids are in no condition to be left at the mercy of the media and I want to know Danny's ok."
"Right dear. Close the door Jazzy-pants." Jack called from the controls, staring up the engine and taking off the second the girls got into their seats.
"It's finally over." Ben sighed, changing back into his human form and falling flat on his butt.
"Thank G…mmm." Rai moaned, asleep before his headed even managed to fall back down.
"This probably isn't the best place to catch some Z's, but I… just don't care." Jake stated, returning to human form and lying down, joining Raimundo in snoring. Danny, Gwen, Roxas and Gohan weren't far behind.
"Now that was one war I wasn't sure that we could win. And yet we did it within a couple of days." Kim sighed, relaxing next to Namine, looking off into the horizon as the last of the hearts disappeared, back to their bodies and then owner's home world if the body wasn't still there according to Roxas. "The only problem is that now we have to deal with an even bigger battle to deal with."
"What? What's out there that could possibly be bigger? Other then getting the everyone off the castle before it disappears at sunrise when it'll disappear thanks to everything returning to normal."
"Why sunrise? Why not right now?" Ben asked, looking at here confusedly.
"With the heart moon, the power that brought it here, gone the magic used to bring it here will reverse itself, but not until it's in twilight again. It's the only way to get to the castle's world." Namine answered before turning back to Kim. "So what is this horrible battle we have to face?"
"The worst creation man ever came up with." Kim stated dramatically before pointing towards the other side of the landing. "The terrifying, ever nosey swarm called the media."