A/N alrighty, here is chapter 21 for your reading pleasure. Please remember to review.
DISCLAIMER 21 chapters in and I still have to say that I don't own this. I'm getting sick of this, really, really sick of this.
The group had just stepped through the large doors and were now in a pitch dark chamber. Just then a large amount of fire seemed to surround everyone except for Roxas. The fire rose high into the air and lit a large chandler in the middle of the ceiling. Roxas appeared perfectly calm. "I know who you are. I've been inside of Sora, so I know all about Organization members becoming Reformed so why don't you show yourself Axel. Sorry, I don't know your real name" Roxas said. Just then a large flame appeared in the middle of the room. When it died down a man with long red hair was standing there. He had on a red shirt that had flames all over it as well as red pants.
"Well well, isn't this a surprise. Here's Roxas, outside of his others body. What happened here?" Axel asked.
"Kingdom Hearts copied Sora's heart and put it into me" Roxas explained.
"Oh, well that was nice of it. Well, I'm sorry Roxas, but I've got orders from higher up that says I've got to kill anyone who enters here, and that includes you. But I think that I'll take you on in a one on one fight. By the way, my real name is Lea" he said. Matt started to laugh. "What's so funny?!" Lea demanded.
"I...I'm sorry. But...all of...your real names...don't sound good at all. Maybe...you should change your name so your enemy doesn't die of laughter" Matt said laughing the whole time. Lea was getting really angry. The flames around Sora and the others intensified.
"Come on Lea, if it's a fight you want, you can have it" Roxas said as he summoned Oblivion and Ultima Weapon.
"Oh, a new Keyblade? Well, this should be interesting" Lea said. Two chakrams appeared in his hands. He began to spin them on his fingers. He threw one at Roxas who easily blocked it. Lea then infused fire into his other chakram and threw it. Roxas blocked it too, but then the flames hit him. "Now, lets turn up the heat" he said as flames surrounded Roxas and Lea. Lea then jumped into the flames. Roxas stood in the middle of the flames, perfectly calm. Lea appeared right behind Roxas and slashed at him. Roxas quickly turned around and blocked the attack with ease. He then knocked both chakrams out of Lea's hands then slammed both of his Keyblades into Lea's gut. Lea was sent flying up into the air. He then turned around and shot a volley of fireballs at Roxas. Roxas started to spin his Keyblades and blocked all the fireballs. He looked up and saw that Lea wasn't there anymore. He suddenly felt something cut across his back and was sent flying. He stopped himself just before he hit the flames. "Nice to see that even though you've been in your other for a while that you haven't lost your touch" Lea said, his voice seeming to come from everywhere.
"Listen Lea, I don't really want to fight. All we want to do is stop whoever is doing this" Roxas said.
"Well, thats to bad. I don't want to fight either, but I have to stop whoever plans on stopping my master" Lea said. The ground underneath Roxas suddenly caught on fire and became lava. Roxas jumped up as high as he could. Lea came out of the flames right behind Roxas and tried to slash him. Roxas blocked the blow, but Lea had the other chakram right above Roxas's head and slammed it down hard. Roxas hit the lava and his jacket started to catch on fire slightly. Roxas ignored this and continued to look for Lea in the flames. He saw him try to charge Roxas from the side. Roxas blocked the attack and launched Lea up into the air. Roxas followed him. Roxas then slammed both of his Keyblades in Lea and sent him back down to the ground. The lava disappeared when Lea hit the ground. Roxas started to fall towards Lea, both of his Keyblades in a stabbing position. Both Keyblades stabbed themselves into Lea's shoulders. "Gahhh" Lea screamed in pain. Roxas yanked both the Keyblades out of Lea. "That...really hurt" Lea said. He tried to use his chakram, but found that the wounds prevented him from using them.
"I'm not going to kill you. You were my only friend in the Organization. Consider this a thank you for that" Roxas said as the flames around him died.
"To bad, you really should have. You see, Ulderth, my master, has a spell on me to where if I don't obey him, I die. If I do obey him, then I can live forever. I'm not about to die again" Lea said. He raised his arm and a large flame gathered around it. He shot a large fireball right at Naminé. Naminé's eyes widened in fear. It hit something before it hit her. She looked and saw Roxas.
"Roxas, are you okay?!" she shouted. Roxas looked up at her and nodded. He slowly got up and looked at Lea.
"You really shouldn't have done that" he said coldly. Roxas charged right at Lea. Lea shot fireballs at Roxas, but he blocked each one. When he reached Lea, he plunged Ultima Weapon right into his chest. Lea looked at it in disbelief before falling down. His body then began to break apart, it then faded back into darkness. Roxas fell to his knees in pain. Naminé was by his side before he even hit the ground.
"Are you okay?" she asked worriedly. He nodded slightly before trying to get up. He saw that one of Lea's fireballs had got him in the leg. He was back on his knees grabbing the part that was burned. All of a sudden he saw a glow around him body. He looked, and the burn was gone. Naminé had her Keyblade in her hand. "I know all the same spells that Kairi does" she explained. Roxas smiled, and Naminé grabbed him. "We just got our own hearts and I already know one emotion I don't want to feel again" she said.
"What's that?" Roxas asked as he grabbed her gently.
"Worry over you" she said.
"Great, having Sora and Kairi all lovey dovey was bad enough, but now we also have to put up with the two of you. Someone kill me now" Matt said. Naminé and Roxas both glared at him.
"Come on, we've got to keep moving" Riku said. Roxas and Naminé both got up off the ground. The group continued on to the next room.
"Hey Roxas, can we still go Twilight Form even though you aren't in my body?" Sora asked. Roxas looked thoughtful.
"I would think so. But now if you do it puts us at a one man disadvantage" Roxas said. Sora nodded. They went through the large doors. The room they were in now was quite large. Just then a large amount of flower petals came down.
"What the heck. First these guys have really dumb real names and now they try to attack us with flowers?" Matt said as he put his hand close to the flowers and found that he got cut. "Got to admit, now that I see that the flowers cut you, they're a pretty effective way of keeping us in here"
"Naminé!" Roxas shouted. She was the only one outside of the barrier of petals. Just then a large storm of flower petal appeared in front of her. When it died down, there was a tall man with long pink hair in front of her.
"Hello again Naminé" the man said. Naminé already had her Keyblade out the second she realized who was appearing in front of her and was glaring at him.
"Marluxia" she said acidly. "I was hoping that you weren't revived."
"Oh, but I was. And now all I have in front of me is a girl who has never fought before. This should be fun" he said as a large scythe appeared in his hand.
"So, what kind of dumb name do you have?" Matt asked.
"My real name is Aulimar" he said.
"Wow, thats a weird name, but not as bad as Isa and Lea" Matt said. Aulimar then raised his scythe and slashed it sending a shock wave towards Naminé. She jumped out of the way with ease. Aulimar then began to charge towards Naminé. While he ran he sent several shock waves at her, but with each one she dodged them with ease. When she was in range of his scythe he brought it down quickly. Namine raised her Keyblade in an attempt to block it. She blocked the attack, but Aulimar was stronger then she was and managed to knock her Keyblade out of the way. He then sliced her arm, getting a scream from her.
"For having no battle experience you aren't doing bad. To bad I have to end this" he said. Namine was on the ground holding her arm. Aulimar raised his scythe high over his head and brought it down. Namine quickly rolled out of the way then pointed her Keyblade right at Aulimar.
"Consider this payback for what you made me do to Sora at Castle Oblivion. Flashing Stream" she called out. A large amount of light began to flow out of the tip of the Keyblade. It enveloped Aulimar. All of a sudden several bursts of light shot out of the tip and Aulimar could be heard screaming with each hit. The light died down and he was holding his chest panting. Namine came up to him and smacked him hard with Perfect Arrangement. He hit the ground and the barrier surrounding Sora and the others dropped. He was on the ground and she was over top of him just slashing him over and over with her Keyblade. Roxas came over to her and put his arms around her.
"Its okay, he's gone now. He can't ever come back" Roxas said in her ear. She dismissed her Keyblade and grabbed onto Roxas. They stayed like that for a minute before they both got back up. "Wonder who we have to fight next"
"I don't know, but it seems like all they want is one on one battles. Maybe they we're weaker separate" Riku said.
"I think we're doing a good job of proving them wrong" Matt said. They went into the next room. When they got in there, all of them were frozen except for Riku.
"All right, show yourself Even. I know that this could only be you" Riku said. The whole floor suddenly became ice and a large icicle came up from the center. It shattered and revealed Even standing in front of him, already ready to fight. "Time for my own payback for what you did to me in Castle Oblivion" Riku said as he summoned his Keyblade and changed into his dark form.
"What do you mean? All I did was force you to fight the darkness of yourself. And if you lost, then next I would have sent that replica to Destiny Islands. Your friend Kairi wouldn't have known the difference" Even said. Riku chuckled slightly.
"You should thank yourself for freezing Sora. If he heard what you just said he would have found a way out of the barrier and beat you to a pulp" Riku said getting into his fighting position. Even flipped his shield around. The ice began to make it longer and longer until it resembled a sword. Riku charged towards Even and at the same time shot dark orbs at him. Even flipped his shield back and blocked all the orbs. When Riku got close he jumped over top of Even and tried to smash his head. The shield quickly grew and protected Even's head. Riku landed behind Even and swung his Keyblade again, this time making contact with Even's back. Even let out a small grunt as he flew across the room. He did a flip and landed back on his feet. He flipped his shield back so it was a sword again. He then stabbed the ground and sent a ton of icicles at Riku. Riku jumped over the icicles. Even began to charge something in the tip of his sword. He then launched a large stream of ice right at Riku. The only thing Riku could do was raise a very quick shield. The shield blocked some of the attack, but most of it go through and cut Riku in several places.
"Now for the finishing touch" Even said as he jumped up into the air. He got ready to stab Riku. He thrust his sword through Riku, only to have Riku disappear.
"Behind you" he said. Even turned his head just in time to see Riku slam his Keyblade into his back. He was once again sent flying across the room. This time, Riku teleported behind Even and slammed his Keyblade into his back again. Even landed hard on the floor and began to disappear. Sora and the others were defrosted when he was done disappearing.
"What happened?" Sora asked when he got thawed.
"Another Organization member down" was all Riku said.
"So, we've beaten three, but we still don't know how many more this Ulderth guy has brought back" Kairi said.
"We'll just have to cross the bridge when we come to it" Matt said. They stepped through the doorway and were immediately assaulted by a large wind gust. It pushed most of them back except for Kairi.
"Kairi!" Sora shouted. Just then, Isa appeared in front of them.
"Hey, its Mr. Hammer" Matt said. Isa glared at Matt. "What, it's better then being called Isa, isn't it Mr. Hammer?"
"Enough of this. Time for you to die Kairi" he said.
"Wow, you don't waste words do you?" Matt asked. Isa summoned a large hammer and Kairi summoned her Oathkeeper. Isa charged at her quickly and swung his hammer down. Kairi, knowing that there is no way she would be able to block it, jumped gracefully out of the way. Isa quickly swung the hammer to the side and got Kairi right in the rib cage.
"KAIRI, ARE YOU OKAY?!" Sora yelled out. Kairi got up slowly and held her side. She raised up her Keyblade and a gentle light came over her body. She then looked at Sora and nodded. Isa charged at her again. This time though a large light appeared around Kairi. Isa hit the barrier and his hammer flew from his hand. Kairi took advantage of this and gathered energy in the tip of her Keyblade. She then pointed it at him.
"Holy Blast" she said. A large orb of light then shot out of the tip of her Keyblade and hit Isa square in the chest. He flew across the room, but grabbed his hammer. He threw it at Kairi. She never saw the hammer come and it hit her hard in the back.
"KAIRI!" Sora yelled. She stayed down. Isa was now standing over her body. His hammer ready to come down on her in a second.
"Now for you to die. Don't worry, Sora will be joining you soon" he said. Kairi then turned around and pointed her brightly glowing Keyblade at her.
"Your right about one thing, Sora will be joining me when we get done here and get back home" she said. A large orb of light shot out of the tip and hit Isa square in the chest. This time though, he vanished. Matt walked over to where Isa had vanished.
"Today, we say goodbye to a poorly named bad guy named Isa. He was an evil man who was known by his enemies, or at least by me, as Mr. Hammer" Matt said wiping away false tears. "So next room?" everyone was looking down and shaking their heads. As they went into the next room Sora stopped Roxas.
"What's up?" Roxas asked.
"Well, something tells me that in the next room I'll be fighting, so I was wondering if we could go ahead and drive before we get in there" Sora said. Roxas nodded and gave Sora his hand. "Drive" Sora called out as light surrounded him and he went into Twilight Form. "Okay, I'm ready" he said looking to the others. They all nodded and went into the door. When they stepped through, Sora was shocked. It looked just like the battlefield where Riku and Sora had finished off Xemnas. This time instead of Riku, it was Matt standing next to him.
"Good thing you went Twilight Form before we came in here" Matt said as he reached into his pocket and pulled out his Drive Orb. "Drive" he said as he went into Midnight Form.
"So nice to see you two. Now there is only one obstacle in your path, and the obstacle is me" Xehanort said as he appeared out of nowhere.
"Me, Riku, and Kairi beat you easily last time. Me and Matt are going to cream you" Sora said.
"Oh, but I've grown so much more powerful since then" Xehanort said as all of a sudden two red beams came out where his hands would be and made swords. "Now, this time, the power of Kingdom Hearts shall be mine."
"Sorry, but we're going to stop you" Matt said as his Keyblade split up and began to float away from his hands.
"Oh, you really are his brother aren't you, so optimistic it almost feels wrong that you have to die. Almost." Xehanort said as he disappeared.
A/N yay, two big battles coming up next chapter. The fight between Xehanort, Sora, and Matt, as well as the start of the final battle with Ulderth. I didn't really like the fights in this chapter, but I just wanted to give everyone a little bit in the spotlight. Please review.