REYA'S POV

I saw the real Demyx and Axel were desperately trying to fend off the Dusks, and Sora soon joined the throng. I stood there stupidly watching my friends fight off the never receding enemy.

"Reya! We could really use your help!" Sora called out to me, and I snapped to my senses and summoned my scythe for battle.

"It's no use!" Sora cried out.

"You're right. The more we fight them off, the more keep coming!" Demyx said as he collapsed next to Axel. They were right. Even I began to notice that the grip of fatigue was plaguing me.

"We can't give up!" I yelled. Tears formed at the corners of my eyes, and I allowed myself to remember all the pain that Organization XIII had caused me and my friends. I brought myself to my feet and began to swing right and left at the silvery non-beings.

"Reya, don't!" Demyx called out to me, but he was too late. The cold claws of one of the Dusks plunged into my shoulder, and I gasped in pain. I heard Axel scoff behind me.

"Stupid…that's what you get for being reckless." He said as he started to focus all his energy towards his hands. "This is how you take care of business!" a hot blinding light filled the area, and I could feel the claw in me vaporize from the intense heat. Once we were all able to regain our sight, there wasn't any Dusks in sight, and in the distance I could see Axel's limp body starting to fade away.

"AXEL!" I screamed as we all raced over to our fallen comrade. There was a sad smile on his face and it remained so as he told Sora how he made Axel feel the same way Roxas did. "But Axel, you can't leave…you just can't…"

"Reya…I lied to you." He said, and I looked at him in shock.

"What do you mean?" I asked between my now prominent sobs.

"When you asked if I had a heart…I lied to you." Axel's smile grew even more heartbreaking as my tears splashed his cold face. "Well…I guess I can die happy…I have a great view of your tits Reya."

"Damn it Axel, if you can make perverted cracks about my boobs, then you're gonna live!" I yelled in anguish, but my red-headed friends shook his head sorrowfully. "Stop shaking your head no! YOU WILL LIVE!!!"

"I'm sorry. I will miss you." And with that, the last ember of Axel's life extinguished as he faded away into nothingness. My body continued to shake with sobs even when Demyx placed a warm hand on my shoulder.

"He's gone." He whispered to us in the looming silence. I stood up abruptly and wiped the tears from my eyes.

"Let's go." I said with venom in my voice, and I started to stride towards the end of the tunnel of Betwix and Between.

"Reya?" Sora asked cautiously.

"Are you okay?" Goofy asked with equal grief as his companion. I quickly turned to face them with an wrathful glare on my face.

"No, you guys. I'm not okay. Organization XIII has taken away someone who was like a brother to me, and now I will never see him again. You may be upset that he is gone, but you only knew him for a few weeks, and then you were so convinced that he was a traitor!" I was shaking in anger, and fresh tears started to stream down my face. "Demyx and I knew him a whole lot longer. We practically grew up together. I just can't believe that he is gone."

"Reya..." I looked over to see Demyx staring solemnly at me. "I can't believe it either, but just getting upset over it isn't gonna do anything." He was right. I hated to admit it, but Demyx was right. I saw Sora and the others nod in agreement out of the corner of my eye. I sniffled a little and I too nodded my head, and we soon made our way to The World That Never Was.