Chapter 21

To everyone else, it looked like Namine had appeared next to corrupted Roxas and made him go unconscious. But to her, she had used one of her powers to manipulate time and then a memory power to send him into the past.
"Just what was that Namine?"
"I sent his mind into the past, hopefully he should remember who he is. If not… Well, I'll be of no help."
The girl in white stepped forward through the other 6 before turning around to face them.
"I'm sure you all know what a keyblade is by this point. Sora, Riku, you two have had them for quite a while now yes? Hitari, Zach, veterans you may be and trained under the master who has sent me here, you will still need to be careful. Xion, take this, it will not be much power alone, but if you use it well, I'm sure you will be able to bring out its power."
The girl in white handed Xion a small forget me not keychain.
"Xion, you are the final keyblade wielder in this."
Looking now at Roxas, she looked him in the eyes.
"Roxas, you will need to come out triumphant no matter what. You are the most important piece in this battle. You are aware of your time abilities on able to reset to a specific point in time, this will be important to everyone. If you are lost in this, there will be no more resetting, no more second chances. I can no longer be of any help past this point as I have not seen past this."
"Why…"
A voice was heard by everyone from behind the girl in white. Behind her, everyone could see corrupted Roxas conscious again, walking to where Namine was now standing.
"Why did I make these decisions… Why are you so cruel…"
"Roxas? Do you remember now? Do you remember who you are?"
"Yes… Namine, I need you to do me a favour."
"Yes Roxas?"
Corrupted Roxas summoned his keyblade, it was now its usual gold and silver colours. However, as he approached Namine, the keyblade changed to black with the 7 auras of the crystals and the crystals now reappearing one by one behind him. Namine was frozen in fear by his change and approach.
"Die!"
"Namine!"
"Roxas, it's no use."
It was if time was slowing down. He could clearly see the light radiating from the black keyblade as it formed into an orb of darkness and shooting a ray at Namine straight in the chest. Roxas tried to move, but he couldn't, the floor was distorting around him as he tried to take a step. The floor was cracking as he continued to try, it felt like darkness was getting to his heart, almost as if it was vanishing.
"Light!"
Roxas's mind reset. The ground was no longer distorting and cracking, but in front of him, nothing had changed. The slow motion vision he had was still there with Corrupted Roxas almost hitting Namine with the attack.
What can I do dammit?!
After paying close attention to Namine, he could see that there was a white light growing bigger as time went on in-between the attack and Namine. Looking around he could also see that the girl in white was gone.
No!
I'm sorry Roxas… This is the furthest I've ever gotten.
Time seemed to speed up again, the attack aiming towards Namine hit, but just as he predicted, it was the girl in white that had been hit.
"How troublesome. She didn't count towards a wielder. What a waste of power."
Corrupted Roxas turned to Namine and started to look relaxed.
"You know Namine, I don't know what those visions were, but were they my past?"
"Yes."
"That past is not who I am… Now, I shall be known as… Tenebris Interfusa."
One by one, the other 6 wielders other than Roxas drew their keyblades.
"Oh? Did you think I was gonna fight? Oh no, not here. You are too weakened, it'd be unfair. But, before I do decide to erase you all, I have one thing to say."
The dark aura that surrounded Tenebris dissipated as he walked towards Xion, everyone else keeping their guard up with their keyblade.
"Xion?"
"Huh? Y-yes…?"
"I'm sorry for how my past self and Namine treated you. I have now realized that you are the one I love. Do not end up like the others in this."
"L-love…. Me…?"
"Xion!"
Xion fainted from the shock of the confession, and as everyone rushed to her, Tenebris had gone.

It was as though time itself had just stopped. Everything was white. No noise, no visuals. No anything. No matter how hard you tried you couldn't sense anything. A world of emptiness? Happiness? Was it even a world at all? Maybe it was just a dream, or was anything else real? In this place, where ever it was, there was a lone girl. A faint outline of her could be seen in the distance of all the white. She wore a long white dress and had blonde hair that had started to turn a darker colour, almost brown, over time. How long had she been here? Who was she? There were questions that could not be answered by oneself. It looked like she occasionally disappeared from this white void before coming back momentarily. This happened often, and for whatever reason, it kept happening. Each time she came back, she was on her knees, all before getting up and going again. It was almost like an endless cycle of agony. No matter how hard you tried though, you could never reach her. She was always in the distance, with you to watch on as she continued this cycle.

After being here for what seemed like years, you finally saw her getting slowly closer as she continued her cycle. Around her, you could faintly see images of familiar places; A restaurant, a hospital, and an island. These images were moving around her, and each time she disappeared she went into the restaurant, and each she reappeared she came from the island. It was almost like this was what she had to do, nothing else. If she was disturbed, what would happen? From each cycle, her hair turned a darker colour, no longer having any signs that she used to be blonde. A sad cycle of endless pain and agony, what was the purpose of it? Did it have one? More questions formed as her cycle continued. The girl in white never visually aged, but she must have been here for many years for her hair to turn from the blonde it once used to be to the shade of brown it is now. If only you knew her name, maybe this endless cycle would end, and her endless struggle would end.

Roxas… My name, is Lux-….