Xejicka: Happy New Year everyone!

Thalkxene: We brought you virtual cookies!

Jackie: Cookie! -falls through hologram-

Reno: Give the girl a break.

Disclaimer: Xejicka does not own the Kingdom Hearts Series, the Final Fantasy series, Birth By Sleep or any characters from it, Lemon Demon or their music or good writing skills.

Xejicka: Not much to say. I've planned out part of this chapter for a while.

Chapter 25: Humanity's Guidance

Jackie fell, falling in the darkness. She growled in anger at this cliché. "Can't I have a normal dream?!" she cried. She crossed her arms and turned opposite of the direction she was falling. "In an airplane, I was flying. Just a flight up standin' guy. I can be clumsy and I stumbled out the door into the sky-"she started singing to herself. What did her humanity have to tell her this time?

In the midst of her humming a pain attacked Jackie. She felt like she was being burned as something stabbed her in the stomach. She found herself in front of a set of woods as she heard the words of a pyromaniac talk into her ear. The pain hurt more than fire should and the scene quickly faded. Why did her head start to hurt?

Then she hurt all over. She felt let and like she was being electrocuted to death. Why? She saw three warriors look down at her as she faded away. The berserker found herself being sliced in the torso. She had felt like she had used a great deal of strength and wondered why she lost. But lost to what? These feelings, they weren't hers.

This pain. Why was she feeling it? She felt someone's hand tighten around her neck as she was slammed against a wall. She looked and saw she was being choked by Riku, but it wasn't Riku. Then who? Her head hurt again. She clutched it but she knew...

So much power, so much strength. She was giving it all now. She was in a fight to the death she was certain to win. Her last means, her last means at victory. Then... failure. Horrid failure and pain. Everything, lost. Jackie cried out as pain attacked her again. Then something returned to her. The pain stopped as she realized something.

"The fates," she uttered. "Their fates. Their fates!" she cried. Then she let out a growl that turned into a roar. "WHY CAN'T I HAVE NORMAL DREAMS?! What the Hell happened to my memories?!" she raged. She came in contact with the hard mosaic platform. She landed so hard with her knees bent, the platform shook.

Five shadows rose around her. She stood up and looked at five cloaked people. . "You're here. But why?" she hissed. One of the cloaked people turned around and took off his hood, revealing slate colored hair.

Zexion grinned. "An imprint. Where we will stay until the day you die," she spoke in cold words.

"I'll be damned if you live in my heart. Unlike all of you, I didn't throw mine away. I have rights to it," Jackie growled as she could feel her nails and teeth sharpen.

"You be damned? I'm confined here with everyone I hate," Larxene objected.

"Savage Nymph, you are an idiot. As I predicted, you fell. And you fell because of those high heels. Dammit Larxene!" Jackie's voice rose to the point she was yelling. Larxene threw one of her kunai at the berserker, who dived out of the way only to ram into Lexaeus.

"Do not insult me like that!" Larxene shot as electricity shot out of the tips of her fingers. Jackie looked up at the silent hero, she became slightly calmer, slightly.

"Why didn't you run while you still could? You saw death coming, why didn't you avoid it?" Jackie asked as she looked up at Lexaeus.

"Why are you showing compassion to him? All of them treated horribly," Marluxia stated with a slight hint of anger and curiosity in his voice.

"You all may have treated me worse than shit, but he treated me like it the least, Marly," Jackie grudgingly pointed out to the assassin. She gave a low growl once more as she stomped away from the nobodies.

"We can't afford you to get angry. Not right now," Vexen warned as he dared inch a few feet closer to the berserker.

The furious girl turned around quickly. The guan dao quickly appeared in her hands. It was only an inch away from cutting the scientist's throat. "How dare you tell me not to get angry. I wouldn't have have of the goddamn rage if you didn't experiment on me!" she cried using all of the self control she had not to shove the weapon into the academic's throat. Vexen quickly summoned his shield and punched the guan dao up.

With Jackie losing stability, he charged at her and knocked her to the ground. "Show more respect," he hissed.

"It's my heart and my mind. You aren't welcome here!" Jackie growled as she jumped up and tried to make a stab at Vexen. She missed as she left a large set of hands grabs her arms and hold her back. The guan dao fell to the ground with a clatter as the berserker looked back. "Lexaeus?"

"We can't handle more of us diminishing," he said as he continued to hold his grip on her.

"Let go. I want out. I want out of it all," Jackie demanded. The tall man didn't flinch. The girl furrowed her eye brows with thought and remembering. "What about my memories? I remembered some things. Now I have full memory of what happened at Castle Oblivion. What I want to know is which one of you fucked around with my memories?" she got smacked in the head by Vexen for cussing.

"None of us did such a thing. What value would your memories have been to us?" Zexion asked as he stepped closer to the berserker.

"Everything. Your deaths, your downfall. I knew something was missing. Something still is missing. I finally got my memories back. Xemnas. Xemnas wanted to know about the fates. The problem is how he would have known that I would have known?" Jackie told. She looked at her right palm. The prophecy on it, but that couldn't have been the only thing.

"Maybe there's a way we could get out of here," Larxene spoke as she got an idea. She walked over to Jackie and pulled out a kunai. Marluxia got the same idea and he pulled out his scythe.

"We're stuck in her mind. Perhaps some control could be done," Marluxia said as he raised his weapon. Jackie saw the malicious look in his eyes and decided to choose life and limbs. She kicked her leg back into Lexaeus' crotch. He let go of her as he crouched in pain, giving Jackie enough time to grab her weapon and prepare to defend herself.

All five nobodies surrounded the berserker now. They all wanted to get out of this place. The girl prayed for help, she couldn't take any of them on. "Humanity, where are you?!" she cried as the nobodies attacked at once.

Hollow Bastion

It was an hour before dawn. The survivors of Earth slept soundly in their few houses, scattered everywhere. Matt tossed and turned, his bed was uncomfortable. He couldn't take it and his eyes shot open to see darkness. He hopped down from his bunk. Sara grumbled behind him in her bed.

"Ed slash Envy forever," she murmured happily as she turned over.

"Shut the fuck up!" Liam screamed in his sleep as he punched a board in the wall. Part of it broke and he ended up getting hit in the crotch. He screamed out, but no one woke up. Matt sighed in relief that no one was disturbed.

"Matt," a voice whispered faintly. The young man turned. Who was that?

"Matt," the voice spoke again. Matt twisted his head to the window. He did a double take for he saw a woman standing there.

"Follow me if you see some truth," she said faintly as the door opened. Matt quickly walked to the door, not changing into his regular clothes but staying in his PJ pants and t-shirt. Not wanting to be completely vulnerable, he at least grabbed his dei katana and exited the house.

The blue haired woman in armor stood staring at Matt. "I'm glad you trust in me," she said as she walked away. The curly haired man ran after her.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Put your weapon away. Heartless and monsters will not attack, trust me," the woman said. Matt unwillingly put his weapon away.

"Where are you taking me?" he persisted.

"Shhh and the creatures will not stir," she whispered as she continued to walk. This woman was dodging Matt's questions and he grew frustrated.

"Would it kill you to answer one question?!" he asked. The woman turned her head, not stopping.

"When I stop, you will learn and have to do various things," the woman said. Matt shook his head and continued following. He didn't want to, but he was compelled to. He looked up at the sky. It was very cloudy. The clouds slowly grew darker as the sound of thunder clapping grew audible. Rain started to pour and the woman did not slow her pace.

Through this rain the two people tread in for a few minutes. The town disappeared and they were walking in a cavernous area. It started to look familiar to Matt. At random times the aqua haired woman would pick up pieces of metal or shattered crystal hither and thither. Yet her pace never slowed. Matt shivered as his shirt completely soaked through.

The pair finally reached a peak and stopped. Lightening flashed on the horizon. The blue haired woman stood in front of a sword that was planted in the ground. All the material she held in her arms clattered to the ground around the sword. Matt finally decided to speak up. "Who are you?" he asked.

"A shard of a person you know. Time is short. I need you to make a delivery," lightening struck in the background as the woman spoke.

"What? What did you drag me out here to deliver?" Matt questioned. The woman turned with a smile on her face, then she disappeared. "What the Hell?" lightening struck the hilt of the sword.

Electricity surrounded Matt and the shards of metal and crystal. The shards moved to the sword and melted into it as it all started to contort wildly. The electricity was hurting the man but he felt like he was gaining something. His feet moved closer and closer to the contorting weapon.

He grasped onto the handle of the long weapon only to get blow away. He flew back and slammed hard against the canyon wall, rendering him unconscious. He slid down to the ground and the lightening on the weapon stopped. It was now longer and blade was crescent shaped. It toppled over with a clatter as the rain kept pouring.

A questionable amount of time passed, Matt did not stir. His clothes were singed and his usually curly hair was such out on all ends, giving it a spiky appearance. The water had pressed it down against his scalp, no one knew where he was. Then, out of nowhere, three small fairies appeared in front of him.

"He shouldn't be out in this weather or even sleep in it," the brunette leader of the fairies said.

"He isn't bad looking," the gothic fairy commented

"I wonder if he has any good treasure," the blond pondered as she floated around Matt.

"Not while he's asleep, Rikku," the leader fairy said. Rikku sighed in disappointment. The gothic fairy saw the long weapon on the ground, she floated toward it.

"What's this?" she asked.

"It's a weapon!" the leader cried happily as she moved to pick it up. Then a larger set of hands slapped her hands. "Hey!" she cried until she looked up, only to back away. "Lady Fortuna!"

"Please, call me Luck or Lady. How are you doing this morning, Yuna?" Lady Luck asked.

"It's raining," Yuna replied as she pulled out a small umbrella. Rikku and Paine did the same, Luck already had an umbrella so she didn't bother. She looked down at the weapon.

"You guys weren't thinking of taking that weapon, were you?" Luck asked.

"It doesn't look like anyone owns it," Paine commented.

"True, but I don't think it was worth you while. That boy over there might prove otherwise though," Luck said as she pointed to Matt.

"He's awfully cute," Rikku said as she planted her umbrella into the ground to where Matt couldn't get wet.

"How are things for you, Luck?" Yuna asked.

"They're alright. I apologize about my terrible aim earlier," the lucky woman said as she pulled out a small pipe used for dart shooting.

"That really hurt us," Paine said bitterly.

"Yeah!" Rikku agreed.

"Those three people were really mean!" Yuna complained.

"I'm sorry! Despite my ability with luck, my aim isn't the best. I honestly didn't mean for that chaos. I'll make it up to you girls later, is that okay?" Luck asked.

"Just make it good," Paine replied.

Yuna looked over to Matt. She pulled a blanket out of nowhere and laid it on him. "He looked cold," she explained. Luck giggled.

"Your kindness will be payed off soon, my friends," the larger blond said kindly.

"I'll contribute then," Paine said monotonously as she pulled out a checkered print belt and put it on Matt's waist.

"When will you visit us again?" Yuna asked.

"With the way things are turning, I really don't know. I'll be incognito for a while, it won't be safe to show myself like this," Fortuna said as she looked at the sky.

"We'll miss you!" Rikku said.

"Don't worry. I'll see you and you'll see me, but you won't know it's me. Things are changing and I must bid my farewell," Luck explained as she opened a yellow green portal.

"Goodbye!" the Gullwings waved as the woman disappeared.

Castle Oblivion

In the darkest depth s of castle Oblivion, silence invaded. There was no man reading, no large man attempting a puzzle, no scientist bustling about another experiment. Everything felt empty with that lack of life gone. It was too hollow. However, a white portal formed, breaking the silence as two people walked out of it.

"It's so dark and cold in here. Even if they were nobodies, I couldn't imagine anyone living in a place this creepy," a mysterious Asian man said as he walked a few feet away from the portal and looked around. A woman clad in violet and a witch's hat walked away from her portal as it disappeared.

"They did hate living down here. No one can blame them for that. It was rather unfortunate, what happened over the night," Fate said as she followed the Asian man. A tear fell from her face and onto the floor. "A tear be shed for those that are lost,"

"They needed to be stopped. The worlds would have been in further danger if they continued on," the Asian man said.

"I won't deny that their elimination was necessary yet I will not deny the sadness I behold either. There was really one thing I cannot handle well, not at all," Fate spoke as she walked away from her friend as she moved to a large empty space on the floor. She raised her rod to where it rested in her hand, parallel to the floor. A white beam gently fell.

Light spread out and a vague human shape formed on the floor. The mysterious Asian man looked in shock at what the mage was doing. "What do you think you're doing?!" he exclaimed.

"You really don't have much of a say in this anymore. What happened was tragic. Even if this boy was a clone, he suffered too much I his short lifetime. I just... can't bear that," the time mage spoke sadly.

"He was reckless and he abused the darkness. Riku had every reason to defend himself, even if it meant killing his own replica. The clone was not meant to exist and I'm thankful he was only limited to this castle," the Asian man objected.

"I don't care," Fate shot quickly. "He did abuse darkness, he was reckless and we would continue to be so. I just have compassion and I hate it. Besides, I do have use for this boy, I have many plans for him,"

"Compassion, it's fair for us to all have it. You say you have plans for these people. Why did you choose some of the people that you chose? You should have left that teenager wit the curly hair to bear Earth's heart, or even the red head. Why did you choose that other girl? She was no where near qualified," the Asian man pointed out.

"I'm aware of all of that. An easy list would be who weren't more qualified. I think Anna Nicole Smith was on the list next to Paris Hilton. Leah Riddick was pregnant, I let her choose. Matt was who everyone would expect. He's a natural born Gary Stu ,those things are rare. The berserker allowed herself to it, though she doesn't remember. But the real reason she was picked, baffles. I don't know why, but I just felt it. I just felt she would be the only person that would forgive me for reasons unknown reasons," the time witch said. From the light on the floor, a skeleton started to take shape.

Xejicka: Yes, I felt bad for bashing YuRiPa. I also felt it was very immature. That's part of my atonement.

Jackie: I felt bad for hitting Lexaeus in the crotch. But think about what you would do in a situation like that. C'mon!

Reno: I wasn't in this chapter.

Thalkxene: Matt has his own pack of fan girls. I wish I had my own pack of fan boys.

Xejicka: We all do. I can never give Jackie a break. I don't know, but I have an odd hobby of torturing her.

Reno: Review, yo!