SECRET ENDING

A wave of pain washed over the boy as the heat became unbearable. He was sweating bullets, and his long black coat was only making things worse. The boy needed to get out. Now.

"You cannot escape us!" a voice called.

Another voice chimed in, one that the boy knew well.

"I'm sorry, but this needs to be done." The boy's friend was in agony over his predicament.

The door wasn't blocked, but every time he tried to exit a fireball came through. But now he had no choice: run or die. He took a step out, and was nearly knocked over by a ball of flame. In a reflex action, he hurled a bolt of darkness at the man who had launched it from his spinning Charkams, knocking him down.

Another man walked slowly towards him, showing no sign of fear at all. On the contrary, he seemed to inspire the boy with a feeling of… no, not fear exactly, but apprehension. "No matter who you kill, no matter what you do, you cannot escape your fate. You are still only a boy, Nobody." He seemed to speak into the boy's mind.

The boy ground his teeth. "Don't call me that!" he yelled. He knocked the man down and stared into his eyes. This man was… Empty. Then he saw a claymore come swinging at him. It caught him on the ankle with the flat of the blade, tripping him, but he lashed out with his keyblade twice, injuring the man with the X-shaped scar on his face. He leaped over a broken wall, barely avoiding a man with an eye patch. He swerved around Xigbar, and dodged away. There was an explosion behind him, but he didn't heed it. His entire mind was focused on escape. Then a buffet of cold water struck him with such force that it lifted him, emanating from a figure that was so familiar… one of the ones from the dreams, but yet not. He saw the edge of the castle as he flew over it. Then he was falling. He barely caught onto a railing on the edge of the adjacent skyscraper, and chanced a look back. He saw seven men all dressed in long black coats standing at the edge of the balcony, hoods hiding their faces.

The boy stood on top of the building, hood hiding his face.

I can't take this anymore. I WILL escape! The boy thought. The boy was not really a boy, but nearly a man. The boy leaped from the building. Three stories down, he appeared from a dark portal. He sprinted away.

The leader of the black coated men, one known as the Superior, flipped down his hood, revealing a man with long grey hair.

"Saix let the replica know her choices. As for the boy's whereabouts, we can find him when the time comes." The man next to the Superior nodded, flipping down his hood. He was the man with the X-shaped scar on his forehead and a claymore, and he sported blue hair.

"As for the rest of you, you may return to your activities." The Superior intoned. When the other members had walked away, Xemnas stared into the gloom.

"I will find you, Xsirch." He muttered. "And when you are gone, and your replica has completed her work, Kingdom Hearts will be mine. And there is nothing you can do to stop me… Xsirch… Chris."

The night was dark in the World That Never Was.