Alright now I can get started on the fight scene and if your wondering about Donald and Goofy trust me I'll get back to them really soon. Can't have them on a wild goose chase throughout the entire fic. Anyway Lust vs Yuffie. Then we finally get to see Lucrecia Cresent in person! Don't worry though Sora will be back soon enough! Pleast review, everyone counts... they bring me the motivation to write that's why I'm still sad over Sleep Before the Twilight, no one reviewed... sniffle. Also this chapter contains the most blood yet implying the T rating. Just look at the name of the chapter, the longest chapter yet actually.

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J1210: Your suppose to be dead!?!

Hughes: Yeah, but I couldn't resist showing everyone the picture of my daughter! Look how cute she is! Elisia-chan!!

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Heir to Darkness

Chapter XXVI: Blood Heir

World: Wutai/Twilight Town

Kairi shifted uneasily next to Alphonse. The party that had entered the fake Twilight Town had still not returned. An hour had passed since their depature and Kairi was begining to get woried. "I don't like this, it shouldn't be taking them this long. They should have at least sent Rikku to check in with us."

"What good would that do?" Lan Fan replied. "Sora said that the super computer in the fake Twilight Town had been destroyed. And if they sent Rikku back to check in with us, it could compromise the mission. Checking in with us is just waisting time. They need to hurry and find a way to shut down the system."

Alphonse look behind him as the two girls began to bicker. He sweatdroped and then looked to the computer. All the screens began to go on the fritz. Al began to type on the keyboard to gain control, but then something went wrong. The screens went completly blank. Alphonse backed away from the screens for safety. Suddenly a laugh appeared on the screen and a man with a scar over his right eye appeared, it was Xigbar."Hey now what's got you wussy's frightened?"

"You!" Kairi exclaimed pointing at the Nobody. "Your with Organization XIII."

"Hey now red, its not nice to point fingers." Xigbar laughed, shaking his pointer tauntingly. "I'm here to tell you not to try anything on the system or Twilight Town is down for. It seems that even in death that old man Ansem has something up his sleeve. Why can't he just leave the Organization be?"

"Because your evil!" Alphonse answered Xigbar's self question. "Your not going to suceed. We'll stop you!"

"Oh really, I'm waiting." Xigbar held out his arms waiting for someone to attack. The screen returned to its orignal state. The stare at the computer screen.

"Do you think he'll really destroy Twilight Town?" Kairii asked a little scared.

"It seems like he's giving us an ultimanum." Lan Fan replied crossing her arms. "We'll have to leave this is to Sora, Edward, and Rikku. Their the only ones on the inside."

Then I'm going in to. Kairi headed towards the beam, but as she reached out to tocuh it something slamed into her face. At full force Kairi fell onto her back and grabed her noes. "Ouch!" she looked to her chest and saw the gullwing recovering from her not so friendly landing. "Rikku... what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be helping Sora and Edward shut down the fake Twilight Town?"

Rikku aruptly flew back up to Kairi's height. "You see the thing is... we don't know where Sora is. He disapeared when we split up to check the town, but when we returned his Nobody Roxas was there. So we fought for a a bit and went to go rescue Sora, but that's where time stoped. Me and Edward were frozen while a hologram of DiZ explained Roxas's origins and how Sora entered Castle Oblivion and lowered the Organization's numbers. But that's not the point there is a way to the shut down the fake Twilight Town." she squealed with delight.

Kairi was still fixiated on Sora's disapearance. She exploded on the tiny fairy. "What do you mean Sora disappeared? Didn't you guyus even bother looking for him? What if the Organization caputed him or worst, killed him?!"

"Sora can take care of himself." Rikku tried to sooth the princess.

"Rikku's right, if there's a chance we can shut down the fake Twilight Town, then I'm willing to help." Lan Fan broke her lean against the wall. "What do you need us to do."

"Well first DiZ needs us to find a door inside the mansion. One that is sealed off. The door can only be opened with a Keyblade, that is why we need Kairi here. And then unlocking the door in the real world should also unlock it from the fake town. In there Roxas and Edward can release Ansem's Seventh Apprentice from her slumber. She should know what to do, I think he said her name was Lucrecia."

"Roxas." Kairi whispered unknowingly to herself. She covered her mouth. "Was that... Namine?"

Rikku clunked the island girl on the head. "Hey get out of the daze and go find that door. It should have pipes in front of it!!"

Lan Fan had already left with Kairi and Alphonse right behind them. Rikku said her goodbyes and then flew back into the white beam. Outside the lab the door they were searching for was right around the corner. "Well that was easy enough." Kairi laughed. "Al do you think you can move those?"

"Of course." fullmetal's brother went to grab a pipe. Soon he was able to move everything blocking the door from the girls path. He kicked open the half missing door and entered the darkness. The bodyguard and keybearer followed close behind. They soon came to a huge door. Al attempted to push it open, but it was locked tight. Once he replinquished a hold on the door the hallway began to light up. Candles floated in the air above the trio. A huge lock hang on the door. It was glowing several different colors. "It enchanted."

Kairi's Keyblade suddenly appeared in her hand. It glower a white coat relentlessly. "I hope this works!!" Kairi pointed her Oathkeeper towards the lock and take a deep breath. A pure beam of light shot out of the keyblade into the lock. The door's several cracks lit up and the door began to shine. The pale light unlocked the door and it evaporated into the air. But as the door disapear Kairi would gasp only to see a brick wall. She ran up and bang her fist against the wall. "Wha... what's going on? I opened the door."

Lan Fan pull her arm. "We have to go. Its up to the others now. Rikku said they be the ones to find Ansem's Seventh Apprentice. So we just have to trust them."

Inside the fake Twilight Town, Roxas, Edward, and Rikku entered the chamber that Kairi had just opened. The room was a pure black. Nothing could be seen, except thorns crawling up the walls and a large pod in the shape of crystal. The crystal pod was covered in veins, but was well transparent. The keyblade appeared and pulled Roxas nonstop towards Lucrecia's pod. "What's up with this thing!?" the keyblade stoped it pull as Roxas came to a close on the pod. He griped it with both hands and pointed it at the pod. The beam of light hit the pod and the crystal shone. All the dark veins demolished at the immense light and the room transformed into a pure white chamber. The pod opened and Lucrecia began to fall. Edward quickly caugth her. "Is she okay?" Roxas ran over.

Lucrecia's eyes began to flutter. She looked to Edward and then smile as her gaze pass over to Roxas. "Roxas... if your here than that means Sora didn't become whole. All of Master Ansem's hard work to save Kingdom Hearts was lost."

Edward cradled the still delirious apprentice. "Its alright Sora defeated Xemnas and saved Kingdom Hearts. Were here to release you from your slumber." he looked woried when Lucrecia didn't respond. Roxas told him that Lucrecia had been in the pod for two years, and since it was the first could it have some wierd side effect on her? "Just relax Lucrecia were safe in here."

She smiled weakly. "That's good to know. Kingdom Hearts is free, so I can finally return to the Radiant Garden."

Rikku looked to Edward unceartain. The woman was getting her hopes high and they still hadn't finished explaining everything yet. A few minutes passed before Lucrecia was able to take her first steps. Her feet hadn't touched the ground for two years. She looked the party and smile. "Good as new."

"Lucrecia." Edward touched her shoulder. "There's something you should know. Xemnas somehow survived after Sora and Riku beat him. He's been rebuilding Kingdom Hearts and has rebirthed almost half of the Organization with the help of the Homunculi. We've been sealing the keyholes, but were stuck in Twilight Town. We need to shut down the fake town because its on the verge crashing and destroying the real one. Ansem the Wise said you knew how to shut down the fake town."

Lucrecia let the information sink in. Sighing the woman began up the stairs the three following her. "So Xehanort's shadow still looms on the innocent. If only Master Ansem never took him in." Lucrecia balled her fists. "I'm getting to old for this."

The three stared at Lucrecia confused. The woman had the look of a goddes and appeared in her early twenties. "Just how long have you been Ansem's apprentice?" Edward asked suspiciously. "And what do you mean your to old for this?"

"Its a long story." was her only reply. They arrived in the lab. Lucrecia covered her mouth upon seeing the computer of Ansem's in ruins. She ran to the keyboard and attempted to repower the technology, but it was to no use. "Who did this? We can't shut down the fake Twilight Town without at least creating a loop hole from the inside."

"What do you mean loop hole?" Roxas asked looking over her shoulder to the computer he demolished.

"The fake Twilight Town consists of data. The way Ansem was able to create such a town without the cost of spending years developing his own was copying the real one. He went all around the real town placing coders on walls. The coders maped Twilight Town and transfered the data to Ansem's computers where they generated the fake town." she explained curtly. "But there was a down fall to the coders. In order to map the real thing, they needed to have the fake town be as stable as the real town. So when a building goes down in the real Twilight Town it goes down in the fake one. Or say that one goes down in the fake Twilight Town, the same rule applies."

The party got tense. If they messed up in the fake town, it meant that their friends were in danger.

"There has to be another way." Edward insisted. "What about the beam that brought us here?"

She shook her head in dismay. But then something hit her. "The Keyblade." she grab Roxas's hand. "Sora you can open the door. The Keyblade can do anything if you put your mind to it. Even bend the properties of space and time."

"But we don't know where Sora is." Roxas objected. "I don't know the Keyblade as well as he does."

"Roxas you and Sora are the same. You are half of his person, the darker half." Lucrecia explained. "I believe that Ansem wanted to speak to you Roxas so that he could explain everything. He must have thought of a way to separate you two from each other or at least switch positions. Call upon your lighter half."

Roxas summoned the Keyblade. The Key of Destiny seemed uncertain, but closed his eyes. When he opened them Roxas was no longer in the lab, but at the Station of Awakening. In front of him he saw Sora who looked just as confused. "Sora!"

The brunette turned to Roxas. Sora saw the Keyblade in Roxas's hands and stuck out his own determined to get it back. THe keyblade heard its master's call and rematerialized in Sora's hand. "Roxas what is going on?"

"I guess its time for you to get your body back Sora." he answered almost unsure. The Nobody stare at his somebody and coulnd't help, but feel different. There paths were so diverged from each other. Roxas had chose the path of the Organization and it ended with Sora. As the Keyblade Master had freed countless worlds and saved Kingdom Hearts on two separate occasions. "Were the same person Sora. I had to be brought out for some reason."

"I did it." the voice of a young girl sounded. She removed her hood so that the two could see her face. She had long raven hair and her face portrayed that of a foureen year old Kairi. It was Xion. "I did it so that I could protect both of you, Sora, Roxas."

"Xion?" Roxas piped up almost overfilled with joy. "Your alright."

"Who?" Sora looked to the girl confused. "Is she with the Organization?"

"Was." Xion corected him. "Sora you won't remember me from Roxas's memories until you two becmoe whole again. But I was the one to separate you from your Nobody, if you want to save Twilight Town you need to work together to stop Xigbar. For you see the Cornerstone of Light has almost doubled the strength of Organization XIII. The Homunculi don't yet realize the power of Xemnas and his Nobody's now hold. Unfournatly for Zexion he was to weak to harness this power. Xemnas was first to awaken his true power and Xigbar has just discovered it as well. If you ever wish to stop the Organization you must stop them before they gain control of Kingdom Hearts. Because if that happens... I'm afraid they'll be unstopable."

"But how do we stop them?" Sora asked. "There has to be a quicker path to each world."

"When each keyhole is sealed you will recieve a crystal that will lead you to the path of your next destined world." Xion answered. "But I cannot tell you how to stop the Organization. I will say this, the Kingdom Hearts that the Organization holds is more like a prison than a haven for hearts. I know what the real Kingdom Hearts looks like, I've been their. Its my home and the next life... protect it. I believe in you... both of you." Xion began to fade into the light along with the Station of Awakening.

Wutai-Palace

Yuffie was slamed down into the roof of the palace brutally. She went through the thick oakwood and hit the ground even harder. Body numbed and pride wounded. Yuffie grabed her shuriken and rose to her feet. Her forehead was now drawing blood. Yuffie turned her gaze to Lust who was smiling deviously down on her. She extended her claws and laughed. "You just don't quit do you? I will never understand humans." Lust jumped off the roof and formed into a twister. Her claws shreded through wood. Yuffie jumped up catching the Homunculus off guard. Her shuriken sucessfully broke the momentum on the skin leaving Lust wide open. her free hand Yuffie grappled the kunai from her pouch and slit Lust's throat. Blood sprayed off the Homunculus's throat and she fell to the ground. The Homunculus convulsed a little as her throat restructured itself. Lust rose to her feet and looked for the ninja, but the kunoichi was no where in sight. "She killed me. How could I leave myself so open, so vulnerable?"

A kunai planted itselt into the ground in front of Lust. A paper inscription upon the knive exploded into smoke. Lust hightened her senses, but nothing came. As soon as the smoke cleared Yuffie was in front of her as fast as a roadrunner, using her limit break, Greased Lighting.

Lust gasped in pain as her chest cut open. Yuffie droped even more paper bombs and repeated the Greased Lighting escalated into the seconf form limit break, Clear Tranquil. Lust took longer to regenerate and Yuffie took notice. She was now out of paper bombs and had to use close combat if she wished to kill her any futher. "So there is a limit to how many times she can die. It is posible to kill a Homunculus. Everytime I kill her it taes longer for her wounds to regenerate. But if I can find that Philosopher rock thing that Ed and Al were talking about then I can kill her. Because its that damn rock that keeps her alive." Yuffie took a spindle of string out of her pouch and tied to her kunai. She didn't have much time to set a trap, but would have to do her best with the five kunai's she had left. Yuffie knew what she was going to do, decapatate the Homunculus.

Lust saw the first thread carrying kunai fly past. She jumped over the knive and landed gracefully in Yuffie's once poisition. "This is pointless!"

Yuffie saw hid behind one of the pillars. She saw her opening. Lust was cutting down any hidinig place she thought the ninja would be. Yuffie securly tied the thread around her fingers. This would give the kunoichi full control over the kunai's. The time had come. Yuffie launched all four around Lust's skull. The Homunculus heard the hard grunt and prepared to swipe the kunai's off course. The white rose manipulated the kunai's around the claws and into the wall tight. Then the princess pulled back to secure a firm grip around Lust's neck. She pulled tighter drawing blood from the neck.

Lust launched a counter attack. She attempted to cut the thread, but it failed.

Yuffie smirked the wire was a crystal found in Hollow Bastion. The princess had Cid make the indestructible rock into a weapon of her own. But as Yuffie prepared to finish Lust once and for all the threads snaped from her kunai's by a lance. "What!?!"

Xaldin watched as Lust fell to the ground and regain compusture. "I thought Xemnas could trust a Homunculus to take care of such a simple task. It can't be that hard to kill the girl."

Lust didn't reply to the Nobody's bitter coment. She looked to Xaldin's bleeding and smile wickedly herself. "I hope that Winry didn't give you any trouble."

"Of course not." Xaldin scoffed. He looked behind them at the red animal stalking his prey. "He did, Red XIII."

"Red XIII." Yuffie whispered. She looked behind Xaldin and saw her ally approaching her cautiously. "Its really you. I thought you were dead!" she griped the animal suddenly. Pulling him into a hug. "Its really you."

Red XIII growl. "Is now really the right time to be doing this?"

Xaldin didn't stop Red XIII from regrouping with Yuffie. "Now then, the odds are even now. Two on two."

In the King's Chamber Winry sat on Godo's bed scared. She didn't know what was going on with Yuffie.

Godo looked back to the young blond and suddenly smile. "This is where she proves herself to me."

"What?" WInry asked suddenly. "Proves what to you."

"If she is truly worthy of the title Queen. She is my Blood Heir and as so, must protect Wutai from any threat no matter how powerful. I surendered my land, but I know she wouldn't do the same. If she drives off those mongrels than I will truly see her as heir to my throne."

That long chapter caught you off guard huh? Well I was going to stop, but I didn't want to postpone the fight again. Also have any you checked out the Kingdom HEarts: Birth by Sleep vids on youtube? Its crazy what happens to Terra, Aqua, and Ven. Personally I was shocked mainly what happened to Terra, the rumors swiming around were true. And Aqua... I'm not going to spoil anything... at least not yet. Anyway the next chapter, final battle for Wutai, and Sora, Edward, and Roxas face off against Xigbar who has unleashed the new power of the Nobodies. Anyway please review everyone counts.