Leira stared up at the keyblade with blank eyes. She recalled such a weapon described in the stories told by Sora and Riku. If only they could be here now to save me.

"Actually, it is kind of an artificial Keyblade, created by Ansem, that is, Xehanort's Heartless. It is used to unlock people's hearts. I had it used on me, once, surprisingly. It is excrutiating painful, but works wonders. It turned me into an all-powerful dragon. Oh, don't worry though, I do not expect that it will change your appearance." She smirked upon Leira.

"It is ingenious," Vexen spoke up, standing behind the kneeling girl.

"Why, thank you," Maleficent responded. "It was just fortunate that I recalled having it in my possession. I found it in the castle in Hollow Bastion after my resurrection. Ansem had left it behind, luckily for us." She looked back down at Leira. "Do you have any last words?"

"Any words that I have to say are not for you," she responded through clenched teeth and burning tears.

"Aw, are they for Riku, for your love?" Maleficent taunted. "Well, let me just say this, you would not even exist if it were not for me, so you should be grateful," she hissed, leaning down to eye-level with Leira.

"I would never be grateful to an evil witch like you. You may have created me, but my heart will always belong to Riku. There is nothing you can do that will change that," Leira hissed back.

"Well, we will just see about that," Maleficent said.

She raised the Keyblade. Leira closed her eyes, not wanting to see what would occur. Maleficent brought the Keyblade down in a swooping motion, and in an instant Leira had been stabbed in the heart. As she felt it enter her she gave a piercing cry, which echoed loudly around the room. Her eyes, involuntarily, shot open very wide. Pain shot through her very being. She moaned and whimpered continously.

She wished, prayed for it to end. She wanted to die, not to become a monster as Maleficent said. In her final moments her navy eyes met with Demyx, who looked uncomfortable and turned away. He had not wanted to see her hurt like this, not really.

'What if it kills her? It doesn't look like she is handling it well. The darkness might make her body collapse. Oh, she looks so hurt. What made her deserve this? Maleficent is so cruel...' Similar thoughts ran through his mind, but he would not dare to speak up. Still, he wanted Leira's pain to end.

Maleficent was smirking, holding the keyblade inside of Leira, finding pleasure in the girl's pain. Her small body was only kept up by the impaled keyblade in her heart. Her whimpering did not subside. Her mind was spinning and racing, eyes shooting from one Organization member to another, several of them with smirking; but none as much as Zexion. The amusement on his face was so vulgar.

"Now to release your darkness..." Maleficent muttered. She turned the key, as if unlocking a door, in Leira's heart and finally pulled it back. It felt to Leira as though all of her nerves were on fire, exploding through her soul.

"No!" Leira screamed as she felt the sharp blade being pulled out, full of fright. And then...everything went black for her. Only about two seconds had passed during which the blade had been pulled by Maleficent that Leira was able to hold herself up, but then she gave a little gasp and fell forwards, arms still bound behind her back.

The Organization members all surrounded her even more closely. Maleficent raised her staff so that Leira's arms were unbound.

"Is she...alive?" Marluxia questioned. Vexen got on his knees beside the girl and turned her over, her eyes were clenched tight, but she was breathing gently. He placed her fingers against her wrist to check for her pulse.

"Yes, her pulse is steady...she is just unconcious, it was too much for her to handle all at once."

"But she will wake up?" Demyx asked, hiding any worry from his tone.

"She will. Soon, I believe," Vexen responded.

"She will have no memories, but will believe anything we tell her." Maleficent spoke up. "The false life that we created for her will stand. And Demyx, you will still be her so-called 'boyfriend'. I expect you to watch over her. However, this time she will understand that we all work with the darkness, and she will be taught to fight. She will not ask any questions," she explained.

"I will teach her to fight," Saix offered, smirking.

"That sounds good. Her training will not last long. If I am correct in my beliefs, she will pick up on fighting extremely quick. I was not exaggerating when I said she will be a lethal monster. Anyone who gets in her way will be annihilated. Now, Demyx, take her back to her room and lay her upon her bed. Then, leave her there alone."

Demyx nodded and went to pick her up, but Maleficent put a hand up to stop him. "Oh, just one more thing." Maleficent pointed her staff at Leira, whose clothes suddenly began to change. Her navy dress became black with zippers on the front, sort of in the style of the Organization cloaks but as a short dress. On the front of the dress appeared the red and black Heartless symbol above an upside-down, red, Nobody symbol.

"Nice touch," Demyx commented, before reaching down and scooping the slumbering girl into his arms.

The entire party of Organization members and Maleficent then walked from the room. Demyx headed towards Leira's bedroom, while the others headed in many different directions. Something strange would be starting now, all of them realized, but none of them quite realized what exactly would be occuring.

In the excitement of the situation, none of the Nobodies or Maleficent saw the portal that was opened up in the shadows of the room, or the cloaked figure that hurried through before it disappeared.

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A/N: Ahh, I apologize but I probably won't be able to update tomorrow. My teachers have all decided to give me a truckload of homework this week and into the long weekend. I should have finished my Spanish paper last night but I was too busy watching Advent Children, which I loved by the way. Of course, having not played FFVII I was somewhat confused but I did read all about the storyline online so that helped. The graphics were beyond amazing and the music was love. (I am in love with the Aerith theme and Sephiroth theme...they probably have other names but that's what I call them.) You know, Square Enix should make a movie like that for Kingdom Hearts.