Chapter 38

Revival

It was quiet now blanketed by the Dark and somehow calming, Xemnas slowly managed to wake himself in this place and looked around to see Fake standing in front of him.

"Fake?"

"I'm sorry but I feel this is something I need to do, for so long I wanted a meaning... maybe this is it."

Xemnas scrambled to his feet to try and stop the replica, "What are you going to do?"

Fake turned to give Xemnas a warm smile, "I'm going to take Terra's place inside Dispair, my heart is telling me to do this... even if it as well as I are fake. Please this is something I have to do." he responded then walked away.

"But I'll be incomplete if you leave, fake!" Xemnas stammered as Fake disappeared.

Back outside Dark had noticed the replica and arched an eyebrow, "I hope your ready to come back."

Fake ignored him, "Draw your weapon Dark, I didn't come back to entertain you." he challenged but never drew his own.

Dark in anger pulled out Dispair while letting go of the stream of darkness, amazingly the area surrounding Xemnas hadn't dissipated, "You dare deify me you useless copy!"

"Obviously he doesn't need you anymore."

Dark wiped around towards the new voice to see Marluxia standing there, "What, how are you alive!?"

Marluxia shrugged and smirked, "You should know that I never completed my goal of killing my boss, which means I never got my heart back."

"Then why if you resent them so much are you back at all!?"

Marluxia materalized his scythe and held it behind him, "Because while I was drifting in interspace I remembered all the things I have done... in the end I was not proud of myself. So I figured if the only place that I can belong is with this team then so be it, besides we made a promise to see this journey till the end, I learned that promises should not be broken." he answered then vanished only to appear behind Dark, "Time to meet your end." he whispered into Dark's ear.

Dark straightened as a nobody symbol appeared in front of him.

Fake had his chance and reached for Dispair gripping it with both hands to trade his life for Terra's freeing the knight from his cell after long last.

Dark saw Terra start to get up once fake had vanished, but the real cause for concern was doing some kind of wheel motion in the ground and heading straight toward him, however behind him Terra was now on his feet, keyblade in hand, and ready to swing.

Needless to say there was no way out of this one, so like many times before he ran back to The Void causing Marluxia and Terra to crash into each other.

For a moment the team could relax and ready themselves for the next phase, while Terra helped Marluxia to his feet, watching the Dark pool slowly fade.

Terra watched the others regroup and slowly approached them with one question plaguing him... who had released him? And more importantly, why? "Do any of you know who took my place in Dispair?"

They all traded glances while Xemnas slowly recovered, noticing Marluxia behind the knight. In an instant he felt like flames were running through his blood, "Marluxia!" he yelled like a battle cry.

Marluxia looked around, but only caught a glimpse of Xemnas two seconds before he was hit.

"Xemnas!" Sora shouted silently wishing that Narcore was here, "He saved us damn it!"

Xemnas however was on top of Marluxia like vengeful lion, It didn't help that Saix was merely watching, and seemed to be enjoying himself seeing the traitor finally get what had been coming to him since castle oblivion.

Riku was more concerned as why Xemnas and Terra were both conscious at the same time, "Hey Sora why is Xemnas awake and didn't we already get Xemnas' memories back?"

It suddenly dawned on Sora at that moment too, "Your right, who is this guy?"

Axel walked up just as stunned as they were, "Maybe that is the original Terra, you know the part that died... or well his spirit or something?"

Terra looked back at the three who were now pointing at Xemnas as if insisting he do something, confused he bent down and yanked Xemnas off the cowering Marluxia, he then glanced back to find that he must have done right. Unfortunately Xemnas was still enraged and swung around to throw Terra off his feet and onto the ground.

Terra recovered and held up his keyblade using it like a gun to shoot a massive white sphere, he really only meant to hinder Xemnas a little but Xemnas took that as a sign of battle. Terra lowered his weapon but the sphere came right back giving him a second to dodge, Xemnas had encased himself in his own sphere for protection.

Now Terra knew that Xemnas wasn't going to back off anytime soon and made a break for a larger piece of land. Xemnas noticed this and gave chase.

Riku went to run after the two but Sora stood in his way, "Sora move, they're going to kill each other!"

Sora wouldn't listen and kept Riku back at all cost, "No Riku, I've fought Terra once before and we've already got a rough estimate on Xemnas, if you get in between them you'll just die."

So all they could do was watch, which out of all of them Saix was the one most bothered by the whole thing.

The battle however had turned toward the mountains not far away, and it seemed to be getting worse by the second.

Terra had landed in a pit after having some of his own aerial guns countered by Xemnas' own dome of orange bullets, he fended them off but the last one caught him by surprise. Now he glanced up glaring skyward seeing Xemnas standing on top of the cliff, he quickly got to his feet and started up the side while Xemnas jumped down.

Terra waited till the point when Xemnas was about to attack him and rammed Xemnas in the gut stunning him long enough for Terra to get behind and deliver a heavy blow. Xemnas was knocked down tumbling head over heels but managed to right himself just in time to see Terra get in front of him, Xemnas swung in desperation to defend himself but was hit with a fury of blows which ended with him flat against the rock face.

Terra landed first followed by Xemnas who instead fell, the knight wasn't sure if the fight was over but he still didn't want to fight, so he retreated back to where the others were.

Back out in the open Sora, Riku, and Saix and the rest were all waiting to see who would emerge, but not all were happy to see that Terra had emerged victorious. In fact Saix was devastated to think that not Only had his boss lost the fight but could also be critically hurt or worse.

In an instant Saix summoned his claymore and went berserk before Terra had time to say that the other guy was still alive, Terra got out his keyblade turning it into a whip.

The rest could only stand there as Saix was held midair and was sliced repeatedly before being dropped once he was out.

The stunned looks on the others was more then words could express at the moment, Kairi however had retreated behind Axel not wanting to see any more.

But more was to come because it seemed Xemnas was aware of Saix being attacked, because the mountain behind Terra crumbled in just seconds.

Terra backed up holding his keyblade in defense, "It... it's not possible!"

Axel and Marluxia both went nearly pale white.

"Ok this is very bad. Everybody hit the deck!" Axel yelled sounding a bit more then freaked out as he picked up Kairi and rushed toward where Xemnas had parked his ship figuring if Xemnas built the thing then it would be able to withstand anything.

Marluxia followed suite dragging Sora and Riku and leaving Terra in the dust who just watched them leave not feeling so confident knowing that this person was still going even after a hit like that.

So he lifted his keyblade and jammed it in the ground, "Command seal" he yelled making several pillars rise up around him, as luck would have it Xemnas ran right into the area and was held down by some unknown force.

The fight was finally over even though Xemnas was fighting to get free with every ounce of determination he had. But now the two finally got a good look at each other.

"And here I thought you were older then this." Terra said smiling, "Who are you anyway?"

Xemnas was not even close to a talking mood, "Release me now child, you must pay for what you did to Saix... nobody but me is allowed to hurt him! And if you even look at him wrong..."

Terra walked up knowing he was secure, "You'll do what?"

"Why are even asking Terra you are me, don't you have a black heart too? Mr. Using-the-keyblade-for-destruction, the only thing we cared about was killing someone."

"What are you talking about?"

"You are talking to the beast that you become."

Terra edged back reality hitting him like a ton of bricks, "You... you're the part that got left behind!"

"Good." Xemnas answered praising him like a pet, "Now release me!"

Terra nodded releasing the bonds and getting back up.

Xemnas tried moving to find out he was free, "A little better then before, but that still doesn't change the fact that i have you to thank for becoming incomplete again."

"Here I thought I was angry, what in the world is bothering you?"

Xemnas turned with a look colder then ice hanging in his eyes, "Are you that curious, that you would ask the unthinkable?"