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The moment Ansem's Keyblade entered Sora's chest, darkness began to leak out of it. Sora released it and let his arms drop to his side. The Keyblade itself floats out of Sora and into the air where it evaporates into darkness. Sora begins to fall back, but I grab him just in time. He feels light.

Six shining lights floated out from the Keyblade and floated down the hallway, each going toward a different Princess of Heart. "Hearts." I whispered aloud.

Finally, a brilliant light erupts from Sora's chest. Out of it comes a seventh heart. Kairi's. it wafts toward her and sinks into her chest. Kairi's eyes blink open immediately.

She sits up just as Sora becomes even lighter. He begins to shine with a golden light as his heart drifts out of his chest and up to the ceiling. Strangely, a third, almost invisible heart comes out as well. No one seems to notice it, but I swear I saw something.

Suddenly, Kairi shouts. "Sora!" She runs toward Sora, but it's too late. As soon as she reaches him, his body evaporates into golden sparkles that drift out of sight.

"Sora! Sora, come back!" Donald shouts in vain.

"Sora… are you really…," Kairi cries. "No, I won't let him go!" A tear slides down my cheek. Sora… he's really gone this time… Riku too. Now all I have left is Kairi. Nothing will ever be the same again.

Suddenly, Ansem's voice comes out of nowhere. "So, you have awakened at last, Princess!" Not him again! A corridor of darkness opens, and he steps out.

"Your job is now finished. The keyhole is complete." He takes a step toward us, but he suddenly is frozen in his tracks. "What? Impossible!"

A second later, Riku appears before Ansem, holding him back. "No! I won't let you use me for this!" Riku turns to us. "Run, the heartless are coming!"

As if on cue, multiple shadow heartless appear around us. "Now!" Riku shouts.

I summon Rising Sun as a Shadow leaps toward us. I cut it in half, leaving only black dust. "Go on! I'll hold them back!" I shout.

Kairi tries to object. "But-"

"Riku can't hold Ansem back forever, and he'll just come after us! I'll catch up later!" Kairi nods and follows everyone else out of the room. I turn to face Ansem. If I can't save Sora, the least I can do is save Riku!

I quickly dispatch the Shadows with a Thundaga leaving only me and Ansem. With a sad look, the glowing form of Riku disappears from in front of Ansem.

"I am finally rid of the boy's heart." Ansem sighs thankfully. What does he mean 'rid of'? "Now it is your turn, Kaze. Or have you not noticed yet?"

"Noticed what?" What did this guy do to me?

"Take a look at yourself. You're already fading away!" Against my better judgement, I take a look at my arm. It's starting to look transparent!

"What did you do to me!" I demand.

"All I did was give you a one way ticket to the Realm of Darkness. I thought I already told you that?"

So when he said, 'have fun in the Realm of Darkness,' he literally meant it. Abruptly, a blast of pain returns to my chest. I put my free hand to it instinctively.

"Don't you see? It's working already? Before long, you'll be out of my hair for good. But for now, I think your friends need your help." Ansem points to the door and I see a crowd of heartless running after them. One seems to stay farther behind, though. It seems strangely familiar...

I shake my head, no time to think about that now! I jump off of the platform and chase after them.

***Kingdom Hearts***

I eventually catch up to the straggler. As I prepare to destroy it, it looks up at me. It almost looks, sad.

I lower Rising Sun and look at the Shadow more closely. It doesn't attack or anything, it just stands there.

"Kaze?" What was that? It sounded really distant, but a lot like… Sora? I try to look around for him, but I find nothing. Maybe I just imagined it.

"Kaze!" There it is again! The heartless stares at me and I finally understand. "Sora!" Suddenly, Sora turns and jumps off of a balcony to a lower floor. I don't dare follow, but I take a normal way down.

***Kingdom Hearts***

Eventually, i reach the bottom floor. The group is there. Donald, however, is there, banging the Shadow on the head with his staff.

"Confounded heartless! Stop following us!"

"I'll get rid of it!" Matt says.

"No!" Kairi and I shout. Wait, how does she know?

"Don't you see? It's Sora!" Kairi says. Everyone but I seem confused, but before they can question anything, the horde of heartless I saw before emerges from the ground.

Kairi and I stand protectively in front Sora. "Don't worry Sora," she says, "This time, I'll protect you!"

Suddenly, every heartless in the room leaps toward the three of us. Kairi and I grab Sora's heartless to protect him.

Abruptly, the weight of all of the heartless covers me. I am smothered by darkness. I can't move or breathe. I can't summon Rising Sun because it might destroy what's left of Sora.

Just when it feels hopeless, a bright light shines in the center of the pile. In a flash, every heartless is flung back and destroyed. Somehow, I wasn't affected. But where's Kairi?

I turn around and see Kairi. But even better, Sora is with her! He's alive!

"Kairi, thank you." Sora whispers.

Kairi looks up into Sora's face in surprise. "Sora!"

I want to go to Sora too, but we'll have to deal with this later. Shadows come up from the floor and we all prepare to fight. Abruptly, I hear a loud roar.

Beast leaps from the top of the fountain, taking a swipe at a heartless. "Go! Now!" He roars.

"Come with us!" Sora says.

"I told you before, I'm not leaving without Belle!" A heartless strays too near and Beast destroys it. "Go!"

"Come on Sora, we can't make him come." I say. Sora nods and we all run outside to our gummi ships.