Kingdom Hearts 2: Vanessa's adventure

Chapter 51: Meeting Xara... more fighting!

I faced my friends with a smile and Donald and Goofy started to jump up and down with joy.

Then I heard Riku walk away from us and me and Sora walked up to him. "Riku we can come back home now." I mumbled sweetly and he turned to us.

"I had given in to the darkness. How am I gonna face everyone?" He asked.

"Like this!" Me and Sora pulled our silly faces. We all laughed at this and I stopped.

"Jokes aside, I have to confess something to you Riku." He looked up at me and I tried to smile. "I've…given into the darkness too." His translucent eyes widened.

"You what?" He asked loudly and I shut my eyes as the tears fell down.

"I'm sorry, but I had to do it. It was tempting me throughout and I had to release it, and…" He pulled me into a hug.

"As long as you don't end up like me." He mumbled and we pulled away from each other and we held hands. Then there was a shake.

"What's going on?" I asked and King Mickey ran up to us.

"Hurry." Riku raised his hand and muttered.

"I'll open a path." But a path didn't appear.

"You don't belong to the dark realm anymore Riku." The King said. I looked at my hand and looked up again. I raised my hand and closed my eyes whilst focusing on the power within me, I transported that power into my hand and a portal opened. I opened my eyes and turned to my friends who stared at me with large eyes. I just grinned and gave them the thumbs up.

"Vanessa." I heard a sweet voice which was like honey and silk. I turned around and wanted to scream with joy. "Namine!" I giggled with tears in my eyes. Donald, Goofy, Donald and the King ran into the portal.

She was real, Namine was there right there! I ran to her and hugged her. "Namine, you're really here." We pulled away and she looked confused.

"You still remember me?" She asked confused and I nodded vigorously.

"I don't know why, but I still remember you. But I'm so glad you're here!" I said and the blonde haired girl smiled at me.

"I'm not being rude or anything, but what are you doing here?" I asked curiously and she giggled.

"There's someone that really wants to meet you, but she's too shy." I raised an eyebrow at this; who wanted to meet me?

Normal POV:

Namine stood a few steps away from Vanessa to the right. "Come on, you don't have to be shy…" She mumbled and someone appeared. It was a girl for sure, who wore a black coat and her hood hid her face. Her body language suggested that she was a timid and quiet person. She walked slowly up to Vanessa.

She took her hood off, to reveal bright purple curly long hair, sapphire blue eyes and pale skin. "Xara…" Vanessa mumbled and she smiled.

"I finally met you Vanessa." She spoke with her soft and fragile voice. "You're so very beautiful, more beautiful than the memories I dreamed about." Vanessa took Xara hands and shook her head.

"You are more beautiful than me, much more." The purple haired nobody averted her eyes to the ground with pink cheeks.

"Thank you Vanessa. Thank you for everything…" The said girl's eyebrow rose.

"Thank you?"

"Because of you, I had a chance to live, I had a chance to feel emotions, and I had a chance to fall in love. Thank you, thank you so very much."

"You shouldn't thank me." Tears were brimming in her eyes and Vanessa fell to her knees. She clasped her hands together and looked at the ground.

"I am sorry Xara; please forgive me for causing you so much suffering. It was because of me, that you had to separate from someone you love. Please forgive me Xara!" The blue eyed nobody shook her head, took Vanessa's hands and pulled her up.

"You shouldn't be begging for forgiveness. I apologise on behalf of Axel and Demy for hurting you and making your heart ache." Xara frowned and Vanessa couldn't help but smile.

"Xara, you're such a nice girl. We may share the same temper but you're different. You're sweet, kind, gentle, friendly and so beautiful. If anything, you should have existed instead of me, because you deserve to exist." They all gasped at this and the tears fell down Vanessa's cheeks.

"Vanessa, please don't say that. It was my destiny to be a nobody and your destiny to be a somebody and we must accept our destiny. So please don't cry, always smile." Vanessa smiled brightly and looked at Sora and Riku.

"Forgive me for saying for this but," she looked back at Xara and cried, "If you truly existed as a person, you would have been my best friend." Vanessa hugged Xara and sobbed on her shoulder. Kairi, Sora, Namine and Riku couldn't help but smile at this. The purple haired beauty was taken aback at this but hugged back. "Yes, you would have been my best friend too."

They pulled away and Xara smiled. "We'll always be together Vanessa, don't worry. I'll be inside your heart!" She giggled brightly.

"I'm sorry about Axel. Will you ever meet him again?" Xara frowned at this and looked at the ground.

"Vanessa, I'm afraid that she won't be able to be with Axel. Xara won't be able to turn into her original self because she is you." She felt a wave of guilt go through her and felt her heart ache.

"Will Axel remember her?"

"No, if he turns into his original persona he won't remember anything that happened as his life as a nobody." Vanessa looked at Xara and the tears started to fall again.

"I'm so sorry-"

"No, I had three goals in life one I have and the others I can have now. I wanted to find out my true identity and look." Xara held Vanessa's hand. "I wanted to be complete with my persona and I can." The blue eyed nobody giggled. "And…I wanted to feel the emotion of love."

"Xara can remember the emotion of love and care whenever you and Riku are together and are in love." Riku walked up to Vanessa's side.

"I'll always be with Vanessa every day and we will always be in love, isn't that right Ness?" Vanessa giggled at this and nodded.

"Yes sir!" Xara smiled at this and the others laughed.

"Vanessa," she looked at her nobody. "I must return to your heart now." Vanessa nodded and Xara took her hand. "Through light and darkness we are both connect and one." They said in unison and both glowed as Xara disappeared.

"I need to go now as well." Namine mumbled and walked up to the blonde haired teen.

"Namine, thank you. I will always remember you because my memories will never leave my mind no matter what. You will always be my friend." A tear fell down Vanessa's cheek and Namine nodded.

"Goodbye Vanessa, if you ever need anything always open a portal and see me." She nodded and Namine walked into another portal.

Vanessa felt an arm wrap around her waist and she looked up at Riku. "I love you Vanessa."

"I love you too Riku."

Vanessa's POV:

"Come on, let's go home." Kairi entered the portal but when she looked back at us the portal closed. "Sora! Riku! Vanessa!" She shouted before the portal could close. I noticed something from the corner of my eye and turned around to something green floating which was very distant from us.

"Look!" We all ran to the edge of Altar of Naught. The green floating thing started to sparkle, then illuminated bright and exploded. There was this flying creature heading our way and it was massive from far. I gasped and wrapped an arm around Riku's.

The wing of the creature hit the Altar of Naught and it shook. Then I realised that the building cracked. I held onto the edge and Riku skidded down. "RIKU!" I was about to let go and I saw Sora fall as well. But Riku was on this flying board thing and Sora was on it too. I let go and skidded down, then gripped onto the building. It was like the avalanche thing all over again!

I tried to pull myself up but it was no use. My arms were dead from all the fighting. I didn't know if I could hold on anymore longer…

But it was too late. My hands slipped off the mountain's edge. It felt like slow motion as I saw Sora reaching his hand out towards me. I saw Donald and Goofy holding Sora back from jumping to catch me. I just smiled for maybe the last time as a final tear fell down my cheek…

I let go and fell. Then something clicked, my shooting star appeared in my hand and I threw in the air. My starry drift saved me yet again and I joined Riku and Sora. We flew towards the creature and me and Sora fought him. Riku controlled the machine Sora and he was on. It was a bumpy ride but it worked.

Just as the creature was about to gain a bit more power, I jumped from my starry drift. "VANESSA!" My friends shouted and with my shooting star, stabbed it into the creature's head. I jumped off as it fell and my glider picked me up. I glided back to my friends but saw their faces. I looked down and I gasped. That thing turned into clouds and the clouds surrounded us.


We appeared in this white room and Xemnas was in front of us! Oh he's not dead?! His cloak was black and white.

"Heroes from the realm of light….I will not allow it to end this way, not yet."

"We'll finish you sooner or later." I mumbled.

"If light and darkness are eternal, then surely we nothings must be the same; Eternal!" I growled at this; that jerk thinks he's eternal. Pfft! My foot!

"You're right, light and darkness are eternal. Nothing probably goes on forever too. But guess what Xemnas?" Riku asked.

"That doesn't mean YOU'RE eternal!" Sora shouted.

"You can never be eternal, and never will be Xemnas!" He stared at me and I glared at him.

"There's something about you very different to the other two, a powerful radiance, which is eternal." I gasped, no, does he know? I can let him know that I'm the x-blade wielder. He had his weapons and ran towards me.

My mystical moon and shooting star appeared in my hands but Sora and Riku blocked Xemnas' attack. My friends were like my keyblades and me; we had a connection and protected each other. We started to fight and just after ten minutes, Sora was extremely tired.

"Sora, rest, me and Riku's got this under control!" I screamed and he nodded.

I looked at my love and smirked, "Ready?"

"As ready as I could ever be!" He smiled and we rush to Xemnas with an attack.

He was ten times more difficult than when I fought him the first time. For every attack he either dodged, blocked or counter attacked. His ethereal blades hit me and I fell to the ground. He started to laugh dryly and gained power in his weapon ready to finish me off. I closed my eyes expecting the end but I heard a scream.

I felt my heart stop, my eyes brimming and stinging with tears when I heard that particular scream, his scream; Riku's scream. I opened my eyes and saw him right in front of me. He sacrificed himself to save me. The silver haired teen, my love, my Riku fell into my arms and I kneeled on the ground.

He started to groan in pain, "I'll be fine." He whispered and I shook my head as the tears fell from my eyes, down my cheeks and dripped onto his face. I held his hand and cried, "Riku!" I was frozen.

"It is a shame that your love has sacrificed for you, but it was a waste because I will destroy you too." He was about to finish me off again but Riku took the hit again and Xemnas kept on hitting him. That was it; I had enough of keeping the darkness in, no one hurts Riku like that! I looked at the ground and the grinded my teeth together.

"How dare you!" I muttered and stood up.

"ARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed the loudest ever.

Finally I unleashed it, unleashed the thing that tempted me the most, the thing that I lusted to release; the darkness! And boy did it felt good! I was surrounded by dark clouds and I opened my eyes. I looked at my palms; I was different and stronger...

This was more intense, more powerful, and more…dark. "DARKNESS!" My destructive darkness appeared in my hand and I looked up at Xemnas full of hatred, rage and vengeance.

Xemnas raised his hands in the air and a ball of powerful darkness was in his hands. It was gonna finish me but I had a better idea. Everywhere it was dark and I smirked at this; now it was time to fight fire with fire!

I held my destructive darkness with both hands in the air. I closed my eyes and controlled all the power. I started to power up and dark clouds surrounded me. I started to scream and opened my eyes.

The thing that tempted me, I was wrong, it wasn't the darkness; it was this, a larger and dark version of me which was massive like that creature. She had long black dead straight hair which reached the ground, her eyes were frightening, the sclera (white part) was black and the pupils were crimson red. Her skin was dark purple. The creature had a pair of black wings on her back. The attack which could have killed me turned into dust as my 'dark side' as I called it touched it.

I controlled my dark side with my keyblade, and she flew up, and went straight through Xemnas like a knife. It screamed with its demon voice and disappeared. Xemnas fell to the ground in front of us. For the first time, I had my shooting star and destructive darkness together in both my hand; shooting star to my left and destructive darkness to my right. Sora held onto shooting star with me. "Riku." He kneeled still weak but touched held onto destructive darkness.

The tips of both my keyblades were touching and I closed my eyes. "LIGHT, DARKNESS FINISH HIM!" I shouted and they both glowed immensely, brighter than the sun and it made all of us close our eyes. "What is that?" Xemnas asked and I smiled smugly.

"A sneak peek…" Then we shot it at Xemnas which killed him and he was vanished for good. My keyblades disappeared and I sighed. "We're finished." I said with relief. Then I saw millions of dusks around us.

"I would be too sure of that…" Riku mumbled and I growled.

"OH NO, WHEN I SAY WE'RE FINISHED, THEN WE'RE FINISHED!" I raised my hand in the air and they were all finished as a wave of light killed them off. I had no idea what was going on, but I heard Riku groan in pain and fell with his hands on the ground and he panted. I fell onto my knees and wrapped an arm around his back. "Riku, you okay?" I asked concerned with tears in my eyes.

"Sora, Ness…I can't…" The tears never stopped.

"No, don't say anything; I didn't come all this way for you to say that you can't. I didn't suffer for you to give up." I interrupted.

"It's not over, it's just not!" Sora mumbled. I helped Riku get up, with my arm around his back and my hand holding his. I stood up and Riku asked, "How can you say that? Even if we could go on…look where we are."

"Aw, c'mon Riku! You've been hanging around in the darkness for too long."

"Yeah, all you need is a bit of light!" I agreed with a smile.

"Why do you always smile, even when times are tough?" Riku asked and a tear fell down my cheek.

"Someone really special to me told me to always keep smiling even when times are low. Just keep smiling!" Ventus told me that when he left me in Radiant Garden.

We started to walk and Riku spoke. "Vanessa, can I tell you something? Promise you won't kill me." I giggled at this; oh Riku!

"I'll never kill you, ever!"

"I never thought you were going to be so strong, stronger than me and Sora. I'm shocked, it's impressive." I smiled at this.

"Me neither Riku. I never expected all this, my life's changed."

"Because of me." I frowned at this and shook my head.

"You didn't let me finish, my life's changed for the better. I remember everything about my past and the truth about myself."

"Hey guys look, what's that light?" I smiled I knew who did this.

"Her majesty, Queen Artemis, thank you." I mumbled as we walked through the portal of light.


Finally! One more chapter and an epilogue to go! LOL, remember when Vanessa said 'light darkness finish him' I thought about Mortal Kombat: "FINISH HIM!" I made a few changes here and there to the script, especially at the end. When Vanessa said a sneek peek, she meant just a peek of the power of the x-blade. This took me 3 hours to complete (this chapter). Please review!

~Parisa01