"Hey! We have injured folk!" Lea yells out as he busts open the door in the infirmary area. Almost immediately, the doctors rushed over to take Sora and the others with one of them looking at the two.

"Are any of you capable of proper medical attention?" The man asks with the two Keyblade wielders slowly shake their heads. "Then hurry up and deal with the Grimm! We need to make sure that no more people get injured. We're starting to overflow here as we know it!"

"R-Right! Come on Lea! We got to go help the others!" Ventus states turning around.

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Lea smiles before the two rushing through the hallways of Beacon Academy making their way to the front yard area. There were Grimm everywhere in the area. There were so many Grimm attacking that it started to overwhelm some of the students. "Hey, Ven! Help me will ya?!"

"On it!" Lea gathers energy from Maverick Flames as he spins it in the air. A massive fireball appears above him. One of the strongest fire attacks, Firaga Burst. Ventus spins Wayward Wind using the Aeroga Spell around the massive ball of fire. The circulating wind enhanced the size of the fireball, making it slowly bigger with each second. Lea grins as he closes his fist and the massive ball of fire explodes into a bunch of fireballs, homing towards all of the Grimm members, slowly burning them with each strike.

It gave the people around the two a small chance to catch their breath leaving Ventus and Lea to run back towards a group when a portal of darkness appears revealing Yami and Lily as they both walk towards the two.

"Hello there! I don't believe that you've met us. I am Yami! This here is my associate, Lily. Why don't you say hi to the crowd before us? We have two good looking men for you." Yami states with a smug expression on his face.

"I'm not really interested in them. I'm not into people that aren't going to be around much longer." Lily twirls her hair a little before moving her gaze towards Lea.

"Hold on there lady. I'm pretty sure Ven is on the same boat here, but I don't think that we're much interested in a girl like you." Lea jokes that made even Yami chuckle a little. Lily caught wind of this as she punches Yami a little.

"Owowow! Not cool!" Yami yells before taking out his Keyblade and uses a small cure spell.

"As for you redhead. I heard quite a deal about you from Xehanort. It makes me interested in dealing with you myself. You wouldn't mind if I took him, would you Yami?" Lily takes a step forward.

"Nah. It's fine. I wanted a little taste of Venty Wenty myself." Yami states with a chuckle. The tone of which that name came was something that was actually quite painful to Ventus. Ventus was slightly trembling by the fact. He shakes it off before gripping his fist. "Ah! Seems that you're ready."

"Are you done talking?! Let's do this already!" Ventus yells out with sudden aggression as he runs over to Yami with Wayward Wind.

"Hold up Ven!" Lea yells out before being blocked by Lily. "Damn it! Looks like I'm going to have to get through you!"

The Final Piece

By: NexusMHX

Chapter 13: Hidden Intentions

"You're not that great of a fighter! Now, are you?!" Lea does a spin strike with Maverick Flame forcing Lily to retreat slightly with her staff. However, Lea keeps up with the attacks as he switches Maverick Flames for his Chakrams, igniting them in flames before tossing at Lily knocking her down with relative ease.

"Be quiet!" Lily grunts in anger as she slowly starts chanting magic and shoots it at Lea. Lea starts to get drowsy for a little but he quickly snaps out of it. "Sleep magic didn't work?!"

"A little thing about sleep magic. It mostly works on opponents that are relatively weaker than you. In this case, I wouldn't recommend this as a last-minute quip." Lea states before gathering energy in his hands as he prepares a massive fireball to shoot at Lily when suddenly he hears footsteps coming from behind him. It was one of the students that had been battling the Grimm. They were charging at Lea with their weapon as he turns around and summons Maverick Flame in order to block the attack. "What are you doing?!"

"You're too conceited… I know that I'm too physically weak! My Semblance! Puppeteer!" Lines of energy starts spreading through the multiple bodies surrounding Lea. "I can't control figures stronger than me. But I know how to overwhelm!"

"Such underhanded tricks!" Lea grunts as he blocks blows from the student before noticing two more students running towards him behind him. He summons his Chakrams and ignites fire with them as he tosses it around him, creating a wall of flames trying to protect himself. However, the students simply go through, dealing with the flames and striking, cutting blows at Lea knocking him back. By the time the flames disappear, Lea realized he was surrounded by multiple students, each under Lily's control.

"I will take you down for the things you said to me!" Lily yells out in anger. She moves her hands commanding a bunch of students to attack Lea not giving him much chance to retaliate.

'Damn it. I can't do anything when she's holding these people under her control…' Lea summons Maverick Flame into his hands to defend himself against the mass hoards.

"Sonic Blade!" Ventus's body channels energy before zooming through at high speeds thrusting towards Yami. Yami gets hit for the first two strikes before learning the speed and pattern as he blocks it by using his Keyblade to grind against Ventus's blows. Ventus quickly recovers before swinging his Keyblade with swift movements, forcing Yami to be quick on his footwork as he moves back to dodge each strike.

'Insulting him was definitely a fault on my part. He's one of the faster ones of the group!' Yami stomps on the ground before stepping forward throwing Ventus off balance. Yami's Keyblade engulfs in darkness before slamming Ventus square in the chest forward, crashing him into a nearby pillar. 'Gonna have to keep on eye on him in the future. Who knows whe-'

In an instant, Yami's movements came to a halt as Ventus appears behind him to do a bunch strikes with his Keyblade. By the time it was done, Yami could move again before the impacts of each blow started to affect him knocking him back. Yami realizes what had just happened before slowly casting a Cura spell him healing some of the wounds.

"Nice move. You got me there… But how about this?!" Yami stabs the ground with his Keyblade creating a massive portal of darkness around it. In an instant, it was like the whole darkness was absorbed into his Keyblade as Yami picks it up. He charges towards Ventus with his Keyblade at ready.

"Light!" Ventus summons pillars of light using the Faith magic spell and shoots it at Yami. Yami simply smiles as he easily slices through a pillar of light like it was nothing. Realizing that Ventus was in danger, he uses Aeroga to propel himself away from Yami as he keeps summoning pillars of light to slow him down. Yami keeps on moving forward with each step, he slices another pillar of light with the darkness surrounding around his Keyblade.

"Your light!" Yami slices through five pillars of light with ease. Ventus jumps back readying Wayward Wind in his hand. "Will be swallowed by darkness!"

"I don't think so! Drift!" Yami slices towards Ventus, barely missing him as a gravity spell pulls himself backward. However, the power of the gravity spell wasn't enough as Yami simply spins around preparing for another strike. Suddenly multiple blades of light appear behind Ventus which he uses all of them to clash with the blade of darkness.

"What?! Blades of light?" Yami questions as power unleash from their clash of light and darkness. He breaks away before jumping back with a smile. "So this is what makes you special compared to other Keyblade wielders. Everyone is unique… Everyone with a Keyblade has something that makes them special. Let us keep with this now shall we?!"

"You're insane! What makes you like this?!"

"At first. It was my past. But now. It's curiosity. Nothing more. Nothing less. Though I would have liked if these sorts of experiments were done in a less hostile environment. But this works."

"Some scientist that you are. If you truly wanted this, you would be on our side." Ventus lets out with a heavy breath.

"You're right… I could have done my research like this. However, it makes me wonder. What makes the X-Blade so special? What makes the X-Blade the one true Keyblade connected to Kingdom Hearts? What about the X-Blade that makes Xehanort so interested in this?" Yami readies his own Keyblade pointed towards Ventus. "My ruin and my sorrow have both led me here! I will see to the true creation of the X-Blade and see it for myself what makes it so special that it led Master Xehanort down this path."

"... Are you truly evil then? The way it sounds, maybe you're just someone who doesn't understand anything. I was like that too. I didn't understand my true purpose."

"You were to become the X-Blade all of those years ago." Yami catches Ventu's attention. "A lingering remnant of sorrow told me that. You… and your "brother"."

"That's why you called me that. Because Vanitas told you that."

"Yes. And you may be right. But for now, I have my own goals that I believe that I must see-through. My darkness… My suffering. The X-Blade isn't my only goal. I must see to the end…"

"Does it have to be that way?! I don't know what you have gone through and you don't seem like a bad person! But I-" Ventus tries to talk but Yami cuts him off.

"But nothing. Enough of this rambling. Let us end this now." Yami smiles as his keyblade shifts and begins to transform before hearing the sound of footsteps behind him. He gives off a frustrated look as his Keyblade returns to normal. "Already? Damn... I wasn't expecting them to be done with the Grimm just yet. Things were getting good."

"Yami…" Ventus grunts as he looks over at Yami.

"Lily! We're done here! You know what to do!"

"I already know dumbass!" Lily yells back as she moves her fingers for the bodies of the students to start attacking Ventus as well. Lea looked really beaten up from the blows as he keeps on trying to fend off the students and the two Keyblade wielders eventually hit back to back.

"Lea!"

"Hey, Ven. Glad that you could join me. It's been getting really hard to block all of them without hurting them!" Lea sees people running towards the group seeing the chaos in confusement. "And it looks like the calvary is here!"

"Let's just hope they hurry up and ge-" Ventus slips up from an injury that he got from Yami as he notices one of the students swinging their weapon towards him that was going to kill him. His mind couldn't think properly. He didn't see any option for him except for one. He had to do something that he really didn't want to do. Ventus cries out. "I'm sorry!"

Ventus slices the student away knocking them back right in front of him. It created a small gap in front of him that everyone could see. They were far away and had no idea of the circumstances, but the only thing that they saw was Ventus slicing one of the students. Suddenly, all of the students under Lily's control dropped to the floor, surrounding both Lea and Ventus. The only ones standing that all the students could see were Ventus and Lea deeply out of breath with Yami slowly walking towards them. He pats them on the shoulder as he simply pats them on a shoulder saying a single sentence that echoed into everyone's minds.

"Thank you two for both of your work," Yami says before disappearing into the shadows. The strength in Ventus's legs were gone at this point as he dropped to the ground as he simply stares at the person laying on the ground. Glynda made her way to the front of the crowd where he sees the blood on the chest of the student. She bends down, looking for a pulse.

"They're dead."

Wassup my homies! This is NexusMHX here with another episode of "The Final Piece"! I'm not going to say much in this post chapter quip. Just going to let that settle in. If you enjoyed, please give a follow/favorite/comment for more content. This is NexusMHX signing off! Stay Classy!