Pyle: I kinda feel sorry for Riku. Even while I was writing this, I had no idea how his blindness would tie into the Special Secret movie. Now I'm congratulating myself for being so smart.

Me: There are no retarded ideas. Just retarded people.

Tiumi: This sucks.

Pyle: Anyways, this unhappy and rather surprising fic continues.

Me: Like it matters.

Pyle: I'm sorry, did you just insult me?

Tiumi: Who cares?

Me: Hey Pyle what's that shiny thing over there.

Pyle: I dunno, let's go eat it.

Tiumi: Look, just start the fic would you?

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Akoto trampled onward, crushing the snow under his feet with soft crashes, almost like someone was stepping on a pile of cloth. Riku closed his eyes and imagined where Kairi was. "Kairi, how am I doing? Will I be able to see again?" Riku asked, trying to focus his eyes on the blur in front of him. The only thing he could see was just a blurred image.

"I'm sorry, Riku. I'm sorry" she said quietly.

Riku nodded sadly, then reached up to his arm, tearing off a piece of cloth. He tied it around until it was big enough to be a blindfold, then put it over his eyes. "So you won't have to see it" he said, tightening it.

"Be ready…young ones…we are almost there" Akoto murmured from above. Kairi peaked outside of his cloak and saw something strange, like some sort of portal. Akoto quite simply just walked right through it, not stopping at all.

Kairi saw, in full view, Hades's fortress. It stretched upwards into a massive skull, showering flames down onto the land around it. Non-existent ones dotted the ground all over the place. Riku, even though he knew it would do no good, armed himself with the Keyblade.

Akoto ran forward with a roar and kicked a Non-existent one away like a football. Another Non-existent one attacked him, jumping onto his arm. He raised his hand and smashed it to the ground, kicking the crushed remains away.

With his huge fists, Akoto smashed the gates inward. Non-existent ones jumped on him, but he shook them off. Riku, still not sure he would do any good, jumped out and slashed his Keyblade through the nearest one he could find. He wasn't sure if he hit Akoto or a Non-existent one, but he felt it strike something.

Another Non-existent one jumped upwards and prepared to drive a claw into Riku. Riku, hearing the sound of it flying upwards, jumped away and slammed his Keyblade into it. Maybe being blind wasn't as bad as he thought. He could still hear, even though the Heartless were a very silent foe.

Not seeming to care who he hit, Akoto smashed his way through the Heartless towards Hades's domain. All over the ground, Heartless were slaughtered, thrown about, smashed to bits. Carcasses flew overhead as Akoto charged forward, swinging his great fists and bashing them away.

Five hundred feet above, Hades looked down, a crazy smile on his face. His entire army was being defeated by a single enemy? No, there were two down there. He squinted and looked down. When he saw who was down there, red flames erupted from him, spraying all over the place.

"EEEEERRRRRRAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!" he screamed, fire bursting all over the place. Pain and Panic hid behind a rock. "Both of you said he was dead!!" Hades shouted, grabbing them out. "Just a body in the snow? I believe those were your EXACT words!"

There was no time to mess with his flunkies. He swatted them out of the way, then went charging down the stairs with furious speed.

Akoto kicked another Heartless out of the way, then slammed his fist into the doors of the tower. They burst apart and were torn straight off the hinges. Riku sliced apart another Heartless, then went running after what he thought was Akoto.

Hades reached the bottom of the stairs. "Ouch…what a big guy you are? Your gonna be smaller then an ANT when I'm through with you!"

In his blind rage, Akoto charged forward and slammed his fist into Hades. Hades smiled as the fist went right through him. He held up his hands until they began to glow red. Fire burst from the tips. Two glowing bright flames went flying outwards and slammed into Akoto, sending him into a wall. He shook the pain out of himself, then went charging at Hades again. Hades reared back and launched anther volley of flame at Akoto. He went flying backwards like a rock, hit the wall, then lay still.

For such a large foe, he was surprisingly easy. Were the Heartless really that weak?

He realized his mistake too late. Riku flew forward and bashed the Keyblade into Hades. Hades went spinning away, off his feet and rolling. Without giving him a chance to react, Riku rushed forward and bashed his Keyblade down onto the spot where Hades had been a moment ago.

Hades shot upwards and came down behind Riku. For a moment, he considered torching the little punk, but then decided that would be too merciful. There had to be some way to make him suffer…

Kairi crawled out of the cloak that had buried her, getting up to her knees. She shook her head to clear the stars out, then went searching for Riku. Hades held up his hands and charged up a flame, preparing to throw them at Riku. He hadn't noticed Kairi yet.

Riku, not sure what was happening, held up his Keyblade to defend. Kairi came walking over. "Riku?"

"You won't win, Hades" said Riku. "Your too weak. Your army is defeated. I can take more then one shot of a ball of flame"

Hades smirked, then held up a long, bony finger. "I guess it had better be in a spot where it will do some damage then, eh?"

Hades had been prepared to fire at the first thing that moved. He had expected it to be Riku. But it was Kairi. Kairi shouted something, just as a blazing fireball slammed into her. Kairi flew backwards into the wall, lying still against Akoto.

Riku looked in her direction. "Kairi.…" he said in a shocked tone. "NOOO!" he charged forward and slammed his Keyblade at Hades. Hades casually stepped out of the way, but he was unprepared for the next strike.

With cries of rage, Riku pressed forward, bashing his Keyblade against Hades relentlessly. Hades quite simply blocked his attacks, but he was beginning to tire, and Riku showed no signs of slowing down. It appeared he had made the battle a bit harder for himself by killing Kairi then he expected.

Riku continued smashing it against him, just hitting with blind rage. Strike after strike, hit after hit. Hades just simply couldn't take it anymore, and let himself be pummeled. Riku jumped upwards and whirled his Keyblade around, then slammed it against Hades.

To put it mildly, Hades flew through the air. Riku glanced over in Kairi's direction. He could hear no breath, no pulse, no life. In that instant of hearing, his heart snapped in two. He began to weep as he fought.

While Hades was still on the ground, trying to defend himself from Riku's furious barrage, he was trying to figure out a way to survive. Riku catapulted Hades upward with a double backflip, then jumped upwards and bashed him back to the ground.

Hades just looked up, waiting for the death blow to come. Instead of the strike he imagined, Riku dropped his Keyblade to the floor and began to cry. Tears streamed down his cheeks, dripping off and falling to the dusty floor.

Triumph in his eyes, Hades pushed himself off the ground and charged up a flame, determined to scorch Riku out of existence. "It's time to heat things UP!" he shouted as flame burst from his fingertips. Riku continued to weep. For some reason, he just no longer had the will to fight anymore. Flame flew from Hades's fingertips, flying toward him.

Riku just rolled out of the way, hearing the flame scorch the ground next to him. Hades was infuriated by this. He began shooting at Riku, one after another. Riku just simply dodged out of the way of them.

Jumping over the first, he backflipped off of the wall and landed just in time to jump away from another strike. Hades continued shooting, flame after flame, strike after strike. Riku easily dodged them all, then picked his Keyblade up.

He flew forward and slammed his Keyblade right into the flame, smashing it away, then ran forward and bashed it into Hades. It hit him with such force that Hades flew twenty feet away, then fell still, his flame extinguished.

Riku suddenly gave a scream and threw his Keyblade away, running towards Kairi. Riku picked her up and hugged her head to his chest. "Kairi…Kairi, I'm sorry! Please…"

She just simply lay still, staring up at him. Riku felt his heart disintegrate right there. He reached up a hand and gently brushed a bit of her red hair away. No response.

"I wanna go home…I wanna go home…" he whined, hugging Kairi tighter. "Kairi…Kairi…please wake up…I know your just asleep"

Nothing.

He closed his blue eyes. Tears fell off his cheeks and dripped onto Kairi's still body. "Kairi? Kairi...it's okay...Sora will come...he'll find us. You...you just need to wake up"

It was too late. She was gone.

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Static. Flash. "Something so simple…" he murmured, walking forward. A hood covered his eyes, blocking his vision. He hated this place. Non-existent ones dotted the area around him, waiting to strike. Sweeping back his cloak, he whirled out two sharp Keyblade, twirling them around to gather his energy, then held them in the ready position.

They did not strike yet, of course. They knew better then that. But they were hungry. Hunger overpowered their need for safety. Without a sound, a Non-existent one jumped upwards and came down upon him.

He just backhanded it away with his Keyblade, nothing to it. Another one dove for him. He whirled around and slashed it away, causing it to burst into a torrent of black dust. All around him by now, they were. They jumped upwards and came down, or they ran circles around him and looked at him curiously. They were still being cautious, but growing bolder.

Dancing through their ranks, he swathed a path through the bodies of them, slicing them apart wherever they attacked. Another Non-existent one jumped upwards and landed in a spot he had been a moment ago. He had jumped.

Still in the air, he slashed his Keyblade and took out another two, then hurled his Keyblade upwards. Five Heartless were incinerated by it as it flew through the air, then returned on its own to its master's hand. Silently, he landed back on the ground, then flipped straight over the crowd to land on the balcony of a building.

They all looked up at him, wondering, hungering, waiting to kill. Next to him, another Non-existent one crawled out of the building, waiting for a comrade to attack and take the first hit. It knew better then to attack him.

Seeing that the army was just too big, he instead turned around to retreat, running up the vertical building. Still in his straight course, he continued to shred them up on the way, swinging his Keyblade as he went so as to knock them out of the way. At the top of the building was something he wasn't expecting.

A boy with white hair looked down at him, but not with his eyes. A blindfold covered his eyes, but he was somehow able to see what was going on. The one who was running up the building hurled the Keyblade upwards, causing destruction to the Non-existent ones in front of him.

They burst apart at the Keyblade's touch, transforming into piles of black dust that disappeared. The other boy, the one with the blindfold, leaped off the building and snatched it right out of the air. On the way down, the one who was coming up the building glanced over at the other one, not sure why he had taken the Keyblade.

He was gone. The boy with the blindfold had reached the bottom of the building and disappeared.

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Aros stepped forward and looked at the other one. He was sitting on a rock. White hair blowing in the wind, he turned towards the one, mouthing words. "He looks just like you…" he murmured, slipping his hood off.

Aros nodded towards Riku, then turned towards the distant sun. The sun that shined no light. "It's because…I am him"

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Pyle: Well…I guess you can figure out how Riku's blindness ties into him having a blindfold, can't you?

Me: If any of you remember the special secret instead of watching "Deep Dive" all the time…like me…

Tiumi: I guess you have figured out by now that…there WILL be a sequel!

Pyle: Good for you, Tiumi, for figuring that out! Getdasnack! (throws a crumb through the air)

Me: This world is so corrupt…

Pyle: The sequel will probably already be done by the time I post this up ()_(). The ending is a description of Deep Dive, as you should ALL know. If you don't know, I suppose it would be a crime to set you on fire…