"What are you doing?" Hikari shouted at Spike from the airship.
"I'm the only one that can do this." Spike shouted back.
"Not without me you don't." Hikari shouted as he stood on the side of the airship.
"What!?" Spike shouted as he watched Hikari jump from the airship back down to the castle runway.
Hikari landed on his feet and looked at Spike sternly, "I'm sticking with you, Spike, you can't just send me back without fighting the last fight by your side."
"I didn't want you to die. You have a chance." Spike said to Hikari.
"A chance at what?" Hikari asked.
"A chance to live a good life, if that light in you gets strong enough I have the confidence in you to become human again." Spike answered, "And if I die here, who else will be able to fight the good fight?"
"You won't die, I'm here to make sure of that." Hikari said firmly.
"What do you mean?" Spike asked.
Before Hikari could answer, Heartless began to make their way down the runway with intent to attack the two.
"We'll continue this later." Spike said as he ran at the Heartless with Hikari.
Spike cut his way through the Heartless in his way as Hikari shot them away from him, both were extremely tired from the days battles but their determination kept them fighting.
"Hey Spike, you in position yet?" Pedro's voice came from Spike's walkie talkie.
Spike took the walkie talkie from his belt and held it to his mouth, "Not yet."
Hikari wondered what Spike and Pedro had planned, but did not ask. The Heartless flooding from the castle kept him too busy to ask anything.
"What are they planning?" Jirak asked himself.
"You just better make sure whatever it is they're planning doesn't work." The hooded man said.
Jirak stood up from his chair, "Are you giving me orders now?"
The Hooded Man look at Jirak, "Advice, Jirak. Advice."
Spike had made it to the gates of the castle for the second time in the day, he lifted his walkie talkie to his mouth.
"Now!" Spike shouted as he started to run up the gate. The airship came back from behind Spike, as it came above him he jumped and caught one of the ropes of the airship and noticed Hikari was also there. They exchanged nods as the airship flew towards the castle's large window.
"I guess I really did underestimate them." Jirak said to the Hooded Man.
"Yes, it would appear so." The Hooded Man said as the window smashed and Spike and Hikari landed in the throne room with Jirak and the Hooded Man.
"Jirak." Spike said.
"Spike." Jirak said.
"Hikari." The Hooded Man said.
"… Hooded Man?" Hikari asked.
The Hooded Man took a few steps back in to the shade, getting ready to watch the inevitable fight that was about to take place.
"Spike, Spike, Spike." Jirak repeated as he walked up and down the room before Spike. "How fitting that you should be here to attempt to kill me."
Spike kept his glance on Jirak firm.
"Why wouldn't you? Your father died trying to kill me, then several years later your mother and grandfather were killed by the Heartless that I summoned into this world." Jirak said and stopped walking and turned toward Spike. "Your slaying of me would be a perfect end to my tale… Too perfect, which is why it won't happen."
A huge sword made of darkness appeared in Jirak's hand.
"You thought you could come here and kill me?" Jirak asked cockily, "I can't be killed. I am darkness. Darkness is forever."
Spike looked at Jirak and raised his head, "Then I'm guessing forever isn't too long."
Spike jumped at Jirak with his Keyblade raised and thrust the Keyblade at him, Jirak blocked it with his sword and kicked Spike but Spike blocked it with his free hand. They were locked together, neither could make an attack without the other blocking and taking full advantage of it. Hikari raised his guns at Jirak.
"No." Spike said, "Hikari, this one's my fight."
Spike and Jirak jumped back away from each other and held their weapons in front of them, ready for another shot at each other. Jirak took the shot first and swiped his sword at Spike who jumped to his left and took a swipe with is Keyblade, Jirak was too quick and blocked it with his sword. They took swipe after swipe at each other but each was blocked and neither managed to take the advantage. Jirak went for another kick which again was blocked by Spike's hand. They had locked each other again.
"This is fun." Jirak said coldly.
"How about we get serious now?" Spike asked.
"Fine by me, the sooner I kill you the sooner I can take over a few more places." Jirak said.
"But you've taken the whole world." Spike said confused.
"This world… Yeah." Jirak confirmed.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Spike asked.
"This chat is boring me, let's get back to the fight." Jirak said, lifting his blade and taking another swipe while he had Spike off guard, but Spike managed to block it again and kicked Jirak in his stomach.
Jirak ran back at Spike with his sword lifted above his head and brought it down in front of Spike as Spike took a swipe which Jirak blocked by lifting his sword and pushing Spike's Keyblade out of the way giving Jirak an easy shot, which he took and kicked Spike in his ribs. Spike dropped his Keyblade and grabbed his ribs, falling to the floor
"What? Is that it?" Jirak asked, sounding disappointed. "Well I guess I'll have a bit more fun then."
Jirak put his sword in to the ground and started to kick Spike in the ribs. Each kick became more painful for Spike as he felt his ribs breaking beneath his skin.
"You thought you could kill me? The Emperor of Darkness. You fool!" Jirak said, mocking Spike.
The kicks continued as Spike began to cough up blood.
"You're weak. Know why?" Jirak asked, "Because you spend all your time fighting for the light. If you were on the side of darkness, using it to your benefit, you might become quite a good fighter."
Spike took more of the kicks as the blood from his mouth spread out in front of him.
"You wouldn't even need to do most of the fighting yourself, you could just use the Heartless to do most of it for you." Jirak continued, "But no, you choose to be all good and noble just because your daddy got killed by me and your mummy and grandpa got killed by the Heartless. You need to grow up, kid, and accept the darkness in to your heart."
Jirak stopped kicking Spike, a look of relief came over Spike's face as he looked up.
"Tell you what, Spiky boy. I'll give you one more chance. You can either accept the darkness in to your heart…" Jirak pulled his sword out of the ground and pointed it in Spike's face. "Or you can accept my sword in to your heart."
Spike looked up at Jirak and grinned. "I would never accept the darkness, I'd rather do unmentionable things to your fat greasy mother."
"Shame," Jirak said. He kicked Spike one last time, lifting his body up and as it fell back down it faced the floor.
"You could have been great." Jirak said as he moved to Spike's head, he lifted his sword up and took one last swipe at Spike.
There was a huge colliding sound as Jirak's huge sword was blocked by Spike's Keyblade. Spike was still facing the ground but managed to get the strength to block Jirak's sword.
"You still have some kick left in you, eh? Well I guess that could be-" Jirak's speech was cut short by a loud gun shot. Spike looked up and saw Jirak with a huge gaping hole through his head.
Spike looked over at Hikari, angry that he had killed Jirak instead of letting Spike do it, but Hikari was not holding his guns. Hikari was staring in amazement at the other side of the room.
"What? Why?" Hikari stuttered, "How?"
Spike looked at the other side of the room where Hikari's eyes were firmly locked, he saw the Hooded Man with a huge gun in his hand. Smoke was pouring out of the gun. He had shot Jirak.
"He spoke too much." The Hooded Man said.
"A villain should be less about the chat, and more about the butchering of innocents." The Hooded Man continued, "Don't you agree…"
He took his hood off, revealing a face scarred from battle. The man had long blond hair similar to Spike's, his eyes were as black as coal.
"…son?"