"Kingdom Hearts? The place you told me about?" Spike asked a shocked Hikari.
"Yes. I guess Belmin was the key to getting in." Hikari said quietly, "Although I didn't think it would be so soon."
The two friends stared at the portal, considering what to do.
"Do we go through?" Spike asked,
"Maybe." Hikari answered, "I don't know if we can. I don't know if there will be any effects on us if we do."
Spike looked at Hikari, who returned the look.
"You might become a Heartless, Spike." Hikari warned.
"Well, our job here is done." Spike said, "I got nothing to lose."
Hikari let out a short chuckle, "Alright then, let's go."
Hikari went first, he jumped through the portal and disappeared before Spike's eyes. Spike followed shortly and appeared in the middle of a long, white path.
"I'm guessing it's at the end of the path." Hikari said from behind Spike.
Spike turned around, "So let's get going then."
The two began to walk along the long white path. All around them was darkness, not a light any where near them. They could feel the darkness all around them.
"Nice place." Hikari said with a hint of sarcasm.
"I know what you mean." Spike replied to Hikari's statement.
"What are we meant to do here anyway?" Spike said after a while.
"I'm not exactly sure." Hikari said, "But after what Belmin said, maybe there's a way of stopping the Heartless in this place?"
"So we get to be heroes then?" Spike asked comically.
Hikari looked at Spike, "You're already a hero."
Spike's walkie talkie began to make weird noises, they sounded like fumbled speech and some interference.
"What the hell?" Spike said as he pulled the walkie talkie from his back pocket. He put it to his mouth and started to speak.
"Hello? Hello? Is somebody there?"
"Spike, can you hear me? It's Pedro." Pedro said from the airship, "If you can hear me, I just wanted to tell you that we made it back to the village. Are you still at that castle?"
Silence.
"Spike? Ah, dammit." Pedro turned the walkie talkie off.
"Couldn't get through to him?" Pedro's lieutenant asked.
"No. Man, I hope he's okay. That guy saved all these girls." Pedro answered.
"You played your part too, captain." His lieutenant said confidently.
"We all did." Pedro replied.
Pedro turned to the rest of the troops. "Alright, I can't get through to the boss man. Let's get off this ship."
Pedro hit a few buttons and the door on the ship opened, leading to a port. The ship had landed in the water and sailed back to their village, Midgaard. There was a large crowd waiting for them to get off the ship, as they walked out they were met by a large applause from the villagers.
"Wow, quite a reception." Pedro said shocked.
"What do you expect? We just brought all these girls back, without us they probably would have died or something." His lieutenant said, "They think we're heroes."
All the troops and the girls were taken off the ship and in to the village, some needed medical help because of injuries they got while fighting the Heartless. The ones that didn't make it were buried in the Holy Graveyard, a place where all who die against the Heartless are buried along with a memorial statue of Spike's father. People taken by the Heartless have memorial plates placed in the graveyard.
"Pedro," a female voice came from behind him, "Where is Spike?"
"He went back to take out Jirak." Pedro told the girl.
"Is he okay?" She asked.
"I don't know, Lori." Pedro answered, "But don't worry, your man will be back."
Lori looked down at the ground.
Pedro looked at Lori's tears as they fell to the ground, "He's a hero."
"How much longer do we have to walk?" Spike asked, "I'm getting tired."
"The only benefit of being a Heartless," Hikari answered, "We don't get tired."
Spike thought for a moment, "Don't you get a strength boost too?"
"You wanna stop and have a rest?" Hikari asked Spike.
"No, let's just keep going." Spike answered. He felt something dark nearby, approaching them, getting closer. "Maybe I should have taken that rest."
Heartless began climbing on to the path from beneath, there were many kinds. The only one that they had seen before were the Neo Shadows. The rest of them were much larger, and much stronger than any they had seen before.
Spike smirked, "This should be fun."
Spike drew his Keyblade as Hikari took his twin pistols out of their holsters. They began attacking the huge army of Heartless. Spike took them out with ease with his new strength from Hiroshima, and Hikari did surprisingly well with his pistols. But the Heartless continued to come at them, as if pouring from a tap.
"We can't carry on like this." Spike said.
"Not really." Hikari confirmed, "How about we just run through them all."
"Good idea." Spike replied.
Spike ran down the path swinging his Keyblade at the random Heartless coming at him as Hikari followed, firing his pistols at the Heartless in their way.
"Are we nearly there yet?" Spike asked,
"I don't know." Hikari answered, "But judging by the large increase in Heartless I'd say yes."
The numbers of Heartless had greatly increased. The white path could barely be seen beneath the blanket of Heartless that Spike and Hikari were making their way through.
"Here it is." Spike said, looking up at the huge white door in front of them, "Hikari, what do we do now?"
"I'll have to go through. Only beings of darkness can enter that place." Hikari ran to the other side of the huge door, there was darkness all around him in this new place. More Heartless were coming, they could barely see.
"Hikari, are you okay?" Spike shouted.
No answer.
"Hikari?" Spike shouted again.
"I don't know what to do." Hikari muttered. "I came this far but now have no idea what I have to do."
A Neo Shadow jumped at Hikari, he put his guns up in front of him and shot it apart. Just as he did this, a huge blinding flash of light came from inside Kingdom Hearts.
"Hikari!?" Spike shouted.
The light faded in to a small ball, and Spike looked on the other side of the doors.
"Hikari…" Spike said, looking at the tall, light brown haired man that had appeared on the other side. "You're human again."
Hikari turned around, looking Spike with his blue eyes. "Looks like it."
The small ball of light fell down to Hikari's newly human hand, when it reached his hand it grew out in to a Keyblade.
Hikari smirked, "Now I know what to do. Spike, shut the door."
Spike paused, concerned for his friends safety and then nodded before running to the door, killing Heartless on his way.
"Spike, I can't come back through the door." Hikari said, pushing the door from inside. "I'm human now, only darkness can cross the door. But I'll find a way back."
"I'll see you then." Spike said, "Look after yourself."
Hikari nodded, and gave the last push to the door as Spike continued to pull.
Both men stood back away from the door as their Keyblades began to react with the closing of the door. They held out the Keyblades and watched as a powerful light went from them and in to the door, locking it.
"I hope he gets back okay." Hikari said to himself, "He shouldn't have too much trouble now that we've taken care of the Heartless. For good."
The ground around Spike began to shake, it started to crack apart as the path started to disappear.
Some time after, Spike found himself on a path in the middle of a large green field. This is where he began his long journey home.