Fall to pieces

By: the Maria half of Zeida and Maria

Summary:What if my freakish fleeting thought, the result of not having finished the first game, and not having played Chain of Memories, was true? Basicly, Sora was... not... just not. and Riku was was trying to make him him again.

Warning: Violence, swearing, deadness-ness, and plotholes. Lots of blood and gore. In detail.

Disclaimer: I dont own Kingdom Hearts(is riku in bondage?) But I do own my OC Sakaku Koga, touch him without permission and prepare to die!

Ch.5: The End

Axel and Riku stumbled out of the gummiship on to the world of Radient Garden. They made their way slowly to Merlin's House, murder on the red-head's mind. Axel was only fueled by the fact that he had someone to take his pain out on, The silver haired boy, however, was a shell. He felt empty. There was no chance to help Sora and it was all his fault. The red-head led him through the winding maze of buildings to the Borough., while he just stared ahead with dead eyes. Neither cared if they were attacked by the heartless abundant in this area, but none came.

They stopped at the house that the Radient Garden Restoration Commitee had chosen for their HQ. Or rather, Axel stopped and therefore stopped pulling his friend. The nobody had not expected this. This was bad.

Blood spilled out from the doorway, staining the steps outside the house. The door had been torn clear off its hinges and was now embedded into the wall opposite it, giving a clear view to the macabre inside. The walls were soaking in vermillion liquid, and the floor was bathing in it. Furniture was over turned and smashed into pieces, one chair lodged into the computer that Cid always used. The man in quesion was lying not far from his machine, spread egaled on the ground. His ribcage seemed to have collapsed in on itself due to some incredible force. His blond hair was now a sickly, sticky strawberry color.

Axel stared around himself in horror, walking slowly into the room. Even Riku was responding, a little, and followed of his own accord. They located Yuffie. She was sitting slumped up against a wall, not far from the bed Roxas used to be on. She looked almost fine except for the fact that her own giant Shurken was embedded deep in her own chest and probably into the wall behind her. Her eyes were wide in unseeing terror. Both her arms were bloody stumps at her side. Neither male could locate the rest of her.

Riku spun around to see Aeris lying prone behind the chalk board. Most of her. Axel went over to check if at least she was alive. He lifted her gently by the shoulders only to recoil in horror as her head, no longer attached, rolled off to the side. The nobody and Riku backed up slowly into one bloody wall, shock quickly ebbing away to be replaced by horror and guilt. The red-head had wanted to beat these people up?

A strange glint caught the silver haired boy's eye, and turned to see Squall's gunblade fastened deep into the wall inches from his face.There was most of a muscled arm holding the bloody handle in a death grip.There was no sign of the rest of the wielder. This was all he could take.

The boys stumbled to the door avoiding the bodies of their friends like a plague. The door was just a few more feet. Then they heard a voice. A familiar one.

"What the Hell did you think you were doing!" yelled Squall. Yelled? "You could have been hurt! That man could have seen you too, and I've no doubt that he wouldn't hesitate to kidnap you aswell!" There was a strange embarassed scuffling sound and a hollow thud. The sound of an arm hitting the wall angrily.

Riku looked to Axel, confused. Who is he talking to? He cocked his head to the side in question.

"Speaking of which, he got Roxas! We, not you, were supposed to be protecting him! You saving our lives had no point, we lost him! Failure was not an option!" Neither of them had ever heard Squall so mad. He was usually so cold. Curiosity overran the relief that he was alive.

Axel looked back at the slightly smaller boy standing next to him and shook his head to say he had no idea what was going on. Did Squall say 'save our lives'? Everyone else was dead... The red-head motioned for them to move slowly foward to see what was going on. They crept up to the door.

Squall was in no better shape that the bodies in the house. His hair was matted with blood and his leather stained and ripped. His entire arm was missing, looking like it had been blown off with a cannonball that took quite a bit of his shoulder with it, too. Blood streamed down his face from multiple wounds, he was even louder near the doorway. They, the stormy eyed man and the one he was chewing out, were situated on the stairs leading into Merlin's house. Somehow ignoring the gore on the steps.

The one who was being berated was actually no more than a young boy, not even older that Sora. He was glancing meekly up at Squall from under a mop of red-orange hair, easily as bright as Axel's own. His eyes were bright orangey yellow. Almost like a heartless, but with a lively light to them. His hands were clasped behind his back and he was obviously fiddling with them. He was shuffling back and forth on bare feet. The boy's ears drooped in melancholy. Wait, what? Both the Axel and Riku stared at the child of around fourteen, notcing for the first time his inhuman appearance.

For the most part he looked completly normal, then you noticed the ears, red-brown and fuzzy apendages, not unlike a K-9's, pointing up to the sky several inches above were ears should be. The boy opened his mouth to say something, revealing sharp fangs, but was quickly cut of by another angry yell. Was that a tail curling in fear between his legs?

"But Onii-chan-!" his voise was deeper than they had expected, but he still squeaked.

"Enough! I don't want to hear it!" Squall pinched the bridge of his nose in annoynce. "Let's just go wake them up."

"W-what?" Riku had finally managed to squeak out, he had been trying since the big brother bit.

Squall and his red-head captive spun to see them emerging from the house. They looked startled but quickly recovered.

"Are you two alright? You look like you've seen a ghost." The tall brunet asked with concern. The young boy scooted behind him, hiding from Axel and Riku.

"Seen a ghost! They're all dead!" Axel squawked. How could Squall have forgotten about them!

"Who!" Squall rushed to their side to look in the building, obviously very worried.

"But you're hurt too, how could you not know!" Riku exclaimed.

"What?" the brunet turned to look at him, then his missing arm as if seeing it for the first time. "Oh! I'd forgotten about that."

Axel and Riku stared at him. "Forgot...?" they stuttered.

The gunblade weilder ignored them and turned to the boy hiding behind the corner. "Take the goddamn illusion off! Saix is gone and you're spooking people." He motioned for the boy to come closer, but the kid shook his head vigorously, and shrunk even more behind the corner he was hiding behind.

"You will come over here, immidiently. They won't bite. If they do, bite back."

At this the teen grinned widly and ran from the wall, skirting the silveret and red-head, to reside again behind Squall. He leered out at them, clutching the brunet's torn leather jacket. The brunet in question sighed again and began massaging his temples. The boy clinging to him looked up almost cutely. Squall glared back.

Riku observed this whole episode with growing confusion. There was an illusion? Who was this boy? Why, if Squall knew him so well, had they never met? And why on earth was the grey eyed man letting the child cling to him!

:"Squall? Did you just give that kid permission to bite us?" Axel interupted his aqua eyed companion's thoughts.

"Only if you bite him first, which I sincerely hope you won't."

The red-headed nobody stuck out his tongue in digust at the thought and was awarded with a loud growl emmiting from the other red-head. The green eyed man grinned mockingly at him. "What's wrong?" he cooed.

The kid frowned and raised and eyebrow at his baby talk. "Dude, I really don't get why Rox-chan likes you so much. You're a freak."

Axel froze. "How dare you talk about him!" he yelled and dived at the smaller male, despite the unfairness in age and size. He was yanked back suddenly at a hand on the back of his collar and fell onto the stone ground. Green eyes glared up at the orange ones that had somehow ended up behind him instead of where he was lunging. "How'd-" Axel began, then saw a wicked, sharp-toothed grin spread across the boy's young features. A deadly clawed hand rose above the nobody's head, ready to strike.

"Stand down, Saka." the boy looked up at the sound of the tall man's voices and relaxed his grip. He dropped Axel and happily walked back to his 'Onii-chan'.

Axel rubbed his neck where the cloth of his jacket had dug in. "Saka, huh. Tough kid, nice to meet you." Momentarily distracted from his pain, the nobody held out a hand to the boy to shake. Saka grinned again, this time much nicer, and held out his own, excepting the older man.

"You're not bad!" he said, "I like you, I'll give you a present." He turned to run off somewhere but Squall, forgotten in the moment, grabbed the back of his shirt with his good hand. He spun Saka around and shoved the boy to Merlin's house.

"Oh, no you don't. You can give Axel whatever horror you've concocted for him after you clean up your mess!"

"Wait? He did this?" Riku interjected,. stunned. There was no way such a young kid could cause this much carnage.

Saka nodded happily and held up his hands to the manslaughter. A strange light, the color of his eyes, began to gather around his finger tips, soon spreading down, to cover all of his hands. The light flared out, bathing the room and the house and momentarily blinding eveyone present. When the light died down Riku and Axel were subjected to a sight much stranger that the one the had seen just seconds ago. The whole room was clean again the furniture fixed again, with the exception of the door, which was still off its hinges and deep in the wall.

All the bodies were no longer bodies, but unconscious friends. They had no injuries, though they were still in the same positions that they had been in when Axel and Riku first entered the room. It was like a miracle, though eveyone knew it wasn't.

"Finally..." Squall muttered, rubbing his once again whole arm. "Now you can go get your present."

Saka grinned, delighted and ran off somewhere.

"Be warned," the grey eyed man turned to the nobody. "He has an odd sense of humor, more likely than not, you will get a dead frog."

Riku looked around shakily, even more confused than before. "What just happened?" he asked the only one who knew anything of what was going on.

"Saka has a special power that alows him to make illusions. When Saix came, he decided that we weren't strong enough to defeat him and knocked us out while casting an illusion. It looked to Saix as though he had defeated and killed all of us." The gunblade was yanked forcibly out of the wall and sheathed it. "Sadly that meant he could make off with Roxas." While explaining all of this Squall had been going around the small house, shaking awake his friends. By the end, they were all up and about, listening to what happened to them and glancing at Axel guiltily.

"I guess that it's not your fault then-" the red head began.

"AXEL!" Saka yelled from outside. "Come out! I have your present and I know you'll love it!" A red mop of hair appeared around the door way, followed by a clawed hand motioning him outside.

Axel smiled sadly and resigned himself to follow the hyper-active kid. He quickly crossed the stone floor and exited out the busted doorway, only to be bowled over. A happy blur of blond and black and white tackled the green-eyed nobody and knocked him clear off the steps, taking himself with the red-head of course.

The nobody stared in silent awe at the one person that he thought he would never see again. Bright, healthy, blue eyes gazed in to dark green. Axel felt soft blond hair tickle his chin and nose as a pale face burrowed into his chest. Thin but muscular arms wrapped themselves around the red-head's waist as though he would vanish if they let go. Slowly Axel wrapped his own back around the boy.

"Roxas..." he murmured into said boy's hair. "I thought you were gone, forever... I though I failed to help you again..."

Roxas smiled up at him. "It's alright, now. Don't worry. I'm fine, but now we have to go save Sora."

Yuffie could be heard in the backroung 'awww'ing with Aeris. Cid was being grumpy and turning slightly red, and Squall was asking Saka how he had manged to pull this off. Saka just responded that he had covered all exits. He nodded happily, agreeing with himself. Riku stepped foward at the mention of Sora.

"We can still save him?" the silver haired boy whispered.

Roxas broke the gaze with Axel or just a second as he turned to face the unsure male. He smiled reassuringly. "I can kind of feel him so I'll help you find him."

"No!" the red-head gently turned his best friend's head to face him again. "I will not lose you."

Roxas pouted. "I was lucky this time, I won't be next time. I'm safest with you. Besides, it's only a matter of time before Saix realizes what he has is a fake."

Axel looked at him, his dark green eyes swirling with emotion. "I really don't want you to come, but..."

The blond nobody squealed his thanks and hugged the other tight.

"So what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Riku demanded. Squall stepped in his way, yet again, raising his eyebrow.

"Forgetting something...? " he asked. The silver haired adolescent sighed, this was getting to much like habit.

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The gummi ship was occupyed by only three people, Riku, Roxas, and Axel. They had stocked up on potions and elixers and all manners of first aid stuff. They had gotten a good night's sleep, or in Riku's case, a good drugged one. He had wanted to start right away, but now that they were heading out he was quite glad for the rest.

Riku had started in the drivers seat, but was quickly pushed out by Axel, who did not want to expirience the last trip again. Roxas was now driving as he was really the only on who knew how. He was also he only one who knew where they were going, not that he really knew where.

Riku sat sulking in a seat behind and to the left of the captain's. Axel was to the right. "I'm not that bad..." he muttered.

The red-headed nobody looked at him.

"All right I am, but you could have been nicer about it!"

Again Axel just looked at him, before focusing on the window once again. Everyone was highstrung. They knew that the only way they could possibly save Sora was to destroy Saix, and him being the second in command at Orginazation XIII... That was going to be tough.

The gummi ship came to a jerky halt as Roxas yanked back on the steering wheel. Axel and Riku gasped when the seatbelts pressed against their neck as they were tossed foward.

"What the hell!" the silveret squawked.

"We're here." the blond nobody clarified.

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The world the stepped onto was on the brink of destruction. It was probably centuries older than any other they had seen, including the Castle Reunion. Axel quickly hopped back on the ship when he saw the ground. It was a dead purple color, swirled together with black and blue. The green-eyed nobody thought it was liquid for a moment. The small group saw what could have once been buildings, or trees, maybe. It was all indecernable now, a melted purple mass. They walked around, not sure where they were going, staring all around them. Yellow eyes blinked back at them. Heartless were everywhere, but they could no more attack that the blobs they were fused to. Shadows wriggled their disembodied claws at the trio, blended into the ground, or the 'walls'. Soon they came across the familiar tall silvery dome, out of place in its surroundings yet again.

The entrance had been repaired and was as impenetrable as always. All three boys looked at each other. Somehow they had neglected to discuss how they would get to Sora. Defeating Saix was the only thing they had talked about. Suddenly there was something like a small roar, followed by a scream that made Riku cringe. His eyes glowed angrily, and he began to mutter a spell to blow the door to smithereens.

No! Axel smacked a hand over the boys mouth and dragged him out to the side as the door was blasted open from the inside. Saix stormed outside, his hair flaring out behind him as he prepared to summon a portal.

Riku dived at him, rapidly spitting out the last of his spell. Darkness flooded out of his sword, directed at the evil nobody. He turned, off guard and the force of the magic hit him full in the chest. Saix's body arched as he flew backward, a looked of mild suprise on his face. The aqua-eyed boy sped after him, using every second to his advantage. Way to Dawn flashed through the air as Riku hit the older man with a barrage of slashes, each one knocking him in a new direction.

Axel looked on for a second before turning to Roxas. "Go inside and free Sora, hurry!" he hissed. The red head raced after rthe battlong couple and jumped in, summoning his spiked chakram. Saix still hadn't managed to him the ground, and Axel quickly prevented him from doing so, attacking him viciously. The red head let out his own hail of attacks, beating at the nobody mentally with each hit as well.

This is for always being an ass to me!

This is for being one to Roxas!

This for tring to kidnap Roxas!

This is for hurting Riku's friend!

And this is because I just. Don't. Like. You!

Then things took a turn for the worse. Saïx touched the ground, instantly summoning his giant hammer in a burst of darkness, knocking both boys back. The blue haired nobody lunged at Riku whacking at the boy untill he was knocked back, landing in a heap. The silver-haired boy pushed himself up on his hands and looked up in horror as Saïx swung downward with his blade shaped hammer.

Axel dove in between the two, catching the other nobody's weapon on his own. The red-head let out a powerful burst of heat that successfully knocked man back. Riku quickly resummoned Way to Dawn and the pair dove at the blue-haired man fully intending to give him more than the cross scar on his head. If any head was left when they finished.

Axel and Riku managed to get many more strikes on the enemy nobody, they where starting to fear that this was to easy. What did that man have planed? But why not take advantage of this while they still could? They might be able to wipe the bastard of the face of the world before he could try something. The green eyed nobody rose his chakram into the air, summoning power while the silveret distracted Saïx. The stange circular weapons came down to aim at the nobody and Riku dove out of the way as Axel released the high level fire spell. The blue haired enmey was blasted off his feet once again and his oponents lunged after him for a powerful follow-up.

Saïx was knocked to the ground again after the barrage of blows. The green- and aqua-eyed males flipped back, wary of him summoning his weapon again, and blasting them. The orange eyed man use this to his advantage and summoned a red energy around himself. Axel's eyes widened and he turned to yell warning to his companion when the cursed hamer blasted him in the ribs. He gasped and was tossed sideways at the force of the blow. Saïx didn't leave it at that and continued to rain heavy blows down on the red head.

Riku had instantly reacted to his frends attack and dove after the berserking nobody with a vengance. He rained down with his own hits, but the oler man hardly seemed to notice, focusing only on the rapidly weakening Axel. Finally the silver-haired boy took his oppertunity and slipped between the two nobodies. He rose his Way to Dawn, blocking the next blow. Saïx refused to act rationally and only pressed harded on the keyblade, pushing Riku to one knee. This would have been the perfect chance to at least swipe sideways at the boy, but the scarred man didn't take it. The berserk frame of mind was clouding his thoughts.

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Roxas led the exhausted and injured Sora quietly out the door, he had been instructed to release and bring the brunet to a safe place. The blond nobody lead him behind a particularly large clump of...darkness before turning to survey to battle. He was distressed to find Saïx pressing down on a tiring Riku as he protected a badly injured and nearly unconscious Axel.

Shit.

Roxas sped away from Sora and summoned his keyblades. Using Vortex, he closed the distance between himself and the glowing red nobody. Oathkeeper in his left hand made contact first, forcing the older nobody off Riku. Oblivion, in the blond's other hand was quick to follow, not giving the berserker any chance to fight back. Roxas was fuel by rage and his keyblades were rapidly proving this on Saïx's flesh. The nobody had already been weaken and the berserk red light surrounding him was fading. The furious blue eyed nobody wasted no time finshing him off in a swift and dangerous blend of magic and brute force.

Saïx knelt on the groung, slowly fading into oblivion. His slayer stood triumphtly over him, keyblades poised lest he try some last minute curse. Roxas glared in contempt down at him. The blue haired man glared back.

"This... isn't over..." he hissed.

But it was. A black hole opened up beneath him, drawing the berserker into a final destruction, never to be seen again.

Roxas turned to check on everyone else once he was positive that the maniplulative nobody was gone for good. After the blond had taken over the fight, Riku retreived Sora and tended to the worst of Axel's injuries, and his own. The blue eyed nobody was happy to see that the red head was concious and ginning crazily at him.

"Freaking great fight, Roxas, got it memorized?"

The silver haired boy bandaging his side snorted. "I'm not getting you mad at me, I know for a fact it hurts."

Sora smile weakly at him then glanced at Roxas. Both pairs of blue eyes grew wide as a strange bubbly, fizzing feeling filled them. They grew faint and warm as both boys began to glow, attracting the other two's attention.

"What the-" squawked Axel.

"Why now?!" Riku turned in suprise as the boys were nothing more than white blobs of light. They drew together and merged, the light slowly fading.

One pair of blue eyes looked up at Riku and Axel's startled faces. "Now what?" they asked, smiling.

ThE End

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A/N: Well there you go, do you want me to do an epilogue? I have one planned but not written and if you don't want one it will jut bepart of the sequel's prologue. That's right, there is going to be a sequel. It's gonna me called Straeh Modgnik, so lookout for it, kay?

Oh, yes; "But it was. A black hole opened up beneath him, drawing the berserker into a final destruction, never to be seen again." um... Plothole anyone?

Review Responces:

Hyxrst: ((pats you)) Yeah, I know, I was awfull, does this make up for it? I wouldn't want to lose such a loyal reviewer.

ArosxIrukxOxarsxLeax: The world may never know! Well... It didn't really say what he was planning, so I'll tell you what Zeida decided: He was using Sora and Roxas to create Kingdom Hearts via stealing Sora's heart (Sora himself, since he was the heartless, and therefore the heart) and superpowering it with Roxas.

SquirrelySoraSquirrel: Why thank you, I'm very glad you think so, how is this chapter, I looked it over for once.

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