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Chapter 2: Sayonara, Keyblades

"I have a heart," Naminé said with a grin. Riku and Marluxia both stared in confusion. Impossible! She is a Nobody, she has no heart! It was unbelievable. Both men knew that, however, there was something about it that sounded so truthful, so real that they couldn't question it. In fact, they actually started to believe it.

Sora ran down the alleyway, he was out of breath, "Riku I looked all over for you man! Why'd you run off like that?"

"What? Oh, Sora, sorry, you see I was talking to this girl-"

"What girl?" Sora asked. Riku stared puzzled. Both he and Marluxia turned back to look to Naminé but she was gone.

"Riku are you calling Marluxia a girl? He's gonna take points off your grade again."

"Come on; let's go back to the academy," Riku sighed and walked away. Sora ran beside his friend and continued to walk with him. Marluxia walked slowly behind the two. How could she have a heart? He thought A Nobody can't have a heart. That's why we are Nobodies.

It was only the next day when Sora found out about Kairi's death. He fell into a solemn sadness that was unlike the energetic youth. Even though he knew he would never see her again because she was the princess of Kingdom Hearts, but now, definitely he had no chance to be together with the one he loved. To make things worse, heartless began to appear in large numbers in the World that Never Was-which was renamed to Midnight City (A/N: I can come up with crappy world names too KH2!). It wasn't always midnight in the town but at that time, everything exciting happened. Digressing, with the absence of the princess, there was no one to hold up the seal which kept in the heartless and they rose once more. And if things couldn't be more unfortunate, Sora could not summon his keyblade. Neither could Riku.

Marluxia bore a weapon not tied to the heart, since he had none and could easily summon it and fight off the growing heartless. However, he could not decrease their numbers alone. He did manage to protect the academy and those who sought shelter inside.

Riku snuck out of the academy and roamed the streets filled with heartless. The only thing he had to protect himself was his dark powers but they did not do much against the cretins spawned from the element alone. He had to find Naminé because if she indeed was the next ruler, she should know what happened to their powers and why he and Sora could not summon their keyblades.

After a while of searching, one could conclude that finding Naminé was pointless. Riku rested on a nearby wall. The long usage of his powers made him quite exhausted. He looked up at the sky, clouds were billowing over. It was going to rain again. "Damn it, Where are you Naminé!" Riku shouted up at the dark sky.

"You don't have to shout," Naminé said with a smile.

"Naminé!" Riku gasped, her sudden appearance caught him off guard.

"You called?"

"Why can't I use the keyblade? Why have the heartless returned? What's happening Naminé?" Riku said, almost shouting.

"They keyblades were the weapons held by Kairi's power. Now with her…death, I had to create new ones," Naminé said holding out her hand. Instead of light there was a dark aura that emanated from her hand and took shape of a slender blade. The handle was straight and at the end it curved like the hilt of a cutlass. Spikes jutted out of the curve and they were of different lengths. Onyx stones decorated the black hilt. The blade was silver and curled near the end. It was a double blade as in both sides could cut you. The blade had sapphires near the hilt and opals near the tip. The chain that hung from it had a pendant of a tiger. It was a splendid weapon.

"Take it Riku," Naminé said holding it out, "Take it, it will banish the heartless just as any keyblade. That weapon is called the Tigerblade. Use it well. Oh and take this to Sora," Naminé said. After Riku took his blade, Naminé summoned another weapon. The hilt was Red decorated with topaz stones. The blade was gold with rubies. Unlike Riku's the curved end continued to a sharp point. The pendant was an eagle.

"That is the Eagleblade. Unlike the keyblades, these are specially designed for their wielder. Hurry, take them. Once they are in the hands of their true master, they will adapt to the heart and become one with it. Therefore you will be able to summon it at anytime you wish."

Riku took the other blade. With a blink Naminé was gone. Riku wondered how she possessed the ability to easily disappear but now was not the time to contemplate it. He had to save the town that now served as his home. He ran back to the academy but not without running into a few heartless. He tested the Tigerblade and enjoyed it. It was easy to wield and it was very light. Also, Riku could use it as a medium to work his dark powers. After the heartless were defeated, the blade disappeared into darkness. Of course, Riku's heart was mostly darkness anyway.

When Riku returned to the school he gave Sora the Eagleblade. However Sora responded solemnly, "Why should I fight?"

"Why?" Riku shouted, "Do you want to live? Don't you want to protect this world we live in?"

"Not anymore… I have no one to protect anymore, no one to fight for."

"Sora, stop being selfish!" Riku yelled and he punched his friend to the ground. Sora didn't retaliate. He didn't even get up r look at Riku. He stared at the ground and watched the Eagleblade fall in front of him and he watched Riku's feet move to leave. Riku walked beside Marluxia who was battling a swarm of heartless.

"Where'd you get that?" Marluxia asked astonished at the new weapon.

"Don't worry. Come on, I'll help you," Riku said.

"Me too," Sora said with a fake smile. Riku found himself missing the eager arrogance and ignorance that blinded Sora when he fought. Then again, it was because of those flaws that Sora could easily fight and attain victory. He showed no fear then and even now. There was doubt, but definitely not fear. The three warriors stood side by side ready to take on any oncoming heartless.

To be continued…

-Woah I got carried away. I meant to leave y'all at a MEAN cliffhanger but guess not. I'll try in the next chapter. Thanks loves for reading and reviewing. They made me so happy. R & R like always!