A/N: Confused yet? You might be by the end of the chapter (except of course for those of you who have read Sora's Tale). Anyway read and review please.

Endless Abyss, Battle Field

Alexa and Riku fought furiously, not noticing that their allies had retreated. Darkness surrounded them and still they fought on, each one protecting the other. Neither of them knew at what point they had made up their minds to stay and fight but they had and both of them were sticking to it.

Riku lashed out in every direction he could, every now and then casting Firaga into a group of heartless. Alexa was fighting with two razor sharp daggers, (she had thrown the shirokens – their blades had dulled far too quickly) stabbing a heartless and then ripping it to pieces.

"You realise we can't hold them off forever," Riku said.

"You're right," Alexa replied. "Unfortunately the choice has been made and we can't unmake it. We must stay here and fight or else die."

"That's a pretty grim way of looking at it," Riku said.

"This is a grim situation," Alexa said.

Riku and Alexa were now standing back to back with heartless on every possible side. Riku pointed the Twilight blade out so that it was parallel to the ground. It glowed as if it was going to close a keyhole. Then a burst of grey light shot out from it, vaporizing all the heartless in it's path.

A sudden explosion of light made both Alexa and Riku turn to look at it's source. From the light they saw the fortress and a terrifying sight hanging over it – a large dark portal. Out of the people who stepped out of the portal Riku recognised a few of them – most notable among them was Sephiroth.

"We've got to go back and help them!" Riku said to Alexa as he ripped open a portal.

Alexa nodded and followed him through the portal he'd made.

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Leon and Kairi had managed to escape the fortress although on the way lost everyone else. They were surrounded by heartless and Leon shot as many as he could with his gun-blade. Kairi was masterfully wielding her keyblade taking out a heartless every second. Still it didn't seem to matter how many the two of them fought there was always more which took their place.

"We've gotta get out of here!" Kairi said. "There's too many of them!"

Leon wouldn't have moved an inch if he had been on his own but since he was with Kairi and could not guarantee her safety he said, "Alright let's get as far away from these infernal walls as we can!"

Leon and Kairi started to run from the walls, pushing the heartless away.

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Cloud and Mickey were running from the castle but it was not in the same terrified manner as everyone else had been. They were fighting the heartless with everything they had. Anyone watching them would have had no idea that they were in fact trying to escape.

One of the heartless managed to bite on to Cloud's arm and Cloud shook it vigorously to get it off.

"Arghhhhhhhhhhh!" Cloud yelled in pain. Another heartless had bitten into his knee while yet another heartless had sunk it's claws into Cloud's back. Mickey saw all that had happened but could do nothing except watch as Cloud fell to the ground in pain. Mickey was having a hard enough time trying not to end up in the same position. More and more heartless crawled onto Cloud weighing him down all the more.

'I can't die,' Cloud thought. 'Not before he does!' Cloud was charged with electricity, sparks of energy were flying off him at light speed. With a sudden burst of energy Cloud threw the heartless off him.

"Sephiroth will die before I do!" Cloud said with absolute certainty.

"Glad you made it," Mickey said.

"So am I," Cloud said as a grin crept it's way onto his face.

"Mickey!" a voice said.

Mickey and Cloud looked behind them and saw Riku and Alexa walking out of a portal. Mickey ran up to Riku and jumped onto him. Riku almost fell over from the force of it but managed to stay on his feet.

"I thought you were dead," Mickey said.

"Dead?" Riku said. Alexa gave Mickey a look which meant she agreed with Riku.

"We were going to come back to the castle but there were too many heartless so we stayed and fought them," Alexa said. "When we saw the portal rip open above the fortress we decided we had to come back and help.

Riku turned to the Mickey and Cloud and said, "We need to regroup our forces."

"I agree," Mickey said, holding the keyblade shaped weapon up to the sky. "Signaga!" Mickey yelled. A brilliant beam of yellow light shot up into the air, exploding into even brighter specks of white light. Those specks floated for a second before rearranged themselves into an arrow pointing down where Mickey was. It was risky – the dark wielders forces would know where everyone was going but there was no other choice. They would either have to fight the dark wielders forces united or die.

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Xehanort groaned in pain. He had been ambushed not long after the fighting had erupted. Now his attackers had left him trapped, surrounded in darkness and although he was not physically bound he found that he could not move.

"Who are you!" He demanded.

His captors although silent were faintly visible. They seemed to radiate a faint, grey light.

"I know you're there!" Xehanort yelled.

Still the captors were silent.

"I don't know what you think you're going to accomplish but I am never going back to the darkness."

"Oh really . . ." the voice of a male said.

"He's lying," the voice of a female said. "He has tried to change himself but once you have tasted the power of darkness there is only one way to truly change."

"Is he going to be any use to us?" the male asked.

Xehanort felt uncomfortable at the sudden silence. He didn't know who had captured him but he got the idea that they were with the dark wielder.

After a few minutes the female spoke. "You have done well Xemnas. If he does not submit willingly then you have my permission to change his mind by any means necessary."

The shadows cleared a little and Xehanort saw a strangely beautiful woman standing with grace. Next to her Xehanort saw his other half – Xemnas.

"Yes my queen," Xemnas said, bowing as he turned away.

Yeah see told you it might get a little confusing. Anyway I haven't had as much time for updating as I wanted (mostly due to the fact I'm playing a game called Guild Wars)