A/N: Ok this is the last chapter so I have made it extra long. I hope that all you guys who don't normally review take the time to place one now. There are a couple of things I want you to remember as you read this the first being that the Nobody Roxas is old, created from Sora when he first entered the abyss. The Nobody Sora is the same age as the real Roxas because he was created when Roxas first entered the abyss. Of course there's also the matter of thanking the regular reviewers whose reviews have kept me going through this whole story. Thank you Twilight Power, Twilight Warrior, SavannahX, The-Great Ninja-Alexa2006 and GTA Guy. There was a time when my fic would have had no trouble getting ten reviews for a chapter but I'm not going to force the loyal reviewers mentioned above to wait longer then they have to. And also I added an extra character because I wanted to and I thought it would be interesting to try and write about them (notice how I'm being discreet here).
Endless Abyss
"You fool!" the dark wielder yelled angrily. "I will rip you limb from limb and then I will start on the girl!"
Sora felt his blood burn as the dark wielder finished talking. "I won't let you get anywhere near Kairi!" Sora yelled as he flew at an even greater speed towards the dark wielders other eye.
"So there is a girl…" the dark wielder said. "Hmm that's very interesting!"
Sora felt his heart sink. The dark wielder had just tricked him into revealing the name of the person that he cared for more then anything in all the worlds.
Sora had to snap out of his depression because the dark wielders second eye didn't look as easy to damage as the first – it was glowing a dark purple – and besides from the eye itself, Sora also had to worry about dodging the dark wielders hands. Luckily he was in final form.
When he reached the eye he raised the light keyblade into the air and then slammed it down on his knee. It broke off into two smaller keyblades, both looking the same. Sora stared at them; horrified for a moment at what he'd done but when he saw that they were growing longer so that he now had two light keyblades he grinned.
Sora spun around, using a technique he had used so often in the past, against Xemnas and the nobodies. The keyblades were moving so fast that they seemed to be beams of light and the dark wielder groaned in anguish, each time they connected with his eye.
Now the dark wielder couldn't see and Sora was happy with what he'd done.
"You don't deserve to exist," Sora said to the dark wielder. "The chaos and war will end with your death!"
The dark wielder laughed at Sora's ignorance.
"Chaos and war will never end no matter what you do! Darkness resides in every heart, even yours!"
"We'll see about that!" Sora said as he flipped through the air so that he was in line with where a normal person's heart would be. As he reached it he held the two light keyblades up into the air and then pointed them at the dark wielder.
"Light!" Sora yelled. Two beams of light shot out from both of the light keyblades, each beam striking the dark wielder in the chest.
"Arghh!" the dark wielder grunted. The dark wielder knew he would not be able to withstand the light for much longer and so conjured a shield of darkness to protect him. The light that Sora shot at the dark wielder poured off the shield for a few seconds, just enough time for the dark wielder to think that he had gained the advantage but then the shield of darkness faded away and the light started to attack the dark wielder once again.
"You really should give up," Sora said, "That is if you want to live!"
"Me, give up?" the dark wielder laughed as if the very thought of giving up was hilarious.
"Well I gave you a choice," Sora said as he concentrated on making the beams of light grow thicker and more powerful.
After a minute or so it became apparent that the dark wielder was quickly losing his strength and Sora took advantage of that by making the beams of light even more powerful and redirecting them so that they were shining in the exact position of where the dark wielder's heart should have been.
A loud piercing scream erupted from the dark wielders mouth as he felt the light seep through his dark skin. Gradually the light went on through the dark wielders body, slowly getting closer to his heart.
CHING
A metallic sound indicated that the light had hit something metallic (duh! ) and it was then that Sora remembered the dark keyblade. It could not have disappeared and so it hadn't. Instead it was deeply embedded within the large mountainous beast that was once the dark wielder.
For some reason unknown to Sora the dark wielder screamed even louder at that but it wasn't long before he found out why.
A small flame had started to work it's way up the dark wielder and every second that flame grew larger.
"NO, I have achieved ultimate power and I will never give it up, not for anything!"
Now Sora laughed. "Ultimate power? How can you have ultimate power if someone like me can come here and wipe the floor with you?"
The dark wielder had no response to that and said nothing more even though the flames were getting hotter by the minute.
Sora watched without remorse as his enemy burned to death.
One final cry of pain and the giant mountainous beast known as the dark wielder disappeared. Sora landed on the ground and saw a bruised and battered body lying on the ground. It was the dark wielders original form, the body he was born in. On top of that body was the dark keyblade, placed on his chest with his hands on top of it.
Sora sighed in relief, finally it was all over. Now there was just the small matter of cleaning up the damage that the dark wielder and his army had caused.
"You haven't won yet foolish boy!"
Sora turned around in shock. He was even more shocked when he learned who it was that had spoken.
"You! You're that woman who was under the Twilight Town Clock tower!"
"Yes," she said. "And you must be that little brat who took down the Organization!"
"I'm no brat!" Sora replied. "And yeah I did take down the Organization, what they were doing would have destroyed many lives if me and my friends hadn't interfered!"
The woman was clearly angry but she restrained herself for she hadn't destroyed the dark wielder with that fire spell for nothing.
"I think you have fought far too many battles," she said, her tone leaning a little more towards the seductive tone she had used to fool the dark wielder.
Fortunately Sora knew enough now not to be fooled by her; even though she appeared to be everything he desired, he knew that it was not a good idea to trust his eyes. He was proved to be correct when the woman snapped her thumb and two figures, covered in shadow appeared beside her.
"Take care of him!" the woman commanded.
"Yes my queen," they said simultaneously.
With that, the queen of the nobodies grabbed the dark keyblade and then disappeared.
Sora stared in horror as the darkness cleared up and he realised who it was that the queen of the nobodies had sent to fight him.
One of them was holding the Kingdom Key while the other was holding both Oblivion, and Oathkeeper.
"Fighting myself huh?" said the nobody Sora.
"This is sure to be interesting," the nobody Roxas agreed, not seeming to be interested at all.
Sora stood firm with his two light keyblades and glared angrily at the two nobodies. "Come and get me!"
Endless Abyss
Somehow Kairi had been isolated from everyone else and instead of fighting heartless, was now fighting Maleficent.
"Do you really think you can beat me?" Maleficent asked Kairi with a laugh.
"I have to!" Kairi yelled. "For Sora," she added quietly to herself.
Maleficent threw a ball of darkness at her and she leapt into the air to dodge it. Unfortunately the ball of darkness curved upwards to follow her.
"Aiyaa!" Kairi yelled as she held the "Flower of Destiny" Keyblade and whacked the ball of darkness back to the ground. It connected with an explosive sound and as the dust from the impact cleared, Kairi saw that it had made a small crater in the ground.
"Yes, powerful aren't they," Maleficent said. "The power of Darkness is growing more powerful every minute and soon you'll be no match at all."
"Then maybe I should take care of you quickly then!" Kairi yelled back as she landed in the crated and then immediately pointed her keyblade at Maleficent. It glowed for a moment and then fired a burst of light at her.
Maleficent didn't even move an inch from where she was standing, instead she held out her hand which was glowing with darkness. The burst of light coming from Kairi's keyblade stopped instantly.
Suddenly some strange force possessed Kairi and she pulled away from her keyblade. Another one broke free from the first and now she had two. Both of them were shining a beam of light at Maleficent.
"You can't stop Destiny!" Kairi said, without any idea why she said it.
Flowery vines burst out from the beam of light and covered it completely. Then they travelled along it and wrapped themselves around Maleficent.
"What is this!" Maleficent demanded.
"Destiny!" Kairi said, knowing now that her keyblade had shown her how to do what she'd done.
Kairi moved to walk away but someone big and fat stood in her way.
"Not so fast!" Pete yelled at her. "No-one humiliates Maleficent like that and gets away with it!"
Pete ran at Kairi who just jumped into the air and landed on Pete's back.
"Get off o' me!" Pete yelled, as he tried to throw her off.
Pete's outburst made Kairi hold on even tighter. After a minute or so she found that she could manipulate where Pete moved to by pulling down his ears a little.
"Argh!" Pete yelled, getting more frustrated by the minute.
Kairi guided Pete towards Maleficent and drove him into such a rage that he couldn't see where he was going. Then at the last second, she jumped off and watched as Pete ran straight at Maleficent.
Even though Maleficent knew that she no longer had control over the heartless, she still stuck her hand up to command them out of instinct. Almost instantly, a wall of darkness erected itself in-front of her and Pete bounced off it and fell flat on his ss.
"I have control of them again!" Maleficent cried with joy.
Pete scrambled to his feet. "You have… That's great! Does that mean…."
"Yes Pete, it does," Maleficent said, even as she watched the vines curl up in defeat, unable to withstand the power of her darkness. "Let us go, and we'll take care of the dark wielder!"
"Huh?" Kairi said, mystified at the change in events.
"The dark wielder took away Maleficent's power to control the heartless," Pete said. "We had no choice but to fight for him."
"Don't get him wrong," Maleficent said. "I will get revenge for this humiliation but now there are bigger problems to worry about."
"Like what?" Kairi asked.
"The dark wielders lapse in power means either that he has been defeated by your light wielder or he has been defeated by the queen of the nobodies."
"Queen of the nobodies?"
"She has always existed for as long as there have been nobodies. She was the first one and ever since her existence began, she has lusted after a heart. Every century her power grew stronger and stronger but still she was not able to acquire what she desired. Then, a few hundred years ago, mysterious things began to happen, the three keyblades were created, the keyblade wars began, and the queen of the nobodies disappeared. No-one knows exactly what happened but eventually I learned that she was trapped in Twilight Town somewhere. However recently I've begun to think that she wasn't imprisoned at all – someone must have hidden her there. But for what reason I'll never know. The dark wielder released her against my wishes and then forced me to join him by draining me of my powers to control the heartless. With out them, my castle is no longer a safe place for me."
"Then I think we should work together," Kairi said.
Maleficent thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement. She waved her hands and the heartless began to gather around her.
"Let us go and take care of that blasted woman!" Maleficent yelled. The heartless somehow understood what she meant and went off as one to find the Queen of the nobodies.
Endless Abyss
Aldan and Yen Sid were fighting the heartless together when suddenly the heartless began to retreat.
"Hmm, how strange," Yen Sid said.
"If you think that's strange then try having the whole of your being blasted across the worlds and then being put back together again to serve some crack pot man who calls himself the dark wielder!"
Yen Sid and Aldan turned around to find themselves faced with a large, angry red genie.
"What's the matter there puffy?" Aldan asked, poking fun at Jafar.
"No-one makes fun of Jafar!" Jafar yelled angrily, throwing a blazing ball of fire at Aldan's head.
Aldan raised his keyblade and put out the fire ball with a simple utterance of the blizaga spell. Jafar wasn't discouraged at all, instead he raised his hand which glowed brightly before shooting a beam of energy down on the ground where it revealed a circle of power (such as the one Sephiroth is in on KH 1 when you first fight him).
"If I can't beat you with fire then maybe I can beat you by force!" Jafar yelled.
Aldan leapt at the genie and cast a graviga spell while he was at it.
Yen Sid mean while was watching the circle of power as a monstrous behemoth grew from it.
"Maybe you should go back to your lamp Jafar," Aldan said.
"Maybe you should go back to your lamp Jafar!" Jafar said, mocking Aldan. "Why don't you try living in a lamp that has been scattered across the worlds huh?"
"Maybe I will one day," Aldan said, laughing at the way his comments infuriated Jafar.
"Aldan we're in trouble!" Yen Sid yelled as the behemoth rose up into the air, standing on it's hind feet.
Aldan laughed harder then ever. "It is you that is in trouble Master Yen Sid." With another laugh Aldan shoved his keyblade through the genie.
"Arghh!" Jafar yelled as he felt himself being pulled apart.
Yen Sid watched curiously. As far as he knew didn't have anywhere near enough power to kill a genie as easily as that. Gradually the form of a woman became slightly visible behind the reddish haze that was the remnants of Jafar. As the haze disappeared, Yen Sid saw Aldan walk to the woman's side with a malicious grin on his face.
"You are a foolish man indeed to think I would side with you in this battle Yen Sid!" Aldan smirked.
"Why?" Yen Sid said, asking the age old question.
"Have you not guessed yet? This is the queen of the nobodies and I am the one that came to her aid in her time of need, many years ago!"
"You bastard!" Yen Sid yelled as he cast a firaga spell and sent it flying at Aldan.
The queen of the nobodies held out her hand and stopped the fire in it's tracks.
"Join me Yen Sid, there is always room for another nobody such as yourself."
"Never!" Yen Sid yelled. "I might not have a heart but I know the difference between good and evil."
"Which side would you say I am on?" The queen of the nobodies asked him.
"The wrong side!" Yen Side yelled as he conjured a sword out of thin air and ran straight at Aldan and Yen Sid.
Both of them cast Thundaga spells which struck Yen Sid directly on his back. He dropped to the ground, instantly fading away.
"Thank you my love," Aldan said to the queen. "Without your aid I would surely have died."
"It is me who should be thanking you," the queen replied in her most seductive voice yet. "If you hadn't of hidden me away while during the keyblade wars then I would not be here today."
"But seriously, how did you do that to Jafar?" Aldan asked her.
"The dark wielder had used the dark keyblade to gather him back together but unfortunately for the genie I am the new dark wielder!" The queen of the nobodies pulled out the dark keyblade and waved it around.
"Magnificent," Aldan said with a smile. "Everything is going exactly the way we planned all those years ago."
"Almost," she said. "That boy is a problem though. I could not possibly have foreseen his coming."
"The nobodies are taking care of him are they not?" Aldan asked.
"Yes," she said in a voice that didn't sound too sure. "But this boy almost took down the dark wielder by himself. If I hadn't arrived then he would have succeeded." The queen paused for a moment, contemplating a thought. "It won't be long before I will have to take care of the problem myself. There is another thing as well."
"What might that be?" Aldan asked.
"The boys nobody…. He has found himself a heart." The queen of the nobodies sighed.
"How?" Aldan asked.
"This world was dead," she said. "Even though it is starting to remember it's old life it is still in Terminus, the world of the heartless. Some how, in this land of darkness, both the human and the nobody have a heart."
"Hmm…" Aldan said. "If this is true then our plans will be successful even faster then we could have dreamed back then."
"I can't do this alone," the queen of the nobodies said.
"Don't worry." Aldan replied passionately. "You will never have to do anything alone ever again, not now that we are together once more."
They leaned closer to each other and kissed, the only passion in amongst all the anger and fury surrounding them on the battlefield. The behemoth walked off as if it knew that it would be a big mistake to interrupt the two lovers.
Endless Abyss
Ansem fought his opponent furiously, glad in some sick way to finally have someone he could unleash his wrathful revenge upon. He shot the data converter straight at Xemnas who just leapt into the air and summoned two spear shaped weapons with extra blades hanging off the sides. (Yes I know it's not what he had in the game but it's my story! ) Xemnas landed on the ground and stabbed one of the spear shaped weapons. Xemnas spun around the spear shaped weapon while holding out the second one so that as he moved faster and faster so that it seemed like a helicopter rotor.
Ansem was equal to that – he pointed his data converter at the ground and charged it before shooting downwards. A huge, crater-like hole appeared in the middle of the ground. Ansem jumped into it so that he was now safe from the threat of being hit by Xemnas's spears. With time to think, Ansem decided he would try and use his data converter to create a weapon he could use.
"Mickey my friend!" Ansem called out. "I need some time to prepare!"
"You got it!" Mickey replied as he pulled himself away from watching Sora fight the dark wielder so that he was now facing Xemnas. "You have troubled us long enough Xemnas!"
"Is that right?" Xemnas said. "Well I would apologise but I'm not sorry! You humans think you're so great because you have hearts. Well my other half found out first-hand that it is us nobodies that are the great ones. It is us who will win this war!" Xemnas pushed himself back to the ground and pulled out his other spear so that he could use it to parry Mickey's attack.
"Even now, my queen is working to betray the dark wielder and take the dark keyblade as her own!" Xemnas continued. "And when she has it then she will make everything right and give us the hearts we deserve!"
Mickey leapt into the air so that he was above Xemnas. Then Mickey came spinning back down to the ground with such force that he knocked Xemnas over.
"Insolent fool!" Xemnas yelled as he got back to his feet.
Mickey leapt at him again and tried the same thing he'd tried before but this time Xemnas was ready for it and he swung one of the two blades he had up into the air and knocked Mickey back to the ground.
Mickey made a quiet groaning sound as he felt himself losing consciousness. "Ansem!" Mickey called as the lids of his eyes lowered and hid their light from the world.
"I'm here my friend!" Ansem cried as he leapt out of the hole bearing a weapon very similar to the Fenrir. When Ansem saw the body of his friend slumped on the ground his heart sank but as he got closer he sensed that Mickey's heart was still beating strong.
"You'll pay for this!" Ansem yelled at Xemnas as he threw himself at the nobody.
Xemnas thrust the two spears in front of him and held them in a defensive position. Ansem came straight at him and swung his Fenrir blade down in the middle, slicing both spears cleanly in two.
Xemnas fell to the ground in shock – he had clearly not expected Ansem to be able to produce any weapon that powerful.
"Tell me what your queen plans to do and maybe I'll let you live!" Ansem demanded.
Xemnas glared angrily at Ansem. "I'd rather die!"
"So be it!" Ansem yelled as he swung Fenrir down at Xemnas.
There was nothing for it to connect with and it went straight through and crashed into the ground.
"What!" Ansem said, confused. It took him a few seconds but eventually he came to the conclusion that Xemnas had escaped. That wasn't good but it couldn't be helped. There were much more important things for the Ansem to worry about, firstly how he was going to help Mickey.
Endless Abyss (I apologise in advance if this bit is confusing)
Sora rolled under the nobody Sora (NS) and flipped into the air to escape from the nobody Roxas (NR) and had a moments reprieve from the battle. It had been furious with both NS and NR fighting viciously, not giving Sora any room to think about what to do next. Nothing had gone to plan – killing the dark wielder was supposed to have been the end of it. But now things were even worse – the queen of the nobodies had the dark keyblade and Sora was stuck fighting what was in a sense himself.
"Thundaga!" NS yelled as he cast a thundaga spell at Sora.
Sora held up the two light keyblades and yelled, "Light!"
A thin shield of light shone around Sora and the thundaga spell reflected off of the light and went back towards NS. NR jumped in the way and knocked the thundaga spell to the side, saving NS from getting electrocuted.
"Be more careful next time!" NR told NS.
NS nodded and leapt into the air, this time casting a firaga spell. Sora held his two keyblades so that they were like an X and as the firaga spell connected with his keyblades he shoved the keyblades away from him, pushing the spell away as well.
NR cast a graviga spell at Sora and then ran towards the young light wielder with Oblivion and Oathkeeper held out, ready to attack Sora.
Sora felt the force of the graviga spell push him closer to the ground but he knew that he couldn't give up and so with all the strength he had, he leapt out of the area of effect so that he was safe from the spell. Unfortunately there were other things to contend with as well – as soon as Sora made it away from the graviga spell he was attacked by NS who knocked Sora on the head with the Kingdom Key.
Sora felt a dull thudding in his head and it forced him to his knees.
"Give it up Sora!" NR said. "You will never beat us!"
NS stepped aside to let NR have the last blow. NR walked leisurely up to Sora and held Oathkeeper and Oblivion to Sora's throat.
"Say goodnight Sora!" NR said.
Mere seconds before NR struck Sora another figure leapt between them, knocking NR back a little.
"Not so fast my friend," he said. "If you want Sora you'll have to go through me first!"
A blinding light was concealing the new comers identity in such a way that Sora could see it but NR and NS couldn't
"Who are you!" NR demanded.
"You of all people should know that," he said as he swung a soul blade at NR. "I'm the real Roxas!" Roxas used extra emphasis on the word real.
"We'll see how real you are when I'm finished with you!" NR cried as he leapt at Roxas's throat. Roxas sidestepped, tripping NR up as he moved. NR fell to the ground with a crash.
"Thanks Roxas!" Sora yelled with joy.
"No, thank you, Sora," Roxas said. "Thanks to you, there might be a way for me and Namine to be together again."
"Really?" Sora asked, curious. Unfortunately there was no time to be curious as Sora dodged a sneak attack from NS.
"DIE!" NS yelled as he swung the Kingdom key down at Sora's head. This time, Sora was ready and he dodge rolled to his left well simultaneously swinging out with one of the light keyblades to his right.
NS crashed to the ground next to NR and groaned painfully.
"What do you two want here!" Sora demanded.
"We are doing as our queen wishes us to do!" they replied together.
"And have you thought this through?" Sora asked them.
"We have no need to think anything through anymore. She does that for us."
"And if she told you to kill yourselves?"
"Then we would do it without hesitation!" NR said confidently.
"Yes," NS agreed. "The queen would only do what is best for us!"
Sora looked Roxas in the eyes and both of them nodded. They had no choice but to kill their nobodies.
Sora and Roxas raised their weapons to swing them down on the two nobodies but neither of them connected.
A tall, reasonably tanned man stood in their way.
"Your life is worth nothing to me!" the man yelled.
"Xehanort?" Sora asked, confused.
"Get him!" NR yelled as he got to his feet.
With that Xehanort leapt at Sora's throat and wrapped his hands around it.
Sora felt his breath leaving him and his consciousness along with it. "Xehanort!" Sora yelled, trying to bring Xehanort back to his senses.
Xehanort winked at Sora and muttered the word Curaga. "They think I am under their control and for a moment I was but your kings light has freed me!" His face bared the remnants of a faint smile.
"Right!" Sora said, catching on. "We have to fool them."
Roxas heard every word that Xehanort had said and as he caught on as well he yelled out, "What are you doing Xehanort! Are you not grateful for everything Mickey has done for us?"
Roxas leapt at Xehanort and hit him with the soul blade, moving so fast that NR and NS didn't see that Roxas used the flat side of the blade.
"Argh!" Xehanort groaned in a facade of pain. Xehanort fell to his knees and it was then that NR and NS leapt to his side and stood between Xehanort and his two 'enemies'.
"Now!" Xehanort yelled as he grabbed NR and NS and wrestled them to the ground. Sora and Roxas stood by his side and held their weapons to their corresponding nobodies throats.
Roxas shoved the soul blade right through NS's chest and watched as the nobody Sora dissolved into nothingness. Sora felt a little shocked at the heartlessness of what Roxas had just done but then remembered that he was about to do the same thing. Besides it was necessary wasn't it?
"Sorry," Sora said, the regret clear in his voice. He raised the two light keyblades and was about to swing them down when Roxas yelled, "No!"
"What?" Sora asked, mystified.
"You can't kill him, you'll change everything!" Roxas yelled.
"What are you talking about?"
"You said you killed him in the past, how he got there I'll never know but that event is a part of who you are today. If you erase it from history then everything will change and not necessarily for the better."
Sora stared down at NR and thought for a moment. NR looked old and frail at that time and as far as Sora was concerned, he would most likely be harmless in the future or the past.
"Very well," Sora said decisively. "You may live for now but I'm not too happy about it."
"What are you going to do to her?" NR demanded.
"Well there might be nothing we can do," Sora said. "If she has been corrupted by the power of darkness then we will have to defeat her."
"NO!" NR yelled.
"We aren't going to be able to do this if he is still here!" Xehanort said, pointing at NR.
"Yes I know," Sora agreed. Sora opened a portal of light and grabbed NR by the scruff of his neck. "I've got nothing against you and your queen but I cannot stand by while she wrecks havoc across the worlds." Sora threw NR into the portal and then closed it hastily before NR could scramble back out.
"Where did that go?" Roxas asked.
Timeless River (And yes I know Nobodies have no hearts so don't pull me up about anything like that in this part)
NR opened his eyes, his head spinning. "Dam it!" he yelled. "I have to get back to her!"
"You won't be going anywhere sonny." NR heard a deep, slightly grizzly voice, much like how his own was now. He looked around for it's source when suddenly with a shock, he discovered it was himself, only a little older.
"Yes, I am you," the older version said.
"But how?" NR asked.
"Time has no meaning in this place, here you can go back in time as far as you want or go into the future even but you will leave an imprint of yourself here for ever."
"Well I need to get out of here!" NR yelled.
"You don't understand," the older version said. "You will be the new imprint now, until you have learnt the skills to leave as I have."
"But… there's no time!"
The older version laughed. "Have you heard nothing of what I've said? Time is meaningless here. You will know your time has come when you are standing in my position. With that, the older version walked away from NR.
NR felt spiteful and yelled out, "Sora is going to kill you!"
The older version turned around for a moment and NR saw an emotion equal to fear in his eyes that had been there throughout the whole conversation.
"Through this place I have seen a terrible thing come to pass and I will do anything I can to prevent it!"
"What?" NR asked, a little of that same fear starting to show in his eyes.
"Our queen has died!"
Endless Abyss
Riku and Hades continued their fight, not even having time to stop and watch as the large mountainous beast that was the dark wielder burned to the ground. Hades fell to his knees from a sudden weakness and Riku knew that he had been fighting with power leant to him by the dark wielder.
"Give it up Hades!" Riku said grimly. "I won't tell you again!"
Hades growled in anger and frustration but mostly in pain. "You got lucky this time but I'll get you one day!"
With that, Hades vanished and Riku could tell that he had gone back to the underworld where he belonged. Finally free to go to Alexa's aid, Riku ran straight to where her limp body lay on the ground.
"Alexa!" Riku cried. He put his finger to her throat and felt for a pulse but there was none. "Nooooo!" Riku yelled in anguish. He hadn't known how to express what he'd felt for Alexa but the words were beginning to appear in his mind. "I…love…" But that was all Riku could get out as he collapsed into a sad little heap on the ground.
Endless Abyss
Sora, Roxas and Xehanort were walking along, uninterrupted, searching for where the battle had gone. There were no heartless or anything like that in their sight. Even with the light of the portal that the dark wielder had opened up, there was still no sign of any battle going on. Then Roxas saw it – two bodies lying together on the ground. The only sign that either of them was alive was a rolling movement that one of them was making.
"Lets take a look," Sora said as he glided along the ground, still in his final form transformation.
When he got there his heart sank – the two people on the ground were Riku and Alexa. Riku was on the ground with tears leaking out of his eyes, muttering "Why?" and "It's not fair!"
"What's not fair Riku?" Roxas asked, trying to calm him down.
But Sora had seen the cause for Riku's sorrow and felt overwhelmed by sorrow of his own. "Alexa…" Sora said.
Roxas and Xehanort were distressed by their friends sorrow along with the fact that they could barely imagine what he was going through. The only thing that got anyone's attention was a loud roar which came from behind them.
Everyone turned around and glared at the behemoth who had decided to interrupt.
"You've messed with the wrong people!" Roxas said, as if the behemoth could understand a word he said. Roxas leapt onto the creatures back and Xehanort cast a graviga spell on it's head. Between Roxas stabbing his soul blade into the behemoth's back and Xehanorts spell, they brought the beast to the ground.
Sora walked over to the behemoth and glared into it's eyes. "Go back to the hole whence you came from foul beast!" Then Sora held out the light keyblades and stabbed them into the behemoth's brain.
The behemoth blinked in surprise and fell to the ground, as dead as Alexa although not nearly as graceful in death. Darkness engulfed the behemoth and gradually he disappeared.
Roxas stared at Sora in disbelief. "Go back to the hole whence you came?"
"Ah, it's nothing," Sora said. "Just something I learned over the years."
Roxas nodded. He had forgotten that although Sora appeared to be young, he was actually the oldest one there.
"Riku," Sora said. When he received no answer he tried again. "RIKU!"
Riku looked up at Sora for a moment.
"We have to get going Riku. I've sent NR to the Timeless River but we still have to deal with the queen herself."
Suddenly Riku jumped to his feet. "Timeless River? Is it just a name?"
"No," Sora replied. "It is much more then a name, it is the truth. Time has no meaning there and it would be possible to travel the time stream with it."
Riku summoned the Twilight keyblade from off of the ground. "Then that is where I must go."
"No Riku!" Xehanort yelled. "It is clear that you care greatly for this person," he indicated Alexa's limp, lifeless body, "But you can't change the past."
Riku opened his mouth to protest but Sora jumped in. "Look Riku, I know I am going to hate myself for doing this but Xehanort is right. There is no way that you can change the past."
"If there's no way to change the past then how can it hurt letting me try?" Riku cried.
"Look Riku," Sora said. "You're my closest friend and I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I knew you were wasting your life trying to change the past."
Riku sparked with energy for a few seconds and Sora thought he was about to do something stupid but then Riku stormed off. Sora tried to go after him but both Xehanort and Roxas stopped him.
"He has to do what he has to do," Xehanort said. "When he realises that there is no way for him to get to the timeless river without first knowing where it is then he will most likely give up."
"I hope you're right," Sora said with a sigh.
Endless Abyss
Kairi and Maleficent arrived just in time to see the Queen of nobodies release Aldan from what they assumed to be some sort of embracing attack when in reality it was really a hug.
"Get away from Aldan!" Kairi yelled.
It was Maleficent who saw that there was something else going on and when she looked closer and saw the crazy look of pleasure in Aldan's eyes, she knew.
"Your friend betrayed you," Maleficent said, turning to Kairi. "He has been in league with the queen all along."
"But…" Kairi was confused. After all she had learned about Aldan, she would never have thought that he would do something like this. Neither Roxas, nor Sora or even Mickey had doubted Aldan's loyalty, not even for a second.
"Yeah, doesn't life suck?" Aldan said sarcastically.
"Firaga!" Kairi yelled, casting an angry firaga spell at Aldan. The queen of nobodies held out her palm and the fire slowed to a halt.
"Yen Sid already tried that my dear," the queen of nobodies said in an enchanting voice. "And as you might be able to tell, he is no longer with us."
Maleficent was surrounded by heartless, making the queen of nobodies feel secure in the fact that she would only have to deal with Kairi. But then…
"Attack!" Maleficent called to the heartless. All at once, the heartless began to charge towards the queen of the nobodies. The queen blinked in surprise but she was equal to that. She clicked her fingers and half a dozen dusks appeared with a couple of nobodies who were only faintly recognizable leading them. The hundreds of heartless broke like water against the small group of dusks and nobodies.
"I'm going in!" Kairi yelled to Maleficent. Maleficent nodded weakly. She felt drained, having been unable to control the heartless for such a long time, the effort it took drained her a lot more then it used to.
Kairi had the Flower of Destiny keyblade in her hands and held it so that it was pointing at the queen of the nobodies. A beam of light shot out of it and went straight at the queen. Unfortunately, Aldan leapt in front of it and deflected it with his own keyblade.
"You won't die this day my love!" Aldan said lovingly.
"Pete! Get in there!" Maleficent yelled at Pete.
Pete heard the urgency in Maleficent's voice and hurried to obey. "Your day is over traitor!" Pete yelled.
"Look who's talking," Aldan said calmly as he deflected another beam of flowery light from Kairi and prepared to attack Pete.
"I betrayed no-one!" Pete yelled. "I'm only loyal to one person – Maleficent."
Maleficent felt a touch of pride at that and consequently she remembered an ancient spell which might be able to help her out.
"Summon!" Maleficent said, hoping that it would work. A beam of reddish grey light shot out from her staff and hit the ground where it reflected into the air. After a few seconds that light solidified into a more stable substance.
"Is that a dragon?" Kairi asked.
"One of the best!" the red dragon said as he came over to Kairi. "Jake Long, the American Dragon at your service!" Jake said, holding a scaly hand out.
Kairi stood in shock. "You talk?"
"Yeah of course I do!" Jake said. "Come on don't leave me hanging…"
Kairi realised that Jake's hand was still out and she shook it.
"Great!" Jake said, the excitement visible on his face. "Let's get this party started!"
The dragon called out something into the distance which sounded a like "Flame Up!" although it was hard to tell.
Kairi ran alongside the dragon and attacked the dusks, swiping up and then down, and then spinning in a circle.
Pete charged into the fray beside her and attacked just as viciously. Jake Long was shooting flaming balls of fire at Aldan who was having a hard time protecting himself from them. (They didn't deflect off of his keyblade, instead they set it on fire which although it couldn't harm the keyblade, caused quite enough problems on it's own.)
The queen of the nobodies was concentrating intensely as if there was a battle somewhere else, far away that she as much more interested in…
Endless Abyss
"Alexa?" Sora said, confused. A figure who's facial features were hidden in shadow walked closer to Sora, Roxas and Xehanort. As she stepped out of the shadows Sora saw that it wasn't Alexa at all, how could it be – dead people didn't go walking anywhere and besides, Sora was sitting right next to her body.
"That's not her Sora," Roxas warned. "It's another trick this blasted queen is using on you."
"Yes," Xehanort agreed. "This queen is far more trouble then she's worth, we should take care of her soon before things get out of hand."
"Well…" Sora said. "I guess I've got to do what I should have done as soon as I got here."
"And that is…"
Sora held up both of the light keyblades to the sky and shouted, "LIGHT!"
Two beams of light shot up into the sky and Sora held them there as they pushed the darkness away and revealed a sunny blueness that had become rare to the world now referred to as Endless Abyss. What was even better was the fact that as the darkness was pushed further and further away, the sun became clearer then it ever had been.
"What are you doing Sora?" Roxas asked.
"Restoring the light to this world!" Sora said.
In the new sunlight, Sora saw that what he had seen wasn't even a living being – it was a statue of Alexa that had erected itself, seemingly for no reason at all. When Sora looked at the white brace on her arm and then he knew why – it was because of her connection to the land, that the statue had erected itself.
Tears leaked out of Sora's eyes as if the reality of Alexa's death had just hit him fully for the first time.
Endless Abyss
"Ansem!" Riku called, happy to see him again.
"Riku!" Ansem called back. The two men embraced briefly before Riku spoke again.
"Ansem, there is something I need your help with, something that you cannot even whisper about to anyone. Can I trust you?"
"Of course Riku," Ansem said. "What is it?"
"Is there any way for me to change the past?"
Ansem thought for a moment. "There is no changing the past Riku." Riku's heart sank. "Unless, you were already there in that past."
"Huh?" Riku said, mystified.
"Well if you went back into the past to change something you would not really be changing it," Ansem said with a sigh as if he was preparing for a long explanation.
"If you go back in time, nothing you do will change the future. If you are meant to go to the past then that means that whatever you do is what shaped the present."
Riku sighed. "I understand," Riku said in disappointment.
A beam of light shot out from nowhere and lit the sky up, happening almost instantly. Riku and Ansem stared up at the sky in amazement.
"Wow," Riku said, surprised.
"This is a sign Riku," Ansem said. He had no idea how right he was. As the two stared up at the sky with an uncontrollable sense of happiness, another, smaller beam of light shined down at Riku's feet. A portal ripped open and Riku looked through it to the black and white world on the other side.
"This is… the way through isn't it?" Riku asked Ansem.
Ansem stared into Riku's eyes and said, "Yes, it is the way through but…"
"Save it my friend," Riku said. "I'm going through whether you want me to or not!"
With that Riku began to walk through the portal.
Unfortunately, he never made it to the other side because at that moment, a girl had leapt out of the shadows and was now standing between Riku and the portal to the Timeless River.
"Alexa?" Riku asked uncertainly.
The girl nodded and Riku grabbed onto her, hugging her tight. Only Ansem saw the truth.
"Riku! That girl is a nobody!"
But it was too late, the girl Riku had thought to be Alexa, gradually withdrew a dagger from her left boot and slid it up Riku's back.
Riku was lost in happiness at the thought that Alexa was not dead and ignored Ansem's warning.
Suddenly the girl shoved the dagger into Riku's back. Riku groaned in pain and fell to the ground without a word.
Ansem glared at the girl. "You might have fooled Riku but you haven't fooled me! Who are you!"
"I don't have to tell you anything," the girl said. "But… it's not like you'll be able to tell anyone when you're dead! I'm Xalea!"
Ansem felt a jolt of the familiar pleasure of being correct but that evaporated as quickly as it had come then he looked down at the body of his friend.
"You'll pay for this Xalea!"
Endless Abyss
"Come on Sora," Roxas said, speaking gently. "We have to go, the queen of nobodies is still out there and until we have dealt with her…"
"You're right," Sora said, picking himself up off the ground and reaching inside for the strength to go on.
Endless Abyss
Kairi leapt into the air, gliding over the dusks and struck Aldan with her keyblade. Aldan groaned in pain, able to do nothing to protect himself since Jake had made his own keyblade too hot to use.
"Blizaga!" The queen of nobodies yelled as she cast a blizaga spell at Jake. Jake flew into the air and spun around, making the ice deflect off of his scaly skin.
"This queen of your's doesn't seem too interested in this fight," Jake said to Kairi.
"Yeah, that's weird," Kairi said. "It's almost as if she is fighting someone else."
"We should make our move now!" Jake said. "Before she starts to pay attention!"
"Right!" Kairi said as she ran at Aldan. Kairi felt Jakes eyes on her head and she turned around to look back at him. "What? Aldan has to pay for his betrayal!"
Aldan had been about to grab Kairi's throat but something amazing had happened – a beam of light had shot up into the sky, lighting it up just the way Sora used to do.
"What the…?" Aldan said, confused.
"It's a sign," Kairi said with utter certainty. "Sora's on his way!"
"Great…" Maleficent said, the sarcasm clearly evident in her voice.
Endless Abyss
Sora looked into the distance and saw a dragon with what looked like ice shooting from it. He rubbed his eyes to make sure that he was seeing clearly.
"Sora it's Kairi!" Roxas said with glee.
Sora stared closer and saw that Roxas was pointing past the dragon with an older man who was barely recognizable as Aldan. Xehanort saw the disbelief in Sora's eyes and said, "Come on, if we run we can get there in about 30 seconds. Then you will know for sure."
Sora didn't want to agree but he knew that Xehanort was correct.
"Fine then, let's go!" All three of them ran as hard as they could and true to Xehanorts words, they arrived 30s seconds later to Kairi's surprise.
"Sora!" She yelled, sounding extremely excited.
Sora watched as Kairi ran incredibly fast with arms wide open, ready to embrace him. It was then that Sora remembered that he had not told Kairi who he was when he was old and yet she was acting as if some miracle had happened. One look in her eyes confirmed it, she had known the whole time.
"Oh Sora," Kairi said, "I thought I would never be able to talk to you like this again and now you're here and…" Suddenly Kairi broke down crying, tears of joy leaking out of her eyes.
Sora embraced her tighter, whispering into her ear, "Everything will be alright now Kairi, don't worry about anything."
The battle hadn't stopped just because Kairi had stopped but Xehanort and Roxas leapt in front of the two lovers and defended them fiercely. Meanwhile, Jake and Maleficent were attacking Aldan together.
"Are you ready Sora?" Xehanort asked.
Sora heard Xehanrort's voice and knew that he was needed. He turned to say something to Kairi but as he stared at her face he knew there was no need. She knew it just as well as he did.
"Alright Aldan," Sora said, "You're going down!"
"But… why?" Aldan asked. "The girl is tricking you!"
"No," Sora said. "You are the traitor. I have known it for some time now but I chose to say nothing, in the hope that I would be able to change you. Now I see that there was nothing at all that I could of done to make you join us."
Aldan saw that there was no point trying to trick Sora so instead asked a question. "What do you mean?"
"Loving someone who cannot truly love you back is what blinds you," Sora said, surprising Aldan.
"Well," Aldan said. "You are certainly a wise man. I am sorry that I will have to kill you!"
Sora sighed as he dodged an attack from Aldan. Aldan attacked again and this time Sora rolled under the attack so that he was now facing Aldan's back. One swift blow after another, Sora whacked Aldan on several key places, weakening Aldan's ability to stay on his feet.
Sora turned to look Aldan in the eye. "You have a chance Aldan, a chance to change your mind."
Aldan stared at Sora. "You already know the answer to that."
Sora raised his two light keyblades to deliver the final blow to Aldan's head.
"Argh!" Sora groaned in pain as a bolt of thunder connected with his arms.
"Not today boy!" the queen of nobodies yelled. "You have to deal with me first!"
Sora turned to look at the queen of nobodies. Then he turned to Roxas while simultaneously reaching out to grab something which was hanging out of Aldan's pocket. "Come with me Roxas. We will fight as one."
"What are you talking about?" Roxas asked, confused.
"Come with me Roxas," Sora said as he held up the small circular stone with a thunderbolt symbol on it. Roxas saw the stone and even though he didn't know exactly what it did, he got the idea that it had something to do with him joining with Sora.
Seeing Roxas's curiosity, Sora said, "It's called God form!"
Roxas and Sora walked closer to each other and Sora threw the stone into the air.
"Power!" Sora said, holding the light keyblades up to the sky. Roxas held the soul blade up to the sky and walked closer to Sora so that their blades connected.
A grey mist covered Sora and Roxas so that Kairi, Jake, Xehanort, Maleficent, Pete, Aldan and the queen of nobodies all stared into it trying but failing to see what was happening.
When the mist faded away, it revealed a man in a long purple tunic with a thunder symbol emblazoned on the left shoulder.
That figure was someone that nobody could place a name to except everyone watching saw the similarity's between him and Sora and Roxas.
"I am whole again, even though it is only for a while," Sora said.
"Really?" Maleficent said. "How interesting... Get on with it!"
Sora just glared at her and suddenly Maleficent seemed old and frail. "I knew I would be able to return to this form one day but never like this."
Aldan leapt at Sora but he was knocked to the ground by a fire ball thrown at him by Jake. The queen of the nobodies cast a blizaga spell at Aldan. Sora didn't know how but he knew that the queen of the nobodies would never love Aldan. She was using him to acquire a heart. Something else told Sora that after she got what she wanted, she would kill Aldan.
Suddenly a deep pity for Aldan formed in Sora's heart.
"Spare Aldan," Sora said, merely pointing behind him to open a portal for Xehanort to throw Aldan through. "He has been a pawn in this, nothing more."
"What are you talking about?"Aldan said, clearly aware that Sora knew something he didn't.
Sora didn't have the heart to tell him so instead turned to the queen of the nobodies. "You don't deserve to live! How could you trick a man into loving you like that?" Sora's dual voice echoed in such a way that is sounded like he was everywhere.
"If you have a problem with me then why don't we solve it like civilized people would?" she said as she withdrew the dark keyblade. Sora was surprised that she even had to withdraw it – he had thought she was using it already.
"Yaaaa!" She yelled as she flew furiously at Sora. Sora leapt over her and threw one of his light keyblades at her back. "Ragnorak!" Sora yelled as he attacked her.
The queen of the nobodies found it difficult to protect herself from Sora's relentless attacks until suddenly Sora stopped.
Sora closed his eyes and tried to recall the power he had felt once before. Almost instantly, it came rushing back to him and he thought briefly as he conjured a thunderbolt in his hands.
"Thunder Flash!" Sora said as he conjured multiple bolts of thunder and threw them all at the queen, conjuring and throwing more every second. The queen wasn't able to keep off the ground under the constant barrage of thunder and she fell to her knees.
"It's not over!" she said weakly as her molecules faded away. The dark keyblade dropped to the ground and Sora dropped next to it.
"It's finally over..." Sora said with relief.
A/N:I am going to make an epilogue so don't worry. Hope you guys have enjoyed this.