Chapter 19, the 19th chapter. Chicken da China, da Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain starts tickin', you're watching X-Files with the lights on, with Donald Mason, aaaaand... I forget the rest. OK, onward to chapter 19!

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Hollow Bastion

Sora lunged at Riku, Keyblade outstretched, with Theo and Amy behind him, and Donald and Goofy against the Large Bodies holding Kairi, Aladdin, and Merlin. Riku drew his dark Keyblade and dashed at Sora. The two Keyblades struck, creating a blinding flash of light. When it was over, everything around Riku and Sora was black. "What'd you do?" Sora snapped. Riku folded his arms and laughed. "I can get out of here anytime I choose, along with you. But for now, it's a fight between you and ME." Riku's black pendant around his neck, and his Keyblade began glowing. RIku began chanting "Darkness, evil, and shadows craft, grant me with power, for the battle last!" Sora cried "What do you mean, battle last? Do you mean to..." Riku laughed. "You're right. Only one of us can get out of here, and it's gonna be me!"

Outside the black arena, the four companions were quite busy handling the heartless. "Where's Sora?" Theo cried. "I saw their Keyblades clash, and then nothing! What is going on?" Goofy picked Donald up and spun on his feet like a top, spinning the duck by his feet, while Donald cast fire, creating a flaming wheel. And Amy was putting her new necklace to great use, speeding around and to enemies. But they were still no match for the huge army of pitch-black Heartless.

Riku leapt into the air and shot a black beam out of his Keyblade as Sora dodge-rolled to the side and cast Blizzard. The Dark Keyblade wielder was shaken, but barely enough to do damage. He dashed towards Sora and slashed, but again Sora dodge rolled to the side and cried "Ars Arcanum!". He let loose a flurry of slashes, pounds, and blasts, and then jumped and shot a shiny beam out of the Light Keyblade. As the beam hit the wall of the black dome, a hole was ripped in it but was quickly filled with the black substance. "I see now!" He cried. Sora lunged for Riku again, but this time his Keyblade was glowing. As the two Keyblades hit, another huge flash of light was created, destroying the dark area. "What have you done? How'd you... But I... Graaagh!" Riku was enraged. He attacked with all the power in himself, kicking, slashing, cutting, dashing, and punching. Sora tapped his green amulet and cloaked himself immediately, and snuck up behind Riku.

Sora snatched the amulet around Riku's neck, and the Dark Keyblade wielder fell to the ground on his knees, moaning and crying. All the Heartless that Amy, Theo, Donald, and Goofy were fighting vanished into thin air, and the black amulet was shattered into thousands of tiny pieces, courtesy of Sora. Kairi ran over to him. "Sora!" she cried, as a teardrop ran down her face. "Kairi!" Sora replied. He clutched her in his arms and cried also. Riku, still weakened, staggered up. "You think I'm done?" He said violently. But it wasn't Riku's voice. It was Ansem. The body of Riku was becoming transparent and fading. "Im not going alone...!" He cried. Ansem grabbed Kairi's arm just before he vanished. "Sora!" She cried again. Sora grabbed her hand at the last moment, and both of them disappeared.

"...Sora?"Goofy asked. "SORA!"

BUM BUM BUM... Chapter 19