Chapter 4: Rebirth
(Riku's P.O.V.)
The darkness engulfed Riku, he felt as though someone was grasping his throat, for he could not breathe. Then he felt a cool, crisp sensation moving up his body, and found himself floating in space. Still unable to speak he floated around suspended by space and time. "This must be what hell is like..." he managed to choke out those words. Then he heard his own voice, but not from his own mouth.
"So, you're the real me?"
"What?"
"I've been wandering this damnation, waiting for you, waiting for..."
"Sora"
He new what the voice was going to say. He felt its longing for friends, the longing that Riku felt, not so long ago...
"Did you figure out why we share thoughts?"
The answer was clear, yet how can it be? Riku tilted his head and his eyes met a twin of himself, only with his old armor that Maleficent gave him.
"Are you my Nobody?"
He thought his eyes fooled him, but the carbon copy smiled. And gently said
"It's a bit more complicated than that, you see I am you, and you are me, not half and half."
He smiled again.
"But the same principles apply to us, I need to merge with you, so that you can help Sora."
There was an intense whitelight and Riku held not one, but two keyblades, the Way to Dawn and the Soul Eater. He stared at Soul Eater. This was his old keyblade, when he and Sora fought in Hollow Bastion a year ago. Then the other Riku spoke.
"That is my blade, and now its yours again, tell Sora thank-you, for me."
The voice trailed away, and Riku fell out of the darkness and into what looked like Twilight Town. Riku made a frantic search for Roxas's old friends, for he thought they might know where he could get a gummi.
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(Next Chapter is a flash back.)