Chapter 7-Twilight (Dawn)
(Riku will be chapter nine instead.)
The figure walked up towards Sora's door, and with a deep sigh, rings the doorbell. Sora still looking at the sleeping Roxas on his couch, Opened the door. He nearly collapsed at what he saw. In front of him was a radiant Axel, who previously helped him find Kairi.
"How many surprises can I have in a day?"
Axel laughed at this.
"Rough day?"
"How'd you guess?"
"Oh, just that, a guess."
Axel came inside and saw the blonde-hair of Roxas. He did a double take.
"Is that you Roxas?"
He saw that he was sleeping.
"Oh, I see, Sora still has your half."
Axel turned to face Sora. The two disscussed what they have been doing.
"So those organization bastards are dead?"
Axel grinned.
"Thats good news for me, that way I don't need to hear the reprimands of that bitch Xemnas."
Sora asked how he got out of the corridors of darkness afterwards.
"You see, after I turned myself into a kameikaze, I was fully prepared to die, yet when I faded into darkness I was still whole. So I broke out of that hell hole and ended up in Twilight Town, again."
As they were talking Roxas's subconcience began to play-back his memories.
"Who are you?"
A girl turns around and smiles.
She is standing there, but disappears when he turns to look.
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"Huh...?"
"Hey."
"Morning."
Pence and Olette freeze in midwalk.
"Huh...?"
Roxas runs up to them but then a girl steps in front of him.
"Hello, Roxas."
"Uh... Hi... And you are...?"
Naminé holds up a hand to quiet him.
"I wanted to meet you at least once."
"Me?"
"Yes, you."
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Roxas is surronded by Dusks.
"Not good..."
The Dusks approach a weaponless Roxas.
"Roxas! Use the Keyblade!"
Roxas looks up and sees Naminé on a building overlooking the Sandlot. A Dusk attacks Roxas, who blocks with his hands
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Roxas is pulled into the darkness, but Naminé catches him and saves him. He finds himself in a white room standing before Naminé. Before he starts to speak, Naminé places a finger to her lips.
"My name is Naminé. Roxas... Do you remember your true name?"
A cloaked figure returns and picks Naminé up
"Say no more, Naminé."
"But if no one tells him, Roxas will..."
"It's best he doesn't know the truth."
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Roxas battles Vivi. As he goes in for one last strike, something stops him and Roxas notices that everything has frozen in time. Vivi suddenly turns into a Dusk, then more appear
"Again!?"
His sword turns into the Keyblade.
"Again..."
Roxas fights the Dusks and wins, though he's tired. He's alerted by a cloaked man clapping behind him and turns around.
"Roxas. All right. Fight fight fight."
The man walks in closer to Roxas.
"You really don't remember? It's me. You know, Axel."
The man removes his hood, showing his flaming red hair.
"Axel?"
"Talk about blank with a capital "B." Man oh man, even the Dusks aren't gonna crack this one."
His chakram appear in flames and he catches them in his hands.
"Wait a sec, tell me what's going on!"
"This town is his creation, right? Which means we don't have time for a Q & A. You're coming with me, conscious or not. Then you'll hear the story."
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"Naminé?"
Kairi gets a sudden headache while Roxas continues to fall off the clock tower.
"Naminé...? What's happening to me?"
"Who are you? And that's not my name. I'm Kairi."
"Kairi... I know you. You're that girl he likes."
"Who? Please, a name!"
"I'm Roxas."
"Okay, Roxas, but can you tell me HIS name?"
"You don't remember my name? Thanks a lot, Kairi! Okay, I guess I can give you a hint. Starts with an "S!""
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"This is...me? ...And Axel's here too."
"You ARE best friends..."
"Very funny."
"Don't you want to know the truth about who you really are?"
"No one knows me better than me."
"Of course..."
"But...I don't get what's been happening lately."
Roxas sees a picture of Sora, Donald, and Goofy.
"You know these three, don't you?"
"Yeah. Sora, Donald, and Goofy. They're from the dreams."
"About a year ago, some things happened, and I had to take apart the memories chained together in Sora's heart. But now... I'm putting them all back exactly the way they were. It's taken me a long time, but pretty soon Sora will be his old self again. The process has been affecting you, too, Roxas."
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"Organization XIII... they're a bad group."
"Bad or good, I don't know. They're a group of incomplete people who wish to be whole. To that end, they're desperately searching for something."
"What?"
"Kingdom Hearts."
Roxas chuckles.
"Funny?"
"It's just, I think---I've been running away from the question I really wanna ask:"
Roxas walks to the table and leans against it.
"What's gonna happen to me now? Just tell me that. Nothing else really matters anymore."
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"Simply amazing, Roxas."
"Axel."
"You really do remember me this time? I'm SO FLATTERED."
Axel's anger causes the edges of the room to erupt in flames
"But you're too late!!"
Roxas manages to conjure the Oathkeeper and Oblivion Keyblades.
"Two!?"
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"Sora..."
Sora, still asleep, is floating inside.
"You're lucky. Looks like my summer vacation is...over."
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"A Keyblade?"
He runs at Sora, who blocks with his Keyblade. There is a flash and they end up on the Station of Awakening. They run at each other and block attacks. He is now holding the Oblivion and the Oathkeeper.
"Wh-who are you?"
"Someone from the dark."
Sora knocks him back.
"You can't be Riku?"
"Riku? ...I defeated a Riku once."
"You what!?"
"Tell me... Tell me why he picked you!"
He runs at Sora, scraping the Keyblades on the ground with a screech, sending up sparks. He attacks Sora, but Sora dodges. Sora blocks the Oblivion with his Keyblade, and knocks it away. The Oathkeeper strikes upward, but is also parried. Downward again, more blocking from Sora. The figure jumps into the air, spins and lands on his feet. He jumps at Sora, who leaps to dodge. Sora is hit by the Oblivion and thrown up in the air. The cloaked man jumps up towards him. Sora flips upside down and blocks both Keyblades, then flies to his feet on the floor. The figure watches from above for a few seconds.
"I see. That's why."
He falls to the floor and tries to strike Sora with the Oblivion. Sora jumps away and continues to dodge his attacks. Sora deflects one strike, opening the way for the man to pound continuously on his blocking Keyblade. Sora falls on one knee and his Keyblade is knocked away from him. Sora runs to it, but the man stops him, slamming the Oathkeeper into the floor between Sora and his Keyblade. Sora slides to a stop. The man points at him with the Oblivion. Sora struggles against his anger. He holds his hand out toward the Keyblade, and it disappears from the Oathkeeper's hold
"What!?"
The Keyblade flashes into Sora's hands and he strikes the man down. The two Keyblades drop and vanish. The man walks past Sora and trips, his hood flying off, revealing his golden hair. He stands up and turns to Sora.
"You make a good other."
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"Thank you, Naminé."
"Sure. See? We meet again, like we promised."
"Huh?"
"You said we'd meet again, but when we did, we might not recognize each other."
Roxas walks out of Sora.
"I did, didn't I?"
"But I knew you."
"Mmm...it's strange."
"I think I understand. I see myself the way you remember me. And you see yourself the way I remember you."
"I always though Nobodies were doomed to fade back into darkness..."
"Yeah, but you and I didn't. We got to meet our original selves."
"So, we can be together again!"
Roxas walks to the side of her.
"Right. Anytime Sora and Kairi are together."
"We'll be together every day. Right, Sora?"
"Uh...yeah!"
Kairi takes Naminé's hand, and they both glow. Naminé is transferred into Kairi.
"Look sharp!"
Roxas closes his eyes, and fades away. Sora glows, having taken Roxas back into himself.
Roxas stirs and Axel hears him. He looks, and smiles.
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