A/N: This chapter is very similar to the first one, with Xemnas just contemplating his life more. I know that it's short, but I promise you that the next one will be longer. [And it won't have Xemnas being all philosphical. And have no fear, the next chapter will have them all revived. So, please review. :
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts II © Square Enix
It was almost satiric to sit there and watch his life's work destroyed. If there was some higher power they were surely finding this amusing. And now that he was just lying on the floor, his energy inching away from him, he looked back at his life. His whole life was just some ironic joke. In his previous 'life' when he had dabbled in the ways of darkness he had little interest in the matters of love or settling down for that matter. And now, when he had lost his heart which he had no use of, he was willing to risk his life to regain it.
It almost made him wonder what gave him this obsession to retrieve his heart. Dare he call it obsession? Was that what it was? He had put all his energy and effort into such a silly thing, such a ridiculous cause. But maybe that was it. It was his very essence to devote his life works to things that only caused his demise. He wouldn't even mention that he had ruined the lives of countless others. Was it his responsibility for their downfall? After all, they had chosen to venture into the sinister darkness. They knew what they were getting into. And now, when he had banded them together to retrieve the thing they had lost, they once again knew what awaited them. So, was it his fault?
Why did he have to pick now to start second guessing himself? He had a whole lifetime to start, but no. When it was the time to peacefully float off earth and hope that the other side was better than what he'd put up with over here, he began to fill with regrets. Were they regrets? Or was he just in an immense amount of stress? No kidding. Immense amount of stress on the day that could be described with one witty phrase: "make it or break it." And it seemed that they had really broken it. More like crashed and burned. And then someone had decided to throw a pitcher of gasoline over them to really put them out of their misery.
Xemnas smiled. For the first time, it seemed, he was at peace. The hearts were gently floating in the air, and flying off into nearly every direction, surely trying to find their host. Maybe… One of those hearts was his? Of course, that was silly. There was no way one of the hearts he had collected to open Kingdom Hearts with was the one that belonged to him. But, he couldn't help but wonder what the host of each of those hearts were like. There was a story behind each one.
With the last of his energy, he reached his hand out to grab one. One single heart. That was all he needed, all he ever wanted. And it was so close. His hand trembled and shaked with pain, as he tried with all his might to touch it. But even his best efforts weren't enough. It just barely eluded him, instead hitting the ground and it disappeared. And softly, he relaxed his muscles and lay on the ground. His eyes began to close, and he gently faded away. Into the oblivion, where he had been destined to end up. "I will not allow it to end this way – not yet."