Author's notes: Sorry that it took so long to update but after school ended I had absolutely no motivation whatsoever to write. Hopefully I'll be over it by next week.

Disclaimer: Kingdom hearts belongs to square enix, OC characters belong to me

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Chapter 12

"Hurry up. There gaining on us!" yelled kyo as they continued to run with shijima's unconscious body. No sooner had they begun to run away from the three-on-one fight when the heartless began showing up again. Now they were running for dear life from the swarm of heartless closing in.

"What the hell was that back there?" kyo asked as he just narrowly avoided being hit by a shadow "Why'd they fight each other like that?"

"Less talking. More running!" yumi said slicing through a heartless that had showed up in front of them. Just when they began to run out of energy they saw something in the distance. "What's that!?" getting closer they could make out what looked like a huge opening in the side of the rock.

"It's the control center!" xehanort said happily "If we get inside we may just have a chance." with new determination they all began to run the heartless fast approaching. Everything began to move in slow motion. With the heartless only a foot away yumi crossed over and with the last of her strength cast reflect buying some time for the others before collapsing on the ground. Kyo and xehanort where the next through carrying shijima when the spell wore off and the heartless surged forth. Finally vash at the last instant made it through, but unlike the others something happened. There was a surged and vash suddenly felt like he couldn't move at all falling to the ground just as the heartless were about to strike.

Bracing for the attack they began slowly opening there eye's and looking around. Not a single heartless had come after them. Looking to the entrance they saw a wall of black bodied creatures all surrounding the area. When one tried to cross said area it was instantly obliterated. Soon the others began sinking back into the shadows and disappearing.

"Umm…What just happened?" kyo said cautiously getting up. Reaching out his hand passed through some kind of energy bubble. Xehanort reaching out as well suddenly pulled his hand back in pain. "It's the barrier." he said amazed while still clutching his hand. "The barrier keeping out all users of darkness. It's back online."

"But how did-Vash, Yumi!" they stopped concentrating on the newly appeared barrier when they saw there collapsed friends both unconscious. "What happened to them!" kyo asked checking for injury "They don't look that hurt."

"They probably used all there energy getting here. Remember yumi used her last bit of strength on that reflect spell, as for vash…he probably just ran to fast and fainted." xehanort said his brain calculating the many possibility's to why they were passed out.

"Yeah. Seeing how vash acts I'd probably agree." kyo said picking up vash. Holding him by the shoulder he tried to pick shijima up and ended up falling under the weight. Picking himself up him tried picking them up a different way and only fell faster. Xehanort who had yumi's arm over his shoulder sweat dropped at kyo's failed attempts to carry both people at once.

"Maybe you should only carry one person at a time."

"If I do I'll have to leave someone behind." kyo said getting up after falling for the sixth time "And what if the guy's who killed everyone came back while we were not here." he said as his words hit xehanort hard "never thought of that…Now I see why he was so caught up with carrrying both of them. But there's no way we can manage to carry three people at once..unless." he thought smiling as he walked towards kyo.

"Your right. And I think I know how to do It." kyo paid full attention to his friend/rival as he told him his plan on how to transport there friend.

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"Okay…we caught him. Now what?" it had taken them some time but they managed to chain nightshade up a foot over the ground so that he couldn't escape. "Make sure he doesn't touch the ground or he'll bury away." gairen said directing them.

"How do you know that anyway?" raigen questioned "I don't even remember seeing this guy and I'm always with you."

"I saw him come out of the ground when he attacked." he said looking around as he walked towards nightshade "No doubt he still has some roots buried around here." pulling out his gun he pointed it right between his eyes. "Now. Why don't you tell us all about what it is you're after?"

"I will not take orders from someone of equal rank." nightshade said his words dripping with hatred "Besides. I'd sooner kill myself then tell you hypocritical scum anything!"

"Really?" said a very dark voice from behind. Turning around they saw Akumu walking out of a corridor of darkness. "That's too bad. I was hoping to use my rank to influence you to talk." he said stopping an inch in front of him. "Guess there's no point in keeping you alive then is there." Akumu gauntlet suddenly sparked with purple lightning as he reared it back to strike. But before he could a huge venues flytrap came out from the ground and attacked him. Just as soon as the plant had chomped down it exploded it a flurry of dark lightning.

"Where is he!" he said his eye's glowing dark violet and lighting shooting everywhere. "That damn bastard pulling a stunt like that. I'll kill him!"

"Lord Akumu." pyro said calming him down a little "It would appear that our (Ahem) guest has escaped." he said pointing to the empty chains hanging on the side of a big rock.

"That plant monster was a distraction…" Akumu mumbled under his breath angrily as he looked back on his actions "…And I almost went berserk because of it. Should have seen it coming." while he cursed himself raigen and gairen were looking for any sigh of nightshade when they stumbled across something disturbing.

"Hey. We found something!" said raigen as he bent down and picked up a flat metal disk with a black orb with a bunch of grooves in the center. "Isn't this one of those things we use to send messages to the main base?" he asked examining the disk shaped machine.

"A holo-disk." gairen said also looking at it "This ones different though….much more advance then any we use. A lot more complex in its encryption." he said examining the black orb in the center. None of them noticed Akumu walk up to them until he pulled the disk put of gairen's hands as he began moving various parts of the orb until the grooves lined up in the shape of an omni-heartless crest. Suddenly an image of a black figure shimmered into view.

As the figure began to speak everyone's eye's widened as a realization came to them. "So that bastard was working under phantom blots orders." gairen said as he cursed himself for his inaction. "I can't believe I couldn't stop him."

"Silence." Akumu said waving his hand dismissively "I will not someone weak as my subordinate. Either accept what's happened and do everything you can to remedy it…or I will not hesitate to kill you." he said walking away.

"Where are you going my lord?" asked pyro as he followed him "If blots going to try a stunt like this then I'll need the councils support." he said as he pulled out a cell phone and rapidly dialed a number.

"But sir! What if the others are in on it?! You could be walking right into a trap!"

"I already know two of the councils members are in my favor. And a third's leaning towards my side as well. Which means that only three others who might be in on It." he said waiting for something to answer. "So even if those three are in on this little plot…at least the odds will be in my favor." As the phone got to the messages Akumu said a small coded message before giving his orders to pyro.

"I want you to round up the rest of the forces and get organized. Well need everyone for this fight so get ready." he said hanging up the phone and dialing a different number.

"This is going to be one hell of a battle isn't it?" asked pyro timidly.

"Hell?… Hell doesn't do this battle justice." he said leaving another coded message.

Smiling pyro bowed before going through a dark corridor back to the main base. Akumu heard another answering machine. "Welcome to the Nirvanian science department. No one is here to take your call. Please leave a message after the beep and we will get to your call as soon as possible. (BEEP)"

Smiling Akumu replied the same way as he had the others "order number 4.1.17.11.14.5.18.18. Respond immediately." hanging up suddenly his phone sprang to life with three different calls.

Suddenly three holograph faces appeared in front of him.

"What is the meaning of this Akumu!" said the face on the right in an irritated voice "Calling us on an open line. Are you trying to get me found out!?"

"I have to agree with the surgeon general on this one." said the middle face in a reasonable tone "Calling us with an unprotected signal was very risky move."

"This must be important if you went through all the trouble of call us three." the last face said a little enthusiastically. "So what's the big news general akumu?"

Keeping a solemn face beneath his mask he said with no tone at all. "Phantom blot is trying to kill our master."

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"(huff) you know (huff)…maybe this wasn't (huff) such a good idea." said xehanort as he huffed his way down the path along with kyo. "Oh (wheeze)…you think so!?" said kyo sarcastically as he pulled there dead weight along as well. There big plan which was to use there chaser uniforms as a sheet and drag shijima while carrying yumi and vash in there free arms. The only problem was that all this dragging and carrying was heavy…very heavy. In fact, it was so heavy that by the time they made it into the open hanger a good few feet away they were exhausted.

"This place looks really undamaged for being attack." said kyo leaning against a metal wall. "shouldn't there at least be a few scratches or something?"

"Your right…" xehanort said also examining their surroundings "there were explosions and stuff in the background…so why no damage here?" he said getting up and dusting himself off.

"Where are you gong?" said kyo as he also shakily got up. "Don't tell me our breaks over already!"

"I'm going to check this place out a little:" he said walking ahead into the mine like fortress. "You don't mind staying here while I do that right?"

"No way!" kyo snapped following him "You can't just leave. What about the others!?" while they argued they didn't notice shijima beginning to sweat and toss until he moaned loudly. "Shijima sensei!" kyo yelled as he rushed to the ailing half-demon. "This isn't good. He's burning up."

"Holy crap! What the hell do we do we do?!" asked xehanort panicky as he looked around. "What do you mean "What should we do!?" you're the one who passed basic medical training remember!"

"That's because it was a team grade with yumi! I suck at basic health!" as they panicked kyo got an idea. He started to try and unzip his coat but the zipper had been damaged by one of the vines. "Not good." he said thinking.

"What's not good!?" xehanort said as he franticly looked both of them over.

"I thought that if we could see the wound we might be able to help somehow…but this damn zipper won't…budge!" he said trying to pry the zipper down. A single clink and the whole zipper came off. "I got it!" yelled xehanort as he looked around shijima's pockets.

"What are you looking for?" kyo asked as xehanort rummaged through his shijima's pockets and pulled out his wallet, a broken cell phone, and some potions.

"Remember how we changed back to our normal clothes." xehanort said rummaging through more of shijima's pockets "If we find that we could just switch his clothes and get to the wounds easier." he said as he finally felt something "Got it!" he yelled as he pulled out a black crystal and sent energy through it. Instantly shijima's damaged uniform was replaced by his red and black trench coat and hat with reinforced jacket.

"Okay. I got the jacket off." said kyo as they stripped his clothes off. "I can't believe he dresses in layers." he said as xehanort put the jacket with the coat and kyo took shijima's long-sleeved shirt off. The first thing they noticed was the lack of blood on any of his clothes but soon they saw why. The area around all five wounds was black and spreading as shijima face twitched with pain.

"What are those?" kyo asked as he looked at the blotches. "And how do we get ride of them." he wondered as xehanort got the potions ready but was stopped by kyo. "First we need to drain the poison from those wounds."

"And how do you suppose we do that?" xehanort asked as kyo summoned his keyblade. "Wait…What are you-" before he could finish kyo shoved his keyblade into one of the wounds and cut it open. Instantly black liquid clung to the keyblade keeping it from doing more damage.

"WHAT IS THAT THING!?!?!?" yelled xehanort as he held onto kyo and pulled. Soon the black blotches all moved into one huddled group around the one wound to try and climb up the weapon. But xehanort saw them climbing and quickly reacted "DARK FIRGA!" he yelled as the dark colored flames shoot the black poison dead on causing it to pull out more poison until the whole thing shoot out at them.

Throwing the keyblade down the slime grew until it was a black mass of mouths, eye's, and limbs. Both kyo and xehanort were on the ground stunned with overwhelming fear as the blob got ready to strike kyo's hand brushed up against one of the potions. Thinking fast he threw the potion right when it was about to strike and it ate it in one gulp. Suddenly it started to shake and then exploded into a lifless puddle which was already starting to evaporate.

"What…the hell…was that!?" said xehanort panting as he got up from his near death experience.
"What kind of crazy poison jumps out of the wound to kill people?" Asked kyo a little stressed "And why the hell did the potion do that?"

"Be quiet…we should focus on the others fir- HEY!!! That's my laptop!" said xehanort as kyo stole his portable computer and was now frantically typing. "Freaky…poison…that…attacks people. There." he said looking for what the poison was.

"Shouldn't we focus on helping the others…we have potions now." he said until he heard a ping from his laptop. Looking he saw an entire entry on the black poison. "victus venenifer. The living poison is a secretion from the extinct inhabitants of planet gunsmoke. Although mainly defensive, it's toxin works slowly usually taking hours to spread to the organs? The best measure of treatment is to not aggravate it and pour a potion over the wound to disperse poison...INSTANTANTLY!!!" he screamed as he finished reading the end of the paragraph.

"Looks like it. At least we know why it melted when it ate the potion. Or why the plant guy took the potions yumi had." he said looking over to see xehanort sulking. "What are you doing?"

"All this time I was panicking over something so easy to cure…I'm pathetic." he whispered quietly with a blue gloom cloud around him.

"Shouldn't we help the others now…?" he said sweat dropping as xehanort got back from sulking to help. "That wont be enough potions to- HOLY CRAP!" he said looking at shijima.

While they had been talking they hadn't noticed that he had been bleeding ever since the poison was taken out. "We forgot about his wounds! Quickly get the potions."

Some potions and a blood ruined shirt later

"There…wounds are all better." kyo said getting up from a fully dressed shijima. "How are yumi and vash doing xehanort."

"I think there finally waking up." he said as yumi began to stir from her sleep.

"ugh…wha- WHAT THE-…Why'd we stop!!! The heartless they'll-"

"Relax. The force fields came back up when we all crossed through." he said helping her up. "So now we're just waiting for vash and shijima to wake up and-"

"Shijima! That's right, he was attacked…is he-" she began remembering their injured sensei "Don't worry., he'll be just fine now that the poison's out."

"How did you get the poison out anyway?" asked yumi as xehanort had one of those blue clouds with the lines around him.

"Don't ask…" he said remembering how it almost ate him and kyo. "I'm just glad your alright." smiling he reached out and helped her up, both of them blushing after. "Why the hell did I say that like that…I might as well have said I'm in love with her with that stupid line?"

"I've never seen him smile so openly before. He looks nice like that…" she thought blushing more "Why the heck did that come from!!!"

"Hey! We still need to see if vash is alright." kyo said interrupting their train of thought. Walking over to vash's body they began talking about how to revive him. "This would be a lot easier if I could use my spells." said yumi disappointed.

"Don't say that yumi, your skilled even without your magic." xehanort said cursing himself mentally. "Anyway we better wake him up quickly before the enemy comes."

"But the barriers up." kyo said pointing it out "How can they get past it?"

"How'd they get past it last time." he said pointing out the point of there mission "They could come here at any time so we have to- wait a minute." he said leaning over vash. Pointing his keyblade right at vash he cast dark fire and then-

"AHHHHHHHHH!!! HOT! HOT! HOOOOOOTTTTTT!!!!!!" vash yelled rolling around trying to put the flames out with xehanort glaring at him.

"YOU WERE AWAKE THE WHOLE TIME!!!!" he said pointing at vash seriously pissed off.

"N-Not the whole time." he said finally putting out the flames "just when you were dragging me and-"

"And you decided to pretend to be unconscious while me and kyo had to drag everyone here! INCLUDING YOU!!!!" he yelled towering over vash "s-s-sorry" he said cowering in fear.

"Forget it xehanort. We have bigger problems." yumi said walking over to shijima. "If we are dealing with enemies that powerful we'll need more than just us." she said rummaging throw his pockets.

"Even if we did need reinforcements how are you going to contact them? Shijima's phone is broken and my computer can't access the communications channel." xehanort said using his usual logic.

"Well…maybe he has some sort of backup phone. Did you check his jacket pockets?" she asked as both of them shook there heads no "well maybe it's hidden in there." she said reaching into the right breast pocket when she felt something.

"What's this…?" she said holding what looked like a small orb framed by a black metal pattern. It had a blue swirling light inside and around the orb and a weird writing around it that spelled out (and was attached to a chain. "Looks like some sort of power source." kyo said looking as the light swirled around. "But what's with the weird symbols?"

"Those are Atrum narro ruins!" said xehanort lifting up the necklace and examining it rigorously "These are considered the language of darkness. Mainly because mostly those who dwel in darkness can understand It." he said sighing a little at how over reactive he had gotten.

"So can you translate it?" asked kyo eager to find out what it said.

"I can't but I'm not sure it'll be accurate." he said trying to make sense of the two words "I only learned a little of it form a book I read. And this doesn't look like English to Me." after a few minutes he managed to get both words. "Okay that's it…but now I'm not sure I want to say it out loud." startling all of them "But you spent all this time translating them." said yumi looking over the words "besides. What's wrong with saying-?"

"DON'T!!!" he yelled causing her to cup her mouth with her hands? "It's in Latin so it might be an incantation so nobody-"

"Memoria habitum?" said vash reading the incantation with kyo leaning over it while they had been talking. "-say that word." Suddenly a bright light filled the room and blinded everyone. Soon a bright wall of light began to move out from the orb and engulfed the ground. "What's happening!?" yelled kyo backing away from the now doomed shaped light. Soon vash was engulfed "VASH!!!" yelled yumi trying to get his outstretched hand but was soon being swallowed as well "YUMI!!! NOOOOO!!!" yelled xehanort jumping from where he was and holding yumi close to his before they were both swallowed whole by light.

Now kyo being all by himself could only try to scoot away as the light moved more out to get him. Doing the only thing he could he summoned his keyblade to try to block the light. As the light came in contact it seemed to stop for a second but then shoot all at once at him. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" he screamed as the light engulfed him and disappeared.

End chapter 12