.:Author's Note:.

Hello my fellow people of the world! The sun says hello! Or, if you're reading this at night, then the moon says hello! …Yeah. Okay, now I said that there are a few chapters after this, but I've gone over it again, and decided that it would be better to put this all as one long chapter. Better to have it all together than me make you all wait for me to get the next part up. And since I'm doing this that would make this the last chapter! Ohmigosh! ( insert valley girl accent here)

I'm sad that this is coming to an end. I had a lot of fun writing this, even if it did take me forever to update it. At the same time I'm sort of happy. And that is because…!! Nope! You'll have to read the chapter before I reveal why I'm happy about this. Also, and I'm sorry for not mentioning her name earlier and she's been beating my head in to make me get her name out there, I have been co-writing this with my friend. She has an account on here too and is an awesome writer. I love that girl. If you want to find her, look for YokotheLovelessWarrior. Now, I'll stop taking up your time with my useless ramblings. Here's the last chappie! I hope you all love this chapter as much as you liked the rest!

Disclaimer: omg…this is the last time I will say that I don't own KH in this fic…it's so sad…

The Beast of Dark Eternity

"Yoko? Where are we going?" Kairi asked, coming up behind the young pilot.

"To kick some ass, now get out of the control room Kairi," Yoko replied. She was ready to get even with the three that had made her believe their lies. The redhead rolled her eyes.

"I know that, but where? Did you even think of where they might be?" she said.

"No, but they're most likely where we last saw them. At Hallow Bastion," Yoko said. Takuto walked in, but went unnoticed by the bickering girls.

"But they could've moved to another world. It's been almost two weeks. That's more than enough time to move a base," Kairi argued.

"So? Then how do you propose we find them? Huh?" Yoko retorted. Kairi opened her mouth to reply, but stopped and the two girls looked over at Takuto as he cleared his throat to get their attention.

"What?" Yoko said. She glared at him, irritated that she had been interrupted from her argument.

"Um…actually Kari's right that they have moved," he said carefully. She glared harder as Kairi grinned in triumph.

"Well then, where the hell are they?" Yoko growled.

"I remember that they had been going to another world sometimes when I was still with them to set up some things. It was a place to go to if the one in Hallow Bastion was found," he said. Yoko's eye twitched in impatience.

"Where…are…they!" she said through clenched teeth. She really wanted to find the trio and beat them to a bloody pulp. And with every second longer she had to wait, the urge to do that got stronger. As a result, the murderous aura emanating off of her was strong and made Kairi and Takuto somewhat nervous.

"They're at End of World," he said.

"I thought that place was destroyed after I sealed the Door to the Light," a voice said. Kairi yelped in surprise as the others jumped when they turned to see Sora standing in the room with them.

"When the hell did you get here?" Yoko asked.

"Um…about…a minute and thirty seconds ago…?" the spiky haired boy said.

"Right," was all he got as a reply.

"So what about End of World?" Kairi asked.

"Oh yeah. Well I'm not really sure, but it might have disappeared when Sora sealed the door because it was made of the remains of other worlds that had been taken over by heartless, and when he sealed the door, the remains all reformed the worlds they had made previously," Takuto explained.

"Oh yeah…I saw that when I was returned to Destiny Islands," Kairi said thoughtfully. Takuto nodded.

"Exactly. Now, you've seen that the heartless still haven't disappeared. And since they haven't, they'll continue to take over any world they can and send it to oblivion. Thus from the worlds they've taken over so far, End of World has been reformed. This time it doesn't have the Door to the Light there anymore, though," he said.

"The Twilight Door…" Yoko whispered to herself. She returned her full attention to the controls. "Alright. Since those three idiots are there, we're going to End of World."

"Okay. We'll leave you to the driving then," Kairi said.

"Whatever. Make sure you're prepared for when we land then," Yoko called out as they left. They nodded. They all knew they would need to be prepared for this.

"Is everything ready Kurishi?" the short woman asked. The evil, hyperactive male grinned and nodded.

"Yep. Ooh, I can't wait for them to get here!" he squealed…err, said.

"You make it sound like you're setting a party up for them," Amida said monotonously.

"Nah…I just can't wait to hear that one bitch scream in pain and beg for her life," Kurishi replied happily. Marla smirked as a heartless returned to a nearby shadow after telling her something.

"Well, it seems you'll be getting to hear that very soon," she said.

"They're here?" he exclaimed.

"It's time for some fun," Marla replied. Amida shrugged, and then he and Marla went to greet their 'guests' through a dark portal. Kurishi grinned, hopped around a bit, and then formed his own portal and stepped through.

"Will they just get dressed and hurry up?" Kairi asked the others with impatience.

"Kairi, try to have some patience," Riku said, leaning against the gummi ship. Sora, Takuto, Riku, and Kairi had been waiting for just about ten minutes for Yoko and Zera to change from their ripped, bloodied clothes into the new clothes they had brought with them.

"Yeah, Kairi, keep your goddamn skirt on," Yoko hissed walking out of the gummi ship. Riku's cheeks tinted pink after having a glimpse at Yoko's new outfit. Zera appeared out from behind Yoko and smiled at everyone warmly.

"Sorry, we changed the clothes a little! After all, just wearing normal, every day, I bought it this way clothes is no fun! That's why it took us a while," said the hyper girl. Takuto also blushed a bit from Zera's new outfit. Kairi looked at the two girls, knowing that their fashion senses were screwed up.

Yoko had decided to let her hair dry naturally after her shower and now it was wavy with long curls, but her bangs were still straight and parted to the side. Her shirt was in a v-neck and had a collar that she had up against her neck. A chain chocker necklace kept the collar up against her neck. The shirt only came down to her navel before separating because she didn't button it the whole way. The shirt also had no sleeves. The lining on the bottom and collar of the shirt was silver as was the buttons, but the rest of the shirt was a dark blue. Her pants were long black pants that, like all the rest of her jeans, formed to her thighs, but from the knee down were baggy. The left leg had two rips on the low thigh, the knee ripped off, and a few rips on the baggy end of the jean. The right leg had three claw marks going down her thigh, which stopped just above her knee. The end of the right leg was ripped at well in a few places. Around her waist, not going through the loops in the pants was a silver belt with a black dragon buckle on it. The dragon had ruby eyes. Her shoes were black, half inch heeled boots. One her left wrist was a black arm warmer that stopped at her elbow while on the right wrist she wore five silver bracelets. Also, on her upper left arm she had a few bandages and her neck was still wrapped up as well. Through the holes in her jeans, they were able to see parts of a few wrappings.

Zera's outfit was a lot different from Yoko's. Zera's shirt was black and was like a tank top with buckles going across her chest and connecting to the side of the shirt. Around her neck she wore a chocker, a loose, and then a long silver chain necklaces with various pendants on each one. Her pants were normal, bellbottom jeans, but had a few rips in various areas of the thigh and shin. Her belt, unlike Yoko's, was red and went though the belt loops. The buckle on hers was a black half moon. Her shoes were like Yoko's as well, but they were an inch high rather than half bringing her close to Yoko's height. She wore brown, fingerless gives on each hand and around her wrists were black, red, silver, and gold bracelets she found in a random drawer in her room. Her hair was pulled back into a side ponytail and she had two chopsticks in her ponytail. One of the chopsticks had a gold star pendant hanging from it.

"…Wow. You guys just love to customize your outfits don't you?" Kairi stated.

"Yep!" Zera confirmed. Yoko rolled her eyes. The two walked over to the group and they all set off with Takuto leading them. Of course, they met some heartless on their way, but it wasn't long until they met up with a large behemoth.

On top of the monstrous heartless stood three people. For once they had their hoods down and the group of teens could see their smug faces. The only one who didn't look smug, and actually didn't really have an expression on had black hair that was long enough to reach to the bottom of his neck while the tips of his bangs were blue, and his eyes were dark brown. He gave off an aura that said he was intelligent and dangerous if you ticked him off. The one next to him was a woman was considerably shorter than the other two. She had blonde hair that came down an inch below her shoulders and bangs that swept over her cold blue eyes. Lastly, the man next to her seemed to be the tallest and strangest, though you wouldn't be able to tell by just looking at him. He had long auburn hair that reached just below his shoulder blades and jade eyes that somehow looked animalistic. The teens glared at the evil trio.

"Finally! My friend has come out to play with me!" the last man said. The woman hit him over the head.

"Shut up you idiot," she said. He pouted at her while holding his head.

"Who's who?" Sora asked, looking at the three.

"The one holding his head is Kurishi, he's an idiot, but a sadistic one. The girl is Marla, she spazzes when you call her short, but she's also pretty strong. And the last one that hasn't said much is Amida. I never really learned that much about him, but he can be very dangerous if need be," Takuto replied. Meanwhile, Yoko had thrown a nearby rock and it had hit Kurishi in the back of the head. He of course, didn't expect this, and so he fell over. He got up and was about to yell when another hit him in the nose. Yoko stood there with a smirk, tossing a third rock in her hand.

"That wasn't very nice!" Kurishi yelled.

"I'm not nice to people who are idiots," Yoko replied.

"Hey what's up shorty!!" Zera shouted. Marla turned her attention to Zera and her eye twitched.

"Who're you calling so short you could step on and not even notice!" Marla yelled. Zera turned to Takuto.

"You're right. She does spaz when you call her short!" she said happily. "Spazzing Marla makes Zera smile." Takuto laughed. Marla looked at the large group of teens as they started to laugh at her and Kurishi.

"Can we get 'em now?" Kurishi asked, holding the back of his head and his nose.

"YES," Marla said angrily. Amida, Marla, and Kurishi made dark portals and disappeared. The behemoth then started to attack the group and they started to fight back. Yoko was about to hit the large heartless until she was grabbed from behind and disappeared into a dark portal.

"Yoko!" Riku shouted, running over to her. He leaped at the portal, but couldn't grab her hand. He punched the ground and fought back at the emerging heartless appearing from the ground and surroundings. He looked over at Zera and Takuto who were then being taken by Marla and Amida. He saw his other two friends disappeared and then looked over at Sora and Kairi. They were the only ones left to fight the remaining heartless.

"Well this sucks," Sora said.

Takuto staggered forward as Amida pushed him away from the portal. Takuto then looked at back at the man and pointed at him.

"You said-"

"I know what I said. Now, I must leave you to get back to my actual job," Amida said, no emotion showing on his face. "I'm sorry."

"…I actually…want you to help us," Takuto said, not looking at the man. "I don't want you to leave in other words. You're the closets person to a father I have had."

"There is nothing I can do for you anymore. The only thing I can do for you at the moment is to leave." Takuto crossed his arms.

"This isn't fair…" he muttered. He then felt Amida take his hands and put something heavy in them. He looked at the object to see Amida's long, wide sword in his hands. He held onto the black handle and looked at the black, gold, and silver designs on the sword. He then looked at his sword, which was a small version on his. "My sword…it's like yours."

"See? Even though I'm leaving, you'll always have something to remember me by."

"This isn't like you. You never do anything for anyone."

"I helped you. I saved Yoko's life. I have done so much and I'm tired. I'm leaving," Amida said. Takuto felt his throat grow tight. He felt Amida's hand on his head and he looked up at the man.

"Think of it as a gift…father to son," Amida said. He smiled a little and then disappeared.

"Thanks…"

"God damn it!" Riku shouted as another hundred heartless took place of the last set. They just kept coming, and showed no signs of stopping or even slowing. Just then Takuto came running up to them, slashing his way through the enemies to the three other teens.

"What happened to Amida?" Sora asked as he dodged an attack.

"I beat him. He was surprisingly easy," Takuto lied. He knew he shouldn't say anything about what really happened until later or they would be even more suspicious. It would break their trust of him, not that lying was helping any, but it was in their best interest if he did so.

"How do we know you beat him so easily when Yoko and Zera aren't back yet?" Riku said. Takuto shrugged and showed him Amida's sword. On the way back he had made his own appearance look as though he had gone through a tough fight. He cut himself with the older man's blade so that it would look more believable, and then did it again with his own blade. Of course, he didn't cut anything too deep or anything vital where he would most definitely suffer from blood loss. Riku nodded, saying that he believed it, and then turned his attention back to the heartless that came one after another.

"Then do you know where they are?" Kairi asked. Takuto nodded.

"Yeah. They should be in that building over there. I don't know what floor they're on, but I know that's where Marla and Kurishi would take them," he replied as he cut through another heartless. All of them hoped Yoko and Zera would come back soon, before they were too exhausted to fight the heartless. Either that or that they could get to the two soon.

"-the hell!" Yoko shouted as she was thrown through a portal and onto the ground of a room covered in rocks and other such things jutting out from everywhere. All in all it looked like a cave, but a manmade one.

"I finally have you!" Kurishi shouted.

"You are such a dirty, little moron aren't you?" Yoko asked as she stood back up and dusted herself off.

"Yes I am! …Hey!!" Kurishi shouted, finally figuring out what she said. He pushed his sleeves up and got into a fighting stance. "Ready to fight me now?"

"I can kick your ass in five minutes, maybe even three if today isn't one of my off days," Yoko said with a smirk. Kurishi's eye twitched. He shook off the slightly frightened feeling he had to replace it with a cocky smile, and then grabbed one side of his cloak. He pulled his cloak off and revealed the rest of his body. He wore black, semi-tight leather pants with chains around his waist, and no shirt, showing off his muscular arms and chest. His hands were in fists, but when he released his fists his nails grew to be four inches long. His nails looked to be a silver color. Yoko took a few steps back.

"Marla put me in charge of killing you, Yoko. Of course, it will be hard because you, compared to Zera, are more of a physical, earthbound attacker," Kurishi said with a smirk. "No matter how hard this will be, it will be fun nonetheless." Yoko cracked her knuckles and got into a fighting stance.

"Whatever, dude. It's your death wish," she said simply.

"Get up!" Marla shouted. Zera was laying on her back on the floor on the roof of the large castle. She sat up and looked at around her, she was sitting at a slight slant, but not to large of a slant that she would slide off. She stood up and looked around for the voice that had called out to her. She eventually turned and saw Marla standing only about six feet away from her.

"Oh…you're here. Didn't see you there," she said. Marla's eye twitched.

"Like hell you didn't you stupid little brat!" she shouted. Zera looked down.

"Who're you calling little, shorty?" she asked smugly. Marla's eye twitched yet again.

"Bitch!" she shouted as she extended a hand and a burst of fire shot towards Zera. The Twilight Master's eyes widened before she leapt away from the fire, landing in a crouching position. She stood up slowly with a smile.

"Well now…looks like shorty's mad! I guess this'll be more fun than I thought!" she said excitedly. "Time to get back at you for what you did to Yoko, Takuto, and I!"

With that said, Zera burst forward with the full intent of getting her revenge against the villain. She went to bring her keyblade down upon Marla's head, and as the blonde woman went to block the attack with two long daggers, Zera touched the blade, but used it as leverage to flip over her instead. Confused, Marla looked up as Zera flipped over her and then ended up getting a blizzaga spell in the face. Zera landed lightly with a grin.

"Time to work some magic," she whispered as she ran towards the recovering blonde.

Yoko charged in, keyblade ready to attack, but stopped seeing Kurishi crouch down, curling into himself. Her glare at the man hardened as she once again took up her speed, only to be thrown back as he burst back up, unfurling himself with a loud, ferocious roar. Hissing at the pain in her head from when she hit the wall just then, her eyes then widened as she saw what he had transformed into.

"Now do you think you'll be able to defeat me in five minutes?" he growled, his voice sounding demonic. Adding to his newly grown claws were fangs that looked deadly sharp. Fur had grown on his forearms, as wolf ears and a wolf tail had also appeared, all matching the color of his hair. He stared her down with his yellow, blood shot eyes with a glare equal to hers, but with a smirk in place that showed off his fangs. Tired of the game they were playing, and over her initial shock of his transformation, her mouth grew into a smirk to rival his.

"Alright, maybe not five minutes," she said. He grinned in triumph. "How about four and a half?" His glare returned as he started to bend at the knees a little.

"You won't have that much time," he snarled as he thrust himself at her, claws ready to strike. Yoko brought her keyblade up, blocking the claws as best she could while also ducking to evade them as well. Kurishi laughed.

"Too fast for you?" he said, grinning maniacally. As soon as he said that, he managed to knock the keyblade out of her and sink the claws of one hand into her left arm. Yoko gasped at the pain, but gritted her teeth and managed to stop his other hand from doing further harm by grabbing his other wrist with her right hand.

"Bastard," she whispered as she brought her left hand up to grab the offending hand. He tried to push the nails deeper as she struggled to keep it where it was. Yoko growled as she managed to kick him in the side, sending him flying off of her at the unexpected blow. He skidded across the floor a little ways, but was able to land on all fours. He gave a feral grin.

"I knew this would be fun," he said, and once again charged at her. Deciding she probably wouldn't have time to get to her keyblade in time, she brought her fists up in front of her, prepared for his fast punches. He came at her the same way as last time, but now she used her own fists to block and evade. She smirked inwardly, seeing that this was more effective than using her keyblade. She once again attempted to kick him in the side, but he jumped away before she hit him.

Before she could make her way over to him, he jumped back at her. Instead of landing in front of her, he only jumped back half the way he had before and slammed his fists against the rocky ground. The ground began to shake, cracking the ground, and causing other loose rocks to fall. Yoko had to jump out of the way of the falling rocks, drawing her attention away from Kurishi. He leapt towards the direction she was going to leap next and repeated what he did last time. This time, a crack formed right under where she had landed causing her to fall down.

In that moment, Kurishi had gotten to where she was, grabbed her wrist, spun her around before letting go, throwing her into a wall. Before she had time to recover, he flashed before her and punched her in the stomach before stabbing her with his nails, pinning her to the wall in a way. She winced and coughed up a little blood. He brought back his other hand, ready to pierce her chest with it, but was kicked in the stomach. He doubled over, trying to catch his breath. Taking this chance, Yoko pulled his hand from her stomach, not letting go of his wrist, and punched him upright the jaw. As the man was unbalanced she pulled him by the arm she held on to and slammed him into the wall.

"Now who's in control!?" she shouted as she moved to kick him again. To her surprise, he grabbed her ankle as he stood up.

"Obviously not you," he replied with a smirk as he threw her against the wall like she had done to him, though he didn't let go as she had. Now he threw her out towards the middle of the floor. Quickly, he bounced after her, jumping up over the girl and then coming down hard with both feet on her back, pushing her into the ground. He lightly jumped from her back to the ground near her and stared at her battered form with another feral grin.

"Well, that was fun, but I can see I should probably end this now. Marla and Amida have probably already finished off your pathetic friends," he said with a laugh. It was short lived as he saw Yoko slowly and shakily start to push herself up. He frowned and stomped his foot on her back again, forcing her back into the ground. Yoko growled and pushed up against his foot.

"D-damn…it-t," she said through gritted teeth. She managed to get her elbows beneath her, but he kicked her in the stomach, making her fly off to the side. She landed on her back. Silently, she moved her hands over the wound on her stomach and the wound on her arm, and muttered something as Kurishi walked towards her.

"Time to say bye-bye to my play toy!" he said happily. Yoko groaned and rolled over to her stomach. She turned her head so she was looking at him, and smirked.

"Sorry, but the only one saying good bye…" she started. Suddenly she sprang up, keyblade in hand and the wounds on her stomach and arm partially healed, and stabbed him through the chest. "…is you!"

Kurishi simply stared at her wide-eyed with her keyblade halfway through him.

"Bye-bye you sadistic bastard," she said as she ripped the keyblade out of his chest and slashed it across to make sure the job was done. He fell limp to the floor, and she smirked.

"Well, at least there's one less idiot around," she said as she found the door and made her way to where she thought the others might be.

"Agh!"

Zera grunted as another firaga spell struck against her keyblade that had been brought up in front of her to block the attack. She didn't have time to react as Marla was already above her and bringing down her heel fast. It connected with Zera's head, forcing her to make a face plant into the tiled roof. Quickly, she rolled to the side as Marla struck the ground she had recently occupied with a thundaga spell. She jumped from her crouching position as another once again hit the area she had been at.

Knowing that Marla would try to strike her again with some form of magic, making her dodge, Zera knew what she should do. Marla laughed as she sent more firaga spells at her. This time, as Zera dodged, she lunged towards Marla. She had landed close enough to Marla to make it to the woman in one leap, catching her off-guard. Her keyblade cut across the blonde woman's arm causing her to his in pain. Zera moved the cut across with the blade also, but only cut air, as Marla had jumped away. Recovering quickly, she spun to face the blonde and launched a thundaga attack the struck true. The woman fell over and Zera grinned in triumph.

"Well, that wasn't so hard," she said. A soft laughter reached her ears, making her turn around as it turned into a loud, evil cackle resonating from Marla who seemed to not be very affected by the last attacks. The blonde woman's laughter quieted as her lips fell into a smirk.

"You think I could die that easily?" she asked. Zera simply glared at her as a reply. Marla ignored this.

"Well now, looks like you've ruined my cloak. That's too bad, I liked this one," she said, looking at the singed fabric and the rip on her arm. "Oh well, I guess I'll just have to change."

With that, she raised her arms above her head as a light began to shine about her. Thousands of tiny blue lights then appeared, starting at her neck and shoulders and slowly moving downward. As Zera watched, she realized that the lights were changing the clothes Marla was wearing. When they disappeared, Marla had on a similar robe with the hood down that was also black, but had blue, white, and silver colored designs of the different kinds of heartless. Her boots were also black with a three-inch tall silver heel.

"There. Much better," she said, satisfied. She brought her arm up and gestured with her hand. "Come."

Zera complied, crying out as she rushed forward to attack. Marla smirked, waving her hands out in front of her, creating a semi-circle of fire in front of her. Zera barely managed to jump up over the fire before getting caught in it, but still got singed a bit. Ignoring that, she brought her keyblade down to hit the woman. Instead of hitting flesh, she was thrown backwards as two thundaga spells hit her. She skidded backwards on her back on the roof, uprooting and breaking the tiles in her path.

"Damn it," she said as she sat up. Her eyes widened as she saw another spell coming towards her. It hit her straight on, burning her forearms that covered her face for protection with the strong fire. Her keyblade had flown out of her hand when Marla sent her flying and was now lying somewhere off to her left about four feet from the edge of the roof. Zera hissed as she felt the burns stinging on her arms, but ignored it as she dodged another firaga spell directed at her. She tried to make her way to her keyblade, but Marla was casting spell after spell, making her retreat in the opposite direction. Zera noticed in the back of her mind that Marla wasn't using a weapon to use her magic, and this brought an idea.

"I really hope this works," she whispered to herself. As another fire spell came her way, she repeated what Marla did, but with blizzaga. To both their surprise, it worked and successfully countered the firaga spell. Zera grinned as Marla glared. Now they might be on an even playing field. Might.

Angrily, Marla cast another spell, but Zera countered it with her own as she made her way to her keyblade. She needed to keep countering until she got close enough to do the finishing blow. Marla noticed the direction her opponent was heading, and figured out what she was doing. In an attempt to stop her from getting there, she kept sending spells at Zera. Suddenly the spells stopped coming, confusing Zera for a moment. Her eyes widened as she realized Marla had transported herself behind her. The blonde grinned maliciously when she heard Zera gasp from pain as she was stabbed with one of Marla's daggers.

"Plan not working how you thought it would?" she asked in a sickly sweet voice laced with venom. Zera gritted her teeth against this pain too, but was unprepared as a shockwave of electricity was sent through her body from the dagger.

A silent scream passed through her throat as it restricted from the pain. The shock left her body with a painful tingling sensation that made her feel numb.

"Shit…" she said as she fell over when Marla pulled the dagger from her back. She couldn't feel much as her body hit the broken tiles. The blonde woman smirked.

"Didn't think so," she said. She stood over the fallen girl, looking down her nose at her.

"Well, thank you for entertaining me before I go to join my comrades in destroying your other friends. That is, if they haven't already been killed. I'll bet your little friend Yoko's already dead. I mean, with that pathetic display last time you two fought, I wouldn't be surprised," she said. Zera gritted her teeth as a couple tears came to her eyes. She struggled, trying to move her body. She heard the villainous woman sigh with a grin to go with it.

"And as nice as this is, I'm going to kill you now," Marla stated. She moved to cast another spell, but paused as Zera's voice sounded.

"No…you're wrong," she said, trying to buy herself a bit of time to do what she needed to. "Yoko's strong. Stronger than me, and only gave up then because I was her friend. She came to her senses when I didn't, proving just how much stronger than I was."

Suddenly she pushed herself away from the blonde and began running towards where she had seen her keyblade lying. Marla was only stunned for a fraction of a second before she started casting spells. They hit Zera, but she didn't notice that much, strangely thankful for the numbness gain from Marla's last attack. She knew she would later, but she didn't care. Finally she reached her keyblade and pointed it at Marla with a glare.

"I might not be as strong as Yoko. But I can show you…" she trailed off, gathering power for what she knew was the finishing blow, "…that I'm most definitely…more powerful than you!"

As she shouted this at the woman, a great lightening bolt burst from the sky, which seemed to have darkened in the last few seconds, and struck Marla. Zera sighed as the woman fell over, singed from the volts of electricity sent through her. After catching her breath, she smiled.

"Finally done. Now time to find Yoko and the others," she said as she found a door that lead to the lower levels.

The group of four teens panted as heartless after heartless attacked them. They were still outside the building, and not close enough to make a break for it and run through the hoard.

"Will this never end?!" Kairi shouted. As soon as she shouted this, heartless that had been waiting to leap at them retreated without warning. The red head was silent for a second.

"Wow…did I say the magic word?" she said to no one in particular.

"No, I just happened to beat one of the annoying insects up there." The group turned around, happily recognizing the voice.

"Yoko!" Riku shouted as he ran up to her and pulled her into a tight embrace. She flinched as he touched some of her bruises and other wounds. He pulled away quickly, noticing the flinch and looked her over.

"You're hurt," he stated seriously.

"It's not that bad. I can hardly feel it," Yoko replied.

"But you're still hurt," he said.

"And I said it's not that bad!" she said. He furrowed his brows as he looked into her eyes. She answered with an equally intense stare of her own. Suddenly they heard laughing. They turned to see Zera walking towards them.

"Give it up Riku. Either heal her with force or don't do anything. She's as stubborn as a mule," she said with a grin. Takuto pulled her into a hug like Riku had done to Yoko, and her reaction was the same.

"I'm guessing she's hurt too," Sora said as he saw the burn marks. Zera shrugged.

"I guess, but I can't really feel it that much. She shocked me at one point and it made my body go kind of numb and tingly. I still am and it feels weird," she said. Kairi walked up to both of them and checked over their wounds. She cast some healing spells to help some, against the girl's protests. As this was happening, they didn't notice the dark clouds forming over the building. Suddenly they heard a rumbling noise and turned to the building, the source of the sound. The building collapsed and there in its place stood something monstrous.

"You think you've finished us off?!" roared a demonic voice. "Time for round two!"

As the dust cleared and the last of the building settled on the ground, Yoko and Zera stared at the beast that now stood before them. It had long, silver fangs and its fur was as white as snow with shades of black. As it exhaled, what seemed to be smoke came from out of its mouth. It seemed to them to be at least twelve to fifteen feet in tall and was big all around.

"God damn it!" Yoko shouted as her blade appeared in her hands.

"Ready, Yoko?!" Zera asked as she got into a fighting stance, her keyblade in hand. Yoko nodded and rolled her eyes as well. Riku, Sora, Takuto, and Kairi were fighting their way into the arena that was formed by leagues upon leagues of heartless that surrounded the area. The beast took no hesitation in making the first move and shot a fireball out of its mouth.

"It can use magic?!" Yoko shouted, dodging the fire. Zera nodded. Since she was the one who had fought Marla, she knew what magic attacks it could use, but she knew when it came to physical attacks, she would be no match since she didn't know Kurishi's moves. The beast lifted its two front legs and smashed them against the ground. Yoko knew which move it was since Kurishi had used it before against her. She grabbed Zera's hand and ran over to the only wall they could reach in time.

"Climb!" Yoko shouted. Zera was quick to comply and they climbed onto the rocks and stayed there until the rumbling of the ground had stopped. Zera looked down and saw that there were deep holes in the ground and cracks that seemed to be falls apart into holes.

"How did you know to do that?" Zera asked.

"That's one of Kurishi's moves," Yoko said, jumping down, "I learned how to dodge it earlier." Zera had thought for a moment as she jumped down.

"That's it!" Zera shouted, as she and her friend dodged a water attack.

"What?"

"You know Kurishi's moves and I know Marla magic, we can use that to our advantage!" Zera shouted with glee.

"Try and stop us with that effortless plan!" said the beast. Its voice sounded like Marla's, but was layered by Kurishi's. "Try and stop us in this form! No one has been able to stop us in years! All the worlds will belong to us soon enough!"

The great monster swung its tail around and hit the two girls into the wall. They fell from their places on the wall and landed on the floor. Zera looked at her arms and saw soot on them. She then looked over at Yoko and Yoko's forearm had shards of ice in it and it was starting to bleed.

"Shit!" Zera shouted. "They're combining magic and physical attacks now!"

Riku and Takuto started to fight even harder because they knew that the girls needed more help than ever. Takuto was the first to break into the arena and help Zera up onto her feet. Riku was second and helped Yoko get up.

"Zera, you okay?" Takuto asked. Zera showed him the soot-covered area and he dusted it off to reveal a burn mark. They heard the shattering of ice and saw Yoko with her eyes closed and Riku pulling the shards out of her arm. So much for the healing Kairi had done earlier.

They continued dodging, not being able to go on the offensive, as the great monster continued its onslaught. They knew that if they were caught in another attack, they would be hit by both physical and magical attacks. The beast laughed in its deformed voice.

"You think you can defeat us by running away? We are the Beast of Dark Eternity! No one can defeat us in this form as not many have actually seen this form!" it shouted. Kairi whispered something to Sora, knowing that they had to do something to help their friends. Sora nodded. They had to distract the beast and give their friends an opportunity to attack it. The two fought their way through heartless to the back of the beast. They looked at each other and nodded before charging at it.

As if it had sensed the attack, the beast turned quickly and roared at them, sending razor sharp shards of ice at the two. Kairi managed to cast a protective spell against it, but a few got through and hit them and the ground around them, but they ignored it. They both still rushed forward. Suddenly the beast leapt in a circle, turning 360 degrees, attempting to hit them with its tail like it had Yoko and Zera. Sora had grabbed Kairi, who was unprepared for the attack, and jumped over the tail. But before they could land, they were batted by one of its feet. The two hit a tall rock with Sora taking most of the hit since he was holding Kairi. They fell to the ground below with a thump.

"Sora!" Kairi gasped as she checked on Sora. He grinned at her and pointed at the monster, which was roaring now.

"We did what we needed to," he said. Yoko and Zera had managed to climb on top of the beast to its back. They began stabbing, slashing, and casting spells to harm the beast, but it seemed to do little more than irritate it like a bug bite would. It whipped its tail, slapping it against its back, trying to squash them beneath it. The shockwave from the third hit finally managed to make Zera become off-balance near the side of the monster and fall off. Takuto saw this and jumped up to catch the falling girl.

"Zera!" Yoko shouted from the back of the beast. Riku's eyes widened and he jumped from his ledge near the beast onto it, grabbed Yoko, and jumped away with her as the beast's tail landed where the girl had been before. He landed near where Takuto and Zera were, along with Kairi and Sora, who had gone back to keeping the heartless at bay.

"Damn it, we need to do something about this," Yoko said.

"I think what we need may be more power. All we did when we were on its back was annoy it," Zera replied. They dodged another attack.

"Then what are you guys going to do?" Sora asked as they landed. The group was silent, no one, knowing what they could try that might be powerful enough. They dodged yet another attack before Kairi spoke up.

"Well, they pretty much are heartless if they can control the heartless. Maybe we need to hit them with some…light spell or something," she suggested. Takuto's eyes widened, as a plan formulated in his mind.

"That might work…" he said quietly. He motioned for them to go behind a rock so he could explain. They followed and crouched behind the rock, not sure how long it would hold out, if it did.

"Alright, Kairi and Sora, you guys need to find a way to restrict that things movements. Riku, Yoko, Zera, and I will then strike the final blow," he explained.

"What are we going to do?" Riku asked, curious as to how this might work.

"I'll tell you what to do when they go to trap that thing. Like Kairi said, we'll hit it with light," Takuto replied with a grin. Suddenly the rock broke apart, and the group separated into twos.

Kairi and Sora ran around so that they were on either side of the giant monstrosity. They looked at each other and nodded like they had before. Pointing their weapons at the beast, they both cast their strongest gravity spell on the beast, pouring all of their being and hope into it to keep it from moving, or at least keep it from attacking. The others took their chance and stood in front of the beast like Takuto had told them. He had told them what to do while Kairi and Sora had gone to trap the beast.

"Time to end this," Yoko said.

"Give it all you've got," Zera cheered. The two boys nodded, choosing not to say anything. Yoko and Zera stood next to each other while Takuto was there beside Zera, and Riku beside Yoko. As an afterthought, the boys looped their arms around the girls' waists. All four pointed their weapons at the beast that was roaring ferociously and trying to get loose from the spell cast by Kairi and Sora. Light built up at the tip of each weapon until it was strong enough to be released. The shot rang true, and pierced the beast. The light engulfed it until it was too bright to look at.

When it disappeared, Marla and Kurishi lay there, bloody, broken, and beaten. The group ran to the villains wanting to see if they were dead or not. Yoko and Zera had gotten there first, and looked down at the duo, keyblades pointed at them. Marla coughed up some blood.

"We...were so close..." she said slowly.

"Not close...enough..." Kurishi added, grimly. Yoko and Zera looked at each other, as if asking whether they should get it over with now, or see what they had to say. They decided on the latter, and lowered their weapons a bit. Marla coughed up more blood as she and Kurishi glared up at the teenagers.

"You may have...killed us... but there...a-are many more to come. We may have failed... we may have fallen, but... b-believe me when I say...th-there are more…" the blonde woman spat.

"The darkness...that is in all worlds...in all hearts...e-even ones a-as pure a y-yours...the darkness is as strong as e-ever now...you will be back-k. The on-ones in the future...th-the ones who hold h-hate and s-spite in their h-hearts…will k-kill you," Kurishi told them, laughing weakly, but just as evilly as he would if he were at full health. Deciding that they had enough talk of darkness, the two Twilight Masters pointed their keyblades at the villains threateningly once again at their chests.

"I'm not scared of the dark," Yoko said without emotion.

"Neither am I, but now...you'll be scared to plunge into the darkness that you once controlled," Zera said.

"Have fun in hell," Yoko added with a smirk as she plunged the keyblade into Kurishi's heart. Zera did the same to Marla, though without the smirk. They watched as the two tainted hearts floated into the sky and then disappear. Suddenly the ground began to shake as the light began to fade around everyone.

"What's happening?" Kairi screamed.

"I don't know!" Sora replied. Then, just as suddenly as it began, the shaking stopped. The light hadn't returned to the sky, but the source now came from a tall door that looked similar to the door to the Light. They stared in awe at it. It had an angel wing on one door with a star and moon shape that looked like they were imprinted on it; while on the other door there was a dragon wing with a dragon barring its fangs and claws imprinted on it.

"The Twilight Door…" Zera breathed, unknowingly voicing everyone's thoughts. The group looked at each other before proceeding up the white, misty looking path that led to the towering doors. Standing in front of the great doors, they seemed insignificant in size, but they were too busy staring at each other, saying silent conversations. Sora finally voiced what everyone else was too afraid to say.

"I…guess this it then, huh?" he said with a grin, but sadness could be heard creeping out through his voice and showed in his eyes. Zera sighed and grinned right back.

"Even though we'll be gone, it doesn't mean we can't remember each other, right? I may have some memory problems here and there, but I could never forget everything we went through. Right, Yoko?" she said. The others smiled at that, but one could tell they were still sad.

"Yeah…I won't be able to forget this either, Zera. Especially cause I was with all you knuckleheads," Yoko said, summoning up a smile. Kairi began to tear, and some escaped down her cheeks.

"I don't want to say good bye though. It feels like…if I say that, you guys are never coming back. But…you'll come back right?" she said. Yoko and Zera stared sadly at Kairi.

"I'm not sure if they can Kai. Once the worlds separate again, they might never be able to return. Their world is separate from ours and they'll probably go back to their normal lives," Sora said, putting a comforting arm around Kairi's shoulders.

"But that's what was supposed to happen when you sealed the Door to the Light," Kairi protested. "But we were able to move around to other worlds freely. How do you explain that?"

"Well, you could be right this time, or Sora could be. We won't know until they try to come back," Takuto said with a smile. He secretly hoped Kairi was right, and he wasn't the only one.

"The world works in mysterious ways," Zera said, waving her arms around, trying to be 'mysterious'. They laughed. Riku, who hadn't said anything, finally stepped up to Yoko with a lump in his throat. He stared at her; eyes burning with held back tears.

"So this really is…good-bye then…isn't it?" he managed to get out. Yoko stared back at him, solemnly.

"Yeah…" she said. Her heart felt heavy and her throat clenched as she too choked back her sobs. Zera looked over at the two with sympathetic eyes. She knew neither would want to show how sad they were, but she wanted them to interact at least a little before they were sent away again. She walked up to the pair and pushed Yoko up to Riku, forcing them into an awkward hug.

"Come on Yoko. Just this once, show a little emotion. And besides, if you don't want to say good bye, there's always stuff like 'see you later' that aren't as definite," she said. She winked at them before walking away. Yoko's face was tinted red as she avoided looking into Riku's eyes. She bit her lip lightly.

"She's right…I don't want to say good bye, because, just like Kairi, I feel like I won't see you again if I say it…" she mumbled. Riku smiled lightly as he pulled her closer and nuzzled his cheek against her head. She ignored the buzzing pain in the back of her head from the wounds.

"That's why I won't say good bye. I'll say 'see you later', like Zera said, to give myself more hope of seeing you again. Besides, we'll see each other every night in our dreams. People who love each other never really forget each other and they always see each other that way. So remember that, and don't say something so final as good bye," he said as he pulled away from the hug a little bit. He tilted Yoko's face so that she was looking into his eyes before capturing her lips with his own in a tender kiss that left her breathless.

Meanwhile, Zera had skipped her way over to Takuto, a smile on her face from being able to help out Yoko and Riku. Changing her skip into a run, she made her way to him and jumped him with a hug that almost knocked the two over, not minding her wounds either. After regaining their balance, but not letting go of each other, she stared into his eyes as if searching for something. He smiled at her.

"What?" he asked.

"You won't forget me will you?" she asked, no trace of joking in her voice or eyes.

"Zera…that would be utterly impossible. I could never forget someone like you. Sora may say there's a chance that you won't be able to come back, but I have a feeling you'll be able to," he replied. He laughed a little. "Just give it a year or so and my hair will be long…and then you'll be here again to see it."

Zera, satisfied with this answer, grinned as she hugged him again.

"It's a promise," she whispered into his ear. She pulled back and was about to let go of the embrace, but Takuto kept her in place. Her questioning look was answered with the sweet, innocent kiss he placed upon her lips that made her melt. She closed her eyes and leaned more into the kiss. Sora and Kairi, as this was happening, had been together and hugging each other for comfort. Zera and Yoko had come over to them and hugged their friends tightly. Nobody wanted to let go. Now they were standing in front of the great doors. Kairi turned to them with a smile.

"Before you go, let me heal you guys one last time," she said. The two Twilight Masters nodded. As Kairi stepped up, so did everyone else, forming a circle around the two.

"What're you guys doing?" Yoko asked.

"We're gonna heal you guys, what does it look like?" Sora said. Zera smiled.

"Thanks…everybody," she said softly. A soft, warm green light shone around the two, healing their wounds almost completely. The two opened their eyes, not even aware of when they had closed them and smiled at everyone. They hugged for one last time before Yoko and Zera headed towards the door.

With a final wave, the two Twilight Masters walked to the other side of the door and got their keyblades ready. The two girls turned and pointed the keyblades back at the doors, with their own insignia on them, as Sora and Riku pointed theirs at the doors too. Small beams of light shot from the weapons and a soft click was heard. The doors began to close on their own. With one last glance, they saw Kairi crying in Sora's arms who was also letting some tears fall, Riku was trying to hold his tears in, but was failing miserably, and Takuto was also crying some, but was smiling through it. The hope that the two might be able to return to them, shined within their eyes. Yoko and Zera threw one last smile in their direction before turning back and walking into the light.

When they could see comfortably again, they found themselves standing on a sidewalk corner of Zera's neighborhood street. Their clothes began to droop from the rain that drizzled down upon them. The two teens, though, were utterly oblivious to the weather as they now stared in awe at their own world that was once again laid out in front of them. Zera smiled and they looked at each other.

"We're home…"

The End…

.:Author's Note:.

Agh! I can't believe I finished this story!! I'm so proud of myself, yet so sad. Sad of course, because it's over. But! I told you I was also sort of happy about this yes? Well, that would be because my co-writer and I are making a sequel to this! Yes! It will be called………! I hope you guys read it when I get it up. We've already written them first chapter (haha, and that was before we even started on this one), so I should have it up relatively soon.

Sorry that I took so long to update between chapters, and to update this one. The battle scenes (which I hope are adequate, and good enough for you guys) took me forever to write. I actually got the ending written before I got any of the battle scenes done. But it was definitely made much easier by my co-writer. And I wanna thank her soooo much for doing this with me and helping me write it. She's awesome, and I love her.

Well, unfortunately I must bring this to a close and say that The Twilight Door is finally (and sadly) finished! Good bye until the next story and please review to tell me how you like the chapter!

Finished: Monday, January 1, 2007 at 2:18 A.M.

Happy New Year everyone!