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This chapter was really hard to write. So much... well I'm not going to give it away.

Chapter 8:

The Beginning of Intervention

We took different ships, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi on one and Tai and I on hers. While the others took Kairi to Traverse Town, Tai and I went to look around in space. They said that she would be safe with Leon and his gang. Fair enough for me. I didn't feel like watching her again. Also, she had no idea what was going on and might end up getting in the way.

When we found what seemed to be a world or a black hole we stopped and sent a message to Sora. We were too far away from Traverse Town to talk so all we could do is send him a message and give him our coordinates. When he gets back to his ship he'll read the message, and then wait. Only Tai and I weren't ones for waiting.

Tai found a way to get us onto the world without landing on it, because to be honest there was nothing to land on. There were floating rocks and no real ground to speak of let alone see. She used some sort of teleportation devise that Cid installed a while ago, but never used until now. So you can tell my enthusiasm great.

We appeared in a small cove that had an opening leading to a plain that was as I said before, empty. We stopped at the edge of the rock path and just looked around.

"So this is what happened to all those worlds that were eaten by the Heartless?" I asked, not expecting a straight answer.

"This is a Heartless world, created by pieces of other worlds that the Heartless destroyed." Not an answer but good enough for me.

I put my foot down onto the 'non-existing ground' and found it to be solid. An illusion that was powered by all the Heartless. "Let's go."

"Not waiting for Sora?" Tai didn't follow.

I stopped and looked back at her, "Clearing the way is easier."

She shrugged and walked in front of me, then stopped.

I walked forward, "What's wrong-" I started to say but ran smack dab into what seemed to be an invisible wall. I stepped back and looked at Tai, she smiled. "You could have told me that there was something there!"

"Where would be the fun in that?" she started to my right.

"I'm staying behind you from now on." I said rubbing my nose.

Tai ended up leading the way through the invisible maze of illusion. Quite a title for something the Heartless created if you ask me. Then after the maze and countless battles with Heartless's called Behemoths and others that resembled demons and angels. They were harder then usual Heartless and took Tai and I some time to fend them off, but nonetheless we made it through with only a few scratches and scrapes. We had learned to back each other up by now. When either of us needed assistance we were there, there were more then demons and angels; there were floating balls with tails and what seemed like antennas. Those seemed to be the most annoying for me, but Tai seemed annoyed by the Behemoths. Secretly I liked fighting them, it put up a challenge, but I wouldn't tell Tai that.

Past the maze was a series of platforms that were connected by teleportation devises. Each platform had a hole in the center that lead to a remake of each world that was still intact in this solar system. All the ones Sora had visited and in order from what I could tell. We had no real reason to jump into them but I did anyways, dragging Tai along with me. I only recognized a few, like the one Tarzan was on, the one with Peter Pan, and Hollow Bastion.

We finally reached the last platform and there being no other place to go Tai jumped in first. I followed and found myself floating, this place hadn't the laws of gravity or I had my wings. Looking behind me and seeing no wings I ruled that out, also Tai was floating right below me. Before we could make some smart remark to each other we were interrupted by a loud roar that came from a volcano in front of us.

"Great a huge Heartless."

"I don't think that's a Heartless, Tai," I moaned.

"Then what is it?"

"I don't know and I don't want to find out."

"Well the only way out of here is to go into that volcano."

My worst fear in the world was volcanoes, not a thought I wanted to have. I heard something behind me, like something ripping. I turned to look and saw a bright light, silver in color. "I'm not going into any volcano, but if you want to be my guest." I said willing myself forward towards the light.

She followed me into the light. We appeared in a different room, this time standing on hard ground. "Where the Hell are we now?" Tai asked irritated.

"You expect me to know?" I asked rubbing my eyes to get them adjusted to the new light. We were in a small room that had walls with designs of shadows and such engraved in them.

The room itself was beautiful but it had a very uncomfortable feeling to it. The ceiling was low and the floor made out of stone squares. Our footsteps echoed as we walked towards the middle of the room. There was a stone sitting on a table that stood in the middle of the room. The stone was different colors they seemed to swirl with each other inside its incasing.

Both Tai and I looked at it; there wasn't anything else in the room other than us and this table with the stone on it. A red and black stone, totally apart from the light silvery blue room, that wasn't any specific shape from what I could see. I reached out to touch it and saw Tai's eyes quickly turn to shock and look towards me.

"Kyde!"

It was too late; I had my fingers on the stone and couldn't remove them. An electrical shock shot through my arm, and I grabbed it with my free hand and squeezed. The pain was tremendous and never ending! It attacked my soul and the last piece of my heart. Tai tried to grab hold of me but was forced back when she touched me, and was thrown into the wall.

I couldn't speak, all I could do is grit my teeth and hold my eyes shut. I could hardly breathe and it felt like I was being ripped apart. I opened my eyes once more to see the stone start to gain new colors. Purple and silver streaks flowed into the stone and it started to change shape. Slowly, without my consent, my hand wrapped around the stone and picked it up. My whole arm was acting upon its own accord, and I could feel the intruding power slowly start to control my other arm.

I closed my eyes again and I could see Sora and the others standing on Destiny Islands, he was fighting Ansem. Then it stopped and he was fighting him alone, while Ansem had some sort of Heartless attached to him. Then that disappeared and Darkness engulfed my sight. Even when I opened my eyes it was dark and I was cold.

'Pity, I thought you could do it.' A voice echoed in the Dark, no, it was inside me! 'I guess you really are the weak part of me.' A body materialized in front of me. It was Xyked! She wore a black Organization Coat, but different than the others I had seen. She also had silver hair and eyes.

"What are you doing?" I finally managed to say.

"Saving your ass." She seemed annoyed, "You just placed your hand on the stone that is the Heart of this pitiful place."

"The Heart?"

"Yes the Heart, I thought you would have at least noticed the energy it gave off. No you only noticed how the room wasn't very welcoming." She placed her hand on her face in disgust.

"Shuddup!"

She seemed shocked then removing her hand she smiled, "What's wrong my dear Kyde?"

"You tricked me. You've hurt my friends and made it look like I was to blame. You're not really a good girl like you made me believe."

Her smile faded, "You wouldn't understand anything."

"Tai and Axel, their lives and their love. You destroyed everything that mattered to them!"

"I did it for you; I cared about Axel before I even got to know him. I knew that you would like him to so I split them apart."

"You didn't do it for me! You did it for yourself!" I was still in immense pain and she didn't see it fit to relive me of it.

"I knew you wouldn't understand." She sighed and walked towards me.

"Get away from me!"

"I can't. I am you."

"Your not me! I wouldn't do things like you have done."

"No, but you've thought of it. In the back of your mind when you were made fun of and mocked at you thought of hurting others. So much so that you've dreamed of getting rid of some people."

"That wasn't me…"

"Oh but it was, it was us." She placed one hand on mine and the power that was taking over my body receded.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm over powering the Heart, and rearranging the bond we have."

"I thought you created that bond, why are you going to destroy it?"

"I'm not destroying it, I'm fixing it. Then reorganizing it to my advantage."

"Your advantage? Fixing it?"

She smiled and got close to me, placing her other hand on my stomach where there was the scar from Ansem. "This mark was caused by the same thing that tried to sever our bonds with each other, but if it weren't for that I couldn't have healed you and you've died. Although if you would have been more careful none of this would have happened. So in the end this is all entirely your fault."

I could feel the power from the Heart retreat back into the stone and change back to its red and black colors. I dropped the stone and was about to fall to my knees, all my energy was gone. Xyked caught me and held me up with one hand behind me and the other still on my stomach. "What…?"

"I'm taking over you, but not in a total since. Kind of like the state your friend is in."

"Friend…" I could feel my will slowly slip from me.

"Yes, Tai. Her and the world inside her. You may not be familiar with the likes of Twili and others like her, but I am." She paused for a moment, "Tai can't die because Twili won't let her, but she can still feel the pain that she causes for herself." She smiled again, "Then there will come a day that she will want to kill me, for what I've done to Axel. Only that won't be possible, because we are one and if she kills me… well we both die. Not like I would go down so easily."

"Let, me, go." I tried to demand, but it sounded more like a plea.

"As you wish, for now my dear Kyde." She disappeared, and I fell to the ground.

My surroundings slowly changed back to normal. The stone was back on the table and looked just the same before I touched it. Tai was to her feet and now kneeling beside me. She looked worried, the first time I saw her look worried and it was over me.

"Kyde! What happened? Are you ok? What's wrong with you?"

"Tired…" was all I could get out.

Tai stood and carried me to the wall and leaned me against it to prop me up. "I saw you, and I heard you. What's going on? You were talking to someone and were floating for a moment before you fell." She looked me over and her gaze stopped at my stomach then looked back at my face.

"The Heart, I touched the Heart…" I tried to continue, "Someone saved me…"

"And this?" she pointed down to my stomach and I managed to look. The scar was now replaced with a design that to me looked like wings with some other design at the base of them. I didn't say anything.

"Who did this to you? I know someone or something did this."

"Is that what Twili told you?" I didn't mean to say that!

She was shocked, "How did you know her name?"

I hit myself on the inside, she never did tell me the name of 'it' inside her. Xyked just told me, "I know more than you think." This wasn't me!

"What happened to you?!" she demanded. "I know that you have another half, now tell me everything!"

"You didn't tell me about Twili."

"I never needed to say her name. I told you everything else."

"Have you?"

"You're the first and only one I have told." She was way beyond pissed now, and I didn't mean to make her that way.

"I can't tell you." But I really wanted to, but I couldn't.

'I won't let you spill the beans just yet.'

"Well I'm going to try!"

"They try!"

"It's her!" I felt pain shot from my stomach throughout my whole body, but continued. "She won't let me!"

"Your other half? What's her name?"

"I can't!!!" I yelled and my hand moved and grabbed her neck, I felt tears go down my face, "I can't…" I tried to get it to let go but I knew Xyked was controlling it. All I could manage was to make it not squeeze.

Tai just looked at me and sighed in disgust, then closed her eyes. When they opened again they were gold and her whole complexion changed. "You're just as weak as she is." That wasn't Tai's voice, "But I do give you credit for holding her back enough so you wont choke poor little Tai… or maybe she hasn't gained full control yet and that's why you can still do so."

'Twili.'

"So you're Twili." My hand still didn't retract.

"Correct, and you're Kyde at the moment." She smiled.

"I won't let her come out."

"I see that, but I also know that she can still hear me."

"So what do you want to say?" I wanted to take away my restrain and just let Xyked choke her but it would only hurt Tai.

Twili let out some sort of laugh, "She can't get to me through you, or through Tai. I'm much stronger then her."

"Wait tell you see me when this pitiful girl doesn't have hold on me. There are things even you can't do in that mortal human body, Twili." I didn't say that, Xyked spoke through me.

"So you can speak, just so you know. There will come a day I will kill you."

"Your vision is clouded, Twili. For I will be the one standing over you when you die."

"Your stories are amusing but hold no truth."

"Then let's settle this right now."

"Why? There is so much that isn't done yet."

"What do you care?"

"I'm not about to wait for another idiot to come by and pick me up, and I know that you don't want poor little Kyde to die either."

"I have more strength that you think, I won't use the power that Kyde holds unless to entertain me. While you'll use it under any circumstance."

"The entertainment part is what we have in common."

"We have more than that."

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The next thing I know I'm waking up in the middle of Darkness, just plain Darkness. I was floating in mid air and just below me was a white patch of ground. I flipped myself and my feet touched the ground. I looked around and I could see Sora, Donald, and Goofy running off towards a light that was at the end of a path.

"Sora! Sora!!" I yelled but he didn't stop. "SORA!!!"

'It's no use, he's left you. Everyone's left you.'

"Be Quiet!"

'And where is Tai? I'll tell you, she left you while you were sleeping. Same with Sora, he saw you then left. He didn't need you anymore. Both he and that Riku deserted you for Kairi.'

"It's not true." I clenched my fist.

'It's not? You have proof standing right in front of you. Or shall I say around you, nothing. You're alone again.'

"I said be quiet!"

'But there is one person that is there for you.'

"Kyde?" a voice came from behind me. I spun around; Axel was in front of a portal. "Are you ok?"

I started to cry again and ran to him; I opened my arms wide and embraced him. Engulfed in his warmth, "As long as I'm with you."

He wrapped his arms around me, "its ok."

"No. I shouldn't have left, I shouldn't have left you. I should have just stayed and none of this would have happened."

"Never again then… Never again."

OW! Why is the last in italics? Could it be? NO!

The ending is here! For this is the end of this journey... Kyde's journey, my journey... or is it? My Heart is still here so it isn't over yet.

Also... DON'T KILL ME TAI!!!

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