Xejicka: I'm here, finally after a few weeks.

Thalkxene: It's only been a couple.

Xejicka: Either way, I have been delayed on account of a band trip. The hole in the wall has been fixed and the culprit was my band director. I finally figured out what OoC means and now I have a few things to say.

Thalkxene: Tell me! I wanna read the story! I couldn't go on the band trip, I had to stay here by myself.

Xejicka: Yeah, and I'm sorry about that. There is OoC, lots and lots of OoC because Sephiroth is a pain in the ass to deal with when you wanna keep him from decapitating an OC. I will make the reason for that in later chapters, but it's too soon now. There are spoilers and lots of them, if you haven't finished Kingdom Hearts I, CoM or II, do so now. If you haven't seen Advent Children, do so now. If you noticed that there's no disclaimer, here it is:

Disclaimer: I own nothing, not even the emptiness that Xemnas controls. It's short sweet and to the point, I have a lot of typing to do.

Xejicka: The moment where all the reveiwers are in my story is now. Hence the OoC.

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Chapter 8: Discovering Truth

Kathleen was dreaming. She was falling through darkness, she was falling when she noticed something at her right. It was a heart shaped moon. Her feet finally felt a hard surface and she was on a white platform. She looked to her left and saw two people. One was a silver-haired man that was cloaked. His right arm was extended and in hid right had was a flailing girl that had long hair, pointy ears, yellow eyes, fangs and a tail.

The girl looked like she was in extreme pain Kathleen saw the lips of the fiery orange eyed man move, but she couldn't hear him. In fact, she couldn't anything at all. There was no sound in this place. She saw the girl let out a roar, she looked around as a tear crawled down her cheek. She almost stopped her flailing as she reverted back into a more human form. Kathleen's eyes widened as she finally recognized the unfortunate girl.

"Jackie! Jackie! Jackie!" she shouted. It was obvious Jackie nor the orange eyed man could hear her. It looked like the man was talking as he tightened his grip on Jackie's head. It was starting to bleed. Kathleen jumped to hopefully catch the man's arm and make him drop her friend. In mid jump she saw the man pull out a glowing red saber. She was falling as she saw the man lunge the saber into her, or so she thought.

It went right through Kathleen, like she wasn't even there, like she was a ghost. Instead, the saber lunged inot Jackie's stomach and hacked to the left. She let out a scream that Kathleen could hear this time. Kathleen got up from the ground and ran to the orange eyed man, whowas walking to the edge of the platform that was nearest to the moon. He dropped Jackie, or what was left of her at least, off the edge. Kathleen dived at the bloody body and off the edge of the platform. She almost grabbed Jackie's hand until everything faded into darkness and she found herself falling alone.

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Sara was running down all of the levels of the skyscraper. She was running into people, knocking some over, but she didn't care. She was crying and she needed to see Matt. He had to know that Jackie was killed. Sara ran and ran until she was at the doors to the conference room. She threw them open, running to where Matt, DiZ and the moogle stood. She had obviously interruppted their conversation and she didn't care. Matt was annoyed with this as he had to know what was wrong with Sara.

"Sara, what are you doing here? You're suppossed to be at the top level, training," he asked Sara. Tears were forming in her eyes, loss was consuming her face.

"I was, Matt. Something horrble happened to Jackie. She was murdered!" she cried in a shaky voice as rage started to form in her words.

"She was? How were you able to see if she died? She's in the castle."

"I know she was in that goddamn castle. When I was fighting I heard a loud scream. I looked at the top of the castle and saw that Xemans asshole held her by the head and then stabbed her in the stomach and ripped..." Sara nearling broke down and hit the wall hard with her fist, tears were pouring down her face. Matt walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder to calm her down. He could really see she had told the truth.

"I'm sorry I didn't beleive you. Do you have any idea if the body is still up there?"

"It isn't, I don't know where that bastard put it. I saw Xemnas carry her body and then nothing more. Matt, i really think we should stop traing and start looking for Lee Ann and anyone else that may have survived. Jackie's already dead and there's no hope of her returning."

Matt leaned back a little, thinking. All he wanted to do was make sure as many people as possible were safe and so far, he was doing a terrible job. He had taken responsibility to ensure the safety of the survivors because out of all of them, he knew the most about what was going on. DiZ walked up behind him. Matt remembered the discussion they were about to have on Fate. He never answered DiZ's question even though they had a discussion.

"DiZ, I know who Fate is," he finally said. DiZ smiled at these words.

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Kathleen was on a cold hard surface again. She opened her eyes, they hurt so badly that she could barely see. She ignored the pain and looked at her body. She was in a different outfit. She had on black sneakers, baggy black capris, a white elbow lengthed sleeved shirt with a dark blue vest over it and two black straps criss crossing the front. She looked up see four people towering over her. Two of the people were Fate and Sephiroth, one of the guys looked like Riku in his heartless outfit. The fourth guy left kathleen confused as she got up from the ground. "Axel?" she asked him.

"It's not Axel, it's Reno," he answered, a little bit of anger was in his voice. Kathleen never heard of a guy named Reno before. He could have been from a video-game, but she didn't know, Jackie never went into detail about certain story lines. Wait, Jackie. The dream came back to her and she needed to see if anyone here would know what it meant.

"Fate, I had a terrifying fream about Jackie, she-" Kathleen was cut off as Fate made a statement.

"I know, I was the one that projected that moment in your mind while you were absorbing Jenova cells,"

"Wait, that moment? You mean it actually happened?!" Fate gave a slight nod of her head. Kathleen's face contorted into an expression of sadness and rage. "That's impossible, she was still at school when I left! Why did she have to die? Why! Who was that man that killed her?! I have to know so I can kill him!" she burst hard into tears. She leaned on Sephiroth's shoulder, crying into it. Sephiroth had a look of disgust and confusion on his face, but he didn't shove her off. Fate held an emotionless expression.

"Jackie disappeared as soon as you left, Kathleen. She disappeared and made a deal with an organization so she could save you. Her world shortly disappeared after that and the man that killed her is named Xemnas. Those are all the answers I'll give to you for now. Take a look into a mirror and you will see part of your new transformation," she said as a small mirror formed in her hands. She handed it to Kathleen, who looked at it with a gasp escaping from her.

Kathleen saw her reflection. her face looked like the face she was always familiar with except for two things. Her pupils looked like slits insteads of dots, like a cat's. Her hair looked normal at first unless she looked closely, the roots were silver. Thses were indeed the side effects of Jenova cells.

Fate turned head to the guy that looked like Riku, "You, in the hula skirt," she called out.

"It's not a hula skirt, it's a-" he replied angrily but was cut off as Fate continued to speak.

"I don't care. It's not doing you any favors. You wanted to be your own and i will give you your chance," syhe said. She lifted her staff and a white mist shot out of it and wrapped around the Riku replica. He had an odd look on his face that one only gets when a hamster is crawling up their pants. The mist faded and the replica was in a different outfit. He was now wearing a scarlet t-shirt with a black longsleeved callared shirt worn over it like a jacket, had had on long khaki cargo shorts with black tennis shoes on, a gray sweat band was on his left wrist. "That's so much better, isn't it? i put you in an outfit that a common teenager from Earth would wear. That way, when you visit other worlds, they will think you are a refugee," Fate told him.

"It definitely keeps you from looking gay," Kathleen added. Fate giggled at this and looked at her staff.

"I have to go. Sephiroth, remember our binding contract that involves all, I will not hesitate to sign it over to Hades if you do not fulfill your end of the bargain. He will not have any mercy at all. Replica, you are your own being and your choice of name is up to you. Kathleen, you are bound to Sephy's contract as well, do as he tells you. Reno..." Fate blew a kiss to him. She waved her staff as a white portal appeared, she entered it amd it disappeared.

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Jackie was falling, falling into darkness. Pain was attackingher. Her side and head still bled at a fast rate. As she was about to lose all hope, a dim light grew beneath her and she was on a mosaic platform again. It had the dozens of female warriors on it. Yet they weren't fighting each other this time. All of them stood still as Jackie slowly landed. The warriors stared at her. She looked inot the crowd and saw that they all divided, making a pathway to the opposite edge.

"Follow the path and make your choices," an enigmatic voice said. It wasn't so much that Jackie could hear the voice, but feel it. She felt the words as she found herself limping to the opposite edge of the platform. A large ornate door appeared out of thin air. The door opened with light shining everywhere. She was now in the area that Xemnas stabbed her.

"I guess this is where my final judgement lies," she said to herselfShe felt the enigmatic voice as it called this place Altar. "So that's what this place is called, I guess that's it's purpose," She looked around and noticed ten people were scattered around the edges. She walked to the person nearest to her left. It was a deity like human that was hugging something tightly. Jackie tapped the person's shoulder and she quickly turned. Jackie quickly felt the name of the diety come to her, SacredxMoon. The diety was holding a plush Xemnas that terrified Jackie.

"If you were to die today, what would your biggest regret be?" the being asked Jackie, the facial expression was emotionless.

"I'm already dead aren't I? I guess it would be the fact that I wasn't even able to save my friend and that I never found love,"

"Oh, so that's what you would regret," Jackie nodded and walked to the next person. It was a short girl that seemed to be adorned with flowers. She felt the girl's name, ChezatheFlowerMaiden,

"Why would revenge be important to you?" she asked Jackie. The wound in her side still hurt her so muchh and yet she answered the question.

"It's important because it's karma. When I get revenge, I want to serve cold hard justice to the man and make sure that he never inflicts that kind of pain onto anyone else ever again," she said, strongly thinking of Xemnas and his fiery eyes that she so desperately wanted to hack away.

"Hmm, that's interesting," the flower maiden said. this was Jackie's cue to move onto the next person. She limped to another girl that immeadiately turned around to greet her. Jackie automatically felt the name of this girl to be rikufanattic.

"Which would you rather be, a mage, a warrior, a knight or an assassin?" she calmly asked Jackie. The wound in her side was really starting to hurt and she needed to answer all of these questions.

"I choose red mage, i need the defense and the healing abilities. It's well balanced,"

"Thinking outside the box,huh," Jackie moved to the next person. The pain in her side was getting worse and worse. The next person she encountered was yet another girl. She had dark hair and she was leaning on a giant key. The name wrapped around Jackie's head, KeytoDestiny.

"What is your greatest sin?" she asked calmly.

"Oh, wrath and envy, okay" Jackie impatiently answered.

"Don't let them consume you" the keybearer replied. Jackie moved onto the next person whose gender she couldn't tell, the person was cloaked in a silver robe. This person let off an evil aura and yet seemed harmless. Evil-Sama. Jackie started to feel light headed.

"Do you think you would be able to endure a death more painful than anything you've ever experienced?" the cloaked person asked Jackie.

"If that's a question on whether I'll survive Hell, then no. If it means I get a second chance at life, then I guess I have no choice."

"Joshua would be proud," the cue to move on. She was getting sick and tired of these question. She looked back behind herself and noticed a trail of blood. She kept on moving to what appeared to be the only guy at the Altar. He looked heartless and he left off the feeling that there was a dragon nearby. His . His name was DarkHeartlessDragon.

"If dying would ensure the safety and lives of those you love or want to protect, would you?" he asked.

"I'm already dead. If my death guranteed safety to those I love, it would make me feel that maybe I wasn't so useless after all,"

"You're not useless," he said. Jackie turned away. Time was running out. If she didn't get to all of these people, she didn't know what would happen. She limped over to the next girl. This one seemed to have a love for something. IluvAus immeadiatly shot into Jackie's mind.

"If gettig what you desire would no longer make you yourself, would you still strive for that desire?"

"It depends on what that desire is. I know what death feels like, I have nothing to lose anymore . I am no longer me,"

"Are you sure?" Jackie nodded and moved to the next girl. She coughed a little and noticed there was blood in her hand from it. She ignored it as she met the girl clad in green. Greensally. Jackie was in front of this as she turned around.

"What element do you feel you are?" she asked Jackie.

"Air, because I was born in October,"

"Interesting," Jackie moved onto the next girl. She stumbled a little, pain searded in her side, time was running out. The girl had a musical tone of love around her, her name was lalalaLovex3.

"Would you ever want to return home?" she asked Jackie.

"Yes and no, I want to make sure everyone is safe but... I don't want to return home. i never have fit in, my family is always criticizing me, making me never be what I want. In this world, I had a new start, I hope the afterlife will be kinder,"

"If only you knew," greensally said back. Jackie walked to the final person, she fell to the ground, but the girl helped her up. The girl was holding a cat, giving her the name Meowzzah. Jackie was happy that somebody helped her.

"How much control do you think Fate has over you?" she asked.

"She lets up the path and I follow it. She has a lot of power, but God is her master. The choices are mine and they set up the consequences,"

"Then you trust the light?"

"Yes," Jackie finally responded. All the people around her disappeared. A large set of chains fell on Jackie and she collapsed. The pain was intense and yet she was still consious. She looked over the edge and saw the top of Memory's Skyscraper once again. Sara was there with a few other people Jackie could recognize. Matt, DiZ, a moogle and a dark haired girl that she could instantly knew to be as her older sister. She was about to call out their names when a hand tightly grabbed her head and lifted off the ground.

The eyes of Xemnas etched into her soul. If there would be one thing she would like to do in her next life, it would be to gouge out those eyes. He carried her to the opposite edge of the Altar and dropped her. The rage in Jackie's soul was about to erupt, but it was stifled.

Jumping off the edge was Kathleen and a few cloaked people. They reached out to Jackie but were unable to grasp her. She looked into the eyes of her friend and noticed that her pupils were shaped like slits. "Damn you, Sephiroth," she said as she looked at the cloaked people next to Kathleen. The hood of the nearest cloaked figure flew back to reveal the face of Demyx. "Goodbye, life," she said as she fell into the abyss.

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Back in the World That Never Was, a lone moogle was flying with much struggle. It was carrying a body that weighed the moogle down. "Please, please hang in there. I'll find you some help, just hang in there," the moogle pleaded with the body. The body just stayed limp, it was bleeding heavily and yet there was still a pulse. The moogle flied around the castle until it found what it was looking for.

An open big enough for the moogle and the body to fly into bacame noticable. The moogle flew into it. Upon entering, it crashed to the floor, sprawling the body out. There was a person in the room, he did not seemed disturbed by the moogle or the body. In fact, he smiled. He held a hand to the moogle, "Need any help?" he asked.

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Xejicka: Thses chapters are getting too long.

Thalkxene: Why don't you keep an individual chapter for each character?

Xejicka: I don't know. I feel that they would be too short and confuse me and I don't want it to where a reader looks for to seeing a chapter with one person and they end up with the one they hate. The chapters wouldn't be as good as they could be. How about if you reveiwers tell me when you reveiw please. I'm sorry if I offended or upset you by putting your name down in this chapter with your gender. Don't hurt me! (quickly hides underneath desk and cowers. Suddenly a long sword stabs through the top, narrowly missing Xejicka by an inch, she lets out a small high pitch sream.)

Thalkxene: Hey! Sephiroth's here!

Xejicka: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!