An: Final Chapter for this story. Hope you enjoyed the read and sorry for the long update. Had computer problems that were really bad.

Victory For You, Defeat For Me

Infirmary

Kairi worriedly sat between two beds in the infirmary. Sora lay still beside her as he recovered from his battle with the heartless. She had asked the others on what happened to Sora for him to be injured like this. She had been told that Sora was injured when he froze up in battle for no reason. Donald and Goofy couldn't tell her much more than that since they were confused on the matter as well. Sora was moments away from dealing the killing blow before he froze up with a look of pain and shock on his face. Luckily the heartless was already dieing and was unable to strike the finishing blow.

Kairi sighed as she looked at the other bed beside her. Lulu was in much worse shape then Sora. Her body was covered in bandages that were already beginning to turn red from her blood. Even after Sora was wounded, he had told everyone to find Lulu before he was treated. They had finally found her, two hours later buried underneath trees and soaked in mud, water, and blood. Lulu was carried back to the ship by Goofy while she had to help Sora walk back.

Penny was freaking out so much that she had to be locked out of the infirmary so she could focus on bandaging Lulu and Sora. Donald had to help her with what little healing magic he could do to keep Lulu from dieing. All through the night she and Donald had stayed up to keep Lulu alive and Sora stable. By morning Donald had to retreat to his room to sleep but Kairi had stayed behind to keep watch on her two patients.

The worst part was the obvious lack of Riku. They hadn't found his body or heard anything from him since yesterday. It was only yesterday that they had all been together and so close to finishing their mission. They were so close to returning home but now it seemed their return home wasn't as close as she thought. The door opening interrupted her worrying.

"HOW IS LULU DOING!" yelled a worried Penny as she came in with the two little Rescuers on her shoulders.

"Be quiet Penny!" Kairi whispered sternly to her. "Don't wake them up."

Penny put her hands over her mouth with a sheepish expression. "Sorry." She whispered quietly but gave her a hopeful expression. "How is Lulu doing? Is she going to be okay?"

"Don't worry Penny. Sora and Lulu will b-" she paused when Sora groaned and shifted uncomfortable before becoming still again. She waited a few more moments to see if he would wake up before she turned back to Penny. "Sorry Penny but I can't talk to you in here."

"But why not."

"I don't want to disturb them."

Penny pouted and turned to leave with a depressed face. She paused when her stomach gave a loud growl to tell the world she was hungry. Kairi laughed ad her own stomach growled in agreement with Penny's.

"I guess I could talk to you while I make breakfast."

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Kitchen

Kairi sighed as she messed around with her breakfast. She had just gone through a grueling session of having to fill in and reassure everyone here that Sora and Lulu were fine. At first she was only interested in making breakfast for her and Penny, but the others had woken up at the right time to catch them on the way to the kitchen. So she had ended up making breakfast for everyone. She stared down at her food and sighed at how she hadn't even took a bite yet. 'They ask me so many questions that I couldn't even eat and now its cold.' The moment she sat down everyone had asked her about how sora was, if lulu would be okay, what happened to Riku, and a bunch of other questions she hardly knew how to answer.

After she answered their questions the best she could, they had all lapsed into silence as everyone thought about what had happened yesterday. The silence was broken when Penny asked the one question that was on her mind as well. "Do you think Riku is okay?"

"I don't know Penny. I hope so… I really do."

With her despondent answer, everyone had gone back to being silent. 'I can't eat like this.' thought Kairi as she picked up her plate and dumped her food into the trash. "Sorry guys I can't really tell you much more than what I've told you. The best I can do is make sure Sora and Lulu are okay." she said as she walked out of the kitchen and back to the infirmary. Everyone could only watch as she left for they had no words to comfort her.

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'… Waves?' Riku slowly opened his eyes to find himself floating in a sea of darkness. 'What happened?' His eyes traveled around until they focused onto his chest or more exactly the sword that was stuck in it. Amazingly he didn't feel any pain or panic at seeing the sword in his chest. He felt oddly relaxed and detached from his surroundings.

"Still alive I see."

Riku eyes focused towards the voices direction to see his other self sitting on a platform staring down at him. "Still alive?"

"You lost… these are your final moments of your life before you."

Riku knew those words should have scared him or made him mad but his body just couldn't find the strength to dredge of those emotions. All he felt was detached, tired, and most of peaceful. 'Is this how death is suppose to feel? Where is the pain, sadness, hate, worry, heartache, or even most important Regret?'

"You're not … you would … dieing."

'huh? His voice is getting father away… or is it that my hearing is failing? Huh… now that I noticed, where did my sight go.' Riku body felt lighter than it had ever felt before. Everything seemed to be fading away. All he could feel was the pull of the ocean and the sound of waves.

"Before … die … name is …'

Riku heard no more as his conscious faded away. 'huh, guess I'll never know his name.' was the last thought that fluttered through his mind.

AN- The end! Yeah, I know i never did tell you the name of the evil Riku , but I think it was better that way for this type of ending.