Second Chance.

Note: Great news! A new Kingdom Hearts 3 video is supposedly made at a special event during the launch of KH 2.5 release! What I'm puzzled at is that the Land of Departure as a town...unless Sora travelled into the past, but that's my theory. And what's with the chess pieces?

Oh well, at least more info will be released next year, just as I predicted. So, if we're lucky, then maybe the game will (Finally) come out in 2016 at the earliest.

Anyway, this may be the final chapter of this story, but you never know. So, let's go, and remember, I do not own Kingdom Hearts. Those rights belong to Disney and Square Enix.


CH8: Revenge and Reunion.

As Lea and the others entered the door, the redhead was shocked that the area was like a replica of his former home of the World that Never Was. It wasn't that difficult the realise that it was a mere illusion created by Xemnas, but the former Nobody was amazed that this guy was a lot stronger than he gave credit for. It was also uncomfortable that the sky was dark-blood red, which stupidly reminded him of his mother's hair colour.

But his thoughts were broken as he and Sora looked up and gasped softly. On top of a castle that seemed to be actually moving, was Xemnas who still looked as normal as ever, but both and the others knew, that he was just as strong as he was before now.

"So...it seems your hearts have led you to obliteration." Xemnas stated, before glancing at Lea and added, "And your heart has once again lead you to your doom. Perhaps it doesn't pay to be too loyal to one's heart. I will have to be sure and remember that."

That's when Lea realised that Xemnas was expecting them, because he turned to the others and cried out, "Look out!" just as Xemnas uses his powers to send a building straight towards them.

The seven of them immediately turned around to avoid being crushed by the large building, only for Mickey and Kairi to end up back outside of the door, and Sora, Riku, Lea, Donald and Goofy on the ground just near it, and to their shock, the door closes, just as Mickey realised it. But he was too late as he tried to rush back to the others who got up and saw what happened.

"No!" Riku cried out as he reached out, but was too late. They were trapped inside with Xemnas.

Sora, being the boy that he was, knew that the only way back out was to defeat Xemnas. He turned around, summoning his Keyblade and declared, "We can take him on our own!"

Hearing this made the others realise that he was right, and, the rest of them nodding, followed his lead by summoning their weapons, preparing for the final battle as it begun. They then immediately charged towards their final opponent. Several windowed walls punch up from the floor blocking them from continuing, but Sora easily slices through them with his Keyblade, as the walls were sliced into pieces and crumbled into nothing.

"That's what I call a Keyblade master." Lea smirked, very impressed. In truth, he could almost sense that Roxas was helping by giving his own strength to Sora, considering how both of them were the same people.

With that, the five of them quickly hurried towards their goal, destroying incoming Nobodies, which Lea then threw his chakrams at giant Thornside nobodies while avoiding being captured, Riku leaping into the air and throwing his Way-To-Dawn Keyblade like a boomarang, a skill that he learned mentally from Sora a year ago, Donald using his latest fire-cracker magical spell to destroy several Nobodies, and Goofy using his tornado skill he learned, using his shield to knock the enemies away.

Just as they were about to continue, Xemnas, watching this in amusement, then metnally ordered his gigantic mecha and caused it to fly in the sky before he came crushing down to the ground. The next thing Sora and his friends knew, was that platform they're standing on rises up to the mecha's level. Several buildings fly through the air toward them. Not willing to give up, Sora, with his unrealised superhuman abilities, leaped into the air once more and like he did with the walls earlier, breaks them up into several pieces with his Keyblade, before going into his Valor form, his clothes changing completely red, the Oathkeeper Keyblade appearing his his left hand, and with faster skills, slices up more Nobodies, before the others caught up.

Sora then runs across the top of them and slices through. The last one sends them into the cylinder of the flying mecha. But it was nothing Sora and his friends couldn't handle, as they then fought long and hard against the Nobodies, to which Lea suddenly realised that his strength had returned to full health ever since getting his heart back.

"Guys, this way!" Sora called, as he ran up to the side of the side pipes. Getting the hint, Riku, Lea, Donald and Goofy followed, all of them dodging the large wave of energy which erupts from the cylinder. They jump to the other cylinder and slide across the grate. Unfortunately, more enemies appear, trapping the group once more.

"Out of the way!" Lea shouted as if casted a powerful fireblast at the Nobodies. Sora, Donald and Riku aided him by using their own fire spells, which made Lea's fire abilities from his time as Axel become stronger. They and Goofy then leaped out of the way as a surge of energy blasted towards them, but instead the blast destroyed the Nobodies.

They were seriously thankful that the Heartless weren't around. During the blast, as they managed to reach their destination on time, the cylinder drops off the mecha. As the second cylinder is destroyed, they all nodded to each other, before jumping down into the very core, which felt more like a prison cell, but they noticed something in front of them.

"You think that'll lead to Xemnas?" Goofy asked.

"Let's just hope." Riku replied.

"Knowing our luck, the only way to get through is to make a hole through that thing." Lea stated, ready to continue. He came this far to get his revenge on the Nobody-half of the man who killed him, took away everything he cared for and loved, and used him and lied to him for ten agonising years.

"So, feeling nervous?" Sora asked to the redhead, in a similiar way he did when they both were cornered by the Nobodies before Axel returned as Lea.

The said pyro smirked, "Nah. This thing's a piece of junk."

A piece of junk later, a door opened and immediately all five of them leaped in, and as they did, they found themselves in a some sort of throne room on a floating platform in a sky of darkness. In front of them, was an armored being sitting in the throne like a king, weapons that are not laser-swords but rather several of them as he held them in his arsenal.

"Xemnas?" Lea asked in disbelief.

"Cursed fools!" roared the familiar but now deeper voice of Xemnas.

Getting the hint, Sora, Riku, Lea, Donald and Goofy once again got ready and the real fight has finally begun. Donald had already casted cure on his friends and himself, knowing that they were getting exhausted on their way here, and now the time has come to finish this.

Sora when first as he attempted to slice Xemnas, but surprisingly, the Nobody Lord had summoned up Xaldin's weapons, and blocked his attack, until Riku slashed at them, with the aid of Goofy who threw his shield, hitting Xemnas on the head, but not enough to render the enemy unconscious, unfortunately. Donald then summoned a thunder spell, but it was absorbed by knives and send them back, but Lea held up his chakrams to block the attack, but got zapped himself as he screamed in pain.

He fell to his left knee, but the redhaired man wasn't going down that easily.

Suddenly, being caught off-guard, Xemnas creates a powerful wave of energy and blasts at all five of them, the group screaming in agony, before the attack stopped, and they all fell onto their knees in pain, while Donald and Goofy were renderd to unconsciousness and were both comically seeing stars around their heads.

'Damn! He's using the rest of the Organization's abilites!' Lea thought to himself. 'How can we stop him like this?'

'Axel, don't give up!' came a familiar boy's voice.

Lea blinked, thinking, 'Roxas?'

'Axel, please! We believe in you! You're the only one who can help Sora!' came the girl's voice that sounded like Kairi, but was no doubt a different girl.

'Xi...Xi...why can't I remember!? I know that voice, but who is she!?' Lea thought in frustration. He wanted to remember. 'Come on!' but then it hit him. Xi and On sound combined together. More memories then appeared in his mind, and to Axel's last existance within Lea.


"Teach him well, Axel." said Saix as he was sending Axel to guide Roxas on the latter's first mission.

The redhaired Nobody smirked, replying, "Don't worry. I'll be sure he makes the grade." before turning to the blonde-haired Nobody, saying to them they were leaving, but then noticed that the boy was looking at their newest member, whom Axel sort of figured was a girl considering her figure and that Larxene was the first female member of the organization.

"What's wrong? You worried about the new kid?" Axel asked, before trying to recall the name, "What was that name again..."

Saix, in slight annoyance, answered, "Number XIV, Xion."

Axel nodded, "Right. I knew that."

"Xion..." Roxas repeated absently, his mind still cloudly.

"Got it memorized, Roxas?" Axel asked as he approached the thirteenth member.


In another flash-back.

Sensing that Xion was in trouble, Roxas immediately went over to the abandoned mansion with Axel, and immediately the two of them noticed a Veil Lizard Heartless, before they noticed the fourteenth member, Xion, her hood off in Roxas's eyes, but up in Axel's, as the black-haired girl tried to attack, but was accidenlty distracted by Roxas, causing the heartless to knock her unconscious.

"Xion!" Roxas cried out in horror.

Axel knew what to do, as he cried out to his friend in determination, "Roxas! We have to take that thing out first!" as he summoned his weapons. Roxas quickly followed his lead, and together, the two of them finished off the heartless, and collected it's heart for Kingdom Hearts.

In another flash-back; after being introduced to Xion, she, Roxas and Axel were back on top of the clock tower, where Xion admitted that she lost her abilty to use the keyblade, and her worries, making Roxas worried. Axel had to admit, he was worried too.

"We can't do anything?" Roxas asked.

"I already told you, there's nothing we ca-" Axel cuts himself off as an idea appeared in his mind. "Hold on..."

"Did you think of something?" Roxas asked, catching his friend's look, and hope started to fill up within Xion.

Axel then looked at Roxas and says, "Roxas, you can work double duty?"

"Huh?" inquired the boy.

Xion tilted her head slightly, "What do you mean?"

The pyro mentally nodded to himself, and smiled, explaning, "Xion, make sure your missions are with Roxas-until you can use the Keyblade again. That way, he can collect the hearts, and no one will know that you can't use the Keyblade."

His two friends thought of this as a brillant idea, and Roxas agreed to capture twice as many hearts, and, Axel had to admit, he was surprised when Xion asked if they could be friends, and when he replied that they could, in a blink of his eyes, Xion had her hood down, and to him, she strongly resembled to Kairi and Namine, which was strange. But she was a nice girl.


After several days, the three of them became closer and closer. On day, Axel, alone on the clock tower, was on his back, exhausted, his hands behind his , what he didn't expect, was a face to suddenly appear above him, saying, "Axel!"

"Whoa!" Axel exclaimed in fright, before realising it was Roxas and Xion, asking, "Where'd you come from?" causing his two friends to laugh. He honestly didn't hear them coming.

"How was your mission?" Roxas asked, still smiling.

Axel shrugged, "You know, I sure wish the Heartless would hold still once in a while. I fell right on my butt chasing them around."

"I thought you said you were tough." Roxas pointed out.

"Yeah, whatever, that's got nothing to do with it." Axel grumbled. He then remembered something and glanced at the two, asking, "So how did your caper go?"

Roxas looked at Xion who nodded, then closed her eyes, held out her hand, and a Keyblade appeared, identical to Roxas', thus, Sora's.

"Ta-daaah!" says Roxas.


In Lea's mind, more and more memories appeared of his time as Axel, making things more sense, but more painful memories appeared, and suddenly, Lea felt like smacking himself for not remembering sooner, the more memories of Xion returning, and her connections with Sora and Roxas, until the memory of when he saw Xion for the very last time, and it wasn't even pretty.


Axel was sent of retrieve Xion who was attempting to destroy herself in order for Roxas to survive, and Sora to awaken once again, even if the memories of her will disappear forever, and on top of that, she was refusing to return with him, because...it was the right thing to do, but he didn't want to lose her. He already lost Roxas, and lost Isa as Lea.

"Please don't hold back, Axel. Promise." Xion pleaded, her voice cracking and on the verge of crying, as she held a tight grip on her Keyblade.

He was struggling with his emotions himself. Why did everything had to be taken away from him!? "What's your problem!?" Axel shouted, "You both...think you can do whatever you want. Well, I'm sick of it. Go on, you just keep running. But I'll always be there to bring you back!"


The last thing he remembered was he carried Xion back, but lost consciousness. Lea tears began to fill up his eyes, as he realised that he failed his friends, and it was his own fault. But now, both of them, having returned to Sora, were counting on Lea to help Sora, to defeat Xemnas. Because if Sora is finished, then Lea would lose Roxas and Xion all together and all three of them would cease to exist.

'No...' Lea thought, tears falling and he didn't borther to stop them. 'I won't...let that happen.' he might be able to get his friends back, but at least he can do what he can to keep Sora and his friends safe, even if it'll be the end of him.

Struggling to his feet, Lea stood up, his chakrams tightly in his hands, as Xemnas seemed to be laughing, mocking him.

"Go ahead and laugh." Lea muttered, "That's the last one you'll ever have."

Xemnas smirked behind his helmet, as he replied, "I will not allow it to end this way-not yet. If light and darkness are eternal, then surely we nothings must be the same... Eternal!"

"You're right." someone behind Lea said, and as the redhead turned to look, Riku had gotten up himself, struggling but still alive, as the silver-haired teen added, "Light and darkness are eternal. Nothing probably goes on forever, too. But guess what, Xemnas?"

To Lea's further surprise, Sora was standing next to him to the left, as the spiky-haired teen concluded for Riku, "That doesn't mean YOU'RE eternal!"

Xemnas laughed again, stating, "There is no such thing as light!"

"Wanna make a bet!?" Lea yelled. He dashed forward as Sora and Riku followed, and quickly the three of them fought long and hard against their enemy. Lea slashed against the other weapons, Riku fighting against a clone of Xemnas, before he and and Lea blocked Xemnas attempted attack on Sora, and then Sora once again got into his valor form and smashes Xemnas with his and Riku's blades, spinning him back. Sora crosses the Keyblades and knocks Xemnas high into the air.

Lea then covered his own body and used the powerful fire-tornado attack, both fire blasts and his weapons hitting Xemnas multiple times, before the Nobody was still in the air, covered in flames, while the redhaired man collasped onto his knees, panting and exhausted, but this time, his powerful attack wasn't enough to kill him.

At last, Sora and Riku, both nodding to each other and seeing that they were close to winning, both touched Sora's keyblade and aimed it at Xemnas, both sending a beam through Xemnas's chest. Xemnas screamed in agony as he exploded into smoke and light, just as Donald and Goofy recovered just in time to witness this, and Lea looked up, and then, he sighed in relief.

It was over. Xemnas was finished.


I'll be posting the final chapter today too, so, don't go anywhere just yet guys, and continue on with your great reviews!