Ai: I'm back! This is the second part of this arc, continuing from the previous chapter. Don't forget to R&R! Oh and by the way, there's a poll up on my profile. It's about the time I'll take to post each new chapter. Please take part in the poll too!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, because if I did, I would make sure Atlantica doesn't have any stupid singing. Gawd, the songs made my ears bleed.

"'Hope you didn't forget that I'm a Nobody?" I turned back. "Okay, time to break out!!"

"Come onnnnnn… Break already, you stupid thing…!" I struggled to remove the long metallic necklace-like accessory clipped tightly onto the green metal choker on my neck. No matter how hard I tried, it just wouldn't budge. I growled and reached for the short dagger lying next to me, but Roxas grabbed my wrist immediately after I took hold of it. He shook his head.

"Don't use it," he said quietly.

I looked at him in surprise, then grinned. "Aww, I'm not gonna kill myself or anything. I just want to get this thing off me."

"It's not that. Someone's coming."

"Someone, huh…? Wh— ACK!" I asked, but was cut off halfway by someone hugging me. "D-Demyx-senpai… please let go of me… c-can't breathe…" Demyx released me and I fell to the ground, clutching my throat and coughing. I looked up as a shadow fell over me.

"Yo, bro. I knew I could count on you to bail me out. Good to see ya too, Axel-senpai."

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"Okay… As grateful as I am for rescuing me and all… why'd you bring so many people along," I jabbed my thumb behind my shoulder at the other Nobodies behind me, "huh?"

"I dunno… I just figured that, you know… after what we did to Akihiko-nii-san the last time, I'd have some problems rescuing you all by myself…" his voice gradually quietened till it was barely audible even as a whisper.

I kept silent, not knowing how to reply to what my brother had said. Slowly, I reached out my hand and rested it gently on his head. His eyes widened a little in surprise, but he did not object to my action. "… Thanks… Nii-san…" I said, embarrassed. I was sure I saw Ray's body relax just a fraction in response. He must have been really worried.

"Okay, sorry to break the touching scene, but how long are you guys gonna stay like that?!" Axel's irritated voice suddenly snapped from behind me, causing me to straighten my back in shock. I had completely forgotten our situation! Looks like we needed to be more vigilant.

Ray's purple and green eyes met mine and we both exchanged confident smiles. "You're right," we said at the same time, and I returned my hand to my side. Standing up, we added, "Time to get serious and to stage a breakout!!"

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The moment I finished explaining why I couldn't use any of my powers at all, my twin brother slapped his palm against my forehead, yes, I repeat, my forehead, not his.

"Ow! What was that for?!"

"And here I was counting on your teleportation abilities to get us outta this crazy castle!"

"Excuse me?! Do you maybe think that I WANTED this to happen?!"

"And just to think that a mere moment ago, they were so united…" Demyx sweatdropped.

"Stay outta this!" Ray and I yelled, cowing our poor senpai, and returned to glaring at each other.

"Umm, guys, how about a dark portal?" Roxas cut in.

"You try it," I said sarcastically.

Roxas tried it.

"Nothing's happening…"

"Yeah, precisely. A spell's been cast on the castle to prevent any Heartlesses or Nobodies from entering or exiting with the use of darkness."

"Wait, we entered by using a dark portal, didn't we?"

"And where did we come in from?" Ray asked.

All three of our senpais thought about it.

"The first thing we saw was the main gate," Roxas finally said.

"Yeah, I opened the portal to the outside of the castle. Then we barged in. Point proven."

"So that means…"

"THAT MEANS," I said experatedly, "that we have to get outside of the castle grounds BEFORE we can open a portal, you morons. So get that drilled into ya heads!!"

"The thing is, THIS moron went and got her psychic abilities sealed up, and without them, we can't teleport out of here. We'll have to fight our way out by ourselves." Ray pressed a fist against the top of my head, ignoring my squirms. "And don't ask me anything about why we have to FIGHT our way out," he continued, interrupting Demyx, who was just about to open his mouth to say something. "Are you seriously thinking that our old man is going to allow us to just waltz out like that? Then what would have been the point of even kidnapping Calix?! If that was the case, they would have just got down onto their knees to beg for forgiveness and us to return MONTHS ago, dammit!" His eyes burned with a fiery passion but it suddenly dissipated. "Not a bad image," he said thoughtfully, earning sweatdrops from the rest of us.

The sound of many running footsteps from not too far away caused all of us to start. A group of knights, waaaay too many to count burst into the large hallway we were in and pointed all kinds of weapons at us, though most of them were swords. Acting on our reflexes, Ray and I immediately reacted, and moved so that our backs were facing each other. Roxas summoned his Keyblades, and I think Axel and Demyx tried to summon THEIR weapons too, but…

"Raaaaay, Caaaaliiiix, if what you said earlier on IS true…"
"It is, and so you can't summon your weapons, get used to it."

"Only Roxas-senpai is spared from this because his Keyblades aren't exactly the 'darkest' things in the world."

"WHAT THE-?!!" All our senpais shouted.

"Yeah, so there." I shrugged and put on an expression which said 'there you have it'.

"Silence!" The knight nearest to us roared.

"Wow," I said, voice dripping with sarcarasm. "Nice of them to actually wait for us to finish our conversation." They probably ran out of patience. I paused, as if in contemplation, then yelled back at the knight, "Right back at ya!! If you're here to take us down, then GET ON WITH IT! If you're not, then get the HECK out! Jeez, why was I born in a country literally filled to the brim with whack-jobs?!!" A forceful thumbs-down, then I turned to look at Roxas, in my opinion, the most reliable of the three. "You guys go ahead first. Just trace your steps back all the way until you reach the outside of the castle gates. Ray-nii and I'll take care of this." I shifted my relaxed position to a slightly crouched one which would enable me to spring forwards quickly and easily. Ray followed me.

"You haven't actually got your weapons either, y'know…"

"We'll stay here to help!"

"You did hear me, right…?" I kept my eyes focused on our opponents this time, but my voice became dangerously threatening.

Demyx took a slow step back.

"NOW SCRAM!!"

They fled, leaving my brother, me, and the knights the only ones left in the large area.

"You can still use your magic!" Ray shouted at them, but I wasn't sure if they heard him.

"Whatever. It's been a long time since we've practiced martial arts of any kind. Okay, time to heat things up!!"

Before anyone else even had a chance to react, we both leapt forwards and, my twin mirroring my moves perfectly, used our momentum to land a devastating kick onto the chest of one of the knights, knocking him out almost instantly. Flipping over backwards to land lightly on our feet, we raised our fists in preparation for our next attack.

"No, you're wrong," Ray sighed in disappointment. "These guys aren't even a warm-up exercise."

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Heaving with all my strength, I tossed the very last person onto the top of the 'human tower' we had made with all the unconscious knights. More than twice my height, it looked pretty impressive.

"Okay, time to meet up with the others," Ray said.

Author's Notes:

This arc will probably end in the next chapter so please wait for it! And as usual... REVIEW! Reviews are LOVE! And go to my profile to vote in my poll too. Poll closes in like a couple of weeks time! (Yeah, it's a very fast-closing poll, I know.)