The next few days passed uneventfully. Mission after dull mission, and nights spent on the roof of the castle. Demyx occasionally came to visit her, but she never really felt like talking.
"When do you think they're coming?" he asked, playing with a few water droplets on his hand.
"Hopefully never," Falcon replied.
"How did Axel die?" Demyx asked, changing the subject. Falcon knew he didn't mean to hurt her bringing up the topic, but she still winced.
"Sacrificed his life," she choked out, "he saved Sora." Demyx looked down for a second.
"You know, I met that kid once," he said, "in Olympus Coliseum. He's really not that bad."
"You seem to be the only person in the Organization who thinks that," Falcon replied, "he really isn't, once you get to know him."
"Oh isn't that the case for everyone?" Demyx replied.
Falcon smiled, "yeah, that's true..."
"Namine!" Demyx's voice jolted her out of her light sleep, "get down here! They're finally here!" Falcon jumped up, hr keyblades out already, and flew down to the Altar of Naught. With the rest of the Organization, Falcon watched Sora, Riku, Squall, Tifa, Rinoa, Aerith, Yuffie, Cloud, Donald, and Goofy fight off the Nobodies and Heartless bordering Castle Oblivion.
"Damn..." Falcon muttered, "they are."
"Prepare yourself," Xemnas said, "everyone disperse throughout the castle." Everyone ran off in different directions, leaving Falcon alone on the Altar with Shiro.
"Shiro," she said, "we have to separate. Better chance of survival. Be safe." Shiro licked her hand once, and then ran off down the stairs. Falcon sighed and followed him, though turned a different direction.
"You guys go on ahead and split!" Sora cried, "take down different members of the Organization! Meet up back here when you're done!"
"I thought we were just here to get Falcon," Yuffie said.
"The Organization's not going to let her go that easily," Squall said, "besides, we'll be killing two birds with one stone. We'll get back Falcon, and defeat the Organization."
"...You don't think Falcon'll be one their side right?" Rinoa asked.
Sora shook his head, though he too was unsure, "she wouldn't do that!" With that, everyone except Sora, Donald, and Goofy ran off inside the castle.
"Let's finish these guys!" Sora called, and the three of them ran into the charge of Heartless and Nobodies.
The other seven had a discussion before heading their separate ways.
"I'm gonna go for the blue haired freak," Cloud said simply.
"You mean Saix," Riku said.
"Whatever," Cloud replied.
"I'll get Demyx," Riku said, "he shouldn't be too hard to finish off."
"We'll go for Xaldin," Yuffie said, speaking for her and Aerith, "long range of long range, and two against one. Shouldn't be too hard."
"That leaves me for Luxord," Tifa said, "he should be a piece of cake. He doesn't even fight for crying out loud! If I finish early, I'll help one of you."
Squall and Rinoa looked at each other, "since Sora and the other two are going to want to finish the boss, I think Rinoa and I will go for Falcon. We'll get her back."
"Aren't we forgetting Xigbar?" Yuffie asked.
"I'll get him," Rinoa said, "Squall, you go ahead and find Falcon and bring her back." Squall nodded. Then they all split their separate ways.
Cloud reached Saix's place not too long after. Entering the huge room, sword drawn, he was hardly surprised when Saix appeared, claymore in hand.
"Such a foolish attempt to bring the Organization down," Saix said, "you ought to surrender." Cloud positioned his sword in front of him.
"Yeah right," he said. Eyeing each other, they both waited for the other to make a move. Finally, Cloud rushed forward with Sonic Blade and turned as Saix dodged and swept his claymore sideways, creating a strong air current. Cloud was thrown backwards, but quickly regained his footing and sliced down with his blade, a hit that Saix blocked. Saix swept his claymore again, and Cloud jumped backwards to avoid the hit, dodging behind him and cleaving his sword straight into the ground. Saix jumped to the side and cut sideways. Cloud lifted his sword out of the floor and blocked the hit. And proceeded to swing his sword left and right, forcing Saix to retreat. As the fight raged on longer, Saix's eyes began to glow a fierce gold, and he entered berserk mode. Raging mad, he literally flew on his claymore around the room as bursts of shadow attacked Cloud. Only when he stopped did Cloud advance, and they engaged in another close range fight. Finally, catching an opening in Saix's berserker, Cloud sliced his huge blade side ways across Saix's chest, then thrust the blade right through. Instantly Saix froze, and he dropped his claymore, which disappeared before it even hit the ground. Stumbling backwards, Saix braced himself against a wall, and his body faded into shadowy tendrils as he fixed Cloud with a glare. Cloud stood there for a moment, and swept his hair backwards before hefting his blade over his shoulder as he stalked out of the room.
Tifa had long finished off Luxord. Easy, just as she had suspected. After all, all the guy did was fiddle around with cards. Nothing compared to her physical skills. She did admit, it was annoying being turned into a card and a dice, but she could handle that. Now, to find someone that actually had a halfway decently tough opponent.
"Yuffie, watch it!" Aerith cried, and Yuffie jumped out of the way just as one of Xaldin's spears pierced the ground where she had been standing. Again Xaldin's spears combined for a huge wind current attack. Aerith and Yuffie were blown backwards, and Yuffie winced as a spear hit her in the shoulder.
"Yuffie!" Aerith shouted. She cast a thundaga on Xaldin, and healed Yuffie as she stood up and threw her giant shruiken thing at Xaldin, catching one of his spears and tossing it uselessly to the side. Yuffie concentrated for a second, and sent her shruiken spinning in consecutive circles, slicing Xaldin just as Aerith blasted him with another firaga.
"Hey guys, need a hand?" Tifa cried, and jammed her elbow in Xaldin' s stomach. Hard. He stumbles back and Tifa advanced mercilessly on him, punching, kicking, and just about everything else you can think of. She drove her fist into his stomach, knocking the wind (no pun intended) out of him. As he fell on the ground, Yuffie's giant shruiken impaled him straight in the chest, and he froze, and faded away, winds whipping around him. His spears disappeared as well, and Tifa dusted her gloves off as she walked away. Yuffie yanked her shuriken out of the ground and followed her.
"Well, that's our part of the job," she said.
Riku dodged backwards as Demyx shot up another row of water geysers. Charging forward, Riku then sliced Demyx across with lightning speed. Riku then stepped repeatedly backwards, doing his best to avoid the sharp ends of Demyx's sitar. He winced as one caught him on his arm. He was then shot into the air with a few more water geysers. He maneuvered and landed nicely, and charged toward the water nocturne again, who managed to counter with a nicely aimed spout of water, blasting a soaked Riku backwards.
"Dance, water, dance!" Demyx shouted, making Riku kill more water clones.
"Damn these clones!" Riku cried, forced to kill all of them as Demyx calmly plucked the strings on his sitar. When he was done with that, he instantly unleashed a powerful combo on Demyx, causing him to cry out in pain. Suddenly, Riku was being bombarded by tons of stupid water droplet ball things, and man, they stung! Using his bat wing shaped keyblade, Riku charged forward and did a fancy little jump twist thing (you know, one of those things that Riku is capable of doing) and sliced down with the sword, and Demyx yelped in pain. Demyx then shot up another flurry of water geysers, and Riku flew backwards. He stood up and swept the hair out of his eyes. One thing that sucked about being Riku and being soaked was that he had long hair, which got in front of his eyes!
"Dance, water, dance!" he heard Demyx cry.
'Not again...' Riku thought glumly as he went about killing more clones. Finally fed up with the stupid pansy, Riku charged forward and jammed his sword down, and then cut up and across, slamming Demyx back into a wall. As he stumbled back up, his sitar shimmered away from view, and clutching his head, Demyx fell to his knees.
Falcon saw Demyx go down, and with a cry, she ran toward him as fast as she could. She reached him just as he disappeared, his body faded into shadow, and bubbles rose into the sky. She fell to the ground, clutching the air, and crying. The last person in the Organization she had liked was gone. Overcome with rage, anger blinding her, she charged toward Riku, snarling. She hacked and slashed at him furiously, a combination of attacks even Riku could not fend off. With a cross slash of her double keyblades, she threw him backwards.
"You monster!" she cried, "you killed Demyx!" She was just about to unleash another combo on him when a loud explosion rocked the ground.
"Xemnas..." she breathed, and instantly rushed off toward the Altar of Naught.
"Sora...Donald...Goofy..." Riku gasped, and got up and ran off after her. Using his powers as a keyblade master, he scaled the wall of the castle. (Think what Roxas did in Deep Dive in his battle against Riku.) He hoped to reach Sora before Falcon did and help him finish off Xemnas for good.
Rinoa deflected the last of Xigbar's sniper shots, and with a well-aimed shot, disposed quickly of the Freeshooter. This battle had gone on for a while (I mean, how are you not supposed to when you're fighting with little sniper shot things?) Watching his body fade into shadow, she failed to see Shiro advance up on her and plummet her down. With a quick and powerful thrust of her arm, she shoved him off, but he lunged at her again. Snarling, he turned when he missed and attacked again. Rinoa whirled around and caught him with her arm, sending him flying back into the wall. She had learned a thing or two from Tifa.
"Shiro?" she cried, "why are you attacking me? What's happened to Falcon?" Shiro did not acknowledge the questions, and kept attacking her. Rinoa did everything possible to not have to kill the noble wolf. She fended off or dodged all of his lunges, but finally realized that the wolf was determined to either kill her or die trying.
"I'm sorry..." she whispered, then loaded her blaster edge, "I didn't want it to come to this." As he lunged at her again, she aimed and shot the blaster right at him, hitting the wolf in the heart. Instantly, he fell to the ground, his body turned cold as ice. His fiery golden eyes dimmed and glazed over. Rinoa sighed and relaxed.
"As if Falcon doesn't hate me enough already..." she figured, "if we do bring her back, she's never gonna forgive me..." With that, she slowly walked out of the room.