A/N: xD Okay, nobody got it, so... The part where Luxord asked Kairi, Sora, and Riku about playing poker was a sexual innuendo- Originally, it said afterward 'A/N: Yeah, strip poker. You first, Riku. ;D' But Fuyu and Seldomknown seemed to find two others. xD

Oh, and there is yaoi in this chapter. At least, signs of it. If you don't like it, just overlook it. And if you didn't know, yaoi is boy on boy love.

Disclaimer-Do not own Kingdom Hearts. I just don't. Gosh.

Reixka was strolling about the old meeting room, and realized it hadn't changed much in the few days that she had been absent. Well, actually, it was missing the table now, so it now looked like Naminé's old room again. The cage with the doll was still hanging from the ceiling. The Nobody sighed as she placed her arms behind her back. "How are your memories?" Reixka softly asked as she glanced at the other two. Stefa smiled.

"You're my nobody, Reixka, Quince is my best friend... I'm Stefa... And we're going after the remainder of Organization XIII." She recited. Quince nodded.

"What she said."

Stefa shook her head. "There's nothing important about this room; There's no one here."

"Aw," said Reixka as she stood up on a chair and reached inside of the large cage. "Sure it is. I'm surprised Naminé didn't want to come here, but maybe I don't blame her." Quince and Stefa exchanged confused looks as Reixka pulled something out of the cage and jumped back onto the ground. She threw the doll at Stefa. Stefa blinked and held it up.

"Naminé." She muttered.

"C'mon," said Quince as he exited the room, "We need to find the rest of the Organization members."

"He's impatient." Reixka noted as she and Stefa followed after him.

The castle seemed to be eerily empty; There wasn't sight of anyone. Each group gave up their searches in whatever part of the castle that they were at and met back in the lobby after a half an hour; It seemed that everyone's memory was still fine. "I'm starting to think that the castle's memory erasing techniques only existed when Naminé was doing the erasing." stated Axel when the group had all met up.

"Very clever, Axel," Marluxia's voice drawled, "but it's very unlike you to think like that." Sure enough, the man with long and light pink hair was standing before the Castle's doors. His face was expressionless, but there was murder in his eyes when he held his ornate scythe above his head.

"Marluxia." Most of the group shouted as once. Reixka closed her eyes as she turned to face Stefa and held out her hand.

"You can take it from here." She assured her, "And I can still help." Stefa took her hand, and the Nobody faded back into her somebody.

'But how?' She thought, knowing full well that she would receive an answer.

'Just relax and get ready to fight Marluxia.' Was the only response. Stefa nodded as she called upon Shadow Heart, and noticed that everyone else had already started to attack Marluxia. Suddenly, the Cherry Blossom keyblade that Reixka had loved so much appeared in her left hand. (A/N: Totally stole that from Seldomknown3. xD)

"Tsk, tsk. When will we ever have a fair fight, Axel?" Marluxia's voice chided the pyromaniac.

"When you go to hell." Came Axel's gruff reply as he swung a chakram at Marluxia, who disappeared a second before the attack would have hit.

"That's not very nice." said Marluxia as he reappeared behind Axel and knocked him into one of the walls with a swipe of his scythe. A bolt of lightning ricocheted off of Marluxia's scythe and startled him; He turned around half-way to see who had cast the spell. None other than Nalani was looking at the flower-loving Organization Member with her staff held high.

"You're hot," She admitted, "but a real asshole." Several more bolts of lightning struck toward Marluxia, either shocking him or striking so close that he was knocked off of his feet.

"That's the way it always works." Stefa said as she came from beside Nalani and ran at Marluxia with the Cherry Blossom keyblade and Shadow Heart. Roxas ran at Marluxia from another angle, and the two of them began to mercilessly beat on the pink-haired man. It only took a few minutes of them doing this for Marluxia to knock them off with a mixture of strikes with his scythe and vines that he summoned. Vines began to spew out all over the place; Ceron easily took care of them, slicing them out of his way as he made his way toward the Graceful Assassin.

Marluxia smirked and disappeared right before the swordsman. Nalani knew something was wrong; The Organization Member was way too confident. She ran up behind Ceron, anticipating the worst. Unsurprisingly, the worst did come.

Marluxia reappeared, but since Nalani was blocking his path, he had appeared behind her in a flash of cherry blossoms. Ceron's facial expression turned horrifically shocked when he could see the shiny metal of the scythe's head sticking through Nalani's stomach; Time seemed to freeze.

"Kingdom Hearts, all power." The Berserker muttered to himself. He was standing on the top floor of Castle Oblivion, right outside of the doors that Marluxia had once been locked within. "But can one with a heart, even if it is fake, handle its power?" Could it be true, did Saïx really care about what happened to Xemnas? Well, of course. He was their superior.

But there was something more, and that bothered him. Then again, Axel had been able to cry when he was still a Nobody, right? And the pyromaniac had also been able to feel... Saïx decided that he did not want a heart; The number of emotions

that would fill him would be overwhelming. Yet, at the same time, he couldn't deny himself what he had wanted ever since he had become a Nobody.

"Make sure that Sora and the others do not follow me. Take them out if they make to come after Kingdom Hearts." Those had been the orders from Xemnas before the leader had disappeared into his portal; Saïx frowned. Could Xemnas really handle Kingdom Hearts? How would he have opened it if it had been locked by the Mouse King and Keyblade brat "for good"? The power of darkness was probably overwhelming; No one could seal darkness for good. Everything needed balance. Take out the light and darkness overwhelms. Take out the darkness and the light overwhelms.

That was what Nobodies stood for. Nothing. Neutrality? The Berserker wasn't sure he knew. Impatiently, he tapped his fingers against the door before pushing off and pacing the room.

Nalani had not been stabbed. Oh, no. That was not possible. No, she was perfectly fine. The cocky, sarcastic, loyal mage could not... Marluxia tore the scythe from Nalani's body, causing a sickening noise to fill the ears of all of the occupants in the room. Stefa stiffened at the noise, and she dropped her Keyblades, allowing them to clatter to the floor. She could just barely make out the quiet gasps of Naminé and Kairi. Ceron seemed to be the only one to recover first. His eyes were angry, but he caught Nalani as she fell and pulled her to his chest.

In a flash of light, Reixka's treasure and Shadow Heart reappeared in Stefa's hands, but she still didn't move. Marluxia laughed at the weakness in their hearts. The best way to injure someone else's heart was to injure someone close to said person. He raised his scythe in a final effort to take out both Ceron and Nalani. Oddly enough, he was stopped. A strong hand grabbed his arm nearest the top of the scythe.

Riku's left hand was grasping Marluxia's while his other hand pressed Way to Dawn to the pink-haired man's throat. "Are you going to be the one to kill me this time?" Marluxia asked in an amused tone. Either he didn't care that he was about to be killed, or he didn't think that Riku could really do it. Maybe Marluxia didn't realize, but Riku had done and seen a lot. He pressed Way to Dawn harder to the man's throat, causing some blood to trickle down.

Behind them, Kairi, Naminé, Roxas, and Sora were tending to Nalani, desperately casting Curaga in hopes to heal her terrible wound.

Finally, Stefa muttered what she had been thinking the whole time, "Nalani." Her world was spinning, but she had to get a grip. They were trying to heal Nalani, so she had to help take care of Marluxia, the bastard who had hurt her best friend in the first place.

Vines crept up from behind Riku, seizing him by the legs, and then by the arms. Vines were forming by those who were trying to heal Nalani, in an effort to stop them. Axel decided to take care of these. Fire surrounded the chakram and spewed out blasts of fire, killing off the weeds. Marluxia turned around and stabbed the end of his scythe into Riku's stomach, causing him to break free from his vine binds as he fell to the ground.

Just when he thought he had a minute to finish off someone, a very angry Stefa began to attack Marluxia's scythe, slashing at it with both Keyblades at the same time. "If she dies," Stefa growled when she had managed to make Marluxia slid backward a little, "I will kill you in the worst way possible."

"An eye for an eye, isn't it?" Marluxia asked, slashing at the Princess with his scythe, successfully tearing through her right arm-warmer, and causing her arm to bleed. That was right, she had killed Larxene, hadn't she? No matter how 'accidental' she considered it, it was what it was.

"Aren't I fucked up enough?" Was all Stefa muttered before blocking another blow from the scythe. Marluxia disappeared in a flash of cherry blossoms and reappeared behind her with his scythe raised, ready to kill. When the scythe was several inches away from Stefa's back, a purple barrier surrounded Marluxia, and caused him to fall to the ground. Nalani had EaKaze raised above her head somewhat from where she sat on the floor.

"You're not all that fucked up." She admitted to her best friend. Ceron was embracing her from behind.

Marluxia was quickly overpowered by the group of fighters, who seemed to be very angry at him for his attempt to kill Nalani. Nalani had not been completely healed, but she considered herself well enough to move around. Stab after slash after violent stab, a mortally wounded Marluxia grasped the wound in his chest as he fell to his knees, his scythe clattering to the floor.

His blood was pooling beneath him, but the only wound he cared about was the one in his chest. "Maybe the second time around, I'll be sent to more than just nothingness." Marluxia murmured.

"If you're going anywhere," Naminé growled in a ferocious tone, "It'll be hell for sure." Marluxia rolled his eyes at her.

"It's amazing how every last one of you have changed, and yet," He lingered on the words, taking satisfaction from their expressions, "You don't even realize it."

"Burn in hell." Sora snarled, slashing Fenrir outward in an angry gesture. Marluxia merely chuckled as his blood, body, and weapon all disappeared into darkness.

"We should have asked him what they were planning." Kairi said in afterthought when the room had grown quiet. Axel shrugged his shoulders.

"Like he would have told us." Ceron, who insisted on helping Nalani walk, made his way toward the castle doors with one arm wrapped around said girl's waist for support. He tugged on the door with the opposite arm, but it didn't budge.

"Either this door is stuck, or we're locked in." He noted.

"We have Keyblades," Roxas reminded him as he held out Oathkeeper, "I'll unlock it." The sound of clapping from behind them caused the group to turn their attention to one of the world's doors.

"That was a nice show," Saïx stated in his cold voice. "What a shame for Number XI."

"You don't sound so sad." Sora stated as he pointed Fenrir forward. "Let us out."

"I can't do that just yet," The Berserker told the chocolate-haired Keyblade wielder. "The only one who will be leaving this castle alive shall be me, but the rest of you must be disposed of right away."

"Where's Xemnas hiding at?" Axel demanded, his pair of chakram hanging in midair as he prepared for another fight.

"Since you won't be leaving this castle anyway," Saïx's voice droned on. "Then I see no harm in telling you that the superior is at Kingdom Hearts." His Claymore appeared in a flash in midair, and he grabbed it. "Now then, two traitors have been ridded, but there are still four more," He held the Claymore in an offensive position. "It doesn't matter if I must kill a somebody to get through to one traitor." Riku immediately took a protective stance before Stefa.

"Two Organization fights in a row? That's a bitch." Nalani concluded as she summoned EaKaze to her hand.

So Squall knew Rinoa from "another time"? Yuffie wished he had given her more details. When had he left her sight since they were little? Never, right? Or was that her imagination? The Great Ninja found herself wandering in the Great Maw to make herself feel better, but now she was not only worried about the others, but she was heartbroken, too.

It took a while, but Leon managed to tell Rinoa about everything that was going on. He had told her in such detail that it seemed like she actually knew everyone he talked about like close friends. "You've been busy, huh?"

"If that's what you want to call it." Squall allowed, nodding his head a little. "Yeah. Things have been crazy." Her hand grasped his and she squeezed.

"Things will work out. You said that you've known Sora since the beginning, right?" She asked as she looked him in the eye. The man nodded his head in reply as he turned toward her. "Then everything will be fine." Leon looked away and nodded even though he wasn't so sure. Everything was different this time around. Suddenly, Rinoa laughed, causing Squall to look up at her.

"What's so funny?" Rinoa smiled.

"You're still just as pessimistic as ever," She said with a shake of her head, "I thought that I had changed that." Leon had to smile at this. "Obviously it didn't stick too well if you're going around calling yourself 'Leon', now what kind of name is that?"

After a few minutes, the both of them burst out laughing, unbeknownst to them that the usually hyper ninja was sulking on her own.

A/N: Yet another short chapter, but you guys will forgive me. ;D Anyway, wouldn't you hate if this was a video game and you had to defeat Marluxia and then Saïx? And if you lost to Saïx, you'd have to re-battle Marluxia. That would suck. :3 So Xigbar, Luxord, Saïx, and Xemnas are all that are left. Buh-bye, Marluxia, we'll remember you fondly. :3 See you guys next chapter. :D As for how this story is going to end... It's actually kind of anyone's guess. xDD