Chapter 7: Vanitas

There we were, standing in the living room facing...I guess you could call them a mirror image of ourselves. It was a weird feeling and in there eyes were filled with a dark and murderous intent. It felt odd standing in the same room as them. I just wanted to scream, fight, or run. Anything would be better than standing here in silence staring at them. The air around us was filled with the darkness of their presence.

Haruka smiled at me and it made my skin crawl, I knew somewhere inside she was plotting something against me, which made my urge to run even stronger. I hated being here, no one was doing anything which made it worse. After a few minutes I saw Sora's hand twitch slightly to summon his keyblade and in a blink of an eye he was slammed into the wall across the room, Tomo standing in his place. I turned around and Sora collapsed on his knees holding his stomach. I took a couple of steps back in his direction and when I turned around, Haruka was a couple inches from touching me.

"Hello there." She smiled as she kicked me in the stomach causing me to fly back.

By the time I reached the other side of the room and violently hit the floor, Sora was already on his feet, keyblade in hand. "Sora don't!" I tried to yell but I was still winded so no sound came out. In a flash Tomo had a keyblade in hand and was in a struggle with Sora. As I watched them fight it out, Haruka made her way toward me as darkness flowed from her hand, twisting into the shape of a keyblade.

"Up." She demanded standing over me. I looked at her for a second before she backhanded me, sending me skidding across the room.

When I came to a stop I quickly jumped up and called my keyblade to me. She was already gracefully moving in my direction. I quickly charged at her, hitting full force but she blocked my attack like it was nothing.

"How are you so strong?" I gasped as we fought, taking turns swinging and blocking.

She laughed. "That's easy, it's because I am you. I have all your powers and much more thanks to the darkness from your heart."

I growled and swung hard enough causing her to fly back. "How can that be? My heart is pure light."

"That's true, but you can't tell me you've never been angry or sad or anything like that now can you." She smirked grazing my arm slightly.

I quickly looked at my arm to see a thin blood trail running down. Sora quickly shot a light beam at Haruka during a spinning dodge and she flew into the wall. I smiled at Sora, thanking him for the help as he went back to his fight. When I turned back to Haruka she quickly jumped on me and slammed me into a wall, pinning me by the neck and cutting off my oxygen flow.

Sora quickly tried to help me but every time he came close Tomo would jump in the way and stop him. She was as strong as me so it made it almost impossible to pull her hand off so I did the first thing that came to mind even though it was probably pointless. I took in whatever air I could get and silently whispered, "Ven." In a quick flash there was a slight gust of wind and both Tomo and Haruka were thrown to the other side of the room. I front of me was Ven standing there calm like nothing happened.

"So glad you could make it Ven." Tomo smiled as he sat up.

Haruka laughed and took her place at his side, "We wouldn't want you to miss this." She chimed in a high pitched ear splitting tone.

Sora and I quickly joined Ven at his side. "What are you talking about?" he asked confused.

"We're bringing an old friend back, wouldn't want you to miss it." Tomo smirked as his hand started to glow an eerie blue. In a quick flash he threw the light onto the floor with a crashing sound and in front of us some familiar symbols started to glow.

"This is not good." Sora muttered under his breath

"What's he doing?" Ven asked

Sora shook his head, "He's bringing someone back from the dead."

"But I thought you could only do that if you were at the spot where the person died." I pointed out.

"He modified the spell." Sora growled to himself.

In an instant the light grew blinding then quickly flashed out and in it's place stood a man who looked almost identical to Sora except his hair was black and his eyes were yellow.

"It's good to see you again Ven." He smirked. Ven's body tensed as if he wanted to rip his head off. "Now now Ven, I'm to weak to be fighting you just yet."

"Vanitas." Ven slightly growled under his breath.

Vanitas just laughed and jumped back as Ven called his keyblade and swung. "Another time." he said as all three of them jumped out the window.

"This isn't over is it?" I asked

"Far from it." Ven calmly said watching after them.