I DO NOT OWN THE MUSIC OF EVANESCENCE. THE LINK TO THE SONG IS IN THE CHAPTER AND ON MY PROFILE.

(Anthony's POV)

I walked into a dark alleyway. I saw the King turn a corner while Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Axel waited for him to say anything. We saw the King staring at something so we all ran to him. There was a city surrounding us and just above the horizon, was a silver castle and a heart shaped moon behind it. "Axel said Kairi's in the dungeon," Sora said.

"Then we better find a way to get to that castle!" The King replied.

The King went on ahead of us and Axel quietly said, "I was supposed to die back there, huh?"

Everybody that remained turned to him. I replied, "Well, Natalee knew you would so she saved you."

"I guess my debt has been repaid," he mumbled inaudibly.

We started to run through the dark city until we came to a large opening that had a huge building in front of it. It was probably the tallest building in the city. Sora was walking a little ahead of us and two Samurai Nobodies appeared in front of us and blocked our way to Sora with their samurai swords. Donald yelled, "Sora!"

Sora turned around and gasped, "Donald! Goofy! Anthony! Axel!"

Sora ran towards us and disappeared into thin air and a bunch of Nobodies started to appear around us. We fought them for about two minutes. Then Sora appeared again, we ran towards him. "You make a good other," he said.

Axel and I exchanged confused expressions and Donald asked, "Are you okay?"

"What… just happened?" Sora asked.

Goofy replied, "Gwarsh, I dunno. You just disappeared. Then me, Donald, Anthony, and Axel had to fight some Nobodies."

"Oh. He said… he defeated Riku…" Sora said.

Donald asked, "Who said that?"

Sora replied, "That guy. In the black coat."

Donald walked up to Sora and said, "But nobody could defeat Riku."

"And as far as I know, I'm the only one in this town square in a black coat. And it wasn't me," Axel added.

Sora replied, "Y… Yeah, you're right."

Goofy took a few steps towards Sora and said, "A black coat means Organization 13. He musta been tryin' to trick ya."

"Yeah, that must be why we didn't see him!" Donald added.

Sora asked, "Huh?"

"I'm not sure if it was some kind of trick, I should've been able to have seen him. Oh well," Axel shrugged.

Donald replied, "You must be tired, Sora."

I said, "C'mon, let's just find a way to get into that castle and save Natalee and Kairi!"

We started to continue onward until we came into a clearing. We could see the castle entrance but there was no bridge leading to it. Sora asked, "Dead end?"

The King said, "There's gotta be a path somewhere."

Axel said, "I would teleport us there but the Organization monitors the Corridors of Darkness and we don't want to blow our cover."

I asked, "What are Corridors of Darkness?"

Axel asked, "You remember that black, oval portal that Natalee herded us into?"

I replied, "Yeah…"

"Well that's a Corridor of Darkness. It's the fastest way to travel between worlds and you basically teleport from place to place via darkness. The effects on it to people who have hearts outweigh the usefulness of it though," Axel said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Well, I don't have a heart so I don't get to experience these effects. When you pass through the Corridors or get any prolonged exposure to darkness, your heart get stained by darkness. When that happens, your appearance starts to change. Your pupils turn orange, your skin becomes tan, and your ears become pointed. You also start to experience the emotions of anger, hate, greed, and all sorts of other negative emotions," Axel replied.

"Did any of that happen to Natalee?" I asked.

"Well, sort of. She did experience the emotions at one point but that is it. She seems to be having reverse effects otherwise. Her skin is becoming paler, her eyes have turned purple which is the color opposite to orange on the color wheel, and her hair is a blue-ish black. I dunno, maybe it's because she is from another dimension. She also has her cloak to somewhat protect her," Axel replied.

"Wait, last time I checked she had red eyes," I said.

"She has a metal brace on her upper right arm that Xemnas uses to control her. Her eye color turns red when he is controlling her but it goes to purple when he isn't. Her eyes used to be hazel/green but with all the exposure to darkness she has been having has changed her appearance," Axel said.

All of a sudden, there was a bright light that shined on the bottom left of the castle. Sora's Keyblade appeared in front of him. He grabbed it and shot a beam that made a holographic bridge appear. I said, "Natalee… we're almost there."

We ran across the bridge and inside the castle. Sora shouted, "Kairi! Where are you?"

"Shhh! Remember where we are! This is their stronghold!" The King whispered loudly.

The King ran off and Donald took a few steps in his direction and shouted, "Wait! Your Majesty!"

"Shhhhhh!" Axel shushed.

We heard some movement and Goofy said, "Be careful! I think we got company!"

We started to run through the hallways and killed every Nobody that got in our way. We ran up some stairs and found ourselves in a training hall. We walked cautiously through the open hall until we saw Saix appear on the balcony above the entrance to the next hallway. "Sora… you've done well," Saix said.

"Where's Kairi?" Sora asked rudely.

"Who knows? I expect she's catching up with her friend from the darkness," Saix replied.

Sora shouted, "What do you mean!"

"She doesn't need you anymore," Saix said.

Sora smirked, "I'm supposed to believe that?"

Saix replied, "Well, you don't have to… But you can believe this. Organization 13 has no further use for you… Just look there."

He pointed at the heart shaped moon and continued, "Our Kingdom Hearts… Thanks to you, we've collected countless hearts… Can you hear their euphoria? Now, all they need is one more helping from the Keyblade bearer!"

Saix snapped his fingers and heartless started to appear. We all came back to back with each other and Donald said, "We gotta fight!"

Sora replied in fear, "But- Kingdom Hearts!"

"Sora!" Kairi shouted.

We all looked towards the balcony opposite to the one Saix was on and there was Kairi. She shouted, "Sora! It's really you!"

Sora turned to her and shouted, "Kairi!"

A giant pile of heartless landed on us. Sora broke through and said, "Get off!"

Sora looked up at the balcony Kairi was on and it appeared that she had jumped down to the one below. She was fighting heartless with Ansem. I thought we defeated him. I guess not. Sora asked, "What's going on!"

We heard a snap and all the Heartless and Nobodies around us disappeared. We saw the Organization member that Natalee saved back in Radiant Garden. He had a couple water clones with different instruments and then they started to play music ( watch?v=Cg1WIPngYHQ).

"Feels like the weight of the world," Natalee sung as she walked out of a portal towards us.

"Like God in heaven gave me a turn," she sang as she turned away from me.

I ran up to her and managed to grab her by her upper right arm and spin her around. I felt the arm brace coiled around her arm. She looked at me angrily with her now purple eyes and sang, "Don't cling to me, I swear I can't fix you."

I let go noticing that all that she is singing… is coming from her. Not from Xemnas. She sang walking backwards pointing at herself, "Still in the dark, can you fix me?"

She looked up at Kingdom Hearts and sang, "Free fall, free fall, all through life."

She teleported and sang over my left shoulder, "If you love me, then let go of me."

She then sang over my right shoulder, "I won't be held down, by who I used to be."

I turned to her and was about to argue with her but she sang, "She's nothing to me."

She teleported next to Axel and sang, "Feels like the weight of the world, like all my screaming has gone unheard."

She walked to Sora and sang, "And oh, I know you don't believe in me."

She looked at Donald and Goofy and sang, "Safe in the dark, how can you see?"

She looked up at Kingdom Hearts again and sang, "Free fall, free fall, all through life."

I ran up to her and she stopped me by pulling out a fire bomb arrow and she sang, "If you love me, then let go of me. I won't be held down by who I used to be."

Heartless and Nobodies started to flood the hall for the guitar solo. She sat on the floor and started to pet a Shadow Heartless and sang quietly, "If you loved me, then let go of me. I won't be held down by who I was."

She got up abruptly and sang furiously while walking towards me, "If you loved me then let go of me. I won't be held down by who I used to be."

Right when the song ended, a purple, pinkish diamond shaped shard shot from above and hit the ground. Natalee looked up at the balcony opposite to the balcony Kairi and Ansem were fighting on. Then it started to rain diamond shards and killed all the Heartless and Nobodies that surrounded us. Natalee chuckled, "Why do you always have to ruin the fun for me, Xigbar?"

Xigbar replied, "I dunno. Maybe I just get in the way of the wrong people. Scram bitch, your playtime is over."

Natalee snickered and disappeared into a portal. I ran towards the closing portal until Xigbar shot a diamond shard at my feet and said, "Nope I don't think so."

Xigbar turned to Sora and asked, "Have you been a good boy?"

Sora replied, "What's it up to you?"

Xigbar shook his head, "Oh, it sounds like you haven't. Sora! Roxas!"

Sora asked, "Roxas?"

Sora turned to Donald and asked, "Hey, did he just call me Roxas?"

Donald nodded his head at him and then Xigbar said, "You've really put Organization 13 in a pickle. I guess that must be why the Keyblade chose you. But MAN, did it pick a dud this time. You don't look like half the hero the others were."

Sora asked, "Are you done rambling?"

Xigbar gave a snarky reply, "Rambling? As if! All I'm trying to tell you, traitor, is that your time is up!"

He pulled out his arrow guns and Goofy shouted, "Here he comes!"

Xigbar jumped down to where we were and smirked. We started to fight. He teleported from place to place while we tried to hit him. At first it felt like he was going to win since my spirits were down from Natalee's song. But once I knocked him down from hanging in midair, I gained enough confidence to finish him off. I wacked my staff at him and he slid across the room. He held his arrow gun up at me weakly and dropped it. Sora asked, "Why did you call me Roxas?"

Xigbar laughed lowly, "Wouldn't you like to know…"

Natalee appeared by his side and chortled in his ear, "And I thought you learned not to mess with Keyblade bearers."

"Natalee!" I screamed.

Sora shouted, "Hey! Hold on!"

She looked at me and laughed. She disappeared into a portal along with the member she saved in Radiant Garden and Xigbar disintegrated. A tear drop rolled down my eye. Everybody noticed and asked what was wrong. I replied, "I can't believe Natalee meant those words."

Sora asked, "What? How do you know she wasn't being controlled?"

Axel replied, "Her eye color was purple, not red this time."

Sora sighed, "Oh…"

A bunch of emotions swelled up inside of me and I said lowly, "Let's keep going. We need to get to Natalee and see what's the big idea."

Donald shouted, "Sora! It's Kairi!"

Sora said sternly, "Kairi, we're on our way!"

We ran into the next hallway to find Natalee and Kairi.

EDIT: I gave Axel an extra line and I reworded some things