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

(Anthony's POV)

We ran up to the balcony where Ansem and Kairi were. We helped them finish the Heartless and Nobodies that were there. Donald complimented Kairi, "Kairi, you were great!"

Kairi turned to Donald and replied, "Oh?"

Kairi giggled. Then Sora and Kairi walked up to each other and Sora said, "You are different, Kairi, but I'm just glad you're here!"

Kairi replied, "You and Riku never came home, so I came looking for you."

Sora looked away from her and apologized, "I'm sorry."

Kairi hugged Sora and whispered, "This is real…"

Sora looked surprised but then shrugged it off and hugged her back. Donald, Goofy, Axel, and I looked at each other and chuckled. Ansem opened a portal and was about to leave until Sora noticed and said to him, "Wait, Ansem! I mean, Xehanort's Heartless… I never thought for a second that I'd ever see YOU again. Just thinking about all the things you did makes me really mad. But… But you saved Kairi, right? I have to grateful for that… Thanks."

The portal disappeared during Sora's speech so Ansem just started to walk away. Then Kairi ran after him and grabbed his right arm. Kairi pleaded, "Riku, don't go!"

Donald, Goofy, Sora, Axel, and I exclaimed in unison, "Huh?"

Sora asked in disbelief, "Kairi, what did you just say?"

Kairi turned to Sora while still holding "Riku's" hand and said, "Riku."

The so called "Riku" said, "I'm no one- just a castaway from the darkness."

That didn't sound like Riku, I've heard his voice before and that didn't sound anything like it. That sounded like Xehanort's Heartless, A.K.A Ansem. Kairi turned to Sora again and said, "Sora, come here. Say something to him."

Sora cocked his head to the side like a confused puppy and then walked over to Kairi and "Riku". Kairi grabbed Sora's hand and said, "Here. You'll understand."

Kairi put Sora's hand on top of "Riku's" and said, "Close your eyes."

Sora looked up at "Riku" and looked back down at his hand. "Riku" looked at Sora and Sora closed his eyes. A minute passed by and then Sora started to tremble and said as he fell to his knees, "It's Riku. Riku's here…"

Sora buried his face into his arms crying, "I looked for you!"

Riku spoke in his real and now more mature voice, "C'mon Sora. You've got to pull it together."

Sora looked up at Riku still crying, "I looked everywhere for you!"

Riku replied, "I didn't want you to find me."

Sora gasped and Goofy said, "But it was him that was helpin' us, wasn't it?"

Donald replied, "Huh?"

Goofy said, "Those clues we kept finding. That musta been Riku."

Sora stopped crying and stood up. Riku turned to Goofy and Donald and replied, "I was starting to worry you guys weren't ever gonna catch on. Sora never did pick the brightest friends."

I shouted, "What do you mean by that!"

Sora asked Riku, "Why didn't you let me know you were okay?"

"I told you. I didn't want to be found," Riku replied and then held his hands up to his face and continued, "Not like this… I couldn't."

Riku put his hands down and continued, "I fought with Ansem. With… Xehanort's Heartless – when it invaded my heart, and I won. But to use the power of darkness, I had to become Ansem myself."

Kairi asked, "Does that mean… you can't change back?"

Riku replied, "This battle isn't over. And until it is, I still need the power of darkness."

Then I said, "Then… let's finish it."

Sora added, "You're still Riku, no matter what!"

Goofy, Donald, Axel, and I walked over to Riku, Sora, and Kairi. We all nodded in agreement to Sora's statement. Sora cheered, "So how 'bout it: Think we can handle one last rumble together? The King and Natalee are waiting!"

I cheered, "Yeah! Let's get going!"

We walked through the next door and it led us to a room with an upward slope. There were 12 glass looking tombstones that were about 5 and a half feet tall. There were panels on the floor that acted sort of as a door mat to the "tombstones". All but some of the "tombstones" were broken. All but five "doormats" that weren't red were blue but the tombstones of three of them were broken. There was a tunnel at the top of the slope of the room but it was blocked off by the same matter made up out of the "tombstones". I asked Axel, "What is this place?"

"This is the Proof of Existence. This is just a room to prove that us nobodies exist," Axel replied.

Kairi commented, "I don't like this place, it feels like a graveyard."

Axel replied, "It sort of is. The panels that are below the "tombstones", as you would call it, are to say if that member is alive or not. If it glows red that means they're dead, but if it's blue then they're alive. Now the "tombstones" can take you to the chamber of where that Organization member resides. The "tombstones" usually break when that member dies too but sometimes we have to manually break them. Sometimes when a member betrays the Organization, we manually break their "tombstone" too. As you can see, they did that to my "tombstone" and another Organization member's "tombstone". But I don't know why Demyx's "tombstone" is broken. I know he is helping Natalee. I guess it's just not meant to be passed through. Now the tunnel at the top leads to Xemnas. I'm guessing we have to go through the two "tombstones" to kill off the remaining members before we face him."

I asked, "Is there one for Natalee?"

Axel replied, "No, she isn't a Nobody. Yes, she is a member of the Organization but she doesn't get one. Plus, Xemnas has a tracker for her somewhere to keep an eye on her health and where see is."

I pointed to the "tombstone" closest to the door from which we came and said, "Let's go through that one."

We all walked through it and we walked out onto this slanted, rail-less balcony that led to a long fall if one were to jump off it. We walked towards the view of Kingdom Hearts and stared at it. I noticed that there was a sea foam green beam connecting to the middle of Kingdom Hearts from somewhere in the castle. I wondered if that was normal. Sora asked Riku about the beam, "What's that?"

Riku replied, "It's the King and DiZ – I mean, Ansem the Wise. They must be higher up. We better hurry."

We heard a portal open three yards away from us. We all turned around and it appeared to be Natalee, with a devious smirk on her face. Sora and I got in front of the pack. Music started to play ( watch?v=-nfI36AxZ14). Natalee sang, "If you wanna live, let live. If you wanna go, let go. I'm not afraid to dream, to sleep, sleep forever."

Natalee walked towards me to the beat and motioned to some Neo-Marksmen that were in the shadows to come out. She sang, "I don't need to touch the sky."

Natalee stopped and the Organization member with the cool British accent that we encountered in Port Royal walked behind her. Natalee sang and gracefully rose her arms up, "I just want to feel that high."

Axel said to us, "That Organization member's name is Luxord. Got it memorized?"

Then Luxord pulled Natalee up by her arms so she could sit on his left shoulder. Natalee leaned forward towards me and sang, "And you refuse to lift me."

Natalee slid off his shoulder and walked up to me and sang, "Guess it wasn't real after all."

She pressed her forehead against mine and sang, "Ooooh, guess it wasn't real all along."

I got ticked off about these things she was saying. I tried to grab her but she was quicker. She jumped back two feet away from me and sang, "If I fall and all is lost. It's where I belong."

I lunged at her in fury again and she teleported next to Sora and sang in his ear, "If you wanna live, let live. If you wanna go, let go."

Sora tried to hit her with his Keyblade but she teleported next to Riku and sang, "I'm never gonna be, your sweet, sweet surrender."

She took a few steps towards me and sang, "Guess it wasn't real after all. Ooooh, guess it wasn't real all along."

I nodded at Sora and we tried to grab her but yet again she was the quicker one and managed to dodge us. She sang, "If I fall and all is lost. No light to lead the way. Remember that all alone, is where I belong."

She lifted her arms slightly and Luxord grabbed them. She sang, "In a dream, will you give your love to me?"

I walked towards her and Luxord pulled her back as she sang, "Beg my broken heart to be."

I screamed, "NATALEE!"

She sang with a smirk on her face, "Save my life, change my mind."

Luxord led her around him as I ran after her. She sang as Luxord and her danced around the area, "If I fall, then all is lost. No light to lead the way. Remember, all alone, is where I belong."

Luxord and Natalee continued to dance around the area with the gang and I chasing them until the music stopped. The second the music stopped, Demyx and Natalee nodded at each other and teleported away again. I slammed my staff on the floor in frustration. The gang and I saw Luxord wide open for an attack. Luxord snapped his fingers as we ran towards him, but a deck of cards formed a wall around Riku, Kairi, Axel, Donald, and Goofy. The cards disappeared and it seemed Sora and I would be the only ones to fight Luxord. Good. Then I can kill the bastard personally for messing with my girlfriend. Sora shouted, "You!"

Luxord cut him off and said, "I'd rather we just skip the formalities. The first to run out of time is the loser."

He turned us into dice. It was hard to move about the arena but we managed to hit him enough to change us back. Sometimes he would pull a card game on us and if we picked the wrong card, we would be turned into cards. While fighting, I could hear music. It was a piano and I could hear Natalee's "voice" singing. I couldn't hear the lyrics though. But it made me push harder to find out what was going on with her.

The battle was long and hard but eventually we managed to make him run out of time. I ran towards him and he shielded himself with cards but I sliced the cards in half with magic. Luxord looked up at Sora and said, "How could you… Roxas…"

Sora yelled, "That's SORA!"

Luxord disintegrated and the rest of the gang reappeared again. Kairi asked, "You okay?"

Sora replied, "Yeah! No worries."

I replied, "Yeah…"

Axel said, "Let's keep moving."

We ran back in to the Proof of Existence and the panel of Luxord's "tombstone" was red like Axel said would happen. I saw one panel of an open "tombstone" blue and we walked right through it to come to a somewhat pleasant surprise.

EDIT: I took away one of Donald's lines and gave it to Anthony. I also reworded some things.