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Saix turned to us and greeted, "Ah, Natalee, Demyx. There you two are. What is the status of Roxas?"

I put my hands at my hips, cocked my head to the left, raised my right eyebrow and asked, "You mean Sora?"

Saix rolled his eyes and snapped, "You know what I mean! Now tell me his status?!"

I folded my arms and replied, "They killed off Xigbar and now they're fighting Luxord."

Saix said something to himself and then said to me, "Sing something for me to make the time pass by. How about something sad because so far you've only sung songs full of anger."

Demyx and I exchanged looks. Then Demyx pulled out a white piano and then he chimed, "Sit on the piano!"

I sat on the piano at Demyx's command and Demyx started to play the music ( watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo&ob=av2e). I sang, "I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears."

I looked down at my feet and began to swing them lightly and slowly. I continued, "And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave. Your presence still lingers here and it won't leave me alone. These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real. There's just too much that time cannot erase."

I laid down on the piano and stared at the ceiling. I sang, "When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears. When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears and I held your hand through all of these years. But you still have all of me."

I sat up again and stared at Kingdom Hearts. I sang, "You used to captivate me by your resonating light. Now, I'm bound by the life you left behind. Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams. Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me."

A tear rolled down my face as I sang, "These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real.
There's just too much that time cannot erase. When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears. When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears and I held your hand through all of these years. But you still have all of me."

Then more tears started to trickle down my face as I sang, "I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone. But though you're still with me."

I clenched my stomach and broke down into tears. I sang, "I've been alone all along."

I laid back down on the piano crying hysterically while Demyx's water clones did the guitar solo. After the guitar solo I continued to sing while crying gallons of water, "When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears. When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears and I held your hand through all of these years."

The guitars, bass, and drums stopped and the piano continued. I sang softly, "But you still have all of me, me, me."

I rolled to my side and continued to cry hard and Saix applauded slowly. Saix turned to me and mocked, "You should look at yourself right now. You look so pathetic. The way you crumbled by the thought of that weakling."

I sat up and I was about to open my mouth to retort back in frustration but I heard footsteps. Then around the corner I saw Anthony, Axel, Demyx, Riku, Kairi, Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Tears welled up in Anthony's eyes as he cried, "So you still do love me!"

The group cheered and then Saix turned his head towards me. If looks could kill, he would've killed me then and there despite his master's wishes. I jumped off the piano as Demyx made it disappear into thin air. I opened a portal to where Xemnas was waiting and ran into it as fast as I could to leave the previous room behind. I knew Saix would end up dying anyways. I fell on one knee as Demyx kneeled next to me. Xemnas turned to me and looked at me as a predator would at his prey. He grabbed me by the neck with one hand as I choked. I tried to loosen his grip but my efforts were wasted. I looked around the Altar of Naught franticly to see Demyx cowering in the corner with a helpless look on his face. He mouthed to me that he would help me but he didn't want he and I to be destroyed. I understood. After all, I was doing the same thing to Anthony. I then looked at Xemnas straight in the eye as he shocked me with my brace. I haven't felt this for a long time. A buzzing sensation went through my whole body. I could feel my muscles stiffen. My heart skipping beats. Black dots started to appear in my vision. I started to think it was the end for me until he dropped me. I landed on my side and hit my head. I felt the side of my head pulse as the black dots floated around my vision. I tried to get up but only to collapse under my own weight. Xemnas chuckled and kicked me in the ribs. I heard a crack and grunted as he kicked me again. Crack. Then again. Crack. And again. Crack. I coughed out some blood and then he kicked me in the chest for the final blow. Crack. Crack. Crack. I flew backwards only to collide with the railing. Crack. If it weren't for the railing, I would've fallen into the endless abyss. I started to cough out more blood as Demyx scooted towards me. Xemnas glared at him and made him go back to where he was sitting. Xemnas then turned around and continued to stare at Kingdom Hearts. I laid there with my back up against the wall and blood dripping from the side of my mouth. I was dying. Everything was starting to go dark until Xemnas motioned something to Demyx and Demyx scurried to my limp body. He carefully pulled me away from the wall and laid my head on his lap. He pulled out a Hi-potion and helped me drink it. My broken ribs snapped back into place as lost blood was replaced. My energy was replenished. Demyx helped me get up and then Xemnas said, "That was for blowing your cover AND for not telling me of this beam. Now go destroy who is up to this. If you don't return in five minutes, then I'll come to see the delay and there will be more punishments to follow."

I nodded and opened a portal. Demyx was about to follow but Xemnas barked, "Stay here Demyx! She is going to have to do this one alone."

Demyx shrugged at me and mouthed sorry. I nodded and walked through the portal to find myself at Naught's Approach to find DiZ and the King there. DiZ was holding onto a machine that encoded the hearts for Kingdom Hearts as data. Mickey spun around when he heard me walk through. Mickey shouted, "Natalee!"

Put a smirk on my face and folded my arms. I leaned on my right leg and raised my right eyebrow. I replied, "So, King Mickey and Ansem the Wise here to ruin my Master's plans."

Mickey retorted, "Your Master? You need to snap out of it Natalee. You need to come back to us. What happened to you? You have Anthony worried sick! Don't let the darkness get to you!"

I looked at my gloved hand to see darkness illuminating from it. I replied, "It's too late. Nothing can change the damage that's already been done."

Ansem the Wise looked at Mickey and pivoted his body in my direction. Ansem the Wise said apologetically, "I'm sorry to hear that. I probably played some part in pushing you towards the darkness."

Mickey gasped, "You don't need to blame yourself! It's all on Xemnas' and her accord!"

Ansem the Wise said, "No. I figured out why she is siding with Xemnas and ignoring Anthony's pleas to come back."

I stood normally and my heart started to race. Have my plans been discovered? Mickey looked at my change in body language and looked back at Ansem the Wise who started to smirk. Ansem the Wise continued, "She is doing this because she wants to protect Anthony. I can see it in her eyes. She still loves him. She is afraid that he will get killed if she doesn't stay with the Organization. I could've lent her a hand. I could've hid her. The Organization has never found me until they got her and they wouldn't have found me without her. I shouldn't have tried to kill her."

Mickey frowned and asked, "What?"

Ansem the Wise replied, "I tried to kill her for revenge – Remember?"

Ansem was cut off by the machine making weird noises. It was going to blow up. Mickey turned to Ansem the Wise and asked, "Ansem?"

Ansem the Wise laughed at his own foolishness and replied, "I'm a fool. I've spent years studying the workings of the heart. Yet it seems I still haven't learned a thing!"

Mickey asked, "What d'ya mean?"

Ansem the Wise replied, "The process of encoding hearts is incalculable. The inhabitants of my Twilight Town were data created from real hearts. I was convinced that they would think and behave the way I had envisioned- but I couldn't have been more wrong. A heart is so much more than any system. I saw it when Roxas and Kairi crossed paths. I knew. But I was too stubborn to accept it. It's always the same. I try to wrap my mind around things my heart already knows, only to fail. While I was trying to bring Sora back, I had so many plans in store. But once Sora was an acting force, they fell apart. All my research amounted to nothing, compared with that one boy's heart."

The machine started to crack and wires started to explode. Mickey jumped at the sounds and yelled, "Ansem! The machine!"

Ansem the Wise continued, "All the more proof that hearts cannot be contained by data. Run, my friend! It's going to self-destruct, and anything could happen!"

Mickey said sadly, "But…"

We then heard footsteps and Sora shouted, "Your Majesty!"

Ansem the Wise looked at Sora and said, "Sora, the rest is up to you…"

Then Ansem the Wise looked away and said to himself, "And Roxas – I doubt you can hear me – but… I am sorry."

Couple more circuits blew and Mickey yelled, "Ansem!"

Ansem the Wise replied, "My heart is telling me what I must do. Please allow me to do what it says!"

Mickey took a step forward and gasped, "No!"

Riku put his hand on Mickey's left shoulder. Mickey turned to him and said, "Riku!"

Riku replied, "His heart's decided. We can't change that."

During that whole charade, I didn't notice Anthony slowly inching towards me. When he was three feet away from me, I pulled out my bow and an explosive arrow. Just then I heard a portal open behind me and I put away my bow and arrows. I turned around to be face to face with Xemnas. He punched me in the face and I fell backwards. He broke my nose and it bled severely. Anthony ran towards me to be by my side but I opened a portal from under me and I closed it the minute I fell through. I landed on my back on the floor of the Altar of Naught. I laid there limp for a minute as the blood trickled all over my face. Once Demyx saw that I was bleeding he ran towards me. He asked me, "What is the damage this time?"

I replied, "Broken nose."

I sat up as he pulled out a potion. I drank it and a sharp pain went through my nose as it snapped back in place and the bleeding stopped. Demyx poured some water onto a cloth as he cleaned my face from the blood. "Today he is really abusing you, huh," Demyx said.

I chuckled in reply. Then all of a sudden I saw a huge bright light shoot from the Naught's Approach. Then Xemnas came through a portal. Demyx quickly rubbed off the last streak of blood from my face as we stood up. Xemnas glared at me as he unsheathed his Ethereal Blades and summoned Dusks to pin Demyx to the railing. Xemnas looked at me and said, "Now it's time for your punishment."