(Natalee's POV)

I slowly opened my eyes and everything was blurry at first but my vision cleared eventually. My head was in Axel's lap, Demyx was to my left, and Riku and Sora were at my right. "What happened?" I asked.

Axel replied, "We defeated Xemnas and got that brace off of you and in –"

I thought of Anthony and sat up abruptly. I scanned the room franticly to not find him anywhere. I asked nervously, "Where's Anthony?"

Axel moved right next to me and everybody started looking at each other nervously. I started to smell the awkwardness and guilt. I knew something seriously wrong happened to him and I asked firmly, "What happened to Anthony?"

Everyone mumbled and Riku replied, "You killed him. His body faded away a few minutes before you woke up."

Sora shouted, "Riku! That was rude! You should've slowly let her down!"

I repeated Riku's words slowly as my body started to shiver, "I… ki-… killed… him…"

Riku retorted back at Sora, "Well it's the truth! You can't sugar coat something like that! She killed him! What am I gonna say?!"

The guilt I felt was like no other. I looked at my gloved hands. I felt like Macbeth after he killed King Duncan. Images of blood on my hands flashed in my vision. Tears poured out of my eyes as I curled up into a ball on the floor still shivering. Images of blood flashed in and out of my vision. My eyes darted around the room. When I blinked I saw a dead corpse all mangled and mutilated. Every time I blinked, the corpse started to stand. Then the corpse turned around and it was Anthony's dead corpse. He slowly walked towards me and then he disappeared. Then there were no more visions of Anthony's dead corpse. I started to hyperventilate. Where was this dead corpse? Was he going to attack me? I tried to summon my bow and arrows but I was too scared. I was afraid I would hurt everyone by mistaking them for corpses. Everyone stopped arguing because they noticed me and then Riku joked, "Even the Devil sheds tears."

Everyone shouted angrily, "RIKU!"

Everyone started arguing. Then everything was becoming blurry and dark. I started to feel my body going numb. I looked at my hands once more and I saw darkness seeping into my skin more than before. Was I dying?! I started to say to myself, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."

Axel noticed that I was freaking out and saw the darkness. He asked, "Are you okay?"

He sat me up and I told him what I was feeling. He tried to help me stand but I fell down. He picked me up bridal style and shouted, "Hey guys! We need to get out of here quickly! I think she's dying!"

Everyone mumbled and we started walking. Then a bright light appeared and we were in the dark realm. Which part? I wasn't sure. I recognized the beach we were in. Well, at least if I were to die now, it would be in sort of a nice place. At least it was a nicer place than Anthony… More tears streamed down my face. I can't even think about him without tearing up. I commented, "Great, now I'm for sure going to die. I don't understand why though, I've –"

Sora ran to me and grabbed my shoulders. He lightly shook me on each syllable as he said, "You are not going to die."

We walked to the water and Axel sat me down on the sand and kneeled down in front of me. Demyx sat right next to him. Sora and Riku looked along the shoreline for some way out. The sand felt cool against my cloak and the smell of the sea breeze sort of comforted me. I started to see black dots in my vision. This was it. I fell backwards onto my back and then a bright light appeared. Apparently I wasn't hallucinating this because Axel and Demyx turned around to look at it too. Everything went white. I felt my body starting to glide upwards. I looked up and saw the darkness. There were shrieks and demonic noises coming from it. There were many yellow eyes staring at me like I was dinner. Then a bunch of claws tried to grab me and pull me in, but all of a sudden I shot towards the light and away from the darkness.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

DEAR READERS,

THE END OF THE FIRST PART OF THIS SERIES IS SLOWLY COMING TO AN END. THE FINAL TWO CHAPTERS ARE GOING TO BE RELEASED BETWEEN MAY 12TH-13TH. I HOPED YOU ENJOYED THE CHAPTER AND THE ENTIRE SERIES SO FAR.

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