Kingdom Hearts does not belong to me, though that should be obvious. All OCs in this chapter belong to me.

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Monster

"No matter who you meet on your journey, whether you know them or not, do not trust them until you know for sure that they're good people. Trust no one. Because even the kindest people have the darkest motives. Isn't that right…Ibiki?"

I kept replaying Enix's words over and over in my head. From the way he said it...could we not trust Ibiki? I kept thinking about this as we crossed the border to Enix's world. The light, the warmth…it was gone. As soon as we could see the world beyond the border, a cold wind sent chills up my spine. The once orange sky was a sickly purple, dark gray clouds casting over the entire world below. No sun could be seen.

The temperature had to be below thirty degrees. I looked to the water below and saw that it was solid ice. The ice seemed to reflect the purple coloration of the sky, making the ice seem gray or even black. Domino broke the silence. "What…happened?"

The place looked like an entirely different world. I could see my breath escaping my lips, and I wished that I had worn longer and thicker clothing. The Glider beneath my feet began to shake. Domino noticed this as well and stomped hard on it as if trying to tell it to knock it off. The Glider seemed to slowing down. "Domino?" I tried asking, but the roar of the wind that had appeared oh so suddenly overshadowed my voice. I looked to the Glider and saw that it was beginning to…freeze?

Almost instantly, the Keyblade Glider vanished in a flash of light. Domino and I tumbled downward towards the ice and before we could even scream for our lives, we hit the ice. Domino somehow landed on his feet. The cold didn't seem to bother his bare feet. I, however, landed on my face. The ice was so solid that it hadn't cracked when we landed.

Standing up and rubbing my nose, I noticed that Domino looked straight ahead with a blank expression. Looking in the direction he was, I saw that the large, towering Castle of Glass where Enix once resided…was gone. Domino nimbly ran across the ice, not even slipping, and found himself on the other side of the lake. I ran after him, and though I had shoes on that should have gave me traction, I still slipped and fell on my butt quite a few times. I finally made it to the end of the lake.

The grass was now gray, dying, and depressing. Littering the grass were millions and millions of tiny and large shards of glass, once belonging to the beautiful Castle. Standing among the wreckage was someone I had thought we'd never see again. Ibiki Kamikaze. His sideburns seemed thicker and more jagged looking, his long black hair was a scraggly mess of tangles and knots and looked somewhat gray-ish. Even his cute and cuddly pink eyes seemed harder, more focused, and without life.

"Ibiki, what happened over here?" I asked, trying to take a step forward. Domino held his hand out, preventing me from going ahead of him. "Domino?"

"Ibiki did this," Domino said simply, staring into Ibiki's cold, dead eyes. "I can sense it—another perk of the darkness—that he's the one who caused this mayhem. Tell me…why?"

"Is this true?" I asked, trying to step forward but once again was blocked off by Domino.

"Enix had to be destroyed," Ibiki said in a calm voice. I gasped. Did he say…destroyed? So Enix was dead? "As creator of the Keyblades, he caused this entire chain of events to transpire. You, Domino, obtained your Keyblade three years ago, you came to Utopia to seal us off from the outside world, and then you helped to destroy our barrier. And then you proceeded to take Kane, Tara, and Kale along for the ride."

"So…Utopia wasn't destroyed?" I asked.

"Far from it," Ibiki replied, smirking slightly. "It simply…created a new way of living there. Hundreds did die, but the few hundred people that were left helped to rebuild it to its proper glory. The storm you conjured flooded the world, so now we're living atop water. You really have to see it, the way the Lake of Destiny covers the entire world."

"So does this mean…" I muttered, not sure of what to say. "Ty is alive?"

"He is."

"So Tara died for nothing, then." As I said that, Domino jumped directly in between Ibiki and I, holding out his Starlight that was still slightly covered in ice. At the same moment, Ibiki had jumped forward and swung a sword—which he made appear out of pure light—clashing it with Domino's Keyblade. "What the—"

"Kane, you're my best friend and all, but that was an incredibly stupid move," Domino snapped at me. I thought about what I had just said. I basically admitted to Ibiki that Tara had died. I talked about her death freely as if it were nothing. And Ibiki…where'd he get this sword from? It was a mix of white and silver, and it glittered in the light that swirled around it.

"So Tara died then," Ibiki mumbled, lowering his head to pay his respects. "And it is…all…your…fault!" He swung it once more at Domino, but Domino collided his weapon with Ibiki's. Ibiki backed away. He looked to me. "Domino might as well have killed Tara himself, he left Kale all by himself over here…and you're still by his side?" He seemed to just be noticing my hair color. "Your mother's hair…how?" He made his sword disappear, and in his hand appeared a gun.

Looking at the gun…my eyes fogged, and I felt myself drifting off. Like before when I saw Domino kill his parents, I was having another vision now.

Enix sat at his throne. A shadowy figure suddenly appeared behind the throne, but Enix looked as if he didn't know it was there. "Just trust me, Kane, Domino," Enix said quietly into his own button. "No matter who you meet on your journey, whether you know them or not, do not trust them until you know for sure that they're good people." His eyes narrowed to the side, as if he just realized the shadowy figure was there. "Trust no one. Because even the kindest people have the darkest motives." The shadowy figure stepped out of the shadows behind Enix's throne and revealed his face. "Isn't that right…Ibiki?" It was Ibiki. And in his hand was a gun.

Ibiki walked in front of Enix. With one swipe of his gun, a bullet fired from it, gruesomely piercing Enix's chest and filling the air with a loud gunshot. Enix fell from his throne, dark red blood staining the glass floor. With another swing of his gun, Ibiki pulled the trigger a second time, firing it straight at the high ceiling. As soon as the bullet hit the glass ceiling, the entire castle shattered.

My eyes opened as I was violently shaken awake from the vision. By the looks of it, no time had passed since I began having the vision. Ibiki murdered Enix. The gun was pointed to Domino.

"Take a look at this tiny place," Ibiki said, laughing after he spoke. "An empty world…almost like a prison. Enix thought he could hide himself, but we found him." We? "The castle is this world's life force. Since the castle is destroyed, along with its cowardly master, this world has no more power. It'll be dead in minutes."

"Wait…" I said, darting my eyes back and forth. "Where's Kale? Or Yen Sid…and Maleficent?"

"They're safe, on the other side of the wreckage," Ibiki said, but that didn't prevent me from worrying about the three of them.

"And what do you mean the world will be…dead?"

"Taken by the darkness of the universe," Ibiki answered. "The castle was this world's light. It held so many memories, spirits, hearts…and now they're all gone along with the castle and poor Master Enix."

"Wait a minute, Ibiki," Domino spoke after the longest time that he has ever been silent. "Did you say we before? Who's we?"

Ibiki smiled, looking towards the sky. I looked to the sky as well. I couldn't see or understand what in the world he was looking at. "Asher, now!" Ibiki shouted suddenly.

"Asher!?" Domino and I yelled simultaneously.

I looked back to the sky, where a white comet shot from beyond the clouds. As the comet neared the ground, I saw Asher's face, his white hair flowing about in the wind. As he got ever closer, I saw that there were two disks in his hands. He threw them at me like Frisbees, and they circled around me, sending a force field of light around my body. The orb of light around me began to shrink in size, until I was unable to move around in it. I fell to the ground defeated.

Phoenix Asher elegantly landed beside my head. Domino rushed to him with Starlight outstretched, but both Asher and Ibiki deflected it with their own weapons, Asher with his Keyblade, and Ibiki with both his sword and his gun. "No way…" Domino muttered, trying to keep his ground against his two attackers. I looked to him from the ground and saw the horrified look in his eyes as he wouldn't keep his eyes off of me. "No way in hell…"

"To answer your question," Ibiki muttered, smiling from ear to ear. "We, as in the Keyblade Hunters!" Appearing around Domino, Asher, Ibiki, and I were around twenty people in white suits. The same people from the same group that was here a while ago.

"I was afraid of that," Domino muttered, dropping his head. Eyeing the ground in anger, Domino muttered, "So, Asher, I'm guessing Ibiki is your master?"

"He founded us only three years ago," Asher said with a smile. "A group of hunters whose one goal is to destroy the Keyblade and restore peace. There's a prophecy…that the Keyblade will bring about destruction and ruin, tearing down everything in its wake. A storm of darkness shall ravage and a river of light shall flow, heading towards one another, colliding, ultimately bringing about the end of all existence."

I tried to speak, but it felt like my throat was closing up. The orb of light had fit to the shape of my body, encasing me in a coating of light that began to burn me. It was unlike anything I've ever felt before. As I opened my mouth to speak, only strained gibberish escaped my lips.

But why…why would Ibiki turn on us like that? Was the Keyblade that evil? But what he said…about the darkness and light colliding and ending the world. Was he talking about the darkness that Domino was possessing?

"How do you have all of this light?" Domino asked. "It…isn't even light. It doesn't smell like light. It's too bright, too harsh…too strong. It's…"

"Artificial," Ibiki replied. "A group of Utopian scientists created an artificial light to use. We figure, since the prophecy says light and dark will clash and end all existence, then that means if we have fake light, there's no chance of it being the cause of the end of worlds. So. I am sorry, but the two of you will die today. Without you two, the prophecy can be avoided. Now…"

I then began coughing. I couldn't breathe. The light was choking me, strangling me. I squirmed on the ground, my entire body paralyzed. My eyes began tearing up. The pain was agonizing. I saw Domino's sad eyes focus. They looked angrier than before.

"Then I'm sorry," Domino said, barely above a whisper. "But I can't allow you to kill Kane." His eyes seemed to glow with dark energy. "Don't you dare think that you can fucking lay a hand on him!"

My eyes widened as I saw Domino's rage nearly explode out of him. Darkness blasted out of Domino's body, knocking the twenty suited figures back. Some fell onto the glass and others fell onto the ice. Ibiki and Asher remained standing still, but barely. The darkness escaping Domino's body was cutting, scraping against their bodies.

And then Domino blasted forward, his hand closing on Asher's throat. He slammed the white haired boy to the ground, leaving an Asher sized dent in the ground. Ibiki approached Domino from behind, swinging his sword at him. Domino predicted this and whipped around, grabbing the sword and throwing it to the side, sending Ibiki flying with it.

When I took a look at Domino, his silver eyes nearly glowed red. His purple hair was flowing wildly behind him in a flurry of darkness as his fedora flew onto the ice of the lake. Ibiki attempted to stand up, but a ball of darkness flew from Domino's hand and slammed into Ibiki's chest, sending him flying another few yards back.

I hadn't seen this kind of rage in Domino…since I was wounded by Mr. Brunner back on Utopia. He looked like a freaking monster! He almost seemed to release this kind of rage…when anything was happening to me. Was I that important to him?

Domino suddenly jumped into the air, floating a few inches off of the ground. He flew at a fast pace towards one of the white suited figures, a woman, and wrapped his arms around her head, snapping her neck in under a second. I gasped when I could hear the snapping of her neck. What was he doing!?

He flew to each and every one of the nineteen remaining suited Hunters, snapping and ripping off each of their heads. Darkness trailed behind him as he flew around in a frenzy. Both Asher and Ibiki stood up.

"And this is why you must die, Domino!" Ibiki yelled out. "I've always felt like this, boy! It seems like you have corrupted Kane as well. The two of you do not deserve this or any world. I love you, Kane, as much as any father can…but keeping you alive can bring then end to all worlds. We can't allow you to help Domino achieve his goals of war!"

"War?" I tried to ask, but it sounded more like Gwrwrrraaar?

Domino raised his hands into the air, and with an ear-splitting screech, the ground below him split in half, revealing a pit of darkness underneath his feet. The ground slowly crumbled away, a path of destruction leading its way to Ibiki and Asher.

The heat of the light around me began to dim. The cold, harsh darkness cooled me down. I felt it from Domino. How was that possible. I was able…to move again. The light around my body dissipated, Domino's darkness being the main cause. I stood myself up.

"Let them perish with this world!" Asher yelled out. "We can't risk our own skins for their wrong-doings! Get the kids and we can leave!"

"They must be sacrificed," Ibiki said, his eyes turning on me as if to say It must be done. "Once we achieve equilibrium among the worlds once again, we may raise their spirits and bring them back. As said in the prophecy."

In a flash of light, Ibiki vanished. "He's right," Asher said, looking to the sky. He looked back to Domino and I. Domino's rage didn't seem to be ending. He stared coldly at Asher, waiting for a chance to kill the guy. "You two must fade away from existence along with this pitiful world. Eventually, all Keybearers shall share your fate."

Asher vanished into light. The darkness swirling around Domino dissipated into thin air. His eyes calmed, looking to me in sadness. "Kane…" I tried to speak, but my throat still felt a little sore. "We can survive."

Almost as soon as he said that, the ice shattered, each shard of ice flying down into the unknown. I looked down below and saw there was something like a black hole down there, sucking in the land and ice. Starlight became the Keyblade Glider, and Domino pulled me aboard, the two of us beginning to soar towards the sky.

But the power of the Glider wasn't enough. We began to ascend, flying towards the darkness. Looking down, I saw that the entire world below was encased in darkness. I saw…Kale. He was flailing around, flying towards the black hole. On either side of him were the tumbling figures of Yen Sid and Maleficent, each looking as terrified as I felt.

"I've got them!" Domino yelled out, holding a hand out. A black portal opened up beneath Yen Sid, the young boy falling into it and disappearing. He did the same for Maleficent, and the girl vanished as well. "They should be heading towards safer worlds. I'm not sure where!" Reaching down, he grabbed Kale by the foot and pulled him up. I hugged Kale close to me, trying to keep both me and him on the Glider as we tumbled down.

"What now!?" I yelled out, startling myself by the sound of my own voice. The roaring of the darkness around us was unbearable. No light remained in this world. But I saw that Domino had created a portal of darkness again…but on the inside, I could barely see light. Another world? I lost consciousness.

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So, how did you like this chapter? It seems like Domino always exploded with anger once Kane is getting hurt. SO, let's see. Enix is dead. Asher and Ibiki left the scene thinking that everyone below was going to die. Yen Sid and Maleficent are each heading for different worlds, while Domino, Kane, and Kale headed for the same world. What adventures await? Stay tuned!