Kingdom Hearts does not belong to me, though that should be obvious. I know I might have said my updates will be slowed…but I couldn't stop typing this chapter. So…here it is. I hope you like it! I don't have much to say in this author's note so…read on!

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Can't Hold us

I felt like I hit the ground. My hand was clawing the steel floor below me. I shakily stood up to my feet and looked around. I was surrounded by four steel walls and a large steel roof a couple of yards above my head. From it dripped water, hitting the floor, the sound echoing off of the walls. That sound would've driven anyone in the room insane. Speaking of, I did see someone in the room. Leaning against the wall furthest from me was…Dante Netherwood, his arms crossed and a smug smile laid across his face.

"Well, wouldja look at that," Dante said, standing up straight and walking towards me. "Seems they grabbed the wrong person."

"What are you doing here?" I asked at him, stepping towards him and glaring into his cruel eyes. "Where are we?"

"I would like to know that myself," Dante replied, staring up at the ceiling above us. "I've been here…what? Three days? Maybe a whole week? I was headed towards my homeworld when…everything went white. And here I am…but you're not supposed to be here. Did they forget what Domino looked like, or what?"

"Who are they?" I asked, getting more confused by the minute. Who could've sent us here? And what did they want?

"I don't know much myself," Dante said, flexing his arms in the air and stretching. "There were these guys…maybe six of them? They surrounded me while I was on my Glider…and I woke up here. I can't use my Keyblade." He held his hand out, but nothing appeared within it. "See? I'm useless. I don't even have the darkness on my side today. Or however long I've been here. But one thing's for certain…we can't escape. I've tried everything. Can someone please let me the fuck out!?" After that outburst, he twisted his body around and flung himself at the wall, kicking it harshly. No dent was left. "Come on!" He punched the wall in anger.

In a swirling portal of light in the center of the room appeared a shadowy figure. Whenever the light vanished, the black silhouette gained color. Lying on his back was Robin Cale…Six. He still was shirtless since their last encounter. He pushed himself off of the floor and bent over, panting.

"They gave up a pretty nice fight," he said through scattered breaths. He looked around the room, his face brightening when he saw me. "Kane? What are you—" Taking one last look around the room, he sighed. "—doing here?" He almost looked sad to see me confined along with him. He then seemed to notice Dante for the first time. He was leaning against the wall as before. "You…"

The two held eye contact for a few seconds. I could feel a little tension in the room. Scratching the back of my head, I backed away from them as they walked towards one another, stopping until they were face-to-face.

"One of the ones who will bring about the end of all worlds with that infuriating light of his…what a surprise running into you," Dante said with a smirk. Did he know Six personally? Yeah, they were from the same world and both went to Utopia to seal its barrier, but these two held mixed emotions in their eyes as they glared daggers at one another. "I see they're rounding up each one of us, one by one. Kane just happened to get in between them and Domino. Also…how's the back?"

Six jumped. I looked at Six's bare back and saw the six vertical scars going across his back's midsection. I remembered seeing them when his shirt ripped on the Titanic cruise. Six looked to the ground and said, "Dante…why did you have to choose such a dark road? You had a heart of gold…you fought for justice. You were my hero." What? Six rubbed his back and continued, "Thank you for saving my life…but that doesn't mean anything if you're on the side of darkness."

"What did you mean he saved your life?" I asked Six.

The two held each other's gaze once more…they looked around the same age, twenty-one. Six finally answered with, "It was back before the Keyblade even existed." I raised an eyebrow. "I was nine years old. I was targeted by a group of bullies…they were all older, maybe twelve. Thirteen, at the most. The leader of that group had his lackeys pin me down on my stomach, and with a knife their leader carved into my back…six times. He was so vicious…so evil…sodark. He was about to slit my throat…Dante Netherwood, a kid I didn't really know much of, had pulled the boy away. He took my hand…and the two of us ran as fast as we could. He got help and I was alright…I lost quite a bit of blood, but I was alright. Dante was my hero…we became good friends."

I didn't know someone of the dark like Dante could do such a great deed like that. He became Six's hero. I now understood why he had those six carvings on his back…Dante saved him from a lot worse. But the two were obviously headed down completely different roads. They were both good people at heart, but one headed down a road of light and one walked a path of darkness. It almost made me sad…were Domino and I to end up the same way?

"People change," I told Six immediately after his story. "He chose the darkness over the light. But he isn't evil."

Six shouted out, "People who ally with the dark wish to swallow every world within the blackest abyss!"

"People who ally with the light wish to burn every world in its harsh rays, leaving nothing left," Dante snapped back. "The sooner you realize that, the sooner I will accept you as a friend again. The light is despicable. Now will someone get us outta this damn place!?" He kicked the wall again, this time much harder, the room seemingly shaking. "I can't take this. Isn't someone ever going to come and at least explain where is it I even am?"

"Okay, calm down," I said. "We'll escape somehow. These people can't hold us. I had decided it was my time to take charge. I always let other people take charge because they were always older than me. Even so, I needed to make sure these two didn't kill each other over which side, the light or the dark, was better. I squeezed myself in between the two, making the both of them back away from one another. I studied the air around us. The scent in the air smelled rather like…fresh water? I could faintly smell flowers…roses—no—cherry blossoms, to be exact. I held my hand out and allowed the dripping water from above to land on it, the coolness of the water sending shivers up my spine. Bringing my hand to my face, I sniffed it, and then licked it off.

I was…astonished. It made me feel better. Like nothing I had ever felt before. Or maybe I had felt it before. I felt rejuvenated…like how I felt whenever Domino and I took a swim in that lake when we were in that empty world. And that lake smelled and felt the same as the Lake of Destiny. The Lake of Destiny…could it be possible? I stood underneath the steadily dripping water, looking upwards and letting the cool water drip onto my forehead, a stream of water leaking from in between my eyes, down my nose, and onto the floor beneath me.

It had to be the Lake of Destiny! Were we…underneath it? And if so, how low beneath the surface of the lake were we? Who was keeping us here, and for what reason? According to Dante, whoever they were wanted Keybearers…and they had grabbed me instead of Domino. What did they want with us though? Suddenly, the ground beneath us started shaking and a portal of light…artificial light…appeared in the center of the room, right in front of me.

When the light vanished, a man stood there. He wore a gray trench coat that was buttoned up all the way. The top of it covered his mouth and looked similar to a turtleneck. His hair was long and gray, going passed his shoulders in the front and going to his waist in the back. A bang covered his left eye, but his right eye was visible. His eye color was a cold blue color. Barely visible from underneath the trench coat were boots. He wore a white ring on each ring finger and middle finger. He wore a white earring on his left ear. He had tucked his hair behind the left ear so his earring would be clearly visible.

"Who are you?" I asked, clenching my fists at the man before me.

The man who looked to be eighteen chuckled in a rather deep voice, his mouth not visible beneath the turtleneck. "I'm the supreme commander of the Keyblade Hunters." Hearing about the Hunters sent shivers down my spine. This was the guy they replaced Asher with? The man stared at me with his icy blue eye. "My name is Pierce." He squinted his visible eye at me, looking harder as if to study my looks. "Why must I be the only smart one in the Hunters? You are clearly not Domino. Ah, you must be Kane, Domino's friend. All the better, I'd say."

"You're a Keyblade Hunter!?" Six yelled in surprise.

"Where are we!?" Dante shouted out, holding out a totally nonthreatening hand out at Pierce. "What do you want with us!?"

"I'm here to oversee the extermination of the Keybearing race," Pierce said rather menacingly. "I cannot trust these steel walls that those other idiots built, so I can't allow your entire race to band together and break down these walls. So I'll exterminate the three of you now instead of waiting for the others of your kind to show up. How does that sound?"

"It sounds cruel," Six snapped back. "Killing us because we have Keyblades? That sounds heartless to me."

"Prepare for ultimate extermination," Pierce said loudly, jumping to the air and back-flipping out of the center of the room towards one of the back walls. As he landed, he snapped his fingers, and a circle opened up where the water was dripping from. In less than a second, a geyser of water shot downward from the hole in the ceiling. I jumped out of the way right before it slammed into the floor. "I won't be seeing you again." In a flash of light, Pierce vanished.

"What the hell?" Dante asked as the water rushed passed my legs and hit each side of the walls. In less than a minute the water had already risen passed my knees. I looked to Six and Dante for words of wisdom or any help at all, but they looked as shocked and scared as I was. They didn't have their Keyblades or any special abilities anymore. Lifting my arm into the air, I realized I could summon any magic. We were all useless, about to drown. Ironic, wasn't it? We were about to be drowned in water that's supposed to heal someone. Just my luck.

I pressed my back against the wall to my left in utter hopelessness. I sunk down, my butt hitting the ground softly, and as I sat down the water had risen above my shoulders. Before now, I had never really realized what hopelessness had even felt like. But there was no way I could escape this place. I was about to be drowned along with Six and Dante. The three of us were unable to do anything at all.

"Kane, we'd really like some help!" Dante screamed out.

"What can I do!?" I asked back.

Dante smirked and said, "Well, Robin fights for the light. And I chose to ally with Domino of all people. Kane, you can't possibly be any dumber than us."

Suddenly, appearing in the air was a portal of darkness and from it appeared a girl. She floated inches above the water. She was wearing a black and white cloak that reached her ankles, the hood over her head to hide her face. She was around four feet tall, so she was most likely young. Black hair fell from the hood to her waist. This was the same girl that had posed as Auron's sister back in the Underworld. What was she doing here? That's right! She was a Keybearer from Utopia!

"It's you!" I yelled at her. "Did you get kidnapped as well!?" I stood up as soon as the water went over my mouth while I sat. I stood on my tiptoes to make sure the water didn't get closer to my head.

"Kidnapped?" the girl asked. "Please. Nobody could kidnap me." She lowered her hood, revealing her light skin and her hypnotic, deep brown eyes. Her hair fell behind her to reach her waist. She looked to be around ten years old. Her cloak billowed in a nonexistent wind beneath her. "Call me Jazz. Now let's get you guys out of here." She held a hand out towards the wall that Dante backed into, and a dark portal appeared on the wall. The darkness within the portal vanished, and all that was left was a hole in the wall leading to a small corridor on the other side.

"You're helping us?" Six asked. "You have…a heart of darkness. What's in it for you?"

"Without you guys, the war will be boring," Jazz smirked. "Plus, I'd like to break your bones and smash your skulls myself." Those words gave me goose-bumps. I waded through the cool water, and Six, Dante, and I walked through the hole in the wall. For some reason, the water didn't go through the hole. Jazz flew in after us, and as she entered the corridor with us, the hole behind her closed and became the steel wall like normal.

Lifting a hand into the air, I sent a vortex of wind swirling around Six, Dante, and I, making any wet clothing completely dry. Jazz fell to her feet and clapped her hands. "Very well done, for someone who doesn't even own a Keyblade," the girl said, chuckling as she walked ahead of us. "They call this security? I was able to get here with two hands behind my back." She grinned wickedly. "Ladies, we're in the Keyblade Hunters' stronghold."

The corridor was made of steel like the room they were just in. The only difference was that the walls were lined with tall candlesticks, illuminating the place. Several doors were lined up along each wall, probably leading to a variety of different rooms.

"We have to find a way out of here," I told the other three, stepping ahead of Jazz and beginning to walk down the corridor. I would have gone further, but a man appeared in front of me out of artificial light. He held a sword to me, the tip lightly pressed against my neck. "Uh…hi there."

"Shut up," the man replied. He wore the standard cloak of a Hunter, hiding his face behind a white hood. "I'll get lotsa munny for killing you off when our new commander couldn't. I'll be the new commander. I'm much better than Pierce!" Without warning, I saw a set of fingers wrap around the man's throat and squeeze as hard as they could. And the man exploded into light, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

The person who had done that was behind the man. He wore a cloak belonging to the Keyblade Hunters as well, his face hidden in the shadows beneath his hood. Had he just taken out one of his own members? He held a finger up to his hooded face and whispered, "Shh." He pointed to the door nearest to us, and he quietly walked up to his and wrapped his hand around the doorknob, slowly opening it. All at once, he swung it open, jumping into the room. There were four white flashes coming from the inside of the room.

I had to figure out what was going on. I rushed inside of the room to see the man standing there in an empty computer room. The computer was large and took up half of the room. A rolling chair was in front of it, its wings lightly spinning as if someone had just gotten off of that chair. There were definitely people in this room…well, at least before. Now they were gone…like that last man who had almost shoved his sword into my throat.

"And who do you think you are?" Dante asked loudly to the man who simply sat down on the chair, turned himself towards the computer, and began vigorously typing on the keyboard.

"He has a heart of darkness," Jazz said, smiling. "I can read his heart loud and clear. He's not even a part of the Hunters. He's also from Utopia, like the rest of us."

"Is that true?" Six asked at the man who didn't look away from the computer screen. "And how did you get rid of those other Hunters?"

The man sitting at the computer held his hand out as if to shut us up. In a quiet voice he whispered, "They're not dead. I do not kill unless absolutely necessary. I merely sent them away for a while." He dismissed us with a wave of his hand and continued typing on the computer, several boxes appearing on the screen and red text flashing everywhere. He then whispered to himself, "Come on, Ibiki, where did you put that data?"

"What are you doing?" I asked, walking up to the man. He still did not look up at me.

"Ibiki has his entire master plan somewhere hidden within this CPU's data," the man replied. "It took me weeks but I'm finally able to access the Main Access Terminal. If I can find out his plans and courses of action, I can prevent them. I know he aims towards the destruction of the Keyblade. But if he destroys both Keyblades of darkness and light, there'll be nothing left for me to stand for. I need the dark to survive…I need to destroy that insignificant light."

"So you really are a dark user," Dante muttered in awe at the man. "Are you aware of Domino's plan then?"

"I need to finish up my work before I go and help anyone else," the man replied quickly, typing up a few words before a new document popped up on the screen. In big white text upon a gray background read KH MASTER DATA TERMINAL. "I've found it." On the document, almost every word typed up by Ibiki was another link that probably led somewhere else in his master plan.

"Can you tell us who you are?" I asked rather rudely. The man shoved a black, rectangular device into a slot on the side of the computer. After typing a few words and clicking a few buttons, he waited a minute before removing it. "What did you do?"

"I downloaded his data," the man replied, standing up in triumph. "I've done it. I have to bring it back to my home and show it to the rest of the dark-wielders." He tried to walk to the door, but I stood in between him and the doorway. "Yes?"

"Who are you?" I said with more power in my voice. I was done sitting on the sidelines. I needed to assert myself better. I needed to know who this guy was.

And the man ripped off his cloak, the Keyblade Hunter outfit falling to the ground lightly.

The man before me had brown hair about three inches at the bangs but cut shorter as it reached the back of his head, which he kept swept at a downward angle. His eyes were a dark brown as well. He wore an old leathered outfit including boots and gloves, and he kept his shirt sleeveless. Tied around his waist was a belt, and from it hung several charms shaped like stars, X's, and one shaped like a Keyhole in the front like a belt buckle. Tied around his neck and falling behind him to his ankles was a brown leathery cape.

The man looked down at me and replied, "My name is Lián Itzal. I'll show the four of you out. After that, get as far as you can away from the Hunters. We can't allow ourselves to lose any soldiers just yet."

"Soldiers?" I asked. Lián pushed himself passed me and walked out the door. Taking the initiative, I reached forward and grabbed the man's wrist before he could get too far. Lián looked down at me, but refrained himself from speaking. "Is that all we are? A bunch of soldiers in a war?"

"We're all destiny's pawns," Lián muttered, clutching a fist in front of his face. "This war between the dark and the light has to happen. The dark will prevail. The dark was the deity that created every world out there. People are made to mirror that darkness. And so I have confidence that once this war is over, the dark can finally eclipse all worlds. Light…it is an abomination. I'll see you on the battlefield." Breaking free from my grip, he dashed out of the room entirely, his cape flying behind him.

"Let's go!" Jazz yelled out, flying after Lián as quickly as she could, darkness trailing behind her feet as she soared through the air and out the door. "You guys need to escape so we can have soldiers for this war."

"Right ahead of you, sister!" Dante shouted towards her, running out of the room himself to follow the other two Seekers of Darkness.

"Why is it that we need to rely on dark users like them to get out of here?" Six asked, rubbing his back slowly. "But…at least they're helping us get out of here nonetheless. Kind souls…but dark, dark hearts." Six slowly walked out of the room. I followed him out and the two of us then quickly dashed to catch up with the other three who had approached a dead-end in the corridor. "Now what?"

"I've got it," Lián said. He put all ten of his fingers on the wall ahead of us as if it were a keyboard, and typed in a type of combination. Suddenly, the wall lit up with light, and when the light vanished, the wall was gone and on the inside was a small looking room with a nice looking carpet and buttons lined around the walls. "The elevator out."

"You expect me to use an elevator?" Jazz remarked, showing a look of distaste across her face. She shook her head and sighed while saying, "How'd you think I got in here in the first place?"

"How did you get here?" I asked, curious myself. That room they were going to drown us in was supposed to cut off all powers, but Jazz floated above the water just fine. And how did she even get in there to start off with?

"What can I say?" she replied cockily. "I'm stronger than most Keybearers."

Lián stepped into the elevator and said, "If you don't hurry out of here, they'll find you and toss you back in. Now are you guys coming or not?"

"Fine," Jazz grumbled, crossing her arms with immature anger as she stomped into the elevator. Dante followed her in with Six close behind him. I walked in as well, and the wall materialized behind me.

Lián imputed some kind of code into the wall, and the room around us shook as if we were moving. In less than a second the wall were we entered the elevator through had flashed white and once it vanished we saw the outside. Suddenly excited to see Utopia again, I dashed out the open doorway and my feet landed on the brink pavement. Things looked…different, to say the least.

The buildings looked rustier and older, as if these buildings never got any new paintjobs for the past hundred years. I looked behind me. The building I had just come out of was the right side of the Kamikaze Home. My eyes and mouth widened in astonishment. Had that base for the Keyblade Hunters always been underneath the Kamikaze Home? Not even a few yards away was the bridge…I was almost certain that wasn't where it was last time. Underneath it was…the lake of destiny.

Forgetting about the other four who had just walked out of the elevator, I rushed onto the bridge and looked over it. There were hundreds of houses floating in pieces on the top of an endless sea all around. Had the Lake of Destiny always been this huge? "Look at what Domino has done," Six said in awe next to me, placing a hand on my shoulder as if he needed support to stand up. I thought I could smell smoke in the air. The water below looked almost brown. "I should've never trusted him."

"Domino caused all of this carnage?" Jazz asked, floating passed me and landing with her feet on the rim of the long bridge. "It smells of destruction and ruin. Doesn't it make you feel good?"

"There could be so many dead bodies down below," Dante muttered with a hint of sadness in his voice. "And yet I'm still working with Domino."

"Get used to this place," Lián muttered, crossing his arms while he stood behind the four of us. "It'll take a while before this place is as beautiful as it used to be." He paused for a moment before yelling, "Look out!"

Suddenly surrounding all five of us were around twenty Keyblade Hunters, all pointing long swords menacingly at us. Lián, Jazz, Dante, Six, and I were now standing in a small circle with all of these swords pointed at us. It was clear we couldn't get out of this. Two of the Hunters in front of me parted to reveal Pierce standing in between them. He revealed his long silver sword that use used to poke me in the nose with.

"Itzal, how sad it is to see a fellow member betray his own," Pierce said in a clearly fake sympathetic tone.

"I was never a part of you guys!" Lián snapped back.

"It doesn't really matter now, does it?" Pierce asked, sneering at us. "Fellow Hunters, kill the lot of them. I don't want any of these Keybearers alive. As for him…" He pointed a pinky finger at me. "Kill him as well." The man withdrew his sword and stepped back and allowed the two who were in front of me before go back into their positions.

Suddenly, surrounding the ring of Hunters that surrounded us was…another ring of hunters. Each of these had their hood down, showing off a variety of faces. The Hunters around us stared at the ones surrounding them, each point a threatening sword at one another. What was going on here?

From beyond all of the Hunters, standing right behind Pierce, was Lucina. She held a long sword up to the back of Pierce's neck. "What is the meaning of this?" Pierce asked angrily, not daring to move. "Are you defying our Organization?"

"These Hunters that I command are more than just faceless soldiers forced to kill and take Keyblades away," Lucina said, holding out an arm to either side of her as she smiled towards the sky. "They are still loyal to Asher and I, and we don't threaten their lives like you do." Pierce growled. "Wait until Ibiki finds out that you're attempting to kill the Keybearers without his permission."

"Wait until Ibiki finds out that you have just turned traitor against us," Pierce snapped back. "Hunters, leave the Keybearing peasants! Go after the unfaithful and ungrateful Hunters who dare defy our superiority!" With a snap of his fingers, each of his Hunters jumped away from us and began combat with the ones that Lucina commanded, clashing swords with one another, not a one of them backing down.

Lucina smiled over to me and said, "Kane, I'm sorry I couldn't try hard enough to become commander…Pierce was just too high up to knock back down." She readied her sword and swung it in front of her, clashing her sword with Pierce's that he had just swung at her with. They each held their ground. "Pierce, you're the one who's traitorous! Attempting to eliminate the Keybearing warriors without consulting him! Where is Ibiki?"

"That's none of your information," Pierce spat back, slamming his foot into Lucina's torso and causing the girl to stumble backwards.

"Where is he, Pierce," Lucina demanded, jumping forward while slamming down her sword. Pierce blocked it by swinging his sword above him. Lucina landed her feet on the ground and kept her ground against Pierce once more. "You don't know, do you?"

"Ibiki said he was going somewhere!" Pierce yelled out.

"Where, Pierce?" Lucina said with more power emanating off of her voice.

"He said he was going somewhere," Pierce said back. "He didn't say where."

"When did he say it?"

"Right after that Dark Lord he speaks highly of was supposed to perish back in the world where Enix once resided!" Pierce finally yelled out. "But he's still alive. The war will still come if he isn't dead. I'm doing this so Ibiki doesn't find out that Asher screwed up."

"Did someone say my name?" a voice echoed off of the walls. I almost laughed. I totally saw this coming. Flying from the sky in a white beam of light was Phoenix Asher, a comet-tail of light streaming behind him as he nosedived forward. He repositioned himself so his feet pointed downward, and he slammed his feet right into Pierce's gut, sending the man flying until he hit the wall of the side of the bridge. Asher landed on his own two feet and gave me two thumbs up. I chuckled. "I once attempted to obliterate the light and destroy the darkness…but now I shall help unite them! Phoenix Asher is here! Now gather under my name, you fool!"

Pierce scrambled to his feet and pointed his sword at Asher, though the latter didn't seem afraid in the slightest. He seemed overly confident. Asher shouted out, "Fellow Hunters that ally with Commander Pierce over there! Do you really want him to be your dictator, to tell you how worthless you are? Or do you want to stand tall and prove yourselves!?" Each of Pierce's followers looked at one another in confusion as if they didn't know quite what to do. "Follow me and I'll make you somebody. You guys are people, no matter what Pierce says!"

As if on cue, each of the Hunters that served Pierce removed their hoods, revealing a variety of faces. Each of their eyes went from looks of confusion to ones of determination. The ones originally commanded by Pierce stood together as one with the ones Lucina had brought out. Asher and Lucina stood side-by-side as they stared down Pierce.

"This isn't over!" Pierce yelled. "I'm sounding the alarm! You aren't allowed to leave Utopia!" Pierce dashed away from the bridge but before he could reach Kamikaze Home, he was slammed into by two streaks of darkness, one coming from his back and one from his front. Before Pierce could fall over, Domino stood behind him and grabbed hold of his arms while Rika stood in front of him, kicking him in the gut and allowing Domino to drop the man. Pierce fell to his knees. "The Dark Lord has come, it seems."

"Glad we're not too late," Rika said with confidence.

"Hey, Kane, we're here," Domino called to me.

"How did you three know to help out?" I asked.

Asher quickly responded, "We saw you being abducted by a few Hunters. I knew right away, after what Lucina had said on the phone, that this was Pierce's doing. We came here as fast as we could. Are you guys alright?"

Jazz laughed and said, "Okay, this has been fun, but I need to leave. My work here is done." She pointed to me and Six and said, "Just because I saved your sorry asses does not mean I'm soft, alright? When the time comes I'll crush you myself." She sunk into the shadows below, vanishing into darkness.

Dante looked to the sky and said, "I was interrupted from my quest…I must go. I need to see someone. Domino, until we meet again." Into a portal of darkness, Dante vanished from sight.

Lián Itzal jumped into the air and underneath his feet appeared his own Keyblade Glider. He saluted to all of us and shouted out, "As with those other two, I have to head out and show my discovery with the rest back home! It's been a pleasure meeting you, and I hope that you become worthy adversaries on the battlefield!" He flew off into the sky and vanished behind the dark clouds.

As with everybody else, I expected Six to leave as well, but he stood by me. He looked to me and winked.

Pierce kneed Rika in the stomach and dashed away from her and back onto the bridge. His meaty fists grabbed a hold of Lucina's neck and he hovered her above the ground, stepping closer to the edge of the bridge and preparing to drop her into the harsh waters below.

"Lucina!" Asher shouted out, rushing towards Pierce with his Keyblade outstretched. Without much thinking, he shoved his gun-blade into Pierce's back, staining his clothes red with blood that dripped to the ground. Pierce gasped, blood running down his lower lip. He let go of Lucina, who vanished and reappeared to the side of Pierce. She then proceeded to shove her own sword into his side. Pierce groaned out in pain. "This is what you get, you bastard. Nobody messes with my friends."

That meant a lot to hear from Asher, that we were his friends. Asher removed his Keyblade from the man's back, Lucina doing the same with her sword, and Pierce whipped around to look Asher in the eyes. "You may have the entire legion of Hunters fooled, Phoenix," Pierce grumbled, coughing with every word. "But Ibiki's a smart man. He will find out this little game you're playing. I'm just sad I won't be here to see him take his wrath out…on you." Utterly defeated, the man fell over backwards, toppling off of the edge of the bridge and falling to the water below. A splash was heard seconds later, followed by a small white explosion down in the deep. Pierce had died.

Asher and Lucina embraced each other in a tight hug. Six smiled and put a hand on my shoulder while gently saying, "Looks like things will calm down over here. I don't need to stay and see what happens anymore. We'll see each other again. I'm going explore more worlds. See you later, Kane." He grabbed my hand and shook it slowly, vanishing into a pink light before my eyes. My hands grabbed air. Six had left.

"Kane!" Domino yelled, running over to me and grabbing me in a tight hug. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you! I'm so very sorry!" I returned the hug.

Each of the Hunters on the bridge shouted out in joy, pumping their fists into the air as if they had just won a war. But this was only one of the battles of many. The war has yet to come. Asher looked to Lucina and said, "Let's work together to make the Keyblade Hunters great. Then maybe we can take down Ibiki once and for all."

"I'll do that," Lucina said, putting both of her hands on Asher's shoulders. "You go out and visit the worlds with Domino and Rika and Kane…you deserve a break."

"What about you?" Asher asked back.

"Don't worry, I've got things under control," Lucina replied with a soft smile. "Pierce was lying before…he hadn't even asked Ibiki to take your place. So I'll do the same. I'm the official commander from now on." Asher nodded and looked to Domino, Rika, and I. "So you four are leaving now?"

"We are now," Domino said. He looked around. "It pains me to see this place like this. Let's go." Rika and Domino summoned their Keyblade Gliders, and I hopped on the back of Domino's.

Asher kissed Lucina on the forehead and said, "I'll see you later, Lucina."

With that being said, Domino, Rika, and I blasted towards the sky, Asher following slowly behind in the form of a white comet made of his artificial light. I was glad to be amongst my friends. Nothing was better than this. Nothing.

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Did you like this chapter? I hope you did! I'll see you in the next one...whenever that might be. Ugh, I decided to name all of these chapters after songs and it is SOOOO hard to find a song title that matches the chapter, so...this title, Can't Hold Us, means that...the Keyblade Hunters couldn't hold them there any longer or...something I don't know. Anyway, see ya!