Strange…spring break. It's start's today, yet I want to get up early. Oh well.

We came out of the dark corridor into the Dark Town.

"Axel said Kairi was in the castle dungeon," Sora told us, as if we weren't there five minutes ago when Axel had died.

"Then we better find a way to that castle!" Mickey said. Oh yeah, apparently Sora and the others had found him before I showed up again.

We walked through the town (With me giving directions of course.) until we got to Memory's Skyscraper. Donald and Goofy stood in one place like the useless saps they were, but Sora and I were at least trying to look for a way to the castle. I didn't want to open a dark corridor, I didn't know if it would be safe or not.

"Sora!" Donald called. I turned around and found Donald and Goofy being guarded by two Samurais. Sora called their names in response and was about to run over to them, but then the world went hazy for both of us. Sora looked over at me, to make sure I was seeing the same thing, and I nodded back. A dark corridor opened nearby and that was enough to tell me who was coming out of it. It was almost enough to make Airie's Heart stop.

But I turned around anyway and found him. His hood was up, hiding his face, but I knew it was him. Roxas held his arm up and a Oblivion appeared into it.

"A keyblade?" Sora called, stating the obvious again. Roxas ran over and tried to strike him, but Sora was fast enough to summon his own keyblade and block it. Roxas stood higher though, pressing against him, then the world went white.

I'm sure Sora didn't see the same as what I saw.

He's standing in front of the Old Mansion in Twilight Town. He's not moving, but he's still standing, and his head is down.

A dark corridor opens nearby and a man with his hood up walks out. When he speaks, I know in an instant that it's Xemnas.

"You seek a purpose," Xemnas said, to which Roxas only gave a small nod. "I can give you just that,"

He waves his arm out in front of Roxas to spell the letters SORA. Another wave of his arm and they spin around Roxas's head. Xemnas makes a stopping motion with his hand and they stop. In the middle of the letters rearranged is a golden X. Now the name spells ROXAS.

"Roxas…" he whispers quietly.

"The new you," Xemnas declared.

"Xeiria!" Sora called, shaking me. "Snap out of it! Xeiria!"

I looked up at him. "You…you killed him didn't you? He's gone now?"

He nodded, smiling. "Yeah, he's gone now. Don't worry about him-"

Well, that was when my temper gave way and I tackled him onto the ground. I punched Sora over and over again until I pulled myself off and curled away from him.

Sora stood up and moved away from me, wiping the blood off his face. "What was that about? Xeiria, what's gotten into you?"

"I'm sorry Sora….I'm sorry Sora…." I kept muttering it over and over again. "I'm sorry Roxas…"

"It's okay, it's okay," he said, forgiving me yet again. Why was he always forgiving like this? I guess he would have to be like that with Riku. Since he always tied to kill Sora when he was taken by Darkness. He pulled me off the ground and our faces were so close I thought he was going to kiss me or something. I pulled away automatically. That was when I understood why. He would forgive Airie for anything.

"He said…he defeated Riku…" Sora continued, and I realized he had been talking.

"But nobody could defeat Riku!" Donald said, reassuringly.

I beg to differ. Roxas did, I did…

And so did I!

Hush! I know you did, I was about to say you. So shut up and go back to sleep.

Hmph. You're very demanding.

I get it from you.

"Let's move on," I suggested when everyone was silent. They seemed to agree, so we did.

Once we reached the Brink of Despair, we could see the castle better. But that was where the road ended.

"Dead end?" Sora asked, looking over at me, as if I knew everything about this place. And I really didn't , because they didn't let me out of the castle much after Roxas left unless Axel was the one who pulled me out.

"There's gotta be another way…" Mickey insisted, trying to look around for a way.

Suddenly the castle started to glow, for some reason, and Sora's keyblade appeared in his hand. It pointed toward the castle and a ramp of energy was made. Well, convenient.

"Kairi, we're coming," Sora whispered to himself. We walked onto the ramp and into the castle. It led us into Nothing's Call.

"Kairi! Where are you?" Sora called once we were in.

"Shh! Sora!" I covered his mouth yet again. "Do you want all of them to come out and kill us, or at least, the one's that are still alive?"

He shook his head. "No…"

I nodded. "Then be patient and we'll find her!"

I led his through the Crooked Ascension, which always gave me a headache, and through Twilight's View. I led him into the Hall of Empty Melodies, and that's when Saix came again. He was standing up on one of the ledges, watching us closely.

"Where's Kairi?" Sora demanded, wanting that answer.

"Who knows? I expect she's catching up with her friend from the Darkness," Saix said. Kairi doesn't have any friends from the Darkness…right? Maybe I was wrong.

"What do you mean?" Sora asked.

"She doesn't need you anymore," Saix told him.

"I'm suppose to believe that?" Sora shouted back, smart enough to know that was the truth.

"Well, you don't need to…but you can believe this," Saix pointed up to Kingdom Hearts. "Organization XIII doesn't need you anymore…just look there," he looked over at Kingdom Hearts and smiled wickedly. "Our Kingdom Hearts…thanks to you we've collected thousands of hearts. Can you hear their euphoria? Now, all they need is one more helping from the Keyblade bearer!" Saix snapped his fingers and Shadows appeared everywhere.

"We gotta fight!" I said, summoning my arrows. "Or we're going to get killed!"

"But…Kingdom Hearts!" Sora said pointing up to it.

"Sora!"

I looked up and saw a girl with dark red hair wearing a pink dress waving to him.

"Sora, it's really you!" She called. Sora called her name back, and I learne that this was Kairi. But when he did call her name, the heartless jumped on Sora and covered him. I shot some of them but more and more would jump on top of them.

"You leave Sora alone!" Kairi insisted, jumped down from the ledge. But the heartless covered her too. It wasn't like I was able to save both of them. I hit another Shadow with an arrow but one cut my arm open with it's nails. That didn't keep me from fighting, of course. There was a bright flash of Light that knocked me over. I looked around from the ground and saw the Shadows on Sora were gone and he was standing up, and Kairi was gone.

"Sora, are you okay?" I asked, blocking the blood flow from my arm.

He looked over at me and grimaced. "The question is, are you okay?" he walked over and took out a potion and poured it over the cut. I cringed, the feel of the potions on wounds never felt good. Never.

"Now I am," I said. Sora smiled at me but then looked up at one of the ledges. There was a thing wearing a strange suit and the woman from before. But for now they would just have to wait. I wasn't going to deal with them, and apparently neither was Sora.

"Let's go get Kairi!" Sora said, tugging on my arm lightly. I nodded and stood up, but then arrows rained down from one of the ledges and I knew exactly who had shot them.

"Have you been a good boy?" Xigbar's voice asked.

"Show yourself!" Sora commanded.

Xigbar appeared from a dark corridor. "Apparently not. Sora! Roxas! Hey Xeiria! How's Airie?"

"Roxas?" Sora turned to me. "Did he just call me Roxas?"

I nodded. Donald and Goofy looked at each other but didn't say anything.

"You've put Organization XIII into a real pickle. I guess that must be why the keyblade chose you," Xigbar smirked. "But man! It picked a real dud this time. You're not half the hero the others were."

"Are you done rambling?" Sora asked.

"Rambling? Rambling?" Xigbar said. "Nah, I was just telling you that your time is up, traitor," he summoned his arrow guns and jumped down, smiling at us. "You really shouldn't have betrayed us."

After a huge fight with his, his arrow guns dropped to the ground and he dropped to him knees.

"I lost? Me?" he asked weakly.

"Why did you call me Roxas?" Sora asked.

Xigbar looked up at us. "Wouldn't you like to know." he looked down again and started to fade away.

"Hey! Wait a minute!" Sora called. But it was to late Xigbar was dead.

"Sora!" Donald pointed up to the ledge. "Kairi!"

I looked up and saw her fighting with another keyblade, along with another man.

Oh my god! It's Riku!

Riku has silver hair, idiot.

Well, duh. I know that. But remember when he released the Darkness in his heart? That made him look like Ansem. But it's Riku!

I get it now.

"Let's go!" I called, motioning up to them.

We walked up a staircase or two until we got to the top of the ledges. Kairi was done fighting but didn't seem to notice us.

"Wow! You were great Kairi!" Donald called.

"Oh!" She turned around and smiled, tossing her hair when she saw us.

Sora walked over to her. "You are different Kairi. But I'm just glad you're here!"

Kairi nodded. "You and Riku never came home. Airie was taken by that man, Axel. So I came looking for you guys."

Sora looked down at the ground sadly. "I'm sorry-"

Before he could finish Kairi pulled him into a hug. A knot tied in my stomach, by I knew it was really Airie's reaction.

"This is real…" Kairi whispered.

Sora was still getting over the shock from the hug, but he hugged her back. There was complete silence for a while when Ansem opened a dark corridor and started to walk toward it.

"Wait, Ansem!" Sora called over to him. "I mean Xehanort's heartless…I never thought I'd see your face again. But you saved Kairi. And I can't thank you for that."

Ansem didn't even bother to respond. He just started to walk away again, but Kairi ran over and grabbed his arm.

"Riku, don't go!" she begged, tugging on his arm.

Sora gasped, and Donald and Goofy were taken aback.

"Kairi, what did you just say?" Sora asked.

She looked over at him. "Riku."

"I'm no one. Just a castaway from the Darkness." Ansem insisted angrily.

Kairi looked over at Sora and I. "Please, one of you come talk to him! Sora, come here…" she looked over at me. "You…I know you…" she only brushed it away and took one of Ansem and Sora's hands. "Here, you'll understand," she placed both boy's hands on top of each other, then looked at Sora. "Close your eyes."

I guess Sora did, because all was silent. Then after a moment Sora looked back up at Ansem.

"Riku…it's Riku! Riku's here!" Sora grabbed Ansem's hand tighter and dropped to his knees. I walked over and bent over, my hands on my knees. I wasn't really sitting, just bent over. From what I could see, Sora was crying.

"I've looked for you!" Sora told him.

"Come on Sora, pull it together," Riku begged, his voice normal again.

"I looked everywhere for you!" Sora repeated.

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

"But it was him helping us all along, wasn't it?" I heard Goofy ask.

"Huh?" Donald looked over at him.

"The clues we kept getting."

"I was starting to think you guys would never catch on," Riku told them. "Sora never did pick the brightest friends."

"What do you mean by that?" Donald asked angrily.

"Why didn't you come tell me you were okay?" Sora asked, getting up from his knees.

"I told you…I didn't want you to find me…" Riku said, looking at himself. "Not like this. I fought with Ansem. With….Xehanort's Heartless. I won. But to use the power of Darkness, I had to become Ansem myself."

"Does that mean you can't change back?" I asked, trying to be nice to him. Okay, so we were never friends, but I was interested.

Riku looked down at me. "This battle isn't over Xeiria. And for now, I still need the power of Darkness."

"Then let's finish it, together!" Sora suggested. Everyone else nodded.

Riku smiled slightly, I think.

Rawr! Hi. I'm done! This is going to be spilt into parts after this chapter. Next we meet Luxord.