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"Riku, you gunna take that off?" Sora asked, motioning to Riku's blindfold.
Riku looked down. "Oh, right," he pulled the blindfold off his eyes and let it slip onto the floor. His eyes blinked a few times before adjusting.
"What was that about?" Sora tilted his head, confused, obviously.
"His eyes couldn't lie," I pointed out.
"Lie?" Sora said.
"And just who were you trying to fool?" Airie asked. She smiled in Sora's arms and shut her eyes again.
"Myself," Riku said plainly.
"Riku, c'mon man!" Sora said, jumping up and down. "You have friends like us, why'd you try to everything on your own?"
"I'll tell you why….because I'm not a total sap like you," he said smirking.
"Say that again!" Sora dared.
I looked up at Kingdom Hearts. It was darker, and there were tons of Hearts flying to it.
"Shit," I whispered. Sora must have heard me, because he turned around. "Look!" I pointed up to Kingdom Hearts. "Something's wrong with it!"
"What know Riku?" Sora asked, relying on Riku as usual to answer his questions.
"Who defeat Xemnas," Riku answered.
"Xemnas?"
"The last Organization survivor," he looked over at me. "Besides her, of course."
"Right!" Sora leaned Airie against the wall. "You guys take care of her."
"Wait!" I called. "I want to help you guys!"
"You could get hurt," Sora told me.
"I know that." I smiled at him. He was like Roxas. Always worrying. "Besides, I'm sure Kairi, Donald, and Goofy can take care of Airie by themselves."
"Let her Sora," Riku insisted. "She won't be quiet if you say no."
"I won't," I told Sora. He only smiled and nodded.
"Okay, whatever," he said. "Come on!"
We started to run when Riku threw off his coat and revealed real clothes. Not that Organization clothing wasn't real, it was just something you couldn't buy in stores.
"Let's go!" Riku commanded, obviously irritated a little.
I nodded, when I noticed that everyone else was following us. Why were they leaving Airie behind? Didn't they know she could get hurt.
"One of you stay!" I demanded, pointing to Donald and Goofy. "I don't want her hurt. If she is, you'll have to put up with me for the rest of your life, and do you really want that? I don't think so."
Goofy bowed his head and started to walk back to where Airie was unconscious again.
"Thank you!" I called back to him.
After that we continued to Ruin and Creation's Passage we fought the Heartless off for a while when Kairi called our names. She pointed to where Heartless were literally pouring out of the windows.
"There's gonna be no end to this," Riku sighed.
"Together we can stop them!" Sora said, almost trying to reassure us of that fact.
All of the sudden, out of nowhere basically, the two people from before showed up right in front of us.
"Be gone from here! Leave these creatures to us!" The woman commanded us.
"But there's no way we can take them all!" The big dog…animal…thingy said.
"I will be sending them after Xemnas…or rather, you'd fight them yourself?" the woman asked.
"Frankly my dear…I'd rather run!" the creature told her, after a long pause.
"Off with you then!" The woman said.
The thing backed away until it ran into Mickey.
"Well, if it ain't boat boy King!" Creature said.
"Time to weigh anchor Pete!" Mickey replied.
"What? Like abandon ship? I don't think so!" Pete, I think, said back.
"Sora! Your Majesty! Do not forget! Once I have finished them all, this castle shall be mine!" The woman promised.
"Now look here! Opportunities like this don't come around often!" Pete told her. He looked over at the Heartless. "Bring it on!" We couldn't stop them before they ran into battle.
"We gotta hurry!" I told Sora and Riku. I pulled on the sleeve of Sora's shirt, trying to get him to come.
"But…" Sora started to protest.
"They're doing what their Hearts command," Mickey told him. "We can't interfere."
As we ran away from the scene and came into The Altar of Naught, Xemnas was reaching his arms out to Kingdom Hearts.
"My Kingdom Hearts…ruined! I will have to start all over again." he turned toward us. "Warriors of the Keyblade, go collect more hearts!"
"No!" Riku and Sora taunted. I knew that wouldn't happen. They weren't as stupid as they acted.
I summoned my bow, knowing this meant war.
"Why do you hate the Darkness?" Xemnas asked.
"Aw, we don't hate it…it's just kinda scary," Mickey told him. "But the world's made up of Light and Darkness. You can't have one without the other. Cause Darkness is half of everything. Sorta makes you wonder why we're scared of it…"
"It's because of who's lurking inside," Riku pointed out.
You would know.
"Then allow me another question," Xemnas told Riku. "You accept the Darkness, yet you chose to live in the Light. So why is it that you hate us for teetering on the edge of Nothing? We who were turned away from the Light and the Darkness…we who never had a choice?"
"Simple. It's because you messed up our worlds."
"That may be…" Xemnas said with fake sadness. "But what other choice did we have? Isn't that correct, Xeiria?"
"Oh cut the crap!" I screamed back. "At least my sadness is real! You're just trying to mock emotions!"
"Give a rest Xemnas! You're a Nobody!" Sora said. He turned to me. "Well, maybe you are too, but you're different, aren't you?"
"She retained emotions when she was made, Sora," Riku said.
"But he doesn't exist! So he can't feel sad…right?" Sora asked, looking to Riku for answers, again. Riku only nodded.
Xemnas scoffed. "Very good. You never miss a thing. I cannot feel sorrow, or anything else. No matter what misery befalls the worlds….no matter what you think, or how you exist." He threw his arms up into the air and energy surrounded us. When it went away both Xemnas and Sora were gone.
"Where's Sora!" I looked around and walked around the edges of the Altar to see if he was falling into oblivion. When I saw he wasn't, I turned back to Riku and Kairi. "And Xemnas, he's gone too!"
"Sora! Where are you!" Kairi called out. She walked around a little, trying to see if he could hear her from another angle. "Sora?"
"Sora, answer me!" Riku called out. "Damnit, where is he? Sora!"
I called his name once before he appeared on the ground. Kairi and Riku ran over to see if he was okay, but I only watched. Xemnas was right. Nobodies didn't exist. We were nothings. We weren't meant for anything. We don't have a purpose.
Finally, I walked over and bent down next to Sora. "Are you okay?"
"Fine," he told me, rubbing the side of his head. "Where's Xemnas?"
Donald looked around and then started screaming words that I still couldn't understand that well.
I looked in his direction and saw Xemnas inside of Kingdom Hearts. God, he would not stop would he? Was it really even worth it anymore? I mean, Kingdom Hearts was destroyed, and doing all of it over again wouldn't be worth it.
"Hear me Kingdom Hearts!" Xemnas called out. "It seems we must being anew. But hear this : I will give you as many Hearts as it takes, mark my words! You can be no more complete without me than I am without you. Heed me! Kingdom Hearts! Lend me your power so we both can be complete! The power to erase the fools that hinder us!"
"Xemnas, don't do this!" I cried out.
"Hearts quivered with hatred…" Xemnas continued.
"Xemnas, stop!" Sora called.
"Hearts burning with rage…"
"You'll never win!"
Xemnas continued to talk nonsense until he disappeared completely.
"You can't hide from us!" I called.
"Look at that!" Kairi said, pointing back at something. We turned around and saw a door that was hanging open slightly.
"Wanna go through?" I asked Sora.
Sora nodded.
"Once we go through, we may never come out," Riku told us. "It's victory, or oblivion. So Sora, Xeiria, are you ready? We all stood on different paths for this door before, do you remember? Now we stand side by side. Xeiria, I know that if you go through, it could kill you. Are you sure you want to go through?"
I nodded. "There's nothing left for me to live for. I me, if I go through, then I'll go back to Airie, if I win. If I get killed, well then, I'm dead, and Airie will never be complete. Ever again. And I made a promise to a friend I'd see him on the other side. So yes, I'm determined to stay alive."
Riku nodded. "And I'm sure Roxas would have done the same thing."
I know I blushed, but it was kept hidden behind my hair. I know Riku knew I was, because he was laughing, and Sora only stood there looking confused.
"Are you ready to go yet?" I asked when I looked up.
Both boys nodded and we walked through into Kingdom Hearts.
One more chapter, I think.