Author's Note: New chapter after so long lol. Sora fist then Xion. Enjoy

Sora's PoV:

"Kairi!" I called. I fought my way through monsters, following the only path that seemed to remain in the town. I ran until I came to a building with the door wide open. I heard a moaning sound inside and charged through the doorway. There, lying on the floor, was a shriveled-up woman with long, red hair I would recognize anywhere. "No, Kairi!"

I knelt down, picked her up, and set her head on my lap carefully. "Kairi, what happened to you? Kairi!" It was no use, all she could do was groan in response. I brushed her hair away from her face and kissed her forehead. I realized she was dying. "Please, don't die, Kairi. I love you!" I cried for her, but my tears would do no good to help her.

"So…Sora…" she whispered as she took her last breath. The withered figure I used to know as Kairi died in my arms and left me all alone. I picked her up and carried her body out to a small patch of soil that was still outside. It took a while, but I managed to dig a shallow grave with my bare hands. I placed Kairi in it, kissing her lips one last time and closing her eyes, before forever covering her with the dirt. I knew I could never erase that last image of her, wasted away as she was, from my mind. Kairi had always been so physically fit and beautiful. Due to her incessant exercise, a result of her unfortunate and dangerous eating disorder, she had the most amazing body of any woman I'd ever seen—though her disorder caused her not to see it that way. And she had a heart just as beautiful. To see her like that…something must have gotten to her. That kind of thing doesn't happen to someone naturally in the hour and a half we'd been separated.

After I finished burying Kairi, I took the gun she was using and added it to my arsenal. I had, with me, a backpack full of canned foods, extra ammo, and three pistols including Kairi's. I carried a sawed-off shotgun in my right hand and an assault rifle with a strap was slung over my shoulder. I walked down a new path that had just appeared during my time with Kairi and found myself at a large courtyard. The ground was solid concrete there and there was no sign of monsters. I started to relax when I heard a woman's laugh behind me. "Who's there?" I shouted to the darkness. "Show yourself!"

"My, my, impatient, aren't we?" the woman said as she emerged from the shadows. She looked exactly like what Xion had described to me when I found her. Black hair, gold cat eyes, and a purple shirt.

"You, you're the one who killed Kairi, aren't you?" I said furiously. I charged to her as close as I dared and unloaded the shotgun into her chest. The pellets bounced off of her and she laughed as if it tickled.

"Yes, I killed her. And Namine and Roxas too," she said. "Those three were so much fun! I loved using what they hated most about themselves to my advantage. Such superficial things those three hated about themselves. Roxas couldn't keep sex off his mind, Namine was a lesbian who was self-exiled to the closet, and that gorgeous Kairi…she was the most fun! I told her I'd create her dream body, but all I did was cure her mental illness. She actually believed I made her look that way! I would have had Riku in my list of victims, but that annoying Namine interrupted my meal!" My blood was boiling as she acted like murdering my friends was just a game to her. I shot her again, aiming for her head, but that proved ineffective too. "Idiot, if it didn't work the first time, what made you think it would work again? I am not mortal! As long as I'm one step ahead of you, you'll never win! Just give up and let me eat you, handsome!" She lunged at me and I tried to dodge, but she grabbed my ankle. I kicked her in the face and she released me, but she raked her fingernails on my skin and I bled. I screamed in pain. That shouldn't have hurt so much, but it was like she poured acid on the wound. I looked at my ankle and it looked as bad as it felt. It was much deeper than I assumed and I was bleeding fast. The woman stood over me to finish me off, but she turned her head to face her left. Something distracted her, but I had no idea what it was. She stomped my left leg, breaking it and causing me to scream even louder. "I'll deal with you later. I'll be back, so don't even think about going anywhere." It's not like I could have if I wanted to, though. My leg was completely fractured. The splintered bone stuck out of my skin and the pain took my breath away. She darted through the darkness and left me to bleed all alone. I wished for Kairi to be with me, but I knew that was never going to happen. I watched her die, and I was actually prepared to join her. The cruelty wasn't that she was eventually going to kill me, but that she left me alive. I didn't want to live without Kairi. She and Vanitas were really all that gave my life meaning, but she was dead and I had no idea about my brother. I just couldn't stand to be there alone. I leaned against the wall behind me to be miserable in peace.

Xion's PoV:

I was all by myself at the intersection of Bloch St. and Bachman Rd. My head was pounding and I could barely see for the thick fog. "Ugh, how long was I out?" I asked myself. I pulled out my phone from my jeans pocket and saw it was about five hours after I'd been separated from the others. I ran my fingers through my short, black hair and staggered to my feet. It was getting dark fast and I needed to find shelter before…she came back for me. The events leading up to the accident replayed in my mind. That…thing stood there in the middle of the road. Vanitas hit her head-on, but she landed right on her feet. Whatever she is, it isn't human.

First thing I needed to do, find Namine and the others. I prayed my sister was alright. I loved her more than anything, but I had the worst feeling in my heart that something had gone wrong. I always held the belief we had some sort of link. Maybe not a psychic/supernatural one, but we had an invisible bond of something. I picked myself up and surveyed my surroundings while there was still daylight. Not seeing much through the fog, I started walking in a random direction. That's when I realized my leg was bleeding. I pulled up the leg of my jeans to look at the gash. It wasn't very deep, certainly not life-threatening, but it still hurt to walk. It must have happened during the accident. I didn't doubt I had other wounds too. I walked as far as I could, but collapsed to me knees after a few feet. I looked up to see a small corner church. I needed a safe place to rest and wait for my wounds to heal, so I stood up and limped inside. It looked like any other church. Rows of pews led up to the pulpit where I giant cross was partially hung behind it. Time had apparently worn away the supports because the cross was hanging crooked. These kind of churches were a familiar sight for me. I couldn't say how many times my parents and grandparents would drag me and Namine to them. Eventually, probably when I was sixteen, I put my foot down and told them they couldn't force me to go anymore. Still, though I hated going to these places when I was a kid, I felt some form of odd comfort in this church. Maybe it was because, for the first time in my life, I actually believed in the supernatural.

I sat down in a seat and decided to check the rest of my body for wounds. I had two cuts on my stomach and the gash in my leg, but I was fine other than that. I sighed out of exhaustion. I just wanted to sleep, but I knew I couldn't. With that woman running around, she could slit my throat in my sleep before I even knew what hit me. I had to pull myself together and find my friends, starting with Vanitas and Namine. As much as I loved everyone else, they were my priority. After finding them, then we would look for Riku, Roxas, Kairi, and Sora.

I started to get up when I heard the doors open violently. I almost panicked until I heard a comforting voice call to me. "Xion," Vanitas screamed from the back of the church.

"Vanitas!" I got up and limped toward him. When I finally reached him, I fell into his arms and kissed him. "Vanitas, I'm so glad you found me!"

"I am to," he said. "Though, I wouldn't have if it weren't for Riku." I looked over Vanitas' shoulder and saw Riku standing there.

"Riku!" I said. I was overjoyed, to say the least. "Now, we just need to find Namine, Roxas, Sora, and Kairi." Vanitas and Riku suddenly got quiet. "What's wrong?" I tilted my head sideways.

"Xion, this is going to be hard for you to hear, but you need to," Riku said. "Namine is dead. She and Roxas were killed by Kurami, the creature you saw before the accident."

My knees gave way and I crashed down to the floor. I curled up and buried my face in my knees. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Namine…my amazing, beautiful sister…

"She saved my life just before she died," Riku continued. "Kurami was going to decapitate me, but she fought her with the last of her strength. I have no idea how Roxas died, but Namine died in my arms. Her blood was drained, but some potion was keeping her alive. She didn't go down without a fight."

"I'm sorry you lost her, Xion," Vanitas said. He picked me up and held me tightly. "If you need some time, Riku and I can keep guard at the door just in case Kurami comes back."

I wiped my eyes and nose on my shirt. "No, we'd better get moving. There's no way any of us could take her on in our condition."

"I actually don't think I can go much further. My leg is broken. I've been using this splint, but it hurts too much to handle. I…" Riku was cut off by the sickening sound of metal cutting through flesh. We looked down to see a sword's blade sticking through his heart. Blood oozed out of the wound and his mouth and I felt like I was going to vomit. "R…run!" Kurami pulled the sword from his chest and kicked him forward into a pool of his own blood.

"Whew, I thought he'd never shut up," she said. She stepped over his body and Vanitas pushed me behind himself protectively. "Oh look, my old toy is playing the hero. How cute! But what happened to that little coward I left? You know I'll just kill you before moving on to doll-face."

"You'll not touch a hair on Xion's head," Vanitas growled. I'd never seen this side of him before. There was some kind of feral rage in his voice. His eyes started to fluctuate from blue to gold, which terrified and amazed me.

"Looks like my little experiments were successful," she said. "You've tapped into the demon inside you, but it's still immature. You have yet to refine your abilities. Given time, you could be a match for me, but now you're just a pest. A little fly I need to swat."

"Back away from her," Vanitas said. His voice took on a deeper, demonic tone.

"What did you do to him!" I said.

"What did I do to him? What didn't I do to him," she said. "I modified his soul to possibly be a physical vessel for myself. I hate existing mostly in the minds of my victims. I want to be flesh and blood." Kurami suddenly started to change forms. She cycled from her normal form to a beautiful woman with long blond hair and blue eyes. She then changed into a tall, humanoid creature with a pyramid-shaped helmet before reverting to her original form. "I'm only real enough to kill you. I can't do anything outside this town. I want to cause more suffering throughout the world!"

"You're sick," I spat.

"Why, thank you," she said. "That's the nicest thing I've heard since I killed your sister. What a lovely girl, she was. Good kisser, too."

"Huh?" I asked.

"You didn't know she was a lesbian, did you? Little slut was just using Roxas' feelings for her to cover her own hide because she was ashamed. He deserved better," she said.

"How dare you speak of my sister like that," I yelled. "Move, Vanitas. I'll take her on myself!"

"No, you'll die if you try to fight her," he said. "Just run and I'll hold her off."

"I'm not about to leave you alone!" I cried. "We just found each other. I don't want to be separated again!"

"Look, I promise I'll find you again," he said. "Please, I love you, Xion."

"I love you too," I said. I wrapped my arms around his waist from behind.

"This is so sweet, I think I'm going to be sick," Kurami said. "Tell you what, I'll kill you both so you don't have to be alone."

"Run, Xion!" Vanitas shoved me backward and tackled Kurami to the ground. I picked myself up and took off past them and out the door of the church. I didn't dare look back. If she had killed Vanitas, I didn't want to see it. Then again, he did seem to have some strange power. I wondered what exactly she did to him to make him that way, and why she didn't kill him like everyone else she came into contact with. I got lost in my thoughts as I ran west. When I could go any further, I turned south, Midwich Elementary School in front of me before I even knew it.

Author's Note: So, how did you like it? You wouldn't believe how difficult this chapter was to write lol. For most of the time, it was 1 or 2 sentences a day lol. Anyway, next update will probably be Beauty of Darkness. That chapter is already in the works. Then Idk if I'll do Her Scars or Endgame after that. Probably Endgame. Until next time...