Sora's last stand! The power of a Nobody!

A/N- So, this is the final chapter of the Sora arc. Next chapter we will have our regular characters back. In this chapter I will reveal the worlds they will be visiting. I've kept most of them, just had to scrap a couple. Also I need permission from Roxas-kitty to use Mitsuki Lockhart in Halloween Town.)

"Nine tailed Fox: Twister!" Sora cried out, and let loose a powerful current of wind using his four tails. Axel didn't even flinch as the wind blew past him, just managing to budge him by a few inches.

Sora howled and jumped up, launching himself at Axel, who easily dodged and started attacking him by cutting him with his chakrams. The floor was covered in a hot magma-like substance, but Axel was immune to it and Sora was protected by the second skin made by the Nine tails' chakra. There were also flames all around them, but they didn't bother them at all.

Sora's claws clashed against the sharp spikes of Axel's chakrams. Axel smirked. Fire balls released from his chakrams at short range and Sora got hit with the full impact of the attack. Sora let out an animal cry and began making hand signs. "Nine Tailed Fox: Fire Stream!" Sora cried, before a beam of flames erupted from his mouth.

Axel frowned, baffled. A fire based attack wouldn't affect him. Proven when the attack just sank into his cloak. The confusion had been exactly what Sora had wanted. Axel had been too busy thinking about the attack that he hadn't noticed Sora coming behind him and pushing him towards the other side of the room and collapsing into the flames.

"Give up Axel." Sora said, his voice coming out like an animal's scream. Axel staggered a bit, as he stood up. The last attack had winded him, but he soon regained his balance. He gave his confident grin to Sora.

"No way!" He cried. "Not when my best friend is about to throw his life away!" He answered back.

Sora sighed. Axel just wouldn't listen to reason, even now when he was fighting a losing battle. Somewhere inside of him Sora felt glad that he had had a friend like Axel. Another part of him, told himself that he was being silly and that he couldn't feel. He brushed the thoughts aside and focused himself. If he let down his guard now, Axel could beat him and everything he had done would have been for nothing.

While Sora was thinking, Axel jumped backwards, into the flames and disappeared. Sora let out a growl. A warning for Axel not to try anything.

However, Axel hadn't seemed to understand the message. He fell down from the top of the room, bringing his chakrams into Sora's back and then releasing fire there and then, resulting in Sora lumbering away from Axel, with his second and his first skin penetrated and burnt.

Axel advanced on Sora, seeing this as his chance. To make sure he wasn't caught off guard, he surrounded himself in flames. This way, Sora couldn't hit him with any attacks close range, without hurting himself. Axel wanted to rap things up, before too much damage came to Sora, but the guy was being persistent.

Sora charged Axel, despite being in a lot of pain. Axel gave him a sympathetic look as if to say. 'Please stop, it's over.' Sora gave off a fierce growl, as if to say. 'Screw You!'

Axel had no choice, but to attack his best friend even more and suffer through Sora's cries of pain. Sora collapsed on the ground, panting heavily. He seemed to be bleeding and Axel had to look away, to avoid eye contact with his own handiwork.

"Are you done?" Sora breathed. He had removed his mask and his voice had returned to normal.

"That all depends on you." He answered, coldly, to which Sora chuckled.

"Guess that's a no then." Sora jumped away. Axel had made the mistake of turning away and forgetting all about the powerful healing properties that the Nine Tails possessed.

Axel shouted at Sora, criticizing his stupidity. Sora shook his head and started to draw in his remaining chakra in his hands. The chakra was mainly the very dense and strong type of the Nine Tails. The ball of chakra was some sort of Rasengan, but different to anything Sora had used before. It was a lot heavier than a regular Rasengan. In fact, Sora could barely hold it. He positioned his arms as if to throw it.

"Tailed Beast Rasengan!" He cried, just before the launch. Axel didn't stand a chance, but he still smiled, slightly. Without the mask, he could see just how much Sora wanted to go back to the three key wielders. Sora was no ordinary Nobody. He had known that since the beginning, maybe this was how Sora would become whole. Axel took comfort knowing that.

When Sora's and Axel's eyes met, an understanding went between them. They remembered their times eating ice-cream and enjoying the sunset and the two made a resolve right there and then. They were going to take out the Organization.

However, Sora wanted to do this through his Somebody and Axel wanted to do this with his best friend. Despite this, one thing was for certain. Their destinies were intertwined.

The Tailed Beast Rasengan hit Axel square in the stomach. He gasped, as all of the air was knocked out of him. The flames died down, almost immediately. Axel was barely able to stand, but that was something he could easily recover from. Sora was glad he hadn't hurt Axel too badly. He allowed his second skin to disappear and he felt tired almost instantly.

Axel smirked at him, after lifting his head to look at his friend. "We'll meet again. I'm sure."

Sora nodded, finally smiling his old goofy smile. "I'll be waiting, Axel." He told his friend. Axel shook his head and smiled, as if the whole thing amused him. He opened up a corridor of darkness and disappeared from the mansion.

Sora's eyes filled with tears. He collapsed, partly due to exhaustion, partly due to his heart aching. This was it. Axel couldn't make him go back. He was going to give up his life to bring three people he didn't even know out of a deep sleep. His eyes stung and he was hurting, from his injuries as well, but he got up and pressed on. He knew he was doing the right thing, so he washed doubt from his mind.

Sora travelled through some more corridors, until he had found a room bathed in pure white, just like Namine's. Inside of the room, there was three huge pods. A memory flashed through his mind. Roxas, Sakura and Naruto entering the pods, so that they're memories could be restored easily. The pod in the centre held Roxas. The one of the right held Sakura and that meant the one on the left held Naruto. His somebody.

Diz was standing in the room. Sora supposed that he was there to make sure the process went smoothly, but he still had a few bones to pick with Diz and was grateful that he had decided to show his face.

"Finally. The Key Wielders will awaken. Two and half years they have been sleeping for. It's about time, they awaken." He said, in a very high-and-mighty voice.

Sora rolled his eyes. "That's why I'm here." He told Diz. "Sorry I'm late, but at least I'm here now. I understand what I need to do." Sora spoke in a way that made it clear that Sora was not a person to be looked down upon. He was the key to the whole thing.

Diz nodded, acknowledging the Nobody's role in this whole thing. "I thank you, Sora. People such as Sasuke and even Kakashi, now, believe that you can feel emotions like a normal person. I can't say I completely agree with them, but I am thankful for you and I apologise for using you in such a way."

Sora nodded and smiled. He thought it was time to ask something that had been on his mind for some time now. "Diz. You have a grudge against Nobodies, don't you? What happened to make you so…bitter?"

The question caught Diz by surprise and it showed. He let out a low chuckle. "Yes. I have a grudge against Nobodies. Particularly Organization XIII. The first few members of the Organization were once, as Somebodies, my apprentices. But they began to study the darkness of the heart, and soon they became heartless. Xemnas exiled me to the Realm of Nothingness. A place, as the name suggests, that has nothing there. A human cannot survive there, under normal circumstances. I was only able to survive, because I vowed I would destroy the Organization. My wanting for revenge kept me alive. Maybe it will do the same for you." Diz concluded, thoughtfully.

Sora knew Diz didn't really think that would work, but Sora liked that little bit of hope the words gave him. Diz disappeared into the realm Twilight Town. The three pods opened in a grand manor, which made them look like flowers. Sora closed his eyes. "All of you guys. I want you to look after my friends and be nice to Axel. He can be a bit of a dick, but he's got a good heart. And most of all, I want you to end Organization XIII!"

Light surrounded Sora and he smiled. "It looks like, maybe, a few people will miss me!" He said, before the light covered him completely.

At that moment, people around the worlds suddenly remembered the three Key Wielders. People around the world began to smile, all but one redheaded man, who was crying at the top of a cloak tower, eating a bar of ice-cream.

A purple train pulled up in the Twilight Town station. It was the same train that was known as the sixth wonder. 'The Ghost Train Mystery.' The door slid open and a short figure stepped out. He had weird shaped ears, and was obviously not human. He wore a black cloak. His name was Mickey Mouse or King Mickey.

Three pairs of eyes slowly flickered open. Their pods opened up and they all stepped out, instinctively. The three people looked at each other. Two boys and one girl. Their eyes were hazy and glazed over for a moment and then they suddenly came to life.

Roxas looked around. He was in a pure white room and he could sense Namine. When Roxas had gone to sleep, he had hoped the process would have been quick and he and Namine could have been together. Even from looking around in the first room, he was in, since his awakening, that proved not to be the case.

Roxas could feel a variety of different powers in the room, from people who had been here previously. He could recognise about five presences. However, he only knew two. Namine and Sasuke's. Something had happened to the world, while they were sleeping and Roxas didn't like it.

Finally, he came to look at his friends. They were fawning over each other and for awhile, Roxas couldn't understand what was going on. Then as the two turned towards him, he realised. Sakura and Naruto were much older than they were when they had gone to sleep. That meant that Roxas was also much older. Sakura had Time reveal the amount of time they had been sleeping for was 30 months. Two and a half years.

This fact took awhile to settle in. The memory restoration process was only supposed to take a few months, but to have taken this amount of time was unreal.

"Do you think it was because of us?" Sakura asked. The boys noticed that her voice had lost it's girly highness and she now sounded much more like a women. Sakura had grown taller was probably at her full height now. Her face had lost some of the puppy fat that it had and her cheekbones shaped her face nicely. Her hair had grown slightly longer and some of the strands of her hair now touched her neck. Like the boys, she was dressed in the same clothes that she had fallen asleep in and they were slightly too small on her.

"Who knows? But a couple of years or keeping our memories of that time is worth it, right?" Naruto answered. Roxas and Sakura thought that Naruto was pleased with the growth spurt he obtained, while sleeping. He had now gone from the smallest of their group to the tallest, beating Roxas' new found height by several centimetres. His hair hadn't grown much, and was still quite short and spiky. He seemed to have filled out and his clothes were close to bursting.

"No. Even if we hadn't interfered. Something else was going on. I have more memories than I seemed to have when I entered Castle Oblivion. There's something else going on here. Something happened when we were asleep. Someone's story was told and I'm afraid to say we slept right through it." Roxas said, his voice still retaining his deep and serious tone. Naruto rolled his eyes and Sakura laughed. They were glad to see Roxas' poetic style hadn't disappeared.

Roxas had grown slightly, but not as much as Naruto. He was more muscular than before and he had to take his jacket off, or it would rip. That left him with the tight fitting black shirt underneath. Sakura made a low whistling sound and Roxas started blushing.

In all the serious, possibly the most important fact dawned upon them. They had skipped the worst years of puberty. Naruto and Roxas were grinning like fools and Sakura was singing with glee.

They three decided to get out of the white room and began exploring the place where they had been sleeping for two and a half years. There was a huge basement, which seemed to also serve as a laboratory of some sort.

The three arrived up and saw that the place had been in a few scraps. There were things laying on the floor, and it seemed as the people living here had left in a hurry. Roxas found a room and almost cried. The room was long and white. It had a couple of pictures on the walls, but most of them seemed to have been torn down. On the table there was a little wooden doll, which Roxas recognised as something Sasori had created for Namine. It looked exactly like her and Roxas decided to take it with him.

Then he looked at a picture of himself, Namine and Xion dancing. He smiled, sadly. He knew Namine had been here and this was her wish. For the three of them to be happy together. "This world is so cruel." He said, before pocketing the picture and wiping his tears.

Naruto and Sakura had been looking around, but neither had found anything particularly useful.

The three travelled outside and then examining the outside of the building. They gasped at the familiar sight. It was the mansion of Twilight Town.

"We're in Twilight Town." Roxas noted. "This is my home world." He said, more to himself rather than anyone else.

The other two nodded. Naruto remembered his times exploring the memory version of Twilight Town, so he knew the world. He led the other two through a forest and they arrived in the centre of a huge court. It had a tram station to one end. Houses and shops were spread about the town. Naruto said that there was this whole stage for some sort of local battle tournaments. And at the top of the hill was a clock tower and a train station called Station Heights.

Roxas breathed in the sights of his home world. He had suspected that he had come from a more ordinary background than Sakura or Naruto, but was pleased to see that he had once lived in a modern world.

The three decided to go through the Sandlot and found six teenagers about to pick a fight. The Key Wielders decided to investigate.

"We could so kick your ass in anything, Seifer!" A blond haired guy yelled. He seemed to be defending his two other friends. A chubby guy called Pence and their friend Olette. The words were directed at another blond haired boy, who had a scar down his face. He had two other friends with him. Rai and Fuu. Together, the three were quite intimidating.

"Uh…what's going on?" Naruto asked. The six other teens turned their attention to the new arrivals. Seifer bared his teeth in a confident smile.

"I don't believe I've seen you guys before." He said, coming over to greet them. "You know, you two guys seem pretty cool. Why not join my crew. You're new right? I can show you all the sights." He told Naruto and Roxas, cockily. Seifer turned Sakura away and told her to play dress-up with Olette.

"That jerk!" Sakura cried, running to go and slap him. The emo girl, Fuu, who was one of Seifer's cronies saw the assault coming and blocked it.

Then the big guy, Rai came over. "Nobody hurts Seifer, y'know?"

Sakura backed away from the two of them and Roxas and Naruto got out of Seifer's greasy clutches and went back to Sakura. "Oi!" Seifer yelled at them. "Don't turn your back on me! I'm head of the Twilight Town Disciplinary Committee! I can make your life a living hell!"

Roxas cocked an eyebrow. "So if we don't be your friends, you'll bully us? How old are you?" He taunted, to which the five people behind him burst out laughing.

Seifer's face burnt red. "Oh yeah! I bet I can beat you at any game, any time!" He cried out.

Roxas smirked. "Making up for your obvious flaw, by trying to make sure you are better than that person in a particular area. You're a physiatrist's dream come true." Roxas said.

Seifer couldn't handle it any more. "That's it. I'm challenging you to a street struggle!" He said. The Twilight Town kids seemed to think this was pretty serious, but Roxas and his fellow Key Wielders hadn't a clue what was going on.

"Okay…but what is a street struggle?"

Hayner had taken Roxas under his wing, after he had dealt with Seifer the way he had. He explained that a struggle was a match, where two people were given bats and then were forced to wear suits, covered in Velcro which allowed the balls to stick on. The object of the game was to knock off all of your opponent's balls, before he knocked your's off. It was all incredibly simple.

Roxas was given a blue bat and Seifer stood in his corner, with his own bat. Roxas frowned at not being able to use his sword, but he supposed if he used his X-Blade, he could really hurt Seifer, and although the guy was a dick, he didn't want to put him in the hospital.

The match started and Seifer came right at him. Roxas pouted some more. He wasn't even that good of a fighter. He seemed all about an offensive style, which worked well for amateurs, but when you got better, you learnt there was a lot more than that to fighting.

Roxas held up his bat, at an angel so it hit Seifer's fingers when he swung the bat down. The result was Seifer letting go of his bat. From there, the match was over. As Roxas had seen, the rules of a Struggle tournament didn't say anything about not being able to take your opponent's bat. With two bats in his hands, and Seifer had nothing to defend himself with. All of his balls were knocked off in seconds.

Seifer, Fuu and Rai were all in shock. Roxas didn't even look at his defeated opponent. He just walked away from the scene, despite Seifer's protests.

Seifer wasn't going to have that. He picked up his bat and ran at Roxas, while his back was turned. He raised his bat and was about to swing, when his chin was elevated by a golden blade tip. "Try anything like that again and see where it gets you." Roxas growled, before removing his X-Blade from Seifer's chin. He made sure to leave a small cut on Seifer's chin before turning away again.

Seifer turned to face his friends and his eyes went wide open. Guys in silver jumpsuits were heading right for them, and there was loads of them. A high pitched yelp escaped his throat before he, Fuu and Rai made a run for it. Hayner, Pence and Olette stood back, while the Key Wielders took their places, ready for battle.

"They're lesser Nobodies." Roxas said, analyzing the enemy, who was made out of Nothingness and memories.

Sakura made a face. "There's a lot more than I would have expected. A bit much for our first fight after a two and a half year sleep, don't you think?"

Naruto shook his head. "These guys aren't too tough. Not that much stronger than your average shadow heartless. Besides, it's good to be thrown in the deep end. That way you're pushed to do your very best. I'll show you. Shadow Clone Jutsu!"

Naruto and his clones took up the task of fighting first. They first tried for a frontal approach and attacking them, with their Key kunais. But it was obvious, almost from the start, that this was not going to work. The lesser Nobodies, known as Dusks, were incredibly fast and agile. They even had the ability to walk upside down in the sky for limited amounts of time.

Naruto cursed at his own incompetence and began making hand signs. His clones copied. "Ice style Release!" They all cried. Around each of the clones, an explosion of ice styled chakra was created. The dusks by the clones were all frozen solid, by the end of the assault, they were no more than little snowflakes.

The blond ninja came back, smiling. "See? Easy. Just a bit quick, that's all."

Sakura smirked, boldly. "I'll remember that." She promised him. "These guys are mine." She touched Naruto's shoulder, tagging him out of the fight. Both the boys turned around to see another group of dusks heading towards them. "Dash!" She yelled, not even needing to hold the card anymore. "Sword." With Li's powers now almost gone, Sakura had lost some of her sword wielding abilities. Also, she now held a rapier sword, but she seemed in better control and more confident with the new blade, so the two factors cancelled each other out and Sakura showed she was still a top-notch swordswoman.

With the powers of the Dash card, Sakura was able to move at incredible speeds and quickly took out the Nobodies, despite their good speed and agility.

Sakura hesitated, making sure of another hoard of Nobodies. Sure enough, another came and another. There were huge numbers of them. Sakura was about to fight again, but Roxas put his hand on her shoulder and told her not to get involved unless he needed it.

The X-Blade was Roxas' new Keyblade. Previously, he had wielded two, but as he learnt of his Twilight powers he had come to control the strongest Keyblade there was. In addition to that, during his time in Castle Oblivion, he had learnt many new spells and also had reached a new level of strength when handling both his light and dark abilities.

Roxas was fast and the dusks seemed to have found trouble with him. When they tried to make a grab for him, Roxas would simply appear behind them and attack them with his blade. Along with that, Roxas' new abilities allowed him to rule the Nobodies. "Fire!" He cried, wiping out all the dusks that surrounded him, as flames burst from both ends of his blade and he started spinning it.

"Blizzard!" He shouted, freezing the Nobodies in his path.

"Thunder!" He added, making storm clouds appear above his frozen enemies and watching as they were shattered by bolts of electricity.

Roxas smirked as the last of the Dusks were slain by his blade. The three key wielders waited and breathed a sigh of relief when no more came.

Hayner, Pence and Olette marvelled at the three's strength. "Wow, man! That was so awesome. Where did you get powers like that?" Hayner asked, gazing admiringly at Roxas' blade.

"We were born with them, I suppose." Roxas said, awkwardly. He wasn't sure where his powers came from but he supposed that was the best answer to give.

Hayner nodded, enthusiastically. "Wow! You guys are like super heroes. That jerk, Seifer, didn't know what he was dealing with, challenging you like that. Hey! You're new here, right? Maybe I can show you around. Where are you guys heading? What are you doing?"

The Key Wielders looked at each other. They didn't know what they were doing or where they were going. Without their gummie ship, they had lost their main transportation, although Roxas could always create a Corridor of Darkness. Even still, they wouldn't know where to begin going. A lot could happen in two and a half years and they weren't sure what was going on in the world, concerning Organization XIII or the Heartless. Still the way Hayner and his friends were looking at them was almost creepy. It wouldn't hurt to have a good look around Roxas' home world.

The six teens had reached Station Heights when they ran into trouble again, and plans of exploring the rest of Twilight Town were cancelled. Another group of Dusks were waiting for them. The three Key Wielders were pretty wasted from their last battles, so they came to the conclusion of combining their powers. "Trinity Attack!" They cried.

"Power." Sakura cried, summoning out a pink girl, who contained enormous strength.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Naruto cried, but performing the technique on Roxas, instead. The Roxas's jumped into the air, along with Power.

"Oathkeeper Thrust!" The Roxas's cried. Their X-Blades glowed for a moment, before a white energy encircled them so they looked like lances. Power threw down each and every lance with a huge amount of power that sent shockwaves throughout the area, when they hit the ground. The dusks never stood a chance. They fell, helplessly.

Roxas returned to the ground. His clones had vanished and Power had returned to her card form. The three were out of practice and getting tired. When another group of dusks appeared, they began to curse.

How were they going to get out of this one?

(A/N- Ah. Sorry if it seemed like I lost the will to live in this chapter. I did this while I was feeling ill and was coming to and fro it due to that. But, at least I got it done. Thanks for Reading. Hope you enjoyed. Please review. Next time- The plot thickens. New characters, new outfits and a new adventure!

The worlds appearing in this story, in chronological order are:

Simulated Twilight Town - Destiny Isles - Twilight Town - Mysterious Tower - Hallow Bastion - Land of Dragons - Beast's Castle - Olympus Coliseum - Disney Castle - Timeless River - Port Royal - Agrabah - Halloween Town - Domino City (Yu-gi-oh season 0) - Pride Lands - Dark City (Soul Eater) - Space Paranoids - Tomoeda - Konoha - World That Never Was. (This does not include more visits to the one place.)