Hey everybody! Chapter 14 here it is!

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So here I was, being pulled through the streets by my arm. Axel was stupid enough not to summon a portal. If he was in such a hurry why didn't he just get us there the fasted way?

When Axel had dragged me up to my room, he picked me up bridal-style and dropped me on the bed. He told me to stay here and that he would be right back. Obviously, I didn't listen to him. So the second he left the room I was drowning myself in a black mist.

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Axel teleported, after getting a few feet down the hall, to the highest tower—instead of just teleporting inside Xemnas' private quarters. Luxord was sitting on the ground and was playing a card game with a few of his Nobodies.

"Luxord!" Axel said jumping up next to him.

"Care for a game, Axel?" he said looking up from his cards.

"No thanks. Hey where's Xemnas?"

"What IS it with everyday you asking for Xemnas? Jeez, it never stops when they start talking about how you guys come here everyday asking for him. What's the problem?" He said sighing and placing the cards face down on the ground.

"I need to find him. He's a dirty little liar and I need to burn someone…It's about Raene and I need to know—" He said getting angrier by the second.

Luxord smacked a Nobody over the head as he tried to peek at Luxord's overturned cards. "Well look, if you have no idea about this thing with Raene, how am I supposed to know?" Luxord said crossing his arms.

"Whaddaya mean?" Axel asked also crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.

"You are ranked higher than me, Axel. If you don't know anything, what makes you think I know anything?" He said uncrossing his arms and picking up the cards once more.

"Being ranked higher doesn't have anything to do with it. Just look at Saïx—he's Xemnas' favorite member isn't he? I mean even Xigbar is behind him in favorites."

"Sorry, Axel but I can't help ya. Maybe you should go find someone inside there who can help. Let's see, Xaldin is on a mission, or just left so for one. I'm sure Xigbar or Saïx could help ya."

Axel muttered a word of thanks and ran inside, seeing as how no one really cared that he could get in now. Axel turned down a hall just in time to see a wisp of long silver blue hair go around the next corner.

Axel ran to catch up with him and called his name. "Saïx!"

Saïx stopped and turned to see his least favorite member. "What do you want, Axel? Can't you see that I am busy?"

Axel looked from side to side then leaned to the side to look behind Saïx. "No."

Saïx sighed. "What is so important Axel?" He asked annoyed.

"Please, Saïx. I know you hate me and all. But—please, I just need to know the truth—"

"Does this have anything to do with what you asked me a couple of days ago?" Saïx said holding up a hand to stop Axel from talking.

"Yeah. I need to know if it really is gonna happen."

"Didn't you get the answer from Xemnas the other day?"

"Xemnas is a liar! He said that nothing would happen, but I just now realized he's a liar! I need you to tell me, since he tells you everything, if it's true and if there is anything I can do!" Axel said getting very upset.

Saïx stepped forward. He slowly closed and opened his eyes. It looked as if he was feeling sympathy for him but that wasn't the case. "Axel. Orders are orders. I would tell you, but—I hate your guts. If you wanna find out, go talk to someone who doesn't want to take your head clear off."

Axel, after feeling that he was about to get some answers, lowered his head and slowly stepped backwards into another room where he fell to his knees on the urge of going mad. What was he supposed to do? Who DIDN"T want to take his head off? Then, it hit him—who was the one older member who was cool and was always in a sort of happy attitude? Xigbar.

Axel jumped into the portal above Xigbar's grave and appeared in the training room. Xigbar was floating in the air and there were about two dozen civilians huddled together in the center of the room. "Look, people! You are only making target practice easier for me so please—spread out, run around, something besides looking like a bunch of chickens. The quicker we get this over with, the quicker you can leave."

Xigbar saw Axel standing off to the side and then spoke again. "Take five, everybody!" Everyone sighed and fell to the ground. Xigbar walked over to Axel. "'Sup, Axel? What can I do ya for?"

"Xigbar, I need to ask you a huge favor," Axel said.

Xigbar raised an eyebrow, "Oookaaay…what is it?"

"Raene—something is gonna happen to her. It has to do with her heart. Now that she is a Nobody, something bad is gonna happen to her heart." Xigbar's eyes widened knowing where this was going. "And Saïx wouldn't tell me what was gonna happen so I thought you would help me. Please, Xigbar. If something bad is gonna happen, I have to know if there is a way I can stop it."

"Walk with me," Xigbar said quietly. He summoned a portal and motioned him to step through. Xigbar followed but not before changing the floor so that the civilians were trapped on a single, floating piece of ground.

"Ok, Axel. Listen…"

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I was sitting on a small, white chair. I came in this room all the time even though no one had used it in over a year. But, because I came in here, I kept it clean and organized.

I had a sketchbook in my hands and I was drawing single portraits while facing out the window. I was humming the tune of the music box that Axel had given me. I didn't even notice when the door opened behind me.

Axel walked up to the table behind Raene and picked up the pile of sketches she had placed on it. He glanced through them. She had accurately drawn all the members up to Saïx, skipping Axel, and then finishing the rest. Axel started to hum the tune that Raene was humming as he looked over her shoulder to see the beautiful sketch of himself on the white sheet of paper in her hands.

I spun around to the humming coming from behind me. Axel was glancing over my shoulder with a stack of drawings in his hand. I grabbed them out of his hand and placed Axel's portrait in the right spot in the pile.

Axel had a look on his face that I had never seen before on him. It was a sort of sad expression but as if he were bored and trying to find something to do—like he was trying to avoid something. "So, how did ya find me here?" I asked placing the sketches on the table.

"Well, you weren't in your room so I figured that you would be in one of a few places. I checked here first," he said.

I smiled and started to walk out of the room, not trying to get away from him, but I just felt like going somewhere else. Axel followed me after grabbing the sketches and closing the door behind him.

I walked in silence, Axel walking slowly behind me. I made my way to the library for some reason. I walked to the center of the room and breathed deeply. I closed my eyes, leaned my head back and stretched my arms out.

Axel came in and placed the sketches on one of the desks and stood there quietly. "So, why exactly did you drag me back here? I didn't get to finish by breakfast," I said in a fake hurt voice.

Axel walked over to me with his eyes closed and his head hunched over. "Raene," he whispered, "I just found out something really bad." I tilted my head to the side not understanding. "You're gonna disappear."

My eyes widened and I could feel the color leave my face. "Wh—what?" I choked.

"Like we were talking about—Kairi doesn't need that darkness anymore. And now that you are a Nobody you get rid of it," he said still not meeting my blue eyes with his green ones.

"I—I don't understand," I said a little less scared sounding.

"Kairi's heart is gonna rid itself of the darkness since she doesn't need it, and the fact that she doesn't see it like others do." Axel paused, taking a deep breath. I stood there, waiting for him to go on. "When she gets rid of the darkness, something has to replace it—light."

"Light? What does that mean?" I asked, being confused for like the hundredth time this morning.

"Like I said, light and darkness can't be created—it has to be taken from someone else," Axel said finally snapping open his eyes. His pupils grew smaller as his eyes adjusted to the light in the room. I stared into the bright green color.

"Me—the light has to come from me. Doesn't it, Axel?" I asked understanding. Axel simply nodded. "What does that mean?" I asked.

He sighed before answering. "Slowly your light will leave because it is being replaced by Kairi's rejected darkness."

"How does that make me disappear? So what—I'll have a heart that is all darkness, big whoop."

"Raene…don't you see? You're already a Nobody. There is an exception because you still have a heart, because you are different. In a matter of words, you have already turned to darkness, that is how a heartless and a Nobody are created. If your heart is completely filled to the brim with darkness again, it will be like a Nobody being created all over again." I tilted my head the other way now. "Since you are already a Nobody, turning to darkness will be destroying you—just like what happened to the other five members. They've gone to a dark place, a heaven, wherever it is we go."

"So you're saying that if Kairi gives all of the darkness back, I'll be turning to the darkness?" He nodded sadly. "If I turn to darkness, I'll be…dead…gone forever…"

Axel nodded. "Xigbar said that Xemnas knows a prophecy that says that all Nobodies are to fade back into darkness. It says that we are to complete our goal of creating Kingdom Hearts, but we won't become whole; we will fade back to wherever it is we are to go."

"Why does Superior continue to seek hearts if he knows are fate? It's not one of those prophecies that can change can it?"

"Nope. It's a full-out prophecy. And I guess he's just one of those people who think they can stop 'em. He thinks he can prevent the prophecies from happening."

"What about the other members? Why do they continue to do it if they know also?" I asked.

"I guess they just go along with Xemnas…"

"So the prophecies don't lie. All Nobodies are gonna fade back to darkness; even me…" I said closing my eyes and dropping my head.

"Nuh-uh," he said. I looked up. "You're not gonna be like the others. You won't disappear like the others."

"Axel, it's a prophecy, you can't stop it. Even Roxas and Naminé couldn't stop it and they were different too."

"You're different from their uniqueness. I'm gonna make sure you can't. Wasn't it you who said that Naminé isn't really gone? She never joined with Kairi; she's just wandering around somewhere alone; half of her Nobody self?"

"That doesn't mean anything. Eventually she will become whole with Kairi, just like the prophecy says. Besides why are you trying to do this, you can't change what is to happen?"

"I guess that's the one thing Xemnas and I have in common. We both try our hardest to change the future."

"I don't want to be saved."

"What!" Axel asked completely shocked.

I took a deep breath. "If, by some reason, I don't fade back, you will. You're a normal Nobody. If you fade away, who else will I have? I have nobody left to care for. No family, no friends! I don't want to be saved!"

This hurt Axel. You could see the change of expression in his face. "I don't care about that, Raene. You don't deserve this."

"Axel…fading away is my destiny…I can't change it! No one can!"

Axel grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled me slightly closer to him. "It may be your destiny—but I won't let it become your fate." His eyes dug into mine. He was scaring me with his stern words. He cupped my cheeks now and pulled me even closer to him. He bent down so his face was even with mine. "Raene, please. I only had a few bits of hope left in my life. Those were you, Roxas, and Naminé. Now that they are gone, I'm near going mad. They were the rays of sunlight set in my fate. Now you're the only bit of light left. Please, Raene—don't take my sunshine away."

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Hey everybody. Hope you guys liked this one. Yeah, bad news for Raene. But something bad had to happen sooner or later, right? Aww—Axel cares for her sooo much. That last thing he said is so emotional…kinda corny, but I liked it. Thanks for reading. R&R please. Stay tuned. :)