Okie dokie! I can't believe I've almost written 20 chapters! This is gonna be a long story since we're only this far into the game, right? Right. Ok…so this is kinda a pointless chapter but nonetheless, you MUST read it. Demyx is in it. And he is very important. I apologize for making Demyx seam like a total pansy here, but he's just freaked out at the moment, he'll be better. I was just saying this because Megan is worried that I'll make him sound like a baby. Anyhow, on with the story. Oh, and by the way—this chapter is dedicated to everyone, but mostly to Megan because she is my Melodious Nocturne.

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When Xaldin had said the name of the guy I was gonna work with, I kinda lost my ability to do anything. I was in shock as he through the door open and tossed me on the ground. Like I said, I wasn't in complete control of my actions, and I fell to the tiled ground with a big thump.

I pulled my upper body up so that I was resting on my elbows. When Demyx said my name I fully became aware of what was happening. I sat there on the ground as the musician skipped over cheerfully. "Ya ready?" he asked holding out a hand to help me up.

I grabbed his hand and stood. "Su—sure," I said shakily, still trying to calm myself down. "So—what exactly are we supposed to do?" I asked.

He started to explain as I changed to my Organization cloak. "Well, Superior wants us to go and trick Hades into letting loose a bunch of Heartless for Sora. You're friends with him, aren't you?" he said.

I looked up at his face. "Who?" I asked.

"Hades. You guys are kinda buds, right?" he said.

"Well, sorta. I think I'm the only Nobody he trusts," I answered.

Demyx summoned a portal and stepped through. I followed and found myself walking in the colorful tunnel of dark corridors. It would be a while before we got there. "Demyx?" I said after a minute.

"Hmm?" he answered from next to me but keeping his eyes forward.

"Have you ever met Sora?" I asked.

"Nope," he answered.

"You know what he looks like?" I asked.

"Brown hair, blue eyes, carries a key as a weapon. I think if I saw him I would know who he was," he said.

"Well the reason I asked is because—well you do know that he's Roxas' other, right?"

"Yeah—but who doesn't know that?"

"I bet you two hundred munny that the second you see Sora you'll call him Roxas," I said.

"What? Are you turning into Luxord or something—gambling is your new hobby?"

"No," I said.

"You suddenly changed places with Xigbar and now all ya want is cash?"

"No," I said again.

"Well then I accept your bet," he said. He stuck his hand out.

I must've looked like I didn't know what it meant when someone wanted you to shake their hand. I stared at it for a few seconds blankly. He jiggled his hand slightly and then I grabbed and shook it.

The rest of the trip through the colored tunnel was quiet for the most part. We may have walked for about half and hour or so before a small portal of light could be seen ahead.

"So you have a plan I suppose, then?" he said slightly jogging up to the portal.

"I've got an idea. I hope it'll work," I replied jogging too.

As soon as the two of us entered through the light, Demyx started jogging quicker and quicker until he was running full speed. "Demyx! Wait up!" I yelled after him.

We were in a dark and gloomy tunnel with dark grey walls. The ground looked like a river of light grey water, but it was just a think fog heading down farther into the tunnel.

Demyx continued to run and run pulling his hood over his head and dashing around a turn in the tunnel. I sighed, pulled my hood up as well and chased after him.

I was running so fast that I barely noticed the three as I past them—a duck, a dog, and a boy my age coming into the tunnel from a separate path. I decided to forget about them for right now and catch up to the musician up ahead.

I rounded the corner and found myself slamming into a still-standing Demyx. I jumped up. "What's the big idea?" I said slapping him over the head.

I came in front of him and looked at his face. His bright shiny eyes were wide and stretched out. His mouth hung open. He slowly raised a pointed finger up. I followed his gesture and looked up to see a large hanging room high above us. It was like a cave with large openings in it. This large structure was none other than the home of the Lord of the Dead.

I smiled and walked up the path heading for it. I could hear Demyx gulp behind me before jogging to my side.

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"Well if it isn't my buddy-oh-pal, Raene! How ya been?" The blue-skinned God said pulling me into a suffocating hug.

"Great! And you?" I said after he released me.

"Oh, you know—sent a few souls to their doom—the usual…And who's this?" He said looking over my shoulder.

I glanced backwards to see Demyx still standing in the doorway shaking like a baby.

"Hades, this if my good friend Demyx," I said motioning him to me.

Demyx shuffled forward and grabbed 'hold of my arm with a tight grasp like a little boy holding onto this mother.

"Please to meet ya!" Hades said jumping in front of us.

Demyx yelped. "Nice—nice to meet you too," he whispered.

"Ya guys want some drinks?" Hades asked after giving Demyx a strange look.

I nodded. Hades turned and walked down a shadowed hall. I turned to Demyx. "Chill," I spoke kindly. He nodded under his hood. He sat down in one of the hard stone chairs.

My eyes glanced around until they saw a golden medallion sitting in a glass case sitting upon a broken Olympian column. My eyes widened and then looked back at Demyx. I smiled and then gestured him to follow my gaze.

He did and looked back to see the medallion. It had a lightning bolt striking out of a cloud, the sign of the Gods, on it.

Demyx looked back at me. "No way!" he said quietly.

I nodded fiercely. "Now!" I mouthed to him. And I left the room to help Hades with the drinks.

Hades was coming back to me just as I turned into the hall carrying a platter with three glasses full of glowing blue liquid.

I spun around and walked back to the room where Demyx should be done stealing the thing we needed to perfectly accomplish our goal.

Demyx was sitting back in the chair with his hood down. His face was sweating slightly.

"What's wrong with your friend?" Hades whispered to me setting the drinks down on a stone table. "He looks sick."

"He doesn't feel good. The change in altitude is affecting him," I replied. The truth was that he didn't wanna be caught but who knows, maybe he was feeling sick.

I drank my glass as Demyx slowly began to sip on his. I placed it down when it was empty ran up to the window. We were pretty high up. A green river of souls snaked around below Hades high home.

All of a sudden a huge three-headed dog jumped up in my face. "Cerberus!" I yelled sticking my head out the window. All three heads panted furiously as I pet them.

I spun around. Demyx was now curled up in a ball staring wide-eyed at the beast outside the window. I sighed and bounced over to him. He was never usually this scared. I grabbed his arm and pulled him to the window. I shoved his upper body out the window.

He closed his eyes and turned his face away. I grabbed his hand and slowly led it to Cerberus' soft, black fur. After his hand touched the dog he calmed down.

I pulled his hand back and removed the glove from his fingers. After doing so, I stuck his hand back out. He watched as his hand made contact with the happy dog. "Do you feel that?" I whispered to him.

He shook his head. "Do you?" he asked. He moved his hand out from under mine and placed it on top of mine instead.

I blushed slightly. I don't know why I did—maybe it was because I had had a dream about him and I was nervous. I hesitated before answering, "No. Not for a few a few days. Everything is slowly fading away."

I let my hand slip from under his. He pulled his hand away, placed the glove back on and then clung onto my arm again like a little kid. "Could we go now?" he whispered close to my ear.

I nodded to him. "Hades, I think you would like to know why Demyx and I have come here?" I said.

"I suppose…" Hades said.

"Well—I have come to understand that Sora, the Keyblade Master, is on his way here right now—roaming your Underworld. And that thousands of his allies are here to help—not too far behind him," I said lied.

"Really?" he said.

"I've come to offer assistance—you send your biggest and baddest heartless to fight his allies…and Demyx and I will deal with the key boy and his animal friends. How's that sound?" I said.

"Sounds like a plan," he replied.

"Well we really should be going. Thank you for allowing us to stop by. But the two of us should go deal with Sora so we can get home. It was great seeing you again, Hades."

"Stop by anytime, Raene," he called as Demyx and I left the room.

Demyx immediately started running down the steep slopes away from Hades' home. I sighed and fast-walked after him. Eventually he made it around the turn and I followed.

As I entered the tunnel I could see Demyx running past Sora and his companions screaming, "Run away!" He disappeared in a portal behind them. Sora and the others turned with confused faces as the hooded Nobody ran by. I giggled causing them to face me.

"Who are you?" Sora asked me.

I paused before answering. "I wish I could tell you, Sora. I really do," I said.

"You know me?" he asked.

"She's that Nobody from Hollow Bastion," Donald said pointing accusingly at me.

"Yeah. You're the girl that was with the guy who likes to confuse people," Sora said. I nodded to him. "What was with him? He said something about secrets about you–then he just wouldn't stop laughing," he continued.

"I don't think you wanna know my secrets, Sora," I said.

"Why not?" he asked.

"I don't know how you would react to them," I answered.

"Try me."

"Fine." I lifted my arms from my sides and suddenly two Keyblades appeared in my hands. They were pretty simple—shaped mostly like the Kingdom Key that Sora has only, in my opinion, more beautiful and more detailed. The blue part of Sora's Keyblade was also on mine. On my white Keyblade, that part was black and vise-versa. They were very shiny as well.

As my face looked upon theirs, their eyes lifted up. Their eyes wide with surprise. "How—I—you—What?" he said baffled. "How can you wield the Keyblade?" he asked.

"I won't bother telling you now. You'll find out sooner or later," I said making the keyblades disappear.

He let it drop at that. "Oh, I get it. You were gonna summon your keyblades on us back at Hollow Bastion but he held you back so you wouldn't let us see them, right?" he said. I nodded. "So then what was the other thing? He said that we shouldn't see your face. Come on, it can't be that ugly," he said laughing.

Within a split second I had summoned one of my keyblades pointed it at his feet and screamed, "Freeze!"

I put my weapon away as Donald attempted to melt the ice around Sora's feet with his magic while the other two also tried breaking the ice with their own weapons. I pulled my hood back and shook my head slightly letting the locks fall around my shoulders.

The three of them stopped their attempts at freeing Sora's feet to look up. "Am I supposed to know who you are?" Sora asked.

"Well, we thought that I might look like someone or well—the other reason wouldn't make any sense to you at this point," I said.

"Who are you supposed to remind me of?" he asked smashing the ice with his keyblade.

"Like I said before, you'll learn it sooner or later," I said.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"My name?" I asked.

He nodded.

"My name is Xarene," I said.

"That guy called you 'Rae' in Hollow Bastion," Sora said.

"Raene. My name is Raene also. Sora, let me ask you a question—have the islands changed a lot?"

"What?"

"I haven't been there for nine years—even though I wasn't there that long—I miss it so much. Has it changed a lot?"

"You used to live on Destiny Islands?"

"I guess you could say I lived there—but do Nobodies live?"

"I guess not—but no, I don't they've changed that much," he said.

"That's good," I said.

It was quiet for a moment before Sora started giggling. "What's so funny?" I asked.

"I was just thinking—there is no reason in you having those keyblades," he said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked placing my hands on my hips.

"You can't be that good of a fighter, can you?—I mean…you're a girl," he said.

"Sexist!" I said. Guys weren't the only ones who could fight. "You wanna see if I can fight or not?" I threatened.

"Sure," he said. The three of them got into fighting stance. I summoned both of my keyblades and prepared to fight.

I was about to attack when I laughed. I stood up straight and summoned away my keyblades. I then held my hand out with my palm down and my fingers spread about. I ran my hand from one side to the other making about a dozen Nobodies appear out of the ground.

"My own personal hybrid. They are the best of the best. I think you should hurry up with these and then get prepared to fight some of Hades' Heartless he'll be sending out," I said.

"So you're just gonna run away like a chicken?"

"Oh, I'm sure we'll be able to fight soon." I held my hand up and waved with bent fingers saying, "Bu-bye now," before disappearing into a portal.

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Man this is long. sighs Owww….my fingers hurt.

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I appeared in another dark and gloomy cave. This one was more open then the tunnel-like one I had just been in. The fog floated about the ground and reached up to my knees. I started to walk when I suddenly fell as if there had been a drop-off.

I thought quickly and did a flip in the air so that I landed, crouching on the ground with my knees bent and one hand pressed against the ground.

I looked up to see that I had indeed stepped off a cliff. The fog had hidden the ground from me. I stood and started to walk around the lower cave. It was like a labyrinth of dozens of tunnels and caves.

I wondered around for what seamed like forever until I came to the entrance to another cave. I looked in and saw Demyx with his hood up facing away from me. I walked up to him. He had the medallion in his hand and was fiddling with it. "What took you so long?"

"I ran into Sora," I simply said.

"What'd you say to him?" he asked.

"Nothing much—nothing important," I answered.

"You think we'll see him again while we're here?"

"He should be here soon—after he's done whatever it is he was plannin' on doing before we intruded. It took me like half and hour to find you but it won't take him that long—so, in other words, yes," I said.

"Okay," he said.

And, as if on queue, running footsteps came to our ears. Demyx spun around. I smiled—Demyx was gonna pay up. "You!" he said to Sora as he came into view. Here it is—two hundred munny. "Hold on—Roxas?" he said. I knew it.

"Who?" Sora said.

"Roxas?" he said again.

"What are you—what?" Sora said confused.

I tapped Demyx on the shoulder. "Pay up," I whispered while rubbing my fingers together for him to give me my cash.

Demyx reached in his pocket and pulled out a little piece of paper. "They told me that if worse comes to worse I should do this—'If the subject fails to respond, use aggression to liberate his true disposition,'" he read. "Wow, I may not make it outta this one."

Sora said something but I didn't catch it. Demyx returned the note to his pocket and pulled out some munny. He gave me two hundred and was about to place the stolen medallion away with the rest of the munny. "No Demi," I whispered sharply.

He looked up at me. "What?" he asked.

I grabbed his hand that had the medallion. "Use this. Add it to your strength and fight him," I said.

"Fight him?" he asked.

"Yes. You have to, it's your job," I said.

I let go of his hand and walked away. "And where are you going?" he said.

"I'll be right over here learning," I said leaning against the wall of the cave.

Demyx nodded. And held the medallion in front of him. "He's gotta be the thief!" Goofy yelled.

"Rude much?" Demyx said. He held the medallion higher and the power released out of it and surrounded him.

I watched as they began to fight. Demyx summoned his sitar and began to strum a few cords. Several water embodiments appeared and began to strike Sora and the others.

Sora tried to make his way through them to Demyx but Demyx just summoned more water. Demyx would always start out using defense. He would get his enemy used to that, and then begin to really fight.

After a few minutes of watching Sora's useless attempts to get to Demyx, I began to get bored. Fortunately, Demyx started to really attack Sora. He picked up his sitar and shot a huge wave at Sora. The brunette went flying backwards and hit the wall quite violently. The wave gathered up and became large walls of water. Demyx began to shoot these at the three and laughed as they were washed around the cave.

Sora made his way to Demyx and began to attack him with his keyblade. Demyx shielded himself with his sitar and was able to hit Sora with it a few times. Sora also was able to get a few hits in also.

After a few more minutes Sora swung his keyblade fiercely at Demyx. The musician dodged to avoid the blow but was hit on his shoulder pretty badly. He summoned away his sitar and stood up straight.

I walked over to him. "Good job, Demi," I said cheerfully placing my hand on his uninjured shoulder.

"Thanks," he said grinning.

"Hey, head on back. I'll meet you up in the entrance hall, okay?" I said to him.

He nodded and began to sink away into a portal. "Roxas…please come back to us," he said to Sora.

After he was gone I looked over at Sora. "You gonna fight now, or what?" he asked me.

"If that's what you want," I said summoning my keyblades. "But I need to get back soon, so could you make this quick, please?" I said.

He grinned and gestured Donald and Goofy away. I grinned back and took position to fight. I waited then jumped in the air heading straight for Sora. I pulled my weapons back and then brought them down upon him with as much power that I could conjure.

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Sorry this one was so long guys. I haven't written one that long in a while I think. Man my hands hurt. I just wrote like half of that right now. I was gonna make it longer but I decided to cut it off there. Any how, thanks for reading. I'm gonna start working on chapter 20 soon. Love you all!!!