Chapter 39—Distant fragments

Saïx glared at the trio before him. Of all the people he expected to see facing off against him, he had to say that Demyx was not high on his list. He leaned against his claymore idly watching as they walked into his domain, from where he hide in the shadows away from the moonlight. Maybe it was time that Demyx realized exactly why he was called the Luna Divider.

"Of all the people." He spoke as they came into full view. He stepped out of the shadows into delicious moonlight and gave them a feral smile.

"Well, I had to leave you know… the health benefits for the good guys are way better." The blond stated as he called his weapon, a sitar of all things. Saïx shook his head. This would be easy.

"And here I thought that you of all of us had the larges desire to have a heart." He taunted as he continued to absorb the moon's rays.

"I've got one asshole. And some new tricks." Demyx sifted his sitar and slowly water, dark, almost black water began to dance up from the ground.

"Foolish." He lifted his weapon and attacked.

"Now!" Demyx yelled.

Saïx was blocked by a giant bastard sword, wielded by the blond that had come with Demyx. The dark water instead of aiding his attack covered the room's windows, cutting down the moon's rays.

"You bastard!" Saïx roared shoving Cloud back as he turned and glared at Demyx. "How long can you hold that up when I'm cutting you to pieces?"

"You have to get passed us first." Snarled the black haired girl behind him before she kicked him.

Demyx nodded his thanks to Tifa as he shifted and continued to play the hypnotic melody that kept the dark water covering the window. Saïx growled and slammed the flat of his blade against Tifa's back sending the martial artist flying and turned and slammed his sword against Cloud's.

"I won't lose." He growled and forced the man back with his dwindling power.

He turned on Demyx and ran at him and brought down his claymore. Demyx shuddered as the blade managed to cut into his side, the wall of water shuddering as his fingers stumbled over the melody. He would not fail. He hit a break in the melody and let the water fall as he took a battle stance and slammed his sitar into Saïx side.

"I know I'm not on your level old man. That's why I brought friends."

Saïx gasped in shock as he felt the blade slide against his waist and then it was over as Cloud's blade cleaved him in half before he could truly began to absorbed the moon's rays.

"How… how could you beat me?" He whispered as he fell backwards into darkness.

"Man, a second longer and I wouldn't be among the living here." Demyx muttered as he leaned heavily on his sitar. "How bad's the damage?"

Tifa's strong and rough hands gently moved the fabric around the wound and nodded firmly to herself. "It's rather deep but not life threatening." She took a potion and used it to seal up the wound. "If it wasn't for your little trick with the dark water we would have been screwed."

"Heh, I try." And with that Demyx collapsed into unconsciousness from the pain.

Riku looked up before the others did, feeling the dissipating magic before they did. The blockaded on the door disappeared. Sora looked over at him and sighed softly before standing up as did Leon. Riku looked towards the portal that led into Saïx's domain.

"Should we wait for them?" The silver haired teen asked quietly.

"No, we've got to get to Xemnas. They know that they should get to Memory Skyscraper where the others are trying to find a way back home." Sora stated firmly. "We've got to hold up our end of the bargain. Let's not let them down."

"You've grown." Leon's voice was soft and his praise was sparingly, but Sora and Riku both recognized it for what it was. And Sora did have the grace to blush.

"Then through the door we go." Riku pulled out his blade and began to walk forward. "And all that it may bring us."

The gate led them back into the city and Sora shivered lightly as it began to rain. It was ominous, like the sky was lamenting for all the people lost to Kingdom Hearts and Sora's blade. And as the door shut behind them firmly, he wondered if idly, it was.