AN* I am soooooo sorry for the delay on this chapter. I have had a serious case of writers block and couldn't think of what to do for this and some of the later chapters. So please enjoy and i will try to update quicker.

Disclaimer: I do not own Black Cat or Kingdom Hearts.

Chapter 19

Rintax walked through the portal until he arrived in a large castle and walked carefully down a hallway until he saw Xaldin. Xaldin was a tall man with his long black hair in dreadlocks.

"Right on time." He remarked as he led him further down the hallway.

"So what is our mission here?" Rintax asked as they reached the room at the end of the hall.

"We are here to turn the master of the castle into one of us. To do this we are going to force him to make a choice between his most prized possession and the woman he loves." Xaldin explained as they entered a destroyed room to see on a table at the far end was a rose, glowing a pale ruby color and floating inside a class dome.

"What is that?"

"A magic rose. The master of the castle was placed under a curse due to his selfishness, he has until the last petal falls to love and be loved in return." Xaldin scoffed.

"So by forcing him to choose, he will become one of us?" Rintax asked

"Correct. Now let's take this foolish thing and spring our trap, you stay out of this though. I have been working on setting this up for a long time." Xaldin ordered as he warped away to lure the beast into a trap. Now Rintax was annoyed by this and decided that he was going to set Xaldin up to fail. Waiting in the room the Beast charged in and roared at him.

"Easy now. I'm here to help." Rintax replied holding his hands up to show he meant no harm.

"WHERE IS IT?!" he bellowed.

"Xaldin took it. If you hurry you might have a chance to find it." Rintax remarked "He hasn't left the castle yet. He intends to make you choose between either the rose or the girl."

"XALDIN!!!" the beast bellowed as the brown haired boy from the last two worlds and his friends ran in.

"Who are you?!" the duck shouted.

"An ally for now." Rintax replied as he walked past "If you hurry then you might be able to stop him." Walking down the hallway he headed outside where he leapt to the top of the gate and watched as Xaldin captured the girl and forced them to the bridge to make their decision.

"Choose Beast. The rose or the girl?" Xaldin demanded as he held them. Grinning Rintax saw what Xaldin did not and saw a man with black pants and overcoat with a slightly unbuttoned shirt, wearing two gloves with the Roman numeral VII on the center attack him from behind at the same moment the girl stomped on his foot and grabbed the rose letting the man hit him with a barely visible wire.

"Rintax! Get down here!" Xaldin bellowed as Rintax yawned and decided to leap down, but not to help. Leaping down in between Xaldin and his foes he looked at the older Nobody.

"When did you lose it?" Rintax asked.

"Lose what?" Xaldin asked confused.

"Your humanity." Rintax replied as he summoned the two guns and fired several shots at him.

"What's going on?" the man with the gloves asked.

"I think that the one with the guns is trying to kill his partner." The brown haired boy remarked.

"Odd. They are both Nobodies, why are they fighting each other?" he mused.

"Who cares? Lets deal with Xaldin!" the Beast roared as he charged in.

"Sounds good. The name's Jenos Hazard." Jenos said as he sent the wires to attack Xaldin who had summoned his six spears in a gust of wind.

"Sora, Donald, and Goofy." Sora said pointing at first himself, then the duck, and finally the dog faced one.

"Are you going to talk or fight?" Rintax shouted as he dodged the spears. Sora then ran in to fight as Rintax blocked one of the spears as Donald sent a fire ball at Xaldin who immediately destroyed it with another spear as the beast attacked another one. Rintax was getting annoyed with Xaldin perfect defense and soon leapt back with Jenos.

"So who are you anyway?" he asked.

"The name is Rintax, number XIII." Rintax said as he unloaded several more shots at Xaldin who blocked them all.

"So why are you fighting your comrade?" Jenos asked as the wires were sent at Xaldin who block a few of them but others cut his cloak in a few spaces.

"He has lost his way. He is no longer serving our best interests, he is blinded by gaining power that he forgot that we only want to become human once more. The fact he is willing to turn an innocent into one of us is proof of his dementia. Therefore I take it upon myself to eliminate him before his madness spreads." Rintax explained as he opened the chambers on his two guns and switched the bullets over to the white banded one and the purple.

"Sounds good. Let's see if me and my Excelion can be of any help." Jenos grinned as he charged in with the wires grabbing the spears and moving them out of the way. Rintax then fired the white bullet that as soon as it made contact began absorbing all of the moisture around Xaldin forcing the air to become still, followed by the purple that as soon as it hit it burst into flames.

"Donald, use a water spell on him!" Rintax shouted to the confused looking duck, who obeyed quickly. Once the ice spell hit the flames, becoming water and making the flames stronger Sora attack transforming into a new form that sent both Donald and Goofy away, turning him into Master form with the black remaining and now with a golden yellow color and with two keyblades spinning around him as he attacked the weakened Nobody quickly destroying him. As Xaldin disappeared in a swirl of wind and black particles he looked at Rintax.

"I knew it was a bad idea making you one of us." He whispered.

"Too little, too late." Rintax remarked "This is what awaits any who stray from our path. You lost sight of what was important, and have now paid the price." With that final statement Xaldin grinned as he disappeared in the black particles that were rising, leaving the six of them on the bridge, the five facing Rintax.

"Who are you anyway?" Sora asked.

"Number XIII, Rintax, The Deliverer." He replied as he opened a dark portal.

"Why?" Goofy asked.

"As I said he strayed from the path."

"No. Why don't you join us?" Goofy asked.

"Despite what has happened today, I still serve Organization XIII. I only helped you today to eliminate a traitor that would be too strong for me to fight on my own. I thought that together we stood a better chance of killing him. This changes nothing between us; I still want you to complete Kingdom Hearts, Sora. I want to be human once more, instead of a shell." Rintax sighed as he left "It is nothing personal, but if you turn against us things will get violent and most unpleasant for all of us." With those final words Rintax left that world and returned back to The World That Never Was.

Still standing on the bridge after the others had left Jenos seemed troubled.

"Sephira-chan. I am calling to confirm number IX's report. I agree that number XIII has become the new XIII for Organization XIII. If things continue like this he will become more powerful then when he was human. He still hasn't remembered anything yet and until he does then there isn't much we can do to help him." Jenos said into the communicator.

"I see. If this is true then we must tell him. He may have a plan to assist him. Any guess's where he is heading next?" Sephira asked.

"Nope. However I say follow the Keyblade master. He seems to show up where ever that boy does." Jenos replied.

"Alright. I will alert the other numbers to keep an eye out for this Rintax and to be careful to not engage him." Sephira remarked.

"We are overlooking something. If a Nobody exists then where is the Heartless?" Jenos asked.

"I do not know. However I will also have a watch out looking for a purebred Heartless, with cat like looks and a playful nature. If it is found we will capture it until we can find a way to return the heart to the shell." Sephira sighed as the conversation ended. Jenos sighed, knowing that this was only the beginning of a very serious problem.