AN* As usual I do not own this in any way.

Chapter 20

Rintax stood before Xemnas the leader of Organization XIII who seemed annoyed by the fact that Xaldin had been killed.

"Why did you not assist him?" he asked.

"He told me to stay out of the mission. I was only following orders, and if he was too proud to ask for help then that is his own fault for letting his pride blind him." Rintax lied.

"He does have a point." Siax remarked as he entered the room "Xaldin may have been a strong fighter but he was proud, never taking help from another."

"Very well. We shall over look this for now. Rintax, you are to head to Port Royal and shadow Luxor, number IX." Xemnas sighed as he turned away from Rintax and walked off. Nodding to himself Rintax opened the portal and walked through thoughts in turmoil at some distant memory of Port Royal. He arrived on an island near a large cave where he saw several nobodies pointing the way for him. Walking through the cave he arrived at a large treasure room to see Luxor with his short blonde hair and blonde gotee.

"Welcome Rintax." Luxor said as he looked at a large chest filled with gold medallions.

"What is our mission here?" Rintax asked.

"We are simply here to instigate some chaos so the keyblade bearer will destroy heartless. We have a special one that becomes invincible when it takes the coins from the chest." Luxor explained "So it's time to deal out the hands." Suddenly a large purple heartless with a pole ax of some kind picked up the chest and followed them to the ship that had just arrived. Sending the Nobodies aboard they quickly dealt with the crew while leaving one unconscious on the deck Luxor and Rintax carried the chest bellow deck. As they waited another ship pulled alongside theirs and several people boarded. Peeking out of the doorway they saw that it was Sora and his friends along with another scruffy looking man who kept glancing around. With a hand motion from Xemnas he ordered several of his Nobodies to take a coin and flee while he went out to have the giant heartless play with those on the ship. Sneaking out and sitting in the crow's nest Rintax watched them defeat the heartless but not destroy it as it turned into its invincible form with a skull for a head now and purple flamed candles floating around it. With a strong gust of wind it shoved them against the rail of the ship as Luxor leapt on to the other ship and had his nobodies fire the cannons before the crew could do anything. Leaping down Rintax opened a portal into the lower decks, grabbed the chest and warped to the port where Luxor was waiting.

"Excellent work Rintax. Now we wait for them to either call or fold." Luxor grinned as they waited for Sora and his friends to arrive. Soon they saw black sails on the horizon as the Black Pearl approached giving Luxor a chance to set the chest in the middle of the street that the port led to while having his Nobodies scare away the people and keep them away from the battle. Once the ship pulled in and Sora and his company disembarked they saw Luxor standing there with the hooded Rintax.

"Rintax?" Sora asked looking at him.

"Got it in one." Rintax nodded.

"So you know each other. Well anyway, it's time to get the game underway. Will you win, or will the heartless? Let's let Lady Luck decide." Luxor laughed as the heartless floated in. Luxor and Rintax then moved back as they watched the heartless absorb all of the coins in the chest. As they fought Rintax and Luxor noticed that the pirate who was fighting with them had turned into a skeleton, as if he were cursed, and he was using it to his full advantage against the foe. As they fought they used their surroundings to knock the coins off of the heartless and return them to the chest, which once completely filled turned the heartless back to normal, allowing them to hurt it. Soon the heartless was destroyed and the two Nobodies leapt down to where they had destroyed it.

"Well played Sora, well played." Luxor clapped "Another heart for Kingdom Hearts."

"Why?" Goofy asked.

"Because we want to have hearts again." Rintax sighed.

"At what cost?" Donald asked looking annoyed.

"Any." Rintax replied "I will do whatever it takes to get a heart, even if I must kill you, and all that you hold dear."

"You're a monster!" the woman screamed.

"Maybe so. But I can feel no remorse for that fact, I am one without a heart, how should I feel?" Rintax asked a slight grin on his face.

"That's enough antagonizing them Rintax. We have things to do." Luxor laughed as the corridor of darkness opened. As they were about to leave something crashed into the ground in front of them.

"You're not going anywhere Nobodies." A voice said. Looking up they saw a man holding the end of the flail that had crashed in front of them. The man had black hair that was a little long and in odd spikes in some places, he wore a suit and had the roman numeral VIII on his neck, while he chewed gum that Rintax could smell, smelled like coffee.

"Who is he?" Rintax asked.

"I am Chronos number eight, Baldorias Fanghini, and me and Heimdall here are going to destroy you." Baldorias boasted as the head of the flail came flying back.

"Luxor, you go on ahead. I want to play with this guy." Rintax grinned.

"I don't think that is such a good idea. It's always best to know when to fold." Luxor sighed.

"You go. I'm going to call his bet." Rintax grinned as he summoned his twin guns. Sighing Luxor entered the portal as Rintax began shooting at Baldorias who had rocket launched the flail at him. Leaping around the docks he avoided the massive weapon and finally managed to lure him to the edge of the docks.

"You are done Nobody." He boasted as Rintax grinned.

"That's what you think." He said as he switched over to the yellow banded bullets in both guns. As Heimdall came charging at him Rintax leapt onto it and then over Baldorias's head and fired a single shot from each gun. For a split second nothing happened but suddenly electricity was drawn into both guns and they fired into the dock destroying the path back to land trapping Baldorias on a small edge.

"Later." Rintax laughed as he opened a corridor of darkness and left as Baldorias called Sephira.

"It's me, Baldorias. I just fought that Rintax guy." He reported.

"Did you kill him?" she asked getting worried.

"No. He tricked me and used two railgun shots to trap me for now. I'll say this; he is just as clever as he was when he had a heart." Baldorias sighed.

"Understood. Any signs of the heartless yet?"

"Nothing here. Though I doubt that it would be here, too much water." Baldorias grunted.

"Very well. Maintain your position there until told otherwise. And do not destroy the town." Sephira ordered as she hung up leaving Baldorias looking back at the destruction he had caused.