A/N: So you guys wanted it, so here you go.

WARNING: TWI1IGHTMAST3R IS NOT RESONSIBLE FOR ANY CRUSHED FEELS IN THIS CHAPTER :3


The Riku Replica smirked as he took Souleater and impaled it into Riku's chest, making the real Riku freeze. When the replica pulled the weapon out, Riku fell to the ground, placing his hand on the cold, bloody wound as he struggled to breathe.

"NO!" Xion screamed out Riku's name, crying instantly as she shot up quickly. She was so upset at that moment that she filled up with rage. She was pissed, beyond pissed, and she knew exactly who she was going to let her anger out on.

(Vector to the Heavens – Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix) Flying above the air slightly, Xion flew over and collided with the Riku Replica, slamming into him so hard that the impact made the two fly through a wall and into the next room. The replica barely had time to react when Xion rose her hand, firing one of her repulsors right at him, causing him to fall to the ground. Xion did this repeatedly; she had to kill him, she had to end his life for doing that to Riku.

Xion had to have blasted him ten times when she thought he was done, but the replica managed to pull up his blade, covered in Riku's blood, and blocked the attack. He then ran towards Xion, taking his hand out and punching her right where her reactor was. Since the reactor powered her suit, she could not only no longer use her repulsors, but the armor slowly began to fall off of her body.

But Xion didn't care, she didn't care if she had just lost her only weapon, she was determined to kill the Riku Replica, with a weapon or without.

As Xion's chest plate fell off of her body, she ran over, tackling the replica as she punched him in the face, causing her right arm piece to fall off her body. The replica proved to be stronger than her physically and pushed her off, raising his blade above her ready to strike. Just before he could do this though, Xion used the last bit of energy from her suit and activated the repulsors in the boot part of her armor, not only taking her out of harms why, but making the replica fall to his feet. The only downside was this made both of her leg pieces fly off of her body.

Now only having several parts of her armor left on her, Xion stood up quickly, only to be shot in the face with a blast of darkness by the Riku Replica. Thankfully, her helmet took the damage for her, but it was now useless to see through so Xion quickly through it off her head. Now only having one arm piece that traveled all the way up to her shoulder, Xion knew she only had her body strength and her force of will to keep her alive now. When the replica ran at her again, trying to impale her with his blade, she moved out of the way slightly just enough to make him stumble forward, which gave Xion enough time to kick him to the ground. This caused the replica to drop his blade, however before Xion could grab it, he pushed her out of the way. But there was no stopping her now.

Digging her nails into the ground, Xion got up and ran as fast as she could at the replica, who was just about to pick up his blade when Xion's fist made contact with his chin with a severe upper cut. This made the last piece of Xion's armor fall off, but she then picked up the blade, having the replica's weapon. Xion finally ran over to the replica, who was now on the ground, ready to kill him with his own blade, but he stopped her. "So you don't love him anymore, right?" He mocked. These words made Xion pause. "It sure doesn't look like that to me."

But before the replica could say anything else, Xion impaled the blade into his chest, making him irrupt in a blast of darkness, gone for good. (End Vector to the Heavens)

Xion only placed her hand on her head when the deed was finally done, feeling tired. But then she remembered Riku and quickly ran through the hole in the wall caused by the fight and into the other room, where Riku was lying on the ground in a puddle of his own blood.

(Beast Dies – Beauty and the Beast) "Riku!" She yelled as she ran over to him, kneeling down next to him. Riku coughed, showing Xion that he was still alive, but barely.

Xion then brought her hand over to the hand Riku was holding over his wound and lifted it, showing the deep impale cut. Xion gasped as she saw the wound, never before in her life has she seen so much blood, but to make matters worse it was Riku's blood. "You're going to be alright! Don't die on me Riku, stay with me!" She yelled, bring his bloody hand up to her face as she held it against her cheek.

"Xion—" Riku's words were barely understandable, which was why Xion didn't seem to hear him.

"I'm right here, stay with me Riku! You are going to be fine; you're going to be fine!"

"Xion!" Riku said as loud as he could, which was basically one level above whispering, but Xion managed to hear him this time.

Xion didn't even realize she was crying until Riku rubbed his finger softly against her cheek, wiping the tears away. "I love you…" Were his only words in between his fragile breaths.

Xion only began to cry harder at these words. She knew at that moment how she really felt about Riku; the lies didn't even matter anymore: she loved him more than her own life. The two had never said the words 'I love you' to each other, but here they finally were. Crying, Xion said, "And I love you."

Riku lightly smiled at this before his eyes closed, and the sight made Xion's heart stop beating.

As Riku's hand went limp in hers and it fell to the ground, Xion watched as Riku's chest stopped moving, the constant rise and fall to show he was breathing no longer there. Bringing both of her hands up to cover her mouth, Xion began crying harder than she ever had before. She shook her head, as if she was trying to wake up from a nightmare that would never end, but nothing worked, this was real.

"Riku…" She could barely speak. Riku was gone; he was lying dead in front of her all thanks to that stupid replica. She didn't know if she could function, almost as if when Riku died, he took her with him. "Please, don't leave me…"

Xion placed her head on Riku's chest, covering his wound, lying in his blood, but she didn't care. "I can't live without you! Please Riku answer me!"

No response, she only cried harder.

"You can't do this to me!" She yelled, "You promised Vanitas you would look after me and you can't do that if you die, so please just get up, please!"

Crying uncontrollably now, Xion went into a kneeling position, picked up Riku's head, and placed it on her chest. As she sobbed, she prayed for some kind of miracle, for him to come back to her like in the fairytales, but she did not feel any breath come from him. She then hugged his body, praying that it would somehow bring him back, but nothing worked.

Several minutes seemed to have passed before Xion finally put Riku's head back down on the ground. She didn't know what else to do, she had tried everything, and now she just couldn't do anything anymore besides bury her head into Riku's bloody chest, looking for the heartbeat that was no longer there.

"I love you…" She continued to say. She couldn't even believe that the two had never said those words to each other before because she continued to repeat them so easily.

"I love you, I love you, I love you…"

Xion only buried her face into Riku's bloody chest harder, letting her tears fall onto him like raindrops. She would not leave him; she would stay here until she too would die so the two could finally be together again.

(So um yah Transformation should be playing now…) But at first, Xion did not notice that Riku's body was enveloped in light, glowing brighter than any light she had ever seen.

When Xion did raise her head, she could only look down at Riku, who was barely visible through the bright, golden light that surrounded him. The tears the continued to fall down her cheeks halted for a moment as she gaped at the scene, not moving her eyes off of her fallen beloved. She watched as his body shined so brightly that she had to cover her eyes, fearing that the light would blind her. However, those few times she was able to look at Riku's body, she gasped, never seeing a light so beautiful and so warm before in her entire existence.

When the light finally faded, Xion uncovered her eyes and looked at Riku's chest where his wound was immediately. The blood was gone, the cut was gone, even the hole the sword made in his clothes was gone! She then looked over at Riku's face and then, ever so slowly, Riku's green-blue eyes fluttered open, coughing and breathing in gasps of air that had never felt so good on his lungs before. His eyes looked over to Xion, who was stunned. "Xion?" He asked weakly.

Xion allowed tears to fall from her eyes once more, but they were tears of relief instead of sadness this time. "Riku?" She asked, making sure that this was real.

Riku smiled before he said, "So are you still going to friend zone me?"

Xion allowed tears of joy to fall down her face as she smiled broadly, gasped, and quickly jumped on Riku, embracing him in a hug. "Riku!" She said happily, crying and laughing on his shoulder as she put his arm around her, sitting up as he did so. When Xion lifted her head from Riku's shoulders, she looked into his eyes before kissing him passionately on the lips. He gladly kissed her back just as passionately as he stood up, holding Xion in his arms, and spun around with her, the two laughing and smiling in between the kiss they gave each other.

When they finally stopped kissing, Riku lowered Xion onto her feet. "How did that happen?" She asked him, placing her hand over his chest to feel the warming bumping of his heart.

He only smiled in response. "You mean you don't know? The light of your heart brought me back," he said. Xion looked confused for a moment before he took her free hand in his and placed it were her heart was, letting her feel the bumping of her heart through her chest.

"You didn't see how much light came off of you, I don't think I had that much light within me," she answered.

"Well maybe you had a little help," he smiled. He then pulled her into another hug and she gladly hugged him back before he said, "Thanks, Cosmos."

When they stopped hugging, Xion put her hand on the back of Riku's head, acting like she wanted to kiss him once again. Smiling, Riku leaned in to do so but instead received a punch to the chest with Xion's free hand. "Ow!" He yelled, "What was that for?"

"I thought I told you never to scare me like that ever again." She replied, laughing as Riku rolled his eyes smiling, and letting out a brief laugh.

Riku snickered at Xion's comment as he pulled her into another hug, placing her head against his chest as he ran his fingers through her short hair. She thought it was just to comfort her, but little did Xion know Riku did it only so she wouldn't see him crying from begin so glad to see her. (End Transformation)

After several more moments, the two's reunion was interrupted when the two could have sworn they heard the muffled sound of someone calling out Xion's name. Turning their heads to where the noise was coming from, Xion saw that wherever it is was coming from the room where she had killed the replica. Cautiously making her way over to the room, with Riku's hand intertwined in hers, she looked in the room to see nothing but her scattered armor and the ruins of the room…

But it was Riku who pointed in the direction where Xion's helmet was lying on the ground, the eyes dimly glowing their light blue glow. Not believing that her helmet still had some power in, Xion ran over to the helmet, placing it on her head so she could hear who was talking to her.

"Hello, Xion do you hear me?" It was Ven's voice that was talking to her, muffled but still understandable over her communicator.

"I'm here Ven, what do you need?" Xion asked.

"It's the heartless and nobodies, they are piling in the city! The others were having trouble defeating them so we jumped down to help instead but we aren't even sure if we can stop them all!" Ven worried, "We need help down here!"

And right after that, the helmet lost all its power, and Ventus's voice was no longer heard.

"What was that?" Riku asked her as soon as Xion threw off her helmet.

"Ven and the others need help in the city, apparently they are being bombarded by heartless and nobodies," she replied, "But do you think we should help them? I mean, what about Sora and Kairi…?"

Riku looked down at the ground for a moment before he replied. "I know I was basically voted to lead this army, but Xehanort is Sora and Kairi's fight," he looked away. "Sora needs to get his body back and Kairi needs to face her fears by facing Xehanort, we can't interfere with their battle."

"Alright," Xion nodded as Riku turned around to look at her, "Then let's get to the city then, shall we?"

And with that, Riku nodded, allowing Xion to get on the back of his keyblade rider as they flew down to help the others.


Now I can't stress this enough, but this probably is my favorite chapter that I have written for this story. Just... So much Riku x Xion feels... damn it feels good to write that again.

I have to warn you guys though, whatever you do, DO NOT listen to 'The One that Got Away' (by Sylvia Yacoub) 'On Our Own' and 'We Found Love' (by Boyce Avenue) while reading this chapter... I don't want to sound conceited ... but I cried cause of it... MY FEELS HAVE BEEN CRUSHED T3T

So since I love this chapter, and I am hoping you guys love it, could you possibly give me lots of reviews? I really want to get this story to 600! If we do that, I might give you guys a little more prizes as a way to say thank you :)

Next chapter: the (almost) final battle begins! How will the showdown between Sora and Kairi VS Xehanort go? Well you will have to wait to find out! Hopefully it will not be that long of a wait since I have more than half of that chapter written, but since I have two big tests coming up on Friday it might not come out till this weekend.

So please R&R and look out for the next chapter!