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Chapter 6

Dalynx woke up. He sat up in the sewer, then stood up and walked out. He wandered the streets of Twilight town, not knowing what to do. He went up to the top of the clock tower, and just sat there, thinking. He looked out on the view of the town, it looked so peaceful, the dim orange light, the warm air. It was then that he noticed something unfamiliar. The mansion. He could just see it from the clock tower roof. "Well, it's something to do." Dalynx jumped from the roof of the clock tower, and broke into an air glide at the last moment. He shot through the town, headed for the woods. Once he was in the woods, he dropped from his glide, and started walking. Just being there felt wrong to him, due to his Somebody's death. He thought he heard something, so he pulled a veil of shadows over himself, concealing him from view. The source of the noise was, in fact, Xion. "What's she doing here?" Dalynx thought to himself. She walked through the woods, and up to the gates of the mansion. Dalynx followed her, curious. "Did they send her after me? No...they would send someone to intimidate me, diplomacy isn't their style." Dalynx thought. The gates opened, and Xion walked through. Dalynx slipped through at the last second, still keeping his distance. He followed her into the mansion, where he saw a man, covered in red leathery garbs, usher her into a room. Dalynx slipped in behind her, and sat in the corner, concealed. Sitting at a white table, is a blonde girl, who does not look dissimilar to Xion.
"I've been waiting to meet you, Xion." The blonde said.

"Namine...you can see my face, can't you?" Xion asked in response.

"Yes."
"What do you think I should do?"
"What do you want to do?"

"At first, I wanted the four of us to be together forever." Xion looked over to the wall, where there was a childishly drawn picture of you, her, Axel and Roxas. "But then I started to realise...these memories don't belong to me." Dalynx was struck with realisation. It wasn't Vexen who had last accessed his computer, looking at the Replica program. It was Xion. She knew the truth about herself. Namine calmly looks over to Xion and says,
"That's because you're Kairi, at least, the Kairi Sora remembers."

"The more I remember, the more I feel like I'm in the wrong place, like...like I need to go back." Dalynx's eyes widened. He realised what is happening, it's something that he himself practised in life. Given his weak physical abilities, he had to rely on other people to do any dirty work for him. Thus he had learned the intricacies of manipulation, of making someone do as you want, whilst still thinking they have their free will. Namine was doing exactly that to Xion.

"Back to Sora?" Namine asked.

"If you return to him, you'll disappear, and since everything about you was built on those memories, no one will remember you when you're gone, there won't be any 'you' to remember. I can't save you Xion. Not even a memory of you." Dalynx was getting angrier. Namine was manipulating Xion into essentially committing suicide, which was something that he would not stand for.

"I know. I'm ready. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here." Xion nodded in confirmation of her statement. "Roxas belongs with Sora too, but, I don't think he would understand...not yet. He can't feel Sora, but he will. Namine, will you watch over Roxas and Dalynx when I'm gone? You won't be alone, I asked somebody else to look after them too. It's just...There isn't anything else I can do for him."

"All right." Namine said, nodding. Then Dalynx threw off his veil of shadows.
"That won't be necessary. I've heard quite enough of this. I don't know who this Sora is, or why he's so important, but basic logic applies here. It will never be worth it to give up two people, no, two of my friends, to him." Namine and Xion both looked shocked.

"Dalynx! You ran away!" Xion exclaimed, sounding worried.

"Yes, and I happened to see one of my best friends being taken into a mansion by a rather shady looking fellow in red. I may no longer swear my blade to Xemnas, but I shall never cease my loyalty to you, Roxas and Axel." Dalynx stood firm, as Namine got up.

"Sora was one of the most important people in all the worlds, he has defeated countless evils to save us all. Then some of your Organization put him in a coma. Isn't it your duty to try and help him?" She said, walking over to Dalynx.

"Nice try, but you forget the key part of us Nobodies. No heartstrings to pull." Dalynx sounded smug.

"Ah, but that's where you are different isn't it? You're not quite a Nobody." Namine smiled innocently as she spoke your greatest embarrassment.

"Xion...you told her?"

"She knows all memories connected to Sora. Roxas is his nobody, and I am just a pile of his memories put into a puppet. She knows everything about us."
"You're wrong! You've been deceived. However much you may have been told you are no more than a puppet full of Sora, that's wrong! I didn't befriend Sora, neither did Roxas or Axel! Sora didn't eat ice cream with us on the roof!" Dalynx started to cry as he yelled at Xion. Namine stepped between the two of them.

"Dalynx, there's no other way. Xion and Roxas have to return to Sora, so that he can awaken." Namine was staying extremely calm. "All worlds are at risk without him."
"You think I care about them? No! All I want, all I need, are my friends! Axel, Roxas, and Xion! Xemnas and the rest of the Organization can all die for what I care, Sora is the same!" The silver haired man walked into the room.

"No, he's not. Sora was, no, is, a better person than any of you Nobodies could ever be." Dalynx was now on the verge of outright killing this man.

"So what? We don't have a right to live? Is that all we are to you? A resource? Something you can kill whenever you need, for whatever reason, like cattle?"

"No. Nobodies are an active threat to all of the worlds. Whilst you and heartless live, a Somebody is gone. You kill the heartless and the Nobody, the Somebody comes back, simple as that, they have their hearts restored." The silver haired man didn't have a hint of emotion in his voice. Dalynx summoned his rapier.

"So, you would just kill Xion and Roxas, in cold blood, to bring back Sora?"

"Yes, any day. Xion even said that she wants to, and Roxas is no better than any other Nobody." The silver haired man summons a demonic looking blade, and Namine runs over to him.
"Riku, don't!"
"No. You know what? Fine. Fine. If Xion wants to die, then go ahead! I know Axel tried to stop you, and look what you did to him! So much for friendship, so much for sticking together until the end! Damn it all to hell! Go ahead and murder Xion for your precious Sora, she might be willing, but I'll sure as hell bet you Roxas will not be so easy. It seems the universe wants me to be alone, well fine! Do you hear me Sora! You go eat the souls of my friends, go ahead! Take them from me, the one time I have actual friends! Just make sure you know that once you're back, I will come for you. I will avenge those that you have taken from me. I'm leaving, and if any of you try to stop me...well, Xion can account for my ability." Dalynx ran past Riku, out the door and out of the mansion.

Dalynx ran, and kept on running until he could run no more. He collapsed in an alleyway of Twilight Town, and curled up to start crying. "You knew this would happen." He said to himself. "So why does it still hurt? Why can't I get over this?" Dalynx just stayed there, in the alley, curled up for the entire day and night. When morning came, he got up. "I just remembered." He said, sounding much colder than normal. "Oh god...if they have to die, don't let it be like this..." Dalynx ran, he was going to head for the mansion, when he saw two people on top of the clock tower. He started running towards it. One of the people stepped out, walking on the air. Dalynx was almost there now. He opened a corridor, scaling the tower instantly. He dived from the edge, hoping it was solid. It was his lucky day. He tackled Xion to the ground. She looked up at him, confused.
"Why? Why stop me?" She asked.

"I don't care who's idea you think this is, Namine's, Sora's, Riku's, it doesn't matter. The only person this fight is helping is Xemnas. If you won't do it for yourself, do it to spite him."

"No, Dalynx. I have to return to Sora, as does Roxas. It's better this way."
"No it's not! Why do you two have to be the ones to die? Can't Sora take anyone else? Riku, I know you're watching, care to enlighten me?" Riku stepped out from behind the clock tower, and Xion gasped.

"If you had listened in the mansion, Xion and Roxas have to go to give back Sora the remainder of his memories, giving him back the rest of his heart." Dalynx thought for a moment, and then had an epiphany.

"Riku. Thank you, you have just given me the way to save my friends." Dalynx sounded happier than Xion had ever heard him. "Riddle me this: If he's only missing a part of his heart, could not a person give up a part of their heart to restore him? Give him a while to get used to it, and to turn it into his own, and good as new!" Xion looked at Dalynx, she saw the hope in his eyes.

"Well, yes, it would probably work, then these two could live..." Riku said this, sounding very confused. "But nobody you know has any heart to give, you're all Nobodies."
"Not quite." Dalynx at this point was crying tears of joy. "I'm Nobody plus. I've got a part of my heart left behind. All it's brought me is trouble, as no Nobody will accept me, but neither would a somebody. If I give Sora my heart, what little I have, then no one has to die!" Dalynx was grinning, the tears streaming down his face.

"The procedure to remove your heart will be painful."
"So? I don't care! Just take us to him already!" Dalynx helped Xion up. "You see? There's always a choice Xion. Don't ever listen to anyone telling you otherwise. Once we fix Sora, we can go back, back to the Organization, to Axel, and things can be normal again!" Roxas looked angrily.

"I'm not going back there, not after what they did to Xion. It was all Xemnas' plan to kill her, he had let her run away to wherever, he said she was just a useless pawn."
"You think he can act upon those plans? Xemnas can't afford to lose three members. He's banking on this fight having a winner, and the winner coming back. Even then, I wiped Vexen's database clean before I left. They have none of their precious data on how to hurt Xion, or on how their devices work."

"Wait...that was you?" Roxas asked.

"Yes. I was just planning on removing myself from the database, but someone had the files on Xion open. I wiped everything on her, to protect her." Dalynx walked back on to the rooftop with Xion.

"I'd hate to ruin your moment, but there's one thing you're forgetting." Riku spoke calmly.
"What is it?" Xion asked.

"Kingdom hearts. If you return to the Organization, it'll carry on growing, and-"
"Riku, don't worry. I can personally assure you that once Sora is awake, from what you've said, he'll be coming for us. I won't stop him, and I doubt Xion or Roxas will either. However, I speak for all of us when I say that we would just like a while, to have our normal lives back. Is that too much to ask?" Dalynx now stood beside Xion and Roxas. Riku sighed.
"Alright. Come with me, we'll wake up Sora, then we can all go our separate ways." Riku led the way to the mansion. Dalynx, Xion and Roxas followed.

"Wait, Dalynx, you really plan on giving up your heart for Sora?" Xion asked, confused. "Yesterday you were shouting about how much you hated him."
"I'm not doing this for him Xion, I'm doing it for you and Roxas. Anyway, what's my heart done for me? It's just thrown Vexen down a hall, and ripped up some Dusks, nothing useful." Dalynx chuckled.

"Wow...you really are serious about our friendship, aren't you? You're willing to give your heart to someone you've said you hate, just for us." Roxas said, astounded.

"It's what friends are for, anyway, I couldn't exactly let you two die could I?" Dalynx said as they entered the mansion, and headed to Sora's pod.

"Alright, Dalynx, lie down here." Riku lay Dalynx down on a table, and opened his coat, exposing the half-Nobody's chest. "Xion, or Roxas, take your pick. We need a Keyblade wielder to do this."

"Roxas. Come on, let's get this over with." Roxas walked over, on Dalynx's command, and summoned his Keyblade. He pointed it at Dalynx, the tip touching his bare flesh, and a white light came out, pooling on Dalynx's chest. "Hurry up! If you take too long, I might end up flipping!" Dalynx said, struggle in his voice. He could feel the power surging through him, trying to take away his will, trying to control him. Roxas turned his Keyblade, and then pulled it out. On the end was a glowing sphere of pure white, about the size of Dalynx's fist. He exhaled heavily, as he felt the power retreat back into him.
"It is only a fraction, isn't it?" Riku asked no one in particular. "Normally, the heart is much bigger than that." Roxas then pointed his Keyblade at the pod, and the sphere of white floated into it. The pod opened, as did Sora's eyes. AS he was looking around, dazed, Riku spoke.
"Your jobs here are done. Leave now." He spoke with a slightly threatening tone, and Dalynx nodded, opening a corridor.
"Let's get headed back then, shall we? I have some explaining to do..." Dalynx stepped through the corridor, followed by Xion and Roxas.