(A/N: Surprise! Chapter 13! Sorry for the quiet for so long. :( As an attempt of an apology I made this chapter the longest out of all of the recent ones. But anyways, I hope you like this one! I'll try to not make this "long inactivity" thing an actual thing. Please don't be afraid to leave a review for this chapter. Any review is accepted wither it is negative or positive. Thank you! :D )

Xion

As Lea had nodded back to her, Xion started to disappear as she went inside of Roxas' body.

When Xion had reappeared inside of Roxas' body she saw that she was standing on a large colorful circular stained-glass panel that had a picture of Sora on it.

As she stood on the glass panel, there was a dark puddle on the center of the glass that started to form and two dark bodies started to rise from the pool of darkness.

Both of the bodies had spikey hair, different from each other, but they had a similarity to both hair styles. She soon realized that it was Sora and Roxas who were covered in an armor of Darkness. As soon as both Roxas and Sora had come out, the glass panel that they stood on was covered by the liquid Darkness that had started as a pool.

The whole place had turned dark except for the space that she was standing on. The liquid darkness couldn't get to an inch of her, and then she realized that her body was glowing. She took a step forward and the liquid retreated in fear of residue of Light that was emitting from her body, but as well the liquid that was behind her moved covered the tracks that she had left behind.

(Hmmmm. Interesting.)

All of a sudden, Xion sees four silver eyes stare at her and that stare was soon followed by two simultaneous dark laughs that came from Sora and Roxas.

"Heh heh heh. What are you doing to do? I have both bodies in my possession and apparently…,"the Darkness paused himself as both Roxas and Sora had materialized their Kingdom Keyblades.

As soon as the Keyblades materialized, both Keyblades turned a dark violet shade of themselves as if they were tampered and touched by darkness themselves.

The darkness continued where he left off, "I have full control of both Keyblades! So I ask again, What are you going to do?"

Xion tried to materialize her keyblade, but in the end she couldn't get hers to materialize. She tried to think about the time when Roxas had lent her his Keyblade, and she thought about the warmth of his Keyblade as she held the grip of the blade. Unfortunately, she couldn't get the Keyblade to materialize in her hand.

All of a sudden, Roxas dashed his way in front of her and swung his Keyblade to her.

Xion, caught off guard by the attack, just barely side-stepped the swing and made hopped away from him to get some distance from him. But as soon as she got distance from Roxas, Sora was ready for her with his Keyblade in hand.

Sora had swung his keyblade at Xion, from behind her, as it hit her in the back. He continued with his five-hit combo and finished the combo with a kick.

She went flying towards the edge as she almost fell off the platform, but the kick wasn't strong enough and she grabbed the edge of the platform and pulled herself up.

As she pulled herself up, she looked upwards to find both Roxas and Sora in the motion of slashing their Keyblades at her. With quick instincts, she rolled in between them as she dodged the attacks and then she jumped away from them to gain some distance from them.

Her heart ached every time Roxas tried to attack him, and she tried to call out to him.

"Roxas! Wake up! Fight the Darkness that's taken hold on you!" Xion got nothing in response though.

"That's an adorable try little girl, but Roxas is under my control! There's no—," the darkness paused for a moment as if he was in pain.

Sora had fell onto his knees as he grabbed on to his head in pain. And out of nowhere, the two silver eyes on Roxas' armor of Darkness disappeared and the helmet on his head had shattered. Roxas had gasped for air as his Light had tried to fight off the Darkness that was trying to consume him.

"Xion!," he continued after he had gasped for air from the suffocating Darkness that was smothered him, "Take my Keyblade! Hurry, I don't know how long I can keep this up for!"

Xion shed a tear, but she quickly nodded and closed her eyes as she tried to feel the warmth of his Keyblade.

As she concentrated, she started to feel the warmth of his Keyblade slowly and steadily materialize in her hand. Her whole body began to warm up and she finally opened her eyes as she saw that she was holding onto the Kingdom Keyblade onto her right hand. The Keyblade that she had in her hand felt different, as if she was holding onto to a heart in her hand.

(You can do this. Set us free.)

She heard Roxas' voice inside of her head.

This made Xion shed a tear as she replied with a thought.

(I will I promise.)

All of a sudden, the Kingdom Keyblade turned into the Oathkeeper Keyblade as the Keyblade itself shined brightly against the Darkness.

She looked at Roxas but he was unconscious and his body had gone limp. The Darkness had reformed the helmet that Roxas had once broken with his will and Light.

Before the Darkness had a chance to recover, Xion had dashed past Roxas in a blink of an eye as she had sliced Roxas in half.

Roxas, coated in the armor of Darkness, had fallen on to his knees as his armor of darkness had completely shattered from the damage Xion had done. Roxas was free from the armor of Darkness and he fell on his face as he laid on the floor motionless, until Xion saw that Roxas was faintly breathing.

Xion grabbed Roxas by the waist and flung him over her shoulders, but was attacked by Sora. Xion blocked his attack with her Keyblade and swiped the attack aside as she countered it with a kick of her own.

"UGH! You little puppet! You always get in our way of our plans!" The Darkness had yelled out in annoyance.

"I'm not a puppet and I'll always be there to stop you in your tracks along with Roxas and Sora!" Xion responded righteously.

"Well, Puppet. All of that is about to change," the Darkness had told Xion with a silver smile appearing on Sora's helmet.

Xion rushed to attack the Darkness with Roxas still on her shoulder. All of a sudden, the Darkness that was surrounding the glass floor had started to surround the amor of Darkness that controls Sora. The Darkness had cut off Xion's rush with a blast of Darkness that had pulsed from Sora's armor and it had blasted Xion towards the opposite direction as Roxas had slipped out of her shoulder.

Xion had recovered from the blast but then she realized that she was a little too light in weight, and she noticed that Roxas' body was flying off of the edge and into the pit.

"GATHER!" Xion casted in a panic as Roxas' body was quickly pulled from the abyss and brought back above Xion.

Xion released a sigh of relief when she saw Roxas' body in the magnet spell that she casted but that relief was shortly interrupted when Sora had hit her with two Keyblades.

One of the Keyblades was the Kingdom Key that Sora had materialized in the beginning, but he was also holding this Keyblade that was made of pure Darkness. The Keyblade of Darkness was very similar to Xehanort's Keyblade when it came to shape, but the Keyblade itself was oozing of Darkness that was originally the ooze of Darkness that was all over the platform. The Darkness that was oozing out of the Keyblade had also stuck onto the forearm part of the armor of Darkness like venomous glue-like substance that looked like it would never let go of Sora's wrist and forearm.

Xion caught herself in mid-air after being hit with superhuman strength and speed. After she landed on her feet, she winced in pain from the strength of the attack that she had received.

This new Keyblade that Sora was being forced to wield had given Sora's body super-human speed and strength. The strength that Sora had gained from the Keyblade was strong enough to give Xion a few bruised ribs and maybe even a broken rib, but whatever it was, she started to feel an unbearable sharp pain in her body in every move she made.

Her Magnega spell had almost worn out as Roxas' body slowly began to hover over Sora. Sora looked up at Roxas that was barely out of his reach, and Xion noticed the darkness giving a devious and sinister smile. Hey eyes widened in fear of what the Darkness was about to do next, as she stood back up ignoring and forgetting about the horrible pain that her body was experiencing. She saw both Keyblades, that Sora was forced to equip with, gripped and prepared in a preemptive striking motion.

Sora's body was crouched as if he was ready to pounce on someone, but his body was hit with a blast of Firaga that came from Xion. When Sora turned to her, Xion was already an arm's length away from Sora.

Xion had tackled Sora and grappled him with both of her arms as she pulled him over her body and flung him with all of her might. She was afraid of losing Roxas again and she didn't want anything to happen to him ever again. As Sora had caught himself in mid-air, Xion caught Roxas' body as it immediately fell from the Magnera spell waring out. She placed Roxas down to the floor as she immediately brought her attention to Sora.

She understood that Sora needed to be freed from the Darkness, but it was way too strong at this point for her to defeat it at this point. She decided that it was best to try to wear down the armor of Darkness as best as possible and have Axel take it down.

Xion flinched from the pain that was trying to remind her body that it was still here, and it was not going anywhere any time soon, but then Sora had disappear from her sight. She looked around and couldn't find him, until she heard a "whooshing" sound right behind her. She immediately turned around with her Keyblade in hand and blocked the incoming surprise attack.

As their Keyblades clashed, Xion noticed that Sora was getting more aggressive as time began to progress.

"Heh. Little puppet, you are at the end of your wits. At this point, there's no way that you are able to defeat me like this! I shall end you and take this boy's heart back with me!" The Darkness had aggressively told Xion.

"No. I can still defeat you!" Xion yelled her reply at the Darkness as she kicked The Darkness right in the abdomen area of the armor.

The Darkness had tilted forward from the kick that Xion gave and Xion took this opportunity to grapple Sora again and toss him towards the other side and away from Roxas. She then began to follow him as he flew in mid-air towards the other side. Sora recovered in mid-air, but Xion was right in front of him. As she began to swing her Keyblade to attack him, The Darkness had no time to guard from the attacks and took them head-on.

Xion swung her Keyblade at the Darkness' armor with seven successful hit as Sora was backed up to the edge and was about to fall over, but was saved by Xion at the last minute as she grabbed him and pulled him to the other side. As Sora was saved, Xion kick the Darkness again and was followed by a knee to the jaw area of the helmet which had lifted Sora's body in mid-air. Xion continued her offense in mid-air as she kept slashing away at the armor of Darkness with a combination of slashes and cuts from Xion's Keyblade. When she was done with all of the slashes and cuts, Sora's body was parallel to the platform and Xion finally ended her airborne assault against the Darkness with kick downwards to the abdomen area of the armor. Sora's body went with the force of Xion's kick and back-planted on the platform hard. The Darkness was in a daze of confusion due to the impact of the fall as Xion grabbed her Keyblade, with both of her hands and with the tip pointed towards Sora, as she went in for a downward lunge to the attempt to break the armor of Darkness.

But the Darkness snapped out of the confusion, and Sora rolled out of the way of the lunge from Xion as she hit nothing but the platform. As Sora got up from the dodge, the Darkness kicked Xion away from her Keyblade.

After Xion was kicked, the Darkness called out, "Dark Dual Arcanum!"

The Darkness dashed in front of Xion, who was still paralyzed from the kick, and began to swing both his keyblades one after another as all 13 swings successfully connected. In every swing that the Darkness used, both Keyblades let out a visible dark aura that looked like deadly, wickedly dark poison The Darkness began with a swing from the Keyblade of Darkness as it was followed by Sora's Kingdom Keyblade as both Keyblades were consistently on the move in a fluidly motion. The Darkness then continued with another three attacks as Xion was brought up in to the air with the fifth swing. Then the barrage of attacks continued as he swung his whole body around three times and landing six devastating slashes onto Xion's body; finally, the Darkness finished off the devastating assault onto Xion with two final downward slashes as her body began to follow the force and direction of the attack.

Xion yelled in pain as her body shortly bounced off of the ground from the force that was dealt onto to her with the Darkness' superhuman strength. She had released her Keyblade as she fell to the floor, and the Oathkeeper Keyblade dematerialized as soon as she had lain on the ground, unable to move. Her body was covered in cuts and bruises as she began to spew out blood from her mouth as she knew that she might've injured internally.

She saw Sora passing by her.

"Heh, this is the end for you, Puppet," The Darkness chuckled in amusement and joy, "I shall end your retched life, but not before I let you witness the end of your 'beloved one'!"

Sora had walked past her as she turned her head to see Roxas' body laying down on the platform and saw that Sora was getting closer to his body.

Xion had no strength at all to move her own body and nothing wanted to work. She was exhausted and worn down physically as she began to lose all hope. Then she started to remember the time that she had spent with both Roxas and Axel in the organization, and how they were the only members that were nice to her and had accepted her as who she was. They made her feel not as some sort of puppet, but as an individual person herself. She knew that the person who had begun all of this joy and happiness in her life was him.

Before she knew it, all of the pain in her body was fading away and she slowly got up to her feet. The pain of losing Roxas was much greater than the pain that her body was facing. As soon as she faced Sora, she saw that the Darkness was about to end Roxas. She rematerialized Oathkeeper and casted a blast of Firaga that hit Sora in the back of the armor of Darkness. That had stopped the Darkness in its tracks as Sora turned around to face Xion.

"Well," The Darkness had told Xion with a surprised tone, but amusement in his voice, "I'm surprised that you are able to stand up by yourself. But I guess you want to go first instead of your 'beloved one'. Fine, suit yourself!"

Sora started to rush over to Xion, who was just standing there, waiting for the Darkness to get close to her. As soon as Sora was a couple of feet away from Xion, Xion smiled.

"Are you finally accepting your demise?" The Darkness yelled out with adrenaline in its tone and his voice was dark and sinister.

Xion replied with a soft voice, "No."

As soon as Xion replied, she disappeared out of the Darkness' view of vision. Sora stopped dead in his tracks, as the Darkness was surprised and confused on what had just happened. Sora looked around to try to find Xion, but out of nowhere Xion reappeared in front of Sora.

With Oathkeeper glowing with a bright light aura in its shape, Xion exclaimed to the Darkness, "I have to go on! For Roxas!"

Xion began to slice up Sora's armor with lightning fast and quick rapid attacks. Her attack speed was par with the Darkness' speed boost that he forced upon Sora's body. With attack after attack, Sora's armor of Darkness began to crack and chip from the powerful and devastating limit breaking attacks. After 30 devastating slashes to the armor, she unleashed her final attack. With the darkness dazed and confused, Xion pulled herself away from Sora to gain some distance from the Darkness.

"I won't give in…!" Xion exclaimed to the Darkness with determination in her eyes.

As soon as she said that, Oathkeeper began to intensely glow brighter and had summoned a row of four pillars of Light in front of Xion. As soon as Xion had swung her Keyblade, the row of pillars quickly collided with Sora's armor with a bright flash of light that made Xion look away due to the intensity.

Once the intensity of the light had died down, Xion looked back at Sora as she saw parts of Sora exposed but other parts of Sora still covered by the armor of Darkness as it began to smoke from the attack of Light that Xion had unleashed upon it. Soon Sora had fallen face first into the floor as it seems that the Darkness took a severe amount of damage from Xion's Limit Break to gain control of Sora's body at the moment.

Xion began to take a step towards Sora, but her body had pulsated from within and that stopped Xion's moment completely. She coughed and began to wheeze as her mouth began to release blood from the tremendous amount of stress that her Limit Break put on her already severely injured body. Xion slumped face first to the floor as Oathkeeper had dematerialized and had returned back to Roxas' hand.

Xion was completely tired that she could not speak nor less keep herself barely conscious, but before she was able to lose conscious she saw Sora's armor of Darkness began to regenerate itself.

(Oh no…), Xion thought to herself.

Xion started to lose finally started to lose her consciousness and began to to slowly close her eyes. When she had almost begun to fall asleep due to sheer fatigue itself, she heard Lea's voice yell at her in her head.

(I'm ready), Axel alerted Xion.

This woke Xion up and also gave her a little amount of energy.

The engery was enough for Xion to yell out loud, "Now, Lea!"

For a second, nothing happened but then the whole place had begun to glow with a bright Light emerging from the whole place. Eventually, Xion was unable to see anything but white and the Light that Lea had unleashed had embraced her with tenderness and care, as if it was a Cure spell that was being casted on her.

She felt Roxas' aura of Light and she began to crawl towards him. Unable to see, she felt Roxas' body until she reached to his face and before anything else happened she grabbed his head and kissed him on the forehead. She finished her kiss as she lifted her head away from his.

"Roxas…" Xion called to him.

To her surprise, Roxas responded softly, "Xion?"

"Let's meet again." She told Roxas as she let out a tear.

As she leaned back down again for another kiss but instead of her lips touching Roxas' forehead.

Her lips touched his as she had given her first kiss to him.

It felt like a moment that had lasted forever, but finally her lips had departed from his.

She finally slumped over.

All of a sudden, she heard a dark and sinister voice screaming in pain, but it died down along with Light as she had finally momentarily lost consciousness.

She woke up weakly to remember that the last thing she felt was nothing but her body being dragged into a cold and dark place.

(Roxas….Please…Protected…..Him….For….Me….I'm…Sorry.), Xion tried to send the thought to Lea as she didn't know if her last words would reach Lea.

And Xion had finally went into a deep sleep…