(A/N: Alright! Chapter 15! And also over 3K views! Thank you for reading my story and I hope you enjoy this Chapter!)

Roxas

Roxas was suspended in mid-air in an empty white void.

He felt like was sleeping and drifting in space, but even though he was asleep he had felt a presence. It felt like a girl was kissing her forehead, but then the kissing stopped and he heard a girl's voice.

"Roxas…," The feminine voice had called to him.

He had a hard time recognizing her voice because he was half asleep at the time, but eventually his mind had realized that it was Xion's voice that was calling out to him.

"X-Xion?" Roxas used all of his willpower to reply to her, but he replied half-sheepishly.

"Let's meet again…" Her voice sounded shaky as Roxas felt a teardrop fall on his face.

Roxas began to open his eyes hazily to barely see Xion's face right in front his with her lips touching his.

As soon as he saw what was happening, his eyes were filled with a mix of haze and surprise.

All of a sudden, Xion's presence began to fade away like sand in the wind alongside the light of the dream.

As that part of what felt like a dream began to fade away, Roxas heard a dark, nasty and graveling voice alongside a weak but spine-tingling presence from within cold void that his dream had changed into. Soon enough, he couldn't see anything anymore as his dream turned pitch black.

(Be glad, Roxas.), the voice began to cough and wheeze before it began to fade away, (Next time, you won't have little miss puppet to save you and the prince of Light. And remember, this isn't the end of me…)

As soon as the voice disappeared along with the presence, Roxas felt like he began to fall head first downwards into emptiness. He didn't know what was going to happen to him as he was falling like a shooting star and he couldn't hear nor smell anything but the ripples of the wind as he fell down.

Finally, he finally hit a surface of water head first. As he was submerged in underwater, he couldn't move nor breathe. He soon realized that the water didn't actually feel like water at all, but instead it felt like a dark and heavy sludge that he couldn't see through. He tried to move but immediately his whole body began to come down with an intense fever as if it hit him with an uppercut. He instantly opened his mouth in reaction of the hit of fever that had overcome his body in a surprise of motion. As he opened his mouth, a flood of sludge had raced inside of him as he had released his last breath in exchange for nothing but sludge.

He couldn't breathe and his mind began to slowly drift away. He began to lose his ability to do anything as he began to slowly die from asphyxiation.

He began to accept his fate when he suddenly felt his whole body began to shiver and his fever began to cool down. He suddenly felt this presence of Light touch his hand and began to pull him towards the surface.

He lost consciousness before him reach the surface.

Suddenly, Roxas woke up in a fit of convulsing coughs as he spew out nothing but the sludge that he had trapped inside of his lungs. He quick sat up and turned to his left side of his body, which had once lain down, and threw up the sludge that was inside of his stomach onto the darkened sand.

Roxas finally finished throwing up as he collapsed back onto his back as his head was blank and he could barely think with the fever that he still had, but the fever wasn't as severe as it was before. He looked up into the dark cloudy sky.

(Where am I?), He questioned the unfamiliar place.

He pushed himself to get up, but a pair of hands gently guided him back to the position that he once was. The hand on his chest was warm and was shimmering with Light. His whole body eased up as the Light's presence felt very familiar. He looked towards the Light's body to find that it was Naminé who was next to him.

Her whole being was shimmering with an aura of Light that was strong and unwavering.

"Relax, Roxas," her voice was calm and soothing, "You are in a critical condition. You shouldn't move."

"N-naminé?" his voice croaked out the words.

"Shhhhh…," Naminé had but a finger on his lips to keep him from speaking, "You need to save as much of your energy as you possibly can. I'm trying to heal you."

Naminé put both hands on his chest as she released a constant steady stream of Light into his body. The Light that was entering his body was warm and soothing, and his body had begun to relax as Roxas was starting to slowly regain his senses back.

"How are you here? And where are we?" Roxas asked her.

"I-I don't know. Maybe we're in your heart?" She replied with a snicker.

"Oooh…," Roxas replied with chuckled smile but flinched after his whole body ached in pain, "So you've got jokes now?"

"Maybe," Naminé smiled in return, "But then again, I'm just glad to see that you're still alive."

Both Roxas gazed into her eyes with great deep affection for her.

But out of the corner of his eye, he sees a decaying palm tree leaf fluttering against the wind that blew. He refocuses his attention to that palm tree as if he recognizes that palm tree. He then looks around as he grips his hand in the sand below his body. He looks at the sea that was in front of him, but the sea was not as he was expecting.

He slowly sat up to try to look at the sea, but Naminé tried to lay him back down.

"Roxas, you need to save your energy," Naminé insisted as he tried to guide his body back.

But Roxas gently moved her hand aside, "Its fine. I've barely got enough energy to sit up. I'll be fine."

Roxas finally got a good view of what the sea had turned into.

The salty but refreshing water had turned into a sea of disgusting, sticky sea of sludge. The sludge was as dark as tar and was nowhere near clear. The sea of sludge barely moved upon shore as a regular sea would, but as well the sea would bubble the closer it got to them.

The sky was not faring better than the sea is. The sky was covered by numerous of storm clouds that looked like they were about to shoot a lightning bolt at any moment. And no sunshine ever got through the clouds that covered up the sky, although in here it was still around afternoon time.

Eventually, he saw another embodiment of Light next to another body that was lain down on the sand. Roxas thought that the body was dead when he noticed that body didn't move at all nor breathe at all. But after one of the longest minutes of mankind, the body's chest weakly moved up and down for a breath of air.

His attention was at the body of Light as her presence of obviously familiar, but he wanted to make sure that it was her.

"Hey, is that Kairi?" Roxas asked Naminé.

Naminé responded with reassurance, "Yes, it is. Actually, she was the one who brought me here. Where are we anyways?"

Roxas answered her question, "Well, if I were to guess. We are at a place where more than one hearts meet. Normally, this place would look like Sora's home world, but… As you can see, I'm not in a great condition."

The body that was lain down on the darkened sand had tattered clothes and brown, with variations of black spots, hair with a unique type of hairstyle. The tears on his clothes exposed parts of his skin, and his skin had spots of pitch black spots alongside the bruises that he had.

The only other major difference that was on his body was his hand; it was thin and fragile as an old man's, but it had dark, black veins sticking out of it and would pulsate in a sickly way. Although, the hand looked like it would hurt, the body was too deep in a coma to react to it.

Roxas finally got the strength to stand up on his feet and slowly limped towards Kairi.

"Is he, ok?" Roxas asked her but Kairi was silent.

That was all that Roxas needed to understand.

"Do you think he'll be fine again?" He asked her with a tone of sorrow.

"Oh course! Sora'll be back to normal in no time! There is no way this will keep him down! He always goes back to normal!" Kairi responded to his question with a false confidence and a tear leaking out.

Roxas felt horrible as he knew that she was covering up her uncertainty and sadness through tears and false bravado.

He looked back to Naminé for help, but she had suddenly disappeared. He looked around to see if she was anywhere around.

"She's gone," Kairi told Roxas without looking at him, "Her presence just left. She's probably in the real world."

"So then, how are you still here?" Roxas scratched his head in confusion.

"Because I attached my heart here; I willed my heart to stay in your body. Naminé should be back when it's time to sleep again, but until then I'm going to stay here where I'm needed with you and this sleeping Goofball," Kairi smiled as she adored Sora sleeping.

Kairi lifted her right hand just above Sora's chest as her hand began to glow with a visible aura of Light. She gently placed her hand on his chest to release a steady stream of Light into Sora's body.

"Do you know what's wrong with Sora?" Roxas asked her.

She didn't respond for what had felt like a minute.

"Sora's heart is infected with a toxic darkness. If this happened any longer, Sora would've been lost to darkness and since you and his heart are connected as one, you would've been lost as well. The only question is how did this happen? Who or what did this?" Kairi questioned in a disgusted tone.

Roxas grabbed his head in pain while he saw pictures flash through his head. He saw a girl fight against what looked like an armored heartless with blades of darkness. He saw sections of this fight that went on and realized that the girl was Xion, and suddenly his face became hot and felt a bit of sadness deep within himself. Then a voice echoed throughout his mind.

(This isn't the end of me…)

Normally, he was calm, collected, and unwavering, but the voice was dark and sinister as Roxas felt goosebumps run up his spine. He felt this sudden urge of panic froze his whole body.

"Roxas?" Kairi snapped him out of his daze as he called him with worry.

"Huh?" Roxas responded sheepishly.

"Are you ok?"

"Of course I'm ok." Roxas responded to Kairi's question with a persuasive confidence.

Kairi stood up and started to walk towards him.

Roxas took a stumbling step backwards in a surprise reaction when Kairi extended her arm out toward him. Roxas' body made him flinch after his quick step backwards.

His body paralyzed by pain, Kairi placed her hand on the very center of his chest where his "heart" would be. She closed her eyes as she looked focused on something.

Roxas felt a tiny spark of Light within himself strengthen from within as he felt calm and relaxed, but soon was followed by awkwardness because of Kairi's hand touching his chest. Roxas felt confused.

"You have fear in your heart," Kairi told Roxas nonchalantly.

"I have no idea what you are talking about…," Roxas replied in a calmly denied state.

"You do. I can sense it in your heart. You are scared of whatever attacked you," Kairi continued to press on the matter.

"I don't have a heart," Roxas replied agitated as turned and walked away from her.

Kairi grabbed his shoulder to stop him in his tracks, "Yes, you do."

"No, I don't!" Roxas angrily shouted as an ominous flash of lightning appeared immediately followed by a sound of loud lightning.

The place was filled with complete silence.

"I'm a Nobody. And we Nobodies don't have hearts. We aren't even supposed to exist…"

Kairi punched Roxas on his right shoulder.

Roxas turned around in a response to her punch, "Ow… What was that for?"

"You're being too depressing," Kairi responded with a warming smile, "You remind me a lot like Sora, but you're too depressing. You need to smile more!"

"Funny, you say that like I have the ability to smile," Roxas responded with sadness in his eyes and remorseful smirk.

Kairi grabs both of Roxas' shoulders, but before she starts talking Roxas sees two mirages shadowing Kairi. One was Naminé, who was on the left side of Kairi and the other was Xion on the right side of Kairi.

"But you do, Roxas! You have a heart! You may be a Nobody, but you have a heart of your own! You've joined with Sora long enough to grow your own heart. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to wield a Keyblade! So please, don't tell yourself these things or let anyone else tell you otherwise!" Kairi said as both Xion and Naminé were shadowing her lips and movement to the exact.

Roxas was stunned to see the three of them facing him at once. Roxas blinked and both Naminé and Xion disappeared. He refocused back onto Kairi.

"At least, do it for Naminé. Ok?" Kairi requested with her eyes closed and gave him a bright smile.

The clouds on the beach started to slowly dissolve as light started to break through little by little. As the sludge that was on the beach began to slowly dissolve and purify into the beach water. The atmosphere of the Destiny Islands began to show a little sparkle once more as Roxas closed his eyes and gave a huge grin to Kairi.

"You know what? You make a great point! Thanks, I needed that," he responded as he put his hand behind his head, but was soon moved towards his ribs as soon as his body reminded him that his body was in pain.

Kairi snickered as soon as Roxas grabbed his ribs. She reached out and placed her hand on his chest to relax his pained body.

"You should relax now," Kairi told him with an adoring tone, "And go get some rest while you're at it, you'll need it."

Roxas instinctively yawn when the word "rest" was mentioned. He felt his eyes grow heavier and his whole body began to grow sluggish.

"I guess you've got another point. I'll just go lie down and go to sleep," He told him through a yawn.

Roxas slowly laid himself down on the darkened sand as he closed his eyes. Even though, it was still daylight he found himself sleeping rather quickly.

As he lost consciousness, the last words that he heard were, "This isn't the end of me… I will be back and be prepared for a good fight against us…"

Roxas woke up breathing rapidly as his eyes fluttered awake with the sound of dark laughter echoed through his head…