Up, Up, and Away

[Rikugurl]

Ven leaned back in his chair and thought. Requiem... It's a song or service about death... right...? The Mass to repose of the souls of the dead. To repose is to calm... which is a good thing... and death is obviously a bad thing. A song is also a good thing... and death... obviously bad. To calm the souls of the dead...
The Soul Eater.

"HOLY SHIT!" Ventus suddenly stood, his eyes wide. "Riku is Requiem! He has the power of both good AND evil... and he can destroy the Darkness's greatest threat.... the Nobodies... because he wields the keyblade that can eat souls."
He looked at the two. "We're in big fucking trouble you guys."


"I don't like ghost." Axel whimpered as he shook behind the blonde.... but his eyes suddenly focused on the huge thing... and the thing on the huge thing's horn.
"Sora....?" He looked at the yellow eyes gazing down at him. They were... haunting. No... that couldn't...

"Sora fell with him..."

Everything in Axel's heart told him it was Sora. How...?
"SORA!"


Olette blinked as she heard the familiar name. Sora? She looked up at the horn, seeing a dark figure with yellow eyes. That wasn't Sora!


Fujin looked up as well, frowning as she saw the creature atop the behemoth. It didn't look like Sora... and why would he be on top of that thing?

[Reno]

Terra and Aqua slowly mused as well - but the moment Ven spelt it out for them they knew they were in deep shit.

"fuck..." Terra groaned shaking his head. "Well, we;re screwed."

Aqua shook her head. Riku could destroy all the nobodies... could destroy balance itself and... "What the HELL are we going to do?!"

"We need to get soul eater away from him!"


Sora and Roxas locked eyes. roxas felt his heart stop cold. that was Sora. Without a doubt he knew it was. The darkness was clinging to the brunette like a second skin, only patches of his peach color skin showing. His form seemed completely warped - dark and evil. And why the fuck did he have a collar around his neck?! "Sora..."

Hayner looked up at the once perky brunette he rememebred meeting, remembering seeing a teenager that had been so full of emotion and caring that he had even cried in front of him. But the person atop that heartless was NOT Sora. It couldn;t be...

Seifer grimanced, his grip tightening on his gunblade, unable to fathom why his ehart felt so cold. He knew Sora in passing. the wimpy kid who licked the chicken wusses. But he was someone else - he easily forgave and easily smiled. He and his two friends had even stepped in front of a pack of wild nobodies for him and his posse while everyone else was running scared. He had saved his and Fuu and Raj;s life...

Sora gripped the chain lifting it then slammed its hard links atop the Behemoth;s rgeat head like a whip, commanding it to move.

[Rikugurl]

Ventus shivered at how all of this was falling into place.
Suddenly he pushed a button, hacking into Disney's computers. He saw a chipmunk sleeping on the keyboard and growled. "YO! WAKE UP!"

Dale blinked as he heard yelling come from now where. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the computer, squeaking. "W-hat ya doin!?"

"Did you get that information I just sent you!?"
"Uh..... yea!"
"Did you give it to the King?"
"Uh..... no."
"GODDAMNIT GIVE IT TO THE KING!"

The chipmunk jumped from the yelling, grabbing some papers that had been printed out. "We've been monitoring the worlds! Looks like two more worlds went missing all of a sudden. Olympus and Neverland are gone!"

Two more worlds... damnit... he was getting stronger... and fast!
"And Space Paranoids won't respond."
"Well get the damn papers to the King!"

The chipmunk saluted and ran off. His little legs carried him to the King's den. He raced up the chair leg and hopped up and down in front of the King. Minnie, Goofy, Donald and Daisy watching. They were all writing letters to the worlds and sending them as fast as possible.
"Your majesty! From the Chasers!"


"SORA!" Axel called again as he looked into the yellow eyes. No... he had fallen. "SORA SNAP OUT OF IT!"
With the snap of his chain... he knew Sora couldn't hear him.

Olette shivered as she heard another fierce roar from the large beast. She finally let go of Seifer and ran back into the small house that they had come from and locked the door. She panted, she was so scared...

The ghost laughed as they floated around Fujin but she quickly stopped that nonsense. "Sora..." She said faintly as she withheld the roar. There was no way... she could fight him. He had saved her life... she wasn't going to endanger his... no matter what he had become.

The Behemoth roar as it felt the chain whip it. It growled as it started moving towards the group, its large feet making a deadly ripple towards them. Its horn started to gather energy, making Sora's figure light up a bit.

[Reno]

Mickey looked up, surprised to see Dale running to him, papaers between his teeth. He frowned. "whats this?" He knelt down taking the papers from the other. He let them face him and his expression turned grave. "Its worse then i thought."

Ven was a very intelligent male it seemed. and Sora and him were twins? His expression dropped further. "Riku has the power to upset the very balance of the universe." This was bad... very bad. And even if they did somehow bring Riku back to the light - could they trust the other to not let soemthing like this happen to him again?

Tidus looked over at the mouse from were he stood in the middle of the library. He frowned at Mickey's words. "does that mean we;re done for?"

"no." Mickey said. "There is always a chance as long as we keep fighting." He looked towards Tidus, then looked at Kairi. "Princess, we will need your aid more then ever."


"SORA!" Roxas cried as well. "COME ON! STOP!" The brunette ignored his and Axel's cries - as if he couldn;t hear them.

"Shit..." Seifer said, not even noticing as Olette left, taking a few uncertain steps back as the monster started coming forward.

Sora laugehd aloud, the sound chilling, as he watched Olette run. His eyes turned hungry again. Perfect. He stood from the beast as it began forward, the light from it;s horn ironically masking his disappearence. He disappeared in a plume of smoke.

Thye blonde keyblader's eyes widened, seeing the beast charging pwoer - and knwoing they were all in deep trouble. "Move it!" Roxas suddenly yelled to the others. That sprured everyone into action. Hayner turned and started to run off first, his feet carrying him far. Seifer shared an uncertain glance with fujin before they followed the blonde. roxas yanked Axel around by the arm, tugging him along. "Come on Xio!" he shouted panting hard at the pain that pulled at him.

They wouldnl;t get away in time.


Silkly, cold black claws rubbing against the side of Olette's face. "Hello." Sora rumbled beside her, his grin evil and forbidding. "You were a fool to run here alone." His hand slinked down feeling over the rounded flesh of her breasts, until his hand stopped over her heart. He turned his claws inward, and dug in without a second thought.

[Rikugurl]

Goofy blinked. No... how could Riku...? How could Sora....? If Riku was this powerful after he fell... how could they make it that he wouldn't fall again. Like Mickey said... there was no stopping the Darkness... it was never ending. "Gwarsh...Maybe... we have to destroy Riku..."

"Don't say that!" Kairi called to the dog before looking at Mickey. "What... what can I do?"


Axel growled, seeing the high energy at the creatures horn. Oh boy.... That was when he felt the tug on his arm and he was running.

Fujin gave Seifer the same look but started to run at his side... no matter what he was wearing. Where were they going to go exactly? That thing was following them!

Xio yipped as he heard the call... but... He growled before dashing after his master and his master's lover.

The Behemoth roared once more before the a ray of light was pushed out, making beams hit the ground all around.


Olette panted more as she covered her ears. That was when she suddenly felt coldness run through her body. His eyes widened, feeling something on her cheek... and the voice that made her very soul quiver. "Sor..." Her breath caught as she felt his claws go down her chest. She... she couldn't move.

As he pressed his hand on her heart, she could hear it beat. Tears ran down her face and suddenly... Darkness wrapped around it. She winced before falling to the ground. Darkness engulfed her before a Neoshadow arose in her place.

In the 1st District, a Dancer suddenly appeared in the courtyard.

[Reno]

Mickey said nothing to goofy's comment. The dog might very well be right. they might have to kill riku... and watch Sora go with him. "you are a Princess of pure heart." He told Kairi. "And you are both their friend. You hold a lot of light in you. you were able to pull Sora from the darkness before, remember? Back in Hollow Bastion? Now you must do the same for riku. Follow your heart and you'll know how."


The beams hit the ground hard, shaking the ground under their feet, but Roxas pushed on, one of the beams so close it nearly hit Axel. "The horn is where it;s weak..." He gasped out. He pointed his keyblade behind him. "Ice!" The magic flooded from the tip, smacking into the beasts head and wrapping around the horn.


Sora smiled a satisfied one, the power of Olette losing her heart thrilling him. "more.." He whispered, glancing at the neoshadow before falling into the floor, disapepared from sight.

Seifer kept running, side by side with Fujin even when the lights crashed down around them. The minute they dispersed he was glad to realize they were both, amazingly, alright.

That was, until a black form popped from the ground, forcing them to stop in their tracks.

Sora's eyes were alight and wild, glowing like laterns and dancing like insaity. The two were too shocked to make a move, and he plunged one hand each into their chests.

Roxas looked ahead of him and cried out in horror at the sight in front of him. "No!"

Hayner looked back, his eyes widened in terror.

[Rikugurl]

Kairi looked down and sighed. He was right... she had saved Sora before... and technically Riku when he was in his Ansem's form. She... she felt like she was the only thing that would stop their deaths. She couldn't let them die... even if she hadn't been the best friend in years after she found out about the paopu fruit.

"We need to do something fast... Destiny will be destroy again if we wait much longer. We need to find Riku..."


"Yo! Look at this!" Ventus walked into the small kitchen where Terra and Aqua were, making themselves a little something to eat to hold them over for the battle of their lifetime. It was probably their job to get the keyblade away from Riku... well... obviously.

He handed the paper to Aqua and frowned. "I did some more research on Riku. He was born on Destiny Island, the only child ever known to be born there. No hospital for his poor mother... but I noticed that he didn't have a father... so I looked that up. So happens, the DNA compared it to one of Ansem the Wise's test subjects... you know... the people who he and his assistants did experiments on with their heart? Well... it seems like when he was finally let go of being experimented on, he met Riku's mother. The world that they lived on was eaten by Darkness and it seemed liek Riku's father was turned into a Heartless while his mother fell to Destiny. That's where she had Riku. So... it seems like Riku always had the Darkness in him..."

He stopped and thought. "No wonder Diz looked after him..."


The ice wrapped around the Behemoth's horn, making him growl and swing his head around. More Neoshadows started to appear around the large beast, giving it aid.


Axel was about to throw a chakram at it before he saw the horrifying scene. His breath was choked in his throat as he saw how easily Sora... had taken their hearts. He suddenly backed up and collapsed, Xio guarding him as he was on the ground.

He could feel his own heart beating deep in his chest as tears started to form in his eyes. He started to hyperventilate. No... no! Not.... not our hearts!


Fujin ran quickly, only to stop when the beams did. Before she had the chance to turn and see what the best was doing, she caught glimpse of a dark figure in front of her with the one eye. She gasped and didn't have time to react before she felt a claw go through her chest.

She winced and suddenly collapsed on the ground, the Darkness wrapping around her and a Wyvern appeared in her place.

Alongside the Dancer, a Dragoon appeared. The Dancer looked up at the new Nobody, is if they already knew each other...


Amber eyes watched, his grin becoming more and more wide. His pet was doing an amazing job. The worlds of Olympus and Neverland had been added to the room, along with some fragments of Space Paranoid. Another ball was in his hands; Atlantis. It too was suddenly crushed and the black sand was poured into the image of Sora.

This was too easy...

[Reno]

Mickey looked down at the information that Ven had sent them. "He's on a world called Thorning World Throne." He frowned. "not far from here."


Aqua looked over the paper, taking a bite out of her sandwich. She shrugged, setting the paper down. "so he was doomed from the start." she looekd away. "Poor fucking kid. Ansem and all his assisstents where fools. look at what they caused."

Terra, stuffing a chocolate muffin in his motuh - hey if he was going to die he was gonna fucking eat well - nodded slowly, swallowing. "He's... kinda like us." He murmured, licking his teeth of the chocolate that lingered there. "Riku didnlt ask for any of this but he still got fucked over because some fucking scentist couldn;t control his curiosity."

"Makes me feel bad for him." she murmured. "It;s no wonder Sora couldn;t handle the pressure or being intertwined with Riku without falling too." That must have been overwelming... for both of them. so much darkness and bad intentions. she shook her head sadly.


Seifer's whole body shook, his form warping as he turned into an air pirtate. Beside the Dancer and the Dragoon a Samurai apepared, glancing at both curiously.

Axel's fear rippled back to Roxas, and he pointed his keyblade at Sora. "Back off!" He yelled, standing in front of the red head protectively.

Sora;s yellow eyes flickered and roxas' eyes widened in horror, knowing exactly what the others was thinking. "N-"

Sora moved so quick, he only saw the wisps of black smoke as he apepared behind Hayner, hand plunging into the other;s back. Hayner gave a choked scream. Moments later a solider was in his place, and a Sniper appeared next to the other bobodies.

"NO!" Roxas cried, tears flooded from his eyes. He gripped his keyblade as if glew white, rushing forward. "SORA!!"

The heartless form of his brother turned, not even fluinching as the keyblade came down for him. He reached out, hand clasping around the blade's blunt edges, claws digging into it. His other hand reached out.

"no!" Roxas gasped, rasising his arm grimancing as sora's claws dug into the skin. The keyblade pulsed, sending white light across Sora while darkness circles around Roxas. The white ansd black mixed, and then it happened.


Roxas looked aorund with a gasp, his eyes wide. Dark black made up the walls, but below him, illuminated by an unseem light, was a fmailar platform, Sora's pciture flashing back at him. some distance away he could see the four - no what there were six now...? - circles near Sora's head. Kairi, Riku, Donald, Goofy... Him and Axel...

The people most influental to Sora's heart... He turned his head, round and round, and the colors were so bright he almost didn;t see the shaking form at the far edge. the colors made the other;s clothes fade in the background...

Roxas did take notice, cautiously apporaching the shaking male - noting who he was instantly. Brown spikes shot out of the male;s head. His knees were drawn up, head buried in them, arms locked around himself.

"Sora..." the blonde whispered softly, stopping before him.

Sora looked up at him, tears falling from his yellow-blue eyes. "Roxas..." he rasped desperately, his eyes full of deep pain. "Help."

Roxas tentatively began to reach for his Other. Sora reached back, their fingers touching, light shimmering between them.

Darkness crashed inbetween them like a whip, seperateing them instantly. Roxas fell back with a grunt, but Sora, with nowhere to go, didn;t move an inch. The platform around them began to shatter like fine glass.

"Roxas!" Sora cried desperately. "It's too late! You have to-" But sora never got to finsih as the glass shattered udner him and he fell... fell into darkness.

"SORA!" Roxas screamed, feeling the platform cracking under his fignertips, felt himself falling back, falling... falling...


There was an explosion of light and Roxas fell back with a grunt, hitting the ground hard.

Sora went sailing back, gasping in pain as he hit a wall. It had only taken a split second - neither had really left but had conencted delving into the other's mind. His eyes were open, blue and beautiful for mere moments before the yellow overtook them again.

The light that had reached Sora rippled, smacking into Riku, Kairi and Ven violently but only momentarily.

[Rikugurl]

Kairi frowned. "There's no way we can fight him in his own habitat... He's the strongest there... We need to draw him out somehow..." She sighed, looking down. But how?

That was when it hit her.
"We all have to go after Sora. We need to make it look like Sora is in danger... Riku will be sure to come! If he's still in love with Sora... he couldn't let Sora get hurt... or even if he's not in love with him anymore... he can't let his other piece of soul be ruined."

She couldn't imagine someone so dark and ruthless be in love... but love... was a strong thing. "Where's the computer?" She leaned down, looking at Dale.

The chipmunk blinked. "Well, it's down stairs... but I have a portable screen! Here!" He pulled a small device and gave it to her. It was small indeed... about the side of a peanut. Oh well. She looked into it.
"Ven..." She was sure that was his name. "Where is Sora... do you know? Is he actually with Riku?"


Ven frowned as he listened to the two. Damn you Ansem... He blinked though when he heard something from the main room and rushed out. He looked up, seeing that woman that was at the castle. "Huh? Sora...?" He frowned as he typed in some things slowly on to the keyboard. Even with one arm, he could type a bit better than those too whackjobs.

"Sora... is located at Traverse Town."


"Traverse Town...?" She echoed then nodded. "You, Aqua and Terra need to get there now! We'll be coming to! We have to make it look like we're all after Sora! We need to pry Riku out of his domain!"


Ven frowned but nodded. He highly doubted that this would work... Riku could just teleport Sora with the Darkness back 'home'... but she might be onto something.
"Alright guys! This is it! Let's get to Traverse Town!"
He programed something on his wrist watch, slashing the air with his keyblade, opening a portal.


Axel's eyes grew more in horror as he watched Hayner go down next. No! NO! Xio guarded Axel along with Roxas, growling at the Anti-form. He knew how much Axel had put into getting his and Roxas a heart... he wasn't going to let this creature take it away from them again!

"ROXAS!" Axel cried as he saw the other go after Sora. One false move... and Roxas would be gone. However, only a sharp pain went through him as Roxas was pushed back by the light. Xio yipped and ran to Roxas, pulling his shirt gently to help him up.


A sudden light appeared in the throne of Thorns. It went straight at Riku, as if it was going to him him hard. However, the moment it got close, a clasping sound echoed off the remaining worlds and the light screened around him. Light... could not hurt twilight.


Back at the castle, Kairi took Tidus's hand and the mirror portal appeared again. They needed to get to Trav--- She stopped, feeling a light in her heart. "Sora... we're coming..." She pulled the blonde into the portal and appeared.... right next to the Behemoth. Her eyes widened as she saw the huge thing... but it didn't happen to see her.

It... actually looked quite bored. She growled though, holding out her hand. A light appeared from it, shining as bright as the sun. These powers... she didn't know she had them... but her heart... it knew what to do. The light made the Heartless in the area back down, even the ones that Sora had turned. They all turned and headed back into the Darkness in which they came.


A ripple ran through Traverse Town and Ventus jumped out of a computerized portal... only to fall on the brick. "Ah...." He felt a sharp pain in his heart. Light... a small amount of Light had pinned his heart. "Damnit..." He slowly stood up and his keyblade appeared.


The Dancer and Dragoon looked at the two new Nobodies. Unlike Heartless, Nobodies did have emotions... and it was quite certain that all four of them knew who each other were.

[Reno]

Tidus said nothing, but followed her obdiently. He was her body guard after all! he was going to protect her no matter what! Hopefully the king knew what he was talking about... if Kairi couldn't help them what could....?

"Donald, Goofy, let's go!" The king said, chasing after Kairi. The duck nodded, hurrying after him, waving a silent farewell to Daosy before jumping through, Goofy not two steps behind him.


Terra frowned, looking down at the rest of his muffins. "i bid you farewell my lovelys." He walked after Ven, keyblade appearing in his hands before he ever stepped through. He was going to rptoect the other with all he had no matter what.

Aqua laughed, leaving her sandwich, chasing after them. She didn;t know what to expect when they got there but... they knew what they had to do. If they could lure riku out - that could be the biggest advantage... or their biggest downfall.


Roxas groaned, feeling Xio tug at his arm. He groaned, sitting up slowly, hissing as it sent pain through his whole stomach. He shakily got to his feet, looking across the way at where sora lay, crumpled. for a second he cuaght sight of blue - but then theyw were yellow once more. "S-shit."


"holy shit..." Tidus gasped, looking up at the MONSTER above him. Oh he didn;t want to fight that thing. He would get impaled! And die a bloody death!

Thats when bright light began to filter from close by. He turned his head to stare at Kairi, the light in her hands calming him. The heartless were chased away - even the big behemoth above them disintegrated away, not wanting to face the girl;'s powers.

"Good job Kairi." Mickey prasied, stepping up beside her, donald and Goofy in tow. The mouse looked up at her, before he looked towards Sora, the sight saddening. He looked even worse then he had only a few short hours ago.

Yellow eyes zeroed in on Kairi, and Riku;s pet hissed violently - know her instantly. He stood, showing off his fangs. that was the woman who stated she hated.... hated Riku. the woman who dared say such words... he would destroy her!


Terra dropped next to Ven, keyblade already in hand. Aqua was next to step through the portal, tapping the tip of her spear into the brick they stood upon. They weren't far away. From here they could see Roxas and Axel - even see as the Behemoth left and the light covering her. "alright, let's go kick your brother's ass." Aqua said cheerfully.

[Rikugurl]

Goofy almost tripped out of the portal when it closed. He caught himself and quickly rose his shield, seeing the huge Behemoth. He remembered those things! They were nasty. He blinked when he noticed the bright light. It was coming from Kairi... and it was soothing. Was she really the Princess of Hearts?

It was odd that she was raised with a boy full of Darkness and a boy full of heart.

When the Heartless retreated back to the Darkness, Goofy saw the Sora's Anti-form. No... that WAS Sora!


Kairi's light faded as all the Heartless disappeared. She looked down at the King and smiled. She could do this! Slowly she looked back up at Sora, her green eyes brightening. "Sora! Stop this now! You have to come back!"


Axel panted still as he watched the other, having a hard time catching his breath due to the sea-salt that was still fucking it up. THANK YOU AQUA... He stopped though as he noticed a swarm of Dusk appearing around him, Roxas and Xio. His eyes widened... it was so long since he had seen them... what were they doing here?

Slowly he got up, not panicked at all from the presence of the Nobodies. Why would he be? He was once one of them. He moved towards Roxas and frowned, starting to get the idea. They needed to pull Sora out of this... or pull Riku out of his hiding place.


Ven nodded as he held his heart for a second. They passed four Nobodies but didn't pay much attention. Through the two large doors to the Second District. They saw a large group of people... and... Nobodies??

Ventus growled, jumping down to the wall where Sora was backing up against. "You have no place to run to now." His blue eyes darkened as he pointed his keyblade at Sora.

[Reno]

Donald stood enxt to goofy uneasily, watching sora with sad eyes. They kenw his anti-form had had to run away from it before, or pin Sora down long enoguh until he changed back.

But there was no changing back this time.


Sora was quiet, hearing two sets of feet join Ven's - not needed to turn around to know it was Terra and Aqua. The nobodies surronded Axel and roxas like some sort of protective shield - a weak one. it was not uncommon knowledge that nobodies and heartless didn;t get along. The king, donald, goofy and... even tidus, surronded the princess. And behidn him the chasers stood, tall and proud.

He was surronded - they thought he was beat. He grinned taking a few steps forwards now, in the middle of them all. "You are mistaken brother." He turned his head, wisps of black energy beginning to surrond him violently.

"I'm your worst nightmare." He hissed. He turned on the chasers- but instead of going for the weakest of them, he went straight for Terra. the movement was quick it almost seemed like Sora was standing, the next he was millimeters above Terra, hovering there, until his foot connected with the other's face and Terra was thrown back with a cry into the wall.

the minute he landed his 'leash chain' was in his hand. His spun and then threw it, the chain locking around Aqua's ankles. "Ter-" He heard the girl abrely get out, her brain unable to register the other;s movements. He tugged, throwing her to the ground. He used his upward momentum to rotate on his heels, the chain tense under his hands as he flung it- and Aqua with it to the side. his chain let go with a snap and Aqua smacked into the ground hard with a screech.

Sora was on Ven in an instant, his claws slashing for him.

Both were badly stunned Terra having hit his head and blinking dizzily to clear his vision, while Aqua had smacked hard, his shoulder throbbing in pain and making her see white.

"stop!" Donald was barely able to yap out, the magic surronding Sora. It didn;t work right - but it slowed his movements enough that he was seeable but no less dangerous.

[Rikugurl]

"Sora!" Kairi called as she saw how vicious his attacks were. NO! THIS WASN'T SORA!.... but she couldn't fool her heart.... no matter how hard she tried. Tears ran down her face. The Sora that everyone loved...


Ven's eyes widened as Sora passed him quicker than he could see and suddenly Terra was in the wall. "Te---" Aqua went flying. "A---" And then golden eyes were at his face. The spell had slowed the creature down... but not fully stopped him. Ven quickly ducked and rushed passed Sora, swiping his keyblade down the other's back.


Axel growled as she saw Aqua slam into the ground next to him. The damn bitch... she deser--- "We all have to work together." He frowned and quickly helped her up.

As for the Dusk, all of them jumped on Sora, attacking him with everything they had.

Xio whimpered and was about to attack too but Axel pushed his palm into his face. "No."


Kairi started to shake. They couldn't attack Sora anymore... her heart would break in two if she saw him continue like this. "RIKU! RIKU COME OUT! RIKU! YOU COWARD!" She made fist in her hands. "Why are you hiding? You never hid before. You're always up for the challenge... alway wanted to be better than everyone else.... so where are you! Show us how much better you are than you pe--"

She suddenly felt a dangerous amount of Darkness where the Behemoth had retreated. Her green eyes looked over, speechless at what she saw.


Pale feet with black toe nails pressed on the brick. A pair of leather pants hugged close to the long pair of legs. A long, black jacket swayed in the breeze, exposing a pale chest with black tattoos coding around it. Long silver hair floated around amber eyes. It also shifted on his long, curved black ringed horns.

He looked like the devil himself.

"Ri..." Kairi whispered... but it seemed forbidden to say his name. Her heart... started to quiver at his Darkness.

"You wanna play games." A deep voice came from the cunning demon. The voice attracted the Nobodies. They stopped attacking Sora and focused themselves of Riku. Quickly they swarmed towards him, faster than anyone could really see.
A crisp sound came with a flash of light. Way to Dawn appeared in the black nails of Riku.

Time seemed to slow in motion as the Dusk jumped towards Riku, but as if his keyblade was like a hot knife, he ripped through the Dusk like butter, one huge stroke, slashing their bodies in two. Horrible... painful screeches came from the Dusk. Something so horrible that no one had ever heard before. The white bodies were suddenly sucked into the blade and the souls... were forever gone.

Time grained its speed again. Axel watched in horror... He... he just.... destroyed those soul. They... will never become people again!

An evil grin arose of Riku's face as his eyes darkened.
"Let's play."
They keyblade vanished and he suddenly pulled his arms up, the long nails making an affect around the moon. Suddenly the moon started to turn purple, and a huge rumbled shook the world. Riku's body became dark so all the view could see was his devilish outline and the haunting eyes.

The purple moon... started to move... towards the world... and fast. Like some sort of huge meteor.
Darkness surrounded the huge group, making it impossible to make a portal to flee.
"Let's see you outrun this."

[Reno]

Sora ducked low, the keyblade passing over him harshly. The brunette smirked, swiping his foot at Ven's, tripping his twin, viciously kicking him in the side. In the corner of his eyes he could see the dusks coming for him and charged over Ven;s fallen form for them, rushing at them like a lion would his prey. He growled tearing at them all fiercely.

Terra hissed, rubbing the back of his head, blinking and his vision cleared. he fet blood matted in his hair. He struggled to his feet, eyes wide.

Aqua groaned a bit as Axel helped her up, holding her shoulder. She wasn't sure if it was broken or just hurt a lot but she didn;t dare move it yet.


The darkness fell over them all, stifling their breath. Tidus gasped, feeling as if he was going to choke. Terra stumbled over to Ven, his legs shaking with the weight of the new pwoer flooding. B ad idea. this was a BAD idea. Aqua grit her teeth, unable to hide her shaking, fear escaping her protective wall. she;d never been this terrified before. Donald's hand tightened around his staff.

Sora watched the dusks leave, a content smile running over his face as he disptahced the nobodies. That was his master! "MASTER!" the pwoer was radiating from the gorund into sora. Sharp teeth grinned and he raced over to the other's side.

Roxas who stood and felt the darkness... who stared and did not react... who was silent but fuming. Not fuming. He was furious. He'd just watched Riku kill... countless people and it brought anger to his heart, thrumming and real. He grit his teeth. And now the chain and collar made fucking sense - even the damn bell! His brother was 'owned'. "Riku... you bastard! Even EVIL you... you dare treat Sora like some fucking pet..."

"The darkness warps love." Aqua murmured. "In some of the worst ways possible." she whispered.

The darkness locked around them all - but neither riku or sora seemed afraid. Sora nuzzled his face against the other's thigh, smiling contently.

"Riku no!" mickey cried, but it was too late.

Roxas looked up at the moon that was coming down at him, then at Riku who was CAUSING it. He roared in fury, racing forward, not caring how badly hurt he was. He would attack Riku - he would STOP this madness! "RIKU!" He swung for the other, eyes crazed and wild.

[Rikugurl]

Amber eyes shifted a bit, seeing Sora return. He had done quite a lot of damage... just being curious. And then even more damage knowing what he was doing. Sora was a furious pet indeed. He smiled contently as he felt Sora's nuzzling.

It was Roxas who we was most interested in now. All that hate. The moon started to fall quicker as Roxas's heart filled with more and more hate. The world started to shake more, the small houses started to rumble and break. The would was slowly collapsing from the gravity pull of the moon.

And Roxas thought he could stop it.

Riku didn't flinch, the keyblade never appeared. All he did was reach down, a black claw fingered the bell.... and jingled it.


"ROXAS!" Axel yelled as he suddenly dashed for the blonde, but the purple color of the moon was becoming blinding... and he couldn't see.


The moon hit seconds before Roxas could push his keyblade into Riku.
But... it wasn't the moon at all. Just a large ball of energy that had covered the moon.

The energy wrapped around everyone, pushing them into Darkness.





Axel coughed as his eyes opened. The sky was an odd color. It wasn't dark... nor bright. A dimness in between. He slowly pushed himself up, hearing the sound of water hitting rocks. Shallow water. He looked around, seeing Roxas laying at his side. The place was gloomy, a light coming from a large pile of jagged rocks.

Kairi too awoke not too far away. She slowly stood and looked around. It was cold here... and gloomy. Like in between life and death itself.

rolled over into the shallow water and quickly awoke. "Gwarsh... what happened?" He said softly as he looked at everyone on the shore. Black rocks covered the place, making the dim light reflect off it.

Ven moaned as his eyes slowly opened. His head was laying on Terra's chest and an arm was wrapped around his waist. He leaned up, looking around. This... this place he didn't know.


If Sora had been there with them being his normal self... he would of remembered this place instantly. It was the place where he and Riku sat after the fight. Sat there with no way home. Where Riku suggested to become Darkness. But... the door was open... and Sora helped Riku through the door.

This... was the Heart of the Realm of Darkness.