Chapter 3

Roxas watched as Xion was tackled by 5 heartless and the portal closed right after. He ran to her aid, killing the heartless on top of her in one swing, then proceeding to spin in a tornado fashion to clear off the surrounding heartless. Little by little the heartless died, he watched the darkness rise into the air and disappear each time one was killed with his blade. He wished that the keyblade would activate its light power just like it did back in the restaurant, but it was hardly even glowing to signify that it could even be used. Xion had moved to the corner off the room, sitting up against the wall of the room to try and hide herself from the heartless. One or two occasionally made its way over to her, but Roxas was quick enough to dash over and kill however many where there. Periodically a heartless tried to jump up onto Sora, but it had no luck with Roxas in the room, he wasn’t letting anything touch Sora. More heartless were dying than were actually making their way into the room, but even so, the amount of them that he had faced so far had made him exhausted, he had only just woke after all. The room was soon clear of heartless, no more were coming in and he was exhausted. He dropped to his knees, letting go of the keyblade as well. As it hit the ground it disappeared into light particles.

That would have been so much easier with that light burst…

It only happened that last time because you were going to die otherwise Roxas. Since you are its wielder, it wishes to protect you, so it activated its true power liked you wished. But in turn, it lost a lot of power and has been resting for these past four months. Just like you, and every other living creature, it has a will and soul, just not a suitable body, so it chooses a wielder to fight alongside it.

So how do I recharge it without losing it for so long?

Just do what you’ve been doing, kill heartless.

Alright, and about Xion, why did you send her here?

Because, you need to save yourself from that other world from the same darkness that is currently inside of Sora.

But… I have to save Sora then if that’s the case.

Don’t worry, you’ll find a way. From what I know it’s the same exact darkness, but in different times, and are both the same exact age.

How is that possible?

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I don’t know Roxas, I do not know.

“Roxas!”

He heard a loud voice from behind him, his head turned slightly towards it. Xion was running towards him, and before he knew it she had him in an embrace. They stayed like this for some time, Roxas was too startled to do anything, a girl that he just had just met, hugging him.

“Xion?”

“Just let me stay like this. I’ve never been able to, and now that the portal’s closed…”

“Oh… right.”

Roxas continued to not move, letting Xion embrace him, she could no longer go back to the Roxas in her world. If she was never been able to do this, which must mean that she isn’t with him, since it is him it’d probably be Namine. A time like this would be a good time for the girl to show up again, but as Xion said that she sent her here, she must be in the other world watching over the Roxas there. Xion let go of him and stood up, she looked around, laying her eyes on Sora, she walked over.

“You must feel terrible, seeing him like this. I know he would.”

He didn’t respond, she already knew how he felt. Terrible didn’t sum in all up though, there had been a small period of time where Sora was calling him on his phone, but when he picked it up it ended. The calls didn’t even save to his call log, he thought he had been going crazy. Namine noticed that Sora was calling him as well so he knew he wasn’t, the girl also explained to him that if is a soul is strong enough as well as the bodies condition, some things like him showing up or like the calling could happen.

“What do we do now Xion?”

“I… I don’t know Roxas, I can’t go back, and we’ve got these creatures to deal with.”

“For now, I think we should leave the hospital.”

“Okay.”

Roxas got off of the ground, walking over to Xion and Sora. He noticed that a dark aura was surrounding Sora, but so was the whole room. He grabbed Xion’s arm and they left the room into the hall. Xion looked around them, darkness was following them, nothing was happening though.

“Uh… Roxas? I don’t think this darkness is so good.”

They began to pick up the pace down the hall, the darkness followed suite.

Where to go, where to go…

Oh where is she when I need her the most. You were just her before dammit!

No response, Roxas and Xion were left on their own. The darkness was catching up quickly to them, Xion had no way to protect herself if they were cornered. They continued running for a bit before meeting a crossroad.

Left or right… I don’t know the hospital.

Quickly Roxas, quickly!

His initial instinct was to go left, he pulled Xion along, running down the left hall as fast as possible, but his fear came true, they were cornered. The darkness formed right in front of them as they turned around, it struck to attack, Roxas dodged it, but Xion was too slow and her body was pierced by the darkness’s attack.

“Xion!”

He watched as her lifeless body well to the ground, her body dissolving into the darkness.

“Xion!”

Roxas’s sight went black.