Chapter 8

Roxas got up off the cold floor. Looking around, he couldn’t see anything. He tried to find a wall with his hands, but no luck. Continuing to do this action for a while, his eyes finally adjusted to the darkness of the room, he found that he was in Sora’s hospital room. Trying to find Xion he quickly walked around the room, hoping to find her quickly. As he walked around the room, he glanced over at Sora occasionally, while doing this, he was walking a bit too quickly and hit something on the ground, then falling to the ground himself. When he hit the ground, he was expecting a hard landing, but it was a slightly soft landing instead. Cloth brushed his face as he tried to get up, losing grip in his hands and having them slide apart. Roxas managed to get himself up against the wall on his second attempt. Looking at Xion, he could tell that she was unconscious, most likely from the portal. He was still confused about it, so far no darkness had come through into the room, and the portal had closed behind him, sending him here. In any case it wasn’t created by it. Getting up he walked over to Sora, putting his hand on his head, he noticed that a thin layer of purple light was surrounding him.

“This is what happens when the darkness begins to take over.”

A voice behind Roxas echoed throughout the room.

“You don’t have much time, Roxas.”

Turning around, he saw the familiar figure of the girl. Beside her, he though he saw another girl.

“Is… Is there someone next to you?”

The girl tilted her head to the side, looking directly at Roxas. To the right of her, he thought he saw another girl do the same.

“This world has been connected, tied to the darkness. Roxas, what you are seeing as this second girl is actually me being pulled from this world. I shouldn’t be here. You already know what to do, so please, do it before everything falls apart.”

The room illuminated a purple light, radiating across the walls and making everything viewable. The source of purple light was coming from Sora, growing brighter every second. Walking over to Sora, he summoned the Keyblade, it was glowing intensely, just as it did four months ago.

“Light, lend me your power!”

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A sudden burst of light had filled the room, returning the room to its normal dark state without the purple light. Sora had also been relieved of the purple aura. Sighing in relief Roxas turned around to get Xion, beside her was a body of darkness.

“I see that you now have the power to fight…. But, how can you fight me now? Can you really face someone you consider a friend?”

The darkness had disappeared, taking Xion’s body as it had done with Sora.

“Xion!”

Xion’s body charged at him, striking him in the stomach, knocking him to the ground. He moaned in pain, Keyblade still in hand.

I have to block… and somehow fight back, but how?

The corrupted Xion striked Roxas again, hitting his Keyblade as he blocked. He jumped off the ground and swung back at her, missing as she jumped back. Creatures had begun to waver into the room, coming at Roxas from all sides. Spinning to destroy all of them, he used the momentum from the spin to lunge towards Xion, it was easily side stepped and he was hit with a Keyblade from behind. Landing on the floor again, he was swarmed by the darkness, it was surrounding him. He tried to fend them off with his Keyblade, but there were too many. Unlike four months ago, there would be no one to save him from this. Sora was still asleep, even if he was awake he’d be useless. Xion was corrupted, there was no way she could gain control again. The chances of Axel hitting his car into a hospital room that was above the ground would be extremely unreal. With Namine gone out for the night, there was no way she would know he was gone, and what could she do anyway? And… the girl, she had disappeared right in front of him, there was no way she could get back here, if only he had another chance…

It was cold, the sky grew whiter, clouds were blocking out the sunlight more day by day. They didn’t have much time if they wanted to leave this world. He could see that small house in the distance as well as the pile of junk to the side, more pieces were getting added each day as he went out further and further, only to collect less and less. This world was empty, not like the other one, he knew it was out there, somewhere. Putting the pieces into the pile, the girl had come out.

“It’s getting colder each day. We might not be able to make it in time.”

He grabbed her hand as reassurance.

We will make it, even if you can’t hear me, we will make it.

“Hey.”

He tilted his head.

“Why don’t we go there?”

She pointed far off into the horizon where the sun set each day.

“If we stay here for too long we won’t make it, but if we leave now, we could.”

Nodding in response, the two, hand in hand, embarked on a long, long journey.

Roxas awoke in an office, Sora next to him. He looked around and felt like he had been in this place before. The clock on the desk read 11:59pm and there were two doors, one on each side of him. He finally knew where he was, the restaurant.