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Kingdom Hearts FanFic

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O_O Chapter 7!!! *Dies from disbeilef*

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Riku looked up as Iris, Donald and Goofy ran through the portal. "Iris..?" he asked. "What's wrong?"

"We're going to need more help." Iris explained, "They've made a Roxas Replica, and Pai brought back Zexion and Vexen."

Riku growled. "What?!" He turned to King Mickey. "We have to take Sora and go help. Please..." he pleaded. "Please, have faith in me."

"Of course, Riku," Mickey said. "I owe you. But I should go and find reinforcements from Radiant Garden to help us," he said, helping Sora to his feet.

Riku looked at Iris. "Let's go. The longer we're here, the less time we have to defeat them."

Iris nodded, "Right." and opened up a dark portal.

Riku looked at the portal, then her. "How...how did you do that?"

"Lets just say somthing finally clicked in my mind when I left to help Axel and Del..." Iris said.

He looked concerned. "Are you okay?"

Iris nodded, "Yes, I'm fine."

"Let's go," Riku said. "The sooner this is over, the sooner you're free."

Iris gave a nod and stepped into the portal.

Riku followed her with Sora beside him, followed by Donald and Goofy. The portal let them out in the main hall of the fortress, just as Delirium and Axel were running through. Riku turned and saw them. "There you two are."

Axel looked smug. "Well, look who's all rested."

Riku shrugged. "We're rested and ready to fight off anyone we need to."

"Good," Axel said. "Cuz we're running right into the rest of the Organization when we go to get Roxas. Plus...Smoke's REALLY pissed off that we ran, so...yeah." He smiled a little. "Not our day." He looked at them. "You sure you guys are ready? This fight is gonna be rough, and there's gonna be problems, casualities," he said. "Some of us might even die."

Iris gave a simple nod, "We're ready."

"Let's go," Axel said, and he led them to the Organization's throne room. Walking through that, he led them up the stairs to the upper most platform of the tower, where the fake Kingdom Hearts stood long ago. "This is the spot," he said, looking around as he walked up the steps. "Be on your guard. They can be anywhere around here."

Sora nodded, holding his keyblade tightly in his hands. As Axel led them up the stairs, a loud yell resounded through the air. It was Roxas' voice, screaming out in pain.

Delirium winced at his yell. 'Roxas hang on... We coming.'

At Roxas' yell, Sora couldn't help but wince. He felt a tug on his heart, and he couldn't help but wonder if Roxas ever felt anything when Sora was in danger.

Axel, meanwhile, started running up the steps towards the platform. "Come on!" he yelled to the others. He quickly reached the top of the stairs, looking around frantically for his friend. "Roxas!"

"Looking for someone?" Pai asked with a dark smile.

Axel looked over at her. "Where is he, Pai?!" he asked angrily.

Riku and Sora hurried after Axel, coming onto the platform now. Riku stayed behind to wait for Iris, Donald, and Goofy.

"Around." Pai grinned when she saw Del, Sora, Riku, Iris, Donald, and Goofy come as well. "So you're all here? This will make this more fun...for us that is."

Axel looked around, then back to her. "But...I heard him." He growled. "I know what you're up to, witch, and you're not going to succeed."

"Why don't you just surrender?" Riku asked calmly. "It'd be easier for you to just give Roxas back." He glared at her. "We'd kill you quickly and painlessly."

"No, you can't." She smirked, "Besides you can have little Roxas back... if you can find him before it's too late."

"He's all but dead now," Xajin said appearing on a pillar.

Axel growled. "You may not want to kill her, Riku, but I do!" He looked back at him. "Riku, she'll kill Sora and Iris too, if you don't do anything."

"That's not happening," Sora said. His keyblade appeared in his hand. "We won't let her do this." He looked back at Iris. "Right?"

Iris give a simple nod, her keyblade appearing in her hand, "If anyone going to die, it's them."

Riku nodded as well, keyblade appearing in his hands. Donald and Goofy drew their weapons as well.

Axel's chakrams were in his hands moments later. "I hope you're ready for us, Pai. We're not letting you leave this place alive."

Pai grinned, "Same goes for all of you." Right then Smoke, Muro, and Remle appeared beside Pai.

"I'm not sure if it's a good idea for you to be making orders, Axy," Muro said. "You might just get an extra beating for it. But you're used to it, right?"

Axel looked away.

Muro smirked. "Of course, you could just offer your head to us, Axel. We'd make it painful, but quicker than the usual beatings. And you'd get to say goodbye to your friends and girlfriend," he added, looking at Delirium. "Unless she wants to die first."

Delirium glared, "If anyone dies first, it will be you."

"You said that last time," Muro replied. "And I'm still here."

Axel hissed. "Not for long."

"Touchy," Muro commented. "I don't think backtalk is good, do you, Pai?"

"If anything it leads to a very painful death." Pai said.

Axel stepped forward. "Give Roxas back to me," he ordered. "That is all I want."

"You want him? Go find him." Pai said simply.

Sora looked at Axel. "If we defeat them, then Roxas will come back." He looked at Pai. "Stop hiding behind your minions and fight."

Pai took out her swords, "Come on then. Nothing is stopping you from attaking."

"Fine!" Axel shouted, running towards her with his chakrams out. He threw them at her once he got close enough.

She easily blocked them with her swords. "Still a moron I see." She smirked as Smoke grabbed Axel by his throat.

Smoke just glared down at Axel before throwing him off the balcony.

Axel's eyes widened in surprise as Smoke threw him, and he let out a yell as he fell off the balcony and into the darkness below.

"AXEL!!" Sora yelled. He ran to the edge of the platform, looking down. There was no sign of the firewielder. He turned on Pai angrily, casting a swift round of Thunder on her. Donald shot Blizzard at Smoke and Goofy threw his shield at Pai.

"Axel NO!!" Deliriun blinked back tears but stopped. 'Axel can you hear me!? Please hear me! Please be okay!'

Delirium was greeted with silence. There was no response from Axel.

Muro slammed his fist onto the floor, huge sheets of ice appearing in his wake. A shard smacked into Sora and sent him right into a dark portal.

"WAK!!" Donald yelled, quickly jumping after Sora with Goofy in tow. The portal closed behind them.

"I'll deal with them," Muro said with a glance at Pai. "Try not to have too much fun without me." He turned and walked into a darkness portal of his own, disappearing.

Riku's eyes widened. "Sora!" he yelled.

"You... You BITCH!" Delirium ran at pPai only the be shoved into a portal by Xajin.

She smirked, "And I'll take care of the little mentalist." She said before dissapearing."

Pai looked at Iris and Riku, "You wish to try fight too? Hmmm?" She smiled darkly.

Iris glared at Pai, her eyes glowing a faint blue, "You witch..." she growled.

Remle, the only member with his hood up to cover his face, glanced at Pai and nodded silently. Black chains suddenly split from the ground and grabbed Riku tightly, dragging him away from Iris. A strange dark liquid dripped from the chains and formed a puddle on the ground. The chains tightened on the struggling Riku and he was pulled down into the puddle and into the darkness there.

"IRIS!!" he yelled before he disappeared. The portal closed once Riku was gone, and Remle looked at both Smoke and Pai before turning and leaving through a portal of his own.

"RIKU!" Iris over to the place where he was just seconds ago.

"Looks like little Iris is all alone now..." Pai smirked.

Iris turned and glared at her, "Where are they you witch!"

"Around..." Pai said as a portal formed on the ground before Iris, "Why don't you go look for them if you're sooo worried."

Iris backed away from the portal, only to feel Smoke's clawed hands grab her and throw into the portal. She yelped in surprise and fell out of the portal and onto to ground with a THUD She muttered a few curses under her breath as she picked herself up.

"Oh, she's here," Axel said. He was standing near Iris, arms folded across his chest.

Delirium stood by Axel placing her hands on her hips, "Took her damn long enough."

"Axel! Del!" Iris jumped to her feet, "Are two okay!?"

Delirium rolled her eyes, "Of course we're fine."

"Why wouldn't we be?" Axel asked, raising his hand and waving it off nonchalantly. "It's not like we're the ones who are going to be beaten, right?" He flicked his hair out of his eyes.

Iris looked at them funny, "What?"

"Don't tell us you STILL haven't figured it out yet." Delirium folded her arms.

Iris took a step back, "What are you two talking about...?"

Axel walked up to Iris, getting right up to her. He leaned his head down so his mouth was right at her ear. "Don't you realize it yet? We're here to kill you."

Her eyes widened and she quickly backed away from him, "W-WHAT!?"

"You heard me," Axel said, chakrams suddenly in his hands. "When you die, we'll get Roxas back. No one needs you around." He twirled his weapons.

Iris blinked back tears, "Guys no..."

"Don't start with the water-works." Delirium said taking out her gun, "It isn't going to work on us."

Axel sighed. "Don't go soft on us now, Iris," Axel said. "We might just have to make sure you never see Riku again."

That did it. Iris' eyes glowed a dark blue as she glared daggers at them, "No..." She hissed, her keyblade appearing in her hand.

Delirium smirked, "That's more like it."

"Let's go!" Axel shouted, fire sprouting on the walls to enclose them in. "You can't run now." He smirked. "Let's see if you can truly handle the keyblade."

Black clouds covered the ceiling, and the sound of thunder cracked as a downpour of rain fell taking out the fire, "Fine..." Iris growled.

Axel smirked, quickly running at her with his chakrams out. He threw one at her as he closed in, then jumped up and over her. Flipping around, he threw another chakram at her.

Iris knocked the first one away with her keyblade and rolled out of the way of the second.

Delirium just smirked at this before aiming at Iris, quickly firing sevrel shot at her.

She held her keyblade out infront of her, delfecting as many as the bullets as she could before finally flipping out of the way.

"Forgetting someone?" Axel called from above. He came down towards her, chakrams back in his hands. They were now alight with fire and he slashed them down at Iris angrily.

"Gah!" Iris jumped back, just barely avoiding the attack.

"You're holding back on us..." Delirium said as her hands glowed with telekenetic energy "If you want ANY hope of survining then I suggest you don't hold back on us..." she ran at her throwing her fist at her, "Cuzz we won't!"

Iris ducked down as Del's fist came hitting the wall leaving servel huge cracks on the wall, "Holy shit!"

Axel came sliding towards them, kicking Iris' feet out from under her. "You better start listening to us, Iris!" he said, quickly flipping to his feet. His hands started to burn fire. "Or...you might just not live to see tomorrow."

Iris fell but quickly rolled and jumped to her feet, "What the HELL has gotten into you two!?" She yelled, "One minute you're wanting to kill Pai, and the next you're trying to kill me!"

Axel smirked at her. "Why do you think? Maybe it's because...Hmm...I don't know...BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE HEARTS?!" he yelled. "Think about it, Iris. We're Organization members. We're evil."

Iris stopped and just stared at them, "Wait a minute... You guys aren't Axel and Del!"

Delirium looked at her weird, "Of course we are."

"Is the heat getting to your brain, Iris?" Axel asked.

Iris shook her head, "No. The REAL Axel and Del wouldn't do any of this!"

Delirium smirked, "Oh really? Well that just shows how much you DON'T know about us, Iris."

"Enough talk," Axel said. He threw his chakrams at her. "Fight!"

Iris' eyes glew blue, "Come and get me then..." she hissed as a thick fog covered the whole area they were in.

Delirium just smirked, "Oh so it's hide and seek now eh?"

"Just keep your guard up," Axel said lightly. He reached out his hands and easily caught his chakrams, gazing about for Iris.

Delirium nodded and started looking for Iris.

Axel walked through the fog, looking around for her. He put both chakrams in one hand and shot a large gout of flame into the floor, trying to light up the foggy area.

Right as he did that, Iris' keyblade was throwen right at him.

Axel yelped in pain as the keyblade struck him in the chest. He threw his chakrams right towards the place where the keyblade came from.

He could hear her yell in both surpise and pain before seeing her run at him striking him with her keyblade.

Axel put his arm up and allowed her to hit it. As she did so, he shot fire at her with a punch.

Iris shot her hand out infornt of her wincing in pain slightly as his firey fist hit her hand. She quickly countered sending lighting from her hand to his own.

"Stupid move." Delirium said as she ran at her, hitting her with a telekintic blast.

Iris flew back and hit the wall with a THUD She cursed befoe jumping to feet and hide in the fog to recover slightly.

Axel shook his hand painfully, sparks flying off of his fingertips. "Del, I'm gonna try to burn off the fog. Find her and hit her." He sent his fists once more into the ground, the fire around the room strengthening.

Iris' eyes widened when she saw that some of the fog was disappearing, "Shit..." she backed away only to see a teleknintic fist before it hit her. She yelled and flew backwards and hit the ground, sliding severl feet before stopping.

"Found her." Delirium smirked.

Axel smiled. "Good. Let's finish her off and then go find Remle. We don't want him to finish off Riku before we get there to have some fun." He walked over towards Iris.

Iris eyes glowed dark blue at his words and she quickly jumped to her feet, "NO!" Her keyblade appeared in her hand, "I won't let you!"

"Aww, what? You wanna say goodbye to your little Riku before he DIES?" Delirium smiled darkly.

Axel laughed. "That's adorable. Too bad he doesn't know the truth. You were the one who cut off his blindfold. You were the one who tried to stop him from putting Sora back together. You attacked him and tried to kill him." He smirked. "And that's the reality of it all."

"Shut up..." Iris growled.

Delirium grinned, "But you know it's ture. Think about it, Iris. Would Riku really want you if he found out the truth about you?"

"SHUT UP!" Iris screamed.

Axel shook his head. "You know you're a sloppy fighter when you get mad, Iris. Maybe we should put you out of your misery."

The clouds above turned picth black and several huge lightning bolts started striking near them and even at them. "Fuck you!"

Axel flipped out of the way of her attacks, throwing his chakrams at her.

Iris rolled out of the way. I got to find Riku! She glared at them before dissapearing in her darkness.

Delirium shook her head, "Stupid brat."

Axel sighed. "Pai's gonna be angry...Really angry..."

Delirium did a quick mind scan for Iris and smirked, "Mabey not... Guess where little Iris is..."

"Where?" Axel asked, looking curious.

"Guess first." She smirked.

Axel looked up in thought. "Heading towards Riku?" he asked. "Did she go to the main hall?"

Delirium nodded, "Yep."

"Let's go," he said, disappearing.

Delirium smirked before dissapearing.

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Iris ran looking around frantically, "Riku!?" she called.

"Not here," Axel said, appearing nearby. "I guess you picked the wrong place to go."

Iris held her keyblade tightly, "Back off..." She hissed.

"Or you'll what? Smack me? Please, you couldn't be weaker," Axel said. "Or will you cry and ask why I'm being so mean?" He snorted. "Not like I matter to you."

Iris shot lightning at him followed by her slashing at him angrily with her keyblade, "You're right about the last part! You mean NOTHING to me!"

He flipped backwards, dodging both by mere inches. "How brutish, Iris. You won't find Riku in the fortress. Remle's a master of nightmares and darkness. He could have dragged your boy anywhere."

"Tell me where they are..." She growled.

"But where's the fun in that?" Delirium asked as she appeared near Axel, "You want to know? Then you have to earn that right to know." She smirked, "That means FIGHTING!"

Axel threw his fire-laced chakrams at her angrily.

Iris ducked out of the way and countered shooting lighting from her palm.

Axel staggered back, holding his arm where the lightning had pierced. He glared angrily at her. "Damn it..."

"Tell me where they are." She said again.

Axel sighed, straightening. "Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you," he said. "Remle is made up of darkness. There's no telling where he is. He could be at Destiny Islands, for all I know." He summoned his chakrams back to him. "And though not knowing where he is at any given time is annoying, it's good to know that now, you can't find him." He twirled the chakrams in his hands again, setting them alight. "Gonna keep talking, Iris?" he asked. "Del might just shut you up for good."

That's when she saw that Del was right at her, gun pointing at her head, "Shit!" she quickly flipped out of the way.

"Took you long enough to notice!" Delirium laughed.

Axel smirked, throwing his chakrams at Iris quickly.

Iris used her keyblade to knock the attack away, before jumping at Axel, slashing at his face with her keyblade.

Axel flipped backwards, but not without a cost. The front of his jacket was sliced through, blood now dripping from his chest to the floor. He glared at Iris. "...That's it." He opened his hands, fire forming and launching itself at Iris like a living, breathing dragon of flame.

Iris's eyes glowed dark blue as she threw a blizzard storm right at the huge dragon flame.

His chakrams sprang to life and he jumped, catching them, twirling and throwing them heavily into Iris. "Burn, baby!!"

Iris flipped out of the way, only to hear a gunshot and feel pain in her upper arm. She let out a small yelp in pain and glared at Delirium.

Delirium smirked,"What? It's not my fault you weren't paying attention!"

"Time's running out for your little 'hero', Iris," Axel said. "Might as well throw in the towel. We won't make him, or you, suffer."

"Bull shit!" Iris yelled, shooting lighting at Axel from her plam, followed by throwing her keyblade at him.

Axel flipped backwards, chakrams spinning with untamed fire at her.

Iris caught her keyblade and rolled out of the way.