NWZ: Sorry for the wait, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Here we are. Chapter 3. And the poll is officially closed. As for Xion's weapon, I will not reveal it until after this arc, as said before. Now, I'm sorry that last chapter wasn't really long, but I really didn't want to do the scene inside the station for one simple reason, I didn't like the fact that no one believed Roxas and the scene itself just felt disheartening.

But I digress, this chapter is where things get shaken up quite a bit. Also, I will try to have it mostly from Xion's POV. Now on with the disclaimer!

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN KINGDOM HEARTS, OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL IN THIS FIC. THEY ALL BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. OTHERWISE I WOULD BE A MILLIONARE.

NVZ: Okay! And thanks once again for Beta'ing this, Concep.

Conceptualist: You're welcome!

NVZ: Enjoy!

Chapter 3: The Third Day, Riku and Naminé

Once again, she dreamed of people in black coats. But this dream, Xion noticed, was not as happy as the one from the previous night.

For one thing, the dream started out dark and rainy, a clear indicator that the dream would not be cheerful. Xion herself was on the ground, defeated by a tall assailant dressed in the same black coat as herself. The assailant possessed long silver hair, his eyes hidden by a black blindfold. The assailant walked over to the downed Xion and removed her hood. He then partially removed his blindfold and revealed an aquamarine eye which beheld the girl's face. Surprised did not even begin to describe his expression, as he soon replaced his blindfold and backed away.

"Your face?!" he spoke, revealing him to be a boy not too much older than her. "Who are you really? And why do you have a Keyblade?"

Xion struggled up on her hands, having replaced her hood. "Tell me first, why you are dressed as one of us," she demanded. The boy didn't answer at first, he instead walked towards the Keyblade which he nocked away from her.

"To make sure my best friend sleeps in peace," he finally said. He then picked up Xion's Keyblade. "I don't know who you're supposed to be." He shortly examined the Keyblade. "But you can't fight fire with sparks. This Keyblade, it's a sham-" he threw the weapon towards the girl as he finished, "Worthless." The key landed in front of Xion with a dull, sad tone.

"My Keyblade is not a sham!" she exclaimed, her voice raised in anger. How dare he mock the weapon which her friends helped her reclaim! "What gives you the right to say that?!" She then picked up her weapon and rushed towards the boy with determination. The boy simply maneuvered around Xion and hit her in the back, knocking her to the ground once more. The Keyblade disappeared shortly after.

"Find a new crowd," the boy advised. "Trust me. Those guys are bad news." With that said, the boy walked off. But Xion wasn't letting him get away without one final retort.

"Why? You're the real sham," she said resignedly. Xion was filled with shame at having failed to defeat the boy. She felt even worse at what he said next.

"Fair enough," he answered. "You could say I am the biggest nobody of them all." He walked away, with his back turned towards Xion. Once he was gone, the girl let out an anguish filled scream, water streaming down her face.

The dream changed, and quite drastically at that. Xion's eyes opened to find herself on a warm island surrounded by water, with a few palm trees scattered about. When she looked up, she gasped at the sight of a familiar face. "Are you...?" she trailed off.

"Riku," the boy from the previous dream answered. "Sora's friend."

"Sora?" Xion sat up and looked into Riku's blindfold. "You know Sora?"

"Yeah," he replied as he got to his feet. He then held out his hand, which Xion took, and pulled her to her feet.

"Thank you," Xion was grateful, but confused. "You saved me, but I don't know why you did."

"I guess," Riku hesitated, then walked behind Xion. "I just felt like it."

Xion then faced him resolutely. "Riku, please..." Xion built up her confidence. "Tell me more about Sora and that girl he's always with." Riku stopped in his tracks at this question. He was silent for a moment before he spoke again.

"You mean Kairi." It wasn't a question.

"Kairi," Xion repeated. She then held her hand to her head, as if she had a headache. "That's right. She's the one who looks so much like me."

"To Sora, she's someone very special," Riku elaborated as he walked up to Xion.

"It's just, I remember things about the two of them." Xion walked towards one of the palm trees as she spoke. "But I'm nothing more than a ******, something that somebody *******." The words were blanked out for some reason. She then placed her hand against the tree to support herself. "So why would I have their memories?" She looked towards Riku again. "Do you know where Sora is now?"

"That secret stays with me," he replied coldly. Xion looked down sadly.

"Why's that?" She asked.

"Xion," Riku sounded hesitant once more. "Your memories. They really belong to Sora." The girl's head lifted in surprise.

"So you mean, I'm like a part of him?" Xion asked in wonderment.

"When his memories were scattered," Riku explained as he walked up to Xion. "Some of them found their way inside you." The girl lowered her head in shame upon this realization. "Now, Sora has been put to sleep so that we can piece together his memory. Except..."

"You can't, because part of it inside of me," Xion finished for him. "That means he can't wake up."

"Yeah," Riku confirmed. "You got it. But, if you go with me to Sora right now, we could give the memories inside you back to him."

"So, do you hate me for taking your friend away from you?" Xion asked scornfully, glaring at him. Considering how their last meeting went, she wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. She was surprised at his answer though.

"Nah. I guess, I'm just sad," Riku admitted. Xion's eyes widened at the response, but she then lowered her head in shame.

"I'm sorry," she muttered. "But I can't go with you. It's my friends," She looked at her hand then clenched it. "They need me. And I need them too." She felt a hand on her shoulder, and looked up to see Riku's face.

"Maybe you should take some time and think about it," he suggested. "Figure out who really needs you more, and where you belong."

"How will I know?" Xion asked softly. "Where I truly belong?" She looked down sadly again. "I'm not sure I can promise you I'll come up with the right answer."

"Well, the answer you come up with can't just be right for you," Riku explained. "It has to be one that works best for everybody. For you and your friends, and everyone else." He then walked away.

"I'll try," Xion said resolutely. She looked up and smiled. "Thank you, Riku."

"Xion," a voice echoed in her head. "Xion, wake up!" The girl's eyes opened to see Roxas' worried face. "Are you okay?"

"I think so," Xion replied slowly. "Why?"

"Well," Roxas placed his index finger on his cheek. Xion copied the motion and discovered that her own cheek was wet.

"That's weird." Xion then placed her hand on her chest. "I feel a tight squeezing inside. Why?"

Roxas then sat down next to her on the bed. "Xion, did you have a nightmare?" he asked.

"I don't think so," Xion answered. "Though, it started out pretty bad at first, it got better in the end. Still, why does my chest hurt, and why are my cheeks wet?"

"Well, I don't know why your chest hurts," Roxas answered honestly. "As for your cheeks, they're probably wet because you've been crying."

"Crying? What's that?" Xion asked, confused with the term. She grew even more confused when Roxas' eyes seemed to have popped out in alarm.

"Um, that is-!" Roxas eventually calmed down enough to explain. "Well, crying is when water, called tears, comes out from your eyes, and that only happens when you feel really happy or really sad."

"When I'm really sad," Xion repeated. So the pain in her chest was because she was sad. The two teens were quiet for a moment before Xion spoke up again. "Roxas, am I a sham? Am I worthless?"

"What?!" Roxas shouted. He suddenly grabbed Xion's shoulders, surprising her. "Why would you even think that?! You're not worthless and you're not a sham!" Xion just looked at Roxas wide-eyed as the boy calmed down. "You're you, nobody else. You got that memorized, Xion?"

Xion was quiet for a moment before a smile came to her face. "Thank you Roxas. That means a lot to me." Roxas' face turned red all over at this expression and quickly got off the bed.

"U-um, I'm going to make breakfast! You get dressed! See you at the table!" he said while quickly vacating the room. Xion was confused at this action, but decided to let it pass. She had other things to think about.

"Riku and Sora," she contemplated. "Who are you?"

After they had finished their morning rituals, Xion and Roxas left the house and headed out to the Usual Spot. But when the two arrived, no one else was there.

"Where is everybody?" Xion asked. This was the first time she had come to the Usual Spot and Hayner, Pence and Olette were not there.

"Good question," Roxas replied. He then spotted a piece of paper on Hayner's seat and picked it up.

"What's that?" Xion implored.

"It's a note from Hayner," Roxas answered. He read it over twice to make sure of what he read. "It says that we're going to the beach today!"

"Really?!" Xion was surprised. "But what about the munny?"

"Hayner says not to worry about it," Roxas contemplated. "But how would he be able to get his hands on 6,000 munny in only a day?" The two friends were stumped.

"Why don't we go to the station and ask him?" Xion suggested. "It's not like we have anything else planned."

"But what about the search for your past?" Roxas argued. "We can't just abandon that."

"I know that," Xion responded. "But while my friends and I never got to go on a trip to the beach, I may have seen it at least once. Maybe we can still find some clues!"

"Well, okay," Roxas surrendered. "But we need to confirm this with Hayner first, okay?"

"Okay!" Xion then grabbed Roxas' arm and ran out with him. "Let's go!"

"Xion, let go of my arm!"

Eventually, Roxas managed to free himself and the two walked to the station like normal people. Along the way, they ran into Pence and Olette, who were both carrying beach supplies.

"Ah, Roxas, Xion," Olette greeted. "Did you see the note? Hayner says that he got 6,000 munny from his uncle."

"So it's true? We're really going to the beach today?" Xion asked.

"Yup!" Pence responded. "No joke!"

"That's great!" Roxas exclaimed. Xion smiled at his enthusiasm, but she looked towards Pence and Olette when she didn't hear them speak after ten seconds. She then noticed that they weren't doing anything.

"Pence, Olette, what's wrong?" She tapped Pence on the shoulder, only for him to fall to the ground, as if he were a statue. She jumped back in surprise.

"What the?" Roxas was equally surprised at this event. What happened to his friends.

"Hello Roxas. Xion," a new voice called out from behind the two friends. They quickly turned around to find a girl with blonde hair and a white sundress standing behind them. But what caught them by surprise was the fact that the girl's face looked identical to Xion's! To say that the two friends were surprised were an understatement.

The girl walked up to the two, or more specifically, Xion. "Xion," the girl began, before suddenly wrapping her arms around Xion, catching her by surprise. "I'm glad that I'm able to meet you again."

"Eh?" Xion didn't know what the girl was doing but it gave her a pleasant feeling. It was similar to when Roxas told her that she was her own person, but still somewhat different.

"Wait, again?!" Roxas' voice snapped Xion out of her small trance. The other girl had let go of Xion and backed up in front of the two once more. "You know Xion?!"

The girl was silent for a moment before she finally spoke again. "Come to the old mansion," she said as she walked to the Tram Common. "If you come, I'll tell you what you want to know." At this point the girl was much closer to the Tram Common entrance then she was merely a second ago, much to the two friends' surprise.

"Hey, wait!" Roxas soon ran in the girl's direction.

"Roxas, wait up!" Xion soon followed. Although, neither of the two noticed that Pence and Olette had unfrozen when the girl disappeared. Nor did they notice Pence's confusion as to how he landed on the floor.

Roxas and Xion had ran through the Tram Common in pursuit of the mysterious girl and eventually found themselves in The Woods. Right now they stopped running in order to rest.

"Roxas," Xion finally spoke up after they left Market Street. "Do you think that girl really knows me?"

"I don't know what else to say," Roxas admitted. "But I've never seen her in town before, so she's not a local. Not to mention the fact that she knew your name and hugged you."

"But she knew your name too," Xion pointed out. "And what does 'hugged' mean?"

"Um." Before Roxas could give an answer, a black portal appeared right in front of the two. The two were surprised by this phenomenon, but they were even more surprised when they saw a familiar white figure appear from within the portal.

"Hey, it's the photo thief!" Xion exclaimed. Though she did not know how that could be possible, for she was sure that she and Roxas destroyed it two days ago. Apparently the photo thief had a lot of friends, for more white creatures appeared from even more portals. The first one to appear then grabbed for Roxas' wrist.

"Let me go!" Roxas shouted before grabbing Xion and running out of the forest, the girl not even complaining at the notion.

The two friends ran into the Sandlot, looking back to see if they lost the white creatures. Before they could sigh from the relief of not seeing the creatures, a familiar yet unpleasant voice got their attention.

"Hey, chicken-wuss!" Seifer yelled out arrogantly. "Out for a jog?!" Seifer and his gang were also in the Sandlot, and they were apparently going through a training regimen of some sort.

"I'm kinda busy, Seifer!" Roxas retaliated. "Can't you lay off for one day-!"

"AHH!" Everyone looked towards Xion at her scream, only to discover that the white creatures had entered the Sandlot!

"Xion!" Roxas instantly moved to defend his friend.

"What the!?" "What are-?!" Rai and Fuu, respectively, let out. Vivi quickly ran towards a good hiding spot. Of the gang, only Seifer stayed calm enough to react.

"What are you doing?! Fight!" At this command, Rai and Fuu quickly got a hold of themselves and jumped into action. "I don't know what these things are, but they've crossed the line! No outsider attacks anyone in my town!" Seifer declared as he got out two Struggle Bats, only to throw one to Roxas. "Chicken-wuss, here!" Roxas quickly grabbed the Bat and got into his fighting pose. Xion instinctively got into a defensive stance, not wanting to be left out, and everyone fought against the creatures.

Or at least they tried. As Roxas and Xion had proven back in front of the mansion, none of their attacks could even hit the creatures, though it was not the same vice-versa. Self to say, Roxas's Struggle Bat was proving to be useless for this fight. "Argh! It's no use!" Roxas complained. "If only I had the Keyblade!" Xion could understand his frustration, for it seemed that the Keyblade was the only thing that could harm the creatures.

"Wait," she thought. "Didn't something else harm these things?" It was then she remembered back at the mansion, how she somehow summoned a large shard of ice and shot it at the creature, actually hurting it. "But how did I do that? C'mon, think Xion!" She then thought back to the dreams, while quickly dodging another creature's attacks. She remembered how in the dreams with Roxas, she would use the same ability. "Magic," she mentally corrected. "Magic usually requires the caster to want something. And in this case, I want to use that ice spell again. And in order to do that, I simply want them to-"

Now knowing what to do, she put her right hand in front of her and called out "Freeze!" Once again, a large shard of ice shot from her hand towards the creature, knocking it towards its fellows and covering a few of them in frostbite. Xion was not expecting that last part, but she welcomed it.

"X- Xion!" Said girl snapped her attention towards Roxas, who was looking at her wide-eyed. "You did that ice-thing again!"

"U-um, it's not an 'ice-thing' Roxas, it's magic," the girl hastily explained. She then looked behind Roxas to see a startling sight. "Roxas! Something's wrong with Seifer and the others!"

"What?" The boy looked in the same direction as Xion and quickly noticed what was wrong. While Seifer and his gang were still surrounded by the creatures, they weren't moving to retaliate. In fact, they weren't moving at all! "Frozen. Just like Pence and Olette earlier!" It was then that the creatures surrounding Seifer's gang started to move towards Roxas and Xion, along with the two that Xion knocked down.

"Roxas! Use the Keyblade!" A familiar voice called out. The two friends were surprised by the voice and quickly looked towards the source, only to spot the blonde girl from earlier standing on one of the rooftops surrounding the sandlot. Though this move proved to be a bad idea, for while they were distracted all of the creatures pounced towards Roxas. However, Xion noticed just in time to react.

"Roxas!" she called out as she raced towards him. She barely had seconds before the creatures reached him. And right when her fingers had barely brushed against him, everything blacked out.

"Oomph!" Xion landed roughly on to the ground. For a moment she just laid there in pain. That is, until she remembered what just happened. "Roxas!" She quickly got up and opened her eyes, but what she saw next was not what she expected.

Nothing. Literally, nothing. Nothing but the color black spreading as far as she could see. Oh wait, it wasn't completely nothing, as she spotted white zeroes and ones going around in a few random places. To say that she was spooked would be an understatement. "Roxas!" She called out. "Are you there?! Hayner! Pence! Olette! Is anyone else here?!" No other voices replied, except for her own echoes. She eventually decided to stop waiting around and walked in one random direction in the hopes of finding someone, anyone else.

(Some time later)

She didn't know how long she was in this place, but at this point Xion was starting to run out of hope. "Where is everyone?" She started to think some depressing thoughts. "Is this where shams go?"

Suddenly, a stream of zeroes and ones appeared in front of her. This certainly got her out of her small depression, and eventually led to curiosity. "I wonder what these do?" Eventually her curiosity won her over and she decided to touch the stream of zeroes and ones in front of her. The moment she did so, the stream converged into one small mass in front of her, catching her by surprise. After the mass had completely collected, it formed into a square shape. Then, the shape became solid and fell to the floor.

Once Xion got over this strange phenomena, she picked up the object that had used to be numbers and inspected it further. She soon noticed that the object was a book, and that the letters 'XIII' was on the cover. She pondered what the book was before opening it to the first page. On the inside name of the cover, she found a familiar name.

"Roxas! Does this belong to him?" She decided to ask him once she met up with him again, and so pocketed the book for now. Right when she was wondering where she should go next, she heard a sound coming from her left. When she heard the sound a second time she ran in that direction as fast as she could. If there was some sort of sound in this place then that meant there was another person here.

As she continued to run, the sounds continued to grow louder and a small speck of light was seen in the distance. As she got closer, the light grew even bigger to reveal the image of a familiar boy wielding a Keyblade. "Roxas!" Xion yelled as she reached for the image. The moment she touched it the scenery changed once again. Only this time she was on a surface that wasn't black. She would have looked at the changed surface more if she weren't preoccupied with the boy floating in the air above her. "Roxas! Are you okay?!" Xion called out.

"Xion!? What are you-?" Roxas looked quite surprised to see the girl but quickly shook it off. "Never mind, get out of here! It's dangerous!" Xion didn't know what he was talking about until she noticed the large shadow that fell over her. She looked towards the base of the shadow to find a giant, bulked up, and scarf-wearing version of the white creatures that attacked them earlier. When the creature noticed her it launched a fist that could have seriously hurt her if she hadn't dodged out of the way in time. "Xion!" Roxas called out desperately.

The girl in question was currently thinking of how to get out of her predicament when she remembered that she had magic. "Freeze!" she called out, shooting a shard of ice at the giant creature and dealing a bit of damage. It obviously wasn't enough considering that it just swiped her to the side of the platform. It then changed targets to Roxas.

Right when its fist got close to him, Roxas miraculously dodged out of the way and struck it back with his Keyblade. This only caused the creature to grab the boy and throw him into the air in the hopes of striking him while he couldn't move properly. Thankfully Roxas overcame this problem as well and struck the creature's fist, propelling himself into the creature's face and knocking it off of the platform. Thinking that it was finally safe, he ran over to check up on Xion. "Are you okay?!"

"Ugh, I think so," she responded as Roxas helped her up. The two didn't stay up long considering that the platform began to shake, eventually turning on its side and causing the two to fall near the edge. Luckily, Roxas managed to plunge his Keyblade into the side and grabbed Xion's hand, keeping the duo from falling to their deaths. Unfortunately for them the creature was grasping on to the side of the platform while carrying a huge ball of energy.

The creature launched itself off of the platform, causing it to turn over. This caused the Keyblade to dislodge from it and in turn throwing Roxas and Xion towards the orb of energy. Xion was obviously scared, but her body acted on instinct and leaped up much higher than before to avoid the danger. The same must have happened to Roxas, for he was at the exact same height as her. He then took advantage of this to throw the Keyblade at the orb, causing it to explode and send all three combatants to the face of the platform. Roxas and Xion quickly recovered, while the creature appeared to be stunned.

"Hit it now!" Roxas called out, leading to the two friends to throw all they can at the creature, Roxas' Keyblade strikes and Xion's Freeze magic. Eventually the creature got back up to its feet, causing the two to back off into defensive stances, though they needn't have bothered.

The creature began to shake as if it were convulsing and soon started to waver around. Xion idly noticed that Roxas' Keyblade disappeared in a flash of light before they both fell onto their backs. The creature eventually fell right on top of them, then all they knew was darkness.

Xion didn't know how long she struggled in the darkness, but she then felt a hand grab her own and pull her out towards a bright light. When she opened her eyes she noted that she was in a strange white room, filled with weird structures. She looked to her left to see Roxas, but when she looked forward she found the the girl from earlier sitting on an elevated surface. "Your-?!"

The girl bought a finger to her lips to indicate silence, cutting both Xion and Roxas off. "My name is Naminé," she introduced herself.

"Naminé?" Roxas repeated.

"Um, Naminé?" Xion spoke up. Naminé looked towards Xion expectantly, causing her to become nervous. "D- do you really know who I am?" The blonde smiled at Xion as if she anticipated the question.

"Yes, I know who you are Xion," Naminé answered. "Though we've met only once, I know everything about you, and about Roxas."

"What? What do you know about me?" Roxas asked.

"I will answer all of your questions," Naminé assured. "But first, Roxas, do you remember your true name?"

"My true name?" Roxas parroted. To say that the question confused him would be an understatement.

"You're-" Naminé would have kept talking if she weren't suddenly grabbed by a familiar coated figure. This obviously caught Roxas and Xion by surprise.

"Say no more Naminé," the coated figure commanded.

"But if no one tells him," Naminé argued. "Roxas will-!"

"Don't overstep your bounds," he cut off.

"Hey! You're that pick-pocket!" Roxas yelled out. Xion could tell Roxas was angry, but she couldn't help but feel that the figure was familiar. Not from the day before, but as if she had seen him with the hood down. It was then that a name came out of her lips.

"Riku?" Silence filled the room at the mentioned name. "Your Riku," Xion declared. "Sora's friend."

"What?!" Roxas exclaimed. "Riku?!" The figure, or Riku, himself didn't respond. He instead held his hand out towards the two friends. The two heard a sound from behind them and beheld a portal made of darkness. They then felt as if they were picked up, and were unceremoniously thrown into the portal. Riku then looked back towards Naminé.

"It's best he doesn't know the truth," he stated simply. Naminé looked down at that statement.

"But he's never known the truth," Naminé replied sadly. "No one's ever told him..."

"Did knowing the truth do Xion any good?" Riku called out. He got no answer. He looked back to see that Naminé had disappeared from the room. As he was about to leave himself, he noticed something on the ground. More specifically a small white book with the Roman Numeral 'XIII' on the cover.

(two hours later)

Xion and Roxas were currently walking towards the later's house. Both of them were in a depressed slump. To summarize why they were in this slump, they woke up in the sandlot to find that the white creatures had disappeared, Hayner and the others found them there after some banter with Seifer, they all missed their trip to the beach, and they still haven't gotten any clear answers to Xion's past. To rub more salt into the wound, Hayner seemed to be angry with Roxas. All in all, it was not a good day for them.

"I'm sorry Roxas," Xion finally spoke up.

"Huh? What for?" Roxas asked.

"It's my fault we missed the beach, isn't it?" Xion asked. "Because we were following that Naminé to find my past-"

"Hey, it's not your fault, all right!" Roxas shot down. "We couldn't have known that any of that would happen." He then looked down again. "Besides, it's probably my fault considering that those white creatures were after me."

Xion nodded, though she wasn't fully convinced. "I wonder what Naminé meant by your 'true name'. And why would Riku not want you knowing it?"

"No idea," Roxas shook his head. "But what makes you sure that guy was Riku? He sounded nothing like him!"

"I don't know," Xion admitted. "It's just this feeling I got from him." She then realized what Roxas said. "Wait, how do you know what Riku sounds like?"

Roxas stopped walking at her question. "Um, I had a dream about Riku. You know, Sora's friend."

"You know Sora?!" Xion asked. "Who is he?! All I know about him is that he's Riku's friend!"

"Whoa, whoa! Calm down, Xion!" Roxas placated. "Well, before we met, I would always have dreams about Sora's life with his friends. But when you showed up, I started to have dreams about us in black coats, along with my usual dreams about Sora."

"Wow. That's weird," she replied. "But if Riku was here, then that means that Sora is real, right?"

"Yeah," Roxas responded uncertainly. "But, just who is Sora?"

Restoration at 48%

"Was that Naminé made out of data?" Riku inquired. He was once again within the laboratory with DiZ.

"No," DiZ denied, rather surprised himself. "Naminé hijacked the data herself. Look what she's done now! She's completely beyond my control!" He punched one of the keyboards in frustration.

"Calm down!" Riku placated. "I got Roxas and Xion out of there before Naminé could say anything."

DiZ took a deep breath in before continuing. "About Xion, what developments have we reached?"

"My memories of her have returned completely," Riku replied. "And I know for a fact that she existed in the real world. Though I don't know how she ended up in the town."

DiZ contemplated before giving his answer. "Well it doesn't matter. So long as Naminé accomplishes her goal, we needn't worry what befalls Roxas."

"I wouldn't be so sure," Riku argued. DiZ turned his chair Towards Riku to emphasize his confusion. "I found something that you might find interesting." Riku then threw the book he found earlier to DiZ.

"What's this?" DiZ demanded.

"Roxas' journal," Riku answered. "From his time in the organization. I read the whole thing, and now I'm starting to wonder if Nobodies really don't exist."

"You're so certain?" DiZ asked sceptically.

"If you don't believe me, you can just look through it yourself." Once he said his word, Riku left the room. Once Riku had left, DiZ looked towards the book for a few more seconds. A minute later he was reading the first page.

NWZ: Again, sorry for the wait. I hope that you all didn't wait too long. Anyway, I'll be taking a break until I've played through Kingdom Hearts II.5 Remix in December, so I'll see you guys then.

P.S.: As for where Xion was during this chapter, that was *SPOILERS* the Virtual Twilight Town's dataspace *SPOILERS* and it will play a major roll for Xion and Roxas in the future.