Final chapter:

Starting Over

Ventus, Aqua, Namine, Roxas and Sora stood outside of Nemyer's mansion, where Sora had stood alone only a year before. Last time he came wanting answers, now he had them and was ready to act on them.

Now, they had a plan. Namine and Roxas were going to cover the courtyard and wait for the other's return. Since Nemyer's mansion had two paths splitting off from the grand staircase, they were originally going to send Aqua and Ventus one way and Riku and Sora another. Riku still hadn't recovered fully. Now Ventus would go one way and Sora the other, Aqua would stay at the staircase and once one of the gave the signal that the found him, she would go that way, followed by the other.

"You guys ready?" Sora asked.

"As we'll ever be," Roxas said and leapt off the building, "let's go!"

Sora jumped and was brought into a flurry of movement. On all the other worlds they encountered very little, if any, Heartless. Here, there were swarms of them.

"Break through the center and make space for Namine to cast spells!" Ventus shouted out commands that Sora could barely hear. "And Clear!"

Sora remembered the code. Simultaneously all five of them cast Aero, blowing away all the Heartless in a huge radius.

"We'll be good from here on!" Roxas gave them a thumbs up and they were off.

Ventus, Aqua and Sora cut there way to the front doors and pushed their way in. "Agh!" Ventus shouted, cringing at the contrast of the all white interior to the pitch black exterior. "Why is it so bright in here!"

Aqua laughed, "must be another line of defense."

"Well it's working," Ventus grumbled.

"Good luck you two," Aqua nodded to Sora and Ventus.

Sora started up the stairs, heading towards the right while Ventus veered to the left. Ven shot him a thumbs up and a smile and Sora returned it.

He turned down the corridor and began quickly scoping the rooms on either side. After going through all the rooms, he still hadn't found him nor had Ventus signaled that he found Nemyer either. He must have been on the back side of the building and so Sora turned down the hall in that direction.

He glanced out the window into the courtyard and saw where he fought Nemyer last time. He was not going to lose that badly again. He glanced up again to see that the lights went out further down the corridor. Getting a bad feeling about it, Sora slowed his pace and held onto his blade with both hands.

Sora heard some sort of explosion coming from that direction and soon saw bright flames shooting towards him. He leaned up against the window, the fire just grazing past him. Sora shot off the signal and hurried down the corridor to Nemyer. He couldn't see him, but he knew he was there.

A bright light flickered above his head before striking down over him. Sora just barely deflected the thunder with his keyblade, leaving himself wide open to a knee in the stomach. He gasped and leapt back, trying to catch any movement.

He caught a glint from Nemyer's blade and jerked back, getting nicked in the cheek. Sora swung out, catching loose fabric from Nemyer's cloak and tearing it. Quickly, he jumped back in anticipation for a retaliation. He shot out two blasts of fire at him and in the light he saw Ventus turning down the hallway behind Nemyer.

Ventus raised his keyblade and Sora ducked. He felt a wave of heat over him and raised his head to see Nemyer stumbling forward, smoke coming up from his back.

Sora and Ventus both swung at him. Nemyer couldn't block both of them in time and so he jumped out of the window instead.

Aqua came running up to them from behind Sora and followed them out the window to surround him. Normally Nemyer would retreat in a situation like this but now he didn't have anywhere to retreat to.

"I knew this was going to happen," Nemyer muttered.

"You thought that the only way to bring her back was to plunge the world in the Darkness that you left her in, but all you really needed to do was wait, because she is back now," Sora spoke.

"That's great and all, but nothing can change the past." Nemyer struggled to keep himself up, the burn wound on his back was severe. "I made my bed, now I must lay in it." He closed his eyes and let himself drift into Darkness and disappeared.

A keyhole formed in the sky above them and it wasn't long before Roxas and Namine caught up with them. "After a while the Heartless stopped multiplying and then it was easy to take care of them." Roxas explained.

Soon, the world was connected to the others and they made their way back to the King's castle.

Ventus became the Keyblade master of the Destiny Islands and worked with Aqua to help restore Castle Oblivion. Roxas became the keyblade master of Twilight Town, he and Namine fit in there better than the islands and the made many friends. Sora became the Keyblade Master of Radiant Garden and spent a lot of his time traveling to monitor trade routes while also keeping his promise to Kairi that he would see the world with her. It wasn't like everything would be perfect, Darkness would always be there, but with a new generation like this, the future seemed a little brighter.

A/N: So, it's finally done. My original Idea for this story is pretty much no longer recognizable in this mess. It was going to be an agsty romance drama...but somehow it ended up an fairly bad adventure summery end of series type of thing. One thing I've liked from writing this is learning I'm a huge AquaXVentus fan :D

Anyway, Thanks for sticking with me. I think for KH I'm far better off writing oneshots :D

Thanks again for reading and reviewing! :D