I know…I know…long time coming….oh by the way…this is the ending and there are spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't finished the game.

- Shards -

Sora looked the way Saix had imagined – the boy playing the part of the hero, a knight in shining armor. He fought with the expected confidence that youth and experience brings, urged on by the aid of friends. Sora believed he was doing right but really any Nobody knew, if you saw life from their eyes your opinions of good and bad would be changed permanently.

Saix couldn't lose to him, he just couldn't. Not with Kingdom Hearts so near completion, not when he was so close to life and meaning, and maybe because of her. From the corner of his eye, Saix could make out her figure standing mortified behind the gate, unsure of what lied ahead and terrified for both of them.

The clash of metal against metal echoed like screams inside his brain, blood pumping with every carefully planned movement, each stab of pain tore his skin and reminding him of how close his false existence was coming to a close.

Pain and despair slowed his senses to the point where he could no longer track Sora's actions, making him vulnerable and allowing the Keyweilder's attacks to come more frequent.

So this is what it was like to lose hope? To be desperate? As he came to the sad realization that everything he had done had been all for nothing.

Bathed in the moonlight as always, he started to die, embracing the reactions that came along with it. The spreading cold like ice through his veins, the haziness that slowed his thinking, and finally the dimming that blurred his eyes and took her godly face from him. She had thrown herself against the gate tears streaming down her face; Saix smirked at her affectionately…so like a child he thought, crying and powerless.

Everything was symbolic; the gate itself separated Kairi from him, separating life from death. What wouldn't he give to touch her face through the gate and wipe away one tear. He looked to Kingdom Hearts with growing hatred; it had been a cruel mistress for it had betrayed him. And it rested there on its throne in the sky, basking in glory all while lazily watching him die.

"Where is my heart?" He screamed in vain, feeling everything slip as eternal darkness enveloped him, fading away piece by piece.

You cannot find your heart…because it belongs to another…

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Kairi thought she was happy for the most part, seeing Sora smile and wink at her everyday still made her heart skip a beat, listening to him laugh made her forget all her troubles.

However when Kairi stopped to think about her life and the little things, it felt like something was missing, something that no matter how hard she tried – she couldn't place it. Kairi could only feel its absence like a missing piece or a broken shard. And only once did she ever witness its loss, when lightening ravaged the island outside her window and rattled her from her fevered sleep, she woke clinging for a memory that had already faded away.

-End-

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