Kingdom Hearts II: Home Sweet Sanctuary

Chapter 21: Yellow Feathers

A/N I'm trying the KH2 lv. 1 on critical mode and OH. MY. GOSH! It is harder than I thought it would be. I barely made it passed the hyenas in the Pride Lands. Let me know if you have any tips or tricks for the lv. 1 challenge.

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"Irix is here to bring you to us," he pointed at her and Piri gasped.

"No, I'm not in the Organization anymore, you perv! And you aren't going to get anywhere near her!" She glared daggers at him.

He growled, "Must you forget... You are part of her and I can take you to the Superior that easy."

Piri jumped in front of the Time Duchess. "Not unless you want to die!"

"Why protect each other when you know that she cannot exist now?" He asked.

"We are two sides of the same coin!" Irix said, "There's no way I would let me get hurt!"

Piri gasped as she caught what she was saying. "Irix, I'm not you! Just like you're not me!"

Irix stopped and looked at her, "Are you kidding? Superior... I mean, Xemnas told me we Nobodies don't have hearts. The person we come from do so we are them."

"But that doesn't make sense..." Piri said.

"That's why we need Kingdom Hearts to give us the hearts we need..." He summoned a dark corridor and left through it, "To be whole..."

"Kingdom Hearts?" Piri blinked and dismissed her blade as well as Irix did hers. "No, according to the legends of the Great X-blade War, it disappeared... How are they- Irix?"

She looked up and Irix was gone.

"IRIX! WHERE ARE YOU?" she yelled and ran out to the courtyard.

She looked around for any trace of her but she wasn't to be found. However, she did find a purple ceramic sand dollar attached to yellow yarn. She picked it up and looked at it. Tears formed around her eyes and they streamed down. She sighed and wiped them off.

"Roxy..." She gasped and covered her mouth. She looked at the charm and smiled. "Irix, I promise I'll find a way to restore Roxas... and the rest of your friends. Including... Xion..."

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?'s POV

I smiled as she said that and put back on my hood. I watched her from the roof of the castle.

"Are you ready to go, Irix?" I turned my head to see a blindfolded Riku.

"Yeah..." I smiled as he opened a dark corridor, "You and Sora were right about her: she is motherly and kind."

"She always has been like that..." He sighed, "I remember when we were little, her, me, and Sora found a chocobo egg. When it hatched, Piri was always willing to help take care of it before..."

"Before what?"

He sighed, "Before that cat got a hold of it. Piri was sad for the longest time even though she refused to show it. In fact, when Sora cried, she comfort him like a mother would."