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"Aww...you're gonna make me cry if you keep that up," said Rocza in a sad tone but laughed afterwards, "What do I care what a 'Nobody' thinks or says? The fact is that I could steal your fake heart for myself or let you die on your own. You see without me you will slowly disappear. I was the component that kept you together. Without me you will die...well more like be destroyed. Things that aren't alive can't really die afterall." He stepped off the body that had already started losing power. Little white particles were leaving the body slowly. Rozca picked IT up. His right hand ensnared IT's legs, arms, torso, and neck so IT couldn't move. Rocza's left hand was pulled back a bit as he glared up at IT. "I think I'll make your body lose more power faster so I can watch you vanish. Taking your fake heart isn't worth the time. It would vanish anyway within me. So I'll just take your magic. After that, I'll go and steal the hearts of all your friends. Then the I'll still the hearts of all that oppose me. Then the universe will plunge into chaos and darkness before ceasing to exist. I'll die of course, but I just love to destroy things. Once the universe is gone, time will repeat itself and make a new one. Then the same thing will happen again and again. Life will forever be trapped in this never ending killing spree."

"You...can't do that! You can't! You will fall and..."

"And what? With me absorbing so many hearts and commanding the heartless. I can't be stopped and I will destroy all...starting with you!" Rocza hit IT's chest and slowly sank his left hand into IT's chest, squeezing the life out of IT's chest. IT refused to scream in pain, spending the time IT had left glaring down at Rocza. "Hmph...just for that look. You will die now, 'Nobody'!" Rocza crushed IT's fake heart. IT's body dispersed in a flash. The magic mist swirled around Rocza and was absorbed into his body. "Hmhmhm...that felt good. Now to make my way down and...Huh...Erg! Why does my chest hurt?" he said as he clutched his chest...

FIN: The End of Castle Oblivion! (Bonds of Blood)
Rocza shook his head and put a serious look back on. "No matter. It must be gas." The dark incarnate of Raphael opened a door at the end of the battlefield and walked on up a set of stairs. A few minutes passed and he was in the tallest tower of Oblivion Castle. He looked out a window and laughed. Rocza had killed the owner of the castle already with his bare hands. He lay there against a broken bookcase; bloody books laid buried over his body. The man had a horrid, twisted expression across his pale face and gray lips. It seem he had his heart taken already and would be a Nobody soon. "This castle is all mine now. All there is left is to take control of this world then the ones closest to it. I'll plunge each world into darkness, making more breeding grounds for Heartless and Nobodies. All is going according to my original intensions from the moment I took on the power of darkness within me," he said grimly, a smirk of pure evil across his lips that craved that blood of others against them.

There was a sudden explosion. Brick, wood, stone, and other debris flew forward and scattered across the room. Rocza repelled any debris that flew at him with a barrier generated by his right hand, which was held up in front of him.
"Right on time. I was getting a bit bored waiting for you all." Sari, Haruka, Kouro, Grace, and Liri emerged from the dust. Each was a bit battle torn and bruised, but they were standing.

"What? I thought you were extinguished, Rocza, with the help of my pendent to Raphael and his will! Why are you back! Bring us back Raphael!" demanded Grace with her fist held up. She had angry tears in her eyes.

"Alright, buddy! I have just have had enough out of you! We'll make you pay for killing our friend!" said an angry and bitter Haruka as she took out her rapier.

Kouro took out his bow and aimed an arrow for Rocza. "Yeah, we'll skewer you and put an end to your hunger for blood!"

"Well it is more like destroyed him. I mean he wasn't real to begin with. He was just a prison to lock me up. I was very dark when I was born. So my parents and relatives made Raphael to lock me up and have the son they all wanted. But now that is all over now. So..." said with a humorous tone in his voice, "Let's get this over with." Rocza snapped his fingers and the area around them shattered like glass. They were all standing on a church like pillar.


The pillar was jutting up from a dark abyss. A beckoning, ebon void was above them. The pillar had a hard, stain glass top. It had beautiful designs. In the center were a few figures. The right side had heartless shapes and Rocza himself clawing out towards the left side. The left side was lightly colored with Raphael and his friends with their weapons drawn going towards the right side. "You will all die here!"

Grace took out her sword, Liri had her keyblade out, and Sari took out two sharp, long daggers. They stepped forward and stood next to Kouro and Haruka. "WE WON'T LOSE TO YOU!" they called out in unison before they charged forward, except for Kouro. He stood back since he fought with a long-range weapon.

Rocza just smirked at the warriors. Liri went forward first, "I'll make you pay for taking another friend from me!" she cried out as she slashed down at him. Rocza caught the keyblade by the neck, whirled her around as she held on to the keyblade fore dear life, and then threw her at an on coming Sari. The girls tumbled back as Grace took out a card that could shoot a beam of light. "PRISM BEAM!" a rainbow of color flew out a then crystallized to shoot out a beam of white light. Rocza vanished then appeared next to Grace.

The barrier went down when Rocza's attack was finished. Right when the barrier went down, he was blasted back by a THUNDAGA charged arrow, a FIRAGA wave from a sword stroke, BLIZZAGA icicles from two weapon sources, slammed down by a GRAVIJA ball, then blown up into the air by rapid HOLY explosions beneath him. Kouro took that opportunity to fire arrow after arrow at Rocza. They struck him in the back. Sari then leaped up, landed on his chest, and began to beat down on him with her feet. He was slammed through the glass again next to hole he went through before; Sari had leaped away from Rocza before his body fell however.

There was blast of dark energy beneath the group and they were blown towards the two holes, but stopped before any of them went through. They rose up in pain, but Liri used a CURAGA card on them all to heal their wounds. Rocza flew at them when the spell was over and slashed at them all rapidly. Sari was thrown up into the air then was struck by Thundara bolts on all sides of her before punched towards the right. She was then held up on a pinkish red energy cross.

Grace, Kouro, Haruka, and Liri were about to recover, but Rocza came down on all threw smacked them away with a powerful sweep of his twisted keyblade. Grace was about to fall through the first hole, but Rocza grabbed her by the back of her shirt. She was then thrown up into the air and rapidly hit by FIRE attacks. Her backside was completely burned. Her screams of pain were accompanied by the shouts of agony that Sari was feeling from the surges of power that the energy cross was sending through her. Before Grace fell, she was power kicked in her burnt back next to Sari where she spun a bit and was held by an energy cross like Sari's. They cried out in pain, but they both refused to she tears.

When the mayhem had finished, Sari and Grace were covered in long sheets of their own blood. Their clothing had been ripped clean off. Their panties had been reduced to pathetic, blood soaked loincloths. The string around their hips held what clothe there was left in front of the crotch region and buttocks region. Their bras were red inside and out. The cups just dangled in front of their breasts to hide them from frontal view. Blood dripped from their stained hair, toes, legs, and fingertips. Their heads hung downwards. The pain was so intense that they had fallen unconscious when it was over.

Heh heh heh..hmhmhm...hahahahahaaha AAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!" cackled Rocza as he retracted his claws and licked all long his arm and hand. His tongue slid over it slowly to get every ounce of blood, and to taste it all. He licked his lips after cleaning himself off, blood still hung from the sides of his mouth. The man flew forward, his fangs bared in a toothy grin of sinister desires. He looked over the bloody mess that covered the two girls. His tongue slid in-between his teeth and began to get longer slowly. It lifted up and pointed at the girls when it had reached a length of twelve feet. Haruka, Liriope, and Kouro were just holding on to consciousness as they looked over at the menace. The didn't want to look at what he was going to do next to the two girls, but they couldn't turn their heads away from the dark incarnate.

The extensive tongue suddenly lashed out, wrapping itself around the bodies of Sari and Grace. It started at their legs, working its way up. The appendage slid along their legs. It took up blood as it slid around up their legs like a snake. The others cringed at the site. It was horrible. The thoughts that plagued them made the sight of it all even worse.

Rocza's tongue was about to slide a bit higher when he suddenly stopped. The tongued quickly retracted into his mouth as he began to have a hard time flying. He held his heart and groaned in pain.
...Again? Why? Why now? W-what is this?" he grimaced his wings fluttered in order to try to keep him afloat. A light then suddenly shot out of his chest. He shivered and screamed with pain. The light swirled around the energy crosses and the heroes, causing them to glow and shimmer with golden light.

"I'll show you! I'll crush you and turn you into nothing!" roared a furious Rozca. But Raphael's friends rushed forward with their weapons drawn. Their weapons had changed as well. Light was coming from each of their chests, morphing their weapons.

Sari held two glistening daggers with two blades attached to each handle. They had angel wing designs going up the blades. Diamonds covered the handle like a net. She whirled them around her body before holding one over her head and the other parallel to her chest.

Grace was holding a long, shimmering spear. The head was diamond shape with little diamond blades coming out where the head met the staff. At the other end was double-sided hammer with a spike on the top of it. On the faces was a crown on each. She spun the mighty spear in front of her before holding it perpendicular.

Haruka was holding a vibrant handle with a translucent crystal at the butt. A crown was at the top. She made a sudden stroke with her right arm, and a blast of energy came out to form wide blade. It came out curved at the beginning, dipped a bit in the center, and then became diamond shaped at the top. The guard was two small wings on each side. Haruka held her sword in front of her boldly.

Liriope was wielding a long staff with a keyblade heads at the top. The head split into four jagged edges with a large glowing orb at the top. The staff was slender with light swirling all around it. Hearts twirled around within it. She poll vaulted next to Sari and held her staff above her head.

Kouro a sturdy bow with three light arrows pointed at Rocza. The bow had a golden string connected to two wings with shining orbs at the front corners of the wings. The handle had an aiming spike in front of it. The bow had golden sparkles floating around it.

Haruka shot up right past Rocza with her energy sword, slicing up his left side; the attack made him turn over so he was facing where the ground would be. Ten other bolts of light energy that pelted his chest one after another followed the attack. Haruka then grabbed Rocza by his neck, making him face her as they flew up. He was a bit dazed and in pain. She only glared at him before stabbing his stomach with the sword of light, pointing him towards the sky, then shooting up like a missile. He tumbled and rolled with his legs and arms flailing about. The attack took twenty-five seconds.

As Rocza tumbled through the air like a candy wrapper caught in an updraft, Sari appeared across from him. She took her daggers and flung them at Rocza like Chinese throwing stars. They spun around rapidly and cut through his body like tissue paper. They sliced through his arms, legs, abdomen, chest, neck, and the rest of his body eleven times. Rocza's body became steady afterwards. His legs were pointing towards the ground as the rest of his body was bent forward. Sari warped below him as they soared through the sky and held out her hands towards him. They were about fifteen feet apart. The daggers spun around her hands rapidly before she shot a rainbow colored wide beam into his body. The force pushed him ever so higher. The attack took about twenty seconds.

Raphael was the last one to appear. He wasted no time in flying up diagonal left at Rocza, cutting him along his chest. Rocza's body whipped back. He then slashed from the right side of Rocza along his back. The shimmering Pure Blade flew along with the attacks in a wide stream of power. Rocza was sliced up, left, down, diagonal upper right, across left, diagonal bottom left, behind him, and in front of his body. Raph then hovered in front of the dark incarnate. He bashed down on Rocza's head with his keyblade to open up for a grand swing like a golf player up into the stratosphere. Raph's attack took seventeen seconds.

Rocza floated, his body close to space itself. Raphael, Kouro, Liri. Haruka, Sari, and Grace fazed into existence all around him in a circle formation. They all held hands, leaned back, and closed their eyes. The same symbol that appeared below Rocza flashed above his body. Both symbols began to turn faster and faster. The top went clockwise and the bottom counter clockwise. A wide blast of light then erupted out of both symbols, consuming Rocza's body. He screamed and roared in pain. He reached out towards nowhere in particular as his body was slowly vaporizing.

"Eh, It doesn't matter to me, but I won't forget you all ever. We've been through too much for me to just forget everything," chimed in Haruka who stood there with her arms crossed.

Grace held onto Raph's left sleeve, while Sari had her arm around his right arm. "Sari and I need to stay with Raphael," indicated the still ever timid Grace.

"Yes, who knows what kind of trouble he may get into without us watching him? The clumsy oaf," said Sari in agreement while poking fun at Raphael. He blushed a bit and laughed at himself. The boy then slipped away from them, his hands on his hips.

"What's all this goodbye stuff? Do we really have to be like all the other heroes you see in movies and part ways? Why not just go to a world where we could live amongst each other? Or live on worlds close to one another? I mean they should be still connected. And I don't think our job is over yet. There is still darkness in the world. So let's save the goodbyes for some other time," explained Raphael in a confident tone before turning his back to them. The friends looked at one another and nodded in agreement with a semi-circle of grins. "Though...a little vacation wouldn't hurt. Let's go to Twilight Town and head for the beach!" he said as he turned back towards them.

They all walked up to Raphael, and looked at him with a sneaky look. "What?" he asked, feeling a bit worried. He was then pushed down by all of them before they took off down the center road, Haruka in the lead. "LAST ONE THERE HAS TO DRIVE!" shouted out Haruka.

"HEY!" called out a playfully angry Raphael as he got up and ran off after his friends.

"You'll have to move faster, man, if you don't want backseat drivers!" taunted Kouro.

Raph smiled and laughed as he ran. He was happy like the rest of his friends. They all came to the castle a bit weak hearted and a little alone. Some knew each other, but the friendship wasn't as strong as it was now. They fought bravely, learned from one another, became stronger, and joined together like brethren. The travels and hardships they faced with one another made them more connected than any Bonds of Blood.