A/N this chapter was really fun to write! I can't wait until you all read it. And you'll like the surprise at the end.

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They ran to the gates and saw Shun-yu with his sword towards the Emperor.

"Hey, Hunny bunny! Over here!" Piri growled and he looked at them. They all glared at him with bitter hatred. He was caught off guard and Shang jump in with a high kick. Piri smirked at this.

Shang helped the Emperor into the palace and Ling, Yao, and Chin-Po closed the humongous doors. The gang stood in front of the gates protecting the place.

"It all ends now!" Mulan growled.

"Right now!" Sora muttered and Piri glared deeper into his eyes.

Shun-yu's hawk landed on his shoulder and he evilly smirked. Dark clouds surrounded him; the darkness. Piri gulped and her grip on her keyblade tightened. She closed her eyes and thought back to the advice Light gave to her.

"Courage isn't the absence of fear, but rather..." She opened her crystal blue eyes and got in her battling stance, "But rather the judgment that something is more important than fear!"

They started to engage in battle and Piri noticed how awesome Mulan's fighting skills were.

"Sora," she jumped by his side and held her keyblade in between them. It surrounded with darkness, running through the key, and Sora look at her with confusion. "Remember back at the Endless Abyss, where you defeated Ansem?"

He got what she was saying and he used his light to use against Shun-yu. A beam of a perfect balance of light and darkness shot towards him and this weakened him.

The evil man roared with pain and rage and the darkness blew everyone back. Sora skidded on the ground and Shun-yu head to him. Piri gasped as he grabbed him by the spikes of his hair, him groaning.

"You took away my victory, young man!" he raised his sword to Sora neck.

"Let me go..." He weakly said.

She growled. Took off her shoe and threw it at his head it, getting the Hun's attention.

"He didn't do it!" She growled and darkness surrounded her. Her eyes turned red and her hair black. Her voice went double, "Maybe you need to be notified not to miss with my friends!"

He still had Sora by the spikes but tossed his sword aside. He closed his eyes as a sign of remorse but then he smirked. Piri's eyes widened. He grabbed Sora by the neck and threw him to Donald and Goofy. They let out a shout of pain.

"NOOO!" her dark form stood still and Shun-yu smirked at this.

"Friends? You mean distractions!"

A tear ran down her face and she fell to her knees. Shun-yu walked to her and started to laugh.

That only sealed his fate.

She screamed and cried out, bursting out with intense darkness. She raised her hand and a dark bondage surrounded him. She used the darkness to left him up into the air. She closed her hand into a fist and the darkness began to suffocate him. Sora, recovering from what happened, watched in horror.

"The darkness will consume you! Let it and begone from this world forever!" She growled and Shun-yu evilly laugh until...

Poof.

He was gone.

The darkness died down and her hair turned to normal. Sora stood up and walked to her side, surprisingly quiet. She then fell into him.

"Piri!" He picked her up bridal style and looked at her face. She was fast asleep. He sighed with relief.

"That was a bit too scary..." Donald said, "Even for her!"

"Is she going to be okay?" Mulan asked, worried.

"Yeah, she just..." he sighed, "She just saved us and used to much of her power."

"Fa Mulan, I heard a great deal about you." The Emperor came to them with a glare towards her. Mulan gulped and stepped forward, bowing.

"You stole your father's armour, ran away from home, and impersonated an imperial soldier. You received your commanding officer, shamed the entire Chinese army, and dishonored your family name."

"We get the picture..." He said and he felt something was stinging his head. It let up and he heard Piri's voice.

'A little respect would be nice!'

He gasped and looked at her. She was frowning but was still out cold. He blushed in embarrassment.

'Sorry...'

"You're a young woman and in the end..." Sora gulped at this. "...You have saved us all."

As soon as he finished Sora sighed in relief. Everyone started cheering and clapping. Mulan blushed at this and Donald and Goofy started to celebrate too. Sora grinned and congratulated her, still holding Piri in his arms.

In the crowd, unknown to them, Riku saw what she had done. He sighed and looked at them.

"She'll be okay..." He was about to leave when he heard the Emperor speak again.

"Silence everyone." he raised a hand and lowered it. "Young man, what is your name?"

"Uh, Sora... sir..." he nervously said. His eminence then looked at the girl in his arms.

"Is this the lady who dressed in a coat of black and served in the army as well?" He asked.

"Yes, but-"

"What I have heard from Captain Shang, she was willing to give up her life for you and the soldiers." Riku's ears perked up. "You need to cherish her with the most love in your heart."

Riku turned to leave, 'She deserves someone better than me anywa-'

"Only as a friend, though." Sora said, "She has someone out there waiting for her. She always talks about how she misses him and when we find him, she and Riku are going to watch their baby grow up and possibly be married."

Riku let out a shaky breath and smiled, tears falling from his blindfold. He lifted his blindfold quickly wiped his tears. He summoned a dark corridor and looked back at the sleeping seeress, "Blackberry was wrong... She does love me still." He went through the portal and disappeared.

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Serah was bottle feeding Kiyoko and she cooed.

'Done!'

Serah giggled and pulled the bottle out of her mouth. Kiyoko burped shortly after, much to the pinkette's happiness. This reminded her of Piri when she was a baby, learning to burp on her own.

A dark corridor open and Serah gasped in astonishment. She sighed in relief when Riku stepped through.

"Thank goodness you're okay." She said, "You had all us worried when you stopped coming to check up on Kiyoko."

"Sorry. I..." he looked away. "I couldn't..."

Serah saw right through him, "Is it your darkness?"

He slowly nodded, "Unfortunately... I stayed away because I didn't want to hurt anyone else. If you, Lightning, or GranGran got hurt because of me... If my own daughter got hurt because of me, I couldn't live with myself."

Serah rolled her eyes and handed him the baby. "She needs her dad right now. I'll go meet Amara and GranGran in the Koi garden."

She left him and his daughter alone. Kiyoko whimpered and reached for his blindfold. He gasped and turned his head.

"No, I can't... Sorry..." He said, knowing she wants to see his eyes.

'Aw, but dad...' she whimpered at him again. She let a light in her shine and it entered Riku's heart. 'Now try, daddy!'

He froze for a second and took it off. She laughed in delight as he blinked and looked at her with a smile. He sat down on the rocking chair and rocked back and forth.

"Where did you learn that, flower?" He asked.

'Mommy used to be... no, is like that isn't she?'

"What do you mean?" He raised an eyebrow.

'By following her heart!'

He smiled and nodded, "Of course, she's always been like that. She's the one who saved others lives by sacrificing her own."

'Will she always love us?' he looked into those cyan eyes. She had more light showing then darkness, as most children do but hers was different. It was more curious and pure.

"And that, my little girl, is always going to be yes." He smiled and Serah came back in with Amara and Akira.

"Riku!" Amara ran up to his side. "Your back!"

"Welcome home, son." Akira warmly smiled. Riku did the same and stood up with the baby. He really did feel like he was home.

"It's good to be home, GranGran," he said. He handed the baby to Serah and rustled the young heartless' head, "Hey, Mar."

Amara giggled and hugged him, "I missed you, papa!" she gasped and pulled back, blushing.

"What's wrong?" Riku asked.

"I called you papa again..." she looked down in shame, "I'm sorry... I keep forgetting I'm your girlfriend's heartless."

Riku blinked at this and smiled. He knew she wanted to be in a family and not just someone's heartless. No, she wasn't just that to him. He picked her up.

"If Piri was here right now, she would say you're you and nobody else."

"I'm not even supposed to be here..." she said. "I did return her last heart piece and I did return to her, but..."

He heard yawning and turned around to see and blue headed girl wearing a green halter top and black jeans. She was walking downstairs and tying her bandana to her wrist and put her Struggle bracelet on. She looked up and gasped when gasped when she saw Riku, who was in complete shock.

"Irix?!"