We walked into this room. Riku looked around and sighed. Books were scattered near the bookshelf and the bed of the room was neat and tidy.

"It's like he said- everything's just how I remember it, the books, the bed... everything..."

"She gave you this room?" I asked him and he nodded. I dryly laughed, "At least she gave you a room. I had to settle for a cell as a room."

"Dawn..." I snapped my head over to him.

"It's Dawna to you!" I glared and he glared back.

"You two don't kill each other. You both need to survive."

"You again!" Riku said, turning his attention to the voice.

"It must be nice being in your own bedroom. Think of all the memories."

"Sorry, but I could do without those memories..." Riku said, irritation developing, "Maleficent gave me this room."

"So she did. And you lived here, tempted by the darkness she offered. You cast away your home, your friends, everything.."

As he taunted Riku, I gasped and look at him: we did have something in common. He growled at the voice.

"SHUT UP!" he ran out of the room. I looked around the room one last time and felt guilty for him.

"Riku, wait for me!"

~

"GAH! There's no one here..." I cried as we climbed the final flight of stairs to the Castle Chapel.

Riku glared the doorway and approached it, throwing it opened with much force to where it hit the wall and made me jump out of my hide. He stepped through the doorway and we proceed down the hallway.

I was thinking about of what to ask him. To the point where I didn't notice him stop in front of me. He was glaring at something. When I followed his gaze, my blood boiled and my muscles tensed.

"I knew you'd both return, Riku and Dawn." said the voice of the cold, cruel Maleficent.

"Don't called me that, you witch!" I yelled. The witch scoffed and turned to Riku.

"Maleficent! You're alive?" I looked at him with a questioning look.

"Wha-?"

"You haven't been paying attention. I am but a figment of your memory." she said calmly, but still rudely interrupting me.

"Of all people we run into, it had to be you..." Riku muttered as he turned his head away from her eyes.

"Who else? Your heart is steeped in darkness. You can only see people who exist in that same darkness... people like me."

"No..." he said softly, still refusing to look at her. I placed a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"Be grateful you have that fool of a girl to keep you company. Your heart is empty. Were it not for the darkness in your heart... you would be completely alone." she said coldly.

I stomped up to her, "Listen here, witch! I'm right here! He isn't alone! He isn't the only one who made the mistake of trusting you and falling for deals! I'm here so I can help him. Besides, who would want you around, anyway?"

"Oh, come now, child. Both of you once clung to me to sate your hunger for darkness. By the looks of it, You two want me here." I rolled my eyes at this. "Who else but I can give the darkness you both long for?" Riku was silent but I was furious with her. He finally spoke up.

"There was a time I wanted you around." He said slowly. "I surrendered my heart to the dark. But never again. You and your darkness have nothing to offer. All I did was lose myself... empty myself! I'm done with all that."

I walked passed Maleficent, "What I did was unforgettable... and you helped me destroy the one place I could call my own. Now I'm stuck here with a stupid witch and a boy with darkness. I'm not really happy, to say the least. But if we're stuck seeing people like you, people of the dark..." I levitated and fire surrounded my hands.

"We'll take you out one... by... one." Riku finished for me, whisking out his sword.

"Then don't forget to take out yourselves last. Because both of you, like me, are one of the dark." she said, her voice growing more menacing. Despite that, I pretend not to be scared.

"Leave her out of this!" I shot my head to him again, in shock, "These are my memories. I turned to darkness because I was weak. I hated that weakness. It's like I'm my own enemy. And seeing people like you embrace the darkness makes it worse! Enough talk, Maleficent!" Riku growled, gripping the handle of his sword tightly.

"So you hate the darkness enough to fight it... Oh, the agony you must feel. Let me end your pain, Riku... end it forever with the power of darkness!"

"If he's going down, so am I!" I threw a dark firaga at her face but she blocked it.

"You foolish girl! You don't know who you are dealing with!"

"Apparently, you don't either!"