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Finally, we're going to have some love. Hopefully, considering I do this right again. So, you'll kind of know who the love is about already. Enjoy the chapter!

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Logan pouted after Zac left. There was nothing they could do right now to follow him. So, they all left for Radiant Garden. Once they got there Logan still was pouting.

"What do we do now that Zac is lost again?" Logan asked.

Leon suggested, "I think we should train. We'll train to get better. I bet Zac's training right now to be able to beat you. You know how much he was getting beaten by you? He's going to be training hard."

"Yeah!" Yuffie exclaimed. "You need to get big and strong!" she said as she flexed her arm muscles.

"Okay, where do we go to train?" Logan asked. They entered Merlin's place.

Leon said, "I think Merlin will be generous enough to lend us his training room. Right Merlin?"

Merlin turned around to hear his name. "Huh? Did someone say my name?" he asked.

Yuffie came up fast to him, "Let us use your training room Merlin."

"Well, what for?" Merlin asked.

"We need to train to be able to fight Zac. He's turned his heart to the darkness," Leon said seriously.

"So," Logan said, "can we use your room?"

Merlin pondered for just a split second then said, "Of course! You guys can use my training room anytime!" He went to the middle of his own room and up the pedestal. Leon, Yuffie, and Logan followed him up and Merlin pressed a button on a stand that made the pedestal retreat downwards. It went down into a basement that lit up once they entered.

"Welcome to my training room!" Merlin declared. "So, what kind of training would you like?" he asked. The room was about two stories tall with furniture all over the place.

"Well ..." Logan started.

Leon interrupted, "Just give us the full training, Merlin. We don't have time to pick and go through them all."

"One full training session coming up!" Merlin exclaimed as he waved his hands in the air. He zapped some furniture to make it come alive. Then, he zapped another and another. Soon the whole room was filled with living furniture that floated. "Destroy all the furniture you want," Merlin said to Logan. "It always come back at you."

"Sweet!" Logan yelled as he got out his Ultima. He tried to hit a closet but it just wouldn't die. "Why can't I kill it?" Logan asked.

Leon answered as he shot one of his own closets, "Some things don't die from physical attacks. You have to kill them with magics!"

"Okay," Logan said as he understood. "Blizzaga!" he yelled. An scatter shot of ice shot from his keyblade and destroyed the closet. "Awesome!"

Yuffie had trouble hitting the tiny teacups floating everywhere in the air. Logan noticed and raised his keyblade in the air yelling, "Thundaga!" Lightning came from the sky and killed all of the teacup sets.

"Thanks, Logan," Yuffie said as she sliced up a chair.

Logan was impressed with himself and said, "You're welco-me." He was hit by a sofa to stop his sentece. But Logan countered by throwing his keyblade at the sofa. It sliced it in half, then he threw the keyblade at a chair then another chair then a table. The last one he did at the table he yelled, "Judgement!" He winded up and threw the keyblade extra hard slicing the table in four. Then, he used an ability that Cloud usually only does. He sped fast on the ground towards unguarded funiture killing them. Then, he finished by going straight up and gahtering his other Ultima on the way and spun around. He made a small tornado gathering up all of the furniture and then throwing it at the last part.

Leon came up to Logan and said, "I think that's enough training."

Logan said deep in breath, "Yeah, I think I overdid it, too."

Meanwhile in the Pride Lands ... Zac was training with Delila in the plains. She yelled, "Come on! I want you to defeat at least twenty tiger heartless! How many tiger heartless do you think that that kid is worth? Put some technique into it!"

Zac was sweating under his fur. He had Oblivion in his mouth and twenty tiger heartless around him. Ten pounced but he just spun around making them fall back and dissappear. A tiger heartless ran at Zac. He ran at it and came down with a strike to its head. Then, he hit the tiger heartless with the tip turning around to another heartless. He flipped backwards kicking the heartless in the jaw. A heartless was behind him and he landed on that one's head, too. Finally, he ran at a heartless seeming as if he was going to strike it. But at the last minute he jumped up and wrapped his tail around the heartless' neck. He ran around the circle using the heartless to knock back the other five. Finally, he threw the heartless in his tail into the air and yelled, "Graviga!" The magic made the heartless come straight down to the earth crushing it under the weight. Zac roared a mighty roar in victory.

"Very good, Zac," Delila said peacefully. "I think you're ready for Excalibur." A beep came from the gumi ship. "It had been found. Let's go!" she commanded. She entered the gummi ship turning into her normal form. Zac entered right after her and exited the Pride Lands' atmosphere. He wanted to savor the glory of the Excalibur and his newfound powers. He was also really tired and needed the rest.

The gummi ship slowly made its way to Twilight Town. Where the location of Betwixt and Between was supposed to be. Kiba slept in the back of the gummi while Zac rested and Delila looked out the window.

Zac got bored and started a conversation. "So, how'd you get to be the way you are right now?" he asked.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Delila asked confused.

"I mean how did you become a dark witch in all?" he asked again.

"Well, if you really want to know. I'm Malificent's niece," she answered.

Zac looked confused now. "Who exactly is Malificent, anyways?"

"I can't believe you don't know Malificent. She's only the strongest dark arts witch there ever was! She was feared beyond all reason throughout all worlds in the galaxy!" Delila said trying to paint a picture in Zac's mind.

"Well, she wasn't in feared in Radiant Garden, I guess. Because I've never heard of her."

"Augh, you're hopless." There was a small pause. "Sooo ... why did you to open your heart to the darkness?"

"I um ... I actually wanted to get stronger like every other person who wants to open their heart to darkness I guess. But, I had mine different. I left my friend, that guy I faced Logan, for dead to get stronger. We faced this guy Ansem together and almost got killed. I thought we could have done better, I could have done better. So, I left to open my heart to darkness."

"Oh, well, why'd you try to kill your friend just for power?" she asked thoughtfully towards Logan.

"I don't know. I just wanted power. Wait, aren't you supposed all for killing people and stuff for more power?" Zac asked.

"Oh, it just slipped out," Delila said innocently.

There was a long pause this time. They were both gazing at the stars through the window. Zac said, "So, do you got any boys that you like at Malificent's palace?"

"What?" Delila said. "We don't have any guys at Malificent's palace. Just witches. Why do you say that?"

"I was just wondering," Zac said putting on a little fake smile then taking it off really fast. He let out a heavy breath. He finally said, "The stars look beautiful. Especially when you can see them moving."

Delila replied, "Yeah, they are. I always star gaze from my room at night. But I never see them moving."

"Oh, really?" Zac questioned.

"Yeah," Delila said, "I was actually hoping to get away from all of that dark arts and just get a normal life. Settling down with someone and having a family." She closed her eyes and thought about a family that she might have.

Zac protested, "But if you started the dark arts, doesn't that mean that you wanted to do it?"

"Well, I sort of started on my own. But then my mother died. She gave me to Aunt Malificent and she forced me to continue it. Now that she's dead I don't have to listen to her anymore. I can do anything I want. The witches weren't going to let me quit, though. I needed an excuse to stop and escape their hold. So, that's why I came with you," she told Zac. At the last part she put on a cute smile raising her shoulders and putting them back down.

"Does that mean that ..." Zac took a gulp, "... that you love me?"

Delila blushed and looked down. "Well ... I wouldn't go that far."

"Oh," Zac sighed, "well, have there been any other men that went to the palace?"

Delila looked up and said, "Actually, there was one. That dark arts master was the one. But, I didn't go along with him. I just felt that he wasn't the one for me. I guess I was just waiting for the right person to take off with."

Zac finally looked up knowing that he won. "So ..." Zac gulped once more, "you do love me. Right?"

"Well ..." Delila blushed. She was embarassed to say it. "Yes! I do! The first time I saw that you wielded the keyblades I knew you were the one! I didn't know how, but my tiger rubbed against my leg at the moment that I had that thought and ... I just knew."

Zac turned around to see Delila's back. "I knew it! You did love me!" he exclaimed. Kiba shifted in his sleep. He was getting agitated by all of the yelling int he gummi. Zac noticed it and stayed quieter.

Delila turned around to meet Zac's eyes. She wasn't blushing anymore, but tears were moving down her eyes. "Yes, I love you. You're a great person and seem to be able to treat women nicelyc" she said jokingly. She smiled under her tears and got up walking towards Zac. He did the same and he grabbed Delila. They kissed on the lips and Kiba woke up right before the kiss. From his view a shooting star went right through their heads and he went back to sleep. Zac let go of Delila feeling the love. He sat back down smiling as he enjoyed watching the stars through the rest of the way back.

Meanwhile back at Hollow Bastion ... Logan was well rested. He had just eaten and was full. Cid reported, "Zac's on the move. He's heading towards a place called Twilight Town." The whole gang shot up from their seats and headed towards the Highwind. They left Radiant Garden and flew fast but no warp.

"What's wrong?" Yuffie asked. "Why aren't we warping?"

Cid replied, "We wouldn't have enough materia to get there if we warped. We're just going to have to do it the old fasion way."

Yuffie hid a bag behind her back. "I shouldn't have stole that materia," she thought. She ran into her room and hid the materia in her drawers.

Logan said, "Well, sometimes to be fastest you got to be the slowest. It's nice to enjoy the ride at times, too." He sat back in a chair and watched the stars wondering if Zac was seeing the same thing. "I'm coming to save you Zac," Logan thought.

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Yeah, I know. Really bad place to put an ending. Or good place. I don't know. I'm not the one reading it. It's just that there's a certain thing I need to put into the fanfiction before I end it. It'll be put in there, too. So, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and the next last chapters! Thanks for reading!