Mariya stares at the mansion threw the gates. "Man...you were right about it being abandoned....looks in worse shape then the one in Twilight Town..." Mariya says to Bleach.
 
Axel inspects the lock. "Man I don't think this'll open even with your keyblade Mairya."

Bleach approaches the gate. "Yes, and there still seems to be no sign of Heartless. It's safe to say that this place will be Heartless-free and should be for a while. Now as for that lock..." Bleach snaps his fingers, a Twilight Blade appearing in his hands. "Let's try this." He aims at the lock and fires a ray of twilight energy into it.

The lock breaks open, and the gates creak open. Mariya shivers. Axel rubs Mariya's arms and finds he's wearing a jacet, t-shirt and pants, but Mariya is only wearing her regular clothes. Axel gives Mariya his Jacket just as it begins to rain.
 
Mariya mutters something before she runs to the mansion, Axel following her.

Bleach makes haste to enter the mansion as well, noting a graveyard in the backyard before they enter. "Well, a bit of rain, but otherwise, it's safe to say that it's possible to live in this mansion."

"Ok......graveyard in the backyard...creepy...."
 
"Yea, only the Addams family would want to live here." Axel says, smirking at his joke.
 
Mariya pushes on the doors, but they don't budge. She summons Dragon heart and shoves the pike into the door and tries to pry it open. it doesn't budge. Dragon heart disapears.
 
"Looks like we have to smash a window." Axel says.
 
But before he can move, the doors creek open.
 
"Again...creepy." Mariya says.

"Hm...peculiar," Bleach says as he steps inside. He glances around, noting the interior decor. "...There is something wrong here," he notes. "This mansion is supposedly abandoned, and yet it seems like someone or something has been taking care of it for quite some time. I see few spiderwebs, there is little evidence of any deterioration in the decor...very odd."

Ramsley appears then, and glances at the others before he glances at Mariya. His eyes widen slightly before they return to normal not to long later. "May I help you?"
 
"Um...I'm sorry to disturb you, but we were walking in the marsh when it started to rain...we hoped that this place was abandoned and we could stay here until the rain stopped." Mariya says, quickly coming up with something.
 
"We're sorry to intrude." Axel says, taking Mariya's hand. He didn't like the feel of this place.

Bleach is silent, keeping an eye on Ramsley. Something felt odd here, but he couldn't put his finger on it. "Yes. If you so wish, we can leave and look for shelter elsewhere."

"Nonsence, the master welcomes any guests in need of shelter. Please follow me." Ramsley says, and walks to the Mansion's ballroom.
 
Mariya and Axel follow. Once there Ramsley bows slightly. "The master will be with you shortly."
 
Mariya smiles and once he leaves she looks around. She notices the fireplace. "Wow....now that's a fireplace..."

Bleach nods and glances at it, staring at it for a while as if something had caught his attention. After a moment, he looks away from the fireplace, smiling.

Axel is about to say something before footsteps echo.
 
"Welcome to my mansion. I am Edward Gracey." The man says as he comes up to the party.
 
"It's a beasutiful mansion, Mr. Gracey." Mariya says.
 
Gracey simply smiles, and he looks as Emma and Ezra cart in food to a table. "Will you join me?"
 
Mariya nods and walks to the table with Axel, who holds out Mariya's chair while she sits and pushes it in before sitting next to her.

Bleach is silent before sitting down as well, his gaze focusing on Master Gracey. He inspects him closely, and while he seems innocent enough...there was something else to him...

Mariya eats even though she's not hungry, not wanting to seem rude.

"The rain has flooded the road. I fear you will not be leaving any time soon." Ramsley says, after entering the ballroom.

Mariya sighs. "I sapose we're staying the night then."

"Ramsley will show you to the guest rooms once you are finished with your meal." Gracey says, glancing at Mariya.

Mariya doesn't notice the glance, neither does Axel. They simply finish their meal and wait for bleach before following Ramsley to the rooms.

Bleach also takes a few bites, not necessarily hungry as he never required substance. But, like Mariya, he did it to not be rude. Afterwards, he stood, adjusted his cloak, and follows Mariya and Axel.

Ramsley leads them upstairs and opens a door to a bedroom. "For the lady."
 
Mariya smiles and kisses Axel before going into the room. Did Ramsley glare at Axel? Ramsley opens a door for both Axel and Bleach, and Axel takes the room closest to Mairya.

 Bleach steps in, silent as he examines the decor. "Ramsley, I would like to ask you a few things," he soon says as he looks back to Ramsley.

"How can I be of service?" Ramsley asks.

"First off, how long has Master Gracey graced this mansion with his presence here?" Bleach asks. "From how well-kept this place is, I could only imagine that his family has lived in this mansion for generations."

"Indeed, this mansion has been living in this mansion for some time, athough for a few generations it was abandoned. They thought it was haunted." Ramsley says.

"I see," Bleach says, seeming to be deep in thought. "Is there any reason for why this mansion was abandoned for so many generations? Or perhaps why there was a sudden decision to return to this mansion after so many generations?"

"Well the previous owener of this house did not want to live in a haunted mansion, since they believed it was haunted because of a curse. Master Gracey wishes to sell this house so he moved in to make improvements and such." Ramsley says.

Bleach gives a nod. "I see..." Deep down, he wasn't convinced. There was something fishy behind this whole story. "Well, thank you for answering my questions, Ramsley. I appreciate it."

"It is my pleasure, sir." Ramsley says. He then departs.

---

Mariya lies down on the bed and cloeses her eyes, and soon drifts to sleep.
 
Axel lies on his bed, but only stares at the roof.

---

After a few minutes, a strange ghostball enters Bleach's room. It floats there for a moment before slowly heading to the door.

Bleach is looking out the window when the ghostball appears. "Hm?" He turns toward it, watching it, examining it, as it floats toward the door. "...Paranormal phenomenon...now this might be interesting."

The ball goes throught the door, and it feels as if it wants bleach to follow it.

"...Seems I'm going to see just how far the rabbit hole goes..." Bleach murmurs before he goes to the door. Slowly, he opens it, glancing into the hall to see if anyone was around. Seeing no one, he spies the ghostball and continues to follow it.

The ghostball goes to an old elevator, and floats up the shaft.

---

Shortly after Bleach goes into the elevator, Axel's eyes open as a knock comes to his door. He gets up and opens it. "Oh Ramsley, can I help you?"
 
"Yes the master wishes to speak with you in the library." Ramsley says.
 
Axel nods, and follows Ramsley.

Bleach is silent, then steps into the elevator. He closes the gate, then examines the controls. After a moment, he tinkers with it a bit, trying to get it to work.

The elevator simply goes up on its own, going into the attic, which contains many dust-covered items, excluding a wedding dress, covered in lace-like tarp, and a painting of a brown-haired green-eyed woman that resembles Mariya greatly. She is smiling, and wearing an Elizabethan-stlye dress.

Bleach blinks, looking around the attic and noting especially the wedding dress and the painting. "...How interesting...you would almost mistake them for the same person."

Ramsley takes Axel into the library, and motions to the couch. "The master will be with you soon."

Axel nods, but looks around the study. He stares at all the books. "Wow..." Axel mutters. He then goes behind the desk and trips on a large stack of books he hadn't noticed. When he stands up he see's a busts head is moved back, causeing a bookshelf to slide away and reveal a secret passage. Axel gets curious and goes inside. Before he can wonder where it leads the secret door shuts behind him. Axel mutters under his breath.

---

Emma and Ezra appear. "What are you doing up here?! Your not sapposed to be here!"

Bleach is silent, glancing over his shoulder at them. "Really? I apologize, but I was just taking a better look around. Like what you did with the place. I'd almost be convinced that this house isn't haunted."

Axel keeps muttering as he walks threw the passage and comes to a painting. He pushes it and it opens. He grabsa a candleabra and walks threw the passage, not noticing the changing paintings behind him. He makes his way to a....breathing door?

---

Emma goes up to Bleach. "Would you like a cookie?" She asks, smiling sweetly.
 
"Cookies? Tresspassers don't get cookies!"

---

Mariya wakes after having a nightmare and pants heavily. She gets out of the bed and goes to Axel's room and finds him gone. She walks down the hall and to the Foyé. "Axel? Axel?"
 
Ramsley appears. "May I help you, madam?"
 
Mariya gasps a little, startled. "Oh I was looking for my fiancé, Axel."
 
"I left him in the library, to await Master Greacy, right threw there, miss." Ramsley says. "Not to be rude, miss, but you look very young, to young to be getting married."
 
"Well Axel and I have nkown each other since we were kids so..." Mariya says before trailing off, she then goes into the library.

"Don't mind if I do," Bleach states as he takes one and takes a bite. "So, tell me, what's really going on here? I know it has to do with Mariya, the woman in this painting, and whatever happened in the past that made this place haunted."

"Her name was Elizabeth..." Emma says. A noise can be heard. She gasps. "HIde."

Ezra shoves Blech behind a trunk, and stands like he and Emma were only in the attic. After a moment Ramsley steps forward.

---

Mariya enters into the library, and looks around. "Axel? Are you here."
 
"I'm afraid he wondered off somewhere..." Gracey said as he stood.
 
"Oh...Mr. Gracey." Mariya says she notices a piano and goes over to it and presses a key the note sounds very off tune. She sighs. "A pity, Clair De Lune would have sounded lovely on this."

Bleach blinks, hiding behind the chest and remaining silent as he listens. After all, the last thing he needed was trouble.

"Yes, the tuner was saposed to come today, unfortunalty the rain must have delayed him." Gracey says.

"I overheard Ramsley saying your selling this place." Mariya says. "WHy is that?"

"Well..." Gracey says, before explaining why.

---

"The boy is not in his room." Ramsley says. "FInd him, we cannot have him wandering about and seeing things he shouldn't.

Bleach remains silent, not wanting to give himself away. He stays ready, though, in case he is discovered.

"FInd him." Ramsely says before disapearing.

---

After a small meeting with Madam Leota, Axel is chased by a flying Marching band to the attic. She pants as he slams the door behind him.

Bleach notices Axel as he comes out of hiding. "Ah, Axel, glad you made it to the party. The cookies were getting cold."

"Not funny....I was just chasded by flying instraments." Axel says. "And that gypsy lady was crazy!"
 
"You met with Madam Leota?" Emma asks.
 
Axel nods.

---

Mariya follows Gracey throught the mansion, listening to the sad tale of the mansion.

Bleach is silent, then speaks. "Axel...I think we might have a problem." He then tilts his head toward the painting and the wedding dress. "I don't know why, but I think Ramsley is trying to wed Mariya to Gracey. Whether or not Gracey's in on this, I don't know."

Axel clenches his fist. "Alright then, I guess we're going to Madame Leota. She seems top be some gypsy." Axel says opening the door. He then heads to Madame Leota's abode.

Bleach follows, keeping an eye out. "...Axel, I'm also worried for other reasons. You see, as I said, I'm Mario's Nobody and thus the reflection of his soul, mind, and feelings. Where his Heartless is able to see into people's hearts, I can see into people's souls. From what I saw in Ramsley, there is a powerful darkness working behind all this...a darkness, I fear, could possibly attract 'unwanted guests' if we are not careful."

"I'm not sure we can be careful....I think everyone here is a ghost." Axel says, glancing at Emma and Ezra. They smile sheepishly. He then opens the door to Madam Leota's room.

"But they are," Bleach states. "Remember a second ago when I said that I could see into people's souls? Well, the truth is that that's pretty much all the residents of this mansion are. Perhaps they can feint a physical form, but they are ghosts, and my eyes don't lie. However, Ramsley's the only one with darkness in his soul, which means we have to stop him."

"I wish you good luck with that." Leota says.

"Alright Leota, what's going on here. Tell me everything." Axel demands.

Leota disapears from her ball and soon Mariya and Gracey appear, standing in the attic, but the painting is gone. "This was to be her wedding dress."

"It's beautiful." Mariya mutters.

"It would have been more beautiful still if she ever got the chance to wear it..." Gracey says, and the conversation goes from there. And Mariya looks close to tears when the story finishes. They proceed to the ballroom via the elevator.

"So Gracey think's Mariya's this Elizabeth girl?" Axel asks.

"Indeed, she even wanders these halls." Leota says.

"But Mariya is not Elizabeth." Axel snaps.

Bleach nods. "But from what I understand, Gracey thinks she is. I still don't know what Ramsley wants to wed them, but if I had to guess, it might be the way to break the curse on this mansion and allow the spirits to find to the 'great light'. But...this is not how it should go..." Bleach is silent, then speaks to Leota. "Madame Leota, would there happen to be anything in this mansion that could be used against Ramsley or to convince Gracey that Mariya isn't Elizabeth?"

"Indeed, In order for the truth to be known, you must go to the moselum by the dead oak tree and find the crpyt with no name, there you will find the key." Leota says.
 
"Okay.......so how do we get out of here?" Axel asks.
 
"Well...theres always my way." Ezra says, smirking.
 
 

"...A key...we need a key to proceed..." Bleach says, sounding a bit in disbelief. "We can't just use this?" With that, Bleach summons his Twilight Blade. "This is better than any skeleton key out there."

"Good idea...try it." Axel says.

Bleach nods. "So, what is the key supposed to be used on?" he asks Madame Leota.

"A trunk within the attic." Leota says.
 
Axel picks up Leota's ball and heads back to the Attic, ignoring Leota's panic. Once there he sets her down on a wicker chair. He motions to a trunk. "Is that it?" He asks.
 
Leota nods.
 
Axel pulls it forwward.

Bleach nods, takes his Twilight Blade, and aims it at the lock. After a moment of charge time, a beam fires to the lock. Suddenly, something deflects it, causing the beam to bound around the room hazardly. "What the-HIT THE DECK!" He ducks, almost getting hit as the beam flies past, finally flying out a broken window.

"...Okay...that didn't work..." Bleach says after he stares at where it flew out. "Guess we do need the actual key...so, what was that way of yours, Ezra?"

Axel had ducked. "Alright Ezra...what did you have in mind?" he asked.

Ezra smirks.

Next thing they know they know they are unboard a carrage driven by a skeletal horse, and are bursting threw the mansion walls.

Bleach sits inside the carriage, gripping the aged seat for his life. "Okay...we're out, which is nice...the undead horses, though, but terrifies me."

"Ok your face to face with ghosts and a skeletal horse and carrage scares you...." Axel says before he notices a lot of ghosts wandering around the gravyard. "Ok...I see dead people..."

"Well, there's a difference between paranormal activity and necromancy," Bleach states. "Look, let's just find that key, okay? The moseleum must be nearby."

Axel nods and gets off the carrage, and starts looking for a dead oak tree. he then hears singing. "Do you hear that?"
 
"When the crypt goes creak,
And the tombstones quake.
Spooks come out for a swinging wake.
Happy haunts materialize,
And begin to vocalize.
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize...." A quartet sings.  When finding the sorce of the voices, it can be seen that the singers are simply busts.

Bleach listens for a moment, then looks to Axel. "Perhaps they know the way?"

"I don't know.." Axel says. "Hey guys....you know where an oak tree-"
 
"Down by the old oak tree where I first met you..." They sing.
 
Axel holds his head. "This is a waist of time."

Bleach is silent. "...Let's not give up too early." He then looks to the heads. "But before I ask about where the mosuleum is, I'm going to ask the obvious question: why are you four singing, usually off of whatever the last thing you heard was?"

"We just doooo." The busts sing.

---

Mariya looked out the window in the ballroom. "I hate when it rains." She mutters She then sighs. "So what happened to your grandfather?"

"...Right...so, moving on," Bleach states. "Our friend is in danger, and we want to know if you happen to know where the mosoleum is."

Axel wonders off "umm Bleach, I think I found it"

"I think I found it." The busts sing.

Bleach looks toward Axel. "Ah, alright." He then looks to the busts. "Well, thanks for your, er, help..." He then turns and runs after Axel. "So you found it, did you?"

Indeed, Axel did find it, the sides were parcially covered in vines and it was next to a dead oak tree, like Leota said.

Bleach is silent before he glances at Axel. "So, would you like the honors?"

Axel nods "sure" he opens the rusty door with a little trouble "I'll go in, you stay here just in case"

Inside the moseuem vases and coffins are lining the walls, but it looks like its been years, maybe decades since someone was down here. All the coffins have names except one in the center of them all.

Bleach sighs and waits outside, glancing around as he takes in the dead atmosphere. "...I miss The World that Never Was. At least the Nobodies were more alive than the ghosts here..."

Axel looks at the coffin in the center "hmm" he walks over and pushes it open. he sees the key and grabs it. he turns to go back to Bleach

Just as Axel nears the steps, the dead corpse rises up and looks at Axel. It hisses and gets out of its coffin and heads twords Axel. Soon, all the other coffins rumble and fall from the wall and all the corpses come to life and head twords Axel, attempting to stop him.

Above, the door to the moselum creeks, and begins to slowly shut.

---

"He killed himself." Gracey says.

Mariya gasps. "That's horrible..." She murmurs, and something deep down inside was telling her something was't right, but she ignores it.

Bleach sees the door slowly creaking shut. "Huh?!" he gasps before he quickly goes to the door, trying to pull it to keep it from closing, but it does little to help.

Axel runs up the steps and as the door is about to close tosses Bleach the key "you know what to do, now go!" he yells before the door shuts him in

The Zombies slowly walk up the steps and come after Axel.

---

Inside the attic, the trunk sits where it had before, waiting to be opened. Leota still sits on the chair humming 'grim grinning ghosts'.

Bleach stands there, staring at the door while holding the key in hand. After a while, he grimaces as he turns and runs, knowing that Axel was more than capable of fighting the zombies off. Right now, the greater priority was Mariya.

He soon reaches the attic after ten minutes of dashing. He stops at the chest, holding up the key before he inserts it into the lock. He then turns it, hearing a satisfying click. He then grabs the lid, lifts it up, and looks inside.

(We're moving ahead to the letter opening after your free to escape the moselum.)

"Find the thing that must be read, or else your heart will be filled with dread." Liota says.

Inside the trunk are a bunch of old things, and under some stuff is a red envelope.

Bleach blinks, picking up the letter. "Hm..." Turning it over, he sees a seal on the back. "This seal..." Bleach mutters as he now looks back to the painting where Elizabeth is holding a different envelope bearing the same seal, "this is her seal...her letter..." After a moment, he delicately removes the seal and begins to read out loud.

Yes my dear heart I will marry you. I will love you for all eternity.And tonight at last, we will be together. I do. Forever yours, Elizabeth. The Letter reads.

"She didn't kill herself, she wanted to be with him." Ezra says.

Ramsley enters. "Well done sir, I must say I'm impressed. Your more persistant then I realized." Her looks at Emma and Ezra. "I'll deal with you two later."

Emma and Ezra disapear.

Bleach is silent before he looks to Ramsley. "Well, it seems it all comes full-circle now, doesn't it, Ramsley?" He now turns toward Ramsley, stowing the letter in his cloak. "Let me try to guess my way across what few gaps remain in this story. Gracey once fell in love with a beautiful girl, the Elizabeth pictured over here. He loved her so much that he was willing to throw everything away in order to be with her. You, however, had other plans, so you killed her inconspiciously, perhaps with some poison in a goblet, and then set it all up to look like a suicide by replacing her love letter, the one she probably wrote that night, with one you wrote yourself, the supposed suicide note. However, this, in turn, put a terrible curse on this mansion, preventing anyone from leaving this plane of existence dead or alive, and only once Gracey and Elizabeth are reunited will the curse be lifted. So centuries later, who else stumbles into your master's mansion but Mariya, another girl of nobility who could pass off as Elizabeth's twin. You plan to get her to marry Gracey in order to remove this curse, whether or not she really is Elizabeth. Tell me if I got anything wrong."

"Well done." Ramesley says. He then smirks. "What that girl see's in that boy I don't know, but nevertheless, it will be to late if he ever escapes the moseleum. that is of little importance now, the only thing that matters is that the Master's pain must end tonight." He stands by the wedding dress. "The curse will be broken and we can all finally move on."

"A few problems with your plan, sadly," Bleach says. "First off, that's not Elizabeth. It will do nothing but cause your master more grief and, furthermore, will lead to the sacrifice of an innocent youth. Second, Axel will escape. You might not realize it yet, but he is much more powerful than you can imagine. His heart is stronger than any I've ever glimpsed before, and there is no doubt that he will escape and that will be that. And then there's me." With that, Bleach summons both his Twilight Blades. He then tucks one under his arm and snaps his fingers, and instantly, a group of Dancers, Dragoons, and Assassins materialize. "And them."

Ramsley smirks, and a trunk slides forward and trips bleach into it before shutting, thus trapping inside. "I believe that solves that problem." Ramsley says. He simply snaps his fingers and the Nobodies are driven out of the mansion by Zombie ghosts.

"Now you shall not interfere with my plans." Ramsley says as he leaves. Suddenly the trunk is transported into the hall before the ballroom doors suspended by chains and guarded by(for now) motionless armour.

(We were just getting this part covered, your free to escape the moselum)

"GAH!" Bleach yells as he gets trapped in the trunk, getting temporarily knocked senseless when his head hits the backboard. When he finally comes to, he struggles to get out of the chest, but between the swinging from his suspended state and the little room in the chest, escape is impossible. "Darn it..." he mutters. "I hope Axel's better off than I am..."

Axel was effortlessly cutting down zombies one after the other slowly tiring. "damn it looks like i have no choice after all" he jams his sword into the ground and out of it shoots streams of jet black feathers that slowly swallow Axel and tear any surrounding zombies. when the feathers disappear where Axel was once standing is what seems to be a completely new person. Slowly drawing his blade he makes quick work of the vast number of zombies and then blows the moselum door off of it's hinges.

Gracey stands in the center of the ballroom, Mariya beside him. "This house has waited for so long to have its shroud of darkness lifted. Tonight....for the first time In so many years, I believe its possible. The story will end differently. Mariya, do you believe that love is about secound chances? About forgiveness?"

Mariya smiles, thinking about Axel. "Yes, I do."

Gracey turned to face her. "Don't you remember?"

"Remember?" Mariya asked. "Are you okay Mr. Gracey?"
 
"Don't you recognise me at all? I thought you being here would certainly help you remember." Gracey says.
 
"Remember what?" Mariya asked.
 
"Where it happened!" He says, a dance tune playing in the background. "Where we spent our last moments together." He grabs Mariya as ghosts dance about the room. "Where we dance together for the last time before you....before you killed yourself. But now you've returned to me. And at long last we can be together."
 
Mariya looks around, startled, but unafraid of the ghosts.
 
"Why don't you remember? You're my world, my life! (My cheeseburger) And I have loved you in death as I did in life!"

"Let go of me!" She runs off, threw the ghosts, and out of the ballroom.

"Why do you not remember?" He appears at the steps. "You are her, you are Elizabeth. You must be!" He appears at top step. "Can you not sence it? Search your heart. I am your one true love. And now we can finally be together. Don't you understand?"

Mariya keeps running.

"Elizabeth you must listen to me." Gracey says.

"I'm not Elizabeth!" Mariya shouts.

"Please! I implore you."

"Leave me alone! Get away from me!" She shouts as she goes in room and slams the door.

Gracey leans againt the door. "She doesn't remember. It can't be her."

"It is her, Sir. The gypsy woman prophesied her return. And now the time has come. You had best get ready." Ramsley says.

"But she doesn't remember."Gracey whispers.

"In time she will, sir. I assure you she will." Ramsley says. A moment later Gracey disapears.

---

Outside, Neoshadows, Wight Knights, Gargoyles(KH 1), Search ghosst, and Trick ghosts appear, surrounidng Axel.

---

Mariya tries to get window open, turns to see Ramsley "Ramsley you have to help me. There's something wrong, horribly wrong. Mr. Gracey-"

"Yes, I know my dear. I know. He's expecting you. He's always been expecting you. *looks behind Mariya.* And you haven't put on your dress yet." He walks over to the dress, which was lying on the bed. We can't keep the master waiting."

"Waiting? For what?" Mariya asks, confused.

"Your wedding, of course." Ramsley says.

"My...I'm not Elizabeth!" Mariya says.

"Of course you are, my dear. You may not see it yet, but in time you will."

"You don't actually thinm I'll go threw with it? It's madness!" Mariya shouts.
.
"Oh yes, afterall." He goes to mirror as the inside swirls with smoke. "We would'nt want anything to happen to your friend or fiance." The mirror shows Axel(the mirror shows him human) surrounded by heartless, while the other half shows bleach trapped in the trunk.

Mariya gasps. "You wouldn't!"

"Of course not, my dear. But that is up to you. If not, I do fear for them." Ramsely says with a smirk.
Mariya takes the dress and starts crying.

A few minutes later, Mariya is dressed in the wedding gown and she begins her decent down the asile, keeping pace with the off-key wedding march. tears run down Mariya's face, ruing the make-up Emma put on.

From the trunk, Bleach can hear the wedding music. "Gotta stop this..." he mutters as he tries to free his hands, and soon, one gets far enough away in the confined space to make a snap.

Nobodies then appear in the mansion lobby and make their way toward the ballroom antechamber to free Bleach, but when they reach the antechamber, the suits of armor come to life. Instantly, the two sides clash, the Nobodies trying to reach the chest and the armors trying to defeat the Nobodies.

From the chest, Bleach can hear it all. "...Just great..."

Axels eyes flash quickly back to their original color "damn, I don't think I keep this up much longer"he opens his jet black wings to the full extent"I might lose control"he quickly defeats all the heartless then closes his eyes after a few seconds the wings disappear just as they had appeared in a whirlwind of feathers. "and now to save my friend and my fiance" he starts to walk towards the front door before hearing the battle inside.

The front door doesn't budge no matter what Axel does, not even with his demon powers. The windows look breakable, however.

---

Mariya finishes her decent down the asile.

"Elizabeth?" Gracey asks, holding out his hand.

"Yes, my love." Mariya says, holding back tears and stepping up to the alter.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here in the sight of God, to join this man and this woman in the bonds of Holy matrimony." Ramsley says.

The Nobodies continue to fight, but they are evenly matched with the armors and find themselves only able to hold them off.

"Come on...the blood's rushing to my head..." Bleach mutters.

Axel walks away, a few seconds later a gummi ship crashes through the greenhouse. He steps out of the gummi ship and the glass fixes it self."weird...." he takes off to the ball room. Stopping when he see's nobodies fighting the armor,looking around his eye fall on the chest. he draws his blade and points to at the chains "firaga"he says watching the chains melt. he opens the chest "miss me?"

A barrie appears on the ballroom door, and 13 gargoyles appear and attack the armour, the nobodies and Axel and Bleach.

---

"Wilt thou, Edward Gracey, have this eoman to be thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance, in the holiest state of matrimony?" Ramsley asks.

Gracey looks at Mariya and smiles. "I will."

"And do you, Elizabeth Henshaw, take this man to be your lawful husband, to love and cherish in death as you did in life?"

"I do." Mariya says, a few tears goin down her cheeks. Axel....I'm so sorry. She thinks.

Bleach gets out of the chest, holding his head. "Just peachy. If it wouldn't be rude, I'd ask you what took you." At that point, the Heartless attack, and at this point, Bleach groans. "That is it." He grimaces as he holds his sides, then throws his arms out as tendrils of Nobody lightning spread out from him, weaving around Axel and the Nobodies and impaling as many armors and Heartless as he can. After a few seconds, the tendrils return, and Bleach pants heavily. "Axel...you must hurry...Mariya...Ramsley's trying to wed her..." He reaches into his cloak and pulls out the letter. "Give this...to Gracey...the answers...will stop the madness...forget me, I'll recover in time..."

Axel nods and walks away thinking"more running?" he runs to the doors to the ballroom and starts to pull the double doors open.

The doors don't budge. Inside the wedding continues.

---

"From this day forward, you shall be joined together as one for all eternity until the very end of time." Ramsley says as he pours the position into the wine. He then speaks Latin, and pours poison into the wine. "What God has joined together let no man cast asunder."

Mariya takes the wine glass.

"I anyone has any objections." Ramsler says.

Mariya drinks the wine as he says this and the doors open.

Axel rushes in "yea I object." He says walking towards the three of them. "There is no way in hell that I am gonna left those two get married"

Mariya drops the cup and runs to Axel, hugging him tight. "I never thought I'd want to go home so badly." She whispers.

Axel laughs and draws his sword "now I am going to take MY future wife home, and I dare anyone to try and stop me"

"Get away from her. I lost her once, and I shall not loose her again!" Gracey says.

Axel sighs "her name is Mariya not Elizabeth" he stops "oh right this is for you" he pulls the letter out of his pocket and holds it out "take it, it's from Elizabeth"

Gracey takes it and reads it. He looks at Ramsley. "What's the meaning of this?"

"Must we continue to listen to these lunatics?"

"But it is written in her hand." Gracey says.

"Explain that, Ramsley." Mariya says, standing behind Axel.

"Well?" Gracey asks.

"Your union was unacceptable. I treid to warn you but you wouldn't listen." Ramsley says.

"So you killed her?" Gracey asks.

"I told you it would be a mistake to run away with that girl." Ramsley says.

"But I loved her! Was love my mistake?" Gracey asks.

"Yes! I tried to protect you. All these years I've sacrificed for you. But what would you understand of sacrifice, duty or honor?" He scoffs. "You loved her. Well damn you. Damn you all to hell!"

Zombie ghosts come flying in, smashing the windows and flying around. The fireplace burts with flames and a dragon forms out of the flames, and floats twords the alter, grabbing Ramsley and flies around Axel and the others before going back into the fireplace, and the Zombie ghost disapear. Sometime during this event, Mariya had fainted on the floor.

Axel saw the flames pass by him and then noticed Mariya had passed out "what happened to her?"he shot a half i'm gonna kill you half nervous look at Gracey

Before Gracey can say anything the Ghost Ball. It goes twords Mariya, and goes in her. Heaven appears above, and two figures can be seen standing in the clouds, looking down at the scene below. Their faces cannot be seen, however. The ghost ball now possessing Mariya, opens eyes and floats above everyone.

"Elizabeth, is that you?" Gracey asks.
 
"Yes, my love." Elizabeth says. Apparently, the ghost ball was Elizabeth. "The truth had to be known for me to be released." She looks at Axel. "He and his friend saved me."

Gracey smiles. "Oh Elizabeth."

"Yes, my darling?" She asks as she floats down to the foor.

"I've waited so long for this moment." Gracey says.

Elizabeth wraps her arms aroiund him. "And now only heaven awaits us." She kisses Gracey.

Axel watched as the ghost ball floated into the room and then into Mariya. He watched Elizabeth and Gracey kiss for a few seconds before stopping it "uhhh Gracey, I understand the whole you haven't seen her i a long time deal, but that's still my fiancee so if you don't mind bring her back"

Elizabeth sighs, and goes to Axel before leaving Mariya's body. Mariya falls into Axel. After a moment she stands up and holds her head. "Ow....." She mutters.

Elizabeth goes under heaven's light. "I rid her of the poison, and thank you again."

Gracey pulls out the deed to the house. "The house is yours, do with it as you wish."

Mariya takes the deed. She watches as the ghosts go up to heaven, including Gracey and Elizabeth. Mariya sighs when they disapear. "I'm getting out of this dress." She says as she walks off. Sudenly, time freezes around Axel when Mariya gets near to the door, making him the only one moving, or able to move.

The two figures float down to reveal themselves as Azull and Deanixous. Deanixous smiles, and hugs Axel. "Look at you, you've gotten so big."

Azull laughs. "That's not why we're here, Deanixous."

"I know, but I'm enjoying it." Deanixous says, not letting Axel go.

Axel looked stunned ".........mom........dad.....but you died......Sora told me so himself. How is this possible?"

"We got permission to come down and see you." Azull says, smiling.

Deanixous lets go. "We wanted to talk to you."

"Axel, son you have to tell Mariya about your demonic side." Azull says, taking Deanixous' hand.

"It's bugging Mariya inside that your not telling her while you left, but she's not going to force you to do it, and that might cause her to get sick." Deanixous says.

Axel shakes his head "she's not ready to know yet. I want her to know, but I don't think she'd like what I tell her very much"

"Axel, sweetie, you have to tell her. If she loves you, and we know she does, she'll accept you just as I accepted your father." Deanixous says. "She deserves to know."

"Your mother is right, Axel." Azull says.

Axel looks confused"but dad is completely normal" He looks at his father "right?"

"Where do you think you got those powers from?" Azull asks. "I didn't get my powers until I was fourteen."

"We were going to tell you when you were thirteen....but then the war came." Deanixous says. She looks up to heaven. "We don't have much longer. Please tell Mariya, Axel. She loves you so much, she'll accept you for who you are."

Axel nod "ok...so now would be the time for any fatherly advice or pointers to control this power better"

Azull sighs. "I learned everything on my own. And I can't teach you from heaven." He says, holding up a hand to hault any objections from Axel. "A man named Dante will be coming to Radiant Garden in the near future. When he comes, give him this."

Azull gives Axel a letter, that's sealed with a Royal Night symbol. On the Front is Dante, written by Azull. "Only Dante can open this, so don't try. Merlin created those seals so no enemies could open them and learn of our plans."

Deanixous hugs Axel again. "We're always watching over you."

Azull smiles, and takes Deanixous' hand once she lets go of Axel. "We love you son, and always have."

Then the two float up to heaven, and heaven closes up, and time resumes.

Axel nods "love you too" then he mumbles "great now I have tell Mariya......"

Mariya was already halfway up the steps, and soon she gets back to the guest room she had been staying in. She shuts the door and locks it, before changing. She steps out and takes a deep breath. "What an ordeal." She mutters. "Now I just want to go home and sleep."

She walks down the steps and finds Bleach on the floor. "Hey, you alright?" SHe asks.

Bleach gets up and nods, brushing himself off as the Nobodies, their work done, disappear. "I am fine. I've recovered from my mega move, so I should be well enough to move around."

Meanwhile, up in the rafters, Mario's Heartless watches in silence. A Shadow beside him gets ready to leap, but he stops it. "No, we've missed our chance to get the heaven's light. There would be nothing to gain. We leave." Silently, they both disappear into darkness.

"That's good." Mariya says. "Go and get in the gummi ship, we're going home." She says before going into the ballroom and Dragon Heart appears. It points to the fireplace and a beam shoots out to the keyhole inside. A click can be heard before the beam stops and Dragon Heart disapears.

Mariya sighs. "Welp, we can definitly go now." She says. She turns to Axel and holds him. "Ready?"

Axel shakes his head "I have to tell you something......but promise me something first"

 Mariya lets go of Axel. "Alright, what?" She asks.

Axel looks into her eyes "I'm about to tell you why I left, but you have to promise that you'll treat me the same after I do"

"I promise." Mariya says.

Axel sighs "I left because I had to learn how to control my inner demon.....so I wouldn't hurt you by mistake" he waits for her response so he'd know if he'd have to show her

Mariya looks confused. "Inner demon?" She asks.

Axel nods and walks a good six feet away before jamming his sword into the ground "I'll show you"

Mariya watches Axel, still confused.

Axel takes a deep breath before starting to change. A stream of jet black feathers shot out of the sword and his back, circling around him. after a few seconds a hand grabbed the now changed sword and the feathers disappeared and Axel stood changed. Head to toe in black armor with jet black wings folded tightly against his back. "See"

Mariya's eyes were wide, but she wasn't afraid, just surprised. She walked up to Axel and touched his face. She kisses him. "Why didn't you tell me?" She asks.

Axel kisses her back "I was afraid, I thought you'd be scared of me" he smiles "i guess we should go back home now huh?"

Mariya nods and kisses him agian, and takes his hand. "We can leave this out of the report if you want."

Axel laughs and changes back before leading Mariya out of the ball room "nah I guess it's time to tell everyone" he smiled "you just gotta write it" he said teasingly before kissing her

"Yea, since we have the deed to the 'something' Jack((Skellington)) is looking for." Mariya says. "You have to write it to. But we're agreed on not telling Dad I drank poison, right?" She asks.

"Well technically you still have to write your half of what happened" Axel points out "because I have no idea what you were doing while I was fighting zombies and all that other fun stuff"

"I know, Bleach is the lucky one in that case, he doesn't have to write a report, although your cellphone should have gotten most of what went on." Mariya says, before getting in the gummi ship.

Once everyone was in, the ship takes off.

{Mariya to Hallow Bastion}

Bleach, having gone on ahead of the other two, is already in the gummi ship, waiting up until they take off.
{Bleach to Hollow Bastion}

Axel shrugs

{Axel to Hollow Bastion}