The pain is intense, and even with Vens discipline he curls over as he’s flung backwards, biting his tongue as something in his chest fragments into a thousand shining shards. His head knocks against one of the fragments of glass as he eights, the impact singing through his body like a tuning fork.

Somewhere he can feel his body stumble and weaken. It sends the singing tune desperate, The heart lies shattered, and X-blade came from that. Vanitas was killing them both, but more importantly he was destroying what Master Xehanort has worked so hard to create.

He needed to end this.

There was nothing to push off of in the void of his heart but Ven fling himself forward with a sheer force of will, light collecting around the X-blade as he brought it down. “You’re destroying everything!!” He cried, a raw sound never heard,. “You’re ruining it! Join with me! Join or we die!”