#dark keyblade army

[wilygryphon]

Dark Keyblade Army - King Candy

The forces of darkness are mounting an offensive, and villains from Disney and Final Fantasy have joined the horde.  But that's not all: they have been granted their own Keyblades, making them more dangerous than ever.

"Welcome to the boss level!"  "Have some candy!"  "Turbo-tastic!"  "I am the greatest racer in the arcade!"

King Candy, also known as the racer Turbo, has hacked his way out of Game Central Station and joined the Dark Keyblade Army.  He carries a variant of the Bad Guy Breaker Keyblade, a virus-infected reflection of the one Vanellope von Schweetz carries.  While he mainly appears in his King Candy form, he will sometimes glitch into his true form when he gets really mad.

Part of the "Keyblade Army" series, which will pit both heroes and villains in battle carrying Keyblades of their own.

[lockandkeyblade]

Okay so getting a returning interest in KH means I'm finally catching up on the mobile games and question: when the fuck was someone gonna tell me that Dark Road literally lays out that individual worlds are still reforming during the time when Eraqus and Xehanort are students?

I am frothing at the mouth at the things this game has been confirming that I've been wondering about for years. Yes, Keyblade society has basically been eating itself alive- Scala ad Caelum is near empty even when they're students.

And y'all are gonna let me find out that the worlds are likely still reforming in Sora's time, that time is literally funky between each world due to the differing rates in which they reform, from a goddamn youtube video showcasing cutscenes????

The potential worldbuilding is phenomenal. The potential what ifs are insane. What if LoD and the Keyblade Graveyard had been on completely different time speeds and Vanitas or Ventus had aged differently in comparison to each other? How many years have Sora Riku and Kairi actually been gone? Some worlds take months and some take seconds to rush through and the absolute cognitive dissonance of like, joining an army for the new friend you made who's trying to hide as a girl, for example, spending months gaining the trust of your captain and eventually saving the emperor, just to trot back to Radiant Garden and be told "oh Sora don't be silly you've been gone less than a day"--

This is how I know the fandom is dead on the fanfiction side of things because this is just begging to be experimented with and if it is I am not seeing it.

[finnish-kingdom-hearts]

Next in my Alan Wake x Kingdom Hearts series, Alex Casey!

Design Notes: I used Terra from Birth by Sleep and my Dark Knight in Final Fantasy XIV as my template for Casey. I wanted Casey’s costume to reflect that would be the tank of the party, taking damage to keep others safe. Kept his colors scheme in line with his in game suit and FBI jacket with red highlights to match the keyblade. I wanted his keyblade to be large, heavy and minimalist in design, a giant weapon you wouldn’t expect him being able to wield until he’s swinging it effortlessly at your face. Fur collar to give off a lone wolf vibe, thick heavy layers protecting himself from all angles as a one man army.

Keyblade Name: Return to Sender

Kingdom Hearts Song: Nachtflügel

[paopu-smoothie]

kh scribbles #1

me? angst?? never! anyways here's some kh3 Sora angst I wrote during my eighth play through

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His arms feel heavier. Eyelids drooping, head hung low, shoulders quivering. 

Sora knows he holds himself differently with his power gone. With barely any time to adjust to a grown body before combat, much less a grown body not teeming with rich magic and ties and bonds, Sora knows he looks weak. 

Donald and Goofy are apprehensive, Riku and Kairi fuss, Yen Sid divvies smaller missions and lesser stakes. They see it. 

Weakness coats him like thick, suffocating slime, and they see it.

Wielding a Keyblade once meant something. Sora was unique for carrying one, abandoned for losing one. Everyone carries a blade now. They wield it better and stronger and quicker. 

His heart was a fortress, a safe haven for wayward spirits and hearts without homes. Friendship and the ties that bound it were always stronger in Sora. Everyone is connected to each other now, through hearts, phones, and ships. Hearts don’t need a home anymore. 

Everything that made Sora strong makes someone else stronger. He shares his abilities with a dozen other more capable bodies; bodies that don’t shake under pressure, bodies that aren’t breathless after battle, bodies that passed the exam.

Sora once fought an army of a thousand without breaking. Now one foe winds him. He wonders if Riku was right, if he never was meant to wield the Keyblade. As soon as there were superiors its power failed — his power — and he needed rescue from others he once saved. His friends are his strength, not the other way around. 

Sora counts the days until he is cast aside again; the boy with the wooden sword has served his purpose. It isn’t long. Soon seven lights will go to war. He knows he isn’t one of them. He knows his utility is short lived. 

For now, though, he will bask in the little missions, soon to become memories and stories from when he was useful, powerful, needed. He will bathe in this light until it fades. Then in the darkness he will recall a time when his arms were light, eyes wide, head held high. A time when he meant something. When he was strong.

[foxfirestarlight]

The armies of darkness may feel endless, especially now. But every dark night has a beautiful dawn waiting.

Will you be there to greet it?

First piece of 2025, and the end result of that project we mentioned a bit ago.

Blacklight (Left) and Sol Seraphim (Right)

Our first and only foray into blender. We promised ourselves we'd at least try to make ourselves a pair of Keyblades about half a year ago I think?

And after the whole. Process of learning it, yeah, we're probably never touching it again. At least not for character modeling. But, hey, at least we got these out of it!

[illuminatedquill]

A Keyblade born from the heart and will of the Mandalorian Sabine Wren. Forged from the metal native to her home world and crafted in the image of her iconic Starbird, its power comes from the melding of all that she has experienced, loved, and lost throughout her life. The keychain is her mother's hair piece, a sole reminder of the strength Ursa Wren carried until the end of her days - and that now lives on her through her daughter.

The Inheritance Ceremony:

"Sabine Wren: in your hand, take this Key.

So long as you have the making, then through this simple act of taking, its wielder you will be.

Fire-forged, your heart shall always be - forever shaped by life's tragedy.

But by burning bright, your enemies will flee before your flame.

The galaxy will remember your name.

You will be like your symbol, the Starbird that never dies.

A heart once caged by despair will now soar through the skies."

A Keyblade born from the heart and will of the Jedi Ezra Bridger. It symbolizes all he stands for, forged with all the wisdom and power offered from the Jedi path he walks. With all he has experienced, combined with his master's lessons, Ezra Bridger has become a true Jedi at last. Kanan Jarrus is never far from the young man's mind, and the fallen Jedi Knight's influence is present within the heart of this weapon.

The Inheritance Ceremony:

"Ezra Bridger: in your hand, take this Key.

So long as you have the making, then through this simple act of taking, its wielder you will be.

This dark Empire you fight cannot restrain you now.

And one day you will help force its final bow.

You may be but one tiny light to show the way -

But the spark you give will let others live in a brighter day."

Story Summary:

An old enemy seeks vengeance on Sabine and Ezra, promising to usher in a new wave of darkness from beyond their galaxy . . .

This world has been connected. Tied to the dark.

During the peace of the New Republic, Sabine Wren finds herself thrust into an adventure while investigating the ruins of ancient portal on Lothal that led to a mythical place called "The World Between Worlds". There she encounters a foe long thought dead, guarding a mysterious Door that has appeared where the Mortis Gods mural once stood . . .

Stranded on an unknown planet in a far-away galaxy and dreaming of home, Ezra Bridger sees an unusual ship crash land in front of him. The ship's pilot, a strange mouse-like creature referring to himself as "King Mickey", warns him of an advancing army of shadows called "Heartless" that seeks to consume the heart of his home planet, Lothal . . .

Hearts crossing through time and space. The two best friends are reunited once more, armed with mystical weapons called "Keyblades", facing a dark adversary that has vowed to return the Empire to its former glory - and more. But the true battle lies within, as they both will face a decision at the battle's end that requires sacrifice beyond what they have ever known . . .

Coming soon to a Galaxy near you . . .

*Art done by the always amazing MoonFishGhost

Check out her work here:

[muses-of-the-memory]

Happy 19th Anniversary, Kingdom Hearts II!

Today is the 19th Anniversary of...

Kingdom Hearts 2!

It has now been 19 years since we seen the story of the Kingdom Hearts 2 continue from the first game, Chain of Memories and 358/2 Days put together.

It started out with Roxas, No. XIII, Sora's Nobody have his time in the Simulated Twilight Town on a summer vacation, but has gotten some of Sora's lost memories of his past adventures.

Now awakened, Sora, Donald and Goofy continue their search for Riku and King Mickey, even exploring some worlds of old friends that had returned from the darkness after Ansem... which was Xehanort's Heartless were restored.

But along the way, Maleficent had revived and has gotten Pete to go out into other worlds for her Heartless army.

Then, Xehanort's Nobody, Xemnas, was revealed to be the Organization's leader using Sora's Keyblade to get the hearts from the Heartless, to create Kingdom Hearts to make them whole. But their efforts were thwarted with the help of Riku, Axel, Naminé, and Kairi who became a Keyblade wielder since then.

And in the end, Sora, Kairi and Riku returned home to Destiny Islands, and King Mickey and the others back to Disney Castle.

[seraphdescent]

"gotta do my part to clear the path before you steal the show."

He announces such an idea with no shortage of pride. Desolation hangs heavy in the air in these ruins they've found themselves in, surrounded by these re-animated armors of knights, brandishing darkness drenched broadaxes and blades as they skulked towards them. That soulless spectacle of golden eyes peeked from any shattered crevice.

Some already found themselves cleaved by the Keyblade's wrath and the usage of Rinoa's own expertise, scintillating light fizzling upon their cleaved, corroded metals as if banishing a plague.

Sora's own Heart pulsed with vibrancy, his second heartbeat gradually stirring awake the more this battle heats up. Despite his words, tucked in those cerulean eyes was a sense of excitable expectation. He could feel the more that rests within.

And that was incredibly dependable.

"If they're gathering up for a band like this, we must be on the right track. Should we tear through the ranks or clean house?"

A world where being able to cast magic was normal. That was still a phenomenon that hadn't quite sunk in yet. A grin pulls on her lips as she glances towards her companion with the keyblade, providing a mock bow as her arm extended in reveal of the familiar creatures fast approaching.

"By all means; I'd hate to outshine you at your own job~"

Wings expanding behind her as magic erupted in the palms of her hands, waves of the natural elements shot from her fingertips into the faceless, heartless army, their smaller bodies flying and vanishing as though banished into non-existence itself.

Sometimes when she fought with Sora, it became too easy to forget what these henchmen could do when they were in an army, especially when they had a leader at their command. They did what Ultimecia failed to do ; they really did wipe out everything. Rinoa wasn't a match for their number. None of them were. Maybe that's how Hyne felt when He was being hunted by his creations.

"I guess that depends - do you think they've got a leader around?" There wasn't one she saw - but what'd that really mean? "You're kind of the expert with these things."

Air into water - water into ice - and with another push, frozen harpoons shot out into the crowd, though this onslaught brought on a grimace.

[valorxdrive]

"I will not tolerate this sort of debauchery! Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday! Let's teach this Heartless what happens when you try to mess with people's hearts!"

Tag team time? Yeah, it's tag team time. Press △ for Devil's Strike.

He never failed to find some morbid sense of wonder whenever these moments appeared. In many ways they were foes to each other, a counterbalance that would never hesitate to draw that unseen veil of potential to the limelight. In many ways they'd undeniably hold agreement for many things tackling the wider Worlds at large.

In Sora's perspective? The idea of sinister, mindless brands of hunger ceaselessly devouring the good, the hopeful in the world only charged a fierce sense of determination within. Even with the two of them entirely surrounded, the premise of being the sole forces versus veritable armies was nowhere close to a new premise.

"Look who's feeling a lil motivated for a change." The words were drawn with a sense of mirth despite the serious glint spiked with his eyes edging into gold.

"But I couldn't agree more. Hearts need a touch of quality time away from the Heartless."

Channel that strength!

Sora allowed that visceral torrent of raging dark power to tear through the invisible gate, swimming across his very Heart as the jewel of boundless potential glimmered with a defiant shade of vantablack. If only for a moment as his flesh found itself embodying the kin set as their very important. That in itself managed to stir Heartless garnering power to pause, as if a hazy note of clarity was made in seeing these two figures that flirt upon a very fine line.

A split moment, a fraction of time, that's all they needed for the beginning to end to blend in a seamless sense of harmony. Devil's Strike would find itself rending even the shade of eternal night into fractioned pieces of oblivion. As a fissure of dark power drew high from their very cores, it led to their bodies rending their foe apart with pure blunt force trauma. Crushing through a bulky build, rending limbs apart, even that growing attack found itself dismantled like a sputtering, dying candle.

Lacerations would claw through the earth as potmark craters leveled that playing field with it's own brand of distaste. Unlike Sasaki in cases like this, Sora steered from his Darkness the instant the deed found itself completed.

Flipping once before tapping upon the ground, a prideful sniff is made before he glances back at their handiwork. Unlike the Darkness underneath the banner of the Heartless, Sora's own found itself holding that keyblade like quality of freeing them back to where they belong. His long time companion in that very weapon never failed in offering the blessing that mattered.

"Maybe that will teach 'em finally that some things need to be. The courage to ask someone out, or even plan a lot for things like this shouldn't be so easily spoiled."

@dichotomouskey

[sentient-rift]

About Paradox Prince Sonic

Name: Sonic the Hedgehog

Paradox Cross: Sega and Nintendo x Kingdom Hearts

Occupation: Prince of Sega Castle, Keyblade Master.

Keyblade: Divewing

Family: Queen Aleena (Mother) Manic (Brother) Sonia (Sister)

Species: Hedgehog

World: Sega Castle

Abilities: Super Speed, Homing Attack, Spin Dash, Super Transformation, Chaos Control, Sonic Wind, Keyblade, Dream Jump, Power of Waking.

Background: Coming from a paradox dimension where the worlds of Sega and Nintendo come together in a Kingdom Hearts like universe, this is a Sonic who is both the Prince of Sega Castle and a Keyblade Master, acting as a parallel to King Mickey. Despite having a bit of a cocky attitude like most Sonics, he's still a selfless prince who puts others before himself.

He is one of three children of the queen of Sega Castle, Aleena. While Sonia is the more responsible sibling, and Manic is the most immature, Sonic seems to be a mixture of both, loving to have fun and goof around, but also knowing when to be serious. He also seems to have a better grasp at the Keyblade than Sonia and Manic.

At some point, he was recruited by ARiA to help protect the Multiverse, which he accepts. Whenever he has to leave his dimension, he leaves his siblings and friends in charge of protecting it while he's gone.

He formed a strong rivalry against Scourge (from @fallen-symphony ), and fights against him the most out of all the members of Slur's army. He sometimes mistakes him as his Heartless since he's the most evil and chaotic version of himself he ever met.

He still has a love for chili dogs like any other version of Sonic, and usually visits the Item Creation Shop to grab one.

Sonic is surpised to meet a good version of Dr. Eggman on the team, but is very welcoming of it. Sonic's not one to hold grudges, and treats Mr. Tinker with respect. He also finds it a little funny that an android who looks like Shadow is a childish little cinnamon bun like Terios.

Emerl is happy to have a version of Sonic joining the team, even if it's not the Sonic from his own dimension. Even though his link has moved to Bass Cross Megaman, he still shares special bond with Prince Sonic.

Sonic seems to find hidden potential in Klonoa. Having to Dream Jump in order to learn the Power of Waking and become a Keyblade Master, Sonic can't help but wonder if Dream Travelers have similar abilities...

Having a strong sense of justice and the heart of a benevolent prince, Sonic will do everything he can to help RiFT and ARiA keep the Multiverse safe from Slur's forces and from the darkness.

(Click here to see his introduction.)

[daybreak-academy-fanfic]

Every step forward: Entry 22

Summary: In a canon divergent mini-series that will probably never end; Sabrina’s Nobody is told by Xemnas to keep watch on Antiform Sora in the days leading up to the Keyblade War. Through journal entries, the nihilistic Nobody relates how Antiform struggles to be between light and darkness, how they dodge the remaining members of the Guardians of Light, and how weirdly attached the two get over the course of several months. First | Previous | Next

AO3 link: here

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XXII: Self Projection

Vanitas gave us a little visit today. He said it was to check in on the beast’s progress- he and I both knew better the moment he actually looked at the cursed creature. Vanitas had gone deathly silent as he looked the beast over. He never brought down his helmet to show the growing hurt and hatred he had. The Unversed did that for him- a whole army appearing around us in moments time.

Then he spat at it. Declared the creature a failure, a broken heart. I wonder how much he was self projecting. The face Vanitas claims was that of Sora’s before all of this. I’ll spare details as they will be repeated elsewhere. Not that I can’t see the frustration. This heart was supposed to be strong enough to heal another. This heart gave Vanitas an identity when he was nothing more than a faceless puppet for Xehanort. Now it is a creature of darkness. Now it is a beast that acts only on instinct. It could be rather disheartening if you cared enough.

And I do not.

Some time after, we exchanged a few words of meaningless flattery with each other. My Other and the missing half of Vanitas had a certain level of chemistry. As Vanitas can feel what his Half has felt, a measure of adoration has been kept alive. I could care less about that connection either way. Vanitas gets a good ego stroke if I indulge him. Hearing his pleased smirk is an absent joy.

When I asked if he would grace us with his presence again, he immediately looked to the creature. He never gave an answer.

But we all know what he would have said.

[wilygryphon]

Dark Keyblade Army - Sephiroth

The forces of darkness are mounting an offensive, and villains from Disney and Final Fantasy have joined the horde.  But that's not all: they have been granted their own Keyblades, making them more dangerous than ever.

"Show me your strength."  "I am the chosen one!"  "Shall I give you despair?"  "Descend, heartless angel!"

Seeking ultimate power and Cloud's misery, Sephiroth has joined the Dark Keyblade Army.  He wields the One Winged Angel Keyblade (extended to match the Masamune's usual length).

Part of the "Keyblade Army" series, which will pit both heroes and villains in battle carrying Keyblades of their own.

[lockandkeyblade]

I have this weird mental image in my head

Vanitas, feed up with all the shit MX has put him through, decided to mess with MX’s carefully crafted 13 v 7

He starts bequeathing kids like it’s going out of style

He ditched the dark suit because he knows it screams evil.

‘Hey you look like Sora’ vanitas hears for the 8th time today

‘he’s my brother, anyway want a magic sword ’

‘You’re just giving them away?’

‘We need more people to take care of the monster problem, you in?’

‘Yes!’

‘Hold this’ keyblade noises ’if you have the the makings yada yada yada, there’

That’s it?’

‘Yeah good luck’

Hayner, Pence , Olett, Hiro, Yuffie, even the braid girls from Rapunzel

You get a keyblade and you get a keyblade and you get a keyblade

13 v 7 turns into 12 v 32

Vanitas enjoys the chaos from afar while snacking on some popcorn

laughs nonny you were so excited about this ask you sent it to me six times, so forgive me for only answering it once.

but also FUCK YEAH THIS IS AN AMAZING IDEA. Vanitas unrepentantly ruining shit for everyone, he is here for the chaos, he sees Hayner, Pence, and Olette try to deck Xehanort and he's like lol you know what you kids deserve these.

Sora and co wander away from a princess of heart and there's Vanitas, sauntering over like "heeyyyy hold this for a second? thanks."

Boo has a Keyblade. Boo is way too young to fight a war but she sure does have a Keyblade.

Hercules? Sure. Good swinging arms. Rapunzel's keyblade is frying pan themed. Flynn's could use some work. Elsa is gonna need some tips from Aqua for sure. Anna is scarily enthusiastic about running in and bashing things over the head.

The final battle is about to occur, and here comes Vanitas, smirking like crazy.

And behind him, a veritable army of what the fuckery.

And it is magic.

[supahsaucemann]

Light will prevail, and the darkness expire

"So...this is the fear and despair that Aqua feels..."

Angel Tide - "Dark" World

Poor Aqua has fallen for Brotholomous's offer to defeat "Darkness" once and for all and turned into a horrifying monster of pure light. Unlike the Demon Tide, this swirling vortex of enraged Aquas are much more aggressive, though they seem to only go after Xavier. Try to use this against her and free her from Brotholomous's control!

Story

During the events of "Fractured Paragraph", Aqua has once again separated from her dearest friends, Terra and Ventus. She soon is accosted by "figures from the dark", awaiting their revenge for her escaping the dark world. Suddenly, she is "saved" by a mysterious man, claiming to be one of the Lost Masters. Really, it was the nefarious Brotholomous of the Light Order. He showed her the true power of light to defeat the darkness and return to her friends.

Brotholomous took Aqua under his wing to imbue her with his world-shattering powers. He also occasionally accosted her, without her knowing, with her lonely memories of being trapped in the dark realm, hoping the psychological scarring would motivate her into being the Order's weapon. Brotholomous even granted her "command" of some factions of the Comestible army to rage war on "darkness" and the resurrected Xehanort-Prime(whom the Comestibles also brought back).

Xavier, Data Sora, and the gang finally encountered Aqua in one of the worlds, where they would be surprised that she was "commanding" the evil baked goods. Still not knowing the Light Order's true intentions, she explained how she was granted unlimited light to finally defeat the darkness.

Shocked by this revelation, Terra and Ventus tried to convince her she is one the wrong side, but Brotholomous told her that her friends were being controlled by the darkness, then made her envision her beloved friends as their corrupted versions, Terra-Xehanort and Vanitas-Ventus. Aqua lashed out at the twisted shells she saw. Convinced that "darkness" has taken her friends once again, she then turns her attention to the fake Realm of Darkness and rampages through her shadow prison, with Xavier, Terra, Ven, and King Mickey in pursuit.

Once arriving in the illusionary Dark World, they are surprised to see the home of the Heartless engulfed in white hot flames. The gang battle their way through the realm, now swarming with Comestibles and light tendrils from Brotholomous. They finally reached Aqua, now taken the form of the wave of broken Aquas she saw back at the Keyblade Graveyard, this time in the form of bright light. Aqua accuses them of betraying her once again by siding with Xavier, the child of darkness. Her rages is stronger against Terra for fallign into darkness, causing Master Eraqus to perish, and once again berates Mickey for abandoning her. Xavier isn't having any of this and calls her out for being just as bad as Xehanort by siding with the comestibles and they proceed to fight.

The gang finally free her from Brotholomous's grasp and she seen the error of her ways, seeing that she would just be as miserable in a world of light because her friends wouldn't be there. All Aqua had on her mind was fear of the darkness and a desire for power. Though she is still a little conflicted. Brotholomous may have lost Aqua, but still is confident that the confusion of darkness not being evil with draw her back to the Order's side.

TO BE CONTINUED

[dzthenerd490]

Kingdom Hearts: The Brightest of Hearts - Chapter 13: The Brightest of Hearts part 1

On the other side of the gateway, they found themselves in a new world though this one wasn't anything like any of the other worlds they've been. they came across, it wasn't colorful, full of life, or had magic in the air. It was a dark purple color everywhere with different shades of the dark purple being the only form of diverse color here.

"What... is this place?"

"Good question lad!" Sora quickly manifested his Keyblade, Kairi her Keyblade, Donald his staff, and Goofy his shield when they all heard that voice. It was Doxcrum as the shadows of the world started flowing like water towards each other to form a black blob right in front of the group. The blob grew bigger until it started taking shape and formed into Doxcrum.

"This world is called an Abyss World, it's a world created when several worlds o' light are destroyed. th' resultin' rubble gets pulled together and forms a brand-new world for th' heartless tae thrife! Makin' everythin' that lives and breathes in th' darkness stronger as a result! This world in particular is called, End o' th' World!" Sora, Kairi, Goofy, and Donald looked at Doxcrum in shock, realizing the horrific and disgusting origins of this world. However, their facial expressions quickly changed to that of confusion when they full processed the name of the world. Doxcrum saw their faces and as a result realized the name sounded ridiculous as well, making him scratch the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Uh, I was a glaikit bairn when I came up with that name- Awe rite swatch! th' point is that ye lot are out o' yer league here, so don't be glaikits. Join us and ye get to become gods as well. Bonnie sweet deal aye?" Sora just sighed in annoyance, aggravated that Doxcrum still thought they would actually consider joining them at this point. But before he could say no Kairi raised her Destiny's Embrace Keyblade and charged at Doxcrum in anger.

"You hurt my grandmother! you're going down you stupid old man!"

"Ha! Yer funeral, Las."

"Kairi don't!" Kairi didn't listen to Sora and continued charging at Doxcrum but instead of hitting him the Keyblade instead seemingly phased through him. In reality Doxcrum just moved so fast that no one saw him when he dodged. Before Kairi could swing around to try and slash him again Doxcrum grabbed her shoulder to stop her.

"Yer fragmented, find th' ye that isn't ye, become whole again."

"What?" Doxcrum then disappeared instantly into a void. Sora ran up to Kairi and grabbed her by the shoulders.

"Kairi! What were you thinking?!" Kairi was about to get mad at Sora, but she saw the genuine concern and fear in his eyes. Kairi was now filled with guilt as she knew what she did was rash and stupid.

"I... I'm sorry Sora. I just wanted revenge so badly." Sora then remembered something Cloud told him and smiled gently at Kairi.

"You're justified in wanting revenge Kairi, but don't let it define who you are and why you do what you do. That's when you become just as bad as the Dark Army." Kairi looked at Sora with guilt, but she managed to smile after hearing Sora's words.

"... Hehe, yeah you're right Sora. You're such a nerd though."

"Ha! says the lazy island clown." The two of them laughed a little to ease the tension then they stopped just as Donald and Goofy walked up to them.

"Heh, sorry guys, I'll keep my head on straight from here on out."

"That's all we ask for Ms. Kairi." Goofy smiled at Kairi while Donald just nodded in approval. Kairi however pretended to only focus on Goofy which ended up annoying Donald. Suddenly a large explosion of light could be seen at the distance.

"What was that?!"

"The Dark Army, it has to be."

"Come on guys, whatever they're doing we can't let them finish!" Sora ran forward and Kairi, Donald, and Goofy followed hoping they could get there fast enough. However, as they did several Neoshadow Heartless manifested in front of them.

"Pureblood Heartless! Doxcrum wasn't kidding about things being tougher here."

"I doubt it, the Darkball's were barely even a threat. I doubt these guys will be any different." Sora then charged forward and slashed at a Neoshadow Heartless, only for it to dodge and do a spin kick right at his stomach.

"Sora!" Another Neoshadow Heartless jumped in front of Goofy and started punching his shield at incredible speed and with great force. Donald tried to back Goofy up with a lighting spell only for a Neoshadow Heartless to jump in front of him as well and punch his face a few times before kicking him making him fall hard on his back. Kairi tried helping but the Neoshadow Heartless were too fast and kept dodging her attacks. Eventually one jumped behind her and punched her back several times with incredible speed.

After Kairi was down, Sora was left alone while surrounded by Neoshadow Heartless. Out of desperation Sora manifested his Oathkeeper Keyblade and slashed at another Neoshadow Heartless. However, he missed, and it punched him, but once the hit landed Sora felt nothing. Sora was confused and so was the Neoshadow Heartless in front of him, another behind him tried to punch and kick him several times in the head but again nothing happened. Now Sora knew what this Keyblade does, it makes him completely immune to physical attacks.

Sora smiled in excitement and started slashing at the Neoshadow Heartless to the best of his abilities. He was missing at first but every time a Neoshadow Heartless tried to attack him they managed to stay still long enough for him to slash them with his keyblade. It was because of this that the battle ended up lasting quite a while, but he still got the occasional attacks on the Neoshadow Heartless. Sora tried his hardest to get rid of the Neoshadow Heartless faster, especially since they occasionally attacked Donald, Goofy, and Kairi again to keep them injured and on the ground.

Finally, there was only one left and it tried to run away. Sora then manifested the Spellbinder Keyblade, he had a good idea what it did, so he activated a fire spell and aimed at the Neoshadow Heartless. Upon firing the spell, the fireball was not only slightly bigger but split into five fireballs of the exact same size and all flew in a spiraling pattern toward the Neoshadow Heartless and even followed it as it tried to dodge. Once the Neoshadow Heartless was finally destroyed all Sora could do was look at his Keyblade in awe. He then started jumping in the air and waving his fists around out of overwhelming joy.

"Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! That was awesome!" Sora was so overjoyed by his new powers and better, yet he still didn't know what his Ultima Weapon Keyblade was able to do but it was bound to be amazing. However, Sora then realized that his friends were still down and quickly walked over to help them. Sora tried to go to Goofy first to get some healing potions from his bag but when he opened the bag Sora saw that all of the potions had been smashed. Sora didn't know what else to do, at least until a really bad idea. popped into his head.

Sora groaned he had no better options as he walked over to Donald. Sora got Donalds head up and tried his best to help him wake up. It took quite a while, but Donald finally found the strength to get up.

"Sora?"

"Donald, I need you to teach me the healing spell."

"Ugh... forget about its Sora, Goofy was right, I stink at that spell."

"Come on Donald! You're the head wizard of Disney Castle!"

"I'm the only wizard of Disney Castle Sora. I'm not even the best at Magic, King Mickey is. The only reason he doesn't count as a wizard is because he's the king so the position just came to me by default."

"Yeah? Well, I never saw this King Mickey in action, and he sure didn't help me in my times of need. There's only one duck I know that was able to watch my back and manifest the best of magic to defeat the Heartless! And right now, I need that stubborn duck to help me help him and everyone else!"

"Heh, alright, alright. Raise your keyblade." Sora then gently placed Donald on the ground, stood up and manifested his Kingdom Keyblade.

"Now first you need the plant spell. Try to reach into your heart spiritually." Sora closed his eyes and as he focused his heart started glowing a golden light.

"Good, now imagine a flower growing. Imagine how it blooms and how its leaves sprout out. Once you have a good idea, point your Keyblade on the ground and watch it grow." Sora opened his eyes, pointed the Keyblade to the ground and suddenly a large, beautiful rose grew from the ground.

"Haha... perfect. Now you got the plant spell down you can do healing. Focus again on making a plant grow but this time once you're done don't focus on the flower anymore, instead focus on the magic you're using to make the plant grow. That is the healing spell, use that to heal everyone." Sora nodded and closed his eyes while manifesting his Spellbinder Keyblade as soon as he was done manifesting the spell five orbs of glowing green light manifested around his Keyblade. They floated into the air and crashed into each other making a large explosion of healing magic into the air. Like rain the little bits of healing magic fell on Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi. Soon all their pain was gone, and their energy was back.

"Yeah! Awesome! Thank you, Donald!"

"Donald? Did you finally cast a cure spell properly?" Donald then slumped in anger and glared at Goofy leaving him confused. Sora scratched the back of his head in embarrassment feeling guilty for Donalds quickly ruined mood.

"Uh, Goofy it was actually me."

"Oh..."

"But I mean Donald taught me the spell! That's pretty good." Donald just pat Sora on the back to show his thanks. However, the moment was ruined when they saw another flash of light in the distance.

"Not a moment too soon we have to hurry!" Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi ran toward the light as fast as they could. For a while they were seemingly walking around nothing, the more they ran across the seemingly endless field, the more hopeless everything seemed.

"S- So Doxcrum said this was an Abyss world?"

"Yeah, a world that exists to be the direct opposite of a normal world. Normal Worlds are filled with light, this one is nothing but darkness. So not only can Heartless live here but they can grow stronger naturally and become new forms of Heartless like the ones we saw before."

"So, in other words this isn't going to be easy at all."

"No, it's not, even with our new Keyblades it will be difficult. Trust me, with my Oathkeeper Keyblade I didn't get hurt but it still took forever to take them down."

"Wait, your Keyblade kept you from getting hurt? That's so cool! Maybe mine does the same!" Kairi then joyfully manifested her Oblivion Keyblade.

"Ok! Now hit me!" Sora looked at Kairi in shock because of her question, but rather than hitting her he just pinched her shoulder.

"Ow! Ah... oh, dang it. I guess that's not what the Keyblade does."

"Ah, don't worry Kairi, it will come to you eventually and when it does, you'll know what to do."

"I hope so, I'm not really a sword fighter like you and Riku."

"We weren't really sword fighters either, The Keyblade Wielders of Darkness are supposed to be the top sword fighters and yet I defeated a lot of them."

"Oh yeah! Gosh, didn't you defeat two of them, Kairi?"

"Wait seriously?!"

"Well, I actually just disarmed one, but I did defeat this one big guy that had two Keyblades. Though again it was through the help of your Heartless self."

"Kairi, that's still awesome! I'd say that alone qualifies you as a Guardian of Light. As Champion of Light, I hereby declare you one of us. So don't go selling yourself short, besides even if you can't do it alone you don't really need to. Me, Donald, and Goofy got your back." Kairi then looked at Donald and Goofy to which Goofy smiled proudly while Donald just shrugged at her. Kairi giggled but she understood that he did have her back he just didn't want to admit it.

"Yeah, you're right Sora, together we're unbeatable." Don't give yourself too much credit. When a Bishop and a Rook work together they can dominate the chess board, but even they tremble at the sight of the Queen! Suddenly a massive pool of pure darkness manifested in front of them and from it came out the Behemoth Heartless.

Then again you know the thing about Pawns once one reaches the other side of the chess board it becomes another Queen! Once the Behemoth Heartless was done getting out of the portal on the floor it stepped aside. Out came the Arch Behemoth Heartless. Both Emblem Heartless stood beside one another and roared at the group to show their intent. HAHAHAHAHA! Good luck, brats!

"Ugh, I hate that stupid voice shadow guy!"

"Sora?! That was the voice?!" Sora turned to Donald, Goofy, and Kairi all of them looking at him in concern.

"Wait, you guys heard him too that time?"

"It must be because we're in an Abyss World, A-hyuk! Though right now I think we have bigger things to worry about!" Again, Both Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless roared only this time orbs of darkness formed around them. Sora knew what this meant and manifested his Spellbinder Keyblade, casted an ice spell and stabbed his Keyblade into the ground. In doing so, a large wall of ice formed and blocked out all of the dark orbs, though only barely as once the last one impacted it shattered the ice wall entirely.

"Wah! Quick thinking Sora!"

"Thanks Donald but I don't think it will be enough for fighting Heartless like these guys!" The Behemoth Heartless raised its right foot ready to stomp on Sora to which he manifested his Olympia Keyblade. Sora quickly slashed the Behemoth Heartless's leg but despite it being pushed back it used its other front leg to kick him. Sora's whole body was flung back, he felt like it was no different to being hit by a truck.

"Sora!" Kairi was enraged at the Behemoth Heartless but before she could even do anything the Arch Behemoth manifested more dark orbs. Goofy and Donald quickly got in front of her to defend her but even with Goofy's Shield and Donald enhancing it with magic the Arch Behemoth's magic was too strong. As such they were pushed away, worst off the Behemoth Heartless was charging its own attack and already fired at Kairi. All she could do was raise her Oblivion Keyblade and hope that she could shield at least one of them.

Sora managed to get back up only to see Kairi get consumed by the explosions of the impact of the dark orbs. Sora couldn't even scream or cry, he was so shocked at the sight of Kairi being destroyed that he was just frozen. However, as the smoke quickly cleared, he saw that she was actually fine, not even hurt at all. Even the Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless looked at Kairi in shock, however they quickly became angry and blew shadow fire at her. The amount of fire they blew at her would have been enough to melt even the strongest of steel, but again once it was over she was fine.

"Ha? HA? HAHAHA! Sora did you see that! I'm not immune to physical attacks! I'm immune to magic!" However just as quickly the Behemoth kicked Kairi in the back making her go flying in the air. Thankfully, Sora manifested his Fairy Harp Keyblade and managed to catch her while mid air.

"Oh! Ah... haha, I mean yeah, not immune to physical attacks."

"Yeah, leave that to me, ok?" Still flying and still holding Kairi, Sora looked at the Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless. They were big and strong but also slow which they made up for with magic. They were essentially living tanks with no visible weakness, so what was needed was firepower and lots of it. That's when Sora got an idea that probably wouldn't work but would definitely give them an edge if it did.

"Hey Kairi? Wanna Learn magic?" Kairi looked at Sora confused but once she fully processed what he said, her eyes sparkled in excitement.

"YES!"

"Alright then! First then Lighting magic! First picture lighting in your mind!" The Behemoth Heartless was getting impatient and started shooting more dark orbs at Sora. Thankfully he was able to fly perfectly around the projectiles and keep Kairi from getting hit.

"Next focus on something that really gets you determined! Focus with all your heart what is worth fighting for! Once you feel it filling up in your heart, let it out through your Keyblade!" While Sora was flying around, he could see the electricity build up in Kairi's Keyblade, so he started casting the Lighting spell in his own Keyblade. Sora manifested his Spellbinder Keyblade and placed it right beside Kairi's, she got what he was trying to do and aimed her Keyblade at the Behemoth Heartless.

"Ready? Release!" On cue, both of them fired their lighting spells, with the combo of both the Spellbinder Keyblade and them combining their magic together resulting in an extremely powerful spell. Several extremely powerful bolts of lightning shot right toward the Behemoth Heartless, the resulting impact of the bolts made the Behemoth Heartless roar in pain. The Arch Behemoth Heartless tried to retaliate by manifesting more dark orbs. But they missed as Sora and Kairi slowly fell to the ground due to him not having his Fairy Harp Keyblade anymore.

"Okay now Fire! Focus on something that makes you happy and passionate! And just like before, let it build up in your heart!" Kairi still had her Oblivion Keyblade so she was able to stand still and take all the dark orb blasts without worry. Sora manifested his Three Wishes Keyblade and slashed every approaching dark orb back at the Arch Behemoth Heartless while casting his own fire spell.

"Ready?" Kairi looked at Sora and nodded with determination, just in time too, for the Arch Behemoth finally stopped firing. Sora quickly ran over to her, manifested Spellbinder Keyblade, and pointed his Keyblade right at the Arch Behemoth with Kairi aligning her Keyblade alongside his.

"Fire!" The same resulting magical combo as before caused the manifestation of several large and extremely powerful fireballs being shot right toward the Arch Behemoth. The resulting impact scorched the Arch Behemoth badly and left it groaning in pain. Now both the Behemoth and the Arch Behemoth were badly damaged and lying weakened on the ground, Sora knew that one more massive combo was needed.

"Last spell you ready?"

"Yes!"

"Ok, now let's focus on Ice, like last time, think about being calm and collective and build it up in your heart." Unlike the other two times Kairi was actually seemingly having a difficult time remembering a memory that made her calm. It did take some time but once she did Sora could see the cold aura build up in her Keyblade. She did smile once she got the spell working but only after shedding a tear out of sadness.

"Kairi?"

"I'm fine, you ready Sora?" Sora nodded and activated a cold spell with his Spellbinder Keyblade and both of them shot the ice spell in an ultimate combo. The resulting magic from the combo shot out a seemingly endless barrage of ice that was so cold it was freezing everything around it. However, the Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless retaliated by breathing shadow fire that was able to counter the cold. Sora and Kairi tried to keep up their magic to have the ice barrage keep up. However, the Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless were continuing to combine their shadow fire breath making it strong enough to not only counter the ice but slowly overcome it.

"Way too sloppy!" Donald jumped in behind Sora and Kairi, he then placed his staff alongside their Keyblades while casting an ice spell. Once he cast it the result made the barrage of ice became even stronger allowing it to overcome the shadow fire. The Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless were no longer able to keep up and tried to back away to not get caught in the blast. However, they weren't fast enough and as soon as their shadow fire breath was fully countered, they were covered entirely in ice.

"Now Goofy!" Goofy jumped in the air, charged up his shield with magic, and threw it at the frozen Heartless like a Frisbee. Finally, the Behemoth and Arch Behemoth Heartless were defeated as the ice shattered into millions of pieces. Afterwards several hearts flew out of the darkness and into the air as they were liberated.

"Woah! So Beautiful."

"Those are the Hearts cursed by the Darkness but thanks to us they are free. Thanks Kairi." Kairi smiled at Sora in delight, she always wanted to go on amazing adventures and do wonderful things with Sora. Her only regret was that Riku wasn't there with them but hopefully after they defeat Ansem that would change. Suddenly another explosion of light flashed in the distance but this time it seemed a lot closer.

"No time to celebrate! Let's get going!"

***

They continued to run and thankfully managed to finally make it to Ansem who in his hands had the seven Fragments of Light. However, he was having them spin around a small ball of darkness. Sora then looked around to see large amounts of dark energy flowing around from the Abyss World and into the small ball of darkness. Above the dark orb was a dark crystal that looked like it was made of pure darkness like how the Fragments of Light were made of pure light. Ansem was so focused on the ritual he was doing that he didn't notice Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy until they got close enough.

"Hm... Of course, the Light always finds a way I suppose. You traveled all this way to stop me, but I say now, you will fail. However, I must ask, why? Why stop me? Join me and you will get everything you ever wanted and more. Join me and become the gods and goddesses of your own universes! Join me and together we will rewrite everything, and perfection will not only be ours, it will be us!"

".... You. Are. Insane! I don't know a lot or heck maybe I don't know anything about the Multiverse, but I do know that Kingdom Hearts doesn't have a will of its own for a reason! It's because no one should have the power or will over someone else's life. No one should be in control of how others work, how they live, or how they are! People are who they are meant to be and if they ever want or need to change, then it's their choice and theirs alone to enact that change! How dare you act like you can just be a god and decide what's right and wrong!"

"Sora's right, even if you didn't destroy my kingdom and take away my family! You still destroyed countless worlds and ruined even more lives and for what? Power? Look around you! This Abyss World is devoid of life! It's disgusting, it's horrible, it's evil! And worst of all, there's no beauty or creativity in any of it. How is any of this worth it?" Ansem was now visibly getting annoyed by both Sora and Kairi but before he could speak the dark ball finally transformed into another Fragment of Darkness. It then floated into the air to float alongside the other Fragment of Darkness showing that there were now two.

"So long as a great mind is the one holding the brush, even a blank canvas is destined to become a work of art and I intend to use my great mind to revolutionize the blank canvas of the multiverse, with Kingdom Hearts as my brush." Just then another flash of light manifested in Ansem's hands, forcing Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy to look away. After the light faded away more of the darkness of the Abyss World started flowing toward Ansem's hands and into a very tiny ball of darkness.

"Alas I need more time. Warriors of Darkness! Come and defend your treasure!" Suddenly several voids opened around Ansem and out came at least 12 Keyblade Wielders of Darkness. They weren't filled with fear like before, how could they? Sora could see that being on the Abyss World was making them stronger. Sora quickly manifested his Ultima Weapon Keyblade, he still didn't know what this Keyblade did but something in his heart told him he needed it right now.

At once, the Keyblade Wielders of Darkness charged toward the four of them, Goofy quickly blocked an attack with his shield and Donald retaliated with his magic. Sora was about to fight back but he saw that one managed to rush right toward Kairi at high speed and was only seconds from slashing her. Sora ran toward her and tried to use his Keyblade to shield her; However, the Ultima Weapon Keyblade shined in shimmering light and instantly transformed into a shield. Sora shield bashed the Keyblade Wielder of Darkness away and stood up only to look at his hew shield in awe.

"Wow, that was cool."

"I guess, I mean thank you. But turning into a shield isn't really that impressive." Sora held up his shield and it turned back into the Ultima Weapon Keyblade. Then the Keyblade transformed into a long sword, then an axe, then a spear, then a mace.

"Ah... Ok, I take it back, that's pretty awesome." Sora smirked at the now afraid Keyblade Wielders of Darkness. He charged toward them as they tried to retaliate by shooting fireballs at him. Sora turned his Keyblade into a shield again to defend from the fireballs until he got close enough and manifested into a hammer. Sora swung the hammer at them all, both hurting them badly and pushing them back. However, Sora was not used to hammers and ended up getting pulled by the force of the hammer, making him stagger. Another Keyblade Wielder of Darkness tried to take advantage of this, but they were quickly shot with Kairi's lightning spell.

"Get the princess!" Two Keyblade Wielders of Darkness used Voids to ambush her from behind Kairi could only watch in terror as they raised their Keyblades to slash her down. Or at least that would have happened if Goofy didn't take one of them out with a shield bash and leave his manifested energy clone to shield bash the other.

"Don't think you can win!" A Keyblade Wielder of Darkness made a double core spell of fire and earth to create a lava ball. He shot it at Kairi, but she stood there and smiled with her Oblivion Keyblade. Once the lava ball impacted Kairi was unhurt and simply wiped the bits of lava off of her shoulder, she then smirked at the dumbfounded Keyblade Wielder of Darkness. Kairi decided to cast a triple core spell of fire, lighting, and ice. Kairi felt like a sudden heavy weight on her shoulders, it was as if three large boulders fell on her back. She did her best to bite back the pain and perfect the spell and once she did, she shot it right at the Keyblade Wielder of Darkness. With the combination of elements, he wasn't destroyed but he was left on the ground powerless.

"Ha... ha... Haha! I love magic! Hahaha! ... ugh..." Kairi unfortunately pushed herself too far and fell to the ground unconscious.

"Now's our chance! Get the Princess!" Four Keyblade Wielders of Darkness tried to surround her, but Sora charged at them and his Keyblade Transformed into a spear allowing him to swing it around and slash all of them at a distance. Once they were forced a good distance back, he manifested Spellbinder Keyblade and cast a lighting spell to shock all of them. Three of the Keyblade Wielders of Darkness stayed down due to the heavy damage but the fourth still had enough strength to get up. Though Sora quickly manifested his Spider Web Keyblade and shot spider webbings at his arms and legs to keep him down.

"Is that all of them?" Sora suddenly felt a tingle in the back of his neck, and he manifested his Three Wishes Keyblade. He quickly turned around and slashed at a fireball and a lightning bolt heading towards him. Upon being hit by his Keyblade both end up redirecting toward two Keyblade Wielders of Darkness. Both Keyblade Wielders of Darkness fell to their knees in pain but weren't badly hurt to the point they couldn't get back up. As such Goofy shield bashed one in the face and Donald shot the other with several bots of lighting.

"Now they're all done." Goofy then went over to Kairi and gave her a healing potion and helped her back up.

"Hmph, such weakness, no matter, we're not done yet." Underneath all the Keyblade Wielders of Darkness opened dark portals which sucked them in and instantly disappeared. Suddenly another flash of blinding light came from Ansem as he had just finished creating the third Fragment of Darkness. Ansem then raised his hands and the seven Fragments of Light as well as the three of Darkness were covered in a dark indestructible bubble and floated in the air out of reach.

"Fine then, I have shown you the mercy of Darkness and you slap it away. Like children you defy all reason and instead follow naive dreams blindly. How pathetic, now you will learn your mistakes and be destroyed with the regret of knowing you will never gaze upon into Kingdom Hearts as I soon will." Sora raised his keyblade at Ansem, Goofy his shield, and Donald his staff. However, Kairi didn't raise his Keyblade.

"What did you do to my grandfather?!" Sora, Goofy, and Ansem all looked at Kairi in shock as she glared at him in anger. Donald however was annoyed that she was wasting time on this so he tried to tell her off but Goofy quickly smacked him on the back of the head to shut him up.

"Your grandfather?"

"Yes! Ansem! The retired King of Radiant Garden! What did you do to him? Where is he?"

"... Hahaha, HAHAHAHAHA! I am Ansem! The New Ansem! Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, ruler of Hollow Bastion, Master of the New Dark Army and soon to be Supreme Master of Kingdom Hearts. Where Xaler our founder failed I will succeed and obtain the ultimate power of infinity! As for your grandfather? Nothing but the Fallen King, A blind King of lost Knowledge, A Coward! ... Who dared favor the light over the darkness! May he be forgotten!"

"I knew it! I knew you were just an imposter who stole his name! I knew my grandfather wasn't evil!"

"I wouldn't be too sure about that little girl. But that's enough chatter, time for you to be forgotten as well!" Soon Guardian Shadow manifested behind Ansem as he started floating in the air as Dual Soul Eater blades manifested in his hands.

"This is the end, know despair!" Guardian Shadow manifested orbs of powerful darkness and shot them right at Sora. Sora only barely managed to manifest his Three Wishes Keyblade and slash at the orbs to deflect them. However, this was different, despite the orbs still being deflected back toward Ansem Sora still felt hurt by the impact as if he was shocked by electricity. Ansem simply slashed the dark orbs as they flew toward him away with his Soul Eaters and flew towards Sora and Kairi.

Sora had no time to dodge so instead Oathkeeper Keyblade and raised his keyblade to block as additional defense. Ansem struck Sora with both Soul Eaters, at first the worst seemed to push Sora back; however, Sora not only fell to the ground but also had dark slash marking on his chest resembling a large X.

"Sora!" Guardian Shadow focused its attention on Kairi, she quickly manifested her Oblivion Keyblade to defend. Guardian Shadow raised its hands and shot shadow lighting at her. the Oblivion Keyblade managed to nullify most of the shadow lighting, but small bits still hit her. Once Guardian Shadow was finally done Kairi fell to her knees on the ground, she looked at her arms and saw small burn marks on her arms. However once Kairi looked up she saw Ansem only seconds from stabbing her with one of his Soul Eaters.

Donald quickly shot Ansem in the back with the triple core spell of fire, ice, and lighting. Ansem's back was badly burnt but he didn't show any sign of pain, only annoyance. Ansem stopped seconds before stabbing Kairi; he then faced Donald and had Guardian Shadow fire his own triple core spell of shadow fire, shadow ice, shadow lighting. Goofy quickly stepped in front of Donald and boosted his shield with his magic to further defend against Ansem's spell. However, like all the other times it only barely blocked out his attacks as Goofy was only able to defend against the shadow fire and shadow lighting. Finally, the shadow ice ended up getting past Goofy's shield and froze him in a shadow ice block. Donald was shocked and tried to avenge Goofy, but Ansem teleported behind him and dual slashed him in the back leaving a dark X slashing mark on his back.

Now Sora and Kairi were alone and badly hurt by Ansem's previous attacks. Sora quickly cast a healing spell for both him and Kairi which did give them the energy to get back up but the dark scars on Kairi's arms and Sora's chest were still there. Ansem didn't notice them and was about to use his Soul Eaters to slice both Donald and Goofy's heads off. Out of desperation, Sora manifested his Spellbinder Keyblade, and started casting the triple core spell. Kairi noticed this and cast the triple core spell as well and quickly aligned it with Sora's keyblade. This resulted in several orbs made of light magic containing the elements of the triple core spell. They all flew towards Ansem like missiles and barraged him with the combo of the elements.

Sora and Kairi watched in awe as Ansem was being barraged by the awesome combo of magic. However, Sora quickly noticed that the reason the spell became so powerful wasn't just his Spellbinder Keyblade but also Kairi casting the triple core spell as well. Sora's jaw then dropped as he looked at Kairi in shock, Kairi looked back at Sora with a proud smile but was still confused by Sora's shock.

"Kairi? You can cast the triple core spell?!"

"Hm? Yeah, I mean it really takes a lot of energy from the heart and it feels like boulders are crushing you when you cast it but once you get used to it it's not that hard."

"Kairi... you're amazing!" Sora was a little jealous that Kairi proved to be better at him in magic but his jealousy was overshadowed by his amazement of her magical talent. However, the moment of joy was ruined when Ansem used the darkness to blow away all the light and elemental combo magic slowly destroying him. Ansem was clearly badly burnt as shadow smoke was emitting from his damaged body. Ansem glared at them in anger and seemingly yelled in anger as several dark portals opened around him. Soon six Invisible Heartless and 20 Neoshadow Heartless formed around him.

"All Light fades eventually, but darkness... darkness is ETERNAL!" The Neoshadow Heartless charged forward and used their quick reflexes and acrobatics to attack Sora and Kairi from all corners. Sora and Kairi raised their Keyblade's to block and attack the Neoshadow Heartless but like before they were barely making any decent progress against them. Sora manifested his Oathkeeper Keyblade to nullify their attacks, but Kairi couldn't do anything as she was getting punched and kicked from time to time. Kairi was getting frustrated with all the punching and cast a dual core spell of fire and lighting, charged it up as much as she could, and stabbed her keyblade into the ground. This resulted in pushing all the Neoshadow Heartless away from her and Sora, afterwards the lighting struck them midair, badly injuring the Neoshadow Heartless.

The Invisible Heartless tried to blast the two of them with shadow lasers but Kairi manifested her Oblivion Keyblade and Sora his Three Wishes Keyblade. Naturally Kairi smirked at them mockingly as their shadow lasers did nothing to her and Sora slashed at the lasers with his keyblade causing them to blast back at the Invisible Heartless. Sora and Kairi both looked at each other proudly as they were able to handle that surprisingly well. However, Kairi stopped smiling when a Neoshadow Heartless smacked her in the back of the head. It was more annoying than painful, so Kairi grunted in anger as she glared back at the Neoshadow Heartless.

Kairi was going to keep attacking them, but she instead stood there in confusion as she saw the Neoshadow Heartless weakened and moving around limply. Kairi looked at them almost in pity, especially the Neoshadow Heartless in front of her as she only had to back away to dodge its slow and sloppy attacks. Again, the Invisible Heartless blasted their lasers at her and again thanks to her Oblivion Keyblade it did nothing.

"Well, we should get the injured Heartless first, so they don't box us in later."

"Nah Sora, leave them to me, you take on those Heartless with the swords. I'll finish these guys and follow you later." Sora was confused on why Kairi wanted to do this but figured it was better to divide and conquer than waste time on anything else. Kairi then faced the Neoshadow Heartless with a grin on her face.

"You guys really enjoyed hitting me huh?" The Neoshadow Heartless seemed visibly scared of Kairi now that they were no longer fast enough to dodge or outrun her. Sora looked back only for a second, he actually kinda felt bad for the Heartless, but his guilt faded quickly because one, they were heartless and two, they did attack Kairi, Donald, and Goofy without mercy so he felt they deserved it. Sora instead focused on the Ansem and the Invisible Heartless as he slowly walked toward them. The Invisible Heartless tried to fire again at him but again Sora used his Three Wishes Keyblade to slash at the lasers to have them redirect back at the Invisible Heartless. The Invisible Heartless were clearly hurt by their own laser but also greatly aggravated as well. The Invisible Heartless flew toward Sora with their swords raised to strike him down.

Sora smirked and manifested his Olympia Keyblade, the first Invisible Heartless raised its sword and swung down only for his strike to be countered by Sora. Sora let their blades slide off each other as he slowly got past The Invisible Heartless and quickly slashed its back making it fly away in pain. Another Invisible Heartless tried to do a thrust stab at Sora but with a simple spin Sora was able to dodge and slash the Invisible Heartless and slashed it making it go fly due to the force as well. Then two Invisible Heartless tried to slash Sora at the same time. Sora just smirked as he manifested his Oathkeeper Keyblade and took their attacks while not feeling anything. Sora then quickly slash one then the other then the first one again and finally the second. Both Heartless fell to the ground being severely weakened.

Sora then faced Ansem again and smirked while he glared at Sora with silent anger. The last two Invisible Heartless flew towards him in anger while blasting lasers at him. This time Sora manifested Ultima Weapon Keyblade and his keyblade turned into dual swords that he used to block both their attacks and slash them afterwards. Once all the Invisible Heartless were injured and on the ground, Sora manifested his Spellbinder Keyblade. Sora cast a lighting spell and quickly slashed his keyblade at the direction of the Invisible Heartless. This resulted in the lighting shooting out like missiles toward the Invisible Heartless and shocked them to the point that they were all destroyed. Since they were pureblood Heartless, they didn't release any liberated hearts but simply faded into darkness.

The same could be said for the Neoshadow Heartless after Kairi finished them all off. She walked forward with a smirk on her face and once she caught up with Sora the fist bumped each other. The both of them faced Ansem who was still just floating there with Guardian Shadow while staring at them with anger.

"It's over Ansem! Just give up!"

"... I have spent decades trying to perfect a thousand years of work. Xaler, the founder of the Dark Army, was the only one who ever got close enough to Kingdom Hearts. I am the one who will bring his work to fruition, I am the one who has become the closest to the door! I am the one who has created the seven Fragments of Light within a short span of time! You think that after so long and so much work I will be defeated here and now?" Sora and Kairi then looked at each other in confusion.

"Well, I mean..."

"It is kinda a sucky plan..."

"Also, all your minions are gone."

"And you're kinda the only one left."

"Also, I think the voice told me you need Seven Fragments of Darkness, and you only have three."

"And there's no way we're going to let you create the last four."

"Hmph, you children have no patience. but you are not wrong, you are the last roadblock, that must be destroyed!" Ansem charged at Sora and Kairi, both of which quickly raised their keyblades in defense. Ansem's dual Soul Eaters ended up colliding with their Keyblades; however, Ansem wasn't done and used Guardian Shadow to shock both of them.

"Not this time!" Sora and Kairi quickly made their Keyblade touch one another while Sora was casting a lighting spell and Kairi a fire spell. The result was an explosion of fire and lighting that pushed Ansem back but also did the same for Sora and Kairi. Ansem used his flying power to stay up and fly at Sora to get him while he was down. He would have succeeded had Goofy not shown up and defended Sora with his Shield. Before Ansem could attack him, Donald helped Kairi up and both of them cast an ice spell resulting in a powerful ice spell that was able to trap Ansem in a block of ice.

"Hahaha! Payback!"

"Nice one Duck!" Kairi then joyfully walked toward Sora leaving Donald standing there in anger.

"Sora are you ok?"

"I'm fine, by the way thanks Donald! Thanks, Goofy..." Sora's smile quickly faded when he saw dark scars that looked like small ice cracks on his left arm. Goofy covered the scars with his arm and smiled at Sora to reassure him, though Sora could still see the sadness in his expression. Sora then looked back at Donald and sure enough there was still a dark scar in the form of an X on his back.

"Ah... you guys... are you-" Donald quickly stepped forward and glared at the ice block that Ansem was trapped in.

"It's not over yet! Everyone gets ready!" Soon Ansem broke out of the Ice block seeming injured but angrier than hurt.

"Ugh... ha... ha... Grrr! If this continues, we could be fighting for eternity! No... I must end this now. I've made them wait long enough. The doors to Kingdom Hearts will open today!" Ansem then did the unthinkable and made the three Fragments of Darkness come back to him and he absorbed them into his being.

"What?! No ye glaikit divit! ye dont know what will happen if ye absorb that much darkness!" Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi turned around to see Doxcrum standing there and looking to be in distress due to Ansems actions. However, they all were too late, and Ansem had fully absorbed the three Fragments of Darkness. Soon the environment of the Abyss World started breaking around them. Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi started panicking due to them not understanding what was happening. Doxcrum on the other hand sighed in disappointment.

"Ugh! What an eejit... Well, if th' cursed heart can't be relied on then th' heartless body will have better results." Doxcrum then opened a void behind him and walked into it leaving Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Kairi to fall into the destruction of the Abyss World. One by one they all fell deeper into the Abyss world and were practically swallowed entirely by the Darkness.

***

Sora couldn't see anything for a while but soon he saw a dim light below him and as he got closer to it, he realized he was floating. As he got even closer to the light it looked like a weird red platform but what really caught his attention was how Kairi, Donald, and Goofy were floating alongside him toward the platform. Once they landed suddenly the wind started blowing around them. The platform was flying like a plain and somehow despite being out in the open, none of them were blown off by the intense wind. Soon the red platform started moving, groaning, and changing. Eventually it was done changing it and transformed into World of Chaos and on the very top Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy could see Ansem connected to it with an enlarged Guardian Shadow.

"Behold! The infinite power of darkness manifested!"

"Ew! It looks like a giant slab of rotten meat!"

"Kairi's right! You really think this makes you powerful, Ansem?! It just makes you a freak of nature!"

"Hahaha! Like a bullied victim, the darkness is so misunderstood by the light. But I will be its savior and in return it will reward me with Kingdom Hearts! Right after I have devoured your hearts!" Several spiky tentacles of physical darkness manifested off of World of Chaos and shot their blade ends right towards Sora and Kairi. Sora manifested his Three Wishes Keyblade and Kairi her Oblivion Keyblade, both of them thinking this would be easy to defend against. However once Sora's keyblade hit the tentacles they didn't reflect but instead slapped him away while also scratching him with the spikes. Kairi was shocked by this and quickly raised her Keyblade in defense. Just in time she blocked a stabbing thrust of the tentacle, however it backed up its own attack with enough force to push Kairi back. Kairi ended up flying and fell hard on the surface of the World of Chaos, dangerously close to the edge but right next to Sora.

"No! Sora! Kairi!"

"Come on Goofy we got to cover them!" Donald tried casting another triple core spell but upon firing it a large hand made of physical darkness blocked the spell. It then formed a fist and crushed Donald in an instant. Or at least that would have happened if Goofy didn't defend him with his shield, boosted with magic. Donald and Goofy couldn't advance their attack anymore and so relied on defense. Donald used his lighting and Goofy boosted his shield with magic as they repelled the constant attacks of the spiky tentacles of physical darkness.

Sora and Kairi were still on the ground and in pain, but Sora raised his head and saw Goofy and Donald fighting against the World of Chaos. Sora weakly turned his head to Kairi who wasn't moving, he used his strength to force himself up and walked over to her. However, a spiky tentacle manifested behind him and whipped him on the back before he could get close. To add insult to injury it was directly on the dark scar shaped like an X on his back which made the attack even more painful. Sora was now on the ground, but he kept crawling toward Kairi and once he was close enough, he reached out and grabbed her hand.

"Kairi... I'm sorry... I didn't want you... to get hurt... but... I... I didn't protect you... I'm sorry..."

"... you dummy..."

"What?" Kairi forced herself up so she could look at Sora properly.

"Ugh... I signed up for all this... because I didn't want you... to be alone anymore... so don't feel bad, you dummy... I would go anywhere... so long as I'm with you..." Sora looked at Kairi surprised, he then smiled and blushed as he was falling in love with Kairi again. Kairi smiled and blushed at Sora back as her heart was filling up with her love for Sora as well. However, that wasn't the end of it as both Sora and Kairi's heart's started glowing with golden light. Soon Kairi and Sora started getting a boost in energy and finally the dark scars on Sora's chest and Kairi's arms faded away. Sora and Kairi got up while still holding hands and faced the World of Chaos with smiles on their faces.

Guardian Shadow sees them recover and growls in anger, several spiky tentacles of physical darkness manifested along the sides of the World of Chaos. They all shot at Kairi and Sora to stab them with their blade ends; Sora and Kairi were still smiling with determination as they let go of one another and raised their Keyblades. Sora simply had his Kingdom Keyblade and Kairi had her Destiny's Embrace. When a tentacle tried to stab Sora, he simply jumped up at the last second making World of Chaos stab itself. Sora then ran alongside the tentacle as if it was a balance beam, several other tentacles tried to stab and whip him. But as they got closer, despite their incredible speed Sora always managed to dodge them.

Sora managed to jump over another tentacle as he was running, then as one tried to whip him, he slid under and sliced it with his keyblade. One almost managed to stab his face but he raised his Keyblade high and sliced it in down the middle allowing him space to keep running. Another tentacle tried to whip him, this time aiming for his legs, but he not only did a forward flip jump but managed to slash at it. Finally, Sora decided to put World of Chaos in more pain by stabbing his keyblade on the tentacle he was running along and dragging it while he was running. Essentially leaving an extremely long and clearly painful cut on the tentacle.

Kairi watched Sora in amazement, but she wasn't going to let him one up her, so she faced the tentacles that were focused on her with a smile of determination. A single tentacle tried to stab her, but she simply swirled around and away from it making it stab itself again. She then activated a fire spell and shot it, blasting the tip of the tentacle off and leaving an injured stub at the end of the tentacle. Another tentacle tried to whip her, and she gracefully did a front flip and shot the tentacle with an ice spell while jumping over it.

"Hahaha! Cool! I always wanted to do that!" However, as Kairi was distracted a tentacle tried to crush her, but thankfully she noticed it at the last second and used her keyblade to block it. As the tentacle tried to crush her with its full weight, she was expecting it to feel like boulders landing on her. Instead, it actually just felt like a big box filled with books, still heavy but nothing she couldn't handle. Kairi huffed at the tentacle in anger and activated an ice spell, however before she could even do anything the part of the tentacle touching her keyblade was frozen instantly. The rest of the tentacle tried to pull back despite still being frozen. Kairi was confused but quickly smirked again as she activated a fire spell and shot several fireballs at the tentacle breaking the ice and destroying the tentacle.

Kairi thought about how the tentacle was frozen despite her not finishing the spell and got a great idea. She then activated a fire spell but rather than casting fireballs she let the spell linger in her keyblade. As another tentacle tried to stab her, she again simply dodged it by gracefully jumping away only to twirl back around and slash the tentacle before it could slither away. This resulted in not only cutting the tentacle but burning the rest of it as well. Another tentacle tried to whip her in the stomach, but she gracefully raised her keyblade, waited for the tentacle to come close enough, and slashed it at the last second. This resulted in not only allowing her to avoid getting hit but also cutting the tentacle in two and leaving both parts burning.

World of Chaos started groaning in pain as the tentacles already damaged by Sora and Kairi were getting worse with damage. The cuts left scars of light that burned into the tentacles and were slowly reaching the rest of the World of Chaos like an infection. Guardian Shadow roared in anger and used its now enlarged arms to slice off all the tentacles at high speed. Sora and Kairi quickly ran up to Donald and Goofy, as Guardian Shadow glared at them. Guardian Shadow then raised its arms as its intention of slashing them into pieces was clear. The four of them knew that they couldn't dodge something that fast or powerful, so they all huddled together. Goofy raised his shield, Kairi and Sora their Keyblades, and Donald his staff. None of them expected this defense to be good at all but they had to try something as Guardian Shadow started its attack.

They all closed their eyes out of instinct; however, nothing happened, or it's better to say they felt no pain or impact from the attack at all. They all opened their eyes again to see Guardian Shadow slashing at them with his massive claws, but it was doing nothing. They all then looked to Goofy's shield as it was manifesting a force field of golden light, protecting them from Guardian Shadow. Goofy then looked at his arm and the dark scar was gone, Sora then checked Donalds back and sure enough that one was gone too.

"Wow! Did we heal you guys?!"

"You didn't just heal us; I feel so much stronger now!"

"Sora! You really are the Champion of Light!"

"Impossible!" The four of them then turned to Guardian Shadow who was now acting as a speaker for Ansem.

"How can this be?! I destroyed so many worlds! I raised the Dark Army back from the ashes! I spent years studying the darkness! I even betrayed the man I called my brother to achieve this! How is it that you, a dim light in the vast multiverse, is able to shine so bright no matter how much darkness I try to cover you with! Why won't you stop?! Why won't you fall?! Why won't you just yield to the darkness?! Why do you keep fighting?!" Kairi just scoffed at Ansem, Donald huffed, and Goofy just glared in determination. Sora however stepped forward with his Keyblade lowered and started at Guardian Shadow with pity.

"Yeah, but that's the thing isn't it. Destruction, betrayal, and you did it all alone. You forced everyone who tried to stand with you as either an enemy or as a minion. I read in a book back in Deep Jungle that the best way to defeat your enemy is to simply make them your friend. The best way to make a friend is through trust, everything you said and did contradicts that entirely. That's why your plan will never work, Ansem. It's because you're alone and you never let anyone in, thus you have no one to fall back to, no one to help you, and no one to raise you up as things start falling apart." Sora didn't notice but Kairi, Donald, and Goofy could see Sora's heart glowing even brighter with light. Soon a silhouette of Alice from wonderland made of golden light, formed next to Sora.

"I made new experiences and friends in every new world I went to, sure doing so drove Donald crazy and maybe it made me lose track of the mission from time to time, but it was all worth it in the end!" Then four more silhouettes of golden light formed, this time of Cloud, Yuffie, Aerith, and Leon.

"Helping someone in need is always the right thing to do! Sharing and caring for others will always be worth it because you're opening your heart to someone else and that person will do the same to you, this will make you both stronger and nothing will convince me otherwise!" Then a golden silhouette of Tarzan formed and two more afterwards, one of Genie and the other of Aladdin.

"Sure, sometimes you'll stumble across jerks who would rather take than give. But just because those guys want to make the world worse doesn't mean the rest of us should give up! If anything, it's proof that if we try harder to unite and make things better for everyone!" Golden silhouettes of Sally, Jack Skellington, Ariel, Peter pan, and Spiderman formed.

"So, you see Ansem! That's why you'll never win, because you think the best way to make things better is to destroy it all and start anew. But you know what, I see the flaws all around us, and I think it's better to fix them rather than starting over. I'm not scared to face all those problems head on, sure it will be hard, but I know I can do it because I'm not alone! I'll never fight alone, because when all you do is fight for yourself, then you aren't worth fighting for!" Sora then stepped back and reached out to Kairi and Goofy. They both took Sora's hand and Donald took Goofy's other hand.

"My friends are my power, and I owe them all everything for getting me this far and making me this strong! So don't you dare think for a second, I'm giving up just yet! For all their sakes I'm fighting to the very end! And I'm gonna kick your sorry butt!" Suddenly all the silhouettes of Sora's friends grow brighter for a split second before they transformed into balls of light, quickly flowing into Sora's heart. Sora was now surrounded by an aura of golden light, but the energy proved to be too powerful for him and he was in great pain because of it. However, as he was holding onto Kairi and Goofy's hands the energy transferred to them and by extension Donald as well. They were all in pain at first but as the energy passed onto each and every one of them it started to pass. Now all four of them had golden auras of light and were given massive boosts in magical and physical power. Sora was visibly exhausted but still looked up at Ansem with a smile of determination.

"Ha... Ha... Yeah, this is my power, the power of friendship and light. And it will always be stronger than being alone in the Darkness, Ansem."

"RAAAH! I HAVEN'T LOST YET!" Guardian Shadow then raised his claws in an attempt to go berserk again. However, Donald stopped the right arm by blasting it with a casting a triple core spell. The spell ended up being 10 times stronger and mixed with light magic the result was Guardian Shadow's right arm being heavily electrocuted, then extremely scorched and finally completely frozen. Guardian Shadow roared loudly in anger and pain but Goofy didn't give him any time to recover. Goofy charged up his magic to manifest his light construct clone to shoot it right at the left arm. What instead happened about seven light construct clones of golden light manifested, and all jumped up and shield bashed Guardian Shadow's left arm. Guardian Shadow roared again in pain, there was no way it couldn't since its right arm was both badly charred because of the lightning and fire and now encased in ice. Then there was the left arm that's now broken beyond repair. Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy couldn't help but laugh at both Guardian Shadow's pitiful state and in excitement due to how amazing their new powers are.

"This is so awesome!"

"I know right! I knew this power was great, but I never knew it could be this great!"

"Foolish Children!" Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy looked back at Guardian Shadow as it continued to roar in anger. Suddenly several dark spikes grew on its chest and seemingly formed another layer of rib cage."Like light itself your power is finite! While my power is eternal! As such I have that much time to accomplish my goals! The only way to stop me is to find the power core and by the time you do your power will already run out." Sora simply glared at Ansem in anger, though he was probably right, even if they were hurting World of Chaos and Guardian Shadow, they still weren't making progress with Ansem directly. They needed to find a way to get Ansem out of there and attack him directly. However just as Sora was thinking that he saw an orb of dark purple light. Sora just glared at it in annoyance as he knew exactly what it was, he then glared at Ansem in disappointment.

"Isn't that it, right there?" Kairi, Donald, and Goofy looked at the dark purple light where Sora was pointing, they all made looks of disappointment as well. They all couldn't help but be disappointed at Ansem due to how he didn't even try to hide it properly and how they only knew to attack it now that Ansem brought it up. Guardian Shadow looked at Sora in confusion but then once it realized where he was pointing it had visible fear on its face.

"Uh... DIE!" Hundreds of dark tentacles formed around World of Chaos and aimed their blade tips right at the four of them. Furthermore, about four Darkside Heartless manifested, surrounding Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy. Sora and Kairi were especially shocked at the sight of the Darkside Heartless.

"Sora... those..."

"Yeah... they're the Heartless that destroyed Destiny Island." Sora gripped his keyblade in anger, he still remembered how he tried to defeat the Darkside Heartless but failed and he had to watch everything that made up Destiny Island get torn apart. Sora couldn't help but be filled with seething rage but then, Kairi placed her hand on his. Sora looked at Kairi as she was smiling gently at him.

"Come on you dummy. You're not alone this time, remember? We're here to help you beat these monsters." Sora then looked at Donand then Goofy. Both nodded and smiled with determination at him. Sora couldn't help but smile and chuckle at his own blind anger.

"Hahaha, yeah. Let's beat these guys once and for all!" The four of them cheered in excitement as each of them charged toward a single Darkside. Donald first cast a lighting spell at his Darkside causing it damage but not enough to destroy it. The Darkside growled in anger and slammed its fist into the ground sending a shockwave at Donald. Donald knew this was going to hurt but still jumped out of instinct despite knowing it was futile. However, he was wrong for when he jumped, he ended up jumping higher than expected and was practically soaring in the air. Donald couldn't help but laugh proudly at this as he cast a powerful fireball of light at the Darkside burning the fist that caused the shockwave.

In retaliation the Darkside raised its other arm and shot three dark homing missiles at Donald. Donald quickly cast an ice spell that surrounded him in an ice dome, coated in golden light. Thankfully the ice dome surrounding him was strong enough to keep Donald safe from the dark explosions until it broke. Donald was especially glad that his golden light aura was able to make him float so falling wasn't an issue. Instead, Donald focused on casting a double core spell of fire and ice, completely burning, electrocuting, and incinerating the Darkside.

Goofy ran at his Darkside and threw his shield like a Frisbee expecting nothing more than for it to hit the Darkside and then come back to him. However, Goofy's shield ended up charging up and spinning faster and faster, this allowed the shield to cut off the Darkside's leg. Just like a boomerang the shield still came back to Goofy though he stopped once he caught it and looked at it in amazement.

"Gosh! I must not know my own strength!" The Darkside roared in anger trying to crush Goofy with its fist, Goofy quickly raised his shield expecting the impact to still hurt like a truck. However Goofy opened his eyes as nothing happened at all. Instead, Goofy looked up to see the shockwave of the punch redirecting up the Darkside's arm breaking it entirely. Goofy actually kinda felt bad for the Darkside despite it being a world destroying pureblood Heartless. However, Goofy's guilt faded when the Darkside manifested several dark spheres and let them fall all around. Thankfully the dark spheres were slow and Goofy was fast, so he dodged them all with ease. Goofy then threw his shield again and this time aimed for the Darkside's head slicing it off and destroying the Darkside entirely.

Kairi was almost instantly attacked with dark homing missiles but thanks to her Oblivion Keyblade she was naturally immune. Kairi smirked at the Darkside, but it remained emotionless as it stared at her. Instead, the Darkside raised its fist and slammed it in the ground. Kairi was actually hurt by the shockwave, but it didn't push her away thanks to her golden light aura. However, the pain/damage wasn't enough to make her fall to the ground or lose her strength in any way.

"Hmph! you're a smart one huh? Too bad because I'm smarter!" Kairi then cast a fire spell that resulted in a large fireball coated in golden light. The fireball ended up hitting the Darkside directly in the face making it roar in anger. The Darkside then glared at Kairi as she ended up manifesting her Destiny's Embrace instead of Oblivion. The Darkside actually looked visibly confused by this, but it took the advantage without hesitation and manifested more dark homing missiles.

"I'm also faster!" Kairi then ran to the right of the Darkside while the dark homing missiles chased after her. Kairi ran around the Darkside and once she got behind the Darkside she shot him again with another fireball. The Darkside growled in anger and manifested three more dark homing missiles to catch her. However just like before Kairi was able to outrun them. It continued like this for a while with Kairi shooting the Darkside with fireballs, it tried to retaliate by manifesting more dark homing missiles. However, the Darkside's dark homing missiles couldn't catch Kairi and instead they were continuously chasing her. The Darkside manifested so many of them that it was like she was running from a swarm of dark wasps. However, with so many dark homing missiles Kairi was finding it harder to outrun them all.

"Well, better do it now!" Kairi then ran in-between the legs of the Darkside, the Darkside was confused at first but once it realized what she was doing it was already too late. The dark homing missiles impacted the Darkside's back and damaged it badly making it roar in pain. The Darkside then looked down at Kairi in anger, but its expression quickly turned into shock when it saw her casting a fire spell.

"Told you I was smarter!" Kairi then shot the fireball right at the Darkside's face, finally destroying it.

Sora charged at his Darkside as it raised its first to crush him with its first, however Sora proved to be faster and slashed its arm. Sora's attack was not only powerful but left a scar of golden light across the arm of the Darkside. It roared in pain and anger as it raised its other fist to retaliate, however the same thing happened leaving both its arms scared. Sora then ran under the Darkside while slashing both its legs forcing it to fall to its knees on the ground.

"That was for my parents!" The Darkside growled in annoyance as it manifested three dark homing missiles to shoot Sora. However, as they did Sora manifested his Three Wishes Keyblade and slashed them not only reflecting them back at the Darkside but boosting their magical bower by five times as much, causing further damage to the Darkside.

"That was for Riku!" The Darkside swung its first trying to hit Sora like a wrecking ball, but Sora did a front flip to dodge. As he spun, he had his keyblade out, allowing him to cut the Darkside's arm off while dodging its attack.

"That's for Kairi!" The Darkside roared in fear as it tried to get away from Sora who was marching toward it. The Darkside manifested dark spheres in the air, and they rained down around Sora in hopes of getting him away. However, this ended up having the opposite effect as Sora just slashed the dark spheres that got too close to him toward the Darkside further harming it.

"That's for my Home!" The Darkside had no more magic or strength to fight back so Sora was able to catch up with it quickly. Sora manifested his Olympia Keyblade and slashed the Darkside, the force from Sora's attack made it go fly up in the air.

"This is for every world you've destroyed!" Sora then manifested his Pumpkinhead Keyblade and shot several jack-o-lantern missiles at the Darkside, destroying it while midair. Guardian Shadow roared in frustration as it tried to use the tentacles of physical darkness to kill Sora once and for all. However, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy were not only fast but strong enough to attack them all head on and keep them off of Sora. Sora then smirked as he pointed his Pumpkinhead Keyblade at the core of the World of Chaos.

"And this is for all the other horrible things you've done." Sora manifests only one more jack-o-lantern missile to fire at the power core. Thankfully this was enough to weaken the World of Chaos as its remaining dark tentacles were practically falling apart. Guardian Shadow itself started falling apart and soon Ansem was exposed underneath.

"No! This can't be!" Ansem was connected to several dark tendrils on his back connecting him to both Guardian Shadow and World of Chaos. However what Sora was more focused on was how he had three dark crystals on his chest. There was no doubt in Sora's mind that these were the Fragments of Darkness, meaning Sora just had to rip them out of Ansem in order to stop him for good. Ansem then noticed Sora's glare and quickly realized what he was thinking.

"No, you don't!" Suddenly several Neoshadow Heartless formed around Sora trying to ambush him. However, Donald and Kairi both shot lighting magic at them destroying them all instantly. Sora thanked them before jumping up to face Ansem directly, meanwhile Kairi, Donald, and Goofy held back the Neoshadow Heartless trying to stop Sora. Sora made it to the same level as Ansem and raised his Keyblade as he was getting closer to him. Ansem manifested his dual Soul Eaters only to combine them together into a single double ended spear.

Ansem spun his spear around as if to show off his mastery of the weapon and used it to block Sora's strike. Sora tried again to strike from a different angle but again and again Ansem managed to defend from the attack. Sora and Ansem then locked their blades and glared at one another for they were currently in a stalemate.

"You have so much power, yet you don't even know how to use it properly!"

"I could say the same for you! You keep talking like you know everything, like I'm just a stupid kid! Well guess what, this stupid kid and his amazing friends are going to put an end to you and the Dark Army!"

"Foolish Child! Your friends are occupied by the Heartless of this Abyss world and here the Heartless are infinite!" Ansem then pushed Sora back and quickly sliced him in the chest. Sora only felt the pain for a moment, thankfully his golden light aura protected him but after he was healed, he realized the aura was fading.

"Your power is running out! You're all alone! You don't even know the true nature of Darkness and light." Sora yelled in frustration as he continuously struck at Ansem forcing him back ever so slightly into Guardian Shadow. Then finally after one more strike Ansem lost his grip on his Soul Eater double ended spear; However, Sora ended up losing his grip on his keyblade as well. Instead of resummoning it back in his hand he instead aimed his fist at Ansem's face and punched him. Sora's punch ended up being much stronger than either of them predicted leaving Ansem dazed and unbalanced. Sora saw this as an opportunity and didn't let it pass so he kept punching Ansem and wouldn't stop.

Sora managed to punch Ansem five times in the face, but Sora couldn't tell if this was actually weakening Ansem or just making him angry. Worst off, Ansem grabbed Sora's wrist before he could throw a sixth punch. Ansem then started smirking at Sora as he was slowly crushing Sora's wrist, making him grunt in pain.

"You're all alone now... This is your end!" Before Sora could use his other hand to summon his Keyblade, Ansem grabbed his neck. Ansem started choking Sora to the point that his aura of golden light was fading faster than before. Sora was losing the power needed to stop Ansem and he was losing air too, yet there was nothing he could do to stop it.

"Who said he was alone?!" Sora was sure that the only way he heard that voice was because of his loss of air. There's no way he could actually be hearing Riku's voice, but then again maybe he was. Ansem let go of Sora as cracks on his face started appearing, the cracks soon spread throughout his body as if he was made of glass. Then he was practically fragmented and as he fell apart Riku punched his way out, finally being free of Ansem's control.

"WHAT! IMPOSSIBLE!" The fragments making up Ansem tried to reassemble using the darkness, but Riku quickly grabbed his Soul Eater double ended spear.

"Looks like you're the one who's alone, Ansem!" Riku then slashed Ansem with the spear, making him fall apart all over again. Riku thought that was the end however soon the spear started acting strange while in his hand. Suddenly the Soul Eater spear broke into fragments of darkness until it reforged itself into Way to the Dawn Keyblade. Riku was shocked by this but he had no time to focus on it as Sora ran up to him and wrapped his arms around him while crying heavily.

"Riku! Riku your safe! You're finally free! I'm so glad you're safe... I'm so glad you're here..." Sora couldn't stop crying as he now, finally, after all this time, managed to get Riku back. Riku smiled and gently hugged Sora back, he wanted to joke around with him but instead he just comforted him as Sora cried it out. Riku then looked down and saw Kairi, Donald, and Goofy all standing there confused as the Neoshadow Heartless surrounding them were fading into nothing. Kairi then looked up and tears fell from her eyes as she saw Riku.

Riku smiled at Kairi and waved at her, she smiled while still crying and waved back with a smile of joy. However, Riku then noticed that Sora was starting to calm down a little but was still clinging tightly to Riku. Riku then noticed that Kairi could see him and Sora hugging, Riku then gave a smug smirk at Kairi to which her expression turned to shock. She then gritted her teeth in anger at him while he continued to smirk as if to say "I win" to her. Sora then finally let go of Riku but was still crying a little.

"Come on Sora, you're never going to get anything done if you keep crying like that."

"I'm sorry, I just missed you so much, I never stopped thinking about saving you." Riku blushed when he heard Sora say that however his secret joy was quickly changed into guilt.

"Shouldn't I be saying sorry? I'm the reason this whole mess started." Sora looked at Riku shocked though it didn't take him long to understand what Riku meant. Sora then sighed as he patted Riku on the shoulder with one hand and wiped his own tears away with the other.

"You have plenty of time to apologize but for now, let's just get everyone and go home." Riku was confused by how Sora could forgive him so easily, but he did agree that they needed to get out of here. Sora manifested his Fairy Harp Keyblade, grabbed onto Riku's arm, and had both of them float to the ground safely. Sora was happy to see Donald and Goofy but before they could talk, he noticed Kairi glaring at Riku.

"You cheated!"

"You cheated first."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Don't lie, you probably asked him behind my back" Kairi stopped being angry but then smirked, leaned closer to Riku's ear, and whispered something Sora couldn't hear. Riku was shocked and then glared at Kairi in anger while she continued to smirk at him.

"You little-!"

"Uh guys? What are you talking about?" Both Kairi and Riku blushed in embarrassment, they looked at Sora, then each other, then away from Sora out of embarrassment.

"Nothing!" They both shouted at the same time, which only confused Sora more. Sora then looked at Donald and Goofy, the both of them looked at each other, but only shrugged in confusion. Riku could feel the awkward atmosphere and tried to change the subject quickly.

"Ahem! so anyways I think we need to get out of here but first, I just want to say, I'm sor-"

"Wait!" Kairi then placed her hand in front of Riku to stop him.

"Wha- Kairi I'm trying to-"

"Stop! Listen! ... nothing's happening."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean you guys defeated Ansem, right? So why are we still here? Why is this thing we're on still exists and why hasn't anything else happened?"

"I mean all the Heartless are gone."

"Well yeah but shouldn't something else be happening? Shouldn't the Abyss world be gone or something like that?" While Kairi, Riku, and Sora started debating on whether the fight really was over Donald was starting to get skeptical himself. Kairi wasn't wrong, Ansem linked himself to this Abyss world so by defeating him the fragments that made this world should be restored back into the worlds they once were. Donald looked around while trying to think of an explanation, but he eventually found himself staring at a strange blob of darkness slithering toward the other end of the World of Chaos.

"Wha?! What the heck is that?!" Sora, Kairi, Riku and Goofy looked at where Donald was pointing and saw that the blob of darkness was slowly forming into Ansem. It reached in the air and into its hand floated the seven Fragments of Light and three Fragments of Darkness.

"I have waited decades... centuries... to complete... a thousand years of work... I will take what is due!"

"Quick stop him!" The five of them tried to run toward Ansem but it was already too late; he was using the Fragments of Light and Darkness to create a doorway to Kingdom Hearts itself. Ansem was still missing four Fragments of Darkness, but he hoped that by using the energy of the Abyss World he could complete it regardless. Soon the doorway was completed and so was Ansem's body; he weakly walked over to the door while Sora and friends were still too far away to reach him.

"Finally! With the power of Infinity... all the wrongs of the past... will be rewritten!" However just as Ansem got close enough the door opened and suddenly a burst of light flowed out and blasted him.

"ARGH! NO! WHAT'S HAPPENING!" a void opened besides the door and a disappointed Doxcrum walked out and leaned on the door. He was at an angle allowing him to be safe from the blast of light and Sora and friends were just far enough to be safe too.

"It didn't work ye naff eejit! I told ye seven o' light and seven o' darkness, no more and no less! but no, don't listen to th' bloke who knows what he's talkin' about. Sure, that's braw! Just do yer ain hin' an' win' it frae thaur! I'm sure it will all work itself braw! Ugh, I'm too old for this guff." Doxcrum then held out his hand and the Fragments flew out of Ansem's hands and into Doxcrum's.

"I'll be holding onto these, Lad."

"No please! Save me! I promise! I'll work harder and get it right the next time!"

"Aw rite, I believe ye!"

"Really?"

"... No." Doxcrum then kicked Ansem and he shattered into dark glass as the light incinerated all the fragments that made up his being, ensuring there was nothing left.

"Heh... Cheil, I hated that glaikit puppet." Finally, the doors closed allowing Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy to see that it was Doxcrum that defeated Ansem.

"Doxcrum!" Riku was especially shocked to see Doxcrum stealing from Ansem.

"What are you doing?! I thought Ansem was your master?!"

"... Hehehe. Sorry to break it to ye lads. but Ansem wasn't th' real master, never was. Just a puppet for th' real deal. Ye all thought ye were fighting th' entire Dark Army when in reality ye were just picking apart a wee squad. We're a lot bigger than ye think lads."

"What? But then who is the real mas-" Before Sora could finish the doorway opened again but this time it was showing images of other worlds. Soon around the doorway cracks of reality started forming and as the cracks got bigger more images of other worlds could be seen flashing within the cracks. Doxcrum was quick to get away from the cracks but while the others were terrified, he just sighed in disappointment.

"Ugh that damn eejit."

"I don't understand! What's going on?!"

"He didn't get Kingdom Hearts but what he got wasn't better! This is th' infinite corridor, it's what surrounds Kingdom Hearts an' allows it to create new worlds and fill them with life! Its th' same reason it's impossible to access Kingdom Hearts directly. Coz if ye try, you'll get this." The cracks grew larger and soon started showing even more flashes of different worlds throughout reality.

"Don't fash yerse, th' doors will close eventually... But uh, I don't think those troaps will be willin' to bide." Doxcrum then pointed to the distance, Sora and friends turned around to see several Darkside, hundreds of Neoshadow Heartless, and Thousands of Shadow Heartless flying right toward them.

"If what Doxcrum is saying is true, then with the doorway open, the Heartless will have access to unlimited worlds! We have to close it!"

"I would hurry, Lads! Even without th' Dark Army th' heartless are like flies! It just takes a body to start a swarm." Doxcrum then opened another void and walked right into it.

"Wait Doxcrum! Please help!" While Sora, Kairi, Donald and Goofy were running to close the doorway, Riku tried to plead with Doxcrum. Doxcrum did stop himself before entering and looked back at Riku one last time and scoffed.

"Ye don't need me anymore Bairn. Ye got this... oh, and don't forget, th' darkness is only th' other side o' th' coin." Doxcrum then entered the Void, Riku sighed but followed the others to close the doorway. However, it was easier said than done; the doors were large and extremely heavy. As they were pushing the doors were slowly moving but the cracks around the doorway were only getting bigger. Sora could see that the Heartless were spreading out and aiming for the cracks instead of the doorway.

"We just have to close the doorway! If we can do that then the Heartless can't destroy any more worlds!"

"I know Sora... but I don't think we're going to make it."

"Don't talk like that Riku! As long as we're together! We'll be ok!" Riku looked at Sora then to Kairi, the Donald, then Goofy. Riku couldn't help but feel envious of Sora getting some good friends who were willing to help him to the end. But then again that was Sora's specialty so Riku really shouldn't be surprised. The real surprise to Riku was how Sora was still willing to be friends with a jerk like him.

"Heh, you say that, but I think you were doing just fine without me."

"Huh?" Riku then entered the Doorway and started pulling the doors in, this allowed them the right door to close faster but it also meant Riku would be trapped.

"Wha-?! Riku!"

"It's ok Sora, consider this my apology for ruining our home."

"Riku! Please don't!"

"Hey, come on Sora, don't start crying on me now. I'll be back, I'm just going to be gone for a while."

"But Riku! You'll be alone! How will you even find your way back?!"

"He won't be alone fellas!" Sora didn't recognize that voice however as he looked behind he saw several lasers of blinding golden light blast from the sky and onto the advancing Heartless. They were all vaporized in an instant and in front of the doorway dropped Mickey Mouse.

"Is that-?"

"King Mickey!"

"Your Majesty!"

"... is that a mouse?" Donald then hit Kairi on the head with his staff to which she looked at him, both mad and hurt.

"Sorry I'm late fellas, and sorry I never told you where I was! I just couldn't let anyone know I was looking for this!" Micky then held out his hand and manifested the Kingdom Key D.

"With this I can close the door, but I have to do it from the other side! So sorry to say this right after the reunion but this is where we say goodbye." Sora looked at Donald and then Goofy he could see the sadness in their eyes but they both simply nodded.

"We understand your majesty."

"You and your family have protected our world for generations, the least we can do is step aside and let you work."

"Thank you fellas, I promise this won't take long. As for you Sora, on behalf of the multiverse and Disney Kingdom I thank you for protecting the light and all the creatures that live in it. I promise once I return, I will reward you!"

"Thank you uh, your Majesty. But all I really want is for my home back and the Multiverse restored."

"Haha! We then let me help you close this doorway, and we can do just that!" King Mickey then entered the doorway and was about to use his keyblade to close the door but saw Riku in the doorway with him.

"You don't have to stay; you can be with your friends."

"... will the spell work faster with two Keyblades?"

"Huh? Well, yes... but we would need two keyblade on the other side." Riku then looked at Sora and Kairi the both of them knew what this meant and quickly manifested their Keyblades to show King Mickey.

"Then this could definingly work! But be warned children! Once we do this the infinite corridor will shoot us all into different worlds! Are you prepared for this?" Riku, Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy looked at each other unsure of this. They were all stronger together so the idea of being separated again was quite terrifying. However, the idea of allowing the Heartless to get access to just one world to feed on was more terrifying. So one by one Riku, Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy nodded at each other and all of them faced the king.

"We're ready for anything, your majesty!"

"Then may our hearts be the guiding key on our new journey!" King Mickey aimed his keyblade at the doorway and so did Riku. Sora and Kairi stepped away from the door and did the same. Soon, from each of their keyblades, beams of light blasted from them to the middle of the doorway. Now the doors were closing much faster. Just in time too as another wave of seemingly endless Heartless was flying towards them.

"Wait! Sora! Kairi!" Sora and Kairi then looked inside the doorway as Riku was slowly leaving their view.

"Sora... just be happy that's all I ask and watch over the goofball. Make sure she doesn't do anything stupid." Sora and Kairi knew this was probably the last time they were going to see Riku in a who knows how long, so they immediately started crying. However, Kairi started crying, she also started laughing as well.

"Hey! Everyone knows I'm the brains between the three of us!"

"Hahaha Sure!" Riku was laughing but he was also shedding tears as he knew it could be years before he would ever get to see them again.

"But seriously, watch over Sora, ok? But don't forget to watch over yourself. You drive me crazy but you're still my friend, you matter to me too."

"I know... sorry for cheating by the way."

"It's ok, he was probably going to pick you anyways."

"Huh? What are you guys talking about?"

"Haha! I'll tell you when I get back Sora! It's a promise!" Sora still had tears falling from his eyes, but he still managed to smile gently at Riku as the door was almost closed.

"I'll hold you to that... see you later Riku." Finally, the door was closed and Riku along with King Micky were gone. Soon the cracks on the doorway went berserk and started growing and expanding even faster. Sora thought this was bad, but they were also growing brighter and even burning the Heartless as they got closer. Soon the cracks spread across the Abyss world until it was destroyed. Soon the remaining fragments were coated in light and started shooting off into space to transform into what looked like stars. Sora, Kairi, Donald, and Goofy were left there floating in space as they watched the space around them being lit up with stars. It wouldn't be clear to a layman, but they knew what this meant the Multiverse was slowly being restored and it was honestly beautiful.

Sora couldn't look away at all the pretty stars being restored knowing that for every star there were several planets being restored. And if the Abyss World was destroyed that meant all the Emblem Heartless on it were as well, leaving all the cursed hearts liberated and free to return to their owners. Sora smiled knowing that one of them was Destiny Island. Granted he didn't know how they were going to get back since the Gummi ship was back at Hollow Bastion but right now, he wasn't worried. Instead, he just reached out for Kairi's hand to enjoy the beautiful sight of the Multiverse being restored right beside her. However, upon reaching for her hand he couldn't actually touch her, instead he was blocked off by a seemingly invisible force.

"Wha- What?!"

"Sora! What is this?!" Soon behind Kairi Sora could see the setting of a world that he was afraid he was never going to see again. It was their home, Destiny Islands, Kairi was being sent home but not Sora he was being sent somewhere else.

"Kairi! You're going home!"

"What? No! Not without you!" Kairi started banging on the invisible barrier as the viewing of Destiny Islands was becoming clearer.

"Kairi, it's ok."

"No, it's not! It's not fair! It's not fair!" Kairi then started slashing at the barrier with her keyblade but again nothing worked. Instead, she just fell to her knees and started crying again.

"Why... Why do we have to be separated again... why does this keep happening to us... we just got Riku back... I don't want to go home or go to new worlds... not without you... " Sora placed his hand on the barrier and faced Kairi with a gentle smile while she looked at him still filled with sadness.

"It's ok, you know what to do now, while you're looking for me, I'll look for you. We won't be separated for long this time. I know in my heart we'll find each other again. because my heart is the guiding key!" Kairi looked surprised at Sora but then she giggled and managed to smile again. She then faced Sora with determination.

"It's a promise, this time I'll look for you." Now the barrier was expanding pushing Kairi to Destiny Island and Sora farther away from her.

"Ah! Sora! I will find you! No matter what I will never stop looking! I will never forget you or Riku! I promise!" Kairi then faded from view; Sora was still smiling as a single tear left his eye.

***

Kairi was now on the beach of Destiny Island, she was home, but she didn't feel at home. Sora and Riku were somewhere out there, and she didn't even know how to get off the world to start looking for them. But for now, she at least had her Keyblade and hopefully that would be enough to get her off the world eventually. Kairi raised her hand to manifest her Keyblade but as she did, nothing happened she then tried again but still nothing happened. Kairi didn't understand then suddenly she felt a pain in her heart, it was as if her heart was broken and missing some pieces.

"Hey Kairi!" Kairi then turned around to see Selphie and Tidus running right toward her.

"There you are! Your parents were looking everywhere for you!"

"Riku's and Sora's parents too! They're going crazy and... hey you, ok?" Kairi didn't know what to do, she had no Keyblade and no Gummi ship, she was probably never going to get off this world. But by remembering Sora she was quickly reminded by how determined he was and how he never gave up on his friends. Kairi then laughed at herself.

"Haha, Kairi you dummy, it's too early to give up."

"What?"

"Nothing you guys, I'll go see my parents to tell them I'm ok."

"Oh, ok them but uh, do you know where Riku and Sora are?" Kairi then smiled as she looked to the sky.

"No... but one day, I will find my way back to them, I can feel it in my heart."

***

Donald and Goofy were watching Sora as he was still on his knees, looking at where Kairi once was as if she was still there. However, this time it didn't take long for him to get up and look at the two of them with a gentle smile.

"You ok Sora?"

"... I'm not sure, but I'll definingly feel better once we find out where we are and how to get back to the others." Donald and Goofy looked at each other but then looked back at Sora and nodded with determination. The three of them then marched forward however they quickly noticed they seemed to be in some kind of strange dimension of darkness. The only thing there was a road leading to a strange castle, as such all they could do was walk toward it. Sora looked back at Donald and Goofy seeing they were just as confused as he was.

"Haaa... Here goes nothing." Sora then opened the doors to Castle Oblivion.

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Part 14 Epilogue

Part 12

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(This isn’t so much a story rather than a dramatic sequence I thought up)

Summary: Sora and Riku were fighting Emperor Mateus (A.K.A “The Emperor”) of FF2. Impressed by Sora’s strength and weapon, he uses the power of mind-control to possess Sora.

Riku laid there on the floor face down. When he awoke, he was coughing up blood and slowly, he looked up.

There stood Sora. His best friend and Keyblade wielder. He managed to stand his ground against their most formidable foe yet.

A tall man wearing golden armor and had two large golden horns. He had blonde hair with purple tips and his eyes were a dark violet.

“I must admit, child,” the man said. “You have held out much longer than your friend.”

“As long as I know what’s truly important,” Sora exclaimed. “I will never give in!”

The man narrowed his eyes and slowly grinned a sinister grin.

“With strength such as yours, you would be perfect for my army.”

“Keep dreaming!” Sora spat. “I’m not loyal to you and I never will be!”

The man’s grin did not falter. Instead he raised his staff and it began to emit purple smoke.

“I can fix that.”

The smoke had completely engulfed Sora.

“Sora!!!” Riku shouted.

He could hear Sora’s cries of agony and pain as lightning flashed from the smoke. He had to move or else Sora was done for.

By the time Riku managed to get up, the smoke had disappeared leaving Sora lying on the floor. Riku limped over to his friend and slumped to his side.

“Sora,” he mumbled. “Are you alright?”

He helped Sora sit up. When he wouldn’t respond to his voice, Riku gently shook him by his shoulders.

Sora open his eyes. Riku was relieved for a brief moment before he was filled with dread.

Sora’s blue eyes became a dark magenta and the sparkle in his eyes were gone.

“No!” Riku panicked as he shook Sora more. “Don’t give in to it! You have to fight it!”

An evil chuckle froze Riku in his place.

“Alas, it’s far too late.”

Sora slowly stands up, looks down at Riku and summons his Keyblade.

“He is now mine”