Hello readers. Here's the next chapter of my new story. Im just gonna say, Im suprised when I looked to see how many people read this in one day. I just want to say thank you. Im glad you guys took the time to read my story. Now then, we left off with Edge and Mickey meeting up with Cloud. Then they got surrounded by countless Heartless. One thing remains. Who's responsible for this? Enjoy.

"Look out! Here they come!" Cloud shouted. Next thing I knew, we were in a fight to survive this attack. Cloud, Mickey, and I stood in a triangle formation, trying our best to beat back the Heartless, but It wasn't easy. Enemies of all different sizes came at us. Some on the ground, some in the air, you name it. Something I wasn't ready for, but then again, I wasn't ready for this journey either and look at me now.

But I can say that Im handle myself right now. These Heartless aren't hard to take out now with this keyblade. I was slashing the Heartless, left and right, realeasing these trapped hearts from the Heartless. It did feel good, knowing that I have freed something from these dark beings. But I couldn't think about that for too long cause another Heartless would show up to take the place of the one I would defeat. Seems like an endless mob of these thing. I knew that eventually we would tired from this.

"Thundara!" I heard Mickey yell, and just like before, thunder bolts shot from the sky came down and took out some of the Heartless. "Edge, you have that power too remember? Use the keyblade! Hold it to the sky and call out Thunder. It works for other magic attacks too." Mickey instructed me. I nodded and did as I was told. "Thunder!" I called out and just like with Mickey's attack, thunder shot from the sky. Though it seemed weaker than Mickey, but Im not complaining. I can use other elemental attacks that I should't be able to. However, this didn't seem to make much of a difference, as the Heartless continued to try and defeat us. We eventually began to tire out, just as I thought.

"Mickey...I don't know...how much longer...we can hold out..." Cloud said between gasps. "Same here..." Mickey said. Though Im getting a bit tired too, being a Fighting type, I can hold out a bit longer. Both Mickey and Cloud were down on one knee, using their weapons to help support them. "Oh no. No no no no no! Guys I need you. Please, you got to get up! I can't do this by myself." I stood there, confused and worried. I didn't know how much longer I would be able hold them off on my own, but I had to try. I had to try and defend my friends. But this didn't last long, as I became out of breath, but I was still standing.

"I just...can't! Im sorry I let you guys down. I can't do this by myself." "And you don't have to either!" A familiar voice said. At that moment, some of the Heartless in front of me bursted into flames. Then some of the Heartless behind me dissapeared at the sound of a blade slashing right through them. "Can't let you have all the fun." "Lea!" I said with a big smile on my face, glad to see him. "I'llalways be around to help. But I didn't come alone" Lea said while pointing behind me. I turned arou d to see a guy with a big sword, almost like Cloud's, and wearing a leather jacket and black pants.

"You must be Leon." "And you must be Edge. Lea told me about you. We will lend our support to help you. We just hope you will do the same." Leon said while looking at me and giving me a smile. "You can count on me!" I said with a confident smile. Just then, a flyi g Heartless swooped down at me. "Edge! Look out!" Mickey yelled out at me. He must of recovered. I looked up to see a Heartless coming straight at me. I was frozen from fear and suprise that I just could react. I just stood there wide eyed. Then something else went flying through the air and took out the flying Heartless.

"I followed the object with my eyes and seen it go back to the one who threw it. "Yuffie to the rescue!" Said a girl who I assume is named Yuffie. She looked like a teenaged girl with short black hair, had a black leather jacket and dark green shorts with black shoes. She also had a green hea band on. Her weapon of chooise, a big throwing star that acts like a boomarang. She seems like she capable of defending herself.

I felthappy that we have more help. Mickey used his magic again and gave the rest of us more energy to fight. So then the six of us took our fighting positions and started to take out the Heartless. This time, it was much more easy to fight back. After a few minutes, we all heard an unknown voice. "Enough!" Next thing I knew, all the others where binded, unable to move, by the darkness. I was, however, untouched thanks to my scarf.

"Hmph. Seems like your have some shield from the darkness." I seen a black hooded figure, but had a different voice than Xehanort's. "What can I say? Im different." I said while pointing my keyblade at the figure. "Then I heard Mickey call out. "Xaldin release us!" "Don't worry. I will. Just as soon as I take care of little blue , seems that Im everyones favorite. "Thats what you think!"I said, getting in my fighting stance "Thats what I know!" Xaldin said while summoning six spears from the darkness. They then start floating around him. "Why don't you take off your hood?" I said so I could get a better look at his face. "You won't be around long enough for that to matter. Now die!" He said while launching one of his spears at me. I reacted by hitting the spear to the side, thinking he might be down a spear. But it ended up just going back to him.

"Are you not trying? Or are you that bad at fighting?" I taunting. "Hmph, so you can fight. But that mouth of yours is gonna get you killed." Xaldin said. I must of annoyed him. Not what I was going for, but I'll take it. "Bring it!" "With pleasure" He came at me with speed, faster than what I can keep up with. However, I managed to block his attack when he swung a spear down at me. I anwsered back with a vertical swing, but he dodged out of the way before.

"Fire Edge! Point your keyblade and call out Fire! Mickey yelled out. I wish he could help me out here, but Im fighting this fight alone right now. I pointed my keyblade at Xaldin. "Fire!" And a fire ball shot out from the keyblade and nailed Xaldin, causing him to fall on his back. I followed up by getting close so I could land more hits. Xaldin got back up, but looked a little dazed, giving me the chance to strike him with my keyblade. I landed multipale hits. But then he recovered and used his own magic. He used some sort of wind magic and it lifted me up in the air. Then he summoned his own lighting strike and it hit me, hard. He still had a hold of me with his wind magic, so I couldn't move. I got tired of this.

"Extreme Speed!" I managed to free myself by using this move to launch myself from the wind he was commanding. Still using Extreme Speed, I moved quickly to get back to Xaldin and land more hits. With one more hit, I swung as hard as I could and sent him flying backwards. He then hit the ground, hard, and remained motionless. "Don't mess with me or my friends!" I said angered by his attemp to take me and my friends out. "Edge you did it!" I heard Mickey call out. I then seen everyone come running towards me, all cheering for my victory.

"I got to say, your just like Sora when he wasn't controlled by the darkness. But hey, well done...um..." Yuffie said, while looking down at herself, trying to fix her jacket. "Oh, my name is Edge." I said, course she should of known when Mickey yelled out to me. Maybe she wasn't paying attention. "Oh that sounds like a heroic...OH MY GOSH YOU LOOK SO CUTE!" Yuffie yelled out as she picked me up and gave me a really strong hug. Man she stronger than she looks. "Yuffie...can't...breath...things...getting...dark..." "Whoops. Sorry." She said while putting me down. I doubled over, tryi g to regain my breath.

"Yuffie, I told you about him already. There was no need to do that." Mickey said. "Well I couldn't help it. He looks so cute. Like a little puppy dog." I was able to regain my breath. "Please...just...don't do that again. Fighting is enough to get me winded." Don't worry. I'll hold back the urge. Oh there is somethi g I was hoping for you to tell me about. You see..." She started and reached in her pocket and pulled something out. "...I found this stone... but no one knows what it is. Its nothing like we have seen before. Have you seen it? She held the stone out, showing me it."Where did you get that!?" I said, suprised that she even found a stone like that.

I told you, I found it. What is it!?" "Thats a Mega Stone!" "Mega Stone?" "Yeah. Lucarionite to be exact. It allows my kind, after I evolve, to turn into a different form for a while and gain more power. We become stronger and can deal massive damage." I said. Oh I just was to take the stone, since its usless to her, but again, Im not rude. "So when you "evolve" you'll change?" Yuffie asked with milded intrest as well as the others. "Yeah. Into, whats called, a Lucario. Then I can use that stone to Mega Evolve into Mega Lucario, with an awsome new look, but for a limited time." "Well, looks like you can use. Hold on." She turned her back to me, messing with something. After a few seconds, she turned around.

"Here. I turned it into a little pin." She then walked towards mevand pinned it to my scarf, near the front part of my neck. "There. Hands free." "Thank you so much. These are hard to find. I still wonder how it got here, but I guess Im really lucky huh?" "Aw isn't this nice? A little girl and her pet." Now that jusy ain't right. "PET? WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PET!?" Xaldin got back up. I can't believe it. I thought that I got him good, but I guess not.

"Oh. Touched something. Didn't I? Oh well. Enjoy that stone, cause its gonna be the last thing that will survive from your world." "What do you mean? I still got my friends back in my world." I started to get confused by what he meant. Man I getting confused easily here aren't I? "Why don't I show you." Xladin exstended his arm and a window of darkness appeared in front of us. We then began to see figures in the dark window. "This is a play back on your world" Xaldin said.

I couldn't believe what I saw. I seen my friends, the two Riolus and the Lucario. "I pitty them. They might as well be dead without a name. They never did care for names other than what thry are. Am I correct?" I always wondered why they didn't want a nickname, but I never pushed it. But going back to the what Xladin was showing me, my friends where trying to defend themselfs from the Heartless, but it looked like a lossing battle. First, the Riolu that looked like me was the first to fall. After a while, the Shiny Riolu fell. Lucario was still standing, but badly hurt. He was shooting of Aura Spheres after Aura Spheres, but down on one knee. The a Heartless jumped at him. Then the dark window faded away.

"See? Nothing on that world will survive." Xaldin said, looking like he was victorious. I stood there, wide eyed. Refusing to believe what was shown. I fell down to my knees. "No. No this can't be true. This can't be real." Tears began to form in my eyes. I felt like I got punched in the gut. I was on my paws and knees, with emotional pain inside. "Edge..." Mickey said, looking back at me. I couldn't respawn. My saddness took over and I started crying. "Be gone Xaldin. You attack failed. You lost." "Maybe so, but its not over yet." I looked up, still crying, I seen him going through a portal of darkness and disappeared.

After that, I looked down at the ground, tears running down my face and hitting the ground below me. "Why...why did this have to happen? I could of...could of..." "No Edge. Don't think this is your fault. There was nothing you could of done." Mickey said. "Maybe we should head back to Yen Sid's tower. Let Edge have sometime to recover." Lea said. "Right. Master Yen Sid! We are ready to head back!" Out of nowhere, a bright light came out of the ground a few feet away from us."Come on Edge." Mickey said and he helped me up and lead me to the portal from Yen Sid. "Why...?" I kept saying through my crying. My friends back at my world were my only family. For all I know, they could be gone. And I couldn't be there for them.

We ended back at Yen Sid's tower. "Welcome back. How did it go?" Yen Sid asked us. "Master, Edge needs sometime to recover." "I understand." Mickey lead me down to a door, assuming thats the room I woke up in. "Lea. What happened? "Well..." Mickey opened the door and we walked in. He colsed it before we could hear Lea say anything else to Yes Sid. I went over to the bed and collasped right on it. I started crying even harder into the pillow, trying to get my saddness and frustration out.

"Edge. Im sorry for what has happened. I wish there was something I could do to help." I felt the bed move. Mickey must of sat on it. "I w-wish that I-I could of done something to." I said. I lifted my head from the pillow, the fur near my eyes were soaked from my tears. "And yet, I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING!" I said with rage. Mickey flinched and then looked away, down at the ground. I burried my face pack into the pillow. "It should of been me. Not them." I said with guilt that I survived the attack on my world, but not the others. "Well, I'll just go and give you some time alone." He got off from the bed and headed towards the door. I looked from the pillow and seen him at the door as he opened it. But turned back to me. "But just remember, it wasn't your fualt. Im sure that they are fine and that they got away safely." He then went throught the door way as he closed it.

I sat up and gripped the Mega Stone, pinned to my scarf. The way I see it, its the only thing I have to remember me about my friends from my world. I layed back down on the bed, stairing at the ceiling. Soon, sleep over took me and I was fast asleep , tired from todays events and from the crying. I just couldn't cry anymore for my friends.

I soon found myself in some kind of dream. I was in some black, voided, area. Soon, three figures appeared in front of me. They where my friends. "You should of been there with us." They said. "Its your fault" "No. No its not my fault. I had to be somewhere else. I was trying to help save our world and help out other people. Plus, Mickey said it wasn't my fault. That there wasn't znything I could do." "Our death is your fault." "No." "Your fault. Your fault. Your fault." I put my paws over my ears, trying to block them out. "No no no NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I quickly woke up from my sleep, cover in sweat and breathing hard. Next thing I knew, Yen Sid came through the door. "Edge, are you alright?" "Yeah. Just a bad dream." "Do you want to talk about it." He asked with concearn."No Im fine. Im fine. Did they tell you about what happened?" "Yes. And Mickey is right. There wasn't anything anyone could do." "I understand. I just needed sometime." I said, whipping away some tears still on my face. "Good. Cause the others my need you." "What do you mean?" I asked. "Disney Castle was under attack. I haven't heard anything from them for awhile. I as!ed if I should wake you up, but he decided against it. They may need you assistance."

I fixed my gem neckless and scarf so that my Mega Stone was showing. "Im ready. Send me to Disney Castle." "Okay. The castle is crawling with Heartless. You might want to try and use stealth until you find Mickey and Lea." "Roger that!" With that, Yen Sid did the same process and teleported me to Disney Castle. I found myself in what looked like a courtyard. No Heartless insight. Trying to push the recent events out of my mine, I went around, looking for a way in the castle. I came across a pair of big doors. I cracked them open slightly to see if the coast is clear. "Don't worry guys. Im not about to lose two more friends to these guys. I hope you two are alright."

I came across a long hallway with statues that looks similar to Mickey and some that I would assume, looks like the queen, Minnie. Making sure that I stayed out of sight, I moved from statue to statue as I made my way down the hallway. I also came across some doors. However, they would either locked by some dark powers or they wouldn't budge at all. I would try blasting them down with a Force Palm, but that might get me caught by the Heartless or the Organization XIII, so I left them alone until I found either help, or Mickey and Lea.

I then found a door that was being guarded by two knight-like Heartless and they looked really strong. Gotta think about this for a moment. I found a bit of rubble from the attack and had a plan that I hoped that would work. I seen that there was a door nearby that was opened. I threw the peice of rubble in said room and, just like I hoped, one of them left their spot and went into the nearby room to check out what the noize was. That left me enough time to take out the Heartless near the door it was guarding by using Extreme Speed to move fast and catch it by suprise. I then went to the room the other Heartless was in and quickly took it out as well. "Hmph. Too easy. I must be getting better at this." I said with a grin.

I went to the door, hoping that I would find Mickey and Lea unharmed. I soon as I opened the door, I seen a set of steps going down. Since it was the only door that I found that I could open, I went down the steps, hoping that I would make some progress with either finding those two or help out defending against this attack.

"Is someone there? Help me please!" I heard a female voice call out. I rushed to the where I heard the voice. Sounds like this person is in trouble. I had to go help. I soon found someone chained to a wall. "Please. Can you help me?" This was the prson I heard call out for help. "Don't worry. I'll get thos chains off you." I summoned my keyblade and swung at the chains, breaking them and freeing the captive. "Oh thank you. Your so kind. My name is Minnie. Im the queen of Disney Castle. May I ask for the name of my rescuer?" "Its Edge." I said while getting down on one knee, trying to show as much respect to her as possible. "Please. No need to humble."

I got back up and looked around, seding if Mickey and Lea was around, leading to no progress. "Have you seen Mickey and Lea?" I asked. "Yes. They have been captured by Maleficent and Pete." "What? Where?" "In the throne room." I sighed in frustration. I didn't know where to find that room. Minnie could show me the way, but I don't want to put her in harms way. "I'll show you the way. You look able to help, with having a keyblade and all." I was against this, but I guess I have no choice. "Alright. You point which way to go, but stay behind me." "Very well."

We went up the stairs and back into the big hallway. "The throne room is that way." She said as she pointed down a different direction from where I came from. "Oh dear, I hope that Mickey and Lea are okay." Minnie said. I was worried about them too. I don't want to lose more friends and Im not about to let that happen. We came to another big pair of doors. "The throne room is through those doors. " I opened it sightly and pecked through the crack. "You little fool! Just give up!" I heard a female voice say. "Heheh. Your all washed up. Its time you gave up." I heard a male voice say. I looked back to Minnie with a confused look. "That was Maleficent and Pete. Be careful. She is really dangerous. So is Pete, but he really isn't too bright." "The sound of his voice is enough to give that away." Minnie covered her mouth to muffle her giggling.

I went back to the door where the voices came from. "You'll never get away with this! " Mickey said. "Oh, but I already have. Once I turn this world into its darker form, all the other worlds will soon be mine." "Um...ours. Right?" Pete said. Wow he sounds like a servent rather than a partner. "Silence!" Wow. Talk about rude. They both soon came into view, with their backs turned. I opened the door more and slipped into the room. Mickey and Lea were pinned to the wall by some chain to the wall. Lea looked a little beat up and seemed like he passed out. Mickey, however, looked wide awake. Pete looked back and I quickly doved behind a statue in the room. Pete went back to what he was doing, so I must of avoided his line of sight.

When I came back into view, Mickey seen me and went wide eyed. I put my finger up to my mouth, telling him to be quiet, not to give me away. He began to act like as if I wasn't around and put his focus back to Maleficent and Pete. I had to free Mickey and Lea. I can't fight these two by myself. Then all of a sudden, Minnie bursted through the doors. "Hey! Over here!" She took Maleficent and Pete's attention, long enough for me to use Extreme Speed and cut Mickey and Lea free. Lea woke up in time to land on his feet. "Im glad you guys are alright. Mickey, Im really sorry that I blew up at you like that at Yen Sid's tower. I was just-" "Its okay. I understand. But I was never mad of upset at you. You were going through a lot of pain, but its fine. But right now, we got some villans to deal with."

Mickey summoned his keyblade and got ready as well as I. "Maleficent! You lose! Leave this castle now!" "Not yet! Not until I take control of this place." Maleficent responded. "Get real. You couldn't take this place over even with all of Organization XIII's help." Lea said "Those fools can't do anything right. I have no use for them." "Oh and it seems that your doing so much better with out them." I said, mocking Maleficent and Pete at their faled attempt to take over this place. "You annoying blue fool! You don't know what kind of power I have." She then soon raised her staff and it started glowing a evil-like green color. "Meet your doom!" She then thrusted her staff at me, shooting some kind of attack at me. But her attempt failed. I took my keybladd and slashed the attack, taking it out. "Don't take me for a weakling."

"Hmmm. Cocky are we? Fine." She became surrounded by some green fire and then sent out some blast wave, sending Mickey and Lea somewhere and sent me flying through the air. I landed in the same courtyard that I was teleported at. Then Maleficent showed up out of green fire. I resummoned my keyblade, ready for a fight. "Now you will deal with me and all the powers of HELL!" She then got devouredby more green fire and turned into a big, black, dragon. "Thats actually an improvement to your usually look." She must of not liked that comment. She shot green fire at me from her mouth and I dodged out of the way. Jeez. This might prove to be difficult. Now I really need help. Big time. "Alright. Bring it!"

-To be continued-

Yay! Edge has his own Mega Stone. Now he just needs to evolve and he can Mega Evolve. Though he seems to be really strong right now, even without the need of that Mega Stone right now. But will he be stong enough to beat Maleficent? Find out next time. Please remember to R&R. Bye!