Okay, so this is the chapter 4 where we will have some actions, enjoy.
Snow was intrigued with Sora's combat capability, so he decided to put Sora on a test in strength by dueling him which was accepted by Sora. Lightning and Cloud who had a bit dislike each other before, finally had the same thought for the first time that Snow was really stupid with a bit different point of view. Meanwhile Maleficent and Pete who always became the trouble for the Keyblade Wielder, finally arrived at the Gran Pulse on Cocoon as well in search for the world's keyhole, however knowing that Sora already had the new allies, they leagued with the Cocoon's leader, Primarch Galenth Dysley who was actually a Fal'Cie named Barthandelus in disguise. Barthandelus was given the power by Maleficent for controlling the heartless in order to stop Sora with his friends with her lackey Pete. Little did they know that every single of their actions was watched by the new Organization XIII.
Castle that Never Was – The Grey Area
Xemnas walked inside the grey area in order to find Master Xehanort as well as his younger reincarnation from another dimension, he was told to meet with Master Xehanort first because he would be given a new mission for him. As he walked inside, he finally found Master Xehanort as well his younger self beside him.
"Xemnas, I've been expecting you." The superior greeted him.
"Is anything wrong Master?" the ex-superior asked him.
"Not at all, it's just that I still haven't given up yet to make Sora as our 13th vessel, so I have a simple mission for you and Xehanort." Master Xehanort answered his question as Xemnas looked over Young Xehanort who responded his answer.
"We'll listen."
"It seems Sora already gained new allies as well as new enemies from that world. What I want you two to do are simple, spy him until he finally finds the keyhole of that world and locks it. Then you can trap him again with the darkness once again." He explained to the two.
"But last time we attempted to do that, we were disturbed by his friend Riku and the King and his lackeys. Are you sure about this?" Young Xehanort asked him back.
"No need to worry about them anymore, this time I'll make sure that they won't interfere again. Now go!" As the dark Keyblade Master finished his words, Xemnas along with Xehanort vanished in a portal of darkness.
"Hmmm, just one more step to take control one of the seven lights, and finally with the plan that I have formulated, it's only a matter of time before I can forge the X-Blade again." Master Xehanort said before he evilly laughed again.
Meanwhile back to Sora and his friends…
Archlyte Steppe – Central Expanse
"Hey kid no need to rush, I'll go easy for ya." Snow said as he and Sora readied their battle position.
"Don't call me a kid, well… huh?!" Sora shockingly replied before he saw a strange or maybe more than one thing began to form behind Snow.
"Snow! Look out!" Vanille warned as Snow turned his head to direction that Vanille pointed only to get a heavy punch on his jaw that sent him flying to the group, Sora, Cloud, Lightning, Fang, Vanille, Sazh, and Hope were surprised as they looked at the Snow's attacker.
It was a massive creature with black skin. Its entire body was wrapped in teal thorns, and both of its wrists and ankles still had manacles on them. The chains on its arms were broken, but the chain connecting its feet was not. It also had a heart-shaped hole in its chest. The being had a large, red, toothy maw and beady, glowing yellow eyes. While it was muscular and had large hands and feet, it also had rather thin limbs. Each of its limbs sported three digits with long, red claws, and it also had two enormous, orange horns and a massive, orange mane. It was the heartless that Sora fought back at the Beast's Castle, the Dark Thorn.
"A heartless? Here?" Sora was surprised, he didn't expect that he would encounter heartless again in this new world. However as he looked back to the group, he was surprised even more that there was more than one Dark Thorn as he saw Cloud, Lightning, Fang, Vanille, Hope, and Sazh fought another Dark Thorn too while protecting Snow who was still unconscious from the Dark Thorn's punch.
(Desire for All That Is Lost – Kingdom Hearts II)
As Sora prepared his Keyblade in hands, the Dark Thorn began to turn invisible, giving Sora a disadvantage fighting it. As he looked around his surroundings, suddenly many junks from Pulse's remnants began to glow in dark aura and grew many fleshes and limbs, creating a gigantic claw of darkness to attack Sora. Sora then prepared his Reflega spell to deflect its attack, but for his surprise, the claw suddenly vanished from his sight, unexpected by Sora, the Dark Thorn's gigantic claw reappeared behind him, caught him off guard and hit him by its gigantic claw swing. As Sora finally regained his balance from the last attack, Sora began to use his Firaga Burst magic to attack the areas around him. As the fireball formed on the tip of the Keyblade, Sora then gave an upper swing, sending the giant fireball to the air, making it rained down several small fireballs. As the fireball rained down, Sora could hear a pain scream, it was the Dark Thorn that finally reverted to its normal shape only with burning hands from the Firaga Burst. Now angered from the last attack, the Dark Thorn lunge Sora rentlessly, however as Sora guarded its rentless assault, he still took the heats and burns from its burning hands, at one side he finally made his enemy visible, but on the other hand, he also made it even more dangerous for him. "DRIVE! WISDOM FORM!" As Sora shouted, his clothes began to glow white and then turned into blue with flame motif on the shoulder, now finally in his Wisdom Form, Sora attacked the Dark Thorn repeatedly by using his Blizzaga magic to freeze its burning hands. The trick was successful, but again the Dark Thorn turned invisible and tried to possess another junks to form another being, but this time Sora managed to cast Magnega spell, lifting and gathering all junks around him and destroying them into dusts before the Dark Thorn could possess them.
Meanwhile Cloud and the others weren't in the good shape as Sora, they had a quite hard time as they never encountered Dark Thorn heartless before. As they encircled around to watch each other's back, suddenly the Dark Thorn appeared before Hope, smashed him off from the group to join with the unconscious Snow before it turned invisible again. "Hope! Damn, you won't get away with this." Angered by what the Dark Thorn had just done with Hope, Lightning left the encircled group to fight it by herself. "Lightning! Don't do such a reckless thing!" Vanille warned her worriedly, but Lightning didn't care, as she charged the Dark Thorn that finally reappeared before her, she stabbed it with her gunblade. Much for her surprise, her attack missed, the Dark Thorn jumped behind her before turned invisible again, now switching her Blazefire Saber into gun mode, Lightning began to look around her while she aimed her gun in case the Dark Thorn reappeared again. Cloud who was still in the encircled group began to think how reckless Lightning was, leaving the group to fight an invisible enemy alone just because one of her friends was attacked. 'Is she completely mad or something? Fighting this enemy alone is very reckless as we don't have the same experience as Sora, she should have kept her cool even though her comrade was attacked.' Cloud thought as he began to leave the group too, "Hey Spiky! What are you doing?! Are you crazy?!" Fang shouted as Cloud left the group to watch Lightning's back before she did any reckless actions.
Back with Sora, after he destroyed every single of the junks with his Magnega magic, the Dark Thorn had nothing left to possess except fighting Sora directly, growled with anger and madness, the heartless charged to Sora to attack him. Still in his Wisdom Form, Sora could only shoot it continuously, however the shots seemed didn't give it any effects as he frequently dodged the Dark Thorn's attacks with his Quick Run ability. 'This is useless, I have to think another way to fight it, but with different strategy as this isn't Beast's Castle.' Sora thought as he dismissed his Keyblade and reverted his Wisdom Form back to normal, as the heartless charged again at him; Sora readied his newly summoned Keyblade: Hero's Crest to defend himself. The heartless swung its gigantic claw to Sora, but this time for its surprise, the Keybearer didn't move even for an inch from its attack, the Keyblade was stronger than his Kingdom Key that increased Sora's physical strength. Now been locked at each other, Sora finally pushed the heartless back and sent it flying by using upper slash, however Sora didn't stop at that, he jumped at the same height as the Dark Thorn and slashed it rentlessly and finished it using aerial finish. As Sora landed beside the fallen heartless, a heart was released from its body, dissolving it back into black smokes.
"Well, one down, only one more to go." Sora said as he ran towards the group who was still fighting another Dark Thorn.
Finally caught with the others who were fighting the other Dark Thorn, Sora found out that Snow was still unconscious along with Hope, while Vanille, Fang, and Sazh already exhausted from blocking Dark Thorn's attack. Cloud and Lightning on the other hand were still fighting back to back, watching each other from the next incoming attack. Seeing Sora ran toward them, Cloud could tell that he already finished the first Dark Thorn.
"Took you long enough." Cloud said in his calm voice, while Sora readied his battle stance again.
"Yeah, as they said, heroes always arrive late." Sora playfully replied, while Lightning who saw him began to think his similarity with Snow, 'Humph, at least he's not as stupid as him. Now where is that thing?'
As they looked around to find the Dark Thorn, suddenly the heartless reappeared in front of Lightning, catching her by surprise and sending her fly with its uppercut claw attack, Cloud who just realized what happened ran to catch her from falling.
"Sora, you take care of it! I'll catch her." Cloud said as he ran toward the falling point before Lightning who was unconscious from the last attack fell to the ground.
"Got it!" 'Great! Me and this thing again, alone.' Sora mentally grumbled as he faced again the second Dark Thorn before him, suddenly he remembered the new summon charm that Merlin gave to him, it was a good time to use it, seeing Sora a bit exhausted too from the first fight.
"Give me strength!" As Sora held his summon charm in light, the sky suddenly covered in dark clouds. Sora then pointed his Keyblade to the sky and shoot a beam of light that created magical circles. From the magical circles a gigantic shape of dragon could be seen descended to the ground, Fang's eyes widened, only her eidolon 'Bahamut' that could make the entrance like that.
'Impossible! Another Bahamut?! Just who the hell is this kid?! He claimed not to be l'Cie, but he can use magic and summon an Eidolon?' Fang thought as the dragon being finally landed near Sora. The others with exception of Hope, Snow, Cloud, and Lightning could clearly see what the dragon was like. It was gigantic dark purple colored humanoid dragon with yellow claws and body chest. The wings were segmented with red color adorning the bottom, while purple color adorning the base. The dragon was also looked like it wore an armor instead having scales for its skin. From its back there was a large circle floating behind it like an angel halo albeit larger and not placed above its head. It was Bahamut, the Conqueror of the skies that also known as the Dragon King, the Hallowed Father, the First Sire.
"Whoa… so this is Bahamut?" Sora said, amazed with his new summon that Merlin gave to him, suddenly Sora snapped away from his imaginary thoughts and ordered the Bahamut to attack the Dark Thorn.
"Let's do this together!" Sora commanded as the Bahamut began to stand with four legs and opened its mouth, creating an energy surge to perform its ultimate attack Mega Flare breath. The energy ball grew larger as the Bahamut pointed its head toward the Dark Thorn that began to charge at Sora, however before the heartless could even lay a hand to the Keybearer, a giant beam shot blasted through it, dissolving it without leaving any trace of darkness.
(End of Desire for All That Is Lost.)
"Whoa… so powerful, I never seen summon like that before." Sora said as the Bahamut turned back into the summon charm. As Sora pocketed his summon charm, he ran to the others to see Hope and Snow's conditions. As he arrived, Hope was the first one who opened his eyes.
"Owww… my head." Hope groaned as he rubbed his head before Snow finally woke up too.
"Ouch… what a punch it was, even sis never punched me like that. Hey, so… what have I missed?" Snow asked, making the others laughed to him for having no idea what they just fought before.
"Nah, no fair, you guys had all the fun while I was sleeping huh?"
"Yeah, a fun that put me into sleep too, Snow." Hope snapped him playfully, making all of them laughed together until finally they realized something.
"Wait! Where's Lightning?" Hope asked.
"Yeah, and where is that spiky too? Last time he was with Sunshine when we fought that black thing." Fang added.
As they looked around to find them, finally Sazh noticed that there was someone walked towards them. It was Cloud, carrying Lightning who was still unconscious with bridal style. "Hey looks like we have found our grumpies." Sazh said while pointing his finger toward the two. Fang and Vanille couldn't help but giggle seeing how Cloud carried Lightning with his arms.
"(Whistle) I never thought that sis finally found her own hero. Just wait till I tell Serah about this." Snow playfully commented at the sight.
"Well, I guess everybody has their own destined couples, huh?" Fang added before he looked back to Sora, "Anyway I have many questions for you after this, ya lil' spiky."
O_o Fang wasn't too happy that her Eidolon shared the same name as Sora's new summon I guess. And for your info, I used the Bahamut from the Final Fantasy X (its the coolest Bahamut ever, even more than Fang's Bahamut for me). Didn't expect the interrupted fight? Well let's say it was a surprise, I haven't put any fight with heartless too anyway.