And we return to the Disney worlds. New story so new worlds. The last one had 5 so I will try and get more in this time. If you would like to see your favourite world in my story or any Disney film brought to life, please review. For the first time this story (although I should have done it the first chapter), I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy or any Disney films.

Wandering the Darkness

Chapter 4

Wooded Wonders

Welcome to Dwarf Woodlands

"Sora!" Kairi had found a signal on the radar. Marcus had flown his group over to Neverland to discover more of the world.

"Our new adventure begins today," said Riku. The radar came up with the name, 'Dwarf Woodlands' and the world had appeared. It looked like a wide open meadow surrounded by flowers. On one side was a cottage with a thatched roof. Next to it seemed to be some sort of mine. On the other side was a forest. It was dark and foreboding. It seemed like dark figures could live there.

"Ok ready to disembark," said Sora at the controls. He pushed the control stick down to send it in to land. They hit the ground with a light thud. The door opened and the three of them jumped out onto the soft earth.

"So where do we start looking?" asked Riku.

"Well there were three main areas," said Kairi. "Why don't we split up and check them out?"

"Yeah ok," said Sora. "I'll go check out the mine."

"I'll search the forest," said Riku. "That leaves you, Kairi, with the cottage area."

"Ok I'll see you later then," she replied. She gave Sora a quick peck on the cheek and ran off into the trees.

"Man your real lucky to gave a girl like her," said Riku.

"Ain't I though," Sora laughed. "Aww you'll find someone. Come on lets go to our assigned areas." Sora ran off towards the mountains while Riku just smiled and walked to the thickest woods.

Kairi's Story

Kairi wandered through the wide spread trees until she found a lonely path. Along the path were small mounds of grass covered with colourful flowers. Kairi knelt down on one of the mounds and picked a white flower. She breathed in its scent and smiled.

"Just like home," she said and placed the flower in her hair.

"Oh!" said a voice. Kairi jumped up and unleashed her weapon but immediately loosed her grip. The voice came from a young girl of about Kairi's age. She wore a dark blue and yellow dress. From the waist down it was yellow and stopped at the top of the ankle. From the waist up, it was blue with large shoulders which had red droplet shapes on them. She wore a red cape with a white collar. Her complexion was very pale which made her dark hair seem even darker. In her hair were a red headband and a crown of pansies which seemed to be freshly picked.

"Im sorry. I didn't know anyone else came out to these parts of the woods," she said.

"Oh no I'm new around these parts," Kairi replied. She stuck out her hand for a handshake. "My name is Kairi."

"It's a pleasure to meet you Kairi. My name is Snow White," said the girl who then took Kairi's hand and lightly shook it. Kairi was surprised by how light her hand shake was.

"So what are you doing out here?" Kairi asked.

"Oh I'm just here to pick flowers," smiled Snow White. "It's ever so peaceful out here. It's a shame most people don't know about it."

"Well why don't I accompany you?" Kairi asked. "You don't want to be lonely now do you?"

"Ok Kairi. Actually I wanted to go into those woods over there." Snow White pointed towards the thicket of trees. "I've never been brave enough to go in. Maybe you would like to accompany me in there?"

"I would love to." Kairi led the way into the woods while Snow White followed.

10 minutes in and Snow White started to panic.

"It's ever so dark in here," she whimpered. "I think we should turn back."

"Come on now, we're nearly there," said Kairi. "I can see a clearing out in the distance. We just have to reach…" Kairi was cut short by a mist. A dark mist. One which seemed unnatural to this world. "Snow White, stay behind me!" Kairi drew her Springs Despair and held it up. The dark mist just swayed in the mist. It then suddenly attacked Kairi. Snow White screamed but Kairi managed to swat it away. It flew away but then swerved round and attacked again. As it reached Kairi, it disappeared. Kairi swung anyway but felt no form of contact. Snow White screamed once more and Kairi turned round. The dark mist had gone through Kairi and into Snow White. A dark aura had appeared around her. Her eyes had gone from a light brown to a menacing red. Her rouged lips had turned black as she bared an evil grin. The flowers in her hair had changed too. They had died and had curled up into thorns. Snow White had turned into a dark princess.

"Whoa how did that happen?" Kairi exclaimed. "She had a certain light about her."

"Unless the darkness was manufactured." Kairi raised her Keyblade as Pronex stepped through a dark portal next to the dark princess. "We have perfected the manufacturing of darkness to take over all hearts. This darkness doesn't empower darkness already there. It wouldn't have worked on this fair maiden if it did. This darkness absorbs the light inside a heart and renders it helpless. Not even the strongest of hearts can resist the new darkness." He snapped his fingers and he disappeared. A dark blast erupted from Snow White and it shrouded her. When it dissipated, her blue and yellow dress had transformed into a large, black and red ball gown. She raised her hand and a ball of darkness shot at Kairi who only just managed to deflect it. The deflected orb shot into the air and exploded. Dark thorns erupted from the core and surrounded the two of them. Kairi was going to run but was forced to fight. She turned her blade on the Dark Princess and sprinted at her. She swung back and clenched her eyes shut. She swung forward only to her a slap against skin. Kairi opened her eyes to see the Dark Princess holding onto the blade. She pulled it from Kairi's grip and sealed it in darkness. The Dark Princess then spoke in a raspy voice.

"Let's fight properly, Light versus Dark." She created a large dark Firaga and fired it at Kairi. Kairi however didn't know how to summon light with her bare hands and was forced to just dodge the attack. She rolled forward and the Firaga blasted behind her. The blast sent her forwards and made her land on top of the Dark Princess. Her hand touched the dark skin of her once pale face. Once they made contact, Kairi's natural light burned away the darkness. They both screamed in pain and pulled away from each other. Upon the Dark princesses face was a hand print. Kairi's hand print. Her hand print had removed the darkness in that one place. Snow Whites pale skin could now be seen. Kairi looked at her hand and knew what needed to be done.

Kairi ran full pelt at the Dark princess. She retaliated by shooting dark spirals at her. Kairi used a reversal around it and leapt onto the Dark Princess into a bear hug. The darkness burned away from under Kairi's arms as they both screamed in pain. Kairi couldn't hold on any longer and leapt off of her. The front of the Dark Princesses had returned to Snow Whites blue dress. Kairi ran at the Dark Princess once more and rugby tackled her to the ground removing the darkness from her legs. The Dark Princess placed her hands on Kairi's shoulders and used a dark blast. Kairi was blown away from the Dark Princess and she hit a tree. Snow White was starting to come back but still had bits of darkness on her back and her face. Kairi regained herself and ran at the Dark Princess once more. The Dark Princess however had other plans and punched the ground releasing a dark pulse. The surrounding area became pitch black. Large white flowers surrounded Kairi in a circle with the Dark Princess on the outside. She punched the back of one the flowers and it shot out hundreds of petals which then attacked Kairi. Kairi ran around in circles ducking and dodging out of the attacks aim. As the phase progressed, the flowers slowly became darker and darker and the attack getting faster and faster. Eventually they became as black as night with the petals going so fast it was hard to make out what was going on. One of the giant black flowers then span on spot and knocked out the others in a domino effect. The last one shot its attack at the Dark Princess knocking her down. Kairi ran over to her and picked her up by the back of her dress relieving of some of the darkness. Kairi then pushed her hands onto the sides of the Dark Princesses head and relieved her of the artificial darkness. Snow White was once again in her original form. She then fell in a heap on the ground.

The thorns that created the field dissolved revealing Pronex behind them clapping.

"Very good Kairi," he said. "I see you haven't lost your touch. I'm sure the others are will do just as well in their own tests right as we speak."

"You leave Sora and Riku alone!" Kairi yelled.

"Oh if only it were that easy." With that, Pronex snapped his fingers and released Kairi's weapon and disappeared. Kairi ran towards Snow White and scooped up her Springs Despair on the way. She sheathed the weapon in a beam of light and dropped to Snow Whites side. She lay in place, seemingly unconscious. Kairi lifted Snow White onto her back and carried her off to the light that they had seen before.

Once they had reached the light, Kairi saw a clearing. Within this clearing lay a cottage surrounded by a picket fence. Kairi hoisted Snow White further up her back and walked over to the door. She peered in through the window to see any signs of life. Kairi couldn't see properly so pushed up against the door. Without any caution, it opened up and Kairi fell through. She just managed to regain herself with Snow White. Kairi placed her onto a small sofa that lay just underneath a small window. After seeing the size of these things, Kairi began to realise everything else was smaller. Even the top of the open staircase was easily reachable from the floor. Kairi searched the cupboards to try and find some smelling salts to try and bring Snow White back round. When she failed to do so, she grabbed a couple of cushions and placed then under Snow Whites back.

"There you are," she murmured. "Hmm." Kairi stood up and looked round the house. "It looks a bit dirty in here. Well I guess it's the least we could for the owner." Kairi then went under the stairs and pulled out a broom.

An hour had passed and Kairi was still going at the cleaning. Snow White had reawakened but was still weak from the fight.

"I'm feeling much better Kairi," she said. "I can help you if you want."

"No, no it's alright," Kairi persisted. "You need to rest. I don't know if that darkness has any side effects so it's just best it you stay…" Kairi stopped in mid sentence. She heard noises and it seems she wasn't the only one to hear it. Snow White looked round through the window.

"Oh dear someone's coming," she cried and made her way over to Kairi.

"…I'm sure I can help with your problem." Sora came through the door followed by a small man no higher than Sora's waist. Sora stopped in his tracks and his eyes met Kairi's.

"Who's this?" yelled the small man.

"Doc, this is Kairi," Sora said. "Kairi, this is my friend Doc."

"Oh I'm sorry for the intrusion," Kairi explained. "You see my friend became feint and needed a place to rest. Oh by the way, this is Snow White."

"Snow White eh," said another small man who barged his way through Sora and Doc.

"Grumpy, don't be so rude," yelled Doc.

"What. I was just about to say it's an interesting name," Grumpy said.

"Yes but it was rude the way you said it," Doc complained.

"You two please stop fighting," said Snow White.

"So what had exactly happened to Snow White?" Sora asked.

"Umm I'd better tell you later," Kairi said. "And that problem you mentioned?"

"Oh it's just something that happened in the mines," Sora said.

"Yeah you and that guy collapsed the whole thing," Grumpy yelled.

"For the last time I didn't do it! Neither did he. It was the heartless," Sora yelled.

"Sora I think we'd better leave," Kairi said. "I have a feeling you didn't get on well with Grumpy before."

"Yeah sure," said Sora. "See you another time Doc, Grumpy, Bashful, Happy, Sleepy, Dopey and Sneezy."

"See you Sora," they all said. Kairi looked behind Sora and saw five other small men each with different clothing and stature but each as tall as the other.

"Oh my so many of you," said Snow White. "I think I'm gonna stay here and help these men. It's the least I could do for entering their house without their permission."

"Oh and what makes you think we're gonna let you stay," Grumpy complained.

"Oh don't be that way. Of course you can stay dear," Doc smiled.

"Ok then we'll see you later then," Sora said.

Sora walked out of the door with Kairi behind him. She almost immediately interrogated Sora straight away.

"Whats this about the mine collapsing?" she said looking him up and down. "And what happened to your clothes?"

"Well I was trying to find the dwarfs because they got scared and went into hiding," Sora started. "Mawlix appeared before I could find Grumpy and he sent an army of Heartless to attack the walls. In the end I was forced to just find Grumpy and evacuate." Kairi sensed he was lying. "So what happened to you?"

"Pronex happened," Kairi said. "He attacked us in the forest and somehow possessed Snow White with this artificial darkness. He says it can penetrate even the lightest of hearts. Apparently what it does is transforms the light rather than expanding the darkness already there. This way they can attack even the purest of hearts."

"I'm guessing that's a bad thing."

"Just a bit."

BOOM. The cottage behind them burst into flames. The dwarfs and Snow White ran out screaming. Out came Pronex smiling, he then disappeared in a dark portal. Another bang and an explosion happened behind them. In the distance was a large firework-like explosion.

"Sora you look after Snow White and the dwarfs. I'm gonna go and help Riku," Kairi yelled.

"Ok go and do that," Sora said as he drew his keyblade. Kairi drew her Springs Despair and ran into the forest. The cool breeze rushing on her face. After a few minutes she emerged out of the other side to see even more firework explosions. As she drew closer to the dark forest, the explosions became louder. Eventually Kairi reached the other side and saw a towering castle surrounded by darkness. The explosions seemed to be coming from behind the high wall. Kairi climbed through a broken section of wall to see Riku fighting a woman. Kairi shot a ball of light at the woman who was then knocked to one side. Riku looked round to see Kairi running towards him.

"Riku!" she yelled

"Kairi? Where's Sora?" he asked.

"Sora's helping some friends of ours. Who's that woman," Kairi replied.

"I am no ordinary woman you naïve girl," said the woman who then regained herself. "Oh this one has a strong heart. I wonder how strong it'll become once I defeat you too."

To Be Continued.