In her dreams…
Elisa stood in the middle of street, confused. It was dark and not a single soul in sight. The wind was blowing slowly through her hair. At first, she was confused as to how she got here. 'What's going on? How did I get here? The last thing I remember was being at the clock tower and now…' Elisa looked around, hoping for any signs of life. She then noticed that she was holding a keyblade in her hand. The same one she held not too long ago. 'I must be inside my dream. I guess I passed out at the clock tower from the pain. Oh man everyone must be freaking out.' She thought. Elisa then sensed something coming from behind her, something dark.
"Hello there, princess." Elisa turned around and saw a man wearing a black hooded coat.
Elisa glared at the hooded man, "Who are you? Are you the one behind my nightmares? If so why?" She didn't know why but there was something about him that she didn't trust.
"My name is no concern of yours, though I must say I find your name to be quite fitting for you Elisa Maza. Beautiful yet strong, just as I picture you would be princess. As for your nightmares, I have no part of it. That is all your doing, it's your hearts' way of awaken the power inside you." The hooded man said.
'The power inside me. That's what the voice told me. He also called me a princess, but why? I need to get as much information from this creep as possible. "How do you know my name? And why did you call me a princess." She asked, still glaring at him.
He chuckled, "Oh I know many things about you Elisa and about your past. I know about your friends the gargoyles and your special connection to them, especially with Goliath. And as for calling you princess, well I'll just let the boy tell you that story. Beside you and he share something special. Something that not many people have. And it's because of that, you're the perfect candidate for us."
Elisa was getting very annoyed by the hooded man, "Look pal, why don't you drop the creepy, mysterious gag and just tell me what exactly is it that you want from me?"
"It's simple really; all we want from you Elisa is your precious heart. More importantly the light that resides within your heart." He said
Elisa was shocked to hear the hooded man said, "Why do you want my heart for?"
"Your heart is filled with purest of light princess. With your heart, we can finally complete Kingdom Hearts and with it we can truly finally exist."He began to walk towards Elisa. "Now, why don't be a good girl and let me take your heart."
"Forget it! There's no way you're taking my heart."Elisa took a defensive stance with keyblade at hand. She wasn't going down without a fight.
The hooded man stopped in his tracks, "I would be surprised if you let me take it so easily." He then snapped his fingers, suddenly dozens of weird white creatures appeared.
"What are they?" Elisa was still in her defensive stance. She wasn't going to run away this time.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" The hooded man then raised his hand, creating a dark portal, "I shall leave you, princess. If the nobodies don't get your heart, the heartless will." And with that he entered the portal and disappeared. Suddenly the small black shadows appeared next to the white creatures.
"Oh man, I'm surrounded. What do I do?! There's no way I can fight them all. But I have no choice." One of the creatures then ran towards to her. She took her keyblade and attacked the creature. She destroyed it in one swing. Then all of the creatures started to ran towards her. Though badly outnumber Elisa was able to hold her ground. But it didn't last one. When she destroyed one, another one just pop in their place. So enough one of the creatures tackled her to the ground.
"Get off me!" She yelled, try as she might she couldn't shake the creature off. Just as all hope seemed lost, Elisa heard a voice.
"Elisa, hang on!"Elisa looked up and saw a boy swinging his keyblade, suddenly the creature that was on top of her disappeared. She recognized the boy as the same one she'd seen in her nightmares.
The boy extended his hand out to her, "Are you alright Elisa."
Elisa gladly took his hand, "Yeah thanks to you."
The boy smiled at her, "No problem. Now let's deal with these nobodies and heartless."
She smiled back at him, "You got it. Just promise me you'll be careful. You're still a kid after all."
"Hey, I may be a kid but I know how to take care of myself. Don't worry though I'll be careful just for you princess." Her smiled grew a little bigger as they took their keyblade and began to attack the creature. One by one the heartless and nobodies were being destroyed. Elisa was impressed at how well she was able to fight them off with her keyblade. As though she and the blade were one. She was even more impressed at the boy. 'For a kid, he sure knows how to fight.' She thought. Together they were able to defeat the nobodies but the heartless were a different story.
Suddenly the heartless began to merge together to create a bigger version of itself. Then a dark portal appeared below her feet and began to suck her in.
"Ahhh!" She yelled as was being sucked into the darkness. The boy tried to pull her out but to no avail. The giant heartless then began to swing his arms around. Elisa was about to tell the boy to ran but the boy charged towards it.
"No, wait! Please run away! You'll get hurt Sor…" But Elisa's voice was cut off before she could say the boys' name. Elisa watched as the boy swung away, trying to defeat the heartless. But then it summoned smaller heartless to the ground. They ran towards Elisa but she swung her on keyblade defeating them one by one. Though she was holding her own, it still wasn't enough. She began to sink more and more deeper into the portal.
'There's no way he's going to defeat that monster alone. And I can't defeat the smaller ones while stuck in the dark portal. We need help… I need help. I need my friends…I need Goliath.' She thought. Then as if god heard her prayer, her friends came gliding by along with the boys' friends Donald and Goofy. Donald and Goofy and her friends attacked the smaller heartless while Sora and Goliath attacked the giant heartless. The clan was giving them their all. But it was shortly lived. Just like before one by one her friends were being engulfed by the heartless. And just before she called out to them tell them to leave but to no avail. Tears began to stream down her face, as her friends were disappearing one by one.
"No, this can't…this can't be happening again." She cried. She hated seeing her friends disappear right in front of her. She noticed that the only ones left were Goliath and the boy. Elisa watched as the love of her life and the boy fought with all their might. Not wanting to give up.
'I feel so useless. What kind of princess am I if I can't even use these powers I possess to help the ones I care for!' Elisa began to struggle against the portal, trying to escape from it. She looked up and saw Goliath get hit by one of the heartless punches.
"Goliath!" Elisa yelled. Goliath slowly got up and charged back at the heartless.
"Goliath, don't! He's too strong!" But Goliath didn't hear her. He kept on attacking the giant heartless. Few tears fell down Elisa's face.
"Goliath watch out! Please run away!" More tears began to fall. Goliath dodge more of the heartless punches, left and right but the heartless was able to hit him with a surprise attack. He fell and landed hard to the ground close to Elisa.
"Goliath, wake up!" But Goliath wasn't moving. He laid there still.
Tears flowed continuously, "No, no, no! Please wake up... I love you, Goliath and I don't want to lose you." Then something impossible happened, Elisa's body began to glow pure white light.
"Wha…what's happening?" Elisa didn't have time to process what was going on when she heard the boy yelp in pain. He got up slowly with the help of his keyblade but quickly fell back down on his knees. He didn't have the strength to go on. The giant heartless then raised his arm, high up in the air. He then brought his arm down with full force, where the boy was kneeing.
"Nooo….Sora!" It was the last thing she said before she was swallowed by the darkness.
"And that's about it. The next thing I knew I woke up here." Elisa blew a deep breath out and leaned her head on Goliaths' shoulder. Everyone was quiet after hearing what occurred in her dream.
"Sorry guys but I need some air." She said as she got up from the couch and walked outside to the ledge. Goliath was about to follow her but Angela put her talon on his shoulder.
"Wait father, I think Elisa wants some time alone and we should give her some time. She needs it to clear her head, you know." Goliath knew that Angela was right but still didn't like the idea of leaving her alone. So they just sat there, not knowing what to do next for Elisa. In the shadows, Riku got the information that he needed. He decided it was time for him to leave and share this information with King Mickey. He raised his arm up, created a portal and made his leave.