Phantom64: Well its off to Radiant Garden. Lets see what happens.

Kingdom Hearts III: Destiny of dreams

By Phantom64

Chapter 7: Nightmares

Sora and Co. Were amazed at the sight of Radiant Garden. It was no longer a city under construction. It was paradise. The desolate purple wasteland the was outside the city gates was replaced by lush, green grass with flowers and trees everywhere. There were skyscrapers and hover cars all over. The citadel was a sight to behold. It stood tall and proud above the Skyscrapers. Kari looked out the window in happiness. Here childhood home was back to the way it was.

The Highwind landed in the Gummi hangar where they were greeted by Yuffie..

"Hey there! Long time no see! Welcome to the new and improved Radiant Garden!" She announced cheerfully.

"Hey Yuffie!" Sora greeted his ninja friend.

"Well come on. Leon and the others are waiting at the citadel" They walked out to find a hover car parked outside.

"I'll drive!" Sora stopped as five black creatures floated in front of him.

"Heartless!" Kairi cried.

Sora had his doubts. All Heartless have yellow eyes. These creatures have red eyes. The creatures were completely black, almost transparent, With genie-like bottom halves, long arms with sharp claws for hands, horns shaped like Maleficent's, and blood red eyes. Although they had no mouth, they gave out a blood-curling scream and began to attack the heros.

Goofy and Yuffie threw their weapons at the creatures, only for them to pass right through them. Sora slashed at one, but it didn't even touch it.

"We can't touch them!" Sora gave out a yelp as one of the creatures cut his left arm with one of it's claws. "But they can touch us!"

Ryo pulled out his Dream Sword as one flew towards him and stitch. He slashed at it, and heard the creature give out a wail of pain and disappeared. The other creatures gasped at this. When they saw Ryo's sword they screamed and flew away in fear.

"What? How did you beat it?" Sora asked Ryo.

"I don't know." Ryo said as he looked at his sword.

"Well come on! Let's get out of here before more of those thing show up." Yuffie said.

They got into the hover car and flew off toward the citadel.

"Hey, what's that building?" Sora asked pointing at the massive white complex on the other side of the city.

"That would be Shining Shields HQ." Yuffie stated. "That's where all of the big shots reside while the boys in white go all over the place." They made it to the entrance to the citadel to be greeted by Aerith and a little white and blue robot that looked like a trash can.

"Hi there Aerith." Goofy greeted. "Uh what's that ya got there?" He asked pointing at the beeping robot.

"This is R2-D2. The Shining shields gave him to us. He helps Cid with all the technical stuff here."She explained. A hand came out of the little droid's compartment to shake Goofy and the others's hands.

Aerith led them to Merlin's room in the citadel. There they found Leon, Tifa, Cid, and Merlin.

"Well, well. About time you showed up. I've a lot of things that need done!" Cid proclaimed with a grin.

"Well, I'm glad to see that you all made it here ok. We heard from the King that Maleficent's back with a vengeance." Leon stated leaning against the wall.

"Yeah, and we just got jumped by these weird creatures that weren't Heartless or Nobodies. And the only thing that hurt them was my sword." Ryo stated, showing his sword to the group.

"Oh My! My! My! My! The Dream Sword!" Merlin stated shockingly. He ran up close to Ryo and inspected the sword. "Tell me my Boy! Were these creatures black, almost transparent, had red eyes, and had a blood-curling scream?" He asked.

"Yeah. How did you know?" Ryo asked.

"Oh Dear! This is bad! Very bad!" He mumbled as he dug though a mountain of paper.

"What is it now ya old coot?" Cid asked annoyed.

"Not now you monkey of an engineer! We have a crisis on our hands!" Yelled a flustered Merlin. "Aha! Here it is!" He pulled out an old book with pages sticking out.

"Lets see, lets see. Star Wars, Civil War, Yes! Keyblade War!" Merlin opened the book. To show to the others.

"A Keyblade war?" Sora asked.

"Oh yes! There is very little known about the Keyblade War. If it wasn't for this and other artifacts we found I would've thought it was a myth." Merlin stated. This is what it has to say on the creatures you fought.

Keylade War

Ch. 1: The Creatures of Nightmare

It is said that Nightmares are nothing but a trick of our subconscious when we are asleep. If there is something we are troubled about or afraid of we will see it in our dreams. But that is not the case. I have discovered that there are living, breathing monsters that are created and fed by our fears. They are creatures of nightmare, yes. I will call them The Nightmares. When a Nightmare is created there seems to be a certain trait that they have. Smaller Nightmares, which are all black with red eyes and horns, Seem to be the most common Nightmare. They float at night, looking for people outside, and horribly kill them.

The second Nightmare looks more human than smaller Nightmares. They look like the shadow of a person. They can take the shape of a person's menial fear. Snakes, Spiders, clowns, whatever a person is afraid of.

Then there was one Nightmare that stood above the rest. He seemed Human but yet on the inside, he was a horrifying monster. He could take the form of any fear. Even one that a person has kept secret all his life. Your self-doubt, a dead family member, any fear. He was known as Lord Fear. Lord Fear had sadistic plans to rule all worlds with the power of fear. The Keyblade Warriors united to fight Lord Fear and the Nightmares. It would be a war that would change the very universe. – Xehanort

"And then What?" Sora asked with much interest.

"That's as much as we know." Merlin replied. "It's as if someone tried to cover it up."

"How did Xehanort know all this?" Ryo asked.

"We don't know." Leon said.

"The only other thing we have is this tapestry." Tifa pointed at a tapestry hanging on the wall. It showed drawings of Warriors with Keyblades charging at the black creatures known as Nightmares. Sora looked at it with awe.

"Look!" Donald Squawked, pointing at one of the Keyblade warriors which had big ears and a tail.

"It's King Mickey!" Sora, Donald, Goofy, Ryo, Stitch, and Kairi yelled at the same time.

"Yes. He apparently was in the Keyblade War. He won't talk about it for some reason," Aerith stated.

"Yes but look at the person next to Mickey." Merlin said.

The group looked at the warrior next to the King and noticed that he didn't have a keyblade. He had a sword. "Hey! That looks like my sword!" Ryo stated.

"Because it is Ryo." Merlin said.

"Wha?" Ryo was confused.

"You see, that man next to Mickey is the Dream Warrior. He was chosen by the Dream Sword to fight against the Nightmares. He gave Mickey and the other Keybladers the power to fight the Nightmares." Merlin Said. "It is said that he said the words ' Let goods Dreams live on to fill the worlds with happiness' and everyone around him had the powers to fight the Nightmares.

"That's kinda corny." Ryo stated.

"Amen Brother!" Cid proclaimed.

"I don't what you think about it! Just raise your sword and say it!" Yelled a flustered Merlin.

"Okay!" Ryo raised his sword. "Let good dream live on to fill the worlds with happiness." Suddenly a blast of white light enveloped everything in blinding light.

"What the heck was that?" Cid asked when it was over.

"That means that everyone in the universe can fight the Nightmares now." Merlin explained.

"Everyone?" Yuffie asked.

"Yes. Even us."

"But what happened to the Nightmares after the Keyblade war? And why are they appearing now?" Goofy asked.

"That, Im afraid, you'll have to ask the King." Merlin said.

After catching up with the others, Sora, and the Gang were talking in the Garden.

"Great. First Heartless, then, Nobodies, now Nightmares." Ryo said.

"Creatures born from people's fears. This could be bad." Sora said.

"And this Lord Fear guy sounds as bad as the Organization." Donald added.

"You called?" Asked a voice.

"Ahhhh! More mysterious voices!" Yelled a paranoid Ryo.

"Were right behind you, idiot!" Said another voice.

They spun around as six cloaked figures and a white lion appeared before them.

"No way!" Sora yelled.

"Yes way." Mimicked one of them. They all began to laugh.

"The Organization!" Goofy yelped.

"In the flesh." Said another.

Sora brought out his keyblade and jumped in front of Kairi. "You cloaked freaks keep away from Kairi!" He yelled.

"Well isn't that sweet. The hero protecting the one he loves." Stated the one in the center with the gleaming yellow eyes.

"Is that Xemnas!" Donald Squawked.

"Hey bird brain! This isn't Organization XIII! This is Organization VII. Got it memorized?" Stated another who sounded familiar.

The name's Axel. Got it Memorized?

"Axel?" Sora and Kairi asked together.

"Well, You catch on fast." Axel released his hood to show his spiky red hair and aqua eyes.

"You should not look at us as your enemy Sora. But if you get in our or Travis McKnight's way, We will fight back." Stated the leader.

"The thief?" Ryo asked.

"You should focus your attention on Maleficent and her new second-in-command." He continued. "But be careful. Your enemies are closer than you think." And with that they all disappeared in clouds of darkness...all except one that is.

"And what do you want?" Donald asked the remaining Nobody.

"Nothing." She said slyly, walking closer to Sora.

"Wha-what do you want?" Sora asked with his keyblade still out.

"Why do insist on acting like were your enemy?" she asked circling around Sora. "Were the new Organization." She released her hood to show her long, violet hair, violet eyes, and violet lipstick.

"My name is Xilly. And what I want is you!" With that Xilly latched on to Sora and began to kiss him and made all sorts of noises.

"Hey! Get off of me!" Sora pushed her off. His face blushing madly and covered in violet lipstick.

"Oh, playing hard to get are we?" She asked seductively batting her eyelashes.

"You keep away from him you bimbo!" Kairi yelled, infuriated by the act she committed.

"What? Is it my fault that I'm attracted to this hunk of a hero? Is it my fault that I want to make out with him? Is it my fault that I want to strap on a french maid costume and 'lay some carpet with him,' if you know what I mean-Hey!"She stopped her sexual rant when she felt another organization member pull her by the hood.

"What the hell are you doing Xilly!" He yelled. "Are you trying to make us look like fools!"

"Too late for that." Ryo stated.

"Let go of me Zeltrax!" Xilly protested.

Zeltrax opened a portal of darkness and threw her in. "Get in there you brat!" He looked at the stunned heros. "I apologize for this." He said sincerely and walked into the dark portal.

Leon and the others had seen the entire thing. "Great. Now there's a new organization." Leon muttered.

"Ahh! Leon. How long have you all been their?" Sora asked.

"Long enough lover boy." Yuffie said giggling.

"Ah he, he,." Sora was blushing madly as he wiped the lipstick from his face.

Elsewhere...

"Uh, Lord Fear. I'm afraid that the grunt's failed in their mission to kill Sora and the Dream Warrior." Nemoy reported.

"Worthless creatures. One of their comrades fall and theyflee like cockroaches." Lord Fear's voice boomed. "If we had enough energy we could pit our real warriors against them."

"All in good time my Lord." Nemoy stated. "We just need to wait for Maleficent to open Kingdom Hearts. "

"Yes," Fear said with much venom in his voice. "And when that time comes, I will have my revenge on King Micky and the remaining keyblade warriors. Especially the Chasers."

"The Chasers!" Nemoy yelled. " Uh you know how powerful they are don't you?"

"Of course I do you fool!" Lord Fear yelled at his minion. "Their hearts may be as black as mine, but they were with Micky that day! And they will feel my wrath! I've waited15 years for this day to come and nobody, hero or villain will get in my way!"

End of Chapter

Phantom64: Looks like things are heating up! The Chasers will be appearing later on. Be sure to Read and Review!