Hello! Chapter 10, my longest, best (and darkest) chapter yet! Hope you enjoy...

BelieverofManyThings: I'm sorry, I can't answer those questions... Terra is alive and I will bring in the Xehanort of this world soon (he will be very different than the normal one.)

TheOtherGuest: I can say Kairi will not die... yet.

Chapter 10: Strange Bedfellows

Sora laid on the ground, screaming in pain, his left shoulder bleeding heavily, his vision starting to blur, he looked up to see Leon pointing his gunblade at Kairi. "No, no!"

A few moments ago

"So, Kairi, you are a resident of Destiny Islands, correct?"

"Yeah, so what?"

"So, we recently have declared war on them, and you are now under arrest for vandalizing this alley."

"No! You- you can't, I have rights..."

Leon pointed his gunblade up, a cruel smile on his face, "I'm afraid, you don't at least not anymore."

Sora ran up swinging his fists, "Kairi! Run! Now!"

Leon batted Sora away, Sora fell and jumped up grasping a stick on the ground and slamming it into Leon's forehead. Leon made a yelp of pain before swinging his gunblade around and shooting Sora.

Now

Sora got up, his left arm hanging limp at his side, losing control, Sora lifted up his right arm and gripped his hand, a Keyblade forming in his grip, at the chain sat Kairi's charm, through his mind echoed its name, "Oathkeeper, oathkeeper..." Sora walked forward, with great pain and swung his blade at Leon, ready to defend his friend.

Roxas walked into the sandlot, out of the corner of his eye he a new poster up, depicting Aqua, with a twelve million munny reward... "Good thing she has that wig, where is she anyway?" Roxas walked forward to where the committee was standing and said, "Hey guys!"

Seifer spoke with a voice chillingly cold, "Hey. So, Roxas is it? You really think you can hide from us, Ventus?" Seifer lifted a wanted poster depicting Ventus and continued, "You, a Keyblade Wielder, hated by all the land come into MY town? Why?"

Ventus summoned his Keyblade ready to fight his way out when Seifer did the unexpected, he laughed, "Good, had to be sure we weren't wasting our time... I assume Aqua or Xion is the one they really want correct? Now, where is she?"

"I don't- I don't know... She might be at the school... No it's spring break... Ummm, shopping?"

Seifer laughed more, "You don't know! This is hysterical! Okay, Vivi, Fuu search the woods, Rai look through the stores, 'Roxas' you and I will search near the sta-"

A loud bang resonated through the sandlot; they all looked around trying to find the source, with a single nod Seifer motioned for them to go to the back alley. They took off running.

Aqua sat near the door to the truck deciding whether to open it. After much thought, she did, moving it forward quickly and feeling a clunk as she hit with something, getting out she saw the red headed man on the ground, out cold but still alive. Aqua took off her wig and walked into town, ready to search for Terra, but not ready for what waited ahead.

A blast of cold floated by Braig's ear, connecting with a possessed civilian, freezing him or her on impact, another group of possessed civilians followed, with ten replacing every one that froze. Maleficent's troops were down to the last couple dozen, and Braig's troops were falling too, some started becoming possessed, trying to freeze their own comrades. Even Braig, felt the nagging of Jafar at the corner of his mind, shaking it off by focusing on the constant pain from his missing eye.

Jafar moved around blind in a field of darkness darker than the darkest night, gripping his hold on the lamp, one wish left, already using his second for more magic in his attempt to kill his old friend, Maleficent. He heard the familiar laughter of Maleficent, and sent a ball of fire in that direction, only to hear the annoying laugh on the opposite side, sending another ball of flame into the dark oblivion, Jafar heard laughter directly behind him. Maleficent giggled and said with one of the most mocking voices she could, "You fool! You can't even hit somebody behind you! How do you expect to overthrow Hollow Bastion... Even the genie is stronger than you! And he lives in a lamp! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Jafar stood stunned, Maleficent's words hurt more than any physical attack could. Until he got a thought, "Genie!" he yelled, "Make me into an all powerful genie!"

"Uhh, you got it boss!"

Aqua looked above and saw the palace shatter as a mass of red smoke flew up and formed into a genie, an angry genie, with fists flying out onto the town.

Maleficent awoke, her head throbbing, her back hurting from being slammed into a warehouse, beside her broken pots and crates littered the area. She looked up to see a massive fist fly down directly at her. Mustering all the magic she could, her heart weakened into the darkness. When Jafar's fist rose, Maleficent was clutching her head in pain. Suddenly her feat stretched out black claws extending forward, her neck grew, her nose and mouth moved forward, green flames flying out from her mouth as she knelt over using her rapidly extending arms to brace her as she grew to a massive height, and her new tail flew backwards as her cloak became a thick skin. She looked out at Jafar, anger in her eyes and she breathed out a ball of green flame, for the dragon, Maleficent had been born.

Aladdin, grasped his head, as everybody else did, free of Jafar's influence only to see a giant foot head his way, Aladdin rolled at the last second, others were not so lucky. The foot belonged to a dragon now in the midst of a fight with a red genie. A gold object flew towards him, likely from the wreckage of the now destroyed palace in the distance. The fragment landed beside Aladdin, revealing a golden lamp, Aladdin picked it up and rubbed it. A familiar voice spoke, "You know, Jafar you only get three- oh wait- hey Al, how you doing?"

"I'm fine genie. I need your help."

Aqua ran through the streets, nobody even noticing her, most people were running away, while Braig's forces were running to the battle, even though they had no idea what to do. She could hear Braig shouting, "Fire at the red one, we'll deal with the dragon later!"

"So genie, what is that thing?" Aladdin asked.

"The dragon I have no idea. The genie is Jafar that was his wish; I don't know why Al, so what if he has amazing cosmic powers, he still has that incredibly cramped living space..."

"That's it!"

"Oh I see what you want, don't do it, being a genie is not worth it, I'd give anything to be free of this lamp... but only you could do that."

"What? No, get his lamp genie, that's my second wish!"

"Oh! Okay."

Jafar swung his fist at the dragon, while using his other arm to grasp a building; he picked it up and threw it at the dragon, mildly wounding the dark creature. Suddenly he felt pain as a hail of bullets and ice rained at his body, to his left he saw a group of H. B. riot police attacking, with a fist he slammed at them before his whole body convulsed, as he felt all his power draining, he looked at the source to find, that street rat, that easily manipulated common theif, holding his lamp, the boy said, "Jafar, back to your lamp!"

"Noooo! No, it can't end this way, nooooo!"

Aqua saw the events occurring, in shock she saw the red genie collapse into a small lamp, beside her a couple of H. B. riot guards approached and raised their rifles, "Freeze Keyblader!"

"Funny, I was going to say the same thing, freeze." Aqua laughed a little, as a pair of blizzard spells froze the two guards. Then she felt, sad, sad that she had to resort to violence against the innocent, against those trying to do good...

Braig fired more shots, this time at the dragon, she was on a rampage, all semblance of control lost as she attacked the city. A ball of green flame fired at Braig, he teleported out of the way just in time as the green flame struck a fruit cart, setting it ablaze, soon nearby carts sparked, a wildfire spread throughout the city, riot police struggled to stop it with their rifles.

Aqua jumped up over a wall of garbage to a piece of scaffolding, the hot sun setting at her back, she ran tirelessly to the dragon dodging half a dozen balls of green fire, each setting part of the town ablaze, another ball formed in the dragon's mouth. Aqua summoned her strength and summoned the most powerful spell she could, "Bizzerza!" The ball of green flame froze in the dragon's mouth the dragon tried to cough or sneeze it out, in any other situation, it would have been hysterical, but not now, now, it was an advantage.

Braig saw the frozen ball of flame and teleported closer and fired. The bullet traveled upwards and hit the frozen mass, the burst of flame exploded and the green flame traveled upwards engulfing the dragon Maleficent. Braig walked closer to a smaller charred area and found Maleficent crouched on the ground clutching her head in pain. Beside Braig a woman with familiar blue hair stood, she spoke, "So, Maleficent, are you better now?"

When she spoke, her voice was trickled with remorse and saturated with regret, "Yes, I don't know what came over me... the darkness I don't think I can control it, maybe, maybe I was wrong..."

Braig spoke, "Well Maleficent I'm glad for your help, but I need to arrest you, sorry."

"I understand, Braig, take me in."

The woman spoke, "I guess I don't need to be here anymore, I'll uh- go."

Maleficent spoke, "Wait Aqua, there is something you must know."

Braig had a sudden realization, "Aqua! You, I need to take you in too!" he pointed his crossbows up.

Aqua held up her hands, "Fine, at least wait for Maleficent to talk."

Maleficent spoke, "You will find Terra in over three months, the Keyblade working for darkness will lead you to his shallow light, but first a sacrifice will be made... somebody will die soon..."

Braig and Aqua spoke in unison, "Who?"

"I do not know..."

The sultan approached his daughter in tow and Aladdin beside them, the sultan spoke, "I can't believe what Jafar did, I just can't believe it... I'm sor- ugh." he collapsed down clutching his chest, a wound on his back. Somebody had shot him... "Father no, do something!"

Aqua tried a cure spell, Braig a potion, Aladdin grabbed the genie's lamp (the good one) and rubbed it yelling, "Genie save him!" the genie fired a spell and it hit but did not work, it was tragically too late. Rain fell upon the city, putting out the fires and matching the tears of those present...

Aqua used that opportunity to escape, to be saved from prison as she ran through the desert she thought, "After all this barely a lead... Where are you Terra?"

Riku walked forward through the sand of the island, a new sub in would arrive in minutes, with a passenger on board, on the distance Riku saw a small ship, maybe a transport, maybe with Kairi on board... Out of the corner of his ear Riku heard a high-pitched whine, as it grew louder Riku grasped his ears as an explosion rocked the island. Riku ran and started for the ocean where he luckily found the sub waiting. Nearby Tidus and Selphie were running they all ran inside, the pilot spoke, "I'm Donald, Master Yen Sid sent me, nice to meet you, let's run!"

Three months later

A boy walked through Radiant Garden, a black hood over his head, a cloak covering his body and gloves over his hands, he walked to the castle, an event was happening, something important. The boy marched through the city where the new king's voice radiated through the city, "Today, we have finally triumphed over the traitors! Those few remaining are running! And best of all a member of the Keyblade has joined the cloak let us all welcome our new friend!" The boy walked forward and onto a stage, to see a crowd cheering, he lifted up his arm and summoned his Keyblade. The crowd cheered as tears strolled down the boy's face.

So, I'm sorry for those of you who were big fans of the Sultan... I couldn't think of a good way to keep him after all this. I hope you liked this chapter. Also feel free to guess who the "boy" is, some possibilites are: Sora, Ventus, and Riku (and no he is not an OC).