Author's note: To make up for the delay of the last chapter, I've decided to post this one much earlier than expected, and there's a surprise for you guys too.
Let's continue on. I only own my ocs, nothing else.
Chapter nine: Oasis of Ahm Shere Dangers.
Very next morning, as soon as Izzy's dirigible landed, those who are Sailor Scouts transformed into Sailor Scouts, and Sailor Moon and everyone else except for Izzy and Jonathan(who were probably rebegan their fight for the stupid gold stick), and quickly split up into groups to find Xehanort's group and hopes to find Luna and Meowth. Sailor Moon, Sora, Riku, Mickey, Cloud, Rick, Ardeth and Lea raced towards the train, weapons all ready, while the others searched around the temple for some clues.
Ardeth, Riku, Lea and Mickey searched in the passengers cart, while Sailor Moon, Sora, Cloud and Rick noticed the opened side door of the cargo hold and looked in there, only to find the room empty, with the exception of the five-day hour-glass which was still going. Just as Sailor Moon was about to step inside to investigate, she stopped as she heard Ardeth's voice that made her heart sink.
"They're gone! We've lost them!" Ardeth called out.
Sailor Moon and Sora both glanced at each other, while Rick clinched his hand, and Cloud hissed, "Damn!"
Meanwhile, Tiffenie-who transformed into Sailor Magic-Dust, her fuku and ect almost matching her hair-, was with Sailor Passionate and Evy as the trio searched around for some clues, while the others investigated to see any signs of foot prints, or if Ash could use his Dimensional Scream to see where they are headed next. Kairi soon joined Evy and her group and the four of them eventually found themselves in a room, and...
Sailor Magic-Dust noticed something on a statue that made her gasp and scream out, "Sailor Moon!" as she, Evy, Sailor Passionate and Kairi raced over and took notice of a familiar smaller, chained silver bracelet with a cresent moon Luna would normally wear on her right arm. Sailor Moon and her group arrived in no time and noticed what Magic-Dust was holding in her hand.
"Luna left her good-luck charm." said Sailor Magic-Dust.
"And she made us a little sand castle too." Sailor Passionate added as she noticed a small sand castle on the ground, and others looked to get a closer look.
Evy scanned it and recongised it instantly, "It's the Temple of Philae. They've gone to Philae."
"Way to go, Luna." Sora grinned.
"We'd better get goin'!" Mickey told them.
Sailor Moon and the others nodded, and she declared, "C'mon!" and she and the others raced back to the dirigible and told the rest of the team investigating that they found a clue to Luna's next destination, and soon everyone climbed back on board and made their way towards their next destination to try and catch up as fast as possible. Jessie and James both made comments that it was Meowth's idea, but Sailor Ultra dismissed it.
"No way, he wouldn't know about the Temple of Philae." She said.
"Why not?" Jessie asked.
Mairin smiled and said, "Because she's a lot more smarter than she looks, that's why." with Chespie nodding in agreement. Meilin grinned and Alain just smiled.
"Smart kid." Alain admitted.
Lea stretched as they took off and said, "Alright. Next stop, Philae!"
Landing on the Temple Island of Philae, the Sailor Team and their allies once again searched through the temple and found Luna's jacket next, which covered another stand castle, this time it looked like the mountain faces similiar to the mountain face of the former Presidents of United States of America.
"Why does that look like heads?" Donald asked, skeptically at the sand castle.
Yuffie looked at it and admitted, "It kinda looks like the Da Chao mountain in Wutai to me."
"Evy, what is it?" Sailor Mars asked.
"That's the Temple at Abu Simbel." was the older woman's reply.
"Abu Simb-what?" Lea asked, blinking and feeling dumbfounded. "Spell it?"
While the others talked, Ardeth placed another message on Horus's leg and set the bird flying to send the message to the Medjai leaders.
While the Sailor Team were following the trail, Xehanort, Imhotep and their group crossed the desert via camel, and Luna and Meowth's camel had it's head all tied up to make sure they couldn't escape. Not that Luna or Meowth had any experience on camels before, so they didn't even borther, but still, they thought that was just being too cruel to the animal.
On the other hand, Xehanort and Xigbar would both gladly ditch their camels, since Xehanort's back was killing him due to his age and that he was still kinda getting used to being back in his old true body again. Xigbar wiggled on his seat of his camel and grunted in sheer annoyance, not to mention fanning himself with a paper-hand-made fan which was helping matters. It's even worse when he has black hair and not a hat.
See, for some people who have long, black hair, it's a real killer in very hot and sunny days. It somehow helps the sun to heat up the body even more. And on another note-don't wear black on a hot sunny day.
"*Grr*, Man." Xigbar grumbled. "I hate camels. They're uncomfortable, they stink, they bite, and they spit. Completely disgusting things. And my butt has gone to sleep for the tenth time this week and I feel like something got stuck up there too."
"We really didn't need to know that." Saix sighed in sheer annoyance. The sooner they got to Ahm Shere, the better. Xigbar's constant complaints was really giving him a headache.
He then heard a falcon and looked up, noticing one in the sky, and frowned. There was something about that bird that he sensed, but couldn't figure out why yet.
Horus returned to the Medjai who were following the Sailor Team's trail via Ardeth sending them messages. They would then move their force to where they need to be, in case the Sailor Team fail to prevent the army of Anubis to awaken.
However, they were not the only ones, as six figures were also following them.
Finally, Serena and her friends thought they were getting closer and closer, considering how they were now in a canyon, with a blue river down below them.
"That's a very blue nile down there." Darien thought.
"I'm pretty sure we're out of Egypt by now." Lita agreed as she and the others looked around the rock-walls all around them.
"In Ancient times, all of this still belonged to the upper kingdom." Evy told the group. "The oasis must be around here somewhere."
Rick nodded, "Don't worry, we'll find her and Meowth. Luna's a smart kid."
"He's right," Mickey agreed, "I'm sure they'll leave us another clue."
Raye in the meantime, was using her abilities to sense where their enemies are, with her eyes closed, and she told the group, "I can feel them. They're very close by."
"How can she sense them?" Mairin couldn't help but ask.
"Simple, half-pint." Lea chuckled, "Not even the Organization coats are immune to Raye's psychic abilities. Got it memorized?"
"Do you think Meowth is going to be alright?" James asked, worriedly.
Jessie sighed and said, "Yeah, but I'm not so sure about those idiots who woke up that Mummy-boy." refering to Hafez and his group who started this whole thing in the first place back in the Houen region.
Meanwhile, back on the ground, Xehanort and his group took a break near the river as they were very close to the Oasis now. However, the elder man caught something in the air above and looked up, frowning deeply. A...boat carried by a balloon? But the people inside said 'boat' made his frown deepen. Familiar figures and auras of light which he longed to fade into darkness, to prove that his theory is right.
"It's the dwellers of Light." Xehanort muttered. And he knew how they followed them.
Luna and Meowth in the meantime, where both busy on the last clue they knew that their friends and Luna's sister would find. However, Lock-Nah's foot stomped onto the last remaining sand castle out of nowhere, causing Luna and Meowth to jump in fright.
"Surprise to see you!" Lock-Nah snapped in sheer anger, grabbing Luna and shook her violently, as he was furious that she had lead her friends here. "Leaving bread crumbs, huh? Huh!?"
Meowth shook in fear at this, unable to do anything.
"Lock-Nah." came Imhotep's voice, "Put the girl down."
Lock-Nah did as he was told, and he, Luna and Meowth, and everyone else noticed that Imhotep was in the river, waist-deep into it. The Mummy gave Luna and Meowth an evil grin, as Imhotep told them in Ancient Egyptain, "I hope your friends and sister enjoyed their journey."
As soon as Imhotep said this, he then gave our a roar and used his powers to lift the entire river into the air, stunning everyone, even Xehanort who was stunned in admired awe at such tramendous power, as the wall of water stood. Xigbar and Saix were also stunned at this, and glanced at each other.
Soon Imhotep commanded the wall of water to chase after the Sailor Team!
On the dirigible, Pikachu and Chespie both suddenly heard faint noises that only Pokemon could hear more clearly than humans. However, the Sailor Team sensed that something was wrong and looked around, vigilant. Just then, the noise got louder and louder, and both Pikachu and Chespie turned around and gave a cry to alert the others.
"Pika Pi!" Pikachu cried out.
"Ches, Chespin!" Chespie also cried out.
Ash and Mairin both turned to their respective Pokemon and both asked what was wrong, until Izzy, who was the closest to the noise, turned around and saw what made Pikachu and Chespie cry out, and he too screamed out, "WE'RE IN TROUBLE!"
Everyone turned around to see the giant wall of water, and were all stunned in horror, and James and Jessie both screamed in high-pitched tones and clinged onto each other in comical horror, as did Donald and Goofy who also clinged onto each other in horror.
"First it was sand and now it's water!?" Serena shrieked out in horror comically, as Imhotep's face formed onto the water and he grinned evilly down at the group.
"Didn't see that one coming." Sora admitted, scaredly, just as Ardeth sent Horus off before they all hanged onto something as they were about to drown, but then Rick noticed an escape route and it gave him an idea.
"Izzy!" Rick cried out, "Come hard right! Starboard! Starboard!" just as the wall of water(via Imhotep) opened it's mouth and was about to swallow the group.
"IT'S GONNA EAT US!" Goofy screamed.
Izzy quickly pulled down a small bar and twin jets on the dirigible which then took off in faster speed, which the group struggled to hang on as they were thrown all over the place on board, while the wall of water chased after them, until Izzy drove the dirigible hard right into another path and the water crashed into one of the rock walls, which some of it landed onto the dirigible, but not enough to crash it, as the group had managed to escape...soaking wet, but escaped none the less, and the dirigible went back to normal speed and flew up a bit higher.
The group sighed in relief, and Lea asked, panting, as if he just out-run from getting eaten, "What, the heck, was that?"
"Imhotep's powers." was Mina's reply. "Last time, he nearly killed us in a sand storm two years ago."
In the meantime, Izzy pulled himself up at the wheel and glared at Rick and the others, asking, "Was there a little something else you forgot to mention? Hmm?"
"Is everyone all right?" Mickey asked at everyone who all gave out their answers that they were okay, much to the small King's relief.
"From now on, normal sand and water safe," Serena began, "Undead guy's sand and water, not safe." similiar-quoting Diego's suggestion of water not being safe not too long ago...in her case, at least.
"Are you okay, Pikachu?" Ash asked to his Pokemon who nodded, "Pika..."
"Chespin, Chespin!" Chespie suddenly cried out again as he looked up ahead.
Mairin looked at her Pokemon and asked, "What's wrong, Chespie?"
"Uh, people?" Jonathan spoke up, his mouth dropping. Everyone else looked up and all gapped in awe, just as Mairin gasped, "Look at that!" she cried out.
Ahead of them, was the most beautiful jungle anyone has ever seen ever in their entire lives, almost beyond their imaginations. In the far back of the beautiful forest, was a huge golden pyramid in the very middle of it, birds flying, water falls falling, the trees and leaves fresh green.
"Ahm Shere." Ardeth breathed.
"This is Ahm Shere?" Amelia gapped.
"Awesome!" Ash thought, amazed. Pikachu and Chespie both looked at each other and the two Pokemon nodded in agreement at the sight.
"It's beautiful." Serena thought, smiling. Darien nodded in agreement, as did most of their friends. Sakura and Meilin looked at each other, amazed at such a breathtaking sight. Raye, Amy, Lita, Kristen, Tiffenie, Jessie, James, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Lea, Cloud, Tifa, Yuffie, Mairin, Alain, Evy, Kaylie and Megan were all speechless at the sight, while Rick pulled out a telescope to get a better look, seeing something shine and wink on the very top of the pyramid.
"Right." Rick muttered.
Suddenly a sound brought everyone away from the oasis and turned around, and to their dismay, the wall of water of Imhotep returned, ready for round 2. Jessie and Donald both screamed at the top of their lungs, while Goofy, James and Izzy all either groaned or screamed out in unision, "He's back!"
"Not again!" Lea yelled.
Just as the wall of water was about to strike, Izzy quickly pulled the switch again while ordering, "Hang on!" and once again, the dirigible went into full speed to escape.
Unfortunately, at the wrong time, the engines died and the dirigible was left simply floating into the air, just above the forest, and everyone looked at each other, panicked. Izzy simply muttered with a scared expression, "Well that's not good." and sunk low and braced himself. Everyone all covered each other and braced themselves.
But not before Serena and Sakura both quickly pulled out their Shield Cards and created a powerful barrier combined with their Keyblades to at least protect themselves, their friends and Izzy from getting killed, as the water hits their vessel, forcing it down into the forest below.
In the now lifeless river, Imhotep grinned as he walked back to shore, while Luna and Meowth both stood in silence. Then Meowth said stabbornly as Imhotep passed them and patted Luna on the head. "Nope. I won't cry on this."
But a second later, Meowth broke down crying for the loss of Jessie and James. Luna's hands were shaking, but she would not knowlage that she had hope that Sailor Moon or at least Sakura were in time to use the Shield Cards to save everyone. Master Xehanort however, glanced at Xigbar and Saix, with a frown.
"It'll only be a matter of time." said Xehanort. "Sailor Moon and her allies are still alive." considering how he can sense them.
Despite that Sailor Moon and everyone else were alright, not even a single scratch and maybe just a couple of bruises, which were easily healed by cure magic, the same wouldn't be said for the wrecked dirigible. While the group gathered up their things, Izzy was complaining.
"Ugh, that wasn't fun." Ash groaned as he placed his back-pack onto his back.
Sora rubbed the back of his head, replying, "You're telling me."
"We're gonna go get Luna." Rick was saying to Izzy as he passed of the supplies and placing his own bag onto his back, "Then we're gonna wanna get outta here fast, so make this work, Izzy."
"No, no, you don't understand, goddamnit!" the black man argued as smoke and sparks continued to let loose, "This thing was filled with gas, not hot-air gas! I need gas to get this thing off the ground! Where am I going to get gas from around here, huh? Bananas? Mangos? Tarzan's ass?" He paused at the looks on Sora, Donald, Goofy, Ash, Serena, Raye, Amy, Lita and Mina's faces, while Lea snickered. "Well, maybe I could finagle it to take hot-air. But do you know how many cubic meters I'd need? It's too big!"
Rick winched away from another spark, then said to his old friend, "If anybody can fill this thing with hot air, Izzy, it's you." patting him on the arm.
"Are there two Tarzans?" Sora whispered. He remembered the Tarzan in Deep Jungle two years ago on his first journey with the Keyblade, one that him go search for Riku and Kairi.
Darien shook his head, "No. Just the one."
In the meantime, Jonathan, making sure that Izzy didn't notice, went over to the golden stick from Izzy's bag, muttering, "Come to daddy." snatched it up and hid it in his jacket, and whistled innocently, walking off. Ardeth called out for Horus before sending the Falcon off, before the group began to trace through the jungle, hoping to find higher ground and hoping they'll find a way to save Luna and Meowth.
Suddenly, Lea and Kaylie both stopped in their tracks, and gasped as they both sensed a familiar darkness...close by. They both quickly looked up into the sky where Horus was flying, and to their dismay...
A familiar purple-light shot through into the air quickly from a higher ground, and it something, which made everyone else stop, and realised what happened, as Ardeth cried out to his bird, but realised that, in dismay...Horus was dead. The teenaged girls covered their mouths with their hands, and Lea hissed.
"Saix." Lea hissed, "He told Xigbar to kill the falcon."
"Rats!" Sora cursed.
Ardeth then turned to the others, and announced, "I must go. I must tell the commanders where we are."
"Wait, Ardeth!" Serena objected, "You can't go." as she approached him.
"If the army of Anubis arises-"
"I need you to help us find Luna and Meowth." Serena cuts him off, pleading for the Medjai to stay until then, and everyone else remained silent.
Ardeth thought for a moment, and saw the pleading look in the Moon Princess's eyes, then made his decision. "Then first I must help you."
Serena nodded, "Thank you." as the others shared a look, before they continued on.
Later that night, Xehanort and his group followed Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun through the forest, and Luna and Meowth were both accompinied by a guard to make sure they didn't escape. They then came across what appeared to be a deadly native cage graveyard, with human remains in different kinds of clothing from different countries of Earth.
"Look! That's Roman legionnaires." Hafez pointed, feeling nervous, "And here, turn of the century-Napoleon's frenchmen."
"What in the name of Anubis did this?" Lock-Nah asked, whipping out his sword.
Meowth was shaking and he asked, "Cannibals of Ahm Shere?" quivering.
"As if." Xigbar muttered, "Probably something a bit more inhuman and deadly."
Even Xehanort had to admit, being in this part of the forest made him feel uneasy.
Once transformed into Sailor Scouts, Sailor Moon and her seven guardians, Sailor Tide, and the rest of their group got ready into their positions to rescue Luna and Meowth and then prevent Imhotep and Xehanort from awakening the Scorpion King.
"You hear that?" Rick asked.
"What?" Cloud asked, looking at him.
"Nothing. It's too quiet." Lea was the one who answered, his eyes narrowing, his own Keyblade in hand after the second attempt to call it out. He decided that now was the time to really get used to his newest weapon.
Even Yuffie was getting nervous, as she readied her Shuriken.
"I'd say, chaps! Look at this!" Jonathan was saying, "Shrunken heads. I'd love to know how they do that."
Everyone else just looked at him with blank expression at that comment, silently asking if he had just lost it. Wondering why they were looking at him like that, Jonathan shrugged, "Just curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat, you know that, right?" Sailor Tide pointed out.
Lea chuckled, while he then changed his mind and settled for using both his Keyblade and his Chakrams for an experiment, before taking note that Jonathan moved up next to him, the older man fixing up the rifle, and the pyro couldn't help but ask, "You good at that?"
"One time junior champion, one year marking, I'll have you know." Jonathan grinned, before asking as he looked at Lea's Chakrams, "Any good with those?"
"I think you would know soon." Lea gave him a chestire cat grin, and held up one of his chakrams at Jonathan's neck, continuing, "These babies can be thrown wildy like a fresbee in high speed with fire, blades slicing through almost anything. That's one of the reasons why I was known as the Flurry of Dancing Flames back in the original Organization."
He then added, "Get it memorized."
Jonathan looked like he was about to wet himself, and he quickly nodded, "I'll remember that." and Lea lets him go with a laugh. Ardeth looked at them with an amused look as he had witnessed this.
Sailor Moon sighed, turning to look at Darien who had transformed into Tuxedo Mask, and she told him, "Please be careful."
"I will, my meatball head." Tuxedo replied, and he leaned in and gave Sailor Moon a kiss, as Rick and Evy did the same, and Sora and Kairi hugged each other, and Tifa gave a surprised Cloud a kiss on the cheek, and Sailor Venus blushed, before hugging a stunned Lea who then hugged her back quickly before letting go so that the two of them wouldn't be seen by the others. Sailor Moon, Cloud, Rick, Sora, Riku, Lea, Ardeth, Sailor Ultra, and Sailor Jupiter then looked at each other, nodding, then took off into the forest, leaving the others behind as back-up in case their friends get into trouble.
"Do you think they'll be alright?" Mairin asked, worriedly.
"I hope so." Alain admitted.
"They'll be fine." Ash told the two of them, causing them to look at him, as he gave them a confident smile. "They won't go down that easily. And we won't either."
Pikachu nodded in agreement, giving them Ash's famous V-sign with two fingers.
'I hope you're right.' Kairi thought in her mind, clearly worried about her friends, especially Sora and Riku since she grew up with them.
The final day was approaching, and so was the destination of the Pyramid of the Scorpion King. The villian group were stunned in awe, while Luna and Meowth both glanced at each other, knowing that they were in serious trouble now, especially Luna, as she looked at the bracelet on her left wrist, as if she can already sense it drain away her life energy.
"Looks like it's gonna be a double funeral." Meowth muttered.
"We're in trouble now." said Luna, even if she was a Sailor Scout, there was no way she can handle all of the evil men by herself.
At this, Lock-Nah was getting impaitent and asked Hafez, "Now may I kill the brat and the Meowth?" now that his moment was at last coming. Xehanort and Saix both rolled their eyes.
"My lord." Hafez called up to Imhotep, "Now there is no need for the girl."
"Yes." Imhotep began, "But we still need the Bracelet to awaken the army of Anubis."
'The bracelet is the key?' Xehanort thought, admittedly surprised.
Hafez was stunned as well, then turned to Lock-Nah and ordered, "Retrieve that bracelet."
"With pleasure." Lock-Nah smirked evilly, as he back-tracked to find Luna and Meowth and kill them both.
However, Imhotep stopped, and so did Xehanort, Xigbar and Saix, causing everyone else to stop as well, even Lock-Nah who also somehow sensed that something was wrong. Just as Anck-Su-Namun asked Imhotep what was wrong, the winds suddenly picked up, a ghastly wind, one that isn't very welcoming. Hafez began to look scared.
"Something is approaching us." Xehanort announced, summoning his dark Keyblade, preparing to fight if he has too. Xigbar and Saix and the other nine members of the real Organization XIII all summoned different weapons, bracing themselves for an enemy attack.
At the same time, Sailor Moon, Rick, Ardeth, Cloud, Sora, Riku, Lea, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Ultra were running through the forest and just stopped at the graveyard looked around, just as thunder roared and lightning flashed.
Lock-Nah, also aware, ordered his men in arabic, "Fan out! Eyes open! Guns up!" and the men in red did as their leader told them. He then continued his search, grunting in irritation, "Where's the girl!?"
Imhotep, telling his lover not to fear, lead Anck-Su-Namun away, with Xehanort following, and Xigbar and Saix staying behind with the other nine Organization XIII members.
Back to Mickey and his group on the cliff, they were getting ready to attack the enemies from where they were, with magic, guns or Shurikens.
"Everyone?" Evy began, "That's my husands and our friends down there. Make me proud."
"Today's that day, Evy." Jonathan replied to his younger sister.
"My sister's down there too." Sailor Magic-Dust added.
"And Meowth." Jessie and James both said.
Back on the ground, the soldiers were even more vigilant, but not enough unfortunately, as one by one, men in red suddenly disappeared into the bushes they were in, as if they were pulled and dragged into the their deaths. One soldier noticed something in a tree and carefully went closer to investigate...
Only to have a mummified pygmy open his eyeless eye and shrieked like a monkey, and the soldier screamed only to be stabbed into the throat by the pygmy, and more and more pygmies attackes the soldiers, alarming everyone into a full gun-shot and Organization XIII's current eleven members quickly joined in the fight to avoid in getting killed. Though Organization XIII had better luck due to them being half-Xehanort, the men in red were unfortunately cut down and helpless.
Sailor Moon and her group heard the fight and rushed over quickly, and soon, joined in the fight by fighting the enemies via Keyblades, Chakrams, magic, swords and gun-shots. Sailor Moon used her Moon-Kick and kicked two men down while clashing against some members of Organization XIII. Sora and Riku both did a double Keyblade twist at the enemies, and Cloud boosted up the Materia in his Fusion Sword, smacked the sword into the ground and lets loose a powerful blue light shockwaved which knocked both men in red and pygmies into oblivion.
Rick and Ardeth both shot at the men in red as they went while avoiding in getting killed. Sailor Jupiter electrocuded the enemies with her Thunder-Crush before slicing the incoming Pygmies with her Keyblade. Sailor Ultra used her Ultra-Sigh-Wave which blasted away the enemies that were about to approach her.
Lea threw his chakrams in a double-throw and caught some of the men in red and pygmies off guard before he caught them as his weapons returned to him.
"They you two are!" Lock-Nah's voice caused Luna and Meowth to see him coming and they knew what was about to happen. "Come has time, my little friends."
Meowth screamed as he then used his Fury-Swipes to attack their captor who screamed in pain, letting go of Luna who then grabbed Meowth and made a run for it, with Lock-Nah hot on her heels.
"Sailor Moon!" Luna cried out.
"Luna?" Sailor Moon called out, hearing her friend's voice, and having a near close call since Mickey and his group were using magic, shurikens, Pokemon attacks and guns to attack the enemies from above, giving the group a chance of actually winning. Hearing Luna repeat her scream, Sailor Moon and Rick both then raced to find Luna and Meowth. Sora, Riku, Cloud, Ardeth, Lea, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Ultra were still busy themselves, until they noticed Lock-Nah and Saix, which Ardeth when for Lock-Nah while Lea went for the trapped-vessel that was Isa, his childhood friend.
Luna and Meowth were then trapped and cornered at a tree and Lock-Nah smiled.
"Time to remove that bracelet, little girl." says the man as he was about to slash at the helpless girl.
"Not in a million years, pal!" Sailor Moon's voice called out as she then appeared and side-kicked him on the side of his head, causing Lock-Nah to stumble away while Rick grabbed Luna and hauled her on his shoulder, and Sora grabbed Meowth and joined Rick to run off. Riku and Sailor Moon soon joined, and Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Ultra soon after.
Cloud, Ardeth and Lea stayed behind and continued to fight the enemies, before Ardeth once again clashed against Lock-Nah.
Lea then found Saix and just in time blocked his claymore with now the Keyblade out, and two former friends glared down at each other before backing away, both ready for round 2.
"Well, well." Saix mused. "You're still alive."
The redhead snorted, "I've have no desire to die again just as I got a second chance. I'll die trying to save you though, Isa."
"That name is dead to me." Saix stated, as he then swiped the claymore at Lea who dodged and counter-attacked with his Keyblade, both of them clashing as they moved through the forest, with men in red screaming their heads off like girls, and the two of them refused to give up and continued to clash.
Lea then blocked the powerful gust of wind from the claymore with his quickly summoned chakrams, though he was struggling, but then moved out of the away to avoid in getting stabbed by Saix who was now in his berserk mode, which was considered very dangerous.
Summoning his Keyblade again, Lea then casted fire and blasted at Saix who swiped it away like it was nothing, which gave him an opening, and the redhead then unexpectedly shoved his Keyblade...right into Saix's chest, and the blue-haired man froze, a sharp gasp of sudden pain engulfed him, and Lea's eyes widened as he too gasped, in horror.
Behind him, Ardeth, who was also in a hard battle with Lock-Nah, finally slashed his enemy twice on the chest. Lock-Nah fell to his knees, seeing the blood on his hands as he touched his chest, before falling sideways, dead with the shocked expression being the last on his face.
Quickly pulling the Keyblade out, Lea couldn't believe what he had done. But then suddenly, he saw the flicker of colour mixing in Saix's eyes-from Xehanort's evil golden yellow to Isa's normal blue-green colour. Isa was fighting. Suddenly Lea realised that he had stabbed the piece of Xehanort's heart that trapped Isa's heart.
"L-Lea..." the blue-haired man stuttered, before his eyes closed, and Saix collasped. Lea quickly caught his old friend in his arms, and cradled him, and to his amazement, the scar was fading on Isa's face, and his ears were returning to normal human's.
"Isa..." Lea sighed, not knowing how long it would take before Xehanort's heart could take control again. Nodding to himself, Lea lifted his unconscious old friend and hauled him onto his back, allowing Isa's arms to fall over his shoulders, before running as fast as he could back to the others.
Ardeth, who had been quickly saved by Jonathan who for once didn't screw up, nodded his thanks and raced away. Cloud, seeing that things were calming down, then took the path Lea took and hoping to meet up with the others before deciding his next decision, one that he and some of the others talked about earlier.
On the cliff, Mickey and the others knew that they had to meet up with Sailor Moon and her group. "C'mon. Let's go." after Alain, who had his Charizard out, recalled it. Soon the rest of the Sailor Team went to join their friends.
A/N: What does Cloud and some of the other members of the Sailor Team have in mind? We'll see in the next chapter which will, unfortunately, get emotional, so when the time comes, I suggest you bring out tissue boxes.
In the meantime, as usual, fellow readers, please continue your reviews and I'll see you again next time.