Chapter Ten

Maleficent The Coward

"How can this be?" Maleficent said, "Your heart was gone already!"

"Looks like you're plans had holes in it," Victoria said with a smile, "I still have a light. And even though he's a Heartless, he can still help."

Maleficent smiled, "Then I'll just have to dispose of you right now."

She raised her staff and flung it. It turned into a sword. Victoria smiled and approached her, her keyblade gripped at hand.

"Just try to!" she said.

Maleficent swung her sword. Victoria blocked it and then took an attempted attack on her own. It was blocked. No matter what attack was issued, it was always blocked. Maleficent and Victoria couldn't beat each other.

"Not so bad for the first time on the job," Maleficent said.

"I've practiced a lot," said Victoria, gasping for breath. If she couldn't get an attack on Maleficent soon, she would start getting knicked. She was already worn out.

"I see you're tired already. Good...I guess I can--" and she swung without warning, taking Victoria by surprise. She cringed and waited for the pain. But there was none. Just a loud CLINK noise.

She opened her eyes and saw Sora in front of her, blocking the attack Maleficent had thrown. He turned around to face her.

"Go get Kairi!" he said, "Take her to the ship. Go!"

Victoria nodded and got up, running out of the room. She remembered the way to where Kairi was being held. She opened the door.

"You're not a Heartless?" Kairi said when she saw her.

Victoria shook her head, "No," she said, "Sora's here and he told me to take you to the ship. So come with me."

"Sora's here?" she asked excitedly.

"Yes but we have to get a move on, so let's go!"

On the way out of the palace, Victoria noticed a Heartless running after her. She thought nothing of it until she reached the ship.

"Wait a minute..." she said, turning around to face the Heartless. It had stopped running and was just staring at her, "Riku?"

The Heartless nodded, taking a step towards her.

"Oh my goodness, Riku!" Victoria said, tears falling from her eyes, running over to the Heartless, "Come back, Riku! You can do it."

The Heartless just stood there, giving the appearance that it was sad.

"Riku!" Victoria said, throwing her arms about the Heartless. She cried out loud. How was it that she got her heart back but Riku couldn't? She looked at the Heartless. She was so sure it was Riku. So there was only one thing she could do. She pressed her lips against the Heartless' and kissed it.

There was a light. A bright light that blinded everyone. When the light settled, the Heartless had turned into Riku. Victoria was still kissing him, so he couldn't help but kiss back.

"Thank you, Victoria," he said, once they were finished, "You got me my heart back."

Victoria smiled, "And you got me mine too," she said, "Riku, I'm so sorry I didn't believe you before. I believe you now..."

"It's ok," Riku said. He took out his keyblade, "Now I'm about ready to go home so let's go beat this witch..."

Victoria smiled and took out her keyblade as well, "I'm right behind you."

Sora swung his keyblade at Maleficent, hitting her again. It felt good to finally get his hands on her, getting her back for kidnapping Kairi. She was losing, that was a fact, but still had strength left in her.

Without any warning, she transformed into her dragon form and blew a breath of green fire towards him. Sora, rolled out of the way and struck the dragon. The dragon winced and prepared for another breath but stopped upon feeling a sharp pain on her tail. She turned and saw that Riku had slashed at it.

How did he get his heart back? The dragon thought. She closed her eyes, seeing her plans were finished. She had lost this round but she would be back for another later in the game. She opened her eyes and slowly disappeared before they could land anymore attacks.

Everyone's keyblade disappeared along with the dragon.

"Coward!" Sora said, raising his fist in the air. He turned to Riku, "So, did you make up with Victoria?"

Riku smiled and nodded, blushing a little.

"Where is she?"

"She got a little frightened when she saw the dragon," he explained, "So I told her to go help Kairi."

"Kairi? Is she ok? Was she hurt?"

"I'm fine," said Kairi from the doorway. Sora turned around to see her, "In fact, I've never felt better."

"Kairi!" Sora said, running to her, embracing her in a hug, "You're ok."

Victoria walked in as well, "All is how it should be," she walked into the room, "So...Maleficent got away."

Riku looked down, "Yeah, but when she comes back...we'll be ready for her."

Victoria smiled.