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"Belle, how much farther is it do your home?" Riku asked. as they ran.
"It should be over that hill over there." Belle huffed as she pointed out a lone hill with a small house.
"Okay great AH!" Sora yelled as he was rammed into by a one Darkball Heartless, he nearly lost his keyblade as it feel out of his hands.
Out of nowhere more of this dark ball heartless appeared right in front of everyone. Along with Wyven heartless, and some Assault rider heartless. Riku barely got Belle out of the way of an attack from one of the Wyven Heartless. He side stepped another attack, while grabbing Belle, and charging up an spell.
Roxas and Xion were trying to block the Assault riders's long and twisting spears. They were doing much better then Kairi, who had been shoved into the snow. She was hurting all over until Sora casted a Cura spell, healing her wounds. He picked her up, dusted the snow off and the two were back into the fold. Sora looked at her as she was looking around to find the dark balls, since they had an annoying habit of vanishing. The two finally saw them, and launched an all out attack. Kairi even took a note out of Sora's book and used Sonic Blade to finish them off.
"Hey nice work." Sora said.
"Thanks, I feel dizzy." Kairi muttered as Sora grabbed her, from falling down.
"Don't worry I felt like that too." Sora said.
"AAAHHH!" Roxas and Xion yelled as they were riding on the Assault Rider's horse like backs. Well more like holding on for dear life. Sora went to his sibling's aid, Kairi went along with him.
Sora whacked the rider in the face, while Kairi whacked their spears out away from them. The couple attacked them, which gave Roxas and Xion the chance to get off. They ran, watching Sora and Kairi finish off the two riders as they went to help Riku, who was dodging fire balls while Belle was throwing snow balls to do something useful.
Roxas and Xion shot out a magnet spell that forced the winged pains in the ass to be stuck together in the air. Riku finally got the chance to shoot out a Thudraga spell blasting them to bits freeing the hearts captured from them all.
"Whew, that was awesome! You don't mess with a Princess of Heart!" Kairi cried out happily.
"Yeah, you did great." Sora said smiling in his armor.
"Well you did teach me that awesome move." Kairi complemented.
"Guys we need to keep going" Riku ordered as he got his two best friends, with Roxas and Xion to follow Belle to her home.
"After we get her dad, can we just ride on the Keyriders?" Xion asked.
"What are ya getting sleepy?" Roxas said grinning wanting to take on more bad dudes.
"Hey we have them, why not use them." Kairi said agreeing with Xion as they kept running.
Soon after they finally made it to the old looking home. Belle really had no idea how long she had been gone. Was her father even here?
"Had he been turned into a Heartless? Or sent to an insane asylum? The people did always think he was off. No he's not crazy!" She thought to herself.
The Princess of Heart knocked on the door loudly.
"Papa, are you there?" Belle asked.
Quickly the door opened to find an elderly, pulp, balding whitest mustached old man, in a gray long shirt. His boots quaked as he grabbed a hold of his daughter, having no intention of letting go.
"Oh Belle thank Goodness, your alright! I thought the worst had happened to you!" He cried out with joy.
"Papa it's so good to see you again." Belle said smiling brightly.
"Aw another reunion!" Kairi said hugging everyone. Sora didn't mind at all.
The old man looked at the five teenagers.
'Wait, are you the heroes that killed that horrible monster and saved my Belle?" She asked curiously.
"Huh?" Everyone asked, not sure what he was talking about.
Belle tried to get her friend and her father inside the house.
"Papa, I have some explaining to do, but we should talk inside." The Princess of Heart suggested.
"Oh, well it's cold anyway. Also you, young people come in!" The inventor said as he opened the door for all of them.
All were unaware of psychotic evil waiting for them all outside.
Back into the village DJ, the Reaper was in a drunken rage. Swiping her scythe at Braig, however she missed thanks to his teleporting powers. He was about shoot her, when she shot him with the lower part of her weapon, being a sniper rifle.
"Get your *hic.* ass back here! Nobody hurts my babies!" She screamed she kept firing up at the roofs, sadly she was missing.
Braig went for cover using a chimney. He turned around and fired on the reaper girl, making her dance. DJ dodged Braig's arrows, however one arrow was about to go into her skull if it weren't for a ninja star knocking it off it's corse.
Braig's eye noticed smoke. He quickly turned around to find two blades trying to behead him. The free shooter jumped off the roof and fired a few shots, only to have them reflected back at him, by the two short swords, however they vanished, and what came out of the smoke was L Haruno who dashed into Xehanort's minion with small orb of blue chakra.
His mind flash back to an old fashioned church, his body dying with the man's foot over his face. L found a small boy looking at him in horror. "Sash, grab Nina and run! Protect your sister! RUN!" Was all he could say as the light went out…before he heard his child scream in terror. Feeling enraged by the memory he forcefully and painfully shoved into Braig's chest, knocking the wind out of him, and sent the Xehanort chorine flying into a nearby building.
L landed onto the snow, quickly giving DJ some help with a cure spell. She looked at the masked man with distrust. He then handed her a small frog noise, in the palm of one of his hand
"Frogie! Give me him!" She cried out while quickly swapping the little monster from the mystery man. The noise looked happy to see her.
"Your welcome. " He said with a smile.
The Reaper was still giving him the evil eye.
"Who the hell are you, and what do you want? Also what's with the mask? Deformed or something? Also..thanks for the save." She hissed while snarling at him.
The man just smiled behind his mask. He then pattered her on the head. In spite of all the spike he found her cute.
"My name is L." He introduced himself
"That's your name? What were J or K taken?" She asked laughing at him.
"Haven't heard that one before, anyway I want many things, but for now I'll settle with making that son of a bitch pay. Want to help?" He offered seeing an evil looking grin appear on the young reaper's face.
"You're speaking my language." She said while getting her scythe ready, while she summoned some wolf noise.
"Oh hold on." L said while he made two shadow clones, while grunting in a bit of pain. Out of a puff of smoke were clones him. He turned to them while giving two headbands to the clone on the left.
"Find, Roxas and Xion and wrap these on them tight..they have problems as is. Oh and you…give Master Aqua some support." He ordered the two clones.
He noted seeing DJ give a bit of a scowl, they turned away looking at the wolf noise who were started to bark and chased after Braig who was limping away.
"Let's make some noise!" DJ yelled as she used her wings to fly and chase after him. L followed pulling out his short blades and dashed past the young reaper. He was about to cut the man open when Braig shot him in the leg, causing him to yell in pain.
DJ kicked L to the side as she tried to swipe at Braig who, in retaliation head butted her, and to rub salt in the wound, erased one of her noise wolves with multiple head shots. Braig was about finish off the other one, however, L threw his short sword into his shoulder, as he yelled as DJ ripped out and slashed at him.
"TAKE THIS!" He yelled while making DJ, L, and the noise take cover as Braig shot out an abundance of glowing arrows, which were ripping apart buildings of the town.
"Any ideas?" DJ asked.
L looked back to see he had vanished into a corridor of darkness. He clinched his fist and anger and banged the side of the house.
"Shit he got away, now what?" DJ asked to herself in an annoyed manner.
The cat masked man looked at the Reaper woman.
"What?" She asked.
"I have a job offer for you, would you like to talk it over lunch miss…um…" L said not sure what her name was.
"Call me DJ…and fine, but you're paying, for me..and my babies.." She ordered. A few frog noises, the remaining wolf noise, a bear noise and a large shark noise came out of the snow covered ground. This all make L's eyes widen beneath the tiny slanted curved holes of his mask.
"That's...fair…I think?" L muttered feeling like this was going to be a long day, thanks to the evil smile on the woman's face.
Aqua could see the massive army slowly reaching the castle. She could see Mulan and Adam just itching to fight. However they needed to be smart about this. She had ordered Lea, the pixie girls, and Tidus cast protect over the castle. Thankfully Yuna, and Rikku had calmed down. Painie didn't show it, but Aqua could tell she was worried as well. Aqua didn't remember the woman having such a dark influence but time and something else must have increased her power.
"Okay I won't have to worry about the people..now I'll just need to finish this quickly..and the make another clone to find Sora, Riku, Kairi and the others." Aqua thought.
"Alright, Mulan, you're gonna whoop dat witch back to the west. Today is the day we avenge your family, your honor, your homeland, your cow, and your honey Shang. Who ya gonna crush? Who ya gonna kill?!" The tiny dragon yelled, trying to give her moral support.
However Mulan wasn't in the mood for his mouth, the icy cold glare she was giving painted that picture.
"Mushu…please..I know you mean well, but I need to be calm, and focus on what's to come…so could you please be quiet?" She asked her family guardian in harsh voice in spite of her eyes.
The dragon nodded. She then frowned, feeling guilty.
"Mushu..I'm sorry, just all this…I…" Mulan started to say unsure of herself.
"Hey, no hard feelings, your grieving. Don't sweat it." Mushu said in warm charming voice.
"It's just that woman..she took everything away from me…and I feel alone." Mulan muttered.
"Well you're not alone sweet dumpling." The two heard Lea say to them, as he walked to her.
"Lea, you set up the barriers?" The war hero asked.
"Took care of them, now on to you. Ya know, you aren't the only that's lost something, or someone important. The pixies lost their bodies, I lost my dad, my older brother Reno, and my best friend Isa..almost lost Roxas and Xion. Heck, even Sora, Riku, and Kairi lost each other at some point." Lea rambled.
"Your point?" Mushu asked.
"My point is, that no matter alone you think you are Mulan, you're not…you got us now, and if you ever need to, ya know..let it out.. we are here for you. Got it memorized?" He asked, holding out his hand for her.
Mulan smiled warming.
"Lea, thank you. I'm glad I have your support, but I won't be 'letting it out' until this is over." She said while holding his hand, and leaving to join Master Aqua and maybe find the others.
The dragon eyed the man suspiciously.
"Man you ain't slick, you not shooting any fireworks in her bed room! I got my eye on you boy." He swore while giving Lea the I got my eyes on you gesture with his claws.
"Hey..that was purely to help out a friend, that's it!" Lea snapped.
The dragon wasn't buying it.
"Still she has a sweet booty, and I'd kill to see her undress, so she could show off the girls." Lea muttered.
"HEY HEY HEY! Watch it buddy she is off limits!" Mushu warned.
"Oh what are you gonna do about it?!" Lea challenged.
"You two could use all that energy to make the those dark portals." Namine offered, giggling a bit as the two looked at one another.
"Oh I know you're not gonna to fight." The dragon muttered.
"Yes I am." Namine stated.
"What you got defend yourself with? I don't see a weapon underneath that little white dress of yours." The tiny dragon muttered as he started to eye ball up Namine's dress. Lea grabbed the lizard, as the blond girl pulled out the magic paint brush, and her sketch pad. With a few strokes, a sword came out of the pad. He started to swing ,and show off in Sora's fighting stance. Mushu gave a low whistle.
"Okay…how?" Lea had to ask.
" Do you remember that I do have access to everyone's memories that Sora has known. I can have access to everyone's fighting style, but I…I think I can only have one at a time. Master Aqua trained me how." Namine said.
"Nice." Both the human and dragon stated.
"Lea, Namine…little lizard, outside now!" Aqua ordered.
"Hey I'm a dragon, not a lizard! Do you see me do that tongue thing?" The Eddie Murpiy voiced dragon protested.
Soon Tidus, Prince Adam, Mulan, Namine, Yuna, Rikku, and Painie, stood in attention to their leader Aqua. They all had noticed Lea making corridors of darkness behind her.
"Now…as much as I'm going to regret doing this, we are going to use the corridors of darkness to ambush Malfeasant's…newly made forces, and attack them. Now all of you, put on you armor." She ordered.
Every keyblade wielder pushed the buttons on their clothes. Prince Adam slowly did this as he fumbled with it. Everyone got on their Keyriders. Adam's looked like a large bike with a lion head in the front. After some help from Mulan and Aqua he got on. Lea then took off his armor, and took off his black coat. He gave it to Namine, and patted her on the head.
"Don't worry this coat will protect them from the darkness." Lea explained to them.
"Now everyone do not take off your armor for any reason. Now we ride!" Aqua ordered.
Her students got on their Keyriders and drove right into the ports. Aqua got Namine on her own. They drove into the shadowy portals. They reappeared in front of the witch's hollowed heartless army, and Mulan was the one to lead the charge.
"FOR THE LAND OF DRAGONS!" She cried as she rammed into a row of the large, bulking horned tree heartless. They retaliated with swings from their long, and massive battle axes, and jabs from their laces. Mulan did a back flip as she summoned her keyblade. Soon the others followed suit and started to attack.
"Kill them all!" The heartless heard their mistress order.
"Malfeasant, as Keyblade master, I will see to it that you will pay for your crimes against the worlds and they people that live on them!" Aqua declared, as she dodged a shot of green fire coming from one of the one of the many similar looking tree demon heartless.
" Aqua was it, I see your still alive. A pity, I was hoping you were dead the past ten years." The witch said with a sneer.
"Sorry to disappoint, but none of my students or myself have any intention of dying." Aqua snapped as the blue haired woman cut one of the monsters in half.
"Good intentions lead to hell. I should know, I've sent many there!" The witched yelled as she made more of her minions while shooting green lighting. Which only a few were able to dodge.
Tidus, Adam, and Namine with the pixie girls took the attack, and where barely able to recover to get away from the onslaught of attacks from the demonic tree heartless.
Lea, Aqua and Mulan were the ones that were doing the most damage. Lea summoned his keyblade, and with some effort he made a large fire wall. He managed to keep some at bay while also causing some harm. Mulan was going on an all out assault. She was flipping around, disarming the heartless, however one got a good right hook. She came back slashing two, removing their heads.
Namine wasn't have as good a time. In fact she was flat out panicking. The heartless were swarming all over her; if it wasn't for Yuna, Rikku, Paine dragging her along with the coat, she would have had holes all over her body. Namine was barely blocking a claw with her magic sword. It shattered, turning into drops of paint. Yuna quickly blasted multiple blasts of lights right into the heartless's eyes. Now blinded, Namine was allowed not only to get away, but for Tidus, Paine and Rikku to attack.
Aqua shot out a magnet spell, forcing many of the heartless together. She then shot out many Thudaga spells, frying them till they were nothing but ash. Mulan and Lea were doing the same with a combined fire attack. Aqua was trying to keep an eye on where Malfeasant was but couldn't find her.
Namine took out her brush and drew another blade sans he tried to help Tidus fight, while he casted haste spell, that made himself, and her faster. Tidus then casted it on Adam, who was doing just fine, granted his helmet was off, but he didn't seem to notice. However while he wasn't looking a dark, black and green fire appeared behind him. It then grabbed a hold him, as Malfeasant's face appear. The prince was fighting the hold she had on him. Namine ran to aid her new friend, The witch had other plans, as the woman blasted her with green lightning, forcing Namine to plow into the snow. Aqua ran to her students when the witch flew off with Adam, leaving a trail of smoke as she made way for the castle.
Mulan grabbed Mushu, and summoned her key rider to give chase. That left Lea without someone to watch his side, Rikku flew to give him a hand, when a few of the humanoid horned Heartless were ganging up on him.
"Lea look out!" Rikku cried, as Lea was about to be back stabbed.
"Chidori lance!" A familiar voice cried out.
In a scattered cluster of Bible page was one of L's shadow clones, and in one of his hand a lance of lighting impaled many of the heartless foes. The clone started to cough up blood but ignored it, as he went to help Lea some more. Aqua thought it was best to end this. She focused what was left of her magic to perform diamond dust. In swift stroke of her blade, what was left of the mistress of all evil's heartless army were frozen solid. Tidus, Yuna, Rikku, Paine were busy shattering them. While L picked up Namine.
"Thank you." She said.
"Don't worry Nina-Namine." the clone corrected himself.
"We need to get the castle now!" Aqua ordered as she summoned her Keyrider. The rest did as she did and rode.
Malfeasant had them reappear in front of his castle. She had forced her lips upon the prince's. He forced himself away from her, pointing his keyblade at her.
"You were foolish to try that witch, I'll now have your head." He declared while trying swing at her.
"Pitiful human, you aren't the first prince who has protected a princess of heart that I've slain. But I think my kiss of hate will make you wish for death." She muttered.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"Can you not feel a familiar curse? Only there shall be no rose to give you false hope…Beast." The witch said while laughing at the expression of horror on his face.
"No!" He gasped. Adam's keyblade, and armor vanished, as his body started to transform, being covered in green flames.
"I never forgive, and I never forget. Your new comrades shall die, you shall return to the monster that you always were, and Belle's heart shall be mine. AHAHAHAH!" She cackled while vanishing . The transformation was now complete. Adam felt his hands turn into claws, his old horns return to his head, and tail rip his pant and the hair covered his body. Mulan found him, but she was too late. Her wide eyes of shock, and her dragon's gaping mouth was all Adam need to know that the witch had returned him to The Beast.
"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOO!" The newly returned Beast roared.
End of chapter.