Kingdom Hearts 2: Another Story

Chapter 11

Michael: and now for the chapter I've been dying to write for months, Disney Caste/Keyblade Graveyard. You're be a little shock about a certain character's return (If you decided to skip the Days Chapters or not). Please review.

Chapter 11: Disney Castle/Keyblade Graveyard

With the distress call from Disney Castle their top priority, the heroes made no stop to make it to Donald and Goofy's world. They disembarked at the world's Gummi ship hanger. Kairi looked around and was impressed. If two small chipmunks could run a whole hanger, then that's impressive.

"So this is your world? Must be glad to be home, right?" the red headed princess said to the Royal Knight captain and Magician.

But Kairi noticed Donald and Goofy weren't glad to be home, if fact, they were feeling something wrong. Kairi shuttered, she could feel something… something that felt like darkness.

"You guys feel that chill right?" she asked.

They nodded. As they looked around the hanger more, a squeaky voice said, "You're back!"

Kairi, Donald, Ventus, Xion, Goofy, Namine, and Roxas look to see who was scurrying to them. It was Chip and Dale. Chip was the one with the black nose and Dale was the one with the red nose.

"Chip, Dale, we got your message and came right away. What's wrong?" Kairi said to the Gummi ship engineers.

"Queen Minnie needs to see you!" Chip said, jumping up and down.

"The Castle's in danger! Hurry to the library!" Dale added as well.

With a quick nod, they hurried to the hanger doors and opened them. Kairi and the others stood in the middle of a garden, where around them were bush sculptures. It was a beautiful garden, but what came out of the ground wasn't beautiful. Shadows, Soldiers, and bomb like heartless called Minute bombs.

"So this must be what Chip and Dale were talking about!" Roxas said, summoning his keyblades.

"But why are Heartless doing in the Castle?" asked Xion, summoning her keyblade.

"We'll just have to ask Queen Minnie when we get into the castle." said Kairi, summoning her keyblade.

"Right!" Namine and Ventus agreed, summoning their Keyblades as well, along with Donald and Goofy's weapons.

With their weapons in hand, Kairi and her group fought the Shadow. Soldiers, and Minute Bombs that Roxas and Xion have dealt with before As the group fought the Minute Bombs, their body began to smoke up; meaning they were about to explode. Kairi and the Keyblade wielders quickly dodge roll out of the way as the bombs exploded, revealing pink hearts floating into the air. The heroes continued fighting the Heartless in the garden before finally entering the castle. Inside the hallway, More Shadows and Minute Bombs appeared in their path as Donald cast thunder to stun the Heartless in place as Goofy spun around in the air and scooping up the Shadows and Minute Bombs as Kairi entered her Valor Form and attack the Heartless while in midair. Once the Heartless were gone, more took their place. Roxas and Xion step up next.

"Xion!" Roxas exclaimed to the former clone.

"Right!" Xoin nodded as their bodies and keyblades glowed brightly.

"You're finished/I won't give in!" Both announced as they quickly attacked the heartless with both light and speed. The two finished their attack by slamming their keyblades into the ground as thirteen nobody sigils appeared and wiped out the heartless. As the light faded, Roxas and Xion redraw their keyblades and turn back to the others.

"Shall we enter the library?" Roxas said to the group.

Kairi and the others nodded in response and enter inside the Library. Inside the Library, a small mouse was waiting for them. To sum it up how Kairi thought of Queen Minnie, she looked a lot like Mickey. She wore an elegant pink/light pink and ruby red dress with a crown on her head. Donald step forward first to salute Minnie.

"Your highness Queen Minnie, we're back!" Donald said at once.

"You're here!" Queen Minnie said trilled.

Goofy then stood next to Donald and saluted as well. "Your royal Highness, did ya happen to summon us?"

"Yes." Minnie replied.

Kairi and the other keyblade wielder stood next to Donald and Goofy as Kairi bowed to greet Minnie. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Queen Minnie. My name is Kairi."

Minnie gasped. "Oh, you must be Kairi! The king mentioned you in one of his letters; it's great you're looking for Sora."

"Do you know where is now?" she asked.

Minnie merely shook her head. Kairi sighed, another lead gone.

"It's great to see again Minnie, remember me?" Ventus said to the Queen of Disney Castle.

"It's very nice to see you again Ventus." Queen Minnie said to the wind knight.

"Your Majesty, why are the heartless doing in your castle?" Donald asked.

Minnie turned sideways and said, "Oh my, so those are the heartless."

Kairi spoke up again. "Don't worry, we'll handle them"

Minnie turns back around and added, "I know I could count on you, Kairi. Now there's something I want all of you to come and see. Would you please escort me to the audience chamber?"

Kairi and the group all saluted, ready to help Minnie out, but she gasped and added, "I forgot to warn everyone in the castle about the danger! We must be sure they're hidden somewhere safe!"

"Okay, we'll go tell them!" Kairi said to her friends and the queen.

"The whole castle?" Donald said bewildered.

"We'll just have to spilt up, Donald." Goofy assured him.

"Okay, Ven and me will stay here with the Queen. Namine, Roxas, Xion, go with Donald and Goofy to help everyone in the castle." Kairi instructed her friends.

"Okay!" the three former nobodies exclaimed.

"Alight, we'll see you in a bit Kairi." Goofy said as he Donald, Roxas, Xion, and Namine exited the library, leaving Kairi and Ventus with Queen Minnie. Kairi turn back to the queen and replied, "The audience chamber, right ma'am?"

"Yes Kairi, let's be on our way." Queen Minnie said to Kairi as Ventus nodded and the three exited the library and return to the hall. There, Shadow, Soldiers, and minute Bomb Heartless appeared, blocking their path to the Audience Chamber. Kairi and Ventus kept their keyblades in their hands as they casted magic on the heartless while Minnie cast Holy on them to slow them down. A few Shadows sank to the floor and scurried to the three as Kairi, Ventus, and Minnie preformed a Faith attack which scattered the heartless away with light-based magic. With a few more attacks, the hall was cleared and the three came to a large purple door protected by a barrier.

"Just one moment." Queen Minnie said. Minnie stood in front of the door and held out her hand, a silver ring was on her hand as well. "As soon as the trouble, I made sure to seal this room." Minnie held her hand down and the barrier disappeared. A little door opened up. "Now then, shall we?"

Kairi and Ventus nodded in response and followed Minnie into the Audience Chamber. The Audience Chamber was a very large room. The three stood on a red carpet where a throne was waiting for them at the end. But it wasn't a quiet room anymore as Bolt Tower came hovering down.

"Not here too!" Minnie gasped.

"We got them. Ven, you hurry and take Minnie and fend off most of the Bolt Towers. Leave the back ones to me." Kairi ordered.

"Okay Kairi, come on Minnie!" Ven said, taking Minnie by the hand. Ven then casted a Firaga Burst into the air as millions of fireballs hit many of the Bolt Towers, scattering them away, leaving a path for Minnie and him. More Bolt Tower came to Kairi as she held her Keyblade at the ready.

"Let's go!" Kairi exclaimed as she dash over to the Bolt Towers. Kairi then jump into the air and performed a five combo on the first Bolt Tower, casting midair fire spells at two more Bolt Towers, casting blizzard on three more Bolt Towers, and then zapping four more with thunder.

"Light!" Kairi exclaimed once more as a yellow circle pattern appeared under her and Kairi dive down into the ground, thrusting her keyblade into the ground as well. Light shined from the circle pattern as the Bolt Towers around Kairi were drowning in the light. When the light faded, the Bolt Towers around Kairi were gone, leaving the one near Ventus and Minnie. Kairi panted, knowing that using Trinity Limit took a lot out of her. But then Ven cried, "Kairi, look out!"

Four Bolt Towers that Kairi thought she eliminated grabbed her by their tractor beams as she was rose up into the air. The red haired princess screamed in pain as she couldn't escape the attack. Finally, the four lasers exploded, causing Kairi to fall back to the ground as more Bolt Towers came near her.

"Kairi, no!" Both Mickey and Ventus cried.

But before the Heartless could get near her, a ball of light entered the audience chamber and shot its way towards the unconscious body and entered it. A light formed around Kairi as the Bolt Towers were scattered around the chamber. Finally Kairi rose onto her feet, but something was odd about her. Her auburn hair was now mixed with brown, her red jacket now with red straps acrossed it and a brown skirt. In her left hand was a large gold and blue keyblade. Both the Queen and Ven were shocked.

"Kairi?" Ven asked softly, Ven then noticed the keyblade and yelled, "Terra!"

Kairi or Terra didn't respond, but set his/her eyes on the Bolt Towers.

(Cue Terra's theme-Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep)

Terra cast thunder spells on several of the Bolt Towers, stunning them in place before casting ignite to slightly burn them. The Bolt Towers raise their bodies at Terra, the Earth Knight then jumped into the air as the Bolt Towers slammed their bodies to the ground, creating shockwaves. Terra then struck at one of the towers with his Keyblade, causing the tower to spin in place as he landed back to the ground. More Towers circled around Terra as they created more and more shockwaves. Terra guarded the waves as he then held his Keyblade into the air.

"Gather!" he announced as balls of red and blue magic scooped up a dozen of Bolt Towers. Terra then held his Keyblade behind his back as wind rush around before shooting up into the air in a spinning matter, hitting all the Bolt Tower carried by the Magnet spell. Three were defeated as three more still floating the air with him. Before they could use their beam again, the Earth Knight quickly cast Blackout to blind them. Without knowing what they were aiming for, they used their beams but trapped each other in them. Still airborne, Terra then cast mini to shrink them to the size of a fly before swatting them with his Keyblade. More Bolt Towers still remain in the audience Chamber; around five of them were under Terra. The Earth Knight then surrounds himself in flames and crash into the ground, scorching the Heartless with the flames. The Heartless were slightly burned but kept cornering Terra. Terra held his Keyblade in the air once more and cast Meteor. Large light brown Balls of fiery rock fell out of nowhere and crash into the Bolt Towers, destroying them on contact. Only 10 Bolt Towers remained and they slowly floated to Terra, but the Earth knight had one more trick of his sleeves. With one more toss of his Keyblade, the Keyblade transformed into a large Cannon and despite its size and whose body he was using, Terra held it like it was nothing.

"Fire!" he announced, shooting a large blast of energy at the remaining Bolt Towers, causing the whole Chamber to be blinded in the blast. Ventus and Minnie shield their eyes as the blast scattered the Heartless until they were destroyed and their hearts floated away. When the blast was gone, Only Terra stood there on the red carpet. Ven and Minnie opened their eyes to find Terra walking up to them. Ven started to smile as he ran to his friend.

"Terra, I can't believe it!" he said cheerfully and he made it to the Earth knight.

"It's great seeing you again, Ventus. I'm so glad you're okay after all this time." Terra's face formed a frown. "I'm sorry for what happened. To you and Aqua, It's my fault."

"It's okay, it doesn't matter what happened years ago, all that matters is that I got my friend back. Now we can find Aqua." Ven said.

Terra's smile then returned. "Thanks Ven."

"One question Terra, what are you doing in Kairi's body? Was that light you?" Ven asked.

"Yes, that was me. My body was taken from me and now my heart was finally freed. But I needed is a body to find mine, so when I saw Kairi was in danger I knew I had to save her by using her body."

"She's okay, right?" Ven asked again.

"Don't worry, our hearts are still separated, Kairi is fine." Terra assured him.

"That's a relief. Come on, Minnie would be glad to see you again." Ven said to him as the two walk to the throne to meet Queen Minnie.

"It's been a long time, Queen Minnie." Terra said, bowing to her.

Minnie gasped. "That's really you in there, Terra?"

"Yes, your majesty, but I'll explain more lately, Right now, don't you have something to show us?"

Queen Minnie nodded and walks to the throne and a pressed a button on one of the arm rest. The floor under the throne began to move, revealing a hole and stairs.

"What's down there, Queen Minnie?" asked Ven.

"The room below is called the 'Hall of the Cornerstone'. Our castle has always been safe from worlds that are evil… thanks to the Cornerstone of light, which we keep down there." explained Queen Minnie.

"The Cornerstone… of light?" the two said confused.

The two watched Minnie walk down the stairs as they followed suit. Terra passed a hand to Kairi's chest and said, "She should be walking up now."

(Before anyone gets any perverted ideas, Terra is feeling for Kairi's heart now that he's inside her (Not that way)

Inside Kairi's Heart—

The auburn haired princess was drifting in an unknown place. Eyes completely shut, Kairi landed on a stain glass platform, the same one Roxas, Namine, and Xion were standing on in their dream. But this one was different than the one from their dream. It was a brown and red platform wwith two different halves to it. On one side, it was Kairi sleeping with the heads of Roxas, Xion, Namine, Donald, Goofy, Sora, and Riku beside her on with what looks like Destiny Islands. On the other side was Terra except his eyes were open. The heads of Ven, Aqua, and an unknown man with black hair and goatee were with him over an unknown world. On the edges of the platform were star shaped charms. Kairi finally opened her eyes to see where she was.

"Where am I?" she asked curiously. "Is this… my heart?"

"Yes it is." a voice said.

Kairi gasped as a boy around eighteen years old walking up to her.

"Who are you?" she asked calmly.

"My name is Terra. A pleasure to meet you." He said holding out his hand.

Kairi shook it firmly. "Nice to meet you finally, Terra. But, how come you are in my heart?" she asked.

Terra turned from Kairi and stared out into the darkness. "I'm not sure how long it has been, but I was in a battle with Aqua and Ven and fought a man who caused me nothing but hell. In the end, I let the darkness into my heart and he took over my body. After that, I was split from my armor, my keyblade, and my body. Now my body and armor are returned to the Realm of Light, but I need to return to my real body in hopes to find Aqua and make things right. When I saw you in trouble, I thought maybe you could help me reclaim it." Terra explained.

Kairi folded her arms and smiled. "Well, you saved me, so I'll help you get your body back."

Terra turned back around with a high hoped smile. "You will?"

"Of course! You saved me, I'll help you. So then we are even." she replied happily.

Terra kept his smile on his face. "Thank you, Kairi…"

Back in reality—

Ven and Terra entered a large covered in dark thorns and bathe with the light of a large glass orb on top of a pedestal. Terra and Ven looked around as Minnie was ready to explain. Namine, Xion, Roxas, Donald, and Goofy finally turned up as well, not noticing Kairi was now Terra.

"This is the castles most cherished cornerstone. But look, the thorns. They must be the work of someone evil. I wonder what this could mean."

Terra followed his arms and thought about it. Who would have done this and why? Terra then looks to the cornerstone and walks to it, Ven and the others following. Once Terra was in the light, everyone saw he wasn't Kairi. Before they could say a word, green flames shot from the ground as a familiar face appeared before them. She was a fair and green skin woman with yellow eyes heavily shadowed with violet make-up and her lips are painted red. The dark fairy's head is topped with a black-horned headdress and she wore a long, tattered black robe with a purple trim and maroon flare edges Along with fin-like spikes on the sides of her neck. Her hand was a brown scepter with a green glass orb. The heroes gasped.

"Maleficent!" gasped Donald.

"No way…" Namine said, couldn't believe her eyes.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? The wretched keyblader's princess and his pitiful lackeys, but wait… More are with you. Three members of Organization XIII and…" she then sat her eyes on Ven and Kairi/Terra. "It's been ages… Ventus, Terra."

"Terra!" everyone gasped.

Terra's eyes were looking sharp at Maleficent as he summoned His Earth Shaker Keyblade. "Maleficent, I know you made me steal Aurora's heart a long time ago. Now you'll deal with me!" and dashes to the dark fairy, but goes right through her, hitting the pedestal as she added, "All in good time. I promise you'll be partaking of my vengeance. But you must be patient."

"Just what are you doing here, Maleficent?" Queen Minnie demanded.

"Ah, Queen Minnie; radiant as always. I'm here on a property venture. I want this castle for my own. However, it's a bit too 'bright' for what I have in mind. I suppose I'll just have to fill every room with my personal touch of darkness."

As Maleficent turned to the cornerstone, she spotted Terra on the ground holding his head. She scoffed and said, "I need the princesses intact so I might have Kingdom Hearts. But you, Terra, are in my way!"

With her scepter in hand, Maleficent then set Terra flying across the room, clearing her way to the cornerstone. Namine and Xion rushed over to help him as Maleficent reached out for the cornerstone, but a barrier stopped her. Roxas and Ven summoned their keyblades as Minnie demanded, "You'd better stop right now if you know what's good for you!"

"Ohh, how frighten!" Maleficent said without sense of fear. "Very well. I'll stop... just as soon as the castle belongs to me!" Maleficent then disappeared into flames as her evil chuckle echoed the hall.

Roxas and Ven redrew their weapons as Roxas added, "What a hag."

"Nothing like this has ever happened before. I looked through all the records in the library, but I couldn't find a single clue." Minnie said fearfully.

As the others thought of what to do, Goofy then said, "Ohhh! We should go ask somebody who knows a lot of stuff that ain't in a book!"

"Merlin the Wizard!" Donald exclaimed.

"Yes! That's perfect! Merlin just might know something about this mess. Let's ask his advice!" Minnie agreed.

"Merlin was in Hollow Bastion, right? Well Donald, Goofy and I will get him. You guys make sure Kairi, err I mean Terra is alright." Roxas said to his friends as he and the Disney Castle residents left on the Gummi ship. Back with Namine and Xion, they helped up Terra as the Earth knight stared at Namine. Namine looked embarrassed and said, "What are you staring at?"

"It's just, your eyes remind of my friend. They were a lovely ocean blue, just like yours."

Namine blushed scarlet and said, "Thank you for the kind words Terra, but it's kinda awkward coming out of my friend's mouth."

Terra chuckled and replied, "Don't worry; I'll be out of here once I find the way to my body. And If I'm correct, should be here,"

Terra walked away from the blond haired witch and looked around the thorn covered hall. Terra finally came to a particular area and was about to summoned his keyblade when he heard a poof of smoke and Donald's voice. The Earth knight turned around to see Donald, Goofy, and Roxas back with Merlin. Donald stopped his explanation when he saw he was back in the hall of the cornerstone. While investigated the cornerstone, Terra finally summoned his keyblade and a small portal appeared. While pointing it at the portal, a beam of light came out of the keyblade and hit the portal. The tiny portal then expanded into a much larger portal as Merlin finished explaining to the heroes what to do. A grey door was in the hall as well as Merlin looked back to Terra, "My word Terra, I thought Roxas was kidding about what happened to you. We'll you find what you're looking for in that portal?

"Yes Merlin, I know for sure. Leave the others to get rid of these thorns. I have my own mission at hand." Terra explained.

After Roxas, Xion, Donald, and Goofy left through the grey door, Terra, Namine, and Ven were left with Minnie and Merlin. The three keybladers stood near the portal, ready to go in. Terra then looked to his old friend and Namine.

"Are you two sure about going in there with me? It could be dangerous!" Terra warned them.

Namine smiled. "I now; but I'm not letting Kairi's body get hurt. Not until we save Sora."

"And I would never leave your side Terra, we're almost brothers. And brothers must stick together." Ven said proudly.

Terra shed a tear and wiped his eyes. "Thank you, both of you." He choked up, holding back more tears. With a smile on his face, the three jumped into the portal.

Meanwhile in a unknown world—

Terra, Ven, and Namine were drop straight dab in a deserted world. Dirt build up around them as the earth knight led them around. Ven felt a chill in the air, Namine too as Terra held out his arm to stop them.

"It's here…" he announced.

The dirt and dust finally cleared, revealing a suit of armor. The helmet is mostly gold, except for the visor, which is black, and it sports two red prongs, one on either side of the helmet, that point straight up. The arms, legs, and ribs of the armor are black and have orange patterns decorating them. Its knee guards, gauntlets, breast plate, and armored boots are gold, and there are other, smaller pieces of gold armor on its legs. The Armor was kneeled to the ground, facing its keyblade. Terra felt bad, his armor, his body, has been here in this world for years, its colors fading as he remembered it. The armor then spoke is unknown voice; Terra's voice.

"Aqua…Ven…" the armor spoke.

Ven, Terra, and Namine summoned their keyblade at once.

"Wait, it said my friends' names... is this my last thoughts?" Terra thought.

"Keyblade… who are you?" his armor asked.

"Why does my armor ask for who we were? It doesn't know any of us besides Ven." Terra thought again.

"I can feel it... We have met before… it was when…" the armor said again.

"No…you haven't met them before." Terra thought, his keyblade gripped tightly in his hands.

"No… it isn't you…It isn't you that I have chosen…" the armor said.

"Chosen? Does he mean Riku? No, Riku is back on that island… He's not here." Terra thought, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Why is it not him…" the armor said, sounding disappointed.

"He's not here, Riku is not here!" Terra thought, practically yelling at his armor.

"Xe… ha… nort… Is that you…" the armor asked, sounding closer to anger.

"No… I'm not Xehanort, I'm not!" Terra thought, screaming to the heavens.

"Xeha… nort…" the armor repeated.

"Don't attack, don't get then involved!" Terra thought again.

"Xehanort… Xehanort!" The armor roared with anger.

The Armor left its kneeling pose and stood in front of Terra, Namine, and Ven, holding the hilt of the keyblade, End of the Earth. The armor (called the Lingering Will) then unearthed the keyblade from the ground and held it at the ready.

(Cue Rage Awakened—KH2 Final Mix/Birth by Sleep)

The Battle began with The Lingering will attack Terra, Ven, and Namine with a three hit combo ending with its keyblade turning into a drill like object, sending the three backwards. The Lingering Will then stood still for a second before launching dark salvos from its Keyblade before surround itself in a bubble of magic and more dark salvos hit them.

"Damn it, it's using my moves. I have to be careful now." Terra thought.

"If your armor is using Darkness, then let's hold it off with Light." Ven requested.

"Right. Namine, Ven, stay behind me and watch my back." Terra told them.

"Got it!" both Ven and Namine said.

The Lingering will then change his keyblade into large cannon (The same one Terra used) and launched a large Fire Ball at the three. But Terra quickly guarded the attack as it bounced off his keyblade and returned to the armor, stunning him for a second and creating a small explosion. Terra smiled as the smoke cleared, revealing the Lingering Will was not there anymore. The Lingering Will appeared behind them then into air before launching more dark salvos at them. Terra, Ven, and Namine then crashed back onto the dirt ground before rising up again. Namine then stood with her keyblade in the back on her hand as time around her quickly slowed down as she was moving fast. The memory witch performed some quick strikes with her keyblade as time resumed. The Lingering Sentiment took the damage from Namine's Fetal Frame as it then knocked back by Terra casting Firaga. The Lingering Will then turned its keyblade into a whip and grabbed Ven and spun him around before the Wind Knight was shot into the air and hit by The Lingering Will riding on a Jet Ski that was the same color as its keyblade.

"Ventus!" Terra and Namine cried.

Ven crashed back to the ground as the Lingering will turn its attention to Namine and Terra.

The Lingering will then cast a strange spell on Terra and Namine, trapping them in an orange orb that enables them to attack. The Lingering Will was back on its Jet Ski as it dashed its way at the two keyblade wielders, causing mayor damage on the, Before the Lingering Will could hit them again, it was caught in a tornado. Terra and Namine look to see Ven back on his feet. Ventus had conjured the Tornado and held his keyblade in the sky.

"Ven, you're okay!" Terra said with glee.

"I don't know how long I can hold it; hit it with everything you got!" Ven said.

"Gotcha!" Terra yelled back.

The Earth Knight took a hand to his heart and a circled pattern appeared under his feet and light shined around him. "Say Good Bye!" he announced as he then hovered in midair as three balls of light appeared. Like a Volleyball player, Terra spiked the balls of Light at The Lingering Will and made it float in the air.

"Namine, you're turn!" Terra said.

"Right!" Namine nodded.

Namine swung her keyblade in thin air before launching a wave of yellow salvos at the Lingering Will as it crashed back to the ground.

"That should do it, only a bit more." Terra thought.

The Lingering Will rose itself back from the ground as it 'breathed' in anger. As Terra, Namine, and Ven circled back together, The Lingering Will was surrounded by a dark aura. Terra felt it; it was the same darkness that killed his master and allowed Xehanort to take his body. A claw formed on the armor's gauntlet as it dashed to Namine first.

"Namine!" Terra shouted before position himself between Namine and The Lingering Will. The Earth Knight then used his keyblade to protect Namine as he guarded the attack from the Lingering Will. Terra then used his keyblade to then push the armor back and away from Namine. Terra noticed that his armor was scratched up, meaning it was getting weaker.

"Ven!" Terra yelled to Ventus.

"Gotcha!" Ven said as he held his keyblade into the air.

"Light!" Ven announced as pillars of light surrounded The Lingering Will as it was now in pain from the bright light.

Terra placed a hand to his heart and said, "Kairi, are you ready?"

-Inside Kairi's heart—

Kairi held her Destiny's Embrace in her hand and said, "Ready!"

Kairi held her keyblade in a same fashion of opening/sealing a keyhole.

-Back in the real world—

Terra held out his Earth Shaker in his hands as it pointed at his armor. A small keyhole appeared on the armor's chest plate as not one but two beams of Light shot from the keyblade as it hit the keyhole. The beams began to spread apart and glowed wildly as both Terra and the armor glowed as well. Terra kept his footing as the armor now rose from the ground and into the air. Both Terra from the outside and Kairi from the inside kept going as light finally blinded the whole area. Ven and Namine shield their eyes as they couldn't see Terra or the armor. When the light finally faded, The Armor and Terra stood firmly on the ground unmoving. But something was different of both Terra and the armor. The armor was no longer all dusty from all these years here but all shiny and new. But the armor then was gone, revealing a boy in his late teens with brown hair that reaches to the base of his neck in the back and is styled into rather messy, vertical spikes and bangs that frame his face and wore two intersecting straps over his chest, though his red ones are rather different, dropping much lower down and almost resembling crisscrossed suspenders. A gold badge was on the straps on his belt. He wore a skintight, black, high-collared shirt, showing that he is rather muscular. His pants bear a distinct feudal Japanese style; his belt is tied like an obi-sash and he wears hakama (traditional samurai pants distinguished by the large pleats). His hakama are dark grey near the top, with several loops for his belt and two buttons, both of which are undone. The rest of the pants are tan with a small, lighter stripe of tan on the bottom hem. He wore a plain black wristband on his right arm, while his left arm is significantly more armored. On his left arm, he wore armor on his arm which was large, ornate crest (colored gold). He also wore a black, fingerless glove on his hand and what appears to be a black gauntlet on his forearm, over the segmented armor, which also has small pieces of dark red armor on it. Lastly his armored boots are dark brown and gold. When he opened his eyes, they were a dark blue. Ven cheered. "Terra!"

Terra look to see his was now back in his body and saw that Kairi was back to normal too. Kairi had a weak smile on her face as she said, "It worked… it really worked…" And Kairi looked about to collapsed. Namine and Ventus gasped as Kairi was ready to drop to the ground. Terra quickly ran to Kairi and caught her into his arms.

"Thank you Kairi, thank you." Terra thought. He then added in his thoughts, "Her light felt familiar, and her keyblade looked familiar too. Aqua, is this your successor?"

One hour later—

"Kairi wake up!" a girl's voice said.

Kairi opened her eyes to find Terra, Ven, and Namine hovering over her. The red haired princess groaned as she slowly rose from the ground. Namine then hugged her.

"Kai, you're okay, don't always worry me when you do stuff like that!"

Kairi giggled and removed the memory witch from her. "I'm okay Nami, I am stronger than I look." she then look to Terra. "Now we finally meet in the real world." Kairi smiled brightly and closed her eyes. "I helped you, you helped me; we're square now."

"True..." Terra then eyed Kairi even more and saw a flash of a girl with blue hair before seeing Kairi's face again. "Kairi, you remind me of my friend Aqua, she was a very caring person."

Kairi smiled. "I guess me and her are really alike. Terra, I have a feeling Aqua is out there, Yen Sid wouldn't give me this task if she wasn't. I'll find Aqua, that's a promise."

Terra smiled too. "Thanks Kairi."

After casting cure on each other, they hurried back to the portal to Disney Castle.

-Meanwhile back in the Hall of the Cornerstone—

While Terra and his allies did their task, Roxas and the other's task with the past was finished too as the thorns were getting paler and paler as Terra, Ven, Namine, and Kairi exited just in time. Finally the thorns disappeared, revealing the rest of the room and its brightness. Chip and Dale jumped for joy and Minnie and Merlin watched too."

"The thorns have disappeared!" Minnie said with awe.

"By George, Roxas and the others have completed their mission!" added Merlin, proud of Roxas and his team.

"Hooray!" cheered Chip.

"Let's have an acorn fest to celebrate!" added Dale.

"Let's not and say we did." Terra said.

The four turned to find Terra with Namine, Ven, and Kairi. They gasped.

"Terra, it's you!" the four exclaimed

"So you finally got back your body. Good work, my boy!" Merlin said.

"Thanks to Kairi, I wouldn't have done it without her." Terra noted.

Behind them, the party could hear the door shake as Donald was first to exit like he was being thrown into the door and out. Roxas, Xion, and Goofy exited out too.

"Welcome back" Minnie greeted. "Because of your bravery, the castle is safe and protected again. Thank you so much for all you done!"

"Good work you guys!" Chip and Dale said together.

"Now I hope you four weren't doing anything reckless while you were there?" Merlin asked concerned.

"Of course not!" Donald said at once and puffing his chest with pride.

Roxas, Xion, and Goofy then laughed. In the far entrance of the room, someone was peeking through. It was a female duck wearing a beautiful purple dress and a tiara on her head. Donald then look to see her.

"Daisy!" he said excited.

Daisy stood at the entrance, happy to see Donald. Kairi, Terra, Namine, and Ventus walked up to their rest of their friends.

"Daisy I'm back!" Donald yelled as he waddled over to see her.

"Who?" Kairi asked.

"Daisy is Donald's very special sweetheart." Goofy explained.

"Really…" Kairi said in a not sure tone.

Daisy's smile quickly turned into a scowled and said scolding, "Donald, you forgot about our date again. You better have a good excuse this time."

"But Daisy… I…" Donald said, trying to explain himself. He slowly tried to back away as Daisy added, "I know it's an important mission, but you could at least check in once in a while."

Donald then looked to Kairi. "Kairi!" he said in a back-me-up kind of voice. Donald then looks to the door to Timeless River and had an idea. He chuckled as Merlin said in warning kind of voice, "Donald!"

"Just be a minute." He bowed before making a beeline for the door. Daisy quickly grabbed his tail feathers and said, "Going somewhere?"

"Of course not!" he lied, before getting out of Daisy's grasp and running away. "Donald!" she cried out and chase after him. The Heroes all laughed as they watched Donald get chased by Daisy. Even Terra joined in, the first real laugh he had in years.

"Oh look!" Minnie said, getting everyone's attention (Including Donald and Daisy (the latter being about to be yelled at).

The Cornerstone began to glow as Roxas' Oathkeeper appeared in his hand. A Keyhole appeared as Roxas then opened a new path, Kairi walk to Daisy and Donald and said in a nervous tone, "Excuse me Miss Daisy, we need to barrow Donald for a little longer."

"How much longer?" she retorted as Kairi pondered what she said.

"Don't worry Daisy, I be back soon!" Donald assured her. She nodded in re3sponse and smiled.

"Don't you worry Queen Minnie, we'll return!" Goofy assured the queen of Disney Castle.

"Please tell the King that we're still looking for him and my friends." Kairi said to the queen too.

"I will!" Queen Minnie replied.

"See ya soon!" The Chipmunks said in unison.

"Think wisely!" Merlin added as Minnie, Daisy, Chip, Dale, and Merlin all waved good bye as Kairi and her friends all returned to the Gummi Ship.

-Inside the Gummi Ship—

Roxas, Xion, Donald, and Goofy all then introduce themselves to Terra properly. Once Terra was caught up with their mission, The Earth Knight then asked, "So the organization has Sora. Do you know what they're doing with him now?"

Roxas folded his arms and said, "All I remember is that Sora is fighting Heartless, but the rest is a blank."

"Why is the Organization making Sora fight the Heartless? Don't we already do that?" asked Goofy.

"I'm not sure, but we better continue our search and help the worlds the best we can." Kairi said.

"Right!" the others said as the Gummi ship continued to the next world.

-Meanwhile in the organization's world—

Number VIII Axel was walking to the Grey Area where he found Number VI Zexion was the only one in there.

"Zexion has Sora returned from his mission?" asked Axel.

"No, he hasn't but Vexen and Larxene are with him. They should return as well," Zexion informed him.

"Well I have another question… Is it hard seeing your stepsister again, Ienzo?" asked Axel.

Zexion didn't speak for a minute and then said, "Can't say for sure. We aren't related by blood, but Kairi was my little sister only by a few years. Then that day we became nobodies, was the last time I saw her… until now."

The two walked into the Grey area to find Marluxia, Lexaeus, and Saix in the room. A corridor of darkness opened to reveal Sora wearing his white cloak along with Vexen and Larxene. Saix went to meet them.

"A mission accomplished, Saix. Sora did very well collecting heartless." Larxene said, placing a hand to Sora's spiky hair. Sora didn't response to Larxene touching him as he said, "It doesn't matter how many heartless I kill, I will get Namine back." And walk out of the Grey Area.

"I heard from the nobodies that the princess and her group will be heading to Port Royal. Why don't you pay them a visit?" Saix said to Larxene.

Larxene smiled a mischievous smile as she disappeared into a corridor of darkness.

Inside the Superior's quarters—

Xemnas stood in his room, looking at the Kingdom hearts moon. The Superior's door was knocked as Saix stepped in.

"Pardon my intrudsion, sir, but we have not yet found what you were looking for." Saix said.

"Very well, tell everyone to continue their search while on their missions." Xemnas instructed.

"Yes sir." Saix said and left the room, leaving Xemnas to look back to the window and Kingdom Hearts moon.

His eyes fixated on it as he said, "Not matter where you are, I will find you; Aqua."

Michael: And finished! Finally I got this chapter done and I really enjoyed writing this. And don't worry; Kairi won't get beaten up so easily next time, just to prove she's not invincible and that I don't make any characters I care about one-shot people. That's bad writing and shows that you don't really care for the series you're in, you only like a portion of it. And believe me; Kairi will interact with her teammates throughout the story. And DDD is looking good, once more Traverse Town Storyline comes, chapter two will come. Next chapter, our heroes head to Port Royal and meet Jack, Will, and Elizabeth. Will more from the movie be added and what's Larxene going to do in Port Royal? Find out soon enough. Please review and before anyone asks, I will only say this only once…

I do not ship Kairi with Terra, members of the Organization, and Vanitas as well. I might be a shipper, but I got some standards. Same with Terra. despite how people might overhype it, Terra belongs to Aqua.