In Castle Oblivion; Maleficent had gathered Pete and Captain James Hook to watch what had transpired form her globe. Maleficent had a wide grin of glee as she faced her allies and told him "so another world fallen to the Darkness and now another Maiden of Light captured. Once Riku retrieves the Keyblade and the 7th Maiden from the Sora boy we will have everything we need."

"Yes but now we know that Jafar was planning on betraying us all and almost succeeded, I knew he was a giant snake but the nerve of him. Plus thanks to the Riku boy we can't even use his new powers with that Lamp!" Pete ranted on and Hook shook his head at him. "Don't you go disrespecting me Hook as you should know the hierarchy around here! I am Maleficent' number one guy especially with Jafar gotten rid of and Hades bailing out after Olympus was locked from us." Pete told him and Hook then laughed in his face.

"Don't be ridiculous; you are a thug and in the hierarchy around here I think you will find that I have the best claim to being second in command. I am a swashbuckling adventurer who has led his crew with cunning wit and intellect that comes from being an Eton alumni while you are a simpleton and Maleficent's errand boy!" Hook told him which got Pete angry.

"I got that Belle girl for Maleficent and you couldn't get even one of them princesses! You were mistaken about that Wendy girl being one of them and let's not forget that for hundreds of years you have been bested by Peter Pan and those Lost Boys!" Pete reminded him and Hook's fury at him bringing up Peter Pan caused him to get out his sword and point it at Pete.

"One more word Pete; it's a shame Neverland fell to the Darkness because I bet that Crocodile would leave me alone forever if I gave you to it to feed. You would fill him up so much that he would never be hungry again!" Hook warned him and Pete looked like he was ready to fight back.

Maleficent had been feeling entertained by this exchange but knew it couldn't last so she then stamped the floor with her staff getting their attention. "This cannot be allowed to continue; arguing amongst us will do nothing but divide us. We have to stay united especially when we are so close to victory." Maleficent warned them as they then both quietened down.

"When we use power of the 7 Maidens of Light to open the door to Kingdom Hearts; we will be able to reshape all of reality to our wishes. The remaining worlds will fall to Darkness and we will rule over all with not only the power of the Kingdom Hearts but Chernabog by our side as well!" Maleficent told him and both Hook and Pete both winced in fear at the mention of Chernabog.

Chernabog was an all powerful devil that controls darkness and leads an army of dead souls that even Hades would be envious of. On his world he stays atop of Bald Mountain and during the night he arises and his undead army roams free until the light of the sun drives him and his army back into the Mountain.

When they started their full scale invasion Bald Mountain was one of the first worlds to full; Maleficent came to him upon discovering his world's Keyhole on the peak of the Bald Mountain where he rested. She managed to let the feared devil know of her plans and how it could benefit him.

With him and his Mountain in the realm of Darkness once his world was engulfed; he would just have to wait as he then would draw power from each world that would then be lost to Darkness. Once they have unlock Kingdom Hearts and rule over all with the Light sniffed out: Chernabog and his forces would be free to do as he pleased with his even greater power and no light to ever oppose him ever again.

"Terrific Maleficent but what about those that can still pose an obstacle to what we are trying to do? Sora the boy with the Keyblade still has it along with the 7th Maiden we need and his Mother who has one of her own; plus the King is still out there being unaccounted for. Who knows how many worlds he managed to lock himself." Hook brought up and Pete was not happy of his nemesis being brought up.

Pete decided to put in his thoughts "and I still don't trust that Xigbar fellow; he is a wild card I say and I don't why he decided to help us with what he said about Riku or even how he knew about it in the first place!"

Maleficent shook her head and said "I don't know how many times I need to assure you all but I know full well Xigbar has his own secret agenda. Since his Intel was much useful I will let him be; as long as his agenda doesn't interfere with our own. The moment that our agendas do interfere with eachother, he will be dealt with! As for the King, I doubt we should worry about him; for every world he does manage to save a hundreds more falls to the Darkness. It will be all for naught once we have won!"


After they had woken up they got ready to go to their next world. Hercules was there to wish them luck as well as Cloud; Phil came up to them and showed them a scroll with a spell to use. "It helps change your forms in case you need to adapt to any weird surprises that a world's nature and logic should throw at you. Say you go to a world with vehicles as the dominant life forms; you turn into talking vehicles." Phil explained to them and they managed to accept it easy enough.

Then Ava got to work on the ritual that would send them to the next world to fight the Heartless and lock the Keyhole; however during the ritual then flew down was a blue man in a toga. He had wings on his helmet and feet. "Phil; I have a few messages for you. Zeus wants to discuss getting things prepared if the Heartless get worse and Ares wants to invite you to a party he is holding next month, provided of course there is a next month..."

He then ended up distracting Ava and he accidentally bumped into Sora causing him to go into the centre and disappear with it. Ava looked in despair and then it turned to anger as she was ready to throttle the guy. Phil then told them that the guy was Hermes the messenger of the Gods and then looked over the ground where Sora had disappeared to.

Ophilia then asked with concern if Ava can just cast the ritual again and be sent where Sora was. "The magic involved is so strong that it takes time for me to gather the energy to try again; plus without knowing exactly where Sora was sent to I can't pinpoint the location of the world." Ava then said in regret and was close to tears.

"I know my magic rituals and I think I know a guy around here who can help determine which world Sora was sent to. It will take a while to prepare though." Phil told them to the relief of Ophilia and Ava.

"Well in the meantime Phil can you prepare a match in the coliseum of me facing off against Hermes here?" Ava asked glaring daggers at Hermes who gulped. Phil then sent a look at Hermes that silently told him that he should be afraid.


Sora found himself in hysterics as he was now in the middle of what felt like an ocean and was splashing about as while he could swim in the pool of the island's waterfalls just fine; swimming in the middle of a body of water that covered his entire self was a whole different matter entirely.

He then quickly remembered the magic that Phil showed him and cast it. He then found himself being able to stay still and see in the ocean jsut fine. He had to admit now he could see the water filled world he was now in looked quite nice.

He then realised he was without his shirt now and looked and saw a fish tail where his legs should be which he was now moving about. It felt weird and he realised that he had turned into a mermaid! Would that be merman? He didn't know much about these mythical creatures after all.

He then began quickly practicing swimming across the ocean and found with his new form that it felt nice. It seemed that it was now as easy as walking. After some more practice he then noticed a female's voice humming a song and it was quite beautiful.

He then followed the sound of it and was amazed to see a pretty looking red haired Mermaid who looked slightly older than him. He was about to go up and get some answers where he was when he found the Heartless appearing.

They looked like fish type Heartless now and he found he could summon his Keyblade just fine. He then managed to make short work of them. He then saw the mermaid noticed him and was swimming towards him with great intrigue followed by a blue and yellow fish.

"Are you sure we should be going up to see him Ariel? He looks weird with that strong weapon of his." The fish told the mermaid who shook her head.

"He doesn't look too bad Flounder, I'm Ariel and this is my friend Flounder!" the mermaid told Sora introducing herself and Flounder nervously shook his finn at him in what appeared to be a wave.

"Hi I'm Sora!" Sora said introducing himself with a cheesy smile that made Ariel giggle. Ariel then asked if he could follow them home so she can ask him about how he beat those monsters. Sora then followed her and Flounder but was looking a bit down wondering if Ariel was laughing at him just now.