Hey there Chapter 12!

Shout outs!

LegionaryPrime: Thanks! And here it is!

TerraKH: Thanks, and I allready answered it! I'm not sure if allready next chapter but in Chapter 15 he'll be in here!

khheroxasoray: Yeah, Vincent is cool. And a Disney Character leaving his Homeworld is a bit... i don't know If for a final battle then yes, else... I'm still not sure. Yeah, he's a bit poor, but still their Leader so with out him it would be over.

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"You know why you are here men?"

"Sir, No Sir!" the crew of the Shera answered the question of the captain in unison.

The whole crew of the ship was gathered in the simulation room. They were standing in the middle of an airfield, and Cid was dressed in a military uniform. Sora and Cloud where watching from a few meters away.

"He's sure one of his crew is a spy, huh?" Sora asked, looking over to the crew.

Cloud nodded "Yeah, seems so…"

"Do you know who our enemy is?" Cid asked, knowing that his crew shouldn't know it yet.

All except three men answered with a no.

"Okay, everybody can leave again. Except those which said yes. That would be: Jaeger, Williams and Jenkins."

The crew left through a door that appeared out of nothing.

"So, tell me where do you know who is the enemy, and even more important, do you really know?" Cid asked, exhaling the smoke of his cigarette in each man's face.

"Captain, the others returned from the medical check and want you to meet them in the Command Central." Someone said over the ship's intercom.

Cid sighed and the simulation room was deactivated.

"You three can leave, but I will come back to this…" he muttered and sent the three men out.

"Let's go Sora, Chocobo. We need to get in the Command Central, right?" Cid said and left the simulation room was well.


The Command Central was dark as Sora entered it.

Cid entered second and switched on the power to light up the computer table and the other technic things that where in the room.

Soon after, Riku, Kairi, Aqua and, to Sora's surprise, Vincent entered the room.

"So you want to join us?" Sora asked curious.

The dark gunman only nodded and remained silent.

"Then welcome in our little group!" Sora exclaimed happy and shook Vincent's hand.

"Where do you want us to go next?" Cid asked after a moment of silence.

Sora looked surprised but then looked at the virtual map in front of him. He pointed at a dot that was labeled Halloween Town.

"There." He simply said and then sat down on a nearby chair.

"Who volunteres to go with me?" he asked after a moment and looked into the group.

After a moment of rather awkward silence, Riku raised his hand "I'd come with you."

Cid nodded "Good than Sora, Riku and… Cloud will go to Halloween Town, while we try to sort things out here." He said and tipped a command on the table's screen.

"What?" Cloud asked surprised "Who said I even wanted to go?"

Cid looked a bit surprised at him "If they are three people they are more than if they are only two. So I chose you to help them." he said with a smirk.

"What?" Cloud asked again.

Sora came to Cloud "C'mon Cloud, It'll be fun! I promise!"

"Fine…" Cloud growled after a while and then immediately left the Command Central.

"How long till we arrive there?" Sora asked Cid, who immediately checked it on the table.

"You've got eight hours."

Sora nodded and left the Central towards his own room.


With a flash of light, Sora, Cloud and Riku appeared in Halloween Town.

Sora managed to recall the spell Donald casted to enchant their cloths, so they matched the word they were on.

He wore his normal vampire outfit, only with a blood red version of his gauntlet around his left arm. He also still wore the bandage to support his arm.

"What the hell did you turn me into?" Riku asked shocked.

Sora looked at his best friend and was surprised to see that parts of Riku's face where rotten off and revealed his skull. His cloths where torn apart and covered with blood. The holes of bullets where all over Riku's chest. He also had the shoulder pad of his armor on his right shoulder. It was full with splashes of blood.

"I think you're a zombie, Riku." Sora answered with a grin on his lips.

Riku and Sora turned around to see Cloud's costume.

He wore all black. Black boots, Black shirt, Black jacket over the shirt and a black cape.

There was only one little detail that shocked Sora and Riku.

"Uhm… Could you please touch your hair, Cloud?" Riku asked.

Cloud's hand moved to where his hair should be and met… nothing.

"What?" Cloud gasped shocked and lowered his hand a bit, trying to touch his bald head.

But his hand again met only air.

Cloud's hand wandered even further down to where the collar of his shirt started.

"What the hell did you do to me, Sora?" Cloud yelled angry at the brown haired teen.

"I only casted the spell on you! The rest is totally random!" Sora tried to defend himself.

"I have no head! Do you know what that mea-" Cloud yelled at Sora, who meanwhile took a pumpkin from one of the nearby gravestones.

"You know what?" Cloud suddenly said "I'm fine…"

Sora nodded surprised and threw the pumpkin away again.

"Good, then let's search for Jack." He said and walked in the direction of Halloween Town's center.

On the central plaza, there was a tall but very thin man, walking around and trying to think about something.

"Creepy… Terrifying… Horrible… God damn it, I have no ideas!" the man mumbled to himself.

"Jack?" Sora asked the man, trying not to surprise him.

The man jumped around surprised and readied himself for a fight to the death.

"Whatdayawant?" he said surprised, but then saw Sora.

"Sora! I'm glad you came! Heartless and strange silver guys are invading Christmas town! Sandy informed me to get him help or else, Christmas might get canceled this year!" the Pumpkin King explained to his friend "Oh, and your friend here also lacks a head." He added as he saw Cloud.

"I know!" the headless swordsman snorted angry.

"Uhm… who is Sandy?" Riku asked confused.

"Sandy Claws of course! Sora was totally flipped out as he met him!" Jack exclaimed happy.

"He means Santa." Sora quickly explained.

"How many timed do I have to explain it to you?" Riku sighed. "Santa Claus isn't real!"

"He is, believe me!" Sora answered.

The headless Cloud began to laugh "Wait! Sora, a sixteen year old guy, still believes in Santa Claus? That's hilarious!"

"Shut it! Both of you!" Sora yelled angry at his laughing companions.

"Follow me, I'll bring you to the portal." Jack said and led them through Halloween Town to the portal.

"How long is it ago that the first Heartless appeared?" Sora asked on the way.

"It's a few hours ago. I'd say ten or so, but I don't know it for sure." Jack explained.

Sora sighed "So we don't know how many there are… that will be fun…" he said sarcastic.

"We do know that they did a lot of damage over there, but I can't say how-" but Jack was interrupted by the familiar sound of appearing Heartless.

"Great…" Cloud muttered as he pulled the Main Blade of his Sword from his back.

Cloud and Riku charged at the Heartless, while Jack and Sora kept the ghost heartless with magic at distance.

"Since when don't you need your Keyblade to use magic?" Jack asked while he roasted one of the Heartless.

Sora swung around and impaled another Heartless on an ice shard "I don't really need it, but I used it to channel my magic power through it. After a bit of- Firaga- training, I didn't need my Keyblade for it anymore." He explained and meanwhile sent a burst of fire at a Heartless that tried to attack Cloud from behind.

With one last slash, Cloud destroyed the last of the Heartless.

"We should hurry," Sora said "Whatever makes the Heartless appear, they are enough to attack Halloween Town too."

The group quickly ran up to the portal and Cloud and Riku immediately leaped through it.

"Sora, I'll stay here. My town needs protection." Jack said before Sora used the portal as well.

Sora looked back and nodded before jumping through the portal.

"Hm… headless… Headless Rider… That's it!" Jack said as he walked back into Halloween Town.


As he expected, Sora's cloth turned into the black Santa outfit he wore before.

Riku's cloth turned into those of a rich man from a past century and he also wore an old top hat.

"I really hate this 'spell' of yours…" Cloud said angry to Sora. His cloth turned into that of an Christmas elf. He looked like he really worked for Santa, but then grew too big.

Sora and Riku burst out in a fit of laugher, before Cloud hit the both over the head.

"Shut it, Boys. We have something to do, remember?" he said angry.

Sora and Riku both nodded and Sora took the lead. They soon reached the entrance to Santa's workshop.

As they reached the door, Sora turned around to Riku "Prepare to see Santa's Workshop and Santa Claus himself!" he said happy and pushed the door open.

"Woah" Riku gasped shocked.

"Yeah, amazing right?" Sora said with a grin and turned around. His grin immediately disappeared.

Almost the complete Workshop was blown away and where the Wrapping rooms should be, there was only a pile of rubble.

All three walked into the ruin and looked around. After they found nothing, they crawled over the pile of rubble and to the Christmas Tree plaza.

There, a rather fat man in a red outfit was tied up and got an arrow gun held to the head.

"What do you think you are? You will land on the Naughty list for all times!" the old man yelled angry at the owner of the arrow gun.

The hooded man started to laugh "As if! You, old man, are an important part in my bosses plan. Cause no presents means no happy children means more darkness in the worlds!" the man explained and the knocked the older man out.

"Stop right there!" Sora yelled at the hooded man and fired a Fire blast past the man's head.

The man spun around furiously "What the hell, boy? You almost hit me! But you won't stop our plan! Nobody can stop us!" he said and fired his guns at Sora while he summoned a Corridor of Darkness.

With a flash of light, the old tied up man disappeared.

"Wha- Where did he go?" the hooded man asked surprised and looked around. In this moment, Cloud and Riku charged at him, while Sora fired a load of Thunder spells at him.

"God fucking damn it!" the man yelled and fired a blast of Darkness in the snow. "Deal with that first." He said and then disappeared through the Corridor.

The snow started to raise up in the air and Cloud and Riku where thrown down by the now giant hill of snow.

(Spooks of Halloween Town, Kingdom Hearts II)

Suddenly, the snow started to move and formed itself into a giant snowman with glowing yellow eyes and a Heartless symbol on the chest.

"Great, just Great!" Sora said to himself and summoned his armor. With a flash, he also summoned Oblivion and also the Decisive Pumpkin Keyblade. Riku and Cloud came to Sora's side.

„What should we do?" Riku asked the others.

„We need to use Fire spells on that thing. And they need to be as powerful as possible." Sora said.

The three stormed forward in the same moment. Cloud and Riku each concentrated on the two arms of the giant snowman, while Sora tried to get up to the head of the Heartless.

Sora leaped up in the direction of the head, but in that moment one of the Snowman's hands swung in his direction and hit him dead on. Sora was sent flying away and crashed into one of the surrounding buildings, tearing the walls of it down.

Cloud jumped up in the air and his sword started to glow in a faint blue light. He swung it down and released a blue wave of energy that met the Snowman's arm. The arm was cut off by the beam and fell to the ground. The Heartless groaned and let an ice breath at Cloud, freezing him solid and he dropped to the ground.

"Cloud!" Riku yelled and fired a Firaga at the other arm of the snowman. The flaming ball hit dead on, but didn't show much effect to the Snow.

He landed close to the frozen Cloud and tried to push him from the battle ground, but failed to move him even a bit.

Someone touched Riku on the shoulder. He looked up and saw Sora, blood streaming down from a cut on his face. With a flash, his armor turned completely silver.

Sora shot up in the air and crashed right into the Heartless Snowman's face.

"I didn't want to use that anymore, but you leave me no choice." He said as he drove both his Keyblades into the Snowy head.

"Flare!" Sora yelled and within a second, the Snowman's head exploded in an eruption of steam. Sora was fully engulfed by the cloud of steam, while Riku managed to summon his armor in the last moment.

(end Spooks of Halloween Town)

As Riku looked up again, Sora once again stood on his side, but this time with his helmet on.

"Where's that bastard now? I'll cut that thing into pieces!" Cloud, who was freed from the ice now, asked.

"Sora dealt with the thing…" Riku explained to the swordsman "But really, it was all in vain. Xehanort has that guy for his plans. That means we failed…"

With a flash, the tied up man appeared again beside the group.

All three jumped as they saw the man appear and Sora quickly untied the man.

"Thank you Sora. You're good this year again." the old man said thankfully.

"Uhm Sorry if I ask, but who are you? And why are you part of Xehanort's plans?" Riku asked the man.

"Riku that's Santa! You should know how he looks if he don't exists!" Sora said.

Riku's eyes grew wide as he realized he really talked to Santa Claus.

"You… I… I mean I always knew he existed!"

"Don't lie Riku that only brings you on the Naughty list!" Santa Claus reminded the silver haired teen.

Riku nodded "Yeah, I'm Sorry."

"What actually happened to you Mr. Claus, Sir?" Cloud asked, still a bit shocked.

"I teleported into the future a bit, of course! Thank god I already got the time manipulating powers for Christmas!" the old man explained.

"For Christmas?" Sora asked surprised.

"Well of course! Tomorrow is Christmas, don't you know Sora?" Santa asked surprised.

"We have much stress at the moment, we totally forgot about Christmas." Riku explained for Sora.

"Then follow me, as a thanks I'll give all of you a special present. And even an day earlier as usual!" Santa said and lead them to his house.

A few minutes later, they exited the house again, each carrying a few presents.

Sora managed to get the signal switch out of his pocket "Thanks for everything Santa! And tell Jack that we are happy if he could help us too!"

"I surly will." The old man said laughing "And don't forget that there is also a message for the receiver of the present!"

Sora nodded and activated the switch. With a flash of light, they were gone.

"Why the hell do you bring presents?" Cid asked surprised as Sora and the others exited the teleporter.

"I'll explain it later. Call the whole group to the Observation deck in one Hour, okay?" Sora asked and left the room.

"Okay…" Cid answered confused.


"So, why did you want to meet us here and not in the Command Central?" Aqua asked curious.

Sora grinned "Cause this is something special. Cloud, Riku, help me please." He said and started to hand out the presents.

Everybody looked surprised at Sora.
"Before you ask, Merry Christmas!" he said with a big smile, before he was handed the last present, labeled Sora, by Riku.

Sora and the others all started to unwrap their presents. In Sora's box was a white button with and wing on it. As he touched the small item, it melted with his cloth.

There was also a letter in the box. Sora took it out and started to read.

Dear Sora.

I hope you know how to use this and will use it to do the good it is supposed to be used for.

There won't be much days like this day, where you are with your friends in peace, so better use it.

Grief my fill your heart soon, but remember:

Your friends are your power.

And even if they are gone, their memory will hopefully let you carry on.

Merry Christmas!

Santa

PS: The button is called "Seraph" if you want to know its name.

PPS: Love is strong in days of War.

"A letter from Santa. Something else, isn't it?" Roxas asked in Sora's mind.

"Yeah…" Sora whispered.

Done!

I hope like always you liked it, and if not tell me why!
This chapter was hard for me, because I hadn't really a plan how it should end, but I think i did not so bad on the ending.

Yay, holidays! I hope I can update on Sunday again.

Till then!