*I don't own any of the Kingdom Hearts characters or Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest characters; I only own Katie, Hisoka, and The Remaining

*Render belongs to tsukuneXmoka


"You sure you know where you're going?" Render asked Katie.

Katie slightly looked over to shoulder. She shrugged. "I'm only going by what I can remember from the movie…I haven't exactly had time to watch it lately."

"Not had very much free time while training under Terra, right?" Riku laughed.

Katie made a small chuckle. "Hehe…yeah…"

"Wait, whoa, Terra?" Render repeated, astonished. "He's…no longer, you know…"

"Nope. Like I said back at the Tower, everything has changed. No more Master Xehanort, no more Organization XIII, no Maleficent and Pete, no hostile Unversed…just Heartless and Nobodies are the norm. Everyone is a Keyblade Master, except for Kairi, she's a sorceress along with Naminé and, well, everyone is back…except for Master Eraqus. He's dead dead. The only things that we have left of him are Land of Departure and his Keyblade."

Render raised his eyebrow when he noticed she left something out. "I noticed back in Radiant Garden…Aerith wasn't there—"

He was interrupted by a threatening growl from Katie, making him and Riku stop in their tracks with shock. "Let's just find that damn Chest before The Remaining do, okay?" she hissed.

Render opened his mouth to apologize but shut it; he shook his head and let out a huff.

Riku advised quietly to Render after making sure Katie wasn't listening, "Don't mention anything about Aerith, Render. It's a very sensitive topic to her."

"I won't…" Render promised. He looked back up ahead when he heard a faint buzzing. "What was that?"

Katie stuck her hand into one of her pockets to pull out a copper case. She opened it and said, "It's a Farnsworth, I use it for finding Heartless and as a communicator." Her eyes went back to its screen. "And it looks like some Heartless are advancing slowly towards three Somebodies."

"The Remaining?" Riku asked her.

Katie shook her head. "No…I don't think so…I think that—" She stopped. Her Keyblades appeared in her hands. "Crap." She burst into a sprint.

"Wha—Katie! Come back!" Riku called after her. He wielded his own and followed her. Render hurried after him.

The Keyblade Wielder and Master caught up with Katie, who was crouching behind overgrown grass and tangled palm tree leaves. "What are you doing?" Render whispered to Katie, going beside Katie.

Katie pointed through the leaves. "You see that? Those pirates over there?" Render followed Katie's finger to the said pirates, there were three: two males and one female. "See those two guys? That's Pintel and Ragetti. Pintel's the fat one, Regetti's the scrawny one. They have the Chest."

"So what's your plan?" Riku asked.

"Simple: Snag and grab. I know that I said that the pirates can have the Chest and Key but now that I think about it, if we have the Chest, and if somehow The Remaining got the Key, they won't be able to control the seas/destroy it."

"What? Katie, that wasn't the—" Riku got interrupted by one the pirates:

The pirates carrying the Chest drop it, Pintel exclaimed, "What in the blazes is that?"

The girl pirate turned around and backed up a bit. "Oh no…not the Heartless…"

"She knows what the Heartless are?" Riku said, surprised.

"Oh course she does. That's Elizabeth, the Heartless have attacked this world before but that was during Sora's journey to find you." Katie looked at her Farnworth again. "Oh boy, that's a lot of Heartless…"

"How many we talking?" Render questioned.

"About a hundred it looks like. But we can handle that." Katie snapped the Farnsworth shut and made Chaos Ripper return.

When she looked back up, the pirates were gone. Instead it was a swarm of Heartless…and sea-creature human hybrids.

"Great. Davy Jones' crew." Katie burst through the leaves when they all passed out of her view. "Come on! Let's go!" She went after the swarm of Heartless and crew. Riku went after her, his Keyblade in hand.

Render started to follow the two young Keyblade Masters but then remembered the Chest, it was still on the ground. He turned around to get it but got blasted to the ground by a large fireball. He groaned as he slowly got up. He growled when he saw his attacker come into view.

It was a The Remaining member. "Oops. Sorry." The member uttered dryly, to Render, it sounded like a guy. He walked over to the Chest and tapped it with his boot. "So this is the famous Chest, huh?" He grabbed it.

"Hey!" Render yelled. He flipped up to his feet and wielded his Keyblades.

"Oh, put those things away." The Remaining member pulled down his hood, revealing his face. He had black hair with one grey streak in a tight pony-tail. He took off his gas-mask, showing off gold eyes, his right faded away as if he was blind in that eye. He looked like he was in his late teens.

Render raised an eyebrow. "…Xigbar…?" A much younger Xigbar, more like.

"Xigbar? Who the heck is Xigbar? My name's Hisoka Usotsuki." Hisoka waved bye as he turned around. "Later, Keyblade Wielder."

"Stop!" Render threw Dark Decent at Hisoka.

Hisoka jumped out of the Keyblade's way. He made a dark chuckle and pulled out a staff that looked like a shepherd's crook. He pointed it at Render. "Try that again, kid. See what happens." He dared behind a cruel smirk.

Render growled when his Keyblade returned to his grip and started to turn around.

"That's what I thought…"

Render fired a Firaga spell.

Hisoka waved his staff in front of him, a large ice shard zoomed out of the staff and made contact with the Firaga spell, making the Firaga spell vaporize. "Oh, so that's how you want to do this, huh Mr. Sneaky?" He gave Render a threating look. "You should learn to never mess with a Black Mage." He thrusted his staff into the sky. "Thunder!" Large lightning bolts crackled their way to Render.

Render back flipped away from the bolts, he threw Fenrir at Hisoka and charged towards him. Hisoka ducked from the Keyblade and fired a Firaga spell at Render; Render evaded the fireball and jumped high in the air. His Keyblade's sunk into the dirt when Hisoka flipped away from the attack. He growled and spun on his foot, swinging his Keyblade towards Hisoka's back. Hisoka blocked just in time by taking his staff over his head. Hisoka pushed Render away and spun around to fire a Blizzaga spell. Render cut the Blizzaga in half with Fenrir, making the ice crystal go past him. He winced when his hand that held Fenrir stung. He looked down and widened. His hand was frosted over.

"Looks like I gave you frostbite…sorry, dude."

"Sorry?" Render repeated bitterly. "Like hell you are."

Hisoka shrugged. "Meh, whatever. Wind!" A visible gust of wind burst out of his staff. He followed the Aero spell with a Thundaga spell.

Render let out a yell of surprise when he got lifted off the ground. He winced when the lightning bolts hit his skin, leaving burn marks. The jet of air plopped Render on his back.

"Meteor!" Hisoka yelled, snapping Render out of his daze. A dark cloud formed above Render and slowly, a large, pointed rock came out of the cloud. Its tip burst into flame as it fell towards Render. Render rolled to the side, making the Meteor miss him. But the shock wave threw him to a base of a palm tree. He groaned in pain on the impact. He heard Hisoka approach him. "Had enough yet?" Hisoka asked him.

Hisoka's eyes widened in surprise as Render slowly got up from the ground. "No…" he panted. "I don't give up. Ever."

"You better start learning how, Keyblade Wielder. You're pretty banged up."

Render drew his mouth back into a snarl.

Hisoka shook his head, "Look, I don't want to kill you, man."

"Since when does the bad guy learns mercy?" Render questioned.

"Think of it as I'm not your stereotypical type of bad guy." Hisoka simply answered. He mock saluted at Render. "Catch you later!" He ran off.

"Hey, wait!" Render yelled after Hisoka. He scrambled up to his feet and ran after the Black Mage. "Stop!"

Hisoka casted a Firaga spell over his shoulder. "I told you, get lost!"

Render jumped out of the fireball's way and looked up to see another one inches away from his head. He knew he couldn't invade it. He felt an arm grab him by the torso and rocketed him into the air, he saw a flash of black in the corner of his eye and looked up and half gasped. "Katie?"

"Geez-a-loo, Render! You've could've gotten hurt!" Katie told him in a harsh tone.

"He's got the Chest!" Render yelled over the howling winds.

Katie looked down to Render and nodded. "Okay, I'll get it back." They dive-bombed back to the surface.

"Slow down!" Render yelled.

Katie ignored him and kept her focus to the ground.

The floor got closer by the second. "Katie?"

Katie still ignored him.

"Katie!?"

She even still ignored him.

"KATIE!?"

Katie extended her wing to the fullest, making them jerk to the stop. They softly landed on the ground. "Be right back." She mumbled. Katie jumped back into the air and flew after Hisoka. Render got pushed back by the sonic boom that Katie left behind. A black feather floated in front of his face.

Katie was in hot pursuit of Hisoka. "Hey!" she yelled at him. She landed heavy on her feet.

Hisoka slightly looked over his shoulder and his eyes widened in fear. "Monster!" he screamed. From his feet, he turned into a hundred crows. They flew away from Katie, leaving the Chest behind.

Katie slowly blinked; it seemed that the world around her slowed down too. "…Mon…ster…?"

Render finally caught up to Katie. "Katie! Did you get him?" He noticed something was wrong. "Katie…you okay?"

Katie snapped out of her own world and turned to Render. Her wing folded back into her back. She made a fake smile. "Yeah! I'm okay!" She shrugged. "Kind of. He just turned into a flock of crows and flew away, he left the chest behind." She walked over to Render and casted a Curaga spell on him. "Let's rendezvous with Riku. He's still with the pirates."

"Fighting?"

Katie nodded. "Fighting."

"Then let's go back him up."


Hooray! You've met the Black Mage of The Remaining! ^-^

Question Time!

FF member BloodBendingDancer asks: "Have you ever had the idea to take Katie and the Crew to Atlantis?" As in Milo and Kida Atlantis or Ariel Atlantis? Yes to the first one, no the second one. ^-^

FF member Antex-The Legendary Zoroark asks: "How many character creations have you made in SCV?" Fourteen! Here's the list!:

Katie Heart

Tiaxek

Yumi Sazha

Sephiroth

Tifa Lockhart

Hatsune Miku

Twilight Sparkle

Fluttershy

Rainbow Dash

Applejack

Pinkie Pie

Rarity

Zecora

Blaire

Guest sincholax asks: "if you saw a creature that was a shadow heartless head with kirby feet would you consider it cute?" YES! I think Shadow's are cute anyways but with Kirby feet...ADORABLE...!

Got any more questions? Ask me in a review!

Bless your face. And if you sneezed while reading this KH fanfic then bless you. Peace off. BOOP! (Ba-da doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo do review! X3)

When you got the time, check out my Pokémon fanfic: "Painting Flowers"! It's a bit slow at the moment but I promise it'll pick up!