Chapter 12: The Battle of Disney Castle

"You've been expecting me?" Sora asks with a raised eyebrow.

"Oh yes, you're success at Destiny Islands reached my ears very recently," Number XII says in a pleasant and polite tone.

"Yeah right, success," Sora scoffs at his enemy's comment.

"You won, therefore it is a success," Number XII says pointedly. "I almost forgot my manners," he continues to say, "I am Number XII."

"So, you're with the Organization?" Sora clarifies with disbelief.

"Yes I am," Number XII says casually, "but before you decide to make me your enemy, I should let you know that I'm neutral. I don't care about the battle of good and evil. I'd rather stay out of any messy business."

Sora lowers his keyblade and asks, "Let's say I do believe you are a neutral party. Your name is the Darkness. Even though darkness isn't evil, Heartless are. How do you explain them being in the castle. Do you command them?"

Number XII switches his vocal tone. "Very good Sora, I am their commander. I was sent here to flood the Cornerstone with darkness, but I was unable to achieve my objective because of you and your friends showing up and poking in my business. Now I assume you will want me dead?" he states emotionlessly.

"I'm sorry, but you must be stopped," Sora says as he raises his keyblade to prepare to fight.

"I'm disappointed in you, Sora," Number XII says, "You could've been a great asset to ending this constant struggle of good and evil. For as long as there is good, there will be evil. And if there is good and evil, then there are warriors that fight for one or the other. Good and evil forces will be constantly at a constant struggle for power. They will destroy countless lives in their wake. The Organization is trying to end the unnecessary bloodshed by destroying the concept of good and evil."

"You guys are willing to kill everyone on this world, how is that preserving lives?" Sora demands.

"Few must be sacrificed for the many," Number XII says pointedly. "But I can see you won't be swayed. I am sorry, Sora, but I have to kill you now," he snaps his fingers and a giant Heartless appears. It is the shape of a giant gorilla with a crown on its head and a mace in its hand.

As Sora prepares for his fight with the Heartless boss Royal Beast, his friends are starting to purge the world of Disney Castle of Heartless.

Meanwhile, in the hangar bay, Yuffie, Chip, and Dale are working as hard as they can to keep the hangar bay free of the Heartless forces.

"Take that!" Yuffie yells as she uses her large shuriken, the Four-Point Shuriken, to combat the Heartless around the gummi ships. She uses Greased Lightning, her Break Limit ability, to rush an enemy and strike it with her shuriken. She keeps moving at high speeds around the hangar bay to prevent the Heartless from uniting and creating a formidable foe. "Chip, Dale. How are those turrets looking?" she asks into her earpiece.

"They're fully operational!" Chip announces as he manually operates a turret to focus on the Heartless that appear near the exit.

"The Heartless don't stand a chance!" Dale yells as he manually operates a turret and keeps firing around the gummi ships.

As those three keep the Heartless out of the hangar bay, the battle that is taking place in the courtyard is faring much better than before since Lea has joined in the fight with Goofy, Max, and P.J. They are making a final stand near the entrance to the castle. Lea had filled them in on how he was not Axel and he was there to help.

"Good going Maxie!" Goofy yells proudly to his son, Max. The father and son duo, Goofy and Max, are standing in front of P.J. and are beating back most of the Heartless that attempt to enter into the castle. Goofy uses his Goofy Tornado ability, in which he spins at such a high velocity that he becomes a miniature tornado. He plows through all the Heartless that get in his way.

"Thanks Dad!" Max yells as he uses his Max Slap ability, in which he uses his skateboard as a bat. When he swings and hits a Heartless, it hits another Heartless and destroys both.

"Max, dodge!" P.J. yells as he snipes with his slingshot. The white pellet flies past Max's head and hits a Heartless fifty meters away, squarely in its chest. The pellet explodes and generates a massive ice attack, destroying all Heartless within a ten meter radius of the point of impact. That white pellet was P.J.'s ability, Frostbite, in which he fires a pellet with the content of the spell Blizzard in it.

"Nice shot P.J!" Lea shouts as he uses his keyblade to cut through a Heartless. He switches his weapons and summons his twin red chakrams, the Eternal Flames. He throws both and they mow down all of the Heartless surrounding the entrance to the hangar bay. He is moving at blazing speeds to destroy all of the Heartless that aren't trying to enter the castle. When he arrived to the battle, he summoned walls of fire in front of every entrance and exit to block the Heartless from controlling the courtyard.

As the battle in the courtyard turn to the defenders of Disney Castle's advantage, the battle within the castle halls has also been to the advantage of the Disney Castle forces since Kairi has joined in on the fight. Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Kairi have all proved to be capable and effective magic users and they can keep all the Heartless invaders away from the throne room's entrance.

Donald is heading the offensive of the hallway defenders, as he stands within one end of the hallway. He screams "Fire!" as he is using his ability Donald Fire, which is his own version of the spell Fire. He manifests flames around himself and incinerates all of the Heartless forces that try to attack him and his family and Kairi.

Huey stands at the other end of the hallway as the other offensive force. He yells "Blizzard!" as he is using his ability Huey Blizzard, which is his own version of the spell Blizzard. He generates an icy bullet that flies from the end of his staff. The bullet ricochets of the walls until it finds its target and freezes the target from the inside out and devastates the area within a radius of five meters.

Dewey stands right between Donald and Huey, as he serves as back up to whoever needs it more. He shouts "Magnet" as he is using his ability Dewey Magnet, which is his own version of the spell Magnet. He creates a field of magnetism thirty feet in front of Donald and it draws all of the small Heartless that are within a twenty meter radius into the magnetic field. The magnetic field drains the energy from the Heartless and gives Donald an easy kill access with a swift attack.

Louie stands between Dewey and the entrance to the throne room, as he serves as the defender of the group. He yells "Reflect" with repetition as he produces his ability Louie Reflect, which is his own version of the spell Reflect. Louie generates a force field to surround his group, with him as its center. The field lasts five seconds and expands to a ten meter radius, which covers the door and allows for the rest of the defenders to retreat to revive their Magic Points, or MP, and stamina.

Kairi is standing between Dewey and Louie, as she is serving as a medic and as back up too. "Light!" yells Kari as she taps into the power of light and incorporates it to fight. She uses the power of light to create pillars of pure light that go down both ends of the hallway that cuts through all of the opposing Heartless forces. She runs to each member of her group and heals their injuries, as well as replenishes their MP and stamina.

As the hallways are being defended by the Royal Magi Corps and Kairi, the throne room is being purged of the Heartless forces by Riku and King Mickey. They are defeating the Heartless forces that appear in the throne room to buy Sora time, as King Mickey knows that the Cornerstone of Light is too pure and large of the power of light for a Heartless to teleport within the Hall of the Cornerstone without being instantly destroyed.

"Light!" yells King Mickey as he charges into battle with a renewed sense of strength. He uses a combination of the power of light and the power of the keyblade in quick succession. He uses the power of light to blast away all of the Heartless and he uses the keyblade to strike fast. The combination of both powers has a devastating nature on the Heartless forces that exist in the throne room.

"Dawn!" yells Riku as he fights side by side with his mentor and friend. He uses a combination of the power of dawn and the power of the keyblade in quick succession as well. He uses the power of dawn to stun the Heartless forces within his range and he uses his keyblade to hack and slash all enemies in his path. The combination of both powers decimates the Heartless forces.

While all of his friends are fighting in Disney Castle, Sora stares down Number XII and his pet, the Heartless Royal Beast. Sora takes a deep breath and raises his keyblade. "Let's end this!" Sora snarls as he charges.


Sora's Journal
Disney Castle

Royal Beast
The Heartless that Number XII summoned to defeat Sora as he continues his objective for the Organization at Disney Castle.

Author's Notes: And so ends Chapter 12. In Chapter 13: The Fight for the Cornerstone, Sora will fight the Royal Beast. Will he win? Probably. But we will see the reappearance of two beloved Kingdom Hearts characters at the end. Number XII will regret trying to take Sora and his friends in the next chapter. Another note, Number XIII will keep on showing up to major battles and not even fight. He likes to watch people die; it doesn't matter if they are good or evil. To him blood is blood, and after all he is the Insanity. I hope you enjoy this Chapter. If you all are good boys and girls (and I actually write), I will get Chapter 13 up by Christmas.