Hearts of Stone Chapter One: Origins
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Gargoyles, The Chronicles of Narnia, Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, Inu-Yasha, Bone, Beauty and the Beast, and Digimon
Author's Notes: I have moved this fic into the Crossover Section of While it is true that KH is the ultimate Crossover, this fic stars a Gargoyle, and it is—I feel—a true Gargoyles/Kingdom Hearts Crossover.
Many thanks to my new Beta: Denis De Plaen for improving the quality of my fics.
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Disney Castle, The Negaverse
A pleasant scent struck Susan's nose and she awakened suddenly. She groaned as she realized she was in pain, though the pain was fading fast.
Darkwing slung Queen Lucy's cordial back over Tintar's stone form.
"Welcome back," Darkwing said to Susan.
"What happened?" Susan asked as she stood up. The pain was rapidly fading due to the effects of the fireberry juice.
"When we came out of the gate," DW said as he began looking around. Susan noted they were in a castle dungeon. "Liquidator covered the courtyard with water, and then Megavolt electrocuted us."
Susan attempted to take a step forward and looked down in surprise, seeing a chain attached to an ankle bracelet.
"They took our weapons," DW said. "But I figure Tintar's Keyblade will return when he wakes up and he can get us out of here then."
"Why are you not chained?" Susan asked curiously, sitting down next to Tintar's statue.
"I was," Darkwing said. "But I'm used to getting electrocuted. It didn't affect me for very long. So when they chained me up, I was awake—though I didn't let them know it—and if you tense your muscles when being handcuffed or chained, they're easier to slip out of."
"When's sunset?" Susan asked.
"Dunno," Darkwing shrugged. "There's too much smog out there…I can't tell what time it is…I can't even see the sun."
"They didn't take Lucy's cordial," Susan commented.
"Probably knew it wasn't a weapon," Darkwing said. "They did take your bow, arrows and horn. My gas gun and TT's Keyblade…but honestly…the Keyblade always returns to him."
"Why did they let us live?" Susan asked. "They could have killed us both, and smashed Tintar while he was stone."
"NegaDuck has a flair for the dramatic," Darkwing said. "He would want us to know exactly how we're going to die, and who's doing it."
"A flair for the dramatic, huh?" Susan chuckled. "A bit like you?"
"Hey!"
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Traverse Town
Maleficent and Tash stepped up to the dialing pedestal. She smiled wickedly as she held her hand over the podium. The buttons began randomly lighting up and glowing off and on until all of them lit up at once.
The gate hummed to life, and the portal opened in its void.
"Why did we have to do this from Traverse Town?" Serena wondered out loud.
"The Remnants world has no Gate," Helga said. "It wouldn't have worked from there…and it won't affect any world that has no Gate."
"The device will synchronize with the timeline of the Remnants world," Maleficent said. "That's how we programmed it."
"What would happen if we were to step through the gate?" Serena wondered.
"I wouldn't recommend it," Tash hissed laughing. "It is currently connected to every world in our multi-verse that has a Gummi Gate. It would try to send you to every world at once…dispersing your molecular structure and effectively disintegrating you."
"Only energy can effectively be sent through," Maleficent said. "Matter would be destroyed instantly. Fortunately, magic is a powerful form of energy."
"When a Gummi Gate activates," Tash said. "It temporarily syncs the worlds that are connected. Once the connection is broken, they return to their normal time-flow rates. But not anymore."
With that, Tash twisted the dial on top of the hourglass, and a massive pulse of energy shot forth from the timepiece and expanded in all directions. The wave passed through Helga and Serena, and though it didn't hurt them…they still felt something impinge on them.
The wave passed into the gate, which remained open for about 30 seconds after the wave hit, and then shut down.
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Agrabah
The wave of energy awakened Aladdin from his sleep. He had been staying in Jafar's former quarters and was now living in the palace. He stepped out onto the balcony and looked out over the city and the desert. He could see the wave spreading out from its origin point west of the city.
"What in the Seven Sands was that!?" The Genie said popping up next to him.
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The Pride Lands
"Hey Pumbaa!" Timon, a meerkat said looking at the energy wave as it passed through their jungle oasis. "Was that you?"
"Uh…I don't think so Timon," the warthog replied. "I haven't eaten today…"
"You feel like a song, buddy?" the meerkat asked brushing the energy wave off.
"Oh sure," Pumbaa said. "How about 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'? Cuz, Simba's still asleep."
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Metroville
Robert Parr sat slumped over his desk. He had never been so bored in his life. Ever since the Supers had been banned from helping the public, he had been swallowed up in mediocrity.
He didn't even notice as the wave passed through the office.
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Middleton, E-Arth
"What was that KP?" Ron asked in surprise.
"I don't know," Kim said looking around. "But I think we should find out."
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Wonderland
Nobody noticed anything out of the ordinary in Wonderland.
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Traverse Town Bay
Sesshoumaru paused as sensed the wave coming. He turned and faced it unwavering as it passed through him and his companions.
"What was that?" Baloo said in shock.
Sesshoumaru said nothing and turned back towards the dock. There was a brief pause before Baloo, Jaken, and Rin turned and followed him. Baloo led them to dock # 47, where what looked like an orange and yellow sea plane floated lazily in the murky water, tethered to the dock.
"This is your vessel?" Jaken demanded looking at the Sea Duck. The sea plane had been partially converted into a Gummi Ship, but still looked basically the same.
"What a worthless piece of junk," Jaken exclaimed.
"HEY!" Baloo said snatching up the imp. "You can insult me, and you can insult my friends, but don't ever insult my plane!"
He dropped the toad demon into the water beside the dock and opened the side door onto the plane.
Sesshoumaru stepped in wordlessly, while Jaken sputtered and clambered out of the water and onto the plane.
"Hey there little one," Baloo said smiling and bending down to Rin's level. "My usual navigator was taken by the Heartless…you wanna be my navigator for this trip?"
Rin squealed in delight.
"Okay," Baloo said smiling. "That means you're gonna have to ride up front with me. Com'on already."
He gently picked Rin up and helped her onto the plane before climbing aboard himself.
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Disney Castle, Posiverse
Oswald charged into the balcony in a huff. He was extremely agitated for having been awakened at such an ungodly hour.
"Why in Walt's name did you get me up at five in the…morning?" Oswald demanded before realizing he was standing in the presence of the queen.
"Queen Minnie," he blushed. "I…sorry."
"Ve have a problem," Ludwig Von Drake, the castle scientist and expert on the Gummi Gate said. "A bizarre energy vave just exited ze gate. Ve are unsure of vat it just did…but it seems to have interfered vith ze gate's internal chronometer."
"So…this is not good," Oswald said.
"I cannot say for certain," Ludwig shrugged. "But offhand I vould say zat zis is a very bad zing."
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Disney Castle, Negaverse
"What was that?" Susan said as the wave passed through them.
"I don't know," Darkwing said. "But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it's not good."
There was a crackling sound as Tintar burst free from his stone sleep, straining at the chains that had been attached to him.
"TT!" Darkwing exclaimed. "You're awake! Now you can use the Keyblade to bust us outta here!"
"I seem to be missing the blade," Tintar said examining his neck.
"Yeah," DW responded starting to sound less hopeful. "But that computer in Traverse Town said that it always came back to you…"
"Yes," Tintar said. "But it returns within eleven days…it's not like I can just call to the Keyblade and expect it to return."
No sooner had Tintar said this, then the Keyblade, fully extended appeared in his hand. He looked surprised for a moment and then pointed the blade at Susan's chain, which opened instantly.
He started to turn the blade on his own chains when the sound of the dungeon door opening interrupted him. He quickly shrank the blade and slipped it into his pocket as NegaDuck entered the dungeon.
"Hello Dint-wing and Dint-wings new pals," NegaDuck chuckled. "I'm sure you all just felt that energy wave pass by. That was the sweet sensation of success. It means Maleficent succeeded in synchronizing the timelines of worlds. Time's flowing at the same rate everywhere now."
"What?" Susan whispered. "Do you understand how big a breech of the World Order that is?"
"I do," NegaDuck answered smiling. "I just don't care."
"NegaDuck!" Darkwing spat in disgust. "So, you're working with this witch Maleficent?"
"No," NegaDuck laughed. "I'm not working with Maleficent…I'm working for Maleficent."
"What?!?" Darkwing exclaimed. "You…take orders from someone else?"
"What about you?" NegaDuck asked slyly. "Taking orders from rock-lion here?"
"That's different," Darkwing said defensively. "I'm...helping him…we're equals…partners…"
"Sure," NegaDuck said in a disbelieving tone. "I'm working for Maleficent because I'm dreadful…but she's downright impious. I've never met anyone as evil as she is…I could work at being immoral for a million years and I'd never be as good at being bad as she is...I'm a humble student in the presence of the master."
Darkwing fell silent.
"Do you know how the Negaverse came to be?" the evil duck asked grinning. "You didn't think your little lion-god would make a world like this do you? He would have you believe that he made every world…HA! That's a joke!"
"Okay," Susan said glaring at NegaDuck "So Aslan didn't make this world…how did it come to be then?"
"I'm glad you asked," NegaDuck said smiling. "We have the Heartless to thank for our existence here. A nutty scientist in Disney Kingdom was attempting to create a machine that would revert a Heartless back into the person they used to be…attempting to reunite the Heart and Soul of a being so to speak. An impossible task of course; only a Princess of the Heart can do that."
Tintar, Susan, and Darkwing all exchanged a surprised glance. None of them knew this little tidbit of information before, but they weren't about to let NegaDuck know that.
"He failed," NegaDuck said. "But accidently created a replica of Disney Kingdom. But every being within the new Negaverse had his personalities and usually moralities reversed. Good and Evil, swapped. It's unfortunate that King Mickey was off-world when the Negaverse was created…I'd love to have seen his Nega-Form."
Darkwing paled. "Oh God," he said.
"What?" Susan asked looking at the good duck.
"King Mickey is the kindest, most benevolent, most honest, most honorable King that Disney Kingdom has ever seen. He's considered the definition of good by her people."
"I know," NegaDuck said licking his lips. "Can you fathom the monster that Nega-Mickey would have been? Gives me goose bumps."
"Well," NegaDuck said laughing. "It's been fun, but I have to go decide how I'm gonna torture you. See you in an hour."
Tintar, Susan, and DW exchanged another glance as NegaDuck walked out and slammed the door.
"We won't be here in an hour," Tintar said smiling and extending his Keyblade.
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Remnants World
Tash hissed in ecstasy.
He gingerly ran his talon's along the glass coffin that contained Snow White's still, silent form.
He passed her and did the same with the next coffin, containing Kagome Higurashi just as asleep. He did the same with the next coffin.
Princess Aurora, Kairi, Thorn Harvestar, Kari Kamiya, Belle, Aoi Misato, Princess Eilonwy, and the last coffin remained empty…nine Princesses. Nine out of ten. One more was all he needed.
"Just one more," he hissed out loud. "One more princess before our plans can finally come to fruition…"
"Tash," Helga interrupted stepping into the room. The demon hissed softly and turned towards her. Helga instinctively stepped back. Tash had the ability to drain all hope and life from a room. His presence had always made her uneasy, but now there was a new and sinister gleam in the vulture god's eye when he looked at her.
"Nine," he crooned in his raspy voice. "Nine princesses. It took over two millennia to locate them all. And now, at last, my goal is finally in sight. One princess remains."
"Umm…all right," Helga said disquietly. "Do you know who the last one is?"
"We've narrowed it down to three candidates," Tash said blissfully. "Do you know what lies behind those doors?"
Helga glanced up at the enormous double doors on the north face of the room, directly in front of Snow White's coffin. Each door was marked with a giant Keyhole, and carved symbols. The hieroglyphs looked older than any symbols she'd ever seen in her life, yet she understood intuitively that they referenced the creation of a massive forest filled with pools of water.
"No," She responded. "What is behind those doors?"
"Everything that one's heart desires," Tash said. "If one can only open them."
The wicked god suddenly paused, as if just realizing something.
"Why are you here?" he demanded angrily.
"Five intruders approach from the south," Helga said.
"So take care of it," Tash hissed back.
"One of them has a Keyblade."
"Oh those intruders! Yes…I have been aware of their presence here for some time. I will deal with them myself. I've something prepared for them."
Helga nodded and left Tash's presence with no procrastination. The entire time they had spoken, those creepy bird-like eyes never left her abdomen.
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Remnants World, Outside.
Beast, Inuyasha, TK, Fone and Patamon looked up.
"Well this is unexpected," Fone Bone said finally. The castle floated above them on a massive stone. The flat landscape had now given way to a series of gigantic floating "islands". The isles ascended upwards like a stairway, and at the topmost isle was a wicked looking castle.
"It shouldn't be too hard to get up there," Inuyasha said. "And if that's where Kagome is then that's where I need to be."
"You won't be going anywhere small mammal," a raspy creaky voice hissed. Four red glowing eyes appeared from the shadows underneath the lowest island.
"No…," Fone Bone said incredulously. "It can't be!"
"My, my comrade," said a large grey-furred rat-like creature as it emerged from the shadows. Its ears were cropped and it had no tail. "Such and interesting and…tasty... looking crew."
"Yes, comrade," a second almost identical creature replied emerging from the shadows. "I think they would make a lovely quiche."
The first creature bristled and glared angrily at his companion.
"AGAIN with the quiche! How many times must I tell you! MONSTERS do not eat quiche!"
"But it tastes so good."
"I don't care how they taste; light, fluffy pastries are not food for monsters!"
"What are you two doing here?" Fone said clearly annoyed. "How did you survive the destruction of our world?"
"Well to be honest we're not entirely sure--," the second Rat Creature started to say before being smacked behind the head by the first.
"We do not share information with the enemy!"
"You know these things?" Inuyasha asked.
"Unfortunately yes," Fone said groaning. "But they're not that tough…in fact they're really stupid."
"How stupid?" T.K. asked.
"We could discuss plans to make a trap for them here and now—right in front of them, and they would still fall into the trap."
"HEY!"
"We're not that stupid, small mammal," the second said. "Don't go around insulting people."
"The point is that they're not much of a threat right?" Inuyasha asked.
"Oh yeah," Fone said shrugging. "No threat."
The two Rat Creatures looked at one another and grinned.
"We beg to differ, small mammal," the first one said. He lifted up his hand and snapped his fingers. In a heartbeat, a massive army of heartless appeared behind them. There were over one hundred. The quintet of warriors exchanged glances.
"We can summon Heartless now," the second one said grinning.
"Split up!" T.K. yelled. "We'll lead them away into smaller groups, make them easier to defeat."
"Right," Inuyasha said drawing Tetsusaiga. "Beast, you're with me."
"No," T.K. said. "Only holy weapons can slay Heartless. That's me and Fone."
"Enough talking," Beast snarled snatching T.K. up in his arms and bounding away.
Inuyasha looked down at Fone Bone.
"What?" Fone asked.
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Disney Castle, Negaverse
"This is almost too easy," Tintar said as he used the Keyblade to enter the armory.
"I agree," Susan said as she gathered up her arrows and her horn.
"We should find our way to the gate as quickly as possible." Tintar said.
"I'll dial up DK," Darkwing said. "After the horror that is the Negaverse, you guys deserve to see the beauties of the real Disney Kingdom."
"Agreed," Tintar said. "But we must stay on guard; they certainly expected us to escape. Darkwing take the point."
The duck nodded and slid to the front while Susan brought up the rear. She notched an arrow in her bow and drew it back partway as she walked backward slowly behind Tintar. Tintar merged the witch's wand with his blade to form the Coldstone Keyblade.
At that moment Bushroot came around the corner, he let out a gasp when he saw the trio.
"NegaDuck!" he yelped. "The prisoners have—,"
"Glacia," Tintar said freezing the mutant plant-duck in his tracks.
"Wow," DW commented. "Now that's what I call frozen vegetables."
Klaxon's began blaring loudly.
"The jig's up," Darkwing said.
"Let's move!" Tintar yelled. The trio began running through the corridors toward the courtyard. At the courtyard Darkwing stopped.
"What?" Tintar asked.
"The Liquidator/Megavolt trick," Darkwing said. "If we go out there then they'll just hit us with it again."
Tintar pointed his blade at the ground.
"Glacia," he said. A blast of ice struck the ground and began freezing—the ice expanded from the point that Tintar had aimed.
"Yikes!" Liquidator yelped leaping up from the ground and resuming his anthropomorphic dog form.
"Duro!" Tintar said pointing at the now visible Liquidator. The blast hit the liquefied villain and he hardened to stone. The magic spread and the liquid in the grass hardened as well.
"Stone doesn't conduct electricity," Tintar said grinning at DW. The trio rushed out towards the gate.
"I'm gonna dial DK," Darkwing said. "As soon as the gate's active get through."
Tintar paused in the middle of the courtyard. A Keyhole had appeared in the castle wall behind them.
"I'm going to seal this world," Tintar said.
"But…it's the Negaverse," Darkwing said as he stopped by the dialing pedestal. Susan stood behind him covering him as he started dialing.
"There are people with good hearts who dwell here are there not?" Tintar demanded.
"Yeah," Darkwing said. "Nega-Gos…The Friendly Four."
"Then this is for their sakes," Tintar said raising his blade. A multicolored blur swept in and knocked the blade out of his hand. Quackerjack landed nimbly in front of the gargoyle and kicked his blade away from him.
"It's playtime!" Quackerjack said and began laughing maniacally.
Susan raised her bow at the duck when a bolt of electricity shot out and struck the bow from her hand. She looked over to see Megavolt with an electro-gun leveled at her.
"Face it lion-boy," Quackerjack chuckled he pulled out a fishing rod and threw the line toward the Gargate. The line wrapped around Tintar's chest pinning his arms and wings to his body. "You're helpless without your key toy."
Tintar smiled, reached up and grabbed the line, pulling the duck toward him. Quackerjack blanched in surprise as a gargoylian fist struck him in the beak and sent him flying backwards.
Tintar snapped the fishing line by stretching his arms. "Incorrect. I never needed my Keyblade to defeat you, it just makes it easier."
He leapt unfurling his wings as he somersaulted forward and snatched up his weapon.
Darkwing had punched in six of the seven symbols needed to open the gate when Megavolt had zapped Susan. He pulled out his gas gun and fired. Purple smoke surrounded the pair.
"Hey no fair!" Megavolt exclaimed as he realized he could no longer see either the duck or the human. An arrow fired from the smoke and struck Megavolt's hand, causing him to drop the gun. The gate lit up and activated.
Darkwing and Susan emerged from the smoke and ran up to the gate.
"Come on Tintar!" Susan called out.
Tintar pointed the Coldstone Keyblade at Quackerjack, who was staggering back to his feet. With a quick word, QJ was replaced with a statue. Tintar leapt atop the dialing pedestal and pointed the blade at the Keyhole. There was a flash of light and the loud clunking sound.
Tintar frowned. The lock did not sound as it had in Narnia, Wonderland, Agrabah, and Metro City. It sounded more like it was…unlocking.
"Come on TT," Darkwing called out. "Train's leaving the station."
The gargoyle spun around and leapt towards the gate, unfolding his wings and gliding towards the portal. Darkwing smiled and leapt into the gate. Susan lingered a moment longer and the retreated through the gate as well. As Tintar glided forward he shrank his Keyblade and slipped it into his pocket he vanished into the portal, which disappeared a second later.
"Well done losers," NegaDuck said chuckling as he stepped out of the shadows. "You kept them busy long enough for us to send the virus."
"But…," Megavolt said frowning and sitting on Quackerjack's stone form. "They got away…"
"So," NegaDuck said shrugging. "We expected that, but because Dunce-wing dialed Disney Kingdom we were finally able to send the Virus. If one of us had dialed Disney Kingdom, the Cornerstone would have locked us out and prevented the gates from connecting."
"What about Quackerjack and Liquidator?" Megavolt said pondering the condition of the two statues in the courtyard.
NegaDuck shrugged. "I dunno…maybe they'll turn back on their own, maybe not. Who cares? Our mission was a success."
"Do they do that often?" Megavolt said frowning at the Heartless that were now crawling about where the Keyhole had been moments earlier.
NegaDuck frowned in concern. "What are you doing? Shoo…quit that…go away."
The dark-hearted duck realized too late that he'd lost control of the Heartless, and too late that Tintar had unlocked rather than locked the Heart of the Negaverse. The world shattered apart before NegaDuck could escape, and Darkwing's worse half, became a Heartless himself.
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The entire army of Heartless had chosen to follow TK and Beast. Only the Two Stupid Rat Creatures followed Inuyasha and Fone. They ran towards the massive gorge that cleaved the flat landscape in half. The pair stopped when they reached it and looked over the edge.
There was a narrow ledge on the opposite side of the canyon, perhaps a hundred feet down. Inuyasha quickly gauged that the ledge would support his and Fone's weight and not much else. He scooped the Bone up and leapt down to the ledge. He looked up and smirked at the Rat Creatures as their heads peeked over the edge of the gorge and looked down at them.
"Ha!" Inuyasha chucked. "Those Rat Creatures would have to be pretty stupid to follow us out onto this narrow little ledge."
"…oh no…," Fone Bone said slapping his hand to his forehead.
"STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!" Inuyasha bellowed.
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Disney Castle, Posiverse
Tintar glided out of the gate. The first thing he noticed was how bright it was. The second thing he noticed was Darkwing and Susan looking at him in surprise as he glided out. The third thing he noticed was that in the Posiverse there was no dialing pedestal in the courtyard. He noticed nothing else as it was daytime in Disney Kingdom.
He turned to stone in midair, fortunately only a foot or two from the ground so nothing was damaged when he hit the ground and slid along the grass to Susan and DW's feet.
"Vat's all ze commotion?" Ludwig Von Drake demanded as stumbled into the courtyard.
"Oh my," he murmured upon seeing Darkwing, Susan, and the stone Tintar.
To Be Continued…