Yume widen her eyes, could she be who she thought? The witch Leon was talking about? Maleficent turn around to show her wicked face. A shock expression was on Yume's face. She took a few steps backwards, hoping she wouldn't turn her into a toad. More importantly, attack her with darkness.

"No need to be frighten child, I've been dieing to meet you." Maleficent said with a smirk on her face. Yume could tell she was up to something. She must be behind something for sure.

"What do you want with me?" Yume asked angry.

"You were chosen after your father wouldn't you?" The green witch asked.

"And?" Yume asked with her hands on her hips.

"I can feel his light shinning within you." Maleficent stated.

"What do you mean by that?" Yume asked.

"Yeah! Spit it out already!" Donald shouted.

"I watch my tone if I were you. You really don't wanna see what I have for those that are impolite to me." Maleficent threatened.

"Sounds like we shouldn't get on her bad side now." Goofy said in a scared tone.

"It's simple, you my dear are a powerful source light that can cut through the darkness. You could even sence the darkness when it's near you." Malficent explain.

"So that's why I got pain." Yume thought to herself.

"You are as bright as i thought. You even wiped out those heartless princesses I created." Maleficent said.

"So it was you who created those fake princesses." Yume said pointing at her.

"Your abosolutly right deary." Maleficent smirked again.

Yume greeted her teeth in angered. She couldn't believe she was played by this evil hag. Making her feel stupid.

"I don't know why your so upset, your friend told me you love princesses and castles." Yume gasped at those words that came from the witch mouth. A friend of hers? But who? It be ethier Taision or Raymond since Nini is sleeping and Rhien is still nowhere near.

"Who?" Yume asked.

"The one with glasses." Maleficent hinted.

"Raymond!? That repulsive jerk!" Yume shouted angry. Donald and Goofy jumped by Yume bold behavior, this was something they never saw of her.

"He was quit a handful for my ideas, as for Taision he had a little trouble with it." Maleficent said. Yume gasped in shock once again. They join Maleficent? There's noway it's impossible! "What! No, I don't believe you. Your lying!" Yume shouted, small tear started to rolled down her cheeks. She drop her knees to the floor and started crying, her friends became evil too? It can't be?!

"It's not a lie. Believe it or not it's the truth. They turn to the dark side and I help them out. Unlike you who didn't do anything about." Maleficent said. Those awful words made Yume cry harder as her tears drop to the floor. This can't be hapening. "Shut up! I would never turn my back on my friends. You've brainwashed them!" Yume argued still sobbing.

"Let's not get to overwhelm here. They still distrust you because of what you've done. A true friend would never go off with new companions and forget about their old ones. Especially since their in need of help." Maleficent said, making Yume more angry.

"I only left to go find them. All this time I been looking for them. And now you come to ruin the thrust me all had. It's all your fault!" Yume yelled.

"Take it easy kiddo." Goofy said rubbing her back.

"Oh sweetie, It just wasn't me. It was also the master of darkness." Maleficent said. The master of darkness? Who was she talking about? "Huh?" Yume asked facing the evil witch with a confused look on her face.

"I only do what needs to be done." Maleficent said. Yume got up from the ground and summon her keyblade, pointing it at Maleficent. "Why are you doing this? Answer me truthfully!" Yume was about to get into a fit. "I told the master of darkness told me to." Maleficent said, that still wasn't enough. "Who is the master of darkness?" Yume asked. Malificent turn around the other way. "I'm afraid that's something you'll need too find out yourself." "Why won't you tell me?" Yume asked.

"I'm not the one you should be asking these questions. I may be an evil offence, but I don't have the knowlege to tell you everything. If you wanna know the truth, you'll have to ask Xehanort" Yume lowered her keyblade, this seems to something going on. "Who's Xehanort?" Yume asked. Donald and Goofy and gasped, half of the beans were goanna be spilled.

"He's the leader of Organization XIII, he the one who is willing to have you. Your the only who can complete his plan." Maleficent explained. Yume lowered her keyblade all the way down. "He wants me?" Yume asked clamly. "I only know what was told to me." The evil witch said. Yume expression became sad and a bit confuse. What does this master of darkness want with her?

"If you really want to know, I could take you to him." Maleficent said. She walk slowly to Yume, reaching out her witchy hand to grab her. Yume walked backwards away. "Get away from me you witch! I don't need you take me. I rather look for him than go with a demon like you!" Yume raised her voice.

"My, my, my. Aren't we fisty. Very well then, since you are not willing to come with me, then I'll just have to challenge you." Maleficent said.

"So you wanna fight me?" Yume asked.

"I would love to play with you, but since i'm not really in the mood of battling, I'll just let my little asisstant take care of you." Maleficent said.

"What's wrong Maleficent? Too scared to fight me?" Yume asked.

"I don't wanna fight sweetie. I just wanna test your skills. You are the new keyblade wielder right? Then prove it." Maleficent raise her hand as a form of dark aura appeared on her hand, the ground started to shake like an earthquake. Gianactic pieces of armor scattered, combining into a suit of armor. A evil dark knight with a heartless symbol on the head. It seem to be very consume with evil energy.

"Now play nice." Maleficent vanish into the darkness, Yume brace herself once again. Donald and Goofy followed her lead. The dark knight swoop it's hand over to catch Yume, but she did a back flip to avoid being grabbed. She jumped up and jabbed the arm part as it fell down.

"Way a go Yume!" Donald quaked. The armor started to rumble and flew back into it's place.

"What?!" Yume, Donald, and Goofy said at once.

The suit of armor swung it sword at us, we quickly jump to avoid being sliced. Yume got a bad feeling, even the light within her was startlled, but she didn't wanna give up so soon. Donald use a powerful aura from his staff and blast the suit of armor as it completely fell to the ground. Dose this mean that they won?

"Well, that was easy." Goofy said.

"I don't it's really over." Yume said.

The pieces of the suit of armor came flying back in place. It was indistractable! How could it keep coming back to life?

"No matter how much we hit it comes back on it's feet." Donald said.

"There must be something to shut it down." Goofy said.

Yume stop to think about it. Maleficent said it was like a test. Maybe there's a way to defeat it. Time to make this happen, Yume ran up to it and jab her keyblade in the chest. "Bright Shock!" a explosion light was powerful it even made Yume fall back on her butt. Her bottom her bad from the hard landing, she got up from her feet.

"You alright?" Donald said.

"Gash, Yume your light must be pretty handy for you." Goofy said.

"Thanks, I think it's getting stronger." Yume said.

All pieces of the armor still came back together, like it was magnetic. It was impossible to destroy this thing. It's completely different from the heartless princesses and heartless. It would be defeated so easily just by hitting it. Or even a strong impact would defeat the dark knight. That made Yume think what the challenge was.

"Hold on a sec guys!" Yume said.

"What is it Yume?" Goofy asked.

"I think I know what's going on." Yume said.

"Huh?" Donald said.

"Remember what Maleficent said? This is only a challenge, she wants us to solve this battle by finding the way to defeat it. The only way, which is why we can't strike it down. It'll keep coming back together, we have to find it's weak spot." Yume said.

"The weak spot?" Donald said.

"We've been hitting on it's armor only, and it there wasn't even a scratch on it. It was uneffected by our attacks, because we're not hitting the main part. The weak spot." Yume said.

"Where could that be?" Goofy asked.

Yume took a good look at the suit of armor, there must be something that could be the spot. Something like a symbol, maybe... Yume search until she saw the heartless mark on the helmet. That was it!

"The helmet! Aim for the helmet!" Yume said. Donald and Goofy nodded.

Donald aim his staff at the top of the helmet. Goofy held his sheild up high. Yume braced herself in position. When the timing was right...

"NOW!" Yume yelled.

Donald blast his magic, Goofy threw his shield, and Yume jumped up really high and stab her keyblade into the symbol. Then the suit of armor started collasping on the floor. All the piece started to fall all over the floor, then the armor disappeared.

"Yay! We did it!" Donald said.

"Hooray!" Goofy said.

Yume just giggled. They all jumped for joy for there awesome victory.


"How impressive. You really do have what it takes." Maleficent was watching the whole with her green orb. This was a suprising event indeed. Could be the one she wanted. No wonder Xehanort wanted such a beautiful fragment like her.

"I guess, she has the right stuff. But could she use it against Xehanort. For a light coming out of a innocent child. She really be defensive." Maleficent said to herself.

She look back at Nini laying on the dirty and cold floor. Still unconcouse, eager to wake up.

"Let's just you'll come in time before your friend's heart gives out." Maleficent said.

"If you really want to save your friend then you have to hurry...before time runs out." Maleficent said.

The crow came flying and land on Maleficent's staff and whisper to her ear. "Well, Raymond must be having special in for her. I almost feels sorry for the child. But she wouldn't going up to a close friend now would she?" Maleficent said to herself.


Yume, Donald, and Goofy walked to the next hallway of the castle. It seemed almost like a maze, but hey not all castles are the same. Sometimes you wonder if fairytale castles and real castles are different. The icky smell stinked again, Yume covered her nosed so the awful smell wouldn't came to her nastrols. The awful scent made her wanna throw up. Does Maleficent even clean her castle?

"You know this castle is way different from a princess's castle. I know that for sure." Yume said.

"You sure are right about that kid." Donald said covering his nose too from the smell.

"It's not so bad, it could be worst. It could spiders and rats crawling around." Goofy said.

Yume jumped in shocked. That made her feel worst about the place. What if there could be rats and spiders? Ever since she was little she scared of spiders so much that she wouldn't even bother to kill it. She would call her Mom or Dad to kill it, and when there was a rat she would just run and scream. Yume chattered her teeth and shaked a little. Donald punched Goofy in the arm.

"Quit scaring the kid!" Donald said angry.

"Oh, sorry Yume." Goofy said.

"It's ok, at least there's not really any of them." Yume said.

The trio continued to walk to the next room, they stopped at a double door. The door was completely locked. Donald tried to open it, he fell on his back as his hands slip off from the handles. Goofy puffed up his chest and give out his mighty streaght. He pull the door as hard as he could, but failed as his hands sliped too causing him to fall on his butt. Yume laughed a little, she started to feel her keyblade shaking and it pointed at the door making it open.

"How'd you do that?" Donald asked.

Yume just shrugged. They went into the room where they entered a library, it seem very old since it was dusty. And there was icky spider webs on the edge of the books. This made Yume shaky a little. The smell of dust made Donald sneeze.

"It seems like this place has been here for years." Yume said.

"Tell me about it. We never went to this side of her castle." Donald said.

"These books look like ordinary books at least." Goofy said.

Yume took a look around the books, for her interest in books it was definantly hard to resist an interesting library. Even if it was in a creepy castle, she reach out for one of the books. It would be nice to read a little after a hard battle.

"Yume, what are you doing? You'll get your hands filthy!" Donald quaked.

Yume ignored Donald's silly talk, these books don't even have a bit of dirty just some dust. She blew the dust off the book and read the title.

"Darkness's Realm." That was the cover of the book.

"Hmm, this seem kinda intresting." Yume thought.

She open the book slowly and began to read the first paragraph.

"Long ago the worlds had had there own power for living among eachother. Everyone lived peacefully as they shared their happiness and exprerience with one another. But not all worlds were equaled, some of them had there own special light. A light that people wanted for themselves, so they fought for that light. The hatred of anger caused an awful darkness that flood over the light. The darkness was so powerful that it was no longer a part of this realm. In fact it was figured that something or someone must of created a whole new realm with the darkness. A world ruled by a dark master who was responsible for the horrible destruction. The negativity made people sad and miserable, they were hoping deep down in their hearts that the darkness would vanish from their beautiful world. It was hard to know what would the cure be to put an end to the terrible world."

Yume gasp in shocked of the history of the darkness. But there must of been a cure for it. Maybe a spell or charm, anything? She flip threw the pages and then a folded piece of paper fell out of the book. She looked down at the folded paper on the hard floor. She bend down and picked the paper off the floor. She unfold the paper and read what it said.

"Even though all the worlds were being cover in a blanket of darkness, there was still a tiny light shining with the pitch-black fog of darkness. The little light that help cure the worlds from being consume. That light was the light that shine in the hearts of children. Which meant something important, no matter how deep the dark was, there was a small light that shine in the deepest of the darkness. As long as people believe it, the power of light in there hearts. They would safe from the terrors of the darkness and have the light to protect them." the page said.

"That's the same story my greatgrandmother told my mom." Yume said.

"What's wrong Yume?" Goofy asked.

"Guys I just found out something. How the realm of darkness was created. It said that the realm of darkness was created by the master of darkness. Could it be the one Maleficent was talking about?" Yume said.

"Yep, that's right." Goofy said sadly.

Donald just let a frowned face.

"What does this guy want with me in the first place?" Yume asked.

Donald was the first one to walk up to Yume, scratching the back of his head. The time has come to get it out their chest.

"Yume, there something we need to tell you." Donald said.

"What?" Yume asked.

"You'll probably be angry at us for not telling you this earlier." Donald said sadly.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Donald looked up at Goofy, he nodded. It could no longer be kept to themselves they had to tell her before it was too late.

"Yume your heart." Donald began to speak.

"What about it?" Yume asked.

Donald was about to explain until...

"Wow, I didn't think I even catch you reading in the library here." a voice said.

Yume turned to see where the voice came from.

"Raymond?!" Yume shouted.


What's Raymond doing there? And what is he up to? Find out on the next chapter.

I'm so glad I'm finish. I was going to put where Maleficent turns into a dragon, but a friend of mine told me to just put where she send a dark knight to battle. I bet you were excited to see that Donald and Goofy were about to tell the truth about Yume's heart. Too bad Raymond spoiled it.

Anyway hope you like it! And please review.