"Here we are" said one of the thee womans in cloaks.
Donald, Goofy, and the three faires that the king and queen trust in had arrive at an old shack in the depths of the woods. One of the woman by the name of Flora knocked on the door four times very lightly. They waited until the door was opened by a beautiful blonde woman. She was dressed in a white long sleeve blouse with a black cordance and a long grey shirt. Her long blonde hair was held by a black head band. She smiled at Flora, Merryweather, and Fauna.
"Let us in, dear child. Quickly" Flora ordered.
The beautiful blonde woman set aside to let them in. Fauna close the door behind them.
"Who are they?" the blonde woman asked.
"These are two travelers who are friends with us. They are here to stay for a few nights" Flora replied.
"Ah. It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Rose" the blonde woman greeted.
"Rose?" Donald whispered to Merryweather.
"We'll talk later" Merryweather replied.
"Garwsh. I'm Goofy and this here is Donald" Goofy introduce themselves.
"Where are you two from?" Rose asked as she sat down on a wooden chair.
"A land far away from here" Donald grinned, nervously.
"Rose, it is getting late. You must go to bed. You have a big day tomorrow" Flora said.
"All right" Rose smiled. She stood up and head to her room. "Good night."
"Good night" everyone said.
Rose went to her room. Everyone stood quiet until Rose fell asleep.
"I thought the princess lives here" Goofy said.
"Rose is the princess. She is Princess Aurora" Fauna said.
"Why is she out here?" Donald asked.
"When Aurora was born, the evil witch, Maleficent, cast a curse upon Aurora" Merryweather said.
"Maleficent? She's dead." Goofy said.
The faries gasped.
"Is she really?" Fauna asked.
"She's been gone for some time." Donald replied.
"We cast Aurora away from the kingdom and gave her a new identity. We have been taking care of her since she was a year old" Flora said, "We've been planning to tell her about her real family and that she is a princess on her birthday."
"When is her birthday?" Goofy asked.
"Tomorrow" Fauna said, "We're going to make her a party!"
"We're going to make Rose go out while we arrange the party. Would you two accompany her?" Flaura asked.
"It is our duty to protect her" Donald said.
"We must wake up early in the morning. It is time for bed" Flora said.
"You two could sleep in the spare rooms" Merryweather said.
Donald and Goofy nodded.
"Would it be fine if we stay up longer in case someone comes?" Donald asked.
"Of course. Good night" Flora said as she and her sisters left the room.
Donald and Goofy looked at each other with worried expersions.
"I hope Riku is okay" Goofy said.
"Do you think he would come?" Donald asked.
They stayed quiet and continued to look at each other. They took the chairs from the dinner table and place them in front of the door with their weapons in hand.
Riku look down from the high balcony in the castle's huge throne room. He watched as Maleficent's demon minions danced around the green fire. Maleficent sat on her throne and Sora stood next to him, watching the demons danced.
"I'm wondering" Riku began.
Sora looked at him, eyeing him.
"How did you summon my shadow?" Riku asked.
"I have gained supreme power" Sora said, "Now I could summon any heartless." He grinned at him.
"I used to have that power" Riku said as he examined his hand. It was a bit odd. This was the hand that summoned Sora's shadow back then.
"You probably still have it" Sora said.
Riku continued to examine his hand. Sora lurk behind him.
"Come on. Try it out" Sora whispered.
Riku smiled, evilly and with a wave of his arm. He had summoned Sora's shadow. Sora studied his shadow and smiled to himself.
"I never knew how short I was" he said.
Riku, still smiling, cast the shadow away. His arm smoked with a dark aura. Sora looked at Maleficent who was please to see Riku using his dark powers. He smirked at her and looked at Riku.
Riku looked below the balcony and looked at the demons once more. They were getting on his nerves with their annoying laughter.
"Show them who's boss" Sora said.
Riku raised his arms and clutch his hands into a fist. He raise his arms higher as the green fire increased. He wave his arm around below and had summoned an army of shadows. The shadows and the demons began to fight each other. He laughed to himself as the demons were decreasing.
"I feel powerful again" he said.
"You never did lose that power" Sora said from behind him.
"I kind of miss this feeling" Riku said, examining his strong arms.
"Careful not to over do it. You don't want to weaken yourself" Sora said.
Weak. That was a hateful word for Riku. He never felt weak until he was around with the king's lackies. He was hurt and full of pain and now he felt a bit strong. It was a feeling of rememberance and he couldn't figure out why he had left this feeling before.
Maleficent rose from her throne and stood behind of Riku. "Riku, I have somthing for you."
Riku turn to her and raise an eyebrow. "What is it?" he demanded.
Maleficent raised her left arm as a black crow flew above her. The bird dropped the packaged item and Riku grabbed it. The crow landed on the balcony.
"Open it" Maleficent said.
Riku remove the brown paper from the huge package. He awed as he held the long keyblade. It was a black keyblade. The only thing different from this keyblade and the old keyblade was that the blade was sharper and the grip of it was also sharp. He could feel his fingers bleeding but also he felt more powerful holding his new weapon. His eyes glowed as he grip the handle tighter. A drop of blood ran down his hand and onto the floor. He smiled and laughed. A dark aura appeared around him. Another black streak appeared in his hair.
"I'll be back. I have a matter of business to attend to" he said, snarling and showing off his teeth. He stormed out of the room. Maleficent and Sora smiled as Riku finally gave in to the darkness.
"We must inform Ansem about this" Maleficent said. "He would be please."
"No" Sora said.
"No? Why not? He's in our hands now" Maleficent protested. Why is Sora being in denial about this?
"This seems too easy. Riku didn't put up with a fight. I know him. He's stronger than that or have you forgotten about his potential?" Sora turn to look at the confused Maleficent.
Maleficent staggered, "But didn't you see the look in his eyes? The aura around him?"
"Yes, I felt that too, but didn't it seem to you that he gave in too easily?" Sora asked.
Maleficent continued to look at him with confusion.
"Eventually, he would lose that confident when his conscious begins to nag him" he said.
"Then, we would have to motivate him some more" she said.
Sora left the room and followed after Riku.
"Riku!" he called from down the hall.
Riku stop and look at him, his eyes glaring at him. Riku snarled which gave Sora a light chill.
Sora look down at Riku's bleeding hand.
"Where are you going?" he asked.
"Go get the princess" Riku replied.
"I thought you wanted to get her in the morning" Sora said.
"I just want to capture her!" Riku shouted.
"Wait. In the morning you could go capture her. Right now it's a bad time. You need to practice on those powers right now. You might get weak in a few minutes" Sora said.
"Weak? Ha! I'll never become weak!" Riku laughed, mocking Sora.
"five, four, three, two, one" Sora counted back wards. "How do you feel now?"
"Bored" Riku replied, grimly.
Sora snap his fingers and a soldier appeared. "Kill it" he ordered.
Riku raise his keyblade but suddenly let go it. The keyblade fell to the floor. The wound on Riku's hand was beginning to heal magically. His eyes were beginning to change into it regular shade of red.
"What happened?" Riku asked, suddenly weak and daze.
"Your new dark powers had suck the energy out of you" Sora said.
"Why?" Riku asked.
"Probably it was too much for you" Sora said, hiding his smirk under his long bangs.
"No. It . . . it was . . . I felt powerful" Riku said, examining his wounded hand. "I like it . . . I want it" he clench his hand into a fist.
"Then you need to practice or else next time somthing bad would happen to you" Sora said.
Riku took the keyblade from the ground. He could feel the great power returning to him.
"Let's practice" he grinned.
Sora smiled and summoned a portal. They entered it and they appeared in the dark forest.
"What are we doing here?" Riku asked.
He looked around him. It was lonely like earlier. The stars were shinning brightly and the wind had grown fierce.
"You're going to practice" Sora said.
"Here?" Riku asked.
"It's perfect. A lot of space. Trees to climb and its miles away from any civilization" Sora said.
"What's wrong with the castle?" Riku asked.
"You might destroy the place" Sora said.
"Oh" Riku said.
"So let's get started" Sora said.
Riku nodded grip the keyblade into his fist very tightly that reopen his wound. "Let's" He smiled evilly to Sora.
Sora smirk before snapping his fingers. A black iron gate rose from the ground and surrounded the young keyblade weilders. Riku gaze at the gates enclose to form a huge cage. Black throns wrapped around the iron gates.
"Is this all necessary?" Riku ask, confuse yet suprise at the area.
"Trying to be percautious here" Sora said.
"That dangerous huh?" Riku ask.
"You want to do this or not?" Sora ask.
"Yes, I'm not backing down" Riku said.
"Suite yourself then. I'll be examining you from afar" Sora said and disappeared.
Riku looked around the guarded place and spotted Sora sitting on top of a tree branch up above him. Suddenly a Dark Side appeared. Riku smirked at it. He always fought a Dark Side and would always destroy it in a matter of minutes.
"Well, fight" Sora said.
"Whatever" Riku shrugged.
He grip the handle tighter and felt blood running down his hand. The power increasing. He charge at the heartless. Dark Side was about to knock Riku with his arm, but Riku disappeared. He reappeared ontop of his arm. He ran on top of the heartless's arm until he reached it's shoulder. Riku jumped and hit the heartless's face. The heartless collaspe and fell back. Riku stood on top of the heartless, feeling victorious.
"Is that it?" Riku said to Sora.
"You're not done yet" Sora said, grinning.
Suddenly a huge heartless appeared. It was a black dragon with the heartless crest on its chest.
"This is new" Riku said, happy to see his new target practice.
"Got inspired by the old witch" Sora said. "Careful not to die."
"I don't want to make your wish come true" Riku smirked at him.
Riku took a step forward at the heartless, a dark aura formed around him. Sora watched as Riku was slowly turning into the dark creature he was earlier. It only took Riku about three minutes to vanquish the heartless usuing his dark powers. The kid was making some progress. If Riku continues using his dark powers like this, it would take him a matter of days until the darkness around his heart to take over him.