The Fantasmic Extraordinaire
(Just to clear things up, this is a cross between Fantasia and the Fantasmic ride in Disney World and Disney Land. So don't be too surprised at what I type about here.)
As Victor stood his ground against the tyrant Maleficent in the grand ball room, He couldn't help but laugh. Maleficent sensed his pride and asked, "What on earth do you have to be cheerful about? You and I are battling for the very fate of this universe and who shall rule from it. I hardly think you have any reason to be to laughing at all." Victor pulled his hood down and said, "You don't get it. No villain will ever understand what it means to have innocence, purity, and love. Not even you, the great Maleficent, could ever know the true power of love." Yet the dark witch just chuckled at this and replied, "Love? Hah. I don't need the likes of human emotion to defeat the likes of you. You my dear know nothing of love either. For if you did, you wouldn't be here fighting me over control of the worlds that you took over." Victor then ran up with his transparent sword as Maleficent raised her staff and created a wall of fire around the both of them, sealing any interference from intruders.
As Sora and the others arrived in the world, all they saw was a huge black fence blocking off the city streets to the left and right of them which resembled San Francisco to the left and New York to the right. Up ahead, the only building not blocked off was a giant Theatre which had posted up as a sign, "Welcome to the Fantasmic Musical Opera. We hope you enjoy your stay in this world as many have entered, but so very few have left this place." Tidus smugly said, "Yeah nice place isn't it? I wonder if they'll give us rat poison to wash down the garbage they'll serve us?" Mickey then shushed him and said, "I'd watch your tongue if I were you. This is no ordinary world. Like Sacred Hallows, it also fell to heartless attacks. Be wary you guys, I saw this in a dream once."
They headed inside to find a huge lobby with red carpeting and the walls as well as the front office was all made of gold. There were also posters on each of the four rooms in the area. The first one they saw was called "Arabian Nights" to their right, but was blocked off by wooden boards. Further up to their right again was another room with a poster called "Rite of Spring" also blocked off by wooden boards and to their left on the other side was a room called "Ursula's Revenge and Cruella de Vil's Business". The room next to it closer by the entrance across from "Arabian Nights" was called "The Haunted Mansion" blocked off by wooden boards. Up ahead past the front office was another room labeled "The Grand Ballroom".
Yet it was blocked off by two railway crossing guards on the left and right side. Sora tried walking up to the open play room, but a man in blue suit stopped him and asked for a ticket for him to enter. Sora then returned to the group and said, "Well now what? I see a guy in blue suit next to Ursula's Revenge and Cruella de Vil's Business and he says we need tickets to get in." Goofy then looked at the Grand Ballroom and said, "Maybe we can just go straight to the Grand Ballroom if were polite enough." Riku saw a man in a red suit inside the front office wearing a red hat holding twenty bucks in hand. Riku then said, "I'll go ask that guy in the booth if we can go." The group sat down on the complimentary benches they had outside of each play room and Riku went up and asked the man in the red suit, "Hey sir is there any way we can get into the Grand Ballroom. It's kind of important." The man then said, "Sorry kid. The only way to get into that room is by watching all of the plays that are happening in those four rooms. Once you see all four I'll let you in. In fact, since you seem like a nice guy I'm giving you and your friends tickets. How many of you are there?" Riku gave a thumbs up to the group saying that things were good with him and replied, "Eight." The man then said, "Eight huh. Eight by four… here you go. Thirty-two tickets." As he gave Riku the tickets, he then said, "I'd be careful if I were you. These theatres are a little dangerous. You could say it literally makes you seem like you were actually there." Riku said, "Okay. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks."
They then left inside into Ursula's Revenge and Cruella de Vil's Business. As they entered inside, the entire place sort of resembled a movie theatre. Yet as they sat down and watched, it started to look more and more like Atlantica because the stage became filled with water and everyone got mermaid and merman outfits (Donald's and Goofy's outfits stayed the same as from KH 2) Ursula and Cruella de Vil (in a scuba outfit) also had Ariel being captured and thrown into a cage along with the Dalmatian puppies Sora got to know on his first adventure. The group drew out their weapons and Sora, Riku and the King transformed into their armoured forms. "Ooh I have waited a long time for this Sora. Now you'll get yours!!", Ursula sneered. "Sora…Help!!", Ariel cried with Flotsam and Jetsam watching her cage like nighthawks. "Don't forget about me your majesty. I have a bone to pick with you as well.", Cruella de Vil yelled. Mickey then replied, "How could I forget? You and I fought once before. In my dream so long ago. And I whopped you all good." Yet before the group could even say a thing, they heard some laughing in the background and then complete silence.
After a couple of minutes Ursula then grabbed Donald and smooshed him right against Yuffie and Cruella de Vil being agile enough kicked Riku right into Goofy. Sora managed to get a hit on Cruella de Vil with his keyblade (that's right he's also got his keyblade in hand if needed) and she dropped to the ground like an autumn falling off a tree. "Most impressive boy…" Cruella then transported herself behind him and kicked him to the ground as well. "Yet those moves don't win battles." "Indeed they don't." Out of the shadows of the theatre, came Darkness. As he walked up to the stage of the theatre and up to Cruella de Vil, Flotsam and Jetsam tried to attack him, but in futile efforts were sliced in half and got sucked into Darkness himself. Sora and the group got up and prepared for attack as they stared Darkness down and gave him an angry look. Ursula gasped and said, "You monster!! How dare you swallow my lackeys whole and slice them up like a turkey dinner." The dark being laughed and then said with his sinister voice, "You pitiful creature. Do you not know the true value of your life? You as well as your pathetic excuse for lackeys are nothing, but little pawns in my devious works. You are nothing but servants. Maleficent made that same mistake when trying to conquer me. Yet she also knew not the true essence of evil that stood before her."
Cruella de Vil attempted to punch him, but Darkness transported behind her and shoved his whole hand into her back. He then sucked her heart away as he did to Flotsam and Jetsam and she disappeared. "Odd the workings of the heart are. They can become good, pure, innocent, insidious, dark, evil. Yet you fools…" He then transported behind Ursula and touched her back with his right index finger. He continued, "…Always try to control me especially when you know you can't." Ursula disappeared and the theatre returned to normal as did everyone else. The only thing that remained was Ursula's heart which then got sucked away into Darkness. Sora then looked around noticing everything was normal and then asked, "So did that happen or am I dreaming?" Darkness then continued, "That was no dream boy. You all did witness Ariel and the puppies get trapped and thanks to my power, they are now back where they belong." Mickey then said, "I wouldn't bet on that. Your always up to your neck in tricks aren't ya Darkness? You probably sucked up their worlds too?" Darkness laughed yet again as Mickey stared into his yellow evil eyes. "You always seem to forget who's the most powerful? I of course did suck up their worlds. That's no lie. I even was the one who made Xehanort what he wanted to be. He was misunderstood. He was made fun of. I gave him power. In a sense, I was the one who created the heartless if you think about it." Sora then asked, "What are you talking about? How do you know about Xehanort?" Darkness then opened the doors by raising his index finger. "Follow me into the Rite of Spring and I shall explain everything from there."
The group then headed outside of the theatre room and noticed a barricade up saying "Closed for Repairs" and then noticed the Rite of Spring theatre open. As the group traveled inside, they noticed a bunch jellyfish and other fish in general swimming in a dark ocean and noticed one jellyfish eat another fish as the food chain would suggest. They then noticed the seats start to go higher and higher until they were five to ten feet off the ground. The sky was yellow and the entire row was covered in fog. They noticed that a bunch of cliffs appeared from underneath them and on the other side were more cliffs and below them was the sea itself. Tidus then said, "Well that's great. Now we got more water to deal with." Yuffie then said, "Quiet. I can't hear what's going on." The group then saw a pterodactyl fly down towards the water as well as a few others fly down as well. They noticed them fish for squid and other sea creatures and then they noticed a crocodile like creature pop from the water and grab the pterodactyl and drag him into the water.
Yuffie then said terrified, "I can't watch. This is too scary." Tidus then replied, "Me neither. These guys are scary enough as is in the movies." Sora then said, "Poor pterodactyl. All he wanted was some food and instead he gets swallowed whole." "Very deep, my friend. I have always known you to be more of a quiet thinker, but I never expected you to be so emotional." It was Darkness and he had another heart in hand. He raised it up and then said, "This is the Queen of Sacred Hallows. Or rather this is her heart. She tried attacking me when I first entered in this world. Yet she didn't stand a chance." The group then stood up and Sora said, "Ursula was right. You are a monster." Darkness chuckled and said, "How perceptive. Did you figure it all out by yourself? I meant what I said. I did make Xehanort evil. When I had Victor, my orders were to merge with him and his mind so that we could become one being and dominate the entire universe, but he refused. He thought that his pride and individuality mattered more so I then went after the very next closet being that had a power similar to that him. Xehanort had potential and thanks to him I created the heartless so I could take over this little universe. To save you all trouble, you have been fighting me this whole time and I keep taking on another form. I find it more amusing if I put your ideals on light to the test sometimes." He sucked the heart into himself as the group then found themselves in a primeval jungle with various dinosaurs, from the triceratops to the duck billed Anatotitans, around them eating plants and basking in the hot sun. Sora then said, "So you were the one who took Kairi then on both of my adventures against Organization XIII and against Maleficent. How could you? Why would you?" Darkness then said, "The light of those who are the purest are always in the form of a woman. For they are God's lambs and his pure essence. That's why. I needed Kairi because her heart was the key to unlocking Kingdom Hearts. If I conquered that, I would rule this universe and then challenge Victor over supremacy of his imaginative universe."
The group watched for a bit and then noticed Darkness start to disappear. Sora ran up and tried to attack him, but he disappeared into darkness (irony) and he replied, "We shall speak again in Arabian Nights." Sora then said, "You monster. You have nerve taking Kairi away from me." "This recent kidnapping is of the boy's accord. Not mine." As his voice dispersed, Sora then thought, 'So if Darkness didn't do it this time then it has to be Victor front and Centre. So much for him turning good all of a sudden.' As the group watched they noticed a stegosaurus waltz by grazing on what little vegetation was around him. Yuffie then said, "Man that thing is huge. I wonder how much he eats in year." The group then saw a group of brachiosaurs, Anatotitans, triceratops and other dinosaurs look out into the distance as it started to rain and near the horizon they saw the menace that was Tyrannosaurus Rex. He stomped down on the trees and crushed the ground around him trying to bite down on anything, from the pterodactyls flying around to the triceratops trying to flee the scene. The only one that was near the T-Rex was the stegosaurus which was a slow moving dinosaur and as soon as the T-Rex bit him on the tail a fight soon ensued.
Sora then thought, 'Go stegosaurus. I know you can do it!!' The others starting cheering the Stegosaurus on and then fight lasted a long time. He got hit in the face and the legs time and time again. That is until the T-Rex got a gripping bite on the creature's neck. Once he starting crushing it, the stegosaur fell to the ground with a sharp thud. The T-Rex then roared into the sky cheering his victory over his prey and the group then started to cry. Yuffie said, "No. How could that poor creature just die?" Tidus then sniffled and said, "I don't know. Yet I that T-R-ex is gonna pay." Sora then thought as a tear came to his eye, 'No. Poor thing. It didn't deserve that.' The group then heard a snap and soon enough the stegosaur was back on its feet and with a flash of light the T-Rex fell to the ground dead. As the group watched the near ending of the play they noticed it was starting to boil in the room. There were no trees and no jungles. Tidus then said, "Whew, is it me or did someone turn up the thermostat or something?" Riku then said trying to blow into his suit, "Yeah it does feel kinda stuffy in here." Mickey then said, "It's the environment. Every time a scene changes, the room changes to match the setting as well. Talk about getting sucked into the story." Instead it was all desert and dinosaurs started to die or get trapped in tar pits. As the near ending came a flash of light appeared and it was Victor in a hologram form saying, "Don't get too cocky. I only saved the creature's life simply because that T-Rex in real life would have a much greater fight on his hands than that." The hologram disappeared and then they headed out of "Rite of Spring" to notice another barricade with the same sign, "Closed for Repairs" yet again.
As they entered into Arabian Nights, the group then noticed out of the blue that they were in Agrabah again. Sora also noticed Jafar in his genie form and that he had Aladdin trapped within a wall of fire. Aladdin saw Sora and then yelled, "Sora!! Thank gosh you're here. Jafar showed up out of the blue and started wrecking things all over the place. He's got Jasmine and I can't get out." Sora then replied, "No worries Aladdin. We'll take care of Jafar." "Are you sure about that?", Jafar asked as he snapped his fingers. Before the group could do anything they too were stuck in a wall of fire. Riku then added while punching Sora in the shoulder, "You were saying." Then a dark shadow appeared and Darkness formed once more. Jafar stared at the foe in front of him and said, "I've heard of you. You're Darkness. The one creature who has controlled us since the beginning of time. You made us turn evil and then get killed or destroyed by the likes of a bunch of children." Darkness laughed and then said, "I never did anything of the sort. You Jafar sought out power to rule Agrabah and that was me tempting you. That's all I did was tempt you, you on the other hand chose your path and your fate along with the rest of the Disney Villains before you. Even the T-Rex in Rite of Spring chose it's path as a predator to hunt. For you see everything has a choice of what is supposedly right or wrong." Darkness then appeared behind Jafar and then snatched his heart away. With that Jafar disappeared and the entire play ended in a millisecond.
Sora and the others then ran up to Darkness and then Sora asked, "Why? Why do you do these things then? If you say everything has a choice in the matter, then why do you choose to do evil things? Don't you care about those innocent people that you hurt?" Darkness began growing an aura around himself and then said, "I could care less Sora. Asking that kind of question to me is like asking why magic is mysterious. That's the purpose of my entire being. I am Darkness, the very evil that haunts your fears, your anger, your sorrow. I am all things that has become evil incarnate. Because of me, many have suffered, died or worse have been tortured physically or mentally for years. I on the other hand didn't choose my role in this universe. The almighty Pyros (Satan) created me to conquer Victor and everything around him so that he could challenge the "Almighty One" and when I couldn't even take that boy's mind I decided to find other suitable hosts to take over. Some like Xehanort were easier to conquer than others." Darkness then disappeared again and he didn't need to tell them where to go next.
As they Left Arabian Nights, they then noticed another barricade with a sign saying, "Closed for Repairs". The group noticed many heartless both black and white appear and then they started to attack each other. Riku then said, "I guess that clears the division up then. Victor is fighting against Maleficent and he's made his own version of heartless to attack the originals themselves." Sora nodded and then Mickey said, "Regardless, I suggest that we use this distraction as our ticket to the last and final playroom. Once we're done there we can head into the Grand Ballroom. Got it?" They all nodded and then they headed inside the now open "Haunted Mansion".
As they travelled inside they noticed that entire theatre was covered in fog and there were only two dead trees, a graveyard, a full moon and a mansion at the top of a hill. As the group went up to it and went inside, the room started to spin. As it did they saw heartless appear and Hades made his grand entrance as well. "Well well well. If it isn't the little bugger and his pals all cozened up before I get rid of you. I hope you you're all comfortable because you won't like the Underworld one bit." Yet again though, Sora and the others watched as Hades got his own heart sucked out by Darkness and the heartless got sucked into him as well. "Such ignorance. I can't believe you all are even a threat to Maleficent or Victor either. You have no chance against power like ours." Sora and the others then noticed the ground change to that of a column and on that column was Belle with yellow shading. Sora then got a strain of déjà vu and Darkness whispered into his ear, "Remember Sora. Remember this place? This is where I first met you. As the very thing that took your beloved Riku away the very beast that you faced for the first time ever in your life." (If everyone remembers, there is that point in KH 1 at the beginning where he fights the darkness in a dream but it isn't quite explained and he just wakes up and acts like nothing happened) Sora then remembered facing him and the heartless all those years ago.
Sora then remembered the voice that told him not to fear the darkness and to always stay true to himself to overcome it. It was Victor all along telling him and warning him of the greater evil yet to come. Sora then fell to his knees and the group responded gathering around him and Sora said, "I can't believe it. You were the one who did this to us. You were the one who separated Riku and myself as well as Kairi. You made Ansem do the experiments on the heart as well didn't you?" Darkness snidely replied, "He was curious about the workings of it. I only gave him the insight he needed in a dream much like yours. I tempted him. I told him of great authority he could be if he did as I told him. In fact you faced me once again with your friends Donald and Goofy. Remember the Chernabog?" Sora, Donald and Goofy then recalled themselves fighting the Chernabog on the place where worlds that were taken over by the heartless ceased to be.
Darkness continued, "That was me as well. Henceforth why he isn't here. I got him two minutes before you even entered this world. His heart technically is a piece of my heart and I just put it back in my heart." Sora then asked, "You have a heart as well?" Darkness replied, "All things that breathe or live have a heart. Trees have heartwood essentially their life force. Animals and people have them as well. I am no different because I too was created from the same substance you humans were created by from the "Almighty One". I was mixed with dust and the jealousy of my master. I simply have a heart to use it for evil purposes. That's the only way I could have infiltrated Victor and take on a host. Without a heart I would just be a spirit often gone unnoticed by the world around me." Sora then said, "It all is starting to make sense now. So you were once here then even before Victor found out about this place then?" Darkness then said, "Go to the Grand Ballroom. We'll finish our chat there." He then disappeared and the playroom returned to normal. The group left the playroom to notice that another barricade appeared with a sign saying, "Closed for Repairs". As they entered the Grand Ballroom, they noticed it was covered in golden drapes and even the tables, chairs and other fine piece ornaments were all covered in gold as well as the floor was golden.
The group then noticed Maleficent fighting Victor in her dragon form and then Sora and the others began to fight Maleficent. A barrier arrived and blocked off a majority of the group except Victor, Sora, Riku, Mickey and Maleficent herself in this final fight of fights. Sora ran up and attacked her legs, and as she breathed fire Sora noticed that a golden shield in the shape of a circle appeared and deflected it. It had the symbol of the sun on it at the centre of it. Riku then said, "Nice. We get matching shields too." Riku then charged towards Maleficent as did Mickey and they summoned shields as well. Riku's was in the shape of an octagon, black in colour and the symbol of the moon on it at its centre. Mickey's was brown in colour, in the shape of a hexagon and had the symbol of a cloud on it at its centre. The group then rushed in together doing combined attacks, changing from Rainan to Ankyronox to Tikylo and started to inflict a serious amount of scratches on Maleficent's body. She started to catch on while fighting Victor and then whacked Sora, Riku and Mickey with her tail and arms and wings. The group did have a good advantage at first with the shields though. Thanks to them even when they were seriously injured they could simply hide behind the shields while they healed for a bit of time and then go on the offensive again. Maleficent then caught on to that as well.
Maleficent blew away each of the shields with ease after a few attacks made by Riku and Sora and then Victor charged up and slashed at her fire breathing with his transparent sword. Meanwhile Sora and Riku tried attacking her from behind and kept back shuffling her tail while Mickey sliced her stomach up. Maleficent felt this pain and whacked Mickey away into the barrier. She then bit Riku hard on his suit which made him deform and then he got knocked into Sora which then made him deform as well. Mickey then charged again and tried attacking her tail, while Victor kept rushing towards Maleficent at the front. Sora then asked, "When did she get so powerful? I thought I beat her with ease the last time we met her." Riku then added, "Don't forget she tried using Darkness to fight her battles. He didn't want to get used like a toy and that's how she lost. She's using her own power now." The group then saw something black auraed strike at Maleficent's body.
Maleficent then noticed a sword stuck inside her neck and she then collapsed and became nothingness itself. The only thing that did remain was her heart. Yet even that got sucked away by Darkness. Sora then said, "Darkness. I understand now. You did this on purpose to get to me didn't you?" He nodded and then Sora asked, "But why me?" Darkness then replied, "Initially Riku as you know was chosen to be the keyblade's wielder. Yet I planned to capture you and use you because you were a pure soul at heart. Any pure soul taken by darkness is usually the easiest to manipulate and use to their advantage. Yet when Riku became interested in my power I decided to use him instead so I could get to you eventually. I didn't plan on the bond of your friendship being so intact though and that posed a problem time and time again."
Riku then said, "So you're the reason my heart went astray and why I had Xehanort's heartless within me all that time." Darkness then continued, "Like I said, I used you to get to Sora. Yet your concern and friendship always posed a problem and I had to separate the two of you. That's why I had Xehanort create Organization XIII and that's where Namine came in. She erased all thoughts of you from Sora so I could eventually take him over." Sora then added, "Now wait just a minute. Organization XIII had their own reasons for the heartless and technically took over the worlds on their own as Namine was acting of her own free will. How do you fit into that?" Darkness continued, "Xehanort became stubborn like Victor and decided to rebel. I figured if that were the case, I would use you to get back at him and to challenge Victor himself. Both of you have pure hearts and it would be about an even match, excluding my power. However I couldn't take you because you became a heartless. When that happened, I couldn't take hold of you. I can only take a host as well if they are a complete being. I took over Xehanort for a short time and then when he used the heart to do his own wishes he had a heartless and a nobody which prevented any future control over him, which is why we met in that dream of yours long ago Sora."
The room then became dark and Victor then said, "Looks like this world belongs to you now, doesn't it Darkness?" Darkness nodded and then said, "If you want it, you'll have to take it from me." Victor tackled Darkness and then they disappeared into a blinding light. The group raced for the gateway and then barely escaped with their lives. They noticed as they went out a piece of Anastasia's section popped out and it morphed with the page to become Section # 14. They then began to read to see what information it held about Victor and possibly Darkness.