Inverted Sky

Chapter 36: Halloween Town part III

Sora looked up with determination in her gaze narrowed at the huge opponent that she and Donald were facing. The entire tree that had once been Oogie Boogie's manor was now twisted even more so than it had been before. It contorting around the enormous body that the owner of the manor currently possessed, which blocked out all of the moonlight from the sky.

"Maybe I should call for Goofy." Donald muttered silently as his tone seemed to be adding; 'Cause we're going to need all the help we can get.'.

Though the brown-haired teen glanced to him briefly, she soon turned toward Oogie Boogie's new form. "I think I agree with you on this one." she whispered, yet got into a fighting pose rather than a defensive one.

"But lets try our luck first." Sora continued, her eyes narrowing further as the glint in her eyes became one of excitement.

Donald looked at her with blinking eyes for a moment, yet he just sighed and shrugged it off. "I guess we could see what type of attack works best on him." he muttered while taking on his own fighting pose.

"My thoughts exactly." the teen said, her slowly gaining a small grin on her features as she quickly rushed forward with her Keyblade in hand.

"Thundra!" the duck called out, sending many bolts of lightning down on Oogie's head immediately afterward.

However, both Sora and Donald quickly noticed that this attack hadn't done any damage of any kind. This leading for the former of the pair to jump up onto the ledges and stairs remaining from the manor's old appearance. Her going up as high as possible until she reach the shoulder of the large opponent, whom slowly turned his massive head to look at her.

"Lets see if any types of magic work on you." she whispered before shifting her body to the side.

The brown-haired girl then raised her Keyblade behind her and pointed it in the opposite direction of her opponent. Upon doing this, Sora's body began to glow and surge with a great many colors of magic. Though while bending her knees, she brought her free hand out and used two fingers to draw an 'S'-like shape through the air. During of which, six spheres of different colors were formed in the path of her fingers.

Once she reached the end, her Keyblade was raised high in the air and her free hand had its two fingers pointing at the floor the other way. All the while, the orbs that formed were held in place by a white line of pure magic to form the full 'S'. "Not to say Donald's method wouldn't work...this is just easier." Sora whispered with a small smirk.

"Magic Blitz." she continued as each of the spheres instantly blasted into the side of Oogie's face.

Though there was a heavy shockwave from the attack, this seemed to be the only thing that caused Oogie Boogie to move. Him remaining completely unaffected by any of the magic Sora had used, which had been every offensive type she knew of. Seeing this caused her to quickly narrow her eyes in frustration, the teen not expecting for there to be so little effect.

However, she didn't get to dwell on this for long as many spheres of darkness suddenly started to swarm out of every crack and crevice within Oogie's body. Each of these quickly rushing toward the girl as it was clear her opponent was starting his counterattack. This leading for Sora to quickly jump down from his shoulder and land on the ground below with an Aero spell to slow her decent.

"I guess that solves our question of what works on him, huh?" Donald muttered as both he and Sora began to block the dark spheres, all of them still giving chase after the brown-haired teen.

"Looks that way...but I never would have guessed that he'd be completely immune to magic." Sora responded before forming a Reflega spell around both her and her duck friend.

"Well, he did mention both Maleficent and Ursula made that potion he drank. So I'm sure between the two of them, they could make something like that." Donald theorized as he continuously fixed his partner's spell, it starting to crack every few hits on its surface.

"Makes sense...but now what? Both of us are mainly magic users, and while I can hit pretty hard...I don't even know where to start hitting this guy." Sora said, her tone showing that she was very unsure at the moment of what to do.

But following her words, both she and the anthropomorphic duck looked down in thought as neither of them seemed to know what to do in order to beat this opponent. Yet within a few brief seconds, Sora suddenly blinked a few times and literally smacked her own forehead. "Duh...I can us the power of darkness too." she chuckled out with a wink before walking out of her own barrier.

'I have been meaning to test out just how much my dark power has increased since absorbing that Heartless.' she thought to herself while seeming to be casually walking toward the almost motionless Oogie.

While doing so, her eyes changing into their usual gold and a huge aura of dark power began to surround her body. However, after just a few more steps she immediately stopped and her eyes widened as if in shock of something. "What the..." was all she managed out before falling to her knees.

"Okay..." she strained out while the aura around her blazed like a wild fire that disbursed the attacking spheres coming toward her.

"...I think that thing gave me a much bigger boost than I was expecting." the teen continued as her limbs began to shake from trying to contain her own power.

'I knew it increased all of my other powers, but it seems like it did so even more to 'this' one.' Sora thought as her eyes closed tightly.

'I just need to dial it back enough for me to get control over it again.' she continued without ever noticing the Heartless-like shape her dark powers formed, there being a set of golden eyes that appeared over her her head.

Though this slowly began to vanish as the brown-haired girl slowly, but surely, pulled her powers back enough to balance them out once more. Yet it was too late for Donald not to have seen everything that happened, him looking at her with widened eyes for a long while. However, they slowly narrowed in suspicion as he quickly figured out that something happened while she was alone at some point and hasn't told anyone.

"Alright...I think I've got this down." Sora muttered with a heavy sigh, to which she looked at Oogie Boogie with a smirk.

Said being appeared to have also seen and understood what just occurred, which had made him a bit frightened to attack right away. But it didn't take him long to remember to do this as he immediately increased the size and speed of the spheres. Although this took Sora off guard for a brief second, it wasn't long enough for her to be hit by any of these.

The manner in which she dodged these attack however, was quite shocking as she literally seemed to vanish from sight before appearing a few yards away. It being clear that rather than any sort of teleportation, she was simply moving at such great speed that the normal eye couldn't follow her. Yet even while Donald and Oogie were shocked from this, Sora actually seemed even more so.

"Whoa...I thought I had to learn some kind of trick to move this fast...but it's just coming natural to me now." she whispered with blinking eyes while looking down at her feet.

Immediately after she looked up, the teen's grin returned and she began rushing around at top speed to throw off her opponent. Him not being able to keep up with her at all until she almost instantly appeared directly in front of his face and swung her Keyblade at him. Said weapon being coated in darkness as it connected with great force against Oogie Boogie's head.

Despite not expecting much to happen, Sora's eyes widen in complete shock when her strike literally knocked her opponent over and onto his back. She then slowly fell to the ground and almost began feeling bad for Oogie as he let out shrieks of pain from the huge hole in his head. This making Sora look down to her Keyblade, then to her free hand and slowly narrow her eyes in suspicion.

'Something isn't right...there shouldn't be any reason why Darkness would effect him to that degree when he himself is using it. Then again...if they could make him immune to magic...' she thought while Donald slowly walked up beside her.

"I gotta say...I didn't expect that." he muttered, him not wanting to bring up the recent events since he knew it wasn't the right time.

"Nor did I." Sora whispered as she slowly shifted her gaze back to Oogie as his massive form rose back up thanks to the roots remaining in the ground.

"But I think it's best if I finish this quickly." she continued, the teen not wanting to make her opponent suffer as he had from her previous attack.

The brown-haired girl then gestured for Donald to step back as she shifted her body to the side. Once her friend was a safe distance, a large amount of dark energy began to form around Sora's Keyblade. Though after the aura stopped growing, the teen flipped the weapon in a reverse grip and narrowed her eyes.

'If my suspicion is correct, then I only need about this much power to beat him.' she thought to herself before quickly throwing her Keyblade toward the center of her opponent while uttering; "Shadow Raid."

As the blade spun around through the air, Sora then whispered in an almost hopeful tone; "Expand."

Immediately following this, the black aura around it suddenly expanded to such a size that even Oogie himself was slightly dwarfed. As this occurred the darkness sliced right through the teen's opponent before the Keyblade itself even reached him. This leading for it to then spin through the large split in Oogie Boogie's body and then come right back to its master within seconds.

Upon the teen catching her weapon, Oogie instantly disbursed without screaming of any kind. Of which made Sora let out a sigh of relief and look up to the moon as if it was her first time noticing it. 'Maleficent and Ursula must have known I'd come here eventually. They might not have known that it would be after their plan to control me, but they did know that I'd come here and fight against him.' she thought as her eyes continued to stay fixed on the moon, even as Donald came rushing over to her.

'It's likely they wanted to get me to use my dark powers more often so that it would be easier to control me.' the girl mused, to which she soon blinked a few times when a glow could be seen on the ground in front of her.

As Sora shifted her gaze to this, she saw the world's keyhole, which made her blink many more times in response. 'Did he build his manor here deliberately? Or was it an accident?' she thought quickly before she just lifted her Keyblade up and locked it as she had with all the others.

"Well...at least this one was easier to find than the last one." Donald muttered with a sigh, to which Sora chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"I know right? Though, I guess it was a good idea for King Triton to make it so that only a trident-shaped object could unlock it." she said silently, her giving a brief shrug as the keyhole before them quickly vanished once it locked.

But once it was, Sora soon tilted her head down while blinking her eyes once more. Though this time, she did this in a bit of shock from something she just realized; 'I hadn't even noticed until now, but...I started this journey with only the thought of finding Riku and Kairi. All while sealing the keyholes to each of the worlds I visited during my search. But now...' she started in her mind as she let out a light sigh.

'...I'm trying to get Riku to trust me again, get Kairi's heart back to wherever her body is and defeat an evil organization who has a goal I don't even know about. Sealing up these keyholes seems like an afterthought now...even if they're basically the most important part of my job right now.' the blue-eyed girl continued, which lead for Donald to look at her with a questioning gaze.

Yet before he could ask her anything, Goofy suddenly came running over along with the Jack Skellington that they has seen from the town. "Hey fellers~!" the anthropomorphic dog called out while rushing over to them.

"My goodness...are all of you okay?" Jack asked once he and Goofy arrived in front of the other pair.

Sora blinked a few times before nodding her head in response; "Of course~! No sweat." she announced happily as she gave a thumbs up.

However, within seconds of her doing this, everything went black for the teen as she suddenly passed out. This greatly alarming each of them as Donald and Goofy started calling out her name in great worry. All the while, Jack just stared in shock of this, yet he quickly took notice of a strange hooded figure out in the distance. Whom suddenly vanished into the shadows before Jack could get a good look at him; "Who on earth was that?" the living skeleton whispered to himself as his eye holes seemed to narrow slightly.

There we are, Halloween Town is finished and the end of this piece of the story is coming. I hope all of you are still enjoying, let me know if you are, and stay tuned for the next chapter one week from now. Unless you're reading this after I've already posted the next chapter...in which case...what are you waiting for~? ;) Anyway, until next everyone.