The final match in Fruit Ball wasn't so spectacular like the one against the Beagle Boys but it was a fair game. It was just uncomfortable for Sora and Kairi that they lost this final match.
"I cannot believe that we lost," groaned Sora while Kairi just smiles. "Come on Sora! Take it easy. After all, we managed to beat the Beagle Boys and this was why we joined the tournament, remember?"
"I know Kairi, but it would have been great if we had managed to pull it off to win the tournament." Protested Sora and Goofy began, "Don't worry Sora! I am sure that many will vote for you due to your actions."
"Yeah! Not everybody would have challenged them knowing they would cheat." Told Donald. "But I am still surprised that they're working with that witch."
"Didn't they do it in the past before, Donald?" wondered Goofy and the duck answered, "Of course they did! But in these cases it has been two targets in one place. This time they had a common goal."
"What are they after normally?" asked Sora and Goofy told, "The witch is after the fortune of Donald's uncle and the Beagle Boys are after his Number One Dime."
After shocking Goofy with a Thundaga, Donald shouts, "It's the other way around you goofball!"
"Sorry Donald! It has been so long since we dealt with them that I forgot."
"Number One Dime? What's that?" wondered Sora and Donald hits Goofy to prevent him from talkimg before answering Sora's question: "Uncle Scrooge's Number One Dime was the first dime he ever earned. He tells it is the base of his entire fortune."
"Build a fortune with a single dime and still have it? Impressive," thought Kairi aloud.
"Well, what should we do now?" asked Sora and Daisy suggests, "How about the racing track? Chip and Dale made different vehicles for this year's race, inspired by the tales they heard from Jiminy and some people which joined the race once."
"Can I use something from them for joining the race?" asked Sora and Minnie giggles. "It's the idea behind their work. They even had help from somebody of a different world. Too bad he couldn't make it today…"
"Alright! Where is the race?" asked Sora.
"Follow me please," answered Queen Minnie and she leads them to the racing track. Once they were here, Chip and Dale greeted them.
Minnie and Daisy went to the tribune since they won't join the race due to their position. Kairi won't join the race as well due to the fact she has not a single clue how to drive any of these vehicles and didn't want to risk any accidents due to her lack of knowledge. After all, she has only little experience about driving a Gummi Ship. The only thing she wanted was to stay with Sora as long as possible.
However, she got separated from him as she started to talk with Chip and Dale about driving one of these vehicles after the race.
Sora on the other hand looked through the different vehicles the chipmunks made. He found one designed like a skateboard. Somehow he got a nostalgic feeling in his heart. Wanting to take it he reaches out for it, but a voice stopped him. "Excuse me?"
He turned around and spots a duck with blond hair, red lipstick, white shoes, and a blue dress. Tilting his head Sora asked, "Yes?"
"My reflection doesn't show up when I look into my hand mirror. Could you please be so kind to look at what the cause of it could be?"
"Sure!" told Sora and took the offered mirror and looked into it. He saw a reflection of himself, but something was strange… his reflection looks sinister. It had red eyes, black stripes in the hair, spikes on the shoulder parts of his jacket. Under the eyes are tattoos of the half from a black broken heart. Also on the right ear hung an ear ring which had a red stone. Scratching his hair Sora asked, "What's up with this mirror? I don't look even close to this reflect - AHHHHHHH!" shouts Sora as a flash from the mirror blinds him. As he could see again he was in a strange grey place with a sort of wall where his odd reflection grins at him, showing a set of fangs. Sora wondered even more what is going on.
Suddenly the reflection laughs. "You are such a loser for falling for this simple trick! Even a small child could have been able to tell that is a trap!"
"Who are you? And what is going on?" demands Sora and the other answered, "I am Aros, the one who dissects all! And for where you are…"
Then the woman appears and explains, "You are trapped inside the mirror, while your negative reflection took your place."
"Wait, what?" asked Sora and the woman laughs. "This is a magic mirror which switches the one who looks into it with an opposite version of this person. You can say, I freed your evil twin while trapping you in this prison."
Then she was covered in smoke while laughing. As the smoke cleared, Sora recognized the duck form the description he got form Mickey. "Magica De Spell!"
"Oh, you heard of me? I am flattered," chuckles Magica. "But enough for now! I am a busy witch and have little time!"
"Then let me take care of this loser!" demands Aros. Magica, however, put the mirror away and told, "You won't! He is my bargain chip against you. As long you do your job I will give you the mirror and you are free to do what you want! However, if you disobey me even once, you are back where you came from within seconds!"
"Grrrr! Fine! What do you want me to do?" asked Aros, not liking the thought of obeying this witch.
"You take part in the races here and cause distractions. However, no harm to the Princess of Heart! We properly need her later," told Magica and showed a magical image of Kairi. Aros whistled. "There is a Princess of Heart? In our reality she is a Bitch of Darkness. And she looks better… I really like this mirror version of my universe! You told no harm to her, but can I still have my way with her right?"
"As long she is alive and her heart intact, I don't care. But if you break her in a way that she becomes useless, grave punishment awaits you." Told Magica and disappears in smoke.
"Got that," told Aros and looks. "So the loser of my reflection wanted to take a board? Pah! Real men goes for a big, loud, and cool motorbike!"
Looking around he saw what he wanted and went over, but Magica de Spell appears again in front of him.
"What do you want?" he demands. "I hardly could do anything you know?"
"I am aware of this," was her reply. "But I wanted to give you something and I had to get it first."
She took a bottle with a yellow liquid out. Aros wondered, "What's that? And why didn't you bring it with you earlier?"
"I didn't want to lose it before you showed up. It was hard enough to find all increments, especially the last one. It is a transformation potion, which will transform you for 10 minutes into your counterpart. It will help you to cause even more confusion," explains the witch but Aros wondered, "Why not longer?"
"Would have taken months and due to the short time I had to prepare, this was the best I could do! Not to mention I had to find the mirror as well!"
"Alright, alright! I get your point!" told Aros and Magica de Spell left once more.
"Hope the next time I see her is when she fulfills her part of this bargain! Then I can rip her witched heart out! Would make a good addition to my collection," he laughed and took a crystal box out were dozens of tiny hearts floats around. Putting the box away, Aros drank the contends of the bottle and groans at the terrible taste, also the weird feeling he gets afterwards as his entire body and clothes changed to a degree to look like Sora. After it was over he muttered, "Once I get him, I'll punish him even more for not only making me feel awkward, but also look awkward like him!"
Then he grabs the bike and started the engine, driving to the exit where Kairi, Chip, and Dale were still talking.
"Hey! Nice choice," told Chip once they noticed him, and mistakens him like planned as the real Sora. Dale answered to what Chip said, "Indeed! We designed it after the vehicle that Terra used years ago!"
"Really? That's… nice," told Aros, forcing himself to smile. Kairi giggled. "Would have thought that your choice was on something close to a skateboard, but not a bike."
"Well…" he began, "I wanted to try something new. Hey babe! Want a ride with me?"
"Babe?" wondered Kairi in her mind since Sora never called her that. Before she could answer however, Chip interrupted, "Sorry Sora! Won't be possible."
"Yeah! The race starts at any moment by now," agreed Dale.
"Perhaps later then," told Aros and went to his start position. Kairi looked after him. "I have a strange feeling about him."
On the start are different citizens of Disney Town. Aros recognizes them as the mirror versions of people he met. However, he only knew one of them by name… in his reality the name was Dlanod, which means in this reality the name would be… Donald! The duck saw Aros and was fooled by his appearance as well, while calling out, "Hey Sora! What do you think of my race car? The boys got it for me and it's designed after my car."
Aros looked at the design… and assumed the car of Donald must come from the trash yard. Gulping down the urge to tell that, his reply was, "Then you must have… an interesting car."
"That's right Sora!" Told Donald, "That's why you won't win this race!"
"We will see that, Duck!" shouts Aros. You will eat my dust!"
"Oh yeah? We will see who get the glory!" shouts Donald, challenged by this.
Aros laughed and got ready. The countdown went down and once it reaches zero, all racers shoot off.
Donald and Aros were already in the middle field and both seem to be good drivers since they make good advance in the field. However… Aros starts to get reckless and rams the other vehicles in away that they either crash into others or get catapulted out of the track. From the tribune Kairi wondered, "Sora… what are you doing? I don't know you're like that. It's like you are somebody else."
Aros laughed loudly, having the fun of his lifetime until Donald called from behind him, "Sora! What got into you?"
"I told you to shut up and eat my dust!" roared Aros and looks at the duck. Donald cried in surprise and lost for a moment the control of his vehicle. However, he regained control and shouts, "You are not Sora!"
Aros wanted to mock the duck by asking how he got the idea, but he notices that his traits which differs him from Sora are showing up again.
"Guess the 10 minutes are over and this gave me away…" he thought and laughs at Donald. "That's right Duck! I am Aros! You can say I am sort of an evil twin of Sora!"
"Gosh! I didn't know Sora has a brother," told Goofy who stands as guard next to Minnie, but Kairi shook her head. "He doesn't have siblings. This Aros must mean something else."
"What did you do to Sora?" demands Donald in the meanwhile.
"You can ask him in Hell!" was Aros's reply and in his hand a Keyblade appears. The Keychain was a heart cut by a blade while the guard was made by a pair of barbed lance tips, the hilt was longer than Sora's Kingdom Key and had a small crown on the tip. The blade were like the one of an ax with razor like teeth. Aros grins. "Say hello to a Mega Flare from my Kings Tyrant!"
And the spell shoots out of the weapon's tip, racing with high speed at Donald who cries in surprise…
In the Disney Castle Mickey was finished with his business and wanted to leave the throne room to join his friends.
However, he heard from behind him, "Are you leaving? I would prefer you to stay here."
The mouse jumped around in surprise and called, "Phantom Blob! How did you get in?"
The criminal in black robe simply told, "I had assistance. And I wouldn't call the guards or… something might happen."
"And what?" asked Mickey about to call his Keyblade. The Phantom Blob explains as reaction, "For example, Magica here might accidentally smash her mirror."
The witch came into sight with a mirror and pretends to look at her reflection with it before showing Mickey the trapped Sora inside the mirror. The villain continues while showing a glass object with Jiminy in it, "Or I might step on this cricket here…"
Mickey gasped in surprise and lowered his defenses. With that, a Beagle Boy suddenly grabbed Mickey and the king asked in surprise, "How did you get out?"
One of the other Beagle Boys told, "The Blob gave us the means to break out and get him in."
"Yeah!" Answered the other. "Our job was to get into the castle and open a way for these two in."
"Why are you after the Cornerstone of Light?" demands Mickey and the Phantom Blob counters, "Mickey… do you really think we are after it? Sure the Beagle Boys claimed it earlier, but this was a mere distraction to get the attention away from our real target."
"Oh no…" told Mickey, realizing the true goal of the villains actions.
A picture of the Kings Tyrant can be found by deviantart with this ending: /d6ovf09
Special thanks for Ultimatekeywarrior for making it :)