Chapter 35 Fight in the Palace.
The Unversed began to swarm the halls of the palace giving chase to the group minus Sora as they ran away from the guards turned into animals.
"Oh great! Monsters as well!" Kuzco cried out sarcastically.
"I'll take care of them." Takumi said as he stopped running and started shooting the Unversed with the Fujin Yumi.
"Kaze and I will go help out. Goofy, you Corrin, and Sakura help Kuzco." Donald ordered.
The four nodded as Donald and Kaze went to back Takumi up.
With most of the Unversed now preoccupied on Donald, Takumi, and Kaze, that left the others to deal with dodging the guards.
"If we can just change you back, the guards should stop attacking us." Corrin shouted.
"But which potion will do it?" Pacha asked looking at all the potions they gathered.
"They all should turn Kuzco into something. Just pick one. We don't exactly have the time to choose carefully." Corrin said.
"Okay. This one." Pacha said tossing Kuzco a potion. He caught and drank it turning into a turtle.
"Guys? Help!" Kuzco cried too slow to get away from his approaching guards, and coming across some stairs.
Pacha scooped him up as they ran. The Octopus guard tried to attack with an axe, but Corrin blocked it with his sword, knocking the changed guard back.
Pacha then jumped on Kuzco's shell and rode down the railing. Goofy took out his shield and did the same with Sakura jumping onto his shoulder and Corrin ran down the stairs right behind them.
From at the bottom, some more guards gathered to intercept them.
"Oh, please be something with wings." Pacha prayed as he shoved another potion in Kuzco's mouth.
When the smoke died down, Kuzco did turn into something with wings.
"Yeah! We're flying!" Kuzco cheered. Only to realize that he was a small bird that couldn't support Pacha's weight. "Uh-oh."
The two crashed down to the ground.
Goofy was able to jump the guards as he reached the end, and Corrin pointed his sword at them.
"Force!" He shouted.
The gravity spell incapacitated the guards, allowing Corrin to slip by and join up with Kuzco and Pacha who started running as soon as the spell wore off.
"We aren't getting anywhere with you picking. I'm picking the next one!" Kuzco demanded as Pacha carried him.
"Fine by me!" Pacha said as he grabbed the remaining four potions in his other hand.
"Give me that one." Kuzco said pointing to the one on the far left.
Pacha gave him the potion and Kuzco changed into a whale stopping them all in their tracks on a bridge.
"Don't say a word." Kuzco warned.
Kaze, Donald, and Takumi then caught up with them.
"Do I even want to know?" Takumi asked looking at Kuzco's new body.
Before anyone could say anything, the bridge was starting to give out from the weight of Kuzco's new body causing them all to fall into the canals bellow.
"Quick! Drain the canals!" Yzma ordered as the others resurfaced.
"Open up!" Pacha said as he tossed a potion into Kuzco's mouth.
When the smoke cleared, Kuzco was back into a familiar form.
"Yeah! I'm a Llama again!" Kuzco cheered before stopping. "Wait…"
"On the bright side, you're more comfortable moving in that form than those other animals." Corrin pointed out.
Suddenly, the eight of them were sucked down as the canals were drained and the water exited out of the nose to a giant face statue of gold.
Kuzco, Pacha, Donald, and Goofy held onto one nostril while Corrin, Takumi, Sakura, and Kaze held onto the other.
"There they are! Get them!" Yzma ordered pointing down the hole.
"Come on men! No one lives forever!" The lizard ordered as the guards charged downwards, only to fall through the hole and to the ground bellow as the heroes already moved out of the way and was hanging on to the sides of the nose.
"Did…Did they just jump off like that?" Corrin asked be withered.
"And here I thought Setsuna was bad." Takumi commented.
"I hope they're okay." Sakura muttered in concern.
"Someone, remind me to do something about that later." Kuzco commented also surprised by his guard's stupidity.
Meanwhile with Sora:
Sora and Vanitas clashed Keyblade's through the lab, though Sora was quickly put on the defense. Jiminy had left Sora's hood at the start of the fight and was now watching on the broken table nearby.
"Don't tell me this is all you got brother." Vanitas mocked.
"I'm not done yet! Sonic Blade!" Sora shouted.
"Sonic Blade!" Vanitas shouted.
Both moved at a fast pace clashing at a blinding speed before both jumped back from each other. Sora stared at the masked Keyblade wielder in front of him in utter shock.
"H-How did you know that attack?" Sora demanded.
"I was locked in your heart for quite some time. And during that time, I picked up quite a number of your moves." Vanitas said. Just to prove his point further, he pointed his Keyblade and charged it full of energy at the point.
"Sora! Look out!" Jiminy warned.
"Ragnarok!" Vanitas shouted as the ball of energy burst into smaller balls of energy that homed in on Sora.
"Reflect!" Sora shouted as he covered himself in a magic shield protecting him from the blast.
When things died down, Vanitas was gone.
"Where are you?" Sora demanded.
"Right here." Vanitas said.
The moment he said that, he blasted Sora in the back with a Dark Figara. Sora was sent flying forward to the ground.
"You're hopeless." Vanitas laughed as he walked towards Sora.
Sora managed to get up and caste a Cura spell on him.
'This isn't good. Vanitas knows all of Sora's attacks, along with his own. Sora is at a complete disadvantage.' Jiminy thought in concern. Sadly, he himself was in no way able to help Sora. He could only hope one of the others could come back.
"You know, when I was trapped in your heart with Ventus, your techniques weren't the only thing I picked up." Vanitas said.
"Oh? What else did you learn?" Sora spat.
"How similar you are to Ventus. You both share quite a weakness. Your friends." Vanitas said.
"Leave them out of this!" Sora shouted in anger.
"Riku and Kairi. They remind me of two nuisances. Terra and Aqua." Vanitas said.
"Terra and Aqua?" Sora asked confused.
"Terra was a powerful Keyblade wielder and Aqua was a Keyblade master. Yet despite their skills, in the end they both failed." Vanitas smirked.
"You're wrong!" Sora shouted with Ventus's voice leaking through.
"Am I? Where are they then? I warned you Ventus, that if you didn't hurry, Terra would no longer be himself. And where is Aqua? Why isn't she helping to solve this problem? Ether she is a coward, or she's gone." Vanitas smirked.
"She is not! Terra and Aqua are stronger than this!" Sora shouted in Ven's voice.
"They were weak. And soon, Riku and Kairi will suffer the same fate." Vanitas taunted.
"Don't you dare hurt them!" Sora shouted as darkness started emanating from his body.
"And who is going to make me? You? You can't even protect yourself. Your brother isn't here to save you this time, and I already have you on the ropes." Vanitas retorted. "When we last fought Ventus, you said that your friends were your power, and you Sora, said that back in Hollow Bastion. But all that has done is made you weak. Without them you are nothing. You may have won our last match Ventus, but look where we are now. I am the one who is free, while you remain trapped in a boy who was never chosen by the Keyblade in the first place."
"Don't you listen to him Sora! He's only trying to get in your head! Think about it! Sure you've relied on others a lot in the past, but there have been fights you've ad to fight alone and you still found a way to come out on top!" Jiminy shouted.
"Y-You're right!" Sora stuttered rather unsure himself. "I can't give up! I still have more tricks up my sleeve. VALOR!"
Sora was engulfed in a bright light…But immediately, that light turned dark.
"S-Sora?" Jiminy gasped in concern.
"Well, well now. What is this?" Vanitas asked curiously.
Back with the others:
Yzma grabbed a purple curtain and used it as a rope to prevent herself from falling like the guards did when she jumped. With it, she also ran up the side of the statue where the others had finally climbed to reach the two remaining potions currently in Pacha's hand.
"Okay. So, there are only two left. One of these HAS to turn you back to normal." Pacha said.
"Where's Sora?" Corrin suddenly asked noticing the lack of his brother.
"He was with us earlier. Wasn't he?" Donald asked. Thinking that Sora was with them from the start.
"Gawrsh. I guess we got caught up in all the action, we didn't realize that he separated." Goofy said worried.
"I hope he's okay." Sakura muttered.
"He might still be at the lab. Maybe I should go back and check." Corrin said in concern. 'If the Unversed are close by, then Vanitas might be as well.'
Before anyone could do anything else, Yzma suddenly appeared and tackled Pacha, causing him to drop the two potions. She and Kuzco both ran towards one, ending up on Yzma breaking it and exploding.
"MWA HAHAHAHA!" Yzma laughed through the smoke.
But when it died down, Yzma was revealed to be nothing more but a small grey cat.
Meow." Yzma said.
"I'll just take this then." Kuzco smirked taking the last potion.
"Well thanks to that, we now know which one will change you back." Donald cheered.
Before Kuzco could drink the potion, Yzma attacked Kuzco's face with her claws causing him to drop the potion. Pacha tried to help, but Yzma bite him causing him to stumble back in pain and bump into Takumi. Losing their balance, the two fell off the ledge with Pacha grabbing onto a piece of the statue for dear life as Takumi grabbed his legs.
"TAKUMI! PACHA!" Sakura shouted.
"Hang on! We'll get you!" Corrin shouted before turning to Kuzco who managed to slam his head into Yzma against a wall. "Just drink the potion."
Kuzco looked around, but the potion was gone.
"Where is it?" Kuzco cried out.
"Looking for this?" Yzma asked. Everyone stopped and starred at her now high-pitched voice. Even she was shocked by the change in her voice. "Is…Is that my voice? Is that MY voice?" She then shrugged. "Oh well." She then held the potion high as she grinned evilly at Kuzco.
"Wait! You can't drop it!" Kuzco cried out.
"I'm not going to drop it you fool! I'm going to DRINK it! And once's I'm back to my beautiful self, I'm going to KILL you!" Yzma laughed.
"Uh-huh. And how exactly are you going to do that when all of us are here, armed, and you are nothing more but a small cat?" Corrin asked flatly as Yzma remembered that she was indeed surrounded.
"Oh. Good point…uh…VANITAS!" Yzma called out.
No response.
"Where did he go? That masked buffoon! Once I'm finished with Kuzco, he's next." Yzma growled.
Corrin then summoned his sword and pointed it at Yzma. "Hand over the potion. NOW!" Corrin ordered. 'No doubt that Vanitas is with Sora right now. I'd better wrap this up and get back to the lab fast.'
Just then, three large Unversed appeared before the group. In some case, it was similar to the Guard Armor, Sora, Corrin, Donald, and Goofy fought back in Traverse Town as the three looked like pieces to a larger foe.
The top piece was dark torso and head piece that was grey and diamond shaped with red eyes. The front of its body was adorned with a large, light blue, U-shaped additive with black edges lined by four short spikes. The Unversed symbol was at the bottom of its neck with two black spikes that had a red base, and a yellow stripe on each of them.
The middle piece was a red and black cone-shaped body with spikes decorating it and the Unversed symbol decorated in the front. There was some gold lining to the body and the top had four propeller-like blades on top.
The bottom one looked like three segmented legs that were red in color with black outlining and grey joints. The legs all had a triangular black feet-like shape and the Unversed symbol was right in the center.
The middle and bottom looking ones then changed into a pair of arms and legs as the head connected them to its body and its face changed into a more armor mask.
"That works!" Yzma smirked.
The Trinity Armor let out a barrage of small laser blasts at the group causing Yzma and Kuzco to duck for cover. Goofy ran in front of Sakura and Donald to protect them with his shield as Kaze started dodging and Corrin deflected them with his sword.
The Trinity Armor then reeled back its large hand and smacked the world jumpers away sending them flying as it took off and gave chase.
Yzma then went to try and open the vial, but her small body was having trouble removing the cork. She tossed it to the wall out of frustration, causing it to bounce back into her face, sending them both flying off the ledge.
With Corrin and the others:
"For the last time, no one here ordered a giant pillow!" A guard shouted annoyed to a merchant that was hauling a massive white pillow on a cart.
"Well why didn't you tell me before I dragged it inside?" The merchant asked annoyed.
"AHHHHH!"
The two looked up to see Corrin, Sakura, Kaze, Donald, and Goofy screaming as they fell right onto the giant pillow.
"Ah-Huck. Comfy." Goofy said.
"Talk about lucky." Kaze muttered.
The Trinity Armor then landed before them.
"Wh-What is that thing?" The merchant screamed as he ran.
The guard charged at it, but was easily swatted away.
"Hope you guys are ready for this. Because there is no Keyblade to back us up this time." Corrin said as the five got ready for battle.
Back with Kuzco:
While she fell, Yzma dropped the potion and it landed on a ledge a bit further down. Kuzco ran for it, but things weren't good for Pacha and Takumi.
Because Pacha was grabbing on the statue's eye, the round surface was starting to make him lose his grip as he started sliding off the side. He was still able to keep his hold, but it was apparent that it was slipping.
"Hang on Pacha!" Takumi cried out as he barely hung onto Pacha's feet.
"I-I'm trying! KUZCO!" Pacha cried out.
"Be right there!" Kuzco cried out in concern as he raced for the potion. The potion dangled on the edge ready to fall as Kuzco tried to reach, but was coming up short.
"KUZCO!" Pacha cried out.
"Crap! There's gotta be something I can do!" Takumi cried out looking for an answer but finding nothing. Pacha was barely hanging on as is, so climbing up him would likely cause Pacha to lose his grip.
Kuzco looked back and forth between Pacha and the potion before making up his mind.
Pacha's grip finally gave out as the two began to fall…Only to be caught by a familiar pair of hooves.
"Gotcha!" Kuzco cried out as he grabbed Pacha's hand and started to help pull the two to safety.
Takumi was in shock. The selfish brat that was willing to let Pacha and Sora fall back at the bridge had just forfeited his chance of being human again to save them.
Kuzco had succeed in pulling the two up and Pacha turned to Takumi.
"See? I told you. No one is that Heartless." Pacha said.
"I…I guess you were right. Thank you Kuzco." Takumi bowed.
"Thanks." Pacha smiled just as he spotted something. "The vial!"
The three looked to see the vial had finally rolled off the edge and fell.
Back with Sora:
When the darkness died down, Sora was now completely black with waves of dark energy emanating off his body. His eyes were yellow. He looked like…a Heartless. He didn't even have the Keyblade in his hands anymore. Instead, his hands looked like claws.
"It seems that your transformation into a Heartless had some other affects." Vanitas smirked.
Anti-Sora didn't say anything. Instead in charged at Vanitas running on all four.
Anti-Sora brought his claws forth and swiped at Vanitas. Vanitas blocked the attack with his Keyblade, but was then greeted with a swift kick to his mid-section.
As Vanitas stumbled back, he could only laugh.
"This is quite a discovery. You fight like a Heartless in this form! I wonder what else you can do?" Vanitas said as he readied his Keyblade for another round.
Jiminy had seen enough. He needed to help Sora.
"Sora! You need to turn back now! Before the darkness consumes you!" Jiminy cried out as he ran towards Sora, but the young Keyblade wielder didn't respond. He just charged at Vanitas once again.
"SORA! STOP!" Jiminy cried out.
Anti-Sora started moving around Vanitas attacking with his claws and feet on the masked Keyblade wielder. Vanitas however was able to block them, but Anti-Sora's attacks were getting faster and more hits were starting to connect.
Vanitas jumped into the air away from Sora and pointed his Keyblade down at him.
"SUFFER!" Vanitas shouted as he shot a Dark Figara at Sora.
Anti-Sora dodge the attack and jumped behind him, and launched a back-flip kick to the back of his head sending Vanitas plummeting to the ground.
Anti-Sora dove down at Vanitas, but Vanitas recovered and dodged, while swing his Keyblade hitting Sora in the side.
Anti-Sora went flying back.
Vanitas followed up with a charge attacking Anti-Sora with his Keyblade.
Anti-Sora was able to recover and strike with his claws, blocking the Keyblade.
'Interesting. It's like he relies only on instinct. He truly is like a Heartless in this form.' Vanitas thought.
Anti-Sora then jumped into the air and waved his arms down unleashing a barrage of dark blasts from his claws at Vanitas knocking him back.
Vanitas then brought his Keyblade forward and charged energy into the tip.
"Ragnarok!" Vanitas shouted.
A barrage of blasts homed in on Anti-Sora exploding on contact and sending him flying.
When the smoke died down, Sora was back to normal as he fell to his knees in exhaustion.
"Wh-What happened to me?" Sora panted.
"SORA!" Jiminy cried out running to the fallen boy.
"Well, that was something. It seems your powers have more to them than you thought. But it looks like you're used up all your strength." Vanitas said.
Sora re-summoned his Keyblade as he tried to stand, but he didn't have the energy to stand up and fight and fell back down to his knees, using the Keyblade to support himself.
"A bit of a letdown, but I suppose I can't complain. I got what I want." Vanitas said as he approached Sora.
Jiminy jumped onto Sora's Keyblade and glared at Vanitas.
"I won't let you hurt Sora!" Jiminy declared.
"J-Jiminy…run!" Sora panted.
"I won't run away from a friend. I stayed with you back in Hollow Bastion and I will stay with you now!" Jiminy declared.
"Matters not to me." Vanitas shrugged as he stopped right in front of Sora. He raised his Keyblade ready to strike Sora down and take Ventus's heart. Sora could only close his eyes and await the inevitable.
'I'm sorry everyone. I-I wasn't strong enough.' Sora thought sadly as his thoughts drifted to Sakura, Takumi, Kaze, Donald, Goofy, Leon's group, Cloud, the friends he made from all the different worlds, Riku, Corrin, his mother, and especially Kairi.
Suddenly, a trap door opened underneath Vanitas.
"AHHHHH!" Vanitas shouted as he fell.
Sora and Jiminy looked around confused as to what just happened, until he spotted Kronk with his hands on a lever.
"You know, Yzma has a lot of trap doors all over the place in this lab. Never really knew why but hey. I'm not complaining." Kronk smiled.
Sora just fell on his back gasping in exhaustion.
"Come on kiddo. I've got a recipe that will put some energy back into you." Kronk said hoisting Sora over his shoulder.
"We can't thank you enough." Jiminy said hoping on Kronk's shoulder.
As Kronk headed for the exit, he spotted another lever he didn't recognize.
"I never saw this lever before. Did Yzma just install it? Wonder what this does." Kronk wondered pulling it.
A trap door opened underneath him.
"Should have seen that one coming." Kronk said before he fell with Sora and Jiminy.
Back with Kuzco:
"Sorry Kuzco." Pacha said sadly. The three looked down to where they saw the potion fell. Chances are that it had already hit the bottom and shattered.
"If only I wasn't such a burden back there." Takumi muttered bitterly.
"Hey! I wasn't much better." Pacha argued but Takumi didn't respond.
Suddenly, the three spotted Yzma holding the potion laughing as she went flying upward. She smashed her head on the statue dropping it, causing it to fall a bit further up.
Pacha and Kuzco saw that the statue designs made it that there was a gap that was close to each other much like the canyon from that bridge.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Pacha smirked.
Kuzco nodded as the two went back to back and started to walk up the wall arms locked towards the vial.
Yzma snapped out of her daze and made a dash for the vial. Her new cat body let her climb and jump towards it much easier.
Several Jellyshade Unversed charged at the climbing duo, only to be met with arrows from the Fujin Yumi.
"I'll hold them off! Just climb!" Takumi shouted.
"Got it!" Pacha shouted back. The two climbed as high as they could as the walls were starting to slant away. Kuzco pressed his head on Pacha's back and stretched his neck as Pacha tried to reach for the vial.
Yzma then jumped forward grabbing the vial herself and laughing.
"I win!" She said.
Suddenly, a Door opened, slamming Yzma in the face causing her to lose her grip on the vial. Pacha caught it as it fell towards him.
"Wow! Who would have thought that trap door would lead to here?" Kronk commented from behind the door.
Pacha and Kuzco managed to get themselves to a flat platform with the potion in hands. The two laughed and hugged each other for a moment before pulling back a bit embarrassed. Pacha opened the vial and handed it to Kuzco.
"Well, see you on the other side." Kuzco said finally drinking the potion.
Takumi watched as Kuzco finally drank the potion and couldn't help but smile a bit.
Suddenly, the sounds of fighting coming from the distances got his full attention.
"Hope the others are okay." He muttered as he started to climb up to where the others are. That door Kronk came through looked like a nice exit from this statue.
Back with the others a few moments ago:
The trinity armor fired another round of lasers at the group as Sakura raised her staff.
"Reflect!" She shouted creating a barrier that protected the others from the lasers.
When the barrier died down, Kaze ran behind the creature and slashed at the legs with his weapon. The creature reeled back before taking a swing at the ninja sending him flying back. The Unversed then started to spin launched out multiple balls of fire into the air that went falling all over the place.
Corrin dodge rolled passed the fireballs as he summoned his mask. "Hydro shot!" Corrin shouted as he blasted one of the arms with a ball of water.
"Nullfire!" Sakura shouted as she engulfed the group in a spell to protect them from the fire balls.
"Fira!" Donald shouted as he blasted the creature with a ball of fire. The Unversed recoiled, but it was far from done.
The Unversed started to change red in color as energy was building in front of it.
"Incoming!" Goofy shouted.
The Trinity Armor unleashed a massive blast of energy at the group. Kaze grabbed Sakura who was the least acrobatic of the group as everyone else dodged to avoid being it.
"This thing is taking our attacks like nothing. We need to do something and fast." Kaze said.
"No. I think it's taking hits, but we aren't doing enough." Corrin said.
"Well, you have any plans?" Donald asked.
Corrin was silent for a moment before speaking. "Everyone focus on one spot. If we combine our attacks, we should take it out faster. We'll start with the legs."
Kaze and Goofy readied their sword magic with Thunder on their weapons, Donald and Sakura readied their staffs, and Corrin put on his mask once again.
"HYDRO SHOT!" Corrin shouted blasting a ball of water at the Unversed.
"PEARL!" Sakura shouted firing a ball of light magic at the Unversed.
"FIRA!" Donald shouted shooting a fireball at the Unversed.
"TAKE THIS!" Goofy and Kaze shouted as they tossed their Thunder covered weapons at the Unversed.
The onslaught of all the attacks destroyed the legs as the Unversed spit back into two creatures.
"Great! Now for the middle part!" Corrin cheered.
The middle piece started to spin around like a top and charged at the group.
"I'll take care of this one!" Donald declared as he pointed his staff at it. "FANTASIA!"
A barrage of missiles launched at the middle piece destroying it on contact.
"Great work Donald!" Goofy cheered.
"That was amazing!" Sakura cheered for her kind of mentor.
"I'll take out the head!" Corrin declared as he charged at it.
"I'm right behind you Lord Corrin!" Kaze declared also charging at the creature with his weapons still engulfed in lighting.
Corrin and Kaze jumped into the air and dived right at the final piece, destroying it in a cross slash.
At last, the battle was over.
"We…We did it! We actually won!" Sakura cheered.
"You all did great!" Corrin smiled.
"I hate to cut the celebration short, but we should hurry back and check on the others." Kaze said.
Everyone nodded and headed back to where they were launched from.
And that's a wrap!
So, Sora has transformed into Anti Form for the first time. And his fight with Vanitas didn't go as well as he hoped.
That was a long one. Sorry to just reuse the Trinity Armor, but there are only so much Unversed, and I can't design an original monster to save my life. It's part of the reason why I limit the use of the Unversed in this. Plus Vanitas creates them himself, as when he revealed this to Ventus in Birth By Sleep, the Trinity Armor showed up again behind him despite being killed by the BBS trio in Radiant Garden, so I don't think it's impossible for it to show up again.
Anyway, that does wrap up my first world that didn't originally appear in Kingdom Hearts. I hope you guys enjoyed it. As for when the next two will appear, the second one will be in place of the Pride Lands, so right before we get to the climax, and the last one will be right before the group returns to Twilight Town for the grand finale. Like I mentioned in the last chapter, next world will be the Pirates World, followed by Agrabah and Halloween Town. (Haven't decided on their order yet) Then will be my next original world and this one will be a Nintendo World. Have fun guessing! XD
Next chapter will be a will be an aftermath chapter, followed by another perceptive chapter like I did back in Chapter 30. (I decided to do one in between each world from here on out unless I say otherwise.)
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