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Chapter 4: The Battle of Radiant Garden

April: Saturday 20*

Radiant Garden Theme plays

After an intense space battle Diana, Francia, Jay, Donald, Goofy and I finally landed in Radiant Garden. It was just like what anyone would expect from the place. Rustic, yet had a nice flair to the place, but I couldn't stand around to admire the architecture of the place since Mickey had less than 20 hours before the Doom Counter reached 0!!!

Diana and Francia stayed in the ship to watch over Mickey to see if they could do anything to bide us time while Jay, Donald, Goofy and I ran to Ansem the Wise's study in search for an antidote.

Jay: "Are missions always like this!?"

Jay was breaking a sweat from all our running.

Me: "I don't know, this is the first world I've been to even if we're some how still on Earth, but if we keep this pace, we should be able to get to Ansem's and back within the hour."

Goofy: "But that's assuming that there aren't any Heartless around."

Donald: "They're probably too scared to come out. Hahahahaha!"

But he put his webbed foot in his mouth! Heartless began to spawn as soon as we reached the plaza!

Radiant Garden Battle Theme Plays!

Me: "And that's why I am ready for anything!"

Jay: "So these are Heartless in the flesh Huh?"

Me: "Yeah, they make look weak but they pack a punch if you go easy on them."

Jay: "Don't worry, I wasn't planning to."

Me: "In that case."

I drew Dark Riku's Soul Eater keyblade and handed it to Jay.

Jay: "You do realize where this came from right!?"

Me: "Don't worry it's harmless besides it's only as good as it's wielder. That's why I'm giving it to you."

Jay: "Alright then!"

He took the Soul Eater and got into Riku's fighting stance and we were ready to fight!

Since we on a ticking clock, we had to wipe them out without hesitation. I casted Thunder, Fire, Blizzard and Water for an intense magic combo against our adversaries as Jay brutally slashed at them with Soul Eater. As soon as we were done, we pressed onwards.

Heartless were swarming Radiant Garden! We had to fight and run at the same time! We were then eventually surrounded as soon as we passed Merlin's house!

Me: "Jay, you're gonna wanna take cover."

Jay: "What is it?"

Me: "Something that we've been saving for something like this! Boys let's give them hell!"

Limit: Trinity Limit!

Goofy started to summon Drive orbs using Major Drive which we shot all around us to clear various enemies. Then Sky Pirates were diving in on us, but that was when we used Ultima, a very deadly spell, thanks to Donald! And then Large Ram-like heartless proceeded to stampede us, thankfully, we wiped them out with Break, a series of slashes dealt to the enemy! And once they were in disarray, we ended them with Begin Combo, raising our weapons as light spewed from the tips of our weapons to obliterate all of the Heartless!

Me: "FIRST TRY! HI FIVE!!"

Jay: "Don't get to comfortable you 3, we still need to get that antidote fast!"

Donald, Goofy and I: "RIGHT!"

We hurried down the Heartless infested path with haste but when we got there, we found all 4 of Ansem the Wise's apprentices Dilan, Aeleus, Even, and Ienzo Almost passed out trying to push back the Heartless, when we arrived they fainted and were about to have their hearts taken!

Me: "Not on our watch!!!"

Jay and I used Strike Raid to clear away the Heartless while Donald Healed them. But despite our efforts, they used up all their strength in order to protect Radiant Garden.

Heartless started to swarm us as Donald casted Zero Gravity to lighten their bodies enough for us to carry them inside eventually arriving at Ansem's study. As soon as we made it, Jay and I shut the door and knocked over a bookshelf to barricade us in!

Jay: "We're sitting ducks if we stay here!"

Donald: "You THINK!?"

Me: "Guys we need to calm down. In the meantime we should try and look for the formula."

Goofy: "He's right! We gotta stay together if we want to save both Radiant Garden and the King!"

All in agreement, we searched the whole study in search of the formula. We tried every catalog, every database but we couldn't find anything that has to do with a no-magic healing curse!

Ienzo: *coughs*

Ienzo was starting to wake up.

Ienzo: "D-Donald? Goofy? Who- who are you 2?"

Me: "We're friends man. The name's Scaelux and this is my big brother Jay."

Jay: "Yo."

Ienzo: "I overheard you talking and I think I may have a solution!"

We all heard Ienzo loud and clear as we were running out of time.

Ienzo: "Master Ansem kept any valuable data in the computer right behind the office."

Donald: "You mean the one that takes us to Tron's world?"

Ienzo: "Yes, but the Heartless seemed to have damaged the cores that power the computer, if we can get it up and running again, not only will we be able to find the formula to save King Mickey, but we can even activate the town's defense system!"

Me: "How do we do that?"

Ienzo: "There are 5 levers that reset the cores but unfortunately 4 of them are back the way you came! I can pull the one at Ansem's computer while you 4 must pull the other 4."

Me: "At the same time?"

Ienzo: "Yes, for that we have earpieces in the event that this would happen."

Ienzo handed us earpieces to prepare for the mission. But then I look at Dilan, Aeleus, and Even who were still unconscious.

Ienzo: "We gave it all that we had in order to defend this place. Even with the power we had when we were members 3-6 in the original organization, no amount of wind, ice, earth or illusions could subdue them."

Me: "Actually, maybe they can be of help, stand close to them Ienzo."

Ienzo: "What are you doing?"

Me: "You'll see don't worry."

Ienzo walked close to the other 3 apprentices and when he did, I used my ability to syphon power from others ,which I decided to call R.S. Syphon, but gentler so I didn't hurt them while gaining new power as a result!

Learned Aero, Quake, Blizzara, Magnet, and Zero Gravity

Ienzo: "Incredible! You're able to use the power of the R.S. Engine. With such skill!"

Me: "I appreciate the compliment Ienzo, but now, we have people to save."

Ienzo got into position at Ansem's computer as the rest of us pulled away the bookshelf and got ready to fight!

We rushed through the corridor to get to each lever Donald stayed by the one by the door to Ansem's study as the rest of us located the remaining 3. Heartless were using dark magic to render the other 3 useless until the they were wiped out! So we divided and conquered! Goofy charged towards the heartless at full speed like a missile. He then proceeded to spin like a top, leap then come crashing down clearing away all the heartless! Jay used Ars Solum, Terra's version of Ars Arcanum but the swings are more circular, to clear out all the heartless in front of him and finished them with a cast of fire! He was ready to flip the switch when needed! As for me, I took out my Flarialite keyblade by itself to try something new. I flipped the keyblade just like what I did when entering Second Form EX, caught it, and entered a brand new form!

Formchange: Light Dragon Form!

In this formchange, the light pattern on my waste cape and hood is reflected so that I have a full light pattern. The black hues of my torso turned to white with a scaly pattern resembling my Bahamaut summon as well as having the kanji of light printed on my pants and shoulder guard. From there I gained access to a new attack that I don't have in base form.

Gained Faith!

I started charging forwards while wielding Flarialite in my single blade stance and performed my basic 3 hit combo, Zantetsuken, Finishing Leap and ended with Event Horizon. I was just about to give everyone the signal to flip each lever, but then!

?????: "You have to help THEM!!"

I started getting a huge headache as soon as the voice finished talking. And even worse, the levers suddenly became disabled again!!

Donald, Goofy and Jay: "SCAELUX!!"

Me: "It's ok guys, I'm fine."

Jay: "What the heck was that!?"

Me: "Just a headache. I can shake it off."

Goofy: "Uh guys. LOOK OUT!!!"

A giant hulking Heartless appeared in the middle of the room ready to crush us!

Me: "Jay, Goofy, Donald and I will keep this thing distracted. You two strike from behind!"

Jay: "Got it, let's go!"

Limit: Donald's Meteor

The Heartless was busy trying to guard against the barrage of meteors about flatten it as Jay and Goofy flanked it from behind ready to strike! But the Heartless had a dangerous hidden fang! It protruded black tentacles out from its back and constricted them!!

Me: "JAY!!"

Donald: "GOOFY!!"

Me: "I just had enough of this!!"

I flipped my Flarialite again to enter my tier two form!

Formchange: Dueling Dragon Form!

Dueling Dragon Form gave me my half light and darkness hues back but it kept the scaly design of Bahamaut and a metallic design of my Ultima Weapon summon on the dark side. The Kingdom Hearts symbol receives the same treatment along with 2 dragon wings protruding from the sides and the dragons on my waist cape gain the Kanjis of Light and Darkness on their respective sides.

Combat remained the same as Sora's Double form which is what I used to go all out on the giant Heartless and ended with a brand new shotlock!

Shotlock: Dragon's Gate!

Works just like Stellar Inception except 2 spirits of Bahamaut and Ultima Weapon snake around me as they help me to cast projectiles which alternate between tiny casts of Flare and Ultima and when I was about to launch them, they stopped snaking as they faced the direction I was facing and ROAR to launch the projectiles! But it didn't stop it!

Donald: "SCAELUX!!"

The Heartless was about to snag me with its tentacles as soon as I was about to land from my shotlock and Donald shoved me away!

Now all 3 of them were snagged and losing oxygen!!!

Me: "No you don't! LET! THEM!! GO!!!"

With all of my strength I charged forward in attempt to save them as the Heartless summoned more tentacles to snag me too!!! Struggling to break free, I gave it all I got in order to free myself! As the tentacles grew tighter, my heart began to beat louder... and louder... and louder... until!

Dive into the Heart-Destati Plays

I found myself at my station of awakening with Sora right beside me.

Me: "Sora? Why am I back here!?"

Sora: "I didn't bring you here."

Me: "Then who did?!"

?????: "Don't give in."

The both of us were startled by the voice as we noticed that one of the censored portraits on the inner ring of the station began to glow and eventually, the dark covering disappeared to reveal a new face! And there he stood right in front of us as soon as the portrait was revealed!

Me and Sora: "CLOUD!!!"

Cloud: "I thought you'd never come."

Typical Cloud. Cloud was dressed in his Advent Children outfit with his Fusion Sword.

Me: "I'm sorry I kept on pushing you down, I didn't know what on Earth was going on, I was just startled."

Cloud: "You're right, but now isn't the time for excuses, you've got to win this."

Me: "How? I'm constricted!"

Cloud: "Since I'm inside your heart, you gain my power, which was why you manifested a heavy sword instead of a keyblade this morning."

I tried manifesting that sword again and held it just like how Cloud does.

Me: "Who was it that you wanted me to save, you've been calling out to me for a while about it."

Cloud: "Barret, Tifa, Aerith, RedXIII, Squall, Tidus, everyone is here in Radiant Garden, but I don't think that they'll last long out there by their own. You have to help them."

Me: "But I can't do that while the King is on his death bed!!"

Cloud: "Then Divide and Conquer, you'll travel to the battle field to save them and your allies will save the King."

I began to ponder.

Me: "I guess that's a good way of doing things but for now I... No we have a Heartless to squash!"

Cloud: "Hm Good Answer."

Sora: "We can do this together."

The 3 of us put our hands together and just like that, I was back into the Heartless' tentacles, but not for long.

I started to radiate a sky blue energy from my body, then brutally slashed the tentacle with my great sword, which I decided to call Enfierna (en-fee-air-nuh), an original name based on several languages of the word Fire.

Donald, Goofy and Jay: "SCAELUX!?!?"

Me and Cloud: "LETS DO THIS!!"

Those Who Fight (FamilyJules) Plays! (This is a fan remix of Those Who Fight written by FamilyJules so shout out to him)

I rushed towards the Heartless as it tried to take several swings at me which I successfully countered thanks to one of Cloud's abilities in Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

Ability: CounterStance

The Heartless was running out of tentacles and eventually dropped my allies who were ready to fight!

Me: "Alright Cloud, let's give it out all!!"

Cloud: "Right!!"

Limit Break: Spinning Braver!

Just like Cloud's Braver attack but as soon as I leap, I start to spin with Enfierna held in front of me like a saw blade, much like how Sonic does his homing attack in Smash, and gashed the Heartless right on it's head! Thereby destroying it!

As the Heartless disintegrated, I performed Cloud's traditional Sword spin and placed it on my back where it was somehow magically suspended in the air behind me.

Jay: "THAT, WAS AWESOME!"

Jay and I hugged one another in relief.

Donald: "How did you gain new power?"

Me: "We can thank Cloud for that one."

Cloud: "That was all you!"

The 3 of them were bewildered at the sound of Cloud's voice.

Me: "You heard that!?"

2 small lights started to fly out from my heart and started to take shape as spirits of Cloud and Sora manifested, similar to how Eraqus manifested through Terra at the end of KH3.

Donald and Goofy were overjoyed to see Sora again while Cloud greeted my brother. But getting back on track, we contacted Ienzo in preparation to restore power to Ansem's computer and get the formula.

Me: "On 3 everyone. 1... 2... 3!!!"

We restored power to Ansem's Computer and the town defense system which obliterated the remaining Heartless! Ienzo proceeded to download the formula for the antidote for Mickey's curse to my phone which I sent to my brother telling him that we'd need to split up so we can save both Mickey and Cloud's friends. And so we set off to keep on fighting!

Jay, Donald and Goofy went to get the formula to Diana and Francia so we could cure the King while I went down to the Heartless tower to join the fight!

Jay, Donald and Goofy had an easier time getting back to the Gummi Ship and with 8 hours to spare, they were able to get the formula to Francia and Diana who then began to process it.

But Heartless started to come towards the Gummi Ship!

Jay: "You guys take care of Mickey, these guys are all mine!"

Jay drew the Soul Eater and began to use Ars Solum to take out several large bodies as they charged straight towards him and used Blitz, a series of leaping overhead strikes, to wipe out lance and shadow Heartless, but they kept on coming!

Jay: "These guys aren't such a pain behind a controller but in real life these things are like COCKROACHES!"

Francia: "Keep it up just a little longer!"

?????: "Need a hand?"

Suddenly a huge sword came out of nowhere as it danced and struck down a majority of the Heartless, all wielded by a man in red and with his left arm in a sling!

Jay, Donald and Goofy: "AURON!!!"

Auron: "Kid! Time your attacks with mine!"

Jay: "Let's go!"

Limit: Bushido!

Jay and Auron slashed in circular motions like a pair of tornadoes as flaming geysers erupted from the ground destroying all the Heartless that stood in their way! And to finish them off, they joined their weapons on opposite ends and created a literal tornado to wipe out all the remaining Heartless! The rest of them fled as Bushido concluded.

Jay: "Now THAT was awesome!"

Auron: "Don't get too comfortable, we still need to take care of the King."

Jay: "Right."

The antidote was complete and Francia administered the antidote to Mickey.

Mickey: "...hm"

Mickey appeared to be very relaxed as the curse broke, but that was the least of their concerns when the Doom Counter started losing its numbers!!!

Diana: "What the hell!?"

Auron: "It's a failsafe incase Doom is vulnerable, here give him this."

Auron passed Fiana an elixir that she poured into Mickey's mouth.

Francia: "3 hours left! 2 hours! 1 hour! 5 Minutes! Wait what?"

The Doom Counter stopped at 300 seconds and then vanished! And then, Mickey woke up.

Mickey: "Eeeuuugh, Gosh, what, happened??"

Donald and Goofy: "YOUR MAJESTY!!!"

Donald and Goofy gave Mickey a huge hug knowing that he was all better.

Mickey: "Donald, Goofy, you're okay! But."

Mickey looked around in worry.

Mickey: "Where's Scaelux?"

Jay: "Don't worry about him, he's out saving everybody. I'm his older brother Jay."

Francia: "I'm Francia, his sister."

Diana: "I'm his brother's fiancé Diana."

Mickey: "Glad to meet you all, but we can't sit around, Scaelux and the others need us if we're gonna stand up against Maleficent!"

Donald, Goofy, Jay, Diana, and Francia: "MALEFICENT!?"

Mickey: "Yes, she's the one who cursed me!"

Jay: "We thought it was Marluxia who did this!"

Mickey: "That's what she wanted you to think!"

Flashback to about a week ago.

Mickey: "I enlisted the help of other heroes from other worlds to help me in this operation to save him and the others since they came to this world just like we did when Sora, who had the main part of the R.S. engine joined Scaelux's heart which ended up creating more of a mess since his thoughts were being channeled through the R.S. Engine's power creating the pathways to other worlds! But after the battle where the Organization defeated the 6 other Engine bearers, I fled to Master Yen Sid's tower. With Master Yen Sid's help, we were able to eliminate any evidence that Scaelux went missing as soon as we got to safety and away from Organization XIII. Then I got a distress call from Radiant Garden that Maleficent was invading! When I encountered her she already set a trap for me, placing that no healing curse on me along with a hidden Doom Counter that would end in about a week! If she pinned the blame on Marluxia, then that would mean Scaelux's attention would be drawn towards the Organization and Maleficent would be able to mount on assault on Radiant Garden to not only build up her strength, but have enough in order to take Scaelux's power ALL FOR HERSELF!!!"

Jay: "Holy Shit! She must've known that Cloud was in Scaelux's heart and that he would deliver her message once she started to put pressure on his allies! And we took the BAIT!!!"

Mickey: "Then we don't have a moment to lose. If Maleficent is successful and defeats him, she could be unstoppable!!"

With everyone in agreement, they took the Gummi Ship over to the battlefield.

Mickey: "Oh, Jay right, I think you should have this."

Mickey presented my brother with a unique keyblade that also doubled as a rifle just like Squall's gunblade only Squall's is similar to a revolver. He gave it a few test shots to try it out and he was satisfied.

Jay: "Oh I'm keeping this thing, no one messes with the Adcaelus family and gets away with it!"

And they were right! I couldn't have imagined that Maleficent was pulling the strings the entire time!!!

As for what I was doing when we split up, I ran towards the Heartless tower trying to find the source of the invasion when I came across everyone Cloud had mentioned. Unfortunately they weren't doing so hot.

Barret could barely keep up with the airborne Heartless as they kept on dodging and diving in an effort to beat him, Tifa was unconscious next to him while Aerith and Red XIII tried to heal her, Yuffie, Vincent, Cait Sith, and Cid were focused on protecting them against Strong Heartless while Squall, Tidus, Yuna, Laguna and Rinoa went on the offensive.

Me: "Cloud, Sora, let's give them what's coming for them!!"

Cloud and Sora: "Right!"

Ability: Triple Slash

I rushed into battle with Enfierna at the ready and struck down several battalions of Heartless.

Ability: Focused Thrust

I then proceeded to strike hard against Earth Core Heartless. Then I casted Aero and Magnet consecutively to bring down the airborne Heartless and finished them all with Quake, creating an earthquake that destroyed all grounded Heartless! I then proceeded to do Cloud's sword swing pose, placing Enfierna on my back.

Final Fantasy 7 cast: "CLOUD!?"

Barrett: "CLOUD! WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!! WE'VE BEEN WORR..."

I turned around.

Me: "I'm not Cloud, but I'm a friend, my name's Scaelux Adcaelus."

Tifa was still unconscious after that Quake.

Me: "What happened to her?"

Aerith: "She's been badly hurt and we're out of Phoenix Downs!"

Barrett: "Don't worry kid she's a fighter, she can pull through worse shit than this!"

Red XIII: "Says the 200 pound sack of it who forgot about them."

Barrett: "HEY!"

Me: "I think I can heal her myself."

I proceeded to use the R.S. Engine's power again on Tifa but instead of syphoning, I offered her some of my life force. Tifa began coughing as she opened her eyes.

Barrett: "Hot Damn Kid!!"

Me: "Don't get comfortable she's still a bit weak."

I proceeded to cast Cure with Aerith and Red XIII's help but casting Cure while also sacrificing some of my own life force weakened me but at least Tifa was able to fight.

Tifa: "Wh... who're you?"

Me: "A friend."

We hurried out into the battle field to meet with everyone else as we all fought side by side to gain access to the tower. I kept on alternating between my keyblades and great sword using all the techniques I knew of with my weapons but then I noticed Tifa. Her use of Zangan-Ryu martial arts which reminded me that I didn't need any blades to fight. But then, a Large Body Heartless tried to leap onto her, and too exhausted to notice, she was knocked off her feet!!

Me: Oh like hell you will!!

I rushed over to Tifa blocking the incoming attacks so she could recover.

Me: "Tifa, you okay?"

Tifa: "I'm fine."

I switched to the Hero's Origin keyblade and Formchanged it

Formchange: Counter Shield: Guardian Form

In a Guardian Formchange, my waist cape contained a diamond pattern with yellow and black colors instead of my usual dragon motif and my hood contained the symbol of a shield where the Kingdom Hearts symbol would be, my torso also changed from black and white hues to black and yellow hues.

With the counter Shield, I beat back all the Heartless by throwing the shield, casting Thunder and even countering by summoning giant fists out of the shield! But even with all that power, the Heartless began to surround us! Refusing to give up, I focused all my energy into everything I had using different weapons for each situation and Tifa was there to back me up! We didn't give up on each other as we pushed back the Heartless and with that determination along with the R.S. Engine's power, I gained a new kind of weapon!

With the same motif as Flarialite and Ultiforce, I manifested a set of claws and boots made in reference to my dual keyblades. My outfit didn't change though. There was a claw connected to each of my fingers as I moved them around but it didn't affect my ability to grab onto things. Both the claws and the boots had scale like patterns on them with dragon heads pointed towards the claws and a pure scale pattern on my boots. The claws and boots themselves were tight on the skin, yet comfortable, thick armored, yet light as a feather.

I got into a fighting stance just like Tifa's and we were fighting like there was no tomorrow! A bunch of Lance soldiers tried to skewer us but we intercepted their attacks with skillful dodges and powerful kicks! For the airborne enemies, we jumped and delivered a series of punches and kicks decimating them all!

Barret: "YO, SCAELUX, TIFA, HEAD'S UP!!"

Barret threw us a megaelixer which we both used to get us into full fighting shape and then we ended the fight quickly in a single limit.

Limit: Dolphin and Wyvern!

Tifa and I conjured up a Chi Trap which absorbed all the Heartless in the area and then we beat them down mirroring our movements. We started with a few punch and kick combos, Divekicks, Somersaults, Starshowers (a series of lightning fast strikes from all angles and ended with a Dolphin flurry except when we both did it, a silhouette of a Dolphin and a Wyvern appeared as we delivered the final blow!

Tifa: "You're pretty good!"

Me: "Thanks, but I doubt I'm as good as you."

Red XIII: "Scaelux, the path is clear, now's your chance!"

Me: "Thanks Red."

I ran into the tower and began to ascend it.

I used Flowmotion, Aero, and my claws which I found out can shoot the claws connected to my fingers like a grapple to ascend the tower up towards the summit.

Then as I walked into the same room where the 7 princesses of heart were being held during Kingdom Hearts 1, I encountered the very person responsible for the Heartless invasion.

?????: "You're very persistent for a beginner."

Me: "Show yourself!"

I drew Kingdom Key U in preparation.

?????: "That keyblade, ah yes you're the one who bares the keyblade wielder that prevented me from getting access to Kingdom Hearts in the first place."

Me: "Then that makes you Maleficent!"

She appeared from a corridor of darkness with Pete at her side.

Maleficent: "Persistent and Perceptive, truly a worthy adversary."

Me: "If you want to make it out of this conflict alive, then I'd suggest that you surrender and call off your army."

Maleficent: "Surrender? Try saying that once you've faced my new top ranking servants. ATTACK!!"

Suddenly I got barraged by fire which I blocked and countered with Strike Raid. But then I was knocked back with the force of a bullet train slamming me against the wall.

Sora: "No it can't BE!!"

Me: "Sora, what's going o... Oh no!!"

I looked straight ahead to find Roxas and Lea under Maleficent's control!!

Me: "Why you little!"

Maleficent: *chuckles* "Surprised at my new minions are we? Oh the feeling of losing their friends and not to mention that meddlesome King who tried to stop me was enough to make them my own minions!!"

Me: "It was you. You were the one who cursed Mickey in the first place weren't you!!"

Maleficent: "Indeed, initially I was hoping to build my army enough to beat you and take your power but you were gaining strength much faster than I had anticipated, but now you've fallen right into my trap!!!"

She closed the gate behind me!

Me: "You're not worthy of the power I wield."

Maleficent: "Oh we shall see!"

Sora: "Don't underestimate them, they're strong!"

Me: "Yeah this is gonna be a tough one."

Pete: "Say, whose he talking to?"

Me: "I was talking to Nunya Pete."

Pete: "Who?"

Me: "NUNYA BUSINESS ZANTETSUKEN!!!"

I brutally slashed Roxas and Axel in a single blow and went charging towards Maleficent with Flarialite and Ultiforce at the ready, until Pete tried to ram into me again! I switched to my dragon claws to block his charge and used his own momentum to toss him onto Roxas and Axel allowing me to get to Maleficent. But Maleficent was well prepared when she teleported away and tried to cast Sleep on me. But I didn't mess around either, as I ran along the wall using my claws and a little bit of Flowmotion to get to Maleficent's position to deliver a devastating jumping hurricane kick to her, but Roxas and Axel intercepted me just in time protecting her.

Cloud: "We gotta snap them out somehow!"

Me: "Right."

Swapping to Enfierna, I guarded against Axel's Chakrams and Roxas' keyblade assaults with ease. And once Roxas attempted to perform his dash attack, I pulled off a brand new Limit Break thanks to the aid of both Cloud and Sora!

Limit Break: Sonic Slash!

Pretty much a combination of Sonic Blade and Cross Slash, I rushed towards Roxas multiple times while creating a single stroke as I slashed, eventually completing the kanji of misfortune that cross slash would make and as a result, lowered Roxas's defense significantly. I closed in on Roxas while he was vulnerable drawing Kingdom Key U in an effort to break Maleficent's control over him but then, Axel casted a very powerful cast of Firaga that knocked me against the wall!!

I was set up so that I could be defeated by Maleficent which would allow her to take my power for herself!

Sora: "Not over yet keep fighting Scaelux!"

Cloud: "Don't let her get to you!"

Maleficent: "You're hopeless against me and my minions like this. Perhaps I am worthy of your power after all. And now it's mine!"

I ignored every last word she just said.

Pete: "Don't you give her the stink eye kid! We beat you fair and square! Now cough it up!"

Me: I can't believe that I fell for this trap! And now I'll pay for it if I don't get out of this!! If only I payed more attention to what Pete said at Master Yen Sid's I... wait THAT'S IT!

Me: "Ok I concede! You win."

Maleficent: "Very good boy. Now your power belongs to me."

Cloud: "What the hell are you doing!?"

Sora: "You can't concede!!"

Me: "Well this would've ended quicker if I was more surprised. Too bad for you I got a clue earlier that I may or may not have payed attention to."

Maleficent: "What is it that you're talking about now boy!?"

I stared at Pete with a smug grin on my face as Maleficent demanded that I answered her question, until she followed my eyesight towards Pete!

Maleficent: "What did you DO!?"

Pete: "Whuh, darn it, I really hoped that he didn't catch that part!"

Sora, Cloud and I stared at them as they argued, and without Maleficent's commands, Roxas and Axel were just standing there like statues! That was when I switched to using Flarialite and Ultiforce to try out a new attack that I've been waiting to use since I learned Zantetsuken. I spun both my keyblades behind me with Roxas and Axel not even reacting to my motions.

Maleficent: "Not only did you fail to make Master Yen Sid into a Heartless but you even told him that I was plotting against HIM!? You're incredibly USELESS!!"

Pete: "Don't worry milady, I can prove to you I can do my job in fact I'll make sure that the Heartless..."

Me: "ZANTETSUKEN!!!"

I rushed forward catching all 4 of them in my attack which I was surprised to pull off flawlessly.

Learned Tsuin-Zantetsuken! (Replaces the dash move in my dual blade combo and while in Dueling Dragon Form, double the chance to insta-kill weak enemies than Zantetsuken)

The blast launched Pete out of the tower and he probably ended up in the stratosphere!

Me: "So much for proving himself, the guy's gotta get a new hobby."

Maleficent: "You irritating little brat!! I'll just have to take your power myself!"

In a large plume of smoke she turned into her classic dragon form which was even scarier in real LIFE!

Maleficent: "Now DESTROY HIM!!!"

Roxas and Axel didn't respond.

Roxas's Return Plays

Maleficent: "What are you waiting for!?"

Me: "Sorry Maleficent, but they're not your puppets!!"

Roxas and Axel casted a powerful blast of Firaga knocking Maleficent into the wall!

Roxas: "Thanks!"

Me: "Don't thank me yet we still got a job to do!"

Axel/Lea: "Then let's get it done!!"

Maleficent: "How? How did you break my control!?"

Me: "Lesson numero UNO: never take your mind off the battle!"

Flashback

Me: "Not only I was able to pull that new move off, but as soon as I hit Roxas and Axel with Tsuin-Zantetsuken, as soon as they were in front of the tips of my keyblades, I took the opportunity to fire my keyblade beams, thereby breaking your spell and on top of that, I was able to gain more power thanks to the R.S. Engine. All in all, Distracting you and Pete made it all the more satisfying."

Learned Fira, Sparkra, and Event Horizon!

Back to the present

Maleficent: "You insolent boy, FACE YOUR DOOM!!!"

Maleficent launched an orb of dark magic into our direction!

Jay: "Get away from my brother!!!"

Jay intercepted the blast with both his keyblades, switching Soul Eater to his left hand and his new Bravebond keyblade in his right hand while wielding them both in the Valor Form fighting stance.

Me: "Haha now we're talking bro! Now it's time to show this witch some brother power!"

Jay: "Oh that's not all we got!"

Maleficent summoned thousands of Heartless to charge at us then I was met with another surprise!

Mickey: "STOPZA!!!"

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy interrupted Maleficent's attack and countered with their own Trinity Limit!

Limit: Trinity Limit!

Me, Roxas, and Axel: "MICKEY!!!"

Mickey: "Come on Scaelux let's show them what we're made of!"

Me: "I couldn't agree more your excellency! Ok guys, LET'S DO THIS TOGETHER!"

Hearts as One Plays!

We all charged at Maleficent as she summoned countless heartless to aid her, but the 7 of us were very persistent. Roxas and I performed a duo version of Event Horizon clearing out a first wave of Heartless, followed by Donald casting Aero and Magnet to group a whole lot of Heartless together and Axel igniting it setting the vortex ON FIRE!! The blast blinded Maleficent allowing Mickey and Goofy to sneak behind her and delivered a nasty limit to Maleficent's skull!

Limit: Goofy Bombardier!

Mickey and Goofy flew high up into the air and at the peak height, Mickey threw Goofy with his shield in front possibly giving Maleficent a huge Concussion! Finally, Jay stood directly in front of Maleficent's face gathering power with his keyblades to use his own shotlock!

Shotlock: Limit Ragnarok! (Works just like normal Ragnarok but it can syphon health and if Jay is at critical health, the effects of Limit Ragnarok are TRIPLED!!)

Maleficent regained consciousness but it was too late!

Jay: "HI!"

He blasted Maleficent at point blank range dealing heavy damage and sending Maleficent to fly and land on her back, struggling to get back up!

Jay: "Oh hell YEAH! Let this be a lesson as to never go near my brother, or any of my family AGAIN!!!"

Jay jumped upwards, brought both his keyblades together, and delivered a devastating blow to Maleficent's belly, leaving her stunned, by using an attack we decided to call Hammer Drop. Instead of slicing, it was like getting hit by a bullet train when Jay comes crashing down!!! And if he just slammed the ground... let's just say any enemy to close to him will be shooting for the stars upon impact!

Me: "JAY, KING MICKEY!!! LET'S END THIS!!!"

The 3 of us surrounded Maleficent, still stunned from my big brother's beat down, and unleashed a finishing limit attack!

Limit: True End!(we stabbed our keyblades into the ground creating a magic sigil that engulfed Maleficent and light and EXPLODES, just like in KH3 ReMind.)

True End forced Maleficent back to her normal form and she was exhausted after that finisher! It was about that time that the Final Fantasy 7 cast, Squall, Rinoa, Laguna, Tidus, Yuna, and Auron made their way into the room with their weapons hot!

Me: "That's checkmate Maleficent, you have no where to run or hide, I suggest you surrender peacefully!"

Maleficent chuckled.

Me: "What's so funny!?"

Maleficent: "Surrender? I THINK NOT!!"

A burst of dark energy erupted from the spot she was standing on and then she disappeared, she didn't even attack us! We were all staring at the spot she was standing on with awkward looks.

Yuna: "Well that was a little Anti-climatic."

Goofy: "Tell me about it."

Me: "I don't know, she came this far to take my power, what just happened seems pretty sus to me."

Barrett: "Oh lighten up ya'll we WON! Come on let's get back to RadiYAAH!"

As soon as Barrett walked away, an odd force field blocked him!

Me: "Are you ok Barrett!?"

Barrett: "I'm fine kid thanks."

Me: "Let me see if I can open it."

I brought both Flairialite and Ultiforce together to fire 2 keyblade beams in an effort to unlock the barrier but instead, I got blasted to the opposite side of the room when the barrier rejected my keyblades' power!

Jay: "SCAELUX!!"

Jay rushed over to me with a hi-potion in hand, which I chugged down in seconds. The taste was bitter yet sweet at the same time as the fluid came down my throat, all the while healing every injury I sustained from the blast in seconds!

Me: "Thanks bro!"

I gave him a huge bear hug as soon as I drank every last drop of the hi-potion, only to find out that we we're gonna be in the fight for our lives! I heard a beep coming from my earpiece.

Francia: "Hello! Scaelux! Jay! Are you there!?"

Francia was calling from the Gummi Ship thanks to Ienzo for giving her the address to contact through our earpieces.

Me: "We're here, is something going on!?"

Diana: "Uh, good news, bad, news or wired news. The Heartless are retreating from the town and heading to the Heartless tower. And their eyes just suddenly turned GREEN!"

Me and Jay: "Oh shit!"

Replicas plays!

Maleficent some how gained full control of her army and is bringing it back to the tower to try and defeat us! In response to the news, we gathered in a circle with Donald, Mickey, Yuna, Aerith, Barrett, Cait Sith, Rinoa, and Yuffie in the middle while the rest of us made up the outer circle.

Before we new it, the whole room was crawling with Heartless from top to bottom, having us completely surrounded!

Squall: "We're trapped!"

Tidus: "Not for long, we just need to push our way through!"

Yuffie: "Yeah, we can take them!"

Mickey: "Scaelux, Jay, are you 2 ready?"

Jay: "We got this!"

Me: "Never quit never surrender! LET'S DO THIS!!!"

The Heartless were persistent but so were we as long as we moved as one. I switched to using Enfierna as a swarm of Heartless came towards me, beating and slicing at them when they attacked me. And as soon as I had enough energy, I raised hell for them with my parallel to Cloud's Blade Beam Limit Break!

Limit Break: Buster Beam!

I slashed 3 times summoning 3 small but fast crescent shaped blades which together wasn't as powerful as blade beam but then I charged what was left of the Mako energy flowing through my veins and releasing it as a powerful laser from the tip of Enfierna blasting through the Heartless and even through the side of the tower!

The Heartless then concentrated on Jay. Using Soul Eater and Bravebond, Jay viciously slashed at the incoming Heartless like slicing through wind and blocking seemed pretty much effortless for him. But then he went all out using Dark Splicer through Soul Eater, cutting down the Heartless and followed up with a cast of Fira through Bravebond, except while using Bravebond, the barrel of the keyblade exploded with flames in front of Jay almost like a shotgun, leaving the wave of Heartless with severe 3rd degree burns. He then blew on the tip of Bravebond savage style.

Me: Classic, gotta love him!

The Heartless then drew their attention to Roxas and Axel together as they beat back their wave of Heartless, with Roxas using his typical dual wielding style of fighting and Axel alternating his attacks between striking and throwing his keyblade. Eventually, they dished out a series light, dark and fire combo with Axel formchanging his keyblade into his chakrams and erupting a lot of flames below the Heartless with Roxas dashing through the eruption with Oblivion and Oathkeeper, straight up demolishing the Heartless!

The Heartless remained relentless however, they tried to attack Jay on 2 sides forcing him to bail from the circle and guard against the incoming ambush, then the Heartless proceeded to flatten him on both sides! My heart almost gave away if it weren't for Squall's intervention to cover him, and together, they performed their own Limit.

Limit: Critical Rumble!

Both bashed the Heartless back with their weapons and when they did, they continued to bash them striking in sink with one another, until the Heartless gave up on them! (This is in reference to timed hits introduced in Final Fantasy 8 where timing your hits properly will increase damage output)

Me: "Not gonna lie guys, that was pretty badass!"

Jay: "Looks like you won't be the only Keyblade Master in the family."

Me: Showoff.

The Heartless then moved on to try and focus on the middle! Donald, Aerith, Yuna, and Mickey casted Aeroga to launch the Heartless upwards. As soon as they hit the ceiling, Jay, Auron, Tidus, and Axel jumped up to follow up with Jay, Auron, and Tidus using a combined version of Bushido and Blitz Ace to keep them at bay while Axel charged with power and created a devastating explosion with the help of Tidus when he kicked an explosive Blitz Ball to add to the explosion.

The Heartless then decided to wipe all of us out at once, little did they know, we had Reflega! We kept on slashing, smashing, shooting, and magic casting until they tried to attack, from their, the inner circle casted Reflega to deflect the attack back towards the Heartless!

Then the Heartless went for the middle again! Barrett used his strongest Limit Break to counter them this time!

Limit Break Catastrophe!

A huge laser came out of his gun arm sending a majority of the Heartless flying! The mages of the Group casted Aeroga again to gather them up and send them towards Roxas and I combining our strength. Roxas summoned pillars of light while I summoned Tornadoes around them using a my own parallel to Finishing Touch!

Limit Break: Finishing Blow!

Instead of conjuring a single large tornado, I summon 3 smaller ones but are fast moving. This time however I summoned 10 which surrounded each of the pillars that Roxas created which allowed us to perform another new Limit.

Limit: Final Hour!

With all our strength, the pillars of light and wind gathered around us and when the Heartless closed in, we let loose a destructive amount of power weakening their number significantly.

With the Heartless' numbers dwindling I proceeded to finish them off, switching to Flarialite and Ultiforce and using my shotlock!

Me: "Let's try this again!"

Shotlock: Dragon's Gate!

The attack cleared out almost all of the remaining Heartless as I switched back to Enfierna.

Mickey: "Scaelux we can end it here and now!"

Me: "You're right. Let's do this."

Limit: Wayfinder!

While everyone casted Magnega to draw in all the Heartless, Mickey and I conjured up a magical chain to bind them together in a ball, leaving them defenseless!

Cloud: "Let's finish this!"

Me: "Way ahead of you!"

That moment, Cloud gave me all of his strength to perform his strongest attack ever (Now his new Final Smash in Super Smash Bros Ultimate)!

Limit Break: Omnislash Version. 5!

I swung Enfierna just like how Cloud does it in Smash Ultimate and charge straight forward! But as it turned out, the ball of Heartless wasn't completely defenseless! The Heartless gathered dark energy and fired a destructive laser that I just flew into, if I didn't guard in time I would've been cooked! The beam hurt a lot even when I was guarding, and that's not all, the energy was messing with my mind, negative and pessimistic thoughts filled my mind, I tried to resist but I couldn't counteract it, at least not by myself.

Jay: "FIGHT BACK!!"

I heard Jay's voice.

Francia: "YOU'VE GOT THIS HOLD ON!"

Francia too.

Diana: "WE'RE COUNTING ON YOU!!!"

In retaliation, the Heartless tried blasting them too! I could hear them all crying in pain, my heart was starting to feel heavy... until.

Me: "Cloud!?"

I felt his hand pushing against Enfierna and my upper spine.

Me: "Sora!?"

He pressed his against my shoulder and Enfierna.

With confidence in both their faces, the darkness seemed to fade in my heart, and then!

Limit Break: Omnislash Sigil!

With the 3 of our powers combined, I was able to strike the beam, causing it to back fire on the Heartless and then I rushed in to deliver a fearsome slashing sending the Heartless upwards! I jumped while radiating Mako Energy and as soon as I reached the Heartless, Enfierna split into 6 thinner pieces like the Fusion Sword with the main blade in the middle, only the 5 other blades formed a sigil of light that surrounded the Heartless! Without hesitation I performed I alternated between blades and slashed at the Heartless 15 times!!!

1

2

3

Circles were forming where the 5 blades were stationed.

4

5

6

Illegible text formed within the circles.

7

8

9

The Sigil's glow brightened!

10

11

12

The Heartless had their strength being drained!

13

14

I raised Enfierna over my head.

Me: "Checkmate!!!"

15!

The Sigil collided with the Heartless as I slammed Enfierna into them and came crashing down, claiming the combined power of Maleficent and the Heartless she controlled for myself.

Learned: Abyssra, Sleep, Sleepra, Reflera, and Thundara!

The Heartless were turning into hearts as each of them disappeared one by one, and that was when Maleficent reappeared. I gathered the 6 pieces of Enfierna by casting a small amount of Magnet to bring them all together.

Maleficent: "T-To think I would be beaten by the likes of you!"

Me: "That's because I draw my strength from everyone."

I turned to Jay, Francia, and Diana who arrived when Mickey and I were using Wayfinder.

Maleficent: "The mind of a leader and a heart of steel, no wonder you of all people could defeat me at my own game."

Jay: "Don't make me laugh, no one even invited you to play."

Me:Ouch!

I watched as Maleficent began to disappear, until!

Pete: "INCOMING!!!"

Jay: "SCAELUX!!!!"

Jay pushed me out of the way of Pete as he cannonballed into my brother, sending him out the WINDOW!

Me: "JAY!!"

Without thinking, I dove right down after him.

He tried stabbing his keyblades into the side of the tower to slow down, but the tower wasn't even scratched and he continued to fall! Eventually I caught up with him when we were almost about to hit the ground! I hugged him with dear life with my eyes closed, but suddenly, the rush of wind blowing against my face suddenly stopped! I opened my eyes to find out that we were suspended in the air only 2 feet above the ground and slowly descending. Jay opened his eyes.

Jay: "Scaelux?"

I gave him a bear hug so tight I could have cracked his back!

Me: "I'm so glad you're ok!"

Jay: "Me too bro but, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?!?"

Me: "What is whuAHHH!"

I turned to look over my left shoulder to find a long appendage protruding from it! I could feel muscles being connected to mine as if it were a part of me! When I got a better look at it, I found out it was the wing of a dragon!!!

Me: "It's Cloud, Cloud gave me this wing to save us!"

Jay: "When did Cloud have a wing of his own only Sephiroth had one?"

Me: "Kingdom Hearts 1 after beating Sephiroth!"

Jay: "Oh right! I bet you could trounce Sephiroth now that you have a wing of your own!"

Me: "I would still need to be stronger to beat him up but hey it's cool to be able to fly!"

Learned: One-Winged Dragon! (Allows me to fly in any form and when using Enfierna, it turns certain abilities into some of Sephiroth's attacks! Triple Slash becomes Octaslash, Counterstance becomes Scintilla, and Focused Thrust becomes Focused Dash!

The Other Promise Plays!

Everyone else appeared at the bottom of the tower in relief that we were ok. Unfortunately, Maleficent and Pete got away, but they shouldn't be a bother now that we chased them away. Everyone was also curious about my one wing, especially when I summoned Cloud's spirit to help me explain things. After all was said and done, we all went back to town in preparation for the journey back home. But before that...

Me: "Roxas, Axel, there's someone I think you should see."

I escorted them to the Gummi Ship and led them to the unconscious Xion. I explained to them what happened to her, being turned into a mindless robot to try and kill me. They were crushed to discover what the Organization did to their friend but then I told them that we knew where Xion's heart was and that we'd do anything to bring her back!

Me: "I swear I'll do everything in my power to bring her back, I promise!"

Roxas: "Scaelux... did you think we wouldn't take your word for it? I trust you as well as your family because Sora saw that light in you that wouldn't go out, but the only way we're gonna bring everyone we've lost back, we need to do it together."

Axel: "He's right keyblade wielder's gotta stick together! Got it memorized kid!?"

Me: Classic Axel!

Me: "Right, no matter what distance, we'll watch each other's backs no matter what!"

Before departure, we dropped Xion's body at Ansem the Wise's study for safe keeping and bid our farewells to everyone from Radiant Garden, taking Mickey with us. The road we traveled would be difficult but not impossible as long as we stuck together, and let my heart be my guiding key.

End of Chapter 4!