Author's Note: I was meant to update this sooner, but a lot of things happened, and well, yesterday was a bad day plus. Anywho, welcome back!
I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy.
CH10: Tensions Rising.
Meanwhile, in the grand castle of the Kingdom, a young man was speaking privately to two 'guests' who were not only offering to help him with something, but were also making such an odd request that he never heard of before. It's been at least a day since his future bride had left to find the queen, and secretly it couldn't gone more perfect than he had intended, but this might actually be better.
"An odd looking book and a black box?" The young man, named Hans, quired with a confused eye-brow. He then shook his head, answering, "I'm afraid neither of those ring any bells to me."
"How disappointing, but acceptable." Maleficent replied. "No matter, I can tell that you seek to take this kingdom to be rightfully yours, do you not?"
Hans's expression turned from confusion to a surprising cruel smirk, "Being the 13th in line, how can I be king unless I try somewhere else? Anna is gullible and naive to have fallen for me the way she did."
"Considering how the Princess' sister-Queen Elsa was it?-had run off and created this eternal winter, what you're doing is for the good of the kingdom and for the leverage of what domination truly means. Far better than what other people think, don't you think?" Beckett commented.
"I like you already, Lord Beckett." Hans chuckled, before turning his attention to Maleficent again and continued, "You also mentioned other people I should watch out for, didn't you?"
The evil Witch nodded, "Yes. There is this boy named Sora, who has companions with him. They will no doubt be meddling with your plan should they learn the truth. I suggest you be careful if you see them."
"On my honor, miss Maleficent." Hans promised. Just then, the duke came over and quickly the prince played along as though the conversation between him, Maleficent and Beckett never happened.
"Sir, how can we trust Princess Anna with all of this?" The duke, who was a scrawny man with glassess.
Hans glared at the duke, pointing out, "Princess Anna has given her orders..."
"And that's another thing!" The duke cuts him off angrily. "Has it dawned to you that the Princess may be conspiring with that wicked sorceress to destroy us all?"
"Do not question the Princess." Hans told him coldly. "She left me in charge, and I will not hesitate to protect Arendelle from treason."
"Treason!?" The duke exclaimed, shocked.
"Is this the man who claimed to have nearly been frozen by Queen Elsa?" Backett asked to Hans.
"Yes, I am, good sir!" The duke answered before Hans could.
The Prince rolled his eyes, "Told you already, you just slipped on ice when you were not looking where you were going."
"Another bumbling baffoon." Maleficent sighed in exasperation, reminded of both Pete and Kronk, and Beckett pinched the bridge of his nose, also exasperated, just as a horse was heard, causing everyone to turn to see the said horse come running, looking terrified. It's owner, Anna, was absent, much to the people's grave concerns.
Hans knew what to do. "Princess Anna is in trouble!" before gazing at the crowd of people, "I need voulenteers to go with me to find her!"
Immediately, many guards approached intending on voulenteering. The duke, still distrusting after what happened earlier, immediately said to Hans, "I voulenteer three men, my lord!"
While Hans nodded in approval, the duke then approached the said voulenteered men and whispered darkly, "Be prepared for anything, and should you encounter the queen, you are to put an end to this winter. Do you understand?"
The guards nodded.
Meanwhile, Sora, Anna, Kristoff, Riku, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Sven, Lea, Roxas, Xion, Isa, Myde, Aqua, Terra, Ven, Skuld and Jack continued on their journey to find Elsa and the Northern Mountain, with snow still on the ground. As they walked, below the hill before them, was the kingdom of Arendelle, which was completely frozen in ice, from the rooftops to the castle itself. Even the fountain was covered in snow.
"Arendelle." Anna gasped, eyes wide in disbelief.
"It's completely frozen." Kristoff added, equally shocked.
"Gee thanks for the info, captain obvious." Myde said sarcastically.
Lea shrugged, "Ah, worse case scenario, everybody will just have a bit of a frostbite."
"Lea!" Aqua, Kairi and Xion scolded.
"I'm kidding! Jeez, learn to have a sense of humor." Lea quickly said, holding his hands up in defeat.
"It'll be fine. Elsa will thaw it." Anna said optimistically.
"Will see?" Kristoff asked, a but uncertainly.
"If Anna thinks so, then I don't doubt it." Sora said, agreeing with Anna.
"Best chances, it'll happen sooner before you know it." Jack agreed, saying simply, "All we need to do is find the Queen, Anna talks to her, makes up for the mistakes, the ice thaws off, and winter turns back into summer, you get a new sled and go back to your day job."
"You're pretty optimistic about this." Terra commented at the pirate's simple explaination.
"And you sound like you're a sibling expert." Skuld added, before quiring, "Do you have any siblings?"
Jack paused for a moment, before answering, "No, but I do have an Uncle whom I was named after; the first name at least, and no, there's not Jr in my name."
"So what do your parents call ya?" Goofy asked.
After another pause, Jack answered, rather uncomfortably, "...Jackie."
"Jackie?" Donald repeated, before bursting into hysterical laughter along with Myde and even Kristoff who both doubled over, holding their stomachs as the three of them laughed.
Jack scowled at the three of them, until Mickey rolled his eyes and told the man, "Oh, don't mind them, Jack. There's nothin' wrong with your nickname. It's better than some ridiculous names I've heard." before telling everyone, "Anyway, we should get going if we wanna find Elsa."
"I agree. Come on. This way to the North Mountain?" Anna spoke up, pointing to the left, only for Kristoff to point it to the mountain that was clearly visible.
"More like this way." He told her.
"Perfectly obvious." Isa rolled his eyes.
As they moved on into that direction, Anna shrugged, "Well, I've never left the Castle walls before. Not sense my parents died at sea when Elsa and I were teenagers."
"So you've been by yourselves since then?" Kairi asked, shocked, before saying in sympathy, "I'm sorry to hear that, Anna."
"It's okay. It's...a little more complicated than that." Anna replied, "Since then, I've always wanted to see what the outside world was like, even just within the kingdom. The Cororation day was my big chance..." she then sighed upon remembering what happened the day before, "And I think I got a little too excited and blew it."
"Considering this Hans guy, I'm not surprised." Myde grumbled under his breath.
"Well, I get what you're feeling, Anna." Riku shrugged a little. "As long as I could remember, I've always wanted to leave the islands to explore other places."
"Me too. And two years ago, the two of us and Kairi were planning on riding a raft to do that and well...stuff happened and we met our friends here along the way." Sora added.
"What a childish dream. You seriously thought a dingy of a raft would've gotten you, Kairi and Riku that far? Totally pathetic." The manfiestion of Vanitas suddenly appeared beside Sora once more, as the former darkness of Ven rolled his eyes in annoyance.
Sora fought the urge to glance at the ghost, knowing that no one else could see Vanitas, and instead ignored him completely, listening on the conversation that was going on right now.
"We were seperated for a while, but eventually we found each other in the end. I know that things will work out for you and Elsa." Kairi said.
"Yeah, like the rest of us did." Sora concluded with a smile.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Vanitas shook his head in dismay before vanishing once more, much to Sora's mental relief.
As Sora and his friends moved on into the Willows of the forest, they took in on the sight before them. It really was a pretty sight. Ice crystals hanged from the branchs of trees, in which Sven began to play with his antlers.
"Wow!" Ven softly gasped.
"Gosh..." Mickey muttered.
"It's beautiful." Aqua commented.
"Kind of looks like we've entered Christmas Town." Sora said, remembering his expression when he, Donald and Goofy followed Jack Skellingtion to Christmas Town to speak to Santa. That place had been absolutely amazing that he instantly fell in love with it.
Kairi twirled around giggling a little, admitting, "I wish I had a painting at this. It's so lovely here."
"I never knew winter could be so beautiful." Anna said in agreement, awestruck at the beauty of the landscape.
"Yeah, it really is beautiful, isn't it?" A voice suddenly spoke behind them, and Sora and the others quickly turned to Sven, as though thinking that he spoke despite the reindeer didn't talk. Just in case, the worldly travellers made to summon their weapons, but didn't sense any pressence of darkness.
Instead, the voice continued, "But it's so white. How about a little color? I'm thinking, like, maybe some crimson, chartreuse..." as unaware to them at the moment, a nose-less little snowman, about Mickey and Donald's height, walked over, adding, "...How 'bout yellow? No, not yellow. Yellow and snow? Brrr! No go."
The Snowman walked between Terra and Isa, and turned to them and everyone else who gasped. "Am I right?"
"AHH!" Anna screamed before kicking the snowman's head off, causing it to fly right into Jack's hands.
"Hi!" Said the Snowman.
Jack stared at it for a second, before screaming in horror, "AHH!" and tossed it to Kristoff who caught the head.
"You're creepy!" Kristoff shuddered, tossing it to Myde who cringed.
"Ew!" Myde yelped, tossing the head to Anna.
"I don't want it!" Anna protested, throwing it to Kairi who screamed before she tossed it to Xion who cringed before tossing it to Roxas, who, in panic, tossed it to Lea, who tossed it to Isa, who tossed it to Terra, who did the same to Aqua to responded by tossing it to Ven and Skuld who threw it Donald.
"Wak!" Donald screamed as he threw it to Goofy who freaked out and accidently threw it to Mickey who threw it to Riku who cringed before tossing it back to Kristoff.
"Back to you!" Kristoff cringed, tossing it to Lea who tossed it to Sora next.
"Whoa, not me!" Sora protested, throwing it back to Ven.
"Whoa!" The snowman cried out, "Please,"
Tossed to Anna.
"Don't,"
Anna tossed it to Jack.
"Drop,"
Jack tossed it back to Myde again.
"Me!"
All the while, the headless body began running around, heading towards Donald who shrieked and leaped into Goofy's arms while the head was back in Anna's hands.
"All right, we got off to a bad start." The snowman muttered, sheepishly.
"Ew, ew! The body!" Anna quickly threw the head back onto the body, only that it was upside down.
"Wait, what am I looking at right now? Why are you hanging off the earth like a bat?" The Snowman asked, confused.
"Oh! Uh, h-hold on, Mr. Snowman. I'll fix ya'." Mickey hurriedly approached the snowman and took it's head off, before rightening it back the right way up and placed it back onto the body.
"Ooh! Thank you!" The Snowman smiled happily.
Mickey chuckled, "Aw, it was nothin'."
"I'm perfect!" The snowman sang.
Anna, her fear gone, thought of something and muttered, "Well, almost." before glancing around.
"It was like my whole life got turned upside down." The snowman said as he walked up to Jack who stepped back a little, still a little creeped out by the fact that three snowballs formed into a man was...walking and talking as though it were a human.
"You're not the only one, mate." The pirate muttered.
By then, Anna had taken a carrot from the bag of carrots from Sven and made her way back to the snowman, trying to place it on the snowman's face tail first. It goes all the way through, save for the tip. She cringed, apologetically saying, "Oh! I'm sorry!"
"Ouch." Lea cringed.
"WHOOǃ Head rush!" The snowman cried out.
"Are you alright?" Skuld asked.
"Are you kidding me? I... am wonderful! I've always wanted a nose." The snowman said, happily, touching the tip of the carrot. "It's so cute. It's like a little baby unicorn."
Myde blinked scaredly, before approaching the snowman and then pushed the carrot behind the head to correct it, and pushed it out, and Anna smiled in approval, and so did the snowman who cried out happily, "Oh, hey whoaǃ Oh, I love it even moreǃ"
"At least he's cute now that I look at him." Lea admitted.
"...Did you really just say that, Lea?" Isa asked, skeptically.
The redhead shrugged, "What? Can't a guy think of some people or whatever cute?" before whispering, "Besides, he's a lot better than the mutant fish people back at Port Royal."
"Good point." The blue-haired man nodded, now that he thought of it.
"All right, let's start this thing over:" The snowman said as he introduced himself, "Hi, everyone. I'm Olaf. And I like warm hugs."
Anna stared in surprise at him, suddenly beginning to recongise him. Olaf...she knew that name. "That's right...Olaf!"
"And you are...?"
"Oh! I'm Anna."
"And who're you, Mr. Big Ears?" Olaf asked to the King.
"I'm Mickey." Mickey replied.
"What about you guys?" Olaf asked to Sora, Riku and Kairi.
Sora smiled, starting to like the talking snowman. "I'm Sora, and this is Riku and Kairi."
"What about the duck and the dog?" Olaf asked, about Donald and Goofy.
"He's Donald, and that's Goofy." Mickey answered this time.
"And you guys are...?" Olaf asked to the rest of the worldly travellers, before adding to Lea, "Nice hair. Bright and red, just like fire. I've always wanted to see what fire looked like."
Lea grinned. "Thanks. I'm Lea; Got it Memorized?"
"I'm Roxas, and this is Xion, Skuld, Isa, and Jack." Roxas answered while gesturing at the said four he spoke the names off.
"Call me Myde." Myde said, jerking a thumb at himself.
"I'm Ventus, but you can call me Ven." Ven added.
"Why do you two look like twins?" Olaf asked, gazing back and fourth between Ven and Roxas.
"Uh...that's a long and complicated story." Ven shrugged, sheepishly.
"Who're the big guy and the pretty lady with blue hair?" Olaf continued.
"I'm Terra." Terra answered.
"My name is Aqua." Aqua added.
Olaf nodded, before gazing at Kristoff, asking, "And who's the funky-looking donkey over there?"
"That's Sven." Anna answered, thinking that Olaf was talking about the reindeer.
To her and everyone else's surprise, Olaf then looked over to the real Sven and asked, "Uh-huh...And who's the reindeer?"
"Uh...Sven?" Myde replied, dumbfounded.
"Oh, they're bo- Oh! Okay. Makes things easier for me." Olaf said as he looked back and forth between Kristoff and Sven who went over and tried to bite his nose off due to it being a carrot. "Whoa! Oh, look at him, trying to kiss my nose. I like you, too!"
Jack shook his head as he whispered to Riku next to him, "I'll never get used to this." exasperated.
"Olaf, did Elsa build you?" Anna asked Olaf.
"Yeah, why?" Olaf replied, while Kristoff was fasinating at his arms.
"Do you know where she is?" Kairi asked, kindly.
"Yeah, why?" Olaf repeated as he turned to Kairi, while Jack went over to the other side of him, gazing at the other arm in disturbed thought.
"Do ya' think we can take us to her?" Mickey asked.
"How does this work?" Kristoff asked, blinking.
"Very good question." Jack replied, bending the arm, only to have it smack him in the face, causing the pirate to stumble back and Kristoff immediately backed off. Jack shook his head, cracking his nose back into shape, before grumbling, "That was an impressive punch, mate."
"Stop it, Jack. Trying to focus here." Olaf grumbled at the pirate, before turning to Mickey and asked again, "Yeah, why?"
"I'll tell you why." Isa sighed, "We need Elsa to bring back summer."
"Summer?" Olaf asked, astonded. "Oh, I don't know why, but I've always loved the idea of summer, and sun, and all things hot..."
"That explains why you like my hair." Lea chuckled, getting the idea. "Lemme guess; You didn't have much experience with summer before, have you?"
"Nope! But sometimes I like to close my eyes and imagine what it'd be like when summer does come." Olaf replied, sighing dreamingly, which earned disturbed, shocked and dumbfounded expressions from Jack, Myde and Kristoff.
"You think we should tell him?" Myde whispered to two men next to him, referring to the fact that Olaf would only end up melting in the heat of fire, or the sun in summer.
"No...that would only crush his dreams." Jack said, ominously, before correcting himself, "Or rather...melt his dreams..." shrugging as he suggested, "Either one."
"So, come on! Elsa's this way! Let's go bring back summer!" Olaf said, leading the group towards the mountain.
"Wait up, Olaf!" Sora called out as he rushed to catch up, as did almost the rest of the group. Kristoff on the other hand, just stood there, practically horrified at the very thought of, while still a bit creepy, their new snowman friend not realising the truth.
"Someone has to tell him." He muttered to himself.
Joined by their new friend Olaf, and while the group were fighting off more Heartless along the way, everyone else that they were getting closer to their destination in finding Elsa and to set things right.
"So how exactly are you planning to stop this weather?" Myde asked.
"Oh, I am gonna talk to my sister." Anna replied.
"That's your plan?" Myde slumped, skeptical at the Princess's idea.
Kristoff seemed to agree with Myde, as he added, "My ice business is riding on you talking to your sister?" and nearly poked his nose with an icicle, before side-stepping to avoid it. "So, you're not afraid of her?"
"Why would I be?" Anna shrugged.
"Yeah, c'mon guys. Give the girls some credit, will ya? They're family." Lea agreed with a one shoulder shrug.
"And if Anna was scared of her, don't you think she wouldn't have come all the way if that was the case?" Xion added.
"Plus, like Anna said, Elsa accidently made summer into winter. It's not like she did it on purpose or anything." Sora explained. "She just...has trouble with her powers and doesn't know how to control them."
"Plus, the only reason she came all the way out here is because she didn't want to hurt anyone." Terra nodded. "Just hope she'll control it soon. I don't want her to end up in the similiar situation that I once ended up."
"Same here." Riku sighed.
"I bet she's the one who was more scared than anything else." Aqua thought.
"I wonder if Elsa is a really nice person?" Kairi thought.
"Me too. I bet she's very kind." Skuld nodded.
"Yeah. I bet she's the nicest, gentlest, warmest person ever." Olaf said in agreement, just as he accidently stabbed himself in the middle into an icicle, and when he noticed, he just laughed, "Oh, look at that. I've been impaled."
"Fortunately, you don't have the inner problem as most of us do when it comes to impalement." Jack muttered, shuddering.
"Is it really worse for normal people like you guys?" Olaf asked, curiously.
"You've no idea."
By this time, the group made it to the mountain, but were in for another problem; a very steep slope. So steep, that most of them knew that climbing up would be next to impossible.
"Well, now what do we do?" Donald grumbled.
Mickey studied the mountain and knew that it was dangerous. "Hmm...it's too steep. If only there was an easier way to climb up somehow."
"Maybe if we find some balloons, we could float to the top." Myde suggested jokingly.(1)
Isa groaned before tugging the mullet-headed man's ear, causing Myde to cry out girlishly once more, while the blue-haired man told him in sheer annoyance, "What kind of highschool did you go to? Kindergarden level?"
"I don't think we'll be able to find balloons anywhere around here." Goofy pointed out to Myde with a shrug, which only made Donald facepalm himself at his lanky friend's goofiness.
"Well, does anyone else have any bright ideas?" Riku asked, glancing at the group.
"Our gliders won't work, because it's too cold up here." Aqua stated, adding, "And there's too many of us."
"I've only got one rope." Kristoff shrugged, before adding as he gazed at Anna, "And she doesn't know how to climb mountains." only to realise that she wasn't with them.
"Says who?" Anna's voice asked, and when the group looked in front of them, to their surprise, she was already trying to to climb up the rock face by herself.
"What are you doing?" Roxas asked, gazing at the ridiculous sight.
Anna grunted, as she struggled to climb up the steep mountain, "I'm...going...to see...my sister!"
"You're just gonna hurt yourself." Lea pointed out, his arms folded to his chest.
"More like kill yourself." Kristoff pointed out, continuing to watch Anna, before telling her, "I wouldn't put my foot there."
"You're distracting me!" Anna called back, only to slip a couple of times, but managed to catch herself.
"Or there." Terra commented.
"How do you know Elsa even wants to see you?" Kristoff asked, changing the subject.
Anna rolled her eyes, as she continued to climb up, announcing to the mountain expert, "Alright, I'm...I'm just blocking you out cause I've gotta concentrate here." only to end up slipping again.
"You know, most people who disappear into the mountains want to be alone." Kristoff pointed out.
"Even though being alone can make the strain between friendships and family can only make things worse." Terra shrugged, and Riku nodded in agreement, both having experienced that. Lea, Roxas, Xion and Isa, remembering the times of their strained friendships, also nodded in agreement, as did Ven and Aqua, and even Skuld looked uneasy. Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and even Myde shared uncertain glances. Jack just glanced at Sven who just shook his head, as though saying to the pirate that he had no clue either.
"Nobody wants to be alone!" Anna protested, before saying firmly to Kristoff, "Except maybe you!"
"I'm not alone! I got friends, remember?" Kristoff argued.
"You mean the love experts?" Anna replied sarcastically.
"Yes, the love experts."
By then, Anna was beginning to tremble and pant in near exhaustion, before groaning aloud, "Please tell me I'm almost there!"
Everyone couldn't help but chuckle as Anna was only just three feet up and nowhere near close to the top, while she asked, "Does the air seem a bit thin to you up here?"
"Nah." Lea snickered.
"She's not the best climber, is she?" Sora asked, only to have Kairi elbow him in the ribs. "Ow!"
"Hold on." Kristoff said, approaching Anna, just on time as Olaf suddenly appeared around the corner.
"Hey, Sven, Sora?" Olaf spoke up, getting everyone's attentions, "Not sure if this is gonna solve the problem, but I found a staircase that leads exactly where you want it to go."
"Really?" Lea asked, surprised.
"Thank goodness." Anna said, before calling down to Kristoff, "Catch!" and jumped, landing directing in his arms as he caught her, though he was admittedly surprised by this. She laughed, "Thanks! That was like a crazy trust exercise."
After Kristoff gently put Anna back on the ground, they and the worldly travellers and Sven followed Olaf up the staircase as promised, and there stood the most amazing ice castle any of them has ever seen. A palace made of ice, and it had such a beautiful look to it.
"Whoa!" Sora, Anna, Ven and Skuld gapped in awe.
"It's beautiful." Kairi whispered, stunned.
"I'll say." Terra said.
"Gosh, this place is amazing!" Mickey said.
"Wow!" Donald and Goofy exclaimed, admiring it.
Lea lets out an impressed whistle as he gazed up at the tall castle that was practically ice built. "Now this is a place I'd like to explore."
Roxas, Xion, Aqua and Jack were speechless at the sight of the castle, not sure what to say about this.
"Very impressive." Isa admitted.
"So cool!" Myde exclaimed, before quickly adding sheepishly, "Uh, no puns intended."
"Now that's ice!" Kristoff said, thoroughly amazed, to the point when tears began to form in his eyes, as he added, choked up in happiness, "I might cry."
"Go ahead. I won't judge." Anna smiled.
"I might." Myde muttered.
"Says the guy who slacks off 24/7." Lea rolled his eyes, and both Roxas and Xion giggled when Myde glared at them.
The group then began to climb up the stairs once more, and Sven tried to follow, but ended up slipping, so he had to stay behind a little until Kristoff and the others got back. As they reached the doors, Anna hesitated nervously.
"Knock. Just knock." Olaf said to her, and when she didn't budge, he glanced at the others, asking, "Why isn't she knocking? Do you think she doesn't know how to knock?"
"Give her time. She's just a little nervous." Aqua told him gently.
"Oh, knocking is easy. Can't she just knock already?" Donald said in annoyance, folding his arms impatiently.
Sora rolled his eyes and pointed out, "Oh come on, Donald. These things take time."
Eventually, Anna tapped the door three times, which half a second later, the doors swung slowly inward. "Ha! It opened! That's a first." before turning to her friends and told them, as though remembering something, "Oh, you guys should probably wait out here."
"What!?" Everyone else save for Olaf asked in shock.
"But why?" Sora asked, dismayed.
"The last time I introduced her to a guy, she froze everything..." Anna answered.
"Oh, nuts." Donald groaned.
"But-but-Oh, come on!" Kristoff groaned. "It's a palace made of ice! Ice is my life!"
"Oh shut it." Jack rolled his eyes at the younger man.
"I think she might have a point." Aqua spoke up now that she thought of it. "If we all went in, it could only make things worse for the two of them, especially since we're strangers and that could easily make Elsa furious."
"Why am I getting a feeling this ain't gonna work anyway?" Myde slumped.
"Bye, guys!" Olaf waved as he made to enter the palace, only for Anna to pull him back to rejoin the others.
"Sorry Olaf, but you stay out here too." Anna told him.
"What, me?" Olaf blinked, disappointed a little.
"Just give us a minute." Anna advised them as she then stepped through the doors to speak to her sister, leaving Sora and everyone else outside, some of them worried, the others annoyed, and Kristoff dejected as he sat on the top step.
"Okay!" Olaf replied, before turning to join the others, and then began counting, "One, two, three..."
"Four..." Olaf chorused with Kristoff as the latter joined in.
Lea groaned, "It's the boring waiting game all over again." leaning against the wall next to the door, sighing, and remembering when they had to wait to dig up the stupid Dead Man's Chest back in the Caribbean.
"Hey, speakin' of games, I got card games we can play while we're waiting. Ah-yhuck!" Goofy spoke up, bringing out the deck of cards to show everyone.
"...sixteen, seventeen, eighteen..." Myde muttered with Olaf and Kristoff as they continued counting.
"I'm really worried." Kairi spoke up, gazing at the door where Anna disappeared into. "What if Elsa won't listen to her?"
"Oh, don't think like that." Sora said, trying to be positive. "I'm sure it'll work out. It'll probably take more than just one minute."
"Negotiations never take a minute, lad." Jack pointed out with a shake of his head. "Then again, neither to any sorts of conversations."
"It's not negotiating. It's just settling things between two sisters." Xion corrected, before admitting, "But I have to agree with Kairi. I don't think just talking will work either."
"The only way to solve all this is for Elsa to really control her powers and not let her anger get the best of her." Terra agreed, head low a little. "I made that mistake twelve years ago and look where it got me, Ven, Aqua and all of you guys."
"And where I screwed up with Isa, Rox' and Xi'." Lea admitted, a little sadly.
"Yeah, but all things considered, we turned out okay." Sora pointed out, even though deep down, he was beginning to really worry as well, but told himself not to dwell into the fear that something might go horribly wrong. Not to mention that Yen Sid was still captured by Aced.
Mickey wanted to agree, but memories of finding his mentor not at the Tower concerned him as well. He shook those thoughts away, reminding himself to believe in Sora's optisim that Yen Sid was still alive.
Then the bombshell dropped, as Olaf finished counting, "Fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty!" and immediately went inside to go meet Elsa.
"Olaf, wait!" Ven cried out, making to follow, but he and everyone else stopped when a voice to their left spoke.
"Well, what have we here? Meddling with others again, are we?" A man's voice, sounding very familiar, questioned.
Sora and the others turned and the eyes of Myde, Lea, Isa, Roxas and Xion widened in shock and slight anger and horror, while Sora's eyes narrowed. The pink-haired man that appeared out of nowhere looked very familiar. He was apparently familiar to Donald and Goofy as well, because their eyes narrowed as well.
"Who are you?" Aqua demanded, sensing darkness within this man.
"...Is that a guy with girly pink hair? Or a woman with a guy's voice?" Kristoff asked, dumbfounded.
"For you information, I am a man." Lamuria hissed, before turning to the others and grinned once more, "Sora, Roxas, Xion, Axel, Saix and Demyx. How long has it been? Two years?"
"...Marluxia." Isa grunted, angrily, recongising the other former Nobody, and one of the more evil traitors of the false Organization XIII.
Myde cringed, before trying to act nicely to the pink-haired man as he was a little scared of him, "Uh, hey, Mar'. Long time no see."
"It's Lamuria now, actually. Just as I was born as." Lamuria corrected, ignoring Myde's 'pathetic' greeting, and instead continued, "Still being the heroes and traitors, I see."
"Look who's talkin' on the traitor part." Lea snorted. "Let me guess; you're working for the new bad guys now, am I right?"
That's when it clicked in Sora's head, as he then angrily accused the pink-haired man, "Wait a minute. You're the guy who tried to use Namine to screw up with my memories at Castle Oblivion, aren't you?"
"What're they talking about?" Kristoff asked to Jack.
"Apparently, that man who looks like a woman attempted to kill Sora by using a girl for leverage." Jack tried to explain, as he tried to understand the situation, but was just as confused as the man next to him was.
"What are you doing here anyway?" Roxas demanded to Lamuria.
Lamuria chuckled evilly, "Revenge on those who defeated me, and also...you and Xion would make good use, Roxas. After all, you're just a broken shell of Sora, and Xion is still just a puppet."
"They are not!" Lea grunted angrily, summoning his Chakrams, just in case a fight had to take place. "Don't you dare say that to two of my best friends!"
"Just like old times, I see." The former 12th member of the Organization teased, before his expression turned serious, as he then held up his hand as a red petal appeared before it floated into his grasp, and instantly, his Scythe was summoned, and he took a fighting stance, grinning evilly at the group who tensed.
Knowing what had to be done, Mickey turned to Kristoff and told him urgently, "Kristoff, you got into the palace and stay with Anna, Elsa and Olaf."
"What? You serious? This guy has a great big scythe!" Kristoff protested.
"Kairi, you go too!" Sora added.
"No! I'm not leaving you guys!" Kairi protested, making to summon her Keyblade, only for Aqua hold out a hand which instantly was holding her own Keyblade.
"Do as Sora says." Aqua told her firmly. "It'll be too dangerous."
"We'll be okay. Now go!" Riku added.
Hesitating, Kairi eventually nodded, and told her friends to be careful, before she grabbed Kristoff's arm and dragged him with her into the Palace, while Sora and the rest of the group summoned their weapons, preparing to fight Lamuria who chuckled.
Soon after, Lamuria suddenly disappeared in particles of petals before reappearing behind Sora and whispered something in his ear which made him quickly jump out of the way before he disappeared again. However, the pink-haired man appeared again in the air as he then waves his arm and a tornado of wind and rose petals that surrounds them while the group are pushed back by the pressure.
Aqua counter-attacked by casting her Dream-Weaver Command ability, spinning around while holding her Keyblade up in the air, and thankfully oblierated the tornado, but she was knocked back as Lamuira suddenly whacked her with his weapon, but she managed to flip backwards and repositioned herself. Skuld followed in suit by holding her Keyblade up which began to glow and then she launched herself forward, clashing against Lamuria's scythe but wasn't able to give him any damage as he then vanished once more.
Lea tossed his Chakrams at Lamuria who grinned and blocked the attack with his weapon, forcing the redhead to catch them, and then leaped to try and slash and clash against him, but the pink-haired man kept on dodging and then swiped the scythe which unleashed powerful gusts of winds at the red-haired man who held up his weapons, struggling to block it. Isa intended to do the same to Lamuria by thrusting his Claymore out, but to his irritation, the former Nobody teleported away once more and then reappeared behind Myde who shrieked and had to duck to avoid in getting his head sliced off.
Donald casted Thunderaga, which only did little damage, before being hit and knocked back when Lamuria smacked him into the stomach. Goofy spun around using his Goofy-Tornado skill, managing to hit him quite a few times. Riku casted a powerful Blizzaraga right at the pink-haired man's chest, only to be knocked back into Isa who then crashed into the wall. Sora and Ven both tossed their Keyblades, successfully hitting Lamuria several times, before Sora activated his Sonic Blade Sleights, glowing in golden light and in incredible speed, managed to hit the enemy which prevented him from doing anything.
Mickey quickly joined in and spun around numberous time and glowed in white light, spinning around and around Lamuria, hitting him several times before finishing off his attack with a surprisingly powerful slash with his Star-Seeker Keyblade, knocking him back. Despite the injury, Lamuria recovered and launched forward to attack again, only to be caught off guard when Roxas and Xion both combined their abilities and delivered serious of combos, but despite this, Lamuria managed to catch them off-guard and knocked them back right into Myde who stumbled and fell onto the ground, nearly falling down the stairs but managed to save himself and the two former Nobodies of Sora.
Terra thrusted his Keyblade down with strong strength at Lamuria who struggled to block it, before he was eventually thrown back but had managed to righten himself, glaring at the younger man who quickly leaped and attacked again, but despite his swordsman skills, Lamuria still managed to block it. Jack joined in and fired at least one shot at Lamuria's arm, causing a distraction which was enough for Terra who again knock him back.
Lea joined his Chakrams together and created a powerful orb of fire, thrusting it out right at Lamuria, while Sora casted his Flowmotion and whacked and slashed at Lamuria who this time didn't have time to dodge any of these attacks, before the teenaged wielder flipped backwards in the air just in time for Lea's attack to engulf Lamuria in flames. Sora and Ven then finished the battle by thrusting out their Keyblades, sending the pink-haired man flying and down the stairs where he crash landed half-way below.
Despite being defeated, he was still alive, as Lamuria dismissed his weapon and glared up at Sora and his friends who glared back. Eventually after a moment, the former Nobody scoffed as he weakly stood up, "Hmph. You may have defeated me now, but mark my words. I'll return soon. Just you wait."
With that, he summoned a Corridor of Darkness and stepped through, taking his leave as he disappeared along with the portal.
After a moment, the group sighed before dismissing their weapons, and Jack then spoke up, asking, "Do you lot mind explaining who that bloody man with pink hair is?"
"He used to be in the Organization." Lea answered, panting, while Aqua, Mickey and Donald worked on healing him and everyone else including themselves. "But then he and another member Larxene decided to try their luck in betraying them and overthrowing Xemnas by using Sora and Namine. I was a double agent to figure this out, and when I did, I screwed their plan and had Namine to meet up with Sora instead, and saved both of them as well as managing to help in dispose the traitors."
Just then, the entire palace began to shake, nearly causing everyone to lose their balance.
"Inside!" Sora exclaimed, worriedly.
"Looks like Anna, Kairi and the others need help!" Mickey called out.
The others nodded, and immediately raced in to see what was about to happen, unaware that things were beginning to take the turn for the worst.
A/N: At least Arendelle isn't going to just be two chapters long. I had the idea of having Marluxia's Somebody to appear here at some point.
(1): The quote Myde said is the same quote Rex said in Toy Story 2.
See you in the next chapter!