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Chapter 22 - Rise of Ramarak

(Cave of Sanity – Hollow Den)

Taiyo and others were waiting for Busara to respond as he looked on the water.

"Taiyo, what's he doing?" Sora asked.

"He was getting there to tell us." Taiyo answered him.

"You two are so lucky to be safe in here." Azizi told Jasiri and Madoa as Kamari walked to two hyena cubs.

"Where are your parents?" Kamari asked.

Jasiri and Madoa didn't give their responses to him, only giving their signs of despair.

"Sorry." Kamari said.

Busara walked to them with a concerned look based on his expression.

"I was waiting for my whole life to tell you. I have met the Black Pantherians." Busara replied.

"You have met them?" Donald asked.

"Yes. But not after Mufasa encountered them. Back in the past years, there was one Black Pantherian. He is the king of Wakanda, his name was J'Chaka. J'Chaka was the ruler of Wakanda, he was given the adamantiums by Zenrais." Busara replied.

"Zenrais?" Sora, Donald, Goofy, Simba, Taiyo, Yoshi, Luigi, Utopia, and Votus asked in unison.

"I might hear of the ancient race of Zenrais during my years' Keyblade training." Mario replied.

"Then tell us about them." Simba said.

"Zenrais were the rarest alien species in Ten Dimensions which is part of the Multiverse and they do look like humans, except their bioluminescent lines marking around their bodies. They lived on the planet called Zentai 2. They possessed their vast powers called 'Ki'. Ki is the energy existed flows through the Zenrai race and using them to protect their home planet from invaders. They are the ones who found the adamantiums when the meteor strikes down into the land and affected the environment." Mario replied.

"Wow. Another alien species." Sora amazed.

"Hold on a minute. You've been there?" Luigi asked.

"Yeah. It's been a long while since I was taught by one of them how to control the Ki. And now I have learned" Mario affirmed before he erupted his white aura around him.

"Whoa!" Everyone awed.

"How long did you master it?" Geno asked.

"I spent 10 years to master my Ki." Mario said.

"Amazing. I never thought you get stronger." Utopia stated.

"How about we moving onto something important?" Kamari asked.

Busara cleared his throat before he spoke.

"Well, your fact is quite intrigued, Mario. Anyways, King J'Chaka will use the adamantiums to build his new world and develop advanced technology in order to isolate his home from the outside world. He also told me that he has a son named J'Kopa, an heir to his throne."

"He has a son?!" Taiyo exclaimed.

"Gwarsh! It sounds like Simba is the heir to the throne of the Pride Lands." Goofy replied.

"That reminds me of a king." Simba chuckled.

"He had met me in this cave, J'Chaka made the crescent mark on my head. He is saying that it was the luck and taking care of the power of kinetic energy, use it well. And then he's gone." Busara finished.

"That explains how he got the power from King J'Chaka." Taiyo murmured.

"Isn't the one you manipulated your kinetic power?" Yoshi asked.

"Correct. With this power of Black Pantherian, I shall defend many lives in the Pride Lands and Outlands for the Circle of Life." Busara said.

"Sounds terrific, Lord Busara." Azizi chuckled.

"Excuse us, strangers. We don't even know your names." Jasiri replied.

"Apologize for not telling you our names. My name is Taiyo. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Geno, Simba, Kamari, Azizi, Busara, Votus, and Utopia." Taiyo gestured to everyone.

"Great to meet you all. I'm Jasiri and this is my sister, Madoa." Jasiri said before gestured to her sister.

"Thank you for saving us from earlier." Madoa added.

"There's no problem in here, you're both alright." Simba replied.

Sora walked forward to two friendly hyena cubs. "You girls were so cute. I never have seen hyena cubs in the Outlands."

Jasiri giggled affectionately. "You are funny lion cub."

"Sora, behave yourself." Taiyo firmed.

"Sorry." Sora told him as he left them alone.

Geno stepped forward to Busara calmly.

"Busara, by any chance. Did you have the Star Spirit and the adamantium?" Geno asked.

"I do have the adamantium but I don't have the possession of the Star Spirit. The unique item lies deep within the Molten Subterranean where the Skullcrawlers live." Busara replied.

"The Molten Subterranean. I guess that's where the Skullcrawlers came from." Sora said.

"Can you show us the adamantium?" Votus asked.

"Yes." Busara nodded before he called out. "Ndogo!"

Ndogo flew towards the lion. "Yes, my lord?"

"Show them the adamantium." Busara answered.

"Right away." Ndogo said as he flew to the big upwardly rock pillar on the right.

Ndogo placed his hand onto the pillar, triggering the opening with the spiral direction and revealed the adamantium from the secret compartment.

The adamantium has the bright glowing blue marking all over which in the element stage before forging and contained in the canister.

"It's beautiful." Taiyo said.

"Indeed, it is. I must take full responsibility to protect it from the evils." Busara stated.

"So where exactly is the Molten Subterranean?" Luigi asked.

"It is underneath the Magma Bed where the lava flowed from the vents and completely dried; you can see the entrance with the big cavern hole filled with the volcanic tubes." Busara answered.

"Alright, thanks for giving the location." Taiyo replied.

"Need I remind you for the minute before you go." Busara suggested.

"What is it?" Mario asked.

"There is one evil creature who is stronger than the Skullcrawlers. He's the one I fought him many times I have never encountered. That leader of the pack who devoured every creature in the Outlands, his name is Ramarak." Busara replied.

"Ramarak?" Sora asked.

"Ramarak is the vicious Skullcrawller, he was different than his race. Ramarak possessed his cunning intelligence and brutal strength, he wants to conquer the Pride Lands and the Outlands. He is a more malevolent and vengeful beast." Busara explained.

Jasiri and Madoa were frightened as they hid behind Kamari and Azizi.

"My father told me that Ramarak is the powerful evil being that brought destruction to the Pride Lands including the animals." Simba said solemnly.

"That's why you all take my caution advice for not incurred his wrath before you find the Star Spirit even, I can't go with you, he is too strong." Busara replied.

"How did we supposed to beat that monster? Is there any way?" Donald asked.

"That's right. We don't know how many the Skullcrawlers were." Goofy gulped.

"In fact. Busara said there are hundreds of them." Kamari replied.

"Hundreds of them?!" Taiyo and Sora yelled.

"That's not fair!" Yoshi grumbled.

"Me too." Donald muttered.

"You simply can't take them down one by one otherwise you will get eaten by those monsters." Ndogo replied.

"Tell us how, Ndogo." Taiyo said.

"I am not sure. I only just giving you details but I am sorry you have to figure it out." Ndogo said.

"So now what?" Goofy asked.

"We are going to the Magma Bed. The Skullcrawlers are starting to hunt." Sora replied.

"Alright, let's just go." Donald said.

"And what about you two?" Luigi asked.

"We need to do some patrol to see any Skullcrawlers were lurking." Kamari said.

"Well, take care of yourself." Luigi replied.

Sora, Taiyo, and their team left the cave along with Simba.

"Jasiri, Madoa. Stay with the lion and do not go outside." Azizi told them.

"We will be fine." Madoa said.

Kamari and Azizi heading out for their patrol duties.

Busara walked towards two hyena cubs. "Both of you have a lot safe around with me."

"Do you still hate the hyenas like us?" Jasiri asked.

Busara chuckled at this and shook his head. "No, no, little one. I do despise the hyenas back there before when I heard Mufasa saved his son and Nala as children from bad hyenas. Mufasa thought he was disappointed with him."

"Really?" Jasiri questioned.

"Mufasa tells me everything about his son, disobeying his rules and that's the long story. He also said that he was being proud of me as an old friend for looking after the Outlands. And he told me to look up the stars in the night sky because there are the kings of the past watching over me and they are going to guide me the ways I haven't accomplish the tasks. Then I see it now. Kamari and Azizi were the only good hyenas in my side and someday I will teach the Outlanders to respect the Circle of Life." Busara explained.

"Then can you teach us?" Madoa asked.

"We really like the teachings." Jasiri happily giggled.

"Very well, then. This lesson will begin shortly." Busara smiled.

(Molten Subterranean)

In the lava underground, the Skullcrawlers were chewing the bit of meat on the animal bones and some of them were having them fight each other in the match.

The Molten Subterranean was filled with lava vent holes, stalagmites made of molten rocks, dried magma ground, and lava channels. It also had enormous constructive bones on top of the rock resembling ribcage surrounded the leader Ramarak.

Ramarak is the fearless and deadly leader of the Skullcrawlers, bigger than his species. He has dark yellow African tattoos around his body and skull-like head and red eyes. He carries many of the same physical traits as the other Skullcrawlers, including having two long forelimbs and lacking any hind-limbs, with his hands having four clawed toes. His elbows have prominent bony spikes and he has three rows of bony spines running down his back, with the central row being more pronounced. His head is more defined, larger, and somewhat angled than other Skullcrawlers, with a bony crest on the back of his head.

"Busara. I know you're still out there; I can smell of your ultimate prize where you can't hide it everywhere from me." Ramarak said and let out his evil laughter.

From behind him, Zant distinctly teleported and Ramarak chuckled before he turned to the Usurper King of Twilight Realm.

"It isn't that Zant from the Twilight Realm?" Ramarak asked.

"Sounds like you know me already. I thought you supposed to rule over this land of desolate." Zant huffed as his helmet mechanically removing to reveal his face.

"As long as Busara lives, he may not be so powerful to stop me. He had the power to summon the spirit of the Black Pantherian even I can't defeat him on my own. Would you let me use your power to destroy him along with his new allies?" Ramarak asked.

"Your desire is much valuable. Very well, I will be lent you some fraction of my power." Zant smirked, waved his right hand.

The pieces of Twili armor appeared around the patriarch of Skullcrawlers as they are putting together into Ramarak's body and momentarily rocked by the surge of dark power that sent the short pulse.

"Yes..." Ramarak said.

"Under one under the circumstance." Zant replied.

"What is it?" Ramarak asked.

"I have to retrieve your Star Spirit as well after we dealing with our enemies." Zant stated.

"The Star Spirit is my treasure, no one can steal it from me. But perhaps I accept your offer." Ramarak said.

"Thank you." Zant smirked. "I made a promise to the Dark Predator."

"Dark Predator? Whoever you are speaking to? But never mind. Let's begin with this." Ramarak replied.

(Outlands - Magma Bed)

The Magma Bed was the dried black molten land when the lava flows out from the volcanic vents and a big hole made of igneous rocks.

Taiyo and others have traveled to the Magma Bed and see the whole area was covered in dried lava.

"This is where all the dark creatures come from." Utopia replied.

"No time to tell. Right now, we will fight together against the bunch of the reptiles." Taiyo replied.

"That hole's deep. I'm worried I was about to crack the shell in my back." Goofy shivered.

"Don't be so afraid, we have no idea how the hole was deep." Sora said.

"I'll go first." Mario turned to the group before he jumped into the hole.

"Right behind you, bro." Luigi said, hopping into the hole.

"Are you two down there?" Geno asked.

"We're fine! It's a few feet drop." Luigi called out from the hole.

"Let me do this." Simba replied, jumped down into the hole.

"Come on, all together." Taiyo told the others.

Taiyo, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Yoshi, Geno, and Utopia hopped down into the large hole. From behind the large dried lava rock, Wario and Waluigi have sawed the group went down the hole.

"Weheheheh. Those guys will fall into their trap." Wario chuckled.

"And Zant is going to help the monster leader to get rid of them. So, this time, Zant already knows the location of Star Spirit." Waluigi replied.

"Let's just go find the adamantium." Wario smirked.

"Roger that, Wario." Waluigi laughed.

The Wario Brothers were walking out in the opposite direction as Kamari and Azizi spotted them.

"We can't let those two steals the adamantium and give our location away from them." Kamari replied before he turned to Azizi who kept closer to him and give him a deadpanned expression.

"Seriously?" Kamari grumbled.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Azizi dumbfounded.

Azizi moves a few spaces away from Kamari.

"That's good distance right there." Kamari said.

"Okay." Azizi sighed.

"We gotta keep the close eyes on them." Kamari replied.

Azizi turned around to see Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed who were standing behind them.

"Uh, Kamari?" Azizi asked, turned Kamari's head towards the three hyenas. "Did they follow us?"

"Oh, great..." Kamari said sarcastically.

"Did we hear the word 'adamantium?'" Banzai smirked.

"We wonder why we are so interested in the treasure." Shenzi replied.

"Do you know that?" Banzai asked.

"Oh, no. You know that?" Shenzi asked.

Shenzi and Banzai turned to Ed. "Ed?"

Ed stupidly nodded while howled with laughter.

"Man, we were completely surrounded by those idiots." Azizi muttered.

"You better tell us where's the treasure is or we feed you ourselves." Shenzi said.

"Oh yeah? Well, you got us. You may fool by Scar, there's one thing I said to you before you ate us. Oh, isn't this the final irony? Look who's here to witness this. The Moogles!" Kamari stated, pointing his paw at somewhere.

"The what?!/Huh?!" Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed asked, turning their heads to where Kamari is pointing but they see nothing over there.

Then Kamari and Azizi ran away from them before splitting up to hide.

"You guys are so stupid!" Azizi hollered.

(Magma Bed – Underground Tunnel)

Taiyo and others were trailing through the tunnel that consisted of solidified spiky molten rocks along the path and the ceiling. The tunnel was dark for everyone can't see anything in the trail except for Sora, Taiyo, Simba, Mario, and Luigi who were using the night visions to see everything in the dark.

"It's too dark in here. I can't see a thing." Votus said.

"I can make a light." Utopia replied as his horn lit up brightly.

"Nice light magic." Simba amazed.

"Thank you. I was the Alicorn, beyond my Equestrian magic." Utopia replied.

"An Alicorn?" Simba asked.

"It is the combination of Unicorn, Pegasus, and Earth Ponies. Which is symbolize the royalty and he is the Alicorn Prince." Mario said.

"No way! You and I had something common of royalties." Simba smiled.

"Yes. Please don't tell anyone." Utopia said.

"I won't." Simba assured.

Taiyo sniffed the scent of the Skullcrawlers, knew that he and others were getting close to the habitat.

"I can smell the Skullcrawlers. We must get close to the nest." Taiyo said.

"Me too, we are almost there." Sora stated.

They continued to walk through the tunnel but blocked by the Heartless, consisted of Aerial Knockers, Soldiers, Shadows, and Rapid Thrusters.

"Great, not these guys again." Sora grunted.

"We are dealing with this now, Sora." Luigi said.

Sora and Taiyo summoned their Keyblades and gripped them tightly with the animal poses while Mario summoned his Ignition Flower.

Simba bared his fangs, growling at them as he clawed at one of the Soldiers and pounced on the Shadow, obliterated it.

Sora strikes at the Aerial Knockers with fast-pacing combos, wiping them out into the smokes of darkness.

Taiyo avoided the attacks from Rapid Thrusters then he counterattacked them with Spinning Dash to take them out of the existence.

Luigi was surrounded by the Soldiers then he called out to Utopia and Votus. "Check out of my kitty cat move. Thunder Pounce!"

Luigi springs forward into the crowd of Soldiers, exploding them with zap powers to disintegrate the Heartless.

"Nice work!" Mario hollered before he blasted fireball-like pyrokinetic energy at the Shadow.

Goofy speedily spun around his shell to bash the Shadows while Donald cast Thundaga to zap the small Heartless, boomed into a puff of ashes.

Votus bashed the shield against some of Rapid Thrusters and Shadows. Utopia trotted to the wall before bounced back at three Soldiers with striking hooves and jumped back as he shot a mystical beam at them, vaporized into the black dust.

Geno plunged his fist on the ground and let out a yell. "Crater Flash!"

The white beams with sparkling specks of dust burst from the ground, destroying all the Heartless.

"That was the quick kill." Yoshi commented.

"Let's make haste to the Skullcrawlers' dwelling." Sora said.

Having Sora said that, the group hurried to the Skullcrawlers' nesting ground.

(Molten Subterranean)

Taiyo and his team ventured into the Molten Subterranean, they are glancing around the area and the Skullcrawlers were not here.

"What? There are no Skullcrawlers here?" Taiyo asked.

"You sure this is the Molten Subterranean?" Goofy wondered.

"That's because there are lavas everywhere." Donald retorted.

"There's something going on in here." Simba said.

"I don't see any Heartless or Skullcrawlers. We better stay sharp, guys." Sora warned.

"Whatever happens, things will not get scared." Mario replied.

"Where are they hiding?" Utopia asked.

A bit of saliva drops onto Yoshi's head, rubbed it off with a disgusted look.

"Ugh." Yoshi widened his eyes, flabbergasted. "Wait a minute."

Then he looked up at the ceiling, horrifying to see the Skullcrawlers were on the underground surface as one of them has salivated on its long jaw.

"They are on the ceiling!" Yoshi called out the others.

Taiyo and others turned up at the Skullcrawlers as they are snarling and bared their fangs at the heroes.

"Are you kidding me?!" Taiyo exclaimed.

Skullcrawlers lunged down to the ground, enclosed the ring around them. Then they heard the laughter that came from Ramarak who's crawled between his subjects.

"Ramarak." Simba growled.

"Oh, it's Simba. A perfect king from the Pride Lands. I heard very much about you." Ramarak sneered.

"You knew him? How?" Luigi asked.

Zant walked aside the leader of the Skullcrawler horde. "That would be me..."

"Zant!" Mario snarled.

"Who's Zant?" Votus asked.

"Zant is usurper ruler of Twilight Realm. Link defeated him along with Midna but he's back from the dead." Mario explained.

"My gift of life fortunately accepted by Ganon himself." Zant replied.

"Ganon?" Simba asked.

"Never mind speaking of him. I feel my power grown greatly ever since of my downfall." Zant scorned.

"Oh yeah? You are still just worthless scum who wants the throne-like Scar." Sora growled.

Zant growled at a spiky-haired lion cub with an enraged look. "Why you insolent fool!"

"Talk right in front of the Usurper King won't help. Attack!" Ramarak said before he ordered them.

The Skullcrawlers took a bite on them as Taiyo and others dodging from the snapping jaws.

"Electro Claws!" Luigi shouted; his paws transformed into electrical claws as well as extending nails before he lunged at the Skullcrawler, slashing onto its back several times as faster in his speed.

The Skullcrawler turned to decay, leaving its skull remains and Luigi is going to take out another monster.

Mario blocked the Skullcrawler's jaw from getting himself eaten by putting his Keyblade into its mouth as he stored his energy to make fireball on his right hand to blast through the dark reptilian beast and engulfed into an explosion as Ignited Flower appeared in the flash on his right hand.

"That dealt with it." Mario commented.

Votus was riding on Yoshi while the green dinosaur slide across the ground to avoid from Skullcrawlers' long tongues as Votus tossed his disc at one of them before bounced back to the others which stunned them for each strike rapidly and adamantium shield past flew back to Votus.

Yoshi gestured to Votus to hop off from his back. "Let me try to finish them. Sandstone Twister!"

He whirled himself around to summon the medium size of the tornado of sandstones to suck the three Skullcrawlers and inflicted them before the green dinosaur launched them into the lava river, burning them followed by agonized roars.

"Good job, Yoshi." Votus commented.

Sora and Taiyo were striking the few Skullcrawlers with their Keyblades on their mouths. Sora swung his Kingdom Key with two uppercuts in left and right and performing a somersault with a downward slash while Taiyo thrust at its head and cast the Graviga to weaken it, then he raised his Keyblade and give a fatal strike to finish it.

"We are becoming the best team ever!" Sora said, shoved him a bit in the shoulder.

"Yeah, we are." Taiyo remarked.

Simba was on the Skullcrawler's back before biting on it as Taiyo and Sora joined him to fight the Heartless beast and brought a combination of slashes dealt the pain to the Skullcrawler.

"Great work." Simba said.

Geno and Utopia were hovering in the air as they are sending the magic blasts to vaporize every one of them before he got snatched by the last Skullcrawler's tongue and dragged him down on the ground.

"Utopia!" Geno worried as he thrust towards the Skullcrawler with two fists, colliding into its stomach and letting go of Utopia.

Ramarak growled at the group tensely before he changed into laughter.

"What with the laugh?" Donald asked.

"You have killed my spawns. However, there's a possibility more than you think." Ramarak replied before he let out an uttered screech.

Mario, Luigi, Geno, Votus, and Yoshi were covered their ears or heads that the screech was so loud while Taiyo, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Simba were resisting the screech.

Skullcrawlers emerged from the symbols of the Heartless but looked different when the Mark of Evil appeared beside the insignias and regrouped with Ramarak and Zant.

"You brought them back?!" Mario shocked.

"Not exactly. I do have one at the time to bring them back, in order to rest my summoning power. They have shared the hive mind with me as long as they lived. Also, they give the information to me from my previous ones you encountered them." Ramarak said.

"And that's how you gained the knowledge about us." Simba snarled.

Utopia gasped in both realization and shock. "Now it makes sense at all."

"What do you mean?" Taiyo questioned.

"If all the Skullcrawlers were sharing the hive mind to Ramarak, that could only a way to defeat the leader and the rest of them were destroyed as well." Utopia said.

Ramarak gave utter horror before he turned to Zant.

"Zant. That Alicorn knows about my weakness. Disposed of them now." Ramarak replied, quickly rushed to the wall before dug a hole and crawling through it to dig the tunnel.

"He's getting away!" Sora exclaimed.

"Taiyo, Yoshi, Geno, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Simba. Follow Ramarak before he escaped, we will take things from here." Mario said.

"Okay." Taiyo replied before he and others were heading into the hole made by Ramarak, leaving Mario, Luigi, Votus, and Utopia to fight Zant and other Skullcrawlers.

"This should be fun when it lasts." Zant replied before he extended his scimitars from his sleeves and his helmet drawn back to his face.

"We'll see what fun should have last." Votus replied, holds his shield tightly.

(Outlands - Deepest Rock Pit)

Kamari was trying to get from the Hyena Trio and ended up in the big area of the Outlands called the Deepest Rock Pit.

Shenzi has found him and cornered him. "There you are! You are caught in the dead end."

Kamari tried to pounce Shenzi but she evaded from him and grabbed him.

"Put a numbskull of yours in the piles of bone, you lazy-respected Circle of Life's canine!" Shenzi scolded as she rubbed on his head roughly.

Kamari then used his strength to get Shenzi off of him and pinned her on the ground.

"You are supposed to be a matriarch of your clan, you dog breath!" Kamari shouted before Shenzi grabbed his face and tossed him aside from the ground.

"Say that to my pretty face, lizard lips twerp!" Shenzi argued as they both wrestling against each other.

"Mutt brain!" Kamari grunted.

"Uncharming locust barf!" Shenzi snarled as Kamari pushed her face away and suddenly landed on top of her.

"YOU HAVE BEAUTIFUL EYES, BABE!" Kamari yelled.

"Hmm?" Shenzi asked, widening her eyes in shock.

"Huh?" Kamari questioned, realizing that he has spilled the beans from his mouth.

"Wha?!" Shenzi dumbfounded, narrowed her right eye.

"Ooh!" Kamari whined like a dog, covering his mouth with his paws in embarrassment.

(Outlands – Bone Trail)

Azizi overheard Kamari's shouting across from the Outlands' cliffs when he hides from the animal bones.

"Kamari?!" Azizi wondered.

"I found you!" Banzai shouted.

Azizi turned his attention to Banzai and Ed who cornered him.

"You better come and get me, losers!" Azizi taunted before he ran off to follow the shout.

"Come back here!" Banzai growled as he and Ed followed him into the deepest part of the Outland.

(Outlands – Deepest Rock Pit)

Azizi kept on the pace to get away from them until he skidded in the ground and saw something unusual moment.

Banzai and Ed have found Azizi who was gazing unpleasantly.

"What are you looking at, eh?" Banzai questioned as Ed laughed in response.

"Just... Look... At them." Azizi replied nervously, pointed the paw at them.

"Hm?" Banzai and Ed confused, turned their heads at Kamari who distanced away from Shenzi who didn't want to look at him over her shoulders.

"What is going on? Why isn't she attacked him?" Banzai confused.

Ed shook his head with a frown.

"Um, maybe you guys had to skip the lunch meal after this. I'll cancel that order." Azizi said.

Azizi walked towards Kamari who was blushing on his face.

"Uh, Kamari. What happened here?" Azizi asked.

"Just go away, please. A bit further distance." Kamari annoyed, gestured his paw at him.

Banzai and Ed were coming towards Shenzi.

"What happened to you?" Banzai asked.

"He thinks... I have beautiful eyes. I couldn't help it." Shenzi said.

Azizi perked his head in surprise before he turned to Kamari who grinned nervously much to Banzai and Ed's shock and disgusted as their jaws dropped.

Then the claw erupted from the ground, scaring the hyenas.

"Whoa, what was that?!" Banzai shouted.

The ground shattered as Ramarak emerged out and roaring at the hyenas.

"Skullcrawler!" Kamari shocked.

"Run!" Azizi bellowed as he ran past Banzai and Ed before they followed him.

"Let's get the heck of here!" Shenzi screamed.

The five hyenas were running away from Ramarak and hides under the big rocks as the patriarch of Skullcrawlers drew closer to the hyenas as they shivered in fear.

"We are going to be dead!" Kamari panicked as Shenzi embraced him.

"I am satisfied with my hunger." Ramarak grinned before he launched his claw at them.

"We are all gonna die!" Banzai yelled.

An orb of ice struck against his back, grunted in pain before he turned back to Taiyo, Yoshi, Geno, Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Simba.

"Taiyo. Guys." Azizi relieved.

"Leave the rest to us, we take care of the Skullcrawler." Donald replied.

"Count us in, fellas." Goofy added.

"Whatever you say." Kamari said before he turned to Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, and Azizi. "Let's go."

"Oh, okay." Shenzi replied.

The five hyenas ran off from the Deepest Rock Pit to leave Taiyo and others to defeat the Skullcrawler.

"You can't defeat me; I have the power of Darkness and Heartless. Nothing and no one will stop me from rotting the Pride Lands, even I surpassed Scar's reign." Ramarak said as his black and red aura forming around him with the dark red sparks.

"Uh oh. He has become the part of Heartless now!" Sora exclaimed.

"Let alone of us to defeat the monstrous leader." Taiyo determined.

"It is similar to Wrathnar's aura. It's called the Villainous Mode." Geno said.

"What? Villainous Mode?" Simba asked.

"It is the power-up form imbued by the pure darkness even the dark beings like Snide. He will become stronger." Geno stated.

Ramarak smirked at them evilly and then he emitted his loud screech as Taiyo and others were bracing their hearings.

"Not again!" Donald annoyed. (4867 words)

"We must stay tough, guys! This is going to be the hardest challenge we ever faced." Taiyo told them.

"We are with you, Taiyo." Sora uttered as he gritted his teeth while holding his Kingdom Key on his jaw tightly.

(Cave of Sanity – Hollow Den)

After Busara taught Jasiri and Madoa, he heard the screech that echoed through the cave from outside.

"What was that?" Jasiri asked.

"It's Ramarak." Busara grunted before he turned to Ndogo. "Ndogo, keep an eye on them for me. I will go out and help them."

"Yes, my lord." Ndogo nodded.

Busara then left the den and out of the cave.

(Outlands)

Wario and Waluigi were panting after searching around the Outlands and laid down on the ground.

"Why it is so hard to find the adamantium?" Wario asked.

Then they heard the roar before they hide behind the rock and saw Busara heading to the path to Deepest Rock Pit.

"Hey, isn't that lion?" Waluigi asked.

"Whoever he is. But we are going to find the adamantium and delivered to Lord Fawful." Wario replied.

Before they sneaked into another area, they are backing away from Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, Kamari, and Azizi who were cornered around them when the Wario Brothers have seen them.

"You should not find it in here, human intruders." Kamari uttered.

"We are not the intruders; we were just the outcasts." Waluigi shivered.

"Should we eat them for a snack?" Banzai questioned, drooling his mouth.

"We do. But let's not eat them too hastily." Shenzi replied before nudging Kamari.

"Huh? Why do you nudge me?" Kamari asked.

"I have a crazy feeling about you, honey." Shenzi answered.

"Whatever you say, babe." Kamari shrugged.

Ed laughed uncontrollably at Kamari as Azizi knocked him away.

"Just keep away from his personal space, okay?!" Azizi annoyed.

"Thank you, Azizi." Kamari said.

Wario and Waluigi were holding each other and shivering.

"Wario, what are we going to do?" Waluigi asked.

Wario smirked smugly as he turned around at them with his rear and farted at them with the stinky stench.

"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGHHHHHH!" Shenzi, Kamari, Banzai, Ed and Azizi screamed in horror.

Wario let out a small toot after farting at them. "Ahh..."

The five hyenas wafted the stench away in disgust.

"Oh, man! That's stinks!" Banzai exclaimed as he covered his nose.

Ed let out the grunting unamused.

"That's right, hyenas, smell my dominance." Wario chuckled.

Then the Wario Brothers ran off from them.

"Hey, get back here!" Kamari yelled as he and other hyenas were quickly recovered from the stench and chased after them.

(Outlands – Cave)

Wario and Waluigi were running to the cave but stopped at the end of the passage.

"There's no exit!" Wario gulped.

They both turned back to five hyenas who were snarling at them.

"For your information, we shall give you the taste of revenge." Shenzi said infuriatingly, licking her lips.

"We were just...playing around." Waluigi replied nervously.

"Sic 'em!" Azizi shouted.

Shenzi, Banzai, Ed, Kamari, and Azizi charged towards the Wario Brothers before pouncing at them and they screamed in panic.

"Help! Help!" Wario yelled.

(Pride Lands – Pride Rock)

Everyone in the Pride Rock heard Ramarak's screech including, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, Rafiki, Zazu, Kujali, and Mjeshi. Even Simba's mother, Sarabi came out from the den near the King's Den who was waking up and sensed the disturbance.

Sarabi is the former queen of Pride Lands, alongside her husband's ruler, Mufasa. She has a slender body with beige fur, cream muzzle, underbelly, paws and eye patches, salmon nose, black-tipped ears, black eyebrows, dark eyelids, orange eyes, and yellow scleras.

"What is going on?" Sarabi asked.

"I fear that Taiyo and his friends were taking the challenge against the leader of the Skullcrawlers." Rafiki said solemnly.

"And Simba was with them." Nala added.

"What?! I got to save him." Sarabi said as Zazu stopped her.

"No, Sarabi. Your son is going to help Sora and his friends to defeat the monsters." Zazu persuaded.

"I have a bad feeling, Timon. It makes my body shivered in cold." Pumbaa scared.

"Me too, pal. We kinda worried about Simba." Timon comforted him.

Mjeshi was panicking a bit. "I hope those monsters were coming to eat us."

"Oh, Mjeshi. Would you pull yourselves together?" Kujali questioned with an annoyance look.

"What choices do we had? We can't let them give up." Nala worried.

"I shall go." A lioness's voice confirmed.

The animals turned to the brown lioness who walked out of the small den. She has a lithe, sleek body with brownish-tan fur while her muzzle, paws, and underbelly are paler in color, ear rims, and light orange eyes with the bright yellow sclera.

"Are you certain to go by yourself?" Zazu asked.

"I have to help the others and I can feel someone was with them." A tan lioness replied.

"Who is it, Naanda?" Nala asked.

"Someone I loved him a long time ago and I don't want to lose him." Naanda said.

"Very well. Go." Sarabi said.

Naanda rushed out of the Pride Rocks and running through the Savannah.

(Molten Subterranean)

Utopia kept firing the beams at the Skullcrawlers while Votus continuing to bash some of them before the monkey dodged the slashing claws.

"There's too many of them." Votus replied.

"Stay concentrate!" Utopia grunted.

Zant kept teleporting away from Mario and reappeared behind him before kicking him. Then Luigi brought the hammer to bash Zant in the back of his head, sending him across the ground.

"Thought I can use a hammer." Luigi said.

Zant gets up before rubbing the back of his head and growled. "Your weapon is starting to make me mad!"

Zant spun himself to slash Luigi who was avoiding from him and firing the couples of Thunder Shot but the Usurper King quickly deflecting the electro balls before teleporting again and appeared above him before slashing down at Luigi.

Luigi staggered back but skidded and lunged at Zant with a kick right into his helmet which bounces off from his head, revealed his face. Zant held his face before glaring at him and charging against him with a headbutt which causes Luigi sliding back towards and nearly leaned on the ledge below the lava.

Zant walked towards him slowly, retracted his scimitars.

"Not so fast!" Mario shouted, quickly using the Fire Dash to tackle Zant which made him skidded across the dried magma ground.

Zant turned his head towards Mario. "You are going to regret this!"

Zant starts firing the rapid blasts of dark energy at Mario who quickly cast a Shell spell to defend himself from the dark blasts.

Luigi rushed into him and attacked Zant with swiping claws as the Usurper King recoiled back in agony before Luigi kneeled him in the gut.

Zant spat some saliva from his mouth as he countered his stronger attack by kicking him and Luigi fell to the ground, coughing.

"Look at you. Pretty weak to fight against the enemies. Mario and Taiyo were always displacing you when you are being corrupted by evil." Zant stated, giving Luigi shock and confused until he resolved his expression.

"I know. It was Snide who manipulated me." Luigi said bitterly.

"Yes, you remember. Your dark alias, Mr. L, has taken control over you and I can help you to get stronger than before if you accept the offer." Zant said, reaching out his hand after he withdraws his right scimitar.

Mario saw Zant was offering his hand to Luigi.

"Luigi, no!" Mario shouted.

(Outland – Deepest Rock Pit)

Ramarak swiped his claws at Simba, Sora, and Taiyo but they avoided the Skullcrawler. Donald and Goofy were charging at Ramarak but Ramarak swings his tail to slam them.

"Donald! Goofy!" Sora shouted.

"He's just too powerful." Goofy grunted, couldn't get back up to his feet.

"We can't let him take over the Pride Lands." Donald said.

Yoshi slammed his fists together to form the colossal and mighty stone hands before running into him before punching him in the face but it didn't show the signs of pain effective as Ramarak tossed him over to the barren wall, losing his consciousness.

"Yoshi!" Geno worried before he turned back to Ramarak and activated his flight boosters from his boots to fly towards him.

Geno was blasting the Borealis Blasts at Ramarak, still not hurting him.

"Fools! You can't destroy me!" Ramarak chuckled before shooting him down with his purple beams from his eyes.

Geno fell to the ground, felt the shock from his circuitry.

"Geno!" Taiyo shocked, ran over to him.

"My circuitry is critical, it started to slow me down." Geno grunted.

"Hang in there." Taiyo assured before he casting the Curaga onto him but it took the long progress to repair Geno's circuitry systems.

"But give me time to repair you, it takes a little longer."

"Leave it to us." Sora replied before he and Simba ran over to Ramarak.

Ramarak slammed his left claw to smash Sora and Simba but they jumped out of the way and striking at it. Sora swung his Kingdom Key at the large claw while Simba clawing onto it in ferocious as Ramarak took the opportunity by grabbing both of them and squeezing them.

"Aargh!" Sora cried out.

"Let go of us!" Simba replied.

Taiyo turned to them. "Oh, no! Not now!"

"Taiyo! Keep concentrated on me!" Geno ordered as Taiyo nodded in begrudge and healing him.

"I simply want the taste from either you." Ramarak replied.

"You gonna eat us!?" Sora shocked.

"You can't! As the king of the Pride Lands, I should never surrender myself to you." Simba determined.

"But there is no hope in you, Simba. You are nothing and bowed to the former ruthless king, Scar!" Ramarak mocked as Simba growled at him with a furious look.

Then the energy form of arrow sprung onto his body as Ramarak roared in pain, unclasped Sora and Simba as they jumped onto the ground before they saw Busara was on the top of the rock, summoning the projection of Black Pantherian and landed next to them.

"Busara?" Simba asked.

"Sorry for a bit late. I was on my way." Busara responded.

Taiyo saw him after he cast the healing magic on Geno as they joined them. "He's here!"

Ramarak turned his skull-head at Busara.

"Have you come to join the challenge against me, Busara?" Ramarak asked.

"I won't let you destroyed the Circle of Life! You and your monsters are revolting savages!" Busara replied.

"Won't you be sure of that? I think not. Why don't you run away?" Ramarak replied.

"He never run away!"

Everyone turned to Naanda who is running towards the group.

"Naanda!? My love." Busara replied.

"Oh, Busara. I am so glad to see you." Naanda said, cuddled him affectionately.

"You know her?" Simba asked.

"I never told you about her but we settled with this." Busara affirmed.

Yoshi regains his consciousness before went back to the others.

"So, what did I miss? And who's the lioness?" Yoshi asked.

"Naanda." Naanda said.

Ramarak turned envious at them. "I have no time to waste, I just want to kill you all."

(Molten Subterranean)

Utopia and Votus were struggling to fight off the Skullcrawlers as the monkey kneeled on the ground.

"There is no use for us to win." Votus grunted.

"We can still win, no matter what. Let your heart grown stronger before you let yourself freed from defeat." Utopia replied determinedly.

Votus paused in shock before the last part of Utopia's sentence came through in his mind but sounds the same from someone who was a friend and heard the wise words.

"Let your heart grown stronger before you let yourself freed from defeat."

"Let your heart be your guiding key..."

Votus knew what the last meaning means before he placed his adamantium shield on the ground and put the right fist onto his chest.

"What are you doing?" Utopia asked.

Votus then held out his right hand and the specks of light appeared around his arm before they flew right into his hand. Then the bright light flashed around the area from Votus.

"What is this?!" Zant shouted, directing his attention at Votus.

"Huh?" Luigi turned his head at the yellow-golden monkey as Mario turned towards Votus.

As the light begins to fade, Votus felt something he held it on his right hand and glanced at it. It was the Keyblade: Revontheus.

Revontheus was similar to Master's Defender. Its teeth have E-shaped comprised white fades to dark grey with light to dark colorful outlines and metal spikes. The shaft was long and thin, it has conjoined with two narrow shafts that shaped like an arrow, six small poles that connected the twin small downward curved blades, and on top of the blade is a golden ring. The guard consisted of greyish-silver and gold barbed patterns-like wings and silver handlebar. Its pommel was the resemblance to the golden sword hilt with silver squared ring and the Keychain has a golden symbol shén (神) and means 'god' and 'celestial being'.

"Utopia. Look what I got!" Votus said.

"A Keyblade." Utopia amazed.

"He has the Keyblade!" Mario exclaimed.

"That's impossible!" Zant shouted before he kicked the boulder and straight at Votus.

Votus quickly slammed against the rock with his Keyblade, smashing it into pieces.

Once Zant was distracted, Mario throws a fireball behind him and blasted him. Votus grabbed the shield with his left hand before hurling towards the Usurper King as well as Mario and both of them attacked Zant together.

Zant was dodging from slashing attacks but Votus used his two weapons to hit him which made his evasion effortlessly and knocked him down. Mario took a downward swing on Zant, stunning him.

"What's wrong? Still caught the sight on the Keyblade?" Mario mocked.

"You giving me too much agony!" Zant yelled, letting the dark red and black beam blasted Mario away from his mouth.

Mario cried in pain, skidding across the ground with his Keyblade.

Votus throws his disc shield in the mid-air before hitting it which created the shockwave to send the shield into Zant, getting him knocked off his feet. Votus caught his shield before ran over to him, swung his Revontheus to hit his face roughly, and bashed him in the gut hard, causing Zant to step back in agony as he clutching his stomach.

"It seemed you have gotten stronger than you realized you're another Keyblade wielder." Zant grunted.

Having a response from Zant, Mario gets up and walked beside him.

"He could have it, then you lose." Mario smirked.

Zant scathed his scimitars before charging at them.

"Votus, boost me up with your shield!" Mario told him.

"Roger that." Votus affirmed, holding the shield up as Mario hopped on it. "Here it goes!"

Votus strikes his Keyblade onto the adamantium shield to let Mario jumped higher and hurling himself towards Zant.

"What!?" Zant asked incuriously.

"Super Fire Slash!" Mario replied.

He ignited his Ignition Flower to perform the cross-slash to mark the x with flames and pushed it down with his right glove hand towards Zant, shocking him as the fire x-shaped cross struck him and engulfed in an explosion.

Luigi and Utopia ran over to Mario and Votus.

"Votus, that was great!" Luigi replied.

"You did the excellent job back there." Utopia admitted.

Mario looked over to Zant who was flatting on the ground, but the Usurper King of Twilight Realm gets up from the ground and glared at Votus, not only the others.

"You have indeed become the Keyblade wielder. Your friend, Makaque was a meddlesome fool too. Mark my words, Votus. One day soon, you are going to meet the same, miserable, and undesirable fate!" Zant scolded.

Zant was badly injured as he held his chest before signaling the Corridor of Darkness to retreat and vanished along with Usurper King.

"Come on, we must help our friends." Votus told them.

"Yeah, let's-a-go!" Mario replied.

(Outlands – Deepest Rock Pit)

Yoshi was running around the Skullcrawler as Ramarak tries to slam on him with his claws but the green dinosaur is too fast to dodge them.

"Donald! Goofy! Now!" Sora called out to his two traveling companions.

"Thundaga!" Donald muttered, casting the big bolt of lightning at Ramarak which stunned him.

"Try this for size!" Goofy hollered before he spun his shell to bash Skullcrawler's left forearm and quickly avoided from being squashed by Ramarak.

Sora, Naanda, and Simba charged at the ruthless leader of the Skullcrawlers as Ramarak swiped his large right claw at them but they managed to dodge the slash and jumped higher from the boulder to land over his back.

"Let's starts with slashing!" Simba replied.

"Right!" Sora nodded. "I never use my claws before."

Sora and Simba were slashing randomly on the Skullcrawler's back as Ramarak shook his body violently before both of the felines drive their claws onto his back and hold on themselves from falling.

"Let go!" Ramarak yelled while grunting in pain.

"Just hold on!" Naanda said.

"Yoshi, trap him!" Geno replied.

"Alright. Binding Slab!" Yoshi shouted, placing his hands on the ground.

The glowing light straight through the cracks on the ground and surrounded Ramarak as the big triangle-shaped bedrock slabs erupted from the ground to bind both of his forearms, body, and tail.

Taiyo changed his animal form into a human before he gazed back to Geno and Busara.

"Now our chance!" Taiyo replied.

The four of them were running towards Ramarak in the frontal assault. Taiyo jumped up in the air and tossed his Warrior's Key as he performed the Focus Raid at his right eye.

Ramarak yelped in agony before he roared at Taiyo, but the Keyblade wielder wasn't flinched by an intimidating roar. Taiyo touched his silver armlet, turning into the Keyblade Morpher.

Taiyo quickly poses as he inserted the key into his morpher, turning it sideways. He morphed into the Keyblade Sun Ranger.

"He has changed!" Busara exclaimed.

"That is the Keyblade Sun Ranger." Geno said.

Taiyo propelled himself into the air and landed on Ramarak's head. Taiyo quickly slashes on him with his Keyblade before he cast the Graviga and launched the black and purple orb, stunning Ramarak and he jumped off from him.

Busara summoned the spiritual image of Black Pantherian to shoot a couple of energy arrows at Ramarak and Geno used the Radiance Beam on Ramarak. Ramarak cries in pain as he roared in utterly outrageous, summoning the multiple Skullcrawlers.

"Not them again!" Yoshi muttered.

Ramarak unleashed his power of darkness to create a shockwave to pummel Taiyo and others including Sora, Simba and Naanda were sending into the ground when they are falling from Ramarak as Votus rushed out from the hole and quickly saved the three others by the power of telekinesis and safely landed on the ground.

"Are you three okays?" Votus asked.

"Yes, we are. Thank you." Simba said.

"Votus? You can use psychic powers?" Sora asked.

"Oh yes, I did. It's kind of thing left behind in my mind. I'll show you something cool." Votus demonstrated himself by summoning the Revontheus on his right hand.

Sora, Simba, and Naanda were very astonished to see Votus can wield the Keyblade, even Taiyo, Yoshi, Geno, and Busara saw it too.

"It's the Keyblade!" Naanda surprised, hearing from Simba who told him about the Keyblade.

"You are the Keyblade wielder all along?" Simba asked.

"Is that true?" Geno asked.

"Yeah, I was..." Votus answered.

"How did you do that?" Sora wondered.

"I just don't know what happened. But it hard to say I was the Keyblade wielder." Votus answered.

Mario, Luigi, and Utopia emerged from the pit hole, joined aside him.

"He was the fast learner." Utopia told them.

Ramarak freed himself from the earth slabs, turning towards the group.

"I am tired of conversation as much as I want to devour you all!" Ramarak said.

"You may mess with us. But all the living creatures can live and die for the Circle of Life, I cannot let you and your Skullcrawlers take everything away for yourself. Simba will always take his father's place as the new king of the Pride Lands." Taiyo replied.

Simba smiled proudly at him. "Well said, Taiyo."

"Such bold words as you say. Skullcrawlers! Finished them off!" Ramarak ordered.

The other Skullcrawlers crawled at the group as they stepped back without fear except for Goofy.

"Gwarsh. We are becoming supper meal." Goofy gulped.

"Taiyo, any ideas?" Sora asked.

"Ramarak was just too strong. It's got to be a way to kill this thing." Taiyo said.

"He's right. Not even the Black Pantherian's power will hold him off much longer." Busara replied.

Ndogo the Moogle flies from the air and landed next to them, holding the small bottle.

"I have a solution." Ndogo replied.

"Just what exactly are you doing? You supposed to look after the hyena cubs." Busara complained.

"I know, just trust me." Ndogo whispered to him before he walked towards the leader of the Skullcrawlers.

"Greetings to you, Ramarak. I have something you wanted." Ndogo said.

"No more tricks, Moogle. Now step aside." Ramarak growled.

"I haven't got tricks on my sleeves. Look what I got." Ndogo stated, showing the bottle to Ramarak.

"What's in the bottle?" Ramarak asked.

"The water of Everlasting Spring, it can give you eternal life so you never stop dying. You won't get thirsty unless you will drink with this and spared our lives." Ndogo said.

Ramarak chuckled at the fact but accept it. "Very well then. Throw the bottle to me without harm."

Ndogo pulled out the cork from the bottle as Simba and Luigi are trying to stop him.

"Don't!" Simba replied.

"Is he mad?!" Luigi shouted.

"Wait!" Busara told them. "Let him do this. I am well aware."

Luigi and Simba were begrudgery agreed with him and watch Ndogo who threw the bottle higher as Ramarak open his jaw and swallowed the small bottle, forcing down into his throat.

"I feel... invincible!" Ramarak laughed loudly before he coughed from his mouth, sensed his body is not feeling well.

"What is happening to him?" Mario asked.

"He may drink the Everlasting Spring to live longer but due to his wickedness in his heart, shall be petrified. That was Ndogo's idea." Busara explained.

"You should have told us before." Yoshi said.

Ramarak groaned in agony as the stone petrification began to spread his body slowly, collapsed on the ground and growled at them.

"You can't destroy... me! In another time, the Skullcrawlers will rise again... from the ashes!"

Ramarak still cried out in pain until his body become the stone completely. Once the leader was gone, the Skullcrawlers were returned to their oblivion and reduced themselves into the black sands before they dissipated.

"They're all gone." Donald relived.

Ndogo walked to Busara who was pleased with him.

"You have the job well done. Thank you." Busara smiled triumphantly.

"Yes, my lord. You're too kind." Ndogo said.

"With Skullcrawlers gone, the Pride Lands will once again safe." Sora said.

"And we still need to find the Star Spirit." Taiyo replied.

"Looking for this?"

The group heard the voice before they turned at the Dark Predator who still wore his mask and held the card of Misstar.

"Who is that?" Naanda asked while growling at the stranger.

"It's Dylan, the Dark Predator." Taiyo answered.

"Zant kept his promise to me, now I got it." Dylan replied.

"Give it back to us. We only have four of them." Votus said.

"It was my first hunt of the Star Spirits. Votus, you have grown stronger but still just the monkey." Dylan smirked.

"If you ever come near me and my friends, it will be a challenge." Busara snarled.

"I don't think so. I take the leave for searching the two Spirit Stars." Dylan turned back to them.

"Dylan. Don't go! Open your eyes for what you are doing! You need to remember me. I am your friend!" Taiyo pleaded.

Dylan stopped without turning back his head.

"I don't have friends. This talking session is over." Dylan replied as he opened the Corridor of Darkness and walked into the dark portal before it is gone.

Taiyo lowered his head and sighed, de-morphed back into his normal form as Sora walked to him.

"Don't worry about him. We need to find two more Star Spirits before he finds them." Sora reassured.

"I know. Let's head back to the cave." Taiyo replied.

They all left from the Deepest Rock Pit, Busara looked back at the statue of Ramarak and felt the portentous feeling surrounded the place and catching up to the group.


Author Notes: They were able to ventured into the Molten Subterranean before facing the leader of the Skullcrawlers, Ramarak and encountered Zant, the Usurper King of Twilight Realm. Votus has finally unlocked the power of the Keyblade in his heart, gaining upper-hand against Zant. Taiyo and others gave everything they got to fight Ramarak who unleashed his rage of darkness to overpower them before Ndogo the Moogle appeared besides them and tricked him by drinking the water of Everlasting Spring, petrifying the Skullcrawler into the living statue. However, Dylan the Dark Predator retrieved the Misstar's card despite Taiyo's protest and leaves. Don't forget to review after reading this!