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Chapter 1: The Last Keyblade of Light

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Sora suddenly woke up and found himself in a strange town. There wasn't actually anything weird about the town per say except for the fact that he wasn't supposed to be here. His memory was fuzzy because of it all happening so suddenly. What he could remember his home destiny Islands getting swallowed up by some weird dark cloud and his friends Riku and Kairi were-

"Wait! Riku! Kairi! where are you?!" Sora remembered his friends getting taken away by some strange people in black hoods. Perhaps they did the same to him hence why he's in a place he doesn't recognize. If he was correct maybe, they were somewhere close and so was Kairi and Riku. fueled by a mixture of hope and desperation Sora ran across town hoping to find the black hooded people or at least someone that could help him. Sora ran and ran through the town passing houses, bridges, and gates. eventually Sora stopped to catch his breath, Sora looked around and noticed something abnormal.

"Wait, where is everyone?" Sora looked all around town calling out to whoever would answer back but no one did. No noise, no people, no animals, not even bugs the entire town was deserted. Sora was so confused; his home was attacked by a dark cloud. His friends were kidnapped by people in black hoods. Now he was in a fancy town populated by ghosts; nothing was making any sense.

Just when Sora thought nothing else could happen; suddenly, someone had suddenly rammed into him by accident. Sora fell to the ground and felt something stab into him in the back. He got off of whatever was hurting him onto to see an overgrown golden key. What? What is this weird key? and why did I- WAIT! MORE IMPORTANTLY! A PERSON!

"Hey, excuse me! do you know where I-?!"

"What are you doing kid?! run!"

"there's nowhere left to run." the man Sora wanted to question turned pale out of overwhelming fear, Sora then turned to the source of the second voice and was shocked at the sight. It was one of the black hoods that took Riku and Kairi, or at least someone dressed like them. not that it mattered, Sora knew that this guy had to have answers. Sora got up and wanted to question the man, but the hooded man ran past him with incredible speed. The other man quickly got up and tried running away, however the hooded man proved to be faster and slashed the man. the hooded man did not use a sword but instead a large black key with red detail lines and a handle detailed in yellow and blue. The innocent man then seemingly glitched out of existence leaving just his heart. His heart was a large red crystal shaped like a heart. the heart was quickly swallowed up by darkness and turned into a little shadow monster wearing a ridiculous looking helmet and had red claws.

"You see that boy? your next, and your precious guardians can't save you now." Sora was horrified by what he saw, a man was turned into a shadow looking monster thing right Infront of him and he was defiantly next. Sora then looked again at the weapon the hooded man used and sure enough it was a giant key; extremely similar to the one he fell on. Sora then quickly turned back, grabbed the giant golden key, and faced the man while holding the key like a blade.

"Stop! don't you dare try anything!"

"What? you have a keyblade! grrr! why didn't the Heartless do anything?!"

"Huh?" Sora then heard strange swishing noises behind him, out of fear he slowly and cautiously turned around to see a growing army of tiny Heartless monsters with what looking like loopy elongated ears or strange crooked horns. these Heartless looked weaker than the other Heartless that was once an innocent man but that didn't deny that there were hundreds of them.

"You don't want to go back to the darkness in-between worlds, right?! then get this brat and bring me his heart as well as his keyblade! I will go and secure the rest of this area from those pesky guardians!" the hooded man then walked away while more shadow heartless formed form the shadows. The Shadow heartless both surrounded and slowly crept closer to Sora. Sora should have been scared but instead he was furious that the only one who could know where his friends was currently walking away from him like he was irrelevant.

"Wait! I saw you on the beach of Destiny Island! where is Riku and Kairi!"

"Destiny Island? that's not on this world. if you're really a keyblade wielder of light then you should know that. besides..." the Heartless with the helmet kicked Sora's stomach forcing him to the ground. Sora grunted in pain, but his frustration was quickly turned to fear when he saw the surrounding shadow heartless getting closer and closer.

"You have many, MANY more things to worry about. do try to at least go down with some glory rather than the weakling you so inclined to display yourself as." The hooded man continued to walk away as the heartless blocked him out of Sora's view. Sora yelled at the heartless to stay back, but the yelling quickly turning into pleading. The Heartless didn't listen, instead they continued to advance. one of the shadow creatures then jumped to strike Sora down, out of instincts Sora slashed the creature with the giant golden key and it instantly burst into dark nothingness.

Sora was confused at first but then remembered that the hooded man called this thing a keyblade. Sora then tested his curiosity by slashing another dangerously close Heartless and again it burst into dark nothingness. Sora couldn't help but smile, even though he lost most of the time he always enjoyed his sword fights with Riku and now was the perfect time to put all that sparing/ training into good use. with ease Sora slashed through the Heartless and dodged their attacks. It took quite a while, but he managed to get rid of them all.

Sora felt so pumped up from his flawless victory that he wasn't afraid any more, but his joyful smile turned into a frown when he saw the last Heatless. The Heartless with the ridiculous looking helmet was all that was left, and Sora pondered on what to do. it was obviously just a slightly stronger Heartless but that didn't deny that it was once an innocent man. Sora wasn't sure if he should put it out of its misery or try to find a way to turn him back to normal.

before Sora could make up his mind, the Heartless ran away and behind it more Heartless. Same as before, started rising from the shadows and blocking all ways from Sora, effectively cornering him. Sora felt somewhat relived for not having to make a tough decision but was quickly annoyed by how quickly his previous victory against the Heartless now seemed pointless. Sora was slowly getting surrounded but instead of getting scared he just sighed in annoyance. That he would have to waist more time dealing with more of these annoying and weird shadow creatures known as the Heartless.


After almost an hour of traveling through the town and slashing through what seeming like hundreds of the Heartless; Sora finally made it to an area devoid of them. It looked like a town square but like the rest of the town there was no one else except for the hooded man. Sora wasn't sure if it was the same guy or just someone who dressed like him but at this point Sora just hoped anyone dressed like that had answers to what was going on.

"Hey! you there! where are my friends Riku and Kairi! where is my home island!"

"... I already told you. Destiny Island isn't on this world. as for this Riku that name does sound familiar but not as familiar as the name Kairi. Tell me, what is your relation to the princesses of Heart?"

"Princesses of Heart?"

"tch, so you really know nothing, how can you be a keyblade wielder of light but know nothing of the multiverse?" The man then held out his hand and a dark orb formed which shifted and manifested into the same keyblade he had earlier. Sora couldn't help but grit his teeth in anger at the sight that was the same weapon used to turn that innocent man into a Heartless.

"I heard from master Ansem that when a keyblade wielder defeats or even destroys other keyblade wielders they gain a chance of being able to wield and control more than one keyblade, the more keyblade wielders defeated the more chances you get another keyblade and even more after that! what do you say kid? wanna be a steppingstone for my path to ever growing power?"

"... just because I have no idea what you're talking about doesn't mean I'm going to stand by and let you hurt more people! You hurt that man and turned him into a strange creature! your buddies hurt my friends and did something to my island! if I can't get answers on what happened to my friends or my home then I will at least make sure you can't hurt anyone else!"

"hahaha! spoken like a real guardian of light! Perhaps you can give me the challenge I've been looking for!" the hooded man then dashed toward Sora, ready to strike him down. Sora knew what was coming but only barely blocked the strike by the last second. Sora knew how to defend against a pro thanks to his fights with Riku. However, from the force of that strike alone, Sora was reminded that his duels with Riku were child's play compared to a real fight like this. The hooded man smiled, realizing the massive gap in their power and quickly put all his strength into his keyblade, pushing Sora back and feet into the ground.

Sora grunted in pain from the overwhelming force, However the force just as quickly went away leaving Sora confused. Sora looked up and saw the hooded man in the air and only seconds from striking him down. Thankfully Sora dodged but only by a second and even that wasn't enough to keep his leg form getting hit by the keyblade. Sora fell to the ground again and groaned in pain. His body was glitching out as he felt like he was being torn in two by an invisible force. Then the keyblade he was holding started glowing and his being started turning back to normal, Sora then got up and felt himself to ensure he was still all there.

"What?! But master Ansem said even Keyblade Wielders of Light can't withstand a strike form a Keyblade of Darkness! grrr! Fine then! If you're so strong, then I just need to weaken you first! Soldiers! Rise!" The Heartless that was once that innocent man rose up from the hooded man's shadow. Afterwards the shadow grew bigger and more of the same Heartless rose up. All of them quickly surrounded Sora.

"hahaha! ordinary Heartless are child's play compared to soldier Heartless! A rookie like you won't stand a chance against this many!" Sora just grunted and slashed at the closest Heartless, but it dodged quickly, to Sora's surprise. while he was distracted another Heartless then clawed Sora in the back. Sora yelled in pain, it almost felt like he was violently injected with poison. Sora suddenly felt enraged and slashed at the heartless behind him. he managed to damage it but not destroy it, Sora yelled in anger glaring at the Heartless but then realized that he was unusually angry.

what are you doing? don't stop. let the darkness fester within you and give you power. let it fuel you!

Sora was scared of the strange voice he was hearing in his mind. He shook his head and started slashing at the soldier Heartless again, only this time he was doing it faster and with more precision.

why waste your time destroying the heartless when you can rule over them! let the darkness give you power and-

"Stop it! I'm not gonna rely on the darkness! I saw what it did to my island!" Sora then slashed another soldier Heartless leaving only four of them left. then the keyblade started to glow in a golden light.

"I don't know or care about any of this darkness stuff! I just wanna find my friends! WITH ALL MY HEART!" Sora then slashed his keyblade and the light formed a slash that outstretched and hit the four remaining soldiers Heartless destroying them instantly.

"WHAT?! HOW DID YOU DO THAT?! YOUR JUST A ROOKIE! WHO IS YOUR MASTER?! TELL ME YOU BRAT!" The hooded man then resummoned his keyblade of darkness and ran toward Sora ready to strike him down. Sora felt an unusual amount of energy flowing through him, he should have been scared or at the very least confused but instead he was getting excited. Sora blocked the strike with ease, now the hooded man was the one struggling. Try as he may the hooded man couldn't move Sora back an inch. The hooded man then backed up, rushed Sora again, and this time consistently strike him again and again only for Sora to perfectly block it all. Sora was smiling at first but now it seemed like he was getting tired very quickly, he needed to end this fight as soon as possible.

Sora quickly noticed after a few more strikes that the hooded man seemed a lot slower before. At first Sora thought it was because he was getting tired too, but he soon realized it was actually because his perception was faster. Sora waited for the hooded man to raise his keyblade again; once the opportunity arose Sora slashed the hooded man in the stomach. The hooded man yelled in pain then quickly swung his blade to slash Sora. Sora however had already gained distance from the hooded man and smirked at him. The hooded man was furious and charged at Sora while swinging his keyblade again and again fueled solely by rage. Sora managed to dodge the attacks he also couldn't help but frown in disappointment due to how lacking in skills the hooded man was.

Sora couldn't tell if it was due to overconfidence in strength, lack of training, or because of his injuries but the hooded man was waving the keyblade around as if it was a hundred-pound club. granted his speed with it was impressive but it was also so simple and therefore easy to read. Once Sora saw an opening, he slashed at the hooded man's arm, then his chest, and finally he slashed down on his entire being causing him to fade into darkness.


in a dark room of Hollow Bastion Hades, Jafar, Ursula, Captain Hook, and Oogie were in a circle looking into a magic caldron allowing them to see the progress of their recent invasion. They were expecting the keyblade wielder of darkness they sent to be successful but instead they only witnessed his demise.

"WHAT?! how did some brat just defeat a keyblade wielder of darkness?!"

"What does it matter? he was a new recruit, a weakling, so it's not like we lost much."

"For once Jafar is right! we still have several more keyblade wielders of darkness, and hundreds of heartless! that little brat is nothing more than our future Waterboy."

"You imbeciles! remember what Master Ansem said! our keyblades of darkness can control the darkness itself but the keyblades of light can repel and even lock away the darkness! that boy is holding one right now!"

"Wow, calm down there, Hooky! He still just a little twerp at the end of the day, I doubt we even need the heartless to take him down. why I bet just one scare from me, and his heart will just jump right out and into my hand! hahaha!"

"that's enough, all of you." Hades, Jafar, Ursula, Captain Hook, and Oogie all turned to see Maleficent as she entered the circle. she looked down in the magic caldron and saw Sora as well as his keyblade of light, thought she just snorted in amusement.

"How peculiar, a child with a keyblade? and a keyblade of light no less. I was led to believe the guardians of light were extinct. Yet one remains, right before our very eyes. Master Ansem will surely be displeased to know of this, which is why we will be disposing of him quickly." Suddenly a girl in a black hooded cloak ran up to the six villains and bowed down to them. She was normal sized, unlike the rest of them.

"What is it?"

"Uh, two things lady Maleficent, first Master Ansem will be out for quite some time. Second, the draining process of the first princess is already complete, should we dispose of her now?"

"... no if she is here, then that other boy is too, yes? What was his name again?"

"Uh, Riku my lady."

"Yes Riku... I believe he may be the champion we are looking for, so allow him to enter the castle unharmed. I will be the one to watch over him. As for the girl, do not dispose of her; she is Riku's friend, and he will need the motivation to fight for our cause. instead have someone monitor her closely, if she ever shows sights of waking up then drain more of her essence to put her back to sleep."

"But- but Lady Maleficent! there's no way she'll wake up and even if she does, to drain more life force will make her entire being unstable, she could split into a vengeful and powerful Heartless as well as an uncontrollable Repli-" Maleficent then loudly hit her cane on the floor which scared the hooded girl to shut up. the loud noise actually scared the other villains thought Ursula and Oogie just laughed it off.

"You say it's impossible yet you still worry about the alternative? What would if matter if the alternative were to arise regardless? you're a keyblade wilder of darkness surely you can handle it, or are you a leech who latches onto the Dark Army for your own benefit? hoping that when things go array then we will take the fall for you?"

"Ah! no my lady, I was just concerned is all! please forgive me I was foolish!" The hooded girl then practically slammed her head to the ground in front of Maleficent.

"Enough of your whining, you have your orders now follow them! oh and of course, when Master Ansem is away I am to be known as Master Maleficent!" the hooded girl then quickly got up, bowed again, and then ran out of the room as fast as she could.

"oh wait one more thing." however she had only just touched the door out of the room, before Jafar had stopped her.

"uh- um, y- yes Lord Jafar?"

"my dear, what was that majestic heartless abomination you were working on? that one that can take itself apart and each part can act as its own individual heartless?"

"Oh uh, yes I call it the Guard Armor."

"Yes! that one! after you've completed your tasks you will go to Traverse Town and use it to destroy this pesky boy." the hooded girl seemed shocked but simply bowed and left the room.

"Oh no fair! I wanted to use my Trickmaster to get the little twerp!"

"Zip it you literal bag of worms, you can use that monster when we invade Wonderland, for now let us see the potential of our underlings."


Sora smiled at first, but his body suddenly started feeling heavy, he was now very tired and using the keyblade to hold himself up. Sora looked back at where the hooded man disappeared. Sora felt a hint of guilt, he was being attack and fueled on adrenaline, so he didn't think of the consequences at the time but now he wondered, is the hooded man dead? did he just disappear somewhere? why did he attack Sora? what exactly are the Heartless? what is even going on? Sora had so many questions but no way to answer any of them, especially now that the hooded man was gone.

"Not bad, you defeated a keyblade wielder of darkness." Sora then looked up to see an older boy with brown hair walking toward him.

"he was still just a rookie though, and by the looks of it so are you. who's your master, and how did they get their hands on a keyblade of light?"

"ugh... not another one... listen I don't know anything about the darkness... or this light stuff... I'm just-"

"you don't know about the darkness or light? ... then you don't deserve that Keyblade, hand it over now!" Leon then revealed a large sword and pointed it right at Sora, Sora grunted out of exhaustion and raised his keyblade toward him.

"grrr... you not the only jerk... I've encountered today... that takes things... that aren't theirs!" Sora rushed forward toward Leon who raised his sword to strike down Sora. However, Sora anticipated this and made a direct strike for his chest, however Leon stopped the strike by catching his keyblade with his bare hands.

"like I said, you don't deserve the keyblade." Leon hit Sora on the head with the hilt of his sword knocking him out instantly. Leon then grabbed the keyblade walked over to where the hooded man was defeated. All that remained of him was his keyblade of darkness. Leion slashed at the keyblade destroying it but by doing so the keyblade of light started glowing out of control.

"hey Leon! the Heartless are starting to retreat! how are things going on your- what?!" Yuffie stopped dead in her tracks in shock as she saw Leon holding an actual keyblade of light. Leon struggled to keep the key under control, but its power proved to be greater and surprisingly it just vanished into its own light.

"What? what happened?"

"Leon? did you just destroy it?"

"n- no! of course not! ... I mean I couldn't have." just then a bright golden light reformed in Sora's hand slowly forming itself back into the keyblade.

"What? Leon who is that? why is he sleeping right now? and why does he have a keyblade of light?"

"hm... I really wish Master Merlin was here."


Sora woke up in a large bed, in a room he yet again didn't recognize, thought what he did recognize was when he looked to his right and saw a short pretty girl with short hair.

"K- Kairi?!"

"Kairi? I think I heard that name before." as Sora's vison cleared, he saw that the girl was actually a little taller than Kairi, had black hair, and wore shorter clothing that Kairi would wear.

"Huh? Who are you?"

"Me? I'm the great Ninja Yuffie!"

"Wait a ninja?! A real Ninja?! Riku, we found a... oh..."

"Hm? what's wrong kid?"

"I- I just don't understand what's going on anymore, what happened to my friends? what happened to my home? where am I? who are those jerks in the black hoods? what are the weird shadow creature... heartless things? what's even going on?"

"*sigh* now do you see why I'm just as confused as you?" Yuffie and Sora looked to the source of the voice: Leon. he was leaning on the wall, holding the keyblade.

"Hey! you're that jerk that tried to take my Keyblade!"

"The fact that you asked those questions shows why you don't deserve this keyblade." Leon then slashed the keyblade around with great precision and accuracy. Sora couldn't help but stare in awe, he and Riku spared many times with their wooden swords but never had he seen a true master of the sword. The awe quickly turned into confusion when the keyblade disappear into light, then suddenly a light formed in Sora's hand and quickly formed into the keyblade.

"Hm, yet the keyblade still choses you. did your master teach not teach you anything about a keyblade?"

"What? I don't have a master, this keyblade just appeared when-" Sora suddenly was able to remember the events of his island being swallowed up by darkness.

"When my island was attacked by the darkness..." Yuffie and Leon looked at each other in shock as if they both had realized something mind-blowing.

"Maybe that will clear some things up. tell us what happened on your island."

"I- I was anxious to get off the island with Riku and Kairi, we were gonna go on adventures to new islands together, so I wanted to see them. I was so excited I couldn't wait, so I snuck out and ran over to the beach but... these weird shadow creatures started showing up everywhere, I tried hitting them with my sword, but it did nothing."

"Heartless, those things you're talking about are the Heartless."

"Yeah... yeah, your buddy in the black hood said the same thing."

"He's not my buddy and thankfully it seems he's not yours either. go on." Sora looked at Leon in annoyance and distrust but did as he asked and continued.

"But then this keyblade, suddenly appeared in my hand and I could start to fight those Heartless like they were nothing."

"Yup! that's the power of the keyblade! or to be more precise, what you have is a keyblade of light! a powerful tool for those who serve the light by maintaining the order of the multi-verse. back in the old days there were hundreds of keyblades of light and people used them to protect worlds form darkness and chaos. But then the keyblade wielders of darkness showed up and started destroying worlds for the sake of power. They didn't want the keyblade wielders of light to stop them, so they declared war and destroyed all the keyblades. They were so ruthless that it was thought that all the keyblades of light were destroyed yet you have one right now."

"But how do I have it?"

"Well, that's what we're hoping to find out. please, go on."

"Hm, well after I found out the Heartless hated the keyblade I started using it to get rid of as many of them as possible. I was trying to stop them from flooding the island and save everyone but... everything was being torn apart as-"

"As the darkness was seeping in everywhere and even thought you destroyed nearly a hundred heartless."

"Thousands more kept flooding in." Sora looked up in shock as both Yuffie and Leon as the two of them with looks dread.

"Wait, you guys too? were you from Destiny Islands?"

"No our world was destroyed long before yours was."

"... I- I'm so sorry for your- wait world?! what do you mean world?! I'm still on my world my island just got swallowed up by the darkness! ... right?"

"We'll explain everything in a second, for now just go on."

"Hm, you better, anyways as things were falling apart, I finally found Riku. He was talking strangely, something about it being our only chance to see new worlds. I couldn't make sense of any of it. but then he held out his hand and asked me to come with him. Before I could reach him, a black portal thing opened behind him and one of those hooded guys showed up and pulled him in."

"Yup that's a keyblade wielder of darkness and what you saw was the void. Voids are gateways made from the energy of the darkness in-between worlds. The keyblade wielders of darkness use it to travel to worlds without a gummi ship. It's easier sure but the more you use it the more it corrupts your mind with an endless lust for power and if you're not careful you'll become a heartless yourself."

"But where did it take Riku?"

"Sorry, but we have no way of knowing that just yet. for now, just go on."

"Ok, ok, after that I was so scared so as more Heartless showed up and the island started getting more and more lost to the darkness, I went to our secret hiding place. The adults never liked us going there but we hung out there anyways. I went there because it was the only place left to go and I found Kairi there. I was just about to grab her but then another void showed up, another hooded guy came out of it, and just took her. then after that all that was left of the island was this large chunk and form it a giant shadow crea- uh, a giant Heartless showed up and I tried to stop it but... I barely dented it and then everything it went black... then I woke up in this town."

"... that's what I meant by world, sorry to say kid but it wasn't just your island, your entire world got destroyed."

"wh- what?!"

"Like I said earlier that's what the keyblade wielders of darkness do. They don't care about balance or peace; they just want power. They get the most power by destroying worlds and letting what's left be swallowed by the darkness. They especially enjoy slashing people with their keyblades of darkness to turn them into heartless."

"Wait yeah I saw that! is that what all heartless are?! just people killed by the keyblade wielders of darkness?!"

"First of all, it's not correct to say killed more like cursed. second of all, not all of them just the ones with the symbol on their being. Those are the emblem heartless, people cursed to become soldiers of the Dark Army until their dark bodies are destroyed and hearts are liberated. The other heartless are just monsters born form the darkness in-between worlds, they existed long before the keyblade wielders of darkness but still obey them because of their keyblades of darkness."

"Either way like termites they destroy worlds one by one for the darkness and the keyblade wielders of darkness help them and even command them to do so for the sake of more power. they did the same thing to our world."

"But why?! it can't just be about power!"

"It is actually, they don't really care about anything else." Sora gripped the keyblade in growing frustration, the idea of people being evil just for evil's sake made him angry to his core. Yuffie put her hand on Sora's hand, Sora blushed and backed away from her. Yuffie was confused by this but simply laughed it off.

"I know it's a lot to ask right now but try to keep a positive attitude. The darkness feeds off of negative emotions like greed and hate. As far as we can tell you're the last keyblade wielder of light in the muti-verse we can't afford to lose you. As of this point, you're our strongest weapon against the darkness.

"Thought that's not to say you're our only weapon. True the best way to stop the keyblade wilders of darkness and the Heartless is with a keyblade of light but magic users like us can take care of the job too."

"Magic? you can use magic!" Sora eyes sparkled at the idea of magic being real which made Yuffie laugh at how cute she thought Sora looked. Leon on the other hand was uncomfortable, Yuffie noticed this and sighed as she answered Sora's question.

"Well... sort of? being a magic user doesn't necessarily mean you can use magic it just means that you have a special connection to the multiverse. As such you can do amazing things and even help destroy heartless."

"But we can't lock worlds away from the darkness. only the keyblade wielder of light can, which unfortunately happens to be you."

"Hey! for the record I didn't ask to be a keyblade wielder of light!"

"Yeah, apparently you were chosen."

"Chosen? by who?"

"By the light itself, I guess? Merlin told us-"

"Yuffie don't."

"Oh, come on Leon he deserves to know, besides! if Merlin were here, he would have done the same." Leon couldn't argue with that, so he just huffed in annoyance and looked the other way.

"you guys and the hooded guy kept asking if I had a master. Did this master give me a keyblade?"

"Oh, no, no, a keyblade master regardless of light or darkness would never hide from their students. However Merlin, who is our master, told us that there was a legend among the Guardians of light; passed around for generations. It is told that should the Guardians of light, which is what the keyblade wielders of light called themselves, ever fall and be swallowed up by darkness then the light will seek out a pure heart of determination and bravery and gift it with the brightest keyblade the multiverse has to offer. The one to wield this keyblade will be destined to shine their light even through the darkest places of the multiverse and restore balance and peace to all worlds that shine in light. We thought the Guardians of Light were wiped out so you being here is proof the prophecy is true! Basically, this means the one destined to stop the darkness is, drum roll please! you!"

"Me?! no wait, I don't like the darkness any more than you guys but really, all I want is to find my friends and save my home!"

"And that's exactly what you'll end up accomplishing if you use that keyblade properly."

"... ok, but what should I do if that's the case? where do I even start?"

"well first off you already defeated the keyblade wielder of darkness leading the darkness to this world so you already got that done. But the Dark Army, which is what the keyblade wielders of darkness call themselves, are going to be mad and send in reinforcements to reconnect this world to the darkness. So right now you need to find the World's keyhole that connects this world with other worlds and lock it, preventing the darkness from ever entering this world again."

"Actually, I think I know where that is, when your ready follow me!" Yuffie then joyfully walked out of the room and Sora was quick to jump out of the bed and follow her.


Donald and Goofy made it to the town square but there was still no sign of Merlin or the guardians he was training. Thankfully there was no Heartless in sight either but that didn't make it any less concerning of how baren the town was.

"Gosh, you don't think we're too late do ya Donald?"

"of course not Goofy! if this world was targeted the Heartless would be everywhere. Instead, it's so quiet and peaceful! not a single Heartless in sight!" Suddenly several shadow Heartless manifested and quickly surrounded Donald and Goofy. Goofy sighed as he got ready his shield and Donald huffed in annoyance as he got out his staff.

"don't say I jinxed it!"

"I wasn't going to Donald."

"Who are you losers?" the Heartless then stood aside as the female in a black hooded coat walked forward toward Donald and Goofy. she was holding a dark keyblade detailed with blue lighting and the golden knife-like blades for the key bit.

"grrr! I'm not even supposed to be here! I'm supposed to be with Even making more powerful Heartless, yet those damned bigshots demanded I be the new dark conduit for this world. ugh, this sucks! I hate fighting!"

"Uh, then maybe we don't have to fight?"

"Shut up dog, I'm only gonna ask this once, where is the keyblade wielder of light!"

"So there really is a keyblade here! I knew we are in the right place! we just have to find it!"

"You don't know where they are either?! then your useless!" the hooded girl then unleashed a bolt of lightning on them, blasting them into the air, at the same time Sora and Yuffie had just reached the town square.

"So where is the keyhole of Traverse Town?"

"Hm, I thought it was somewhere around here; I always felt magical energy flowing through here somewhere, but I could never exactly tell were. Strange now I can't feel anything." just then Donald and Goofy fell on top of Sora leaving all three of them dizzy form the pain.

"Ugh... what gives...?"

"Ow... sorry sir..."

"Ugh... gosh... we are so sor- THE KEY!" Goofy quickly got off of Sora but Donald was on his back and therefore thrown off when Goofy got up. Donald was mad at Goofy but saw the keyblade as well and started jumping in joy. Yuffie couldn't help but laugh at the two as she slowly walked to Sora and helped him up as he groaned in pain from being landed on.

"Ugh... who are they? and why do they look so weird?"

"Clearly their form a different world. Try not to get so shocked seeing people like them, with a keyblade you're going to be traveling to different worlds and most of the time you'll see people you think are normal but sometimes you'll see people that don't look normal. they may seem strange to you but on their world, their completely normal. just try to remember that ok?"

"I... guess that makes sense." Donald and Goofy were dancing joyfully at finally finding the key their king instructed them to find. Goofy then noticed Sora and stop while also stopping Donald as well. Donald and Goofy then walked up to Sora and bowed to him.

"Mister keyblade wielder of light. we come from Disney Castle. after losing contact with Radiant Garden, our King felt the growing darkness threatening the multiverse and went on a personal quest to stop it but sent us on a separate quest to find the last Keyblade Wielder of Light."

"And now that we have found you, we are to help you hold back the darkness by escorting you to the world where the Dark Army are attacking and protect you as you seal their darkness away from the worlds."

"Wait... you guys are going to take me to new worlds!" Sora's eyes sparkled in excitement, Donald and Goofy were confused at first but shrugged and nodded.

"SO, YOUR THE BRAT THAT DEFEATED AELEUS!" all five of them looked up to a balcony next to the town square and saw the hooded girl on the railing seeming to be glaring at them in anger though her face wasn't visible so none of them could tell.

"Oh no! that's why I can't feel the keyhole anymore! it's because they already got a replacement! so quickly too! are they efficient or just desperate?"

"GRRR! ahem! sorry about that, it's not like I liked the meat head anyways it's just that this isn't my job to be a dark conduit! yet you destroyed him and his keyblade meaning we needed a replacement and that had to me! me! I'm a Heartless modifier not a fighter!"

"a Heartless modifier?" the hooded girl seemed taken a-back by Sora's confusion but then started laughing.

"Yup that's me! I admit I'm not considered the best, but I can still make grand creations like this one!"

just then a large ball of darkness was visibly seen falling from the sky and fell right Infront of Sora and the others. the darkness started taking form of five very large objects. two formed large metal looking legs, two formed evil metal looking arms, and finally the last one formed a reinforced looking chest and a small but knight looking head.

"Hahaha! once I destroy you, Maleficent nor any of the other bigshots will ever bother me with these trivial matters ever again! Master Ansem might even promote me to a Lady for destroying the last keyblade wielder of light in the multiverse! but that's enough daydreaming, destroy them my Heartless!" the Guard Armor then slowly advanced as both Soldier Heartless and shadow Heartless started encircling the five of them. thankfully Leon jumped into the group right beside Yuffie with his large sword and faced the Heartless while Yuffie got out her Shuriken.

"Sora, we'll handle the grunts, you take down the boss class Heartless." Sora nodded on impulse but upon looking at the Guard Armor he couldn't help but shiver in fear at how large and powerful it was. Then Sora noticed that there was a strange emblem on its being. The emblem reminded Sora of something Leon told him.

Those are the emblem heartless, people cursed to become soldiers of the dark army until their dark bodies are destroyed and hearts are liberated. Sora gazed at how big it was and then looked back at the soldier heartless and saw how small they were. this either meant that this Heartless was once a giant or several people that got cursed by the darkness. Regardless, Sora was enraged with this knowledge.

"You rotten adult! how can you proudly call yourself a keyblade wielder of darkness knowing you do this to people?! they all had their own lives, and you took it from them just to get more power! how can you be so cruel?!"

"... did you just call me an adult?! I'm not that much older than you! and besides if you really care that much about these people then why don't you just shut up and liberate them?" The hooded girl then raised her keyblade and as if on command, the Guard Armor stomped forward and raised its fist. Sora readied his keyblade to defend, but before he could do anything Goofy jumped up and blocked the punch with his magical shield. Goofy then landed beside Sora while still facing the Guard Armor with determination.

"don't worry Mister Keyblade wielder of light! We'll help you defeat any Heartless that stand against our mission." Then several strikes of lighting hit the Guard Armor forcing it back, both Sora and Goofy turned back to see Donald holding his magic wand and looking proud of himself.

"Wow, you guys are amazing, I'm Sora by the way."

"Goofy, head of the Royal Guard! a-hyuk!" Sora had to look the other way and cover his mouth to keep himself form laughing. It was a funny name, but he remembered what Yuffie said about respecting people from other worlds. Then Donald ran up to Sora and stood beside him on his right.

"I'm Donald! the Head Wizard of Disney Castle! at your sevice!"

"A wizard and a Royal Guard, I'm excited that we'll be fighting side by side! now come on! let's take this thing down and stop that Keyblade wielder of darkness jerk!" both Donald and Goofy nodded as Sora ran toward the Guard Armor and jumped in the air to slash down on it. for a moment Sora was shocked to see how high up he was and how light his body felt. However, his excitement in the moment was thwarted when the right fist of the Guard Armor punched him and spun around to slap him down into the ground.

Goofy gasped while Donald shot several lightning bolts at the Guard Armor. it would have done damage if the Guard Armor didn't raise its left arm and started spinning and deflected the lightning bolts. Sora managed to get up and noticed that despite the legs not being connected to the Guard Armor it was still able to stand straight because of them.

"Sora! are you alright?!"

"Goofy, watch my back! I got an idea!" Sora then rushed forward seeming to be repeating the same thing he did last time. Goofy had his doubt but ran after Sora to protect him. The Guard Armor noticed this and raised both its fists to crush them. Goofy panicked at he raised his shield, his magical ability allowed him to give his shield incredible strength and durability; however, it was still a small shield. Thankfully Donald hit the left fits with a fire blast, Goofy smiled in relief and focused his power into deflecting the right fist.

As Sora got closer to the legs, he readied his keyblade and with all his might, slashed them with all his might. His attack left a cut on the leg that glowed gold light. The Guard Armor growled in pain and raised its other leg to crush Sora. Sora jumped to it and slashed the bottom of the foot, causing the Guard Armor to lose its balance.

"NO! WHAT'S GOING ON?! DESTROY THEM ALREADY!" the Guard Armor growled in anger and got its balance back, it raised both its fists and aimed right for Sora and its left for Goofy. Goofy panic again and looked to Sora in fear but Sora smiled and raised his hand to Goofy to show him not to worry about him. Sora watched the fist as it readied itself to launch down. Sora waited for the right moment and finally backflipped away from the incoming fist. Goofy managed to deflect the other fist but was shocked to see the other one was now stuck in the ground. Sora smiled excitedly, ran up to the first and started slashing at it as much as he could.

after a couple attacks, the fist disbursed into dark mist releasing a few hearts form it. the Guard Armor growled in panic as the torso fell to the ground, suddenly the legs started stomping around more freely. Even the fist seemed to be moving around more freely as it was attacking Goofy's shield more aggressively. Donald thankful came to his rescue by freezing the entire arm in a block of ice. Goofy then smiled in determination and bashed the fist with as much magic and strength into his shield as he could, causing it to shatter and released the hearts in it as well.

Donald collapsed due to exhausting his mana, Goofy and Sora stood side by side facing the Torso and the Legs of the Guard Armor. Sora charged forward and in response the legs raised up ready to crush him. Goofy then pulled him away from their attack and quickly swung his shield across them both, allowing him to block both their attacks. Goofy, still holding Sora, swung Sora back toward the Legs and Sora slashed them both and didn't stop until they were disbursed, and the hearts were released.

"NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPEINING!" the hooded girl raised her keyblade out of frustration and from it a strand of dark energy linked to from the key to the Guard Armor. she then turned her keyblade as if locking a lock and the Guard Armor was instantly infused with additional dark energy. The Guard Armor's torso then raised up into the air and from where its limbs once were, new limbs made form pure dark energy were formed.

"hahaha! try and destroy it now!"

"don't think you won, jerk! we got this!" Sora then slowly slid his way over to Goofy while keeping his eye on the now darkened Guard Armor.

"uh, we got this right?"

"... I was actually hoping you could answer that." both Sora and Goofy sighed in defeat while the Darkened Guard Armor was slowly approaching them. suddenly the Guard Armor was pushed back by two slashes of light two the chest and followed up by a blast form a fire ball. Leon and Yuffie then landed infornt of Sora and Goofy, then right after Donald landed between them but on his face instead.

"you guys need help form a master ninja and a head wizard? as well as a lovable shy hero?" Leon rolled his eyes at Yuffie's comment while Donald quickly got up and try to look strong. Leon and Yuffie then ran toward the Darkened Guard Armor and with one strike each they disrupted the dark energy limbs causing the Darkened Guard Armor to fall on its face. Now that it was their chance, Goofy charged his shield and bashed the Guard Armor's face, Donald followed up with a lightning strike as well as a smack from his wand, and finally Sora finished it up by slashing the Guard Armor's head finishing it off. The dark energy disbursed everywhere like a smoke bomb and relased the remaining hearts trapped within it.

"no! n- n- NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! YOUR JUST A ROOKIE HOW CAN YOU BE THIS STRONG?!"

"I'm... not... well I mean sure; I had never done something as awesome as this but... well I also didn't do it alone. I had some pretty cool people by my side." Sora smiled and looked to his right seeing Donald and Goofy smiling joyfully back at him. Sora then looked to his left and saw Yuffie smiling joyfully but Leon standing there quietly but seemingly proud of their victory.

"Ugh! Master Ansem was right! you guardians of light are so sickeningly hopeful and sweet! fine you want something done right do it yourself!" The hooded girl then stabbed her keyblade into the ground and like before turned it like locking a lock. Then a dark forcefield formed form where the keyblade was placed and continued to expand until it reached Sora. Leon, Donald, Yuffie, and Goofy. they all tried entering the forcefield but they couldn't even break their way into it.

The hooded girl then jumped from the balcony and landed Infront of Sora, she then started walking slowly forward to approach him. Sora was scared now that he was alone still kept the keyblade in his hand and ready to strike whenever.

"s- so, you finally decided to stop hiding behind the people you cursed?"

"Those of us that can handle the power of a keyblade of darkness are justified in doing whatever we please! it says so in the teachings of Xaler. but of course, you wouldn't know anything about that. All you need to know is that I am going to destroy you, and now that my Guard Armor has tired you out its going to be a piece of cake." Sora didn't want to admit it, but it was true, despite seeming abnormally stronger thanks to the keyblade he was still had limits, and he could feel his body getting closer to it from all the fighting.

"don't worry Sora! I got this! CURE!"

"Donald, don't!" Goofy was too late, Donald cast a cure on Sora, or at least he would have if it worked correctly instead a withered weed next to Sora ended up rejuvenating itself and even blossomed into a flower. however, Sora was still tired and hurt so he looked at Donald in confusion, while Donald himself just looked away trying to pretend it wasn't him. Goofy facepalmed in disappointment, and Leon did the same as Yuffie looked at Donald in confusion.

"Pfft! hahaha! that's Disney Castle's head wizard?! he can't even cast a cure spell properly!" Donald growled at the hooded girl angrily and was about to charge at her but ended up ramming headfirst into the forcefield and passed out.

"hahahahaha! oh man, good stuff. ok I'm feeling better now, so how about I destroy you and take your keyblade, kid?" Sora was indeed scared at first but after seeing the hooded girl laugh and smile form Donalds shortcomings and pain made him angry. He was now then fueled with determination, just enough to allow him to endure his exhaustion just long enough to defeat the hooded girl.

"Finding enjoyment in the suffering of others, your evil through and through. I may be a kid but I'm not gonna let you hurt anyone else you jerk!"

"... oh yeah destroying you is defiantly going to make my day." The hooded girl then rushed forward with incredible speed and swung her keyblade. Thankfully Sora could block it in time, but it was a close call none-the-less. Sora unfortunately had no time to rest and was constantly having to block her continuous, fast, and precise strikes on him. he only managed to block each one by a hair's length making him only more and more tired. The hooded girl was getting angry as no matter how fast, powerful, or at what angle she swung her keyblade, Sora managed to block her every strike.

Sora was getting more tired but also slowly more excited, the reason he could keep blocking despite feeling more and more exhausted was thanks to muscle memory. He was in a tough fight like this several times before with Riku. Riku was a year older and therefore stronger and faster than him, so it wasn't hard for him to overpower Sora like this. However, it was because of this that Sora found one of the few times he could actually beat Riku in a sword fight.

Sora managed to keep blocking almost perfectly until he was finally pushed back into the wall of the forcefield. The hooded girl smiled sadistically thinking that she could finally end this but as she raised her keyblade for one powerful blow Sora smiled joyfully. Sora then slashed her chest with one power swing of the keyblade much faster than she could attack him.

"hahaha! I did it! Kairi did you see that I defeated...! Riku..." Sora felt so happy at his victory that for a moment he thought he was still on Destiny Island's. Sora then faced the now injured hooded girl as her body was glitching. she was only barely holding her existence together. Sora then pointed his keyblade at her while showing a serious expression on his face.

"you HAVE to know something. where is Riku and Kairi? I saw people dressed exactly like you take them off of destiny islands and into the void. where did they take them?"

"... hahaha... don't worry about Kairi, Master Maleficent is taking good care of her..." the hooded girl the slowly grabbed her keyblade.

"as for Riku... like how you became the champion of light... he will become the champion... of DARKNESS!" The hooded girl swung her keyblade and was mere seconds form slashing Sora and destroying him. she would have succeeded if Leon hadn't stabbed her, destroying her completely. since she was injured her forcefield was weakened allowing Leon to pass after using enough force thus he destroyed both her and the forcefield.

"Sora, you alright?" Leon placed his hand on Sora's shoulder out of genuine concern.

"I guess... I mean form what she said their alive and not cursed to be Heartless but... champion of Darkness? what does that mean?"

"I don't know but it can't be good. thought if your friends are as strong as you, I don't think you'll have much to worry about."

"I hope- no I know so! Kairi is the bravest and brightest girl I know, and Riku never runs from danger! their gonna be ok! even against this Master Maleficent jerk!"

"MALEFICENT?!" Donald and Goofy seemed extremely scared of that name to the point they both screamed it at the same time.

"you guys know her?"

"she's an evil dark fairy that once put a princess of Heart to an eternal sleep! The princess was freed sure, but what Maleficent did was evil none the less, it was thought that she was defeated afterwards but there were rumors that she was saved by the Dark Army and became a keyblade wielder of darkness!"

"she's quite infamous and very scary, not to mention powerful! gosh, if she has your friends then that means they are in grave danger!" Yuffie actually looked shocked hearing this while Leon facepalmed, he was disappointed Donald and Goofy had to say all of that after he tried to comfort Sora. Sora was indeed frightened to hear this and as his mind wandered in fear of what fate his friends might encounter, he noticed a strange but glowing keyhole in the ground of the town square.

"Yuffie is that the keyhole?"

"Huh? oh yes! lock it quick!" Sora wasn't really sure how to do that but still stuck his keyblade into the lock and remembered how the hooded girl turned her key and did just that. just then the keyhole glowed brighter than before and released blue energy that shot up in the air and make a forcefield in the sky seeming to show that it had spread across the entire world.

"huh... That did it, now the Dark Army has lost their influence on this world." Sora was amazed by this and looked again at the giant forcefield in the sky as it slowly faded, it was still there just not visible anymore. Sora then looked back at the golden keyblade still in his hand; with this keyblade he defeated the heartless, liberated the hearts cursed to become heartless, defeated a giant Heartless monster, and two Keyblade wielders of Darkness. But he didn't do it all alone he had the help of the everyone here and despite only just meeting them all today he couldn't help but feel excited with all they achieved today.

"that's the plan then! the darkness destroyed my world and is trying to destroy other worlds and the only thing that can stop them is this keyblade right? Donald, Goofy, you guys said that your gonna help me stop the darkness from destroying other worlds, right?"

"Duh, yes! with that Keyblade not only can you defeat the heartless but also free the worlds form the darkness! And once we've freed all the worlds form darkness, we should be able to find where Maleficent and your friends are!"

"Really?! awesome! alright then job accepted! I promise to help you guys liberate all worlds from darkness if you guys help me find my friends... but uh how do I get off this world?"

"Oh of course follow us!" Donald then walked to a door leading out of the town square and Goofy followed him. Sora was about to follow the two of them but noticed that Leon and Yuffie weren't following him.

"Huh? are you guys not coming?"

"We need to stay here, Merlin is our master, and he watches over this world and as his apprentices we need to help him defend it."

"But I locked the keyhole, isn't this world safe?"

"Well, it's safe from the darkness but the Dark Army can always find a way to get back inside."

"In other words, while you guys are saving the worlds of the multiverse, we are making sure they stay saved!"

"Well ok then, guess this is goodbye for now but I will be back, and when I do come back! I'll be with Kairi and Riku! they'll defiantly want to meet you guys!" Sora waved goodbye to them and then ran after Donald and Goofy to the Gummi ship.

"Ha, he's such a bright kid, even when surrounded by fear and darkness he somehow finds the light."

"Yeah..."

"It would be really sad if there was ever something so unbearable it broke his heart."

"Yeah..."

"... So is that why you lied about not knowing what a champion of darkness is?"

"Do you honestly think he would believe me if I didn't? besides if this Riku really is his friend then there's no way he would ever want to stand against Sora in exchange for petty power."

"And if he does want power?"

"... then I hope the light in Sora's heart will be enough to counter the darkness in Riku's heart."


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