Chapter 13

"Here, we have no more use for these, " Ansem said as he tossed Sora his keyblade. He gave Riku Mickey's.

"Why did you steal them in the first place? "Sora growled.

"After we let your dumb little friends out of Kingdom Hearts, the door closed and we had no other way to open it again."

"Stop trying to delay your defeat!" Sephiroth shouted. "It is time."

The party had no choice but to split up. Leon, Donald, and Riku decided to take on Ansem. Cloud, Sora, and Goofy choose Sephiroth.

Sora then decided to use one of the summons to protect Kairi. He choose Simba.

"Protect Kairi for me," Sora ordered the fierce Lion.

Simba nodded and stood in front of Kairi.

A few minutes into battle Sora and Company discovered that the dynamic duo had learned new spells as well as new summons.

"I summon Pain and Panic!" Sephiroth shouted. Immediately two gargoyles appeared at Sephiroth's side.

"Hades sends his love Cloud!" they taunted.

That provoked Cloud to unleash one of his own summons. He summoned Stitch, whom happily bounced over to his master's side.

"What the heck is that thing?" Pain and Panic asked in unison.

"Meet experiment 626 or as he likes to be called Stitch."

Sephiroth gazed at Stitch, who was scratching his ear like a dog, with a look of disgust on his face.

"Attack stitch," he ordered Pain and Panic.

Stitch stopped scratching and bared his teeth at them.

"Does that thing have rabies?" Panic asked uneasily. Cloud smirked.

"Maybe why don't you find out for your self," he said.
Try as they might, Pain and Panic couldn't compete with Stitch's superhuman strength. They were defeated in a matter of minutes. Stitch bounced happily around the waterway.

"Now," Cloud said, "attack Sepiroth."

Stitch barred his teeth again and leapt at Sephiroth. Whom he painfully bit in the arm. Sephiroth howled out in pain. The trio seized this opportunity. Sora and Cloud stabbed Sephiroth with their weapons. Goofy quickly began to cast a number of spells on him .Sephiroth shook Stitch off of him and wiped the trio away with one spell.

"Fools! Do you really think I could be defeated so easily?"

Leon, Riku, and Donald choose a different method to defeat Ansem: hand to hand combat.

"Remember," Leon said, "there are three of us and one of him."

Riku and Donald nodded in response.

"One...two...three!"

They advanced on Ansem. Leon began fiercely slashing Ansem. Riku, having never used Mickey's keyblade before, was little help at first .But he quickly learned how to use to weapon and began to help Leon. Donald's staff was not the best weapon for hand to hand combat, so the trio came up with a strategy that worked with the issue. Donald would stay on the sidelines and would use his magic on his partners when they became injured.

Leon kicked Ansem in the face, Riku then quickly slashed at him with the keyblade. They were defeating Ansem for a moment but he quickly bounced back. He blocked all of Leon's kicks and slashes, then he cast a powerful fire spell on him. Riku suffered the same fate.

Donald quickly got up and healed his comrades. Seconds later they were ready for battle again. Leon did two front handsprings and nailed Ansem in the gut, knocking him to the ground. Riku moved in quickly and slashed him a countless number of times.

Ansem had no way to defend himself and was losing energy fast. Leon finished him off with one slash from his gunblade. Ansem grinned even though he was about to die.

His last words were,"I will return." Then he was gone.

The trio was about to celebrate when they heard an earsplitting scream from Kairi.