A/N:  In this chapter, Merlin explains the situation: he tells everyone the plan on how to destroy Ansem.

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Chapter 16 – New Fighter, New Game plan

Traverse Town/Small House

Everyone regrouped again at the Small House in Traverse Town. The six objects were placed on a table: the bag of Deadly Nightshade, the Heart Wand, the Gold Cup, the Trident Fossil, the lock of Tarzan's hair, and the bottle of Pixie Dust.

Merlin examined them. "Wonderful. Fantastic work everyone, yet we are missing something…" Merlin said and then he glanced at Sora.

Sora sighed. "Riku…no. Ansem has the seventh object, the Magic Lamp. He stole it from us and escaped before we could get it. He's prepared to destroy everything."

"Without the final object we can not destroy him…" Merlin stated with a worried expression.

Kairi removed her necklace. "Hey, could we use this? I found it earlier in Agrabah in one of the shops there. It's my necklace." Kairi handed the necklace to Merlin.

He looked it over. "Ahh…yes, when Riku…err Ansem kidnapped you, he snatched this off of your neck and sold it to a merchant. He said that it was the key to something…a power so intensifying that even he could not control…so he wanted to get rid of it. Yet I wonder what he meant by that…" Merlin said, as he continued to check out the golden necklace. "It looks like an ordinary necklace to me. The charm on it is a little gold circular sphere…the chain is little gold loops, chained together…hmm. This could very well be the key to destroying Ansem. If its power is truly beyond his…"

Sora started staring at his Keyblade. "Maybe if we hooked it on to my Keyblade, it will upgrade its level of power." Sora thought out loud.

"Let's try it then." Merlin said, then gave the necklace to Kairi. Kairi took it and walked over to Sora. Suddenly both the Keyblade and Kairi's necklace began glowing brightly.

"Whoa! What's going on?" Kairi asked nervously as she tried to get her necklace to equip onto the weapon.

"I don't know but I'm ready when you are!" Sora gripped the Keyblade tightly as it glowed. It was emitting a powerful force.

Kairi couldn't control the hand that held her necklace. It moved on its own, causing the golden sphere charm to touch the end of the Keyblade. Suddenly the entire room glowed in a white, blinding light.

"Aaaah!" Someone screamed. A moment later, the light subsided to reveal another Keyblade in Kairi's hands in place of her necklace, which was nowhere to be seen.

"It transformed my necklace into this weapon…" Kairi remarked as she examined the new weapon in her hand. It was identical to Sora's except the handle on hers was silver (Sora's handle was gold) and her blade was gold (Sora's blade was silver).

"I think we have a new fighter on the team." Merlin said as he looked proudly at Kairi.

"Whoa, no way. There must be some kind of mistake…" Kairi looked at Sora.

Sora smiled, "Well make no mistake, the necklace was yours, so it must have had your power stored within it. When it touched the Keyblade your power was awakened. Do you think you can help us kick Ansem's butt? You got what it takes?"

Kairi nervously swallowed a lump in her throat. "I'll do it. I've always wanted to fight side-by-side with you, Sora. Now's my only chance, and I'm not blowing it." Kairi spoke with confidence.

"Alright! So Merlin, how are we supposed to kill the living dead?" Sora asked as he and Kairi sat down cross-legged on the floor. Everybody was silent as they awaited the wizard's instruction.

"Okay. Everybody listen up! First we must extract Ansem's soul out of Riku. You will have to form a team to weaken Riku's body. You must attack him until he's weak and vulnerable. Who's willing to fight him?" Merlin asked.

"Donald, Goofy, you guys with me again?" Sora asked, grinning. Donald and Goofy nodded. "Okay. So Donald, Goofy, Kairi and I will whoop Riku," Sora explained to Merlin, "then what?"

Merlin's white eyebrows lowered in concentration. "Then I will exorcize Ansem out of Riku's body. First we'll need to get the Magic Lamp to perform the Ritual, before Ansem does his Universe destroying Ritual. When we get the Lamp, I need each of the rest of you to hold one of these objects. And I will teach you the spell of Eradication and Annihilation. Together, you must use the objects in a certain way to successfully perform the Ritual. Once the Ritual is completed, Ansem will return to the Lost World of Darkness, where he will never be seen again."

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TBC – Hoo boy. So you all know what's coming up next. It's going to be fun. :D

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