---Sora53: Blah. Lots of random fighting in this chappie.

Joe: Ansem is so COOL!!!

Sora53: Meh. Go home, Joe.

Joe: Are you kidding? When we're this close to the end? No way! This beats pizza and DVDs anyday!

Fans: Wow. He must really like Corita.

Joe: -blush- No...

Corita: Evil fanboys...---

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts. I own Corita. I bet you're jealous.

The four friends found themselves surrounded by complete and utter darkness. They seemed to be floating in the air, surrounded by a darkness so pure that it was almost suffocating. It was completly silent as well, until Ansem's booming voice echoed through the darkness.

"Behold the Endless Abyss!" Ansem's voice boomed, piercing through the still air. "Within it lies the heart of all worlds...Kingdom Hearts!"

As he spoke, Sora, Corita, Donald, and Goofy turned in the darkness, and saw a strange sight in the distance. There was a large stone platform, and sitting upon it was the biggest door any of them had ever seen. The white door stood out clearly against its dark background.

"Look as hard as you are able. You'll not find even the smallest glimmer of light." Ansem's voice continued as the four of them continued to peer into the darkness's infinite depths. "From those dark depths are all hearts born. Even yours."

They had very little time to absorb this statement, as Sora had just looked down, and gasped. The others looked down, and they let out a gasp as well.

"Darkness conquers all worlds!" Ansem's voice cried as the four of them stared at what was stationed in the darkness.

Something huge, vile, and dangerous was hovering in the abyss. What it was exactly, none of them were sure...

It appeared to have the shape of a large ship, but on the front was a huge, grotesque face. On the other end, a huge creature of darkness was fixed on, surrounded by a cage of the strange material that made up the body of the 'ship'. Ansem seemed to have merged himself to this creation, and was attacted to the huge monster's end, connected to it by many fleshy cords.

The four of them barely had any time to absorb this sight, however, as the darkness around them suddenly gave way, and they were falling through the air. Sora kept falling straight down into the darkness, as Corita, Donald, and Goofy were pulled away into a glowing red, green, and black portal.

Sora was falling, unsupported by the darkness that was swallowing him...he looked up, and saw Ansem's face smirking down at him...and then he was surrounded by total darkness.

"Giving up already?" said a soft voice in Sora's head. "C'mon Sora, I thought you were stronger than that!"

Riku's taunts that had once filled him with rage suddenly filled him with something else, as strange as it was...hope. Refusing to be swallowed by the darkness, Sora suddenly found himself flying upwards, Keyblade in hand.

Ansem's face showed that he was slightly shocked that Sora had managed to survive, but he was ready nontheless. He summoned a dangerous-looking weapon into his hands in a flash of darkness, and Sora flew towards him, ready to attack.

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Corita pulled herself to her feet, and looked around. The whole area was smothered in darkness, except for the Heartless symbol on the ground, which was glowing a bright blue. Looking around nervously, Corita couldn't see anything but the darkness, illuminated by the Heartless symbol on the ground.

"Donald? Goofy?" She called out cautiously. Her voice echoed throughout the chamber, but there was no response.

Suddenly, without warning, Corita was stuck in the back by a long-clawed black hand. Wincing, she whipped around, and was met by a sea of glowing eyes. She grabbed her staff, and proceeded to strike them with magic, but there were so many of them...

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Sora's second face-off with Ansem was slightly easier than the previous one, as there wasn't a guardian attached to Ansem this time. Now that there was nothing blocking his attacks, or latching onto him and attacking him from the inside, Sora found the battle rather easy. However, the giant lasers that appeared out of nowhere were rather annoying. After Ansem had been struck down again, a giant portal appeared beneath him, in front of a large area that appeared to be the core of the giant creature. This area was blocked off, however. Remembering how Corita, Goofy, and Donald had been pulled into one of these, he turned away from Ansem and flew into the portal.

Sora felt himself behind swallowed by the portal, and pulled forward at a great speed. He was thrown down after a few moments, and looked around. It was completly dark, except for the Heartless symbol on the ground.

"SORA!!!" called a familiar voice, and Sora turned to see Corita battling a huge wave of Shadows back. "A little help here?"

"Corita? Are you okay?" He called as he ran towards her.

"Never better." She said grimly as Sora helped her defeat the Shadows. With the two of them fighting, the weak Shadows were swiftly taken care of.

"Now what?" Sora asked as the room went still and the Heartless symbol dimmed out.

"That's what." Corita said, pointing to what had appeared above them. It was an orb-shaped object, caught in two long, stringy bands. It glowed with a red and black light, illuminating their faces against the darkness.

"What should we do?" Corita wondered.

"LET'S ATTACK IT!" Sora cried, leaping forward and striking the orb with the Keyblade, Kairi's charm dangling from the end. After 2 or 3 quick hits, the orb let out a bright blast of light, and the twins were bathed in it. Covering their eyes from the brightness of it, they felt themselves being pulled forward again, and felt themselves being tossed through the air, back to the main area of the Endless Abyss.

"Woah!" Corita cried as they were tossed back into the air. She grabbed Sora's arm before she realized that she was flying.

"Whew...that was fun...let's not do it again." She muttered as she swept her hair out of her face.

"Look up there!" Sora said, prodding Corita's shoulder. A glowing, blue and black portal had appeared above several strange-looking laser-shooting things attached to the ship. The strange-shaped things were now shooting their lasers at Sora and Corita.

"Well?" Corita asked as she flew out of the way of a laser.

"ATTACK!" Sora cried, and they flew in to defeat them.

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"Gawrsh, where am I? I hope Sora, Corita, and Donald are okay..." Goofy mumbled sadly as he sat alone in the darkness, hanging his head. He didn't notice the multiple pairs of gleaming yellow eyes that were fixed hungrily on him.

"Well...I guess I should-" Goofy started, standing up. However, he never got to finish his sentance. At that moment, Sora and Corita came toppling from the portal above Goofy, falling on top of him.

"Sora! Corita! You're okay!" Goofy said cheerfully as he tried to get up.

"Sorry about that, Goofy." Corita said with a grin as she got off of him and Sora.

"Aw, it's okay! Where are we, anyway?" Goofy asked, his voice slightly worried.

"Hmm...we were in a place like this before..." Sora muttered as he turned away from them. "And there were Heartless there..."

"So, there should be some here, too!" Corita said as she turned as well.

"You mean there?" Goofy wondered as he pointed to the sea of glowing eyes.

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"We're back here?" Goofy asked as they came out of the portal and appeared in the main area once again.

"Yup...and we're missing one feathered freak." Corita pointed out.

"Yeah, we should probably find Donald...it wouldn't be very nice to leave him in the Endless Abyss." Sora said as he flew above them, staring down at the ship, trying to figure out what to do next.

"That face there's looking mighty suspicious." Goofy pointed out, staring at the face on the end of the ship.

"Let's get it! Let's destroy this thing, destroy Ansem, and go home!" Corita cried, speeding towards the face.

The Face had the features of a human face, but it was so twisted...so grotesque that it was hard to look at. The Face's teeth were long and jagged, and the three friends had to carefully avoid being torn apart by them.

"Well, at least I have the ethers to myself now." Corita muttered as she drank one down quickly, and continued to blast the Face with spells.

The Face was much easier than any fight they'd had with Ansem, and since three people were attacking it, it was defeated quickly. The Face, having been defeated, opened its mouth wide, and another Portal of Darkness appeared there.

"We have to fly into its MOUTH?" Corita asked nervously.

"Don't worry, I think it's dead." Sora said, prodding the Face with the Keyblade.

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"Helloooooo! Donald?" Goofy called out, but the only response he recieved was a terrified Donald squawking his way towards the three of them, pointing behind him.

"More Heartless?" Sora sighed. "Not Heartless! Super scary, powerful, sword-swinging Heartless!" Donald cried.

"Ooh, scary." Corita muttered as several of the Heartless appeared in front of them.

"Just wait until you get hit by one of their swords." Donald said.

"Uh oh."

The sword-carrying Heartless were easily the hardest Heartless they'd faced so far. Of course, they'd fought some of them at the End of the World, but now it was hard to see anything, and there were many more of them.

However, they eventually defeated their foes, and they once again escape the dark depths. As they flew back out of the portal, the Face behind them crumbled and exploded, leaving no trace of where they'd come from.

"The Core! Look!" Corita said, pointing upwards. The invisible barrier that had blocked their path to the core had been shattered, leaving the Core vunerable and exposed.

"Let's get it!" Sora cried, followed by his friends.

The Core, having no defense whatsoever, was a very easy target. Each member of the team only hit the Core a few times before it was defeated. The jelly- like Corita shrivled, and started to turn a brownish wrinkly color, just like the Face.

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The battle wasn't easy. Ansem seemed to have come up with some new attacks, and loved to use them on the unsuspecting team.

"Donald! Drink this!" Corita said, tossing him an ether. Donald looked up at her in awe.

"You're giving this to me? Of your own free will?" He asked, startled.

"Well, why not?" Corita asked, shrugging.

"You've just ! LOOK OUT!" Donald cried, flying away quickly.

"Why?" Corita asked, turning to what Donald had pointed out.

Corita was struck with one of the giant monster's clawed hands. She was tossed away from the battle as easily as being a rag doll.

"Corita!" Sora, Donald, and Goofy cried at the same time. The three of them had flown to safety moments before the monster had struck.

Something peciliar was spreading from Sora's fingertips. It moved through his Keyblade...

"SORA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Donald cried.

"I...don't know..." he said, startled as Corita flew back to them, looking slightly shocked.

"Sora...did you heal me?" She asked quietly. Sora nodded nervously.

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"C'mon, he isn't that hard!" Sora said, striking Ansem with his Keyblade, as Ansem struck back.

"Easy for you to say, Mr. Hero!" Donald moaned, drinking an ether and tossing the bottle into the Endless Abyss.

"Stop it, Donald. Get into the battle!" Corita called to him.

"I'm working on it..."

The final battle with Ansem quickly got more and more dangerous. Ansem was now resorting to any means to win the battle. Lasers coming out of nowhere were considered normal, and Ansem showed no signs of weakness for the first 20 minutes.

Even the King of Darkness, however, couldn't ignore being bashed with a giant key, a shield, and two staffs for too long. The giant ship he was attached to began to explode from the core out, and Sora, Corita, Donald, and Goofy quickly flew to safety, watching the giant ship erupt before their very eyes. It began to shrink, however, and the flames surrounding it grew smaller, until there was nothing left but empty, dark space.

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---Sora Fangirls: YAY!! SORA CAST A CURE SPELL ON CORITA! -does the happy dance-

Corita: -hums the Gummi Ship Song- Yeah, yeah...

Sora Fangirls: IN YOUR FACE, CORITA!

Corita: Go away or I will blast you.

Sora53: Meh. The evil ship thingy of doom was hard to describe, so the KH manual helped me!

Fans: Haha.

Sora Fangirls: OW! SHE BLASTED US!

Corita: You deserved it.

Joe: Corita...you're so cool...

Corita: Help me...---