Me: (locks doors)

Sora: Errr..... why are you locking the doors?

Me: I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!

Riku: That's nice, but why did you lock me, Kairi, Sora and you in and throw the key out the window? How are we supposed to get out?

Me: Haven't thought about that part yet.

Digitaldreamer: At least now she can't run when I decide to hurt her.

All: (sweatdrop)

me: Anyhoo, I just watched a Disney Christmas Special and got LOTS of ideas.

Sora: You got ideas from a Christmas movie?

Me: YES! Can you guess what they are?

Sora: You get lots of presents?

Me: Nope

Kairi: The joys of Christmas?

Me: Nuh-uh.

Riku: WORLD DOMINATION?!?

All: oO;;

Me:... what the hell?

Riku: Hey, it could happen!

Kairi: Of course it can, Riku (pats).

Me: Okay, it has nothing to do with those things, especially not world domination.

Sora: I thought your whole fic was about world domination.

Me: That's not the point!

Riku: Then what IS the point?

Me: The fact that people waste too much time reading the dumb authors notes. Now enjoy chapter 15!

Digitaldreamer:…idiots.

The Hill

Sora stood frozen to the spot, not able to run or even blink as his torturers stepped out of the murky depths. His azure eyes were wide in terror as he realized what was going to happen. What if they take me again? he thought frantically. What if I'm tortured again? Oh damn it, oh shit, of all the times for my friends not to be here!

"Well look who we've found," Malificent sneered. "It's our future King. How nice it is to see us like this," she added with a small bow as the other villains cackled.

Sora, with great difficulty, found his voice again and stuttered, "What do you want?"

Malificent laughed coldly. "Are you really that stupid? You're going to have to watch your steps more closely, your Majesty."

Sora glowered at her. "Don't call me that!" he snapped as a bolt of lightening landed a few feet in front of them.

"Oooh, have I touched a weak spot?" she asked. Sora just growled and his Keyblade materialized in front of their eyes.

Malifecent raised an eyebrow. "Do you really think you can defeat us? After all, we've killed you before. We can do it again just as easily."

Sora blinked. They're right. How can I beat them? I know everybody thinks I'm some sort of chosen guy or something, but I just can't do this! They have the wrong person, I'm just Sora! I can't beat them all. Doubt was sinking in like a weight, rolling his stomach in a knot.

"You see? Even you admit it!" Hook declared.

"I never said that!" Sora snapped.

"Ahh, but we can see it in your eyes," Jafar hissed as a flash of lightning lit up his features. "You know that it is useless, we can see the thoughts running through your mind."

"There is no point of fighting us," Malifecent said as she took a step forward.

"No," he whimpered, shaking his head to clear it and clasping his hands over his ears. "No, shut up. Go away; just leave me alone... no..... no..."

The others laughed at the look of downfall in their enemy. Sora clenched his eyes shut to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall and mingle with the rain on his frozen stiff cheeks. How can they be right? They can't! Can they? What if they are? They have killed me before, what if they do it again? Oh damn it, I can't do this alone!

… But I am alone. I don't care what the others say about me having the strength to be King; I don't care what the trial said. All that matters is what going on now, and I can't do anything. I'm alone. Nobody's here to help me. They're wrong, all of them. I'm nothing special; I just want a normal life. Why do I have to die like this? Might as well die fighting....

"You can join us," Malifecent continued. "Come, be one of us and you'll have no worries ever again, I promise you. If you do not wish to be King, you do not have to. I promise you won't ever have to care ever again!"

"I do need to care," Sora said, more to himself then to anyone else. "If I don't, my heart will turn to darkness." His hand tightened on his weapon. "And I can't let that happen!" He slid into fighting stance.

"You don't really think you can beat us, do you?" Hades remarked as he tried and failed to relight the blue flames on his head that had gone out due to the rain.

Sora's eyes narrowed. "Try me." And he launched himself at them, blade pointing out.

Sora's 'Search Party'

They all were walking down a muddy path that lead to the village, looking from their right to the left but not really seeing anything; it was like looking through steel, everything was silver from the constant rain and you couldn't see.

"I think we should split up!" King Mickey yelled over the roaring of the rain, trying to keep form blowing away.

"And how do we contact each other if we find him, huh?" Riku snapped, shielding his face from the biting wind.

"Don't worry, we'll know when one of us finds him, trust me," Mickey said.

"How can we see anything through this storm?" Yuffie asked. "We can't see a thing! Where did this storm come from, anyway?"

King Mickey's eyes narrowed. "I have a hunch, but I'm not sure. I think something big is gonna happen tonight with Sora, the power inside of him is causing a storm!"

"Sora created this?" Kairi exclaimed in wonder.

"Yup," Donald squawked as he chased Goofy who was being blown back from the strong wind.

"It's getting worse!" Crystal gasped as a stone hit her head. "OUCH!"

"It'll keep on getting worse until we find Sora and calm his down," Aerith told them. "And we need to do it fast, at this rate the storm will destroy this entire world!"

"Who knew the kid had so much power in him," Cloud murmured.

"Okay, we'll go into groups," said King Mickey. "Yuffie and Leon, Riku and Kairi, Fire and Donald, and Cloud and Crystal. Aerith and Goofy, you're with me. Everybody search different areas."

"How come I got stuck with the damn fangirl?" Cloud roared.

"Because we shouldn't have two flyers in the same group," King Mickey pointed out. "We need them to get us to higher areas."

"I highly doubt we'll be able to fly in this weather," Crystal told him.

"It's worth a shot," King Mickey told her. "Now let's move!"

They set off, but then noticed that somebody wasn't following. It was Fire; she was hiding underneath a tree.

Leon raised an eyebrow. "You coming or not?"

"How about you all go on without me?" she suggested.

"Why?" Yuffie asked curiously as Crystal rolled her eyes.

"They call me 'Fire' for a reason!" she yelled. "I'm like fire! I don't like the rain!"

"Come on, you!" Crystal demanded, tugging the resisting angel from underneath the tree. "You need to come with, too!"

"You can't make me!"

"Watch me!"

"Stop fooling around!" the King ordered. "We need to find Sora!"

With that, they all split up.

The Field Where Sora and The Villains Are

Sora flung himself at them full force with his new Keyblade's lethal tip pointing towards them. In all truth, he had not clue who he was going to attack first, so he decided to get the weaker ones down first. He brought his blade up and down in a diagonal slash across Oogie Boogie's chest, tearing the cloth and little bugs began to crawl out.

Smirking, Sora brought his blade forward in a lunge to try to get it through the new slash, but it was blocked by a pointy, lance-like sword from Hook who was sneering. Growling, Sora knocked the sword to the side and aimed a strike at his head, but was once again blocked as a slimy tentacle wrapped around his arms and brought it back.

With a gasp, he felt the suckers of Ursula's tentacles sucking away at his flesh and beginning to tear it. It brought back the memories of Hollow Bastion and Sora struggled frantically, stumbling back and rubbing his arm gingerly as thin traces of blood leaked slowly. Meanwhile, a few snipper bugs had repaired the slash on Boogie's chest.

Sora grunted as his back seared white-hot with pain; Hades had slammed a fire blast at his back. Sora flipped backwards, trying to get dodge and destroy the fire demon. Unfortunately, his fear was obviously thickening his skull because he ended up jumping right back into the flames.

Sora yelled in pain and staggered out of the path. This didn't go well because Jafar had summoned black magic to the end of his staff, sharpening it to a deadly tip. He brought it ripping down across the boy's back, ripping the already blackened skin.

Sora winced; it was time for him to get some shots in here and see what this new Keyblade could do. With a roar, Sora whipped around to face Jafar and send the edge of the blade slamming into his side. Jafar blocked with his staff, but this only half worked. He lodged his staff at a bad place on the Keyblade, causing Sora's weapon to slide and create a long slash across his hip.

Hissing in pain, Jafar's eyes glowed red and, with an incantation, sent a whirl of flame into Sora. Sora just sent a blizzard spell into this and canceled it out. Just as the Keybearer thought he had the quick fight with Jafar won, Malifecent, sneaked up from behind and sent a beam of dark purple into him.

Sora screamed in pain as he crumbled to the ground. Every vein in his body leaked magma, his bone were being crushed, knives carving down into every inch of his skin. Of course, none of this was happening but it sure as hell felt like it. Malifecent kept this up for another few moments until she had her fill of his screams. She took the beam off him.

Gasping for air, Sora slowly tried to stand but Ursula shot him with lightening. Sora yelled is surprise and pain as he was sent slamming into the mud once more. He rolled over and, shaking, got back to his feet. He began to catch his breath and Malifecent sneered. "Do you give in yet, boy?"

"NEVER!'' Sora snarled. He swung his Keyblade across his shoulder and ran into the person/thing closest to him; Oogie. But just as knives ripped themselves out of Boogie's hands, Sora launched himself into the air, taking hold of the bag's shoulders and when Sora landed, Oogie went flying forward a good few feet. But then Sora began to feel little jolts of pain that turned into large jolts of pain. Sharp bugs had gotten out of Oogie Boogie when Sora threw him, and were now piercing their way into his skin with sharp beaks and talons. Sora furiously wiped them away, and the bugs, although now off, still had gotten a hold of his skin and peeled back small patches of it.

Sora still fought, but he knew he was losing. I can't fight them! I can't win! They're doing exactly what they did to me back at Hollow Bastion! He thought as he cut off a section of hook's arm and resulted in having his arm sliced right down the middle as the other arm, the one with the hook, sliced it open. It would be nice if I had some powers that came with being King, but I don't. I can't even BE a King. I would end up ruining a lot of worlds; I don't know what they're thinking. I don't have any power in me besides that of the Keyblade master, and even that's not rightfully mine! It's Riku's! Riku.....what would he think of me now?

Sora dodged another fire attack, but just got hit with a ice blast from Ursula. As he groaned in pain, he tried to put his mind somewhere else. Kairi, I won't ever see her again. I won't see any of my friends ever again. Hell, I even made some new friends and I won't get to see them either. Sora whirled around to face Malifecent and readied an attack, but got hit by a orange light that made him feel as if his very soul was ripping his apart, piece by piece. He screamed, and fell to the ground. And this time, he did not get up.

Meanwhile

Cloud and Crystal were walking over rocks as they climbed over rugged terrain, concentrating on getting to the top to see if they could get a better view.

"SORA!" Crystal shouted. "SORA! WHERE ARE YOU?"

"Do you honestly think he's going to hear you?" Cloud growled.

Crystal blinked, and then smiled. "You're cute when you're angry."

Cloud rolled his eyes. "I'm taken, get a life."

"But Cloud, you are my life!" she insisted. "You know, you're quite a big hit with us angels."

"Isn't that nice," Cloud grumbled sarcastically.

Crystal nodded frantically. "Yeah, as a matter of fact we were wondering if you..... what's that?" They had reached the top and were now looking across at a field. Although they could no longer see properly, they still saw moving shaped and flashes of different colored lights.

"Oh shit..." Cloud began. "Not them...."

Another bolt of lightning had just flashed, clearly lighting up the faces of Malifecent, Oogie Boogie, Hades, Ursula, Jafar, and Hook who was lying on the ground and cradling his arm; well, what was left of it. And another figure lay on the ground, one with a sparkling Keyblade and wings....

"SORA!" Crystal cried.

"Go help him!" Cloud roared. "I'll go find the others!"

"But...."

"Just go!" Cloud repeated. "Hold them off for as long as you can! if Mouse over there is right, they'll sense it anyway."

Crystal nodded and ran down the slope, opening her wings. I can't fly in this weather, she thought, but I can glide! She tipped up her wings and brought them down, splattering mud as she flew up and glided down to Sora and the rest.

The Field

Sora didn't bother to get up; he knew he was beaten. But he wouldn't give in.... he would rather die. Malificent stepped forward, smirking. The rain was slowing and stopping as Sora's energy drained away from him.

"It seems that you are beaten, Keybearer," Malificent hissed. The next moment, she grunted in pain as something banged into her. A wing.

"Hiya, Malificent," Crystal quipped as she came to a halt in front of Sora, blocking the others assaults on the teenager.

Sora's eyes cracked open a bit and he saw a figure towering over him from his position on the grass. "Crystal..." he murmured, not believing what he was seeing.

"Hey," she answered back, her eyes clouding as she looked at his beaten form. "Don't worry, the others are coming."

"By then he will be gone and you dead!" Malifecent snapped as she raised her staff to the angel who still stood in front of Sora.

"Does that mean you're killing all of us?" a voice called. They all looked around, except for Sora who couldn't lift his head at the moment. The voice belonged to Riku, who also had Leon, Cloud, Aerith, Donald, Fire, Goofy, King Mickey and Kairi standing beside him.

"Oh great, we've got more company," Hades growled in frustration.

"Yeah us," Yuffie called as the new group started walking forward to stand around Sora. "You didn't think we'd let our friend die, would you?"

The whole point of the conversation they were having was so that Aerith could go unnoticed by the villains to heal Sora.

"Stand aside and let him meet his fate!" Malificent snapped.

"Oh stuff it," Fire retorted.

"You can't have Sora," King Mickey informed her. "He isn't going anywhere."

"Says who?" Malifecent sneered.

"Says me," a voice stated. They all watched as Sora stood slowly, Aerith having finished her healing. Sora was ready. He wasn't going to let them destroy him and his friends, not while he was alive. How much longer he was alive for Sora really didn't know. But his friends showing up when he needed them most meant something, and he was taking full advantage of it. Sora's eyes narrowed at Malifecent as he drew up his Keyblade. "Round two."

Done

Me: I'M FINALLY FINISHED!

Kairi: I thought you were supposed to take a break from writing and relax?

Digitaldreamer: (glares menacingly)

Me: But writing IS relaxing for me.

Army: Koola unoy refoot tuno.

Riku: What the hell is with the made up language?

Me: (shrugs) Don't know. I just do it to annoy my beta reader who has to put it through spell check.

Digitaldreamer: (hisses)

All: (sweatdrop)

Sora: What were the ideas you got from the Christmas Movie thing?

Me: (smirk) Wouldn't YOU like to know?

Riku: She isn't going to tell us, is she?

Sora and Kairi: (shakes heads)

Digitaldreamer: She didn't even tell me, and I'm her Beta Reader. (Whips out stick of pain)

Me: Maybe we should concentrate on getting out of here?

Riku: Yeah, maybe you shouldn't have THROWN OUT THE KEY!

Me: How was I supposed to know that was going to happen?!

Sora: That's what usually happens when you lock doors!

Army: (is trying to knock down door) Nooya hunoom door guppo Wish huyan damn cukki squeek squeek chirp chirp door!

Digitaldreamer: (twitches in annoyance and swings Stick of Pain at Wish and her Army)

Me: (dodges stick of pain) Well, while we try to free ourselves, leave a nice review please. They make me type faster! Just two chapters after this and an epilogue, that's it. So enjoy the story while you can. I must go help break down the door. (runs to help knock down door)