Buffy handed Sora a warm glass of herbal tea that Willow had made. It was supposed to clear the mind and energize the body...or something like that. The whole group just sat around in shock, staring at each other. No one could believe that two legendary cartoon characters were standing in their presence...in the flesh!
"This is so weird..." Dawn said, kind of excited by the whole situation.
"Cartoon characters are actually real?"
"It's entirely possible. There have been theories that for every world we create within our minds, a new world is born. It's possible they've come from another dimension. Maybe even the one without shrimp!" Anya explained, then realized in terror that if they were real, certain 'other' cartoon characters could be real.
"You don't happen to know any overgrown bunnies do you?" She asked. Donald looked at her oddly.
"No... Sora, can we go? Let's just do what we came here to do and get on with it. I doubt the girl can be of any use to us." Donald quacked out. Buffy glared at him.
"You realize you're an oversized 'entree, don't you?" She smiled. Sora just sort of laughed and then regained his composure.
"Donald, be quiet. You saw the girl kill those...things. She may be able to help us stop Ansem and the heartless."
"What did you say?" Buffy turned and looked at him in slight shock. "You know about these heartless things?"
"Well, they landed soon after you were attacked. I'd say coincidence is not an option." Willow added.
"Yes." Sora looked around at everyone. "We... Donald, Goofy, and myself that is, fight them. We almost destroyed their leader, but before we could, he escaped. It appeared he had not yet conquered all of our worlds. There was just one left to be tainted..."
"Us." Buffy looked at him. "So we are the last dimension not yet over-run by these heartless things, right? That means this Ansem guys here. What does he want?"
"I'm not quite sure. I think he's just been driven insane by the darkness in his heart. But one thing's for sure, he wants to drive all of our worlds into total darkness, overrun with heartless."
"And how does he do it? Conquer our world, that is." Buffy questioned the boy once more.
"Well, he had to take a princess from each world. Technically, they don't have to be a princess, just a girl pure of heart. Once he has them, he takes the energies from their hearts and opens the universal keyhole, plunging our whole universe into darkness. He succeeded...well, somewhat... before we fought. But then, this world just appeared. It seemed to throw a wrench into the whole system. He has to conquer this world and find a princess first."
"Wow. But he's not gonna have any luck finding royalty in Sunnydale. We're princess free!" Xander laughed.
"Well, theoretically, it doesn't have to be a princess." Anya said. "Didn't you listen to the boy?"
"So how do we stop it?" Buffy said.
"There is no stopping the heartless. They'll be here until he is destroyed. We can however delay him. You see, every world inhabited by the living has a center of mystical energies, a heart, so to speak.
On this spot, there is a keyhole. If you seal a keyhole, heartless activity will decline by, well, a lot, if not completely." Sora said. "And we do it with this thing."
Sora smiled as he held up the keyblade, as if it was some brittle holy artifact. Buffy looked at it in awe, reaching out for it. As soon as she touched it, it shook furiously and glowed. Sora looked around worried.
"Goofy, Donald. What does this mean?"
"Gawrsh...It can't be can it?" Goofy looked curiously at Donald, who replied.
"This girl is a keybearer... There is another blade in this realm!"
