A/N: Please note that this chapter is kind of short to prepare you for the next chapter which will be much longer. Please read and review.

Endless Abyss

The heartless were climbing all over the walls of the ancient fortress. Alexa stared at them with disgust. She pulled out one of her shirokens and threw it at the wall. It bounced off and hit one of the heartless and then bounced off again knocking another off the wall. It bounced off four more times before Alexa jumped into the air and grabbed it.

"Nice," Riku said.

"Thanks," Alexa replied as she watched Riku dispatch the heartless she had knocked off the wall. All it took was one slash of the Twilight blade to take down each of the heartless. "Not to shabby yourself," Alexa said.

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Aldan and Yen Sid were outside the fortress fighting alongside the followers of darkness. Aldan muttered something under his breath and made a beam of light shoot out from his keyblade.

Yen Sid was fighting with magic yelling "Firaga!" as he dodged the heartless attacks. Anyone watching the followers of darkness would have thought they were doing nothing but if you looked close you could see heartless in front of them protecting them from other heartless. The followers of darkness were manipulating the heartless.

Still it didn't seem to matter how many heartless they took out there always seemed to be more of them.

"We might not make it," one of the followers of darkness said.

Suddenly Roxas and Kairi appeared and both of them joined the fight, Kairi with "Flower of Destiny" and Roxas with the soul blade he had gotten from the dark wielder. Kairi and Namine both wanted Roxas to discard it but Roxas would not let himself rest while everyone else was fighting.

"Roxas give me a lift," Kairi said running to Roxas. Roxas held out his hands and waited until Kairi had one foot in them. Then with all his strength Roxas thrust his hands up. Kairi leapt out of them and into the air. Then spinning she pointed her keyblade to the ground. A beam of blue light shot out from it and hit the ground. As it hit the ground it burst back into the air and exploded into millions of specks of light. Those specks of light showered down on the heartless, killing many of them and making the rest retreat. Kairi had known she would be able to do that but hadn't given any thought to how she was going to be able to land safely. Fortunately she didn't have to because at that moment Alexa leapt from the roof, caught her and landed gracefully on the ground.

"Thanks," Kairi said.

"No problem," Alexa replied.

Riku came running out of the gate to the ancient fortress. "What did I miss?" Riku said.

"Oh nothing," Aldan said with a giddy laugh.

"Just Kairi showing those heartless who's boss," Alexa said laughing heartily.

"Good on you Kairi," Riku said smiling. "How's Elchanan and the followers of light doing?"

Alexa thought for a minute and then said, "Everyone stay here and make sure the heartless don't break through. Me and Riku will go and help them."

The World That Never Was

Maleficent walked angrily through her castle with Pete following close behind.

"Where are all the heartless!" She demanded as she walked.

"Errrr. . . I dunno," Pete said. "They just vanished!"

"I can see that you buffoon!" Maleficent said. "But WHERE did they go?"

"Maybe I can answer your question. . ." A calm, cold voice said from the shadows.

"Who are you?" Maleficent said, demanding more then asking.

"Why I am darkness itself – wielder of the dark keyblade."

"Oh really?" Maleficent said snickering. "If you're so powerful then why do you hide yourself from me?"

"I hide nothing," the voice said.

"Then show yourself!" Pete said in a spurt of bravery.

"Quiet!" the voice yelled. Pete stopped talking and shrank behind Maleficent. "Now my dear," the voice said revealing himself, a man with long, shaggy black hair. "I think it would be in your best interests to join me."

"What's in it for me?" Maleficent asked.

The dark wielder waved his hand making several heartless appear. "You get to live."

Pete gulped and Maleficent started to say something but heard herself stutter and so kept quiet.

"I'll be back later," the dark wielder said. "In the mean time think it over." The dark wielder opened a dark portal and walked through it.

Coliseum, Underworld

Hades was furious. He still had not gotten over the fact that once again he had lost to Sora. "He's even worse then Hercules," Hades said with flaming red hair. The underworld had been kind of quiet since that battle – with Pain and Panic gone there was no-one else for Hades to take his anger out on. That was why he was so gull of anger. Suddenly a portal of darkness appeared and a man Hades was familiar with walked through it.

"What do you want?" Hades demanded.

"Oh nothing," the dark wielder said. "Just wondering if you're up for a little revenge."

At that Hades calmed down and his hair changed back to blue for the first time in days. "Revenge? I love revenge."

"Then it's settled," The dark wielder said. The dark wielder waved his hand over Hades who glowed a dark purple.

"Receive my power," the dark wielder said. "Receive my power and realise true darkness!"

Hades glowed even more until even his hair was flaming the dark purple.

The dark wielder then opened two portals and motioned for Hades to go through one while he went through the other, not waiting to see if Hades did as he was told.

Twilight Town

A dark portal opened above the clock tower and the dark wielder stepped out of it. He closed his eyes and searched the world with his senses, searching for an ally against the light. The world was full of nobodies but there didn't seem to be anyone that he felt would be of use to him.

"Oh!" The dark wielder said in surprise as he leapt off the clock tower and into the air. As he was in the air he spun around so that he was facing the clock tower. Then with the Dark keyblade he shot a blast of dark energy at the tower which gradually became covered with darkness. When the darkness faded away so did the clock tower. What the dark wielder saw underneath the clock tower shocked him a little but not as much as he expected. Underneath where the clock tower had been was a giant coffin-like crystal case. Inside that case was a being so powerful that the dark wielder questioned his intelligence in releasing her.

"I never dreamed I would find you here," the dark wielder said while still falling through the air. He aimed the dark keyblade at the case and shot a blast of dark energy at it. The dark energy gradually swallowed the case bit by bit, leaving behind only the body of a middle aged woman. She took a deep breath signifying her return to life and then let the breath out. She was asleep so the dark wielder decided he would talk with her later.

The World That Never Was

As soon as the dark wielder left, Maleficent started to pace one of the hallways of the castle.

"Who the hell does he think he is?" Maleficent said to herself. "I mean waltzing in her and ordering me around like that!"

"Yes, Yes" Pete said. "Very rude but I still think you should listen to him – I mean it is your life after all."

"No!" Maleficent said, slapping Pete in the face. "He can't beat me, all he has are stupid heartless!"

She continued her pacing, not even bothering to notice that Pete was struggling to keep up with her. After a few minutes she did notice a dark portal appear.

"Have you decided yet?" the dark wielder asked her.

Maleficent stared at him and somehow read what he'd done. "How could you free her?" Maleficent asked. "She was imprisoned for a reason – she is too powerful for anyone to control."

"Be fair," the dark wielder said. "You are talking to the most powerful being in all the worlds."

Maleficent gave an evil laugh. "You are nothing compared to her," she said. "She may do your bidding for a while but when she tires of that you will pay the ultimate price for your foolishness."

"So you'll join me?" the dark wielder asked.

"Yes," Maleficent said. "But if she becomes too much for you to handle then it's on your head not mine!"

"Deal," the dark wielder said opening two portals of darkness. He motioned for Maleficent to walk through one of them and she did. Pete was close behind. Then the dark wielder left through his portal.

Twilight Town

The dark wielder appeared standing right next to the woman whom he had released from a state of never-ending sleep. She looked like she was coming around and slowly raised her head to get a look at her surroundings.

"Who released me?" She asked softly.

The dark wielder stared at her, entranced by the beauty he now saw within her. "I released you," the dark wielder said. "In the hope that you might be able to help me take care of a problem of mine."

"Anything," the woman said.

The dark wielder explained to her who he was and what he needed help with. The woman listened intently all the time nodding her head to signify that she understood.

When the dark wielder had finished she looked up at him and said, "Consider it done. The light wielder will trouble you no more."

With that the woman faded away into nothingness, leaving the dark wielder to contemplate what he'd just accomplished. No-one else had ever managed to get the Queen of the nobodies to side with them not even in the last great keyblade war.

"This might be fun after all," the dark wielder said with a laugh.