A/N: Please Read and Review. Sorry this chapter is short.

Endless Abyss, Battle Field

The battle had finally broken out. The followers of darkness had seen thousands of heartless creeping forward in the darkness and Alexa had sent an advance force to lure the heartless closer. That advance force was made up mostly of the followers of darkness but it also included Alexa and Riku. Everyone else stayed back at the fortress although most of them weren't happy about it.

Riku dodged a blow from one of the heartless and then leapt into the air to avoid another. Three heartless leapt into the air with him and tried to take him down but Riku held the Twilight Keyblade out and spun around slashing all of them across their necks. Those heartless fell to the ground, fading away as they hit it.

He landed heavily on the ground making some of the earth beneath it fly into the air. Riku saw another bunch of heartless a bit further into the darkness and ran into their midst, firing a Firaga spell at them. Most of the group of heartless caught fire easily and aside from damaging them the fire also lit up the area around them.

Riku saw Alexa fighting the heartless mere metres away. She was using two shirokens as weapons and was surrounded by heartless. Just as Riku had made up his mind to go and help her she spun around killing about eight of them in one go. Alexa grinned at Riku and he grinned back. Then he turned back to those heartless he had set on fire.

The followers of darkness were fighting the heartless with darkness and it seemed that they were being pushed back more and more every second. In reality they were the only ones in the advance force who were actually following the plan – to lure the heartless to the fortress. What they didn't notice was that every time they moved back they were fighting the same heartless but new ones took the others place. They finally made it to the wall of the fortress.

Instantly several of the followers of light leapt off the Fortress walls and started to fight the heartless. Elchanan jumped off with them. He was wearing shiny silver armour and held a sword in his hands. He could have used his keyblade which had been returned to him in the battle before Sora became the king but he wanted to save it for any greater enemies which appeared. "This sword will be quite enough to handle the heartless," he had said to Mickey.

As Elchanan swung at one of the heartless he yelled out to the followers of darkness, "Where's Alexa? Where's Riku?"

There was silence for a while but then one of them spoke up. "We thought they were right with us. By the time we noticed they were not it was too late to turn back for them."

"Damn it," Elchanan said. "The plan no longer matters." He took a breath, sheathed his sword and summoned his keyblade. A plain silver blade, much like a sword appeared in his hands. He pointed it into the air and yelled, "Signa!"

A burst of green light shot into the air and hovered there for a few seconds. Then it disappeared.

Immediately the Fortress doors swung open and all of the army charged out. Mickey was at the front, wielding a weapon made out of gold which he had had crafted to look like his keyblade. It was his hope that it would be returned to him soon but for now the copy would have to do. Mickey charged into the fray, leaping about everywhere, swiping a heartless every time he was near enough to hit one. He was never on the ground for longer then a second and moved so gracefully and with such agility that he appeared to be invisible to everyone else.

Leon and Cloud had been close behind Mickey. Leon was wielding his gun-sword and Cloud was wielding that sword (from FF VII AC). They attacked the heartless side-by-side, each watching the others back. They moved out further into the heartless, breaking through their lines as if they were made of thin air.

The rest of the people who came out were the followers of light who hadn't been on the fortress wall as well as the few followers of darkness who had not been selected to lure the heartless. Kairi, Hercules, Tidus, Wakka, Merlin, Tifa, Donald, Goofy, YRP, Peter Pan, Cid, Aldan and Yen Sid were all behind the fortress walls as they were ordered, ready to defend the place. Of course they were ready to fight but for some reason unknown to them, Alexa had ordered them to stay behind the walls.

A sudden explosion of light turned the eyes of everyone on the battlefield to above the fortress.

"What the hell was that!" Leon yelled.

Cloud stared in horror as a giant black portal ripped open above the fortress. "Let's get back to the fortress!" he yelled, slashing at a heartless which had tried to sneak up on him.

Leon and Cloud ran back to the fortress, hoping that they would not be too late. They ran through the gates and up the stairs. Through the corridors which were linked throughout the walls until they reached the courtyard and saw their doom.

"Noooo!" Cloud yelled. His worst enemy, Sephiroth had just appeared out of the portal. "You're no longer a part of my life!"

Sephiroth laughed arrogantly. "I will always be a part of your life." Cloud leapt angrily at Sephiroth and swung his sword as hard and fast as he could.

Leon stepped aside and took on the heartless which were pouring out of the portal instead. He knew that Sephiroth was Cloud's worst enemy and that it would be better if he defeated him on his own.

At that moment all the forces that were still left in the fortress with Kairi, Donald and Goofy at the front came charging into the fight.

"Looks like we're just in time," Kairi said, pointing at the thousands of heartless pouring out of the portal. She summoned her keyblade – Flower of Destiny – and shot a blast of light at one of the heartless. It withered up instantly. They fought for a while, every now and then stopping to admire the charged battle going on between Cloud and Sephiroth.

The portal bulged out again and Hades, Maleficent and Pete stepped out of it. A small figure ran between everyone else, "Retreat! Live to fight another day!" When everyone saw that it was Mickey they turned foot and started to escape from the fortress although almost everyone attacked one or two of the heartless as the left.

Finally it was only Cloud and Mickey left. Mickey was pulling on Clouds arm trying to get him to leave but he wouldn't.

"I'm going to finish this once and for all!" Cloud yelled.

"This isn't the time or the place!" Mickey yelled back, pulling even harder on Clouds arm.

Sudden screaming from outside the fortress wall brought Cloud back to reality and he turned to Sephiroth.

Sephiroth stared at Cloud for a while and then laughed. "Scared Cloud?"

"Come on," Mickey said, pulling Cloud again. Cloud turned away from Sephiroth and left.