We're back folks!

I AM SO SORRY! My absence was based on an overdue visit from my brother. He's loud, obnoxious, and he hijacks the house and the overall mood of the house.

"Just like NFL." Maverick quipped.

so I couldn't find the time or space. Even the quiet inspiration that gives me encouragement to write. But I'm back now! Yaaaaay!

Also I noticed my other KH story called 'Silver Lining' hasn't gotten any reviews except for one. So could you people please read and add your thoughts to the story. Is it good or bad? Should I keep going with 'Silver Lining' or should I scrap it?

Please let me know!

Haxorus Knight: Okay I love your support and passion for my stories and this one. But could you leave real statements instead of pre-wrestling quips? Because saying 'Let the next battle commence' won't let everyone know in full detail what you think of my chapter.

Neo-Warkid4: I thought so. Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you all for sticking around. And forgive me for any typos you might see, because I might be a little out of practice. Luckily I still got it.

"And so do I. Oh yeah." Maverick posed with his keyblade.

Now that we're all here!

LET'S GET DANGEROUS!

Be Our Heroic Guests.

Up in the east wing…..

With Kairi and Baby Groot guarding Belle inside her room. The others went out the door. While standing outside in the east wing, Victoria had thought of something.

"Guys wait." Victoria stopped the others from leaving to say this. "I think i should stay and guard the door. In case anybody or 'nobody' comes by."

"Huh? Are you sure?" Donald asked.

"I am. As much as I trust Groot and Kairi to keep an eye on Belle. A little more extra firepower wouldn't hurt." Victoria grinned while holding her fiery fist.

"She can handle it. She had to guard someone's pet T-Rex many times." Aiden stated to Sora.

And by 'T-Rex', Aiden was referring to Hayner's dog.

"Samson is not a T-Rex." Victoria defended her 'buddy'. Hayner's dog.

"No creature that big shouldn't exist and not be called a T-Rex." Aiden deadpanned humorously.

****RRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAR****

They heard the Beast roar from the otherside of the castle.

"Except for him." Aiden responded.

"We better get going. Belle's counting on us." Sora said to his teammates.

Aiden and Victoria nodded before they shared a quick kiss on the lips. "You know the rules babe."

"I know. No one gets in without a backstage." Victoria winked being reminded.

Then Aiden along with Sora, Donald and Goofy ran out to find the beast or this dungeon Belle mentioned. Whichever they run into first toward the west side of the castle.

The west hall….

Once Sora and the others passed two full sets of medieval suits of armor lined up in a row on boths sides as they entered the west hall. As they started looking around to see where the entrance to the undercroft was. While everyone was looking around. Donald was tapping his foot thinking. And Aiden was humming the theme to Castlevania.

There should be a way into the undercroft around here." Sora scanned the area and found another set of knight suits blocking the stairs to the west wing. "What about that way?"

" Nah. One thing I know about castles. They never keep their prisoners up where they could easily escape." Aiden stated.

"Right. The dungeon should be underground." Donald pointed out agreeing with Aiden.

"Hey guys!" Goofy got their attention as they turned to see him trying to push a wardrobe out the way. The wardrobe he found seemed to be blocking a secret door.

"I think….we can get to the underloft from here." Goofy grunted as he pushed but the wardrobe wouldn't budge.

"Alright Goof. Step aside." Aiden offered to push as he was walking over. "I'll take it from-"

Then the Wardrobe woke up. That's right. Woke up and revealed to have a female face on top of it's design. It started all of them but Aiden commented. "That's messed up."

The wardrobe stood up awake and scowled at Goofy. "Do you mind?!"

"Whoops. Sorry ma'am." Goofy nervously backed away.

The wardrobe sighed. "And i was just starting to get comfortable…" She said with a yawn.

"Just so we're clear Spike. I didn't slip any marijuana in our lunch. This is really happening." Aiden said to Sora in mild surprise.

"Well. Since you're all here. I am Madame Armoire. That's 'Ms Wardrobe' in French. May I help you?" The Wardrobe offered a friendly greeting.

"Uh…." Sora wasn't sure what to say at first and then he said. "Oh, right. Belle needs us to go to the dungeon."

Ms Wardrobe gasped. "Goodness! You're here to help my friends? Well, why didn't you say so?"

"Because if we started talking to furniture, we would be labeled a section 8. So we waited for you to make the first statement." Aiden explained in a quip.

"What's a section 8?" Goofy whispered in Donald's ear.

"I'll tell you later." Donald rolled his eyes.

"I'm sorry I started you. Oh I used to be human you know. Until the Enchantress casted her spell." Ms Wardrobe explained. "I was turned into a Wardrobe when the prince was turned into a Beast."

"Wak!" Donald gasped. "Wait! The prince is the Beast?!"

"The Beast is a prince?!" Goofy gasped.

"That's right." Ms Wardrobe nodded. "Although his behavior is far from princely at the time."

"What's this about a...spell?" Sora asked to catch that term she just used.

"Well, it's about a cold winter's night…" Ms Wardrobe started.

Sora, Donald and Goofy leaned in eager to listen. While Aiden groaned and did a time out gesture with his hands.

"Wait wait hold it!" Aiden stops her and explains to her calmly. " Look, as much we would love to hear you spew out some long mumbo jumbo intro, about Where the Beast came from, and why you're a talking closet…."

"Hmph. I'm actually a wardrobe." Ms Wardrobe scoffed looking offended.

"We're all in a rush to go and rescue your other Home Depot buddies and figure out why the beast of the house is going nuts." Aiden finished.

"He's right. Let's put the backstory on hold until we free your friends." Sora agreed with Aiden.

"Very well then. In the meantime…." Ms Wardrobe immediately went back to sleep.

"Alright then." Sora shrugged and walked through the door with the others. As they were leaving and making their way down to the underloft. Aiden made a comment.

"I'd be dog tired too if I had to be a prima donna's wardrobe." He quipped.

Down in the underloft….

Once the guardians made it down stairs under the castle. They saw a dark stony room with a couple of gargoyles. Wooden hutches. Some axes on the walls with more suits of armors blocking another entrance right above them. And a stony double door with two demonic looking monsters with big arms on the door handles.

"Hmm… Grim, silent, depressing…" Aiden listed as he looked around. "What do you think Spike?"

"This must be it." Sora concluded.

"Well then…" Donald walked up to open the double door.

But then. The eyes of two creature images on the stone door flashed, which made Donald freeze for a second. Then the duck was caught off guard when both stone creatures started glowing purple which frightened him enough to back away. Then the creatures came to life as heartless. Two twin heartless resembling gargoyles, each with a long arm with a big fist.

"WAAAK!" Donald jumped out of the way when one of them slammed it's fist down to smash the duck, but he ran back to the team as the two heartless fistbumpped each other.

"Well aren't you two a waste of floor space." Aiden summoned his keyblades as he and Sora stood in offense.

"Get ready guys!" Sora told Donald and Goofy as they all stood against this new heartless. "Something tells me we're not going in until he knocks these two thresholders to the curve."

"Thresholders. HA! Good one spike!" Aiden quipped as he threw five sharp ice rings at the thresholders.

But the thresholder heartless swung their arms and broke the ice rings in pieces. Then as the team came in and attacked all at once, the gargoyles heartless started appearing around the room. Causing them to go in different directions to take them on. Aiden shifted his keyblades into two shot guns and started blasting at the heartless while Sora ran around and slashed at them.

Sora twirled in the air and slashed three gargoyle heartless and shattered them with a lightning spell.

Donald froze four with a deep freeze spell and then did a spin attack with his staff. Shattering them like glass.

Goofy did a shield toss at five Hook Bat Heartless, taking them out, then he caught his shield when it came back. Then he swung his shield over and bashed a Gargoyle Warrior Heartless.

The team did excellent in keeping the Heartless at bay, as Aiden formed a big neon bubble and conjured up some ice grenades inside. "Spike now!" He called Sora over.

Sora nodded and ran up and swung his keyblade into the neon bubble, sending it hard into the Thresholders, stunning them. Sora saw an opening on them, so he stepped back and quickly swung to point his keyblade toward the opening. And shot a beam of light into it, which magically caused the Tresholders to die and turn solid gray stone again. Then a black ghost looking Heartless came out moving past.

Aiden recognised it as a Massive Possessor. So he ran at super speed and slashed it multiple times in the air with a Ars arcanum combo move. Thus taking it down.

Then all of the Heartless disappeared and the Thresholders remained as lifeless statues on the door, while the Massive Possessor faded into oblivion. And the statued Thresholders faded as well. Thus the team won the battle.

As everyone took a moment to catch their breath. Sora chuckled while breathing. "You know what I realized Aiden?"

"What?" Aiden asked while catching his breath.

"We gave the girls the easiest job earlier." Sora scoffed.

Aiden took a moment to realize what he meant, they did all the fighting while Kairi and Victoria were just standing by to guard a door in Belle's room.

Aiden snickered and then swayed his hand. "It's actually pretty even to me, i'll take this over babysitting Groot." He said.

"Come on fellas." Goofy gestures them to go inside.

"The Heartless are gone, let's check that door now." Donald said.

"Yep, break times over." Aiden stood back up with Sora as they all went past the door to the dungeon.

Inside the Dungeon….

But when the team went inside, they didn't see any people inside. Just some small piles of hay in the corners, along with some chairs, with inanimate objects on them.

"There's nobody here." Sora looked confused.

"You mean there's nobody to rescue?" Donald sounded despondent.

"Guys…" Aiden was about to say, when suddenly they heard someone with a French accent speak.

"Did someone say rescue?" The voice asked which started everyone but Aiden.

"Shh shh! Keep quiet. It might be them." they heard an elegant British voice say. Sora and the others looked around to see where the voices were coming from, except Aiden who was looking directly at the

"Oh they look like nice boys to me." A female British voice said.

"We are nice, we're your friends!" Goof called out in the room.

"Yeah! Belle sent us to find you!" Sora called out as well while Aiden rolled his eyes and cleared his throat to get Sora's attentioned. Sora inquired. "What?"

Aiden's only answer was turning Sora's head with one hand to look down at the chairs, that had a white decorative porcelain teapot and a small matching teacup with a chip on the side. A small pendulum clock and a yellow candelabra with three candles already lit. All of these objects hopped off the chairs and over to the team. Who all gasped in awe.

"Woooow!" They all said instead of Aiden.

"Are you for real guys? We just spoke to a Wardrobe for God sake. I think this place write's itself." Aiden deadpanned while pointing out the obvious. Before introducing himself to the objects. "Anyway, hey folks, call me Aiden. AKA the Maverick."

"I'm Sora." Sora introduced himself and the others. "And he's Donald and that's Goofy."

Donald and Goofy were still fascinated as the objects were startled with Donald picked up the clock. As it was fighting to get out of his grip. While Donald messed with the gears.

"N-Now D-don't touch that! I'm self-winding, Sir! That's not how- Stop! Ah!" The Clock named Cogsworth yelled at Donald, who was still messing with him like a toy. Even shaking it. Goofy watched with him.

"I'm glad you're okay." Sora said to the objects/servants of the castle.

The Candelabra named Lumiere hopped onto a chair and responded. "It is we who are overjoyed to see you!" He smiled.

"Did somebody put a spell on you guys too?" Goofy asked Cogsworth while he was being fiddled by Donald.

"Yes, that's right you've heard. It was the Enchantress." Cogsworth stated.

"It seems so long ago…" Lumiere said sadly crossing his lit candle hands.

Aiden and Sora sat the Teapot and cup named Mrs Potts and Chip on on a chair.

"It was a cold winter's night… about 10 years ago." Mrs Potts recalled the tale. "When an old beggar woman came up to the castle and asked for shelter."

"But the Master of this castle, that is of course the prince…" Cogsworth was interrupted by Donald's constant fiddling when he opened his little glass door to the little swinging pendulum. But Cogsworth slammed it and snapped. "Stop that! PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT!"

Donald immediately sat him on a chair.

He sighed in frustration. "Thank you. Now where was I? Oh yes. The Master turned the old woman away. All because of her...ahem, meager appearance." Cogsworth continued the tale.

"Crap, he left her out in the streets all because of her looks?" Aiden criticized.

"That's awful!" Goofy sounded appalled by how cruel the prince sounded.

"Oui. He was a spoiled prince. So selfish And, how shall i say….Cruel." Lumiere stated.

"Lumiere!" Cogsworth corrected for that comment, being a loyal servant.

"The old woman warned our master not to be deceived by appearances. Still he would not take her in." Mrs Potts stated.

"And I'm guessing it all backfired right?" Aiden figured.

"Indeed. For the ugliness of the old woman melted away, revealing herself to be a beautiful enchantress." Cogsworth stated.

"She turned the princes into a beast, a shape she thought fitting for his cold heart." Mrs Potts said.

"And to further punish him. Everyone of his loyal and most humble servants in the castle was enchanted too." Cogsworth said.

"That's us." Chip piped up.

"Woah….That's, quite a story." Sora admitted.

"Is there anything we can do to help?" Goofy asked them.

"Let's get the Enchantress!" Donald offered to go and hunt her down and force her to turn everyone back to normal.

"Oh no dear." Mrs Potts declined politely.

"We already know what needs to be done, but with the master out of sorts…" Lumiere pointed out.

"He sure is acting weird…" Sora crossed his arms.

"Spike, I would act weird too if I had to live as Bigfoot in Phantom Of The Opera for ten years." Aiden deadpanned humorously.

"No, I mean weirder than usual . He's helped us out before. And he was never this hostile toward us ." Sora pointed out.

"It's almost as if he's forgotten how to trust others." Mrs Potts dejected.

"You don't suppose he's been turned into a heartless do you?" Cogsworth wondered.

"No, I could still sense he still had a heart. But if they're involved in this somehow." Aiden stated.

"Then it's a good thing we're here." Sora added.

"Then let's go find the beast." Donald suggested.

"Splendid!" Cogsworth smiled.

"Follow me, messiures." Lumiere gesutred them to follow him outside in the underloft.

"The Master should be in his chamber which is toward the westwing. But i'm afraid it might be well guarded at the moment." Cogsworth stated as he went out with Lumiere.

And by 'well guarded' they mean this….

Outside in the west hall….

Everyone went out of the Underloft to see that the same set of knight suits blocking the stairs to the west wing, that the team saw earlier, were still there. Guarding the stairs.

"Just as i thought." Cogsworth sighed sadly. "I may be the chief stuart over the castle, but these guards will only take orders from the Master himself."

"Couldn't we just jump over them?" Donald asked.

"I'm afraid not, their project a magic barrier." Mr's pots pointed out.

Which would explain the invisable walls that kept everyone from passing over them when they wan't to get there quicker.

"Oui. We'll might as well take the short cut back in the Underloft. It will lead to a- Wha!" Lumiere almost said when he and Cogsworth were suddenly teleported a split second, right up the stairs. Which made them flabberbasted.

"What in the world just happened!?" Cogsworth looked around.

Suddenly Aiden teleported Sora, along with Donald and Goofy who were holding Mrs Potts and Chip.

Then Aiden teleported in front of them and smirked. "I gave us the scenic route. Your welcome, first ride's free." He quipped.

Aiden wasn't going to waste time going through a long underground tunnel with obviously complicated puzzles, if his powers can get them there quicker. So he decided to save time and show off.

"Well, that's quite an impressive magic you got there lad." Mr's Potts complement Aiden.

"Yeah, nice work Aiden." Sora smiled and fistbumped him.

"Um… Yes, quite inpressive indeed." Cogsworth also complemented him still looking a little suprised.

"So is this it?" Aiden pointed at the large double door.

"Oui. The Master chamber is just ahead once you go through." Lumiere answered.

"Alright, you guys wait out here while he go in and-" Sora offered.

"Absolutely not." Cogsworth declined and went up in front of them and looked up sternly. "The master is not in his right mind. He needs to hear a voice that he's familiar with if he's still there."

"He's got a point Spike, let the others stay out here while we bring Time Warner with us." Aiden suggested as his pun name gestured Cogsworth.

"Alright. Let's get going." Sora agreed.

So Lumiere, Mrs Potts and Chip waited outside while Cogsworth and Sora's theme went past the door. After passing a short hallway, they made it to a second double door, which leads directly to the beast's chamber.

Inside the beast's chamber...

The beast himself stood staring out of his shattered window, lost in deep thought as if he wasn't there at all. Just a lost husk of what was left, with nothing but anger, and a void of rage left behind of a lost royal soul. Anyone could take advantage of someone so dangerous and vulnerable. Even the Organization.

A Nobody named Xaldin, there under his black hood, he stood next to the beast as he spoke.

"It's time you dealt with Belle. She's scheming to take everything you have." Xaldin walked behind the Beast with his hands behind his back as he manipulated him. "This castle, your previous rose. And then, your life. Trust no one, feed your anger. Only anger can keep you strong."

The Beast sighed sadly looking down. "I've had enough of strength. There's only one thing i want." He said.

"What? To love, and be loved in return?" Xaldin scoffed with his arms crossed staring at the wall confidently. "Who could ever love a beast?"

*ROOOOAR!*

The Beast growled in anger at Xaldin for saying that, who of course looked unfazed as Sora and the team came in and spotted the Organization member. Which made Sora and Aiden summon their keyblades and stood against him. Along with Donald and Goofy who stood in defense with their weapons.

"You see? She already has accomplices." Xaldin said before disappearing into darkness.

"Hey Prince." Sora tried to walk up and greet him. But Aiden stopped him by grabbing his arm.

"Hold it Spike. Somethings wrong, he's not looking quite domestic right now." Aiden warned him, seeing the fictitious look in the Beast's eyes.

*ROOOAR*

"Oh dear! Master!" Cogsworth stepped up to intervene.

But the beast growled and leaped forward. Everyone jumped out of the way, even Aiden who ran up the wall and jumped over the beast, and landed in front of him. Then Aiden blasted a beam of ice to freeze him in place.

"SPIKE NOW!" Aiden yelled.

Then Sora quickly pointed his keyblade and shot a beam of light. Freeing the beast from the inflected influence of darkness. As a ray of light illuminated over the Beast. Then it dimmed out.

Thus ending the Beast's crazed condition.

When the Beast seemed to have backed down. Aiden unfroze him, detecting that he may not be a threat this time.

"Cogsworth? What...happened?" The beast inquired to his friend who hopped up to him.

"Well. Master….ah, you see….that is….how shall i say...ah, actually...mmm…" Cogsworth fumbled with his words nervously. Not sure how to say it.

"You took your entire staff on probation and locked them down stairs." Aiden got to the point for him.

"I did what?" The beast looked shocked.

"Ah...You did." Cogsworth nodded with a nervous look.

The Beast looked down in guilt. He didn't want to hurt his friends. Knowing he did enough damage to them already. He blames himself for the position they're with the spell that was brought on by the Enchantress. If he had not been such a cruel and selfish prince, then none of this would be happening with them.

And yet they're loyal to the Beast in the end.

"Who was that guy you were talking to? The one in black?" Sora asked, wondering if he knew.

The beast gasped looking up. "Xaldin…. That's his name. He came from the darkness. He...used my anger to control me. He took all sorrow. My pain. And turned it into rage." He looked a little angry before he groaned in anguish and continued. While looking at his own hands. "There was nothing I could do. I could no longer see the truth."

Aiden, being a kid who knew what it was like to live in pain and great depression. Knew what was going on inside the Beast's mind to know that truth.

"Then…. That's the reason why you locked everyone up. You had no control over your own actions. Or your claws for that matter. And didn't want anyone getting hurt because of it." Aiden figured out.

"Was that it? Was it because I wanted to protect them?" The Beast asked himself out loud.

"Sure. Aiden's right. Even we know your good inside." Goofy smiled.

"He's right Master. We've all seen how kind you can be." Cogsworth stated. "After all… Belle can see the goodness in your heart. But I'm afraid you've yet to-"

"Belle!" The beast gasped looking worried. And groaned sadly. "I've mistreated her and been so selfish."

"She didn't say anything about that." Sora stated trying to perk him up.

The beast put his hands on his head and sighed. "She'd never tell anyone of my cruelty. She's too good."

"You see. I'm afraid he's judged himself too harshly." Cogsworth muttered to them.

"Look. I know we haven't met before. But you're not as cruel as you think you are, if your willing to admit you were." Aiden said walking a little close to the Beast.

"You….think so?" The beast looked at him.

"It takes a real man to admit when he's wrong. And conviction is the first step in change." Aiden smiled at him. "And I think Belle sees it too. It's one of the reasons why she stuck around in the first place."

Aiden has his moments of not joking around.

"He's right Prince. Go and talk to Belle, and see for yourself." Sora encouraged him.

The Beast stood up and took a deep breath and looked at them.

"Adam." The Beast corrected.

"Huh?" Sora inquired.

"My name. Before the Enchantress, before this accursed spell. Was Prince Adam."

"Huh...Who knew?" Donald remarked.

"Alright then, Adam. Let's take you to go see Belle. She'll want to know you're okay." Sora smiled.

"But…" The Beast was a little nervous to go and talk to her after what he did.

"No excuses! Come on we'll go with you." Sora insisted.

The beast sighed and eventually nodded. "Alright then…"

"Yeah, but could you tell your bulletproof door men to take the day off?" Aiden asked Beast about the suits of armor still guarding outside.

But those guys were the least of their worries. Will the Beast make it right with everyone? Especially Belle. His friends seem to think so. Even the Guardians. But one thing's for sure. Whatever the Organization wants with the Beast, they're not done yet.

And Xaldin is just getting started.

That's all for now folks!

I had to make a few changes due to Aiden being a part of the team. He would make convenient short cuts. But don't worry, I will include a few extra worlds that weren't in the original Kingdom Hearts II.

And if you've played the game, you know what's going to happen next. Only the reason Belle is in the ballroom is changed a little bit due to Kairi and Victoria watching over her. Don't worry, they know how to keep a princess like Belle safe.

So, thank you all for reading and sticking around. Don't forget to leave comments and let me know your thoughts, Fav and Fallow if you like what you see.

And as always Disney/Square Enix fans!

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