Leon stared down at the two unconscious bodies in front of him. He put away his sword and tilted his head, noticing someone standing behind him. "Hey, you found it. Nice going Leon."
The girl behind him was wearing short tan pants and a green top that had blue straps over the shoulders and was high enough that her entire stomach was showing. She was wearing orange gloves and a yellow scarf making her quite the colorful kid. The sixteen year old girl had a ninja headband on and smiled at the man in front of her.
Leon sighed and looked at the kids he just fought. "They weren't that bad, that one there's pretty strong, could probably fight the Heartless with his fists if he practiced. Still," he took a look at their limp bodies, "It looks like things are worse than we thought. A lot worse."
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"Come on lazy bum, wake up," Sora's eyes were closed and he felt he was sitting on something soft. His head felt a little funny and he sat up before opening his eyes. "You okay?" He looked at the girl next to her bed and smiled wide. Kairi! She was wearing her white tank top and her beautiful blue eyes stared back at him as he sat on the bed.
"I guess," he answered her.
"Those creatures that attacked you are after the Keyblade," the girl continued and Sora stared at her funny. "But it's your heart they really want, because you wield the Keyblade." My heart? He thought back on the guy who fell down and lost his heart to that black void, They want to do that, to me?
He smiled up at her, "I'm so glad that you're okay Kairi."
"Kairi? Who are you talking about?" Sora was confused at what the girl who was obviously Kairi was talking about, though her voice started to change and he wasn't so sure anymore. "I'm the great ninja Yuffie."
"Huh?" a bright light covered his eyes and he rubbed them to see a girl with short black hair leaning towards him with a small smile. Her black irises stared into his blue ones for a second and then she turned her head.
"I think you might've overdone it Squall." The tall man who beat up Sora before stepped into the room.
"That's Leon," he corrected her.
"The Keyblade," Sora said as he looked at his weapon leaning up against the wall next to this Leon/Squall person.
The girl who called herself Yuffie started walking away from him, "Yeah, we had to get it away from you to shake off those creatures. It turns out that's how they were tracking you."
"It was the only way to conceal your heart from them." Leon said with crossed arms, "But it won't work for long."
The three of them turned as they heard a loud yawn, "That was a good nap." Luffy said with his arms stretching up in the air. "I guess if you were doing it to help, I won't be too mad." The pirate said, having heard the last bit of their conversation as his eyes opened.
Leon ignored him, "Still hard to believe that you of all people are the chosen one."
"Chosen one?" Sora asked and then pointed over at his friend in the straw hat who was sitting up on a bed like his own. "But Luffy has one too," he said and the two people in front of him stared in disbelief for a few seconds, but they didn't see a trace of lying in the kid's face.
Luffy grinned at the man and thought the word while holding out a hand. His black Keyblade appeared in a flash of light and he snickered, "Shishishishi," he swung it around before putting it down next to him.
Leon frowned and picked up Sora's weapon off the wall, If both of them can do it. He swung the blade to the side, only for it to vanish in a flash of light. It reappeared in Sora's left hand causing the kid to jump a little and for Luffy to laugh out loud. The man didn't seem too annoyed though and just stepped forward, "Well, I suppose beggars can't be choosers."
"Why don't you start making sense! What's going on here," Sora exclaimed. Luffy wasn't the only one still a little sore from the beating they just took.
Luffy got up and walked over to sit next to Sora as the girl in front of them smiled and started talking, something she looked like she enjoyed doing a lot. "So there are a lot of worlds out there other than your own. Before recently, they've never been connected, but now they are. All thanks to the Heartless."
"The Heartless?" Sora asked.
"Are those the little black thingies?" Luffy asked and the girl giggled.
"Yep, that's them," she replied.
Leon took over, "Those without hearts."
Luffy sweatdropped, duh, what else would a Heart-less be? What is he, stupid? The man laughed to himself as the girl started speaking again.
"The darkness in people's hearts- that's what attracts them." Yuffie stated.
"And there is darkness within every heart." Leon added with a look at the two boys to show that this included them.
"Hey," Yuffie said, getting off of the subject to brighten the mood a little. "Have you heard of someone named Ansem?"
"Nope," Luffy replied. Sora shook his head too and the others frowned.
"His reports on the Heartless were very thorough, but they got lost all over the different worlds." Leon said and then looked at the blades in either boy's hands. "He knew about the Keyblade, and said that it was the weapon that could save the worlds from the Heartless."
"So... this is the key?" Sora held up his Keyblade and stared at it with a new appreciation.
"Exactly," Yuffie said with a nod.
Leon was glad the kid was catching on fast, though the older teen next to him started frowning. "The Heartless have great fear of the Keyblade. That's why they'll keep coming after you no matter what." Leon started walking back to the other end of the room.
"Well, I didn't ask for this," Sora said, wondering why all of this was falling on him. He was just a kid.
"The Keyblade chooses its master," Yuffie said as she leaned back next to Luffy on the edge of the bed. "And it chose you," she said and then remembered the kid between her and Sora, "and you."
"So, tough luck," Leon told him.
"No," Luffy stated and the other three all turned to him as he dropped the Keyblade.
"What?" Leon yelled over at him, "You think this is a game where you can just drop it and everything will be fine. The fate of every world is at stake here. You don't get to say no."
"No," Luffy repeated, "I need to go find my friends."
Sora wasn't surprised at Luffy's reaction, but he was taking what the others said much more seriously. "How did this happen?" He knew he was supposed to be looking for Kairi and Riku, since they weren't there with him, but he was blanking on something. "I was in my room," the storm. "Wait a minute! What happened to my home? My island?"
Luffy stared at the kid who seemed to have forgotten and he felt bad for him. The memory of his friends getting taken away one by one was still fresh in his mind and he wanted them back sooner rather than later. "Why aren't my friends here?" Luffy asked the two in front of them, "Didn't they come to this world with us?"
"Riku! Kairi!" Sora was slowly remembering the monsters being on his island as well, and then the sight of his island getting ripped apart flashed in his mind and he fell down to his knees.
"You know what?" Leon started in a grim tone, "I really don't know."
Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, I'm going to find you.
All the worlds are at stake? I wish you were here Riku, I need your help. And you too Kairi.
The room suddenly shook as a black ball appeared in the center of it and a Heartless in a suit of armor appeared in front of them. "Yuffie go!" Leon shouted and the girl nodded, running into the next room where Aerith was with the Disney Castle envoys.
Sora jumped behind Leon with his Keyblade drawn and Luffy punched his fist into his open hand. "Sora, Luffy, let's go!" Leon charged at the thing in front of them and slashed it so hard that his sword went all the way across his body and knocked the monster back, but he followed up with another attack coming down and his sword cut a hole in the floor after slashing down the thing's body.
The three of them fought off the monster, but as soon as Leon struck the finishing blow, three of the small ones appeared as well. They ran out of the cramped room and jumped through the window down to the square below where monsters, or Heartless, were forming all around them. "Let's kick their asses!" Luffy shouted as he lifted up a leg high in the air, "Gum Gum," they stared in awe as his foot shot high above the buildings around him, "ONO!" He brought down his foot like an ax and it slammed down on two Heartless, squishing them instantly and they exploded into fragments. They dropped some money, but the boys ignored it and just started fighting the mob in front of them.
Sora slashed across one small monster and then took off to continue the combo on the next. He attacked right as the thing swiped at him, and their blows knocked each other back without causing any damage to either of them. The boy was then hit from behind by one of the armored ones that appeared, but Leon slashed it in half to help him. "Thanks," the kid said and Leon nodded before talking to them both.
"The hordes won't stop coming as long as you wield the Keyblades," even though Luffy hadn't summoned his blade, they were still attracted to the rubber man. "The only way to stop them is to take out their boss. He must be hiding somewhere around here."
"We could cover more ground if we split up," Sora suggested and then started running ahead. He knocked two small Heartless to the side as the other two stared after him and he vanished down a corridor. More enemies filled in the area he just ran through and they watched in slight surprise.
That was pretty brave kid, Leon thought as he blocked an enemy and then slashed it as it fell back from the parry.
Luffy thought along the same lines and followed the kid's example, "Follow me you idiots," he taunted at the black things and then extended an arm over to a lightpost. He grabbed it and rocketed himself into the air where he flew over a building and almost landed in a canal. Whoa, too close, he thought as he wobbled on the edge and caught his balance.
While he was standing there though, more Heartless started to appear, but these were new ones. Red and blue monsters started appearing in the air, with the signature black faces and red eyes that gave away they were Heartless. "So cool," Luffy whispered as he pulled his fists back, not having time to admire the little creatures.
As he swung his fist forward, the blue one's antennae glowed and a burst of blue light shot out and froze his fist sending pain to course through Luffy's arm. "Yow! You bastard," he didn't care that they were cool anymore and flung his other fist forward just for the other red creature to glow and shoot flames at him. His hand was knocked back by the impact of the fireball on it and he felt heat soar across his arm.
The pirate grumbled as these were far range enemies. The ones he'd been fighting so far were close-ranged fighters, so he could fight them that way, having a longer reach than any of them. Looks like I've got to try something else, he held out his hands, KEYBLADE I SUMMON THEE! The blade appeared in his hands and he started laughing at how he did it before having to leap in the air as another blast of blue light and red light landed at his feet.
He looked down and saw a scorch mark where he was a second ago, "Take this," he reached to the side of the creatures and grabbed a pole. He shot out of the way as another blast of cold shot at him and then slingshotted himself around the pole so he went flying at the enemies faster than they could charge their attacks. He reached them and sliced hard with his weapon, knocking them both backwards, but not finishing them. He was annoyed, he'd never really tried fighting with a weapon before except for the metal one he used to use as a kid. How does Sora do those cool combo thingies? He thought about what the kid did last time and as he jumped over the red attack flying his way, he swiped down at the monster, then left, and finally down from the upper right, slashing completely down its body and cutting it in half.
Cool, he thought as the little money orbs that flew out of the destroyed body went right into the pouch Cid gave him and Sora. He turned to the blue monster with a smirk. His smirk vanished as two more blue ones appeared and three red ones behind it, all of which were charging their magic attacks. He laughed for a second and then turned around, sprinting away to try and find the boss. They just keep coming!
On the other side of the Second District, Sora reached a large door like the one that separated the first and second. He read the sign up above, 'Third District,' haven't checked there yet. He ran through the door and mainly tried to ignore the weird monsters appearing around him. A yellow one appeared right in the staircase and guessing from what the red and blue ones did, he knew he had to dodge the lightning bolt that was coming. Right as the blast of yellow light was about to hit him, he dodged to the right and avoided it.
He slid under the yellow beast while sticking his Keyblade up and the silver part sliced through the monster. He finished the slide and then kicked off the top of the staircase, landing at the bottom and walking out into the empty square in front of him. "Hmm, no big bosses here," he looked around and saw a few other Heartless standing around the edges of the square, but they vanished in a second and he wondered what was going on.
"Wawawawa!" a loud quacking sound shouted from above Sora. He looked up and saw two figures screaming as they dropped down from above towards him.
"Whoa, whoaaa," he tried to back away, but the two landed right on top of him.
The kid felt two heavy bodies on top of him and moaned as he shook his head to clear his mind. There were two other moans next to his and he saw a duck's face on one side and what looked like a dog on the other, except he was holding a shield. Both animals shouted at the same time, "The key!"
Sora opened his mouth to tell them to get off, but as he did, the ground began to shake. Suddenly, two huge square pillars lifted up in front of the staircase he came down before and lifted higher than he could jump. Every exit of the square was quickly cut off and the two on top of him were just as shocked by these rising pillars.
The more powerful Heartless in the armor started appearing on the pillars and in a line in front of them. "Talk later," Sora said as he lifted to his feet, "fight now!" The other two behind him got up and one held up a staff, while the other held his shield with both hands.
Sora ran forward and started bashing these creatures that he was getting a hang of how many hits he needed to defeat them. He went straight from one to the other, and jumped to the side as a third went to punch him in the side. These were standing on two feet unlike the small pet-like ones he had to fight earlier. As he landed, he felt one about to hit him from behind, and held his breath as he waited for it. "Huh?" he turned around and saw the duck holding up a wand, and lightning shot down from the sky, killing the Heartless behind him.
He spun around fast as the next one was about to hit him, just to see the tall dog guy knock him backwards with his shield and keep plowing through as he pushed the other two to the side as well. Sora ran ahead and slashed up two of the last three before flipping over the last one's head and stabbing backwards with his weapon like Leon did to him in their earlier fight. The beast blew up and he felt the little money pieces float into Cid's pouch.
"We did it!" Donald shouted and then froze as they felt something dark above them. The three looked up and saw a bright light followed by dark purple things falling out of the sky. As they got closer, it was easy to see what they were, huge pieces of armor.
"Whoa, who's going to wear that?" Sora asked as he looked around for some large Heartless to go inside the giant purple armor that was floating in front of him. Neither of the metal boots were connected to the chestplate, and the gauntlets were just floating there as well. The armor was hollow, but one more piece was falling from the sky. A large helmet-like thing fell, but this instantly made the monster start to move, That is the Heartless! Sora thought and the monster rolled its head around and lifted up its hands to attack. "Let's go!"
Luffy was back in the first district and he was looking around for a boss while constantly being attacked by different types of monsters. A large one appeared in front of him and he thought maybe he'd finally found the boss. He tried hitting it from the front with his Keyblade and his feet, but it had such great defense that he was thrown back each time he tried.
Maybe it's slower because it's so big, he thought. He thought maybe it would be slower because it was so big, but then it surprised him by charging ahead at him faster than any of the others and body slammed the pirate. "Teehee," he laughed from underneath it, "That won't work on me," he squeezed as hard as he could into his body and sprang the monster off of him where it fell on its stomach, apparently too round to get up. "Cuz I'm rubber," he jumped over it and threw his arm back while twisting it, going to try this attack again, even if it failed against Leon. "Gum Gum," he finished twisting it tight and then shot it forward fast right into the monster's back, "Rifle!" His attack broke through its defenses and made it tumbled away, but it still wasn't defeated.
It turned towards him with its stomach defenses but started walking slow again. Looks like he can't run for too long, Luffy dropped down behind it and before it could turn around, he slashed it with a triple attack combo with the black Keyblade in his left hand. This time when it tumbled forward, it broke apart and vanished, leaving a large piece of money in front of it. Treasure! Luffy ran towards it and it went into his seemingly bottomless pouch.
"Luffy!" the boy spun around and saw Leon running right towards him with a small army of Heartless chasing behind him.
His mouth went wide, "But I just beat the boss," he said and then froze as he saw two more of those large guys running with the pack behind Leon. "Nevermind!" He shouted and turned to run, but right as Leon reached the square, the army stopped chasing the man with the large iron sword.
"What's going on?" Luffy asked as the Heartless all either dropped down into pools of darkness in the ground, or flipped into the air and vanished in a ball of black.
"Look behind you," Leon said, no longer looking at where the army was. Luffy turned around and his eyes went wide as he saw how large his shadow had become. "Don't be afraid..." a voice said in his mind, and one glance at Leon showed that the man wasn't hearing it. The large shadow started to climb out of the ground and the pirate's eyes went wide, he was seriously freaking out now.
Leon seemed unnerved as well as Luffy's shadow grew larger and pulled out of the ground behind him. The pirate was now staring at his shadow as its arms pressed against the ground and lifted its entire upper half out. Both men started taking steps back. "Don't be afraid," it repeated in his mind as the shadow was looking less and less like him every second. It lifted off the ground and grew larger and larger as it bulged with huge black muscles and the black hair started to turn into tentacles. His shadow disconnected from him and lifted higher until it was a massive hulking form towering over him and Leon.
It looked similar to the one he had to fight with Sora on the island as it broke apart, but this one had a black version of a large straw hat on top of its tentacle-like hair. Its legs were all scraggly and pointy at the end, "And don't forget," Luffy stopped backing up and held up his blade and a fist, he wouldn't be afraid of this monster, the voice in his head was telling him so.
Leon saw the determined look on Luffy's face and stopped backing towards the large door connecting the third and first district. It was closed off for now, but Leon thought he might have to open it if worst came to worst. This could be the boss, the monster above them didn't make any noise, but it lifted up a fist and slammed it down towards the two.
Luffy grabbed onto a nearby light and pulled himself away, while his new "friend" leapt on to the monster's arm and started climbing up it. Small black monsters appeared out of the black hole in the ground, and a few of them started climbing up the arm as well, chasing after Leon. Luffy saw what the man was trying and had to stop the monsters from getting to him. "Gum Gum Rocket," he grabbed another pole and slung himself forward, slamming straight into two dog-like Heartless chasing after Leon and shouting, "Gum Gum Substitute." He stopped moving while the two he knocked into flew off the arm and vanished in midair.
"Luffy?" Leon said, turning to the rubber man. The pirate was holding up his Keyblade and facing the oncoming enemies up the arm. "Got it," he understood the plan and was surprised the teen was staying level-headed enough in the situation not to attack it straight on.
The pirate swung his key down into the arm of the monster a few times as the Heartless came at him. This made his giant shadow Heartless growl and lift up his other hand, grabbing the pirate. Luffy struggled to get out of its grip, while Leon turned around and shouted to him. He had just reached the head and kept swiping at the monster, but this was seriously pissing it off considering the large amount of damage he was dealing to it.
The monster reached up with the hand that was shoved in the ground and Heartless stopped coming out of it. When the older man jumped away from the head to swipe at the hand holding Luffy, he was caught by its other hand and the Heartless lifted them up, glaring at them both in front of his face.
Both the twenty five year old and the teenager stopped struggling and looked to each other. They grinned and Leon held up his right gloved hand, while Luffy stretched both of his backwards, forming the Keyblade in his right hand to deal extra damage when finishing. "Gum Gum," Leon was annoyed that he was still shouting out his attacks when there were more important things to be done, but he let Luffy finish before firing his fireball, "Keyblade Bazooka!" Both of his arms shot forward and his left hit the monster in the face the same spot as Leon's fireball. His right hand with the blade nailed it in its left yellow glowing eye and it finally made a sound.
"RAARRR!" it brought back both of its hands, not yet defeated, and he threw the two fighters as hard as he could.
The two went flying through the air and spinning around in cartwheels before flying over the wall and coming down hard on the ground somewhere. Luffy shook off the attack since it didn't hurt him much, but Leon was more than a little damaged, reaching into his bag and tossing up something green. The pirate watched as the man on his knees with some scratches on his face suddenly stood up fine and his injuries just went away.
"Whoa, what was that?" he asked in amazement.
"Luffy?! Leon?!" The two spun around for the first time since landing, and their eyes went wide at what they saw. A huge moving set of armor was attacking Sora, as well as two other fighters.
"Leon!" Donald and Goofy shouted as they turned to the man. He saw the royal envoys and sprinted towards the distracted fighters. Right as they were about to be squashed by one of the giant armored hands, Leon parried it and the hand went flying to the ground.
"Attack it now, while it's vulnerable," Sora said and charged at the hand, knocking it around until it exploded in a large pile of darkness and released some green bubbles on the floor. The kid stepped into them, and felt the wounds he received earlier in the fight start to fade. They're like mini-potions!
"Why did you come flying in like that Luffy?" Goofy asked the man in the straw hat who was staring at them. It was the second time today that the man had fallen from the sky right in front of him.
"Oh yeah," Luffy said and then casually pointed over his shoulder, "because of that." The three who were already in the third district looked up and their eyes popped wide as they saw the huge black monster putting a foot on top of the large wall. It hoisted itself over and dropped down behind the floating suit of armor.
"Uhh," Donald mumbled, taking a few steps back. "What is that?!" He shouted in a high-pitched voice.
They all looked up and saw the brim of a black hat on top of the monster and then looked over at Luffy who was glaring at it. Sora recognized it instantly from his dream, and from the end of his island. Another one? He got ready to fight it, before the remaining metal glove went flying at him and knocked him off balance.
The giant Heartless shoved both hands into the ground, and Heartless started pouring out of it. "This isn't good," Leon said as he looked around. The small Heartless weren't the only ones appearing this time; now the suit of armor guys, and the small floating ones that could use magic were appearing too. The fighter with the longsword knew he had to come up with a plan fast, "Sora, Goofy," he called out and the boy with the spiky hair saw that the dog responded to that other name, "finish off the guy you were fighting, you know how to beat him now. Donald," the scared duck gulped and looked over at Leon, "use your magic to keep the small fries off of us. Luffy you're with me, help take down the big guy."
"I don't take orders," the pirate retorted with a wide smirk and he sucked it a large amount of air. The others stared at him with wide-eyes as his body got larger like a balloon and he twisted around until he looked like a coil. He opened his mouth and flew up in the air with a large release of air until he was flying straight at the shadow Heartless's face. "Gum Gum, STORM!" His fists flew up faster than his Gattling Gun and he bashed the monster in the face over and over again.
Leon sighed, the man wasn't good at taking orders, but at least he was being helpful. "Hey Leon," the man turned his head and watched as two girls dropped onto the battlefield from atop the stone pillars lifting up. "We'll help too," Yuffie said while giving him a thumbs up. Donald and Goofy saw the girl in the pink dress who told them about the Heartless earlier and Aerith smiled at them as well before waving her hand and healing the duck who was covered in scratches.
"Whoa," he said, stretching out his arms as they felt fine. "Raawawawa!" he shouted as he ran forward and swung his wand around.
Sora jumped up in the air and did a combo attack on the head of the suit of armor, damaging it, but not crippling it like when he attacked the gauntlet before. A foot lifted up to hit him, but Goofy jumped in the way and blocked with his shield. It dropped to the ground unmoving, and they took this moment to attack.
Yuffie finished slashing an armored Heartless with her kunai and then backflipped towards the stopped piece of the boss. She pulled out a large shuriken with four blades and spun it around before throwing it at the boot. Sora slashed down at it and the boot exploded, making him stare at his blade, wondering if he really destroyed it in one attack. Then he lifted his head up and saw Goofy standing there with his shield raised and Yuffie on the other side of the boot, snapping her shuriken back down, showing she had just used it. "Oh," he said, turning back to the suit of armor that was now looking a bit frantic.
The remaining arm and leg of the suit of armor started flailing around and slamming into anything that moved. Donald was holding up his wand casting a lightning bolt down on a four legged Heartless chasing after Leon who was slashing at the shadow Heartless's lowered head. One of the flailing pieces of armor knocked into him and threw him into the rubber man who was knocked over.
After Luffy finished his Gum Gum Storm, he landed and had hurt the monster enough for it to bow its head. It was now getting back up, but while it was down, Leon and Luffy did enough damage to it to make it worried. A large circle of darkness appeared on the center of the black form, a more liquid type of darkness than the solid form in front of them.
Balls of black with red cores started shooting out of the hole in its chest and flying towards them Both men tried dodging but there were too many coming towards them and were each hit and thrown backwards into the wall. Yuffie snapped her head as Leon went flying past her, "Squall!" she shouted and then the flailing gauntlet knocked into her and she dropped her weapon as she skid across the ground.
The girl landed right in the middle of a pile of Heartless that jumped on her using the opportunity to attack. "Yuffie!" Aerith shouted. She was almost as tall as Leon and had brown hair that lifted up over her head and parted in the middle before flowing down behind her back. She ran ahead, but Sora was there first and jumped right over the girl, standing in the middle of the Heartless.
The boy with the Keyblade was much more enticing to them and they all started to attack. Even the bosses seemed to focus on him now, and as Luffy and Leon sat up from where they were knocked back, they saw Sora completely surrounded with a giant metal fist and a huge shadow fist coming down at him.
"Stop!" Luffy shouted at them but the monsters kept fighting Sora who couldn't even hold up his blade anymore, but wouldn't let them get past him to Yuffie who was lying on the ground under him. Luffy tried dragging himself out of the hole he was in in the wall and stumbled forward, "Stop!" The fists were only a few feet above Sora's head now, "I said STOP!" Luffy screamed and ran forward. He didn't realize it, but Aerith and Leon each saw a burst of energy shoot out from out of Luffy like a shockwave. It made them feel dizzy, and the girl in the pink dress almost fell off her feet, but managed to stay awake.
Every one of the Heartless froze though. The small ones surrounding him and even the armored ones and the floating red, blue, and yellow ones, all vanished in balls of black darkness. The two fists above Sora's head stayed there, hovering as if the monster's were deciding whether or not to attack.
"Quickly, Aerith," Leon shouted and snapped her out of her trance. Donald was in the middle of fighting against other magic Heartless and they all vanished in front of him. He turned and saw Goofy's enemies disappeared as well. The two of them turned and took this opportunity to charge at the suit of armor. Its head started spinning around and it pulled back a foot, no longer phased by the large blast that Luffy released with his shout.
The pirate ran straight over to Sora as Aerith cast a cure spell on him and Yuffie. The kid was stumbling on his feet, but a green light surrounded him and he felt much better, better than before even. The girl below them was still knocked out but she didn't look in any sort of mortal danger, so Leon ran over and grabbed her, carrying her away as Sora and Luffy both focused on the giant looming above them.
"RARRR!" he roared again, different from its normal quiet self. For some reason, it staying quiet was a lot scarier, the roar made it sound like it was frustrated which gave the kids encouragement.
Donald and Goofy were each pummeling one of the last two appendages of the suit of armor and they exploded at the same time. They turned and watched as the behemoth punched down at Luffy and Sora and the boys jumped up on its arm, climbing up and dodging all the black and red balls of light coming at them.
The two crisscrossed each other's path over and over as they climbed the arm, jumping over black balls and creatures that were sprouting up all over its arm. "Now!" Sora shouted and Luffy grinned, the two of them leaping from its shoulder right in front of its face. They each started slashing as hard as they could: to the right, then left, then uppercut, and when both of their arms were held up, they brought them down in one last powerful attack, slamming straight through the beast's head down to its chin and gravity finally took over, dropping the boys down to the ground.
They were both panting, Sora a lot harder than Luffy, having been unable to dodge a few of the explosions sent at him as he charged. Goofy and Donald were slammed by the torso of the armor monster and the others all turned to it angrily, "Just go away!" Luffy shouted and shot out one foot from where he stood. The foot slammed into the head of the monster and it started to shake furiously.
At the same time, the behemoth shadow Heartless was trembling and a large black hole appeared in the ground below it. The others stumbled backwards away from the edge of the darkness as tendrils came out and covered the monster's bent legs. It reached up an arm as its body got sucked in and finally it vanished in the dark pit, just for the circle to go away and leave an unscathed pavement below it.
The suit of armor Heartless was shaking harder and harder until it froze. The head rolled off of the torso and thudded on the ground. Out from the hollow center of the torso, a bright light shined up towards the night sky. A glowing sparkly blue heart floated out of the creature and vanished in the sky. The rest of it faded away to darkness and then poof, it was gone.
A/N Hey everyone. I hope you enjoyed the latest chapter! Sorry for not posting it earlier, but I came down with some weird illness that had me in bed for days. It really sucked but today is the first day I'm feeling even a little up for writing in a while. Thanks for reading and leave a review telling me what you think, or any predictions of who the first crew member they'll find on their journey will be. Next time we're heading off to Wonderland!