"Whoa, what are you doing?" Sora asked Luffy. The pirate pushed his legs down hard and did the same with his right hand. His skin pumped and then stretched back to normal.

The boy in the straw hat pumped again and grit his teeth. His blood was rushing much faster than usual and his skin started changing shades from pale to more red. Steam began rising from his skin as he pumped again and looked up. "Gear Second!"

"Dodge!" Donald yelled at the seemingly stupid pirate who wasn't running. The rest of them felt the ground start shaking as whatever was in front of them started charging. Sora didn't run like Goofy and Donald and instead dodge rolled towards it and then to the right when he saw the sliver of air in front of him.

The boy jumped out of the roll and swiped a triple combo at the beast in midair. He tried landing and backing up away from it, but he was smacked by something large and invisible. It knocked him on his back where he skid backwards.

The kid kicked his legs up and sprang himself up to his feet. He took a deep breath and winced from the pain of the powerful attack, much stronger than the normal Heartless. The monster that was charging their way before was now focused on the steaming red pirate. It was mid-sprint when Luffy disappeared to the shock of Sora and the Disney creatures.

Whatever they were attacking wasn't as surprised though, it stopped its charge and instantly changed directions towards the right where no one was standing. Luffy appeared hovering in the spot near the base of the warship and he had an open palm out in front of him with his left fist pulled back.

"Gum Gum," the pirate began and then his fist flew forward so fast it was barely visible to the people present. "Jet Pistol!" The pirate yelled as he punched, "Ahh!" He yelled after his fist slammed into the invisible monster.

The pirate snapped his arm back and looked at his fist. Whatever he punched wasn't charging at him anymore; telling from the way the rubble on the ground moved, it was knocked back a few yards by the attack. However, the spot he punched the invisible creature was something sharp and he slashed his hand open on the knuckles.

"Yow yow yow," the pirate blew on the cut and then looked back forward more seriously as he felt the vibration on the ground. Whatever he was fighting wasn't down, Luffy's attack only seemed to make it angry and they finally heard from the monster for the first time.

EEEEAACCCHHK

The screech was scary, causing both Donald and Goofy to gulp as they held their weapons tighter. This huge invisible enemy was definitely a Heartless, but it was unlike any they had fought before. "There it is!" Sora yelled and ran past Donald and Goofy, holding his Keyblade in both hands on his right side. The Disney creatures looked at each other and nodded, charging forward as well.

"WAWAWA!" Donald locked on to the creature and used thunder magic, calling down bolts of lightning on the creature that screeched again and charged their direction. Goofy ran in front of his comrade and held up his shield to try pushing through it, but the beast trampled right through him and then smacked Donald with what felt like a huge claw, throwing him across the destroyed area into a tree.

"Donald!" Sora yelled and hit the invisible form in the side a few times before rolling away to dodge the attack he knew was coming down on his head.

Luffy appeared hovering between the beast and the kid to stop it from charging at his friend. The steaming pirate stuck both of his legs out towards his foe and shouted, "Gum Gum Stamp Gattling Gun!" His feet started flying incredibly fast at the monster, but after a few hits, his legs were slamming into the ground without any effect. "Damn, where'd it go?!"

"Behind you!" Sora yelled and Luffy turned to see the kid running at him, but then there was a sliver of something an inch away from his face. In his Second Gear he was fast, and his dodge almost pulled his whole body away quick enough, almost. He was nicked in the face by whatever hit him and when he cartwheeled away from the monster, he reached up his bloody hand and touched the scratch on his face. Damn, he was panting hard and he fell out of his Second Gear state, I knew I'd get much faster, but I didn't think it would tire me out so fast.

When the monster hit Luffy, Sora got pissed. Donald and Goofy were sitting on the ground a good distance away and they were rubbing their heads. Both of them looked too disoriented and damaged to keep going, and none of them had stocked up on potions since the last trip to Traverse Town.

The fourteen year old saw Luffy panting hard and understood that whatever Luffy did took a lot of energy. "Damn," he growled and charged at the monster that turned towards him and started charging as well. "Take this! FIRE!" He pointed his weapon and the tip of it glowed bright orange before a fireball shot out and slammed into the creature. His attack didn't slow it down so he yelled, "FIRE! FIRE FIRE FIRE!" he used up all the mana he had, but on the fifth fireball the creature stopped and roared.

EEEEEAAAACCCCCAACCKK! The beast started shimmering more and more, and then it slowly became visible. Sora took a small step back and was panting as hard as Luffy was, only the younger kid felt more afraid as he stared at the lizard. The huge chameleon was green and yellow, and it reared its two front legs up as it glared at Sora with a beady orange eye.

The boy was taking another step back and his leg was halfway in the air when he froze. Images of Riku and Kairi flashed through Sora's mind and his right leg slammed down on the ground hard.

Donald and Goofy were shaking their heads and they lifted themselves up to their feet. The two of them stared across the battlefield where Sora was standing sideways in a fighting stance with his Keyblade risen and a furious expression on his face. "I will save my friends!" He charged and lifted up his Keyblade to bring it down on his enemy.

As Sora was charging, the monster's eyes started glowing blue. "Look out!" Luffy shouted as he charged forward to distract the monster. Before he could reach, the blue glows shot out of the creature's eyes and slammed into Sora, knocking the boy backwards where he skid across the ground all the way to Nami who was still trying to wake Usopp up.

She looked next to her where Sora tried to get up and could only make it to one knee. "Sora," she whispered then looked back at her muscular friend, "Usopp." She heard a loud quack for help and looked up. She saw Luffy get smacked away by a claw at the same time that two more blue lights locked on to Donald and Goofy and took back down the Disney creatures. "Mina," she whispered. Against this monster, she didn't think her Clima-Tact had what it takes, especially after Donald used his lightning magic several times to no avail.

Something caught her eye and she looked over at where her captain was standing up, his straw hat clinging to his back by the string around his neck. "Luffy!" she shouted as she saw him bloody and in pain.

"It's almost beaten," he stated. Nami had no idea how he would know this, but Luffy just did. "I only need one more hit," he stared down at his right hand and lifted it up, sticking his thumb in his mouth. "Gum Gum, Bone Balloon!" He yelled and Nami watched with Sora who lifted his head up while panting on one knee. Both of them gasped as Luffy's right hand expanded to at least four times the size of his own body. "Giganto Pistol!"

The creature was charging a long ranged attack with its glowing eyes again, and when it fired the two balls of blue light locked on to Luffy. The pirate held back his huge fist and then threw it forward with his rubber powers, sending the massive fist crashing straight into the energy balls and right through them, burning his hand, but not slowing it down as the fist continued flying and slammed straight into the beast behind it.

Luffy yelled as his fist crashed into the lizard, "RaaaAAA!" He pushed harder into it and the monster that was filled with darkness started sliding back on its hind feet. Finally it got lifted off the ground and the fist knocked it all the way back into the battleship that exploded in a hundred directions from the force of the beast hitting it.

"Amazing!" Sora shouted, pulling himself back up to his feet as some of his strength returned. Donald and Goofy were still down, but Nami got up too and felt the danger was gone so she could take a few steps away from Usopp.

Luffy grinned and took deep breaths as his fist deflated back to a normal size. However, normal size was proportionate to his body, which now made Sora and Nami gasp considering he shrank down to a tenth of his usual height. "Huh?" he questioned in a high-pitched voice, "I didn't know that would happen. Weird."

The other two sweatdropped at Luffy's power's strange aftereffect, but then all three started laughing. They turned and watched as the creature that was slammed into the battleship stumbled out and their smiles went away. "It's not-" Nami started but then stopped as the beast wasn't getting back to fight.

It stumbled forward a few steps with static flying out from it, but then it lifted up on its back legs and collapsed backwards. Its stomach opened up in a bright flash of white light and a large red heart lifted from its body before disappearing. The rest of the monster was engulfed in light for a second, and then it disappeared.

A lot of small health balls and money dropped from it when it vanished, and as much as Nami wanted to sprint in and grab all the cash, she knew she would accidentally grab the green balls as well. "Hold on," she told the two boys who looked ready to run in and grab the mystery items that dropped in the middle of the balls.

Nami ran back and grabbed Usopp under the shoulders. He was a lot heavier now with all his muscle weight, but she was able to drag him over and drop him in the center of all the health balls. The little orbs sucked into his body and after a few seconds, she could see the cuts going away and Usopp's eyes opened up. He lifted up to his feet and Sora smiled at the quick thinking.

As he ran over with Luffy to get Tarzan, Donald, and Goofy to put in the rest of the orbs and try to heal them at least a little, Usopp looked down at Nami who was a few inches shorter than him. She was standing a foot away and he smiled at her, "Thanks Nami, I owe you one," he was talking about her healing him, but the woman just shook her head at him.

"You owe me one?" she asked and lifted her head up to meet his gaze. He almost gasped at the teary-eyed look she was giving him. "You saved me on Destiny Islands, then again at the Colosseum you jumped in front of Cerberus's attack," she pounded a fist on his chest and rested her head on it too, "And now here..."

"Nami," he whispered and the woman looked up at the smiling man with a long nose. "We're nakama," he stated and her eyes opened wider, "I'll always be there to save you." She blinked a few times to make sure she heard right, but then she smiled too and the two of their heads moved closer towards each other.

"Donald!" Sora shouted as the duck he placed on a pile of green orbs started to regain consciousness. The boy was too focused to realize what the tan muscular man and the orange haired girl were talking about when he interrupted them, but the two heard the kid so close and instantly backed apart with red cheeks.

The duck quacked a few times and then sat up, "We beat it?" he asked. He smiled at Sora and the kid smiled back, but then both turned away from each other with small frowns on their faces, wondering why they were even still made at each other, but too proud to admit they were wrong.

"Yep," Luffy replied with a smirk as Donald and Tarzan were coming to as well. Finally Sora ran into the center where a box was sitting and he found a mega potion inside. I'll save that for later, he thought and then grabbed the second thing that made him smile wide.

He tossed it up and it surrounded him, Luffy, and Donald making the other two look his way. "Cure," the boy said and the other two magicians grinned as well, "we learned new magic!" As this was happening, a few of them noticed that creatures were walking slowly out of the jungle around them.

Tarzan looked around as his family came marching towards them. The gorillas were saved a few times by this strange group, and Kerchak watched them defeat the monster who was terrorizing his people. The gorilla walked right up to Luffy and Sora who were standing next to each other and he looked them over before grunting in gorilla. Kerchak turned and started walking away.

Tarzan was about to say something to the group of people, but Luffy started first, "He wants us to follow him." Then the pirate walked off after the gorilla with an excited look of finding more adventure on the way. The others all started laughing at how Luffy was able to understand these strange creatures. They started following him though, and the whole group trekked through the jungle together with the gorillas.

"Captain Smoker!" a man charged out of the bushes and Clayton and Smoker both turned towards him.

"Corporal!" Smoker called out and his lower half turned to smoke as he rushed over and grabbed the chubby man to hold him steady. "What happened? I told you to stay with the ship."

Corporal Steven was panting hard and his right arm was covered in blood. Smoker asked him if he was alright and the man looked at his arm, "This isn't my blood," he replied in almost a whisper, making Smoker feel a sense of dread wash over him. "Those creatures, they were everywhere. Our guns did barely anything against them, then, then," he broke off and coughed as he fell to his knees, this time his own blood splattering out of his mouth. "Something attacked the ship, something we couldn't even see."

Clayton was amazed that these dark creatures were powerful enough to take on this entire military. "To think they were this strong," he clenched his fists and muttered, "if I had that type of power..."

"Where are the rest of the men?!" Smoker asked the Corporal who he helped back up to his feet.

"A few of us made it away from the ship, but the monkeys, they were everywhere." The man paused and looked up into his Captain's eyes, "I'm the only one who made it here."

Smoker's lower lip dropped and he stared at his last man. Tashigi, men, he thought and grinded his teeth together in fury. Suddenly the bushes behind Steven started rustling and he pushed his subordinate behind him. "I won't let them hurt any more of my men!" He yelled and his arms turned to smoke as the creatures full of darkness burst through the bushes.

A wall of smoke formed and fists started flying out of it and knocking the creatures away as Smoker roared out in anger and vengeance. Steven was watching his Captain and believed that maybe Smoker could do it, until he saw a few of the creatures coming from behind him.

The Corporal spun around and was going to shout for his superior officer, when he saw the hunter in the yellow shirt turn towards the monkeys as well and lower his weapon. The blue monkeys with black eyes ran straight towards him, but he didn't run, he embraced them. The Marine watching stumbled back and yelped, causing Smoker to turn away from the enemies he was facing and look towards Clayton who was being surrounded in darkness.

Every monkey in the area started dancing around and stopped trying to attack as black tendrils came out of the darkness beneath Clayton's feet and wrapped around him. "This strength, this power!" The man yelled and dropped his shotgun, lifting up his hands that were overflowing with darkness. "It feels amazing!"

"What are you doing?!" Smoker yelled over at the man he was working with to find the pirates.

Clayton's eyes snapped to the Captain across the rocky area from him. The bushes behind Smoker were silent as the dark monkeys sank back into the ground, leaving only the three men there. "I don't need your help any longer," the man said and laughed with his head lifted up towards the sky. "I don't know what Marines and World Government you kept talking about, but you were too weak, just as I thought."

"Don't insult us Marines!" Steven said as he pushed himself back up to his feet and drew a pistol from his belt.

Clayton rose an arm towards the man as Steven fired. A wall of darkness rose in between them and the bullet disappeared as soon as it hit. Then a black hand reached out of the wall and grabbed the Marine, dragging him back towards the darkness. "Stop!" Smoker yelled and his lower half turned to smoke so he could quickly make it across the battlefield.

"It's not, me," Clayton mumbled as he tried to let go of the Marine, but the hand stayed clasped around him. The hunter began to panic as he watched the black strings of darkness seep into his nose and then his mouth. His panic only sped up the process as the darkness began to consume him. "Help, me, arrrgggh!"

Smoker wasn't concerned with the hunter as much as he was his last man. He reached out towards Steven as the Corporal's lower half got sucked into darkness. The marine in the tattered uniform reached back with his right arm covered in his comrades' blood, and then he was completely sucked in right before Smoker could grab him.

The Captain dropped out of the air and tumbled across the rocky surface. He was surrounded by cliffs on three sides with a forest on the other. He was flying too fast that he skid across the ground all the way into the wall where he finally stopped and turned back furiously towards the hunter. "Clayton," he growled but the hunter stopped struggling and turned slowly to face him.

Smoker instantly noticed the difference in the hunter's usual cocky expression, and the blank one he had now. As he stared at the man, an intense hatred was building up inside him from the loss of all his comrades. You bastard!

The man before him had darkness surrounding his feet although the large black wall and the tendrils that were warping around him earlier were gone. Clayton lifted up his fists and darkness seeped between his knuckles as he glared right back at the Marine.

The large group traveling through the woods was pretty silent. Donald and Sora were walking next to each other, but both had their heads turned different directions and weren't talking. Goofy sighed behind them and just followed, tired of their petty fight that should have ended already. Nami and Usopp were walking very close, but the two of them were looking different directions and had red blushes on their faces.

Luffy was the only one being loud as he tried talking to the young gorilla that seemed very interested in Donald. Tarzan treated the guy like he was his brother, and the gorilla seemed to almost tease him when Tarzan stopped to grab Jane first. The woman was amazed and taking notes as she walked with the gorillas towards a clearing in the forest.

Suddenly the group stopped as Kerchak heard a noise up ahead and held up a hand. Everyone paused and then they heard a loud crash and the ground shook a little. "Whoohoo!" Luffy started sprinting forward with Sora and the others in their group sighed before chasing after them.

The gorillas stayed back, and when the group charged into the clearing, they paused and watched from the tree line. Every single one of them stopped upon exiting the forest and stared in shock at what they saw before them. "Smoker!" Nami and Usopp exclaimed as they saw the white haired man on one knee backed up against a rock wall that had pieces chipped out of it.

"Mr. Clayton!" Jane exclaimed and stepped forward. "What are you doing?!"

The hunter was standing in front of the Marine and he looked more buff than earlier, with his yellow shirt unbuttoned down the middle. Luffy had a bad feeling in his gut and Smoker turned towards them. The Marine Captain was too busy right now to worry about Straw Hat and he tried saying something, but Tarzan was first.

"Ee, oo, oo oo ah," he said and glared at the man in front of them. "Not Clayton. Ee, oo, oo oo ah."

"What does he mean, not Clayton?" Sora asked nervously as the hunter turned towards them. Clayton's blank facial expression sent shivers down a lot of their spines, and most of them were still tired from their last fight.

Clayton looked over at them and then back at Smoker who was getting to his feet again. "You shouldn't be able to hit me," the Marine muttered, "I'm smoke." He charged again and this time was careful to dodge as Clayton punched towards him. He went for a punch of his own and shouted, "White Blow!" His fist shot out towards the Marine who thought he had an extra second to move, and the fist slammed straight into him.

The hunter's head snapped back, and Smoker's hand flew back and reconnected with his arm. "Don't mess with the Marines," he growled and got ready to attack again.

The others thought Smoker had him there, but their eyes went wide as Clayton's head lowered back down and his eyes were no longer white, but black with red pupils. Darkness started seeping out of his body, covering him. His muscular chest buffed up a little more and they heard the man beneath the growing darkness scream in agony. "He lost control," Smoker shouted. There was no way he was asking the pirate for help, but he figured Straw Hat was going to jump in anyway which would definitely help if his most powerful attack from point blank didn't work.

"Clayton," Jane whispered but Tarzan pulled her back and pointed towards the woods where the gorillas were watching from. She hesitated, but then nodded her head and ran off over there where the small gorilla grabbed onto her hand to comfort her.

The darkness started to go away, but Clayton's skin was a darker shade now, looking almost blue. The man underneath was smiling, but his smile was too wide for a normal human. His yellow shirt was discarded, leaving his muscular purplish body uncovered until the waist. "Now," Luffy said as he cracked his knuckles. The pirate took a few steps forward and glared at his opponent, "Bring it on!" A Keyblade formed in his right hand and a yellow hilt appeared in Sora's hand as a Keyblade formed for him too.

Usopp stood behind his captain on the left of him and Nami stood a little behind him while attaching her Clima-Tact, not willing to sit another fight out while everyone else fought. Smoker looked over at the three pirates, and then at the three on the right of them. Sora stood directly next to Luffy, only he had both of his hands on the hilt of his blade as his ready stance. Behind him slightly to the right stood the tall dog guy holding up a shield, and behind him to the farthest right stood the short duck wearing all blue and holding up a wand.

It was a strange sight to behold, but at the same time, Smoker believed they were going to be able to take down this monster together. Then, it's Mugiwara's turn!

A/N Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed. Leave me a review telling me what you thought of the battle!