(Somewhere in Beast's Castle)
Serenity, Joey, and Duke followed Sora and his friends out of the room they had been in, and looked around in awe. Serenity spotted a female figure up on the flight of stairs on the East side but when she was about so say something the woman left.
Donald had also noticed, "There was someone up there!" he said to Sora. Sora's eye's narrowed, then widened in recognition, "If the Beast lives here then Belle must be here too." Joey scratched his head, "If you don't mind my asking who's Belle?"
"Belle is the Beast's girlfriend, if anyone would know what's wrong with the Beast she would." Sora replied, than raced up the stairs with the other's close behind him. They had to go up a smaller staircase, than as they headed down the hallway they were ambushed.
"More heartless, c'mon what gives?" Joey asked in fusteration, already activating his duel disk. Sora saw Serenity and Duke follow his example. "I play Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode"-Atk/1700 Def-1000.
Serenity looked at her hand for a moment, "I summon Dancing Fairy in attack mode"-Atk/1700 Def-1000. Three dancing fairy's appeared all in a circle with their heads bent forward.
Duke looked at his hand then he placed a card down, "I play White Ninja in attack mode!" Atk/1500 Def/800
"Attack now!" all three of them shouted, meanwhile Sora was attacking guys the old-fashioned way with his Keyblade. Looking over to see how they newcomers were doing his eyes widened when he saw what they had summoned.
Joey's Magic Swordsman obliterated two gargoyle statues with one blow. And Serenity's Dancing Fairy took out one heartless knight, and finally Duke's white Ninja used throwing stars to attack an unsuspecting blitz knight.
Sora would have looked longer but he reminded himself that he had other stuff to do and proceeded to take out the remaining heartless. By the time they were finished, Sora was aching to find out who these people were but he had to find Belle first.
He gestured to the others and they reached a set of large double doors, it was then that they heard someone crying pitifully, "Oh what am I going to do?" Donald positioned himself a few feet from the door and readied himself.
Sora gave him a thumbs up and Donald started to run head long at the door, but before he reached it someone opened it first, causing Donald to fall on the floor. Serenity giggled as Donald sat up and growled, "Hey who opened the door?"
It was then that everyone's attention fell on a pretty young woman with brown hair who laughed in relief, "Oh I'm so happy you're here!" she said and bent to pick up Donald giving him a hug, "Donald!"
Donald started squiriming in protest but Belle for this was she who had opened the door, just held him tighter. Her eyes fell on Sora and Goofy and she smiled again, "Sora, Goofy!" it was then that Donald wailed and Belle taking pity on him set him down much to Donald's relief.
She straightened up again and gasped when she saw Joey, Serenity and Duke. "Oh I'm sorry I don't believe we've been introduced, my name is Belle." She said with a warm smile. Both Duke and Joey grinned until Serenity elbowed them, "My name is Serenity Wheeler, this is my brother Joey and our friend Duke Devlin."
Belle laughed and sighed in relief then looked over at Sora, "It seems you came right when I started to worry, the Beast hasn't been himself lately. He's locked up all the servants and banished me to my room." Sora frowned processing this information, "When did he start acting like this?" he asked
Belle sighed, "Well it all started when this man in a black cape started paying the beast visits, if I remember right his name started with an X. And every time I tried to visit the Beast whenever this man was with him I'd get sent away."
Her eyes filled with worry and she lowered her head in defeat, "I feel so useless, there has to be a way you can save him Sora!" At this Sora nodded, "We'll see what's up, we'll split up Serenity you stay here with Belle. The rest of us are going down to the dungeons to free the servants."
Serenity opened her mouth to protest but Joey cut her off, "Look sis, I'd feel better knowing that you're safe here." Serenity glared and met his eyes with an angry glare, "I can protect myself!" she spat, but Joey just shook his head, "You can protect Belle from getting into trouble, if it comes up."
Serenity rolled her eyes then sagged in defeat, "Fine, just promise me you'll be ok." She whispered. Joey nodded and wrapped his sister in a hug, Duke made as if to follow his example but Joey seized him by the back of his collar and dragged him out the door.
(Meanwhile back in Noah's virtual reality)
Tea and Yugi were in the middle of looking for their friends when a threatening black fog started rolling in. "I don't like the looks of this." Tea moaned eyeing the black fog warily. Yugi didn't say anything, but he studied the black fog with interest.
Tea's eyes widened in horror, "Yugi what if this is what happened to the others?" At this Yugi nodded, "You could be right Tea, let's keep an eye out for them." Tea silently agreed and watched in shock as the black fog condensed into a cartoonish looking figure with bright yellow eyes.
Then a voice rippled through the fog, "This being is known as a heartless, a heartless is formed when someone loses their heart to the darkness. They can only be killed by the Keyblade or by a higher ranking monster."
"He must mean duel monsters." Yugi whispered thoughtfully, consulting with Yami his other half. "Well, I guess there's only one way to find out." Tea muttered, looking pointedly at Yugi's duel disk.
Yugi activated his duel disk and proceeded to draw five cards, he eyed his hand, "I play Rude Kaiser in attack mode, Rude Kaiser attack the heartless!" Rude Kaiser raised its arm blades and attacked shattering the heartless with ease.
Tea cheered, "Nice one Yugi!" she shouted, it was then that the floor dropped underneath them and they were sent to another world.
I hope you enjoyed! Sorry it took so long but thank you DraculaX for asking when I was updating this fic, otherwise I probably wouldn't have! Please review!