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The group was partly amazed, partly terrified of what they were seeing. In the sky, the clouds had gathered together and making a circular formation, making it resemble a hurricane. However, in the "eye" of the formation, the clouds glowed purple, as heartless of all kinds were pouring out from it and attacking the citizens of the streets below.

"W-what is this?" Exclaimed Leon. "Not even the security system will help out with this many heartless!"

"Looks like we're gonna just have to help out." Said Riku, pulling his keyblade, The Way to the Dawn.

Meanwhile, Sora was tranfixed on the events that were happening. "Is this what that guy meant?"

Kairi then turned to Sora. "Sora, do you know what's happening here?" She asked, a sense of fear could be detected in her voice as she spoke.

Sora turned to her. "Not really," He said. "But I think someone told me this would happen..."

"We can debate what's happening later." Said Cloud. For now, let's just focus on giving these hearltess a thrashing."

"Good idea." Said Leon, who pulled out his gunblade, and began to slash at heartless left and right.

Hey now, don't steal it all for yourself, Squall." Said Yuffie, who then pulled out her large shuriken and threw it at some attacking heartless, causing them to vanish.

"Might as well get started too." Said Cloud, who pulled out is own large blade and began slashing it around at heartless.

"I'll join in as well." Said Riku, who ran at several hearltess and slashed them with his keyblade.

Sora looked towards Donald and Goofy. "Alright guys, are you ready?" He said as he prepared to fight with his own keyblade.

"Yeah!" Said Donald and Goofy in unison as they, along with Sora, attacked the heartless, Goofy charging with his sheild, Donald using his Magic, and Sora attacking with his keyblade.

Minutes continued to pass as the heroes continued their fight against the heartless, and they were easily dealing large damage to them. However, the onslaught of heartless simply would not stop. It seemed everytime one was defeated a new one would appear in it's place.

"Man, there's no end to these guys!" Exclaimed Leon as he fought off a few more with his Gunblade.

"They're coming from that giant cloud up there!" Exclaimed Sora. "We gotta find a way to destroy it!"

"Yeah, and just how do we go about the means of doing that?" Said Cloud, as he fought off another wave of heartless.

"You have a point there." Said Sora, who looked up at the large cloud, trying to figure out how to defeat it. Then he noticed that the heartless had stopped coming out from the large cloud, instead, they seemed to be coming back into it.

"Hey, what's going on?" Said Sora, who pointed at the cloud, bringing the event to everyone's attention.

"The heartless...they're returning!" Said Kairi. "But why are they returning?"

The answer was found out soon enough. After all the heartless had returned, eight people appeared from the cloud and floated above Sora and the gang. They where in all different shapes in sizes, though none could be properly made out, as they were all shaded black, as if someone had dropped black paint on them.

"Sorry about that," Spoke on of them, in a calm yet frightful voice. "It seems some of our heartless leaked out while we traveled to this place."

"Who are you guys? Show yourselves!" Demanded Cloud.

"Who we are is not important." Spoke another. "You shall all be dead and this world destroyed before the day is done. That is why we have no intention of showing you our identities."

"Just why are you guys doing this?" Asked Riku.

"It's simple enough." Spoke on of the other shadow people. "We are with the power of darkness, while you have allied yourselves with the Key Bearer. It only makes sense that we, the Beings of Darkness, would want to defeat you."

"The Beings of Darkness?!" Thought Sora to himself in shock. "So this is what that guy was talking about before!"

"It looks like we have more or less the same amount of people." Spoke another of the Beings of Darkness. "How about we divide them up?"

"Good idea." Said one. "I get the keybearer then."

"Hmph. Lucky." Said another as all of the Beings of Darkness, began to scatter to different opponents, one landing in front.

"So Key Bearer, we finally meet face to face." It said to Sora. "I look forward to being the one who kills you."

"Don't say that like it's so easy!" Yelled Sora as he pointed his Keyblade towards the Being. "I'm tougher than you think!"

"Oh, really?" Responded the Shadow person in a sarcastic tone. "Just be careful then. I know that in order to beat you, I could get someone else...that girl behind you for instance?" He added, pointing towards Kairi, who was behind Sora.

"Eh?" Said Kairi, realising she would defenseless against him.

"Kairi!" Yelled Sora angrily. "Why you...I won't let you touch her!" With that, he ran towards the Being and prepared to slash down his Keyblade, however the instant he did, the Man vanished.

"Hey overe here." Sora heard the voice of the being from behind him. He turned around and saw the man, who was already halfway to Kairi now. "When did he get there?!" Thought Sora to himself. "Did he teleport? No, it didn't feel like that...what did he do?!"

"Ha." Chuckled the Being of Darkness emmber to himself. "You said you wouldn't let me touch this woman, and yet right now she's left at my mercy...and there's nothing you can do." He said as he continued to walk towards Kairi.

"No..get away from me...Sora!" Called out Kairi as she slowly backed away from the Being.

"KAIRI!" Yelled Sora as he lunged towards the shadowy man, and blindly swung his keyblade at him. However the man turned around and blocked it with his hand, his attention now back on Sora.

"Just joking." He said playfully, as if he'd just pulled a cruel prank. "I wouldn't do anything to a woman unless they wanted me to."

"Why you..." Said Sora angrily as he began to attack the man witha flurry of slashes, though one by one they where blocked.

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Meanwhile, Riku found himself also being matched up with one of the Beings.

"So you are Riku..." the Being spoke. "You are you fighting me? I heard you yourself have walked on the path of darkness..."

"Can it." Said Riku, trying to act unemotional about the subject but was clearly angered. "That part of my life is over."

"Oh, why so touchy?" Taunted the Being. "There's nothing wrong with that. The light isn't much better, you know."

"What?!" Exclaimed Riku.

"It's true." Spoke the being. "You guys are the ones who call yourselves the 'light' and we the 'dark', but really, what's the difference?"

"Grrr...SHUT UP!" Yelled Riku as he lost control of his anger towards the being and began to attack him.

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While Sora and Riku fought, Leon and Yuffie were also finding their work cut out for them as they where facing two other of the beings.

"Man, these guys are tough!" Exclaimed Leon as they fell back after a failed attack.

"You said it." Said Yuffie. "It's like these guys know what we're gonna do!"

Cloud took notice of this battle. "Hold on guys, let me help too!" He said, pulling out his sword and headed towards them.

"Hold on there, Cloud." Called out another voice from behind him. He looked to see another Being standing there. "I've heard a bit about you. It seems you fancy yourself quite a swordsman." With that, he pulled out his own sword, a katana. "Care to try your worth?"

Cloud stared at the man. "Alright." He said, pointing his sword towards him. "Just don't regret it now." He then swung his sword at the man, who countered it with his own.

"Oh, that's quite a sword you got there." Remarked the man as they broke the deadlock and faced each other again. "But looks like I'm better."

Suddenly Cloud noticed something on his sword. There was a crack. "What?!" He exclaimed. "This guy...he cracked my sword?! With that stick of a sword too! How did you do that, you..."

"It looks like your confused." Said the Being. "But the answer is quite simple: I'm just better."

"I'd like to see you say that again after I've chopped you to bits!" Said Cloud as he resumed fighting the being.

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As the others were fighting, King Mickey, along with Donald and Goofy, were also prepared to fight.

"Be on your gaurd," Said The King. "One may come after us too!"

"Yes, your majesty!" Said Donald and Goofy.

The King's words were right, no shorter than after he said that were they confronted by another Being of Darkness, looming over them like a giant.

"So you are the King?" He asked. "This is a disappointment. I was hoping you would be a worthy opponent. But it seems as if you are just a rat."

"Looks aren't everything." Said Mickey as he pulled out his own golden keyblade and lept that the shadowy man.

"Hmph, worthless." Said the Being as a flicked The King away as if he were an fly, causing Mickey to fall on the ground.

"Your Majesty!" Called out Goofy.

"It's alright guys, I'm fine." Said Mickey as he got back up. "But looks like this fella's gonna be tough..."

"Would you like to me to show you what a real king's attack is like?" Asked the Being. Without waiting for an answer, he fired one of his large fists towards Mickey, Donald and Goofy. Though his attack stopped short, a large blast of force was fired through his fist, knocking back Mickey, Donald and Goofy.

"GAH!" They all yelled at once as they were thrown back.

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Meanwhile, Sora was resuming his fight with his own matched up Being. Sora was slashing his keyblade as fast as he could, but could not seem to hit his opponent.

"Dangit! Why can't I hit this guy?!" Thought Sora as he again slashed his Keyblade at the figure, only to see him vanish again. "And how does he keep doing that?!"

The figure appeared behind Sora. "Alright, I've had enough of this playing around." He then delivered a feirce blow to the back of Sora's head, knocking him straight to the ground in immense pain.

"SORA!" Exclaimed Kairi as Sora fell to the ground.

"Looks like that didn't kill him." Said the Being as he walked over to the fallen Sora. "But he won't be getting up for awhile. I have all the time to kill him."

The others noticed it too. "Sora!" Yelled Riku, who wanted to go and aid him but currently had is own hands full with his own Being of Darkness.

The Being that stood over Sora then raised his hand in the air. "This'll do it. I'm going to cut off his head right now, and that'll be the end of it."

Sora lied on the ground, on the brink of falling uncoscousness. "No...I have to fight on. It can't end like this!"

"Goodybye, Key Bearer." Said the Being as he swung his hand down.

But something made him stop.

Suddenly, from where Sora was standing, something ripped out of thin air, as if coming from another dimension. It looked like a sword, but had all sorts of eyes and mouths all over from out. it ripped across mid-air, creating a mid-dimesnional hole, in which a figure clutching the sword emerged from before it closed. Though Sora was in immense pain and had blurry vision, he recognized the person at once.

"It's...that skull guy from before!" Thought Sora. "So that wasn't just a dream!"

"Who..what is that?!" Said Kairi.

The Being then laughed an evil laugh. "You're...The Skull Knight! I've heard about you. You're quite an annoyance...and you've got quite some timing there."

"So it seems." Said the Skull Knight. He then turned towards the lying Sora. "It seems it was not his fate to die today..."

"Now, I wouldn't say that." Said the Being. "Your speed can't possibly compare to mine. I can just kill him and then go back to you."

"Really," Said the Skull Knight. "But can you even risk staying here?"

"Hmm? What do you mean by that?" Asked the Being. Suddenly, a bright light appeared in the sky, shining down on Radiant Garden, and catching everyone's attention.

"What..the sky...it's glowing?" Noted Leon.

Then, from the bright light, a creature emerged. It was long and serpent-like with green skin, and the head was that of a Dragon, with a mane and whiskers.

"Th-this Dragon!" Said one of the Beings of Darkness. "Don't tell me...HE knew about this?!"

"Hmm, The Skull Knight and that Dragon." Noted another Being. "It looks like we really can't do anything."

"Congratulations. It looks like you've succeeded." Said the Being that was standing over Sora to the Dark Knight. "But, I can't say the same about this world." Suddenly, all of Radiant Garden began to start violently shaking.

"What...what's happening?" Said Kairi.

"The ground is shaking!" Yelled Leon.

"What is going on?" Asked the Skull Knight to the Being.

"Oh, I forgot to mention." Responded the Being. "While the Heartless here were still running amock, we sent some to the center of this planet to destroy it. It'll be darkness in a matter of moments."

"No..." Said Kairi. "We're going to die?"

"Don't worry." Said the Being. "You'll just be scattered throughout other worlds is all. But will you be able to find each other?"

With that, all of the Beings then grouped back together.

"We shall take our leave for now." Said one. "But we shall continue to hunt after the Key Bearer. Your side hasn't won yet." With that, they exited through the hole in the cloud of which they came.

The Skull Knight, then slashed his sword again, creating another hole in the air. He then turned towards Sora who had long since gone unconscious. "Key Bearer," He said to him. "It seems you have joined this struggle as well. He then entered the hole in the air, which then closed, as Radiant Garden was left to fall into ruin.

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Wow, this chapter was pretty long, a lot bigger than I expected, I guess I really enjoyed doing it. Was my action scenes good? Please Review and tell me!