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Hours later, Sora groggily woke up sore from his earlier fight between 601 and Scarlet Rose. Scarlet Rose, the mere thought of her made his face flush. That kiss was still a shock to him, why did she kiss me he thought, they only met once before on the islands and it was at blade point! He knew that he loved Kairi without a doubt so he didn't have to worry about having feelings for this strange girl, so why did he feel so weird? He then got out of the bed he was lying in and noticed that he was not in The Land of Departure anymore, but in fact he was at The Mysterious Tower the private little world that belonged the great wizard and retired Keyblade Master Yen Sid.
The whole world was just a little patch of land with a crooked tower on the edge over a sea of lava, he kept walking until he walked into Yen Sid's study. And there he sat before him in his tall chair behind his old wide desk, dressed in blue robes with a pointy blue hat with big yellow stars and moon on it, he was very old with a long gray beard going down past his chest. He then opened his eyes and looked at Sora with an unintentional intimidating glare that has become permanent over the long years of authority and battle. Sora then looked over to see that all of his other friends were in the room as well waiting for him.
"So good for you to be up and with us, Master Sora." Yen Sid said in his natural gruff voice. "You are most likely wondering whom it was that attacked you."
Sora nodded and said, "Yes sir and thanks for finding us and bringing us here by the way."
"He didn't." Came a voice from behind him. He turned and saw three of his friends, Donald, Goofy and of course King Mickey. "I did." Spoke the little king.
"Your Majesty." The Keyblade wielders said bowing their heads briefly.
"Um, Mickey, how did you know that we would be at our world?" Aqua asked.
He then looked at her with a smile and said, "Well I was just going to see how you guys were doing but I found you all on the ground wounded. Then I found this piece of paper on you, Aqua." Mickey then showed everyone a small piece of paper with a strange symbol on it.
It was a circle with a small point on top with a dot in the center and at the bottom left and right parts of it were straight rectangles that then at their ends bent to cross over each other and reached up to the sides of the circle. When he showed this to everyone Yen Sid, Aqua, Terra and Ventus looked shocked to see it, like they had seen a ghost.
"What is it guys? Have you seen this mark before, what does it mean?" Sora asked after seeing their faces.
"It is the symbol of someone who we all should be afraid of." Terra said still in shock and trembling a little.
"Who?" Riku asked feeling a bit nervous at their reactions.
"As you are all aware of, there are rankings among wielders of the Keyblade." Yen Sid said gaining everyone's attention.
"We know, there's and apprentice and Master, but how does that connect to this?" Sora asked getting impatient.
"That is where you are wrong, Master Sora." Yen Sid said surprising him. "There is in fact a third ranking among those whom wield the Keyblade." This shocked everyone but Mickey and the other trio.
"What?" Kairi asked almost breathless.
"It is a title only three in existence have achieved. The first was one who fought in the Keyblade War though his name has long been forgotten, the second was my Master whom only achieved it after many decades in his final years. And the third, is the one who bears this symbol as his own, one whom was a prodigy to the teachings of the Keyblade. The greatest wielder of the Keyblade in history, more powerful than any before or after him." Yen Sid said to the now scared guests to his tower.
"Who, Master?" Sora asked.
"The True Keyblade Master, Nairbix VanSull. And he was my pupil." He said quietly. This sent a shock to all of the teens at hearing that this was his student, not even those who knew about him knew that he was Yen Sid's student. Mickey nodded his head when Donald and Goofy look at him to confirm it.
"So what is he after? Is he going to go after Kingdom Hearts or something else?" Riku asked breaking the scared silence.
Yen Sid closed his eyes and said, "I could not say. He has been unheard of for ten years now, and it has been that long since I have seen or spoken to him."
"Where has he been?" Aqua asked. But she was only given silence.
"Can you at least tell us what he is like, so we know what we're up against?" Terra asked hoping to get an answer.
"What I say next will send you all into even more of a shock than before. Nairbix was what people would consider a prodigy and a genius to the Keyblade, it took him only four years after he began his training to pass his Mark of Mastery. And unlike the two before him who spent nearly their entire lives to reach the title of True Master, it only took him two years." Yen Sid said making all but Mickey once again gasp. He then continued, "And he was born with a condition that has given him unimaginable power."
"What condition, Master?" Aqua asked slightly afraid of the answer.
"He was born with a heart of pure darkness, which led to him having a Keyblade of pure darkness as well." With hearing this everyone automatically came to the conclusion that this man was evil, who knows maybe he was. "We must know what he is planning to do. Scour the worlds, find him and end this before it escalates to something far worse." Yen Sid commanded.
"Yes, Master!" Everyone said in unison.
Soon everyone left on their Keyblade riders to leave and head to other worlds in separate parties. One was of Sora, Kairi, Ventus and Aqua, the other was of Riku, Terra, Donald and Goofy. Mickey however stayed behind at the tower alone in an empty hallway, he then pulled out a small disc to communicate with the others made by Jumba. After he pulled it out a hologram of Nairbix came and he started to speak, "So they have separated, then?"
"Yes, they have spilt into two parties of four."
"Good, do you know where they are headed then?" Nairbix asked.
"Sora, Kairi, Ventus, and Aqua are headed to the world called Camelot where the next item we need is. Riku, Terra, Donald and Goofy are going to where Maleficent is as well."
"In that case, I will head to that world while Elsa heads to the other. I think it's time to pay a visit to the dark fairy." Nairbix then ended the com-link and walked past Jumba who was calculating complex formulas for their plan and walked to Elsa.
"Sweetheart, I need you to go to a world called Camelot. When you get there, I need you to bring back the item on this piece of paper, you can bring any experiment you need. But be cautious you will be dealing with two of the Keyblade Masters and their apprentices." Nairbix said to Elsa.
"Alright, I'll take Catastrophe with me I'd like to see what he can do." Elsa said, Catastrophe then hopped over to her and walked to a corridor that Nairbix created for them, he then walked through one that he created for himself that led to Maleficent's castle. He walked through the dark green ruins past the bowing pig and vulture like creatures dressed like soldiers, he then made his way to the throne room to see the fallen fairy sitting in her throne.
She was wearing black robes that dragged behind her when she walked, in her left hand was a long golden scepter that had a green orb on top, she had pale white skin and big black horns on top of her head, her face was strikingly intimidating and beautiful. She had piercing gold eyes and red lips, and on her face was a wicked smile.
She then said, "So it would seem that even after ten years of exile, the True Keyblade Master looks as handsome as he was then now."
"And the beauty of the lady of this castle, is as piercing as always." He said extending his arms and bowing with a playful smile. He then rushed up to hug her and she hugged him in return with tears coming to her eyes.
"As happy I am to see you again, I need something of yours. I need it for my plans right now but I will return it once I am finished." Nairbix said explaining his visit.
"You need my staff, don't you?" He nodded, "Why?" She asked.
"Do you remember why I went into exile ten years ago?" Nairbix asked
"Of course, I still remember holding you as you wept over their deaths." Maleficent replied.
"I was fooled. Ansem tricked me with an illusion, they have been alive all these years and I missed every moment. I found the children, but I need your staff to find my wife, but I will continue with this after I kill Ansem." Nairbix said with anger.
"I know the path of revenge all too well, and if you continue on this path you may lose yourself." Maleficent said to him while his back was turned.
He then looked at her with sadness on his face and said, "Mother, I don't know what else to do. I want my wife back in my arms, I want to see my girls happy with their family together again, and I want my happiness back. I fought so hard to get it only for it to be ripped to shreds by Ansem and his godforsaken research." He was almost in tears before his mother held him against her chest stroking his hair to calm him down like he did with his children.
"Shhh, I know, darling. If you truly need it then take it, all I want you to do when you succeed, is show me how much my granddaughters have grown. I still need to see the youngest, you know I haven't seen her in so long."
Nairbix laughed and said, "She is as lovely as her mother is." He then took the staff and began to walk out of the castle only to find the two Keyblade wielders and two palace guards that Mickey informed him about.
"Well now this is interesting, it has been a long time Terra, Donald, Goofy. How have the past ten years been?" He said mockingly.
"Looks like they have kind to you, it's been fourteen years since I last saw you and you haven't changed a bit." Terra said with his Keyblade out.
"Trust me, my boy, they have been anything but kind. So why are you here? It can't be just for the scenery." Nairbix said gesturing to the wasteland they were on.
"I think the question is, why are you here?" Riku asked pulling out his own Keyblade.
"Let's just say, I had to pick something up. But why do you have your Keyblades out? I mean no harm, unless you provoke me that is." Nairbix warned.
"So why don't you pull out your Keyblade then?" Riku asked.
This caused Nairbix to laugh loudly, he then said to them with a grin, "None of you are worth its time. You are far too weak for me even without using it, none of you can out match me and none of you ever will."
"Big talk from a guy who's outnumbered!" Donald yelled with his wand out.
"Uh, watch it, Donald. Remember who we're dealing with." Goofy warned with his round shield in front of him.
"Outnumbered yes, but not out matched." Nairbix then rushed in like a blur and as he reached Riku, everything looked like it was in slow motion. Nairbix pushed forward his reeled back left hand to Riku's chest and said two words, "Flux Wave."
Then an invisible sonic force shot out of Nairbix's palm and sent Riku flying into the rock wall behind him forming a crater in his shape. Terra then charged over his head about to strike down but Nairbix moved in a blur once again and came right behind Terra sending a roundhouse kick to his back slamming him into the ground.
Donald then cast a second level thunder spell while Goofy threw his shield at Nairbix, he then caught the shield while simultaneously deflecting the lightning with his other bare hand. He then sent two Flux Waves out of his hands sending the attacks right back at the ones who sent them, the shield smacked Goofy right in the chest with a lot of power and speed and the lightning was sent with the Flux Wave knocking out Donald. Riku then regained consciousness seeing his friends sprawled around the ground beaten, he then saw Nairbix walk into a corridor with Maleficent's staff in hand and called out to him, "Wait, why are you doing this?"
Nairbix turned to look at him and only smiled before turning back into the portal and leaving. Riku then limped over to wake up the others, after that they made their way back to the tower to tell Yen Sid what happened. In another world Sora, Kairi, Aqua and Ventus went in search of anything involving Nairbix. They walked around in a small town filled with people dressed like people would in the middle ages. Sora then looked at Kairi who was looking at the sites happily, he felt ashamed for the kiss that Scarlet Rose gave him even if he didn't kiss back.
"Hey, Kairi. I need to tell you something." And he did, she then sighed and kept walking forward with her eyes closed. This worried Sora until she stopped them both pulled on his haori and kissed him passionately on the lips. She then broke apart with a smile and asked, "How was that compared to her?"
"She was nothing compared to you." He said with a smile and wrapping his arm around her waist as they continued walking. In front of them were Aqua and Ven walking together holding hands looking back at the two, Aqua then rested her head on Ven's shoulder and exhaled her breath happily.
"You know, it was nice to have a break from all the fighting. But now that we're in a new adventure, it's kinda exciting." Aqua told him.
He nodded and said, "I know what you mean, why do you think he is doing this? I mean, it makes no sense. As far as we know, he has had this weirdo with an obsession for roses take a jar of sand, and one of the links of chains from our world. What can you do with things like that anyway?"
"Beats me. Hey, look at that." Aqua said pointing to a stage in front of them on it was a large stone with an anvil on top of it but what really caught their attention was the sword run through them both.
It looked like a contest to see who could pull it out, a big man came up to pull it out, he looked really stupid even if he was built like an ox. He grabbed the hilt of the sword and began to pull the crowd looked at him with anticipation to see if he could pull it out, but he couldn't even get it to budge. He kept trying to pull but he eventually stopped right after something of his popped, then after he got off a small scrawny kid with blonde hair came up to pull it out. Ven and Aqua looked at him thinking that there was no way that he could pull it out, but before he could grab it a puff of pink smoke came out of nowhere showing their old friend Merlin the wizard standing next to them.
"Hm? Oh, hello, you two. Fancy meeting you here!" The old man said cheerfully to the couple.
"Hey, Merlin. Do you know what's going on here?" Ven asked.
"Of course I know what's going on, I started this!" Merlin shouted in his grumpy old voice. "That sword is called Excalibur and it can only be pulled out by whomever is worthy to be king. And I know for a fact that person is young Arthur up there once he pulls that sword out he will be crowned king of this world." Merlin said proudly.
"Wow, king of an entire world!" Sora said popping up with Kairi.
"What about that girl in the turquoise dress? It'd be pretty disappointing to have the person in front of you get a chance before you do and win." Kairi said pointing to the girl.
She was indeed wearing a long turquoise dress with matching gloves that went up to her elbows, she had long bleached blonde hair tied in a braid that went down over the front of her left shoulder.
Merlin looked over at her and then said, "Actually, my dear, that woman is not from this world. I have never seen her before here, she must be from another world." This made the four of them panic, if she was indeed from another world than she must be with Nairbix, and they were right, this woman was Queen Elsa!
Just then Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone causing an uproar of applause, Elsa then stepped in to try and grab the sword but Aqua was faster, she created a barrier dome made of bright repelling octagons around Arthur and leapt onto the stage with the others right behind her all of them with their Keyblades out and ready for battle. Elsa then gave a grin identical to her father's then from the sky dropped Catastrophe roaring at them making the crowd of people scatter.
"So you plan to get in our way even more? You all are fools to think that you can stop us in succeeding with our plan." Elsa making the air grow colder with her magical ice and Catastrophe's mouth was filled with yellow energy like a cannon ready to fire.
Elsa then created two swords made of ice and charged at Aqua who defend with her Keyblade, Catastrophe then unleashed an energy attack from its mouth striking Ventus's Keyblade as he deflected the blast before it struck him. Sora then charged at it with a mighty strike but it was too fast for him, it then leaped into the air and punched Sora in the right cheek of his face sending him into the ground. Kairi then activated her shot lock sending a volley of different colored balls of destructive energy into the creature greatly wounding it, she then sent another each one making it marks harming the experiment further and further.
It then jumped out of the way and sent a barrage of yellow balls of energy from its mouth at Kairi, several hit her as she tried to dodge them. She could tell that it was nearly finished off so she took a chance and fired one more shot lock attack with complete success, Catastrophe then gave out a cry of defeat just before it turned into a little blue pod that said 630 and returned to Elsa.
Sora and Ventus then decided to help Aqua and activated their shot locks that sent a massive volley of fire balls at the ice queen each one hitting her.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" She yelled as she was burnt to nothing more than a melting women who turned into a puddle on the ground. The villagers cheered at their victory, the four of them went to go and see if Arthur was alright, the crowd then cheered when they saw the young boy.
"It looks like their waiting for you, Your Majesty." Sora said bowing to the new king, he nodded and went to raise Excalibur to the sky causing the villagers to cry, "Hail Arthur! Hail Arthur, King of Britain!"
Soon all the villagers left carrying Arthur to his new life as king, the four Keyblade wielders stayed behind to talk about what happened earlier. "I don't get it! First it was sand, then it was chains, and this time it was a sword! What is he doing?!" Ven yelled aggravated.
"Calm down, Ven. At least they didn't get anything this time. Let's just go back and tell the others what happened, okay?" Aqua asked soothing her boyfriend before they all hopped on their riders leaving this world. But as soon as they left an icy blue liquid came together forming a blob that grew into the size of a human, it was regaining its original form as Queen Elsa!
"Fools, the sword did indeed have great power. But my target was the anvil that held it. Hmph, they truly think that they can stop us? Fools." She spat, she then looked up into the night sky and said, "Mother, I know we are not related by blood but I need you, please be okay for me, Dad and Rosie." She then reactivated Catastrophe and had it carry the anvil through the corridor to move on with the plan.