Chosen of Sky and Twilight
MP:Ok new chapter, sorry, I said I would space it out I never meant for this length of time; so, to anyone actually reading this, I'm sorry.
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN KH
Chapter 25: Of Hearts and Keyblades Part 2
(for enhancement in reading of this chapter, find the song Rebirthing by Skillet. I don't own this.)
Maleficent heard loud footsteps echoing up the staircase.
'You can always count on foolish heroes to came running in boldly without any regards to the element of surprise.' She thought wryly.
"The king's fools are coming. I'll take care of them, and leave you to protect the princesses." Said Maleficent. Ansem Nami nodded despite a flash of annoyance that flickered across her face at the nerve of her pawn ordering her around.
'Soon she shall have fulfilled her role and I'll no longer need her.' Thought Ansem Nami smirking wicked as she watched Maleficent glide away. 'Soon.'
Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Riku barged out into what looked to be a church chapel. In the middle of it stood the dark fairy, Maleficent.
"It's too late, you meddling fools, Any moment now, the final Keyhole will be unsealed. This world will be plunged into darkness. It is unstoppable." She monologued.
"Isn't it kind of sacrilegious for her to be here?' said Sora scratching his head, his smirk revealing it was banter.
"You'd have thought a lightning bolt would have struck her for just being here." Riku bantered back. It was working, the enchantress was getting angry.
"How dare you insult the mistress of all evil!" she yelled.
"Are you my high school principal?" asked Riku abruptly.
"No." she said thrown off by the subject change.
"Well how can you be Mistress of All Evil, if you're not in charge of Hell AKA High School?" said Riku. Maleficent threw a lightning bolt at the silver haired boy.
"I think I struck a nerve." Said Riku.
"Also, why tell us about your evil plans?" asked Sora.
"Because you will not be around long enough to see the glory of darkness!" said Maleficent.
"Uh, Gol and Maia called, they want their idea back." Riku said rolling his eyes.
"SILENCE!" she yelled and the piece of the chapel she was standing on broke free and floated in the air.
Riku shifted to Ryx and Sora summoned the keyblade. Thus the battle began.
"YOU FOOLS THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME!!!!!" she roared angrily.
"We don't think we can," said Sora dodging a purple energy sphere.
"We know we can." Ryx finished batting a blast back. She cast a shield to block it and Sora leapt up onto her platform and began bashing her knocking her back then the platform spun and this sent Sora flying into Donald, which made his thundaga hit Goofy who crashed into Ryx. Sora scrambled up and barely dragged himself and Donald out of the way of several beams of electricity. He threw a fira at her and she dodged that only to be smashed from behind by Ryx and Goofy. This threw her right into a thundaga cast by Donald and Sora nailed her with his key blade again sending her right back into Ryx's attack range. Ryx and Goofy tagged teamed her again but this time she managed to zap everyone forcing them to back off and heal one another.
"Careful Goofy! You can't keep using potions for minor injuries!" yelled Donald.
"Ok Donald!" Goofy yelled.
"This witch just won't die, and is she even bleeding?" asked Ryx as though the injuries were gone, the blood from them remained. He and Sora had a lot of blood all over them and not just theirs but their comrades too from slamming into them.
"I don't think she can as she doesn't have a heart either." Sora remarked.
"Less talk and more fighting!" barked Donald.
"Yes mother!" Ryx said cheekily rolling his eyes. Sora also rolled his eyes before they charged Maleficent again rolling and jumping out of the way of attacks by throwing magic at her left right and sideways to help Goofy get hits on her, healing him once he ran out of potions. Mean while, Donald worked on pinning her down with magic. Sora saw an opening and took it. He charged forwards and performed 'Ars Arkanum' on her sending her into a wall.
She stood up weakly and vanished into a portal.
"COWARD!" Ryx yelled turning back to Riku.
"Let's heal up and get potions out of stock before facing her again." Said Donald breaking and orb called a 'tent' over all of them, healing everything. It even repaired and cleaned their clothes. Feeling fully refreshed they restocked.
"Don't waste these!" Donald said as he handed Goofy hi-potions to strap to his belt along with ethers for the ones who could use magic.
"Aw shucks Donald! I won't!" said Goofy.
"Are we ready?" asked Sora as he looked around. "We may not have a chance to rest after this point." The others nodded as Riku became Ryx again. "Remember even if we fall, we'll live on in each other's hearts."
With that they leapt into the portal she left behind.
Maleficent stood in pain,
'How had they beaten me, let alone injure me! The Mistress of All Evil!' she raged. Ansem Nami teleported in and inspected the end of her dark keyblade.
"Need any help?" she asked pleasantly.
"Nami!" yelled Sora as they arrived. He noted the long black blade and wicked red blades forming the prongs of the key and the red handle. He'd seen a drawing of it on Walt's scripts. The Dark Keyblade which meant...
"You monster!" he yelled.
"Ah, you noticed my keyblade? Unlike yours, mine can unlock hearts. Allow me to demonstrate." Said Ansem Nami and she plunged it into Maleficents chest earning a,
"What-,"
"Behold! Now open your heart, surrender it to the darkness! Become darkness itself!" Ansem Nami said as she twisted it before pulling it out and vanishing.
"THIS POWER! Darkness…TRUE DARKNESS!" she exclaimed before turning into a giant black dragon with purple webbing on her wings, green fiery eyes, a long forked tongue and smoke trailing from her nostrils.
"Talk about your dragon ladies." Muttered Ryx before they avoided getting squished by her tail.
"Anyone know how to slay a dragon?" asked Sora avoiding her flames.
"You uh, aim for the eyes and the underbelly, hyuck!" said Goofy.
"Got that. Any battle plans Goofy?" asked Ryx blocking a slash of her claws with his keyblade.
"Donald, distract her with spells, Sora assist him with that. Ryx and I'll try to attack her when there's openings." Said Goofy.
This battle was easier and harder for the group; easier because their opponent lost her magic and her maneuverability. Harder because she hadn't lost her wits or her ability to comprehend English so she attacked Sora and Donald so viciously that they had to focus on avoiding her rather than trying to distract her. Rolling away from yet another spurt of green flames Sora saw a strange stone just sitting around. He picked it up and it glowed as a strange little dragon appeared.
"I LIIIIVE!!!! Tell what you need done and vengeance will be MIIIIINE!" yelled the little guy.
"Could you help us take down that big dragon?" Sora asked pointing at Maleficent.
"BIG DRAGON! I mean, of course I can mortal!" said the small dragon shaking a little.
"I'm Mushu by the way. Oh you have other stones too!" the dragon said and Sora noticed them at long last. He squeezed two others and one turned into a small flying elephant with large ears that took off into the air and began squirting the dragon in the face. The other turned into a large lion. Sora somehow knew the lion was called 'Simba' and the elephant calf 'Dumbo.' The red maned lion charged in slashing at whatever part of the dragon was closest drawing her focus onto him as Mushu began firing on her too with little fireballs. Between the four warriors and the three summons, as Donald identified them, the course of the battle easily shifted. But Sora felt his mp stores deplete and since he'd summoned them all, they were unable to hold onto corporeal form and faded out, the stones appearing in Sora's hand and he quickly pocketed them.v
Sora rejoined the battle against the dragon and switched places with Ryx in the attack formation, as he was out of mp. Donald stood back and cured everyone, which caused Maleficent attack him. Goofy took an attack meant Donald and this left Maleficent wide open for a tag team attack from Ryx and Sora, Sora throwing Ryx so that he could bury his keyblade to the hilt into her heart. Well, what would have been her heart if she'd still had one. The Dragon yelled out in its death throes and they took cover as she thrashed about before becoming nothing more than a cloak on the ground. Ansem Nami re-appeared and kicked at the cloak.
"Useless puppet, couldn't even dispose of you properly. She never realized the Heartless were just using her, nor did she pay enough attention to the darkness knawing away at her heart." Said Ansem Nami. With that Ansem Nami and Maleficent's cloak vanished from sight.
"Anyone else notice something different about her?" asked Sora.
"She certainly filled out in a short amount of time." Said Ryx. "I mean, we saw her almost three hours ago and she looked as she always had now she looks like she had accelerated plastic surgery."
"And even though Nami is a #$%, she'd never disrespect the dead. I saw her give Seifer and earful about it once when he joked about vandalizing a graveyard on Halloween." Said Sora.
"We can handle her. Let's save the world!" Said Ryx.
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