AN: A special thanks to my YT buddy, kefka62892, for helping me write some of Kefka's lines.
Sora, Donald, Goofy, Pain, and Panic walked along the shores of the River Styx, heading towards a large, skull-shaped castle up ahead.
"Are we there yet?" Donald moaned.
"Gawrsh, Donald, we've only been walking for five minutes at the most," Goofy chuckled.
"Aw, phooey!" Donald squawked.
"So you know what you have to do?" Hecate said, addressing the person she called Kefka.
Kefka was a tall, thin man with corn-yellow hair styled with feathers of several different varieties. His face was as white as liquid paper and he had several red and purple designs around his eyes. His lips were blood red and outlined the smile of a madman. For clothes, he wore extravagant jester clothing with many colored patterns but mostly being styled with yellows and reds. And on his back, the man wore a blood red cape.
"Of course," Kefka replied in a very playful sounding voice, "I get to play with the Keyblade master!"
Hecate glared at him.
"You're not to play around with him, Kefka," Hecate told Kefka, "You're to wipe him out here and now. Understand?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on it," Kefka said as he walked out the door. After closing the door behind him, he said to himself, "I'd watch your back if I were you, witch. You're only half god so first chance that I get, I'm killing you too."
Kefka chuckled insanely at the notion.
"We're getting close to the castle," Pain announced to the group.
"Yeah, so from this point on, we need to be on our guard," Panic added.
The trio nodded and headed up through the caves of the Underworld. Pain and Panic lead the trio through an enormous crack in the cave wall. After walking through it, the party arrived in a long path way lit by green light radiating from the pits of souls below. Up ahead, Kefka stood as if waiting for them.
"So, this is the legendary Keyblade master? Humph. I've seen shrimps bigger than you!" Kefka said as he burst into insane laughter. Sora looked at him in awe.
"You're bizarre!" Sora called out.
"Bizarre?" Kefka questioned, "You wanna know how I became this way? See, on the day of my birth, I was cursed to kill my father and marry my mother. Seeking to escape their fate, my parents left me on top of a mountain to die. But a Corinthian aristocrat found me and adopted me. Years later, when I went to the Oracle of Delphi to get a question answered, I was shooed away, being told that I would kill my father and marry my mother. I ran away in fear. On the road, I ran into some arrogant jerk and killed him. I then arrived in Thebes and saved it from the Sphinx. As a reward, I was married to the queen of Thebes and made king. Later I realized that the man I killed on the road was my father and my new wife was mother. It caused me to go insane and, bing bang boom, I became like this."
Everyone looked at Kefka in awe at the story he had just told.
"Well, anyways," Kefka continued, "Today's weather forecast: freezing cold! Icy ducks are NOT excluded!"
Kefka leaped from the ledge that he was standing on and flew over the party, firing blizzard magic down at the party. Sora cast reflect on the party and shielded them from the blasts.
"No fair using Reflect!" Kefka whined, still hovering up ahead.
Sora grunted and hurled his Keyblade at Kefka, perfectly aimed to drill the clown in the heart. Kefka snatched the Keyblade just before it came into contact with him.
"Not smart, throwing your weapon," Kefka giggled as he inspected the Keyblade.
As Kefka inspected the blade, it disappeared from his hands in a flash of light. It reappeared in Sora's hand immediately after.
"Ooh, neat trick!" Kefka yelled down, "Can you teach me?"
"Keyblade masters ONLY!" Sora yelled up to the crazy clown.
"Hmm, this boy might just be what I need to make Hecate a permanent resident down here," Kefka mumbled to himself before turning back to the party, "Sorry boys, but I can't stay. I've got people to torment. Heartless, take out this trash!"
Kefka flew off as a swarm of Heartless surrounded Sora, Donald, Goofy, Pain, and Panic.
"Heartless!" the trio all yelled at once.
Despite his initial surprise, Sora couldn't be happier than when fighting the Heartless. It was just like old times. Sora sliced through several Heartless and turned to say something to Donald and Goofy but was too stunned by what he saw to speak. The other Heartless were being massacred by a purple and green dragon. After the Heartless were all eliminated, the dragon shape-shifted back into Pain and Panic.
"Hee-hee, that was fun!' Panic said.
"Yeah! Let's do it again!" Pain added.
"A-hyuck, we did know you guys could fight," Goofy said.
"Of course we can!" Panic said.
"What do ya think we are? Defenseless?" Pain added.
Sora scratched the back of his head and laughed.
"Now, c'mon," Panic called out, "we have to get on with our mission."
The party walked up to the doorway into Hades's throne room. As Sora opened the door, two winged wolves flew out, one landing on Donald, the other landing on Goofy. Sora was knocked down by a blast of magic from a bizarre looking woman was a blue hue to her. Hecate.
"Welcome to the Underworld!" Hecate said to the party as Pain and Panic latched on to each other, afraid.
"Under new management!" piped up one of the winged wolves.
"I'd be happy to bring you in," Hecate said in a kind and soothing voice only to changed to a dark and sinister voice as she added the last word, "Permanently!"