So there was Sora, a keyblade master, pinned down on the ground by Seifer, your typical, run of the mill, bully. Sora was tempted to use his Keyblade on Seifer, but Mickey had expressly told him never to use his powers on anyone who wasn't an agent of darkness. Donald and Goofy stood by, but, like Sora, weren't allowed to use their powers in this situation. However, Sora wasn't about to just lay there and get pummeled by Seifer.

Sora's thoughts went back to one of his magic lessons with Merlin. Merlin had explained to him that his magic spells that he performed were his thoughts controlling the Keyblade's magic and that casting those spells required a verbal command, but Merlin had also explained that Sora himself had the aptitude to cast spells without the keyblade just by focusing.

Sora had never done this kind of magic before but now was as good a time as any to learn. Sora closed his eyes and let his mind go blank, letting loose all anger, fear, and distracting thoughts. He visualized a lightning bolt coming out and striking Seifer. This image was the only thing that he allowed to cross his mind. He felt it in his heart and willed the lightning to strike.

Sora was so busy focusing on casting the spell that he remained completely oblivious to the thunder bolt that shot down and hit Seifer until he heard Seifer's girlish shriek. Sora opened his eyes to see Rai and Fuu carrying an unconscious Seifer in between them and walking off. Sora got up and looked at Donald who was crossing his arms and tapping his foot, all while glaring at Sora.

"Sora," Donald said sternly, "You know the rules."

"What?" Sora asked, "You know I have to use my Keyblade to do magic."

For a moment, it almost seemed like Donald believed him until Donald shook his head and quacked.

"Well," Donald started, "Who's gonna believe that you made that lightning bolt strike him?"

Donald winked. Sora smiled.

"Come on," Goofy said, "Our ice cream is gonna melt!"

The trio headed up to the clock tower and caught up with Hayner, Pence, and Olette. They explained everything that happened.

"What are the odds that lightning would hit Seifer right at that moment?" Pence said.

"Well, either way, Seifer got what was coming to him," Hayner laughed.

The six friends sat there and ate their ice cream for a few more minutes, chatting and laughing all through it. Suddenly, the sound of screaming came from Tram Commons.

"What's going on?" Olette asked.

"Sounds like trouble," Pence said.

"We'd better go help!" Sora announced.

All five of his friends there nodded and they darted off towards Tram Commons. Once they got there, Sora gasped. There, bouncing around in the city, was a Heartless. It resembled the Fire Lord and Blizzard Lord that Pete had summoned in Agrabah last year, but this one was almost completely yellow. It held a lance with a lightning motif at the tip and thunder bolts crashed around it. Sora, Donald, and Goofy drew their weapons and stood ready to fight the Heartless.

"Got room for one more?" Hayner asked as he ran up beside them.

"Count me in," Olette said, joining them.

"Me three!" Pence said as he joined the posse.

Over next to the accessory shop, Rai, Fuu, and Seifer looked on at the Heartless and the six friends ready to fight it.

"We gotta help 'em, y'know!" Rai said.

"Yes. Fight," Fuu added.

"What? Are you nuts?" Seifer asked, "I've already been struck by lightning once today, thank you very much. And why should we bother helping THEM?"

"I don't like those guys anymore than you," Rai replied, "But it would really suck if that thing destroyed the town, y'know!"

"Correct," Fuu said.

"Then go on," Seifer spat, "Go kill yourselves helping the chicken-wusses. Me, I've got things to live for."

Rai and Fuu ran up to the six friends.

"We're in, y'know!" Rai told them. Sora was shocked.

"Instant annihilation," Fuu said.

"Well here's the plan," Sora announced. He explained his plan to Donald, Goofy, and the five kids. Everyone nodded and ran off to a different location.

The Thunder Lord was bouncing around shooting lightning at the various buildings that it passed when Hayner ran out in front of it.

"Hey ugly!" Hayner called out. The Thunder Lord turned to face him and started bouncing towards Hayner. After Hayner led the Thunder Lord down the street a little ways, something threw a soda can at the Heartless.

"Here!" Yelled Fuu. The Thunder Lord turned and started bouncing after Fuu instead. After following Fuu a little bit, the Thunder Lord lost sight of her. It looked around for her but couldn't see her. It then heard a whistle and saw Pence to it's left waving.

The Thunder Lord turned again and started bouncing after Pence. Just at the point where Pence was supposed to hide and cause the Thunder Lord to go after Donald instead, he tripped. The Thunder Lord proceeded on and was about to flatten Pence, when Goofy dove from behind the alley way and pulled Pence away just before the Heartless landed.

Goofy and Pence ran past the exchange point with Donald following after them, confused. The Thunder Lord continued to bounce after them. The three ran to Sora's post.

"What happened?" Sora asked.

"Don't ask," Goofy said, "Just do your thing!"

Sora nodded. The Thunder Lord was almost upon him and just as the Thunder Lord was about to land on top of Sora, Sora stabbed it in the stomach with the Keyblade. He made sure that the head of the blade was fully inside the Heartless' large, balloon-like stomach and the started to spin. He spun and spun and spun and finally released, hurling the Heartless into a wall.

"Rai. Olette. NOW!" Sora shouted.

Rai and Olette nodded and together pulled the cap off of a fire hydrant. A strong stream of water rocketed out and shot onto the Thunder Lord. The hole in the Thunder Lord's stomach, created by Sora, let water into it's electric body. And with sparks flying everywhere, it popped.

The eight friends cheered at their success and high fived each other. By working together, they had stopped that Heartless from destroying the town. Seifer looked on and sneered.

"Ain't it a shame?" said a voice behind him. Seifer whirled around to see a large cat-like man standing behind him.

"What is?" Seifer asked.

"Well that kid humiliated you twice now. And now he's defeated the Heartless that you were too afraid to fight." Pete said smugly.

"SHUT UP!" Seifer yelled.

"And now look," Pete said, "He's turned your posse against you. They won't follow you anymore, you know?"

"I'll kill that kid!" Seifer spat.

"That's the spirit," Pete nodded, "But, y'know, he's stronger than you. To beat him, you need power."

"Yes," Seifer said to himself, "Power!"

"And I just so happen to work for someone who can give you that power. All ya gotta do is join her."