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Chapter 6 : Magical Hair to the Rescue

Atlas climbed up on the dock to get out of the water with Riku following closely behind. Atlas shook his body to dry off quickly as he spoke.

"Well, that battle could have gone better." Atlas commented.

"Hey, that was your first time facing him. So, you need more practice with your keyblade and your arm since he said that it was possible to fight with it." Riku said.

"Fair enough. So, let's get to know this town." Atlas said as he entered a nearby entrance that leads into town with Riku following behind him.

Unknown to them, Zander was tailing them by rooftop until they entered the plaza. Zander then conjured a dark aura in his hand and fired it at the center of the plaza. The aura spreads a bit before forming a animal-like figure on four legs, forming a creature with white eyes that resembled a wolf. It unfurled its claws as it growled, Riku and Atlas summoning their keyblades for battle.

"What is this?" Atlas asked Riku.

"Surprisingly, I don't know. I faced heartless and nobodies, but this is different." Riku admitted as the wolf was slowly approaching them.

(Play Sinister Shadows from Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix)

The wolf then attempted to pounce on them, only to land on the ground as the two avoid it. Riku then fired a thundaga spell on it that misses as the wolf was quick to dodge it by leaping away. The wolf then leaped from side to side towards Atlas, who swung at it as the wolf attacked with its claws. The claws collided with his keyblade as Atlas struggled to push it back. The wolf then caught him off guard by biting down on the blade before doing a spin that spun Atlas in the air before the keyblade was thrown away by the wolf. Atlas was able to land on his feet this time, only to see the wolf lunge at him. As if by instinct, Atlas then balled his left hand into a fist before delivering a strong uppercut to the wolf's jaw, making it fly back and crash into a food stand in its path.

"Wow, this packs a punch." Atlas commented before seeing his keyblade reappear in his right hand.

Atlas then was ready to fight as the wolf got up to its feet, it then getting hit with a thundaga spell, shocking it. Riku appeared and went to Atlas' side.

"You all right?" Riku asked.

"Yeah. I suggest we finish this quickly." Atlas answered.

"Read my mind." Riku said as the two got ready for the wolf's next attack.

The wolf then howled as it was channeling energy for its next attack, which is now a full on charge attack as it sprinted at Riku and Atlas. The two waited as the wolf came closer until it was about to hit. However, the two dodged it at the last second before they quickly retaliated with a horizontal slash at the wolf, hitting it on both sides before the wolf passed by them. It was now severely wounded as it charged up another attack, but the two wasn't gonna allow that as they quickly dashed forward and delivered a cross slash combo, finishing it off.

(End music)

The wolf then dissipated into the air before disappearing completely. The keyblades then disappeared as well as Atlas and Riku took a deep breath.

"Seriously, what was that thing?" Atlas asked.

"That creature was called the Wolf, part of the Corrupted." A familiar voice answered from behind.

Atlas and Riku turned around and got ready to summon their keyblades as Zander stood there.

"The Corrupted? Pets of yours?" Riku questioned.

"You can say it like that. Anyways, just here to inform you of that. Not here for another fight after beating you two earlier." Zander answered as he was about to walk away.

"We can fight right now!" Atlas exclaimed as he then charged at Zander.

He delivered a straight punch with his corrupted arm at Zander, only for it to be caught in his palm. "Now now, don't fight with something you don't even know how to properly use." Zander taunted as he simply tossed Atlas' arm away, making him stumble a bit as Zander then disappeared.

Atlas regained his footing as he noticed Zander gone. "We'll get him next time." Riku said as he walked to Atlas.

"... I'm actually going to have to use this." Atlas said with a bit of hesitation as he looked at his dark arm.

"I'll teach you." Riku suggested, making Atlas look at him. "I've been in darkness long enough to know how to control it. I never had my arm like that, but I'll try my best."

"Thanks, Riku." Atlas said as he patted Riku's shoulder with his right hand with a smirk.

"No problem. Oh, here you go." Riku said as he then handed Atlas a magical sphere with a flame, an icicle, a lightning bolt, and a glowing green leaf.

"What is that?" Atlas asked.

"A special orb made by Aqua that gives the person that the orb is given to the fire, blizzard, thunder, and cure spells." Riku briefly explained.

Atlas accepted it and held it in his hand before the sphere absorbed into his hand and the rest of his body.

"And as a special gift to help you with your darkness, you may use one of my techniques." Riku added as he then channeled a dark flame in his palm. He then gave it to Atlas, where it was also absorbed into him.

"My gift to you is Dark Firaga, which is basically a dark version of the original Firaga spell." Riku briefly explained.

"Cool. Many thanks, man." Atlas said with a smile.

"Yeah. Anyways, it would be best to take a rest." Riku said as he yawned a bit.

The two walked until they reached a fountain and the two decided to lay down on the basin of the fountain. Next thing they knew, they were asleep just like that.

Back with Pep and Kyla

It was night time with many stars in the sky as Pep fired a fire spell three times at her target, which was an orb of light, hitting it each time. Kyla fired a thunder spell two times on the same target, hitting both times before it disappeared.

"Good job." Aqua commented as she was walking towards them.

"Thanks. Though, I was thinking we could do more than just play target practice." Pep admitted.

"Magic can only entertain us so much." Kyla added.

"Hmm..." Aqua simply said as she was thinking.

"Aqua!"

Aqua looked up with a smile on her face as a strange looking glider came in towards the summit where the three were standing. The person riding the glider was wearing strange armor, which had the colors of steel blue, gold, and black with some red decorating it with a black cape flowing in the wind as the glider came above the summit. The person dismissed the glider and landed on the ground next to Aqua.

"Ven! Glad to see you." Aqua said happily.

The armor then dissipated as the person under it was shown. It was a young teen boy with spiky hair and unique attire as he spoke.

"Glad to see you too." Ven happily said back.

He then noticed Pep and Kyla, "You two must be new here. I'm Ventus, you can call me Ven."

"Nice to meet you, Ven. I'm Pepper, call me Pep." Pep smiled.

"Kyla." Kyla simply said.

"I must have came in during a training session. Sorry." Ven said.

"It's all right, Ven. Actually, you came in just in time. I was thinking of us having a sparring session, mind joining us?" Aqua mentioned.

"Sure! I enjoy a good sparring match." Ven agreed.

The four were now facing each other from a distance, Ven and Aqua on one side, Pep and Kyla on the other side. The four then summoned their keyblades, Aqua with Stormfall, Pep with Coral Butterfly, Kyla with Pumpkinhead, and Ven with Wayward Wind.

"Let's go!" Ven exclaimed.

(Play Future Masters from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep)

Aqua went first by firing a Fission Firaga at Pep with Ven rushing in at Kyla. Pep countered the Firaga with a Fire shot, cancelling it out as Kyla fired three thunderbolts down upon Ven. Ven was surprisingly quick as he sidestepped the bolts before attacking with Sonic Blade, quickly closing the remaining distance. Kyla was barely able to dodge it as she jumped out of the way, retaliating with a downward vertical slash. Ven was quick to block it as Pep was exchanging blows with Aqua. Aqua then jumped back and performed Fire Surge, making Pep jump over her. Pep then tried a downward thrust, only for it to be blocked by Aqua as she spun around to face Pep.

Kyla and Ven were exchanging blows, but Ven had the upper hand as he was faster than her. Kyla did her best to keep up, only to be caught off guard as Ven then performed an Aeroga spell, blowing her away from him. He then threw his keyblade at her, bouncing off her keyblade as she defended herself. The keyblade then acted like a boomerang as it flew around to come back to attack her again. Kyla dodged each time the keyblade came at her to get closer to Ven. Ven noticed this and had the keyblade fly back to him to defend himself against Kyla's attack. Kyla then fired a couple of Blizzard shots at him as she closed the distance, Ven then shattering the icicles with Ars Arcanum, each swing hitting its mark. Kyla then slowed down and got ready to dodge as Ven continued his combo.

Aqua then disappeared as she attacked with Time Splicer, teleporting around Pep as she attacked with a couple of slashes each time. Pep didn't expect this, but tried her best to dodge and block the attack. However, some of the slashes did hit their mark as when Aqua was done teleporting, Pep was breathing hard as she held her keyblade up to continue. Aqua noticed her getting tired, so she decided to finish the match with Thundaga Shot, firing an orb of electricity at her. Pep blocked the orb, only for it to suddenly burst. The sparks from the burst hit her dead on, her getting on one knee and her keyblade dropped on the ground.

Ven and Kyla were exchanging blows again, Kyla then firing a point blank fire at Ven. Ven quickly sidestepped it, only to leave himself open for a horizontal swing from Kyla. He was knocked back, but quickly recovered before retaliating with a Recovery Raid. Kyla was caught off guard by this as the keyblade hit her dead on, knocking her down on her back. She sat back up, only to see Ven pointing his keyblade at her.

"You're pretty good." Ven commented.

(End music)

Kyla dismissed her keyblade and held her right hand over her stomach as Ven then held out his left hand. Kyla saw his hand and accepted it, grabbing it and helped her up to her feet.

"I was gonna say the same to you." Kyla said as Ven then held his keyblade up.

"Heal!" A green aura then appeared around Kyla, healing her injuries.

Aqua was healing Pep with Curaga as the two walked over, "You all right, Pep?" Kyla asked.

"I am now." Pep answered as she dismissed her keyblade as Aqua did the same.

"That's wonderful news!" A voice exclaimed from above.

The four looked up to see a familiar hooded figure, who was clapping for their sparring match before jumping down, landing a few feet away from them.

"Zander!" Pep and Kyla exclaimed, summoning their keyblades again.

Ven and Aqua were confused, which Zander noticed. "Oh come on, you don't know what the new threat looks like? So slow to catch on."

Ven and Aqua realized what he was talking about and also summoned their keyblades as well.

"That's more like it." Zander said as he started walking towards them slowly.

"Where's Atlas!?" Pep demanded.

"Oh don't worry, he's fine. But soon, he will have to use that arm of his and take it to its full potential." He then stopped walking, "Once he does, he will become stronger than even Riku when he was living in the dark."

"Answer the question!" Kyla demanded as well.

Zander was silent as he looked at them. After some time, he talked. "Why do you ignore what I said? It doesn't matter what I say or what you do, you can't change what has already been done..." He then jumped high and landed in the center of the summit, channeling darkness in his body. He then crossed his arms across his chest, "You will all... DROWN IN DARKNESS!" He then swung his arms downward as he unleashed a large shockwave of dark energy, covering the summit in darkness.

Ven, Aqua, Pep and Kyla were bracing themselves as the shockwave hits them. Suddenly, two flashes of light appeared before two keyblade gliders flew up high into the sky. Ven and Kyla on his keyblade glider, Aqua and Pep on her keyblade glider, floating in the starry sky as the darkness that covered the summit was now slowly fading away.

"Calm down, calm down. Last thing I need to do, is lose my cool." Zander said to himself as he then raised his hand up in front of him. The remaining darkness surrounding the summit then got absorbed into his hand rapidly until all of it was absorbed. A small black flame remained in his palm before he clenched it into a fist, putting it out.

Zander then looked up in the sky at the four and then disappeared into the air. The gliders flew back down to the summit, disappearing as the four landed on the ground.

"Did you two know what he was talking about?" Aqua asked Pep and Kyla.

"Before we got here, we met Zander with our friend Atlas and we were about to leave him when Atlas gave him a handshake. That was when darkness started to attach itself onto his arm. We were able to stop it from spreading any further by getting Zander away from him before Riku showed up." Pep explained.

"I see." Aqua said.

"Riku left to look for Atlas, right?" Ven asked.

"Yeah. Though I don't know where he went to look for him. Right now, we should just hope for the best and rest for tonight." Aqua answered.

Pep and Kyla knew they didn't have much of a choice and agreed, the four walking back to the castle to rest.

Back with Atlas and Riku

Fast forward to the next morning, Atlas and Riku woke up and found themselves surrounded by people, walking around them through the streets as they carried on with their lives. The two sat up and looked around their surroundings before Atlas got up to his feet. He then saw a mural of a king and queen with a baby that has blonde hair. Though, the baby looks familiar as he walked closer to it. Green eyes, golden blonde hair... she looked like...

"Riku, come here." Atlas said to him, getting his attention.

Riku got up and walked over to him, "Doesn't this baby look familiar?"

Riku looked at the mural for a bit, "Somewhat."

"Atlas! Riku!" A female voice called out.

The two looked to see Rapunzel and Flynn, with Rapunzel's hair braided with beautiful flowers for decoration, walking from the path to the plaza.

"Hey." Atlas responded.

"Where did you guys go?" Flynn asked them.

"We tracked down an enemy of ours to the city. Unfortunately, we lost track of him." Riku answered.

"Well, what did he look like?" Flynn asked.

"He had a black hood on." Riku answered.

Flynn thought about it, "Nope, no bell to ring."

Atlas was looking at the mural again when he spoke, "Hey, does this mural remind you of something?"

Flynn and Rapunzel looked at the mural as well, "Yeah, the king and queen of Corona."

"No, not that. What does the baby look like?" Atlas said.

The two looked at it for a little bit as Atlas waited for their answer. Before they could answer though, a man was heard calling out around town. "To the boats!"

"Why?" Atlas wondered.

Rapunzel looked at him, "He's talking about the lanterns! Come on!" She said as she grabbed Flynn's hand and ran off to the docks.

"Might as well join them." Riku said as he started walking to the docks with Atlas following behind him.

When the two arrived at the docks, the pair are in a boat going out on the water with the horse from before eating some apples at the end of the dock they are rowing away from. Seeing another boat nearby, the two hopped on and Riku started rowing, following Flynn's boat. When the two boats stopped, they were out far enough to see the entire kingdom. Atlas then noticed that the moon is already out again.

"Night already?" Atlas wondered.

"You clearly didn't see how long it was to row out here." Riku commented.

"To be honest, I zoned out." Atlas chuckled.

After waiting for a little bit, the four then saw a small light from the castle, that was then more lights flew up after it. More and more flew up, coming from the town, the bridge, and large boats as the lights looked like stars in the sky. The lights flew closer to the four, revealing that they were lanterns. Atlas and Riku were amazed to see the lanterns around them like balloons, Atlas pushing one up that was about to hit the water. After watching the lanterns for a bit longer, Riku then noticed Rapunzel and Flynn's boat on a shore near the cliff they were at before. Riku then started to row over to them as Flynn walked across the shoreline.

Flynn walked along the shoreline until he met up with one of the brothers, sharpening a stick with a knife.

"Hey, I wonder what happened to you. Those sideburns are coming in nicely." Flynn greeted. However, the brother didn't respond.

Flynn shrugged it off and help up the satchel in his hand, "Anyways, here's the crown you wanted so much." He said as he then tossed the satchel over to the brother. "Hope you do great in your future endeavors and-" Flynn was able to say as he started to walk away, only to bump into the other brother.

"Holding out on us again, Rider?" The brother sharpening the stick questioned.

"What?" Flynn responded.

"We no longer want the crown." The brother said, tossing the stick away and threw the knife on the ground as he sat up, walking over to him. "We want the girl instead."

As Rapunzel stood near the boat, she saw a shadow walk towards her. "Oh, there you are. Thought you left me."

However, she then saw the shadow split into two as it got closer to her. The shadows are revealed to be the Stabbington brothers.

"He did leave ya." The brother who talks said.

"What? He wouldn't." Rapunzel denied.

"See for yourself." The brother said as he gestured to a boat sailing back to the city with Flynn on board. Rapunzel looked on as she felt her heart sink.

"Imagine who will pay for magical hair that will keep them young forever." The brother said as Rapunzel turned around to face them. She then sees the brother pull up a large sack and started to back away until she heard a voice.

"Hey!" The sack held by the brother was suddenly ripped apart, sliced by Riku's keyblade as he and Atlas appeared in between the brothers and Rapunzel.

"Look at that, two punks that got themselves into deep trouble. You're gonna regret that, kid." The brother said as he and the other brother pulled out their swords.

"Rapunzel, run! We got this!" Atlas reassured.

Rapunzel hesitated, but nodded and went to get behind cover.

The brothers then started on the offensive, but Riku and Atlas was ready to defend against their attack. The talkative brother swung downward at Riku, only to the swing to be deflected and in an instant, Riku spun his keyblade once and delivered a powerful slash as he dashed pass him, right before the brother was down for the count. The other brother attacked with a horizontal swing, only for Atlas to deflect it and spun himself around before delivering a strong haymaker punch with his left arm, hitting the brother straight in the jaw and made him fly, hitting against a tree trunk behind him before falling on the ground.

"What was that move you did?" Atlas asked.

"It's called the Zantetsuken, a single powerful slash that pretty much is an instant KO." Riku answered.

"Dude, you gotta teach me that." Atlas smirked.

"Not until you are ready." Riku smirked back.

Atlas then realized something as he then turned around, "Rapunzel?" He didn't get a response. "She probably went into the forest. Come on."

Atlas and Riku then ran and entered the forest. After a while of searching, the two then arrived at the Snuggly Duckling pub, which they did entered. The thugs that Atlas met before are there, along with a familiar horse. The horse recognized Atlas and was on edge as he approached.

"Whoa, I'm not here for a fight. We're just looking for Rapunzel." Atlas said.

The horse was doubtful, but relaxed a bit as the thug named Hook was walking.

"What was this about Rapunzel?" Hook questioned.

"She got attacked by these two tough guys. Me and Riku did defeat them, but before the fight, I told Rapunzel to run. Afterwards, we came back here to look for her." Atlas explained.

"Well, she didn't come back here. However, Maximus here was trying to tell us something about Flynn." Hook said.

"Did something happen to him?" Atlas asked.

Maximus nodded and did some gestures of what he saw to Atlas. From what he can gather, Flynn was taken by some guards into the city.

"Was Flynn taken into custody?" Atlas guessed.

Maximus nodded yes to his answer. "Well, what do you want us to do about it?" Hook questioned.

"Maximus is trying to ask for help to break him out. Am I right, Max?" Atlas answered.

Maximus nodded again in response. "And why should we help him?" Hook questioned.

"We don't help Flynn, then we can't find where Rapunzel could have gone to." Atlas responded.

Hook thinks about it before turning to the other thugs, "Listen up!" Hook spoke, getting their attention.

"This horse and men wants us to help Flynn Rider break out of prison to find Rapunzel. I ask you, are you in!?" Hook spoke.

The thugs cheered in response, indicating their answer. "We're in." Hook said.

"OK. But first, we need a plan."

The next day

Flynn was being escorted by two guards with cuffs on his wrist, walking down the cell block as Flynn looked around. He then saw the brothers in one of them, making him mad before taking down the two guards escorting him before jumping to get his cuffed hands in front of him before grabbing the brother that talks by the collar.

"How did you know about her!? Tell me, now!" Flynn demanded.

"It wasn't us! It was the old lady who set us up. Then two guys with weird looking swords came to her rescue." The brother confessed.

"Old lady? Weird swords?" Flynn repeated to himself before two other guards took him away from the cell. He tried to struggle free from them, but proved to be pointless as he was taken to a hallway with three doors. He then noticed a little unicorn on the window before the doors slammed shut.

"What? Open up!" The Captain said as he slammed his fist against the door in front of him three times.

The little slide open window on the door then opened, showing an old guy with a long white beard. "What's the password?" He asked.

"What?" The Captain said.

"Nope."

"Open this door!"

"Not even close." The old guy then closed the slide window on the door.

"You have three seconds. One..." The Captain said.

When he said one, the guard on Flynn's left was suddenly taken up to the ceiling. The other guard saw this and was about to speak, only to be taken through the door behind him that was open before it closed behind him.

"Two... Th-" The Captain was about to say three as he turned around, only to stop talking as he only saw Flynn. The door behind him then opened and the thug who bakes knocked the Captain out with a frying pan.

"Frying pans! You knew, right?" Flynn commented.

The door behind him then was slammed against two times before it busted open with guards coming through. The baking thug and Flynn then ran down the hall that had a cell block with three guards chasing them. After Flynn and the baker thug passed a certain point, the guards were then stopped by a mime. He did some weird gestures before looking down the hall to his right. The guards followed his look and saw a large thug with a long horned helmet charge at them. The guards screamed as they got hit by the large thug, with the mime doing a shocked gasp gesture.

Flynn and a couple of other thugs make it out to the courtyard, only to see an army of guards from the second floor coming down the stairs. Flynn was then picked up and put on a wagon with Hook beside him.

"Head down, arms in, knees apart." Hook said as he did what he instructed with Flynn doing the same.

"Wait, knees apart?" Flynn repeated.

The large thug from before then jumped from the roof and before Flynn could ask why, he was launched into the sky and landed on a saddle of a horse. The horse was none other than Maximus.

"Max? You brought them here?" Flynn asked, with Max doing a smirk in response.

"We did, actually." Flynn turned around to see Atlas and Riku on the back of the horse.

"You two as well?"

"Yeah. Leaving a friend in prison is not actually on my to do list."

"Thanks. I don't know what to say."

"Save the talk for later. Right now, we need to find Rapunzel."

"Right." The door behind them then opened with guards coming out, three of them having crossbows. They fired the arrows as Max galloped down the path on the castle wall. Guards then started coming out the door diagonally from them, coming at them as Max continued galloping.

"Get ready, Max!" Atlas called out as Max was getting closer to the corner of the castle wall. "Now!" Max then jumped from the castle wall and landed on a roof, sliding down it before jumping off that too, sticking the landing on the ground.

"OK, Maximus. Let's see how fast you can run." After Flynn said that, Max then sprinted through the city and across the bridge in no time flat. With Flynn knowing what path lead him to the tower, the three made it there before Atlas knew it. Once Max stopped, Flynn was the first one off as he approached the tower with Atlas and Riku getting off Max as well.

"Rapunzel! Rapunzel, let down your hair!" Flynn called out. After a few seconds, her hair then came out of the window and reached the ground. Flynn climbed up the hair with Atlas and Riku following behind him. The three then entered the window to Rapunzel's room.

"Rapunzel, I thought I never see you again." Flynn said before he saw quite a sight. Rapunzel was restrained, her hands chained by a long chain connected to the wall and a handkerchief over her mouth.

Riku then sense a presence behind them, summoning his keyblade to then swing behind him. He managed to hit a dagger out of a woman's hand before she could attack.

"You fools!" The woman yelled out.

Riku, Atlas and Flynn saw that the woman was Mother Gothel. However, something was off about her.

"You three couldn't keep yourselves away from my flower. Just had to come and take it from me." Mother Gothel said as she walked around them to the center of the room.

"What are you talking about?" Atlas questioned.

"Oh, you already know why. The reason why I keep Rapunzel here is her hair's magic. It gives me youth back each time I come into contact with it. How else would I lived for so long?" Mother Gothel answered.

"However, the hair's power was originally in a beautiful flower. But, that king just needed to find it to save his wife. Due to the properties of the flower, the hair that Rapunzel has was given the same properties." She continued.

"I am not gonna let history repeat itself. I won't let anyone take my flower!" Mother Gothel finished as a dark aura surrounded her.

Atlas summoned his keyblade with Riku already at the ready as Mother Gothel was then covered herself with her darkness. She then suddenly summoned a gust of wind, blowing the three out the window of the tower. Mother Gothel then started walking to the window as she spoke.

"I'll be sure that no one will know our secret." She coldly said as she went out the window as well.

The three got up to their feet as Mother Gothel landed on the ground. Atlas, Riku and Flynn stood close together as Mother Gothel, or now Dark Gothel, got ready to battle.

(Play Vim and Vigor from Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD Remix)

Dark Gothel then surrounded herself in a sphere of darkness as she summoned 3 shadow guards in front of the sphere. The guards then charged on the offensive with their swords as the three heroes got ready.

"Flynn, here." Atlas then tossed a frying pan to him, with him catching it.

"Thanks." Flynn said as Maximus got ready for a fight as well beside him, with a sword held by the handle with his teeth.

The first guard came at them with Max swinging it horizontally at it. The guard blocked and retaliated with a downward slash, which Max parried and performed a stab. It landed a hit on the guard, knocking it back a bit as Flynn swung his frying pan at its head. With it stunned, Max then finished it with an upward slash, making it burst into tiny orbs.

The second guard came at Atlas, with the guard starting with a strong upward swing. Atlas dodged it and retaliated with two quick slashes, staggering it a bit. It then delivered a strong downward swing, which Atlas dodges again by spinning around it and delivering a strong slash that finished it off.

Riku deflected the third guard's attack and fired a point blank Dark Firaga, taking it out as he then went after the black sphere. He attacked it with a few slashes, only for it to not even show a scratch on it. It then suddenly popped open, knocking Riku back towards Atlas. He regained his footing as Dark Gothel was now about to attack.

She attacked by summoning spikes from the ground as she sends them in a single line towards the heroes. They were able to easily dodge by moving out of the way as Dark Gothel then fired many orbs into the air before they started falling at them like rain. Riku was able to protect the group with his Dark Shield against any orbs that fell to their position. Once the orbs were done falling, Riku and Atlas then performed their limit, making them instantly go to Dark Gothel's position to attack. They were quick on the draw as they performed Dark and Light, X-slash, and Rave Surge in their combo successfully. Now, they added another part to their team attack as they then performed Dark Firestorm, the two firing a barrage of Dark Firagas that flew fast at Dark Gothel, all of them landing successfully.

Dark Gothel was damaged, but wasn't done as she then fired a shockwave at the two, knocking them away before summoning a group of daggers to then fire them at the two. Again, Riku blocked the daggers with his Dark Shield as Dark Gothel was then hit by a charging stab by Maximus, knocking it back as Flynn followed it up with multiple hits with the frying pan to the head. After the fifth swing, Atlas then fired a Thunder spell, stunning it before it suddenly retaliated with a shockwave and summoning dark rings, binding them in place. She was about to follow up on it, only to then be wrapped in long hair, binding her as well. She lost control of the rings, the group being released from them.

Dark Gothel then was pulled down to the ground by Rapunzel who appeared from a bush. Atlas and Riku took the opportunity and delivered the final blow with a cross slash finisher, taking Dark Gothel down and cuts the hair she was wrapped in.

(End music)

Gothel fell to the ground as the hair now turned brown, including the hair that Rapunzel still had.

"Curse you all, curse you all." Gothel said as her final words as she was rapidly aged. Her body then turned to ash that blew away in the wind.

"She wasn't kidding about her age." Atlas said.

The group then sheathed their weapons as they headed back to the kingdom. Once they did, they got Rapunzel a haircut that made her hair short, reaching the top of her neck. After they returned to the kingdom, Rapunzel told them what she realized.

"So your saying that you are the missing princess?" Atlas asked.

"Yeah. It all made sense. The lights, the mural. I realized when I looked at the paintings I made and the handkerchief with the sun." Rapunzel answered.

"I see. That reminds me, how did you get free?" Atlas asked.

"It was weird. This strange hooded man freed me." Rapunzel answered.

Atlas and Riku knew what she was talking about, but decided not to mention it. "OK. Let's reunite a family."

The king and queen were in a room when a guard came in. The king and queen looked at the guard, which he nodded. The king and queen then quickly headed for the doors leading to the balcony and opened the doors. Rapunzel, Flynn, Atlas and Riku were waiting there as the king and queen walked out onto the steps. After a few moments, the queen then went and hugged Rapunzel, with the king hugging the two. The queen then pulled Flynn in for a group hug as Atlas and Riku watched.

"So, I guess we are done here." Atlas said.

He was then proven wrong as afterwards, a huge party was made, celebrating the return of the princess. If you want a summary of the celebration, it was there that everyone's dream came true.

"You sure you can't stay any longer?" Rapunzel asked.

"We would love to, but we gotta head back sooner or later." Riku answered.

"Yeah. Hopefully, you and Flynn-" Atlas then corrected himself, "You and Eugene have a wonderful future together."

"Thanks. Came back for a visit sometime." Eugene said.

With one final wave goodbye, Riku then opened a portal that he and Atlas entered, with it closing behind them.

FINALLY! We are finally done with the Kingdom of Corona! Sorry about that, folks. I just really wanted to move onto a different world by now, so I do apologize about sorta rushing this chapter. But, I will not rush another chapter again. Anyways, Atlas and Riku has finally left the world, Pep's and Kyla's training is going very well, and Ventus joins the cast. Also, just in case you were wondering:

Dark Firestorm- Atlas and Riku fire a barrage of Dark Firagas at their targets. Similar to Ragnorok in a way.

What will happen next? Well, that's for another time. Until next chapter, I'll see you later!