Kingdom Hearts does not belong to me, though that should be obvious.

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Under the Sea

Of course we were skeptical about traveling to six worlds to obtain six other crystal Keyholes for the sole purpose of unlocking a doorway to another world for some man we didn't even know. Walt Disney intertwined his fingers as he explained, "There's nothing wrong with taking the crystalized Keyholes from their resting spots within the hearts of the worlds. Each world hath spawned from the vast blackness of space, each with a heart of its own. In case of emergencies, I put a special lock on my world that could only be opened with the crystal Keyholes…seven of them. So I placed a Keyhole of that kind within each world in case such a time would come. The crystal Keyholes have nothing to do with the natural stability of the worlds." We nodded.

"Domino," Diantha muttered, making her Divine Rose materialize. There was an unmistakable radiance of light that hadn't coated her Keyblade before when we had first met her. It was still covered in the light from the Goddess of Heart. "Since I am free from Destati's embrace, I am going to head to Sanctuary at once. I will tell our family that you are alive and well."

"It's okay, they probably already know," Domino replied. "We had met up with Damian not too long ago." At that, Diantha smiled. "But head home…you know me. I can take care of myself."

Diantha nodded and summoned her Glider. She ran up to her twin and embraced him in a large hug before stepping onto her Glider and flying out of the mysterious room, soaring through the now open window. The window magically closed itself.

"And why can't you go get them yourself?" Asher snapped at Disney, slamming his hands down on the desk.

Disney didn't look up at Asher. "When I was shoved out of my own world, half of my powers were sealed within. I can't traverse the worlds. I can open and rearrange the lanes between the worlds, but only that." He dipped his quill in a bottle of ink to the side of his sketchbook and began drawing something. Domino and I inched closer to his desk to get a closer look. And what he was drawing looked unmistakably like bubbles, and fish, and some sort of castle. He dropped his quill to the side and a portal of blinding light appeared in the center of the room. "Here is a world in which one of the crystal Keyholes is hidden somewhere deep beneath the ocean currents. You four are to go in and retrieve it. The Keyblade is an item that helps people…if anyone within this world is in need of assistance, you may halt your quest to help them. Now go."

I studied the portal before us. It must've led to one of the millions of worlds out there. I looked out the window at the tons of stars within my vision, trying to imagine which one could hold this world we were soon to be exploring. Domino grabbed my hand, intertwining his fingers with mine, and at once the two of us dashed into the portal of light. I could hear Rika and Asher running in after us.

An extremely cold feeling soon washed over me only a second after we entered the portal. I felt my silver hair swaying from side to side. I held a hand out before me and swiped it through the air…only it wasn't air. I was floating in water. My first instinct was to start flailing about as if I were about to drown, but I soon realized that the salty water did not sting my eyes, the water wasn't choking me, and I was somehow keeping myself afloat instead of sinking down. I looked down. My chest was bare and my legs…my legs I had known all my life...were gone—replaced by a golden tail. On my tail, the gold faded into white at the very bottom of it. My lower half was that of a fish!

To my side was Rika. She looked absolutely stunning. Her black hair flowed behind her majestically, her eyes sparkling even underwater. She wore a bra that appeared to be made from purple-colored seashells. Her tail was colored black, fading into a light purple at the bottom. She held a hand over her mouth in confusion before muttering, "Where…are we?" She nearly gasped at the sound of her voice. It was so clear. It didn't sound as if she were underwater.

Then it hit us. The two of us looked around. Domino and Asher were nowhere to be seen. But…I had been holding onto Domino's hand! How could we have been separated? Our surroundings consisted of crystal-clear buildings that almost completely blended into the water. Fish were swimming all around us. Several other houses made of seashells, coral, and kelp were scattered all around the clear buildings.

I wasn't entirely sure how well I would be able to swim, but I had to give it a shot. So I swam forward, my tail flapping up and down behind me and guiding me through the water. I was able to swim so fluently. My mind was almost tricked into thinking I had never had legs to begin with. Rika seemed to be getting in tune with her inner-fish as she was much better at swimming than I was. She swam in front of me and grabbed onto my hands. Her hands seemed to make the water around me seem colder. "This world is underwater…so the laws of this world must make it so that everyone is a…fish?" It sounded like a good theory. "But where are Domino and Phoenix?"

"That portal that led us here must've separated us," I replied, a tad unsure of it myself. "I mean, if a portal leads to a certain world, it can't always make you appear in the exact same location within a world. Correct?" All of these laws about the worlds confused me. Rika nodded rather uncertainly. "They must've appeared somewhere else within this place. We need to find them."

"Are you really taking charge?" Rika asked, putting her hands on her hips as she pouted. "I'm a natural born leader. I'll lead the way." She began swimming ahead of me, all the while calling back to me, "First, we need to find out where we are." She approached a random fish. It was black with red stripes and its face wasn't too pretty. "Excuse me; we're not from around here. Can you tell me what part of the ocean this is?"

The fish turned towards Rika and I, scowling, and in a deep, gruff voice it said, "This here's the undersea kingdom of Atlantica. All new fish must register with our new King. He's a very kind merman who's always willing to take in an outsider, such as yourselves." It sounded as if the fish was forcing itself to be kind. Something about him didn't seem too happy about talking to us. "Now if you excuse me, I have…business to attend to." The fish turned around and swam as fast as he could in the opposite direction, disappearing behind a house that was a clam.

"Atlantica," I repeated, letting the word roll off my tongue. It definitely sounded like an underwater city. No, an underwater kingdom. "Kingdoms normally have a king or queen, and a castle, don't they? Let's find this castle."

"Are you looking for the King, may I ask?" said a scratchy voice to the side of me. I turned around in the water, floating backwards as I saw some kind of eel slithering ever closer to me in the water. Its skin was a dull blue-green, with dark fins lining its spine and underside. It had a long mouth filled with sharp, white teeth. Its voice was like razor blades cutting through my ears.

"Ooh, I think he is," said another voice nearly identical to the first. Rika nearly yelped in surprise as another eel almost identical floated on by her. The way it swam looked, I don't know, more feminine. Its skin was more of a reddish tint as opposed to the other's blue-green.

"We can help," the two said at once.

"Who are you two?" Rika asked, drawing Darksouls. As it appeared, the water bubbled up all around it as if the Key was causing a disturbance in the sea. "And how can you help?"

"Oh, I'm George, and this is my wife, Martha," the first one spoke, coiling around me. "I know, we have some pretty dull names. We gave our children better names, you know."

"As for how we can help you," Martha replied, coiling herself around Rika's leg. "We know a shortcut to the castle. Through the Atlantican caves, you know."

"Follow us," George whispered. "We won't bite." George and Martha immediately left us behind and slithered their way through the water ahead of us.

We had to get to the castle as soon as possible. This king might have seen Domino or Asher. He might know where the crystal keyhole would be. So Rika and I took off after the eels. We made our way through several streets. I took this time to really get a feel of our surroundings. All of the glass buildings, houses made of clams and kelp and coral and other things, all of the fish, and especially the ones who looked like humans with fish-tails. The world was amazing. All that ended when we saw George and Martha dive into a small opening in the ground ahead of us.

"That must be the entrance to the cave," Rika told me. "Stay on your guard. I don't really trust those two." Rika dove in after the eels. I followed her shortly after. The light from above the surface of the water died down. The caves were almost pitch-black. There were pearls lining the cave walls that sparkled in what little light shone through the hole at the top of the cave.

"Come on, faster," Martha told us. So we swam after them faster, eventually catching up to them. Soon they stopped. Rika and I stopped as well.

"Uh…Kane?" Rika muttered, pointing to the side. I looked where she was pointing at, and my jaw dropped. Tied up to the cave wall to the left of us was none other than Asher. Like me he was also bare-chested. His tail was completely white. His arms and tail were tied to the wall. He seemed to be struggling to break free but to no avail.

"Asher!?" I yelled out at him.

He looked back to me and smiled, screaming, "Kane! And Rika! Domino and I were together but we got separated. These two said they'd help find him but…stay away from George and Martha! They're not good people…uh, er…fish? Eels? What are you?"

"Eels is correct," George cackled menacingly.

"What do you want from us?" Rika asked, swinging her Darksouls out in front of her.

"We've been getting bored with our normal meals," Martha started, and George continued with, "And that's why we'll eat you instead."

George and Martha both turned to Asher. Asher started writhing in his place to break free but he was still unable to. "Don't eat me! I taste terrible! Kane tastes good! Try him!" Thanks a lot. George and Martha ignored him as they swam towards him, licking their licks as the approached the boy. "Did I not just say that Kane is delicious!?"

I glared daggers at Asher. Maybe letting them eat him wouldn't be such a bad thing. I had to snap out of it though. Holding a hand out, a blast of lightning shot from my palm and slammed into both of the eels. I could feel the tingle of the electricity from within the water. The lightning vanished and the two eels slowly fell to the ground in defeat. Were they…dead?

I quickly swam my way to Asher and undid the seaweed that tied his hands and tail to the rocky wall behind him. When he was finally released he swam away from the wall freely.

Before he could get within ten feet from the wall, George and Martha had suddenly sprung to life and wrapped their lower bodies around his wrists, intertwining their upper bodies with each other. Asher was now wearing handcuffs made of eels. He tried to pry his hands apart but the eels weren't budging. George and Martha each opened their huge mouths and bit into the skin of Asher's wrists. Blood slowly rose up in the water, staining the seawater red. I could smell the blood. Asher screamed out at the pain and at the sight of his blood floating in front of his face.

"Watch out!" Rika yelled out, swinging Darksouls forward. She split right through the two intertwined eels, cutting each of them in half. Asher's wrists were free from each other. He unraveled the tails of the eels from each of his wrists and freed his hands completely.

We watched in horror as the two eels, each now cut in half, floated slowly downward while dissolving into a black ink. As they were dissolving, I could hear George saying, "Flotsam…Jetsam…"

I saw a swift movement out of the corner of my eye. Without much thought I shot my hand out and sent a bolt of lightning to the side. I had hit something. I looked at where the lightning had struck but all I saw were two tiny eels. They couldn't have been longer than my middle finger. They were both nearly identical to George. The lightning I shot at them seemed to stun them for a bit. They opened their eyes and I gasped. The left eye on one was glowing yellow, while the other one's right eye was glowing as well. Had I done that?

These must've been the children of George and Martha. Flotsam…and Jetsam, was it? The two quickly swam away from me, disappearing into the shadows.

"Let's not worry about those two," Asher muttered, holding out his wrists for me to see. I held a hand up to them and a green light washed over them. The cuts from the eels' teeth had vanished. "I know a way out of here that leads to the place they took me from. Come on!" Asher began swimming deeper into the cave until we could see another hole in the ceiling above, a ray of light shining down on us. Asher started swimming upward. He in no way looked like an expert at swimming. In fact, it almost seemed like he had no idea what he was doing. He flapped his arms around like a bird on steroids and his tail looked like a helicopter propeller.

The three of us had exited the hole in the ceiling to find ourselves at some sort of gate. The gate was silver, and the tips of the bars on the gate looked like tridents. Two men with fish tails, one blue and one red, stood…or…floated guard in front of the gate. I looked behind the gate where a huge castle was.

The man on the left spoke up first. "I assume you're with the other visitor? At the moment he's talking with our King."

"Yes, we're with the other visitor," Asher immediately said. Upon saying that the silver gates opened up, and Asher immediately swam through. Rika and I followed him. I began questioning why the even had a gate. Fish could swim right over it. I decided not to let that particular detail bother me.

We had swam passed the courtyard and through the entrance to the castle. For a castle it wasn't too large. The interior only seemed to have one room. It was a rounded room with a throne in the center. All around the throne were different colored clams. Several golden and silver tridents hung from the walls. Sitting on the throne was a man who I guessed was the King of Atlantica.

He was a large man-fish with thin, black eyebrows and long black hair. He didn't have much facial hair. He was well muscled and wore gold gauntlets with several studs on them on each wrist. As he was part fish like we were, Triton's lower body was that of a dark blue fish with cyan, translucent fins. As a sign of his obvious royalty status, Triton wore a yellow, five-pointed crown that somewhat resembled a sea star on his head. He possessed mesmerizing blue eyes.

Floating to his side was Domino. His purple hair was flowing behind him, his fedora seemingly not getting soaked in the water as if there was a protective bubble around it. His tail was purple. His face lit up when he saw the three of us. "Hello, friends!" he shouted out at us. "I'd like you to meet the main merman in charge, the great and powerful…King Triton!"

King Triton smiled at the three of us who arrived. He motioned his hand as if beckoning us to approach him. We swam forward until we were right in front of the tall merman. His long hair flowed dramatically behind him. "So you three are friends of Domino's? Any friend of his is a friend of mine. We have a lot in common." They did? Triton continued, "Domino has always longed for the outside world and whatever lies beyond. So have I. But as far as I could swim is only up to the surface." He stared up above him. The castle had no ceiling. No roof. It was a hole that led up and out of the castle. If you continued upward from there you'd reach the surface of the water. "The humans are a marvelous race. So I take it you four are from another world entirely?"

"How'd you know that?" I asked him.

Domino crossed his arms and replied, "He says we're the fifth group of Keybearers to venture here in the past three weeks. All of the Keybearers from Daybreak Town are really leaving their mark on the worlds. King Triton keeps in contact with the other worlds via the messenger god, Hermes. Ever since our arrival in Daybreak Town which was a few weeks ago in Daybreak time, Keybearers have been traveling to each of the worlds in search of…my homeworld."

I remembered our time on Daybreak well. Domino had convinced an entire legion of dark-users to fight for Kingdom Hearts so they can become powerful. And that was all of Domino's doing. I decided not to bring it up. What startled me more was that Hermes, a god from Olympus, can traverse the worlds as well. Well, he is a god, and he did fetch Diantha's letter for Domino.

"Do you four mind joining me?" Triton asked, causing us to raise a few eyebrows at him. "I was just about to head up to the surface. The ocean can be pretty dull and boring sometimes. It's good to just get away." He began swimming upward, expertly dashing out of the top of the castle towards the surface of the water. Triton seemed like an interesting man…er, fish. He wanted to see the outside world but he couldn't because of his…fishiness? We easily came here and developed our own means of transportation so why couldn't Triton do the same? Wouldn't entering a portal to another world give him legs? Asher, Rika, Domino, and I followed Triton.

As we swam closer to the surface of the water, the rays of the sun nearly blinded us. While the four of us nearly had to shield our eyes, Triton swam headfirst upwards, his eyes staring up at the sun with determination. Our heads broke free from the water. I inhaled…and I felt the sensation of air filling my lungs. So I had gills and lungs? Being a—merman, was it?—seemed to give me what both a human and a fish would need.

We were inches away from the shore of a beach, the waves gently lapping against the sand. I placed a hand on the sand, feeling the land once again. I had almost forgotten what solid ground actually had felt like.

I heard footsteps, the sound of bare feet slapping against the sand in a hurry. "Triton, dear! You're back so soon?" I looked ahead and saw a thin, fair-skinned young woman with long, black hair. She was wearing a dress of navy blue and sky blue. Her lips were colored red, there was a small beauty mark near her chin on the left side of her face, and a yellow seashell hung around her neck as a necklace. She quickly bent down and wrapped her arms around Triton, and the man returned the hug. "Who are your friends?"

The four of us introduced ourselves. Triton held onto the woman's hands and spoke in a soft voice, "Vanessa, I had to see you again. The sea life is so boring when I have nobody to share it with. If I could have my way I'd make you a mermaid in a second."

"Sadly that isn't meant to be," the woman, Vanessa, replied back. "But if it were to happen, I'd have to change my name, make sure my people don't find where I've disappeared to. How about Ursula? Nobody would want to bother with an Ursula." She had a point. The sound of that name gave me chills. "You don't know how long I've wanted to be one with the sea, like you. I'll…I'll be right back, dear." Vanessa turned around and dashed away, leaving Triton behind.

"Who exactly was that?" Asher asked, breaking the long silence that followed Vanessa's leave.

Triton looked to the sun and smiled, resting his fist on his cheek as he gazed upwards. "She's my reason for living. Vanessa is someone I've met a long, long while back. Now we always talk. She's amazing, isn't she?"

"A king does not live for one person," Domino suddenly snapped, slamming his hand against the water. "He lives for his kingdom, his royal subjects, everyone. Wanting just one person is selfish." Was he really one to talk? He's only wanted it to be just me and him. Hypocritical much? "And you want to just leave your kingdom behind?"

"I never asked to be crowned king," Triton said, slumping his shoulders. "But any child of the great Poseidon is supposedly meant for royalty within the sea. All I want is to get out." Poseidon!? Did that mean King Triton was a demigod? Were the worlds really this interconnected? "Wait…something's happening!" The water around us began to shake. Suddenly a giant beast leapt from beneath the water—a shark. It had a rounded body and its teeth were razor-sharp. The top half of its body was a dark blue-grey while its underside was a lighter blue-grey. Its eyeballs were yellow and its pupils looked red. The shark snapped at Triton. In Triton's hand appeared a large golden trident. Triton swung it forward and smacked the shark, sending it flying backwards and into the water.

The shark jumped back out of the water and leapt at Domino. And Domino shoved Starlight down the shark's throat. Within seconds the shark exploded into bits and pieces, a dark residue coating the top of the water where the shark had been at. Domino wiped the sweat from his brows and muttered, "Too easy."

"I'm ready," a voice said from the shore. We all looked towards Vanessa who had spoken. She was now wearing a bikini and looked as if she were ready to dive into the water. "That trident of yours…holds unimaginable power, does it not? I'm sure it could turn little ol' me into a beautiful mermaid." He put her hands together and dived into the water, splashing it into my face. She resurfaced next to Triton and wrapped her arms around him and in seconds their lips had met. Triton held the kiss for a few seconds before breaking free. I'm ready."

"I wanted to become human so the two of us could walk alongside each other," Triton muttered, looking at the water. "I can't take you from your beautiful home, Vanessa."

"I want to leave this dump, it's nothing but agonizing sunlight and annoying humans whom I don't relate with," Vanessa replied. She put her hands on Triton's shoulders. "We belong together, dear. We can swim alongside each other and fight through these currents together. And from now on, call me Ursula."

"I love you, you know I do, Ursula." Triton told her, tightening his grip on her shoulders. "But the land is where you belong. It's where I was meant to be. Not stuck in this endless ocean with a father who won't even come down and visit his kid…if I became a father, I'd shower my son or daughter with unconditional love, never leaving their side. The ocean is no place for a child. I want them to run free like the humans do. Let's stay in the human world. Together."

"That isn't wise, Triton," Vanessa—I mean—Ursula, said, her tone suddenly changing. "The ocean is calm, peaceful. But also strong and unforgiving. It's where the greatest rulers lie. You and I. Now give me that trident." She wrapped her fingers around the staff part of the trident that Triton was holding. "Let's rule the seas together, my dear!" She yanked the trident away from Triton and pointed it at her feet.

Asher, Rika, Domino, and I were speechless. Did that trident really have the magical capabilities to transform her into a sea-creature? A golden light shined at the tips of the trident. "What are you doing? You can't use that! It's too dangerous for humans! A trident is the symbol of the unforgiving sea!"

"A sea in which I deserve to rule, Triton," Ursula said menacingly, and a golden light blasted from the trident's tips and to her feet. White light surrounded her legs until they morphed together and became one lavender colored fish-tail. "Ah, this feels lovely!" She splashed her tail around in the water.

"The sea will hurt you!" Triton yelled at Ursula. "Listen to reason! The sea is no place for anybody. It's dull, it's boring, and it has dangerous predators! What do you intend to do now that you have the trident?"

"What I've wanted to do since I've met you, dear," Ursula cackled, pointing the trident at the sky. "To take your powers and rule the sea like no other!" Storm clouds filled the skies, the wind began to pick up, and the sand on the beach was lifted off of the ground by the wind. "That is my destiny! Your destiny is so over now." She pointed the trident at Triton and a golden light blasted from its tips and slammed the merman in the chest, causing him to fly backwards and sink into the water.

"What are you doing!?" I yelled at her. "Couldn't you see that Triton truly loves you? He wanted to spend his life with you!"

"True love is for princesses," Ursula retorted. "And he's no Prince Charming. He's a misguided fool who has no idea the power he's capable of." She pointed the trident menacingly at me. "No amount of heroism will stop me from taking Triton's throne!"

I had to do something quick. She seemed all sweet an innocent but now she had pure evil and darkness lingering in her eyes. Darkness that probably went straight into her heart. She was completely taken by the darkness. I held my hands up into the air as lightning rained down from the sky, slamming into the water around Ursula and stunning her a bit. She retaliated quickly by swinging the trident forward. I quickly dodged the attack.

Domino and Rika leapt forward from the water and began hacking and slashing at Ursula, cutting her skin and causing the crystal water to be stained red. She held the trident high above her head and gold light washed over her, healing all of her wounds. Asher shot bullets from Gunpowder, but Ursula was quite the swimmer as she dodged each and every bullet of artificial light.

Triton's head rose from the water, his eyes staring in awe at Ursula who was continuously shooting beams of golden light at the four of us. "I trusted you!" Triton yelled, his voice carrying over to us in the roar of the wind that seemed to be getting stronger by the second.

"Trust is for the weak," Ursula cackled. "Didn't Daddy tell you that? Oh, that's right. You've never laid eyes upon your father. What a horrid life. With you out of the picture, I can take over and maybe even take Poseidon's throne as god of the seas and the storms! Imagine! Ursula, the Goddess of Sea and Storms. Die, Triton!" She pointed the trident at Triton and a gold light shot from it.

Domino and Rika quickly interfered by shooting beams of darkness at the beam of light. The beam of light soon became that of darkness, and it stopped in midair, soon flying back to where it came from. The darkness slammed into Ursula's chest, causing her to clutch her heart and to sink into the depths. For a second, all was calm. The wind died down. All I could hear was my heartbeat and the steady breathing of all five of us. Triton studied the water. He gasped. "What…did…you…do!?"

"What do you mean?" Domino quickly asked.

The water began shaking as a hand broke free from the water, the trident in its hand. The skin of the hand was a lavender color. The creature the hand belonged to broke free from the surface, crawling onto the sand of the shore. Was it Ursula? It didn't look like her at all. What we were looking at wasn't even a mermaid.

It was a half-human, half-octopus being with lavender skin. The top side of her octopus half was pitch black and reached up over her chest, resembling a shoulder-less, backless gown. Ursula's hair had become short and stark white with a few grey streaks that stands on end. She also sported a widow's peak hairline. Her beauty mark had almost doubled or even tripled its size. The shell was still around her neck. She had six tentacles as opposed to the eight an octopus would have, but she definitely looked like an octopus.

"Ursula?" Triton asked in awe. "Is…that you?"

"Yes," she said in a deeper voice than that of her original one. He stared at her hands and then screamed at the sky, "What did you do to me!? What kind of magic was that!?"

"It was the darkness," Rika clarified. "It came from our Keyblades." Rika showed Ursula her Darksouls. "With the magic of the trident it must've altered your DNA. You're no longer a mermaid."

Ursula pointed the trident at Triton once more. "My beauty is gone! And all of you freaks did this to me!" She pointed the trident at the other four of us before pointing it back at Triton. "If you would've transformed me into a mermaid yourself, dear, this would not have happened!" And then…she jumped forward, off of the beach, over my head, and straight to Triton. Her tentacles wrapped around the king in a suffocating way as she dragged him into the sea below. The other four of us sunk back into the water to follow them.

Ursula, holding onto Triton, led us into the King's throne room within his castle. Ursula threw Triton into his throne and pressed the trident against his throat. "Say goodbye to a life that never had any value anyway." The tips of the trident glowed with golden energy. I had to do something! I pointed my hand at Ursula and…the water around us began to move. A bunch of bubbles appeared out of nowhere and began circling around the trident. The trident was pulled from Ursula's hand, giving Triton the opportunity to grab it in which he did.

"What was that magic I used?" I asked myself.

Domino smiled. "You bended the water to do your bidding. It's similar to Aero magic…now you can command not only air but water as well. You created air within the water and created all of those bubbles. Another skill added to your arsenal of spells, my friend."

Triton, now holding his trident, immediately pressed the staff into Ursula's large neck. "Triton, dear, we can work this out! I never meant any harm. You know me—"

"I thought I knew you," Triton corrected. "I…I trusted a human. The first human I could tell anything to. You were my friend, my closest one, at that. More than a friend even. Now look at you. Are all humans as ugly as this on the inside?" He paused for second before speaking again. "Get out of my kingdom now. Find some dark corner in the ocean to crawl to. Understand?"

"I was supposed to rule," Ursula spat back. "The sea is what gives the world its strength. Learn that. The human world isn't all that special. You can understand why I did what I did—"

"You played with my emotions, Vanessa," Triton shot back at her. "Ursula. Now get out. Now." As soon as he said that, Ursula turned around and swam out of the throne room, leaving us behind. He looked to the four of us. "As for you…I can assume you four also came from a world of humans. A world where these Keyblades were created. The weapon of destruction and ruin that turned Vanessa into that. I don't want to see you four down here ever again. If I do I won't be as forgiving as I just was with Ursula."

"Okay, but first," I started, remembering why we came into Atlantica in the first place. "We'll leave if we get the crystal Keyhole. Ever heard of it?"

"I know what you're talking about," Triton said, floating off of his throne. The throne immediately rose into the air, revealing a hole in the ground beneath it. Within the hole floated a crystal Keyhole that immediately floated out of it and towards us. Along with it floated what looked like a sheet of paper.

"What's this?" Domino asked as the throne sunk back to the ground and Triton took his seat again. He took the sheet of paper in his hand and read the top. "Disney Report, I." He looked to me and asked, "Disney wrote this?"

Domino and I both looked at the sheet. I read it silently in my head.

Disney Report, I

Out of nothing I appeared. A world materialized around me that I found myself calling "home". Along with me came another, whom I would call my brother; my best friend. We were the only inhabitants within our little world. A world of pure light, it was.

We tried to leave, only to realize that there was nothing outside of our world. No light, no dark, just pure nothingness. My brother commanded it and the world outside became dark, shadows casting upon our world of light. There was nothing I could do to get rid of the darkness outside.

Brother and I got into a massive fight about it. He said the darkness would soon bring other worlds into existence. I chose not to believe him. I was wrong.

"This is telling us Disney's past," I deduced. "This is number one…there must be others. Let's not show Disney this. We have to see for ourselves if we can truly trust him."

"Just leave already, I've had enough with all of this nonsense," Triton snapped at us from his throne, his face looking agitated towards us. "Go."

And we did. Domino touched the Keyhole with Starlight and we found ourselves back into the mysterious room with Disney. I quickly tucked away the Disney Report within my satchel. The crystal Keyhole dissolved into light in front of Disney. He smiled at us and said, "The trip was a success then? Congratulations. Whenever you are ready, another world awaits."

The Keyblade and the darkness had turned Ursula into what she was now…then what kind of damage could we cause in the other worlds!? Domino and I stared into each other's eyes. What if these trips brought Domino closer to destroying the world like he almost did with Utopia?

I couldn't think about that. Domino was a friend. My best friend. He was good. Right?

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How was this chapter? I always loved the idea that Triton and Ursula could have been best friends or even lovers in the past. So this chapter was detailing why Triton hates the humans like he does, and why he hates the Keyblade as well. I enjoyed writing this chapter! See you in the next!