Sora at the meantime traveled for a long time through the small woods of Light of Radiance, until he reached a small plateau where Fidelious and Cockerell were waiting for him. They pointed to a big portal that was next to them. "This will allow you to travel through the worlds. Whenever you find a Chosen One, just call for me and I'll open a portal for him what'll lead to this place. If you're finished in one world, also just call for me and I'll open up another portal for you to travel to your next world. Here… ", Cockerell explained and gave Sora a white colored ring. "This is the White Circle. It'll help you to find out which Chosen One in which world lives and how to find them. It also can protect you from big damage so far, but only limited. Also think about it when using it." Sora nodded his head smiling and the portal opened. Without fear, he went through it and vanished in an orb of light. "Good luck, Sora! May you have a good journey!", the both of them called out before Sora disappeared completely. "I hope, he'll manage this quest you put him up.", Fidelious said calm, but strict. "He's our only hope, if he can't stop the Organization, then no one can. I'm counting on him.", Cockerell said while shaking his head, before he and Fidelious both returned to the destroyed Castle where lots of attack noises came from.
Riku let his Keyblade fly in the air what torn a strange creature apart while shot some fire balls against some other strange creatures who attacked the Castle. They had long black bodies with long arms and feet and glowing red eyes. Most parts of their body where covered by strange red X-shaped signs as the rest of their body was covered in red stripes. Without hesitation, Cockerell and Fidelious appeared and destroyed the creatures with some quick strikes. Riku just sighed for air while he asked: "Who in heaven's name were these things?" "These things are the Desperates.", Cockerell replied as he pulled his weapon back. "Desperates?", Riku asked confused. "Yes, they're the spirits of destruction and blood servants to the Leader of the Omega-Organization.", Cockerell replied. "Originally, they're Spirittas, but the Leader let them dive into the darkness and now they've become what you just have seen.", Fidelious finished. "Wait a minute, I thought that only Keyblade Masters like you and me could summon them?", Riku replied in shock. "Well, he isn't a Keyblade Master, but it also wonders me how he was able to do that…", Cockerell replied and left the hall as fast as he could, leaving a suspicious Riku back who just knew that there was something that Cockerell was hiding from him…. and Sora.
Sora meanwhile flew through a sea of stars as a being of light while he awaited to land on his first world. Finally, after it seemed an eternity for him, there was a big flashing light at the end and he went out of the portal – or rather, he swam out of it! Confused, Sora looked behind him to see his blue dolphin tail swung lively in the water. Amazed, Sora knew that he was in Atlantica once again. He/Jenny knew exactly how the original Sora defeated here Ursula twice and helped Ariel out. Happily, he swam around a little bit. "Mmh…", Sora stopped and began to think. "I wonder what'll happen if…", and with that he let himself glow in a flash of light and as it was gone, he was Xion again. Instead of having a dolphin tail, she had a normal fish one like Ariel, just in red and wore a black seashell. Smiling, she examined her body and swam around with it until she heard a scream not far away from her.
Quickly, she transformed back into Sora and swam to a small cliff where he saw a girl with black hair and a red mermaid tail was surrounded by many Heartless that looked like Mermaids with yellow eyes, mermaid tails, having the Heartless symbols graved in at their butts. Without fear, Sora summoned his Keyblade, ready to fight of the beings of darkness. With a quick "Thunder!", Sora perished most of them and destroyed the rest of them with some fire spells while he swam closer to the young girl. As there was no sign of Heartless anymore, the girl who had her arms up in protection let them down after she saw that the threat was gone and turned to the boy. "T-thank you for the rescue…", the girl said shyly. "Welcome.", Sora replied and let his Keyblade disappear. But quickly, it appeared back on his hand and as Sora looked around, he saw another wave of Heartless coming to both of them. "Oh, my – don't they ever give up?", Sora asked annoyed and shot a light ball against them. "Follow me, quickly!", the girl said and swam on – Sora followed her after a short time. They swam away from them, trying to find a hideout for them. "Seems like, we're not done yet.", Sora said as he swung his tail with full strength. The girl giggled while they swam for their live. "Truly – by the way, I'm Melody.", the girl said. "Well, I'm Sora.", Sora replied. "You're Sora? I know you.", Melody replied. "How?", Sora asked and both turned around a corner. But before Melody could answer his question, they nearly bumped into a big robot whale what had its mouth open. Sora just stopped in right time, but Melody reacted too late and got swallowed in by the robot. "MELODY!", Sora screamed as he tried to free her, but only got paralyzed by a bolt the whale spit up against him.
"Melody! Sora!", a voice called up. Sora turned around and saw two mermen with blue tails and a mermaid, having a green tail, wearing purple seashells and having reddish hair. It were Ariel, Triton and Eric in Merman form. "Ariel!", Sora called happily and let his Keyblade appear. "What's going on here?", Triton asked, but before Sora could answer, suddenly there was a big laugh and Manta appeared in front of them. "You!", Triton said drastic and pointed with his trident at Manta's heart. "Yes, the King of all Seven Seas. I'm glad that you could come for this small party.", Manta said and paused before he continued. "Now then, give me the trident or Melody surely won't survive this." Triton looked angry at Manta and tried to free Melody, but his bolt was just absorbed by the robot. "Don't try it – it's protected too well… do what I say or she'll die!", Manta replied drastic and Triton sighed. He just had no other choice after all. To the shock of everyone, he had his trident vanish in a flash of light before it appeared in Manta's hand. Laughing evilly, he let the trident grow to fit his size before he sent of a powerful bolt what made everyone pass out. Without someone noticing, the mouth of the whale opened once again as Manta took Ariel and caged her in together with Melody, before he left the place.
After a while, Sora woke up, only to find that besides of him, Triton and Eric, no one was here. After a while, the others woke up and Triton asked in an angry voice what happened. After Sora explained to him what Manta did, Triton was even more shocked than before. "Oh, that's good, now we're stuck without even knowing where they are.", Eric replied annoyed when suddenly a slimy eel came out of a small hole. "I know where you can find the mighty Manta – you only have to give me some cash and I'll lead you to that place.", the eel sail with an oily voice. "You can have some treasures from the palace once we're finished.", Triton grunted and the eel swam on while the others followed him.
Meanwhile…
Manta was at the top of his hideout, a cave where a man in a brown cloak was waiting for him. He stood on a stone plate, waiting for something. "Finally back? Ah, as it seems you got the trident.", the man in black said. "And, you remembered that we had a deal, right?" The Manta just looked at him with a mean view before he took Ariel and Melody out of the water. "What are you going to do with them? They're worthless.", Manta asked with curiosity in his voice. "Well, for me – yes. For the Organization, it's more than just a simple party snack. The real fun will begin as soon as we…", the cloaked man began, but stopped as he felt something that things around him changed. "Oh, it seems like we got some visitors.", the brown cloaked man replied and took out a remote-control, giving the mechanic whale an order. "What's going on here!", Manta shouted. "Oh, just a little game, nothing more.", the man in brown smiled.
By now, Sora and the rest of his gang finally reached the entrance of Manta's hideout. Suddenly, the ground rumbled and the Mechanic Whale left the cave, ready to fight off the group. "Seems like we got companion!", Eric called and took a sword from behind while Triton and the eel moved back. "Well, let's make the best out of this!", Sora replied and both began their attack against the Exogan.
Although both did their best, the Exogan was too powerful this time. While Sora and Eric mainly tried to destroy the machine with hits, it instead used powerful laser beams and energy bolts to defeat them, once again.
"Fire!", Sora shouted and the Fireball hit the whale at its front where it just got absorbed by it. "We can't go on l like this anymore!", Eric shouted and threw his sword in that moment as the whale opened its giant mouth. An explosion like sound came out of the mouth as the sword hit something. The Exogan shouted in a mechanic sound and Sora understood. "Hey!", Eric shouted as Sora pulled him with him and into the Exogan's mouth before it closed. "Are you insane or what?" "Don't you get it? The machine's only weak point is in its inside. We can only destroy it from inside!", Sora replied and shouted "Thunder-Dash!", letting many bolts rain down in the progress. The sound of many metal what got broken by the crashing down lightning, gave both of them the claim that the Exogan was finally defeated for good. Quickly, Sora shot an enormous beam of light against the whale's mouth an some fake teeth fell out of it, giving the two merman the chance to flee.
As both were out of it, they watched as the Exogan cried as everything got destroyed in its inside before the robot finally exploded in a flash of light.
Both of them sighed, before they got their strength back and swam on in their quest to defeat Manta and get Ariel and Melody back.
Manta at the moment was more than furious about the battle's outcome. "Mmh… seems like our scientist made some mistakes again. It's more than a pity that I always have to do things myself. Well, makes more fun instead, so good points for him.", the man in brown said coolly as he loaded his weapon – a gun up with energy and pressed the shoot button.
While Sora and Eric swam on to retrieve the trident from Manta, lots of projectiles appeared behind the two – with each time, the man at the hideout pressed down his button, more and more bullets appeared behind the two. "Alright, then – they surely won't get out this place alive. Now, I'll leave the rest up to you, biggy - 'll come back later and get the mermaids, gotcha? See ya!", the man finished and vanished into a portal of darkness. "You useless coward!", Manta shouted at him before he turned to the meanwhile arrived Sora and Eric. "Coming to defeat me? SURELY NOT, 'CAUSE I'M THE LORD OVER ALL SEAS NOW!" And with that, he let himself grow even bigger as he already was, making him as big as the whole cave was. Sora and Eric took out their weapons, ready to fight the bad guy off.
"Face yourself your end. The Ocean's under my command!", Manta shouted as he shot some bolts down at the two. Sora instead let rain down some fire balls which only gave a small hurt to the villain. "Ha, is that all you got?", Manta shouted, before he let down another wave of bolts which hurt Eric badly. "Eric!", Sora shouted and had to dodge some water balls, his enemy sent up against him. Quickly, he brought him at a corner where Manta couldn't reach them and healed him with a Vita Spell. "Thanks.", Eric slowly replied as he got up. "We can't defeat him like that. There has to be some other way to beat him.", Sora said and then noticed the top of stone above Manta. "I think I just got an idea. Eric, you've to distract him!" "Excuse me?", Eric asked in shock, but Sora had no time for discussion. "Just do it!", he said and swam as fast as he could. "Will finally face me off or will you finally give up?", Manta shouted against their hideout when Eric finally left it. "I'm ready for you!", Eric shouted, his sword in his hands. "Alright, then!", Manta replied and opened his mouth, about to swallow him. Although, Eric swam with all of his strength, he couldn't no longer avoid him. At the same time, Sora jumped out of the water and shot a beam of light against the top which began to break and large stones began to depart from the top, falling down where Manta was. Just in time as he noticed this, he quickly summoned a shield to protect him, letting go of Eric who used this chance and threw his sword into Manta's stomach. He screamed in pain and as he was about to take it of his stomach, Sora snatched the trident out of his hand and in shock, Manta had to see that was shrinking to his already big original size, again. Without resting, Sora grabbed Ariel and the trident and left with Eric who got Melody the cave, leaving a scared Manta back who got killed by the falling down stones, his hideout crashed itself together. Sora and Eric meanwhile nearly reached the exit of it, but had to see that lots of strange bullets where blocking their path. Quickly, Sora summoned a beam of light against them, letting them explode in the progress, giving the two the chance to flee.
A little time later, all were at the surface, again. As Melody and Ariel finally were awake again and hugged each other, pretty much to Sora's confusion. "You know, Melody's my daughter.", Ariel explained to Sora as he questioned her why they're doing this and his mouth clapped down as he heard that answer. But in turn for that, he explained to them what was going on all the time and what role they had to play in it. "Is that the truth?", Melody asked Sora who just nodded his head. Before anyone could say one more word, suddenly, lots of reddish and purple bullets appeared around them. Sora quickly casted a Reflega Spell, shielding everyone from the crashing down projectiles. Sora looked around and saw a man in brown, reloading his gun, again.
"Ah, what a pleasure, Keyblade Master. It seems you really are a clever one, aren't ya. Name's Crest by the way.", the person said and took down his hood. He had messy black hair what went down to one side and purple eyes. His skin was tanned and he had a smirk on his face that let even the girl's behind Sora gasp. "Yeah, then let's finish this!", Sora shouted against him, his Keyblade ready in his hands. "Not today, tiger. You know, I got nothing against a small party, but for now, I will leave you alone with your victory – maybe some other time, hero.", Crest replied and turned his back on him, before walking off and creating a portal of darkness. "Oh, by the way… " Crest turned his head for Sora for one last time. "Better watch out for your back, you don't know when you'll need it." And with that, he vanished with a laugher from the place.
Sora, more than confused just called for Master Cockerell who then opened a portal of light for the two mermaids and Sora continued his travel to the next world. "Hey, Sora!", Eric called out as Sora was about to leave. "You should come more often, so that we can train sometimes together." "Sure thing.", Sora smiled, before he ultimately vanished into the portal of light and into the next world…
Meanwhile…
On a Separatist Flagship, Ahsoka Tano deflected lots of blaster shoots from Battle Droids who're coming closer to them. Anakin's and her mission was to get Grievous in time, before he could flee the battlefield once again. While her Master tried to open one of the main doors with his lightsaber, she protected him from the army of Droids. Suddenly, there was a big crash and the droids, got destroyed. Surprised Ahoska looked at a man cloaked in a brown coat who took out a reddish lightsaber. Without a doubt, Ahsoka ran against him and battled him. "Ahsoka! What's going on out there?", Anakin shouted while Ahoska tried her best to defeat her enemy. Suddenly, lost her balance as the ship began to rumble a little and the man in brown used that chance and finished the duel with a lightning storm that even Ahsoka couldn't deflect. She passed out by it. "Ahsoka!", Anakin screamed as he ran with an activated lightsaber against the man in brown. "Ah, the Chosen One. Normally, I really would have fight you to test your strength, but I'm a little bit behind my time plan, so I'll take care of you at a different time.", he said as he sent Ahsoka's lifeless body back to his hideout while he deflected Anakin's attacks before he also vanished into a portal of darkness, leaving a shocked Skywalker back…
Note: Ah, at least the new Chapter is up. So, "Sora" starts his mission and it seems the story works well so far. For today, it's the last Update. Tomorrow, I'll upload the next 4 Chapters. Be ready for them...