The plot thickens!

A/N- It's been awhile, hasn't it people? Or maybe it just seems like that way to me. So, just taking a look over the story. It's barely started! But I have wrote 30,000 words and taken like seven months. One for each chapter, I suppose. I'm taking a lot longer with this than I would like. But I am over halfway through 'Roxas Vs The World'. I don't really have anyone I'm betaing at the mo. So, I should be able to focus more time on this. Anyway, looking back on the first seven chapters, I have to say they were sort of all right. I hope I can do better now that I have the original group to use. Be prepared for some plot twists coming up!

The three were out of practice and getting tired. When another group of dusks appeared, the gang started to curse. How were they going to get out of this one?

Roxas stood up, panting. He was physically drained, but he was going to try and protect the home he never knew he had with every last bit of power he had. He readied himself then hesitated, as if having second thoughts. A smirk spread across the blonde's face. "Good evening…your majesty." Roxas said, much to the confusion of the onlookers and his friends.

Suddenly a dark shape shot out from behind the Nobodies. The creature landed with perfect balance. "You're wearing an Organization cloak? You must be indulging yourself into the darkness." Roxas said, in a more serious tone.

The creature nodded, taking his hood off. The creature was a mouse and his whole face seemed to be made up of circles. This was King Mickey of Disney Town. A key wielder and the person who helped all of the other key wielders seal the Door to Darkness, when it was opened by Ansem's doing. The reason why Roxas was interested in him was because King Mickey was the last one, to his knowledge, to have seen Sasuke.

"That's right Roxas." King Mickey answered. "You should consider wearing one yourself."

Roxas shrugged. He didn't feel like wearing one any time soon. "How much power do you have?" King Mickey asked him.

Roxas had to consider for a moment. "About enough for a small diversion attack and opening up a large enough corridor of darkness to get all these people out of here." Roxas had already figured at King Mickey's intentions and knew that it was the best choice of action.

"But after that, I'm not gonna have enough strength left to open another corridor to get me, Sakura and Naruto out of here." Roxas said.

King Mickey had that bit covered, as it happened. He threw Roxas a red hand-made pouch. Roxas didn't bother to check the contents. He knew what he needed would be in it.

"King Mickey. What happened to Sasuke?" Roxas asked. He hadn't seen his friend in almost three years and he missed him terribly.

King Mickey looked back at Roxas, he face seemed to be full of pain, as if he didn't want to think about Sasuke. Roxas' eyes bulged and his mouth took the shape of a small 'o'. King Mickey saw the Keyblade wielder's expression and shook his head. "He's not dead." The mouse assured him. "It's just complicated right now. You'll understand soon, I'm sure. But not now."

Roxas didn't how to respond to that. He looked past the King and remembered that he was supposed to be getting everyone away from the Nobody threat. "Okay, your majesty. Let's go!"

Roxas walked beside Mickey, both raised their Keyblades at the Nobodies. "Sign of faith!" The small king cried. From the tip of his Golden Keyblade, a white light shot out, landing at the Nobodies feet and quickly expanding, into a huge tornado of light sucking all the Nobodies inside.

"Thunder!" Roxas cried and on his command the sky turned grey and a bolt of lightning shot from the sky turning the captured Nobodies to dust in an instant. With that Roxas turned on his tail, before another group of Nobodies could replace the ones that had just been defeated, and covered all of the remaining people, except from King Mickey, in darkness. Some cried out as the unique pulling sensation got to them and sucked them into the darkness.

King Mickey smiled, thankful that the kids had gotten away and pulled his hood back up as another group of Nobodies came to attack him.

"What was that all about?" Hayner asked the three Key Wielders. He and his friends Pence and Olette stayed with the group of key wielders, while Seifer and his group had run off. The six were at the train station- Station Heights. It was at the very top of Twilight Town. Hayner even mentioned that you could get up to a ledge near the top and see the whole of Twilight Town from there. Roxas really wanted to see it.

"Those were Nobodies." Naruto answered. "Empty shells of people who have become heartless. They're under the control of the Organization. We hope they should go away if we leave this place. That's why we're getting this train." He gestured towards the purple one pulled up beside them.

The group had arrived and paid money for train tickets, with the money inside of the pouch that King Mickey had given Roxas. There was also a blue crystal orb inside of it, which Roxas kept for himself. All three of the Key Wielders said it looked, strangely, familiar, but no one could remember where from exactly. The man at the ticket booth had told them to board the train on platform one. He had a blank expression on his face, when he had said so. Nobody knew what to make of that. The gang figured that the train would wait for them, since Sakura did some exploring and found their to be no driver on board.

"And you guys…you're Key Wielders. People from different worlds who use these Keys to help free the world…right, worlds, from evil?"

"That's pretty much it." Naruto answered. He was the one talking with Hayner, while Sakura was dealing with Olette's and Pence's questions. Roxas had gone up to the clock tower's top.

When he finally arrived up there, he sat right on the ledge and looked at the city before him. It was breathtaking and made even more so by the setting sun making everything glisten. He smiled, not just at the scenery, but for what he was feeling. He felt a lot of familiar people who had sat here at least once. It seemed like some were regulars, whether others had only come for the one time and some were still to leave.

Roxas shook his head and chuckled. "Look Sasuke. I don't know what's happened in the time that I've been getting my memories put straight, but I can guess. I think there's been a lot of heartbreaking things. And to make it worse, I think a lot of that stuff has to do with me. When I sit here, I can feel…you and Namine. I can even feel Axel, another Nobody and…a replica? I have no clue why you won't speak to me, why you won't even let me see you. But I will find out, so don't strain yourself trying to keep me from the truth." He finished and felt his friend's presence leave him.

Roxas' eyes dropped a little. "But it sounds like there's a lot to find out."

"Goodbye!" The three called from out their train's window, as it slowly began its trek to wherever it was going. The three from Twilight Town returned with a few waves.

Once the train had really taken off, Roxas, Naruto and Sakura exchanged an upset look. "We only knew them for awhile…so why do I feel so sad?" Sakura asked, what everyone was thinking. They couldn't understand the feeling, but decided to put their confused emotions to the back of their minds, as they looked out the windows to find themselves being surrounded by the blackness of space and an aurora hanging overhead.

Sakura thought the scene was beautiful. Naruto said it was nice. But Roxas didn't think it compared to Twilight Town's sunset and laid down his head, trying to get some sleep, hoping his dreams could explain all of troubles.

"He's gone, Diz. And we're going too." Sasuke and Namine were in the mansion, in the real Twilight Town. Diz and Kakashi were staying here for a bit longer, working on something that could help defeat the Organization and keeping tabs on the worlds from here.

Sasuke and Namine were going to be following the Key Wielders to each world they went to, just making sure that they were kept safe.

"We'll meet again. Don't worry." Kakashi said, the way his cheekbones were positioned and the twinkle in his eyes told Namine and Sasuke that he was smiling, despite his mouth being covered up.

Sasuke and Namine nodded and disappeared through a corridor of darkness.

The world was surprisingly small. It was no more than an oddly shaped tower and a garden. The tower was crooked and a golden or maybe brass colour. It was topped with a blue cone shaped roof, which was, like the train, decorated with moons and stars. The garden was covered in trees and the sky was dark, but filled with stars.

At the front entrance of the tower was a huge, portly creature. A dog? No, a cat. He was wearing an armour coloured in blue and purple. Underneath was a red short sleeved shirt, with a vertical pink stripe descending down from his neck. He also wore navy blue and white sneakers and two straps were keeping them secure. His pants were also navy, but the lower legs were purple and there were two huge pouches on both sides of the pants. A giant zipper ran up the middle of his pants. The creature was peeping into the tower. That struck the Key Wielders as odd.

He chuckled, just as the three walked in on him. "I sent some of my lackeys inside." He said. Did he know the Key Wielders were there, or was he just talking to himself?

"Word is the master of this here tower is a real powerful sorcerer, which would make him the perfect bodyguard for me!" The cat creature boasted.

"There's something familiar about him." Roxas muttered, eyeing the suspicious character's back.

"See it doesn't matter how tough he is." The cat continued. "Once he's a heartless, he'll do whatever I say!"

The Key Wielders tensed up and summoned out their weapons. They had taken their time on the train to recover from their previous fight and the three were ready to go. "So you're a heartless commander?" Sakura asked, innocently.

"Yeah! I sure am! Heartless are those things that are made up of the darkness in people's hearts." He said, still not realising that anything was wrong.

"With all of these strong heartless that I'm getting for her, my dear Maleficent is going to rule everything!" He boasted. Sakura had decided to take charge of this guy.

"Wow! The Maleficent?" Sakura asked, faking amazement. "Well, I haven't seen her since…well since I defeated her."

The cat creature turned around and looked at the sixteen year old girl in disbelief. "What are you talking about?" Then he looked at the Key Staff in her hands. "You're a Key Wielder?" Then his eyes looked at Naruto and Roxas. "All of you?" He started to whimper, but then he regained his cool.

"You! You're the reason why Maleficent hasn't contacted me in so long! Why I can't find her! Heartless!" He screamed, thrusting his fists into the air. About six shadow heartless came up from the ground.

Roxas actually laughed. "It's just as I thought. The darkness in your heart isn't really that great. You could be good."

The cat sneered. "I am the great Pete! I can summon a huge amount of heartless, but most of them are taking care of this Yen Sid guy."

The key wielders rolled their eyes, obviously not believing his excuses. "I'll take care of this." Sakura said, pulling out a talisman. She still had a fraction of Li's powers, as Naruto still had a fraction of Hinata's powers. "Power of the Gods! Release the light! Fire! Water! Earth! Wind! Lightning!" Five streams of energy burst from Sakura's talismans, twirling and each creating a type of vortex. Although Pete was able to summon out more heartless, all of them were destroyed by Sakura's display of power.

Pete was scared. That much was confident. But he was also arrogant and proud. "This isn't over. I've just got more important things to do than to waste my time dealing with you brats!" He said, before opening up a corridor and fleeing.

The inside of the tower was grand. As we were going up, we found that they're didn't seem to be any other rooms except for the one at the very top. Sakura suggested the idea that if Master Yen Sid was a powerful sorcerer, then he could probably create the one path way so visitors didn't get lost.

The top room was large and almost circular in appearance. There were large holes in one side of the wall, in the shapes of moons and stars. There were books lined across shelves in the room and a huge table right in the middle of the room. Three small seats were positioned on one end, while on the other sat a man dressed in blue, with cold hard eyes and a beard that stretched down to his waist. He was strangely intimidating. This must have been the tower's master. Yen Sid. He waved a hand at the Key Wielders to come in.

Once they were seated, Yen Sid began to speak. "So, you are the new Key Wielders. Sakura Avalon, Naruto Uzumaki and Roxas Kamikaze." Roxas was surprised. He had never heard his last name before, unlike Naruto and Sakura who could remember their's. He hadn't been so lucky and was simply called Roxas.

"Where to begin?" Yen Sid said, more to himself than anyone. "Let's see…have you seen the King yet?"

Roxas took upon himself to answer. "Yes we did, Master. He helped us get away from a mass group of Nobodies. He's been busy, hasn't he?"

Yen Sid nodded, if he was impressed by Roxas' deductive skills, he didn't let it show. "That's right. I'm guessing he didn't tell you much of what's happened in the past two years, has he…no, I didn't think so.

"You have another perilous journey ahead of you. I know that you all want to return home after finding the ones you hold dear, but you'll soon see that everything is connected. I'm sure you'll find your friends along your way."

"I have a question." Naruto said, holding up his hand, as if he was in school. "Heartless are still around. Why is that? Is it because of this Pete guy?"

"Naruto. If you cast your mind back to that day in Hallow Bastion. You'll remember that you never succeeded in destroying the heartless manufacturing machine. Pete has done a good job of recruiting new heartless controllers. But aside from that, you must remember that the heartless are darkness made real. There is darkness in every heart, so there will always been heartless and since there are heartless controllers, there are mass amounts of heartless. Emblem and Pureblood."

Nobody looked happy to hear those words. It just meant more pests to stomp on.

"The other type of enemy, as I'm sure you know, are the Nobodies. Empty vessels, which act on their own will. They are made of Nothingness and although they pretend they can feel. This is only a ruse- they only pretend to have hearts. You must not be deceived." While Master Yen Sid said this, he looked directly at Roxas, who frowned in reply. He was quite sure that some Nobodies did have emotions. Namine and possibly even Axel were examples of this.

"And as I'm sure you are aware. There are Nobodies so powerful, who have become so strong. They have taken up a human exterior. These Nobodies call themselves the Organization or Organization XIII. Right now, the Organization has only eight members. You destroyed Sasori. Axel, another Nobody, destroyed Kisame and I suppose I should say that Axel has disbanded from the Organization, following the lead of his fellow member Sora." The name sounded so familiar to the Key Wielders, but they couldn't remember ever hearing it. It was the same sort of feeling they got when thinking about Hayner, Pence and Olette. So odd.

"Sasuke…" Yen Sid continued, attracting Roxas' attention. "…defeated a member known as Itachi. He was in Castle Oblivion at the same time as you." That just confirmed what Roxas had already suspected.

"The journey you are about to undertake is a dangerous one. And at your current level of power, you will not have enough strength to fight. Which is why, I have decided to give to you, each, an outfit full of powerful magic, which can use your own powers and turn it into something more physical. Besides that, I believe the clothes you are in right now, are a bit small." Yen Sid allowed himself a chuckle, before indicating to a door to the right of us. "Inside of there, you'll meet some nice women who agreed to help me make these outfits. Five were created. One for each of you. The King. And Sasuke, although he has not taken his. I would like you to deliver it to him, if you ever do meet up with him. Oh and Sakura. I believe you are familiar with the women."

Leaving the three wielders bewildered, they left the room.

Sakura gasped, in delight. Three elderly, plump women, with wings on their backs and all dressed in one particular colour, red, blue and green, were floating and talking with each other. "Flora! Fauna! Merryweather!" Sakura cried out, happily, rushing towards the women.

The three good fairies saw the girl rushing towards them and smiled as she hugged each of them. Sakura made the introductions. "Roxas, I believe you met the fairies, when you came and got me from Enchanted Dominion?"

Roxas nodded, remembering the time when the three had been separated by Ansem. Sakura had bested Maleficent in that world, with the help of the fairies, Prince Philip and Aurora. A princess of Heart.

"But Naruto, I don't think you guys met."

Flora smiled and waved her hand, dismissing any form of introduction that Naruto was about to give. "That's quite all right, dear. We know all about you. Now, as I believe Yen Sid told you. Today we're here to give you your new outfits. Each outfit has been blessed with a magical power. We like to call these powers the Drive Forms.

"Sakura. You have the most drive forms. You can fuse with any one of your star cards and use their powers much more effectively. You can even fuse with more than one card at a time, but it doesn't always work, as the cards don't always fuse together.

"Naruto. You have nine drive forms. One for each tail of Kyubbi, by the time you reach the ninth tail, you will be able to take up Kyubbi's true form and not a mixture of human and beast.

"And Roxas. You have the lowest number of forms. But each of them is very powerful. Oathkeeper form. Oblivion form. Twilight form. Each one will be difficult to use and the forms may go out of control. That goes for all of you. All the forms won't be assessable at the start, but as you grow stronger, you'll learn how to use their powers properly. By that time, I hope you will be able to defeat Organization XIII."

The Drive forms appealed to the Key Wielders, but they realised the solemnness of Flora's voice was a warning for them to be careful.

The fairies each waved their wands and a bright light surrounded each Key Wielder for a moment, before finally dying down.

The Wielders looked at themselves in shock. Their old clothes had disappeared and had now been replaced by something else.

Sakura was wearing a dress fit for a princess. Around her neck was a bracelet, keeping hold of small golden coins? It was difficult to tell. On her head she was wearing a hair band, which had pink trinity symbols at each end of it. She was wearing a short sleeved top with a large pink stone right at the collar and where the sleeves ended and where the top ended was lined with a black stripe. She had two golden bracelets on the one arm. The dress flowed out around Sakura, like a classical dress did. It was mainly white, except for at the bottom of it, which was clearly designed with a red pattern and more pink gems. There was a gap in-between where her legs were showing, to be seen in a pair of simple white trousers. She was wearing sandals, which matched her outfit.

Naruto's outfit hadn't changed so much as Sakura's. It was still a jumpsuit. The jacket was now much more fitting. Wherever the blue bits for the jacket was, were now replaced by back. His collar had turned fully black and his blue sandals were now black, as well as his blue forehead protector.

Roxas' outfit also was barely changed. He was now only wearing the one jacket, which had his signature, black and white theme. The sleeves were now fully chequered, right down to each end. The rest of the jacket was almost fully white. The collar was now much higher now, that the previous had been. It completely covered Roxas' neck, like a winter jacket did. There was a red line on each side of the jacket, that curved upwards starting from just above the very middle of the jacket and ending near his armpits. There were white pockets above the line. And a row of little black Xs going across it. The shirt underneath was almost completely black except for a white symbol right in the middle, which Roxas recognised as his necklace's, which still hung around his neck, unchanged. The black and white on his trousers had been switched, so now the top part of it was white and the legging was black. His shoes looked about the same, however, and didn't seem to have been changed at all. Just cleaned and possibly made bigger.

"Thanks a lot." The Key Wielders said to the fairies. Roxas took Sasuke's outfit for him and turned to leave after being told Yen Sid had a surprise for them.

Sakura was the last to leave, and just as she was about to. She heard a bird. Looking up, she saw a raven holding a black cloak. It looked strangely familiar. The cloak and the bird. The fairies shared her look of wonder and slight confusion, as if they were also trying to remember why the two things looked so familiar. The raven left as swiftly as it had come. Sakura felt drowsy and left the room with a simple 'Goodbye'.

"Come over here." Yen Sid told the Key Wielders as soon as Sakura walked through the door returning to the circular room, which seemed to be Yen Sid's study.

The aged master indicated to his garden. At first there was nothing, until a familiar aircraft filled the sky. "Hey! It's the gummie ship!" Naruto cried out, jumping up and down. Everyone rushed to the window, where the gummie ship was best visible.

"You guys ready to go?" Roxas asked his companions, who nodded, enthusiastically.

Yen Sid held up his hands and shook his head. "Now, now. Just a moment. Because of your previous endeavours, you put the worlds back to the way they once were. They are separate again and the pathways between them have disappeared."

Roxas frowned. "But that means, are only means of transport are the corridors and those are pretty dangerous, especially for Naruto and Sakura."

Yen Sid nodded, understandably. "King Mickey also noticed this. He has his own way of travelling across the worlds. But he suspects that the worlds are preparing new pathways, which you can travel with. However, these pathways can only be opened by unlocking special gates. These gates have taken shape in the most important object of that world. Observe."

Master Yen Sid took off his hat and placed it on his table. It began to glow and light surrounded the hat. The light was almost a pink colour. The hat floated up into the sky. Roxas felt a tug on his X-Blade, just as it he did when a Keyhole was nearby and needed to be sealed. The X-Blade's tip began to glow just as the hat did. The X-Blade pointed to the floor. Roxas' signature necklace symbol appeared on the ground. It was glowing and then light rose up covering Roxas. Inside the light, he saw a twilight sky. It was beautiful. Above the floating hat, a beam of light shot out and formed a glowing Keyhole above it. Roxas knew what to do next and raised his Keyblade. A small beam of light shot out of the tip, until it reached the keyhole. The world exploded into light and then, eventually, died.

"Well done. I have done everything I can for you. Go forth, Roxas, Naruto and Sakura. Everyone is waiting." Yen Sid told them and allowed himself a smile.

"Thank you Master Yen Sid."

"I'm sure we saw something like that cloak and bird before." Fauna said, still in their room.

Suddenly a high and evil sound echoed through the night. "Oh no!" Flora cried.

The fairies didn't know what to do but they fled to Master Yen Sid. They all knew what that raven had been doing. They knew what had happened. Maleficent was back from the darkness!

A/N- Next Time- The Hallow Bastion Restoration Committee and The Key Wielder Support Society.