Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and everything else belongs to Walt Disney and Square-Enix.
The OCs and their alter-ego that appear in this story belong to their respective authors. More information about them are found in the "Original Characters' Intro" chapter.
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Author's Note: So it's official! Reports from TGShave it thatKH Birth by Sleep is coming January 2010! How exciting is that? To show my excitement for it, I made a fan-based Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep desktop wallpaper and a PSP Wallpaper. They're on my Deviantart page for download! Check out my Deviantart link on my profile. You'll love them!
Oh, and I want to thank those who gave me new ideas for this story, giving me new insights on what's gonna happen in the upcoming chapters! Keep it up! (you know who you are, pat yourselves in the back ;-) )
Now onto the story.
::KINGDOM HEARTS III Online HD::
-New Power Revealed-
I stormed inside my house, shut the door, and started barricading it. A slam shook the door, ready to rip it off its hinges and I heard the hissing sound of that hideous frightening creature that sounded like it came from Hell from outside the house. I was frightened, knowing all full-well that that thing was going to kill me brutally.
"Hey Ten!" I heard a familiar voice. I jumped and saw my sister. She didn't notice me being scared. She was too busy smiling and talking.
"Finally, someone to talk to!" she sounded relieved, "You wouldn't believe what just happened to me in the girls' bathroom today."
HIIIIISSS!! I heard that creature hissing again.
"Hey! Hi!" I grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her away from the door, "What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here! You're supposed to be with our aunt!"
"I got bored," She shrugged, "so I came here."
I started dragging her toward the back of the house. She struggled, "Hey, what are you doing? Don't send me back there!"
"I'm sorry sis, but you have to leave."
"Why?"
"Because it's too dangerous!" I hesitated, and she looked me in the eyes strangely, "I mean…" I hesitated.
The door kept on slamming full-force. I glanced over at the door then back at my sister, "because…" I hesitated again, "…mom said our aunt is lonely. Keep her company will ya? Come on, damnit! Go!"
"Okay, okay! Geez, you don't have to be so bossy." She finally left the house through the back door. The moment she was gone, the front door broke free. I turned around and I saw it: my enemy.
It was a creature shaped like the skinniest human being on Earth. It looked pale skinned and looked like his skin got ripped all over, leaving open wounds and scars, like a self-eating, flesh-eating zombie. Worse of all, it was crawling in four legs, was missing an eye (there was a skeleton eyehole instead), and its lips were knitted shut to look like zippers. Height was about seven feet… and it was drooling with saliva.
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"The creature was staring straight at me…"
A young teenage girl (ironically the sister of the boy who first appeared in this chapter) was reading from her brother's journal. Of course, she wasn't at her brother's bedroom. She was in her own bedroom, locked tight and secured from any outsiders and outside noises. You could say that her room felt like a secluded area inside a college library.
The girl was brown-haired with ponytail, had brown eyes, and she currently sported a plain white t-shirt, blue shorts and white knee-length. She used to be talkative, energetic, and quite the free-spirited gal. But something tragic had happened that completely changed her personality to be shy and lonely, and at the same time cold and an antisocial person. Her brother—her best friend in the world—was sent to the Midlight City Hospital after he was suddenly reported comatose. Their parents believed the cause of this was either poison or seizure. But the girl knew the truth: as a veteran KH Player alongside her brother, she knew someone was after him and killed his Keybearer in-game. But how was his Keybearer killed?
His heart was not stolen, his light stayed with him as always, but the boy's Keybearer alter-ego simply ceased to exist in the KH world, forcing him to be comatose in the real world. A mystery indeed.
And since the girl knew, that nobody should mess with her family, she was now seeking vengeance: a cold-blooded heartless vengeance, against her family's enemies. They're neither heartless, nor nobodies. They're PKers (aka Player-Killers). The girl's name: Kami Tsubasa. Her alter-ego: Naraku Shinigami, a Keybearer who goes by the nickname 'Death-Scythe', because of her fearsome specialty in Death and Darkness. She was a Death/Darkness-based Keybearer.
Could she pose a threat to our current Keybearers in the near future? As of now, we are not quite sure; as she is too busy looking for clues on her brother's assassins through his private journal.
Sitting on the ground, she flipped onto the next page of his journal only to see it blank. She then flipped through all the pages and saw the same result.
"…That's it." She uttered before closing the journal. She read her brother's name on the journal's cover: Tenshu Tsubasa. His Keybearer's name on the side: Kage 'Ruin' Rei. Curious, she turned to face a creature that was lying beside her. Ironically, it was the same creature that attacked Tenshu!
Of course, she didn't know that.
"Why would he stop writing at this point?" she muttered to herself, staring at the quiet creature.
"Any luck?" she heard a voice speak behind her. She turned and saw a middle-aged man with gray hair and a cunning smile approaching. The man also wore the trademark black-hooded Armani trenchcoat. A Blackheart!
Kami shook her head in response to his question before dropping her brother's journal to the ground. The blackheart removed his hood to reveal his face: Alistare!
"Have a little patience, my little girl." He said with comfort in his voice, "You will find your brother's PKers soon." He got close to Kami and gently caressed her cheek with his finger.
Kami rudely pushed away his affection and quickly stood up to face him, "I don't need your help!" she snapped, "I can handle this on my own."
"Why?" Alistare sounded hurt, "You would reject help from me because I'm a Blackheart?"
Kami stayed quiet. Alistare went on, "Face it Naraku." He called her by her Keybearer's name and not her nickname, "I'm the only one left in this world you live in. You rely on me when you rely on no one else. You're the one who requested full-rental of our Nix Vers.2" he said referring to the creature Kami had company. The creature hissed.
"Oh hush up. You'll be with your true self soon." Alistare chastised the creature.
Nix kept on hissing stridently. But Kami didn't care. She didn't care about the noise. She didn't care about anything else.
"I would like to be alone now." She said.
Alistare pursed his lips, not so thrilled about the idea, "Very well then." He said anyway, "I'll leave you alone. Since you looove to do just that."
Alistare turned his back on Kami and snapped his finger to conjure his corridor of darkness. Before stepping in he faced Kami one more time, "If you need anything… you know what to do."
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Back in Dwarf Woodlands,
Matt, Violet, Axel, Talen, Pierre, the prince, and the dwarves finally reached the Queen's Castle. The interior was heavily guarded with soldiers and heartless, but the Keybearers managed to sneak past them, and on occasion defeated those who spotted them.
The heroes now found themselves before a grand empty hallway with thousand of doors leading to many places.
"Hey, I wonder where we go from here." Pierre wondered, before facing the others, "Any ideas?"
"I think we should split up." Violet proposed.
"That is one simple solution." Matt said before facing the team, "Axel, Talen, and the Prince. You guys should take the West Wing. Talen, you lead. Pierre, Violet and I will lead the dwarves down the East Wing. See if we can find something. Okay, go! But be discreet."
The heroes split up.
Talen led Axel and the Prince down the West Wing.
"I can't believe Matt puts you in charge of leading this group." Axel complained, "You are too reckless to be a leader, man."
"Really?" Talen grinned, "So you'd rather have yourself being the leader?"
Axel scoffed, "No. I was thinking the Prince could have been the leader."
Talen and Axel faced the prince for his opinion. He simply shrugged, "I do not mind following orders."
"Yeah right, Axel!" Talen joyfully wrapped his arm around Axel's shoulder, "You just jealous because I'm more wiser than you'll ever be."
"Hey! I can be wise!" Axel removed Talen's arm off him, "Heck, I'm the one who should be leading this group so I'm stepping in!"
Axel took a step forward. But Talen pulled him aside, "No. It's me who should lead. So I'm stepping in!" he closed in to Axel's face.
"No, it's me!" Axel shouted.
"Noo, it's me!" Talen argued.
"I'm fun!"
"I'M SMARTER!"
"It shall be fitting us should the two of you lead together?" the Prince proposed to the boys. But they didn't listen. The boys jumped back, facing each other, transformed into their Keybearers selves and summoned their Keyblades.
"I'm guessing not." The prince mumbled.
YAAAAAAH!!! Blazen and Sharx air-dashed toward each other, and locked Keyblades. They backed off each other and dashed again, landing blows. Blazen swung his blade high and low while Sharx swung it at every angle. Then Sharx blocked one of Blazen's attacks with Super Armor, causing Blazen to flinch and giving Sharx a chance to counter. Sharx then stabbed Blazen with a thrust, flinging him far to the floor. Blazen recovered.
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While Blazen and Sharx were fighting a pointless fight, Matt, Violet, Pierre and the dwarves reached a massive audience chamber plunged in darkness.
"Man, this place is so dark it's not funny." Pierre shuddered.
Matt spotted six stone chalices facing one another, spreading apart across the chamber that led up to the stairs. He smiled. Being a Fire/Wind Keybearer has its advantage. With only his finger, he pointed and a Fire Spell and Gust Spell took effect, creating a stream of flames that blew through the stone chalices illuminating them and the entire chamber. The dwarves were in awe of this magic.
"How did you doooo that?" Happy jittered.
Before Matt could respond, someone else responded in the room, "I'll tell you how: he's a Keybearer. He's one of us."
All attention turned to the uninvited guest: Sage! She approached the group.
"N'est-ce pas?" she said, 'Is it not' in French.
"Sage." Matt narrowed his eyes.
"You again!" Pierre exclaimed.
"I knew you were the enemies! I just knew it!" Grumpy barked at the Keybearers, causing anxiety to his fellow dwarf family.
"We're not the enemies." Matt reassured the seven dwarves before facing Sage, Keyblade summoned, "She is." He took only one step and already his body had transformed to Cross.
Sage looked amused.
"Just leave the fighting to us, gentlemen." Violet summoned her Keyblade before morphing back to Flora. Her Keyblade had a similar shape to Ven's Keyblade, except its blade was longer and more trenchant to highly resemble a Katana instead of a Keyblade. Pierre then transformed to Stone and summoned his Keyblade too for combat.
Sage laughed, "How amusing."
"What's so funny?" Cross asked.
"That you so-called heroes are ready to fight a losing battle. That's what's funny." She said, "And to top all of that, I know about your little split-up with the rest of your group. Same way you split us up, remember?"
"Split us up?" Violet curiously turned to Cross, "What's she talking about?"
"She's only babbling. Don't listen to her." He said dismissively before raising his voice at Sage, "And you know what? Doesn't matter who splits who so as long as we take back what you stole from Sierra: her Beauty Mark. And we're taking Snow White and Rian home too!"
Sage tsked, "Yeah, nice desperate try. I don't think your boys are ready to face this." She snapped her finger, alerting the group.
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Blazen quickly stood up and watched Sharx descending with his Keyblade up high. "You're finished!"
Blazen raised his arm up and a fireball started building up for a Fira Spell, "Think again, pretty boy!"
Blazen took one step back as he's about to launch his Fira spell at Sharx when suddenly a magical seal materialized on the floor he stepped on. It was the sign of the Chasers—the heart with the spike end. It trapped Blazen. "Whoa!"
"What?" Sharx made his Keyblade vanished just as he descended onto the seal and got trapped in it too.
"Gasp!" The prince reached for them, but froze up as the seal unleashed a powerful light, blinding the entire hall and the heroes.
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Cross, Flora, Stone and the dwarves stood there in utter silence. Sage was chuckling. She had snapped her fingers earlier but nothing spontaneous had happened in the room.
"Okay, witch." Flora hissed, "What are you trying to pull? A Halloween prank? It's too early for that y'know?"
"It's more of a Halloween prank." Sage said, "It's Keyblade Magic."
"What?" the gang exclaimed.
"A little reward for your fellow boys, in finding the lovely Princess Snow White, Johnny, and the Queen possessing Ciel's face." She said, "Right this minute they should be arriving at the Queen's secret lair, where the Magic Mirror rests, and so will their doom."
Sage vanished, leaving trails of laughter behind. The dwarves freaked out more.
"What doom? What did you do?" Stone panicked, yelling to the hall, hoping for a response from the ruthless Sage.
"Oh no! They're gonna do something bad to Snow White I just know it!" Bashful jittered, and so did everyone else.
"What do we do?" Doc faced Cross and Flora, "You should know what to do! Tell us what to do?"
"Okay, first of all, stop with the panicking." Cross said, "Second, we find Talen and the others, and we find them fast."
The heroes took off.
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The light vanished and the guys saw themselves inside a dark chamber. They didn't know where they were, but they knew that they somehow got teleported into another place. They looked around. There was this foul stench of potions and chemical renting the chamber. There were pillars that spread out before a long stairway, which lead to the exit. A small window with jailbars on them was there also, shedding only the faintest light. At every corner of the chamber were potions and books. In the middle of the room was what looked like a huge hole, with some green clouds swirling around at random. The teens walked around a bit, catching a quick glance, here and there, of the private belongings of whoever lived in that chamber… until they spotted the Magic Mirror! That chamber was the Queen's dark secret lair!
The boys have somehow automatically returned to their regular forms just after the teleportation. Axel stared briefly at the Magic Mirror which only showed his reflection and not the spirit trapped within. Axel quickly looked away from the mirror before being mesmerized by it to face his friends, with someone in mind to blame.
"Nice going, Raphael!" Axel insulted Talen, "Now look where we are! Look what you did! How did we end up here? And what was that light?"
"Raphael?" Talen scoffed, "Oh, sure. Be the insulting king, Michelangelo!" he then stared at himself, "And what's with allthat stuff on me?"
Talen was enveloped in a strange violet aura, so were Axel and the Prince. They looked like glow-in-the-dark humans. Talen tried to shoo away the aura, but it was still there, "It's like some sort of stain or something! I can't get it out!"
"Dark magic." The Prince took a guess, "That could be the work of the Queen."
"Dark magic?" Axel repeated before recalling the magical seal he landed on, "But that thing we stepped on… it didn't… look like the work of evil."
"Whatchu talking about, Willis?" Talen asked.
"Didn't you notice?" Axel said, "That seal looked just like the seal in Terra's belt buckle: the heart with the spike. Did we get help from Terra?"
"Terra? Please." Talen argued, "He only helps when he wants to. We could have gotten help from Rian as far as we know. His necklace carried that same symbol too y'know?"
"Oh right!" Axel recalled the necklace Rian wore. It also had that same symbol, "You're probably right! Only one problem though… Rian got poisoned!"
Talen hesitated at that missing piece of reality, "Maybe he helped us out telepathically?"
The Prince stumbled on something heavy by the corner. The object looked like a coffin and it was covered by a white sheet. The prince suddenly felt heaviness in his heart, "…princess?" he mumbled before pulling the sheets up.
It was a glass coffin! And Snow White was in it, sleeping inside!
"Princess!" the prince exclaimed. He then uttered a simple whisper. "My love! She's here…" he then faced the teens, "Help me get this glass off her."
The teens immediately helped him raise the glass up.
"I can't believe we found her!" Axel said joyfully.
"See? I told you I was smart!" Talen hassled.
"Yeah, you are. Five seconds ago, you didn't know Rian got poisoned." Axel argued.
The guys finally put the glass aside, setting the sleeping princess free. The relieved prince then faced the teens with concern, "Uh… should your friend be in this room as well?"
Axel and Talen looked around. There was no sign of Rian anywhere.
"He's nowhere to be found." Talen answered, "Where could he be?"
The guys looked around for Rian. The prince looked behind the curtains, nothing. Axel looked around the walls, nothing. Talen searched through all corners of the room. As they were searching they suddenly stopped, eyes on each other, before facing the Magic Mirror. They approached it, their reflections staring back.
"Do you think he's in there?" the Prince asked.
"Psht. Don't be silly." Talen chuckled, "People can't be trapped in mirrors."
"Obviously someone hasn't read Through the Looking Glass." Axel said, but then he stopped talking, bulgy-eyed, like he shouldn't have said that, "…which I never read! Psht! Scoff! Psssht!
Talen kept staring.
"What?" Axel blew, "You think I like reading? Dude, I only read Anime novels and watch Tokusatsus. They're my passions!" He then faced the camera, smiling, "Yeah, that's right!"
"Who ARE you talking to?" Talen barked.
"How about we ask for Rian's location?" the Prince asked.
The teens looked confused. How is he gonna ask a mirror to—!
"Slave in the Magic Mirror, I summon thee!" the Prince spoke to it, "Speak and let us see thy face!"
The prince's reflection suddenly vanished from the mirror, to be replaced by smokes and thunders and wheels of burning fire. The teens stepped back, jaws dropped.
"Speak!" the Prince said, "Let me see thy face!"
On cue, everything cleared up and the mirror displayed in its reflection a drama mask-like face in a dark green shady color.
"Whoa…" Talen and Axel breathed.
"Reveal to us, Magic Mirror, the location of our dear Keybearers' comrade." The Prince asked.
"What you seek, lies beyond me." The Mirror responded.
Axel and Talen looked puzzled, "What?"
"It speaks in riddles." The prince explained.
"I can see that!" Talen barked, "Gosh, I hate riddles! How are we supposed to find Rian?"
Another idea suddenly came to Axel's mind. A good one this time. He programmed his gauntlet to display a holographic vision monitor hovering around the chamber. The image made beeping sounds as it scanned the chamber for clues, a caption floated below the image saying "Searching for clues…". The image finally pointed directly at the Magic Mirror and the sound suddenly started beeping stridently. A new caption displayed below saying "1 Clue(s) Found"
"Whoa!" Axel gasped.
"What?" Talen asked.
"Look into this!"
The boys saw through the vision monitor what looked like a floating heart inside the Magic Mirror showing the reflection.
"A heart?" the Prince muttered.
Axel pushed some more buttons on his gauntlet and a new caption came up.
"That's Rian's heart!" Axel exclaimed, "Aw man. We're too late! We failed to rescue him."
The guys miserably watched the floating heart inside the mirror floating at will. No hope, no chance. They failed to rescue Rian.
"But does not the Keyblade's purpose to control hearts?" The Prince informed the teens, "Whether is it to release them or to restore them?"
Talen and Axel smiled again. "That's right!" they said together.
"The Keyblade does do that!" Talen exclaimed, "And it can reverse any spells, including freeing the heart from that mirroring prison! Thanks a lot, Princey!"
"Here let me try it." Axel volunteered. He turned to face the floating heart inside the mirror. He summoned his Keyblade.
Nothing. His Keyblade didn't come to him!
"Huh?" Axel stared at his palm, confused, "That's weird. I can't summon my Keyblade."
Talen scoffed "What? What are you talking about? Here let me try." Talen extended his hand to summon his Keyblade as well.
Nothing.
Talen gasped.
"That's troubling!" the prince sounded worried.
"We never had that problem before!" Talen exclaimed.
"Something's wrong." Axel said nervously.
"Oh, something's wrong all right." Talen exclaimed.
Axel tried transforming into his alter-ego. "HENSHIN!"
Nothing.
"What?"
"Dude! Our powers got jacked!" Talen immediately concluded.
"It's these auras around you!" The prince informed the teens, "We've been enchanted by Dark Magic! The Queen is onto us!"
"Damn these auras!" Talen snapped.
"We gotta act fast!" Axel sounded panicky, "We gotta get outta here before—!"
A corridor of darkness emerged from out of nowhere and the gang saw the Queen stepping out of it.
"…before I find you." She finished Axel's sentence. "…trespassers." The teens saw the Queen, face-to-face with them. Her face appeared just like Sierra's.
"Sierra?" Talen squinted.
The Queen revealed her true face and suddenly tossed a strong back-slap at Talen, effortlessly flinging him to a nearby wall.
"TALEN!" Axel and the Prince exclaimed.
"One thing I despise the most besides being second-most beautiful, is receiving uninvited strangers to my castle." The Queen sounded cold. "Would you like to know what I do to uninvited strangers…?" She paused before she did a quick run-through of her finger across her neck. Axel gulped.
The prince pulled out his sword, "Queen! We're not leaving here until you release the princess!"
"Release the princess?" the Queen sounded stunned, "Now why would I do that? After all, she is my stepdaughter. She's family. I am permitted to do anything to her, good… or bad."
"Really?" Axel said, "Then what about Sierra? Her Beauty Mark? And Rian? They're not family to you! They didn't do anything to you but you went after his Heart and her Beauty Mark anyway!"
"What can I say, hearts and beauty are precious gifts for me." The Queen smiled.
"Release Rian's Heart and Sierra's Beauty Mark, or else!" Axel threatened before trying to transform again, "HENSHIN!"
Nothing.
"Aw COME ON!"
The Queen menacingly approached.
"Oh, so the Keybearers cannot transform?" the Queen chuckled, "How scintillating. I shall thank my assistance Sage for discovering your weak point."
"Sage…" Talen muttered as he was cringing back to his feet, "…one of the Blackhearts? Dang her!"
"Now I believe it's time for me to give you what you most deserve!" the Queen hissed before she started breathing heavily, giving away a strange violet aura around her. Suddenly she screamed, "KYAAAAAH!!!" And her body suddenly, yet in a grotesque way, morphed into a massive vulture. The heroes started backing off.
"…your ultimate punishment!! By the power of Darkness! Eternal darkness! Seal of eternity from the grave of all Keyblade Masters! I SUMMON THEE!!!"
She then let out a strident vulture cry before facing the Magic Mirror. The mirror suddenly glowed, and suddenly a hole ripped off the mirror in response to the vulture cry, turning it dark and gooey, like heartlesses were forming there. But it wasn't heartless. It looked like a Void; and the guys could tell it from the breezy suction they felt coming from the mirror, trying to suck them in. The guys all grasped on heavy pillars around the chamber to keep themselves from getting sucked in, but they couldn't hold on much longer as they felt their feet no longer touching the ground and were instead pointing toward the Void, which was trying to rip them off their hinges with such powerful force.
The guys freaked out as they watched everything—the spellbooks, potions and brews, even the sleeping Snow White—helplessly getting sucked into the void in the form of ball of lights.
"PRINCESS!" The prince yelled.
"NO!" Axel and Talen exclaimed.
The Vulture Queen glided around the teens as she let out a squawking laugh, her beady blood-red colored eyes in full control of the Void.
"PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM, HEROES OF THE LIGHT! SQUIRM! SCREAM!" the Vulture Queen squawked.
"Do not give up, valiant heroes!" the prince yelled out, "Stay true to your heart!"
"But we won't make it!" Axel yelled, "The Void! It's too strong!!"
"Where is help when we need them?" Talen barked.
The void suddenly turned violent. The vulture cackled as the guys screamed piercing cries of help. Axel couldn't hang much longer.
"Hang on, Axel!" Talen yelled to his friend.
"I CAN'T MAN!" Axel exclaimed, before Void finally sucked him in. "WHOOOOAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Nothing you can do, worms! NOTHING!" The Vulture hissed, hovering tauntingly besides the Prince. The prince grunted, trying to hang on just a bit longer for his dear life and trying not to get distracted by the Vulture Queen.
"Time to part!"She hissed before striking the prince full-force on his side, forcing him to let go. The Prince got sucked into Void, screaming.
Talen managed to grasp tightly onto the pillar, securing himself from the sucking Void. But the Vulture Queen had his eyes on him. She started hovering around him.
"Did I not just say that it was time to part?" the Vulture squawked, gliding around Talen at such fast pace that he got distracted and couldn't keep track of where she was. She was like an annoying giant fly!
"Screw you! I'm not leaving here until you get my friends back, the princess, and Sierra's Beauty Mark, you feathered bird fry!" Talen insulted.
"So you insult your Queen, moody worm?" the vulture hissed, "That does not matter either way, you will perish by MY POWERS!" she batted her wings to fly up a corner of the room, beak targeting Talen.
"HEY, where are you going? What…!" Talen stopped talking as he stared hopelessly at the queen. He knew what she was about to do, "Oh, hell no! You are not—!"
"TIME TO PART!!"
"NO!" Talen screamed as the vulture dove toward the pillar and with her beak, she effortlessly ripped the pillar off its roots. The pillar got sucked into Void, and so did Talen. Talen screamed until his visions got completely blurred out to complete darkness.
"Talen!"
Talen's eyes flew open. He stared across his surroundings. He was not in Void!
He was back at the Queen's Castle's West Wing with Axel and the Prince!
Apparently the teens have not reached the Queen's secret chamber yet, and already Talen felt like he's about to relive a horrible nightmare again.
"Huh? Wh-what?" he mumbled.
"Didn't you hear me? I can't believe Matt puts you in charge of leading this group!" Axel complained, "You are too reckless to be a leader, man!"
"Really?" Talen said, "So you'd rather have yourself being the—?" Talen stopped talking, "HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! Didn't we already have that conversation before?"
Axel faced the prince for his opinion. The prince looked just as confused as Axel.
"Uh, no?" Axel responded, "Dude! You're so trying to avoid the subject!" He then formed a mischievous grin before acting all innocently, "And just for that, I believe I'm gonna be leading this group, so I'm going in!"
"NO!" Talen barred Axel's path with his arm, before pulling out a penny from his pocket and tossed it to the trapped floor Axel was about to step onto. The coin suddenly glowed as the magical seal formed before the teens and the prince in a radiant light. Axel who was close on contact with the seal jumped back. "Whoa!"
The coin and the seal finally vanished in a blinding curtain of light that forced the teens and the prince to shield their eyes for a second.
"A trap!" The Prince muttered.
"How did—!" Axel gasped.
"It's more like a teleportation sigil." Talen revealed, "That thing was gonna take us straight to Rian and Snow White."
"WHAT?" Axel and the prince exclaimed.
"And you idiot stopped us?" Axel complained.
"If you would lemme finish!" Talen interrupted, "That thing was gonna take us straight to Rian and Snow White, at the expense of our powers and our Keyblades."
"Whoa!" Axel shuddered at the thought.
"So you're saying that if you had stepped foot onto that sigil," the prince said, "we would have found the princess and your friend; but we wouldn't…"
"…stand a chance against the Queen." Talen revealed, "That sigil was a trap for us from Sage."
"Dude!" Axel grabbed Talen by the shoulders, "You're a lifesaver! How'd you know that?"
Talen snootily raised his chin up, "From being smart!" he lied, "That's right! I'm the brain in this operation here!" he tapped his head with his finger, "It's no wonder Matt put me in charge now! Mmh-Hmm!"
Axel stopped smiling and frowned, "Grr…"
"Now, follow me like my good soldiers, in finding that nanny and give her a complete makeover! Oh, and by the way, you owe me a penny."
Talen proceeded down the wing and the prince followed with full-confidence. Axel followed behind, still irritated, "Follow me like my good soldiers! You owe me a penny!Pfft… haughty bastard."
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Talen, Axel, and the Prince reached the Queen's Chamber… the old fashioned way.
"We're here!" Talen exclaimed.
"Where is the princess?" the Prince asked.
"Let's transform first before we find them!" Talen proposed.
"Transform?" Axel raised an eyebrow. Talen transformed to Blazen without hesitation. Then Axel followed, transforming to Sharx.
"Now onto finding the captives." Blazen faced the Prince, "Princey," he pointed him the covered coffin, "See this white sheet over something heavy? Snow White is in there!"
"What?" the prince exclaimed before going for it. He pulled out the white sheet and saw Snow White inside the coffin. "Princess!" he exclaimed before uttering a simple whisper. "My love! She's here…" he then faced the teens, "Help me get this—"
Blazen pointed his Keyblade at the glass cover of Snow White's coffin and it vanished in sparkles.
"…glass off her?" The stunned prince finished his sentence.
"Okay. How could you have possibly known that Snow White would be IN there?" Sharx asked suspiciously but Blazen wasn't listening. Blazen then went for the Magic Mirror, pointed his Keyblade at the Mirror. The mirror revealed Rian's Heart.
"…and Rian's Heart here?" Sharx added, staring in awe.
"Heart of Pure Bravery. Be reborn into your Dweller, I command thee!" Blazen chanted before muttering, "Gosh I hate speaking in rhyme." He then yelled out to the duo, "Stand back!"
Light started flashing from the Keyblade and so did Rian's heart in response. A great wind started blowing across the chamber as the heart symbol with the spikes—the symbol of Terra—suddenly appeared beneath Blazen. A beam shot out of the Keyblade and struck the mirror. An explosion of light took over the chamber.
Moments after, the light was gone as Rian's heart emerged out of the mirror to everyone's amazement. The heart slowly faded out as Rian himself started fading in. The teen hero was still unconscious. Everyone gathered around him.
"Rian?" Sharx spoke, hoping to get an answer.
Rian's eyes flew open and the teen let out a sharp gasp. He quickly sat up like he just had a nightmare, breathing heavily.
"Whoa!" Sharx exclaimed, "You're awake!"
Rian tried to speak but couldn't, like he was out of breath.
"He's not 100 percent yet. His heart just got restored in him. Give him some time." Blazen informed.
"Seriously. How did you know how to restore his heart?" Sharx asked desperately.
"Boy, you do ask a lot of questions huh?" Blazen asked back, "And seriously, of all the hours you've spent playing the game, you never restored the heart of a Keybearer?"
Sharx hesitated, "Uh…"
"It's like one of the main quests in the game!"
"Okay, you know what? Don't rub it in." Sharx mumbled.
"Guys…" Rian tried to speak but the guys weren't listening.
"I'm not rubbing anything. I'm telling the truth. But if you want some rubbin'…"
"Dude!"
"Guys…"
"Hey, you're the one who asked for it!"
"Do you want me to kick your ass?!" Sharx threatened before transforming his Keyblade into a gun, "Cuz I can."
"Bring it, greenie boy!" Blazen laughed, "HA! HA! Get it? Greenie boy? Cuz you're jealous?"
"GUYS!"
The teens finally turned to Rian, "What?!" they yelled.
Rian pointed behind them, "We got company."
They turned around and they saw the Queen, standing with the unconscious prince on the ground.
"One thing I despise the most besides being second-most beautiful, is receiving uninvited strangers to my castle." The Queen sounded just as cold as in Talen's vision. "Would you like to know what I do to uninvited strangers…?"
"Of course," Blazen formed a smile, "but do you know what we do to villains who are messing with our friends?"
Blazen took focus on the Queen with his gauntlet. Just as he was about to unleash his Focus Mode attack, a sword was heard running through the Queen. The Queen gasped sharply, before falling to her knees and collapsed. The prince was behind her with his sword in hand, to the teens' amazement.
"…They meet their ends." The prince sounded as if finishing Blazen's sentence.
"HEEY!" Blazen whined, "I wanted to roast her dangit!"
The door to the chamber then busted open and Cross, Flora and the dwarves barged inside. The dwarves were yelling, "Don't cross the Queen! It's a trap!"
They saw the Queen on the ground, unresponsive.
"I guess it wasn't a trap." Cross muttered.
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On the Next upcoming Chapters of KH3 Online HD
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"It appears that one of these Keybearers now possesses a hidden power." One of the Blackhearts said, "The power to see the future."
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"We are locked from outside the Kingdom Hearts Universe." Terra informed the Keybearers, "We can't go back there anymore."
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Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But soon… you will dread the day of my return.
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"You killed my brother! And now I'm going to kill you!" Death-Scythe yelled out before taking another swing of her death-scythe at her opponent.
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Next Chapter:: I Shall Return