Mickey and I landed in some thick bamboo. We made our way out of it. What we found wasn't pretty. Hundreds of heartless were every where. The were patrolling the entire area. Luckily, Mickey had I had some pretty nifty disguises. I was a poverty-stricen farmer and he was a small messenger boy. We entered the town square.

"Halt!" shouted to voise of an Assult Rider heartless. "Who are you?"

"We are the Messengers of the land, dire and secret news must be delivered to Maleficent at the ridge as soon as posssible." said Mickey.

"You may proceed."

Mickey was pretty clever. It turns out that an army training camp was in a direct path of the ridge. The army of Catpain Lee. He had an army of the outskirts. They were pretty good, but never won a major battle. I guess they have another enemy besides the Huns. The Heartless.

We reached to encampment, but didn't receive a warm welcome.

"Stop stranger!" yelled a watch man.

"It's okay." Mickey took off his hood and the man bowed.

"You're majesty. It was a mere accedent. I had no idea..."

"It's okay." he said again. "Although I do wish to speak with Lee."

"You wish is my command, sir." we followed the man to the most dapper tent. Lee was meditating inside."

"Uhh... sir" squeaked the man.

"What!" Said Captian Le angered.

"King Mickey Mouse is here to see you."

"Ohh," Lee's face turned red, "Well let him in."

"I'm already in Lee." said Mickey.

"Wha?" Lee turned around, his face as red as a fresh tomato. "My apologies, sir. I did not mean for you to see any interaction between captain and soldier."

"No problem. Soldiers need to be kept in line."

"Your kindness is as great as your strenght you majesty."

"Well I didn't come on a 'kindness' trip. I need you soldiers."

"It would be no less that an honor to be a member your your army sir. Although, Land policy states that neither soldier nor apprentice my hear the war plans. Pardon me, but those two must leave."

"What ever," I said.

The soldier and I walked out. Lee looked like a typical Asian captain with the mustache and everything. I went with the soldier for a while.

"So, you gotta name?" He asked.

"Riku. You?"

He lifted his helmet, he had spiky blonde hair and fair skin, "Cloud."

"So Maleficent is in the ridges," said Lee as he scratched his beard, "Well I had no idea. She must have deployed the heartless from the tip of the mountain."

"Yes," said Mickey, "We need to stop her. If we succeed, we'll still have to do something about the heartless still here and the..."

"Well China has the best army for clearing out the heartless."

"Yes but..."

"We've taken down guerilla huns in a matter of minutes."

"Lee, there is a skyline the heartless use to get from world to world. They can use that to send more unless we clog it up."

Lee was speachless, "How do you know this?"

"I've been traveling via gummi for a while."

I listened to the entire conversation from the door. Something was fishy about Lee. Why was he interuppting Mickey? Why was he so suspicuos when Mickey claimed to know of the skylines?"C'mon, Cloud, we're gonna get to the bottom of this." Cloud and I walked around the tent.

"And Leave immediatly!" shouted two voices at once. One was Lee's and the other was... Maleficent.

I grabbed Cloud and ran around the corner to face the she-demon.

"Maleficent!" I shouted.

"Who?" siad Cloud.

"So you've never heard of me boy. Strange, since I was so in league with Hades."

Just then Mickey jumpped thourgh the wall.

"Here's a tip, Mal, next time you want to use a mans darkness, turn off the mic when you're talking to someone else."

"So you're here, too"

"Wait, you were behind the hades incident?" said Cloud.

Maleficent raised her arms and one giant heartless emerged from behind the mountains and swooped at us. While we were ducking, Maleficent ran.

"Riku, go after her. Cloud and I will take care of this."

I ran toward the ridge. I used the power given to me in Castle Oblivion to track her down. I could smell darkness. Right now she really stank. She was up to something big. She ran into a cave. I followed. The inside was like the inside of a dark church with hundreds of candels in every corner. Maleficent wasn't the only person in the cave, there were two other men behind her. Two men I knew very well. The man lighting candles was Captain Hook, a pirate who tried to con me into giving him Kairi. There other was the one and only Sephiroth. Sephiroth was a legendary hero gone bad. No body took any attention to me. It was almost as if they didn't know I was there.

"Why so short of breath, Maleficent?" asked Captain Hook.

"I was being chased by the boy of darkness. But no worry, I lost him."

It was then I realized it. It hit me like a ton of bricks. They didn't know I was there. But I was standing in the light. Captain Hook even looked right at me. Was this a new power of the darkness?

"You said there was SOLDIER here incogneato. I'll summon the Bahamut, but first I want to see the SOLDIER." said Sephiroth.

"All in good time, my boy," she said, "Now let's get started."

Sephiroth took the center of the cave. He took a summon position and a gold circle, 10 feet in diameter, glowed around him. The rays from the circle shined to the top of the cave. It eventually broke a hole, the size of the circle, in the ceiling of the cave. A giant winged beast decsended from the sky, into the circle. It was a Bahamut. Maleficent called several Neoshadows to ravenge it's heart. The Heartless Bahamut was a heartless now and under Maleficents control.

"With the powere of the Bahamut, we can take complete control of the Land of Dragons." Maleficent let out an evil laugh. I was about to strikke just as a hand grabbed my shoulder.

"Don't move." it said.

I turned around. It was him: Terra.