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Chapter 4: The Darkness
Terra sat against a tree trunk in the Dwarf Woodlands in another failed attempt in finding a Door to Darkness, watching Riku and Mickey sleep around a campfire.
'What if the computer was right?' Terra thought. It had been nearly three weeks after the incident at Radiant Garden, and Terra began to lose hope of seeing his friends again. Mickey and Riku were going to have to leave soon, and Terra would be on his own.
Terra heard footsteps, but when he turned to look and see who it was, no one was there. Terra turned back to see if both Riku and Mickey were asleep before investigating.
He followed the mysterious sound through the forest. "Hello?"He called out.
No reply, but Terra saw a figure running through the forest, the source of the noise. "Hey, wait!" Terra ran after the person.
They ran out into a meadow and the mysterious figure turned around when it was in the exact center of the meadow. The person was a Heartless the size of a human.
Terra summoned his Keyblade, confused by the Heartless' strange actions. 'Heartless are to foolish to flee any fight,' Terra thought. The Heartless attacked but Terra easily countered and vanquished the Heartless.
Terra turned to head back, but another Heartless appeared.
"...Who is your Master, I wonder..." Terra mumbled to himself as he fought the Heartless. As the Heartless disappeared like the first, anothereven stronger one took it's place. One by one, Terra destroyed Heartless after Heartless until the singular assault stopped.
Terra looked around, searching for the wielder of darkness.
"Show yourself!"Terra called.
Maleficent walked out of the forest and into the meadow."Hello again Terra, how are you doing?" She asked tauntingly.
"As if you care!" Terra roared, charging at Maleficent.
Maleficent disappeared before Terra's Keyblade manged to connect. She reappeared behind him."Oh Terra, I just wanted to talk."
"It's a little too late!" Terra snapped and attacked again. Maleficent hissed as she barely managed to block Terra's might with her staff.
"I can help you save your friends Terra." Maleficent said.
"You think I haven't changed! I am not going to harm my friends by having you help," Terra said as he pushed down on his Keyblade, causing Maleficent to strain.
"I can pull Aqua out of the darkness!"
"And I can help her myself!" Terra pushed harder, feeling Maleficent begin to slip.
"Terra, do you even know where Ventus is?" Maleficent asked.
Terra did not answer.
Riku ran into the meadow."Maleficent?" He asked, causing both battlers to turn in his direction. Riku summoned his Keyblade and charged at Maleficent.
Maleficent whispered a spell and was engulfed in flames, in her place was her black dragon form.
Terra jumped backwards as Riku joined him.
"Where's the King?" Terra asked.
"Sleeping, I saw you were gone and decided to look for you, then I heard shouting and here you are," Riku explained.
Terra chuckled slightly."Well, he'll sure wake up from this."
"Well, let's take out this witch."
Maleficent shot fire from her mouth, breaking up the conversation as the two split up , taking opposite sides of the dragon. Terra distracted the beast as Riku launched an attack from behind. Riku jumped onto the dragon's back and sliced her back. Maleficent roared in pain and spun around in an attempt to throw Riku off, but failed instead hitting Terra with her tail, causing him to drop his Keyblade and cling tightly to the tail.
Maleficent stopped and flew into the air.
Terra crawled up on Maleficent's back and summoned his Keyblade.
Maleficent spun in the air causing the Keyblade warriors to fall.
If Terra had not used a zero gravity spell, Riku would not have made it.
Riku yelped in pain as he landed on the ground.
Terra ran over."What is it?" He asked.
"I fell on my arm, I think it's broken," Riku said.
Maleficent was flying right at them, green fire spewing from her mouth.
Terra focused all of his power into his Keyblade as it transformed into a giant cannon. He aimed the cannon at Maleficent.
"Fire!" He ordered the cannon as it shot two blasts which exploded when they hit Maleficent.
Maleficent roared in pain as she fell to the ground, forced to change to her original form. Maleficent started to fade into darkness.
Terra ran over to her."Open a portal to Darkness!" He ordered.
Maleficent chuckeled weakly."No."
Terra summoned his Keyblade and held it at her throat.
"I'm already finished, but you still have darkness in you Terra, you can do it yourself. Just give in to the darkness, like you did before."
Maleficent disappeared into the darkness.
Riku limped over, clutching his arm."Did she just say that you-"
"Yeah, long time ago I gave into darkness. I guess it still remains."
Riku sighed."Well, I did too, but I learned to control it...maybe we can use that to help your friends!"
Terra surveyed the damages. Maleficent's green flames nearly destroyed the meadow, but they died down.
"You'd teach me?" Terra asked.
"Well, it's better then learning it from someone like Maleficent, and it may prove better use to you then blindly searching for a random portal."
Terra armor clanked as they headed back to camp."Okay, we can go back to Destiny Islands, and you can help me train."
When they made it back to camp, Mickey was still fast asleep.
So, I'm almost back in school, just a couple weeks left and I'm goin to try and update more often.
Next Chapter out soon.