Chapter Eight
Zack and Riku jumped up at the Heartless while Goofy threw his shield and Donald cast a large fireball at it. The Heartless swiped Zack and Riku out of the air, caught Goofys shield and threw it back at him, and blocked Donalds lightning attack with its other arm. Riku and Zack both crashed into a large boulder, Goofy was thrown back, and the Heartless punched Donald into the air.
"Gah! We couldn't land a single blow on him!" said Zack as he recovered.
"We'll just have to hit it harder" replied Riku. Riku lunged at the Heartless. The Heartless went to stomp on Riku, but Riku jumped to the ground and slid across the sandy ground. When he ended up under the Heartless, he did a back flip and launched a powerful upper slash through the whole body of the Heartless. The Heartless staggered for a moment but quickly regained its footing. The Heartless again tried to stomp on Riku, but Riku flipped back out of range.
"Zack! Your turn!" yelled Riku.
"Right" replied Zack as he ran at the Heartless. The Heartless threw a punch at Zack, but Goofy deflected the punch with his shield as Zack continued to run at the Heartless.
"Hraggh!" yelled Zack as he performed a spinning attack that cut through the whole Heartless' body. Again the Heartless staggered only for a moment before recovering.
"Come on Goofy! Let's get 'im!" yelled Donald. Goofy nodded in response and threw his shield at the Heartless. The Heartless swung its arm and deflected the attack, which left it wide open for a large fireball from Donald. This time the Heartless fell to one knee and hand. Zack ran up to the kneeling Heartless. The Heartless threw its arm out to block his attack, but Zack cut through its arm, and its arm fell off, sliced in two.
"Hey, guys, looks like we can destroy its body parts!" yelled out Zack. Riku, Donald, and Goofy looked at each other, nodded, and assaulted the Heartless. Riku stabbed the Heartless' arm and ran a full circle around its arm, holding onto his sword, and yanked his weapon out of the Heartless' arm. Goofy repeatedly rammed his shield into the Heartless' leg until it was crushed to half its original size. Donald cast a triple attack of fire, ice, and lightning on its other leg, which caused it to disintegrate. Now only the body remained.
"Hah! Now it can't do anything!" said Riku. As Riku said this, the Heartless leaned back and a bright light shown in its body.
"I'm not so sure" said Zack. The light got brighter and a buzzing sound started and got louder and louder.
"Run!" yelled Zack. It was too late. The Heartless shot out an enormous ball of light and it exploded in the middle of the group. Riku and Zack flew one way and Donald and Goofy flew the other way.
Riku weakly lifted his head. His vision was tripled and blurry. After a few seconds he could almost see normally. He could make out Zacks faint figure lying face-down in the desert sand. Riku crawled over to Zack.
"Zack" he whispered as he shook Zack to wake him up. Riku flipped him over and saw he had a cut across his left cheek. When Zack did not wake up Riku looked up at the Heartless. Riku struggled to get up.
"Raaaaaggghh!" yelled Riku as he ran at the Heartless. The Heartless started to charge another cannon blast. It fired straight at Riku. Riku stopped, held his weapon behind him, and swung with all his strength. The cannon shot and Rikus weapon connected. Riku pushed back and held the blast in place. Rikus weapon began to shine brightly. The blast began to get smaller and as it did this Rikus weapon began to shine brighter and brighter. When Rikus sword had completely absorbed the blast, he started to run again. He leaped high in the air and brought his weapon down with all his remaining strength. As his weapon connected with the Heartless, a massive explosion erupted and Riku and the Heartless were consumed by it.