If you couldn't tell, this distort is almost finished. Every battle with Ansem will be its own chapter so look forward to it!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Kingdom Hearts at all. Not at all.


I find myself standing on sand. A warm sun shines down on me. I look around. An ocean, large trees, a waterfall? I'm back home! Everything looks exactly as I remember it! But no one but us is here…

"Is this… is this my island!" I hear Sora gasp. How is this here?

I wander over to our secret place, strangely drawn to it. But before I can get too close, a familiar voice rings throughout the area.

"This world has been connected" I turn around. The island with the Paopu tree quickly fades away.

"What was that?" Goofy yelps.

"Tied to the darkness, soon to be completely eclipsed." Another thing disappears, this time, one of the larger trees.

"There is so very much to learn" The cool blue water suddenly turns dark purple, like poison.

"You understand so little" the ground begins to shake violently. We all grab onto anything nearby to support ourselves.

"A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing, can understand nothing." Is this déjà vu or what?

Suddenly, dark cracks appear in the sky, on trees, everywhere. All that remains unscathed is the sky. On the now ruined beach stands Riku in his dark outfit. We run to him.

"Take a look at this tiny place." He says mockingly, staring off into the distance. But it's not Riku's voice. It's Ansem!

"To the heart seeking freedom, this island is a prison, surrounded by water." What does he know!

"And so this boy sought to escape from his prison. He sought a way to cross over into other worlds. And he opened his heart to darkness."

Ansem turned to face us, but as he did, a dark aura began to surround him. Riku's figure faded, only to be replaced by Ansem himself.

"Riku!" Sora shouts.

"Don't bother," Ansem mocks. "Your voice can no longer reach him where he is. And your brother will soon share his fate. Their hearts will belong again to darkness." My heart… will be lost in the darkness! I glance at my arm once more. I guess I don't have much time...

"All worlds begin in darkness," Ansem continues. "And all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, it grows, consumes it! Such is its nature!" Ansem suddenly disappears and shows himself behind us. "In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came!"

"You see, darkness is the heart's true essence!"

"That's not true!" I shout at him.

"The heart may be weak," Sora says, "and sometimes it may even give in,"

"But we've learned, that deep down, there's a light that never goes out!"

Ansem snarled in anger. A wind began to blow and he rose into the air. "So you have come this far, and still, you understand nothing! Every light must fade! Every heart return to darkness!"

A cloud of darkness appears behind Ansem. It quickly becomes a large, muscular heartless resembling a shadow on steroids. In any case, it's bad news!

Ansem's fists glow with a dark energy and he begins to laugh evilly. He swings his arms, creating disks of darkness coming right at us!

I instinctively block, sending a few of the disks right back at him. While he's fazed, I rush up to him, Sora and Matt following. I try to take a swing at Ansem, but at the last moment, he shouts "Come, Guardian!"

The heartless on his back is suddenly in front of him, blocking our evey attack! What is this thing! It eventually fades to his back once again, letting us attack Ansem. Yen and Donald fire spells at him while the ret of us attack directly.

Goofy starts to spin in the air, holding his shield out. He rams into Ansem multiple times, knocking him off balance.

I jump into that air, uppercutting Ansem then swinging down on his head. While I fall, the Guardian swings a fist infused with dark energy. It hits me in the stomach, sending me flying. That hurt a lot!

Ansem then starts to fire the disks again. I'm too stunned to block and I end up getting hit by quite a few.

I finally manage to stand up and down a hi-potion. It's on now!

I infuse my Keyblade with light, preparing for a powerful attack. I leap at Ansem, swinging wildly. He is under too much fire to escape. Finally, I wrap it up with some balls of light.

Ansem regains his composture, albeit looking a lot angrier. "You insolent little…!" The Guardian appears in front of Ansem again, but this time with an attack.

"Submit!" Ansem shouts angrily. The Guardian swipes at me, catching me in the side. But instead o fading back, it turns into a ball of darkness that flies right into me!

Seeing that Ansem is defenseless, Matt rushes him. However, he creates a cage o darkness around himself as Matt is about to hit him. Matt falls to the ground, dazed.

Suddenly, I feel a flare of pain in my chest. The Guardian rises from my chest, slugging me in the stomach before disappearing again.

Ansem start to float toward me, so I run, unable to do anything else. For some reason, I can't swing my Keyblade!

While I run, the Guardian attacks me three more times before going back to its master. There is no way I'm letting that happen again! I cast curaga, healing everybody, before jumping back into the fight.

Ansem started to laugh again and launched the dark disks once more. Knowing what to expect, I hold up my Keyblade to block. But as soon as I put it down, Ansem used the attack once more. I am unable to block it and I get hit by many of them.

I run up to Ansem, leaping into the air when I get close. I cut him multiple times and he falls back, unable to attack. I fall to the ground and launch multiple firagas at him.

Ansem floats toward Yen very quickly and roars, "Submit!" once more. The Guardian swings its fist, only this time, Yen knew what to expect. He rolls out of the way, completely dodging the attack.

He didn't stop, though. Ansem used his 'submit' attack twice more. The second time, he managed to hit Donald. Without his Guardian, Ansem floated toward me slowly. "Open your heart," he said a he neared, creating the dark cage around himself.

Every time he got near someone, he said and did the same thing until the Guardian returns to him. It punches Matt, sending him flying. Yen casts Curaga, healing us all completely.

Sora starts to glow with a yellow light. He begins to attack Ansem with fast, powerful strikes almost too fast to see. For the finaly, he holds out his Keyblade, streaks of light shooting out of it. All of them strike Ansem in the face.

Instead of attacking, Ansem simply flew into the largest tree on the island, disappearing into it. Almost immediately, the ground began to shake again.

The tree began to split in half, dark cracks lining its surface. With an earsplitting crack, it was cut in half. I can tell Ansem us in there. And we're not going to let him get away!


Kaze: Guess what! I'm back!

Me: I thought you were tied up in the basement! *cough* I mean resting in Paris…

Kaze: you will pay for that one day…