So here we are at the end of another world. The concept of this battle originated with Wwecat, so I just picked it up and ran with it.

Sora: "Thank you so much for putting us through this one, by the way."

Ah, you've faced worse. Deal with it.

Sora: "No consideration at all."

Now, now, I haven't killed any of you yet, have I? Come on, would you please just read the thing?

Sora: "Okay, fine. DarthKingdom doesn't own Kingdom Hearts, Disney, Square Enix, or anything else."

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Chapter 92: Wrath of the Sea

All was silent for a few moments, while everybody calmed down from the constant fighting.

Out of all of them, Eric and Triton were the worst for wear, sporting several cuts and bruises across their bodies. Fortunately, they hadn't sustained any serious damage, and were still perfectly capable of physical combat.

They had almost forgotten about Morgana, who was still perched on top of her icy palace overlooking them all. She now had a scowl on her face.

"You fools!" She shouted, her scowl transforming to a wicked smile. "I still have the trident! And all the creatures of the sea, are in my power!"

She lifted the trident into the air, crackling with electricity. With that simple act, she brewed up a huge storm from the relatively clear day. The sky darkened, and the sea turned rough.

"Now face the Wrath of the Sea!" She cried out lifting the trident into the air with both hands.

What happened next seemed to happen in slow motion. Everything was completely silent for a moment, then the churning waves turned twice as violent. The huge, icy palace that Morgana had magically created began to shake, chunks of ice breaking off of it and the surrounding glaciers.

At last, a truly massive Heartless broke through the front of the palace, sending huge chunks of ice flying through the air, and crashing into the water.

It was even bigger than the Groundshaker Sora had fought once at the Pride Lands. It resembled a strange hybrid of lobster, shark, sea turtle, sea-serpent, and octopus. It had a black, crustaceous body, with a lobster's tail, small legs, and huge claws, but it also had a shell-like version of a shark's dorsal fin. This hard outer shell was dotted with splotches of blood red. Where the head of the lobster would have been was instead a long, smooth, black-skinned neck streaked with red lines. At the end of the neck was the head of a serpent, mouth lined with three rows of sharp, jagged, gleaming white teeth, and glowing yellow eyes. The top of its head sported the Heartless emblem. Sprouting from the same area as the neck were four black and red tentacles, lined with suction cups.

The Wrath of the Sea snapped its claws intimidatingly, and leered down at them all as Morgana leapt onto the top of its head.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Sora muttered, his jaw dropping at the sheer size of the Heartless.(1)

"Crush them!" Morgana ordered the creature, pointing the trident at them.

It let out an unearthly shriek, and lashed out at the group with its toothy mouth wide open. It barely missed, but the force of the attack as its head struck the water formed huge new waves that threw them all several feet backwards.

"Bow before the Queen of the seas!" Morgana shouted amidst another round of her triumphant laughter.

When the party resurfaced again, they all bore identical expressions of mixed worry and irritation. "How do you fight something of that size?" Axel asked.

"One inch of it at a time." Sora answered, rushing fearlessly at the massive Heartless, Oblivion in hand. Kairi and Riku followed him without question.

Wrath noted their approach, and opened its mouth wide again. A huge torrent of sub-zero temperature air and ice particles shot toward the three Keybearers. They quickly dove under the water, and swam as deep as they could, but still continued swimming forward. The icy blast that Wrath had shot at them instantly froze the water above them, forming a small glacier instantly.

Sora, Kairi, and Riku swam toward the portion of the Heartless that was underwater. All they could see of it was the lobster-like body, with its claws resting on the surface. From this angle, Sora could see the Heartless emblem on its stomach.

He aimed directly at this emblem, and released a huge surge of electricity through the water. The bolt collided with Wrath's chest, and it was possible that the Heartless trembled under the sudden attack.

But then it went back on the offensive, and slowly advanced toward them on its relatively small legs. It brought up its huge claws, and shot them down at the water where it believed the three to be. The huge striking claws just barely missed them, coming very close to crushing or slicing them with each strike. More than once, Riku was forced to call up his Guardian to defend them all.

Back on the surface, the others had joined the fight. The off-worlders, plus Ariel were rushing toward Wrath, leaving now powerless Triton to tend to the now unconscious Eric. Mickey was at the head of them, gathering as much Light as he could to his Keyblade.

Morgana and Wrath noticed their approach even as it continued stabbing at the three who were underwater. The Heartless opened its mouth wide, as Morgana spun the triton in a circle over her head. Wrath fired its icy blast just as Morgana shot bolts of lightning at them. The two attacks joined together, forming an unusual, super-charged ice attack.

Fortunately, they had seen something like it coming. Axel swam forward, chakrams ablaze. With a shout, he threw them harder than he ever had on an intercept course with the icy beam.

Their fire grew fiercer as they flew. By the time it reached the opposing attack, the weapons themselves were obscured from sight within a fireball roughly the size of a minivan.

The two attacks met with an explosion and a huge cloud of vapor, neutralizing each other. Axel called his weapons back to him, and Nehrut took to the air as soon as he had them back. He soared at Wrath's head, blade ready to fend off any attack that it or its master might aim at him.

He hadn't really been prepared for the huge tentacles at the base of its neck to come up and strike at him. One of them hit him square in the chest, sending him flying backwards, and causing him to drop Presul. He righted himself as soon as he could (inches before hitting the water) and pulled his blade back to him telepathically.

He was barely able to dodge another strike from the same tentacle. This time, however, he was quick enough to get off his own attack. He cut a deep gash into the tentacle, nearly cutting it in two.

The Heartless immediately pulled it back, realizing the threat that the telepath posed. It lashed out again with its teeth, narrowly missing.

Nehrut was now hovering over its head, less than two meters from Morgana, anchored securely to her new 'pet.' He struck horizontally, nearly taking the head off of the octopod. She brought the trident to bear at the last possible second. Though she wasn't trained at all in using weapons (especially not against someone of Nehrut's caliber) the trident seemed to gift her with acceptable reflexes.

Nehrut drew back quickly, avoiding her counter attack. He would have tried another attack, but he sensed that one of the tentacles was coming at him again. He flew farther back, just missing it.

Wrath loomed before him, about to strike again. But then came a narrow beam of Light from the water just in front of it. It shot directly up, and struck it in the chin.

Kairi shot out from the water, her hands and tail-fin glowing. Riku was right behind her with the Guardian. Together, they fired blast after blast of Light and Dawn energy at the Heartless' head.

While it was clearly beginning to feel the effects of the barrage, it wasn't yet beyond striking back at them. All four of its strangely located tentacles struck at them, forcing them to cut off their attack so they could focus on avoiding the attacks.

One nearly slammed into Riku, but the Guardian rushed toward it, catching it, and getting a very firm grip on it. Conveniently, this was the same one that Nehrut had nearly cut in two. With one hard tug, the creature ripped it off completely, leaving only a tiny, useless stump behind.

The Heartless shrieked in pain, and tried in vain to back away from his attackers to collect itself. But now Riku and Kairi had resumed their Light and Dawn attack, and Sora soon re-entered the picture.

The business end of the Keywhip shot from the water, and instantly wrapped around a tentacle that was still intact. With one motion, and an act of his will, Sora raised himself out of the water, tightening the chain's grip around the tentacle.

Quickly, Sora set the chain on fire, burning through the black flesh of the Heartless fairly quickly. The tentacle shook as much as it could, trying to weaken Sora's grip on it, to no avail. It was only seconds later that he had burned through it entirely, adding the stench of burnt Heartless flesh to the air.

The other two tentacles went soon after. Gathering Light to her Keyblade, Kairi made a wide, slashing motion with it. A crescent-shaped Light disk shot from it, slicing through the air, and through the third tentacle with very little resistance. It actually kept going past that point, cutting the top off of a glacier, which landed on the unconscious Undertow.

The last one was destroyed when the rest of the party reached the fray. Donald rapidly shot large fireballs from the head of his staff. Most of them hit the neck and upper chest of Wrath, but some struck the tentacle, burning or destroying chunks of it where it struck. It had been reduced to shreds in mere moments.

Its close-quarter weapons now gone, Wrath threw itself several feet into the air (which was a surprising feat considering the size of its legs). When it landed, it created another surge of tidal waves, forcing all of those in the water at the time back dozens of feet.

All of the Keybearers, Nehrut, and Axel were still close enough to Wrath to engage it, but the sudden attack had thrown them off balance. Wrath and Morgana took advantage of their brief window of opportunity.

It opened its mouth, and fired another icy blast of air, forcing them into a temporary retreat; save for one.

King Mickey was the only one who had yet to attack the creature personally. For several minutes, he had been gathering Light energy to his blade. So much so that it was shining with a great, golden light, and was vibrating roughly in his grip. He had to grip it with both hands to steady it.

He took careful aim at the Heartless, trying to make absolutely sure he hit his target, which was difficult with the tossing waves and the new glacier in his line of fire. He didn't want his efforts to be proven useless because of a missed shot.

It took nearly a full minute, but he was finally sure he had his shot. At last, he released the pent-up energy in one massive blast that was at least three times as big as him. Blinding gold Light shot at Wrath, roaring through the air, unstoppable.

It pounded into the base of its neck, throwing it bodily away, and crashing through Morgana's palace, destroying most of the structure. Huge amounts of black smoke began to stream from its body, rising high into the sky. Wrath was soon buried under thousands of pounds of ice, and the only part of it visible above the ice and water was its large, flat tail, which was leaking Darkness.

They heard a faint howl of pure rage, and a blast of electricity cleared away a small section of the debris covering the dying Heartless. Morgana worked her way out of the wreckage, scowling, and clutching the trident, crackling with electricity.

"You impudent little worms!" She growled, pointing the trident at Mickey, and taking aim. The King was too exhausted by his own attack to do much about it, and was pulling in heavy breaths of air.

She fired crackling bolts of electricity across the water, racing toward the King.

Were it not for Ariel, he would have met a painful end. She leapt from the water seemingly out of nowhere, and knocked Mickey completely out of the way. The lightning shot past them, just barely missing Ariel's tail fin.

Sora rushed at Morgana, Keyblade raised. He struck at her quickly five times, but the trident was there to intercept his blows each time. It granted the witch just enough speed to hold him at bay.

"You'll never beat me, you little brat!" She cried, swiping at his chest and missing by inches. "The seas are mine to-"

"Oh will you please SHUT UP!" Nehrut shouted from a few feet behind Sora. With a flex of his mental power, the trident flew out of Morgana's hands, and into his own.

Everyone was totally still for a moment, not quite believing how suddenly the tide had turned. Nehrut looked pretty surprised himself. He looked at Sora, and the now terrified-looking Morgana. "Okay... Next time something like this happens, will somebody just remind me to do that?"

He spun around, and tossed the trident like a javelin to the merman swimming quickly toward them.

Triton leapt out of the water completely, and caught the trident in one hand, almost without any effort. He smiled briefly, but when his eyes settled on Morgana again, his face dawned an expression of pure rage. He looked so angry at that moment, that Morgana cringed, and held her tentacles defensively in front of her body.

"Never again will you or yours threaten my family or my kingdom!" Triton exclaimed. The trident –back in the proper hands- shone bright gold. "There will be no escape for you. EVER!"

He fired golden energy from his weapon, which struck Morgana head on. But she didn't move, instead she let out a restrained cry of fear and disbelief as she was frozen solid in a large chunk of ice.

Not moving a millimeter in her icy prison, she slipped from the pile of ice she had been standing on, and into the water.

Unseen to all, she sank for several miles, until she finally came to rest on the ocean floor. Her eyes flickered back and forth, the only part of her that could still move at all. Also unseen to anyone but her, her old picture of 'poor, unfortunate Ursula' had sunk along with her.

It came to rest face up in the sand right in front of her, smiling almost benignly as if mocking her failure.

Back on the surface, by contrast, the mood was one of quiet jubilation. Eric and Sebastian had rejoined them.

"I still can't believe what you guys are capable of." Eric said, addressing the off-worlders while he embraced his wife.

"Neither do we." Sora replied casually, hands interlaced with Kairi's. He looked at Nehrut. "Nice trick by the way."

"I try." He said, lopsided smile set on his face. "Wish I had thought of it earlier, though. I'll have to remember that for later."

"For all the other mystical weapons that we need to take back?" Axel asked.

"Shut up." Nehrut replied, looking irritated. His expression changed when Bariss congratulated him with a peck on the cheek.

"And the flirting stage begins." Riku muttered to both Sora, who was grinning.

"I owe you my thanks, my friends." Triton said, at last swallowing his pride regarding beings from other worlds. "Once again, you've saved my kingdom."

"And ours." Eric added. "Thanks, guys."

"Now, there is one matter left to attend to, I think. Then we can finally rest." Triton said, beckoning to them to follow him before sinking beneath the surface.

Curious, they followed him back underwater, and into the glacier's interior. Sora was amazed that there was any of it left intact after the entire ice palace had collapsed over it. But then he realized that it wasn't exactly true. The icy walls were cracked all over.

They swam down a tunnel into what had apparently been Morgana's lair. Most of the furnishings had been knocked over, or otherwise damaged. But the cauldron in the center was still standing.

The Keybearer was about to ask why Triton had brought them here, when the monarch aimed his trident at the cauldron. "I have long sensed that this thing had reappeared here, yet something was keeping me away. I suspect that it sensed the presence of the trident whenever I came near, and tried to repel me. Now, I need you to do what only you can do." Golden energy shot from the trident into the cauldron.

It immediately began to bubble, and in seconds, it had cracked open completely, and was lying in pieces on the floor. A bubble roughly the size of a basketball emerged from the remains. It floated in place about three feet above the ground. The shape of a small, golden keyhole appeared on it.

Oblivion appeared in Sora's hand, and he pointed it at the Keyhole. Light shot from the tip, and into the heart of the Keyhole. It let off a flash of light as it sealed itself, and then it vanished.

The bubble popped. Sora noted that it almost felt like a punctuation mark for the end of their journey on Atlantica, and took a moment to bask in the familiar cooling sensation of the water he had been away from for so long.

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