(Battle Music Cue: 13th Reflection – KH2 Final Mix+)

Riku and Nixe stood staring Third down, Third holding a serrated dagger in her right hand in a reversed grip. Third was smirking darkly towards the two while Rapunzel and Flynn watched from high up on the cliff ledge. Nixe suddenly flung a fireball towards Third who spun to the side before launching towards her, dagger raised as she grinned. Nixe stood ready, keeping her Keyblade ready but Third was suddenly intercepted by a large glowing blue wall of energy. She suddenly saw Riku leap at her, narrowly dodging his attack. Third spun several times in midair before suddenly producing a small phial full of a black liquid and crushing it in her hand, producing a sudden cloud of black smoke around her, the smoke fading away revealing she had vanished.

"Where'd she go?!" Nixe asked in alarm as they looked around. They suddenly heard a dark chuckling echoing throughout the quarry.

"Mirror-mirror from worlds apart, show to me the envy of her heart. Ah…interesting. To envy this person is quite dull…but no less amusing." Third could be heard saying from within the quarry.

"Watch it, I don't like this." Riku said before they heard footsteps.

"Did I miss anything?" a voice asked from nearby. They turned and saw, standing nearby, was…

"Sora?" Nixe asked as Sora approached. He looked like he normally did but there was something about him that seemed off.

"It's about time I found you. Master Si'Lea sent me to find you. You're in big trouble." Sora said, crossing his arms over his chest. Nixe scowled at him.

"I'm not going back, not yet!" she replied. Riku was glaring at Sora.

"Sora…why are you here?" Riku asked, earning a look from Sora.

"Better question is, who are you?" Sora asked. Almost instantly Riku launched towards him with his sword raised. Nixe was stunned however when Sora raised the serrated dagger and blocked the blow with a look of shock.

"Sora knows exactly who I am! He is my best friend after all! You dare try and impersonate him!" Riku hissed as "Sora" snarled and suddenly began to warp and distort, retaking the form of Third.

"Perceptive little runt, aren't you?" she asked as Nixe scowled.

"How'd you do that?!" she asked as she ran in towards Third, Keyblade raised but Third quickly shoved Riku forward and threw down another phial of black liquid, disappearing in another black cloud.

"She's the Lady of Jealousy, Nixe! She looks for whoever and whatever you envy most and enflames that emotion! You can't let her get to you!" Riku ordered as Nixe gave a nod.

"Right!" she replied as Third's voice could be heard grunting in annoyance.

"So you think you've got me figured out? Fine then. Mirror-mirror from worlds apart, show me the envy of his-…wait, WHAT?!" she yelped as Riku smirked. He suddenly spun around and hurled a Dark Firaga towards a small rock formation at the base of the aqueduct, forcing Third into revealing herself and blocking the blow by hurling a small red apple towards the black fireball, both exploding in midair. She had been invisible.

"Gave yourself away!" Riku yelled before a blur flew past him, Nixe running towards Third who quickly raised her dagger defensively. Nixe suddenly slid to a stop, pointing her Keyblade at Third, the Keyblade suddenly glowing with a fiery red aura before a steady stream of fireballs started flying from the tip. It was her Flame Salvo Shotlock! Third quickly had to run and evade the fireballs but as she dodged, she suddenly saw a black haze appear out of the corner of her eye. She turned just in time to see Riku appear, flying towards her with his sword raised. She quickly raised a small phial of red liquid and hurled it at Riku, the phial exploding in midair inches from Riku's face but suddenly saw him reappear, unscathed, in the corner of her eye. She narrowly dodged Riku's second attack and quickly found herself under attack from both directions as Riku unleashed his Dark Aura ability and Nixe attacked with a barrage of Thundara and Magnara spells. Soon Nixe was moving at twice her normal speed as she entered her Runaway Rave Command Style, the stars on her Keyblade changing colors erratically.

"We've got her in a corner!" Nixe said as she and Riku both attacked, keeping Third on the defensive. Before Nixe could release her Command Style's Limit Break, Third reappeared near the base of the aqueduct.

"You little brats!" Third hissed in anger as she stabbed her dagger into the ground, summoning several Neo-Shadows to her side.

"Take her heart you fools!" She ordered to the Heartless who immediately sank down into the ground, scurrying towards them.

"Nixe! Watch it!" Riku exclaimed.

"I got this!" Nixe replied as she leapt into the air, her Keyblade pointed down towards the ground.

"Stopara!" she yelled, freezing the Heartless in time. She then pointed her Keyblade into the air, the Keyblade's stars suddenly firing off in all directions, taking spots in the sky overhead before becoming multi-colored beams of energy, ripping through the Heartless below in imitation of a rave party's spotlights. When the lights faded, the Heartless were missing, vanquished. Riku was looking around for Third when he spotted something in the air behind Nixe.

"NIXE!" he yelled, Nixe quickly spinning around with her Keyblade raised in time to see something she never anticipated behind her.

"Mirror-mirror I elect, give her a moment to reflect!" Third laughed from nearby as Nixe found herself face-to-face with a strange monochrome copy of herself only wielding a long serrated sword instead of a Keyblade. Anti-Nixe had white skin, black hair and clothes. Her hair was a solid black along with her eyes and mouth. Nixe was suddenly launched downward by the Anti-Nixe but was caught by Riku.

"I gotcha!" he grunted as Nixe got onto her feet.

"What do we do?!" Nixe asked. Riku glanced towards the supports to the aqueduct and smirked.

"Hold your breath." He replied, quickly turning and stabbing his sword into the supports, sending a powerful blast of magic into the supports, turning them to splinters in a powerful burst of light. The aqueduct groaned from the weight, the shockwave from the blast weakening the wall of nearby dam. Riku quickly grabbed Nixe and turned to run, just in time for the dam to break. Rapunzel and Flynn had already made their way down and were running towards a nearby cave. Third paled at the sight of the rushing water and quickly ran for a passage with the symbol of a duck over it, Anti-Nixe shattering like glass at Third's command. The rushing water even knocked a large boulder over and blocked the cave Riku, Nixe, Rapunzel and Flynn had run into.

"We're trapped!" Rapunzel exclaimed as they saw the cave surrounded by rock.

"We've got bigger problems!" Riku added, motioning to the water that was rushing in through the cracks in the entrance.

"I can't see anything!" Nixe said, trying to look for an exit.

"Does anyone have a light?" Flynn asked as Rapunzel gasped in realization.

"Flower-gleam-and-glow! Let-the-power-shine-…" she sang quickly just as the water filled the chamber. Almost instantly her hair lit up, illuminating the entire cave and startling the other three. They quickly looked around and saw the water flowing towards one of the walls. They quickly started pulling rocks away from the wall just as the light from Rapunzel's hair faded away. (End Battle Music) Suddenly there was a burst of light as the rock wall gave way, sucking them out onto a river in a woodland area of the kingdom, the water carrying them to a nearby river bank. All four crawled onto the river bank, catching their breath. As they laid there, Nixe felt something tugging at her foot. She looked down and chuckled with a grin when she realized what it was.

"Hey Riku, I think this is yours." She said tossing a large black mass towards him. It was his black coat.

"Thanks." Riku replied wryly, albeit muffled under the coat. They began to climb to their feet, Riku putting his coat back on. As he did though, he noticed a suspicious black mark on the palm of his hand. He knew what it was and quickly shoved his hand in his pocket to hide it and luckily no one saw it.

"So…your hair glows when you sing?" Riku asked as Rapunzel blushed slightly.

"That and a little more." She replied, bashful about sharing her power.

"More?" Flynn asked, scratching the back of his head but suddenly flinched with a pained grunt. He looked at his hand and saw he had cut it while pulling rocks away.

"Here, let me." Rapunzel said as she approached, beginning to wrap some of her hair around his hand. Riku got curious and quietly picked up a length with the hand from his pocket.

"Just promise me you won't freak out." Rapunzel said, Flynn giving her a suspicious look but saying nothing. She then took a breath and started to sing…

"Flower gleam and glow,
let the power shine,
make the clock reverse,
bring back what once was mine."

As she sang, Flynn, Nixe, and Riku all watched in awe as her hair began to take on a golden glow.

"Heal what has been hurt,
change the fates' design,
save what has been lost,
bring back what once was mine,
what once was mine."

When she stopped singing, Flynn gently pulled his hand free of her hair and looked at his hand, Nixe looking over his shoulder and both blinking in amazement as they saw the cut had healed. Riku looked at his hand and quietly sighed with relief as he saw the suspicious mark on his hand had disappeared as well. Flynn and Nixe were about to say something in alarm when Rapunzel quickly motioned to stop.

"Please-don't-freak-out!" She exclaimed, the two freezing for a moment and then exhaling.

"Your-hair-glows-when-you-sing, how-long-has-it-been-doing-that-exactly?" Flynn asked in a squeaky voice, completely freaked out.

"Since for as long as I can remember. It's why can never cut my hair. Long ago, someone tried to cut it and this is what happens." Rapunzel explained, pulling back some of the hair on the right side of her head, revealing a short brown length near the back of her neck.

"So it loses its power if cut?" Nixe asked, Rapunzel nodding.

"Anyone else have any magic powers they'd like to mention?" Riku asked, Nixe cheekily raising her hand with a grin.

"Put your hand down, Nix." Riku mumbled.

"Eugene." Flynn said, catching everyone's attention.

"Bless you." Nixe replied, earning an elbow to the arm from Riku.

"That wasn't a sneeze." He mumbled.

"What did you say?" Rapunzel asked.

"Eugene. It's my name. Eugene Fitzherbert." Flynn replied.

"I thought your name was Flynn." Riku said as Eugene sighed.

"I got it from a book, the Tales of Flynnigan Rider, a swashbuckling and rich adventurer! Read it all the time to the kids in the orphanage. I just…" Eugene explained with a sigh. Riku smiled towards him, giving him a nod.

"Well now that we know the real you, it probably would be best of we went our separate ways now." Riku said as Nixe nodded.

"Yeah, sorry about that woman back there. I'm afraid it's my fault she was here. We'll leave and that should draw her off from the two of you." Nixe said.

"It wasn't your fault. Sorry you have to go though. But thanks for helping us get this far." Rapunzel said as she and Nixe both hugged.

"Well thanks for showing me a great time…I mean without the old crone fighting us and such. Again, my fault not yours." Nixe said as Riku cleared his throat towards Eugene who looked towards him. Riku was pointing towards a tree where a Flynn Rider wanted poster was tacked up. Eugene's jaw dropped in annoyance.

"Again with the nose?!" he asked before a fireball hit the poster, incinerating it.

"You're welcome." Riku replied, pulling his hood up over his head as Nixe summoned her Keyblade Glider.

"Well, take care you two!" Nixe said, summoning her armor as she and Riku stepped onto the glider. Rapunzel and Eugene both called out their farewells as Nixe and Riku took to the sky.

…

Not that far away, a soaking wet Third watched as Nixe flew off into the sky, snarling with frustration.

"Grrrrr! I'll get her eventually." She hissed.

"Why are you here?! Where's Rapunzel?!" Gothel asked as she emerged from behind a rock nearby.

"Got away. But we'll get her back." Third said.

"Yes, you will, Sister dear." A voice said from nearby that made Third freeze in place. She and Gothel both turned to see First standing at the top of a nearby rock face, her arms crossed over her chest and her gaze virtually piercing from her lone eye.

"F-F-First?" Third stammered.

"You said the girl was here. Well, where is she?" First asked. Third opened her mouth to speak but was silenced by a single edged sword pointed straight at her face, the tip mere inches from her. The sword was being held by what looked to be a living black bramble of thorns protruding from behind First. The sword also had the number one emblazoned near the guard.

"Don't answer the question I already know the answer to. She escaped." First hissed angrily. Gothel was quietly stood to the side.

"P-Please forgive me, Sister." Third said as First narrowed her gaze.

"I already have, Sister. After all, what good are you to us if you're dead? Now capture the girl with the long hair as instructed, and don't fail the Sisterhood again." First instructed as Third bowed meekly and hurried off into the woods, the sword and brambles disappearing. Gothel quickly ran off into the woods after her. First stood watching the two leave with a scowl on her face.

"Of course, I would never have let the girl get away." A voice said from nearby. Fourth then appeared in a Corridor of Darkness nearby.

"Glad you could make it, Fourth. If Fifth's report on Si'Lea's blue haired friend is correct, this will be the perfect time to prepare an ambush." First said as Fourth arched a curious eyebrow.

"What makes you so sure that they'll even come here in the first place?" Fourth asked as First smiled darkly towards her.

"Knowing Si'Lea, she's bound to make any news regarding her precious Apprentice's whereabouts her top priority. And I'll bet she has some kind of a spy lurking around these parts, keeping an eye out for-…ah." First said as she saw a pair of twinkling stars in the sky.

"It would seem they've arrived, right on time." First said as she and Fourth disappeared in Corridors of Darkness.

…

At the same time, Si'Lea and Aqua were both flying low over the land, touching down in a clearing near the road.

"So you're sure, Nixe is here?" Aqua asked as they dismissed their Gliders and armor.

"Possibly. Shiki's not one to report bum leads. Either way, if we could bump off a member of the Sisterhood while we're here, it'll be a point in our favor." Si'Lea said as they stepped onto the road.

"So what's the Third Sister's power?" Aqua asked.

"Envy. She looks into your heart and takes the form of the person you envy the most, lulling you into a false sense of security before trying to do you in." Si'Lea explained.

"Wasn't she the one who helped First damage your eye?" Aqua asked as Si'Lea absently clinched her fists.

"Yeah. Pretended to be someone I once envied very much." Si'Lea explained.

"Who?" Aqua asked, Si'Lea turning to glance towards her with a smile.

"Guess." She replied before turning back and continuing on down the road.

End Chapter 32

So have you figured out which Sister is the Nobody of which Princess yet? Well here's a hint. Consider that their number is associated with the order of their "birth." So First is the "firstborn" of the Sisterhood. If you can trace the order in which the Princesses lost their hearts, then you should be able to deduce which Sister goes with which Princess. It will take some guestimating and even my estimates may be wrong given the data we have so bear with me.

Another hint would be to pay close attention to their powers and abilities (except for the emotion they control) as they correlate to similar powers and abilities used by characters from their respective worlds, villains included. Pay attention to what weapons they use in combat and what powers they may have.