(A/N: This chapter shouldn't have taken so long. Sorry about that, and I hope you enjoy this chapter.)

Zellar

Zellar came out of the corridor of Darkness as he was soon followed by Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness, who had come out of the corridor as the corridor had closed itself.

Both Zellar and Ansem were standing in mid-air over the desert of Agrabah.

"So what do you got to teach me?" Zellar asked impatiently as he yawned loudly.

"Relax, Zellar. I shall teach you how to properly use your Darkness," Ansem replied.

"Alright, alright," Zellar replied mildly amused, "So what are you teaching me?"

"I am going to teach you how to summon the Heartless on command," Ansem told him.

"Hmmm, interesting. Let's get started," Zellar said with a calm eager tone.

Both Zellar and Ansem were about to continue with the lesson when they both sense a presence of anger from a distance.

"Now who do you think that is?" Zellar asked with a sinister tone and grin.

"I wonder too. How about we seize this opportunity to make your training easier?" Ansem asked as he started to run in the direction of the anger.

"Gladly," Zellar replied as he soon followed suit.

The both of them ran for a couple of miles of sand as they soon found the source of the anger that they sensed.

They saw a tall man in an Organization XIII coat as he had red spikey hair that ran down the back of his head unleashing his anger. He kept on throwing his chakrams towards the sand as he was yelling in frustration.

Ansem took a step forward but was suddenly stopped by Zellar's arm over his mid-torso, "Hold on."

Ansem looked at Zellar as he was performing a hand sign with right hand, "Let's camouflage ourselves."

Ansem examined himself as he looked no different, "Is whatever you did working?"

"You don't trust me?" Zellar sarcastically sounded offended with a stiffened lower lip, "I'm offended good sir." As he placed his right hand on the center of his chest as he exaggerated his offense by moving his head in a dramatic fashion.

Ansem glared at him with and eye brow raised and a confused face.

Zellar looked back at Ansem with his hand still on his own chest, "No?" Zellar asked with an annoyed tone and then he sighed disappointedly, "Fine, I'll show you."

As he took one step forward, he disappears with an amazing blur of speed.

Ansem looked around to see that Zellar was a couple of feet away near Lea. Ansem got closer to the two of them as he still kept his distance from Lea.

Zellar was in front of Lea's field of vision as Lea didn't give any attention to him. But as soon as Lea started to throw his chakrams again, Zellar vanished and reappeared next to Ansem.

Ansem seemed impressed, "I can see why Xehanort wanted you in our Organization now."

"So, shall we get started?" Zellar asked Ansem.

They both gained distance from Lea as started Ansem explained the power of Darkness and all of its properties. He talked about where darkness comes from and the origins of Darkness itself.

(Jeez, these people treat Darkness like it's a religion.), Zellar thought to himself.

"First let's focus on summoning the smallest and basic of Heartless. The shadow," Ansem instructed Zellar, "As well, since Lea, over there, has sadness and anger seeping out his heart then we might be able to benefit from his untapped Darkness that he is creating. Try to focus on that Darkness and force it to makes its way over to your palm. But first, I shall show you how to create Heartless."

Finally Ansem started to demonstrate the power of the Darkness. He raised his right arm in front of him as if he was reaching out to something. A concentrated form Dark energy began to form in the palm of his hand as he focused on summoning Heartless around Lea.

Shadows appeared all around Lea as they ambushed him.

"Alright, my turn," Zellar said with an eager tone as he raises his arm.

Zellar focused in concentrating his Darkness and channeling it to his right hand; he hasn't really done this kind of thing in this sort of manner. The technique that comes close to this was unleashing an energy wave from his blade. So, energy concentration and technique wasn't his forte, but instead he enjoyed unleashing his strength and powers.

But that didn't mean that he couldn't pick up on things quickly. Very quickly, after a few failures, he created a concentrated energy of Darkness that was equivalent to the energy that Ansem created. He failed to create Heartless at the location that Ansem had unleashed his, but attempt after attempt he finally got the technique of creating Heartless on his own. And soon enough, Lea was surrounded by triple the amount Ansem had created.

"Good. Now let's focus on the more difficult Heartless," Ansem seemed pleased by his progress.

Ansem was explaining about the stronger type of Heartless and how much more Darkness it is required to summon them. As we both had started to repeat our process of releasing the Heartless stronger type of Darkness onto Lea.

And all of a sudden, Lea was struck by one of the bigger Heartless that Zellar created himself.

This made Zellar smile and pity the poor weak man as he laughed at his pain, "Hah! What a weak and pathetic loser! I can't believe that that redhead mutt got his butt kicked by a fatty like that."

Ansem couldn't help but chuckle at Zellar's vulgar language of Lea, "Hmph, I agree what a fool."

Lea got back up as he was emitting a strong amount of Darkness from his body then he began to rush towards the Fat Bandit.

Zellar took this chance to absorb the Darkness that was coming from Lea.

Zellar smirked at his attempt, "Hah, what an imbecile. This idiot should just accept his fate and drop dead like a dumb dog he is."

Lea was overran and pinned down by the medium-sized Heartless as the rest of the Heartless dog-piled on Lea.

Zellar smirked in pity, "Heh, damn idiot. That should finish him off."

Then he turned to Ansem to ask him a question when he noticed Ansem was staring at where Lea was at, and then he told Zellar as he pointed at the Heartless' direction, "I wouldn't be so sure."

Zellar looks back at the Heartless-filled area as the center of the area was engulfed in a whirlpool of flames as Lea emerged tired and battered up. Although Lea had evaporated a good chunk of the Heartless in the area, Lea was completely surrounded by too many Heartless.

"Hmph, good bye fool," Zellar said as he watched as Lea gets attacked by the rest of the Heartless.

But all of a sudden, Zellar sees a silver-haired boy rushes in to save Lea as he emits a spherical barrier to protect Lea from the attacks. As all of the attacks had been repelled, they were countered by the two boys with an attack of their own as they began to eliminate the rest of the Heartless. After the Heartless were eliminated, nothing was left but Lea and the boy.

"Hey Ansem? Who is the boy with the silver hair?" Zellar asked quivering.

"Him? That's Riku…," Ansem replied as he began to explain the origins of Riku.

"Oh really?"

"How come?" Ansem asked in return as he notices that Zellar is emanating an enormous amount of Dark energy.

"Because he used to remind me of my former self...," Zellar replied before cutting himself off.

"And because of that I'm going to KILL him…" Zellar replied to him in a spine-tingling demonic tone, "One way or another."

Zellar, without thinking, took the enormous amount of his energy and concentrated it in his right hand. The concentrated energy of Darkness took a shape of a tiny sphere of Darkness as its core was nothing but pitch-black as it was surrounded by purplish tint of a transparent layer that sent shocks of Darkness from the perimeter of the sphere to the core. He then released it out to the desert. The sphere of Darkness slowly drifted downwards as it reached close to Riku and Lea as it hit the sand. It transformed a large portal of Darkness. A huge forearm came out of it as a Darkside came out of the Darkness and started to attack both Lea and Riku.

Zellar watched as the Darkside fought against the two boys as he began to smile intensively as an insane murderous feeling wash over his body. He watched as the power of Darkness began to overflow from within him and the Darkside began to grow stronger. The Darkside final got a shot into Riku as he was thrown into the air.

The sight of Riku rag dolling through the sands of the desert from the intensity of the Darkside's punch gave goosebumps in Zellar's body. A disgusting grin formed on Zellar's face as he knew that Riku was going to die.

Suddenly, Zellar snapped out of it after he felt his presence.

(No…. Its him. That's his presence. How did he escape from there?), Zellar questioned in bewilderment, but he soon snapped out of his panic, (Whatever, I expected this from him. Knowing him, there's no way that would stop him.)

Zellar sees him zip in high-speed around the Darkside as finally he destroyed the Darkside in one vertical final blow as he landed on the sand underneath the Darkside's legs. The Darkside released Lea from its grasp as the Darkside began to fall to its knees and vanish in death.

A man in a white assassin's hoodie, somewhat similar to the Organization XIII, who was also carrying his katana, appeared out of the blue. His hoodie was white with a few red and blue straps with black belts on his waist, but he was missing his pistol and gun holsters.

(Yep, no doubt about it. That's him alright. But, I'm guessing because of this universe's laws that he had lost some weapons. Very strange. But whatever. At my strength, I don't think I'll be able to defeat him.), Zellar thought to himself.

Zellar was staring at the assassin before the assassin turned towards him and looked back at him. The assassin stared at him with an competent smile.

This uneased Zellar as he told Ansem, "Let's get going."

Ansem looked at him in an inquisitive look and replied, "Fine."

Ansem opened a corridor of Darkness and began to enter it. Soon enough, Zellar followed Ansem as went into the corridor.

(This whole thing just got a lot more interesting.), Zellar smiled intriguingly.