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Kingdom Hearts Expanded Worlds (Part 1)

This an idea I've had in my head for YEARS!

One of the best elements of Kingdom Hearts III was the presentations of its worlds.

With the Unreal Engine 4, they really went out of their way to the make the worlds feel FAR more massive than before.

Not to mention more alive with the inclusions of ACTUAL NPCS outside of characters from the movies represented.

Though out of the worlds, two of the stand-outs were Olympus and The Caribbean.

Largely because these were expansions of previous worlds: the long recurring Olympus Coliseum and Port Royal.

And by GOLLY, did they out-do themselves!

It was genuinely amazing to get to see more of the world of Hercules outside of The Coliseum: with Mount Olympus, Thebes, and The Realm of the Gods.

The only location we ever got to see from the actual movie prior to this was with The Underworld in Kingdom Hearts II.

And for The Caribbean, while we did see Port Royal again, most of the world is taken up by The High Seas, where you actually got to sail across vast ocean with your own pirate ship, exploring various islands and undersea caverns.

Ever since playing KHIII, I've been wondering what other Disney worlds would like with Unreal Engine III.

Particularly previous worlds.

So today, I wanna discuss how I think the previous worlds of Kingdom Hearts could be expanded on.

So sit back, grab a snack, and let's dive in!

Disney Kingdom:

Not much to say here.

Disney Kingdom would essentially be combination of Disney Castle and Disney Town, serving as the two main areas of this world, featuring the same lay-outs they had before.

In terms of the party's appearances, this will be one of the few worlds where that doesn't change.

Yeah, I figured that for future KH games (and in my upcoming fanfic Kingdom Hearts Adventures), the characters will be sporting different looks in most of the worlds they travel to.

This kinda help them blend in more into their new surroundings.

Also because let's be real, it would just be really cool.

As for the NPCS featured here, it would be the characters we've seen before in Disney Castle and Disney Town.

There would also be some new faces like Webby, Gadget, Monterey Jack, Zipper and Roxanne.

I could see Disney Kingdom essentially serving as a main home-base world, like Traverse Town and Hollow Bastion.

As for the enemies selection, it would be the same as it was before.

And lastly, we have the world speciality.

Essentially each world has a special feature to it, just like the worlds in KHIII did.

And for Disney Kingdom, that would be in the form of mini-games, seeing the return of Fruitball and Rumble Racing.

Wonderland:

This world would essentially be on massive area, similar to San Fransokyo, under the name......Wonderland.

An expanded version of Wonderland would feature all the areas from its depictions in the previous games, with a few new areas like The Meadow of Living Flowers and The Lake of Tears.

In terms of the party's appearances, they would all be wearing colorful Victorian attire.

As for the party members of this world, it would Alice herself.

Now I know most of you are wondering why the hell I would be including her as a party member since she canonically can't fight.

Well.....

Neither could Ariel or Jack Skellington.

One thing that Kingdom Hearts doesn't get enough credit for is being able find clever ways to have Disney characters that were not known for being combative to operate as party members.

Alice would be a magic-focused party member, with high MP, but unfortunately low strength, speed and defense.

She fights with a satchel filled with magical potions, that have differing effects on enemies and allies.

On enemies: She can wash them away with massive bursts of water, crush them underneath force-fields of gravity, and shrink larger enemies.

On allies: She can heal them and boost the strength of their attacks and magic.

And whenever her MP runs out, she attacks with swings from her satchel.

Her Team Attack would be Curious Clobber.

The attack would see Alice handing Sora an "Eat Me" Cake, which he proceeds to eat.

Soon enough, he grows to massive size, with everyone else hopping onto him.

Sora then starts performing a series of stomps and Keyboards slashes on enemies.

And the attack would end with Sora throwing his allies into the air, and who then come plummeting down and land on the ground, unleashing a massive shockwave and sending enemies flying back.

As for The NPCs: we would see The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The White Rabbit, The Cheshire Cat, The Doorknob, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, The King of Hearts, The Caterpillar, The Walrus and The Carpenter.

As for enemies, it would be the same Heartless featured in the world's previous appearances, and The Queen of Hearts' card soldiers.

Yeah I wanted to give each world their own unique enemies outside of The Heartless.

As for world's special feature, it would be being able to shrink or grow yourself with "Drink Me" Potions.

This would allow your to explore the world in a new way and find all sorts of hidden goods.

And lastly, we have this world's Keyblade: Wondrous Insanity, which would have an emphasis on Magic.

The Keyblade would look pretty similar to Lady Luck, but with the blade would look like a geyser of tea, the teeth would be a tea cup, and the handle would be shaped like a spade.

Wondrous Insanity allows you to enter Guardian Form with its Formchange: Deck Deflect.

It would operate like Counter Shield, but the shield sports a playing card appearance.

Its attacks are practically identical, though for its Lightning Circle-esque attack (Card Circle), it would rain playing cards as oppose to electricity.

The same would also apply for its Shotlock: 52 Pickup.

When the shield is hit enough times, it can unleash Forceful Hearts, which unleashes a barrage of energy hearts at enemies.

And lastly, for its Finish, Sora would stick his Keyblade into the ground and cause a giant teapot to sprout out.

And after a little bit of shaking, it unleashes a tidal wave of scalding, hot tea all over the place.

Olympus:

I know this world was already expanded, but there are a few things I would like to add.

The layout is the same as it was KHIII, but there would be a new main area to explore: The Underworld.

Yep!

It would be returning for the first time since KHII, featuring the same sub-areas as well.

In terms of the party's appearances.

Sora, Riku and Kairi would all be wearing ancient Greek civilian attire.

Donald, Sabrina, Dipper, Star, Jackie, Alfonzo, Janna, and The Hexsquad would all wearing the attire of a hierei, which were what priests back in ancient Greece were known as.

Goofy and most of the other Royal Knights would be wearing Greek soldier attire.

Mickey would be dressed like a Greek king.

Lula would be in the form of a xiphos.

Marsupilami would be in the form of a small chimera, possessing a a largely lion-like look with goat horns and his tail would be an actual snake.

And Maurice would be in the form of a brown bear.

Hercules would obviously serve as your party member for this world.

He fights the same as he did in KHIII, possessing possessing high strength, decent speed and defense, but relatively low MP.

He utilizes punches, headbutts, ground slams that send out powerful shockwaves, spins with his xiphos, energy bursts, and picking up nearby heavy objects like boulders and pillars and throwing them.

As for the NPCs of this world: there's Philoctetes, Megara, Pegasus, Zeus, Hera, the other Olympians, Pain and Panic.

There would also be plenty of civilian NPCs in Thebes.

As well as animal NPCS, which can be found on Mount Olympus.

These would include deer, ibexes, eagles and bats.

As for enemies, it would be the same Heartless selection of last time.

As for non-Heartless enemies.

In The Underworld, there's souls and skeleton warriors.

And on Mount Olympus, there's various wild animals including vipers, brown bears, wolves, lions, leopards, lynxes and wild boars.

And lastly, for this world's special feature, we would see the return of The Olympus Coliseum!

Possessing the same appearance from the mod.

Like its predecessor, you'll fight through waves of enemies and bosses.

Though this time, with your party being so huge, you can choose who you want bring into Coliseum with you.

As for the bosses, it'll consist of monsters from the movie.

This would include the likes of Nessus, The Erymanthian Boar, The Nemean Lion, Cetus, The Minotaur, a Griffin, Medusa, The Cyclops, Cerberus, and The Hydra.

So be prepared to hear the long-awaited return of.......

Deep Jungle:

Just like Wonderland, Deep Jungle would one massive area under the name: The Jungle.

An expanded version would feature the same areas from Kingdom Hearts, although far more expensive.

And of course, there would be some new areas well.

These would include Pathways (A series of paths in the middle of the jungle that can lead to the different areas), The Nesting Grounds (where Tarzan’s gorilla family reside), and The Watering Hole (where the elephants were hanging out in the original film, which would replace Hippo's Lagoon).

In terms of the party's appearances.

Sora, Riku and Kairi would be dressed in early 20th century safari attire.

Donald, Sabrina, Dipper, Star, Jackie, Alfonzo, Janna, and The Hexsquad would be dressed as African tribal shamans.

Goofy and the other Royal Knights would be dressed as African tribal warriors.

Mickey would be dressed as an African tribal chief.

Lula would be in the form of a ikakalaka (a type of sword used by the Mongo people of The Congo).

And Marsupilami and Maurice.....would both retain their usual appearances.

As for party members, you'll get two in the form of Tarzan and Jane Porter.

Tarzan fights similarly to how he did in Kingdom Hearts, being pretty well-rounded in terms of strength, speed and defense, but somewhat low on MP.

He attacks enemies with slashes and thrusts with his spear, handstand kicks, and throwing his spear at aerial enemies.

Tarzan specializes in crowd control, being able to take out multiple enemies at once with an attack.

Jane on the other hand fills a more supportive role, possessing decent MP, speed and defense, but rather low strength.

She attack enemies with wacks from her parasol, swinging kicks from vines, opening up her parasol to deflect attacks, and open parasol charges.

She also heals allies with a special medley of jungle herbs.

Their Team Attack would be Bungee Bash.

Thr attack would see Sora being grabbed by his ankles and lifted into the air by Jane, who in turn is also being held by the ankles by Tarzan, who's holding onto a vine by his feet.

The attack would see the trio bungeeing all over the battlefield, smashing and crushing enemies along the way.

The attack would end with the trio using the vine to tie up some enemies and then release it, sending them flying high into the air.

As for NPCs: there's Terk, Tantor, Professor Porter, Kala, Kerchak, and Manu.

There would also be tons of animal NPCs as well.

These would include gorillas, elephants, Fischer’s lovebirds, grey parrots, fish eagles, butterflies, hippos, bongos, rhinos, giraffes, giant forest hogs, marabou storks, peafowl, chimpanzees, frogs, colobus monkeys, okapis and forest buffalos.

As for enemies, it would be the same Heartless selection from last time.

As for non-Heartless enemies.

This would be in the form of animals such as leopards, baboons, pythons and crocodiles.

As for the world's special feature, there would be three.

The first one would be the return of the Jungle Slider mini-game from Kingdom Hearts.

The mini-game would see Sora, Tarzan, Jane and two other party members of choice surfing along tree branches and swinging from vines, utilizing Flowmotion, all while avoiding obstacles and shooting down Heartless.

The second feature would be the ability to ride animals, specifically elephants, rhinos and storks.

They can be used to clear massive obstacles, take down enemies at a faster rate, or reach areas that hard to do so normally.

And the third would be another mini-game called Safari Shoot, where you have to use your Gummiphone to take photos of specific animals.

And lastly, we have this world's Keyblade: Primal Fury, which would have an emphasis on Strength.

The Keyblade would look pretty similar to Jungle King, but with the blade would look like a tree branch wrapped in vines, the teeth would be the sharp teeth of a leopard, and the handle would look like the skin of a python.

Primal Fury allows you to enter Strike Form with its two Formchanges: Gorilla Fists and Pachyderm Boots.

The first sees Sora's Keyblade transforming into a pair of mechanical gauntlets, resembling the fists of a gorilla.

This will allow him to perform powerful punches and uppercuts, and send shockwaves by clapping his hands.

The second Formchanges sees the fists transforming into a pair of mechanical boots resembling the feet of an elephant.

This will allow Sora to perform powerful kicks, stomps that send out powerful shockwaves, cause tremors to send enemies, and even send waves of earth towards enemies.

Its Shotlock: Feline Fatale, would see the Keyblade transforming into a pair of mechanical claws akin to a jungle cat, with Sora performing a series of rapid slash attacks.

And lastly, for its Finish, the Keyblade would transform into a Ngoma drum, which Sora proceeds to play, summoning a massive herd of jungle animal spirits.

The herd then proceeds to stampede, trampling all enemies in its path.

Agrabah:

Agrabah would be split into four main areas.

The first main area is The City of Agrabah itself, which would consist of the areas seen in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II.

The second main area is The Palace, which consist of the following areas: The Courtyard, The Throne Room, The Dungeon, and The Garden.

The third main area is The Desert, which consists of The Sandswept Ruins and Ruined Chamber, and a few new sub-areas such as The Oasis and The Canyon.

And the fourth and final main area is The Cave of Wonders, which consists of the areas seen in KHI and II.

In terms of the party's appearances.

Sora, Riku and Kairi would be dressed in Arabian civilian attire

Donald, Sabrina, Dipper, Star, Jackie, Alfonzo, Janna, and The Hexsquad would be dressed as viziers, similarly to Jafar.

Goofy and the other Royal Knights would be dressed as royal guards, similarly to Razoul.

Lula would be in the form of a scimitar.

Marsupilami would still look the same.

And Maurice would be a massive baboon.

As for the party members, you'll get two in the form of Aladdin and Jasmine.

Aladdin fights pretty similarly to how he did before, possessing decent strength and defense, high speed, but somewhat low MP.

He attacks enemies with quick slashes with his scimitar, often through rushing and leaping attacks.

Aladdin specializes in taking out one enemy at a time, but quickly and efficiently.

Jasmine is a similar boat to Aladdin when it comes to stats, though her speed is a bit lower.

She attacks enemies with a wooden staff, often through wacks, swings, quick jabs and spins.

She can also attack aeriel enemies and pole vaulting herself to kick them.

Jasmine specializes in crowd control, being able to take out multiple enemies at a time.

Their Team Attack would be Sandstorm.

The attack would see Sora, Aladdin and Jasmine hopping aboard The Magic Carpet, and flying around enemies so fast, it creates a massive sandy whirlwind that sucks them all up and sends them flying.

As for NPCs: there's Genie, Abu, The Magic Carpet, Iago, Rajah, The Sultan, Zena (Aladdin's mother), Razoul, and The Peddler.

There would also be plenty of civilian NPCS in The City.

As well as some animal NPCs.

You'll find sheep and goats in The City.

Elephants and doves at The Palace.

Falcons in The Desert.

And camels in both The City and The Desert.

As for enemies, same Heartless selection from the previous appearances.

As for non-Heartless enemies.

There are bandits, vultures, and jackals out in The Desert

And down in The Cave of Wonders, you'll face off against scimitar-wielding skeletons, bats, scorpions, cobras, and living Shiva statues.

As for this world's special feature, it would be a mini-game known as Rug Race.

It would see you, Aladdin, Jasmine, and two party members of choice flying on different courses on The Magic Carpet, having to make it to the end by a limited amount of time while avoiding obstacles.

The courses would include The Palace, The Sandswept Ruins, and The Cave of Wonders.

And lastly, we have this world's Keyblade: Cosmic Wish, which would have an emphasis on Magic.

The Keyblade would actually be the same one that was used by Genie in Kingdom Hearts II.

Cosmic Wish allows you to enter Element Form with its Formchange: Stellar Staff.

Sora's Keyblade gets turned into a staff, which allows him to perform different kinds of ranged attacks, each one based off one of the planets.

These would include massive fireballs (Mercury), rays of light (Venus), a rain of metal shards (Mars), spheres of crushing gravity (Jupiter), a spinning ring of boulders (Saturn), bolts of lightning (Uranus), and freezing ice beams (Neptune).

Its Shotlock: Mist Mayhem, would see Sora summoning cosmic smoke to ensnare enemies.

And lastly, for its Finish, Sora would lift the staff into the air, summoning miniature versions of the very planets his attacks were based on, and have unleash a massive barrage of fire, light, metal, gravity, boulders, lightning and ice onto enemies.

Well that's all for now!

I had a lot of fun with this post.

I'm definitely planning on making a series out of this.

Though more specifically, talking about what future worlds in Kingdom Hearts could be like.

And the very first part for that will be out next month, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of a Disney classic!

So until then, stay tuned!

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Twisted Hearts 1 Chapter 4: Stealth Missions

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Story Summary: When an unknown incident lands the students of NRC in a strange new world, they have to travel across worlds to find each other as well as trying to vanquish the darkness. Sounds.... easier than most of what they've been through this school year at least, but nothing is ever that simple, and a pair or adopted siblings will once again find themselves at odds.

Chapter Summary: The group rushes to take care of Clayton before he shoots any of the gorillas.... or them. Meanwhile Riku learns a bit more about his captor as his fortunes finally start to turn for the better with the help of a surprising ally.

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POV, Riku:

“Ugh…” I groan as I wake up. Was… was that just a dream- nope, still in Malleus’s room, great, that means I still made the worse choice of my life, and that girl is still….

“UGH!!” I shout as I throw a pillow across the room in frustration. I caused so much shit, and now I can’t even do anything to try fix it, god I’m useless…

Okay, calm down, having a meltdown won’t get me anywhere, Malleus isn’t here right now at least so now’s as good of a time as any to get out of here- and the door is locked, great….

“Alright then, plan B, look around and hope I can find something.” I think out loud as I start searching the room for anything I can use. Unfortunately I don’t see any trap doors or a window so my best bet is just to find a weapon, knock out whoever comes to open the door, and run for it. What do I do once I get out of the castle, I don’t know, but for right now I just have to get out-

“Hmm?” I hum as I look under the bed and while there’s nothing that can help I do grab the only thing under there out of curiosity, and it’s a picture frame with the picture inside being of four people, one of which I think is Malleus. I say I think because while the face, hair and eye colour plus the horns all match, there’s no flames or ink on the version of him in the picture, plus his skin looks like a normal colour instead of that sickly grey.

As for the others, one is a young man with pointy ears, black and pink hair and a cheeky smile, another is a very stern looking teenage boy with pointy but not as pointed ears along with green hair and gold eyes, and the last one-!!

“Okay, depending on what he sounds like maybe Malleus isn’t totally crazy for thinking I’m him.” I mumble as I get a good look at who I can only assume is the Silver guy I’ve been mistaken for, as while his eyes have a pink tint that mine don’t and he looks a bit older than me, other than that it’s honestly like looking in a mirror. It… I don’t know how else do describe it other than being weird.

Still, weirdness aside I put the picture back and get looking again. Malleus mistaking me for Silver might be more understandable now, and judging by how happy everyone looks in the picture I can guess that the reason Malleus is the way he is now is because something happened to them and in that way I feel bad, but right now that doesn’t matter. Whatever happened made him snap and now he’s working with a lot of evil people to do something bad that involves murdering girls, and that tells me all I need to know to know I have to get out of here.

“C’mon… there has to be something…” I grumble in frustration as I start checking the closest and shelves, and aside from some more pictures of those three people, confirming that they are close, as well as a few pictures of a tall boy with orange hair and bright green eyes plus a younger girl also with orange hair but who’s eyes are more blue green I can’t see anything helpful to this mess. UGH!!

“Alright, if there was ever a time for you to show up, now would be it.” I think as I focus as hard as I can to try summon a weapon like Terra, because by the looks of it that’s going to be my only chance.

“Please… come to me,” I beg as I keep concentrating, “any power, please come to me.… I need the power to travel the worlds and find my friends…. I need the strength to protect what matters… come on… COME ON-!!!”

Aha, yes, it worked!! It doesn’t look like the one Terra summoned, or the one I see in my dreams sometimes, but in my hand is a Keyblade styled like a bat wing with a blue eye by the handle. Slightly edgy but it looks sick and even if it didn’t I wouldn’t be complaining either way. The purple mist that’s fading that I guess came in when I summoned it is a bit concerning but I’ll worry about it later-!

“GAH!!” Okay… I didn’t realise I was literally jumping for joy… and I tripped…. Whoops. Alright, I’m calm now, all that’s left to do is to wait for someone to open the door and get out of here, and in that effort I press my ear against it to listen for any signs.

“Great, why am I on food duty,” I hear someone groan from outside and they sound close so that’s a good sign, “why couldn’t the boss ask someone else to do- hey, what are you doing here? Ain’t you want to be at the meeting? And if not then the bathroom’s that way-!”

“The one you see reflected in your eyes is your master. Answer when I ask. Bow when I command. Snake Whisper,” a vaguely familiar voice says outside which cuts the first speaker off, “good, now I want you to give me that key to the door, then lock yourself in a closet for an hour. Once that hour is up, you will forget any of this ever happened, understood?”

The first speaker doesn’t reply, but I do hear the sound of keys jangling followed by footsteps so he clearly listened. Before I can even question what just happened the key is inserted into the door so I back up and grip Soul Eater- how did I know it was called that? Anyway I get ready for a fight as the door opens-

“Viper?” I ask in confusion as the one other person from the meeting with a conscious walks in, and his hood has now been pulled up enough that I can see his eyes are grey, not to mention slit pupils which matches with his namesake, and also that he has some scars along his face.

“Good, you were paying attention,” he replies as he closes the door, “before you swing that thing at me, I’m on your side, I just want to ask some questions before we get out of here.”

“You… you’re helping me?,” I ask feeling grateful but also very much confused, “why?”

“Still slightly questioning that myself to be honest,” Viper admits looking more than a little exasperated, “Jaffar is definitely going to kill me when he hears about this, but… standing by and letting what happened during that meeting happen, not to mention all the other questionable stuff about this plan that was already making me feel uneasy, I’ve done some horrible things, particularly to people who trusted me, but this is too far. This isn’t the Great Seven I’ve heard about, so I need to get out of here, and you’re clearly just as miserable as me so I’m taking you with as well. Plus, being stuck with Malleus while he’s Overblotted sounds like a nightmare, and while I’ll fully admit I’m not a great person, I’m not heartless.”

“!! Oh,” I say struggling for words because I wasn’t expecting that, “I see… well, given some of the stuff I’ve done I’m not exactly one to judge so, just, thank you. But, what’s Overblotted? And you know Malleus?”

“Tch, here I thought I was the one asking questions,” Viper sighs, “but to answer now so I don’t have to later, we go to the same school together. Ours is a school for magic, and Overblotting is basically what happens when a mage uses too much magic while feeling strong negative emotions. Usually it kills whoever goes through it, but if you’re powerful enough you transform into a stronger but less mentally stable version of yourself. It’s why Malleus looks like… that, and it’s not the first time it’s happened to him….. it also happened to me but that’s a long story tied into the bad stuff I did so let’s save that for later.”

“Again, I won’t judge and I won’t ask,” I say starting to realise how Malleus went from how he looked in the pictures to now, “but ask me what you wanted to really quickly so we can get out of here.”

“Now you’re speaking my language,” he says with a slight smirk before getting serious, “alright, I have three questions for you. Who the hell are you, why do you look just like Silver save for the eyes, and how in the world did you get here to begin with?”

“My name is Riku, I’ve never met Silver in my life so I have no idea,” I answer before sighing as I awkwardly explain the last answer, “and… well, I was desperate to leave my home and explore, to avoid getting left behind by my friends, to be free of my boring life, that… that I let Darkness consume my home. It destroyed everything, sending a lot of people to other worlds…. And….. and killing everyone else, and that’s how I got here. Heh, you probably think I’m a monster after hearing that huh…?”

“!!!…. I think I understand better than you think.” Viper tells me after a shocked moment, and he’s looking at me without any hidden disgust or even pity but… understanding?

“What?” I ask without thinking because, what I did was horrible, how is he understanding?

“Ugh, I should really be saving this for later,” he sighs before explaining, “but… let’s just say I’ve been trapped in a special kind of hell for essentially my whole life, and my plan to get out of it for a year or two involved betraying someone who trusted me to get them expelled from school because while objectively they are a nice person, they’re also painfully naive and part of the reason I was in my awful situation. The plan almost worked too, but when I got caught due to some damn fish, I snapped and I used my magic to have my whole dorm try to kill them, and that’s when I Overblotted. And trust me when I say, the only reason that ‘tried to kill’ isn’t ‘killed’ is because those damn fish, Kalim, Strelitzia and Grim managed to stop me first.”

“!! I… can’t say I was expecting that.” I admit because what I did is still worse by a country mile… that is pretty bad.

“Don’t blame you, I’m not particularly proud of it in hindsight,” Viper agrees with a sigh, “I didn’t even get what I wanted, though being stuck in another world does have the unintended side effect of getting me my freedom for the time being. I’ll figure out how to make it permanent and free my family too, but for now this will do. And I hope this proves my point that desperate teenagers make dumbass choices. So no, I don’t judge you for what you did, and if you want to make things right then I don’t know, focus on just doing good once we get out of here. But beating yourself up over it isn’t going to help anyone. You made a bad choice, so just don’t let the people who got hurt be in vain by moping over it.”

“….. You’re right,” I say after thinking over his words and steeling myself as I grip Soul Eater, “my two friends are still out there, and I have the strength to protect them now, so I have to make sure nothing else happens.”

“That’s more like it,” Viper tells me with a small smirk as he pulls his hood back up, “now come on, let’s get out of this hellhole.”

“Right,” I agree as I quickly check to make sure no one is coming before we both leave the room, “thank you, Viper. For… well for all of this I suppose.”

“You can thank me by not slowing us down on the way out,” he replies with a slight eye roll as he takes my hand and starts running, “and I should’ve said this earlier, but for the record Viper is my last name, my first name is Jamil. Now come on, let’s bounce before any one of the numerous insane people here notice we’re gone.”

POV Switch, Silver:

“Hello?! Gorillas?! Are you around here?!?! Shout if you can hear us fellas!!!” Goofy shouts as we keep walking though the jungle.

“Ugh, this isn’t getting us anywhere,” Donald groans, “what sounds do Gorilla’s even make anyway?”

“The same sounds as monkeys I think,” Sora answers before doing his best impression, “you know, like ‘ooh ooh ah ah’.”

“Thank you for your genius display…” Donald quips with another groan making Sora pout-!

“Guys, can you not.” I tell them as I swat away another monkey Heartless. These ones thankfully aren’t too strong but I swear they’re like flies in the summer with how many are showing up.

“Sorry,” Sora apologises, “but why do you always have to be so grouchy around me Donald?”

“Because we’re trying to save all of the worlds and one of us has to take this seriously,” the duck answers simply, “not to mention having to do this with someone who’s less mature than my nephews isn’t making this any easier.”

“You have nephews?” I ask not expecting that, and neither is Sora based on his expression.

“Yup, Huey, Dewey and Louie,” Donald confirms, “I’ve been taking care of them for a while now, and when I’m busy like I am now they stay with my Uncle Scrooge.”

“Huh, didn’t expect you to have such a big family, that sounds pretty nice,” Sora admits making Donald smile, “what about you Goofy, any surprise relatives we should know about from you?”

“Not really a surprise but, I do have my boy Max.” Goofy answers with a smile- wait.

“YOU’RE A DAD?!?!” Sora asks before I can because yeah, wasn’t expecting that… but I guess that explains how he’s been so patient with all of our nonsense.

“Hyuck, yup!,” Goofy confirms as Donald sniggers at our surprise, “he’s actually about the same age as you Sora, once all this is over maybe I could introduce ya.”

“I like the sound of that!” Sora agrees with a smile and I let out a small sigh of relief that everyone seems happy now. Hopefully there won't be any more incidents-!!

*BANG*

“AGH!!” Donald yelps as he jumps into Goofy’s arms in shock.

“Gun fire, Clayton’s close by,” I state as I realise what this means as we all draw our weapons (well Goofy does it once Donald jumps down anyway), “everyone, be on guard.”

“Right.” Sora agrees as we all move forward slowly, though Goofy especially takes the lead with his shield covering us as best as he can, which is definitely a good idea given that we’re dealing with a gun.

“Anyone see him?” Donald asks as we arrive at a clearing-!

*BANG*

“WHOA!!” Goofy yelps as the bullet hits his shield but the impact sends us all skidding.

“Found him,” I say as I point my Keyblade in the direction of the bullet and quickly cast, “blizzard!!”

“GAH!! Oh you nincompoop!!,” Clayton shouts as we all run over to the source, “let’s see how you like this you cheaters!”

“Says the guy who’s bringing a gun to a sword fight- whoa!” Sora fires back but cuts himself off as we all move away from Clayton’s new mount, a chameleon Heartless. Zooterkins.

“First monkeys now this, what are they making Heartless out of- WAH!!” Donald shouts in frustration as he jumps out of the way of a tail swing before ducking behind Goofy’s shield to not get hit by the gun.

“Okay, here’s the plan!,” I say as I quickly use my magic to expand the shield to buy us more time, “Sora, Donald, you two fire as much magic as you can at the Chameleon and try to kill it, and Goofy you keep them safe. I’ll go for Clayton.”

“Sounds good, save for the last part- fire!,” Sora replies as he shoots out a fire spell, “what if he hits you?!”

“I’m the only other one who can use a shield, and I have a Keyblade,” I point out as I summon a shield with magic to prove my point, “I’ll be careful I promise.”

“You’d better!” Donald tells me with the same kind of aggressive concern I’ve seen from Sebek.

“Duck back here if you need more cover!” Goofy adds as he keeps the shield up strong, and with that and a still concerned but encouraging nod from Sora I run out of cover with the energy shield I cast (thank you Idia for showing me how to do this) and, well, the good news is that Clayton isn’t focusing on shooting the others anymore so they can fire on the Heartless relatively easily. The bad news is that the gunfire is all focused on me now, so getting close is going to be tricky but this shouldn’t be too bad-

“BLIZZARD!!” Donald casts from behind the shield as it hit’s the Heartless… but it also almost hits me… I’ll shut up about things not being too bad clearly that’s just going to jinx it!

“Stay down like the mongrel you are!!” Clayton shouts as he keeps shooting at me, and it’s at this point that I get an idea.

“I could say the same thing about you jerk!” I shout as I jump up and just ram into Clayton, tossing him off the Heartless- and also tossing me off whoa whoa whoa!!

“That could’ve been better…” I mumble as I recover from the tumble and get to my feet-!!

“I’ve got you now,” Clayton says with a smug expression as his shotgun is pointed right at my head, “time to say goodnight!!”

No no no no this is bad this is very very bad!! Quick, where’s my magic pen I need to recast the shield- it’s by Clayton’s foot damn it!! Alright, plan b, time to pray that a fire spell is faster than a bullet because if not… no, I’m not thinking about that scenario, I’m not dying without seeing them all again!

“Father give me strength!,” I mumble as I regain my composure enough to summon my keyblade and cast as fast as I can, “FIRE!!”

“I’llmakeyoupayforthatbraceyourselfBettheLimit!” Wait, what-?!

*BANG*

“AGH!!” Clayton screams as the bullet  flies back and hits him in his shoulder while I just about manage to duck out of the way of my fire spell coming back towards me. What, what was that?

“HAH!!” Tarzan shouts as he comes in from out of nowhere and decks Clayton in the face as the two start fighting along with the rest of Heartslaybul. Well, all of them save for Deuce who’s on his knees in front of me right now looking frantic.

“Oh thank the Queen you’re alright,” Deuce sighs in relief, “that was way too close.”

“Yeah, clearly,” I agree as now the adrenaline is wearing off I feel exhausted but not in a ‘I need to sleep’ way but just generally tired, “but, wait, are you the one who blocked it?”

“Yup,” Deuce confirms as he hands me back my magic pen, “honestly I wasn’t even one hundred percent sure if my Unique Magic worked on bullets but worse case scenario it would've been in my shoulder which is still better than it being in your head.”

“I… I’m not sure I feel about you risking yourself for me like that but, thanks for the help,” I admit as I manage a smile making Deuce look chuffed before turning back to the action, “want to get some payback, looks like the idiot is finally out of ammo.”

“Sounds good to me-!….,” Deuce says as he gets a to quote Idia ‘dumb idea face’, “Are you okay with me throwing you like I threw Ace at the Heartless in Wonderland senpai?”

“Can’t say that was on my bingo card, but if you can manage let’s do it.” I agree getting ready as I draw my Keyblade. This is followed by a very excited Deuce somehow picking me up and holding me over his head. 

“On three!,” Deuce tells me as I get ready, “one, two, three!!”

“What- Juice is this just going to be a thing from now on?!” Ace asks in confusion as Deuce throws me past everyone and as everyone is questioning what’s happening, including Clayton who just looks terrified, I hit him as hard as I can with my Keyblade, and while it doesn’t finish him off it does knock him clean out.

“Well… can’t say I was expecting that but it is clearly effective, well done you two, and I’m glad you’re both safe given what this madman was doing.” Riddle tells us both after a moment making Deuce even more chuffed and I’m just relieved that’s all over- wait… what happened to the Heartless-?

“INCOMING!!!” Sora shouts as a shadow appears over us, prompting Tarzan and Cater (plus a few Cater clones) to pull us all out of the way… right before the chameleon Heartless falls out of the sky and lands on Clayton…. Is he dead?

“Um, I didn’t think both of us casting blizzard at the same time would do that.” Donald admits as we all just stare at the chaos for a moment, at least until Sora breaks the tension by laughing. Yeah, we needed that.

“Is everyone alright?” Jane asks in concern as she runs out of the bushes to check up on us.

“There was a close call but we’re okay,” I tell her which lets Jane let out a sigh of relief, “are the Gorilla’s okay?”

“A few of them were stuck in traps but they’re all alright.” Trey answers which that’s a relief, looks like alls well that ends well after all-

“What… that?” Tarzan asks in confusion as he and Jane are staring at something, and when I look to see what it is-! Oh, it’s the Keyhole! That’s convenient, but I think we’ve earned some convenience after that.

“Don’t worry, that’s normal,” Cater assures the pair before turning to Sora, “let’s lock it up So’.”

“You got it!” Sora replies as he pulls out his Keyblade and points it at the Keyhole, making the light beam come out again and locking it up.

“Alright,” I say before turning back to Tarzan and Jane, “the Heartless shouldn’t be showing up again any time soon, so the jungle should be safe.”

“Thank you.” Tarzan tells us with a smile and Jane also smiles brightly at the news.

“Don’t sweat it, might as well do some good while we’re passing through,” Ace says to them before smirking, “though, if you wanna thank us-“

“Can you tell us if you’ve seen a blonde girl in a blue dress? Or anyone in this photo?” Trey asks the pair just in case Ace was planning on saying something dumb, though the first years pout and mumbling about how he was gonna say that at least hopefully mean he wasn’t.

“A girl with red hair about my height and a guy who looks like Silver but shorter too.” Sora adds.

“Hmm…. I can’t say I have,” Jane admits and Tarzan also shakes his head, “we’ll keep our eyes open for them though.”

“Much appreciated, thank you,” Riddle thanks them before turning back to me, “we’ll find them, I promise.” !! Oh, I guess my worry is getting visible huh…?

“I hope you’re right…” I admit because yeah, I’m definitely getting worried at this point, me almost dying before I could ever see them again doing nothing to help matters, but worrying won’t get me anywhere. I just have to keep calm, and try to focus. I will find them, and… I’d say or else I’d die trying but after today I’m going to avoid dying at all costs.

“Guess we should probably head back to the ship then,” Goofy says, “we parked it behind the camp before ya get worried.”

“Yeah, I was just gonna ask where it is.” Sora jokingly admits before turning to Donald with puppy dog eyes.

“….. Ugh, fine, one lesson, and if we crash I’m tying you to your chair for every flight going forward.” Donald relents with a sigh, making Sora and Ace hi five as we all head back, hopefully to something less… chaotic.

POV Switch, Riku:

“Are we almost th-!?” I ask before getting cut off by Jamil covering my mouth and pulling me into a corner just in time to not get seen by some of Maleficent’s minions.

“Rule of thumb, when you’re trying to be sneaky, don’t talk unless you half to, and when you have to, whisper,” he whispers/hisses to me once the coast is clear, “and to answer we are almost out of the castle, but once we are we’ll be out in the open so we’ll have to act fast to get out.”

“Right,” I say quietly as Jamil takes my hand and we get moving again, “what’s the plan by the way?”

“It’s complicated so I’ll explain when we get there, now come on.” Jamil tells me clearly eager to get a move on which, mood, so I pick up the pace and after what feels like an eternity but what’s probably just a few minutes we make it to the front-!

“What the-?!” One of the two minions at the front gate asks as he sees us, but he doesn’t get to say anything else as I quickly knock him out with Soul Eater. Hah! I could get used to this!

“The one you see reflected in your eyes is your master. Answer when I ask. Bow when I command. Snake Whisper,” Jamil quickly says as he points some kind of wand at the second minion and when he looks at us the minion freezes and his eyes go red, “hide your friend, then go away and forget any of us this ever happened.”

“That is cool, impressive and terrifying all at the same time.” I admit as the minion does exactly what he was told, making Jamil look a bit shocked before a proud smirk appears on his face.

“Heh, glad someone who’s not annoying noticed,” he chuckles before taking my hand, “we’re almost there, just have to jump down a few of these then we’re in the clear.”

“A few of what- never mind that answers that question!” I ask as I see a a lot of ice like platforms hovering over a massive chasm. That…. On no.

“Calm down, they’re not actually ice, I tested.” Jamil assures me with a sigh as he jumps down. Welp, don’t want to hold us up, let’s hope all of my races with Sora trained me for this!

“Hah!” I yelp as I jump down to the first platform and thankfully I land just fine, and a few more jumps later I make it to what looks like the entranceway to this place.

“Alright, still not dead somehow,” I say as I let out a sigh of relief before turning o Jamil, “so, what’s the plan from here?”

“You cover me while I try to get a Dark Corridor open.” He explains as he starts focusing on something with his wand- wait…

“Dark… Corridor…?,” I ask feeling uneasy about this now, “we’re using… darkness to get out?”

“Ugh,” Jamil groans as he stops concentrating and turns to me, “look, after what you told me I get why you don’t like this stuff, but dark magic isn’t inherently bad. Do people do horrible things with it, yes, but they also do good, and the same is true with light magic so it’s not 'one size fits all'. What will get you in trouble with it is panicking, so don’t start stressing out just because I’m using it, alright?”

“Right, sorry.” I apologise as I try to calm down. I….. I don’t trust myself to use the darkness again, especially after what I did and how it somehow felt good at the time, but… Jamil’s using it just fine and I trust him so… maybe it is alright? Maybe… it can be used for good… to protect others-!!

“Whatever I did I didn’t mean it!” I blurt out as I recover from something jolting up my spine, and when I look at my hands I see a now familiar misty purple around them, oh no-!

“Well, even if you didn’t intend it, it did the trick, Dark Corridor is open,” Jamil tells me as we both look at the swirling dark portal with surprise though he also has a slight bit of exasperation to his expression, “once we’re in the clear I’d better show you how to get that under control before you hurt yourself. For now let’s just get out of this hellhole.”

Putting aside my shock, as well as my concern about what’s going on with me, I nod in agreement as we both run through the Dark Corridor. Where is this going, I have no idea but anywhere is better than here so as long as it’s not somehow worse I’ll take it.

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