CHAPTER 6

**World: Deep Jungle**

After saying their goodbyes to Jane, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Hercules, and their newest companion Tarzan walked and climbed back to the tree house, hoping to use it for a lookout to find where the gummi ship was.

"So, do you think we'll find your ship?" Tarzan asked.

"I hope so, otherwise we'll be stuck here for good." Sora told him.

"Guess again..." a voice called out.

The five looked left and right trying to find the source of the voice.

"Look up." the voice told them.

They looked up and smiles form upon Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Hercules faces...

The gummi ship was alright.

"Next time, me and Dale are driving." Chip told them through the loud speaker.

"See you guys have a new companion." Jiminy replied.

"Hi!" Tarzan called out. "I'm Tarzan. You must be Jiminy! The guys told me about you, Chip, and Dale!"

"Pleasure to meet you Tarzan!" Jiminy said. "Prepare to be teleported in!"

The gummi ship's bottom blew and zapped five teleportation lasers at them, sending them back into the gummi ship. The teleportation also gave Tarzan a new outfit.

Tarzan looked at his new outfit with amazement. He was wearing a white T-shirt with a dark brown jungle themed leather vest, khaki jungle themed long shorts, white jungle themed gloves, and green jungle themed shoes. "Wow..." he said in awe.

"Nice outfit." Sora replied.

"Thanks." Tarzan said.

Soon, after introducing Jiminy, Chip, and Dale to Tarzan, they setted off, this time letting Goofy drive...

Big mistake...

**World: Traverse Town**

"Okay, talk to ya later, Cid." Yuffie said as she left the accessory shop. As she was walking she saw the group re-entering the world, fried.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU RAMMED US INTO A METEOR, GOOFY!" Donald yelled at him. "THAT'S THE LAST I'M LETTING YOU FLY THE SHIP!!"

"Uhh...guys?" Yuffie asked.

"Hey...Yuffie..." Sora said, still a little fried.

Yuffie then noticed Hercules and Tarzan. "Did you three...?"

"They already knew." Goofy told her.

Yuffie then looked at Hercules and Tarzan. "Hi. I'm Yuffie." she greeted.

"Hi." Hercules greeted. "I'm Hercules."

"Hello." Tarzan greeted. "My name is Tarzan."

"You guys seemed to be a little...fried." Yuffie responded. "What happened?"

"Goofy crashed the gummi ship, and we need it repaired." Hercules told her.

"I see..." Yuffie said.

"We also want to ask Leon some things." Sora added.

"He's probably in the basement." Yuffie told them. "He trains there all the time."

The group and Yuffie nodded and walked towards the basement, when a woman with black and white hair and a fur coat ran into Sora.

"Watch it, brat!" she said.

"Sorry." Sora told her as the group continued walking.

"Wonder what her problem is?" Tarzan asked.

"No idea." Donald said.

"She looks to be 100." Yuffie said.

The woman turned her head a bit and saw the keyblade Sora had. "So that's the brat Maleficent told me about. The one I have to get rid of, then I can grab Anita's dog before those puppies of hers are born." she said softly as she walked away.

Unknown to the group and the woman, the ninja was watching them. "Cruella De Vil..." he said, bringing a smile to his face. "I'll be glad to kill her a second time."

**T.T. Location: Basement Moments later**

Leon was in the basement, taking a break from his training. He was also introduced to Hercules and Tarzan.

"So you found three keyholes." Leon said.

"Yeah, the keyblade glowed and locked them automatically." Sora told him.

"According to Ansem's report, each world among the stars has a keyhole that leads to the heart of that world." Leon explained.

"The heart of the world?" Sora asked.

"The heartless are trying to steal the hearts of each world through the world's keyholes." Leon continued. "They exist in every heart, and appear when darkness enters the heart."

"Like Clayton." Tarzan said.

Leon nodded. "And when the heartless steal the heart, the world will disappear."

The five stared at him from what Leon explained.

"That's why the keyholes must be locked, using the keyblade." Leon said. "You're the only one who can do it, Sora."

"M-ME?!" Sora stammered in shock. "B-But I'm just a..."

"Don't worry." a female voice called out as she and Cid came out. "You can do it Sora."

"This is Aerith Gainsborough." Leon greeted. "She'a a friend of ours."

"Hey, how you guys doing?" Cid asked as he sat down next to Leon. "You two must be Hercules and Tarzan. Yuffie told me about you two."

"You must be Cid then, Sora told us about you as well." Tarzan said.

"Heh, and don't worry about your ship, I'm done fixing it." Cid said. "But your navigation gummi's damaged."

"Navigation gummi?" Sora asked.

"That's the type of gummi that tells keeps a gummi ship from getting lost and able to tell the location of a certain destination." Hercules explained.

"Ahh...so you do about gummis." Cid replied. "Unfortunately, I need to replace it with a Mark 2 nav. gummi, the only type of gummi capable of having the ship able to travel farther."

"Mark 2? You mean like this?" Donald asked as he gave him the gummi they found.

Cid looked at the gummi and smiled. "Yep, that's a Mark 2 nav. gummi." he said with a smile. "Just what the ship needs. I'll go install it later."

"By the way, Aerith. How's our two guests doing?" Leon asked.

"Guests?" The five asked.

"We've managed to help two survivors settle in when their world was lost." Aerith explained. "That was a week before you arrived."

"Can we meet them?" Sora asked.

"Maybe, but they're not used to strangers. Especially since one of them is expecting." Cid told them.

"You mean...?" Goofy asked.

Leon, Cid, and Aerith nodded.

"By the way..." Leon said as he pulled three colored crystals from his coat pocket. "I've also founded these after you left...I don't know what they are, but they seem to have strong magic properties to them." He then handed the three crystals to Sora.

"I've never seen them before." Sora told them.

"Hmmm...I know two that might be able to help." Cid said.

**In another area**

"Alright you spotted hyena!" a tall and skinny man said as he held a rope to drag a adult dalmatian with a red collar by the mouth. "Move it!"

The dog refused to cooperate with the skinny man and his buddy, a small and fat man and growled in anger as the dog tried to escape.

"Allow me to take care of him." the fat man said as he patted a club at his hand.

The dog struggled to get free, but it was too late for him as the fat man prepared to hit and kill him...

Until Hercules stopped him from killing him.

"HUH?!" the two gasped in surprised.

"What do you think you two are doing to this dog?" Hercules asked.

The skinny man charged and swiped his crowbar at Hercules, but his weapon got grabbed and bented in half like butter.

Herc then grabbed the skinny and fat men by the collars and held them high.

The two men saw that Hercules wasn't alone. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Tarzan, and Cid were there as well, weapons ready.

"Uh oh." the two men responded as they dropped their weapons and the rope that held the dog.

Herc then threw the two away.

"Come on Horace, let's get outta here." the skinny man said.

"Right Jasper." the fat man said. "You'll be sorry when we get back!" Soon, the two men ran away, leaving their captive.

Sora retracted his keyblade and went towards the dog to untie its mouth. "Hey, you okay?" he asked.

Soon, the dog's mouth was free. "Yes, thank you." it spoke.

"WHA!!!" Sora, Donald, Goofy, Herc, and Tarzan gasped upon hearing the dog speaking.

"Hey Pongo. You okay?" Cid asked.

"I think so Cid." Pongo said. "Are these the ones you told me and Perdy about?"

"Yep." Cid answered. "That's them. And I guess they're not used to talking dogs or any other animals."

"But...how can he talk?" Donald asked.

"For most worlds, there are talking animals in them." Cid explained. "It's just natural."

"Okay...my name is Sora." Sora greeted to Pongo. "This is Donald, Goofy, Herc, and Tarzan."

"Greetings, my name is Pongo." he greeted.

"Say...how's your wife?" Cid asked.

"Perdy's fine...she's just resting." Pongo told him. "I was going for some air when I got dog napped by Horace and Jasper."

"Good thing we got here in time before anything happened." Goofy said.

"Yes, thank you." Pongo said. "But where are you going?"

"We're going to see if Merlin and the Fairy Godmother." Cid told them. "We need their help with something."

"Well, I better get back to Perdy and see if she's alright." Pongo said. "She's probably worried about me."

"Kay then." Cid said. "We'll check up on you and Perdy later."

Pongo nodded and ran back to where he and his mate/wife were located.

Cid and the five then walked over to a door with a fire symbol and entered inside to see a house surrounded by water.

"Wow..." Donald replied as he saw the water.

"Yes yes, its a lot of water isn't it?" a voice called out.

The six turned to see a man with an incredibly long white beard and a woman next to him, both wearing blue.

"Hey you two." Cid said. "Glad you could show up."

"Hello there. You must be Sora and his friends." the woman said. "I'm the Fairy Godmother."

"And I'm Merlin." the man said.

"How did you...?" Tarzan spoke in question.

"We know all about you from watching you." Merlin said.

"And I see you have those crystals with you." the Fairy Godmother replied.

Cid smiled and showed them the three crystals.

"Why don't we continue this inside?" Goofy asked.

"Why we're already inside." Merlin told them.

Sora, Donald, Goofy, Herc, and Tarzan looked around and saw that they were transported inside.

"Wow...it reminds me of the secret place back in my world." Sora said. "Me and Kairi used to scribble on the walls and..." He then saw the guys making lovey dovey faces at him. "What?!"

Merlin and Fairy Godmother examined the three crystals before coming to a conclusion.

"So, what do you think?" Cid asked.

"I believe that these three are Summon Gems." Merlin answered.

The rest of the group approached Cid, Merlin, and Fairy Godmother.

"Summon Gems?" Tarzan asked.

"Yep." Fairy Godmother answered. "Gems that were created to summon whoever the crystal originated from. This happens when their worlds were devoured by the heartless, but when one refuses to die and instead turns into a gem."

"So, they can come back to life?" Sora asked.

"Yes my boy." Merlin replied. "But only in spirit. And it will take a while for them to be able to summon. Takes up a lot of magic, so we need about two wizards. But if the spells fail, they'll be lost forever."

"Mabey Donald can help?" Goofy asked.

"No way." Donald said. "My magic isn't capable of doing that."

Sora looked at his keyblade and thought up an idea. "Hey, maybe I can help with this." he said as he showed them his keyblade.

Merlin and Fairy Godmother looked at each other, then at Sora, and nodded.

Cid placed the three Summon Gems on the floor away from everything.

Sora pointed his keyblade down at the gems while Merlin and Fairy Godmother pointed their wands down as well.

Suddenly, the keyblade and the two wands glowed white, charging and ready to summon the three the gems originated from.

"PRESTO!" Merlin casted.

"BIBBIDI-BOBBIDI-BOO!" Fairy Godmother casted.

Sora concentrated his keyblade and a beam of light shot from the tip and went to the gems along with Merlin and the Fairy Godmother's spells.

Donald, Goofy, Herc, Tarzan, and Cid blocked their eyes from the shine of the spells.

Sora, Fairy Godmother, and Merlin struggled to hold onto their spells so as to not lose whoever the gems are.

"Can't...keep...spell going..." Sora said as he struggled with his spell.

"We must...keep the spells going Sora!" Merlin told him.

Sora struggled as much as he could, but his spell was dying out. "Can't...go on."

Then, out of nowhere, a ball of white energy shot out at the three.

"HUH?!" they all gasped.

The white energy ball hitted the three gems and combined with then three spells, making it shine bright enough for all of Traverse Town to see.

Soon, Sora was pulled back and his spell died out.

Merlin and Fairy Godmother's spells died out as well.

Soon, the energy and magic combo died out, but the three gems lifted up.

"Did...it work?" Hercules asked.

"I...I think so." Sora replied.

The whole group looked at one of the gems and saw it break into a million pieces.

"Aww...it didn't work." Donald said in disappointment.

But, the pieces actually summoned a tiny, red, Chinese lizard, plotting him to the floor.

"Is that... a dragon?" Hercules questioned. "It looks small."

The dragon then fell onto the floor, unconscious but still alive.

The second gem shattered itself and magically summoned a brown, male, and unconscious but still alive fawn.

"A... fawn?" Sora asked. "A fawn was summoned?"

The third and final gem shattered and magically summoned an adult, red and golden...

"A LION?!" the group replied in shock.

The lion fell down, unconscious but still alive.

Merlin and Fairy Godmother slowly walked over to the three and examined them.

"What was that ball of energy?" Tarzan asked. "And who launched that?"

"I don't know, but at least it helped with the summoning." Sora said.

"Oh my..." Merlin gasped.

"What is it?" Goofy asked.

"These three... they're not spirits." Fairy Godmother said. "They're whole."

"Whole?" Hercules asked.

Merlin and the Fairy Godmother nodded.

"Now how did that happen?" Cid asked.

The five world warriors thought about what Cid said.

"Maybe it was that ball of white energy." Sora responded. "It probably made them whole instead of spirits."

Suddenly, the three started to wake up.

"Wha..." the lion spoke as he slowly went back into conscious. "What happened?"

"Hey, easy there..." Merlin said. "We're not gonna harm you."

"Ohh...my head..." the dragon spoke as he woke up. "I felt like the ancestors were pounding on me all at once."

The fawn slowly opened his eyes to see the group. *Man...but they seem...different.* he thought.

The three got up and looked around at the place, the group, and each other.

"Who are you?" the fawn asked.

"We'll tell you everything." Fairy Godmother said.

*After a moment of explaining*

"So...we're in another world." the lion said.

"And our worlds and everyone we know were devoured by darkness but us." the fawn said.

"And you summoned us with you other worldly magic stuff?" the dragon said.

"That's exactly it." Sora told them.

The three looked at each other.

"Well, I believe you." the dragon said. "And that's because I pinched myself in the back a few times and felt it."

The group stared at the dragon.

"I believe you, and I wanna help you guys out." the lion said.

"I'm not much of a fighter..." the fawn replied as he got up. "But I'll help anyway."

Sora, Donald,Goofy, Herc, and Tarzan smiled and got up.

"Thanks." Sora said. "By the way, my name's Sora."

"Name's Donald Duck." Donald greeted.

"I'm Goofy, nice to meet ya." Goofy greeted.

"My name's Hercules." Herc told them. "But you can call me Herc."

"Tarzan's the name." Tarzan greeted.

The three smiled.

"My name's Simba." the lion greeted.

"Name's Mushu." the dragon greeted.

"Ehh...you're gonna laugh at my name..." the fawn told them. "But...my name is Bambi."

All but Herc snickered a bit.

"I don't find that funny..." Herc said. "Shabalamadingdong is a funny name."

Bambi smiled and snickered a bit. "Okay, that is funny." he snickered.

Suddenly, Pongo came to them, injured a bit. "S-Sora..." he said.

The group looked and saw him injured.

Sora ran up to him and grabbed him. "What happened to you?!" he asked as his friends came to him.

"C...C...Cruella DeVil..." Pongo said.

"Who?" Sora asked.

"One of Maleficent's friends." Cid said.

"Who?" the eight asked.

"I'll explain that on the way back to the hideout." Cid told them. He said goodbye to Merlin and Fairy Godmother, as did the others, and led them towards the hideout.

*At the hideout; after greeting Simba, Bambi, and Mushu to Leon, Aerith, and Yuffie and bandaging Pongo up*

"So...Maleficent and her buddies are here." Leon said.

"But who is Maleficent?" Bambi asked.

"She's a witch." Yuffie told them. "And a powerful one."

"She and her buddies are controlling the heartless and using them to devour worlds." Cid responded.

Simba looked angry. "I bet she was the reason mine's gone." he said.

"Mine too." Bambi responded.

"Ditto." Mushu said.

Sora thought about his world.

"Yeah." Cid said. "She's the reason our world's taken over."

"Hey, does this Maleficent have black and white hair and look over 100 years old?" Mushu asked, looking out the window.

"No." Leon answered. "I don't know if she has hair or not."

"But I know someone with black and white hair." Pongo said. "Her name's Cruella DeVil."

"Cruella?" Sora asked?

Pongo nodded. "She's from my world." he said. "She's considered a witch in my world, but she doesn't use magic or anything.

"What does she do?" Goofy asked.

"She's a furrier." Pongo answered.

"A FURRIER?!" Simba and Bambi shouted in shock.

Pongo nodded. "She wears fur coats from real animals, and most of them are domestic or endangered." he told her. "Her next targets are dalmatian puppies. She and her lackies took my wife for my unborn puppies!"

The group looked down in a bit of anger.

"Hey Mushu, why'd ya ask that?" Cid asked.

"Cause I just saw her go into the alley way with two lackies and a dalmatian." Mushu answered. "She's headed for the second district!"

"WHAT?!" Everyone but Mush yelled.

**Second District**

"Hurry up! Will ya?!" Cruella ordered.

"We're trying!" Jasper said as he and Horace carried a female, pregnant dalmatian.

"We have to find that blasted keyhole for Maleficent!" Cruela told them. "So that this world will devour into darkness!"

"What about the this spotted mongrel?" Horace asked. "I thought you were gonna..."

"We'll do that AFTER we finished the job!" Cruella interrupted him.

The female dalmatian was too pregnant to do anything to save herself.

"HEY!" Sora called out as he, Donald, Goofy, Herc, Tarzan, Simba, Bambi, and Mushu (on Simba's head) ran to them. "Let her go!"

The female dalmatian looked at the group and sighed with relief.

"Ahh...the keyblader." Cruella said. "And his meddlesome friends."

"Whoa...the number's grew." Jasper said. "And they're not even human or anthro."

"So...you like making animals into fur coats?" Simba asked in anger.

Cruella smiled and laughed a bit. "So...animals can talk here." she said. "And I bet the mother mongrel and her hubby can talk as well."

"So what!" Mushu yelled.

"A small dragon?" Horace questioned. "Probably his mother was smaller and dumber to raise a son like that."

Mushu got really angry and flames came out from his ears and nostrils. "YOU DID NOT JUST MAKE FUN OF MY MOMMA!" he yelled.

"HEY!" Sora yelled as the flames were heating his head.

Mushu calmed down as the flames died out. "Sorry man." he apologized. "Guess I over did it."

Jasper and Horace got in front of Cruella while Jasper held onto the pregnant dog.

Unfortunately for them, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Herc, and Tarzan readied their weapons while Simba unleashed his claws and Bambi prepared to ram them.

"You fools!" Cruella told Jasper and Horace. She then smiled deviously. "Let the heartless take care of them."

Suddenly, a swarm of heartless appeared and circled around the eight.

"Uh oh!" the group said, reading their weapons.

The heartless then jumped towards them, unfortunetly they were no match for them being the weak ones and vanished.

Jasper and Horace saw the group with their mouths dropped.

"You fools!" Cruella yelled at them. "Look out!"

Jasper and Horace saw Herc before getting grabbed by him via their collars.

"Sora, get the dalmatian from them!" Herc said.

Sora came over and grabbed the pregnant dalmatian from Jasper.

"T-T-Thank you..." the dalmatian said.

"You're welcome...uhh..." Sora said.

"Perdy..." the dalmatian told Sora. "My name is Per-AH!" Perdy's stomach started to hurt a little. "Oh no...not now..."

"Uh oh...looks like it's time." Sora said, worried.

Leon ran up to Sora and Perdy. "Thought you might needed some help, but I'll take her to her husband." he told her.

Sora nodded and carefully gave Leon Perdy.

Leon then ran abck to the hideout with Perdy in her arms.

Sora smiled and readied his keybalde at the three villains, joining his friends.

Jasper and Horace stepped back in fear away from the eight.

Cruella became very angry at her two henchmen. "You idiots are useless!" she told them.

"Then let me help you, Cruella." a voice called out.

Sora and the others looked around to see where the voice came from, until they spotted a green skinned woman wearing a black witch's robe and horns on her head, wielding a staff.

Cruella looked at the woman with a smile. "Greetings, Maleficent." she said.

"Maleficent..." Sora said.

Maleficent smiled and summoned a giant knight heartless, but different from before. "Perhaps this heartless may help you." she said deviously. "This one is stronger."

The group readied their weapons, hooves, and claws.

Jasper and Horace ran up to them, with new weapons readied to strike.

"Maybe a roar will scare them." Simba said. He then went in front of his friends and did a roar that blew Japer and Horace away, literally.

Everyone went eye wide when they saw what Simba did.

"Wha?!" Simba gasped. "How did...?"

"It's gotta be they way you were revived." Donald said. "It must have given you some magic abilities."

The heartless came up to the group and launched a fist at Bambi.

"Uh oh..." Bambi said as he pulled his head down.

The heartless punched Bambi's head, but was surprisingly bounced back when he punched him.

Bambi looked up and saw what had happened. "Wow..." he gasped. He then looked at Simba, smiling. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

Simba smiled back. "You know it!" he replied.

Suddenly a swarm of heartless appeared and surrounded them.

"Not again!" Sora said in anger as he readied his keyblade.

The heartless drew closer and closer to the group, but then a few of them were sliced and disappeared.

Sora looked and gasped as he saw who did that.

"There you are." Riku said as he looked at Sora. "What's going on?"

"Riku!" Sora said as he came to him. He touched his face to see if he was real.

"Hey, hey." Riku replied. "Cut it out."

"I'm not dreaming this time, right?" Sora asked.

"I hope not." Riku said. "Took forever to find..."

Suddenly more heartless surrounded the nine.

"Save the reunion for later!" Donald yelled.

Sora and Riku looked at the heartless and readied their weapons.

"So...what is that?" Riku asked as he looked at Sora's weapon.

"A keyblade." Sora answered. "A weapon that's used to take these heartless out and lock the keyholes to a world."

"So that's what these creatures are called." Riku said. "What do say we take the big one out? Fill me in on whatcha been doing later, kay?"

Sora smiled and nodded.

"Don't worry, we'll take these guys out!" Goofy yelled as he and the others started attaching the heartless surrounding them.

Sora and Riku nodded and ran up to the giant heartless.

The heartless fired an electric ball at the two...

But Sora and Riku dodged the attack and jumped up at the heartless, slashing their blades at the giant creature of darkness.

Sora slashed and bashed the heartless's right hand, but it kept blockiong every shot while still causing it some damage. "Alright then...THUNDER!" he casted as his keyblade glew yellow and summoned bolts of lightning that struck the hand, causing it to disappear.

"That's nothing Sora." Riku said. "Watch this." he told him. He stabbed and threw the hand in the air, then he threw his weapon straight at the hand, causing it to vanish.

"Nice one..." Sora said. "But how about this!" Sora then ran towards the left foot, his keyblade glowing gold and time slowing down. He then striked the foot at incredible speed 7 times before his keyblade glew down and time resumed, along with the left foot disappearing.

"Wow!" Riku responded, admiring Sora's new skills.

Donald, Goofy, and the rest of the group were busy fighting heartless.

Donald casted his spells, wiping out many heartless but more kept coming.

Goofy rammed a few with his shield, but he then spun around, shield in hand, and threw a few heartless away, most of them disappearing.

Hercules grabbed and threw heartless away from him and his friends into the walls of the town. He then grabbed his sword and spun around, slicing heartless and making them vanish.

Tarzan stabbed heartless by heartless with his spear. His spear then glew white, ready for a spell to be casted. "AERO!" he casted as a wind like shield protected him while also blowing some heartless away.

Simba sliced heartless after heartless, also pouncing on a few of them and super roared more away. One heartless came and jumped to him, but Simba chomped the creature away. "Puh! Puh! Blah! Yuck!" he said after tasting the heartless he chomped. "Nasty! Never chomp on a heartless smaller than you."

Bambi was surrounded by heartless, but he kept charging at them and slamming them into walls when he hitted them with his magic educed head. He smiled, but then saw a few jumping towards him. "Uh oh!" he responded before he jumped out of the way, only to have slammed the ground and threw the heartless surrounding him in the air. "Whoa..." Suddenly, his white spots on his back glew yellow and red and thunder struck the heartless while a fireball emerged from his mouth and struck a few away from him.

Mushu was busy firing tiny fireball bullets at heartless, but more came closer to him. "Aww great, the lion and the deer got the cool magic powers and all I got is some lousy fireball bullets." he said in anger. "Even the deer can shoot fireballs for crying out loud!" He then took a deep breath to calm down, but he exhaled a large fireball that blew many heartless away. "Wow...heh, never mind." he said with a smile.

Sora and Riku readied their weapons and charged up at the heartless' remaining head and torso.

The heartless then formed a giant cannon from its head and torso and fired a giant, electric, blue ball at them.

Sora and Riku got hit by it and got blown away, their weapons slipping from their hands. But in retaliation, they grabbed each other's hands and threw themselves at different walls. They pushed and flew towards the heartless, grabbing their respective friends' weapons, slashing and stabbing the heartless. They grabbed their own weapons and pulled them out, jumping off the heartless before it vanished, the heart from it revealed and going into the sky.

Donald, Goofy, and the others went towards the two.

"You guys alright?" Mushu asked.

"Yeah...we're fine." Riku said. "By the way, name's Riku."

"My name is Donald Duck's." Donald greeted.

"Name's Goofy." Goofy greeted.

"I'm Hercules." Herc greeted. "Call me Herc."

"Call me Tarzan." Tarzan greeted.

"I'm called Simba." Simba greeted.

"Mushu's the name." Mushu greeted.

"Mine's Bambi." Bambi greeted. "It's a silly name."

"Bambi? A silly name?" Riku said. "Nah, I've heard sillier."

The group smiled before turning to Cruella and her henchman.

"We can take them!" Horace said with pride, but that pride turned to fear as he looked at Jasper. "Right?"

"Y-Yea..." Jasper said, scared as well. "What do you think Cruella?"

There was no answer.

"Cruella?" Jasper asked again, before turning as seeing her fleeing away. "HEY!!"

Cruella ran as fast as she could. "They'll never get me." she said to herself.

"Come back!" Sora yelled.

"You won't get me!" Cruella yelled. "I'll be back for my rev..." She stopped mid sentence as she suddenly halted.

Everyone looked at Cruella, confused by what she was doing?

Cruella looked down and found a small, black tanto blade stabbed through her. "H... H... How...?" she questioned.

From behind the portrait above the group was the black gi wearing ninja with clawed gloves revealed himself and pulled his tanto out.

Cruella looked up and saw the ninja. "W-Who...are you...?" she asked.

"Your final nightmare." the ninja told her. "And by the way... this is the second time I've killed you."

Cruella was in shock from what the ninja said. "W-W-Wh... what do you... m-mean by... t-t-t... that?!" she said, gagging.

The ninja said nothing before he kicked Cruella with intense force straight into the Gizmo Shop's bell tower, covered in strange paper that bore strange symbols.

Everyone present looked in fear as they saw Cruella smash into the bell, sending it falling down next to her. One paper strip it was covered with caught on fire via Cruella's lit cigarette before an explosion on a large scale erupted.

Everyone covered themselves from the light of the explosion before feeling die out.

"Uh oh... we're next." Jasper said to Horace in fear.

"Let's get out of here!" Horace responded, running away.

Jasper nodded and ran with Horace, never to be seen again.

The ninja flew down to the nine. "I saw everything, you guys did pretty good." he said. "Especially you two."

"Thanks." Riku said. "But...who are you?"

"Name's not important." the ninja told him.

Suddenly, Maleficent appeared to them. "Well...it seems you're stronger than I would've anticipated." she said.

The ninja turned around to see the witch. "So you know about me..." he replied. "Maleficent."

Riku looked at the witch. "So...that's Maleficent." he said. "I kept hearing her name when I was searching for you and Kairi."

"Yeah." Sora said. "She's responsible for our world disappearing."

Riku thought about what Sora said and turned away. "Actually Sora..." he began.

"You know...ten is a big number." Maleficent said, pointing her staff at the ninja. "Maybe decrease it...by one." She then immediately turned her staff at Sora and fired a black and green fireball at Sora.

Sora saw how fast it was coming and realized that it might be too late to save himself.

"NO!" Riku yelled as he stepped in Sora's way and got hit by the blast. "AHHH!!!!"

"RIKU!" Sora yelled as he saw his friend getting hit.

The others readied their weapons to strike at the witch.

"By the way, Tarzan was it?" Maleficent asked.

"Yeah?" Tarzan asked in anger.

"I have a message for you." Maleficent told him. "Clayton says hi."

Tarzan went eye wide from hearing that name. "...Clayton?"

The ninja charged up at the witch, ready to strike.

Maleficent simply smiled and vanished moments before the ninja swiped her.

Riku was engulfed in flames and disappearing.

"Riku, don't worry." Sora told his friend. "I'll use Cure and..."

"It won't do any good." the ninja told them. "That's teleportation magic. It's teleporting Riku to where Maleficent and her buddies are."

"Don't worry about me, Sora..." Riku told his pal as he began fading. "I'll be alright."

"Riku..." Sora said in sadness.

"I think I know why the keyblade didn't vanish when Riku held onto it during that battle." the ninja replied. "He's a keyweilder like Sora."

"A...keyweilder? Like me?" Sora asked. "You mean...?"

"Yep." the ninja answered. "You and Riku were both meant to have keyblades, but you were seperated before Riku got his."

"Really...?" Riku said. "I never would've known..."

"But...what if Maleficent finds out?" Sora asked.

"I'm guessing she already knows." the ninja told them. "And she'll try to manipulate him, and make him your enemy Sora." He then disappeared in a small puff of smoke.

"No..." Sora responded.

"Don't worry...Sora." Riku told him. "Even if we're enemies...you're still my friend. No matter what." Soon, he vanished completely.

"Riku..." Sora said. He then slammed his keyblade into the ground in anger.

The guys went to his side and tried to comfort him.

"Don't worry, we'll get him back." Bambi told Sora.

"We're gonna be with you all the way." Simba responded.

"You guys mean it?" Sora asked.

"What ever it takes." Goofy said.

"All for one, and one for all." Donald told him.

"Thanks guys..." Sora responded, smiling a bit. He then looked at the fountain and grabbed his keyblade, pointing it at the keyhole. "Hope I got this down right." he said.

The keyblade glew white and shot a beam of light at the keyhole, locking it and making it disappear, revealing a portrait of butterflies on the fountain's picture.

"Does this happen all the time?" Bambi asked.

"It happened only three times." Sora answered.

"So I guess it's number four then." Simba replied.

"Hey guys!" Yuffie called out as she ran to them.

"Hey." Herc said. "How's Perdy doing?"

"She's fine...and she gave birth." Yuffie told them.

"BIRTH?!" the eight called out.

Yuffie nodded. "Come on..." she said as she led them towards the hideout.

**At the hideout**

Once inside, the eight looked at Perdy with 15 white, newborn puppies suckling her side. She was smiling and tearing while she layed her head under her husband's.

"Wow...they're so small and tiny." Sora said as he saw them. "Congrats."

"And it wouldn't have happened if you didn't save her." Pongo told them. "Thank you...for everything."

"Bless you all." Perdy said softly, needing a bit of a rest while she nursed her puppies, resting her head between her husband's paws and head.

Pongo smiled and rested his head under his wife's head gently, smiling.

"You're welcome." Sora said, smiling.

Cid suddenly came inside. "Well...your ship's all ready to go." he said.

The eight looked at him and nodded.

"Good luck you guys." Leon said.

"Be safe." Aerith told them.

"Hope you find your friends." Yuffie replied.

The eight nodded and headed towards the gummi ship.

*Don't worry Riku. Kairi.* Sora thought as he and his friends walked to the gummi ship. *I'm coming for you both. I swear it.*