Crisis in Agrabah

The sun was shining down in full on the city of Agrabah, one of the favorite worlds he and Sora had visited during their lives.

The streets where bustling its pedestrians and peddlers trying to sell their wares. One among them was Roxas, who had to put away his coat due to how hot the day was.

His goal to get close to the palace gates, find a place to teleport to the palace roof and find Jasmine.

Like with Beast's Castle he hasn't seen a trace of the Unversed here at all, but it was better to be safe then sorry.

In fact if his memories of the layout of the city was of any indication he should have been at the gates 15 minutes ago, but there was one problem...okay maybe a quite a few.

"Pleasure doing business with you your highness!" A peddler said as he handed Roxas quite an amount of bread.

"No problem." Roxas said with a sigh as he turned to face the crowd behind him. "Okay here you go." He said as he started to hand a piece to a child behind him.

He had seen a merchant about to dismember a child's hand as he was caught trying to steal an apple from him.

So the Nobody did what he thought was right, give the man enough munny for the apple. The man tried to sell his entire cart for the few pieces he gave the man. Instead Roxas haggled the man into leaving the child alone and giving the kid a few apples.

Word quickly spread about and due to his supposed wealth and strange clothing, people thought that he was royalty. And he was surrounded by people you wanted him for many things, but he didn't paid any attention to them except for those tired and hungry. Which in turned only made more people swarm him as he bought food for them.

He could never get to turn them down though, so he just kept on helping them. He did have more then enough munny then he did not know what he could do with after all.

"And here you go." Roxas said, while handing a young boy the last piece of bread that he bought.

A boy he knew very well. As he could tell just by the feeling of his heart, that he was helping a young Aladdin.

"Thank you sir, but can I please have one more for my friend?" Aladdin asked.

"No problem." Roxas said as he tossed a munny to the merchant, who in turn gave him another piece of bread. "Now where is your friend?"

"What do you mean, Abu was-" Before Aladdin could finish, an angry shout erupted behind them along with the sounds of a certain monkey laughing.

Turning around Roxas saw the familiar form of Abu teasing a merchant with a golden ring hanging off his arm and hanging off the stand's support.

It seemed like Abu was always a greedy little monkey after all.

"Abu get down from there!" Aladdin cried out as he rushed to the stand.

"This is your monkey, well tell him to give me back that ring and pay for it like everyone else or I'll call the guards!" The merchant demanded.

"Abu give him back the ring!" Aladdin said, getting the monkey to grumble for a bit before, dropping it into the man's palm. Abu jumped onto Aladdin's shoulder and eyed Roxas for a bit before snatching the bread the boy gave him.

"Thank you for the bread-." "Roxas, just Roxas." The Nobody interrupted before placing a few munny on the stand and picked up the ring and gave it to Aladdin, shocking him and Abu. "And I believe that you should have this. Free of charge."

"I-I can't Roxas, I just can't." Aladdin said trying to give the ring back, but Roxas was having none of that.

"I insist, you have a kind heart Aladdin and refusing my gift and trying to return it is just a sign of that. I believe that many in the same position would try to take it and run, but you didn't. This ring doesn't mean anything to me at all. You can do whatever you want with it keep it for yourself or sell it for yourself and Abu to have a feast without the worry to steal it. Just know this, keep following your heart and I know that everything will eventually be alright. That and maybe teach Abu to be a bit less greedy in the future, it would probably be a lot less trouble for you in the future." Roxas said, getting himself and Aladdin to laugh at the end while Abu looked indignant at the remark about him.

"I can make no promises about Abu, but thank for everything else Roxas." Aladdin said before rushing off into the Agrabahian crowd.

"Well he certainly is a good kid, you don't see that too often around street rats." The merchant said, getting Roxas to nod.

"You sure don't." The Nobody said.

"Anyway so you are this royal kid everyone keeps talking about." The merchant said with a grin, causing Roxas to sigh.

"I'm not royalty." He said, getting the merchant to nod.

"Sure you aren't, well whatever you are you have a sultan's fortune on hand. So much so that everything on my stand are just minuscule trinkets compared to what you deserve." The merchant said before he pulled out a silver case and opened it to reveal three small crystals. "Someone of your stature deserves these."

"And what are they?" Roxas asked, feeling a raw power from them like nothing else before along with a feeling of something he was used to.

Fire, a blazing inferno that was waiting to be released within each of the crystals.

"These are items and called the Blood of Falak and they are quite the slight after material." The merchant said.

"And who exactly is this Falak?" Roxas asked, getting the merchant to star at him for a minute before explaining.

"You must really be a foreigner if you do not know the tale. You see 2,000 years ago the land now called Agrabah and most of the surrounding kingdoms were once fertile land with forests as far as the eye could see, until Falak emerged. A great serpent from a world of fire beneath our very feet, it's emergence reduced the lands into a barren wasteland. That is until Allah fought the great beast. The clash between the two ended with Falak badly injured and fearful of Allah. It retreated back into the crag it emerged from, its blood crystallizing all along the way. The lands still suffer from the beasts mighty power and have become the deserts you see today. Occasionally the Blood of Falak emerges and they must be handled carefully or else it will singe at your very skin. They hold a magical property, plant a single on into the ground and the area around it will be blessed with a once in a century harvest and if used as a weapon the fire inside could consume an small manor and the flames left behind will not stop burning for two days straight." The merchant said, amazing the Nobody.

He never expected a story like that. If what the man was saying and there was probably some truth to that something so small could have been a part of something like that, but considering the power he could feel from them, he supposed that the man had some truth to his words.

But there was one thing that worried him.

"What happened to Falak?" Roxas asked, worried that if the story was true then there was a beast capable of reducing this world to cinders still alive somewhere.

"It is still with the crag it emerged from, you can't miss it. The sand around it is black and cuts through flesh just as well as any blade. The sand gives way to spires of black glass just as sharp and treacherous terrain that leads to the land itself. Falak stays within, still healing it's wounds and only it's fear of Allah keeping it from emerging. Though I recommend staying away from that place. The Blood of Falak is rich in that place, but many a life has been lost due to the terrain. Anyone who survived has either turned back, or have been scared away due to the roars of the beast emerging from the crag. So it is much safer just to look for them in the desert." The merchant explained. "So are you interested?"

"As much as I would like to, I have to pass up on that offer. I have business at the palace." Roxas said.

While the prospect of seeing if this legend was true or not did interest him, it would be better to do so after the Unversed have been dealt with and preferably with some of the other apprentices backing him up.

"If that is what you wish." The merchant sighed out as he placed the case away.

Roxas just nodded as he set himself to walk to the palace gates, with nothing to distract him this time.

"Let go off my fish you mangy feline!"

Okay one more stop, then nothing else.

The Nobody turned to see a fat merchant playing tug of war with a blue, golden eyed cat.

"Just let him keep the fish." Roxas said, tausing the fat merchant the munny and then began to walk off.

Also wondering why he felt something shivering down his spin.

"Mangy feline." The fat merchant grumbled as he examined the currency as Roxas had vanished into the crowds.

"You know I was tempted to take everything for your little insult." A voice called out. The merchant turned to face the cat.

Except the cat now had a wispy beard and feathered wings.

"I was tempted to take everything, but due to the interesting human I'll just be taking half." The cat said with a grin.

True to word, the next second the fat merchant let out an unmanly scream as he found half of his fish, stand, money, clothes, and hair gone.

"That is what you get for messing with a god." The merchant from earlier sighed out while shaking his head.

Said merchant quickly began to pack up shop and made plans to revisit Agrabah next month, if Chaos didn't have it burnt down to the ground that is. Because wherever Chaos showed up, that location would usually suffer due to his idea of fun.

(Keyblade Garveyard)

'My liege I believe I am experiencing terror for the first time.' The Unversed told Vanitas, as he was now training on the Limit Break on his own now, but right now he looked very shaken.

And with good reason too.

Gula had explained to him all to keenly on the potential dangers of the god of disorder.

"If you so much as sense that cat again abort and report back to me immediately." Vanitas said, privately wondering why Roxas was in Agrabah. He knew the Unversed would probably tell him, but it was currently terrified beyond all comprehension right now. So he would wait till it regained the ability to think properly.

'Of course my liege!' The Unversed said as there connection was cut.

"I pray to Kingdom Hearts that Roxas will be alright, I still need him alive." Vanitas said as he went back to training.

(Era of Fairy Tales - Master's Study)

"Master are you alright?" Luxu asked as he saw the Master of Masters look like he was one the verge of a heart attack while playing a game of chess and catching up before he had to leave.

"I just saw Chaos." The Master wheezed out, getting Luxu to sigh.

"Again, where do you keep the strong stuff?" Luxu asked.

"Second shelf to your right." The Master said, getting Luxu to nod.

Whenever the Master had ever seen even a glimpse of the god of disorder in a future, it always messes up his ability to see and so many different futures flash before his eye and the Master best described it as looking in a kaleidoscope. It usually took some pretty strong alcohol to break it, but it did reveal the true vision he was supposed to be seeing.

According to him it was certainly better for his mental health then waiting for the effect to pass...as much as he found that debatable.

Still he could only pray for the poor sap that Chaos had targeted this time.

(Agragbah- Modern Era)

Roxas has finally arrived at the palace gates, only to find them more crowded then what he had anticipated. He supposed it had to do with him being consistently being mistaken for royalty.

Honestly it didn't seem so bad, except for one thing.

One of the most vilest darknesses ever produced by a human heart.

Jafar was greeting him at the gate. In one hand was his signature staff, the other a cage with a blanket over it containing Iago though judging by the feeling he got off him it wasn't quite the same as 10 years from now.

As much as he wanted to destroy the man for what he would do in the future...he just couldn't at the moment, especially with all of the guards surrounding him.

"So you are this royal that the bazaar has been erupting about, Roxas if I am correct?" Jafar questioned, every word grating on the Nobody's nerve.

"And you are the grand vizier of Agrabah, Jafar if I am not correct. I have heard much about up you." Roxas said, surprising him.

"And prey tell what have you been hearing about me?" Jafar questioned, his grip around the staff tightening.

"That you have been doing an exceptional job at helping to govern Agrabah." The Nobody said, lying through his teeth. It seemed like Jafar had bought it if his expression was of any indication.

"That is excellent to hear, but I believe that we should be going. The Sultan awaits." Jafar said, beckoning Roxas forward as the two walked through the palace gates.

"I have to ask is that a parrot?" Roxas asked, pointing to the sleeping form of Iago.

"Why yes it is, just saw him in the bazaar and something just clicked between us and I bought him then and there. I must say you have quite the eye if you recognized what he was. A world traveler I guess?" Jafar inquired, while studying him.

"You could say that." Roxas said, not really giving out anything.

The two continued the rest of the trip in silence until they reached the entered to the throne room. The doors open and to their surprised they were greeted by a greying haired Sultan.

"Jafar there you are, I was wondering where you were. And I see that you brought the boy over as well. I know I could always count on you." The sultan said while studying Roxas with an inquisitive gaze.

"Of course your majesty." Jafar breathed out, his sarcasm clear to see...well to the Nobody at lest. As much as he was evil, the man knew had to act.

"Anyway so you are the Roxas that I have heard about? Jafar can you conform these rumors about this man?" The Sultan asked.

"Of course your majesty, I've heard that he has feed each and every street rat that has visited the bizarre and his demeanor from what I glimpsed clearly shows it." Jafar said with a scowl, and the Nobody knew that the man was clearly calculating how much the Nobody was a threat to his plans. "And from what little I have talked to the boy he certainly seems well traveled."

"I see." The Sultan said before giving Roxas an inquisitive gaze. "How old are you?"

"15." Roxas said, omitting the fact that it was only physically.

"I see quite young then, and are you by chance royalty my boy?" The Sultan asked.

"In a way yes, but why?" Roxas asked curiously. Technically in a sense he was royalty, if you counted the fact one of the two hearts released that created him was technically a Princess.

"I see then if what the people say about you is true then I have less to worry about and what I heard of your intentions for Jasmine. You are certainly a good candidate then, one that I will not have to shoe away then like all the rest. But you will still have to wait until she is old enough." The Sultan said, with his arms crossed in a huff.

"I'm sorry your majesty, but you have lost me." Roxas said honestly.

"What did you mean, I heard that you were looking to marry Jasmine?" The Sultan said, shocking both Roxas and Jafar.

(At the same time)

Meanwhile in another part of the palace Chaos was laughing at the latest prank he had unleashed. Honestly it surprised him sometimes just what one little whisper in the right ears and the chaos it could unleashed.

He was just having a little fun, because he was pretty sure that the palace wouldn't stand his usual standard of humor that is...that and he bet the Fates that he could last a century without putting a civilization in jeopardy. It had been nearly 97 years and still no cataclysmic events that has happened.

It would be worth the 3 favors from the old bats anyway.

"Now what to do..." Chaos muttered to himself as he leaned against the wall. "Maybe transport the Princess down there and have here react to her first 'prince'. The possibilities are just endless with that boy."

He may not be omnipotent, but he knew well enough what that boy was and the little abomination clinging to his back. Honestly the way he thought it could hide behind the boy was cute, that and the pure chaos brewing around the pair.

So many options, so little time.

Sadly that was usually the fate for beings like them.

One who wasn't supposed to exist at the moment and one who wasn't supposed to exist at all.

Such a shame.

He heard a crack and saw a man he knew quite well by reputation alone running for his life.

Abis Mal, the second worst thief on this world.

He was running from the guards who were also running for their lives, getting the cat like god to quirk his eyebrow at them.

Odd, he knew that a bunch of them were cowards but what could cause them to run like that?

Unless his powers were acting against his wishes again and that idiot thief unleashed something he shouldn't have. It was the only explanation as why an idiot like him will be up this far into the palace.

With a sigh, Chaos peeked his head away from the corner and instantly paled.

It was a vase that held something that shouldn't even exist here.

Something he hadn't seen in centuries.

Something heading towards the garden, where the princess and her pet tiger was.

"This is bad." Chaos said as he gathered the vase and vanished before the creature could notice him.

He needed to cut his fun short if he wished to win that bet, and if this world didn't want to end up in shadows. Especially how dark of a heart that weird looking vizier's heart was.

After all the best way to counter a Heartless was a Keyblade wielder and there was one downstairs after all.

(Palace's Gate)

"What?" Both Roxas and Jafar said at the same time, causing the Nobody to shiver at that.

"It is as I said, I was told that you came here because you wished to marry Jasmine. I have had to shoe away many a prince since she is only four. I will do the same as you are nearly 4 times as old as her, but if you came back in about 10 years I'm sure it will be much more acceptable difference." The Sultan said, causing Roxas to grimace.

Technically she was 4 times older then he was.

"I'm sorry your majesty, but I have to decline." Roxas said, shocking the Sultan.

"Why, is it because you think that you are too good for my daughter!" The Sultan demanded angrily.

"No it is not your majesty, it just that I had no interest in marrying your daughter. In fact I came to check up on her, because there is a darkness after those like her. However said that I wished to marry her was spreading rumors." Roxas explained, getting suspicious looks from the Sultan and Jafar.

"And what exactly is this darkness you speak of?" Jafar asked, his tone barely hiding his malice toward the Nobody.

But before anyone could speak, a clutter of shards appeared on the floor. Looking down The they saw it was the shards of a vase.

To the surprise of Roxas, both the Sultan and Jafar paled.

If whatever this vase could cause Jafar to pale, then it could only spell trouble.

"Razoul gather the guards and slay the Ras Al-Gul before it reduces Agrabah into ashes!" Jafar called out to a big burly guard.

"And bring Jasmine to safety!" The Sultan cried out as the guards sprang to action and turned towards Roxas. "Did you have anything to do with this?"

"Not at all, so can you please tell me what is going on?" The Nobody asked, getting a bad feeling from this

"This vase, which someone foolishly broke contained a golden eyed red demon name Ras Al-Gul. It just appeared one night in a village not far from here 300 years ago reducing it to a burnt graveyard and the inhabitants into versions of itself. A powerful sorcerer managed to seal it away and it's servants scattered away. The vase containing it has been entrusted to the treasury for years. Now that it is unleashed, we need to vanquish it before it could reek havoc on my kingdom. Tell me my boy do you have any experience fighting?" The Sultan asked, causing Roxas to nod and immediately focus in on Jasmine's location.

If what the Sultan described was true, then this Ras Al-Gul was a Heartless and a powerful one at that. He needed to find it fast.

A scream broke his thoughts as it came from the nearby window.

Without even waiting for anyone else to react he rushed into the window and jumped down into the garden, Oblivion in hand.

He was greeted to a small pack of Shadows approaching Jasmine as she swing a branch while fending them off, while a tiger cub he guessed was Rajah

"Stay away!" the little girl cried out as she swung a tree branch at an approaching Shadow, stunning the Heartless.

It quickly recomposed itself tried to lung at Jasmine.

Only for a pillar of light to blast it to smithereens.

The young princess could only blink as more rays of light rained downed upon the heavens and felled the rest of them.

"You alright my lady." Roxas asked, startling Jasmine as she swung the stick at him. The Nobody only blocked it with his Keyblade. "Nice strike by the way."

"Who are you?" Jasmine demanded, with Rajah growling at him.

"My name is Roxas and I'm here to get you to safety, those things that attacked you are Heartless and I am here to deal with them. So you might want to stick to me for now." Roxas explained, getting Jasmine to nod as she brandished her tree branch and Rajah growled behind him.

"Fine, but let me help you." She said.

"If you wish to help me then stay behind me and swing that branch at any Heartless that comes towards my back." Roxas said, seeing the resolve she had to help fight these the Heartless.

"You can count on me." Jasmine said, brandishing her branch and Rajah let out a little roar from right next to her.

The Nobody just nodded at her and the three began to make their way through the rest of the garden.

Not even five steps in a Shadow blocked their path, only to be quickly cut down by Roxas.

They continued on until about halfway through the garden when Roxas heard a crash behind him and saw that Jasmine sent a Shadow crashing into the ground with her tree branch. Which the Nobody quickly finished off.

"Thanks for that Jasmine." Roxas said, getting her to nod.

"Of course." Jasmine said, before her face turned into one of panic. "Look out!"

Roxas turned in time to see a trio of Shadows had tried to ambush him from behind, but luckily Jasmine had warned him. So he blocked their attack and quickly dispatched them.

Only to find a fourth Shadow trying to defend itself from Jasmine and Rajah's attacks. A swift strike from Roxas was all that it took to end it.

"You alright?" Roxas asked the princess, who was starting to look exhausted from the fighting.

"I'm fine." She breathed out, looking close to collapsing.

"I see. You have been doing a good job defending yourself against the Heartless like this. But from now on stick behind me. I don't want anything bad to happen to you, okay?" Roxas asked, getting a tired nod from her.

They continued onwards without anyone interruptions until they had reached the end of the garden, and what they saw terrified Jasmine and caused Roxas to frown. Up ahead the guards including Razoul were fighting off a swarm of about nine Shadows if he had to guess, but that was not even the worst part.

The worst part was that there was a pair of Neoshadows leading them.

Roxas summoned Oathkeeper into his other hand and threw both of his Keyblades at the swarm, taking out four of the Shadows and getting their and the guards attention.

"Bring the Princess over here!" Razoul said as he and the guards charged the Neoshadows, hoping to stall it.

Roxas caught his Keyblades and began to escort Jasmine and Rajah as Shadows started to come over to them. Two came up from behind them, only to be stunned by the Princess and tiger cub and finished up by the Nobody. Roxas quickly turned his attention to the two in front of him and quickly bisected them. Jasmine screamed behind him and he saw the last Shadow emerged behind him and had slashed her tree branch in half. It tried to swipe at her again, but Roxas blocked the attack with Oathkeeper and finished it off with Oblivion.

"You okay Jasmine?" Roxas asked, getting her to nod. Only for her to turn fearful when he saw the Neoshadows were now focused on them. "Jasmine I want you and Rajah need to run to the guards. I'll handle those two my self."

"Are you sure you can handle them?" Jasmine asked fearfully, only to get a reassuring smile from the Nobody.

"If I can guarantee that you are safe, then I know that I can beat them. So on my mark you two run, okay?" Roxas asked, getting Jasmine to nod and Rajah to growl. "Good, now run!"

They complied and immediately ran to the guards, with a few of them even moving to retrieve them. One of the Neoshadows tried to move towards them, but a fireball hit it square in the face.

"Leave them alone, I'm the one you want." Roxas said while brandishing his Keyblades.

The Neoshadows answer was to sink into the ground and rushed towards him. One of them tried to grab him from behind, but Roxas side stepped it. Only for the other one to tackle him into the ground.

Groaning, Roxas got up and quickly blocked both Heartless from trying to claw him. His muscles strained as the Neoshadows put all of their might in attempting to breach his defenses. This continued for a few moments until Roxas moved Oathkeeper till it's tip pointed at the Neoshadow the direct opposite of the one it was blocking.

"Aerora!" Roxas casted, creating a drilling wind lance that blew the Neoshadow away and bore into it. With Oblivion now free he swung at the other Heartless and stunned it. Two more hits from both of his Keyblades and it was gone for. The spell ended on the other Neoshadow and it began to fall back down, but a thrown Oblivion cut it in two.

Roxas breathed out a sigh of relief as he caught the Keyblade and the guards began cheering. However he knew that it wouldn't last long.

He was right, as the cheering stopped as a searing heat began to erupt around the area. A figure slide around and once it emerged, all the guards began to cower in fear at the sight of the one behind all of this mess.

Ras Al-Gul.

Roxas took one look at it an was immediately worked with the Heartless right in front of him.

Taking a good look at it he deduced that the Heartless they called Ras Al-Gul was actually a Novashadow, an extremely powerful breed of Heartless similar to Neoshadows only much stronger and more vicious. He had the unpleasantries of fighting two of them before.

But the one in front of him was different then the ones he had encountered before.

It was about 2 feet taller then the others and it's claws were sharper. It radiated an aura of searing heat and each step charred the grass underneath. It's eyes portrayed a hint of intelligence to them, a rarity among Heartless.

But the biggest difference was the large red crystal that was impaled in its chest and Roxas knew what he was dealing with.

The Ras Al-Gul was a Novashadow mutated by the sheer magical power of the Blood of Falak. He heard what a small crystal could do to a small manor, but with the with the size of the crystal embedded in the Heartless he had to guess if it unleashed its full power then the palace and small part of the city would be reduced to nothing more then a flaming crater.

He needed to end this threat now.

"Razoul was it, get the princess and everyone in the palace out of here and as far away as possible. I will handle this." Roxas said while brandishing his Keyblades.

"Are you kidding me! After that demon turned two dozen of my finest men into more of it's kind, I can not allow you to fight this thing alone!" Razoul growl as he brandished his scimitar.

Only for him and Roxas to dive out of the way as the Heartless grew impatient and dove towards the two. It covered itself in fire and turned into a flaming spiral. It missed its mark, but it dissipated inself and launched itself at the three guard closest to it.

With one slash, it set the guards aflame.

Roxas and Razoul covered Jasmine's eyes and ears as the guards were lit aflame, no one as young as her should witness the horror they were in front of them.

For a few more moments the guards continued to scream out as their bodies burned, until they went limp. Their hearts floated up and their form was quickly enclosed in darkness before three Neoshadows were spawned. The new Heartless quickly disappeared into the ground and appeared behind the Ras Al-Gul.

This was bad very bad, Neoshadows are stronger in groups and he didn't know if that counted for Neoshadows but he hoped it didn't. Otherwise this was much tougher then he thought it was going to be.

"You need to leave now, I have been fighting beings like these my entire life and even I can tell this will not be easy. I do not want anymoe lives to be lost and if this thing gets any further it will not stop until Agrabah is nothing more then a flaming graveyard and it won't stop there. So get Jasmine and the Sultan as far away as possible while I end this thing once and for all." Roxas explained to Razoul.

The man looked between the Nobody and the terrified form of Jasmine for a minute before sending Roxas a glare.

"I may not like it, but you have a point. I will however leave a few of my men here to slow that demon down if you should fail. I will take the princess and his majesty as far away as possible. Just promise me that you will give that demon a few good swings on my behalf?" Razoul asked, his one deathly serious.

"That I can do." Roxas said, getting the man to nod.

"Good." Razoul said before facing his men. "You heard the boy, get everyone in the palace as far away as possible! I need six of you to stay behind in order to tell me if the demon has been defeated or to slow it and it's hoard down if the boy falls! You know the risks, but the survival of the royal family takes precedence before anything else! So move out!"

With that the guards scrambled to do as they were told. Jasmine sent Roxas a worried look before she and Rajah were carried away.

The Neoshadows sunk into the ground as the Ras Al-Gul rushed towards some more guards, until a few pillars of light rained down in front of it and the rest of the Heartless. The mutated Novashdow turned its gaze to Roxas as he leveled both of his Keyblades at the Heartless.

If the Blood of Falak in its chest didn't get rid of it then the Ras Al-Gul would still be weak against magic, specifically Aero and Water with how it favored fire.

But he didn't know what this Heartless possessed in terms of power besides it being fast, using fire based attacks, having some semblance of intelligence, and having three Neoshadows backing itself up.

This was going to be a tough fight.

But he was not going to back down, all that stood between this Heartless and this world from being reduced to cinders was himself.

Sora had been in similar situations before multiple times, and so had he.

He had saved Agrabah from the Antlion Heartless during his days in the Organization. And it seems like he was going to save it once again, only from a Heartless that possibly out classed that one.

Sighing Roxas just leveled a glare at the Ras Al-Gul and got into his stance.

No matter how powerful this Heartless might be, in the end to him it was nothing more then another Heartless that needed to be killed.

(Chapter end)

Mukuro7 her with just a little note, but for those who may not know Ras Al-Gul has another meaning besides Head of the Demon. It could also mean Ghoul or Demon Star, fitting for the next chapter.

On the same note Falak is from the story of Bahamut from the 1001 Nights. Anyway this was just a little note, so see you all next chapter, ciao!