vs Ras Al-Gul

The Ras Al-Gul lunged at him with blinding speeds, covering itself in the flaming spiral once again. Roxas managed to block it with his Keyblades, but the sheer force of the attack pushed him back and dug his heals into the dirt.

It continued on for a minute before the Nobody pushed the mutated Heartless back and it flew towards the ground.

However it sunk into the ground and reappeared on the wall. It once again lunged at Roxas, it's claws ablaze.

However he just sidestepped the attack and pointed both Keyblades at it.

"Water!" Roxas casted as he launched to streams of water at the Heartless causing it to once agains crash into the wall, this time with steam coming off it. Roxas gave the Heartless no quarter as he rushed over towards it and began to wail at it.

However after a few hits the Neoshadows emerged and pulled the Nobody off of Ras Al-Gul, only to vanished into the ground as the mutated Novashadow drilled into Roxas, sending him crashing into the ground.

He groaned as he composed himself.

This Ras Al-Gul was definitely stronger then a regular Novashadow and much faster too, but if he was correct it must've had the same defense as well.

Roxas didn't have much time to process that as he picked himself off the ground and dodged the Heartless emerging from behind him and tried to claw at him. He put some distance between himself and the Heartless, but it lit its claws on fire and began to toss a volley of small fireballs at him.

Roxas dodged them all and when the Ras Al-Gul ran out of fire balls, Roxas trainee Oathkeeper on it.

"Aerora!" Roxas casted, sending a massive wind lace at the Heartless, staggering it.

So it seemed like it still retained the same weakness as before, that would work. All he needed was for the Heartless to attack one more time.

He got his answer when the Ras Al-Gul disappeared into the ground. It reappeared and lobbed a fireball at him. Roxas took the hit and blocked the rest of them.

There wasn't enough power in the fireballs to damage him too much as the main problem laid with how many of them there were. But it was more then enough to push him to the barest settings of his Limit.

The mutated Novashadow stopped throwing fireballs and decided to drill into the Nobody once again. Only for its attack to be broken with a blade of light. It didn't even have time to retreat back into the ground he continued on until the Heartless was on its last legs.

Then two Neoshadows pounced him and sent the Nobody onto the ground, breaking his Limit Break.

When he got up the two Neoshadows disappeared into the ground, and he was astonished by what he saw.

The Ras Al-Gul had one of the Neoshadows by its neck and immediately set it ablaze. The smaller Heartless struggled in its grip for a moment before going limp. It burst into darkness and flames that were immediately absorbed into the crystal in the Ras Al-Gul's chest.

The heat suddenly got a little more intense and a red aura appeared around the mutated Heartless.

It was at that moment that Roxas figured out the true strength behind the Ras Al-Gul.

Well it was certainly powerful in it's own right on it's own, it's most powerful ability seemed to be what makes it a monster among its own kind.

It absorbs Heartless into itself to heal itself and make itself stronger, just like the Leechgrave.

It was the only reason why all the Heartless that it had created before it was sealed vanished. Either it had absorbed them or they had left to the Realm of Darkness just to get away from this one in particular.

If the devastation it supposedly created before being sealed and its current power was of any indication then sealing it effectively starved it. It created the swarm he had extinguished in order to gather forces and to supply it with the necessary meal in order to regain its former strength.

This Heartless needed to be eliminated immediately and so did the Neoshadows before it could grow stronger.

Using what little energy from his Limit Break he had left, Roxas began to rain down light pillars like no tomorrow. The Neoshadows barely zipped past the light pillars and moved right next to the Ras Al-Gul. Just as a light pillar was about to crash down right on top of it, the Heartless summoned a dome of fire around itself and the Neoshadows, blocking it.

The pillars kept on crashing down for another minute before finally subsiding.

"Cure!" Roxas casted as the flame shield lowered, figuring it was better now then ever as the Heartless all sunk back into the ground.

He was right as he barely dodged one of a couple of flame pillars that erupted from the ground.

The Ras Al-Gul emerged behind him and proceeded to lob a series of fireballs at the Nobody, who dodged them.

Only for the Heartless to sink into the ground and start launching itself from the wall in that flaming spiral in an attempt to gore Roxas.

Its speed had significantly increased and add in the effect that it started to spring up fire pillars randomly before it emerged added in the difficulty. This continued on until Roxas had an idea of what to do.

"Curaga!"Roxas casted and immediately felt it's effects. He was starting to run low on magic and he only had one ether on hand, so he had to make it count.

All he needed was to wait.

A moment later the Heartless blitzed past him and that was his cue.

"Aeroga!" He casted forming a vortex of cutting wind, which pulled in the Ras Al-Gul and Roxas began to attack it with everything he could.

Keyblades, Blizzard, Thunder, Water, and Aero. All were used to attack the Heartless and Roxas was not letting up for even a second, not even after managed to land a few scratches on him.

This Heartless need to die plain and simple.

The Neoshadows emerged to try and interfere with him once again, it he had put too much of his remaining magic into the spells and they too were attack as Roxas shifted his focus onto them.

As they were the main means for the Ras Al-Gul to regain its power, it was important to finish them off. However that same Heartless in particular once again proved it's intelligence by taking most of the blows.

In the end all for of them where on their last legs.

Roxas was in the best of shape due to curing Curaga, but it wouldn't last much longer and he was out of magic at the moment.

The Heartless were all worse off, with all three of them looking like their were on their last legs.

Roxas quickly downed his last ether and rushed at the trio of Heartless. However one of the Neoshadows vanished into the ground and the Ras Al-Gul grabbed the other one and lit it a flame. A second later the Neoshadow burst into flame and darkness and the mutated Heartless grew even stronger.

The heat once again grew significantly, the aura turned a deeper red, its muscles seemed to bulge more, and it seemed to gain an extra inches or two in height.

It might've grown more powerful, but Roxas noticed a flaw in the Ras Al-Gul.

It wasn't as healed up as before.

Seems like the rate at which it healed depended on the condition of the Heartless absorbed. And considering that the last Neoshadow was in critical condition. It just made things a bit easier, just a bit.

He still needed to kill it though.

The Heartless made the first move and dove underground, letting lose flame pillars once again. The Nobody sidestepped on such pillar and turned to see that it had emerged behind him.

The Ras Al-Gul unleashed a massive torrent of flames from its crystal, causing the Nobody to dive for cover.

This continued for a few more moments before the Heartless staggered for a bit.

Taking this chance Roxas dispelled Oathkeeper and readied Oblivion in the stance Terra had taught him earlier.

Just in time too as the Ras Al-Gul lunged at him with it's claws, only to be blocked by Oblivion. He parried it and swung into the Heartless's midsection, sending it flying into a wall.

Quickly summoning Oathkeeper back he shot a stream of water at it, dousing the Heartless.

He quickly rushed at it, letting lose a few hits of his Keyblade at it before the Heartless disappeared underground. It emerged a second later and once again tried to drill into Roxas, but the Nobody dodged and the Heartless instead bore into the wall.

It quickly separated itself from the wall and began to unleash a salvo of fire balls at him and unleashing flame pillars at random. Roxas sidestepped the salvo and barley dodged a pillar or two before unleashing a salvo of Aeros of his own. A few clipped the Heartless before it summoned its flaming dome.

Roxas got right in front of the Ras Al-Gul as it dispelled it's dome and pointed Oathkeeper at it's feet.

"Blizzard!" He casted, freezing its legs. Though the ice started to melt due to the sheer heat produced by the Heartless.

It unleashed another torrent of flames from its crystal, sending the Nobody diving for cover and melting the ice around its legs.

Just like the Nobody had planned.

The flames died down and the Heartless staggered. Roxas trained both tips of his Keyblades on it.

"Water!" He casted, dousing the Heartless in water. Wasting no time he repeated the same thing again, and once the Ras Al-Gul was completely soaked, he casted a spell that he was sure would end the fight.

"Thundaga!"

Two massive bolts of lightning crashed onto the mutated Novashadow and it's form was consumed by the attack, enhanced by all the water coating it.

Roxas hoped that the attack had finally destroyed the Heartless, but to his shock the Ras Al-Gul was still there. Albeit lying on the ground and struggling to get up. It was on its very last legs, but it was still alive.

Just what did it take to finally kill this Heartless?

That question quickly vanished from his mind when the Heartless stood up and it's crystal started to pulse.

The Neoshadow in the ground then began to run away from the Ras Al-Gul in fear and it was then the Nobody knew something was inherently wrong.

Neoshadows never run away from any of their own kind, ever.

And he was proven right when the Heartless wreathed itself in flames and gone was the intelligence from its eyes.

Only a unrelenting fury.

It dove into the ground and raced after the Neoshadow, leaving a burning streak in the ground. It had caught up to the Neoshadow and in a burst of flames it was gone. It emerged from the ground stronger then before and the flames grew around it in intensity and the pulsing of the crystal only grew.

It was then that Roxas realized to his horror what the Ras Al-Gul had done.

It had turned itself into a walking bomb and it was on the count down.

It was on it's last legs and it was intending on taking him and good chunk of Agrabah with it.

He needed to kill this Heartless now!

Roxas rushed towards the mutated Heartless, but had to pull back when the flames grew in intensity. The Ras Al-Gul blitzed passed Roxas with speeds that made it look, like a flaming blur.

It overshoot the Nobody and it's hand impaled the wall behind him, scorching it. It pulled back it's hand with a physical recoil to it.

The Ras Al-Gul seemed to have sacrificed it's defense for more attack power and speed. All he needed to due was attack it and it would probably go down in a few hits.

That is if he could hit it, the flames surrounding it grew in intensity and just approaching it would cause him harm.

So he launched a twin Aerora at it, but the flames just batter it a way. He tired the same with a Water, a Thunder, and a Blizzard, but the intensity of the flames only evaporated the spells or dispelled it.

It would take something more powerful then what he was capable of generating at the moment to breach it's flame shield. Though an idea came to mind, but it was risky and if not properly timed it could cause his death.

Sadly he was running out of time and if he failed he was going to die anyway and so was who knows how many people in Agrabah.

He better act now.

The Ras Al-Gul had other plans however as it suddenly caused a massive explosion and covered the Nobody's field with vision with pyroclastic clouds.

Roxas could only cough as the smoke filled and started to burn his lungs as he dodged the Heartless by the tell of it's sheer heat alone.

The Heartless was either going to smother him to death with the clouds, burn him to death with it's sheer heat and flames, or kill who knows how many people with a massive explosion.

It was time to use that plan of his.

"Aeroga!" He casted, instead of surrounding himself with a vortex of wind it was a massive wind shield. It quickly cleared the air around him and allowed him to breath and see into the cloud. Directly across from him was a giant red blur that was quickly closing in on him.

"Water!" Roxas casted, blasting the water into the wind surrounding him. He poured all of his magic into the two spells and used every last ounce of it to combine the two spells till he was surrounded by a veritable maelstrom of wind and water.

Just in time too as the Ras Al-Gul crashed into the shield, a veritable battle of fire against storm no a hurricane emerging between the two as the Heartless's assault ground to a halt and steam emerged from the convergence of the barriers.

From there it was a battle of attrition between the Nobody and the Heartless as the two slowly approached each other with their respective barriers weakening and the crystal's pulsing starting to dim. For what felt like minutes Roxas struggled to hold onto the barrier and his Keyblades, but he knew that he had to last just a little bit longer if he wanted to end this once and for all.

And it paid of a minute later when the flames finally disappeared and the Ras Al-Gul was covered in steam.

Roxas immediately dispelled the barrier and rushed up to the Heartless.

He sung both of his Keyblades at it and dislodged the crystal in its chest.

The Heartless immediately went still and a massive column of fire and darkness erupted from whence it stood, forcing Roxas to cover his eyes. After a few moments it subsided and in the Heartless's place was a small flaming crater and the charcoal statue of a regular sized Novashadow. Which promptly broke apart a few moments later.

The Ras Al-Gul was finally gone for good.

"It's finally over." Roxas breathed out as he picked up the Blood of Falak. He was exhausted and out of magic.

But it had been worth it to rid the worlds of such a horrid Heartless.

He then heard a sound that he had never heard before.

Applause.

The Nobody had looked around to see the guards that had been assigned to watch him had been joined by a menagerie of people of the different classes from all around the palace and from various people along with Agrabah.

They were applauding and cheering him on, because they saw what he was up against, a demon that could have ended their entire city. They were hailing him as a hero.

The Nobody didn't know how to react, but he just smiled and waved at them if too only reassure that everything was alright now. Only encouraging them to cheer for him even further.

Although Roxas didn't know how to properly react like to this, he had to admit if this is what sora felt like after saving a world from the Heartless, then maybe he could get used to this.

(An hour later)

The next hour was chaotic, but it quickly became clear a few things needed to be done.

The first was the matter was Abis Mal, the thief who was reported to have accidentally unleashed the Ras Al-Gul when he tried to rob the treasury. He was reported to have left Agrabah while Roxas was fighting the demon.

The Sultan and Jafar instantly moved for Razoul to spread word for Agrabah and the surrounding kingdoms that they were willing to offer a small fortune to the capture of the thief alive, as to personally execute him here for allowing the demon to get free in the first place.

The man will either spend the rest of his life on the run or will be brought in for execution for his crime.

Then came the funeral arrangements, they had lost 27 of their finest men to the demon and they lacked their bodies as they were all turned into demons upon their deaths. It would take several weeks to sort all of the details out, but in the end they will be hailed as heros who sacrificed themselves inorder to help stop the demon.

Then there was also the matter of the garden, it was reduced to a warzone in the battle between the Ras Al-Gul and their saviour Roxas. It will take decades for the guardens to return to their former splendor and the fires left behind would behind will last until tomorrow morning.

Luckily there was some space to establish a new garden, but it will take about 5 years to complete.

As for the old garden, they would have to find something to put their as it was unusable for the foreseeable future.

Finally there was the matter most important to the Sultan, his daughter Jasmine.

No girl her age should ever experience anything like the horrors she had seen today and she has been clinging to Roxas's legs.

She seemed a lot more calmer now then an hour ago, but the Sultan had noticed something had changed in her. There seemed to be a fire in her eyes, something he was pretty sure that would lead to nothing but headaches for him.

But now there was an issue to deal with their savior.

"What do you mean you are leaving?" The Sultan asked Roxas.

"It is exactly what I said your majesty, I had come for one reason only and I need to move on." Roxas said, getting Jasmine to grip him tighter and Rajah to paw at his pant leg.

"But you have only been here for a bit and you have single handedly saved my kingdom from the darkness that you told me about, so why don't you stay here for a while my boy. All of Agrabah would gratefully accommodate you for all you have done for us on this day." The Sultan said, trying to get the Nobody to stay.

"I wish I could, but the Ras Al-Gul was not the darkness I had come here for, but it was certainly a great threat in of itself, but the darkness I was talking about is not here. I can determine that Jasmine is safe for the same threat, but there are others that are being targeted that need my help, but first I do have a question i wish answered." Roxas said as he pulled out the large crystal, getting both the Sultan and Jafar to gasp. "Do you know what this is, it was embedded into the Ras Al-Gul?"

"By Allah, that is Falak's Tear. It is the largest collation of Blood of Falak ever discovered. Wars have been fought over possession of it's power and entire kingdoms done in the process. It had vanished over 300 years ago and now we know why." The Sultan said, frowning for a minute before speaking once again. "Roxas when you leave take it with you."

"Are you sure?" The Nobody asked.

"It would be wise to head his majesty's words. That gem in particular has only brought ruin in those in possession of it, especially with that demon that was spawned by it. So it would be for the best if you take that thing as far away from Agrabah as you can." Jafar said, causing Roxas to ponder what he meant by that. He just figured that the gem was too dangerous for his plans.

He would have to have the Falak's Tear examined at some point as the feeling it was giving off to him.

So he just placed it in his bag for later.

"If that is all, then I should be going then." Roxas said, getting the Sultan to sigh.

"If that is what you wish so be it, I will not deny the hero who saved my daughter and my kingdom from that terrible demon. Just know that if you ever need anything, the city of Agrabah will be more then happy to provide." The Sultan declared, getting Roxas to nod.

"Thank you your majesty." Roxas said as he tried to walk off, only for Jaemine to weigh him down. "Jasmine can you please let me go."

"No, please don't leave. What if they come back?" Jasmine said as she squeezed herself against his leg in an attempt to weigh him down.

"If they do come back I will return." Roxas said in an attempt to reassure her. "But I do know one thing, you were brave back there. Not many people have the courage to stand up to monsters like them and you took it better then I did when I first saw them."

"Really?" Jasmine asked she let go of his leg.

"Of course, to tell you the truth I was a little frightened at first. But you, you swung a tree branch against one without any hesitation. Your a brave princess and I know that, but there are others you aren't as brave as you. So I have to help them from monsters just as frightening as the ones we faced together. But I promise that I will return once I beat all of those monsters." Roxas said while kneeling down to her level.

"You promise?" She asked.

"I promise Jasmine." Roxas said before shetakled into him and hugged him, which he returned.

"Please comeback soon." She said as the two seperated.

"I will." Roxas said as he got up and walked to the doors. "Until next time."

He walked out of the doors and Jasmine immediately ran to see him. But by the time she got there, Roxas had vanished without a trace. In his place was a gentle rain falling down over Agrabah.

(That Night)

It was late that night when Jafar was walking back to his lair after making plans for the aftermath of the Ras Al-Gul.

First was sending messages and a survey of all treasuries concerning anything protaying to having a demon sealed inside to the nearby kingdoms. News of the recent attack would soon spread and some of them would be at least willing to part with such artifacts and toss them into the sea in a weighted chest at the end of the month. No one would be willing to let such a thing like this to ever happen again.

Second was that plans were going out to put something in the place of the old palace garden. So far no plan has been drafted yet. But it was all agreed that it would be something to remember the hero who had saved Agrabah from certain doom.

Finally was the issue of the rains, it seemed like Agrabah was about to be hit with more rain in the past hundred years in the next month. Possibly as a blessing from Allah for getting rid of such a horrendous demon.

It called for a celebration and he knew the best way to kick it off.

Jafar was broken from his musings when he heard the sounds of footsteps in a nearby room. Peering in, he was caught by surprise when he saw the young Princess Jasmine as she was trying and failing to mimick Roxas's moves with a dagger.

She tried to take a swing with it, only for the dagger to go flying from her grasp.

Only for it to stop mid air as Jafar revealed himself.

"My lady what will your father think about this once he hears about this!" Jafar said angrily, frighteningly her.

"I'm sorry Jafar, I was just trying be like Roxas. Please don't tell father!" She said, causing the man to sigh.

"I'm afraid I have to...If I was Jafar." He said, before his form flickered and in his place was a grinning Chaos, the change startling the girl. "Easy there I mean you no harm."

"Then who are you?" Jasmine asked.

"Chaos, God of disorder...usually that is what I do, but I'm on vacation and I will be the grand vizier of Agrabah for the next month." He said, omitting the fact that he maybe had nearly unleashed a Heartless invasion onto the world and the fact a lot of people in Agrabah were going to be the targets of what he considered fun.

"Where's Jafar then?" The princess asked.

"Oh you mean the bad man whose job I'm borrowing, he hid once the demons attacked and I punished him for it." Chaos said, sighing once he saw her scowl. "Don't worry about it I'll making sure that he won't even think of doing anything so cowardly again. But anyway you said you wanted to be like Roxas, do you?"

"I do." Jasmine said while nodding, getting the cat like god to study her for a second before chuckling silently to himself.

Oh the possibilities he could unleash were simply too much fun to pass up on.

"Can't really do that to ya kid, you are too young. But I can show you onto the right path if you do three things." Chaos said, getting her to beam.

"And they are?" Jasmine asked excitedly, getting the god to chuckle.

"You got enthusiasm kid I'll give you that. Anyway all that I ask is that you listen to everything I say, do not order me around, and finally never tell your father about this. So do we have a deal?" He asked, getting her to nod.

"We do." She said.

"Good." Chaos said as he tapped his paw against the floor and a hole opened up. Looking through it lead to Jasmine's room. "Get some sleep, we will begin tomorrow and it has been a long day."

"Alright, night teacher." Jasmine said before jumping into the hole, with it closing behind her.

Chaos was stunned for a second before he let out a little laugh.

"Teacher, now that has a nice ring to it. Sweet kid, I can see that she will be quite the hellion when she grows up." Chaos said, finding this new role might be kind of fun.

Deciding to skip the rest of the travel to the lair he teleported onto the desk inside and in front of the lair. And into the front of the petrified form of Jafar screaming at him.

Chaos just shrugged as he teleported the man's secret supply of Blood of Falak next to him for later use and a book.

"Now then let us begin your month of hell Jafar, shall we." Chaos said as he opened the book with a sadistic grin. "Complete history of Vogon Poetry, chapter 1..."

That night no one could hear Jafar's muffled screams as the worst month of his life began.

(Chapter end)