I'll Protect You No Matter What

Difficult Love

My Pov

We went back to Belle's room to find her gone. The wardrobe was there and said that Belle had gone after a man in a black coat. We searched the whole castle, but couldn't find her. We were about to search outside when we heard Belle's voice.

Belle: "I'm warning you! You'll be sorry!" We looked around, trying to find out where her voice was coming from.

Beast: "Belle! Where are you?"

Belle: "Beast! Help! I'm in the ballroom!" We hurried into the ballroom to see Belle running from a Heartless.

Beast: "Belle!"

Belle: "I'm all right!" She closed the balcony doors just as the Heartless was about to catch her. The Heartless turned its attention to us and began to trash around. It floated up toward the chandelier and then dove into the floor. Darkness began to spread over the entire room. The Heartless leaped out of the floor and let out a roar that shook the room. Soon, the elegant ballroom became a room of nightmares. The Heartless would either fuse with the balcony windows, the chandelier or the pillars in order to attack us.

Me: "Okay, I'm done with this hide-and-seek game. Time for you to STOP!" I shot a beam of light at the Heartless and froze it before it could make it to the windows. The 5 of us attacked it together and destroyed it. It trashed around for a couple seconds before becoming engulfed in a large orb of darkness. The orb pulsated and then evaporated, revealing the Heartless had changed. It had grown larger and faster. It turned invisible.

Donald: "Hikari, watch out!" The Heartless reappeared behind and raised its claws up to strike. Beast rammed into it just before it could hit me.

Me: "Thanks, Beast!" This Heartless was fast. And it more powerful than before. I tried using my Stop spell, but my magic wasn't at its fullest just yet. The Heartless disappeared again. "Damn it!"

Sora: "I got it!" Sora somehow leaped into the air and got to the chandelier. He landed on the chandelier and lowered it to the floor. He then spun it around the entire room and hit the Heartless. The impact caused its camouflage to fade. It started toward me.

Goofy: "Hikari, look out!" I raised my Keyblade in the air and shouted:

Me: "Balloon!" A ring of 5 balloon-like bubbles appeared around me. As soon as the Heartless got close enough and lunged forward, I jumped in the air and it landed in the middle of the ring where I was. All the balloons popped, damaging it. I delivered the final blow with a simple slash from my Keyblade. The Heartless stumbled back and let out a loud roar. It froze as darkness began streaming from its body and then it evaporated in light. The ballroom reverted back to its elegant state.

Sora: "We did it!"

Voice: "So you think." We turned around to see a member of Organization XIII standing near the ballroom doors.

Beast: "Xaldin!" We ran toward Xaldin, but he vanished just has we got close to him. "What does he want here?"

Me: "He's with Organization XIII." Beast looked at us. "They control these new creatures called Nobodies. They're created when a strong-willed person loses their heart and becomes a Heartless."

Goofy: "That's right. And they were gonna turn you into a Heartless. That way, they could get that Nobody of yours and have control over it." That was it!

Belle: "You're all right!"

Beast: "Belle!" He ran to Belle to make sure she was okay. "Belle... I-I'm sorry-I... wasn't myself. I hope I haven't done anything to hurt you." Belle shook her head 'no'. "Forgive me."

Belle: "I know you weren't yourself. You don't have to apologize." Then, as if with the snap of her fingers, Belle's kind demeanor changed to strict and scowling. "But I had hoped... that you might have changed a little bit. I wish you could start trusting me." This wasn't good. Beast didn't have a whole lot of time left to break the spell. Suddenly, Kingdom Key and Starlight began glowing. The rose... it was the key item to finding the Keyhole. We repeated our actions from Hollow Bastion and Land of Dragons. We opened a path.

Me: "We need to leave for now everyone."

Belle: "Do you have to go?"

Sora: "Yeah, but we'll be back." We left Beast Castle and for some reason the gummi ship and my glider were being pulled back toward Hollow Bastion. We landed there, but I couldn't shake the feeling someone was watching us.

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?'s Pov

I stood in the shadows as Sora and his friends arrived back in Hollow Bastion. Then I saw a strange glider land next to them. The rider was... No... It can't be... DiZ said she'd never wake up. But... it was her... Hikari. She's so beautiful. I always said to myself she'd never be more beautiful than the last time I saw her, but somehow she had. I wanted so much to show myself, to take her in my arms and never let her go. But, I couldn't let her see me. Not like this. I heard Hikari's voice when she said something to Sora. Her voice was more beautiful than music. They started coming this way. I hurried into a portal, taking one last look at my princess before disappearing from sight.

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Hmmm... I wonder who was watching Hikari? Like it would take a genius to figure out who it is.