I'll Protect You No Matter What(Pokémon ver.)

Beast's Castle

My Pov

We came to another world. It was kind of gloomy and dark here. Eve seemed a little scared as she had her feelers wrapped around my arm for comfort. Leafeon stayed close to Sora and Raichu rode on his shoulder.

"Where are we now?" I asked.

"I don't know..." Sora said.

"This place is huge!" Donald exclaimed.

"And sorta gloomy, don't ya think?" Goofy asked.

"I wonder who lives here..." Sora said. Suddenly, a vicious roar cut through the eerie silence. I jumped and latched onto Sora. "It's okay Hikari." He gently pushed me off him. I saw a faint tint of pink on his cheeks. Is he blushing?

"Hey, does anyone else recognize that?" Goofy asked. The roar happened again and that's when I remembered who had a similar roar.

"That's gotta be the Beast!" I said. Leafeon and Eve's tails started wagging.

"Maybe we should check up on him." Goofy said.

"Look!" Sora exclaimed. We saw a Shadow Heartless crawling flat across the floor and going into a different room. We hurried after it. We followed it into a foyer, but it seemed to have disappeared. I noticed on the table was a bell jar. Inside the jar was a glowing rose. I went closer to get a better look, except the Heartless popped up in front of me.

"I found it!" I called. Soon, more of them popped up. Just like with the Nobodies in Twilight Town, more Heartless would popped up after we got rid of most of them.

"Aw, c'mon! Enough already!" Sora said.

"Somebody help us!" Donald cried out. Just then, the doors of the foyer swung open. It was Beast! The Heartless lunged at him, but he easily knocked them to the side. After the rest of them were taken care of, he started toward the table. Something was wrong. There was some kind of dark aura around Beast.

"Just in time!" Sora said. Beast didn't respond. Instead, he swatted Sora, Leafeon and Raichu to the side and did the same to Donald and Goofy. I ran to Sora and helped him up and Eve helped Leafeon and Raichu. Beast gently picked up the bell jar and cradled it like a mother would her baby. He left the room.

"Gee, do think maybe he forgot who we are?" Goofy asked.

"I don't think that it. It's something else." I said.

"With this many Heartless around, something must be up." Sora said. Donald was rubbing his cheek.

"Why'd he have to do that?" Donald asked. We went back into the main hall and I noticed Donald looking up toward the East Wing staircase.

"What is it?" Sora asked.

"I just know I saw a lady at the top of those stairs..." Donald said.

"Well... If the Beast is here in the castle, that lady musta been Belle, right?" Goofy asked. Belle? That's when I remembered when we first met Beast, he was looking for a girl named Belle.

"Had to have been." I said.

"Belle might know what's going on with Beast." Sora said. We went up the staircase and into the East Wing. As we got to the door at the end of the hall, I heard a woman's voice. It was Belle.

"What am I going to do?" Belle asked to herself. Sora pointed to the door. Donald stepped back.

"Okay." Donald said. He charged right for the door.

"Donald, wait!" I said. The door opened a second before Donald hit them. He tripped and fell on his stomach.

"Hey! Who opened the door?" Donald asked. Right in front of Donald stood a woman with brown hair tied back with a blue bow, hazel eyes. She wore a sleeveless blue dress over a long-sleeved white shirt, a white apron tied around the waist and black shoes on her feet. So, this was Belle. Next to Belle was a Roselia.

"Oh, I'm so happy you're here!" She picked up Donald and hugged him. "Donald!" She turned her attention to the two of us still standing in the hall. "Sora! Goofy!" Belle exclaimed.

"Hiya!" Sora greeted. She looked at me with surprise.

"Kage, is that you?" Belle asked. Again with that. Who was Kage?

"No. I'm Hikari." I said.

"Oh! You're the Princess of Kingdom Hearts." Belle said. I nodded. I noticed Donald trying to break free from Belle's embrace.

"Put me down! Put me down!" Donald demanded. Belle let go of Donald and his pupils were spinning around a little. Belle told us how the Beast's attitude toward her had changed and that he even locked his servants in the dungeon. We hurried to the West Wing this part of the castle was so much larger than the East Wing. I grabbed Sora's arm so he turn around.

"Sora, why did Belle and Mushu call me Kage?" I asked.

"Kage is the name of your Heartless." Heartless? Oh... right. "You should meet her. She's actually the Heartless that you purified somehow." Sora said.

"You mean Shadow?" I asked. He nodded. Kage and Shadow were the same person? I hoped we find her, because something in me said she hadn't returned to me. I saw a wardrobe at the far end of the hall. We went down that way and Sora pushed the wardrobe out of the way, revealing a door.

"Here it is!" Sora called. Suddenly, the wardrobe spoke.

"Do you MIND!?" the wardrobe shouted. All of stared in shock as the wardrobe hopped back to where it had been before. There was something you didn't see every day. Sora began to push the wardrobe again and would stop anytime it would wake up. He moved it out of the way and the wardrobe turned to us. "And I was just starting to get comfortable... May I help you?" I let out the breath I had unknowingly been holding.

"Yes. Belle sent us to free the servants who were locked in the dungeon." I explained. She(the wardrobe)was happy about that. We enter the undercroft and saw the doors to the dungeon. I noticed two stone creatures on the door, each having a hand around a lock. Something was off about them. Donald went over to the door and try to see if he could hear anything on the other side. That's when the eyes of the stone creatures glowed and the creatures glowed a black and purple light. "Donald, run!" He did just as the creatures came to life and one of them slammed its hand down where Donald had been standing.

"Hikari, let's go!" Sora said. I nodded to him and we engaged in combat. Soon, several statues in the room came to life and started attacking us too. I realized that a Heartless was possessing the statues and one was more than likely possessing the creatures blocking the door. Leafeon used Energy Ball, Eve used Fairy Wind and Raichu used his newly learned Psychic. After dealing a certain amount of damage, a small ball of darkness came from the Heartless. I destroyed it and the creatures that had kept the door blocked vanished. Now we could free the servants.