Final Fantasy X-2 (Plus Sequel FFX-3)

[Egnalos]

You're back... YAY!!

How've you been?

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Mmmmmhhhh updat-y goodness...

Ok this chapter was exclusively to get ready for the upcoming battle making their armors more efficient and such and the more I read... the more I wanted to get my hands on that game!!! since I started reading FFX actually, but unfortunately I can't get it here; I've been looking but with no luck.

Anyway I guess that in the next chapter we'll see how Tara is going to deal with the whole magic problem but I guess it'll depend on how dangerous this Heartless Phantom really is or in how much danger the others are, specially Willow, to feel pressured to use magic; though I'm starting to think that the magic is gonna be a problem no matter the circumstances because as you said nothing is ever easy (don't I know it ).

When I read the last part of this chapter I started to wonder if the whole learning more spells it'll be like feeding the magic that is in Tara waiting to come out, you know, making it worse; because those spells that Princess Tara suggested sounded like really powerful spells and I think that at some point the more magic that Tara learns/uses the more of a problem it's going to became to try and control it specially if it's powerful magic.

Well I'll be here waiting for the next update, as usual, so I can get answers... it's aaaall in the waiting...

Oh! and about you writing a sequel I'll just say that whatever you want to write I would love to read so... I guess that answers that.

Ok ahora me voy a la camita aquí ya es muy tarde, I'm going to get some sleep

Update soon!!!!

[Stormforce]

Egnalos - Hey there, I was back, but I ended up getting blocked and couldn't figure out how to continue...still like that actually, but I am working on the next chapter. I figured that they really needed to get ready for a fight...I mean that is what you do in the games, so why not here too? I think Tara learning more spells could be a problem if they aren't controlled, but it's also like you said, nothing is ever easy ^_^ So we'll just have to wait and see

Note: Sorry this took sooo long to get out but I've been having problems, and I do mean I've been blocked. So it's really taken some time for me to even get this chapter finished...I am working on the next chapter, but it will take a while too.


Final Fantasy X-3
Pairing: W/T B/F
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I'll put 'em back later


Chapter Sixty-One: The Phantom of Neverland


The group stared at Peter Pan for a moment, the ex-dark twins lowering their heads in shame at knowing what they’d nearly did to his world. The two princesses smiling at the boy, and wondering if he’d ever grow tired of being just that, a boy. However they knew he wouldn’t and knew he’d keep his childish innocents because of it. Clay and her group blinked, they felt no magic about him to make him fly, but if he wasn’t using magic, then how could he fly? Pushing those thoughts aside for the moment they listened as he spoke. Willow and the others had nodded, “We heard there was some sort of creature?” The redhead asked watching Peter nod.

“Yeah, it appears at the clock tower and attacks anyone on the ground before coming here and doing the same.”

“Can you tell us what it does?” Faith asked keeping her senses open for anything unnatural, “How does it attack them?”

Peter had to shrug at that question, “That I really don’t know…I mean it doesn’t even touch a person it only glances in their direction and after a few seconds they fall to the ground.” He scratched his head, “It’s like he can kill with a single look…we’ve been keeping everyone away from it as best we can, but we have lost a mermaid.”

“I’m sorry about that, I know what it’s like to lose a friend.” Buffy whispered sadly with agreeing nods from everyone, “Where is it now?”

Peter turned around and pointed toward a mountain, “Between that mountain and the next is where the mermaids relax, but are currently staying away…that is where the Phantom is now.”

The sound of a sword being unsheathed startled the group, “Take us, please.” Clay spoke gripping her Gunblade in her right hand.

“Okay, but you’ll need some Pixie Dust to fly…”

“No, we have a Float spell that will allow us to follow you.” Willow number two said as she cast the spell on herself and the others as the rest began floating once more, “Now, please lead us to the Phantom.”

Peter nodded and took off at a much slower speed that usual, allowing the group to keep up with him.

The entire group floated off the ship over the ocean to land at a faster pace than what swimming would have been, and floated just above the trees as they reached the base of the mountain. Peter began slowing down as they quickly reached the top and quietly landed on the ground. “He’s just over there.” Peter pushed a bush out of his way and pointed down toward the mermaid’s relaxing grounds to where a figure in a pitch black robe could be seen, “He usually stays there, waiting and watching. When he sees something he goes after it.” Peter whispered afraid to speak any louder on the chance that the Phantom would hear him.

Tara stared at the robed figure, there was something about him/it that didn’t feel right…just wrong. But what was it? The blonde stepped closer to the bushes, narrowing her eyes and took a closer look at the Phantom, “Huh?” she whispered cocking her head to the right, “Is he floating?”

“Yes, the only thing to touch the ground at times is the robe.” Peter whispered and scratched his head, “But I still don’t understand it, how can he do that without Pixie Dust, or your magic?”

“That’s it!” Tara almost shouted, “That’s what feels wrong about it…” she trailed off closing her eyes for a moment before opening them with a sick look on her face.

“What? What is it, sweetheart?” Willow gently touched her wife’s shoulder as she stepped behind Tara when the blonde looked as if she was going to fall over, “What’s wrong?”

Tara relaxed in the feel of Willow’s hands on either of her shoulder’s and sighed when the sick feeling in the pit of her stomach subsided, “Something felt wrong with it…he didn’t feel right and now I know what it is.” she said and turned toward the group, “He’s floating, so he’s using magic, right? But why can’t we feel it? I mean we can feel magic no matter what type is being used, so why can’t we feel the magic the Phantom is using?”

“Must be…oh shit!” Faith number two growled as she took up a fighting stance, “We’ve got company!”

The others quickly turned, their eyes scanning the area as confused looks crossed their face, “What are you talking about?” Buffy number three asked shaking her head, “There ain’t nothing here!” she said turning her head to look at Faith number two, “Behind us!” she shouted hitting Willow number three on the shoulder with wide eyes, “You seeing this?”

The third redhead nodded as she unsheathed her sword, “But how can this be?”

“What!?” Clay asked a tone of worry in her voice and keeping her guard up, “What the hell are you three talking about?!” she asked glancing from her Faith to the ex-dark twins.

“No!” Willow number two shouted shaking her head and backing up, “You won’t get near me! Not this time!”

Clay turned and paled at what she saw and raised her Gunblade, “You stay away from her!” she shouted.

Buffy number two touched her lover’s shoulder and stumbled back as she saw flashes before her eyes, “Damn!” she squeezed her eyes shut for a moment, “What the hell?” she gaped as she opened her eyes and stared ahead, “This ain’t happening!” she shouted getting ready for a fight.

No one knew what to do, they couldn’t see what the others were talking about, and that had them worried. Clay was standing in front of her lover gripping her blade so hard her knuckles were white. Willow number two for her part had gone pale, the blood having drained from her face, and she had a frightened look on her face. Buffy and Faith number two were both in a fighting stance ready for an enemy attack, but what enemy? The ex-dark twins had the blades in their hands, both holding their head high and both had taken the spot directly in front of the princesses. The princesses looked as if something green, slimy, and with teeth were standing in front of them.

“What in the hellfire!” Faith growled watching the two groups in confusion, before glancing over her shoulder at the others, her eyes going wide, “No fuckin’ way!” she shook her head as if it would make what she was seeing go away.

“What?!” Buffy asked seeing her lover’s face go white as a sheet, and turned, “Holy Shiva! This can’t be good!” the Al Bhed’s face went just as white as her lover’s cause her to swagger from left to right like she were drunk.

Willow looked between her two extended family members, wondering just what was going on and turned. The redhead grabbed Tara and pulled her around behind her, “Stay away!”

“Will, what…” Tara trailed off as she glanced up, “You? But how? This can’t be…” she shook her head.

Donald and Goofy stared at the girls, wondering what exactly was going on, they couldn’t see a thing, nothing was there. So what had the entire group tense, frightened and ready to jump into a fight? Goofy blinked and took a good look at each of the girls, “Donald, something’s wrong.” he said looking into Willow number three’s eyes and noticed they were glazed over, like all the others

“I can see that.” Donald spoke waving his hand in front of Princess Tara’s eyes and shook his head, “But what is wrong? What do they see, and why can’t they see or hear us?”

Fear! Sweet, sweet fear!

Both Donald and Goofy turned in a complete circle, scanning the area around them, “Who was that?” Goofy asked and saw his companion shrug.

What the three guys didn’t know was that the girls were seeing their worst fear coming back to haunt them. The ex-dark twins stood with their heads held high as they protected their lovers from the one thing that could rip anything and everything in half…Darkside. The pitch black Heartless monster rose from the ground letting out a howl that only they could hear, and swiped his five foot wide hand at the group. The ex-dark twins brought up their blades, blocking the attack, and letting out their own growls as they pushed on their blades with all their strength. As the two girls jumped into battle, the princesses both fell to the ground as they thought back to seeing the monster just before the Heartless attacked their home.

“What is that?” Princess Tara had asked staring out into the darkness from her bedroom window. The princess hated being cooped up in the castle, but there had been reports of strange creatures appearing and causing trouble, and the princesses had to be kept safe.

Princess Faith came to stand beside her sister and looked out the window, “What did you see?” she asked just as a flash of lightning lit up the castle courtyard and the area beyond. Dark eyes went wide when the princess saw a tall pitch black monster in the distance, “What is that?” she repeated her sister’s earlier words but kept her eyes on the spot she’d seen the monster, when another flash of lightning came they both saw it was now closer.

“We must tell Captain Giles!” Princess Tara spoke, her voice slightly shaking from fear, what ever the thing was, it was coming closer toward the castle, and they knew the guard needed to be ready.

The two princesses reached the door and heard a scream coming from down the hallway, Tara had quickly swung her bedroom door open and into a seemingly war zone. Little black monsters with glowing yellow eyes had began appearing in the hallway along with slightly bigger ones with armor. The things had then attacked anything and everything that moved, the palace servants, guards, even the small animals, nothing was safe from the creatures.

The two princesses saw a young man bring his long sword down, severing the head off one of the small creatures before turning toward them, “Your Highnesses,” he spoke between deep breaths, “please, you must stay inside your room where it is safe.” he smiled sadly at the girls, “When I see Will and Buff, I’ll tell them to get here as fast as they can, but I’m sure they are already on their way.” And with that he turned and fought his way toward the stairs, hoping to keep the creatures at bay.

“Xander!” Tara had screamed knowing it would be the last time they saw him. The princess’ head snapped up when a female’s scream invaded the hall, “Anya!” Tara shouted poking her head out the door and cast a Holy spell to kill the creatures surrounding the young woman, “Come in here!”

“No,” Anya shook her head with a sad smile, “I have to find Xander.” she’d said and hurried off, “Thank you for taking care of those bastards!” were her retreating words as she disappeared around the corner. That had been the last either had seen of the young woman.

A loud roar filled the room announcing the arrival of the giant monster the girls had seen through the window, causing both to slam the door shut and back up against the wall. They heard Captain Giles shouting orders at his army, just before the door opened again allowing their lovers to enter the room.

Faith number two and Buffy number two had seen the one site neither of them had ever wanted to see again. The battle for their home. Heartless were appearing from every direction and were advancing forward. Both girls ran forward, pounding their way though the large group of monsters, only to have ten more take the place of one. Once on the other side of the enemies the girls turned, both with large gashes on their arms, and legs. Buffy also had a large gash on her cheek and Faith had one down the center of her chest. Taking a deep breath they cut their way back through the enemies, determined to help their friends…if they could find them.

Clay sneered at the one person she thought was long dead, a sorceress from their home world, one that wanted Willow. The blonde was not going to let her get her grubby paws on her lover every again, even if it meant that she had to die, Willow would be safe. With a loud and drawn out battle cry Clay shot forward, casting a Flare spell just as her Gunblade came down on her enemy. Willow didn’t know what to do, being with that witch just that one time had scarred her mind, and now as she saw her once more she couldn’t move to help her lover. What was she going to do?

Willow, Faith, Buffy and Tara were standing face to face with none other than Glory. The fallen summoner laughed as she raised a long sword with a jagged blade, and sprinted forward. Willow, Buffy and Faith met the fallen summoner half way with their own weapons raised. None of them could figure out how Glory blocked all three attacks, and still have time to make her own. A Flare spell sent Buffy flying back, where she collided with a tree and slid to the ground. Faith was knocked back by a Thundaga spell, and Willow had no time to block an Ultima spell, and fell to her knees trying to block the pain. Tara had began to cast a Holy spell when she saw Willow fall, and heard her cry of pain. The ex-summoner’s eyes began glowing as she raised her hand, “Ultima!” she growled out forcing the spell to wrap around Glory.

“No!” Donald and Goofy shouted, “What is going on?!” Donald quacked angrily as he ran forward.

“That’s it! More! More fear!”

“Fear?” Goofy glanced around at the girls once more before a light bulb lit up, “Fear!” he shouted, “That’s it! It’s the fear!”

Donald stopped, and turned, “I don’t care about fear right now Goofy! We have to stop Tara from turning all black hair and eyes!”

The pain that’s all there was racing throughout Tara’s body as the darkness began taking over, and raising her power one hundred fold. “No…” Tara weakly whispered lowering her hand to her side and squeezed her eyes shut, it was happening again, the darkness inside her was taking over, and she had to stop it. “But why? Why should you? Sure it’s painful, but it makes you oh so more powerful.” A voice inside her mind spoke softly almost whispering, “Do you not want to be more powerful? Just let it out, and you will surpass even your wife.” The voice this time whispered lovingly, “Tell me this is something you do not want. You can’t can you? You’re jealous of your wife for having more power than you, you always have been, don’t deny it, I know you have, and this is something that you have wanted ever since she began casting magics.”

“No.” Tara shook her head and wished she hadn’t from the pounding, “No, I have never been jealous of Willow! I was and still am happy that she can cast both white and black magics. I don’t want this…”

“This power is something you can’t deny!” Tara squeezed her eyes tighter from the loudness of the voice, “I will not be denied!” The voice shouted as the darkness rose within her.

“No! I won’t give in!”

Tara’s shout stopped Donald in his tracks, “I do not want this power!” Tara shouted again causing a shockwave and knocking everyone on the ground.

“Donald! The fear! It feeds off of the fear a person has! We have to tell the girls to face their fears!” Goofy shouted, and with an apologetic look, slapped Buffy number two and her lover, “Snap out of it!”

“That hurt!” Buffy number two rubbed her cheek.

“Sorry, but you have to face your fears, otherwise they will kill you!”

Buffy number two nodded, and with Faith by her side stood to face the growing group of Heartless. “We couldn’t stop you the day you attacked our home.” Faith spoke staring over the ever growing group.

“But now we have the chance to help change that!” Buffy spoke and took her lover’s hand in hers, “We will change what happened, and get our friends and home back!” they both shouted allowing their love for their destroyed home and friends fill their heart and soul, “You will not win!” they screamed, shattering their fear, and causing the Heartless to disappear.

As that had been happening, Donald ran around slapping the girls, apologizing and telling them what to do. The only thing he couldn’t possibly help with was Tara, who was at that very moment floating in the air with a gray mist swirling around her. After Willow, Faith and Buffy had faced their Glory-fear they had turned with Willow stepping forward only to be held back, “You can’t.” Faith shook her head, “She has to do this on her own…”

“Let’s just hope she can.” Buffy whispered low enough so the others couldn’t hear her, sure she had faith in her cousin, but fighting the darkness within ones self, by themselves? But then again, if anyone could do it, it would be Tara. Just as that thought crossed her mind the shockwave sent her and the others flying back, “Damn!”

“Help me!” Faith screamed, pushing down on Willow’s chest, “Tara’s draining her magics!”

Willow had felt the link with Tara fully open as she had flown back, and just a second later her magics being drained. Only this time it was much, much worse. Her back had arched with her body going tense as a bowstring, and no amount of pressure from Faith, and now Buffy could push her down.

“You want this.” The voice continued to tell the ex-summoner as she fought against the darkness.

Tara shook her head closing her eyes tightly and tried to stay calm, it had been working up until she felt Willow’s magics being pulled into her body. “No!” she shouted and struggled in the air, losing concentration on fighting the darkness, and let out a primal scream when the pain intensified.

“Baby-girl, calm down, Willow is in danger, please calm down.” Mythe’s comforting voice filled Tara’s mind, pushing out the darkness’ voice, “Please, you must calm down.”

On the Farplane everyone had been watching over the group, and had agreed not to interfere with the fight unless needed. It became needed when even the Aeon’s fell to their knees from the overwhelming feel of the darkness coming off Tara, it was then Mythe decided to help her daughter. She didn’t care what the others said, it was her daughter, not theirs, they didn’t give birth to her and watch her grow only to leave her alone. Opening her mind and letting her consciences drift she entered Tara’s mind and spoke to her, hoping against all hope that she could at the very least calm her daughter down. And it seemed to be working. Tara was zoning in on her mother’s voice and blocking out the darkness’, “Momma?” Tara asked very quietly.

”Yes darling, it’s momma, now listen to me… You must calm down and concentrate on forcing the darkness from your body. Close your link to Willow so she will be out of danger, and focus on pushing the darkness out. If you can’t force it out now, just keep it at bay.”

Doing as her mother said, Tara quickly became calm enough to close her link to Willow, and focus on the darkness. Pushing against it was like trying to move a mountain at that point, but Tara knew she had to either force it out, or lock it down for that moment. The pain had began to lessen the more she fought against, and pushed the darkness down further, and forced under her white magic. It would weaken her, and most likely make her sick for several moments, or maybe longer, but it wouldn’t get out unless she grew angry again.

Buffy had sighed, wiping the sweat from her face as she leaned back once Willow’s body had fallen to the ground. The Al Bhed could see Faith doing the same, they both had been scared that the redhead would grow do tense that she’d snap her back. They had seen Tara calm down and for several of the longest seconds in either young woman’s life Willow finally groaned as her body loosened and her back hit the hard ground. Taking their eyes away from Willow’s unconscious form they looked at Tara, the gray mist was thinning- and would soon disappear- as Tara’s feet touched the ground, “Catch her!” Willow number two had shouted and watched as Clay sprinted forward, catching her counterpart just before she hit the ground in a dead faint.

”That’s my girl.” Mythe spoke softly, knowing Tara could hear her, and exited her daughter’s mind.

Clay carried Tara over, and lay her beside Willow, “I don’t know about you guys, but I think that was just friggin’ nuts!”

“What the hell was all that anyway?” Buffy number three asked keeping her guard up and trying not to think about what she’d remembered.

“Stay on guard.” Goofy whispered, he may not be the brightest bulb in the box, but he knew something wasn’t right. Sure they had all faced their fears, but where was the thing that had made them see the fear? He didn’t know, and he hoped he never would, but for some odd reason he just knew what had called on the fear, “Hey guys.” he spoke but was ignored as the others talked about what had been going on, and keeping their eyes on Willow and Tara, “Guys.” Goofy blinked taking a step back as he brought up his shield, “Guys!” he shouted.

“What!?” Donald turned toward Goofy, “What is it?”

“That.” Goofy pointed behind the group, causing them to turned.

“I WANT FEAR!” The dark robed Phantom’s voice bounced around in everyone’s head, making them stumble back, and scatter just as the creature swiped at them, “GIVE IT TO ME!” he shouted in their minds again. Facing ones fear could be said as being easy, but could the same be said about facing a creature that lives off that very fear?


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There's 61 and I am working on 62 but there's no exact date as to when it will be out. Hope this chapter was good enough and that y'all enjoyed ^_^

[Egnalos]

I've been waiting for an update for looooong time... that or it was just me being impatient

I guess that one of the most difficult battles that one has to face is with their own fears and in this particular battle it looked like Tara's fear is her own power and the darkness that she now possess and of course hurting Willow but you could see that getting it under control is getting harder and harder for her and she was really draining Willow this time and even though she knew she couldn't stop, if it wasn't for Mythe’s intervention things would have gotten really bad; and now that they have to fight against the Phantom I wonder in what conditions she's gonna be in since I don't think that she will be able to fight it kicking and punching it and magic doesn't seem like an option at the time for her anyway. The other's battle with their fears for some reason seemed to be a little bit easier because their fears reside in something other than themselves; in Tara's case the "enemy" was inside.

Anyway...

Thank you for the update. Is understandable that sometimes you need to take your time (specially if you are blocked ) but thank you for continuing writing.

Great chapter. Waiting for the next update that will come hopefully soon

[Stormforce]

Egnalos - I'm sorry about the last update...and then this one being soooo late... Well, the battle with the Phantom is this chapter, for the most part, but it will go over into the next. However it's going to be a little different, cause you know me, I like to keep things twisted. As for the fighting, it will be different, but there's a suprise in the next chapter. You're right if it wasn't for Mythe, things woulda been real bad, she's (not exactly her) is going to be helping too...you will see what I've done with that in this chapter which it'll go over into the next too. And then there's the fear...darkness within Tara...that'll be next chapter too. I just hope I got it right... I mean, what I've written so far.


Note: Its been a long time...but here it finally is, and I am working on the next chapter.. Which I hope it won't take that long to finish. Between work, and being blocked (still), it's a pain. But at least with playing Kingdom Hearts 2 at work I'm getting un-blocked, and coming up with another sequel for this if anyone wants it ^_^

Anyway, here's the chapter...

Final Fantasy X-3
Pairing: W/T B/F
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I'll put 'em back later


Chapter Sixty-two: Battle with the Phantom

The Phantom rose into the air, hovering over the scattered group and watched as they once more came together ready for a fight. Buffy and Faith rose from the ground, from protecting the unconscious Willow and Tara, and raised their weapons. Everyone was disoriented from the Phantom’s voice screaming in their heads, but that wasn’t going to stop them from defeating their enemy. The group stared at the Phantom, the Phantom stared at the group, his glowing eyes sweeping over the girls and two guys sizing them up. Then, as if it had been planned, the princesses, Donald, and Clay had all shouted Holy at the exact same time. The white magic spells flew through the air faster than anyone could see, and slammed into the Phantom forcing him back as they wrapped around his robed body. For just a moment it seemed like the magic was working, but that wasn’t so, the Phantom screamed and forced the spells to return to their casters. “Shit!” Clay shouted, diving to the side just as the others were doing, and rolled over in time to see the spells hit the ground, leaving a small crater where they once stood.

“Blizzaga!” Donald shouted as he stood, his spell appeared over the Phantom and fell on it’s head. The Phantom shook the pain away and glared at Donald, the duck fell to the ground unconscious, no he wasn’t unconscious, he wasn’t breathing.

“Revive!” Princess Tara called out, pointing her hand toward the fallen duck, and using her left hand pointed at the Phantom, “Flare!” The Phantom blocked the attack, but was sent flying back into a tree, hitting it hard enough to crack the trunk.

Seeing the stunned enemy Buffy and Willow number three both ran at the Phantom, both bringing their weapons up and then down. “Think that’ll work do you?” the enemy laughed and screamed as the blades connected with his body, “Sure do.” Buffy number three grinned as she and Willow number three twirled around, their blades connecting with the Phantom’s body three more times before both girls were thrown back from a single touch. Both girls hit the ground, and both weren’t breathing.

“Damn!” Faith flinched and hurried toward the fallen girls, “Cover me!” she shouted as she kneeled down with a Phoenix Down.

Buffy, Clay and her group ran forward, bringing their weapons up and slashed at the Phantom. Buffy and her twin back flipped away as swords appeared in the Phantom’s hands, and just barely missed severing their heads. Faith number two and Clay weren’t so lucky, as the Phantom brought the blades around once more, slicing their stomachs open. The girls quickly backed away covering their wounds as the blood dripped to the ground, “Curaga.” Donald called, still weak from the revival spell, but strong enough to help. The healing spell’s warmth covered the two wounded girls as their injuries healed, not leaving a scar.

At the same time Buffy and Willow number three stood from the ground, thanked Faith, and ran forward, both casting a Flare spell. As the Phantom blocked the spells he had no time to block the blows from the swords, and reared back in pain as the blades connected with his back and chest. Buffy number three back flipped away as Goofy spun toward the Phantom, his shield hitting the enemy several times before Goofy slowed down, and quickly rolled away from an attack.

The Phantom’s blades cut into the ground just an inch away from Goofy’s foot as he stood, with a surprised shout the dog like man jumped back bringing his shield up for protection. Sparks flew into the air as the loud clanging of metal against metal echoed around the area. With each hit on his shield, Goofy would have to step back from the force of the Phantom’s two swords. Two more hits followed by two more hit the shield forcing Goofy back into a tree, as soon as his back hit the tree the Phantom brought both swords down at the same time. The shield hit the ground, “GAHH!” Goofy shouted with pain lacing his scream as he fell to his knees with a grimace.

Donald’s eyes were wide as Goofy hit the ground, but they went wider at seeing the shield on the ground…and Goofy’s arm from his elbow down still attached, “YOU!” The duck shouted, and as if everything went into slow motion he raced toward the Heartless.

“Help him!” Clay shouted toward her Willow and Faith as she followed Donald, she knew their strongest spell, Curaga, could and would give Goofy his arm back…but only if it were cast within a few minutes of the severing.

Willow and Faith number two, followed by the princesses, hurriedly ran toward Goofy -who looked to be on the verge of passing out in pain, “Hang on, just hang in there…” Willow spoke as she kneeled down, “This will help, don’t worry.” she said and began casting Curaga on the wound along with Faith’s own spell. The princesses also kneeled down, casting their own version of the Curaga spell. Within seconds the bleeding stopped, and the arm began growing back as the magic did it’s job.

“Thundaga!” Donald shouted, his anger over his friend clouding his mind, “Blizzaga!” he called once more and watched as both spells hit the Phantom. The Heartless was knocked back by the force, but started toward the duck when the magic failed to harm him.

“Don’t think so.” Clay growled flipping into the air, and brought her Gunblade down atop the Phantom’s head, “Flare!” she shouted just as the blade met the Heartless’ chest. Her feet hit the ground, and just as fast Clay back flipped away, her eyes going wide. The Phantom had not been harmed at all. She watched as Buffy and Faith, followed by the ex-dark twins ran in front of her, four blades connected with the Phantom’s robed body. Magic shot from Buffy’s and Faith’s blades, sending the Heartless flying back into a tree, where he slid to the ground. The group watched his chest rise and fall quickly as the Phantom took hard deep breaths, and then rose, the wounds healing themselves.

“Shiva damn it all!” Buffy gripped her blade tighter, “Why won’t this bastard just die and let us be!”

“The fear…” Goofy glanced at the unconscious Willow and Tara. The girls gave him a ‘huh’ look causing him to shake his head, “They haven’t faced their fear, and until they’re awake and can face it we can’t harm that thing.”

“Damn!” Faith kicked a rock toward the Phantom, “I don’t believe this!” she shouted then stopped to stare at the Heartless. The Phantom was just floating there staring at them and nothing more, why wasn’t it attacking? Could it be that they had wore it down, or was he/she/it waiting for them to attack?

“We have to wake them and now.” Willow number three said, also watching the Phantom for any sign of movement, “We’ll watch this thing and keep it at bay if it attacks, just get them awake.”

As the others tried to wake the unconscious girls, Faith glanced around, “Hey, where did Peter go?” seeing the others shrug she sighed, “Great, he ran off!” she let out a string of curses causing the others to blink, and her lover to giggle.

Little did Faith know that Peter hadn’t ran off, no, he’d been asked to hurry and find certain things. The boy dressed in green had flew up to a tree branch when the Phantom had made it’s appearance, and had been just about to jump down when a voice stopped him. Glancing around, Peter could not see the owner of the voice, but could hear the soft feminine voice whisper in his mind. After listening to the voice he’d asked what for the voice didn’t answer, causing the boy to sigh, but do as told. He knew in his heart that it would help, but help what? Flying down to the mermaids place, Peter floated for a moment before landing, “Michiru, are you here?” he asked and watched as a beautiful aqua haired young woman with blue-green eyes step out of a hidden cave.

“Yes, what is it that you need?” Michiru asked with a soft smile.

“There is a battle on top of the mountain between a group of young women and two guys against the Phantom. Then this voice asked me to find nine things, and I know that most of your group, if not all, have the items I need to find.”

Michiru’s eyes had gone wide, “We can’t even beat that thing!” she cried in surprise, “I just hope that group knows what they’re doing.” she sighed and looked the boy over, “What is the items?”

“From you, Ocean Mist. You can give that to me correct?”

Michiru nodded, “From that item alone I know what else you need, so follow me.” the aqua haired woman spoke and lead Peter into the hidden cave entrance. The inside was not of a cave, but that of a beautiful city on silver soil. Peter stood stunned, he’d never seen anything like it before, and didn’t know what to think, or even do. Turning his eyes to the sky his heart skipped a beat, there was a beautiful blue star, “What is that?”

Michiru giggled, “That is the Earth.” she smiled with a wink, “Please follow me.” As Peter stepped forward his breath was taken away by the site of a large glowing silver castle, the pillars on either side of the door stood one hundred foot tall, and all had a language he couldn’t read carved into them. The doors were that of solid gold, but were easily pushed open by two guards, allowing he and Michiru to enter. Once more Peter’s breath was taken away by the front room of the castle, silver, blue, green, gold, purple, red, violate, yellow, and crimson colored roses aligned along the walls on both sides. Huge chandlers hung from the ceiling, casting off many different colored rainbows as the lights hit them. As he followed Michiru into another room, it was no different than the first, except for the two thrones sitting proudly at the back of the room, and the golden carpeted floor with red trim contrasted nicely against the silver thrones. Seven young women, four on either side of the thrones, stood proudly, ready to protect the mother and her daughter that sat on the aforementioned thrones.

Peter looked over the girls he knew, Haruka a rather tall girl with very short sandy blonde hair, and Michiru’s lover stood next to the older woman’s throne. The young woman next to her, Hotaru, had shoulder length black hair with violet streaks, her purple eyes noticing everything that moved -she was also Minako‘s lover. And next to her stood a taller forest green haired woman with crimson colored eyes, Setsuna, the queen‘s lover.

Next to the younger woman’s throne stood Rei, her dark raven colored hair with red streaks came to the middle of her back, and her violate eyes smiled at the princess -her lover. Minako stood next to Rei, her long waist length blonde hair shined in the light, and her light blue eyes watched as Peter moved closer. Ami, the genius of the group came next, her dark blue eyes calculating everything about the boy as she ran her fingers through her short blue hair. Next to Ami stood her lover, Makoto, the taller girl’s bright green eyes hard from battle seemed to smile at the boy as she nodded, causing her brown hair to bounce.

“Peter Pan, what brings you here to the Moon Kingdom?”

“Queen Serenity,” Michiru bowed, “Peter needs my Ocean Mist, you know what that means.”

The sliver haired woman stood and nodded, “That I do Senshi Neptune.” she spoke then looked at Peter, “Come closer young man.” the queen watched as Peter stepped forward, “You have a darkness infected person on your world, and need to heal them, I assume that you were told to gather nine items, correct?”

“Yes.” Peter nodded, “We were about to battle the Phantom when a voice stopped me.”

Serenity smiled, “Lady Mythe, it must be her daughter.” the moon queen trailed off as her smile vanished, “You will receive what you need, however we will be the one’s mixing it together.” Serenity turned and nodded toward the group of girls, “Senshi, Princesses of the planets and of the Silver Alliance, you know what it is you have to do.” The queen told the young women, and turned to her daughter, “Usagi you will also have a hand in making what is needed, please go with the Senshi.”

“Yes mother.” The young blonde rose from her throne, it was hard enough for her to sit still in the throne, and she was thankful for this opportunity to get out of the room. Peter watched the nine young women leave the room and cocked his head to the right, “Just who are you, and who are they?” He asked, he’d seen the young women battling the Heartless at times, and had helped them, but never got to know anything other than their names.

A very musical laugh filled the entire room as Serenity smiled at the boy, “As you know my name is Serenity, you know those girls by their names, but they are also the Senshi, or Soldiers as you would call them -and the princesses- of their own planets. My daughter, Usagi, or otherwise known as Serenity the twenty-fifth is the princess of the entire Silver Alliance. I shall tell you the easiest way I know of, Michiru is Senshi of Neptune, and she has the power of the ocean. Haruka, is and Senshi of Uranus and controls the power of the wind and earth. Hotaru is Senshi of Saturn and she has the power over death and rebirth. Setsuna is Senshi of Pluto and she controls time itself. Those are the Outer Senshi, they protect the Silver Alliance from outside invaders when needed. As for the others, they are the Inner Senshi, Ami the Senshi of Mercury, she controls the power of ice and mist. Makoto, Senshi of Jupiter controls the power of lightning and nature. Minako, Senshi of Venus controls the power of love and plasma attacks. And Rei, the Senshi of Mars controls the power of fire and future visions.”

Peter blinked, “That’s a lot to take in…but how is it I’ve never heard of any place like this? And what about Earth? Is there a Senshi of Earth?”

Serenity shook her head sadly and sighed, “No, the Earth is corrupt, the king of Earth wants to rule the Silver Alliance. We are very peaceful, there have been no wars between the planets since Serenity the first came into rule, and the Earth king only knows war. If he were to come into power over the alliance there would be no more peace, and we do not want that. As for why you’ve never heard about us, is that you are two thousand years in the past.”

Peter stared at the queen at a loss for words, just by walking into the cave he had been taken to two thousand years in the past? “But why aren’t there any tales of this kingdom?”

“In your time,” The queen spoke as she sat down on her throne, “our kingdom is not known, it is kept a close secret.” she sadly bowed her head, “If the Silver Alliance was known about we could not live in peace, as it is I am thinking about erasing the Earthlings memories of the Alliance.”

As Peter Pan spoke with Serenity in the throne room, something more important was happening in a room in the East wing of the castle. The eight senshi stood in a circle holding hands with the princess in the center. “I, Minako, princess of Venus, and leader of the senshi call upon Aphrodite, goddess of love, give the power for which I seek.” Minako spoke as her body began glowing a bright golden color.

A dark red glow surrounded Rei’s body as she spoke, “I, Rei, princess of Mars, and second in command call upon Ares, god of war, give me the power for which I seek to destroy the darkness. Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen. Akuryou taisan!”

“I, Ami, princess of Mercury, call upon Hermes the messenger god, give me the power for which I seek to aide in the battle against darkness.” A blue glow surrounded the young woman’s body.

Makoto stood tall with her head raised toward the heavens, “I, Makoto, princess of Jupiter call upon Zeus, king of the gods and lightning, please give me the power for which I seek to destroy all Heartless.” Her bright green glow joined that of the others, and combine into one over the princess.

The room began glowing brighter by the minute as the four outer senshi spoke, “I, Haruka, princess of Uranus and holder of the Space Sword, call upon Ouranos king of the heavens, give me your power to destroy the darkness that threatens to destroy all worlds.” Her body glowed bright yellow and surged to combine with the other powers in the room.

“I, Michiru, princess of Neptune and holder of the Deep Aqua Mirror, call upon Poseidon god of the seas, grant me your power to stop the darkness from destroying the worlds it threatens.” A deep bluish green glow surrounded her body.

The young woman that many feared her power began glowing dark purple as she spoke, “I, Hotaru, princess of Saturn and holder of the Silence Glaive, call upon Hades god of the Underworld, give me your power to reek havoc on the darkness that dares to invade the worlds.”

“I, Setsuna, princess of Pluto and holder of the Garnet Time Staff call upon Cronus god of time, grant me your power over time and allow us more time to destroy the coming darkness.” Setsuna’s deep crimson glow shot forward, combining with the other outer senshi, and then hovered over the princess.

Usagi, felt her guardian’s powers and knew it was now her time, “I, Serenity Usagi, princess of the Moon and Silver Alliance call upon Selene, goddess of the Moon. Hear my plea, let our power combine into one so we may help destroy the darkness.” Her silver glow -brightest of all- shot upward, and combine with the others as a strong wind picked up inside the room.

Minako felt the pull of her attack power, “Venus Love and Beauty Shock!” she shouted, raising her hands as a heart shaped ball of energy raced forward.

“Mars Flame Sniper!” Rei shouted, as she mimicked pulling a bow, and causing an arrow made of flames to shoot forward.

“Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!” Ami shouted as she played a harp made of water and sending her attack toward the princess.

“Jupiter Supreme Thunder!” Makoto raised her hands toward the heavens, calling down a massive amount of lightning.

“Uranus World Shaking!” Haruka called out pressing her right hand to the floor and calling on a ball of energy that sped forward.

“Neptune Deep Submerge!” Michiru called raising her hands in the air as a ball of blue energy appeared.

“Silence Glaive Surprise!” Hotaru spoke bringing down her glaive and connecting with the floor. The attack would have destroyed the entire castle if the energy had not been force to combine with the other.

“Dead Scream.” Setsuna whispered as a crimson colored mist surrounded the orb atop her staff.

“Silver Moon Crystal Power Kiss!” Serenity called out as she raised her hands above her head, and called forth the power of her senshi. The inner senshi energy ball circled around the outers, both balls of energy doing what looked like a dance before both pulled back, and shot forward. Serenity’s own power wrapped around both energy balls as they met, causing an explosion, and bright light to escape through every window in the castle.

When the light died down the senshi opened their eyes and smiled at the princess who was now holding a vial. The vial held a liquid that swirled with the colors of the senshi and princess, “We should get this to Peter so he can get it to who needs it.” Serenity said then frowned, “There’s enough here for two persons…”

“Two?” Rei stepped forward and peered at the vial, “I wonder who the second one is?”

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There's 62 and I'm working on 63 as fast as I can.

[Stormforce]

Final Fantasy X-3
Pairing: W/T B/F
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I'll put 'em back later

Note: I hope this chapter is to everyone's liking...got blocked again, so >_<

Chapter Sixty Three: No More Fear


Everything was quite, no wind blew though the trees, no birds chirped, no animals ran around playing in the clearing, it was an eerie clam that gave chills to all standing there. The group of young women and two guys waited for any sign of the Phantom’s attack, but none came. Buffy and Faith were still trying -and failing- to wake Willow and Tara, both were still in the same spot and hadn’t moved. The Phantom for his part just floated ten foot away, basking in the fear coming off the two unconscious girls. It was feeding him and making him stronger, as long as there was fear he need not move. The beautiful fear made him invincible to any and all attacks, whether they were physical or magical. As long as those two stayed unconscious he was perfectly fine, and if they awoke, well he’d just have to kill all of them now wouldn’t he? Yes, being a Heartless was wonderful, killing without regret and worry.

“Nothing is working!” Buffy growled through her clenched teeth and shook her head. She and Faith had been trying without success to wake her cousin and best friend for the last tseveral minutes. The tension was beginning to get to the Al Bhed girl, not knowing when and if the Phantom would attack once more and succeed in killing them all. If only Tara and Willow would wake up!

Faith sighed and rested on her knees, “How are we suppose to wake them?” she asked just as upset as her lover, “And just what about tall, dark, and creepy over there?”

“We wait.” Clay spoke having lowered her Gunblade, but kept on guard, “Maybe they’ll wake up on their own.”

“I wanna know where Peter got off to.” Buffy number two said glancing around as if she’d catch a glimpse of the boy in green, “He didn’t seem the type to run from a battle.”

Faith looked over her shoulder at her lover’s twin and sighed, “Well he did, no use in complaining about it now…let’s just get these two awake somehow and finish that thing off.”

“I did not run away, I was told to get something for your friends.” Peter’s voice said from above as the boy landed, and a group of young women appeared behind him.

Eyeing the group, Clay quirked her eyebrows, “Who’re they, and what do they want?” she could feel no ill intentions from them, no darkness, but she never let her guard down.

“Where can I get Faith an outfit like yours?” Buffy asked as she stood up and walked over to Rei.

Faith narrowed her eyes, “Remember our twins in Wonderland? Wanna go see them again?” she asked with a smirk as Buffy quickly shook her head with wide eyes. She had no desire to return and see those twins unless there was an absolute need to.

“I am Senshi Venus, and we’re here to help.” Minako spoke as she eyed the Phantom, they would help the best they could, but the Heartless was just too tough even for them. No matter what attack they threw at him, they had never harmed the thing, their power would only keep him at bay long enough for them to get to safety.

Princess Serenity hurried forward with the vial in hand, and knelt next to Tara and Willow, “Now I know who the second person is.” she no more than whispered.

“Yes, you are right.” Rei said as she knelt next to her lover, “I can feel the darkness radiating off them in waves.” the Martian princess closed her eyes for a moment, “Damn, that hurts.” she pressed two fingers to her temple. The darkness was trying to force it’s way into body, she could only hope the princess wasn’t feeling it as much.

The princess sighed, she like Tara was fully composed of light, and the darkness that covered the two girls was making her sick, “What hurts?” Buffy number three asked.

“The darkness.” Rei spoke as she slightly raised Tara’s head so the princess could pour the liquid in her mouth, “I can’t see how this young woman is holding up against it.”

Faith stared at her adopted sister, “What do you mean? And what is that?” she asked eyeing the vial.

“That will expel the darkness, or weaken it enough for these ladies to break the hold it has on them.” Michiru said as she kneeled next to the girls and ran over forefinger over Tara’s cheek, then Willow’s. “What are their names?”

“Tara, the blonde, and Willow the redhead.” Buffy spoke looking between her cousin, second sister, and the Phantom.

Michiru touched each girl’s forehead before sighing, “You’re right Rei, I don’t see how Tara held out against it, she must have had powerful help.”

“What do you mean?” Clay asked finally having enough of not knowing what the new girls were talking about.

“There are three different kinds of people in the worlds,” Setsuna spoke as she stared at the Phantom, “Those who are born into complete darkness, those who are born between the darkness and the light, and those who are born in compete light.”

Hotaru nodded, “Each soul is either light, dark, or grey. Darkness will not affect those who are born into it, however, those born in the grey can withstand it for a small amount of time, and those born of light, it will eventually kill them. That is what has been happening to your friends here. Both were fighting against it, and both were winning, but they have been losing at the same time.”

“What?!” The entire group shouted, causing the Phantom the twitch, he did not know what was going on, but was compelled to listen.

“What has been happening is that they were fighting against it, right?” Makoto asked stepping forward, “But while they were pushing it down, it was eating away at their soul.”

Ami nodded, typing on a small handheld mini-computer with her Mercury visor over her eyes, “The darkness would not have killed them right away, but controlled them, turned them to evil, and then slowly consumed them from the inside out.” By now the princess had poured the liquid into Willow’s mouth and was leaning against Rei, “It’s working.” Ami confirmed as she watched the darkness levels in both girls deplete.

Working? The liquid was forcing the darkness out of them, but how? How could something kill darkness? The Phantom watched, he could see the dark aura around the girls dimming…was it really working? Could that happen to him? Could those girls kill the darkness in his body, and perhaps turn him back to his human self? Did he want that? Had human life been better than that of being a Heartless? It had to be, but did he want to go back to being a human again? Did he even still have a heart? He was a “Heartless” creature after all, but what if something could kill the darkness inside him, would he die or be his old self? Where were these thoughts coming from? Was his old self trying to come through? Only one way to find out, he floated forward.

“Watch out!” Donald shouted raising his magic staff as the others stepped into a defensive stance.

“NO!” The Phantom’s rough voice echoed, was that his voice? How could it be, it used to be deep and smooth, not rough and dull. The group stayed in their fighting stance but waited, what exactly was the Phantom wanting?


Quite, calm, cold, creepy, odd…”Where in hellfire am I?” Willow’s voice echoed around the darkness. She had awoke not long ago and began walking in total inky blackness, hoping not to stumble into anything, “I repeat, where in hellfire am I?!” she hollered.

“I don’t know but I’m here too, love.” Tara’s voice answered her, “Where are you?”

“I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking.” Willow smirked, and heard Tara giggle, “Seriously though, I’m close to you I can feel it…stay there I’m coming to you.” It may have been pitch black but Willow could still feel the link between she and Tara, “This is weird.”

Even though she couldn’t see it, Tara nodded, “Yeah it is… I wonder what this place is?”

“The place between life and death.” An emotionless voice answered, causing both girls to jump.

“Huh?” Willow glanced around, knowing she wouldn’t be able to see a thing, “What are you talking about, and who are you?” she asked finally reaching her wife and slipped her hand in Tara’s.

A cold distant laugh could be heard, “Don’t you know?” the voice asked, “You killed one another.” the voice spoke as another laugh burst forth.

“WHAT?!” Both girls shouted, “You’re lying!”

The laugh died to a chuckle, “No, it’s not a lie, Tara killed you Willow, by drawing all the magic from your body. In doing this, it also took your energy, and you died. Willow, you killed Tara, want to know how?” The voice asked, but didn’t give either girl time to speak, “I’ll tell you how. Your magic killed her. Tara was born of the light, her body, her soul, could only use white magic, and your gray magic killed her. It was too dark a magic for her body to withstand. Not to mention the darkness in both your body’s. It had slowly began eating away at your souls, this last time killed the both of you. So, welcome, this is your new home.”

“No, I won’t believe that!” Willow shouted into the darkness, “Come out and prove it to me then I’ll believe it!”

Another chuckle, “I do not have to prove anything to either of you. Can’t you feel it, the coldness of your lover’s hand? Your bodies have grown cold, you are dead.” the voice laughed once more, “And now you both are mine!”

As insane laughter filled the darkness Tara jerked her hand away from Willow’s and covered her face, “This is not real, I didn’t kill Willow! I can still feel her heart beating though our link.”

“A minor flaw, you see you can still feel it here, but in the outside her heart has stopped beating…and so has yours.”

Don’t listen!

“What?” Willow peered into the darkness, that voice, where was that voice coming from? “Tara, listen.”

It speaks not the truth.

“Giles?”

“Mother?”

Both girls turned in circles only to still find the darkness covering the realm, “What is going on?!” Willow growled.

It only wants your bodies.

“Mom?” Willow blinked, first it was Giles, now her mother, who next, her dad?

Look within yourselves, and fight it!

Maybe not, that sounded like Bahamut, “Within…only wants bodies…” Willow’s eyes widened causing her to take Tara’s hand once more. Even though she still couldn’t see her wife, Tara had the same look on her face, “The darkness!”

“You’re the darkness within our bodies.” Tara narrowed her eyes, “Well you’re in for a fight if you think you can take mine or Will’s body!”

“Got that right!” Willow growled, and tensed for a fight, but how could she fight? She didn’t even know where they were. It sure wasn’t like when she and Buffy had been turned into a Heartless. How were they going to get out of this without one or the other being hurt, or killed?

The darkness chuckled coldly, “You really think you can defy me? You are nothing more than children, where as I, I have been around since the dawn of time. Watching, waiting for the right moment, the right body, and now I have two!” the cold chuckle turned in to that of evil laughter.

“No!” Both girls cried at the same time, “You shall not have our bodies!”

“I may have darkness inside my body, but that is only because of my magic… Magic that I use to do good.” Willow spoke calmly, “My magic cannot, and will not be used for evil, I will not allow it!”

Tara inclined her head, just enough to look defiant, “You will not use me for evil either, I grew to become a Summoner, and in doing so I learned the white arts! That magic can never be used for evil!”

As she and Willow spoke, they intertwined their fingers, and pressed their palms together. Neither were conscious of the fact, but as they grew more confident their magics mixed and mingled -growing together- and soon a sheet of pure white surrounded them. The darkness screamed as the pure magics tore through, lighting up every single corner, leaving not one shred of blackness behind. “Damn…” Willow whispered, her body feeling like lead, and she fainted from the energy drain -as did Tara. Both girls were still holding hands as their spirits disappeared back to where they should be.

[Artemis]

Wow, getting caught up on this story was a journey and a half I got here by a roundabout kind of way, having randomly rented and watched Advent Children, and thinking it was pretty enjoyable and imaginative (if slightly light on plot). And I remembered seeing a Final Fantasy story here, and decided to check it out... that was some while ago, of course

There's a lot of story here - I knew going in that Final Fantasy isn't just a single story, or setting, but I hoped you'd have tapped into the same imaginative, expansive spirit that the movie had. And you did - and you included a plot and characters, too And darned good ones. To be perfectly honest, reading so much in such a short space of time, my mind's still in a bit of whirl taking it all in - I'll have to re-read it. But I enjoyed it, or rather I should say 'them', X-2 and X-3. I realised some way through that I'd missed your original FF story (you'd think the '2' in X-2 would have been a clue, but I can be a dope sometimes ), but I was caught up by then, and decided to press on rather than stop reading.

The most recent chapter is still fresh in my mind - I loved the battle of wills, the game going on with deception and feints pitted against Willow and Tara's belief in themselves and each other. It had that feel that I'm coming to associate with Final Fantasy in general, the sense that what's going on is bigger than 'just a story', and works on a mythic level - I guess it's sincerity, in the storytelling. Just having the conviction to aim really high, when writing, rather than shy away from tackling a big, expansive epic.

So, this has likely made little sense Simply, I'm enjoying the Willow/Tarafied Final Fantasy world you've created, and I'll be more than happy to follow it as far as you take it.

[Stormforce]

Artemis: Thank you! I enjoyed reading your feedback, and it made sense Now, where to start..? Advent Children was good, it was -some what- of a continuation of FFVII. Not much of a plot besides the sickness in the people, and trying to find a cure -but I'm happy that they made it. ^_^ True, Final Fantasy isn't a single anything, you have the main characters, and the support characters, and with each character you have a story. And there is no one place an FF game/story can take place, they go all over the world...or at least the current FF world, and sometimes into another like FF9. Actually, that's why I wanted to write the FFX fic, it was long, slightly confusing at first, and it went everywhere, and I wanted to tackle it... I wanted a big story that would go all over -and it did...and it's still going (lol) ^_^ I can only be happy that I actually got it down right, the plot, characters, and the spirit that the games and movie had was amazing, and I am glad that I got it correct. Hopefully I can continue with it.

Also, I love adding in things that didn't happen in the game, like the last chapter, I added in anime (Sailor Moon)... and the Phantom is an optional boss -but I'm doing it different... Adding my own twists and turns. ^_^ Actually if one were to play the games after reading these FF stories, they would see a pretty good sized difference.

Well, I'm happy that you are enjoying my fics ^_^ Once this (FFX-3) is finished, I'm going to jump right into FFX-4 by using Kingdom Hearts II... Although I've got to figure out to do it first...


Final Fantasy X-3
Pairing: W/T B/F
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I'll put 'em back later

Chapter Sixty-Four: Waking and Healing

As both Willow and Tara had disappeared from the darkness, they had taken an unknown detour, right into the Farplane. Willow looked around, nothing had changed, not even the smallest of green flowers -the once guardian sighed. Were they really dead? Was the voice actually telling them the truth? “Are we dead?” Tara asked worriedly as she took in the very real Farplane, and saw her wife shrug, “Great.” she sighed.

“No, you girls aren’t dead!” Shelia spoke up from behind them, causing both to jump a foot in the air and spin around, “See what you get for thinking you’re dead?”

“Mother!” Willow shouted, angry and happy at the same time. Angry that her mother had scared them, and happy cause she was once again seeing her mother.

Shelia opened her arms, “I missed you.” she said as the redhead wrapped her own arms around her mother.

“I missed you too baby girl.” Mythe whispered and smiled as she wrapped her arms around her surprised daughter.

“Women.” Ira sighed shaking his head and propped his right arm on Giles’ left shoulder, “Leave them alone long enough and the tears start.”

“What was that?” A slightly miffed Shiva asked as she appeared behind the one time guardian, and causing him to jump.

Scratching the back of his head, Ira chuckled with an innocent smile, “G said it, not me.” he grinned and turned back to his daughter and wife, ignoring the glare Giles sent his way, “How you been, girls?”

“Liar!” Shiva shrieked, causing the man to jump again.

“Blame it on me, will you!” Giles growled.

“Well, girls, it was nice seeing you and all…but I’ve gotta go!” Ira quickly hugged Tara, kissed Willow’s forehead, and bolted.

The blue skinned woman smiled with a giggle escaping her lips, “Yes, it was lovely seeing you girls again, but I must being going. I have a man to freeze.” the once Aeon laughed as she took off in the direction Ira had only moments before.

“I’ll be following her.” Giles smirked, “I have a sword that needs to be swung around near Ira’s face.” he said and hugged both Willow and Tara before following in Shiva’s footsteps.

“Men” Shelia shook her head, and grinned at Mythe.

Shaking her head, Mythe sighed, “Aeons.”

Both, Willow and Tara watched as their mothers…slinked…? toward each other, “I think our daughters had the right idea, don’t you, Mythe?” Shelia caressed the ex-summoner’s cheek with her forefinger, causing Willow’s eyes to grow wide.

A light sigh escaped Mythe’s lips as she pressed into the caress, “Yes, Shelia, I do.” she answered, which caused Tara to blush as she turned away.

“Willow, love, is there something you want to tell me about your mother?”

“My mother?! What about yours?!”

“Oh, calm down both of you!” Mythe giggled, “You know, women get lonely when their man is off gallivanting around the Farplane.”

Shelia nodded and wrapped her arms around Mythe, “Yes, besides neither one minds one bit at what we do in our free time, as long as we’re still energetic when ever it is when they come in.”

“Too much information!” Willow covered her ears at the same time as Tara cried out and blushed bright red. After a moment, Tara let her eyes roam around, once again, taking in the Farplane. She could hear rushing waterfall, and the little bees hovering around the different colored flowers, “Where IS dad anyway?” she asked turning around.

“As I said before baby girl, he’s off gallivanting around the Farplane…as in RE-exploring…again! I don’t know how many times he can do that and not get bored with it.” the once summoner sat down -the girls noted-in Shelia’s lap, “We’ve something to tell you.”

Green eyes quickly cut toward, and met blue eyes, Willow was afraid to ask. Every time one or both of them were in the Farplane it was bad news, and now, it could be bad, or weird depending on the news…Dear Shiva, don’t let them be getting married Willow thought as she sat down and pulled Tara on to her lap, That would just be…odd… I would be happy for them, but, still…

“Would you, sweet daughter, really be happy if we told you we were getting married?”

“Huh? You can read my thoughts now?!”

“Marriage?!” Tara shouted feeling faint, as both older women fell over laughing.

Willow stared at her mother, trying to figure out how she’d read her mind. Tara on the other hand didn’t know what she wanted to do first, faint, or get answers, she settled on answers -and if it came to it, she could faint later. “What do you mean marriage?”

The older women calmed down, and regained their last position, Shelia sitting on the ground, and Mythe on her lap, “Daughter, Willow was thinking we were going to tell her we were getting married, and Shelia decided to tease her a little, that is all.” she giggled again.

“How’d you read my mind?”

Shelia smiled, “This is the Farplane, sweetie, there is no reading to it, you were projecting your thoughts.”

“Oh.” Willow nodded, “Okay, that makes sense.”

Tara shook her head, she really had an odd family…well, wife and mother…and mother-in-law, but she wouldn’t give them up for anything. “What is the news you wanted to speak with us about?” That sobered the women up, and worried Tara and Willow to no end. If a single question could bring about the end of the smiles on both of their mother’s faces, then something was wrong.

“What is it?”

“There is no easy way to say this, so I’ll just come out and say it… There is something going on, a large power source as appeared out of nowhere. We do not know what it is, but it is very good at hiding it’s power from us, even the Aeons.”

Mythe sighed, Shelia was right, “It’s bad, girls, real bad. Odd things has been happening, and none of us know what is going on. We only wanted to warn you ahead of time so you’ll be ready.”

Tara glanced at her wife with worried blue eyes before turning her attention back to her mother and Sheila, “Is Spira safe?”

How could either of them lie to their girls? Spira was in trouble, but not near as badly as other worlds, and they had been taking care of it -no one saw the need to worry them over something that small. But still, lie? They couldn’t, so what should they tell them? “Spira is fine for now.” A new voice spoke, and Bahamut appeared.

“Kou! Don’t do that!” Mythe covered her heart with her hand.

“Is this true?” Willow asked her mother, she knew the Aeons tended to hide things.

Shelia nodded, “Yes, Spira is safe for now, there is nothing to worry you over, just be on the lookout for that power we spoke of, okay?”

“Okay, we can do that.” Willow said, but was still a little uneasy as to the welfare of Spira, it was her…not just hers, but Tara’s and the other’s home too.

The young Aeon cocked his head to the right as he watched both girls, “Do not worry,” he said, and decided to speak the truth, “We have been killing a few Heartless here and there, but it is nothing to worry about. Right now you need to worry about other things, leave the well being of Spira to us, here on the Farplane.” he grinned and disappeared.

“Great. Now our home is in danger too.” Willow growled, “I’m gonna kill every one of those damn things I come across, starting with that friggin’ Phantom when I get back!”

“No!” Both Mythe and Shelia shouted, “You mustn’t kill him!”

“Why in hellfire not?!”

Mythe waved her hand and the image of a handsome young man with pure white hair and a golden horn on his head appeared, “That is Helios, the pries of Elysion, and he must not be harmed.” She said and continued after a moment, “He is of pure light; the Heartless captured him, and fused the darkness within his body, and in doing so corrupted him. You must help heal him.”

With the others….

The entire group stared at the Phantom, no one dared let their guard down for fear it was a trick. Although no one knew exactly what the Heartless creature wanted, why had it said “No”? Did it…he want something? When the creature had spoke it had sounded like a man, or what had once been a man. The girls and their twins, plus Donald and Goofy, stood around Willow and Tara -not about to leave their side. The senshi stood, all glaring at the Heartless that had caused so many problems for them, and the inhabitants of the world they were on. Each girl had had to deal with him/it at one time or another, and knew the creature lived off fear -not to mention their attacks did no harm, only held him at bay.

“What do you what?” Haruka snarled out as she lifted her golden sword, and slightly stepped in front of Michiru.

The princess stared at the Heartless as he mulled over Haruka’s question, to her it seemed as if the creature was thinking of how to answer, and she stepped forward, “Princess!” The inner senshi called out in surprise and tried to step in front of her.

“Stand down.” Usagi ordered, “Everyone, please.” She looked each of her guardians in the eyes, and nodded to the others, “He means us no ill will, he wants to be helped.” she said softly with a smile in the Phantom’s direction.

The Phantom blinked under his hood, how had that girl known? That was a stupid question, she could tell, it was in her nature, “The princess is right.” Tara whispered as she opened her eyes and sat up.

“Don’t harm him.” Willow too opened her eyes and sat up, she rubbed her head, thanking the Fayth she did not have a headache.

“Please,” The Phantom spoke in that horrid voice he now hated, “I want what I was…but what was that? Do you know…do you know who I was?” he asked with a slightly broken voice.

No one spoke as Tara, Willow and Usagi approached the Heartless, “You do not remember who you were?” The princess asked as she closed her eyes, and let her senses touch the Phantom, “You!” her eyes snapped open in surprise, “I can feel it…the power… Your power.”

“Who is he?!” The group of senshi shouted, all wanted to know, and all were still on guard.

“Lower your hood.” Tara said as she linked hands with Willow, “Let us see your face.”

The Phantom heisted for just a second and did as was asked, he raised his hands, fingers grasping the hood, and slowly lowered it. Several things happened at once. Minako and Haruka fainted -later Haruka would be teased- only to be caught by their lovers. Ami quickly brought out her small computer, lowered her visor over her eyes, and began scanning -all the while mumbling about it not being right. Makoto’s legs went weak, and she fell on her butt, and stared in confusion. Setsuna, the all knowing time guarding, felt her jaw hit the ground, right next to Hotaru’s, she couldn’t believe it, she was all knowing -yet she didn’t know this! Rei’s hands fell limply at her sides as she chaste herself for not knowing…not feeling the real power behind the Phantom. Michiru had almost let Haruka hit the ground, but had caught her lover in time, and now she could only stare in horror.

Clay and her group, Peter; the princesses and their lovers, Donald and Goofy, and Buffy and Faith all stared -wondering just what the hell had happed to the man they were looking at. None of them knew who he was, but it seemed like the senshi did, and from their reactions, it wasn’t good.

The Phantom, no, the man who’d once been Helios stood in front of the three young women with his head down. His once pure white hair had turned grayish with black streaks. The bright golden eyes had turned an off yellow, and his pupils had changed into slits, making them look catlike. The magnificent golden horn on his head had turned a very off green color, as if it had never been cleaned, and his once milky white skin had turned gray in color -almost as if he’d been turned into a zombie. Helios, once a very handsome young man, now looked much like a monster to the senshi.

Usagi smiled sadly as she took in the appearance of her friend, and lay her hand on his cheek, “Do not worry, you will return back to your old self.” she spoke softly and stepped back, holding her hand out, “Rei, love, please come over here.”

The fire senshi did as was asked, and took her lover’s hand as she stepped beside the princess, “What do we need to do?”

The blonde princess grinned, she knew Minako and Haruka were still unconscious, she turned and winked at the others, “Senshi! Front and center!” she ordered, and like magic, the leader of the senshi and Haruka snapped their eyes open, and in a flash they were beside their princess. “Princess Faith, Princess Tara, will you join us?”

The two princesses nodded and hurried over, “We are ready.”

Willow kissed Tara and stepped back, she knew they only needed white based magic, “Bring him back love.” she whispered.

The senshi, Usagi, Tara, Princess Tara, and Princess Faith stood in a circle around Helios, and linked hands. Rei began the chant, “Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen.” As she began chanting the words over, the others joined in, each beginning to glow brightly. Their powers shot towards the sky, and began dancing around each other, almost like a waltz, and one by one they merged together. The now large ball of energy hovered in the air as if waiting for orders, and then shot through the air -heading toward Helios, “Akuryou taisan!” The group shouted just as the energy hit the once priest of Elysion, and exploded, sending a shockwave across the area.

Once the light died down, and the debris stopped falling, Willow looked up, “Did it work?” Clay asked as she stepped over with the others.

Helios lay on the ground, the hood covering his face, and he groaned, “That hurt.” he said, and stopped, his voice! His voice was once again deep and smooth! The priest quickly stood on shaky legs, and sighed, now to see if it had really worked. Slowly he grasped the hood and pushed it back, and was rewarded with smiles from his friends, and the ones he’d tried to destroy, “Did it work?” he asked, repeating Clay’s question.

“Yes, my friend, it worked, you’re back!” Usagi laughed and launched herself at him, and much unbecoming of a princess, grabbed the priest in a bear hug, “You are back! We missed you so much!” she cried as her tears wet he now white suit, and the senshi gathered around, ready to greet their friend.

Tara and the princesses had backed away, and right into the arms of their lovers; Tara relaxed in Willow’s embrace, and couldn’t help but be happy that Helios was cured. “We did good didn’t we?”

“Yes love, you and the others helped him return to normal.” The redhead kissed her wife’s neck, “We should be leaving soon.”

“So soon?” Usagi turned, causing Willow to blink, that girl had good hearing.

“We have to deal with the Heartless.” Donald said raising his staff in the air, “Otherwise something else might happen, like it did here.”

A beautiful smile graced Helios’ lips as he stepped over to Tara, “Thank you young maiden,” he said and bestowed a kiss on the blonde’s lips, causing Willow to narrow her eyes. “I must thank these two young maidens also.” he smiled once more as he kissed princess Faith, and then princess Tara on the lips, and in doing so, caused their lovers to narrow their eyes. “I must be leaving to check on Elysion now, but I will visit you ladies again.” he said to the senshi and in a flash he disappeared.

“Do come back and visit us again.” Usagi embraced each and every one of the others, “My new friends, we will have a ball in your honor.”

“There’s no need for that.” Clay said, truth be told, the girl hated any sort of party!

Willow number two smacked Clay up side the head, “Hey now, don’t go saying, you know you want to.” she smirked, sure her lover did not like parties, but a party is where they met the first time, and danced, she sighed.

“You’re thinking about the SeeD ball aren’t you?” Clay sighed and rolled her eyes, “You pulled me into that dance!”

“Sure, but you wanted to!”

“Did not!”

“Did to!”

Haruka chucked, “They sound like the princess and Rei…” the senshi of wind grinned at her two friends, “Just how did you become lovers any way, you never told us.”

Rei’s eyes widened as a blush spread across her face, “Yes, please come back. A ball is just what we need right now, and it would be more special in your honor.” the Martian bowed.

Tara nodded, “If we have time, we will return.”

“Okay, after you’ve defeated the Heartless, return here and we’ll take you to our home.” Usagi smiled and embraced each of the group once more, as did the senshi, and watched as they were teleported up to their ship to continue their mission. “Be safe, friends, Selene watch over them, and keep them safe.”

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Well, that finishes off Neverland... Hope it was worth the wait ^_^

[Egnalos]

Wow I can't believe I missed so many updates... quite a lot to catch up with... be back with comments later... me in a hurry and language problems sorry.

[Stormforce]

This isn't an update, I do have the next chapter worked on, however, like Oni or Tenshi, I have become blocked...again. I am working on it, and hopefully I'll have the final chapter out soon. ^_^

[Stormforce]

Ok, here's the update, finally! I'm sorry it's taken so long, but between being blocked, and rewriting it...it took forever. I can only hope this chapter is good.

Final Fantasy X-3
Pairing: W/T B/F
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I'll put 'em back later


Chapter Sixty-Five: Back to Hollow Bastion

After leaving Neverland, Buffy set the auto-pilot on the ship, and hurried to the weapon space. The group only had to restock their supply of potions and medicines, since they each already carried their weapon of choice. Once their packs were restocked, the small blonde jumped back into her seat, and gunned the engine -knocking everyone back a few feet as the ship sped up. This was is, they were heading towards the final battle, or battles, no one knew how many battles there would be -but all knew they would not stop until the Heartless were gone.

Not an hour later the ship hovered over the world, setting the teleporter, and turning on the ship’s self-defense; the group teleported down. Once they appeared; the group glanced around, only to see Beast standing on the large platform where the dark twins had taken the Keyblades. Nodding to the others, Willow began hopping from one small platform to another, until she reached the one Beast was standing on. The Beast watched as the bigger group jumped up to meet him before turning with a bewildered look on his furry face, “What happened?” Willow asked as she landed behind him.

“I just appeared out here when I started back to see Belle.” The Beast said shaking his head, he was very confused.

“You going back?” Faith asked as she stepped beside him as she stared at the huge castle, and felt a chill run down her spine. The feeling of darkness wasn’t as strong, but it was still there, turning she saw that the others could feel it too -and could only hope that Tara or the princesses could feel it as strongly.

Princess Tara felt tears fill her eyes as she looked at the castle, her and princess Faith’s castle. What had the Heartless done to it? “It’s okay, we’ll get your castle back.” Willow number three wrapped her arms around her lover, and gently squeezed, “Those damn Heartless won’t keep it.”

“Damn right.” Buffy number three said as she pulled princess Faith into an embrace.

“Let’s go.” Goofy said readying his shield, he wasn’t going to be caught off guard by the enemy.

Beast lead the way, and this time he was not going to be mysteriously transported back outside, he would avoid going to the left, no, this time he would stay right. “This way.” he said as they entered the castle, the two princesses feeling the sickness in their gut at the difference the Heartless had made in their one time home. As they entered the library, Beast pulled Buffy toward the right, “No, if you go that way you’ll only end up back outside.” he then pointed to the stairs, “That’s where we want to go.”

“Okay.” The Al Bhed nodded, and was thankful, she did not want to be teleported back outside and have to trek all the way back.

“Belle!” The Beast shouted as he stepped on to the second floor, and saw the young woman in her yellow dress.

“Oh, Beast!” Belle cried and hurried over, and embraced the furry man. With a slight blush, Belle kissed the once prince on his lips. The others watched as the couple spoke for a few minutes before the princess of heart turned to them, “You’ve come to seal the keyhole, right?” she asked and saw the girls nod, “Please be careful. The darkness is raging deep inside, we’ve been holding it back, but we’re growing weak and won’t be able to hold out much longer.”

Tara bowed to the young woman, “We will take care of it, don’t worry.” she said and raised up, she let her eyes meet with those of Donald, Goofy, Buffy, Faith, and finally her wife, “Are you ready?”

“Yes.” They nodded, “Let’s get this done.” Willow took Tara’s hand and intertwined their fingers.

The ex-dark twins looked at each other, “We’re going too,” They said and turned to Clay, “Take care of our girls, will ya?”

Clay nodded, “I will.” she knew she wouldn’t want her lover going into the darkness to fight. Sure they had all been in tight spots before, but she knew no one but the Keyblade masters, the king’s servants, and possibly the once dark twins could withstand being near the darkness.

The princesses were worried, although they knew their lovers could take care of themselves, and knew the others wouldn’t let anything happen to them -they still couldn’t help but worry they would never see them again, “Be careful.” Princess Tara told her lover, and heard Princess Faith repeat those words to her own lover. “Please watch over them.”

“We will, don’t worry.” Tara told her counterpart, and nodded to the others, “Let’s do this.”

“Got it.”

Beast and Belle, Clay and her group, and the princesses all watched the Keyblade masters disappear through the door with Donald, Goofy and the twins. All prayed for a safe return.

The group of eight followed the same path as before to reach the chapel, thankful that no Heartless had appeared to fight them. Inside they saw the other princesses standing near the center of the room, each looked pale, and ready to leave. If a person was to just look in on them, they would think nothing was wrong, but it was. The darkness was being held at bay just from the princesses being there. They were using their own pure hearts to stop the darkness from taking over, and destroying everything.

“We’ve been waiting for you, Keyblade masters.” Cinderella spoke as the group approached.

“Where’d Ansem go?” Faith looked around the room, the only ones there were her group, and the princesses of heart.

The blonde haired princess cut her eye toward Aurora, and sighed, “When the keyhole appeared; the darkness poured out of it, and it swallowed Ansem…he disappeared.” Aurora let her eyes rest on the large door.

Cinderella took a deep breath, the darkness was beginning to wear her down, “Once the door opened a flood f darkness hasn’t stopped trying to force it’s way out. We’re working together to hold it back.”

Aurora just slightly nodded her head, and pressed her back against the wall with a sigh, “I cannot forget the look on Ansem’s face as the darkness engulfed him.” the princess shuttered, and closed her eyes for a moment, once she opened them again; the princess glanced at the door to darkness, “He was smiling. It…Ansem was smiling as he was engulfed in the darkness.” tears shown in her eyes, and Cinderella stepped over and wrapped the young woman in her arms.

“Girls, Donald, Goofy, please be careful.” Jasmine said as she stepped over with Snow White and Alice, “The darkness is pressing against the barrier, some is escaping, but we’re doing our best.”

Alice stumbled and caught herself on a pillar, “It’s all we can do just to hold the darkness back.”

“I don’t know how long we can manage even that.” Snow White spoke, she could feel the darkness invading the room little by little, “We’re counting on you, Keyblade masters. In the meantime, we’ll do what we can here.”

“Were on our way, just hang on.” Tara hurried toward the door to darkness, and looked back, “You all ready?” a round of “Yeah, or yes.” was heard, and at all at once the group jumped through the door, and into the Dark Depths.

As the group landed, they found themselves in a darkness covered room; the only light was coming from the multicolored keyhole at the back. Blue, purple, red, green, pick, yellow, gray, black, and orange all swirled around the keyhole, lighting up the room.

THUMP! The ground shook…

“Oh, hellfire!” Faith cursed as a huge Heartless landed in front of them, effectively cutting off the path to the keyhole.

The group could make out the three different colors on the Heartless, dark purple over it’s back, light purple in the center, and again with dark purple on each of it’s four legs -and four black hooves. The monster was very muscular too, large shoulders leading down to large biceps, and on to large forearms. An inward curving cream colored horn on either side of its massive head, and a single solid black horn in the center. The Heartless symbol on it’s chest glowed brightly with an eerie light. It took a step towards the group, shaking the ground, and causing everyone to stumble like they were drunk.

The behemoth roared, sending the girls and two guys into action. Buffy and her twin ran forward, both sliding under the Heartless, and slicing at his underside. Willow and her twin danced around in front of him, slashing his head when he lowered it. Goofy began spinning around, bringing his shield out, and continuously hitting the Heartless’ right hind leg. Two Thunder spells, one from Tara and the other from Donald, and a Flame spell from Faith crashed into the behemoth’s back.

The behemoth raised up, and quickly fell forward; it’s hooves smashing into the ground, and sending a shockwave out. Willow and her twin were thrown back from the force, just as Buffy and her twin. Goofy had, at the moment the behemoth rose into the air, jumped away, avoiding the shockwave. Willow had been closer than her twin, and was knocked into the wall; the sound of her head smacking hard against the sent a chill up her twin’s spine. The ex-dark twin crawled over to Willow’s unconscious body, and growled when she saw the blood seeping from the redhead’s ears, nose and mouth. It had been a hard hit. “She needs healing!” The twin shouted to Tara, and waited until the spell did it’s job, and Tara made her way over. Nodding to the blonde; the twin re-entered the fight.

Faith had seen her lover, and the twin fall to the ground, and watched them rise back up before sending a healing spell their way. The dark haired woman then ran forward, leaped into the air, and landed on the behemoth’s back. She brought her blade down, cutting a gaping hole in the back, quickly pulled the Keyblade out, and shoved her hand into the wound. “Flare!” she called out, the spell exploded into the wound, burning her hand, and causing the Heartless to fall to the ground, “Kill it now!” she shouted jumping away, and casting a Cure spell on her hand. The angry red burn that covered her hand quickly healing as the twins, Donald and Goofy finished the behemoth off. With a roar the Heartless vanished in an explosion.

No one had had time to get away, and all were thrown back into one of the four walls, and all joined Willow in unconsciousness.

Almost an hour later, Willow awoke to the grinning face of Buffy number two, and groaned, “What the…”

“You battled…something went boom, and we checked it out, and found you and the others unconscious.” Buffy number two said helping Willow to stand.

Willow nodded, saw Tara waking, and rushed over to help her. Buffy was helping Faith to stand, and the princesses were helping their lovers. “Look at what those damn things did to our home!” Princess Faith cried out with a curse, very un-princess-like, causing the others to blink.

“We’ve got to seal that keyhole!” Donald said glancing around the group as Goofy helped him to stand.

Buffy shook her head, “There is no ‘we’ to it,” she said and raised her Keyblade, “I can feel it, it’s calling my blade.” the Al Bhed turned and sprinted to the Dark Depths, with her twin on her heels.

“Let her go,” Princess Faith said, still fuming about the castle, “I know my Buffy will take care of you Buffy.” the princess grinned, and all felt the power of the Keyblade flood the castle as the keyhole was sealed, “See?”

Only a few minutes went by before the two Buffys came back with grins, “You did it!” Clay smiled as she wrapped her arms around her Willow.

“It used to be so peaceful here.” Princess Tara sighed and lowered her head.

Willow number three wrapped her arms around the princess, “Don’t worry, love, once we defeat D’Hoffryn, the palace will be restored.”

“Yes, but it also means goodbye to our new friends.” Faith number two said as her Buffy nodded.

“Once the worlds are restored, they’ll be separate again.”

Willow number two sighed as she leaned into her lover, “Everyone will go back to where they came from.”

Buffy shrugged, “So,” she grinned, “We’ll just visit you guys with the ship.”

Clay didn’t know how to say it, she knew she wasn’t that good with words, or even explaining things -but she had to say it, “It’s not that simple.” she shook her head.

Willow number two, feeling her lover’s uneasiness, squeezed her hand and continued for her, “Before all this, you didn’t know about the other worlds, right?”

“Because every world was isolated.” Faith number two cut in, “There were impassable walls dividing them.”

“The Heartless destroyed those walls.” Buffy number two said, and then lowered her head, “But if the worlds return, so will the walls.”

Clay sighed, and finished, “Which means the ship will be useless.”

Willow bowed her head, she didn’t want to give up the new friends they had made, even if they were their twins, “So, what you’re saying is, we’ll never..?”

“We may never meet again, but we’ll never forget each other.” Clay nodded.

“No matter where we are, our hearts will bring us together again.” Willow number two said as she embraced each of the girls.

Buffy number two smirked, “Besides, I couldn’t forget you all even if I wanted to.”

“Hey!” Buffy shouted, “What’s that suppose to mean?” she giggled as the princesses entered the room.

Each of the princesses embraced the girls, and the twins before each of them spoke, “Thank you, girls.” Alice smiled, “I think the darkness has begun to weaken.”

Jasmine nodded and sighed, “But I can feel a powerful darkness growing somewhere far away.”

Aurora stepped beside the sultan’s daughter, “It’s the heart of the darkness. It must be where D’Hoffryn went.”

“Then we’ll take the ship and deal with both D’Hoffryn and the Heartless.” Tara said as the others agreed.

“A worthy answer,” Cinderella bowed, “Keyblade masters.”

Snow White followed Cinderella’s lead and bowed before the group before speaking, “Once the darkness is gone, all should return to it’s original state.”

“That’s good.” Faith sighed, it had been one long journey, but it was almost over.

No one really knew what to say, this would be the last time they saw one another, and it caused everyone’s heart’s to weep. “Let’s go before I start to cry.” Buffy sniffed, and once more, the girls, Donald, and Goofy were embraced by the girls. Even the twins, they were embraced by the princesses, and Clay’s group, which surprised them. With a kiss to their lovers, the twins stepped beside the group and vanished.

On the ship the group could see a large spiraling ball of darkness off in the distance, and could feel it growing powerful Buffy hopped into the pilot’s seat, and moved the ship forward, and into the darkness. It would be the final dimension they saw, where they would put a stop to D’Hoffryn, and the Heartless. It was known as the End of the World. The ship could go no further, so Buffy landed then ship on a large flat rock, and stood from the seat. “This is it, is everyone ready?” Willow asked and saw the others nod, she gave a nod herself, and activated the teleporter.

When they landed the group stood in front of the Gate to the Dark, and saw fragments floating in every direction. “Gawrsh,” Goofy stared, “is that all that’s left of the worlds taken by the Heartless?” No one said a word, they could only nod. There had to be thousands upon thousands of small, medium, and large chunks of rocks, homes, castles… everything from the worlds, floating in front of them.

Willow turned toward the others, “Those worlds will be restored if we beat D’Hoffryn, right?” She asked and glanced back at the fragments.

“You betcha!” Donald nodded.

“But, if we do beat him, and all these worlds become restored and disconnected, what’s gonna happen to this place?” Willow shivered, “And to us?”

Donald blinked, “Well…uh…” he didn’t know what to say, he really had no idea what would happen either.

“This is a Heartless world, so maybe it’ll just disappear.” Goofy said staring off into the distance.

“Huh?!” The entire group’s eyes widened.

Goofy grinned, “But no worries. Even if this place goes poof, our hearts ain't goin' nowhere. I'm sure we'll find our pals again. Yup, I just know that we will.”

“Yeah,” Tara believed it, she did, she knew if she didn’t, then she would grab the others and leave, “You're right.” she said and took the only path that was connected to the rock they were standing on, down.

Willow’s twin glanced around, and shivered, even with the darkness gone from her body, she could still feel it calling to her -and knew her Buffy felt the same, “I wonder where D’Hoffryn went?”

Buffy’s twin felt a chill go down her spine as the group moved closer and closer to a pitch black portal, “Dive into the most dangerous place, and we’ll find him.”

Faith picked up a palm sized rock, and threw it into the black portal, nothing happened, “I guess it’s safe enough.” she said and approached it, “Wait here, and I’ll see.”

“No!” Buffy pulled her lover back.

The twins nodded, “She’s right, we’ll go, you all just wait here.” Buffy’s twin said and jumped into the portal before anyone could protest, and was quickly followed by Willow’s twin a second later.

It seemed like hours passed by, but it was only seconds before the two girls reappeared, only to face an angry Tara, “Don’t do that again!” Tara shouted, causing both girls to wince, “Anything could have happened!”

The two girls lowered their heads, “Sorry,” they mumbled, “But nothing’s in there, only a door.” Willow’s twin said, and jumped back through the portal.

“Come on.” Buffy’s twin followed the other, and was followed by the others.

As the group approached a fifteen foot tall black and purple door, Willow stopped, and turned, “Huh?” she glanced at the ceiling.

“What’s wrong?” Tara asked suddenly standing guard beside her wife.

Willow cocked her head to the right, and closed her eyes, “Don’t you hear something?” she asked, “There!”

“Careful.” A soft voice said, “This is the last haven you'll find here. Beyond, there is no light to protect you. But don't be afraid. Your hearts are the mightiest weapons of all. Remember, you are the ones who will open the door to the light.”

“I don’t hear it.” Donald said, he had listened, but had not heard a thing, and the same thing went for everyone else, no one but Willow had heard it.

The redhead sighed, and seemed as if she deflated for just a moment, “Strange, that voice was so familiar.” she shrugged, “Maybe it’s just my imagination.”

On the Farplane, Shiva smiled, and turned away from the pool of water to join the others. She had done all she could in warning Willow that the room they were in was the last safe place before the final battle.

Tara hugged her wife from behind, “You want to rest for a few minutes.”

“No,” Willow shook her head, “Let’s finish this.”

With the help of the twins, Faith and Buffy pushed open the huge, and very heavy doors, only to stare at the black, desolate, run down land in front of them. No grass was growing on the ground, and the sky was almost as black as night, but the ocean was blue. It sent a chill down everyone’s spines, and caused them to up their guard even more.

“This world has been connected.” D’Hoffryn’s voice could be heard, “Tied to the darkness…soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn.” His voice continued as the ocean turned purple. “You understand nothing. A meaningless effort. One who knows nothing can understand nothing.”

The group began turning in circles to pinpoint where the voice was coming from, but saw nothing. “Take a look at this tiny place. It now belongs to the darkness.”

“Where the hell are you?!” Buffy’s twin shouted towards the rocks.

“All worlds being in darkness, and all so end. The heart is no different. Darkness sprouts within it, grows, and consumes it. Such is its nature.” D’Hoffryn said smirking as he appeared floating behind the group. “In the end, every heart returns to the darkness whence it came. You see, darkness is the heart’s true essence.”

“That’s not true!” Tara shouted.

“The heart may be weak, and sometimes it may even give in. But I’ve learned that deep down, there’s a light that never goes out!” Willow narrowed her eyes.

D’Hoffryn shook his head as he looked over the group, “So, you have come this far and still you understand nothing.” he sighed, almost sadly, “Every light must fade, every heart must return to darkness.” he said, and thrust his hands forward, knocking everyone but Willow and Buffy back as a barrier appeared. Tara and Faith, once more, found themselves on one side of a clear barrier, and their lovers on the other.

“Oh, shit!” Buffy’s twin groaned as the ground began to shake, “This is not good at all!” she shouted as everyone stared at the ground where a black shadow began to form, and rise up taking shape.

“Meet Darkside!” D’Hoffryn laughed manically and floated down on to a rock, where he sat down to watch, “Kill them.” he ordered as Darkside rose to his fullest height.

Immediately the two girls jumped back, and separated, Willow going to the left, and Buffy to the right. Willow cast a Flare spell as she ducked under the giant Heartless’ hand, and smirked as Darkside roared in pain from the spell. The huge Heartless roared once more as two blades connected with it’s midsection, five, six, seven times apiece. Darkside slammed both fists down, causing a shockwave just as Willow and Buffy landed, and were knocked back into the rocks.

The creature’s glowing yellow eyes glared at the two girls as he moved forward, and swiped at them with his right hand. “Protect!” Willow shouted, casting the spell over she and Buffy, and felt the hand make contact with the shield a second later. They both grunted from the impact, and thanked the Fayth that the spell cut the pain by a third. Buffy rolled to her left, quickly stood as she threw a Pineapple mix, and dived even further to the left. Willow had watched the mix fly through the air, rolled on to her stomach, and covered her head. The mix exploded on Darkside’s face, knocking him to the ground. Both girls rolled to their feet, and met at the creature’s head, where they began pounding with their blades.

With each hit to his head, Darkside growled, and would try to stand, only to be kept down from the force. He could feel his life draining away from the Keyblades, and decided to give the girls what they wanted. With a mighty roar, Darkside slammed his palms on to the ground, and cast an exploding spell -combined with the shockwave from his hands; the girls were once again slammed into the rocks. Laughing could be heard as the girls lost consciousness, and Darkside disappeared.

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Well, I'm working on the final chapter for FFX-3... And, FFX-4 will be on the way.

[Stormforce]

Well, here's the last chapter of FFX-3, and I've been a busy bee, too. I've got the first couple of chapters of FFX-4 already done. Just gotta go back through, and recheck everything, and possibly make a few changes. Then it'll be up ^_^

Final Fantasy X-3
Pairing: W/T B/F
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I'll put 'em back later


Chapter Sixty-Six: The Final Battle and Kingdom Hearts

After the fight against Darkside, the group fell through a portal and ended up in nothing but dark emptiness. Tara rushed over to Willow, as Faith hurried over to Buffy, “Are you okay?” Tara asked as she cast a healing spell on the two girls, and heard them groan.

“Wha…” Willow sat up shaking her head to clear the haze away, “What happened?”

Buffy sat up and squeezed her eyes shut, “Oh…that hurt.”

As the two girls stood with the help of their lovers, D’Hoffryn floated just above them, and raised his hands above his head, “Behold the endless abyss!” he shouted, startling the group, “Within lies the heart of all worlds: Kingdom Hearts!” The man pointed to a thirty-five foot tall white door with golden trim around the edges, “Look as hard as you are able. You'll not find even the smallest glimmer of light. From those dark depths are all hearts born. Even yours.”

The ground disappeared as the World of Chaos appeared, and everyone found themselves falling in the darkness, “Darkness conquers all worlds!” D’Hoffryn shouted as his manically laugh echoed.

“Don’t give up!” The twins shouted as they began floating, “Remember, your hearts are of light!”

As the twins spoke, the others found they had stopped falling, and were now floating, “Let’s get him!” Faith let out a battle cry, and used her anger to fly toward D’Hoffryn.

D’Hoffryn laughed as the group headed towards him, “Come to fight me, have you?” he asked, and smirked, “Well, I shall make it more interesting.” he said and split into six different shapes of himself, and pointed to Donald and Goofy, “You have no place in this fight!” as he spoke a cage trapped the two guys inside, and they could only watch as the girls took on a D’Hoffryn shape each.

Willow flew toward one shape, and spun around, her body began spinning at a incredible rate as she thrust her Keyblade out. With her spinning, the Keyblade connected with the D’Hoffryn shape too many times to count, before the redhead slowed and allowed herself to fall under the man. Ten foot under D’Hoffryn; Willow whirled around and let fly a Flare spell. The spell hit the man’s midsection, knocking him back and causing him to glare at the redhead. The sound of his sword begin pulled from the sheath alerted Willow that he now had a weapon. At the same time, the other D’Hoffryn shapes pulled their swords from the sheaths.

D’Hoffryn wasted no time waiting, he flew down and met Willow half way. Their blades clanging together as they fought. The redhead grit her teeth as D’Hoffryn’s blade sliced into her left arm, she growled and thrust her blade, hard, into his chest.

The twins had literally shoved their D’Hoffryn shapes together, their backs were touching, and had started pound on them with their blades. Neither girl really used magic unless needed, they were more into weapon, and hand to hand combat. The shapes pulled out their swords, and began blocking the strikes, and lashed out with their own attacks -sending the twins on the defensive. Willow’s twin blocked a downward strike, then just barely blocked a strike aimed for her neck, but she had no time to block kick to her face. The twin felt her nose break and quickly put a hand on her face in pain as her eyes began to water. The next thing she felt was a sword being pushed into her shoulder, and cried out as the blade was ripped away. Using her senses, she ducked under a swing, spun around her opponent, and brought her blade up -slicing into his back, before she thrust the blade forward, and hit his heart.

Buffy’s twin misjudged a swing, and felt the blade cut into her cheek just as she was kicked in her stomach -doubling her over. The blonde gasped as another kick hit the back of her head, and sent her falling downward into the darkness. With a loud and very angry growl Buffy’s twin turned, and flew toward the D’Hoffryn shape, and punched him in the stomach, before she brought her blade down, severing his head. She watched as the shape disappeared.

Tara had began her battle by casting a Flare spell that was quickly followed by an Ultima spell. Even though she was more of a spell user, Tara quickly flew forward with her blade ready. The shape was ready for her attack, and smirked as he allowed the blonde to close in before spinning around in a roundhouse kick. The kick sent Tara whirling around as blood seeped from a now open wound on top of her head. Okay, using a weapon wasn’t her strong point, so she used magic. The shape was knocked back by a flurry of Flare, Blizzard, Holy and one last Ultima spell. The blonde hoped that did the trick, she was weakening, and fast.

Faith had met the shape head on, her blade connecting, and re-connecting with the D’Hoffryn shape time after time. He was pushed back, and just had a little time to throw a ball of black energy toward the young woman. Faith was knocked back, but not far. She once more flew at the shape, and saw him unsheathing his sword. Their blades clanged together, sparks lighting up along the sliding blades, and illuminating each person’s face. The dark haired girl brought her knee up, knocking the air from the shape’s lungs, and kicked him in the face. The shape grunted from the impact, and faster than Faith could see; the shape straightened, and brought his fist up in an uppercut. Faith was knocked back, and felt another punch to her mouth, a punch that busted both her upper and bottom lip open. She growled, kicked out, nailing the shape in the stomach, and grabbed his head. Snap! Faith broke his neck.

Buffy’s fight only lasted a few minutes, after she was hit by an energy ball of darkness, she smirked, giggled like a maniac, and flew forward at him as quickly as she could. “Hi!” she said meeting the D’Hoffryn shape, and pointed behind him. He looked. Buffy shook her head, it worked, she then grabbed the waist of his pants, and threw a mix inside. “See ya!” she quickly freefell away. The explosion that occurred sent everyone sailing backwards through the air, but the shape was gone.

The defeated shapes disappeared one by one, and merged together once more. D’Hoffryn smirked as the girls took deep breaths, and slouched down, everyone but Buffy was tired from their fights, “You cannot defeat me!” He laughed, “I am much stronger than you’ll ever be!” Darkness radiated from his body as any, and all wounds his shapes sustained from the battles, healed.

The twins glared up at him, “I’ll kill you, even if it kills me, I WILL kill you!” Willow’s twin growled out.

“You won’t ever take over Kingdom Hearts!” Buffy’s twin shouted as she leaned into Willow’s twin.

“The Keyblades alone cannot seal the door to darkness.” D’Hoffryn turned to the Kingdom Hearts door, “Kingdom Hearts! Fill me with the power of darkness.” The double doors began opening slowly, and dark smoke poured out, “Supreme darkness…”

Willow found they were now standing on a newly appeared ground, and stood on shaky legs, “You’re wrong!” she shouted as the others straightened up, and Donald and Goofy were released from the cage.

“I know,” Tara took her wife’s hand, “We know, without a doubt, Kingdom Hearts is light!” The blonde shouted as a small stream of blood continued to roll down the side of her face -from her head wound.

D’Hoffryn laughed, that is until light began pouring out of the doorway, and illuminated him, “Light!? But why?!” he shouted and screamed in pain as he disappeared.

The doors were partially open as the group hurried over, “Come on!” Faith began pushing against the right door and was joined by Buffy and Goofy. Donald joined Willow and Tara at the left door, and began pushing with all their might. Goofy, for a moment, stopped and stared inside, “Stop staring and keep pushing!” Donald shouted at his friend.

“Look!” Goofy pointed through the door, his eyes wide. Hundreds of shadows began rising from the dark, “The Heartless?!” Both Goofy and Donald shouted in surprise. Maybe this door did lead to the darkness.

“Hurry!” Buffy shouted and pushed against the door.

Willow felt her legs give and sagged against the door, “I can’t…”

The twins looked at one another and nodded, “Don’t give up.” Willow’s twin said as she and Buffy’s twin stepped through the door.

Buffy’s twin smiled, “All of us together can do it!” she said and grasped the door from the inside, just as Willow’s twin had done with the right door.

The doors very slowly began to close, even with the pushing from the outside, and pulling from the inside, it was not enough. “It’s hopeless!” Donald quacked angrily. But then something happened, the Heartless began disappearing, they were being eliminated one by one. There was a bright light shining, “Your Majesty!” Donald and Goofy shouted happily.

Mickey stood on a rock in the center of the disappearing Heartless, holding his own Keyblade, “Girls, let’s close this door for good!”

“Come on! Close it quick!” Donald said and began pushing anew.

“But…” Buffy trailed off staring at the mouse and twins.

“Don’t worry.” Mickey said, “There will always be a door to the light.”

Goofy placed a hand on Tara’s shoulder, and one on Willow’s, “Girls, you can trust King Mickey.”

The twins glanced back, “Now! They’re coming!” They shouted and spun around, killing several close Heartless.

“Girls, Donald, Goofy… Thank you.” Mickey said, his voice was happy, and yet it was sad, as if he would not see his friends for a long time to come. The mouse brought his blade down on a Heartless solider as it closed in on him.

The doors were closing on their own now, the twins turned around and gave the group a sad smile, “Take care of them for us.” Willow’s twin said and raced toward the king.

Buffy’s twin nodded, “Tell them we love them, and that we will return.” she, like Willow’s twin, raced toward the king as the doors closed, and locked.

The world shook so hard that everyone was knocked off their feet as the earth began to rise up, creating mountains. With one last look at the door, only to find it gone, everyone hurriedly jumped over a widening gap in the earth. No one knew how, -but at that moment no one cared- how a set of stairs came to be in front of them. Everyone ran upwards as rocks of all sizes crashed down behind them, sometimes just missing them by a few inches. At the top they could see the door they had come through slowly closing, and with no time to think about it, they jumped through, and were teleported back to the ship.

“Hello?” The voice of Princess Tara could be heard over the speaker.

Buffy jumped into the pilot’s seat, and gunned the engine, heading away from the planet, “Yeah, we’re here…” she trailed off.

A sigh could be heard, “How’s my Willow? How’s Buffy?” Buffy felt tears stinging her eyes, “They…they…”

Tara stepped over and took the mic away from the Al Bhed, “They stayed with the king…in Kingdom Hearts.”

“They stayed…?” Princess Faith asked with a tremor in her voice, and the sound of someone hitting the floor was heard, “Tare!”

That was it, static invaded the speaker as a huge explosion occurred, and everyone was knocked around the ship. Sparks began appearing on the control console in front of Buffy as an alarm sounded and red lights flashed. World after world had started to form, and take shape all around them, and if they were near one when it reappeared, they would be trapped in the earth. Buffy shivered, she had no intension of being killed as a world formed around the ship. Only a mile away the Al Bhed saw a newly formed world, and sighed, they could wait there until things settled down. The controls began sticking, “Damn it!” Buffy shouted, “Gotta land!” she said and accelerated the ship towards the new planet.

The ship entered the atmosphere, and shook as the ground became visible, and only shook worse as they approached. “Hang on! This won’t be a smooth landing!” Buffy struggled with the controls, and finally got the landing gear down in time. Everyone was knocked from their seats, and landed on the floor as the ship touched down, and came to a halt.

“Well, that was fun.” Willow said sarcastically as she rose from the floor, and helped her wife up, “I wonder what damage was done?”

Buffy rubbed her head, “First, how ’bout getting healed?”

“Sure.” Tara had started to cast the healing spells, but was stopped.

“Wait, I’ll do it.” Donald said and winked, he knew she was tired, “Curaga.” the duck whispered, and cast the healing spell over the girls.

With their wounds healed everyone stayed on guard as the ship’s side door opened, and there was nothing. Only the very green grass, trees, birds, butterflies, and blue sky greeted them as they stepped outside in the fresh air. The Al Bhed girl sighed as she walked around the ship, checking it over. Needed a new paint job that was for sure, she could also see wires sticking out of a small panel under the ship, and further down, more wires -she had a huge job to do.

Faith glanced around for a moment and stared at the forest off to the right of the ship, “You mind if I go hunting?”

“No, if that’s what you want,” Tara smiled, “you could bring back something to eat.”

Faith nodded, “I can also hear a waterfall nearby, does someone want to fish, and get some drinking water?”

“I’ll fish.” Donald said and used his staff to magic up a fishing pole.

Willow grinned, “Hey, get me a pole too, been a while since I’ve fished.” she said and watched as a pole appeared in front of her, “We’ll also get the water. Goofy, Tare, you should stay here with Buffy. We still don’t know what’s on this world.” The redhead kissed Tara’s lips, and off she went with Donald to fish.

“I’ll be back.” Faith kissed Buffy and ran off into the forest.

Buffy sighed as she looked at the ship, “Well, I guess I’ll get to work,” she turned to Tara and Goofy, “wanna help?” The two nodded, gathered some tools, and slid under the ship.

Two hours later…

Willow and Donald whistled a happy tune as they entered the clearing where the ship was, fishing poles held in their right hands, and ten rainbow trout apiece in their left hands. Just as the two were sitting down; Faith walked out of the clearing holding three rabbits and a couple of pheasant. Buffy and Tara eyed their lovers catch and shook their heads, “We ain’t cleaning all that!” The Al Bhed shook her head.

Donald laughed, “Don’t worry, Goofy and myself will handle the cleaning, you girls need a bath.” he said and pointed back the way he and Willow came from, “You can swim and bathe back there, it’s safe, and while y’all get cleaned up, me an’ Goofy’ll clean these, and cook ‘em.”

“What about the both of you?” Tara asked, she knew they really needed a bath too.

Goofy gently shoved the girls toward the waterfall area, “We’ll bathe after we eat, now go on, you girls relax, and by the time you get back, everything’ll be done.”

As the girls ran off to bathe, and the guys gathered wood for the fire, and cleaned the fish, rabbits and pheasant, no one saw the purplish black portal open. The dog stepped out of the portal, sat down and scratched behind his left ear, and finally laid down to take a short nap.

The swim or bath, which ever a person wanted to call it, didn’t last long due to growling bellies. It was pretty much a wash, let your body dry, and go. But by the time the girls returned to the ship, Donald and Goofy had everything cooked, and laid out on plates.

“This is good.” Buffy sighed, it had been a long time since she and the others had a real meal that was cooked by hand, and not by the ship. She tore into the meal like a rabid animal -actually, they all did.

“Well,” Donald looked up from his fish, “what do we do now?”

Tara held up her hand, “First, what are we going to do with the leftovers?”

“Don’t worry ’bout that.” Goofy grinned and held up a plastic bowl, “See, Donald and King Mickey made these. They keep everything fresh for more than a year.”

“Cool!” Buffy looked over the bowl.

Willow sat her plate down and stretched, “Well, to answer your question, we’ve gotta find the twins, and Mickey.” she gave a sad smile, “They stayed in the darkness so the doors would have time to close.”

“But, uh, where do we start lookin’ for that there door to the light?” Goofy asked, causing everyone, even Buffy who’d just gave the bowl to Donald, to look at the ground, clueless.

“Woof!”

“Huh?” The group looked up, “Pluto?!” Goofy blinked. After his nap, Pluto had smelled the food cooking and had followed his nose, and there he was. The dog was holding something in his mouth, too, “Gawrsh, that’s the king’s seal!”

Faith blinked as she stood, followed by everyone else, “Hey, have you seen King Mickey?” she asked and saw Pluto turn and start running. He may have been hungry, but he wanted to play too, food could wait.

“C’mon!” Tara shouted and laughed as she and the others took off after the dog. The adventure wasn’t over yet, no, they still had three people to find… Well, two people and a mouse. Even though all knew it would be a long one, no one really cared as long as they were together, and at least having a little fun.

“Remember girls… You are the one who will open the door to the light.” A soft voice said as the group began catching up to Pluto.

[ceridwen]

Hey

I finally managed to read all three parts of this epic

I have to say that was quite an adventure

I especially liked that last part where the girls just had fun and could forget about the fighting for a little while.

Poor twins though, but i know the others will find them and they'll be together again.

Very nice story.

I'll be waiting for the next one.

[Artemis]

I finally got all caught up - one hundred and thirty-two chapters in total for all three stories, wow! I really enjoyed how the length of the stories (X-3 in particular) let them twist and turn, and shift gears from adventure to suspense to drama to light-hearted fun without seeming rushed - it meant things never got stale or tired.

I was very glad to see that there'll be an FFX-4, I'm all set to follow it. Congrats on the series so far, and long may it continue

[Stormforce]

Ceridwen - Heya, kitsune, how ya doin'? *coughs* So, you finally finished all three parts, huh? Ready for number four? Yes, it was quite an adventure, one which will be continuing pretty soon. ^_^ Anyway, about the twins, well, I can't say what's going on, but yeah, they'll eventually be found. Aishiteru, koibito, and thanks for reading :D

Artemis - Wow, one hundred and thirty-two chapters... O_O Dang, I didn't realize how long it was, and it's only going to get longer ^_^. I'm glad you enjoyed these three stories, I enjoyed writing them. I'm really happy that things didn't get tired or stale. That would have been bad. <_< Yep, there's going to be an FFX-4, and I'll be putting it up soon. I do have a few chapters finished, but I've been going back through, and re-reading them -and adding a few things here and there. I'll be looking forward to your feedback. Thanks for reading :D