The Gummi Ship soon came to a standstill, since apparently, no one could see at a glance the green mist that connected between worlds for the Fallen. Seeing that by now they couldn't do anything, Eve suggested stopping at a nearby world that seemed to be made up of many different regions. All agreed to stop there for breath, and let Eve remodel a little the Gummi Ship, because of course, four people in a cabin for three, clearly couldn't be comfortable. At the same time, they could test some communication devices that had been designed, but clearly only work if they were in the same world as the Gummi Ship.
With that in mind, Kairi, Edea, and Rena used the teleport system to reach the world. The place where they were seemed to be a mountainous region with many ruins and a huge, deep canyon, at the bottom, there were rivers of lava.
"Better not fall there," Kairi suggested looking at the bottom of the canyon.
"Good idea," Edea answered.
The three walked around the area, until what looked like the entrance to a building in the mountains. They went inside the place, and in a circular room with tall pillars, found on one side to a scholar who was researching some old parchments.
"Sorry, sir," Rena said to the scholar.
The old man stopped what he was doing and turned, finding the three girls. "Well, hello. Can I help you with something, girls? "
"Hi, I'm Kairi, and they are Edea Lee and Rena." Kairi introduced to the elderly. "We're new here and would like to know exactly where we are."
"Ah, tourists. Didn't have tourists for so long, so let me inform you that you are in the Region of Ruins." The old man said.
"Region of Ruins?" Edea asked while Rena and Kairi looked at each other confused.
"Yes, it's one of the multiple zones found in the Multiverse."
"Multiverse?" Edea asked again.
"It must be the world where we are," Kairi replied.
The old man was set over them. "I must assume that not even belong to the Multiverse, right? Well, shouldn't be surprised when after all. I have collected a lot of information over the years to stop surprising on things as this. "
"If I could ask, have you seen any trace of strange creatures like undead with a bat as a symbol?" Asked Kairi.
"Sorry, we know nothing of such things here at Armonia, but might have one of those in another region, but it is also possible that they are here and we don't know." The old man replied.
"I see," Kairi said, thinking she would rest for a while from the Fallen.
"But I must say that strange black creatures with yellow eyes have been causing trouble around here. Could it be the beings that you seek? "
"No, not exactly what we look," Rena said.
"Heartless," Kairi muttered aloud at the floor, before turning her gaze to the scholar. "Don't you have seen anybody who controlled them?"
"I'm afraid not." The old man replied. "In any case, you should be careful if you walk along there. Who knows when they might attack. "
"We'll have it, thanks," Kairi said and left, soon followed by Edea and Rena.
Outside the building, Edea approached her. "You know those things that said the old man?"
"Yes, they're called Heartless and are very dangerous beings. They are formed when darkness takes your heart completely, and they only think of stealing and devouring more hearts, unless someone controls them. "Kairi explained.
"And you know who controls them?" Rena asked.
"If I am not mistaken, there are two people who are in command of the Heartless. A giant cat named Pete; and a witch or fairy, I don't know exactly, called Maleficent. Pete is quite problematic, but Maleficent is more dangerous. So that I was kidnapped and they tricked a friend to fight another friend." Kairi explained.
"So we have to be careful," Edea said.
"Yes, very careful," Rena said and began to look around, feeling as if something was spying them.
Elsewhere, in what seemed the peak of a mountain surrounded by clouds, two people that seemed to be stuck in that place. One of them, a small stone gargoyle, was watching a resemblance to an hourglass, but with three totally dark spheres and three peaks in under and top of the object. The gargoyle was looking at the object because in the central orb was watching talk to the three girls.
"Eh, master. I think we're having a visit. "The gargoyle said to his master, a man of greenish skin with a dark green suit and a red cape fastened by two small masks, a smiling and sad, and a small mask covering a portion of the face. The mysterious being observed in the 'Triple Sphere'.
"You should stop looking and dedicate yourself to your work, Claw. I'm not in the mood." The man said at the gargoyle, Claw, quite angry. "Remember that the Triple Sphere broke because of you the last time." After that he was fixed in the image, watching Kairi, Rena, and Edea. It did not seem to matter until he noticed more in Kairi, and soon his eyes opened wide. "Wait ... the redhead ... yes, it has to be her." Said the man with his hand turned the Triple Sphere, blurring the image, and soon exchanging it for another, revealing a woman with a green face, black suit and an evil expression at first glance. "Maleficent, I have to talk to you."
"Ah, Lord Tenoroc, what a pleasant surprise," Maleficent told through the images. "May I know the reason for your call? Did Pete is messing around as usual? "
"Fortunately not, for his own good, but I wanted to talk to you about that topic you told me, on these Princesses of Heart." Tenoroc said.
"What's wrong with them?" "Yes, apparently one of them is in the Multiverse. The redheaded one to be precise." Tenoroc explained.
"And I was the one who discovered it," Claw said but recoiled with a glance of Tenoroc.
Maleficent looked up with one hand on her chin. "Mmm, so Kairi is there. I thought she was with that old bag of Yen Sid." Then turned her gaze back to Tenoroc removing her hand from her chin. "This may be our opportunity to obtain an asset for obtaining Kingdom Hearts, or at least the data of the worlds that rodent protects."
"But from what I've seen, this Pete isn't very clever, and I doubt he can do something to catch her." Tenoroc said. "Especially considering the problems he has with Hatter."
"What do you propose?" Maleficent asked.
"Send out a villain! One who can catch the Princess, prevents the fat cat fail, and can finish Hatter!" Claw said.
"You know, Claw, you just gave me an idea, and I know a villain who can fulfill all this time." Tenoroc said undoing Maleficent's image. Soon he put his hand on strange orange hexagonal tiles with drawings in the center, and one of the tabs floated to the top of the Triple Sphere, fitting into a place for him. "I summon, the Ogre!" Said the villain and the Triple Sphere began joining the object's spikes, while a green light orb jutted above the central sphere, causing a reaction.
"Come on, damn bums, keep digging! We don't have all the day!" Pete shouted, a huge anthropomorphic cat with blue suits, to the Heartless hitting the ground with his feet, while they were digging around, breaking stones and walls in an area of the Region of Ruins. Pete seemed desperate watching the Heartless work. "Damn, this is going very slow, and we have looked at five different sites. I know we are looking for the Keyhole to the Heart of the world for use as a deterrent to acquire control of this place." The obese cat said to himself until I became more nervous. "What if it turns out that isn't even in this region?"
"Well, you'll have to look in another region." A deep voice said, capturing the attention of the cat, which began to look around. "Although it is supposed to be in this region, isn't it?" A second voice asked as the first one. "Why, yes, knuckleheads!" A third voice yelled.
"Who's there?!" Pete shouted turning angry, but his anger changed to surprise at seeing a huge much bigger muscular man he wearing a suit of black gladiator, and when he looked up swallowed, as it was found not one, but three bald heads, each with paint lines on the faces and bald: Green on the right, the left yellow and red the center.
"Hey, kitty, it's you who is in charge here?" The one with yellow paintings asked.
"That is, Yellow! You're slow or what?" The green colored one asked.
"I'm not slow, just wanted to know," Yellow answered.
"Green! Yellow! It's enough!" The head with the red colors yelled.
"Yes, Red." The two heads said regretfully.
"My lord," Pete said, putting a hand on his head with eyes looking away. "This must be a joke."
"Ogre, listen to me." It sounded a voice and looked up the ogre with three heads, soon followed by Pete, who was startled to see in the sky dark clouds, and among them was the silhouette of the face of Tenoroc.
"We hear you, Lord Tenoroc," Red said while Green and Yellow nodded.
"I summoned you because I need you to do a total of three tasks for me. The first is that you help this chubby cat and his Heartless to find the Keyhole that leads to the Heart of the Multiverse, which I will use to submit all threatening to destroy it. "
"Hey, I don't have insulted you, Phantom of the opera!" Shouted Pete offended.
"Did you say something, cat?" Tenoroc asked, threatening. Soon Pete terrified hid behind the ogre, and Tenoroc ignored him. "The second task is that captures three girls who aren't from this region, especially the Princess of Heart, a redheaded girl."
"Wait, wait, wait, the Princess of Heart, the friend of that brat is here?" Pete asked behind the Ogre.
"And third, but not the least, I want you to get rid once and for all of Matt Hatter."
"Hatter?" "Did he say, Hatter?" "Yes, Hatter!" They began to discuss their heads between them and suddenly the three gave a mighty shout to be heard around.
"Yes, I know that Alfred Hatter locked you in the chronicles, so now you have the chance to get back at him, finishing his grandson." Tenoroc explained.
Pete asked himself how the three could make these three tasks simultaneously being one body, but with a flash, the ogre was separated into three, with breastplates of the color of their names, but still being big.
"Green, you watch here, and made these things work!" Red ordered to Green. "Yellow, I want you to take care of the brats and bring the princess!" Red ordered to Yellow. "And I'll take care of Hatter in person!"
"Why do you ?, why not me or Yellow?" Green asked.
"Because we were trapped by Hatter thanks to Yellow's incompetence!" Red said.
"Ah, yes, it's true." He said Amarillo in a goofy tone.
"Why do you send him to them?" Green asked again.
"Because I doubt that Yellow is so stupid as to let out some girls," Red said. "And you think I would leave this dunce in charge of the dig?"
"Now that you mention it, no," Green said looking at Yellow.
"I'm coming with you, big guy. I know how that girl acts, it will be no problem." Pete said to Yellow.
"Okay," Yellow answered like he did not care.
"I feel that of the trio, has touched me the idiotic one," Pete muttered.
"Are you sure it's around here, Roxie?"
"Completely Matt isn't difficult to trace a giant cat, but is complicated by these strange creatures."
Elsewhere in the same region, two boys and a girl were walking looking for any track that takes them to the location of Pete. One was a boy with yellow skin, brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a short-sleeved shirt with zipper with M and H letters in the chest, light brown medium length pants, black and white shoes and a light brown backpack behind her. He was talking to a girl with pink skin with dark pink hair in a ponytail and dark violet eyes, wearing clothes of various shades of purple and violet, dark sandals and a cane with an orange sphere at the tip. Behind them was a boy of half-orange skin with black hair and green eyes, wearing a green headband, green hooded sweatshirt, black pants and a pair of black boots. He was constantly looking around him terrified, including up and down.
"Gomez, what are you doing? You were a while doing that. "
"But Matt, you know that these creatures can appear out of nowhere, even without warning," Gomez replied. "And believe me I know nothing of these things. Even Tenoroc may not even be on this. "
"Clearly they're looking for something, and whatever it is, Tenoroc will want it," Matt said.
"But Gomez is right about one thing," Matt said Roxie. "Never in the history of the Multiverse have seen these things. Not even your grandfather found them. "
"Whatever they are, I'll don't let that neither they nor the chubby cat continues to cause problems," Matt said confidently.
"I would prefer any villain rather than those things," Gomez said sighing.
A loud cry stopped the three boys who began to look around, wondering who shouted, but answered when viewed Red fell from the sky in front of them, threatening.
"I take that back!" Gomez said terrified.
"It's the Ogre!" Roxie warned, grabbing her cane to defend herself. "Or at least one of their heads!"
"The Ogre?" Hatter asked. "I had seen the movie before, but it's uglier in person."
Red shouted angrily and tried to hit Hatter, but the boy managed to avoid it jumping to the side. "Hatter! Your grandfather humbled us so unmentionable in the past! But now I think revenge for the humiliation, crushing your skull with my bare hands! "
"Yes, that you have taken with my grandfather. If so, come and get me." Matt said defiantly. Red roared and lunged at Matt, but he jumped over, stepping on his head to push higher and landing behind him, but that only further enraged red ogre. "Gomez, how I beat this big guy?!"
"No one can, Matt!" Gomez warned.
"How you say? Whoa!" Matt jumped back to avoid being caught by Red, when Roxie appeared on one side and hit his leg with her stick, causing it to fall to the ground. "How can't be beaten?"
"The Ogre can only be defeated if are the three heads together! Can't lock him unless you do with the three heads at once!" Gomez explained.
"How we deal with this big guy then?" Roxie asked avoiding a handful of Red when he arose.
"Now we can only do one thing, run!" Matt said knowing the situation and the three ran trying to put as much distance between themselves and Red, while the red ogre chased enraged, entering a tunnel.
"Seriously, we have to do this?" Edea asked Kairi, as the three walked into the same tunnel, but in another area.
"Yup. If the Heartless are here, they may be doing something wrong, and one of those things concerned the Keyhole. "Kairi explained.
"Keyhole?" Asked Rena.
"We all have heart, including the worlds. When you lose your heart, it disappears. And the Heartless tend to attack anyone with a heart, causing the same result." Kairi explained. "The Keyhole is the only access to the heart of a world."
"You mean if something like the Heartless enters in the lock ..." Edea began to reason.
"Then the world will disappear!" Rena finished.
"That's right. So we must find out what is doing the Heartless here. Normally someone uses them. "Kairi said.
"But who and where can we find it?" Asked Edea.
"Maybe we find the solution if we seek. This tunnel can be a good place to investigate." Kairi said, reaching an intersection of tunnels. "After all, the people have seen the Heartless very often around here."
"No need to keep looking!" Said a voice on one side of the tunnel, and when they turned they spot Pete with several Heartless behind him.
"Pete!" Kairi exclaimed.
"We meet again, Princess!" Pete said, laughing mischievously, more Heartless appeared through the tunnel through which they passed.
"Damn!" Rena said, aiming her bow at the Heartless.
Strong steps caught the attention of Edea who instinctively drew her katana and threw an upward cut, but her weapon was blocked by the hand of the ogre Yellow, who took the edge and smoothly rounded the edge of the katana, leaving it unusable and surprising Edea.
"Hello, gorgeous," Yellow said foolishly, holding the folded katana.
Kairi and Rena were surprised while watching the huge ogre while Edea struggled to drop her weapon, until it kicked the ogre's knee, forcing to drop the folded katana.
"Damn ..." Edea said looking her weapon.
"What now?" Kairi asked. "We're surrounded. Have you any idea?"
"We? It was your idea to come here!" Edea said.
"Now you're coming with me without causing problems," Pete ordered the girls.
"No way! Run!" Rena said as she started running down the only tunnel not blocked by the enemy, being followed by Edea and Kairi, and soon Pete and others.
The three ran down the tunnel trying to mislead the group of Pete and Yellow, looking back constantly, which wasn't a good idea, because when they reach a junction in the tunnel, nothing more twisting there, crashed to the Hatter's group, all falling on the ground by the impact.
"What happened?" Gomez groaned.
"They happened." Roxie groaned.
"No, we all happened." Edea groaned in pain.
The six raised a little dazed by the blow. "Who are you?" Matt asked. "No, you seem to be from around here."
"Now isn't the time, we have problems!" Kairi warned.
"And we too!" Gomez said looking at the tunnel where they arrived. On that side was coming Red, while at the same time Pete and Yellow were arriving on the other tunnel with the Heartless.
"Well, but it's the chubby cat!" Matt exclaimed looking at Pete.
"Be careful what you say, brat!" Pete warned.
Rena pointed his bow but did not know whether to target Yellow, or Peter, or Red, or the Heartless. While Edea prepared her katana but remembered was bent because of the ogre. In any case, it was a very disadvantageous battle on that occasion.
"Someone has any idea? I'm open to suggestions." Matt mentioned.
"Could all of you out here, but we should first lose them," Roxie said.
"Just lose them?" Rena asked. "I think I could," Rena said and pointed to the floor with her bow with an arrow ready. "Close your eyes and breathe hard."
Rena shot down, and the impact caused a burst of smoke that filled the entire section, and all they could hear was Pete's cough and the two heads of Ogre's from the smoke. Soon the smoke cleared, but Pete had a great impression at seeing that the six had disappeared, and there was no sign that tells them where they had gone.
"Damn!" Pete exclaimed angrily, kicking the ground.
"Hey, where are they?" He asked Yellow, without grasping what was happening. Pete looked at him a moment and then hits his forehead with his hand looking down, sighing in despair.
"This isn't over yet, Hatter," Red said.
The six had managed to get out from the tunnels and had retreated to the inhabited area of the Region of Ruins. There they decided to take the breath after everything that happened.
"Well, I can know who are you?" Matt asked. "I think now is a good time to present ourselves."
"You're right. I am Kairi." Kairi presented herself. "She's Rena." Rena nodded. "And she's Edea." But Edea doesn't answer, just trying to straighten unsuccessfully her katana.
"I'm Matt Hatter, and they are Roxie and Gomez." Matt presented. "Tell me, what are you doing here?"
"To put it another way, we're passing around," Kairi said, trying to hide the fact that they are from another world, though clearly Matt and the others suspected. "But don't expect to find Pete or the Heartless here."
"Do you know them?" Gomez asked.
"I've had several encounters with them," Kairi said.
"But it is our first encounter with them," Rena said. "By the way, what's going on here, exactly?"
"You see, years ago, my family was playing monster movies in the family' cinema theatre, but didn't realize that the monsters escaped from movies using the Chronicles, being sent into this world. Since then, we the Hatter had hunted them." Matt explained.
"I've hardly understood anything," Rena said confused.
"In that case, better look at this," Matt said and gave them a book he was carrying. Edea resigned and went to see the book with the others. Then they began to see images in the book. "As you can see, the Multiverse is filled with areas and regions, each with its inhabitants. But the villains tend to wreak havoc on those worlds, and the work of a Hatter is to catch all those villains, whatever their intentions they had." Hatter said, and after several pictures, appeared the image of Tenoroc. The three looked terrified at the image before closing the book.
"Who was that?" Kairi asked.
"That's Tenoroc, self-proclaimed master of the Multiverse. It's he who sends the villains to the Multiverse, and the Ogre is one of them." Gomez explained.
"Why send villains? Could do it by himself." Edea said.
"It would if it weren't for my grandfather," Matt said.
"Your grandfather, you say?" Kairi asked.
"Yes. My grandfather was the last hero Hatter before me, and it was he who locked Tenoroc in a dimension where he couldn't get out, but Grandpa had to suffer the same fate to put him away." Matt said with a sigh.
"And ... do you know why Tenoroc is helping Pete?" Kairi asked.
"I have no idea," Gomez said. "All I know is they're looking for something very valuable. They keep digging in different areas. "
"Dig, you say?" Kairi asked and then began to think until she found the answer. "Surely they are looking for the Keyhole."
"Keyhole?" the three young boys asked.
"The Keyhole is an entry to access the heart of a world, in this case, the Multiverse. If anything happened to the Heart, the Multiverse could disappear, but controlling the Keyhole allows negotiation power over others."
Matt began to think. "I think I know what you meant. If Tenoroc gets the Keyhole, could enslave the entire Multiverse smoothly."
"And if there was resistance, Tenoroc could destroy the heart of the Multiverse in retaliation, but surely it will not try," Gomez said, but then panicked and put his hands on his head. "But the Ogre can!"
"What's about the Ogre?" Kairi asked.
"The Ogre is very resentful, and in the past, people mocked him, until he began to wreak havoc, and vowed to destroy all who laughed at him. If he comes to lay hands on the Keyhole, could destroy the Multiverse as revenge!" Gomez explained.
"That means we must stop its excavations as soon as possible!" Roxie said.
"Excuse me, but you speak as if there were only one, and I think there are two. And one of them bent my katana like paper." Edea said, showing the folded katana. "And you don't see the desire that I have to make him pay! It was the best sword of my master!"
"Actually, the Ogre is one, but can be divided into three," Gomez said. "And it can only be captured and locked in the Chronicles, where are the three together in one body."
"Great, a third one, and we have to beat them at once." Edea groaned.
"Still, I don't think you're a great help with a folded katana," Roxie said.
"Don't tell me." Edea groaned again.
"I know someone who could help. But we must hurry. It's just a matter of time they locate the Keyhole." Roxie said. "At least he lives nearby, let's go."
Despite any doubts about the idea, they followed Roxie up what appeared to be a blacksmith in a tunnel. Inside they found an Armonian that seems to have been working in the smithy all his life, hitting a piece of metal in a heavy anvil.
"Excuse me, sir blacksmith?" Roxie asked at the blacksmith.
The blacksmith looked. "Roxie? Is that you? Can I know the reason for your visit?" The blacksmith asked. "You know I don't like to be bothered when I'm working."
"I know, but it's an emergency." Said Roxie and gestured to Edea to come closer. "Could you do something with this weapon?"
The blacksmith stopped what he was doing and came over. Edea gave the folded katana and he carefully observed it. "Hmmm, this weapon is made of a special material. Made with a lot of care if I'm right. And from what I see, it's very tough." The blacksmith checked and then looked at Edea. "How did you manage to bend such a good weapon in this way? Did you have been using it as a lever or something?"
"We had a meeting with the Ogre. He did this to the katana." Edea answered.
"The Ogre, you say? For years we know nothing of him since Alfred Hatter locked him up." The blacksmith said.
"I know, but Tenoroc has released it to carry out a mission that could kill us all," Gomez said.
"If what you say is true, then it makes sense." The blacksmith said checking the katana. "And tell me, this weapon is special to you?"
"Yes," Edea answered. "It gave me my master a long time."
"And you respect your master, huh?" The blacksmith asked and Edea replied. "Well, I think I can do something with this."
"Sorry, but in what sense?" Kairi interrupted.
"I can make the weapon harder, using a method that was used in weapons like this. Honestly, I don't like that the weapons are used to hurt so I could embed a special gem to create a barrier on it to avoid cutting." The blacksmith explained. "Well, who doesn't deserve it or who don't want to cut severely."
"That's fine and all, but, how long will it take?" Rena asked. "We have to deal with the Ogre before he discovers what he needs to destroy the multiverse!"
"Don't worry!" The Blacksmith exclaimed. "I'm not only the best blacksmith of Armonia, but also the fastest! Relax, it takes only a few minutes. You wait outside. "
The six left the smithy to leave work at the blacksmith while working with the katana. While waiting outside, Kairi walked over to Matt.
"Hey, Matt. Do you miss your grandfather?" Kairi asked.
"Yes, sometimes I miss him." Matt sighed. "And sometimes I wish it were by my side. But still, I have hope that I will see my grandfather when I catch all the villains. Tenoroc included. At least I have my parents. "
"Yeah," Kairi said, sighing. "I don't even know my parents. Only my grandmother, and still miss her. "
"What happened?" Matt asked.
"My world was consumed by darkness, and I ended up in another," Kairi replied. "And that was ten years ago."
"Ten years?" Asked Matt surprised. "You have had to suffer a lot."
"Not at all. At least I had my friends. Still, for some reason, I cannot remember the face of my mother." Kairi said looking down, embarrassed.
"Don't worry about that. While you have people that worry about you at your side, you'll be fine." Hatter said.
"Thanks." Kairi smiled.
After a while, the noise coming from inside ceased. "Eh, you can enter!"
Surprised, the six entered the smithy, where they saw the blacksmith, holding on his hands, the Edea's katana, fully straightened and reinforced, as if it had never been folded.
"Oh, really you work fast," Rena said.
"Well, it's my job." The blacksmith confirmed.
Edea took the katana and firmly grasped. She made several moves with her to see its management, ensuring that it could handle as before.
"Many katanas were created as servants of good, regardless of its owner. This katana was reinforced for this purpose, which means you can use it normally, but there are cases in which this weapon cannot slice and pierce your objective, just cut and hit." The blacksmith explained.
She looked at him and then at the katana. "I'm satisfied with that."
Soon the six began looking, being guided by Roxie, where Pete and the Ogre are hiding looking for the Keyhole, and they had to go to the most possible place: the tunnels where they met, but because the place looked too labyrinthine, they advanced slowly, as Roxie tries to find the trail until Kairi decided to use one of the powers she had little use for a long time: the ability to feel the darkness in, a latent ability in any Princess of Heart. With this ability, she was able to locate Pete and the others, and coincidentally was the same route as Roxie had just discovering shortly thereafter. But they don't know that Tenoroc was spying them.
"That tracker and Princess are still very problematic. They will soon reach the excavation area." Tenoroc muttered. "They're too close to locating the Keyhole!"
"If they get there, they will surely ruin everything, as always," Claw mentioned. "Unless something delays them to give the cat enough time to find it."
"Claw, you gave me half an idea." Tenoroc said and took a 'cell of life' and positioned in the Triple Sphere, causing a reaction in it. "Altering space and matter!"
The group continued wandering through a long narrow tunnel but began to feel like they were climbing a very steep hill.
"Hey, isn't it a little odd this?" Rena asked.
"How odd?" Edea asked.
"That despite being in a plane aisle, look we're climbing a mountain or something."
"You're right, I also feel the same," Kairi confirmed.
"And that's normal?" Matt asked, noting several torches tunnel, whose flame looked up at an angle.
"Glitch!" Roxie alerted.
"Just what we need!" Gomez said with hands on head.
"What?" Kairi asked.
"Tenoroc is altering the space to create a trap," Matt explained. "But I know how to fix it. To Multivisión! "Exclaimed Matt and a pair of 3D glasses appeared on his face.
Suddenly the room seemed changed radically at the side of a steep mountain, and clearly, they were climbing it.
"Is this the trap?" Kairi asked.
"Yes, but carefully. There are always creatures around here." Roxie warned.
"Watch out!" Rena alerted.
Endless huge boulders began to roll down the slope, threatening to fall on them, forcing them to dodge them as they climbed the hillside.
"Ey! These rocks have a face!" Rena exclaimed to see a face on a rock.
"It's true!" Matt affirmed.
"They're Stony Heads!" Gomez alerted.
The group continued to grow and avoiding the stony heads trying to smash them, but it seemed not to reach anywhere.
"How we get out of here?" Edea asked.
"These traps are not perfect. They usually have a fault, and we must find it to escape." Roxie explained.
"Well, I don't see any," Kairi said.
"Well, I see the entrance to a cave overlooking the precipice, and the inside shines," Rena said pointing to what she had described.
"There's the exit, go!" Matt said.
The six reached as quickly as possible until they reached the 'entrance' of the cave, while a huge stony head rolled toward them, forcing them to jump in. When they wanted to realize they were on the floor, inside the tunnels.
"If ever I meet Tenoroc, I tell him a few things about his traps," Edea said, removing dust after rising.
"Yeah, well put yourself on the list," Roxie said, getting up.
"Come, we must hurry. We haven't much time." Matt warned. "It's about time they found the Keyhole."
Pete was watching the Heartless digging in the area, despairing knowing that at any moment Matt and Kairi could appear at any time. But things were not better because the three-headed Ogre never stopped talking to each other, which was beginning to unnerve Pete.
"Can I know what you're talking about all three? Do you know how important it is to find the Keyhole?" Pete asked.
"That's what we're talking about," Red said. "We are discussing what we do when we take possession of the Keyhole. One of the things that we will do is destroy the heart of the Multiverse."
"Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean?" Pete asked, confused and moving toward the three. "Have you forgotten the orders?"
Red, however, grabbed Pete by the collar and lifted him off the ground. "We know but we are tired of the people, you and Tenoroc annoys us and treats us like slaves all the time!" Then he released to Pete, letting it fall flat on the ground. "When we find the lock, we pay everyone eternal humiliation we have suffered, without exception!"
"This, master... I think this is getting out of our hands." Claw said looking at the Triple Sphere what was happening.
"I see that!" Tenoroc said angrily. "This mindless damned three-headed aims to stab me in the back and destroy the entire Multiverse, when what I want is the opposite!"
"And what do you think do, master?" Claw asked.
"Absolutely nothing." Tenoroc said, confusing Claw. "It's about time that Matt and his friends appear and when they do, I will stay looking, seeing as they catch the traitor. Although being locked in the Chronicles is little punishment for him."
Pete rose unsteadily from the fall. "But you cannot do that! If you destroy the Heart, the world will be destroyed, including you!"
"It's a price we're willing to pay for revenge on everyone," Green said.
"Well, you can and go forgetting that!" The three turned, finding the six next to them, with Matt in front. "Your debt is with me first!"
"Matt, I don't think it's a good idea to provoke them," Kairi advised him.
"I prefer them to focus on us that in the Keyhole," Matt said.
As he thought, the three parts of Ogre jumped on Matt, who jumped aside to avoid being caught and clearly began to pursue him, ignoring the others.
"Well, he has an obsession with Hatter," Edea commented.
"You can say it," Gomez said.
"Heartless!" Pete cried. "Stop what you're doing and get the Princess! But alive!"
The Heartless stopped digging and began to attack the group, mainly trying to catch Kairi, but Rena and Edea were a real nuisance for this task. While Matt was distracting the Ogre, but it was quite difficult with three bodies chasing him endlessly, but ultimately Rena shot one of his arrows, impacting on the head of Red, forcing the three to stop.
"Yellow, catch those brats! Green, get rid of Hatter's friends! "Red ordered before chasing Matt again.
Without thinking, Yellow and Green were to the others, making the battle more chaotic, all fending off the Heartless and the three ogres, although the Heartless were soon dispatched quickly, still had to contend with Green, Yellow and Red and not forgetting Pete, who kept throwing explosive balls from afar, but it was no problem for Roxie and Edea, who just returned the balls on the fly, giving problems to the cat.
Instinctively, Edea launched a saber aside, being her katana caught by Yellow.
"Haven't we been at this before?" Yellow asked, confused.
"Yes, but this is different!" Edea said and kicked his knee, forcing him to drop her katana and then gave him a blow with the protected edge in the head, causing him to lay hands on it, groaning in pain, and giving time to Edea to jump aside to Rena shoot a powerful arrow that hit in the stomach that made him fall to the ground.
Gomez did nothing but run in front of Green, who tried to grab it as it was the weakest of the group, but when he was about to catch him, Roxie reacted quickly and used her cane as a trap for the big man stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Thanks, Roxie!" Gomez thanked, catching his breath.
"It was nothing," Roxie said but watched as Green rose. "Run!"
Kairi, Edea, and Rena were driving back Yellow as best they could while Gomez and Roxie tried tiring with run Green all they could, while Matt was avoiding the assaults from Red as best he could. In all the chaos, Pete thought he had no reason to be there and decided to take to their heels, leaving them alone in their fight. Finally, the three giants were together, being surrounded by the whole group.
"This isn't going as it should," Yellow commented.
"I'm seeing that!" Green told Amarillo, before looking at Red. "If we don't unite, we cannot with them in any way!"
"You're right, Green! It's time to show those fools what happens when we are one!" Red said.
"Just as I expected," Matt muttered softly, smiling.
The three shouted at the same time and in a flash, the three heads returned to live in the same body again, and the Ogre stared defiantly at the group.
"Gomez, any idea of how to defeat him?" Matt asked.
"I have no idea," Gomez said.
"What?" Rena asked surprised. "But you don't know everything?"
"Not everything." The Ogre raised his arms and hit the ground hard, causing a tremor that made everyone fall to the floor. "But I know that when they united in one, become more powerful," Gomez commented, sore by the hit.
"In a good moment." Kairi groaned.
The Ogre lifted a heavy rock over his head and the three heads looked at Matt. "Take this!" Green shouted, the Ogre throwing the heavy rock on Matt, who rolled to the side to avoid being crushed.
Rena started shooting all arrows she could throw, but just tickled him while Roxie and Edea attacked with their weapons to the body, only to be laughed by the three heads. "Is that the best you got?" Red asked mocking at them.
"You wait!" Edea said, kicking the Ogre's leg, but this just felt the blow.
"Come on, Gomez, think fast! How beat it the previous Hatter!" Kairi cried to Gomez.
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking!" Gomez said altered, trying to remember.
The Ogre tried to advance on Roxie and Edea, who were still trying to stop the Ogre, and even Matt was throwing rays with the Cell Buster, unsuccessfully. Kairi then launched a Fire that ended up hitting the Ogre in the chest, who suddenly began to jump in panic while trying to extinguish the flames of his clothes with his hands.
"It worked better than I thought..." Kairi said puzzled by what she saw.
"Now I remember!" Gomez shouted.
"Its weakness is fire, right?" Edea asked sarcastically.
"No, but he has a terrible panic against it!" Gomez explained. "Alfred used it to defeat the Ogre!"
"And how did it?" Matt asked.
"That... that I don't know," Gomez said sheepishly.
"Great!" Rena and desperate, while the Ogre completely extinguished the flames said.
"Now really, stupid brat!" Shouted the angry ogre.
"Guys, I have an idea, but I need time," Kairi said.
"I give you what we can," Rena said, knowing what he meant.
The Ogre began to move menacingly toward Kairi, but the elf shot an arrow which became a fire phoenix that created a curtain of flame that suddenly stopped the Ogre, away from the princess.
"What are you doing, idiot?!" shouted the head Red to the heads of Green and Yellow. "We can jump it!"
"Don't think so!" Edea said stepping in front of Ogre. "Before you have to pass over me!"
"And how do you think stop us, young lady?" Red asked.
Edea put the edge of her katana into the flames, and when she took it out, the edge was covered in flames, not even melting the steel. "One of my tricks."
"The sword is on fire!" Yellow shouted, terrified.
"And?!" Red asked, but couldn't attack because the terror of the other two heads towards it so couldn't control the body, but in the middle of his panic, hit the katana, throwing away from Edea, who first saw her weapon and then the Ogre with a nervous smile. Red looked angry at Yellow and Green. "Happy?" The two heads shook their heads in shame for what happened. "I can't believe the fire put you both like that! Not terrifies me, why do you?! "
At that time there was a flash where was Kairi, who finished extinguishing the fire curtain. Now Kairi was no longer wearing her normal clothes, but a kind of upper red plate that foreshadowed her figure, not forgetting her defense, and a long red skirt with embellishments as if they had been made of red scales, and a pair of red gauntlets which gave off flames, also wearing a diadem on the head like horns remember to Ifrit. All but Edea and Rena stared at her, completely confused.
"When she changed?" Matt asked, scratching his head.
"Before wasn't as that," Yellow commented, while Green nodded and Red ignored him.
"That doesn't scare me!" Red said, looking at Princess in her Ifrit form.
"That's now," Kairi said, and soon she ran towards the Ogre.
The giant tried to grab her with his big hands, but Kairi hit one arm with the Keyblade, and the impact caused an explosion of flames that pushed the Ogre back, but Kairi didn't stop and continued beating him all over his body, making him back with each strike. The Ogre raised his arms and tried to grab her, but she jumped back, and in the jump launched a Fire, which after impact caused a tremendous explosion that threw down the Ogre, when Kairi landed.
The Ogre got up angrily and walked toward her, but Kairi instinctively hit the ground with the Keyblade, and with the tip on the ground began to run around the Ogre, forming a circle of flames that caught the villain, although she also stayed within the blazing circle. The Ogre, caught between anger and fear, lunged Kairi, who started blocking his punches with her Keyblade, until the big man dropped his guard and Kairi dealt a powerful blow with her weapon, causing an explosion that sent the giant to the wall hard, causing several rocks to plummet around. The Ogre heads jerked and started forward giving heavy footsteps.
"Damn brat and her damn new armor! When I catch you I'll break every bone in your body! And with the remains, I'll make a soup of Hatter!" Said the angry Ogre, then several rocks fell from the wall where it crashed, causing a glow that caught the attention of the heads, making the Ogre would spin. Just ahead of him, there it was: A large bright Keyhole, much larger Ogre itself. It was undoubtedly the Keyhole to the Heart of the world. "At... last..."
Kairi tried to react to prevent the Ogre tried anything but a huge rock began to fall, because of the previous impact on the wall, followed by more rocks, crushing the Ogre beneath them, causing a cloud of dust in the area by the detachment.
"I think it will be too thin for that." Matt joked.
Kairi sighed with relief. "That was close..."
"That's the Keyhole?" Edea asked looking at the big Keyhole.
"Without any doubt," Gomez said.
Then they began to hear moans of pain and despair, and as a ghost, the Ogre left between the rocks, but totally blue and translucent. Kairi, Rena, and Edea didn't know what was happening now.
"Matt, it's becoming a hologram!" Roxie warned Matt.
"Okay, leave it to me!" Matt said and pointed his Cell Buster to the Ogre's hologram, who finished acting like a vacuum that drew the Ogre as he struggled to avoid it, cursing all those present, until finally end in Cell Buster. "Back in the Chronicles!" Matt said and put the tip of his tool against the Chronicles, and after of separate it saw Ogre's Life Cell disappear within the crystal that had the book.
"It's over?" Rena asked.
Matt nodded and opened the book to a page showing the Ogre, totally furious, and the three heads discussing among themselves for what happened.
"I'm glad. I was beginning to tire of that brainless." Edea commented.
"WE HEARD THAT!" The heads of Ogre shouted in the Chronicles, just before Matt closed the book.
Kairi smiled when it was over, but then turned her gaze to the Keyhole. Soon the others approached her.
"Well, what do we do with it now?" Matt asked.
"We must close it. Now that the Keyhole is visible, anyone could use it to destroy the world, including Tenoroc.
"Well, in that case, I leave you because now I must leave," Matt said. Everyone turned, the girls unknowing what he meant until they saw a purple vortex touch the ground, and soon Matt jumped on him, soon disappearing with the vortex.
"He's back to his world, right?" Kairi asked.
"That's right. It's normal with the Hatter." Gomez said.
Kairi nodded and looked at the Keyhole. After a while, she pointed her Keyblade, and soon shot a stream of light which entered into the Keyhole, making the sound of the closing of a lock, but when the Keyhole faded, the point where the Keyhole was caused a bluish flash that blinded to all for a moment.
After the flash, Kairi seemed to be not in the Multiverse, but elsewhere, and her vision seemed blurry. All she could see was a group of women in red robes, looking at her, like a baby. There could also feel the embrace of someone. She didn't know who held her, but Kairi felt safe and protected. At one point, Kairi could look to a side, where she could see who held her. The woman looked like her, but more adult, and was smiling at Kairi, but just then, the image became white, without letting her keep watching.
"Kairi!" She heard Edea's voice in her head, and soon Kairi's eyes opened, seeing that they were all around her, worried about her. "Holy Heaven, are you okay?!" Edea asked as she helped her up Kairi, who saw that she had again her normal clothes.
"Yes, I think so," Kairi said, with a hand on her head.
"Are you sure?" Gomez asked. "You have a tear there"
Kairi, confused, put a finger in her face and clearly noticed something there, and when looking at the finger, she realized he had shed a tear.
"What happened?" Rena asked.
I don't know... it was like a vision, but also... a memory." Kairi replied, not knowing what was happening. "And maybe... my... mother?"
Later, the three said goodbye to Gomez and Roxie and returned to the Gummi Ship, now seemed more spacious with room for four but clearly had a dispute over Eve's communicators, who apparently still lacked some tweaks to make them work. While Edea, Rena and Eve were discussing the communicators, Kairi looked up, watching the Lanes Between from the glass, as absent.
Eve looked at her suddenly, and after silencing Edea and Rena, addressed her. "After everything explained, I suspect that the world wanted you to see something."
"I think so too. But still, I cannot shake off a strange feeling." Kairi said. "Besides, if that was a memory, why didn't remember it until now?"
None answered while Kairi looked at the sky, making since the same question: Where she came from, exactly? And that woman, was her mother?
