After a long flight, cramped in the small gummi ship, the group reached their destination, which from the outside looked like a hill with a village on it. With nothing else to do, the group landed on that world, somewhere where they could keep the gummi ship safe.
Once outside the gummi ship, the group observed the area. As they saw, it was a huge hill with what looked like a village, with a few houses near them at the base of the hill, but the place appeared to be abandoned. And to add an air of mystery, the entire place was covered in a seemingly eternal night.
“What an unsurprising welcome.…” Airy said, looking around. “I would have expected anything but this.”
“Yeah, this place looks completely abandoned,” Rena said, one hand on the ground. “It’s like no one’s been here in a long time.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure,” Makoto said, pointing to a part of the hill.
The group looked over, seeing a pair of Heartless hovering around the area before vanishing.
“Heartless?” Edea asked.
“Considering what’s here, we should consider them the guardians of this world, as strange as that may sound,” Eve said.
“Yeah. What surprises me is that this world hasn’t been consumed by darkness,” Nina said. What she said made sense. Left unchecked, the Heartless could destroy a world. Something had to be keeping them there without causing too much damage.
Kairi then turned her gaze towards the top of the hill, where there was apparently no structure in sight.
“Does anyone know what we should be looking for?” Priere asked. “After all, no one told us what to find here.”
“Most likely, whatever it is, it’s at the top of the hill,” Kairi said, pointing to the top of the hill.
“That means we’ll have to take care of the Heartless along the way,” Edea said, scratching her head before looking at Nina. “By the way, does anyone know the name of this place?” Nina shook her head, unsure of the answer.
“If the map data is correct, this place is called Dusk Hill,” Eve replied.
“Dusk Hill, huh?” Rena said, looking around. “Nice touch.”
“Come on, we won’t accomplish anything by staying down here,” Kairi said, starting to walk toward the hill, soon followed by the others.
The group began to advance through the hilltop village. The place clearly seemed unvisited by anyone in a long time, the Heartless being the only inhabitants of that world.
And they weren't the faint-hearted creatures that were easy to defeat, as they were in other worlds. They were almost as powerful as those one might find in the realm of darkness, both physically and in the formations they used.
As they ascended, the group had to face not only the shadows and elemental Heartless but also wyverns, armors, neo-shadows, warlocks, defenders, metal trolls, and more. Every one of them was guarding the path up the hill that led to the summit.
Kairi and the others had to do their best to destroy the Heartless that stood in their way, proving to be very fierce enemies. And if these Heartless were so dangerous in that place, who knows how dangerous the Fallen must be in their own world.
After a long struggle, he reached a section of the hill near the top where the Heartless seemed to have stopped pursuing them. The group took the opportunity to catch their breath after so much fighting.
“Are you all okay?” Kairi asked the others, breathing heavily and with her hands on her knees.
“Yeah, I think we’re okay,” Priere said, sitting down on a rock.
“Speak for yourself. I’m pretty exhausted,” Airy said, sitting down on the floor.
“Come on, with a good healing spell, we’ll be fine,” Edea said, sitting on the ground as well.
“And this is said by someone who has run out of magic reserves,” Airy said, rolling her eyes.
“Come on, stop arguing,” Nina said. “Be thankful the Heartless have stopped their attacks.”
“That’s true. We’ve faced them before, but never with this virulence,” Rena said.
“Yes, they’ve clearly taken their role as guardians of this place very seriously,” Makoto said. “But seriously, who in their right mind would let the Heartless protect this world?”
“Someone who probably wouldn’t want the seal accessible to anyone,” Kairi said. “I highly doubt Maleficent or anyone else could control these Heartless.”
“Well, mission accomplished,” Edea said. “If it weren’t for the fact that we have to be here, we would have left here a long time ago.”
“But still, we must continue,” Eve said. “Now we’re one step away from reaching the world of the Fallen.”
After taking a well-deserved break, the girls got ready and began to climb the last stretch of the hill.
In just a few minutes, Kairi and the others reached the top of the hill, but what they found there was nothing like they expected.
There were only ancient ruins there, as if they had belonged to an ancient temple. The only notable thing was an altar in the center of the ruins.
The group approached the altar, seeing a tablet with an inverted five-pointed star engraved on it. It was missing five fragments representing the points of the star.
“An inverted pentagram… considering what’s in it, the pattern doesn’t surprise me,” Nina commented.
Kairi looked at the gaps in the tablet, taking out of her pocket the five black fragments they collected throughout their journey.
“It can’t be that easy, can it?” Makoto asked, looking at the others.
The girls looked at each other in silence. They had come a long way. Now they were about to break a seal that had been placed long ago. But there was one question that came to everyone's mind. The question wasn't whether they could break the seal, but whether they should.
“Girls,” Kairi said, looking at the group. “Once we do this, there’s no turning back. Understand?” Kairi was determined to see it through.
The girls looked at each other for a moment in silence until they all nodded, looking at Kairi.
“Go ahead,” Rena replied.
Without hesitation, Kairi placed each of the fragments into the gaps in the tablet, forming the inverted pentagram. For a moment, nothing happened, but suddenly the entire altar began to glow brilliantly. At that moment, a flash of light shot toward the horizon, causing a glow that would become a red star in the night sky. At the same time, some of the rocks on the floor began to pile up until they formed a portal, which lit up.
Kairi and the others stared at the portal in silence. Kairi then turned her gaze toward the red star that had appeared in the sky. It was done. The world of the Fallen had appeared. Knowing the consequences of leaving that world unguarded, there was only one option.
“Let’s go,” Kairi said, approaching the open portal before them.
Kairi was the first to pass through the portal, covering her eyes as it flashed.
As soon as she reached the other side of the portal, Kairi found herself enveloped in a thick fog, unable to see anything around her. Soon, the rest of the group passed through the portal, appearing near Kairi, but having the same problem.
“Does anyone know where we are?” Edea asked.
“I wish I knew, because you can’t see anything with so much fog,” Priere replied.
“Wait… it looks like the fog is clearing,” Rena said.
Just as the elf had said, the fog began to dissipate around them. As everything became more visible, they saw that they were standing between several dark, Gothic-looking buildings, clearly on what looked like a street.
The more the fog dispersed, the further they could see, realizing that they were in a vast city, on one side of what was once the edge of the city, next to a deep cliff. And when they turned their gaze toward what appeared to be the center of the city, they saw in the distance a huge castle that seemed to stand tall in the very center of the city.
There was no doubt about it. They had arrived at the world of the Fallen.
The Damned City.
“So this is the world of the Fallen, huh?” Edea asked, looking around.
“That’s right. I can clearly feel how dark it is here. Much darker than in the other places we’ve been before,” Rena said.
“And there’s who’s behind it all,” Nina said, directing her gaze toward the castle on the horizon.
“We’d better get moving. It won’t be long before the Fallen know we’re here,” Eve suggested.
They all nodded at the idea. Unaware that a Spy Eye was watching them from afar, what it was seeing was reflected in a mirror, which was being watched by a mysterious figure on a silent throne in the darkness.
The group began to advance through the city streets, although they soon realized that it seemed like a maze of alleys leading to different avenues in the city.
Upon reaching one of the avenues, Rena turned her gaze to a window on the street, seeing a shadow in it before it disappeared.
“Hey! I think I just saw someone in a window!” Rena exclaimed.
“Wait, people are living here?” Edea asked.
“Really? This world has been sealed for over a decade and a half, and it still has inhabitants?” Makoto asked.
After this discovery, Kairi was in shock. Had they really imprisoned innocent people in this world for so many years? Or were they perhaps supporters of the Fallen? All of this gave the situation a very different outlook.
Unfortunately, Kairi couldn't dwell on that anymore, as they were surprised by a group of Fallen, consisting of Elemental Wraiths, Axe Armors, Crossbow Armors, and Legionnaires. The Fallen pounced on the girls, who defended themselves from the attack.
Nina and Airy used their magic to hold back the armors, while Makoto and Priere launched themselves against the elemental specters, while Rena, Eve, and Edea, using the Ranger Job, supported both attack groups.
As Kairi quickly summoned Diabolos Form, she began attacking the Fallen with the form's innate dark power. As she attacked, she saw the Legionnaires block her frontal attacks with their shields, forcing her to move around them, searching for gaps in their defenses before attacking and destroying them with her Keyblade.
After a hard-fought battle, the group managed to dispatch the Fallen, but they knew this was only the beginning. They had to move forward, and fast. But of course, with the city being so labyrinthine, they still needed to know how to move forward.
As the group made their way through the sinister city and its streets, in addition to dispatching the few but powerful Fallen that seemed to protect the place, the group came to what looked like an open window in an alley, where they saw a shadow inside.
“Excuse me, sir. Or ma’am. May we ask you something?” Kairi asked.
The figure was silent for a moment until he responded.
“You’re a very strange girl, you know that?” the figure inside said in a masculine tone, his voice trembling as if he didn’t want to talk to them. “Are you sure you’re a girl, or a succubus?”
Kairi looked down at herself, wondering what he meant, seeing that she was still in her Diabolos Form. Her situation in the city was so tense that she'd forgotten she was still in that form.
“Ignore her appearance, sir,” Edea said. “Can you tell us how to get to the castle?”
“Do you really want to go there?” The figure sighed. “So young, and so reckless.”
Rena and Airy looked at each other, shrugging.
“Sir, can you help us or not?” Makoto asked this time.
“If you wish…” The figure sighed again. “The castle is located in the center of the city. From here, to get there, you must cross one of the Parks of Sin, followed by the middle section of the city, then pass through one of the Parks of the Apocalypse, to reach the central section. You will give directions to the castle there, but if I were you, I would avoid going near it.”
“What names…” Edea commented. “And do you know the fastest way?”
“If you keep going that way, you’ll reach Lust Park, if that’s what you want to know,” the figure said.
Kairi thought for a moment before answering. “Thank you very much, sir.”
Without saying anything else, and fading the Diabolos Form, Kairi and the group continued advancing through the streets of the sinister city following the indicated directions.
After a long walk, the group arrived at what looked like a lush park, which surprised Rena to see such a green space in such a dark place. But it was clear that the darkness of that world had something to do with it. At the same time, the group could see that one thing that predominated in the park was statues of naked or scantily clad women in overly suggestive poses.
“I’m starting to see why they call it Lust Park,” Makoto said. “Plain as a day.”
“Well, if this is Lust Park, who knows what the other parks will be like?” Priere said.
“Actually, I know at least one who would go crazy over this place,” Edea said, crossing her arms.
“Come on, let’s move on,” Kairi said.
The group began to advance through the park. Obviously, even there, the girls were attacked by small groups of Giant Bats, Hunters, Archer Skeletons, and Armored Wargs patrolling the park, but the group was able to handle them easily.
Especially when Kairi started using Chocobo Form as a precaution. If things get worse than they already are, Kairi will use one of the other Forms as needed. She had planned to reserve her Esper Form for very special cases.
As they made their way through the park, the girls quickly reached the exit, but it was blocked by a gate. And there was no lock to use Kairi's Keyblade on. Priere and Makoto tried to break the gate with their own strength, but even with that, they couldn't make a dent.
“Leave it alone. We can’t break it just like that,” Eve said.
“And this?” Rena asked, directing her gaze to a stone panel next to the gate. “When the women direct their gaze to the devil, the exit to lust will open.”
“Really? That’s the weirdest clue to open a door,” Edea said. “And by the way, what women? And what demon?”
Airy looked around, seeing something interesting. “Possibly that statue.”
Airy pointed to a nearby statue of a demon that seemed to be exposing its private parts. Edea shook her head with a hand over her eyes, while Kairi blushed slightly.
“Honestly, I’m glad the Fallen here are trying to wipe us out, not what this park suggests,” Nina said with a broken grimace, one hand on her head.
“Look closely,” Eve said. Just as she said, they noticed two paths going in opposite directions with the statue in the middle. “Maybe the women in the text are statues too, so they could be at the end of these paths.”
“Understood…” Makoto said, looking in both directions. “Shall we split into two groups, or shall we all go one way and then the other?”
Edea looked at Makoto, pointing at the demon statue. “And seeing that statue twice more when we pass by here? No, thank you!”
“Fine, whatever you say,” Makoto said, raising her hands.
“Very well then. Kairi, Makoto, Nina, and Rena will go to one side, while Priere, Airy, Edea, and I will go the other way,” Eve suggested. “We’ll meet here when we solve this puzzle.”
The girls nodded, and each group went in a different direction.
Kairi's group soon reached the end of their route. The centerpiece of the site was a statue of a naked woman with her arms stretched out in front of her, but she was facing away from where she was supposed to be.
Nina walked over to inspect the statue more closely.
“This statue looks like it can move. But I have a feeling it won’t be as easy as it looks,” Nina said.
“So how do we turn it around?” Makoto asked. “We have to make it face the other statue, right?”
Rena looked around, noticing that around the statue there were several statues, some of them repeated, but they consisted of a demon, a woman, a dog, a horse, and a man.
Eventually, the elf discovered a text on a nearby pedestal. “First, she fell in love with the man. Then she fell in love with the woman. Finding no solace, she approached the dog. Wanting more, she approached the horse. In the end, she fell to the demon.”
“Seriously, this park is something peculiar,” Kairi said.
Makoto thought for a moment and began searching through the surrounding statues, finding a hidden button on a horse statue that wasn't on the other horses' statues.
“Hey, this statue has a button!” Makoto warned.
Kairi looked at the statues after Makoto's warning and then looked at the pedestal, putting two and two together in the end.
“The text is a clue. We must press the button on each of the statues in that order,” Kairi said. “Start by looking at the male statues.”
The girls started searching through the male statues in that section until Rena found the button on one of the statues. “Got it!” Rena exclaimed, pressing the button.
Continuing with the puzzle, they searched for the next button among the female statues, obviously ignoring the main one, until Nina located it. “Found it!” Nina said, pressing the button.
They then began searching among the nearby dog statues until Makoto located the button on one. “Located!” she exclaimed as she pressed it, before quickly walking over to the horse statue, where she found the first button and pressed it. “And done!”
Finally, the group began searching among the demon statues for the last button, which Kairi finally found. “Here it is!” Kairi exclaimed, pressing the last button.
With all the buttons pressed, the main statue of the woman began to slowly spin around until it turned completely around, now facing in the direction where the statue of the demon was at the exit.
“Okay, let’s meet up with the others,” Kairi said.
At that precise moment, Eve's group reached the end of their route, finding a statue of a naked woman with her arms extended forward, but facing in the opposite direction to the statue of the demon at the exit. No one mentioned it, but there was also a huge tower that looked like a bell tower that reached up to the sky, but there was no way in.
Edea sighed, rubbing her face up and down as she looked at the statue. “Why doesn’t this surprise me?”
Eve scanned the statue carefully with Moby and Remy. “It seems to have a mechanism to rotate the statue. The question here is how to move it.”
“Easy peasy!” Priere was prepared to forcibly turn the statue, but Airy stopped her.
“Wait a minute! What if you end up breaking the statue by doing it your way?” Airy warned.
At that moment, Edea found a pedestal with a text on it. “The three men love the woman who ignores them,” Edea read, scratching her head. “What does this mean?”
Eve scanned the current location, eventually locating three male statues facing in different directions, but none facing the female statue.
“Let’s inspect those statues,” Eve said to the others.
Priere, Airy, and Edea approached the statues, noticing a small pedestal with a button on it. Out of curiosity, Airy touched the button on her statue, causing all three statues to rotate ninety degrees to one side, except for one statue, which rotated in the opposite direction. After this, Edea touched the button on her statue, causing the statues to rotate again, but this time in a different pattern. The same thing happened when Priere pressed the button on his statue.
“Interesting puzzle,” Eve said. “It seems the statues rotate every time we press a button. And if the goal is to have all three of them face the central statue… Fine, I want you to press the statues in the order I tell you.”
Despite some initial coordination issues, Priere, Airy, and Edea followed Eve's directions until finally all three statues were facing the statue of the woman. The statue then began to spin until it turned around, facing in the direction it was supposed to face.
“Okay, let’s meet up with Kairi and the others,” Eve said.
“And I hope this is the second time I see that statue,” Edea said.
Both groups met at the park exit, but it appeared the exit was still blocked.
“What the hell did we do wrong?” Airy asked.
“I don’t think so,” Rena said.
At that moment, a large group of Hunters, Wargs, Iron Giants, Mermen, and Stone Men appeared in that section of the park.
“Why am I not surprised?” Makoto wondered, preparing to fight.
Nina and Airy began using their magic to reduce or weaken the enemy forces that attacked them, while Rena, Eve and Edea with the Hunter profession attacked the different Fallen from a distance, at the same time that Makoto, Priere, and Kairi using the Titan Form attacked them melee, focusing mainly on the Iron Giants and the Stone Men, while also taking care of destroying any other Fallen that approached them during the fight.
After dispatching the attacking Fallen, the gate swung wide open, allowing the group to leave the park.
“Well, I couldn’t stand being in this place anymore,” Edea said, being the first to leave the park.
The others simply shrugged at his comment before following his example.
The group found themselves in another district of the city, very similar to the previous district they had originally come from. The place was just as convoluted and labyrinthine as the previous one. And although there were several wide, straight streets, some were blocked by both sinkholes and long-destroyed buildings, forcing them to go through the city's alleyways.
“If we didn’t know any better, I’d say we’ve made no progress here,” Makoto said.
“You can tell time has passed in this place,” Rena said. “Although some of the damage looks more like battle scars.”
“Do you think all this damage was caused by the battle that took place to seal this place in the first place?” Edea asked.
“It’s likely. But we don’t know anyone who was here at the time to ask,” Makoto said.
Priere then noticed a huge tower rising between the buildings, very similar to the tower in the park.
“Hey, there’s another tower like that here,” Priere said to the others.
“Another tower?” Edea asked.
“We found a tower similar to this one in the park,” Airy said.
“This whole world is probably full of towers like this one. But I have no knowledge of their use,” Eve said.
As they advanced, while destroying the Fallen who attacked them by surprise, the group came across a street that was blocked by debris, impeding their passage.
“Seriously, we need a map to figure out which routes are accessible. We can't just go around in circles like we're in a maze. What are we, lab rats?” Makoto asked.
Nina looked up at the buildings. “What if we try going across the rooftops?”
The girls looked in the same direction, then looked at the nearby walls in search of a way to climb.
“Well, it’ll be a change of scenery. I’m sick of all the walls. I’m feeling claustrophobic,” Edea said.
After finding a place to climb the walls, the group managed to reach the top of the building. Standing on the rooftops, the group had a better view of the sprawling city and how far away the castle lay. At the same time, they saw the countless towers that rose above the rest of the city on all sides.
“Okay, this place is bigger than I imagined,” Airy said, looking toward the horizon.
“Yeah, this place is almost as big as the World That Never Was,” Kairi said. “Seriously, this is going to take a while.”
“So let’s start jumping from roof to roof,” Priere said.
The group began to advance, jumping across the city's rooftops, trying to maintain their balance so as not to fall, and at the same time avoiding stepping on any loose tiles that could cause them to slip.
Although it seemed like a safe route, it actually left them open to ambushes from various flying Fallen such as Elemental Wraiths, Stone Gargoyles, and Giant Bats, as well as being suddenly ambushed by beings that looked like half-man half-bat (Man-Bat), which were more dangerous than the rest of the flying enemies, forcing Kairi to use Rauru Form to shoot them down with her reinforced beams.
Obviously, it didn't take long for them to reach the park entrance. After finding a safe route down from the rooftops, the group entered the park.
Inside, the group saw that the park appeared to have once been a battlefield, as the site was completely burned, with no trace of vegetation. The only thing that seemed intact was some statues depicting warriors in battle. Even what was supposed to be one of those tall towers was completely in ruins.
“Let me guess, War Park, isn’t it?” Edea said, looking around.
“Well, a war is what happened here,” Kairi said.
The group began to advance through the park, looking around in case they encountered possible attackers, but fortunately, they didn't encounter any Fallen.
As the group made their way forward without complications, they soon left the burnt remains of the park and arrived at the central district, or what was left of it, since the entire place was completely in ruins.
“Seriously, the first battle here was pretty bloody,” Airy said, looking around.
“In any case, we can only go one way,” Kairi said, pointing to the castle in the background, which was close by.
Without stopping, the group continued on their way until they reached the only bridge that connected the castle to the rest of the site. From that bridge, lined with statues of angels and demons on both sides, the girls could see the enormous Gothic-looking fortress that rose before them. A prominent feature from their perspective was the floating tower that connected to the tallest tower of the castle.
“So it’s here,” Makoto said.
“That’s right,” Kairi said, looking at the castle. After all, she was already there. Ready to end it all.
“The castle really looks pretty big,” Priere said. “If this Dracula is here, we’ll be a long time before we get in front of him.”
Rena stared straight ahead, squinting. “Wait. Someone’s coming.”
At that moment, a thick fog appeared in front of the castle, barely visible, moving toward them. As the fog advanced, the group could see someone moving slowly but steadily through it. Each step made a sound that could have chilled anyone's blood.
As the figure in the fog moved forward, the fog slowly dispersed, exposing the person who was moving forward, and eventually revealing who it was.
He was a pale-skinned man with very dark black hair, wearing a very ostentatious baroque-style suit with a huge black cape trailing behind him. As he approached, the group could see the blood-red color in his eyes as he stopped several meters away from them.
For a moment, Kairi had a flash of vision in her mind, and the dark man within it. He and the person before them were one and the same.
He was the one responsible for everything. The person responsible for all her ills and hardships. The person who took her mother away from her.
The man smiled, raising his hand to the sky.
“Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!” Dracula said before lowering his arm.
Rena was prepared to shoot, only waiting for an order to fire
“I must congratulate you. I never imagined that young ladies like you could make it this far. In any case, I must thank you for breaking the seal. Now I am no longer confined within the confines of this world,” Dracula said calmly.
Kairi stared coldly at Dracula, resisting the urge to attack him at that moment.
“I must admit. Your resemblance to your mother is more than striking,” Dracula said with a smile, showing his sharp fangs.
“What are you doing here?” Kairi asked coldly.
“Relax, Princess of Heart. I’ve only had the chivalry to present myself to those who are burning with the desire to confront me. After all, this is the first time we’ve met face to face in sixteen years,” Dracula said.
“Let’s stop talking and get this over with,” Priere said, preparing his staff.
“There’s no need to rush things, my dear.” Dracula raised his hand. “I haven’t come to engage in battle yet.”
“And?” Airy asked.
Dracula turned his gaze to his castle.
“My most powerful servants are inside my castle. If you manage to defeat them, you will gain access to my keep, where I will be waiting for you.” Dracula turned his gaze to the girls. “But that will depend on your strength, for it is likely that not all, if any, of you will make it out alive.”
“Let me be clear! I intend to finish you off and put an end to this!” Kairi exclaimed, pointing her Keyblade at him. “I’m going to make you regret attacking the Order of the Phoenix and killing my mother!”
Dracula smiled at Kairi's words.
“I am interested to see how far you are willing to go for this.” Dracula turned and began walking into the mist. “If you pass this test, you may enter my castle. As I have said before, welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!”
Dracula disappeared into the thick fog, but when it began to clear, it revealed something very different. A huge black suit of armor that resembled an enormous three-headed dog with its feet immobilized on the ground, its heads colored red, blue, and yellow, respectively (Cerberus Armor). The enormous armored beast was blocking the bridge, making it impossible to enter.
“Looks like this thing is going to block our way,” Airy said.
“Good thing it doesn’t look like he’s going to move from there,” Makoto said.
At that moment, the armor howled with its three heads, causing a wall of fire to appear behind them, advancing slowly and forcing them to approach the armor.
“You had to talk, didn’t you?” Edea commented.
After advancing a few meters, the wall of flames stopped, leaving the group several meters away from the Cerberus Armor and its possible attacks.
“Come on, let’s not waste any time,” Kairi said, preparing to face the Fallen, the girls doing the same.
The red head opened its mouth, launching a large ball of fire in their direction, forcing them to separate to avoid it, a moment Rena took advantage of to start shooting her arrows at the heads to damage it.
Then the blue head opened its mouth, letting out a roar that caused strings of icicles to form and fall in various patterns on the bridge, forcing the group to move. At that moment, Nina and Airy began casting spells of various elements, deducing that the color of each head was linked to an element.
The yellow head then opened its mouth, causing several electric orbs to form pillars of electricity as they moved back and forth across the bridge, forcing them to move to avoid being surprised by the electric charges.
After understanding the pattern the armor used, Kairi, using the Titan form, Makoto, Priere, and Eve advanced towards the Fallen and began to hit him with the best they had, while Rena, Nina, Airy, and Edea, with the Ranger job, began to attack him both from a distance and with magic.
The red head opened its mouth at that moment to launch a large fireball, forcing them to dodge the incendiary ball as it approached. But instead of trying to use an ice attack, the three heads tried to bite Kairi and the others, forcing them to move away from the body at that moment.
After this attack, the head opened its mouth, forming the electric orbs that moved constantly, forcing them to move and avoid them during its movement pattern until it ended, at which point the three heads tried to bite whoever was near them again, so that right after the blue head summoned the ice bombardment.
It was clear that the pattern changed slightly depending on whether the group attacked head-on or not, forcing Kairi and the others to be on the lookout for heads that tried to bite them or not.
After receiving constant attacks from Kairi's group, the red and blue heads opened their mouths at the same time, forming a huge blue fireball that advanced, freezing the ground where it passed, making it slippery.
“Great, now it decides to change patterns!” Edea exclaimed as she shot arrows at the Cerberus Armor.
“Be careful! Who knows what kind of attacks he’ll use next!” Eve warned as she summoned a large mechanical spear at the Fallen.
The three heads attempted to bite Kairi and the others, forcing them to retreat. At that moment, the red and yellow heads opened their mouths, causing a huge pillar to form in the center of the bridge. It began to shoot fireballs around it like a rotating sprinkler, forcing everyone to dodge the fireballs as they attacked.
After launching more bites at Kairi's group near the Fallen One, the blue and yellow heads opened their mouths, forcing huge icicles of ice to fall to the ground in random patterns, creating electric walls between the closest icicles between them that did not let any attack through.
After understanding fairly well the entire pattern that the Cerberus Armor used, the group focused all their attacks on the Fallen, avoiding the bites of the heads that were going for Kairi and those with her, and evading the combined elemental attacks towards Rena and her companions, which was more complicated than before.
Without warning, the three heads roared loudly, the red head carrying a huge flame in its mouth, causing the group both near and far to move away from the red head, which launched a powerful incendiary beam that traveled the length of the bridge. And immediately after, the blue head began to do the same, carrying icy mist in its mouth, then launching a freezing beam that traveled across the bridge from end to end.
“Okay, now he’s really pissed off!” Makoto exclaimed as he dodged the freeze ray.
At that moment, the yellow head charged electricity as it opened its mouth, launching an electric beam that crossed the bridge, almost hitting the group by surprise.
The three heads began to take turns firing their elemental blasts constantly, forcing them to avoid standing in front of the head that was firing their element. This wasn't easy, as they attacked in rapid succession, complicating any chance of attacking the Fallen.
Kairi dodged the Cerberus Armor's repeated attacks until she jumped as high as she could, turning into her Esper form to fly over it, then immediately swooping down on the Fallen One and slamming her Keyblade into its back, executing a powerful incendiary attack inside it.
After this attack, Kairi jumped off the Fallen One's back, landing in front of him with her back to him, while the Cerberus Armor's body collapsed to the ground before fading away.
The rest of the group ran toward Kairi as she reverted to her normal appearance. The girls exchanged silent glances before turning their gaze to the castle. Words weren't necessary at that moment. They all knew what they had to do right now and where they should go.
"Come on."
With these words, the group entered Dracula's castle, surrounded by absolute darkness.
Only fate knows how this battle will end.
