Later, when Sora awakens, he, Donald, and Goofy travel to Hollow Bastion, where they find Yuffie, Leon, Aerith, Cid, and Merlin. It first appears as part of flashbacks in Roxas's dreams, cutscenes playing out of Sora's original journey. Hollow Bastion plays an active role again in Kingdom Hearts II. In the basement, Hollow Bastion appears in Riku's story, where he has to defeat Maleficent in her dragon form. However, Belle is unable to completely suppress her love, and Sora has to defeat Maleficent.

There, Belle denies her love for the Beast to protect him from Maleficent. In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Hollow Bastion, along with Belle, Beast, and Maleficent, appears again as figment of Sora's memories. They jump through the Keyhole to seal it and depart to finish Ansem off. They also encounter a mysterious Unknown figure that attacks Sora's group, but only to lose. On their return, the group find the Beast reunited with Belle. The Beast return to the group, telling them that he wouldn't leave without Belle, and so the group leave Hollow Bastion without him. This act causes Sora to return to his human self. Kairi identifies one as Sora and hugs the Sora-turned-Heartless to protect him from the other attacking Heartless. The escapists then find themselves surrounded by Heartless. Ansem appears and attacks Kairi, but Riku, who is trapped within, manages to stop Ansem long enough to give time for Kairi, Donald, and Goofy to escape. To remedy this, Sora uses Riku's Keyblade to stab himself and release Kairi's heart, destroying the Keyblade and also releasing the hearts of the other princesses in the process. Sealing the Keyhole is impossible when the Keyhole is incomplete. Sora emerges as the victor and attempts to seal the Keyhole but to no avail. He traps Donald and Goofy outside and battles Sora alone, so that he can release Kairi's heart.

At this point, Riku identifies himself as Ansem, the Seeker of Darkness. Riku reveals that her missing heart is within Sora, and that the Keyhole is incomplete without it. Sora and the gang continue until they reach the Seven Princesses of Heart and the world's Keyhole. Riku reveals that Maleficent was simply a pawn under the control of the Heartless, despite her believing it was her in control, and he leaves. However, Sora's party defeat Maleficent again. With his newly acquired 'Keyblade of heart', Riku stabs Maleficent and releases her darkness to transform her into a dragon. Meanwhile, Sora, Donald, Goofy and Beast venture forward and confront Maleficent, who is quickly beaten, making her retreat to Riku. At this point, the Beast rejoins the party.Īs Riku flees from the area, he encounters Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, who convinces Riku to succumb to the Darkness. Riku attacks them, but is defeated, and he runs away. The strength of his friendship causes the Keyblade to return to Sora. Luckily, Goofy saves him, promising not to betray Sora or the King, and then Donald joins the party.

Afterwards, Riku attacks Sora since he refused to surrender. This spurs Sora to continue his journey too, so the two team up.Īfter traversing the castle, Beast is separated when he sees an illusion of Belle that then turns into a Heartless, enraging him to the point where he pounces on the illusion with doors closing behind him. Despite his injury, Beast gets up and continues onwards, explaining that he must find someone important to him. Donald and Goofy proceed to follow Riku, following the King's orders to follow the 'key.' Riku leaves. Riku declares himself the real Keyblade wielder, and seizes the Keyblade away from Sora. When Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrive, they find the Beast, injured and beaten by Riku.

In Kingdom Hearts, Hollow Bastion is the penultimate world, and serves as Maleficent's headquarters, having taken over the world and overrun it with Heartless.

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