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6,002 B.C.:
-In the aftermath of the Sinking of Atlantis, the new Foreteller Vulpeus, Derax, and Ava's other lieutenants bring Ava's body back to Sokovia for burial.
-While Derax chooses to honor Ava's wishes by staying neutral in the Keyblade War, Ephemer leads the remaining Unchained in striking back at Ava's killer.
-The newly formed Unchained Legion launches a guerilla assault on Aced's citadel (Beast's Castle) in France with the aim of assassinating Gula.
-Gula is absent from the citadel, but the Legion manages to deal high casualties towards the Ursus and Leopardos troops.

6,000 B.C.:
-Invi leads Anguis and Unchained troops in combating Jenova before Medusa and the Inhuman Genetics council manages to banish her through The Monolith to Maveth.
-In the wake of the destruction of Atilan, the Anguis guild lays claim to the Inhuman Empire, forcing Medusa's sister, Crystal Amaquelin, to lead an evacuation of her people to protect them from reprisals by the Unchained Legion.
-The Inhuman refugees set up camp in an emergency military bunker in the southern province of imperial territory.

5,995 B.C.:
-In the aftermath of the devastation caused by the Keyblade War, the Unchained Legion retreats into the shadows to rebuild as society starts over from scratch

5,874 B.C.:
-After regaining the memories of her past life, Skuld leaves her village to rendezvous with the nearest Legion encampment.
-Ephemer and the Unchained already killed in the Siege of Daybreak Town catch her up on everything she's missed in the last twenty-one years.

October 31st, 2021:
-Sora and Kairi are discussing more plans for their wedding when Kairi brings up an anecdote she found in Radiant Garden's old laws about how, as king, Ansem had the authority to officiate the wedding.

November 17th, 2021:
-Malekith and the Dark Elves conquer the Isle of Draco while the Dragon Council is away attending a meeting with the United Nations.
-While mining operations begin to excavate the Infinity Gauntlet, Malekith contemplates how far he is willing to go to avenge his wife and child.

November 18th, 2021:
-Rose takes Jake, Trixie, and Spud to her old safe house in search of her files on the Unchained Legion to expose public figures in the Legion's pocket or who are Legionnaires themselves.
-Thor and Coulson brief various military leaders on the Infinity Stones and the power they possess. Daisy interrupts the briefing to report Hellfire Club loyalists causing chaos in Los Angeles.

November 19th, 2021:
-Attempting to resurrect Maleficent, Hades attempts to enter the Underworld, only to be informed by Joshua that he's been fired from his position as overseer of the Underworld.
-Hades attacks Joshua, but the former Composer escapes, leaving the former lord of the dead to face the Avengers on his own.

November 20th, 2021:
-With S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers out battling the Hellfire Club, the Advent Children launch a surprise attack on the Playground.
-With a brainwashed Sora leading the charge, the Unchained Legion lays siege to the Isle of Draco as Malekith's mining teams begin digging for the Infinity Gauntlet.
-During the battle at S.H.I.E.L.D. HQ, Yazoo and Loz are killed. Enraged by their deaths, Kadaj attempts to launch a final strike against the Unchained Legion and the Hellfire Club.

November 21st, 2021:
-Desperate to rescue Sora from the Leigon's clutches, Kairi uses the Door to Light in order to transport herself aboard the Unchained fleet laying siege to Draco.
-With the Hydra division of the Hellfire Club completely obliterated, Maleficent's loyalists agree to an uneasy truce with Malekith's insurgents.
-In orbit over Earth, Riku gives one last speech before Coalition forces descend to battle the Legion and the Club on Draco.
-The Siege of Draco begins. The Society of Advanced Cultural Knowledge uses the Ulysses to attack the Unchained fleet from below.
-Kairi continues sabotaging the Legion's flagship when she runs into a brainwashed Sora.
-The battle of Draco continues to rage on, while Kadaj infiltrates the Sokovia and steals Jenova's preserved remains from under the Legion's noses.
-Lerena's forces seize control of the abandoned mines and finish excavating the Infinity Gauntlet.
-Sora delivers Kairi to the brig, where after a short conversation with Sora and consulting Black Widow's notes on the Legion's brainwashing methods, develops a plan before breaking out of the ship's prison on her own.
-Algrim and the Dark Elf rebels surrender to S.H.I.E.L.D. on the condition that their families on Svartalfheim be spared from the fallout of the war.
-Kairi confronts Sora on the Ava's top deck, where she manages to purge the Legion's brainwashing from his mind.
-The battle begins to turn in the Legion's favor. Gaston is killed by Skuld's honor guard, while Hook and Cruella are taken prisoner by the Coalition.
-Half of the Ulysses' sub pod crews are wiped out by Unchained diving teams while ECA boarding parties are forced to abandon the Unchained warships for the time being.
-Kadaj makes landfall on Draco, where Zack and Cloud are notified of his arrival and break of in pursuit.
-Now free of the brainwashing, Sora and Kairi are attacked by Lerena. Kairi inadvertently summons Ava's spirit, who berates the Legion for their actions.
-During the confrontation, the X – Blade appears to Sora, feeling that it is needed once more, but Relena removes and crushes Kairi's heart, killing her.
-Cloud and Zack are notified of Kadaj's presence on the battlefield and take off across the battlefield in search of him.
-Sora destroys Relena in retaliation, and manages to save Kairi by giving her half of his heart. After being restored to life, Kairi officiates their wedding right there.
-The heroes manage to retake the Palace of the Dragon Council as a base from which to take back the rest of the island.
-Cloud, Zack, and Tifa catch up Kadaj in the tunnels beneath the island just as he uses Jenova's preserved remains to resurrect Sephiroth
-With the power of the X – Blade, Sora decimates the Unchained fleet as he and Kairi walk towards the shore.
-Stick and most of the Unchained are killed when their boats are incinerated. With the enemy leadership cut in half, the tide begins to turn in favor of the forces of good.
-Kairi uses the Infinity Gauntlet to accelerate the worlds' reformation into a singular planet before Sora teleports them both to shore.
-Shaken by Ava's speech, Skuld confronts Aurilam about her epiphany, seeking to pursue a peace treaty with the Coalition.
-Aurilam, blinded by millennia of fanaticism, removes her from command and continues to wage the battle without her.
-Sora and Kairi reunite with their friends in the Dragon Council citadel, before Skuld arrives to discuss terms of surrender.
-While Skuld turns herself over to the Coalition, the sentry who helped her escape the Legion encampment goes from tent to tent, spreading Skuld's message to like-minded Unchained tired of the fight and willing to work towards a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
-Sephiroth duels Cloud through the catacombs beneath Draco alongside Zack, Tifa, and Leon.
-After convincing the Coalition of her sincerity, Skuld broadcasts a message to the Legion signaling for her loyalists to turn on the rest of the Legion.
-While Skuld's splinter faction keeps the main Unchained force busy, the ECA forces charge into battle so Sora can use the X – Blade to obliterate the main camps.
-Rose confronts the Huntsman at the volcano summit, hoping to destroy the Huntsclan once again.
-She and Jake manage to lure the Huntsclan back towards the main ECA forces, where Sora uses the X – Blade to obliterate them.
-With the remaining unchained stripped of their immortality, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Mickey, Kairi, and Skuld head down into the catacombs beneath Draco to hunt down Aurilam.
-The group confronts Aurilam inside the heart of Draco's volcano as the rest of the defectors take the Unchained loyalists prisoner in the wake of the battle.
-Zack and Cloud manage to defeat Sephiroth for the last time after a long battle. With his father truly dead, Kadaj breaks down in tears and surrenders.
-After a prolonged duel, Sora and co. finally defeat Aurilam. With the last of the fanatics defeated, Skuld's defectors surrender.
-As Skuld, the surviving Unchained, and the remaining Hellfire Club loyalists are taken into custody, the Dragon Council hosts an impromptu festival on Draco that night to celebrate the valor and courage of those who fought to defeat the Unchained Legion.
-When the party kicks into gear, Sora and Kairi talk about their future as newly-weds while the crowds watch as the world is fully restored.
-Thor and Loki return to Asgard to mourn their father's demise.
-While everyone is celebrating the recompletion of the world, Sora and Kairi sneak back into Hollow Bastion and consummate their marriage.

November 22nd, 2021:
-Vanitas and Cassim oversee the conversion of Syndrome's old lair into a C.I.N. base.

January 22st, 2022:
-After two months of transition and preparation, Kairi is crowned queen of Radiant Garden.
 

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After three years of writing, the Acolytes of Chaos saga is finally finished. As promised, here’s a long-winded Author’s note where I look back at everything I’ve written and explain what led us to this point.

Wow, I can’t believe my own stamina. What started as a generic and clichéd story idea that’s been rolling around in my head since middle school has evolved into a saga spanning nine fanfiction stories, 300 chapters and possibly a million words. Holy crap! Back in sixth grade, when I started speculating about future directions for the Kingdom Hearts series, my ideas were very basic and in retrospect, generic and unoriginal. I don’t remember all of what I had in mind but it involved the Disney villains going after the Princesses of Heart again, the worlds begin destroyed by the Heartless again forcing all the survivors to live inside a giant Gummi space station that was Noah’s Ark and The Death Star rolled into one.

Sora would have wound up on Earth and people would have thought he was crazy. A redeemed Xehanort (This was before the reveal of old baldy, so the only Xehanort I knew at the time was Terranort) going undercover on Earth as a high school science teacher (I later alternated between Ienzo and a freed-from-possession Terra in this role). Incorporating the Disney shows of my childhood like Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Kim Possible, and American Dragon: Jake Long was part of the plan from the very beginning, and I had originally had Rose as an eighth Princess of Heart. The ending of all the fragments of the original world coming back together was also something I’ve had in mind from the start, but I had originally planned on ending things with a big musical number.

…Yeah, not exactly the best ideas to work with. As more games in the Kingdom Hearts series came out and the canon storyline began to evolve, so too did my story ideas. The Disney villains going after the princesses and Heartless destroying the worlds again ideas morphed into one: an ancient society of beings dedicated to serving the Darkness (basically a Disney version of The Hand from Daredevil, as I reimagined Chernabog as the collective embodiment and consciousness of all Darkness) attempting to plunge the entire universe into Darkness. This was when I decided to have Marluxia and Larxene’s human selves be villains still, even though I had planned for the redemption of the rest of the Organization. (Braig being in league with Master Xehanort meant that he was out of the redemption picture as well)

In early iterations of this saga I came up with, Sora would have actually died, and the final act of the story would have followed his disembodied soul making his way through the afterlife to the door to Kingdom Hearts, while his friends fought the bad guys in the land of the living. When I came up with the “Single embodiment of Darkness” idea (itself inspired by information that early drafts of KH1 would have had Chernabog as the main villain and source of the Heartless), I thought “then who or what should be the embodiment of light?” So then instead of fighting his way through the Realm of Darkness back to life, Sora would be resurrected as a physical vessel of Kingdom Hearts itself.

Around the fall of 2013, I decided to try and get my ideas out of my skull and put them into words. My first attempt was posted on the American Dragon: Jake Long Fan Forums under the title “The Dark War”. In retrospect, my first crack at fanfiction was very bad. It was rushed, sloppy, and honestly, not very good. Then a few months later one of my submissions for the Kingdom Keepers Insider app (which allowed Kingdom Keepers fans to contribute to the writing of the final book in the series) was selected to appear in the seventh book. That gave me another confidence boost and spurred me to completely overhaul my idea.

My third iteration of the idea that would eventually become the Acolytes of Chaos saga was known as the Acolytes of Darkness Saga. Gone was the ancient Chernabog-worshiping cult. Instead, the Disney villains were back as the main threat to the universe. While the bad guys worshiping an embodiment of Darkness idea still remained, I ended up changing it from Chernabog to Vanitas (or at least his Remnant bonus boss from Birth By Sleep Final Mix). I also completely rebuilt the Disney Villain Alliance as well.
Maleficent’s new cabal now consisted of Yzma, Barbossa, Hades, Captain Hook, Dr. Facilier, Rourke, and Darth Maul. Maul would have been one of the only Star Wars characters to appear in the story, having accidentally travelled from the Star Wars galaxy to the Milky Way in a blind Hyperspace jump after his defeat in the Son of Dathomir comic that had ended that summer. I didn’t keep track of all the details of my early versions of this storyline, so a lot of details have been lost to time. Anyway, Sora would have been captured and used as a host to resurrect Vanitas, who would have killed Maleficent and seized control of the Hellfire Club as soon as he woke up.

I originally created the early fics of the Acolytes of Chaos saga, Aftermath (an epilogue to the AD:JL series finale), and Convergence in Danville (an AD:JL/Phineas & Ferb crossover set after Aftermath) back when I was still operating with the whole “bad guys use darkness” approach. But then I ended up reading the theory that inspired me to write The Xehanort War. As I mentioned in earlier fics, the Rebirth Theory by Kingdom Hearts Insider user Gelandporn was so good I was just inspired to write about it. And as I started working out ways to put the theory in my story, I came up with an idea: what if there were characters who remembered their past lives? From that simple question, the Unchained Legion was born, and the entire shape of my story changed once again.

The Acolytes of Darkness saga was completely overhauled. In its place was the Acolytes of Chaos saga, with the existing stories in this universe rewritten to account for the change in main antagonists (For Aftermath, I just deleted the scenes relevant to the overarching plot and made it a standalone fic, while Convergance needed to just remove the references to Darkness and rework the epilogue). As I wrote the Acolytes of Chaos story, I eventually decided that I wanted to find a way to include the Marvel Cinematic Universe in this story I was building. But I didn’t want to overcomplicate the universe with all the twists and turns of Marvel movies that haven’t been released yet, so I basically reworked everything in the MCU that happened after The Winter Soldier to create a different variation of the Marvel movie universe.

As the story I was creating evolved, the plot elements I had planned all the way back in the original migrated over and changed to fit the new story line. The space exodus storyline turned into Sora and the Avengers travelling the universe to get back to Radiant Garden. Sora being possessed by Vanitas became being brainwashed into a fanatically loyal agent of the Unchained Legion. Kairi’s near death experience in Infinities was one of those ideas that came into my head when I came up with the general idea of “something causes Sora to fight for the bad guys’ team,” figuring that Kairi being in physical danger would drive him to snap out of his possession/brainwashing.

And then while I was thinking about that battle, I was suddenly reminded of the scene in Once Upon A Time where Prince Charming’s heart is crushed, killing him, only for Snow White to bring him back to life by giving him half of her own. That idea lodged itself firmly in the crevices of my brain and I began planning the scene where Sora and Kairi do the same thing. And once that idea flowed out of my head, the mental image of the two of them tearing their way through the villains’ ranks with the X – Blade and Infinity Gauntlet like the bad guys were made of paper soon followed.

Now comes the part to talk about the ending. Bringing all the scattered pieces of the original world back together was always the endgame from day one, but everything else about the ending has completely changed over the years. Originally, the worlds were all going to end up slotted onto different continents per where the movie was set (or in the case of Disney movies adapted from fairy tales, where the story originated). Then in the second iteration of the story, Jake Long and Rose were going to be the ones engaged during the story, with their wedding at the end of the saga. Then when the story was pushed back to six years after Kingdom Hearts 3 instead of only one year, so I switched it to Sora and Kairi.

When The Dark War turned into Acolytes of Darkness, Sora was originally going to propose after the final battle, since I originally had Vanitas’ methods of possession leaving some mental scars that Namine would have spent several weeks helping him deal with. When I reworked the possessed by Vanitas elements and moved it forward into The Xehanort War, I decided to have the story end with Sora and Kairi’s wedding. After that, I decided to have Sora and Kairi get married in the middle of the final battle, Pirates of the Caribbean-style. And then I sort of toned it back a bit but kept that “wedding vows on the battlefield” idea for the final version.

All in all, my ideas and abilities as a writer have come a long way in all these years, and I’m satisfied with how the Acolytes of Chaos saga turned out. I hope you all enjoyed the ride as much as I did. Now that it’s over, I’m moving on to other projects. I’m going to finish the final installment of my Secret Identities trilogy before taking a break from fanfiction for a while. I have some ideas for another saga taking place after Acolytes of Chaos, but I’m going to let those develop further in my head and take a break from writing before I even start working on that. And on that note, I bid you all farewell and wish you all good luck in the coming years.
 

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I read this in one sitting. I seriously need to read the rest of the saga from the beginning, cause damn, this is so good. <3 Anyways, I'm super happy for Sora and Kairi finally being married and doing the deed. I'm glad Kairi was the one to snap Sora out of his brain washing, cause it would've been too sad otherwise. I almost thought Kairi died, and was relieved you found a way to have her come back. Yeah, I'm a big fan of Sora and Kairi being together the most right now. And I felt my jaw drop when Hades was no longer in charge of the Underworld. Was one of my favorite moments in the chapters you posted. Furthermore, the process of you coming up with this story was both satisfying and fascinating. To think it evolved that much over the years. And three hundred chapters is a lot. Thank you so much for posting it here on KHI. I'm happy you did, cause I know what I'll be reading tomorrow. <3 And same to you, I wish you good luck in the years to come, and to enjoy working on your other projects now that you've wrapped the Acolytes of Chaos saga up. You are one talented writer to juggle so much too.
 
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