They take the Magic Carpet to the Desert. Suddenly, something bursts out of the sand,
spinning violently toward them. It lands two giant feet on the ground, clawing at
carpet, who dodges frantically as Sora grits his teeth. The four of them topple out of
the carpet as Kurt Zisa turns its six-armed body in their direction, summoning two orbs
of energy in its hands. The orb cancel their magic summoning abilities and Sora moves in
to attack its feet. As it walks closer to them, the mechanical crunch echoing through
the desert, it stares at them with its snake-like head. Two of its other arms hold long
curved scythes, which is spins wildly, slicing at them. Sora and Aladdin eliminate the
magic-cancelling orbs and Donald sends a Thunder spell, sending it falling to the
ground. It’s head rears up out of its body on a long elastic neck, attempting to bite
them, before it jumps back up, summoning large dust devils, tossing sand everywhere.
Goofy charges it with his shield, but misses as it spins through the air toward Sora.
Donald heals him as it sends fireballs toward them. With several more critical strikes,
Kurt Zisa stumbles forward. They run away from it as its arms crash down in the sand
around them. Aladdin summons the Magic Carpet and it swoops down to grab them as the
Heartless falls over completely. A large glowing heart rises up into the sky as they fly
away towards the end of the desert, watching as the Heartless vanishes in the distance.
They reach the sandpit where they found Aladdin earlier and dismount from the carpet.
They step forward and the sand in front of them lurches upward. The ground quakes as an
enormous tiger head heaves out of the sand. Its mouth opens, heat and flame emanating
from its depths, and its eyes glow. An evil glow, one of dark purpose. They approach its
mouth before it reels upward, blasting them with a hot torrent of sand. Heartless appear
and they realize the tiger head is under their control. Sora begins thrashing at the
Heartless before a beam of energy strikes Aladdin in the back, knocking him over. Donald
heals him and Sora sees that the beams are coming from its eyes. After he destroys a few
Heartless, the tiger head buries its mouth in the sand, and Sora jumps onto its nose,
because it releases a spray of sand from its mouth. Sora attacks its eyes before a
Bandit Heartless flips onto the top of the tiger, almost knocking Sora off. Goofy climbs
up the side of the tiger head and shields Sora from more flying Heartless. Sora
continues striking the eyes until the power of darkness is driven from the Cave of
Wonders. Once everything settles down, they enter the cave. Fighting Heartless through
the labyrinthine halls of the Cave of Wonders, they drop down to a watery level and Sora
destroys a pillar with a Fire spell.