Inside the ice castle, Aqua was pacing back and forth, trying to keep her powers under control. "Get it together. Control it," she said to herself, breathing heavily. It was like being confined in her room all over again. "Don't feel. Don't feel. Don't feel!" Things didn't seem to be going Aqua's way as the walls around her darkened and ice spiked started to form.

"Aqua, it's okay. Don't worry about it-"

"I stuck my sister!" Aqua interrupted Terra. The brunette sighed and deeply kissed her, making her stop and relax. She pulled away and smiled at him, "Thanks, Terra..."

"No, problem..." He smiled.

"You have to go after her!" Aqua said, calmly. "I will be fine and I can take care of myself. Piri's probably cold and alone. Go to her."

"But-"

"Go now!" She said and he sighed, giving her one last kiss.

"Very well, my queen..."

~

Meanwhile, Piri and the others were walking to go see Riku and Sora's friends while Donald rode on Goofy's back. "Look Goofy, the sky's awake," the snow duck said as he watched the aurora borealis light up the night sky.

Sora then noticed Piri was shivering and asked worryingly, "Are you cold?"

"A little," Piri replied. Riku was about to put his arm around her, but he hesitated and mentally slapped himself for even thinking of doing that. Sora and Ven saw this and pouted quietly.

"I really thought he was going to put his arm around her..." Sora pouted and Ven nodded in agreement.

Riku saw a slow smoking geyser and brought the bluette over to it. Once she touched the smoke, Piri felt a lot warmer.

"So about my friends," Riku started to explain as they kept walking, "well, actually, they're more like family. When I was a kid, it was just me, Sora, and Goofy till they took us in."

"They did?" Ven asked.

"Yeah," he replied with a nod. Then he said nervously, "I want to warn you though, they can be a little inappropriate…and…loud. Very loud. They're also stubborn at times and a little overbearing. And heavy, really heavy believe me. I mean, you'll get it. They mean well, and-"

"Riku," Piri interrupted, touching his shoulder, "They sound wonderful."

"Okay then," Riku said with Sora giggling and showing them a yard full of boulders.

"Meet our family!" The brunette then started talking to the rocks. "Hey guys! Long time no see!"

"They're…rocks," Piri said awkwardly. She definitely wasn't expecting this.

"Oh... hehe." Ven recognized this place and quietly looked around, seeing if there was anything else to see. 'If hasn't changed much... Though some of the trolls are bigger now!'

"They're crazy," Donald whispered to the stunned the bluette, "I'll distract them while you guys run." HE then started pretending to talk to the rocks just so Sora and Riku wouldn't be offended, saying loudly, "Hi Goofy and Sora's family! It's nice to meet you!" Donald then whispered to Piri, "Because I love you Piri, I insist you run." He then went back to talking to the rocks. "I understand that you're love experts!" The snow duck noticed that Piri still hadn't moved. "Why aren't you running?"

"Uh…okay, I'm gonna go now," Piri said, starting to walk away. Suddenly the boulders started to move. "R-Riku?" Piri jumped over a few of the boulders and Donald chased them as the rocks rolled towards Sora and Riku.

Then the boulders turned into trolls and one named Yuffie exclaimed, "My babies have returned! Sora and Riku's home!" All the trolls were excited to see them and they all crowded around them.

"Sora and Riku's home!" Donald said excitedly, but then looked at Riku with a puzzled look, "Wait, Riku?"

"It's great to see you all. But where's Yen Sid?" Riku asked, despite being happy to see his family.

"Yeah, we have something bad that's happened to us!" Sora said and he was lead away. Ven smiled and followed.

"He's napping, but look I grew a mushroom," said a troll kid to Riku, showing the small mushroom on his back.

"I earned a fire crystal," another troll kid said, holding up the crystal in her hand.

"I passed a kidney stone," an older troll said flatly while showing a small stone.

"Riku, pick me up!" Another troll kid jumped into Riku's arms and the silverette carried him.

"Trolls," Piri said, recognizing Riku's family, "They're trolls!"

All the trolls then turned around and looked at Piri. "He's brought a girl!" Yuffie squealed happily.

"A girl!" the trolls cheered. They grabbed Piri carried over to Riku.

"What's going on?" Piri asked.

Riku shrugged and said sheepishly, "I've learned to just roll with it."

"Let me see." Yuffie went up to the confused bluette and looked at her. "Delicate yet bright eyes, working nose, strong teeth. Oh, she'll do nicely for our Riku!"

"What? No no no..." Piri started to blush while Riku covered his face in embarrassment.

"You've got the wrong idea. That's not why I brought her here," Riku said, his face looking a little red.

"Right," Piri stuttered, "I'm not–we're not-"

"What's the issue dear? Why are you holding back from such a man?" Yuffie asked.

Yuffie: Is it the clumpy way he walks?

Joshua: Or the grumpy way he talks?

Selphie: Or the pear-shaped, square-shaped weirdness of his feet?

Demyx: And though we know he washes well,

He always ends up sort of smelly.

Yuffie: But you'll never meet a fellow

Yuffie and Joshua: Who's as sensitive and sweet.

"That's nice but-" Piri started to say, but the trolls kept on singing as they tossed Riku around a little.

All Trolls: So he's a bit of a fixer-upper

So he's got a few flaws

Xion: Like his peculiar brain dear

Roxas: His thing with the reindeer

Xion and Roxas: That's a little outside of nature's laws.

"This is not about me!" Riku protested as the troll kids played around with Goofy and Donald.

All: So he's a bit of a fixer-upper

But this we're certain of,

You can fix this fixer-upper up with a little bit of love!

"Can we please just stop talking about this? We've got a real, actual problem here," Riku said, getting embarrassed from his friends' antics.

"I'll say," Yuffie smirked amusingly, "So tell me dear."

Yuffie: Is it the way he runs scared?

Ephemer: Or that he's socially impaired?

Vivi: Or that he only likes to tinkle in the woods?

"I do not need to know that," Piri said awkwardly as Riku smiled sheepishly.

Squall: Are you holding back your fondness

Due to his unruly silverness?

Yuna, Rikku, and Paine: Or the way he covers up that he's the honest goods?

All: He's just a bit of a fixer-upper

So he's got a couple of bugs

"No I don't!" Riku retorted after scratching a terrible itch.

His isolation is a confirmation

Of his desperation for healing hugs.

So he's a bit of a fixer-upper,

But we know what to do.

The way to fix up this fixer-upper if to fix him up with you!

The trolls lassoed Piri and Riku with vines and they separated them, the females taking Piri while the males took Riku. "Stop it. Stop it. Enough!" he yelled, "She's engaged to someone else okay?!" The males looked at him confusingly and they then got into a huddle.

Zack: So she's a bit of a fixer-upper.

Rai: That's a minor thing.

Wakka: Her quote 'engagement' is a flex arrangement.

Tidus: And by the way, I don't see no ring.

The male trolls then turned back to Riku and continue to persuade him.

Males: So she's a bit of a fixer-upper

Her brain's a bit betwixed

Get the fiancé out of the way

And the whole thing will be fixed

Riku groaned and face palmed, knowing that they weren't going to drop the subject. Meanwhile, the female trolls knew about Piri's engagement as well and they try to help her out.

Yuffie: We're not saying you can change him cause people don't really change.

Shiki: We're only saying that love's a force that's powerful and strange.

Tifa: People make bad choice when they're sad, or scared, or stressed.

Yuffie: Throw a little love their way

Yuna, Rikku, and Paine: Throw a little love their way

Shiki: And you'll bring out their best!

Females: True love brings out their best!

The trolls dressed them with cloaks and crowns made of moss and crystals. Riku sighed at how pretty Piri looked while Piri giggled at Riku's outfit, earning a nervous shrug from him.

All: Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper

That's what it's all about

Seifer: Father!

Rhyme: Sister!

Beat: Brother!

Seifer, Rhyme, and Beat: We need each other to raise us up and round us out

All: Everyone's a bit of a fixer-upper

But when push comes to shove

Donald: The only fixer-upper fixer that can fix a fixer-upper is

All: True, true, true, true, true

The trolls then dug a hole in the ground and placed Piri and Riku inside it as they made an arch over them. Donald stood right by the hole as a troll with short bluish-grey hair holding up a book went up to the couple inside and said, "Do you, Piri, take Riku to be your troll-fully wedded-?"

Piri was confused and asked, "Wait, what?"

"You're getting married," the troll priest said.

Love!

Piri then felt a tremor in her heart and collapsed. "She's as cold as ice!" Riku said as he held her. Ven and Sora ran to them.

"We found Yen Sid!" Ven said.

An elder troll with a long grey beard and a blue hat with stars on it rolled from the crowd and stopped in front of Riku. "There is strange magic here."

"Yen Sid!"

"Come, come. Bring her to me." Riku brought Piri over to Yen Sid and the elder troll took her hands. "Piri, your life is in danger. There is ice in your heart put there by your sister. If not removed, to solid ice you will freeze forever."

"What?" Piri gasped, "No..."

"But you can remove it right?" Sora asked hopefully.

"I cannot. I'm so sorry Riku..." Yen Sid apologized, turning to Riku, "If it was her head, it would be easy. But only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart."

"An act of true love?" Piri said softly.

"A true love's kiss perhaps?" Yuffie suggested and the trolls gave each other a kiss to demonstrate.

Piri shivered as more streaks of white appeared in her hair. Riku looked at her and not matter how much it pained him to do it, the brunette knew what had to be done."Piri, we've got to get you back to Lea," he said.

"L-Lea…" Piri agreed, her voice now at a whisper.

"Pull us out Goofy." Goofy pulled Riku and Piri out of the pit and the silverette got on the reindeer's back with Piri in his arms. "Donald, Sora, Ven, come on!"

The two boys nodded and climbed onto Goofy's back.

"I'm coming!" Donald proclaimed as he jumped onto Goofy's back, latching to Sora's head and sitting on his shoulders. The reindeer galloped as fast as he could back to Radiant Garden. "Let's go kiss Lea! Who is this Lea?"

Ven pouted, "I don't know and don't trust much about him but it's the only lead we got have right now!"

Sora rolled his eyes, "Sure..."