Chapter 24

We came to the town square and saw the heartless going crazy. It was nothing to us. After they were all gone, we went to a small graveyard and saw more heartless.

"GAH! To hell with you!" I shouted and used Last Resort on them. All but one was left standing. It realize it was the only one and it freaked out.

"Light!" Sora yelled and threw two light orbs at it. It disappeared. "That's right! You better disappear."

I giggled, "Show off!" he blushed at what I said. "Despite that, you're getting stronger."

"I know!" he cheekily said.

I smirked, "Not strong enough to master my move, though."

"What?! Come on!"

"Nope!"

"Oh, pipe down, you two!" Donald said.

We heard a yipping sound. I looked at a small tomb and a ghost dog popped out of it.

"Zero! Have you seen Sally?" the dog barked and flew behind the stone. There was a feminine gasp. It belonged to a Frankenstein girl.

"Something wrong, Jack?" she asked.

"Nah, we're going to have the best Halloween ever, Sally!" so this is Sally. "All we need is your memory." I gasped at this.

" 'Memory'? You mean this?" She was holding... oh, forget-me-nots! That's what they meant by memories. "Jack, I have a bad feeling about this. Why don't you try something else? There's still time." Sally pleaded.

"Nothing can beat what I have planned! Trust me, you are going to love it!" Jack said and we went back to the lab. As they worked, I got bored and decided to snoop around. I found a chest and dug through it. The only thing that caught my eye was a jack-in-the-box. It looked really spooky and yet so fun to play with. I did play with it and it did pop up with a evil laugh. I evily grinned as I had an Idea. Donald is easy to scare, right? I let my tail wrap around and hold it.

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No one's POV

Unaware to the group, the local trio of pranksters had heard all of the conversation. The trio was made of two boys and a girl.

"Lock!" a boy dressed as a devil called, jumping out of hiding.

"Shock!" the girl said. She was dressed up as a witch.

"Barrel!" the other boy dressed as a skeleton called out, did the same as the other two. "Did you hear that?"

"Yeah! A heart! What should we do?" Lock asked.

"Gosh, you're really stupid! Isn't it obvious?" Shock said.

"Tell Oogie Boogie, of course!" Barrel said and ran back to their leader, who began planning a way to steal the heart.

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Piri's POV

We gave the doctor the forget-me-nots.

"Now, where's that surprise?" Jack asked.

"Surprise?" Sora questioned.

"Kind of like a jack-in-the-box." my eyes widened at what the doctor said. "There's one in the chest over there."

"Okay..." Sora dug around it, only to find nothing there, "There's nothing there!" I quietly snickered and he looked at me. He crossed his arms; I think he noticed my tail was trying to hide it. "Piri..."

"What?" I innocently grinned and he raised an eyebrow. Well, there goes my entertainment section. "Okay, okay! Here you go!"

The doctor rolled to place the heart on the table. But, a boy rolled out from under the table and tripped the doctor. The heart bounce and the other boy caught it.

"Hey! Give that back!" I yelled at him and went towards him. He tossed it to a girl and they ran out of the lab. I growled, quite annoyed.

"It's okay, sis, we'll find those thieves." Sora said.

Jack told us that was Lock, Shock, and Barrel. We went after them. Jack called zero, who lead us to this manor and I spotted the kids in a walking bathtub, heading that way. After we finally caught them, they threw the heart down a chute. They attack us and it was actually hard to beat them since they were small and quick. We subdued them within ten minutes, however.

"We were just following orders! Oogie Boogie told us to steal it. "It was Barrel's fault! It was his idea to tell him about the heart." I growled as I was getting more annoyed by them.

"Yeah, that's right!" Lock said.

"No, I didn't!"

"Yes, you did!" they said back to him and I rubbed my temples, trying to calm down.

"No, I didn't!"

"Yes, you-"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" I yelled and everyone jumped, "YOU BETTER TELL US HOW TO GET TO BOOGIE IF YOU KNOW IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!"

"W-we can t-tell you, m-miss k-kitty!" Lock said and I growled.

"Don't make her more mad, you idiot!" Shock said. She explained about how to get into his manor. Soon after, the went back into town.

Jack snickered, "Remind me never to get on a cat demon's bad side."

"Correction," Donald said, "Never get on Piri's bad side."

"Yeah, I remember this one time her and Riku-" I can't believe he was talking about that time.

"Sora, stop!" I blushed and Donald and Goofy laughed as we walked.

We went everywhere in the manor until we found the basement. There I saw a burlap sack ceature with featureless black holes for eyes. This had to be him.

"Give us back the heart!" Jack yelled.

"You want it? Come and get it!" he swallowed the heart and I gagged. "Say, you must be the Princess of Memory!" I raised an eyebrow and he giggled, "That's right! You're that sleepy person's cousin and the special person to Maleficent's little helper." He was talking about Light and Riku.

"What has Maleficent done to them?!" I growled as the light in my heart showed externally.

"If you want, I can take you to them." I smirked and my light disappeared.

"Sis, don't-" I silenced him by raising my hand in his face.

"How about a little gamble?" I said, smirking.

"Oh?" Oogie Boogie seemed fully interested now. "I happened to love gambling! So, what's the wage?"

I summoned my keyblade, "If we win, you have to give us back the heart."

"And if you guys lose?" he asked and I sighed.

"You can take me to Maleficent." the others gasped. "She's is after me in the first place."

"Princess, are you sure about this?" Goofy whispered to me.

"There's no way I'm losing to a sack full of bugs." I said with a bit of determination.

"Now, let's see if I can get their attention. Oh, Heartless!" Oogie called and only two show up. I snickered and dismissed my key. I hugged my stomach, bursting out with laughter.

"Looks like your short handed on heartless." I resummoned Rainfell and got in my fighting stance.

"Nobody disrespects me! Nobody!" he shouted.

After dodging all his gambling/ torture devices, I manage to jump on the platform. I evily laughed and zoomed to him, stabbing him with the keyblade. I I ppulled it out and it tore opened. Thousands of bugs poured out but there wasn't a heart in sight. The bugs must have ate it... GROSS!

I jumped off the platform and turned to Sora, "Did you know he was a bag of bugs?"

He shrugged, "You were right on the munny there!"

We left the manor and went back to the lab.

"Sally, why didn't I listen to you?" Jack said.

"Don't feel bad, Jack. We'll do it together." Sally said. I giggled at this; it sort reminded me of Riku and myself together again.

"Aww. Who are you thinking about?" Donald teased, "You're blushing!"

"What? N-no I'm not!" I rubbed my cheeks.

"Yes, you are!" Sora confirmed, "I know who you are thinking about! Piri and Riku sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-"

"SORA!" I chased after him with him singing that song. I tackled him to the ground. "I win!"

"Ow..." he whined and I rolled my eyes. I healed him and we got up. We said goodbye to Jack and Sally and left for the next world.

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Riku's POV

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power was amazing. I finally found the strength I had been looking for. It was only a matter of time before Sora and Piri got here. When they do, I'll never let anyone have her. Especially Sora.

"We've spotted the keyblade brat's and the Princess's vessel!" Hook called. Finally!

"She's mine! I'll show you, Sora, she's mine." I muttered as I hurried to the deck.