Mai led the way to the centre of the Town and then three heartless appeared in front of her. They were about to jump onto her to attempt to steal her heart and she closed her eyes. "There you are. What's going on Mai?" She thought she was hallucinating again and she opened her eyes to see Riku smiling at her.

"Is that really you?" She asked and he smirked.

"What, didn't want to see me?" He asked sarcastically and she smiled; it was really him standing in front of her.

"RIKU!" She cried and ran to him. She hugged him really tightly and he blushed at this. Slowly he wrapped his arms around her waist and hugged her back.

"I'm not dreaming am I?" She asked and he shook his head.

"No, you're not dreaming. This is real." He mumbled and they pulled away. "It took me forever to find you guys." She giggled at this.

"Thanks for looking for us!"

"Wait a second where's Kairi?" Sora asked and Mai gasped, looking at Riku.

"Is she with you?" Riku asked. "Well don't worry. I'm sure she made it off the island too. We're finally free. Hey she might be looking for us right now." Mai sensed heartless.

'How do I sense heartless?' She thought. 'Oh yeah I'm the Twilight Princess.'

"Just leave everything to me… I know this…" Riku said.

Suddenly a heartless appeared behind him and Sora jumped, striking the heartless. Mai and Riku turned to see him. He stood straight and put his keyblade over his shoulder.

"Leave it to who, now?" She asked smugly and Mai giggled.

"Sora, what did you…?" Riku was asking and Sora interrupted.

"I've been looking for you too. Well, with their help." he smiled and Riku looked at Donald and Goofy.

"Who are they?"

"Ahem, the name is…"

"We visited so many worlds and places looking for you, Riku." Mai said and Donald grumbled that she interrupted him.

"Really? Well, what do you know? I never would have guessed." Mai's smile dropped at the sarcastic tone he used that she didn't like at that moment.

"Guess what? Sora's a keyblade master and Mai's a…" Goofy was about to say and her eyes widened.

"No!" She shouted and gulped. 'I don't want him to know, what if it changes our friendship. And he won't believe me!'

"What's wrong M?" Sora asked and she closed her eyes and shook her head.

"So this is a keyblade?" Riku asked, holding up the Kingdom Key. How did he...?

"Hey! Give that back." Sora demanded and went to grab it, but Riku jumped back, causing Sora to fall on his face. Riku held it above his head and examined it.

"Catch!" Riku tossed it back to him.

"Are you coming with us?" she asked, "It will be fun! Plus, you get to see other worlds, too!"

"Yeah, we've got this awesome rocket! Wait till you see it!" Sora said and Mai frowned at the emotionless face from Riku. She gazed at him, he didn't look happy and she didn't know why.

"No, he can't come!" Sora and Mai gasped at this and turned around at Donald.

"WHAT?!" They shouted.

"Forget it!" He countered back and she growled at this.

"Riku's our friend Donald, please let him come with us."

"I don't care!"

"If he won't come, then I'll go with him on my own!" Mai said stubbornly.

"He's gone!" Goofy pointed and the green eyed Princess turned around to see nothing.

"Riku?" She asked and felt her heart crack. "RIKU?!" Mai yelled his name and she sighed when he didn't respond.

"Oh well, at least he's okay." Sora mumbled and her eyes widened; how could he say that? "And who knows? Maybe we'll run into Kairi soon, too." Mai rolled her eyes at this. Instead of stressing about his best friend he was talking about her! What was the guy code?

Mai started to walk away until Donald stop her. "Where are you going?" She didn't face him but answered.

"I'm going to go and look for Riku." She muttered.

"But, we don't have much time Princess." Goofy said and Mai turned around.

"Yeah, and Mai you know how strong Riku is, he'll be fine. We'll look for him after okay?" Sora asked.

She smiled, "Okay... I believe you."

They walked into the small house again and met up with Cid. "You guys ever heard of Maleficent? I hear she's in town." Cid asked.

"Who's she?" Sora questioned.

"A witch man, she's a witch!" The blonde haired man said.

"She's the reason this town in full of heartless." Leon added and Mai clenched her fist. "Don't take her lightly."

"Oh, I won't!" Mai said darkly and they all gulped at this.

"She's been using the heartless for years." Aerith sighed.

"We lost our world thanks to her, it happened 9 years ago." Mai empathised with this; she walked up to Leon and touched his arm. He looked at her and she smiled.

"I promise that I'll do anything to try save your world as the Princess of Twilight. I don't know what world I came from, but I remember that it was in a bad state when I left it. So I won't let you lose the world you belong to." Mai felt tears falling down her cheeks. He stared into her eyes and nodded.

~Meanwhile with Riku~

He stood next to a fair and green skinned witch who's shining yellow eyes were heavily shadowed with violet makeup; Maleficent. "You see? It's just as I told you." She said. "While you toiled away trying to find your dearest friend and that girl…" They watched through the house and Riku growled when Leon looked at Mai. "…yes there is something about that girl." Riku heard Maleficent mumbled and he looked at her.

"Don't hurt her." He said and she smiled sickly at him.

"Oh no! Of course I won't." The silver haired boy looked back at Mai, who now sat on the windowsill looking at the ground sadly. Maleficent watched the boy and smirked wickedly. 'Well, well, well look what we have here? This boy might have a liking to that girl.' She thought.

"As I was saying, they simply replaced you with some new companions." Donald and Goofy pulled funny faces at her and she smiled at this. "Evidently, now they value them far more than they do you." Riku's eyebrow twitched at this. Sora, looked like he did, but not Mai.

"You're better off without that wretched boy!" Riku grinded his teeth together. "And that insolent girl." This touched a nerve and Riku looked up at Maleficent with a glare.

"Alright, I'm here!" A new voice came and they turned around. It was Kenji who was standing there, "Who's this?"

"Riku." He raised an eyebrow, "Who are you?"

"Just a shadow of a man. I'm one of Maleficent's helpers." He said and Riku looked at her for reassurance.

"That is true. Kenji is my servant." The said boy growled at this.

"Excuse me? I just need the power-"

"Then both of you should come with me." The witch placed her hand on Riku's shoulder. "I'll help you both find what you're looking for…"

They stepped into a portal and Kenji stopped at the front of it to look back at Mai through the window. The green-eyed girl, he saw, looked up at him and he turned around, leaving through it.