"Take care of your friends. Because they are the most important people in your life." ~Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail)
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Donald powered up the Gummi Ship and we we're flying. Sora asked, "Can I fly again?"

"NO!" We all shouted.

"Oh come on!" He whined like a little kid. "I'm the Keyblade Master!"

"I don't care who you are!" Donald shouted. "I'm not having you fly again and have us crash land in another world."

"Please?" Sora begged as he jumped front seat and began bickering over the steering wheel with Donald.

"Here we go again..." Goofy sighed as the Gummi Ship was spinning in circles. I grappled my seat. My stomach churned from the ship spinning. Oh god. Those vegetables in my stomach are not sitting well. I hope the side-effects don't include vomiting...

After a couple of minutes Donald managed to wrestle Sora into his seat. He casted a spell on it so he couldn't unbuckle himself out of the seat. We set course to Traverse Town...without Sora piloting. When we arrived in Traverse Town, Sora and the gang headed over to the hotel where Leon and his gang were staying. We knocked and opened the door to their room. "Hey everyone!" Sora greeted.

"Sora! Sakura!" Aerith stood up. "Back so soon?"

"Just making a pit stop," Sora shrugged.

"It's a good thing you arrived," Leon said as he handed Sora something. "Take this."

"What is it?" Sora asked as he held up the object given to him. It was a charm wth a picture of a lion on it.

"It's a little charm called Earthshine," Leon explained. "A gift from the Fairy Godmother. According to her, when somebody lost their home to the Heartless, but there strong heart allowed them to become this. If we destroy the darkness, whoever is trapped in here will return to their home. You can use this to summon it to battle to help us."

"That's cool!" I exclaimed. "It's like having a little helper in your pocket!"

"I know, right?" Sora grinned as he stuck the charm into his pocket. "Well, we're going off to fight the Heartless around here."

"Okay!" The gang nodded.

We left and went to Third District, a couple of Solider Heartless appeared. We drew our weapons and prepared to fight. Then, they all disappeared to a cloud of smoke. When the smoke cleared, I gasped at the person who destroyed the heartless for us. He wielded a sword with a dark red hilt, a black guard handle with an eye on it. But, he also had short, silver hair and aquamarine eyes, which means he could only be one person...

"RIKU??!!" I shouted.

"There are you, Sora and Sakura," Riku said. "What's going on?"

"Riku!" Sora cried as he ran up to him and pulled his cheeks to make sure he was real.

"Hey, hey, cut it out," Riku laughed as he slapped Sora's hand away.

"OH MY GOD, RIKU. WHERE WERE YOU ALL THIS TIME? SORA AND I WERE FREAKING OUT TRYING TO FIND YOU AND KAIRI!!!" I screamed. Riku stared at me as if I went crazy. I averted my gaze from him and blushed. Great, I once again freaked out in front of my crush. But this time, I yelled in his face like a nervous, lovesick teenager. How cliché is that?

"I'm not dreaming this time, right?" Breathed Sora.

"I hope not," Riku sighed as he brushed his hair off of his face. I thought he looked a little cute when doing that. I immediately turned red again from thinking that thought and turned my face away and hoped my face will return to its natural shade before Riku noticed. "Took me forever to find you two."

"Riku!" Sora cried happily as we walked towards the exit. Sora stopped. "Wait a second, where's Kairi?" He asked.

"Isn't she with you two?" Riku blinked.

Sora hung his head, showing that he was saying no. "Well, don't worry. I'm know she made it off the island, too," Riku comforted. "Anyways, we're finally free. Hey, Kairi might even be looking for us now. We'll all be together again soon. Don't worry. Just leave everything to me, I know this--"

A Shadow Heartless appeared and began creeping its way to the unsuspecting Riku. Sora and I jumped and destroyed the Heartless. Riku turned to us. "Leave it to who?" Sora asked.

I burst out laughing. "Riku, if you can't even sense a small Shadow Heartless creep up to you, how are we going to leave this situation to you?"

He ran up to us, "Sora, Sakura, what did you--"

"We've been looking for you and Kairi, too, with their help," Sora said.

Goofy and Donald waved as Riku averted his gaze to them and back at us. "Who are they?" He asked.

"Ahem, my name is--" Donald started.

"We've visited so many places and worlds, looking for you," Sora interrupted Donald's introduction.

"Really?" Riku replied. "Well, what do you know? I never would of guessed."

"Oh, and guess what?" Goofy said as he placed his hands of our shoulders. I saw Riku's eyes twitch a little and he quickly gave Goofy a mean glare before he returned to his normal self. Why he bothered that Goofy was touching me? "Sora and Sakura are Keyblade Masters."

"Who would thought of that?" Donald called.

"What's that mean?" Sora cried as he faced Donald.

"So, this is called a Keyblade?" Asked Riku.

We turned back to see Riku holding Sora's Keyblade. "Huh? Hey, give it back!" Sora shouted as he reached out to grab his Keyblade. Riku jumped back a little and Sora lost his balance and fell over.

Riku examined the Keyblade a bit more. "Catch," He said.

"Huh?" Sora said as Riku tossed his key blade back to him. He caught it. "Whoa. Okay, so, you're coming with us, right? We've got this awesome rocket. Wait 'til you see it!"

"No, he can't come!"' Donald declared.

"What?" I said.

"Forget it!" Donald shouted.

"Oh, come on! He's our friend!" Sora whined.

"Donald, unless you want me to kick you so hard that you will fly to another world, let Riku come!" I threatened.

"I don't care!" Donald cried.

"What do you know about him that you won't let him come?" I cried. "You literally just met him and Sora and I knew him for years!"

Goofy looked up and gasped, "He's gone!"

"Huh?" We said. We looked around. He wasn't there. It was like he never was never here.

"Nice going," I grumbled at Donald.

"Now, let's look to the positive side," Sora said. "Maybe we will run into Kairi too!"

"I guess," I said.

"Sakura? What's wrong? You sound upset," Sora asked.

"W-What nothing's wrong!" I cried. "I'm fine! Just a little mad that Donald said that Riku couldn't come!" I glared at Donald, hoping they won't see through my lie. The truth was, I was a little sad that Riku came and disappeared, as if he had better things to do than talk to us.

We went to the small house in Third District where Aerith, Leon and Cid were. Cid asked, "You guys ever heard of Maleficent?"

Sora shook his head no. I had no response because that name sounded very familiar. Where have I heard that name before? "I hear she's in town," Cid continued.

"Who is she?" Sora asked.

"A witch, man, she's a witch!" Cid cried.

"She's the reason why this town is full of Heartless," Leon added. "Don't take her lightly."

"She's been using the Heartless for years," Aerith continued.

"We lost our world, thanks to her," Leon said stiffly.

"One day, a swarm of Heartless took over our world!" Cid said.

"That was nine years ago," Leon added.

"I get out of that mess and came here with these guys," Cid finished.

"That's awful!" Donald said. What happened to them seemed awfully familiar to me. Maybe my world was overrun by the Heartless, too?

"Our ruler was a wise man named Ansem," Leon said. "He dedicated his life to studying the Heartless."

"His report should tell us how to get rid of the Heartless," Cid said.

"Where is it?" I asked.

"We don't know," Leon replied. "It got scattered when our world was destroyed."

"I'm sure Maleficent has most of the pages," Cid said.

"Head you ever heard of the bell here?" Aerith asked.

"What bell?" Sora said.

"There's a legend behind it," Yuffie said as she entered the room.

"But it has been boarded up for years," Aerith sighed.

"Where is it?" I asked.

"In Second District," Aerith replied.

"I hear if you ring it three times, something will happen," Cid said.

"So you want us to ring the bell three times so see what happens?" I asked.

"Yeah," Cid said. "Can you do that for us, please?"

"Sure," I said.

"Thanks," he said to us as we turned to leave the small house.

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I stood there outside the small house with Maleficent watching Sora, Saki  and their new friends talking to some people in the house. "You see? It's just as I told you," Maleficent said. "While you toiled away trying to find your dear friends, they quite simply, replaced you with new companions. Evidently, they now value them far more than they value you."

I listened to Maleficent. I hate to admit it, but She was right; from what I saw when I met them the last time, they made friends with some...talking animals. "And look at that girl; now she seems to have...developed some feelings for the boy," Maleficent continued. "I'm afraid what she told you the last time you saw her at the beach was a lie; she doesn't like you more than a friend anymore; she likes the boy more than the friend. Just look at them."

Sora and Saki were talking from the window. I couldn't here what they were they saying, but whatever Sora told her made her laugh. I clenched my fists with anger and jealousy. I left them for a couple of days and now Saki has friend-zoned me for Sora? I regretted wimping out and not telling her what I wanted to tell her at the beach. If I told her, maybe she wouldn't have friend-zoned me. But now it was too late.

"You're better off without that wretched boy and girl," Maleficent said as she placed her hand in my shoulder and looked at me on the eye. "Now, think no more of them and come with me. I'll help you with what you're searching for..."

I nodded, turned and walked through the portal she had opened for me to Hallow Bastion.

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We left the house and went to Second District and found the boarded up place. Sora, Donald, Goofy and I tore it open and inside was a old, rusty bell. Sora went to it and rang it three times, like what Cid as told us to. Instead of sounding horrible, it sounded like it was a brand new bell, ringing to tell the townspeople what time it was. A Keyhole appeared at the tile art in Second District and a giant Heartless appeared. It looked like the one we first fought, but it had a darker purple armor with floating limbs and was stronger. We drew our weapons and attacked it.

It was stronger than the other ones that we fought. It was getting the upper hand from all four of us. Then, I remembered the charm that Sora showed me earlier. He said that we can use it in battles, "Sora! Use that Earthshine charm!" I cried.

"Oh yeah! I forgot about that!" Sora said as he pulled out the charm.

He waved his Keyblade on the air and light shot out of it. A lion on a cliff appeared and roared. "My name is Simba," He said. "I believed you called me for assistance."

"Yeah, we did," I said. "Thank you for coming."

"Now let's fight!" Sora said as we leapt onto the Heartless and destroyed it.

The Keyhole we saw earlier reappeared and we pointed our Keyblades towards it. Light shot out of our Keyblades and I once again was pulled into a trance. I saw the weaving with black thread woven into it. I pointed my Keyblade to it, wove out the black thread, wove in new colorful thread and pulled out of my trance.

"We sealed up another Keyhole," Sora said. "One more down, unknown number of how many Keyholes more we have to seal up."

We went back to Cid and he complimented us on our success. He told us that he sold gummi pieces and if we needed help, we should come to him. He bid us farewell and Donald asked, "Hey, where's Jiminy Cricket?"

"Who?" I said.

"So, Jiminy Cricket is recording done our journey in his journal for some reason. I think he said that he was going to the Gizmo Shop," Sora explained.

We entered the Gizmo Shop to see a cricket in a suit talking to a wooden puppet boy. "These fellows here will be helping me," He said.

"We will?" I asked, confused.

"Well, where are we going next?" He asked.

"Well, you could of asked us first...." Sora mumbled as we walked back to our Gummi Ship and prepared to go to the next world.
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