A/N: Hey everyone! Welcome back to the "Re: Kingdom Hearts" series. As said in the finale of Re: Kingdom Hearts, this is the second installment, Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memories.

I am also going to estimate the length is going to be approximately 9-12 chapters.

I do not own anything. I only own Penelope.

And now…I present you with Re: Kingdom Hearts.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 1: It Began With a Letter

It was a bit of time after Sora, Donald, Goofy and Penelope had defeated Ansem, Seeker of Darkness and restored balance to all worlds. And after sealing the Door, they were on a search for Riku and the King, as mentioned in the previous installment.

However, upon finding Pluto, they had got a letter from the King.

At the moment, they were asleep and it was dark. All except for Penelope.

For some reason, she had an odd case of insomnia that didn't allow her to sleep, mainly because she was feeling an oddly strong presence nearby.

"Ugh. Stupid heart. Guess I'll go investigate." Penelope got up and began walking farther north until she found a castle. Her heart, as if it was a prospector, began to react strongly.

That was when the light that guided her on her previous journey appeared.

"Hello again, Guardian."

"I remember you. You guided me in my previous journey a few times, and told me of my destiny. Where am I?"

"This, is Castle Oblivion. I believe they are I the process of preparation for something."

Penelope nodded. "Guess I'll investigate by myself."

"You won't be alone, my dear. I will be here to guide you. But first, you need a disguise."

A cloak-like object appeared in Penelope's arms. "Thanks?"

Putting it on, Penelope entered the castle rather stealthily, and nobody saw her as she came in. In fact, nobody was in the room.

"Weird. It's almost like someone is planning something…Wait. Couldn't you have given me a white cloak? I mean, really." Penelope told the ball of light.

"If I gave you a white cloak, then it would make you more obvious. It also interferes with your sun-kissed skin tone." The ball of light explained to her.

"And I've been wearing a white tank top the whole time…" The light spirit suddenly cut Penelope off after hearing a knock on the door.

"Someone's coming. Hide!" Penelope saw the two things happening at once and she began to freak out.

"I DON'T THINK I CAN HIDE IN THESE CONDITIONS…" The ball of light pulled Penelope into the wall with an ability similar to Vivian's from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

While Penelope went into the castle, this happened with Sora.

At some point, after Penelope left, Sora awoke from his slumber and was looking at the charm that Kairi gave him. However, Sora never got to return the charm to Kairi, and he knew he couldn't for a while.

He also noticed that Penelope was gone, which was bad, considering that they were an unfamiliar area, and Riku told Sora to look after Kairi, but he must've also meant Penelope.

And now that Sora was up, he was unable to fall asleep, which Jiminy noticed.

We remember Jiminy Cricket, don't we? You know the cricket from the previous adventure that had that journal?

Well, he asked Sora, "Can't sleep?"

You see, at some point after all that wandering, Sora, Donald and Goofy set up camp in the middle of the path they were wandering on in their current search for Riku and King Mickey. And at the moment, Sora, Donald and Goofy as well as Jiminy were all around the warmth of a campfire.

"You'll make yourself sick if you don't get some rest." Jiminy told Sora, despite that Sora was asleep before, but barely.

"You too, Jiminy." Sora reminded him. Jiminy only told Sora, "I'm all right. I was organizing the record I've been keeping of our journey in my Jiminy Memo. Penelope would look at it every once in a while. In fact, I think she made an extra copy of it."

Sora looked through the journal with a magnifying glass. "Wow, you've written a lot!" Sora said in surprise.

Jiminy told Sora exactly why. "I've go to repot on our adventure to Queen Minnie when I get back to the castle. It's my duty as chronicler."

Sora thought about it for a moment before telling Jiminy what happened for him before the adventure happened.

"Back on the island…my friends and I were building a raft. We wanted to leave the islands to see the outside world. Me, Riku and Kairi. Penelope helped too, but she mostly tried to stay out of it." Sora began.

"But I never imagined I'd have an adventure like this. Getting the Keyblade, battling heartless. Getting separated from my friends, being thrown outside my world. Travelling to all the different worlds, meeting new people, making new friends. Donald, Goofy, and you, Jiminy." He continued saying.

"I wonder what my adventure would be like if they were with me. I wonder what they're doing now." Sora said, beginning to imagine it, but lastly asked, "Jiminy, do you think I'll ever be able to go back to my world?"

"Of course!" Jiminy answered. "Why the long face? You promised your girlfriend you would, right?" Jiminy asked afterwards before pointing at the charm Sora never got to return to Kairi.

Afterwards, Sora shouted at Jiminy in embarrassment, "She's not my girlfriend!"

"Oh, don't be so bashful!" Jiminy replied. Afterwards, Sora looked at the charm again, and thought of the promise he made Kairi.

"I'll come back to you. I promise!"

"I know you will!"

Jiminy interrupted those thoughts. "I bet Donald and Goofy feel the same way. They're going to find their King and go home to their world. And you and Penelope will go home to yours, Sora."

Afterwards, Jiminy said, "Well, now let's get some shut-eye."

Sora thought about Kairi and the words Riku told him before he was closed behind the door. "Take care of her."

Before Sora went to sleep, he muttered, "I'll find Riku and bring him home. I promise, Kairi."

When Sora went back to sleep, he was interrupted yet again by someone as he was just trying to get some shut-eye. Convenient.

"Brave keybearer."

Sora began to get up, his Kingdom Key summoned. "Who's there?" Donald, Goofy and Jiminy weren't disturbed, and Goofy muttered some random dialogue in his sleep.

Sora got up and saw a figure in a black cloak. "Ahead lies what you seek…but to claim it…"

Sora stared at this strange cloaked figure in surprise and shock.

"…You must lose something dear." Then the person vanished from Sora's sight and Sora was in confusion…

…That is until they said, "I'm right behind you."

"Wha…Hey, wait!" Sora shouted as they vanished. Then Sora had to awake Donald, Goofy and Jiminy and they started to wander forward…

…And they found that same castle Penelope went into.

So, Donald and Goofy, in awe, began to speak of the castle's magnificence in appearance. "Wow, this castle is huge!" Donald said as he looked up at it.

"Gawrsh, it sure looks like a place where we'd find something." Goofy pointed out.

Sora looked stared at the castle. "So this is where I'll find "something I need"?"

He continued to stare at the castle and was thinking to himself, "There might be a clue to finding Riku…but…"

"Maybe the King's in here!" Donald said before he and Goofy went over to the door.

"So this is where we go in?" Goofy asked, which broke Sora out of his staring and made him say, "Hey, wait!" As he held his hand out, not wanting his friends to leave him behind.

"Huh? Oh, right! Donald, we should knock first, a-hyuck."

"I knew that." Donald told Goofy irritatedly with his fist raised.

Sora kind of knew how Penelope felt when he asked, "What if it's a trap?" only to find that they weren't listening.

They knocked on the doors of the castle, only to find that nobody responded, and they opened up the doors, with one of them calling, "Hellooo! Is anybody there?" No reply.

Penelope was confused of how the light spirit hid her in her own shadow, despite she was a light spirit. It didn't make sense.

However, she saw Sora, Donald and Goofy come in. "Look's like nobody's home." Sora said as they walked in. Penelope wanted to get out of the shadows, but the ball of light told her.

"No. Stay right here. I don't want your presence detected." She ordered.

"Gawrsh, ya think its okay to barge in like this?" Goofy asked.

"Well…I think Penelope came in here but...huh?" Sora suddenly stopped, making Donald and Goofy stop.

"What's wrong?" Donald asked.

"Um…I just got the feeling I dropped something…" Sora answered.

"I didn't drop anything when I came in." Penelope said, finding it odd. Then she noticed the light spirit wasn't telling her to be quiet.

"Why aren't you asking me to shut up?"

"First of all, I wouldn't tell you that. It's rude. Second of all, when you're hiding in the shadows, nobody can see you nor hear you unless you want to be seen and heard." The light spirit explained.

Penelope had a slight feeling she was going to have to stick with the light spirit.

"Aw, you're just spacing out, Sora. Maybe ya dropped your wallet?" Goofy asked, suggesting that.

"No, it wasn't that…"

Someone startled Sora, Donald and Goofy and it was the same person from earlier.

"Welcome to our castle." He began. "What you dropped…is your memory."

Penelope blinked. "What."

"You—He's that guys—the one in the black coat!" Sora shouted.

"AND YOU JUST FELL INTO HIS TRAP?!" Donald yelled at Sora.

Arguing began and the person went silent. After the arguing, Donald jumped to conclusions. "I bet he's a heartless! My magic will show him a thing or two!"

The first thing Donald said was, "Thunder!" and the spell didn't work.

"Huh? That's odd…THUNDER! THUNDER!" Donald yelled.

FAIL.

"Um…Fire! Blizzard?"

FAIL x2. For whatever reason, Donald's magic wasn't working.

Penelope burst into laughter as the guy continued. "For your information, I am not a heartless. Haven't you figured it out? The moment you stepped foot in this castle, you started losing your memory."

Penelope stopped, still chuckling at what happened with Donald, but she didn't understand.

If you were to step foot in this castle and begin to lose your memories…why hadn't Penelope lost hers yet? She still remembered everything…

From the moment she was washed up onto Destiny Islands all the way until now.

The cloaked guy continued. "You've forgotten every spell and ability you knew."

This caused Sora to ask afterwards, "Does that mean…if I try to do a dodge roll now, it'll just be a normal somersault?"

"How would I know? But it does not end there, in this place, to find is to lose and to lose is to find."

"THEN WHY HAVE I LOST NOTHING?" Penelope shouted at him before remembering that she couldn't be heard.

Then Goofy began to recite the alphabet, freaking Donald and Sora out, as that came out of nowhere.

However, afterwards, they found out that he was checking to see if he had forgot his ABC's and he was relieved to find that he hadn't.

However, the cloaked guy then said, "Excuse me, I'm talking."

He repeated "To find is to lose and to lose is to find.", which kind of caused Sora, Donald and Goofy to make commentary about it and Penelope was upset by this.

"Oh NO. It is my job to commentate and mine alone. KEYBLADE JAVELIN TIME!"

"No need to be so violent, Guardian…" Penelope summoned Oathkeeper and threw it at Sora, Donald and Goofy, and it just barely missed them, but they saw the Keyblade.

And Sora, Donald, Goofy and that person looked in the direction it was thrown.

After more conversation and questions, the person sampled Sora's memories and made a card of it, which he threw at him.

"What's this? A card?" Sora asked.

The person told him, "I merely sampled your memories. It is a promise for the reunion you seek."

"Hold the card before you to open the door. A new world lies beyond." He instructed.

Before vanishing, he said, "Use that card to proceed through the castle. Brave key bearer…"

Sora stared at the card and then the Jiminy Cricket alarm went off.

"Wait a minute, Sora! There's something about what he said! I'm not sure we should go any farther…" Jiminy began before continuing, acting like Sora's conscience when he was Pinocchio's as he hung onto Sora's card.

"He said we started losing our memories from the moment we set foot in this castle. What does it mean "started"? And "to find is to lose and to lose is to find?"

Sora pulled Jiminy off of the card. "I felt it as soon as I saw this castle. I knew we'd find something here…" Sora said as he put Jiminy into the hood of his jacket.

Donald and Goofy agreed, with Goofy saying, "Gawrsh, me too." And Donald, "Me three."

"Really?!" Sora asked.

Jiminy, in defeat, said, "Sakes alive… As a matter of fact…I had the same exact feeling. But…We won't find anything if we don't go forward."

Penelope went to thinking. "I think I had the same feeling…but if I forget to add…"

"You haven't forgotten anything." The ball of light said, knowing what Penelope would say.

Sora, Donald and Goofy, headed for the door, and Sora opened it up, saying, "Come on, guys. Let's go find Riku and the King!"

Then that mysterious person in the cloak appeared again. "As you proceed, you will learn…the meaning of "to find is to lose and to lose is to find"…"

And he realized he said it a fourth time. "Oh no…I said it again."

Afterwards, he vanished and Penelope asked the light spirit, "Is the coast clear? What direction should we go?"

"You are the one taking charge. I am the one who simply follows." The light spirit answered.

Penelope nodded before looking around.

"I would follow Sora, but I want to do some recon first. And is it okay if I sing quietly? I really wanted to on the way here, but I forgot."

"I'm fine either way. If someone's coming, I'll tell you."

And thus, Sora and Penelope's two separate adventures in this castle began…with Riku's to happen soon after.

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A/N: There's the start of the story.

If you noticed, the first chapter was a mix of mostly the manga, a tiny bit of the game, and an adventure I have to come up for Penelope on my own.

Also, do you guys find it suspicious Penelope hasn't forgotten anything?

Though Penelope appears in Sora and Riku's stories at times, I won't repeat them seeing her in her story.

Each will be three chapters. I plan for Sora's story to cover Traverse Town, Twilight Town and the final battle with specific occurrences, like Destiny Islands' and other events. Riku's will be Hollow Bastion, Destiny Islands and the final battle with Ansem and with other occurrences.

And Penelope's… It's mainly the upper and lower levels of the castle, where she spies on the teams there.

Have you guys figured out why Penelope hasn't lost any memories yet?

Anyway, please review if you'd like, please don't flame, and please tell me how I can improve my writing.

I will see you all in the next chapter!

Ciao.