[A/N: I suspect that the next two chapters will be short like this. Also please excuse Juliet's bitchy attitude it will get better I promise. And Clementine will be back in a couple chapters too. Reviews are appreciated. Enjoy the chapter!]

The next world that Juliet found herself in looked completely deserted. "Well it looks like I'm in Radiant Garden or does that say Hollow Bastian?"

They're the same place don't worry about the name.

"I wonder where everyone is?" As Juliet began to walk through the village she noticed that the people were acting like how the people of Traverse Town had acted and were shutting their doors and windows when she got too close. "I wish they wouldn't act so scared. I'm not going to hurt them."

Its not you they're scared of.

Then what's scaring them?

I'm not telling you. You'll have to find out for yourself.

Behind her was the dog from Traverse Town. Chiyo had followed Juliet into Andy's Room, but now that Juliet alone she was thinking now would be the opportune time to attack. She silently padded along behind Juliet until her prey stopped walking.

Juliet was examining a freezer that looked like it hadn't been touched in years before she felt something jump on top of her.

Chiyo was snarling down at her before she bit down on Juliet's arm her fangs easily shredding the skin and muscle.

Trying to ignore the stabbing pain in her arm Juliet swung the Keyblade at Chiyo's head hitting her in the temple.

This didn't seem to faze her and instead of continuing to bite at Juliet's arm Chiyo extended her claws and began to claw at her chest.

Juliet pulled her legs up under her as best she could before shoving them forward into Chiyo's stomach successfully knocking her off. The pain in her arm was difficult to ignore and unfortunately the arm Chiyo had bitten had been the arm she used to fight with. "I'm not scared of you Chiyo. Come and get me I'm not going anywhere."

Chiyo went for her leg this time, but wasn't able to get a good grip since something had come sailing out of nowhere and smacked her in the snout.

Juliet turned to see who had come to help her. That's the boy I saw before. Why is he helping me?

Because he's in love you that's why.

What are you talking about? She saw Chiyo beginning to walk over to him and grabbed onto the wraith's tail to pull her back. "Leave him alone its me you want."

Chiyo turned around to snap at Juliet when a ball of ice struck her from behind.

And the girl too? Before Juliet could gather her thoughts she felt the boy pull her behind him.

"You stay over here Juliet we'll deal with the dog."

"I'm ok I can take care of it myself."

"Look at your arm. It's in pieces. Let us deal with this then Clementine can heal you when it's gone."

Clementine? That must be her name, but whose he? Well he's cute whoever he is. Even though Juliet would have liked to fight the dog off herself her arm was screaming at her and it looked like these two could handle themselves.

Now that she wasn't able to get at Juliet, Chiyo didn't look interested in fighting. She stuck her nose in the air and walked off.

Clementine hurried over to Juliet's side and lifted her arm up prompting a pained hiss. "Don't worry about that I can heal you no problem."

Juliet saw green light come from the tips of Clementine's fingers before the light enveloped her arm.

"There good as new."

Sure enough the ripped skin had completely healed. There wasn't even a scare. "Thanks, but who are you exactly?"

Clementine's face fell. "Are you serious? You don't remember us? Wait, did you hit your head?"

"Yeah, hard too."

Clementine grabbed onto the boy's hand and shoved him forward. "Akio you're going to have to kiss her again."

Akio's face tuned pink and he shook her head. "Clementine, kissing her didn't work last time what makes you think its going to work this time?"

"It works in the fairy tales."

"Well this isn't a fairy tale."

Juliet wanted to know who they were and if kissing Akio would tell her that she was going to do it. "Come here." She pulled him a bit closer before lightly kissing him. To her surprise Akio pushed her away. "It didn't work. Now who are you?"

"I'm Clementine and this is Akio. We're your best friends, Juliet."

"Prove it."

"What's with the attitude? Why can't you just take my word for it?"

"Look I want to like the two of you, but some really strange stuff has been going on. There was this guy who was making demon puppets and then I went to this world where everyone thought I was a toy and to top it off I've got this parasite in my heart."

Watch who you're calling parasite.

Clementine's eyes went wide. "What do you mean you have a parasite in your heart?"

"It's this guy named Erik and-" Juliet was cut off when Clementine grabbed onto her shoulders and began to violently shake her.

"Get out of there you son of a bitch. You've caused enough problems."

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Oh dear you've made her angry.

Juliet shoved herself away and took a few steps back. "You two are weird and I think I'm going to go now. Thanks for your help, but I don't think I want your friendship. I'm better off on my own." She turned to go and at first it seemed like they'd taken the hint.

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Very good you don't need their help anyway. They'll just slow you down.

I don't want your help either, parasite.

You know my name I suggest you use it.

Or what? Juliet stopped when she saw a tall red eyed shadow in front of her. "Go away I'm not in the mood for you." She walked past the shadow when she realized she was being followed. "Can't you take a hint? I want to be alone."

Akio had been the one following her. "What's with the attitude? I thought you'd be glad to see us."

"I don't even know who you are so how could I be glad to see you? Now go away."

"You were never this grumpy when I first met you."

"I'm not grumpy I want to be left alone."

"Well don't except me to do that?"

"Why? Because you're so in love with me?"

"No, we were friends before I fell in love with you. And just because you're in a mood doesn't mean I'm going to leave you behind."

"What about Clementine?"

"You pissed her off. I'd give her some time to cool down first."

"I want to get something straight with you. I don't need either of you I can take care of myself."

"And what if that dog comes back? Do you really want to get your arm ripped open again?"

Juliet was starting to get a bit flustered and he had brought up a good point with Chiyo. "Get lost."

Instead of leaving Akio continued to follow her. "You can hate me all you want, but don't expect me to just disappear from your life. I'm going to haunt you until you get out of this funk that you're in. Expect Clementine to do that too."

"Why are you being so damn persistent? And don't say it's because you like me or that we're friends."

"Because the last time we got separated something really awful happened to you and I don't want it to happen again."

"You want to follow me fine follow me, but don't expect anything to change."

There wasn't any conversation as they walked through the village until a large castle came into view. Juliet craned her neck to get a better look at it before trying to push one of the massive doors open. She was using both arms and pushing as hard as she could on the door.

Akio watched for a few seconds before shaking his head. "Pitiful. I can get it open if you want." He only used one arm and easily pushed it open.

"Are you some kind of superman or something?"

"No, but after we got separated the first time-"

"You know I just realized I don't care." She looked into the darkness of castle before stepping inside.

The inside of the castle was dark and dank with many twisting halls that all looked the same. Juliet didn't exactly know where she was going, but she noticed that Akio did. "So what's down here?"

"Oh, so you want to talk to me?"

"Don't be a smart ass. Just answer my question."

"Ansem's computer should be down here, but let's not go there."

"Why not? Scared?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"There's someone in the computer who I'm sure is not happy with me."

"What's their name?"

"Clu."

"What the hell kind of name is Clu?"

"It's just his name."

"Well what's so scary about Clu?"

"He'll derezz me."

"What's that?"

"Its kinda like killing you. You cease to exist."

"I'll kick his ass for you don't worry."

"I thought you didn't like me."

"You're growing on me."

After a little while longer of walking they came into a large room with a computer in it. Juliet went over to the computer before typing something. "Why won't it do anything?"

Akio walked around her and pressed the power button. "I still don't think this is a good idea."

"Nonsense, this is the best idea I've had in a long time." She continued to press random buttons on the computer not noticing that a beam of light was pointed at them.