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Dilan walked in the front door and walked toward us. We readied the silly string. He walked past and we simultaneously sprayed him with the string. He screamed and fell down, which left Myde open for his turn. He ran over to Dilan.

"Oh, I'm so sorry they did that!" he said in a mock worried tone. It was really convincing. Myde stuck his hand out for Dilan to grab. "Here, let me help you up."

Dilan glared at Dorul and I. We smiled innocently. Dilan grabbed Myde's hand. That was his cue. He grabbed a pen out of his pocket and pointed it straight at the heart design on his shirt. He pulled the end and ink splattered all over him.

Dilan just looked down at his clothes. Not only is he covered in silly string, but now he's covered in ink. We ran down the hall into my room, and (like we planned) Dilan followed. I locked the door behind us so we could get ready.

While we set up the bucket full of water that was to drop on Dilan's head when he stormed into the room. Dilan banged on my door screaming at us. He has a very colorful vocabulary. We quickly set up the bucket and backed off.

"Alright Dilan, I'll let you in!" I screamed "Just stop using such colorful words!"

I unlocked the door and all of us got ready to sprint past Dilan when the bucket fell. As we planned, Dilan stormed in and the bucket of water fell right on his head. There was water everywhere and Dilan was momentarily blinded from the bucket over his head.

Right when the bucket fell, Dorul, Myde, and I sprinted past Dilan to get as far away from him as possible. When we got to the living room, we heard Dilan yell "Ienzo!" at the top of his lungs. We ran past Even's lab and Xehanort's office. The only thing going through my mind was: Why does Ansem and Xehanort get an office, but everyone else doesn't? I wasn't even thinking about how Dilan would kill us if he had the chance.

We ran into the backyard and hid in the bushes. Dilan stormed into the yard, and looked around for us. He was quite a sight, being covered in silly string, ink, and being soaking wet.

"All right you little twerps!" Dilan screamed "Come out so I can cut your heads off!"

Now I'm starting to worry. He has actually impaled me in the arm with a spear once, it was not pretty. And, that was when I just went into his room. He could actually mean what he's saying right now. I looked over to the other guys and they looked scared too.

Just then, Aeleus walked into the yard. Thank goodness! He talked calmly to Dilan, but we were too far away to tell what he was saying. After a while, Dilan stomped into the house. We all came out of our hiding places. Aeleus looked at us, clearly unhappy.

"What were you thinking?" he said "He was really going to hurt you guys!"

"Sorry Aeleus." All three of us said at the same time.

"I mean, it was funny, but it was uncalled for!"

"We won't do it again." I said in a tone that everyone seemed to find cute.

Aeleus looked at us for a second and he seemed to relax. "It better not." He said. "I don't know what I'd do if you got hurt again."

Aeleus walked back into the house. When he was gone, I smiled and held my hands up. Dorul and Myde clapped them and we burst out laughing.

"I'm going to get so much grief about this from Xehanort." I said. And I did.

I'm grounded for a week. No one is allowed to come over. I can't play video games or watch TV. I also can't play with chemicals. (I love doing that) The only thing I can do is read a book and play with the other apprentices.

I walked up to Aeleus and smiled. "Can we go get some ice cream?" I asked.

Aeleus shrugged. "I don't think you are grounded from that so I don't see why not."

Just to make sure, we asked Ansem about it. He didn't care; I guess we caught him in a good mood. The ice cream store is just down the street from our house so we usually walk there, unless it's raining. But it's not raining so we walked.

Aeleus and I sat on the curb eating our ice cream when I remembered something.

"Hey, Aeleus," I started to ask "what was wrong with Even today? Did an experiment go haywire?"

Aeleus seemed to tense up. "He just spilled something." said Aeleus way too quickly.

"Aeleus, what happened?"

He paused for a second and sighed. "He created a being called a heartless and it ran around the room, spilling everything. He needed my help catching it, but he said I couldn't touch it."

I smiled. Just another experiment gone haywire, that's what I thought.

"But," continued Aeleus "using that heartless, he may have figure out how the darkness in one's heart works."

I looked up at him, surprised. Ansem has made us work on that for years. Now Even created this heartless thing and we have it all figured out!

"I have to see it!" I exclaimed. I got up off the curb. "Come on! This is big; monumental; I have got to see it!"

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"Well, why not?"

"Even said if you touch it, you become a heartless yourself." My excitement lowered. "It also deliberately attacks people to turn them into heartless. It almost got me, I can't imagine what I'd do if it happened to you."

I sat back down on the curb. I thought for a moment, and then hatched a plan. Tomorrow, before anyone gets up I'll go down to Even's lab and see that heartless. I'll be very careful. I'm sure it's in a cage or something so I won't open the cage.

When we got back to the house I ran straight to my room. I grabbed my alarm clock and set it to 1:00 AM. There, no one is up at that hour. Not even Even. I ran downstairs and tried to seek out Briag. I told him I would tell him if I found out, and I'm very good at keeping promises.

Briag was outside shooting targets with his guns. I waited for him to finish a very long distance away so he wouldn't hit me. I've learned from experience.

Briag stopped to re-load his gun and saw me. "Oh, hey Ienzo!" he said. "Did you find out anything about Even yet?"

I started walking toward him. "Yeah," I said "and you'll never guess what I found out."

I told Briag all about the heartless thing and how Even basically finished all of our research. Briag seemed to get more excited every second I spoke to him. When I was done he looked down at me, smiling.

"I've gotta see it." He said calmly.

I smiled. "I already have a plan."

"Ooh!" Briag looked twice as excited as he was before. "I'm in."

I hope you enjoyed this one! Ienzo rules!