Chapter 3
Donald Duck sat on his throne in the audience chamber, thinking about the past few weeks of his life. He was so deep in thought, that he didn't notice the four people standing in front of him.
"Donald!" Daisy called.
He shook his head as he snapped out of his daze. "oh, Daisy, what is it?" he glanced at the other three, and was shocked to find Sora and Riku standing alongside Minnie. "What are you doing here?" he said in a panicked voice.
"We should be asking you the same question!" Sora said.
"How dare you address the King that way" Daisy yelled.
"The King?" Sora and Riku both cried in astonishment.
"Wait a minute, you're just filling in for King Mickey, right?" Sora asked, "He probably had to leave for a little while, and he asked you to watch everything for him, right?"
"Um, Sora..." Riku said quietly, "I think we need to get out of here," he gestured at the guards who had started to encircle them, "maybe we should come back later..."
"But Riku!"
"Trust me Sora." Riku turned and glared at Donald.
Donald glared back and said, "Mickey isn't the King! I am! And I'm ordering you to leave the castle, right now!"
"Of course. So sorry about the inconvenience, Your Majesty!" Riku said sarcastically, and with a slight bow. "C'mon Sora"
"But Riku!"
"Not now Sora," Riku whispered. "We'll find our own way out," he added over his shoulder to Donald and the others as he pulled Sora with him out the door.
Once they were a little ways away from the audience chamber, Sora turned to Riku.
"We're not really leaving everything like this, are we?"
"Of course not!" Riku exclaimed, "But we can't do much with all of those guards around. If you had kept your big mouth shut, we might have been able to figure out what's going on. But since you didn't, we're just going to have to find the King." Seeing Sora's slightly bewildered expression, "The real King"
"Didn't you see the way Donald was looking at us? He'll probably have guards all over the castle by now." Sora said dismally.
"Well, I don't know about you, but I've been missing a good challenge." Riku said as he took off running through the castle.
"Hey! No fair!" Sora said as he sprinted after Riku.
"Donald! Donald are you listening to me?" Daisy demanded as she stood before him.
"Wah?" he shook his head and looked at her, "What is it Daisy?"
"You weren't listening! What's gotten into you lately? You forget about the big dinner I had planned a few nights ago, and you've been acting strangely!"
"Ah...it's nothing. Don't worry about it." he said as he turned away from her. Oooh! Why did Sora have to turn up? And now that I had everything starting to work, too! he thought bitterly.
"Donald, are you hiding something from me!" Daisy said as she pushed her way past one of the guards that had decided to stand in front of her.
"Of course not, Daisy!" he said as he stood and walked out into the hallway. This was not going the way he had planned.
